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* Every film in the ''Film/{{Cube}}'' series is like this, in typical thriller fashion. ''Cube'', ''Cube 2: Hypercube'', and ''Cube Zero''.
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* Only two named characters and a small amount of unimportant minor characters live to the end of ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darnkess]]'', and one of the two characters was put in a coma she probably didn't get out of.
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* Only two named characters and a small amount of unimportant minor characters live to the end of ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darnkess]]'', ''Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010'', and one of the two characters was put in a coma she probably didn't get out of.
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** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths - the TNG cast comes out intact - we do lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and [[spoiler: oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]'']]
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** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths - the TNG cast comes out intact - we do the universe does lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and [[spoiler: oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]'']]]]''
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[BigBad Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, we all knew that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[BigBad Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, we all knew it was apparent that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
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* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. The first major scene in the movie establishes the tone pretty well, if the fact that's a war movie didn't tip you off first.
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* The most [[ShootTheShaggyDog shaggy-dog extreme]] of this trope is the film ''Film/DeathProof'', the whole first half of which is spent following characters who don't survive into the second half, just to establish this trope for the film. It then makes up for it by giving us one of the best car chases ever put on film.
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* The majority of people who saw ''Film/TheLionKing'' for the first time probably didn't expect Scar to succeed at killing Mufasa so easily.
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** It similarly destroyed Romulus and Remus - the twin planets at the heart of the Romulan Star Empire, in the prime universe to get the plot started in the first place.
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* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[ChewingTheScenery Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, we all knew that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
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* As the name suggests, ''Film/TheDeparted'' is filled with death, and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.
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** ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The characters died in more or less reverse order of how famous the actors playing them were. Famous in 1979, that is. JohnHurt was hugely famous and popular in the US and Britain. Even Veronica Cartwright, whose career went back to playing Violet Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver,'' and had intersected with Audrey Hepburn and Creator/AlfredHitchcock, was familiar to audiences. Creator/SigourneyWeaver was entirely unknown, and the only entirely unknown actor in the cast, with just four minor credits. The deaths of the characters felt like a downward spiral, and Ripley's demise seemed inevitable. The tension of the last ten minutes (with the ship's computer voice counting them off) was almost unbearable. Ripley's survival was shocking, and until the end credits rolled, the audience still expected the alien to pop up somewhere.
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** And Randy himself in ''Scream 2'', unexpectedly and right in the middle of the movie, [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim dropping a bridge on him.]]
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* The most [[ShootTheShaggyDog shaggy-dog extreme]] of this trope is the film ''DeathProof'', the whole first half of which is spent following characters who don't survive into the second half, just to establish this trope for the film. It then makes up for it by giving us one of the best car chases ever put on film.
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* ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes.
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* ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes. This is also referenced in ''Scream 3'' by resident horror movie buff Randy: In the third movie all bets are off and anyone can die. True to form the film proves this by killing off Cotton Weary, a major character from the first two, right off the bat.
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* By the end of ''ChildrenOfMen'' everyone is dead except Kee and her baby.
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* As the name suggests, ''TheDeparted'' is filled with death, and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.
* ''TheProfessional/Léon''. Practically everyone except Mathilda is dead by the end: TheHero, the BigBad, most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'': Hitler doesn't even survive this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
* ''TheProfessional/Léon''. Practically everyone except Mathilda is dead by the end: TheHero, the BigBad, most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'': Hitler doesn't even survive this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
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*''TheProfessional/Léon''.''Film/TheProfessional / Léon''. Practically everyone except Mathilda is dead by the end: TheHero, the BigBad, most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family.
*''InglouriousBasterds'': ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Hitler doesn't even survive this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
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* ''NoCountryForOldMen'': no character was safe - even Anton Chigurh. And the movie lets you know it.
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** [[spoiler: Hoffman]] is technically alive at the end of the last film. He is the only character in the entire series to appear in more than two movies and survive. [[spoiler: And even then, he's locked in the bathroom from the first film with no hope of escape, with the implication being that he's going to die soon.]]
