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They Killed Kenny Again (trope)

Stan: Oh my god, they killed Kenny!
Kyle: You bastards!
Almost every episode in the first five seasons of South Park.

A recurring Red Shirt.

Did your brain lock up for a second when you read that? This character is (and sometimes only exists to be) killed off repeatedly and inexplicably comes back to life by the next episode, as a Running Gag.

Usually found in shows with Negative Continuity, particularly Sadist Shows - in shows and films with a tighter continuity, the character may be a robot who can be rebuilt or replaced between episodes, or immortal in some way, or a supernatural creature unless there's a "Groundhog Day" Loop going on. The difference is that only the character's state is rewritten not the whole reality of the setting. The character does not need to die permanently as long as he appears to die in the narrative.

A ritualized form of Staying Alive. Could overlap with Butt-Monkey and Cosmic Plaything. Often a by-product of Death Is Cheap. Chronically Crashed Car is a variant that refers to vehicles, and Chronically Killed Actor one that refers to actors whose characters usually die.

Although similar to Death Is Cheap, wherein many characters may 'die' and come back to life at least once, this trope refers to when a specific character is killed many times, usually as a Running Gag.

As this is a Death Trope, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.

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    Advertising 
  • Louie the Fly in the Mortein insect spray commercials. For the character's 50th anniversary, Mortein had a public poll on whether to kill him off permanently. Luckily, he was spared. Despite being an obnoxious Talking Pest, Louie is quite popular with the public.
  • A common theme of commercials for Wilkins Coffee, created by Jim Henson, which involves a character named Wontkins who continuously keeps getting killed for refusing to drink the advertised product.
  • Pizza Hut's The Pizza Head Show campaign had the eponymous Pizza Head who, if not killed each time, was at least in critical condition, often at the hands of Pizza Cutter Steve.
  • The Trope Namer suffers yet another death in Paramount+' "Mountain of Entertainment" entry "Storm" as he's crushed by the bucket used for Flashdance's iconic dousing scene, prompting Tim McGraw to bemoan "Oh, no. They killed Kenny. Bastards."

    Card Games 
  • Magic: The Gathering:
    • It features a handful of cards whose Flavor Text references the various deaths of a hapless goblin named Furt. See several examples.
    • There's Squee, who eventually proved to be so popular he got his own card, complete with a returning-to-play mechanic.
      "He is Yawgmoth's reward to me. I shall kill him a hundred times a day."
    • The card Reassembling Skeleton lampshades a lesser-known rule regarding creature cards; if a non-token creature leaves play for any reason but returns at some point, the game state considers it a different creature. To sum up, same card does not equal same creature.
  • Chaotic has similar flavor text for some cards involving Bodal.

