History Main / TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth

* In BarefootGen, there is Tomoko Nakaoka, along with Ryuuta, Eiko, and many children who were vaporized in the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath effects.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to Harry's mother Lily pre-series, and later, [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, [[TheAtoner Snape]], Sirius, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.

* Like Gwen Stacy, Jean Grey of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} was held up as the standard to which all women in the book she'd departed could only aspire after her first "death" (later retconned to be more of a weird coma). After her second death, she didn't loom as large over the books, partly because her primary torchbearer, Cyclops, was already falling for someone else when it happened, and partly because she'd been incorrectly labelled as someone who [[NeverLiveItDown kept dying and coming back]], though Wolverine still worships her memory.

* ''HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to Harry's mother Lily pre-series, and later, [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, [[TheAtoner Snape]], Sirius, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.

* Koji from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion.''

* ''JojosBizarreAdventure'' has [[spoiler: Jonathan and his father George]] in Part 1, the latter was a kind man who lent mercy to an otherwise [[JerkAss awful]] man and his [[TheSociopath even worse son]], while wishing he and his own son would get along eventually no matter how much he scolded them [[spoiler: something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decided to kill him in order to become a vampire]]. The former in his final moments, despite everything horrible he did to him throughout his life had only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as allowing an infant he didn't know to be taken of by his pregnant wife. A truly gentle soul [[spoiler: and like before, not only does this ungrateful brother kill him, but he uses his body to kill even more people]], but it's the thought that counts right?

* Marco Bott, from ''AttackOnTitan''. Idealistic, kindhearted, genuinely selfless without any sort of complex, always there to encourage the others, and pivotal in holding the 104th Trainees Squad together emotionally during their first battle. His best friend, Jean, discovers [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what's left]] of Marco on the second day of cleaning up after the battle, and is horrified when he cannot [[DyingAlone find anyone]] that saw his final moments. This tragedy serves as a catalyst for Jean's evolution from a selfish {{Jerkass}} into TheLeader Marco always believed he could become. Later events suggest something more [[TheMole sinister]] may have been involved in his death....

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* ''JojosBizarreAdventure'' has [[spoiler: Jonathan and his father George]] in Part 1, the latter was a kind man who lent mercy to an otherwise [[JerkAss awful]] man and his [[TheSociopath even worse son]], while wishing he and his own son would get along eventually no matter how much he scolded them [[spoiler: something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decided to kill him in order to become a vampire]]. The former in his final moments, despite everything horrible he did to him throughout his life had only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as allowing an infant he didn't know to be taken of by his pregnant wife. A truly gentle soul [[spoiler: and like before, not only does this ungrateful brother kill him, but he uses his body to kill even more people]], but it's the thought that counts right?

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* According to those who knew and loved him, [[spoiler: Prince Lyon]] in ''FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' was this to a T.

* ''TheRoom'': [[PuritySue Johnny commits suicide over his fiancee having an affair.]]

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Not to be confused with the KnightTemplar, who ''sees himself'' as "too good", and his duty as being to wipe away all the "sin" by any means possible; or with TooGoodToLast, which deals with works themselves. Contrast AssholeVictim.

* MichaelJackson gets a lot of this from his fanbase, perhaps best exemplified by [[http://www.innermichael.com this website]]. (As a bonus, it holds a similar opinion of Princess Diana, regarding the two as bullying victims for how they were so cruelly treated by the media.)

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** Played Straighter with Bleeing Gums Murphy, Frank Grimes and Maude Flanders

Not to be confused with the KnightTemplar, who ''sees himself'' as "too good", and his duty as being to wipe away all the "sin" by any means possible; or with TooGoodToLast, which deals with works themselves.

* ''HarryPotter''. If you are a kind, loving, sympathetic, well liked character chances are YOU WILL DIE. This happens to Harry's mother Lilly pre-series, and later, [[spoiler: Cedric, Dumbledore ([[TheAtoner In his later years anyway]]), Hedwig, Dobby, Fred, [[TheAtoner Snape]], Sirius, and Tonks]]. The only obvious aversion/subversion is [[spoiler:Hagrid]], who appears to be killed off a couple of times but manages to survive until the end.

A popular and [[OlderThanFeudalism old]] (and perhaps [[DiscreditedTrope outdated]] but [[UndeadHorseTrope overused]]) trope to justify KillTheCutie. If there is a child of [[ThePollyanna extraordinary beauty, goodness and innocence]] in the story, he or she will invariably die in as {{Anvilicious}} a manner as possible. If practical, the death will be [[SoapOperaDisease slow, torturous and lingering]] ([[VictorianNovelDisease tuberculosis]] or other disease was a particular favorite in the 19th Century), giving the child a chance to [[FinalSpeech bid farewell]] to everyone she loved in a long, drawn-out death scene. Sometimes she gets to speak a few last words to hammer in AnAesop relevant to the larger plot at hand. After she's breathed her last, her loss is mourned by all who knew her -- in particularly extreme cases even the BigBad will take a moment to reflect on it -- and may serve to re-energize tired or disillusioned heroes to fight on for her cause.

The child was almost certainly an IllGirl, and frequently a WaifProphet.

* AnneFrank may be the poster child for this trope. Given everything that happened, the fact that she was still an optimistic and good-natured girl until the end say volumes of her quality as a human.