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* ''Film/{{Leon}}''. Practically everyone is dead by the end, including the eponymous hero.
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** ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Practically everyone dies, most in the initial catastrophic engagement with the aliens. Of the sixteen characters on LV-426 only four make it to the end credits, and two of them are seriously injured (one of whom, an android, is in bits).
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* In ''CityOfAngels'' Meg Ryan's character, one of the two leads in the film, dies at the end.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' [[spoiler:The Leafmen's queen dies, Mandrake's son dies, a Boggan is seen falling down onto a car windshield and is just wiped off like a swatted fly, and who ''knows'' how many more sacrificed their lives in this battle.]]
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* In ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', main characters drop like flies, providing real tension in the third film as Nicky flees from the CIA assassin following her. Compare with the [[Literature/TheBourneSeries novel series]].
* As the name suggests, ''TheDeparted'' is filled with death, and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.
** Not sure if this applies here, since not only ''can'' everybody die, outside of Marky Mark, Vera Farmiga and Alec Baldwin, everybody ''does'' die.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'': Hitler doesn't even survive this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
* The films of GuyRitchie.
* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the death of [[SacrificialLion Marion Crane]] was nearly as shocking and unexpected as the TwistEnding. [[ItWasHisSled Naturally, these aren't secrets anymore.]]
* The most [[ShootTheShaggyDog shaggy-dog extreme]] of this trope is the film ''DeathProof'', the whole first half of which is spent following characters who don't survive into the second half, just to establish this trope for the film. It then makes up for it by giving us one of the best car chases ever put on film.
* ''TheThinRedLine'', the film even more so than the book.
* Every film in the ''Film/{{Cube}}'' series is like this, in typical thriller fashion. ''Cube'', ''Cube 2: Hypercube'', and ''Cube Zero''.
* Movie critic Joe Bob Briggs has long made this trope his fundamental statement about what makes a good horror movie: "Anyone can die at any time."
* In ''CityOfAngels'' Meg Ryan's character, one of the two leads in the film, dies at the end.
* ''{{Cloverfield}}''.
* In ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' (1992), all the main characters die ''except'' the romantic leads and the eponymous character.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films are just as bad as the video games. By the end of ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', the only important characters still alive are Alice, Clear, and Wesker.
** And then ''Wesker'' died at the end of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Afterlife]]''. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better somehow]], but still.
* ''SavingPrivateRyan''. The first major scene in the movie establishes the tone pretty well, if the fact that's a war movie didn't tip you off first.
** Except that most of those who die in the opening barrage are unknown to us. The later battle at the radar site, and over the village account for characters we've come to know.
* ''NoCountryForOldMen'': no character was safe - even Anton Chigurh. And the movie lets you know it.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Sudden deaths instilled this trope in the second act of the movie and it runs to the end.
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[ChewingTheScenery Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, we all knew that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009): [[EarthShatteringKaboom The planet Vulcan]], including Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, who may be a more appropriate example for this page. Especially shocking due to the finger it gave to StatusQuoIsGod: you thought it would be your standard {{Prequel}} and then they go and do ''that.''
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths - the TNG cast comes out intact - we do lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and [[spoiler: oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]'']]
* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is an interesting case. The series has a tendency of killing off most ([[KillEmAll if not all]]) of the main characters, but spares the minor characters who show up in three scenes or less. Four movies in all, and the only main character still confirmed alive and not possessed by the demon is Ali.
* ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' fills this trope. Only three of the characters escaped and everybody else involved bar a few get killed. Essentially, this was TruthInTelevision since the movie was BasedOnATrueStory.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043590/ Go For Broke!]]'' has a huge [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters speaking-character]] death count by the end of the film, which unfortunately [[TruthInTelevision reflects the real casualty rate]] of the Japanese-American [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._100th_Infantry_Battalion 100th Infantry Battalion]]: ''9,486 Purple Hearts'' divided by 3,000 troops. Sadly, this is mainly due to them being treated as cannon fodder.