    Comic Books 
  • Great Lakes Avengers:
    • Mr. Immortal. His one power is the ability to come back from the dead after a few minutes. Since he has a considerable lack of fighting skills, this mostly translates to him frequently dying in a variety of hilariously painful and bizarre ways. Death by giant novelty scissors, death by impalement from a remote control, death by alcohol poisoning from a ray that was only supposed to make him drunk...
    • An interesting variation in the succession of Grasshoppers that join the same team; none of them are the same character, but all of them take the hero name Grasshopper, join the team to replace the last Grasshopper, and then get killed in various ugly ways, each with less panel time than the one before.
  • The MAD Magazine comic Spy vs. Spy features a black and a white spy trying to outsmart each other, and either one of them usually ends up beaten or dead by the end of the strip, only to be alive and well by the next gag. (There is also a sub-set of Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy strips which generally end with both the black and the white spy being dead, outwitted by the (female) grey spy.) According to Word of God from creator Antonio Prohías, they are not the same spy, but are instead merely spies from rival nations that die horribly and are replaced — this was the basis of his commentary on the Cold War.
  • The Red Tornado gets blown up so many times it's become a running gag in the Justice League, and also makes its way into Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
  • Similarly, the android Avenger The Vision gets killed / destroyed and then rebuilt all the time, although sometimes he comes back wrong, and it takes a few years for Status Quo Is God to bring him completely back to normal.
    • Fellow robotic Avenger Jocasta gets destroyed a lot, too; and because she's less high-profile than Vizh, she may stay destroyed longer before inevitably getting repaired.
  • In Pafman, Pillina and Lupo die in basically every story they appear (except for La Noche de los Vivos Murientes, the first story they appear in, which is, ironically, about undeads), to the point that in one occasion they showed up just to shoot themselves. Though it has only being stated about their first death (in Pafman in USA), it is assumed that the reason they keep coming back is because their most usual boss, the Black Masked, resurrects them through dark magic.
  • Emperor Palpatine in Dark Empire. Practically everyone kills him. Mostly Luke and Leia. Han kills him the last time.
  • Due to a combination of Black Comedy and Negative Continuity, nearly the entire cast of Twisted Toyfare Theatre, or at least the setting Megoville, dies several times over the course of the series. The character guides in the trades frequently list several deaths for each character. Bucky probably dies the most consistently.
  • It's well known among Transformers fans that any character without a toy is a Red Shirt. The Transformers: Armada comic series had a recurring Red Shirt in Dropshot, whose design was taken from a Japanese transforming robot that was not imported during the original series' run.
    • Optimus Prime is probably the most infamous for this; it's often noted by fans that he dies at least once per series. Sometimes this is justified by them being different continuities, but in long-running stories, he's died multiple times. To whit, he died three times in both versions of the Marvel comic continuity, and three times in the original cartoon as well. Add on the various Japanese continuations of the cartoon, and that number goes up to six. He's mortally wounded again in Beast Wars, and his Spiritual Successor Primal dies another three times.
      • It's noted in one series that one symptom of "primus apotheosis" (a disorder that causes a person to become an obsessive Hero-Worshipper of Optimus) is becoming convinced that you have to die in as impressive a manner as possible.
      • One of the comic series plays with Optimus' tendency to bite it by titling a special issue The Death of Optimus Prime. For once, it's metaphorical; Optimus is freed from the burden of leadership and declares That Man Is Dead, returning to his original identity of Orion Pax. That wouldn't take either, as he would return to action as Optimus Prime three years later.
    • The Decepticon Dirge is in any number of unconnected comic series, and meets his doom in nearly every last one, and blows up twice in the G1 cartoon. His death count may be higher than Prime. The TF Wiki quotes his Badass Boast, "Death comes to he who crosses me!" and attributes it to "a confused Dirge." However, this is eventually averted in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, which is one of the few series (possibly only) where he survives several potentially lethal incidents (even far outliving his usual buddies Ramjet and Thrust) and becomes an important recurring character, only finally biting it in a Heroic Sacrifice in The Transformers: Unicron.
    • The Decepticon Quake is also fairly death prone. However, as a violent and dimwitted bully, this is usually made out to be his own fault, as he is totally blind to the possibility of Mugging the Monster.
    • All the Seacons are fairly susceptible to this, having died across multiple continuities, but among them, poor Nautilator easily takes the cake.
    • Challenge of the GoBots villain Cy-Kill had a habit of appearing as a dead Red Shirt in various stories, as a nod to their old Dueling Shows status. This persisted until writers realized that repeatedly murdering a character from an inoffensive and long-gone franchise was more mean-spirited than funny.
  • DC's Solomon Grundy is a cursed zombie (sort of), so whenever he dies, he just rises again from the same swamp he died in (often with a completely new personality, including some times where he's been heroic), which of course happens all the time. Eventually they just strand him on an uninhabited planet.
  • A number of characters in Viz have died and come back without explanation, but Suicidal Sid and Big Vern (and his supporting cast) die almost every time.
  • The Finnish western comic, Pekkos Bill, have the titular hero dying violently in every third panel, always with the same smug expression on his face (unless the death involves the obliteration of his head or entire person).
  • Iznogoud, in his plots to overthrow the Caliph, always ends up locked in a dungeon, permanently transformed, vanished, etc. and is back to resume his plotting at the beginning of the next episode.
  • Freddy in Horndog.
  • In The Sandman (1989), the Dream's retinue includes Cain and Abel. Since they are technically an Anthropomorphic Personification of the idea of fratricide, Cain kills Abel almost every time they appear in the comic, in various ways (most infamously, mincing him into sausages as part of a stage performance for the visiting gods).
  • Uncle Festus in The Bojeffries Saga is ridiculously vulnerable to all the standard vampire weaknesses and constantly dies in ludicrous ways as a result. Fortunately, blood always seems to end up falling on his ashes, resurrecting him.
  • The Metal Men used to get destroyed at the end of every story, and then Doc Magnus would fix them. They have a better survival rate these days.
  • Condorito: Pepe Cortisona, being the most hated character, meets his death in most of the jokes he's in. The comic has absolute Negative Continuity and every joke is more or less self-contained, so his death is always temporary.
  • X-Men:
    • Multiple Man can fulfill this trope, for obvious reasons.
    • Mister Sinister and his servants, the Marauders, has been killed several times, but Sinoster has cloning pods which activate every time one of them.gets killed.
    • X-Men: The Krakoan Age takes full advantage of mutantkind's new functional immortality and kills off characters every arc. The most prominent Kennys are Quentin Quire in X-Force (2019) and Empath in Hellions.
  • The Wicked + The Divine: The first half of issue 36 is a montage showing Persephone being reincarnated every 90 years over six millennia. Almost all of them are immediately killed by Ananke mere seconds after ascending to godhood but a few were at least able to pull a Taking You with Me on their attacker.
  • The entire premise of "Game Over" - the spinoff of Kid Paddle has the Little Barbarian (the fictional video game protagonist of Kid's favorite games) trying to rescue a very tall princess from danger or avoid some monster or obstacle... and each time the punch-line is the horribly comical death of the hero or his girlfriend. Despite the world being set in what appears to be a family friendly video game and the characters being fine in the next story, the creator goes out of his way to depict the deaths as gory as possible.

    Comic Strips 
  • Bill the Cat in Bloom County was a frequent example of this in his earlier days in the strip. Notably when he's electrocuted by his tongue being wired into an amplifier while rehearsing with Deathtongue...
    Steve Dallas: ...AW, FERCRISSAKES, he isn't dead AGAIN, is he?
    Portnoy: ...Naw, naw...I'll get the Bactine.
  • Brewster Rockit play this one for laughs with pretty much everyone, especially Winky, Dr. Mel's unfortunate assistant, who seems to be able to lose his spleen many, many times. The comic at least used to have an Ensign Kenny, but Winky basically fills in for him.
  • Show Within a Show version: In Pearls Before Swine, Rat's "Angry Bob" stories tend to have the titular character die in all sorts of absurd and gruesomely comic ways, only to be alive and well at the start of the next story with no explanation (though on a few occasions Rat did write that Bob "undied")
  • Generic Ted in Dilbert is fired frequently, and has actually died more than once. The cartoon suggested that the company has several identical looking guys named Ted.
  • Liō has been skeletonized from time to time, only to appear fine the next day. The comic has also included at least one explosion of Earth.
  • Knights of the Dinner Table: The "Deadly Trappings" segment in the magazine always features a character called "Joe Cocksure" as the victim of the various traps featured.

