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  • In Power Girl fanfic A Force of Four, Mars gets blasted into oblivion by Amazon's Purple Ray.
  • A Study in Regret: Watson and Mary.
  • Ace Combat: Equestria Chronicles: The Equestrian War, the following major characters are killed during the story:
    • The Ponies: Blueberry, Raindrops, Carrot Top.
    • The Griffins: Vulture, Razor, Scythe, Slip, Night Raven, Axe, Echo, Red Cyclone.
    • That's not counting over two hundred nameless fighters and/or (in ponies' case) civilians that were killed during the war.
  • A Growing Affection has a pretty big death count:
    • Good Guys: Gai, Sasuke, Jiraiya, Gamabunta, Kankuro, Itachi, Danzo.
    • Bad Guys: Karin, Deidara, Kabuto, Orochimaru, Manda, Madara, Kisame, Zetsu, Homura.
  • Alternate Destination: Gaia gave up on her position of a powerful, immortal spirit to resurrect the dead protagonist, which ended up killing her in the long run. At the end of the story, when it seems everything has been undone, we learn that she's NOT coming back.
  • Rho and Eta Pandora from Atonement get killed at the hands of Hatchet Face.
  • R.O.B. and the Pokemon Trainer in Super Smash Bros. fanfiction Attack of Giygas.
  • Avatar: The Last Alicorn: Littlewing and the illusionist both died, along with whatever was left of Sombra.
  • Saint Kaiser Olivie from Lyrical Nanoha/Slayers crossover Blood That Flows dies horribly at Death Bringer Garoth's hands.
  • Book 5: Legends, the The Legend of Korra continuation fanfic, feature the death of Lin Beifong. As well as Temuji in the finale.
  • Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: The fifth season premiere reveals that Holographic Retro didn't make the previous season's cliffhanger.
  • Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told: Unlike in Digimon Adventure 02, Ken Ichijouji and Wormmon both die for good. Wormmon stays dead after his Heroic Sacrifice, and Ken is murdered by Oikawa, depriving Ken’s parents of their sole surviving child. Jun and Matt confirm to the In-training Digimons that Ken’s and Wormmon’s deaths are permanent.
  • End of the Line features the permanent deaths of Xander, Faith, Willow, Artemis, Luna, Tuxedo Mask, and ALL of the Sailor Senshi.
  • In Kirby fanfiction The Dream Land Story, Marx dies quite messily in a Heroic Sacrifice (getting his jaw blown off in the process).
  • In Hellsister Trilogy, Supergirl throws her evil counterpart Satan Girl into an anti-matter star where she is disintegrated.
  • HERZ:
    • In chapter 10 Gendo got shot by a SEELE member and died in Shinji's arms.
    • All SEELE members in the last chapter, turned into LCL by Rei.
  • Clash of the Elements: In Part 1, All the Outer Guardians Minus Driad, the Genesis Samurais (Physically anyways, and Joe Dark
    • In Movie 1, Tabuu
    • In Part 2, All of Smithy's creations minus Axem Red, Smithy himself, Dimentio, Cackletta, Chaos Alex, and Alex Whiter
    • In the What-Ifs, Not counting the millions of people that are erased in the cataclysmic events that unfold we got Alex Whiter and Joe Dark/Dark King in Demise Under the Stars and Alex Whiter, Tabuu and Cackletta in Return to a Blank Slate
  • In Despair's Last Resort, Kaito, Naomi, Shigeru, Shizuka, Miyako, and Saemi are confirmed to be dead forever due to the damage caused during their deaths in the simulation.
  • A Diplomatic Visit: The Storm King in chapter 7 of the sequel Diplomat at Large. Knocked out a window, landing in the middle of the battlefield where his army is fighting Equestria's and their allies, and gets a sword through his heart - conveniently unarmored thanks to Pharynx shattering said armor earlier.
  • Buffy in the BtVS/X-Men fic, Echoes of the Fallen.
  • Evangelion 303: Jessika died when Unit-04 crashed. There are no doubts about it, since they found her head.
  • Discord and, as of Starfleet Magic III, Twilight Sparkle in My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic.
  • Caliborn in Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000.
  • In Kara of Rokyn, Lex Luthor dies of a heart attack (artificially caused by a third party). Kara believes she is capable of bringing him back to life, but she decides against it.
  • Jian Feng and Prince Adachi die at the end of the first arc of Kyoshi Rising.