* ''Film/DeepBlueSea''. Literally moments after [[SacrificialLion establishing himself as the leader of the group with an amazing speech]], SamuelLJackson's character gets sharked to pieces. And despite the usual male and female love interest making it to the end, Susan [=McCallister=] cuts her arm and jumps into the water to distract the shark. You can't help thinking she's going to be alright, right before she's chomped, torn in two and swallowed. R.I.P. SacrificialLion.
* ''Film/StreetKings'' should've been named ''[[DeadStarWalking Dead Star Walking: The Movie]]''. Every single character played by a well-known actor (excluding Keanu Reeves and Hugh Laurie) dies. ''Every. Single. One.''
* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
** ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The characters died in more or less reverse order of how famous the actors playing them were. Famous in 1979, that is. JohnHurt was hugely famous and popular in the US and Britain. Even Veronica Cartwright, whose career went back to playing Violet Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver,'' and had intersected with Audrey Hepburn and Creator/AlfredHitchcock, was familiar to audiences. Creator/SigourneyWeaver was entirely unknown, and the only entirely unknown actor in the cast, with just four minor credits. The deaths of the characters felt like a downward spiral, and Ripley's demise seemed inevitable. The tension of the last ten minutes (with the ship's computer voice counting them off) was almost unbearable. Ripley's survival was shocking, and until the end credits rolled, the audience still expected the alien to pop up somewhere.
** ''Film/{{Alien 3}}''. The survivors of the previous film, after fighting through all of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and surviving, all die right in the beginning, except for Ripley. The prisoners are all killed one by one, with a lot of them completely unexpected. Clemens, the only sympathetic and interesting character in the film is among them. Ripley herself even dies at the end.
* In ''Film/{{Juon}}'', and its remake series ''TheGrudge'', anyone can be killed by Kayako at any moment. Even her beloved crush from her college days is no exception.
** The only characters not killed by Kayako (in the ''Ju-on'' series, at least) is her crush's wife and unborn son; they were killed by Kayako's deranged husband.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} 9]]''. Just... damn.
** Just to put it into context, out of the fifteen or so named characters, only ''four'' (the number, [[CuteMute not]] [[SinglemindedTwins the]] [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace character]]) survive.
*** This movie, by the way, was put in the "Kids and Family" category. If the children aren't traumatized by the doll/spider/snake (Seamstress), they'll be depressed by all the cute dying ragdolls.
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies. NO BODY EVER LIVES. Clear Rivers survives the first one but is killed in a gas explosion near the end of the second one. Kimberly Corman and Thomas Burke survive the second one and were slated to make cameos at the end of the third one, dying in the subway crash that kills the surviving characters of the third movie. Due to prior arrangements with their actors though, the filmmakers settled for a brief glimpse of a news article that says they fell into a wood chipper.
* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' showcased this in the second half. Its sequels followed suit.
* ''Film/TheCowboys''. First, one of the plucky youngsters goes, then at the end of the second act, John freakin' Wayne dies.
* Only two named characters and a small amount of unimportant minor characters live to the end of ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darnkess]]'', and one of the two characters was put in a coma she probably didn't get out of.
* ''BladeTrinity'' starts with Whistler's death, who has been around for both previous films. Then again, he was thought to have committed suicide at the end of the first film.
* ''Film/{{Feast}}'' dines heartily on this trope. In the opening scene, a badass protagonist bursts into the restaurant, proclaims himself the hero, is designated as such by the movie itself, and is then viciously dispatched. For the rest of the film you're never quite sure who'll survive and who won't because even the kid is swallowed whole.
* By the end of ''ChildrenOfMen'' everyone is dead except Kee and her baby.