    Fan Works 
  • In the Final Fantasy fanfic Cid Wars, Biggs and Wedge are killed every time they show up, amounting to at least a dozen times over the course of the fic.
    • A FanFiction.Net author by the handle of Carbuncle frequently kills off Aeris in his Final Fantasy VII fanfics, which is followed by exclamations of "Oh my god, they killed Aeris!" "You beasts!" This is an obvious reference to Kenny's deaths on South Park.
  • In Chris McFeely's later Digimon fics, the series' running gag of Leomon dying becomes this.
  • Kyo Kusanagi died repeatedly in the early chapters of The King of Fighters improfanfic Reforming Evil Can Be Tricky. It quickly became a Running Gag.
  • Sunsetshine in Hidden Prophices.
  • Dirge in the Transformers fic, They Just Don't Care Anymore, dies in almost every chapter, even parodied in the Halloween Special, where he dresses up as Kenny and, predictably, dies.
    • He fares no better in canon.
  • In the Ed, Edd n Eddy fanfic YouTube Ed, after chapter 6, Eddy gets brutally killed in some sort of way. Edd and Edder then give an obvious South Park reference, as seen below. This was actually required in one chapter to find Edder, though the kids found out it was a trap for them the whole time.
    Edd: Oh my goodness, they killed Eddy!
    Edder: You bastards.
    Ed: I see an obvious crossover here!
  • Gory Toons can be best described as Happy Tree Friends if it was a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, so needless to say, almost everyone has died at least once. Clara, the sole original character of this show, seems to be the exception, as she has never died on-screen. Kirby has just barely died the most times, with Kenny at a close second.
  • Death Is Cheap in Ink City, and Ren tends to die a lot. The fact few of the other residents seem to notice or care make him even bitterer than usual.
  • Adric in Doctor Who fanfic setting This Time Round.
  • In The Emiya Clan, Lancer gets this shoved upon him at every possible point. It got to the point where AU!Illya and Zelretch were summoning him just to see how many strange and peculiar ways they could make him suffer.
    • Also, an army of Lancers makes for a great supply of expendable labor.
  • In the Star Wars: Paranormalities series, Valkoran Trooper Private Will Helms is an unusual example in the context of the rest of the official Star Wars universe in that his deaths and resurrections are Played for Laughs. So far, he has died every time he's had an appearance, sometimes as a result of accidents from his peers. His known deaths include:
    • Prologue: Being pushed in a lake and drowned by a teenaged Zolph Vaelor.
    • Chapter 1: Where he was first called by name. He got trapped in the Conqueror's plasma cannon firing tunnel during the Battle of Ithor and was incinerated by the cannon.
    • Chapter 2: Run over by a prototype combat vehicle built by his own allies, after almost being shot by a plasma cannon again.
    • Chapter 4: Sent by his squad to "disarm" (read: take the bait) a trap, was eaten by a Sarlacc, and then regurgitated into the ruins' ceiling at high velocity.
    • Chapter 7: Accidentally knocked off a walkway without guardrails in Bast Castle during a conversation.
    • Chapter 8: Although not called out by name, he was blown up by a faulty landmine.
    • Chapter 10: Bitten through the pelvis by a Pyron, only to be "mercy killed" by his fellow miners.
    • Chapter 11: Ascension cable broke at lethal height.
    • Chapter 12: Almost eaten by a cybernetic Rancor, only to be accidentally stepped on by it after it was ordered not to eat him.
    • As of the prologue of Episode II, it's been confirmed that he survived the Battle of Krantisi and has been promoted to Sergeant. From that point forward, he hasn't died as much as he did in Episode I. Zolph has stopped trying to figure out how he keeps coming back despite total obliteration after trying to ask him the one time it seemed absolutely safe only for him to be killed randomly before answering. He now just assumes the Force is resurrecting Helms for its own sadistic amusement.
    • Masochus exploits this in Chapter 10 of the same Episode, killing him over and over again to create an undead army from his corpses.
    • By the Battle of Ockla Prime, Helms has learned to exploit his inability to stay dead for his own use. During said battle, he performed a Heroic Sacrifice is place of would-be-suicide-bombers who otherwise only have one life. By Episode III, he's been promoted to captain of the Black Guard, and he's likewise continued to exploit his ability, such as using it to buy time for much better fighters than himself, such as Force users.
  • Whotrek: The Ultimate Adventure 1 has Wesley, who dies several times per chapter.This is eventually revealed to be foreshadowing the fact that he is actually the Master, as "Yove all seen how man tims hes did latley. And the mazter is very god at escaping sertain deth. It sold hav bin obvious."
  • The Prayer Warriors has Grover Underwood, who has died at least seven times over the course of the series, from being devoured by a swarm of insects sent by God, to having his eyes torn out and his head broken, to being decapitated, to having his legs broken and being disemboweled by a spear, to getting stabbed in the throat, to drowning in a failed attempt to save him from Demonic Possession, to getting shot in the head when he's on the verge of revealing the name of the Egyptian God in Syria.
  • In Pony Pals: Dirk Strider Edition, the cat Minos comes back to life every time he is killed, which happens four times through the story.
  • Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami turns Near into this. He is killed repeatedly throughout the story in various horrible ways, such as being used as a virgin sacrifice, used to test the Death Note, poisoned by Light's mom for no particular reason, and being strapped to a nuke before it explodes. He always shows back up with no explanation.
  • Inaccurate Legends: Archer gets killed six times, only to come back to life the next chapter. First, he gets cut in half by Saber. Second, he gets his head bitten off by the Rabbit of Caerbannog. Third, he gets run over by Coco. Fourth, after getting turned into a newt by the Witch, he gets cooked by Shirou to make medicine for Saber's injuries. Fifth, he gets arrested and executed in the gas chamber. Finally, he sacrifices himself to defeat the Taunting French Knight.
  • In Ruby Pair, Keef just won't stay dead. In addition to all the times Zim tried to kill him before the start of the story, within the story itself Tenn has strapped him to a rocket and launched him into the distance, locked him in a locker with a grenade, and shoved him in front of a speeding bus, and he just keeps coming back.
  • In the Better Bones AU, Fenneldust is repeatedly killed in various ways, such as being used to demonstrate a killing move, and regenerates afterwards because that is what happens with Dark Forest cats who are killed by anything other than a living cat.
  • The closest Khaos Omega has come to using this is with Kenny himself. So far, Kenny has been killed in three appearances over the extensive timeline:
  • Poppa Peg, a parody of Peppa Pig by mexican webcartoonist Negas has the titular character getting killed at the end of each episode (ocasionally other characters die as well), only to return alive and well in the following one.
  • As a reference to her counterpart Aerith's death, the character Aeromite from the Kingdom Hearts parody Kingdom Paf gets killed several times in gruesome ways, only to ALWAYS come back alive a few minutes later.
  • Icarus in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. After Goku mentioned him during his fight against Vegeta as a pet of Gohan's who died before the series even began, he has since reappeared alive and well in the Abridged Movies... where he has gained a tendency to get cooked and eaten by Gohan's family by the end of each movie.
  • Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) does this to L.
  • In Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware, while most of the Science Team survives life-threatening injuries with no explanation, Benrey is the only one to ever be confirmed as dead, and is killed multiple times by either the enemy, his teammates, or his own stupidity. Lampshaded at one point.
    Benrey: Oh, who killed me?
    Gordon: What? (looks around and spots the dead body of a guard across the room) Oh, that's you. You know, you've actually died a lot.
    Benrey: Really?
  • Occupy Richie Rich states that Richie Rich's numerous stupid stunts often get him killed, and the immoral lab workers simply grow a new batch specifically for these instances.

