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6	I've thoroughly examined her\
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10	A character dies. Shot, stabbed, fell, blown up, poisoned, succumbed to disease or old age -- whatever the cause, they are kaput, deceased, packed their bags and joined the choir invisible, gone to {{Heaven}}... or {{Hell}}... or somewhere else. They've kicked the bucket and [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus are now an ex-character]].
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12	In fiction, as in RealLife, it's all too common, but in fiction, it's often [[DeathIsDramatic dramatic]], occasionally [[KilledOffForReal shocking]], and frequently [[BackFromTheDead undone]]. Some works have death as [[AnyoneCanDie an everyday occurrence]], whereas others [[NobodyCanDie go out of their way to avoid it]]. Some [[NeverSayDie call it something else]], some [[DeathIsCheap never let it stick]], and others [[AllDeathsFinal make damned sure that it sticks]]. {{Mooks}} tend to [[CannonFodder die a lot]]; [[PlotArmor Heroes not so much]], unless the story [[TheHeroDies takes a darker turn]]. Some works, however, take the logical conclusion of [[EverybodyDiesEnding having everyone die]].
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14	We have [[DeathTropes a whole index of tropes]] that talk about the ways to kill characters or cope with their deaths, and [[ResurrectionTropes an index of ways to reverse those deaths]]. As Character Death is so common, it is considered an {{Omnipresent Trope\|s}} and thus '''no examples are needed''' on this page. This marks it as one of the few DeathTropes that does not require a spoiler warning.
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16	As with any other trope, don't assume a death is [[Administrivia/NotSelfExplanatory self-explanatory]], please provide [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample context]] and be descriptive when writing examples on a work's page. Also, make sure that there isn't a more specific SubTrope to cover the situation, which is virtually always the case.

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