* Only five characters live to the end of ''SmokinAces''.
** Its prequel, ''Assassins' Ball'', is even worse. It introduces several new characters who don't appear or were even mentioned in the original film (except Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot, [[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]). Besides those two, only ''two'' characters survive the bloodbath in the film.
* Of the large cast of characters in ''DemonKnight'' by the end of the movie Jeryline is the only survivor.
* ''Film/{{Saw}}''. Seven movies in total, and the only recurring character to survive to the end of it all is Lawrence Gordon, who only appeared in the first and last ones.
* In the real life Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's officer corps and aides were devastated by the battle, with a large number of them either being killed or wounded. This carries over to the movie ''{{Waterloo}}''. Also, all those {{Mauve Shirt}}s who humanize the encounter and both armies? Don't hold out too much hope for them either.
* Rocco and Il Duche from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' and ''TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', as well as some secondary characters.
* Australian movie ''Boy Town'' has '''all''' the main characters die in a plane crash towards the end.
* ''{{Contagion}}'': Everyone besides Mitch Emhoff, the only person with real immunity, who gets truly infected dies.
* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'': Once Kaneda died, we all knew this was coming.
* About halfway through ''Film/{{Drive}}'' starts playing this trope pretty hard until the end when all but two named characters are dead.
* By the end of John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', only two characters are left alive, and they are most likely to freeze to death.
** Given the nature of the titular Thing, there's a good chance that one of them is already dead.
* The Hong Kong Kung Fu flick ''Film/DuelToTheDeath'' is a film about a duel between the best swordsmen in China and Japan for bragging rights between the two nations. By the end everyone is dead except for the two leads, (well, aside from one character who has undergone a BreakTheHaughty experience and possibly [[FreakOut gone insane]] as a result) and both of ''them'' are dying from wounds suffered in the duel as the credits roll.
* The 2010 ''ClashOfTheTitans'' remake wastes no time in killing off characters, both major and minor. Both Perseus' and Andromeda's parents, the cult leader who tried to sacrifice her, the entire Praetorian guard and its captain Draco, the Jinn who accompanied Perseus on his journey,and Io all face their demise along the course of the film. However, Io got better by the end and is reunited with Perseus. Hades doesn't count, however, since he was merely sent back to the underworld.
* Neil Marshall's ''{{Centurion}}'' ends with only one major character alive. All the Centurion soldiers are dead except Quintus, and the only other people alive are the Pict leader Gorlacon, the exile Arianne, and the governor. The three of them have less than 10 minutes of screen time.
* Most of the main characters get killed by the end of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in increasingly more brutal ways. First Clean gets shot and dies instantly, then Chief gets impaled by a spear, and finally Chef gets decapitated (judging from the expression on his face he was probably alive when they cut off his head).
* ''The Ice Harvest'': Charlie and Pete are the only main characters to survive.
* Supposedly the whole point of ''SuckerPunch'', leaving none but one protagonist, one anti-hero, and the antagonists alive in a massive DownerEnding.
** Subverted though, since WordOfGod stated that the characters who died only died in Babydoll's imagination, not in reality.
* Only two of the eponymous bodyguards gathered to protect Sun Yat Sen in ''Bodyguards and Assassins'' are still alive by the time that he leaves Hong Kong (roughly two hours after arriving).
* Dario Argento's films seem to be rather fond of this, killing most of the main cast and rarely ever having a survival count higher than 2. The most egregious example of this being ''{{Suspiria}}'', where once the main heroine kills the head witch (Suspirorum, the Mother of Size), the building starts to collapse, and the moment she leaves, it bursts into flames, supposedly killing every single person within the building except for the main heroine.
* Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' ends with just about every major character dead except for Jenny (who is blind for good) and Inspector Li Ying (who was arrested by his fellow officers for killing Wong Hoi right in front of them).
* As seen in ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' and ''Film/BattleRoyale'', Kinji Fukasaku lived by this trope.