    Films — Animation 
  • Scamper the rabbit from Igor is killed multiple times, but always comes back because he was injected with an immortality potion. At one point his head is blown off, but it just regenerates; a recurring gag is how he just wants to die permanently.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • In Little Nicky, the title character is killed a total of seven times throughout the movie. As a son of the Devil, he has Resurrective Immortality and can just walk out of Hell. First, he gets hit by a train two seconds after arriving on Earth. Then he gets hit by a bus, attacked by a polar bear, hit by a truck, drowned by his roommate and stoner friends (at his own insistence), and hit by a train again while protecting his girlfriend — which, as a selfless act, sends him to Heaven. Finally, Valerie smashes his skull with a boulder given to her by Ozzy Osbourne so he can see his dad one last time.
  • In the first, second, and third Scary Movie films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. In the fourth one, she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, then a cargo container falls on her.
  • In the first two Men in Black movies, the local alien black market dealer Jack Jeebs serves a humorous variant on this trope in which his head is blown off, only to re-grow within less than a minute. This happens multiple times in both movies, usually with the MIB themselves perpetrating the deed, much to his frustration ("You insensitive pricks, do you have any idea how much that stings?").
  • MST3K fan favorite Space Mutiny has one character killed, only to inexplicably reappear alive and well... IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE. (Though, in this case, it's due to the movie's editor not paying attention to what order the two scenes were supposed to be shown in, rather than the character actually coming back to life.)
  • Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men Film Series rivals his comic counterpart for the amount of times he gets Professor X-ed. In X-Men: The Last Stand he gets a bad case of disintegration from Dark Phoenix (he gets better). In Logan which is a Bad Future, Charles gets stabbed in the chest by X-24 Wolverine’s Evil Knockoff and dies. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (which is a MCU film) Charles returns, only to receive a fatal psychic Neck Snap from Fallen Hero Scarlet Witch. And that's not even counting him being seconds away from being burned alive by the robotic Sentinels in the Bad Future timeline of X-Men: Days of Future Past before a Cosmic Retcon kicks in. Ian McKellen who plays Magneto expressed good natured jealousy over the fact his best friend despite getting vaporised got to return the franchise again while he didn’t.
  • A long-running joke like this is hard to pull off in a film-format, but Top Secret! manages with the character of Latrine, who shows up three times, mortally wounded, to gasp out the intelligence he gathered.
  • In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, the bard user gets sick of being resurrected (and subsequently losing a level)... so he brings in 50 more bard character sheets. In one scene, the other characters literally use his pile of corpses as cover.
  • The Quirky Miniboss Squad in The 6th Day technically does stay dead, but they clone themselves over and over, and several of the deaths are Played for Laughs. One of them repeatedly expresses a feeling of phantom pain from whatever his previous death was.
  • Phil in Groundhog Day is living the same day over and over due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
  • Scruffy Banister the cat from Madhouse (the 1990 comedy) died about 7 times in the movie. Its deaths include getting hit by a car, drowning in a fish tank, hit by a lawn mower, blown up by a firecracker, and dying of a heart attack after snorting cocaine. There were attempts to cook and microwave it, with unknown results. In the end, Mark estimates that Scruffy has 3 lives left out of 9 and is going to live them in the titular house.
  • Seltzer and Friedberg do this in every one of their "movies".
  • Loaded Weapon 1 has a character that keeps returning after his death because he thinks it's the sequel already.
  • The Three Stooges die at the end of four of their shorts "Half Shot Shooter", "Three Little Sew and Sews", "You Nazty Spie!" (later revealed to have been averted in the sequel,) and "I'll Never Heil Again".
  • In Timeless Romance, a fantasy-comedy, the protagonist played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai dies a total of three times thanks to Time Travelling shenanigans. Firstly from being stabbed, then throwing himself off a cliff, and finally getting shot In the Back. The third one seems to be permanent, though, with a Smash to Black as soon as he dies.
  • The Wilhelm Scream has punctuated the deaths of countless redshirts in film, all dying with the famous last words: "AAAUUGGH!" There's a Wilhelm in most George Lucas and Peter Jackson movies. However, it's become so recognizable that many directors have stopped using it.
  • Hardcore Henry features Jimmy, who serves as Henry's Mission Control. He keeps showing up, getting killed within a few minutes, and reappearing with a slightly different appearance a short time later. It turns out that the real Jimmy is actually a Genius Cripple remote controlling a small army of Expendable Clones.
  • Too many Slasher Movie villains to count. Chucky from Child's Play dies in nearly every movie. Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise has died a minimum of three times, possibly eight as it was hard to tell if he was truly dead in many scenarios.
  • The main character of Edge of Tomorrow also finds himself in a kind of "Groundhog Day" Loop: he's a soldier fighting an Alien Invasion and finds himself starting the day over every time the aliens kill him, which happens pretty often. Most of his deaths are not Played for Laughs, although a few are.