  • In Queen of All Oni, a Jackie Chan Adventures fanfic, Daolon Wong dies in prison, and his apprentice Lung is later killed in a classic Hoist by His Own Petard moment: he captures Jade, trying to break her will and control her, but is killed when her bodyguards show up and MOW through his defenses, also an example of Laser-Guided Karma, since he nearly KILLED Jade, as he underestimated how stubborn she was.
  • In Operation: S.O.U.L.M.A.T.E., long before the events of the series, Grandfather was killed by the Splinter Cell.
  • Paradoxus: Played with. Some deaths will cause the branching of the timeline so two alternate ones end up being created — one where the characters die and another, out of the time travelers' reach, where the characters live. Getting to the second timeline is an impossible feat so the characters are effectively killed off and will remain like that. Other deaths, however, are mere collateral damages and thus, can subvert this trope if someone bothers themself to travel to the past and prevent said deaths from happening. Bloom and Stella's are the former case and play this trope straight. Meanwhile, Altalune, Trisha, and Stacy's are the subversion since they died in the original timeline and were saved by Daphne's meddling.
  • In Perfection Is Overrated, the death toll includes all of the SUEs, Kyoko, Ishigami, Yukariko, Miyu, Nagi, The Usurper and The Obsidian Lord. Unlike in canon, anyone who dies here stays dead, as a result of Miyu's destruction late in the fic.
  • In the creepypasta Pokémon Black that predates the official game of the same name, the move "Curse" kills the opponent's Pokémon. You can also use Curse on the trainers. Even the player is killed in the end (leading to an unescapable black screen and the file being deleted upon restarting the game).
  • The Pony POV Series has a relatively small death count:
    • In the main timeline, Shining Armor's friends Sunset and Private Ranger are all killed in action while stopping a mega storm.
    • In the Dark World Arc, it being a thousand years later, nearly everyone who wasn't immortal (or made immortal by Discord) is long dead. However, at the end Rarity's newly ascended Alicorn self, Queen Libra, is allowed to resurrect everyone who was killed by Discord or his forces, but due to the rules, some DO stay dead. Big Mac died of old age and Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy both died well after their natural life span, for example, so they do stay dead. Cadence was also killed in a Last Stand and didn't return, but she's a goddess so she is simply helping from the afterlife. Queen Chrysalis was also absorbed by Cadence and is likewise dead for good.
  • The Portal has Scorcher being killed quite gruesomely by a Dark One.
  • The Royal Reunion is a Frozen Alternate Universe Fic where Elsa and Anna's parents didn't actually die in the shipwreck. King Gaspar and Queen Malin became amnesiacs for a few years, explaining why they never returned home. In the 28th chapter, Gaspar is stabbed and dies for real this time.
  • In the Magical Girl Crisis Crossover Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights:
    • Viluy gets vaporized by Nanoha's Starlight Breaker in Chapter 7... but this is averted when she comes Back from the Dead in Chapter 23. She is later revealed to have uploaded her consciousness into a cloned body, generated using organic material from Dead End's prisoners. She was killed again in Chapter 29 by a completely enraged Alph, for good this time, as the rest of her clones are destroyed by a combination of Cure Marine's Marine Dynamite and Alph's plasma charge explosions, rendering her Out of Continues.
    • On the heroes' side, Milky Rose is killed in battle with a horde of Daimon in Chapter 9, and Candy is turned to dust by the Time Reaper in Chapter 12. Sailor Mars's familiars, Phobos and Deimos, are killed by a Brainwashed Sailor Uranus before she destroys the command center.
    • The Will of the Book of Darkness self-destructs both herself and the Book, both of which are then consumed by a massive time-storm in the wake of the attack by "the entity", to ensure that their powers can never be misused again.
    • Alph's sanity deteriorates entirely by Chapter 38 due to the effects of Viluy's pseudo-virus, and she is mercy killed by Fate to spare her any more suffering.
    • All of the remaining Witches 5 are killed off over the course of the Battle of Azabu-Juuban, and a short time later, Walpurgisnacht is not only killed but rendered Deader than Dead thanks to the efforts of all the Morning Lights... plus a wholly unexpected assist from Sailor Galaxia to finish it off.
  • In Slayers Trilogy, Lily gets stabbed to death.
  • In So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, A-D'oh, Hans Moleman dies of natural causes and his death is finally acknowledged by other characters. They even give him a funeral.
  • Viral, in Tengen Toppa Gurren Solvernia.
  • In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, Kara Zor-El dumps M'Nagaleh into an anti-matter universe where the eldritch monster implodes. Later Buffy and Kara work together to stake Zol-Am, a Kryptonian vampire who turns to ashes.