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* In ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', main characters drop like flies, providing real tension in the third film as Nicky flees from the CIA assassin following her. Compare with the [[Literature/TheBourneSeries novel series]].
* As the name suggests, ''TheDeparted'' is filled with death, and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.
** Not sure if this applies here, since not only ''can'' everybody die, outside of Marky Mark, Vera Farmiga and Alec Baldwin, everybody ''does'' die.
* ''InglouriousBasterds'': Hitler doesn't even survive this film. About half the cast is killed in a tavern shootout. The ones who survive that are blown to bits in the climactic theater explosion (or various shootouts and stranglings taking place moments before). Only three of a twenty-member ensemble cast make it to the end, and one is a fairly minor character who has maybe ten lines tops.
* The films of GuyRitchie.
* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the death of [[SacrificialLion Marion Crane]] was nearly as shocking and unexpected as the TwistEnding. [[ItWasHisSled Naturally, these aren't secrets anymore.]]
* The most [[ShootTheShaggyDog shaggy-dog extreme]] of this trope is the film ''DeathProof'', the whole first half of which is spent following characters who don't survive into the second half, just to establish this trope for the film. It then makes up for it by giving us one of the best car chases ever put on film.
* ''TheThinRedLine'', the film even more so than the book.
* Every film in the ''Film/{{Cube}}'' series is like this, in typical thriller fashion. ''Cube'', ''Cube 2: Hypercube'', and ''Cube Zero''.
* Movie critic Joe Bob Briggs has long made this trope his fundamental statement about what makes a good horror movie: "Anyone can die at any time."
* In ''CityOfAngels'' Meg Ryan's character, one of the two leads in the film, dies at the end.
* ''{{Cloverfield}}''.
* In ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' (1992), all the main characters die ''except'' the romantic leads and the eponymous character.
* The ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films are just as bad as the video games. By the end of ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', the only important characters still alive are Alice, Clear, and Wesker.
** And then ''Wesker'' died at the end of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Afterlife]]''. [[UnexplainedRecovery He got better somehow]], but still.
* ''SavingPrivateRyan''. The first major scene in the movie establishes the tone pretty well, if the fact that's a war movie didn't tip you off first.
** Except that most of those who die in the opening barrage are unknown to us. The later battle at the radar site, and over the village account for characters we've come to know.
* ''NoCountryForOldMen'': no character was safe - even Anton Chigurh. And the movie lets you know it.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Sudden deaths instilled this trope in the second act of the movie and it runs to the end.
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. Once [[ChewingTheScenery Calvin]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Candie]] ''and'' [[TooCoolToLive Dr.]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse King]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Schultz]] were killed within the span of twenty seconds, we all knew that the Grim Reaper was hovering directly over the rest of the characters' heads.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009): [[EarthShatteringKaboom The planet Vulcan]], including Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, who may be a more appropriate example for this page. Especially shocking due to the finger it gave to StatusQuoIsGod: you thought it would be your standard {{Prequel}} and then they go and do ''that.''
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths - the TNG cast comes out intact - we do lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and [[spoiler: oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]'']]
* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' is an interesting case. The series has a tendency of killing off most ([[KillEmAll if not all]]) of the main characters, but spares the minor characters who show up in three scenes or less. Four movies in all, and the only main character still confirmed alive and not possessed by the demon is Ali.
* ''Franchise/{{Scream}}''. Any character regardless of the actor in the role can (and does) die in the first ten minutes.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' fills this trope. Only three of the characters escaped and everybody else involved bar a few get killed. Essentially, this was TruthInTelevision since the movie was BasedOnATrueStory.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043590/ Go For Broke!]]'' has a huge [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters speaking-character]] death count by the end of the film, which unfortunately [[TruthInTelevision reflects the real casualty rate]] of the Japanese-American [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team 442nd Regimental Combat Team]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._100th_Infantry_Battalion 100th Infantry Battalion]]: ''9,486 Purple Hearts'' divided by 3,000 troops. Sadly, this is mainly due to them being treated as cannon fodder.