    Literature 
  • In The Zombie Knight, nearly every servant character gets their moment in the spotlight. Lampshaded by Zeff, who at one point kills off a few misguided Vanguard servants, then quickly apologizes to their reapers.
  • The Cat from The Looking-Glass Wars dies repeatedly in the series, since he has nine lives.
  • In a Repairman Jack story, Jack is fighting a bunch of mooks when a bomb he'd set as a booby trap went off. Chief Mook: "Oh my Christ, they must've killed Kenny!" Considering that Kenny was his nephew, the Chief Mook took it from merely business to very personal.
  • In Joel Chandler Harris' original Uncle Remus stories of Brer Rabbit and company, characters sometimes were said to be actually killed by the actions of Brer Rabbit or the others. In the first volume of stories, Brer Possum burns to death during a 'trial by fire' in Brer Rabbit Nips the Butter, Brer Wolf is locked in a chest and scalded to death in The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, and Brer Fox is killed by a farmer and decapitated in The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. But all are back alive again in the second volume, Nights With Uncle Remus thanks to the Negative Continuity of the stories. Brer Wolf, in particular, is done in again several times in the second volume, and again back as if nothing happened.
    • In fact, Brer Wolf is back in a later story in the first volume, How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, which lampshades this. The little boy to whom Uncle Remus tells the stories to objects when Uncle Remus introduces Brer Wolf, saying that Brer Rabbit scalded the wolf to death. Uncle Remus is forced to admit that yes, that's what happened in the earlier story, and that the story he's telling now might take place before it happened or be about a different Brer Wolf. He doesn't really know — he just tells them the way he hears them. And that's his final word on the matter and he goes on with the story.
  • Commissar Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!) has been mistakenly reported dead so many times that there is a standing order that he isn't to be taken off the active duty list. Inquisitor Vail notes in the commentary that he is the only officer in the history of the Imperium to remain on the active duty list a hundred and fifty years after being buried with full military honors.
  • In Daniel Pinkwater's Young Adult Novel, installments of the story within the story "Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan" are said to frequently end with Kevin's unceremonious death. Charles the Cat explains: "Kevin is indestructible. You can kill him as often as you like. He can be brought back to life in the next chapter, which usually gets told the following day during lunch."
  • In the series of Clue books, Mr. Boddy was always "killed" in the final chapter. He would then explain how he survived in the introduction of the next book, usually by some silly, implausible stroke of luck (i.e., his murderer accidentally picking up a banana instead of a revolver).
  • Agrajag from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is repeatedly reincarnated and is killed again every time - always by Arthur Dent, and always by accident.
    • Deconstructed: It's very very not funny from Agrajag's point of view. Learning that his supposed persecutor doesn't even realise he's doing it pretty much pushes him over the edge.
  • Though he (usually) dies once per book and for real, Yuri Semetsky is a character who appears (and dies) in a whole lot of works by many post-Soviet authors. It started when Sergey Lukyanenko "killed" a man randomly named Semenetsky in his Autumn Visits and soon met a very real person, book seller Yuri Semetsky. Semetsky jokingly asked Lukyanenko to "kill" his avatar in his next books. The Running Gag quickly transcended to other Russian writers, and for almost two decades "killing Semetsky" has been played straight (ranging from a passing mention to Red Shirt to Heroic Sacrifice), subverted (Semetsky lives, suffers from Disney Death, is "killed" in a video game, an animal named after him (yursem) is hunted to extinction) and zig-zagged (Semetsky has Resurrective Immortality or is cloned a hundred thousand times, so he can be killed over and over again in the same book...), although now it's on its way to Dead Horse Trope.
  • A Song of Ice and Fire: Lord Beric Dondarrion has been known to die and be revived from time to time, including one instance in which he was nearly cut in half by Sandor "The Hound" Clegane, only to be standing upright and speaking as if nothing had happened within minutes or less.
  • Journey to Chaos: "Aio" is apparently Tasio's go-to identity when he needs to have someone die. In A Mage's Power he dies to galvanize Eric. In Looming Shadow he does the same thing for Vaya. Eric wonders just how many times Aio has "died".
  • Spy School: Henchmen Joshua Hallal and Dane Brammage are both assumed dead several times after fights with the heroes, but show up again later, seeking revenge.

    Manhua 
  • Every named character in the Old Master Q comics, including - especially the titular character. Sliced to half, eaten alive, buried alive, incinerated by rockets, you name it.
  • ezi: The namesake character and his friend Qiaokeli (in some cases) die from a gunshot or a falling tree among other means, yet they return to life to maintain the status quo.

    Music 
  • Vocaloid's Kagamine Len has a reputation for getting killed off in many of his songs and music videos. Also overlaps with Chronically Killed Actor, as the Vocaloids are often interpreted as Animated Actors. Though some will come back with the claim that his female counterpart Kagamine Rin dies almost as much. Since they're the youngest Crypton Vocaloids, they're probably invoking Death of a Child.
  • "But the cat came back, the very next day. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back 'cause he wouldn't stay away!"
  • Devo's mascot, Booji Boy, has met many a gruesome end, getting stabbed at the end of the video that marked his first on-camera appearance, and then moving on to getting electrocuted, having his head crushed, and being beheaded by Osama Bin Laden.
  • Alice Cooper "dies" at the end of his concerts.
  • GWAR has the recurring character, Melvin Fleebish. He frequently appears on stage due to winning some kind of contest or etc, only to be brutally tortured onstage, usually via decapitation.
  • Most of Rammstein's videos end with keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz into some sort of death or harm.
  • As he was created by Eminem in the wake of a failed suicide attempt, Em's Slim Shady character is constantly dying or committing suicide (sometimes Murder-Suicide), but it never sticks. He hangs himself in the first verse and shoots himself in the head at the end of his Establishing Character Moment "I Am" Song ("My Name Is"), dies from an overdose and digs himself out of his grave in "Role Model", and commits a mass shooting of his audience at the end of the Encore album before killing himself. Lampshaded in "Cum On Everybody":
    I tried suicide once and I'll try it again
    That's why I write songs where I die at the end
    • Slim gets Killed Off for Real in "When I'm Gone", intended to retire the Slim Shady character as Eminem was withdrawing from rapping to focus on production and running his label. Eminem went on to have a Creator Breakdown, a Creator Recovery, and hinted in his autobiography The Way I Am that Slim Shady couldn't really die, as he's just a part of Eminem (and yells at him to shut up if he starts crying). Slim returned worse than ever in 2009's Relapse, with "My Darling" offering the explanation that Slim's real form is an evil spirit (later named "the Monster") and therefore he can't be killed.
  • Jennie Kim's "Love Hangover" video has Jennie's multiple dates with Charles result in her getting into fatal mishaps, played for Black Comedy.
  • Some Ninja Sex Party songs end abruptly with Danny Sexbang getting killed. Some examples include him suffocating in space because he left the spaceship without putting on a space suit in "Road Trip", getting gunned down by the US Secret Service in "Everybody Shut Up (I Have an Erection)", and several songs ending with him getting killed by Ninja Brian.

    Podcasts 
  • Mission to Zyxx uses guest character Papa Derf in a few episodes. At the end of each he orchestrates his own death (apparently).
  • Jar of Rebuke: Main character Dr. Jared Hel is incapable of staying dead after a mysterious encounter from his past, something which their employers frequently take advantage of (to Jared's chagrin).

