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I'd think Doomed by Canon would be in case the prequel tried to imply the character will be happy, but the description sounds a bit ambitious.
Both examples are Zero-Context Example either way because they need to tell how they relate to both installments explicitly.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupMy reasoning for Saved by Canon: their existence in Trigger Happy Havoc ensures that they survive the events of the prequel anime.
Is it still insufficient? If so, I won't mind to remove both ZCEs.
Edited by ExaskliriFrom reading the trope description Doomed by Canon refers to a character's success or failure being set in stone by canon, not exclusively to character death. So a character who dies in the original series can potentially be both tropes in the prequel: Saved by Canon because it's already a given that they live until the original entry, but if the character has big plans or ambitions that we know will come to nothing because of their death in the original story, then that can also be Doomed by Canon. But as written, I don't have enough info to say if that applies or not.
EDIT: As far as I can tell, Doomed By Canon shouldn't apply if it's just "we know this character will die in a completely different installment."
Edited by MetaFour

This folder is from the prequel work's character page.
I changed Doomed by Canon to Saved by Canon (the following character got killed in Trigger Happy Havoc, not the prequel anime), but then another troper re-added Doomed By Canon.
Mukuro Ikusaba