* ''Film/DeepBlueSea''. Literally moments after [[SacrificialLion establishing himself as the leader of the group with an amazing speech]], SamuelLJackson's character gets sharked to pieces. And despite the usual male and female love interest making it to the end, Susan [=McCallister=] cuts her arm and jumps into the water to distract the shark. You can't help thinking she's going to be alright, right before she's chomped, torn in two and swallowed. R.I.P. SacrificialLion.
* ''Film/StreetKings'' should've been named ''[[DeadStarWalking Dead Star Walking: The Movie]]''. Every single character played by a well-known actor (excluding Keanu Reeves and Hugh Laurie) dies. ''Every. Single. One.''
* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'':
** ''Film/{{Alien}}''. The characters died in more or less reverse order of how famous the actors playing them were. Famous in 1979, that is. JohnHurt was hugely famous and popular in the US and Britain. Even Veronica Cartwright, whose career went back to playing Violet Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver,'' and had intersected with Audrey Hepburn and Creator/AlfredHitchcock, was familiar to audiences. Creator/SigourneyWeaver was entirely unknown, and the only entirely unknown actor in the cast, with just four minor credits. The deaths of the characters felt like a downward spiral, and Ripley's demise seemed inevitable. The tension of the last ten minutes (with the ship's computer voice counting them off) was almost unbearable. Ripley's survival was shocking, and until the end credits rolled, the audience still expected the alien to pop up somewhere.
** ''Film/{{Alien 3}}''. The survivors of the previous film, after fighting through all of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and surviving, all die right in the beginning, except for Ripley. The prisoners are all killed one by one, with a lot of them completely unexpected. Clemens, the only sympathetic and interesting character in the film is among them. Ripley herself even dies at the end.
* In ''Film/{{Juon}}'', and its remake series ''TheGrudge'', anyone can be killed by Kayako at any moment. Even her beloved crush from her college days is no exception.
** The only characters not killed by Kayako (in the ''Ju-on'' series, at least) is her crush's wife and unborn son; they were killed by Kayako's deranged husband.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} 9]]''. Just... damn.
** Just to put it into context, out of the fifteen or so named characters, only ''four'' (the number, [[CuteMute not]] [[SinglemindedTwins the]] [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace character]]) survive.
*** This movie, by the way, was put in the "Kids and Family" category. If the children aren't traumatized by the doll/spider/snake (Seamstress), they'll be depressed by all the cute dying ragdolls.
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies. NO BODY EVER LIVES. Clear Rivers survives the first one but is killed in a gas explosion near the end of the second one. Kimberly Corman and Thomas Burke survive the second one and were slated to make cameos at the end of the third one, dying in the subway crash that kills the surviving characters of the third movie. Due to prior arrangements with their actors though, the filmmakers settled for a brief glimpse of a news article that says they fell into a wood chipper.
* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' showcased this in the second half. Its sequels followed suit.
* ''Film/TheCowboys''. First, one of the plucky youngsters goes, then at the end of the second act, John freakin' Wayne dies.
* Only two named characters and a small amount of unimportant minor characters live to the end of ''[[Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010 Edge of Darnkess]]'', and one of the two characters was put in a coma she probably didn't get out of.
* ''BladeTrinity'' starts with Whistler's death, who has been around for both previous films. Then again, he was thought to have committed suicide at the end of the first film.
* ''Film/{{Feast}}'' dines heartily on this trope. In the opening scene, a badass protagonist bursts into the restaurant, proclaims himself the hero, is designated as such by the movie itself, and is then viciously dispatched. For the rest of the film you're never quite sure who'll survive and who won't because even the kid is swallowed whole.
* By the end of ''ChildrenOfMen'' everyone is dead except Kee and her baby.
* Only five characters live to the end of ''SmokinAces''.