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    Radio 
  • Long before South Park, Bluebottle of The Goon Show was doing this in every episode, though sometimes inverted when all the other characters died except him. Of course, this show was made of Negative Continuity.
  • The later British radio comedy series The Burkiss Way featured the character of Eric Pode of Croydon, most of whose appearances ended with him getting shot by whoever he was talking to, usually the long-suffering Fred Harris. On one single occasion, Pode shot Harris, announcing 'I had to do that, he was getting on me nerves.'
  • The early "Guy Noir" sketches on A Prairie Home Companion (and its 80s substitute, Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company) were set up in this manner, with the title character and his then-sidekick, Jimmy, repeatedly accidentally killing each other. After the Moral Guardians protested these violent acts, Jimmy was Killed Off for Real and "Guy Noir" adapted its current format, with Noir getting by on his wits alone.
  • The MJ Morning Show has the character Milton Fludgecow, a Grumpy Old Man whose calls usually involve him having difficulties on modern day household objects or situations, calling up anybody who can try and help him, only for something to get in the way and make it an even bigger problem, leading him to violently die at the end of a couple of his calls.

    Tabletop Games 
  • A major part of Paranoia. Every player character has a set of auxiliary clones that are sent in to replace them when they die, meaning any player can find plenty of ways to die during a session without having to create a new character.
  • It's also possible in Eclipse Phase but resleeving is more often played seriously given the nature of the setting.
  • It's not uncommon for adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons to parody the relative ease in which dead PCs can be resurrected.
    • Mystra, goddess of magic tends to get killed and resurrected between editions to explain the changes in the magic system.

    Web Animation 
  • The Amazing Digital Circus: Caine pops Bubble multiple times in the pilot, and he comes back each time.
  • Fazbear and Friends (ZAMination): Every time a character dies, they come back to life somehow in the next short, although to be sure, no one questions them about it, except in the episode "SQUID GAME HIDE AND SEEK" where they try to ask the game manager, but he ignores them.
    Foxy: Wait how do we keep come back to life every round?
    Masked Manager: Stop asking logical questions.
  • Battle for Dream Island: A few contestants, such as Bubble, Ice Cube, and Firey, die a lot and come back thanks to the many recovery centers. Exploited with Blocky's pranks, since they often rely on the recovery centers for their usage.
  • The Joker (2019) parody by Cas van de Pol shows Arthur Fleck accidentally firing his gun and the stray bullet manages to take out both of Bruce Wayne's parents. Later, Arthur fires another stray bullet and the Waynes are killed again. Later still, Arthur tries dancing down the stairs only to tumble and land on Bruce's parents, killing them a third time in spite of his featherweight frame. The fourth death is permanent, since it follows the plot of the film.
  • The entire main cast of Happy Tree Friends, though Splendid, Cro-Marmot, Flippy/Fliqpy and Mr. Pickels die less often than the rest, with the first one only dying on-screen once. Cuddles has just barely died the most times, with Lumpy at a close second. Of course, this is mostly because they're the characters that appear the most.
  • Samario, from DAOA. He dies in one episode and then appears in the next without any explanation. Justified, since Samario is a villi OC from VVVVVV.
  • Gridiron Heights: Ben Roethlisberger is depicted in all but one of his appearances as either dying or already dead. In his final appearance. Mike Tomlin uses him as a Dead Guy Puppet when the Steelers face Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the 2022 Wild Card.
  • Homestar Runner:
    • At least one member of the Teen Girl Squad dies comically at the end of almost every issuenote , only to return without explanation between issues.
    • Homsar has a tendency to die in multiple cartoons, only to reappear without comment. This includes the Strong Bad Email where he debuted, in which he only appears so he can be crushed with a giant weight by Strong Bad.
  • Misadventures of Apu: Apu keeps dying in various over-the-top ways (like blood loss after a Groin Attack) but somehow coming back to tell the tale.
  • Red vs. Blue:
    • After Church was killed by Caboose with the tank in Season 1 and coming back as a ghost capable of possessing bodies, he frequent found himself getting shot or killed in other ways, usually by Caboose. Thankfully, he mostly inhabited robots, and it was played for laughs, although there was the odd serious instance.
    Grif: "Church's died more times than Jean Grey. It's getting old."
    • The Battle Creek Grunts. They exist to lampshade almost every multiplayer FPS trope, including respawning at the end of a match.
    • Lopez gets blown up/shot/crushed/reduced to a head at least once whenever he shows up. As a robot, he's rather easy to repair, and he anticipates this enough to make backups of himself whenever he's placed in a dangerous situation.
  • In Dinosaur Office, any time the Intern appears, Terry (a tyrannosaurus and their boss) eats him not long afterwards.
  • Several characters have died in RWBY Chibi - Ruby has accidentally hanged herself, and Jaune has drowned - but it never sticks. In an early episode, a character who is canonically dead in RWBY shows up alive to establish that nobody dies in the Chibi continuity.
  • DSBT InsaniT: Balloon dies Once an Episode, but always comes back later on. Cody references this in 'The Camping Webisode":
    Cody: Is this guy gonna die in every episode?!
  • The Misadventures of R2 and Miku near-always kills off one or both of the two title characters in every episode, then snaps back at the start of the next. One episode lampshades it when, after an Ambiguous Clone Ending leaves Miku a bit shaken about the prospect of her original self dying, she realizes that she's died twice prior at that point.
  • SMG4 uses this as Rule of Funny, with characters dying or getting killed in many ways, only to be resurrected in the next video or sometimes in the next scene. One example happens in "Boo Busters", when Mario eats a poisoned mushroom, which ends up killing him by intoxication, and ends up coming back as a Boo. In that same video, Princess Daisy is crushed to death at the end, and yet they both appear alive in their respective subsequent appearances. However, this began to be downplayed after the series switched to dramedy, as SMG4 videos began to feature permanent deaths that aren't Played for Laughs. Notably, one scene in "SMG4 Movie: PUZZLEVISION" features the Trope Namer dying from glitchily switching to 3D after touching a similarly glitching Cartman.
    • The Spin-off series SMG4 Crew takes things further with Mario frequently dying in reaction to cringe memes, frustrating gameplay segments or his own stupidity but then starting the next clip as if nothing happened.
  • The Demented Cartoon Movie!, where the entire Earth is destroyed fifteen times.
  • If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Vulkan has died 5 times onscreen and more have been referenced. He's a Perpetual, so dying tends to only last a couple of minutes and doesn't even ruin his mood.
  • And if you want the Object Show's constant deaths but sensitive to real blood, leave it to some living watermelon slice from a British toon to fulfill your biggest desires. Melony from Object Overload is killed a lot, at least once per episode (though there, as of current, has been one episode where she survived all the way through). The reason she comes back not just in the next episode, but sometimes in the next scene, is because of the Doorway of Life, a door-based recovery center. In "Set in Stone", Crayon lampshades how much Melony dies.
    Crayon: Ugh- Ew! You need to, like, stop dying!
  • In Part 3 of The Light of Courage, Eian is shown being repeatedly killed in various ways before coming back without explanation throughout the video's runtime. In order, he's accidentally hit by Link's sword when a giant lizard monster appears, gets eaten by said monster, gets cut in half by Link's sword when the protagonists confront Ganon and Majora's Mask, is shot with one of Link's sword beams while the hero's freaking out, and is one of the characters seen within the rock pile when Zelda is revealed to have survived the rock fall.
  • Oftentimes, "Grounded" videos made with GoAnimate end with multiple people, though especially the person being grounded, dead. Typically, though, the deceased characters tend to return alive and well with little explanation next time the plot of a video requires them to.
  • Dayum:
    • In “Comments Portrayed by Minecraft”, Dayum1999 gets killed several times and comes back.
    • In “Pixar Movies Portrayed by Minecraft”, Carl Fredricksen keeps being murdered for saying he hates kids.