  • The Thomas & Friends fanfic Sodor: The True Stories features quite a few engines being killed off, either in stories or background material.
    • All of the Red Engines (besides James and Eagle) die during World War II. Seven of them are killed or given the Final Firing after an American tanker ship that was loading fuel is torpedoed by a German U-boat, which also sets off gunpowder vans right next to their shed, and Britt (the only female Red Engine) is Driven to Suicide days later by grief and drives herself into the smelter's pit at Barrow-in-Furness.
    • Alfred (98462) goes insane and tries to kill Gordon and Henry at Wellsworth with loaded fuel tankers, only for a quick-thinking signalman to switch him into the yard where he blows himself up.
    • Cecil (87546) is executed by compulsory Final Firing for criminal negligence when he goes over a failing trestle over the River Hoo. He's then rebuilt as an Inanimate B16, numbered 925. This locomotive, like its real-life counterpart, later gets destroyed along with an A4 during a German air raid.
    • Klondike, an LNER C2, also gets executed by Final Firing after being subjected to a Kangaroo Court, first for causing the Flying Kipper incident resulting in Henry's rebuild (Klondike's driver, fireman, and guard were in the brakevan and were killed), then he tries to kill Ruby when she wouldn't fetch some coal for him. Unlike Cecil, he's scrapped, as his class was due for withdrawal anyways.
    • George the Steamroller causes a horrific crash at Crosby that leaves many of Ruby's passengers dead, and is given the Final Firing after a trial. His remains are rebuilt as an Inanimate boiler, and is used to saw logs on the Isle of Bren's logging operation. This serves as an in-universe explanation for why George hasn't had a speaking role since the fifth season of the series.
  • The Bully: Iona MacEachern and her boyfriend Craig Sullivan were drowned by their swimming teacher in "Harry Smith's Swimming Lesson", Steven McMullen received a "poisonous government injection" in "Harry Smith's Poisonous Government Injection" and four characters were killed by Euan Milton in "The Destruction of Colham High School".
  • From Young Justice: Darkness Falls: We have Vandal Savage, Glorious Godfrey, Volcanna, Doomsday, Klarion. A pretty high body count considering the canon show was a bit more conservative with its deaths. In additions, several heroes are either Not Quite Dead or come Back from the Dead, meaning there's less of a net loss than this list might indicate.
  • From the Gensokyo 20XX series:
    • 20XX and 20XXI: Youmu, Cirno, Daiyousei, Remilia, Wriggle, Reisin, Shinki, Alice, Marisa, Sanae, Suwako, Flandre, and Eirin.
    • 20XXII: Yuugi, Keine, and Ran's babies are revealed to have passed away and Aya dies some time during.
    • 20XXIII: Meiling and Patchouli, along with Seija in a Karmic Death
    • 20XXIV: Sakuya, Reimu's mother, Ran's babies (save Yume Ni and An). As of chapter 50 in Gensokyo 20XXIV, some of those characters were brought back from the dead, through Yukari bending some of the borders of time to bring some of them to the future.
    • 20XXV: Koishi, Satori, Yume Ni, An (being revealed to be Dead All Along), and, apparently, as of chapter 109, Ren. Along that line, it is implied (but left unclear) that Yuuka has passed away and, by the 120th chapter, Kosuzu is mentioned to be "long gone", implying that she had died a long time prior.
  • I Against I, Me Against You:
    • Derpy Hooves's fate is initially left ambiguous; the next chapter then confirms, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that she's dead.
    • All of the AI fragments, with the exception of Tex, are destroyed by the Elements of Harmony. It's made abundantly clear that they were completely obliterated.
    • In the final chapters, Simmons and Tex die. Once again, it's made abundantly clear they're not coming back; Simmons dies in a Heroic Sacrifice he has no way of getting out of alive, while Tex willingly chooses to go to rest after Church lets her go.
  • Code Prime has this, being a crossover between Code Geass, and Transformers: Prime, where a character that's killed will stay dead.
    • Cliffjumper and Dreadwing both die during the finale of R1, committing Heroic Sacrifices that saved their loved ones, and are remembered during R2.
    • The end of R1 sees The Emperor/Charles zi Britannia be incinerated by Megatron's cannon. Soundwave then scans the corpse and confirms that Charles is truly dead.
    • Skywarp and Frenzy, established Decepticons from R1, end up dying during the fifth chapter of R2.
    • Other characters that end up truly biting it include Breakdown, Hardshell, and the Glaston Knights among others.

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