** Its prequel, ''Assassins' Ball'', is even worse. It introduces several new characters who don't appear or were even mentioned in the original film (except Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot, [[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]). Besides those two, only ''two'' characters survive the bloodbath in the film.
* Of the large cast of characters in ''DemonKnight'' by the end of the movie Jeryline is the only survivor.
* ''Film/{{Saw}}''. Seven movies in total, and the only recurring character to survive to the end of it all is Lawrence Gordon, who only appeared in the first and last ones.
* In the real life Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's officer corps and aides were devastated by the battle, with a large number of them either being killed or wounded. This carries over to the movie ''{{Waterloo}}''. Also, all those {{Mauve Shirt}}s who humanize the encounter and both armies? Don't hold out too much hope for them either.
* Rocco and Il Duche from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' and ''TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', as well as some secondary characters.
* Australian movie ''Boy Town'' has '''all''' the main characters die in a plane crash towards the end.
* ''{{Contagion}}'': Everyone besides Mitch Emhoff, the only person with real immunity, who gets truly infected dies.
* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'': Once Kaneda died, we all knew this was coming.
* About halfway through ''Film/{{Drive}}'' starts playing this trope pretty hard until the end when all but two named characters are dead.
* By the end of John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', only two characters are left alive, and they are most likely to freeze to death.
** Given the nature of the titular Thing, there's a good chance that one of them is already dead.
* The Hong Kong Kung Fu flick ''Film/DuelToTheDeath'' is a film about a duel between the best swordsmen in China and Japan for bragging rights between the two nations. By the end everyone is dead except for the two leads, (well, aside from one character who has undergone a BreakTheHaughty experience and possibly [[FreakOut gone insane]] as a result) and both of ''them'' are dying from wounds suffered in the duel as the credits roll.
* The 2010 ''ClashOfTheTitans'' remake wastes no time in killing off characters, both major and minor. Both Perseus' and Andromeda's parents, the cult leader who tried to sacrifice her, the entire Praetorian guard and its captain Draco, the Jinn who accompanied Perseus on his journey,and Io all face their demise along the course of the film. However, Io got better by the end and is reunited with Perseus. Hades doesn't count, however, since he was merely sent back to the underworld.
* Neil Marshall's ''{{Centurion}}'' ends with only one major character alive. All the Centurion soldiers are dead except Quintus, and the only other people alive are the Pict leader Gorlacon, the exile Arianne, and the governor. The three of them have less than 10 minutes of screen time.
* Most of the main characters get killed by the end of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in increasingly more brutal ways. First Clean gets shot and dies instantly, then Chief gets impaled by a spear, and finally Chef gets decapitated (judging from the expression on his face he was probably alive when they cut off his head).
* ''The Ice Harvest'': Charlie and Pete are the only main characters to survive.
* Supposedly the whole point of ''SuckerPunch'', leaving none but one protagonist, one anti-hero, and the antagonists alive in a massive DownerEnding.
** Subverted though, since WordOfGod stated that the characters who died only died in Babydoll's imagination, not in reality.
* Only two of the eponymous bodyguards gathered to protect Sun Yat Sen in ''Bodyguards and Assassins'' are still alive by the time that he leaves Hong Kong (roughly two hours after arriving).
* Dario Argento's films seem to be rather fond of this, killing most of the main cast and rarely ever having a survival count higher than 2. The most egregious example of this being ''{{Suspiria}}'', where once the main heroine kills the head witch (Suspirorum, the Mother of Size), the building starts to collapse, and the moment she leaves, it bursts into flames, supposedly killing every single person within the building except for the main heroine.
* Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' ends with just about every major character dead except for Jenny (who is blind for good) and Inspector Li Ying (who was arrested by his fellow officers for killing Wong Hoi right in front of them).
* As seen in ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' and ''Film/BattleRoyale'', Kinji Fukasaku lived by this trope.
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