    Webcomics 
  • In MSF High, death is cheap. Revives are easy. And one of the characters, Rainer, has multiple bodies. A measure of his killed-count reveals he's beginning to approach this trope.
  • Ran from Bob and George, who dies multiple times in a single comic from the slightest touch. Justified that he is a robot made out of absurdly cheap parts, so his chasis breaking with restored personality is easier to accept than a living Red-Shirt.
  • In Starslip, Quine's vital role as Protocol Officer means he is equipped to be automatically revived in a fresh clone body any time he dies, which makes him a convenient frequent target for death.
  • In The Order of the Stick the string of clerics always standing next to Redcloak so he can have someone to explain to before they die? His name is Jirix. So far he's died at least twice - once by Miko kicking his head off, and once by O-Chul stabbing him with a broken cage bar. He's developed into an actual character since, and is now ruler of a sovereign goblinoid nation.
  • The blond woman in Dinosaur Comics gets stomped by T-Rex every single strip, usually without comment.
  • In #465 of Double Fine Action Comics, one of the flies is cut in half by a spear, but is perfectly fine in #673.
  • Yaythunder from Bad Drama dies at least once in all six story arcs of the 150-strip comic (twice in the second story arc, though his first death in that arc occurred in a dream world). Yaythunder's deaths appear to be a direct reference to Kenny's deaths on South Park, especially considering the utterance of "Oh my god, they killed Yaythunder!" and "You bastards!" in response to his first death. David, Yaythunder's equivalent in the Bad Drama remake Landslide, has not died so far and it is not clear yet if that running gag will still be used.
  • Ctrl+Alt+Del's early strips would feature Ethan getting killed every once in a while by ninjas or arrows fired from off-screen. The other characters don't pay much attention, as if this were absolutely normal, and Ethan (being the main character) is invariably alive and well in the next strip. Players 1, 2, 3 and 4 also get regularly murdered in gruesome fashion, only to come back to receive the same treatment.
  • Used in a crossover of game mechanics in Level 30 Psychiatry. Take Roger Wilco's penchant for getting killed, add some 1-up mushrooms and you've got this trope.
    Gardevoir: The worst part is, when Roger comes back to life, he'll have to mop up his own shredded remains.
  • MegaTokyo's Ed is a crazed, murderous psychopath who only ever manages to kill himself in increasingly ridiculous ways, recovering each time thanks to impossibly advanced medical technology. May be a weird sort of foreshadowing; when he finally manages to kill one of the other characters, she experiences an Unexplained Recovery and reappears unharmed in a hospital.
  • 1930's Nightmare Theater had plenty of frequent deaths of the recurring characters yet they were just fine come the next comic.
  • The Tommy series in Planescape Survival Guide, whenever one dies another pops up with full plate and a longsword only to rush into the enemy and get killed. So far averted by the First World Tommy
  • Adam and Jamie of MythBusters have a tendency to accidentally kill themselves testing myths in Irregular Webcomic!.
    Adam: You can only die once. Busted!
  • Dragon Ball Multiverse:
    • Strangely, despite his acceptable survival rate in the original series, Gohan is starting to become this, due to all the times he gets ruthlessly killed in the specials. Not to mention Bardock's vision in Chapter 19 of a Vegetto that has attacked and might have killed Gohan.
    • Frieza is becoming this too, for similar reasons.
  • In Skeletons!, the guy at the bottom of the page is murdered (or at least maimed) on three separate occasions by the weather.
  • In Batman and Sons, Ace the Bathound gets killed multiple times over the course of the poor dogs' Story Arc, with a replacement being found after each death, only to die moments after in various darkly humorous ways. Even the goldfish that Tim names Ace dies the moment it's introduced.
  • In Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening Cait Sith's bodies are destroyed on a regular basis, forcing him to always send a new one out to rejoin the others.
    • Currently the comic is up to Cait Sith #9, and thanks to the idea that Cats Have Nine Lives, Cait Sith is worried that he is on his last life. Of course, the comic is approaching the one time Cait Sith's body is destroyed and then replaced in the original Final Fantasy VII.
  • Jacinda's grandmother in My Roommate Is an Elf. They're cat people with nine lives, but Jacinda's grandmother gets a thrill out of dying, and she expressed displeasure at being old. She started the series with five lives, and they're slowly dwindling. Every time she dies, she comes back to life fully healed. In the case of old age, she got her youth restored.
  • Lieutenant Der Trihs in Schlock Mercenary was reduced to a head in a jar at least three times, eventually he had a new body cloned each time. After the third time it turned out he'd replaced his skull with carbonan because he got shot up so much and didn't want to risk the one injury 31st century medicine couldn't fix.
  • The entire planet of Prospit in Homestuck has been destroyed in every game session seen so far. A1 Prospit was deleted by the Scratch, A2 and B1 Prospits were destroyed by B1 Jack Noir, B2 Prospit was blown up by a Lord English possessed B2 Jack, and Uu Prospit was obliterated when Uu Skaia exploded into a black hole.
  • Part three of Ensign Sue Must Die has The Doctor get killed repeatedly, each time regenerating as a new one.
  • In Rezz & Co Bounty Hunters, Sebastian Krezznar almost always dies within a few strips of being seen on screen. He always regenerates, however.
  • In Bleach: Happy to Serve You Loly gets killed fairly often, but luckily for her, Menoly's usually on hand to fetch Orihime, who heals her with her Shun Shun Rikka.
  • Comic Relief: Butt-Monkey Agent is expressly immortal, which is why he can be shot, stabbed, and outright explode, yet arrive in perfect condition the next day. The other characters know this and abuse it.
  • Rosianna Rabbit: Multiple strips have had the titular character and her boyfriend Harry Hare get killed in the end, but they always come back alive and well in the next strip.
  • Awful Hospital: Fern has an entire floor of the Morgue dedicated to showcasing her numerous gruesome demises. Luckily, Death Is Cheap in the Hospital, so the surgical staff are always able to bring her back with a quick procedure.

    Websites 
  • SCP Foundation:
    • Justified with Dr. Bright, who uses SCP-963, which transfers his consciousness to the next living thing to touch it. That said, Dr. Bright's original body is long dead, and so are lots of replacement bodies.
    • Research Assistant Renfield dies often, too. Here, she wakes up at 9:00, dies at 10:19, and has a new clone body at 11:00.
    • Connor from the fan series Confinement is a human SCP used like a D-class test subject, who is revealed in the first episode to have Resurrective Immortality after SCP-082 bites his head off. Connor ends up dying at least Once an Episode.
  • The Black Knight from the French series Rémi le Radis dies in almost every episode he appears... And then comes back with the only explanation given being "You need more than that to kill me!".
  • Reddit user Poem_for_your_sprog has Little Timmy, a hapless youth who features in several poems, all of which end, "And Timmy fucking died."

    Web Videos 
  • Bread Boys:
    • Son dies in almost every single video. This video showcases some of these deaths.
    • Despite not dying nearly as often as Son, Father has died enough times to have an entire video tallying his various deaths.
  • Phelous often dies at the end of his reviews.
    • This running gag stopped for awhile after doing a Doctor Who parody for an April Fools joke, where he "regenerated" into a "new Phelous" and then became himself again. He almost never dies by the end of the episode unless he lampshades it.
    • He does this again for To Boldly Flee, with actual "in-story" reason: he is a Red Shirt. Whenever a redshirt is killed, there is always one more just like it (although usually with a different name) waiting in the ship. He is their only redshirt. Thus, whenever he is killed, there is suddenly another Phelous waiting in the ship. Or, to put it another way, he's running simultaneously on Original Series rules (the Red Shirt trope) and Next Generation rules (in which red shirts are important characters).
  • Todd in the Shadows tried to make a running gag out of being Driven to Suicide, but dropped it after the second instance. Not before having a chance to lampshade it, though: "Once again, my faith in pop music has been destroyed, which means that once again, it's time to kill myself."
  • The Angry Video Game Nerd has died a few times.
  • Thew's Awesome Transformers Reviews: Whenever a missile is fired, there is roughly a 100% chance that its target is the Captain Planet action figure. Several fans actually donated extra Captain Planet figures when Thew's original one broke during a move.
  • Every episode of Muhammad's Boom Boom Room by Acts17Apologetics ends with Muhammad blowing himself up, along with his guest.
  • The characters in SuperMarioLogan get killed on a semi-regular basis. This is even lampshaded by Mario in "Black Yoshi's Fried Chicken", after Chef Pee Pee is murdered and his remains are cooked into chicken nuggets.
    Mario: So many fans are going to think that he's not gonna be in the next video, but he really is!
  • The Wise Sage from The Irate Gamer has died at least 3 times and spends most of the series as a ghost. A flashback from the "Contra" episode reveals that he died of a sickness during high school. In the "Aladdin" episode, they find a genie and he wishes to be alive again, however, he dies again five minutes later. He then uses his second wish to be brought back to life again, only to get crushed to death by a giant snake.
  • Left POOR Dead: George Waitingtrose 'dies' in every episode in gradually more horrifying/awesome ways.
  • The Nostalgia Critic has died in some of his skits. There is one episode that shows him being revived by Optimus Prime.
  • SMPLive: Whenever in the vicinity of Cooper, Joko tends to end up getting killed numerous times.
  • Hatchetfield takes place in a multiverse of multiple timelines. As such, many characters have died more than once, particularly considering that the first two installments both ended in global apocalypse. In particular, Ted Spankoffski, who appears in more stories than any other character, has been killed onscreen in every timeline in which he's appeared. Professor Henry Hidgens is also prone to meeting gruesome ends.
  • The host of "Crispy's Tavern", a TTRPG-horror-stories YouTube series, makes self-inflicted examples of this trope a Running Gag: every time a story frustrates him, the version of himself who's hosting the episode will shoot, stab, or beat to death one of the seemingly-inexhaustible supply of self-copies who act as his support staff.
  • James Jenisse, host of The Kill Count, quite often gets killed by threats from the monster movies he recaps, typically when he finishes discussing a horror flick and is about to tally up the mayhem.
  • The Magic: The Gathering fan YouTube channel Tolarian Community College occasionally does skits with The Professor seeing one or more characters from the game in his office, many of which involve him dying at the end. Death by Liliana, death by dinosaur, death by Phyrexian oil, death by Gruul raiders, death by debt to Teysa...
  • Most episodes of Best of the Worst have Rich Evans suffering some kind of injury or humiliation. It happens also to Mr. Plinkett (also played by Evans) in Half in the Bag but not nearly as often.
  • In SMPEarth, the resident Butt-Monkey Icebomb has been killed by Deo over a hundred times, for no reason other than he thinks it's funny.

    Other 
  • At the New York Renaissance Faire, Sheriff of Nottingham Philip De Marque has been killed off a number of times at the end of many years' story lines.
  • Madgie, What Did You Do?: Madgie suffers from this (from the second story onwards), although sometimes her fate is ambiguous. Other characters occassionally get it too.
  • Dawn Meadows, a reporter who gets killed off (and also ladders her pantyhose) in every story but is inevitably back for more punishment at the start of the next.

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