History AnyoneCanDie / Film

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''. 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.

* As the name suggests, ''Film/TheDeparted'' is [[KillEmAll filled with death]], and has a startling abundance of X's to go along with that theme.

* ''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.

** ''Film/RogueOne'' takes this [[KillEmAll to the extreme.]] [[spoiler:''Every named character'' that isn't SavedByCanon]] is killed during their mission, including [[spoiler:the film's protagonist]]. This is due to the movie being more warlike in nature.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' [[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.]]

* ''Film/TheProfessional / Léon''. Practically everyone except Mathilda and Tony are dead by the end: TheHero (Leon), the BigBad (Stansfield), most of the Big Bad's goons and the entirety of Mathilda's family (including her four year old brother).

* ''Film/{{Contagion}}'': Everyone besides Mitch Emhoff, the only person with real immunity, who gets truly infected dies.

** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths -- the TNG cast comes out intact -- the universe does lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]''

** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': The BadFuture glimpsed at the end of the film has quite the body count: Lois Lane, Diana/Wonder Woman, Arthur Curry/Aquaman, Harley Quinn, Alfred Pennyworth, Kilowog, perhapd Batman himself... Even though it might be just an AlternateTimeline, [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] is on his way to Earth with his armada...

* ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': The [[BadFuture "Knightmare"]] timeline has a high body count, including [[spoiler:Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Vulko, Harley Quinn, Kilowog, and even Batman]] as confirmed casualties, and presumably several other named characters dead. However, [[spoiler:if Joker's speculation is of any indication, along with Mera indicating that Superman killed Aquaman (when we previously saw Darkseid stabbing him in an earlier vision), there may be [[AlternateTimeline multiple iterations]] of this timeline, and not all characters are necessarily doomed]].

** However, it's definitely played straight in the Creator/DanielCraig era, with the deaths of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper Lynd]], [[Film/QuantumOfSolace René Mathis]], [[Film/{{Skyfall}} M]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie Felix Leiter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] and even ''[[Film/NoTimeToDie Bond himself]]''. Making this extra shocking is the fact that apart from Vesper and Blofeld, [[DeathByAdaptation none of these characters were ever killed in the original novels]].

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, Peacemaker, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: However, [[TheStinger the post-credits scenes]] show that Weasel and Peacemaker [[NotQuiteDead ultimately survived.]]]]

* ''[[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/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, Peacemaker, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: However, [[TheStinger the post-credits scenes]] show that Weasel and Peacemaker [[NotQuiteDead survived.]]]]

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, Peacemaker, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: Though [[TheStinger the post-credits scenes]] show that Weasel and Peacemaker [[NotQuiteDead survived.]]]]

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: Though [[TheStinger the post-credits scenes]] show that Weasel and Peacemaker [[NotQuiteDead survived.]]]]

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list. [[spoiler: Though TheStinger shows that Weasel [[NotQuiteDead survived.]]]]

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and President Silvio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list.

* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Not even an hour into the movie, and [[spoiler: all the members of Task Force X's A-team (minus Harley Quinn and Rick Flag) and Sivio Luna, the supposed ''BigBad'',]] are all unceremoniously axed. Later in the film, [[spoiler: The Thinker, Rick Flag, the Polka-Dot Man, and Starro the Conqueror]] are added to the casualty list.

* 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.]]

* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' movies. NOBODY EVER LIVES! Alex Browning and Clear Rivers survive the first one, but it's revealed that Alex was killed by a piece of falling masonry between films, and Clear is killed in a gas explosion near the end of the second one. Kimberly Corman and Thomas Burke survive the second one and are revealed to have died by falling into a woodchipper at the end of the third film. The franchise has a 0 survivor rate.

* 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. He's finally put down for good in ''[[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]''.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series generally averts this, as although some of Bond's significant allies can be killed, usually the [=MI6=] regulars and main Bond Girls are safe. However, it's definitely played straight in the Creator/DanielCraig era, with the deaths of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper Lynd]], [[Film/QuantumOfSolace René Mathis]], [[Film/{{Skyfall}} M]], [[Film/NoTimeToDie Felix Leiter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] and even ''[[Film/NoTimeToDie Bond himself]]''. Making this extra shocking is the fact that apart from Vesper and Blofeld, [[DeathByAdaptation none of these characters were killed in the original novels]].

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series generally averts this, as although some of Bond's significant allies can be killed, usually the [=MI6=] regulars and main Bond Girls are safe. However, it's definitely played straight in the Creator/DanielCraig era, with the deaths of Vesper Lynd, René Mathis, M, Felix Leiter, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and even ''Bond himself''. Making this extra shocking is the fact that apart from Vesper and Blofeld, none of these characters were killed in the original novels.

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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).

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' doesn't have as many deaths as ''Infinity War'', but it's made clear beyond all doubt that the few characters that do die have no chance whatsoever of being resurrected. [[spoiler:The two major character deaths are Black Widow, who sacrifices herself to retrieve the Soul Stone, and Iron Man-- the main character of the franchise-- who succumbs to injuries caused by using the Infinity Stones to defeat Thanos and his army. Meanwhile, everyone who died in ''Infinity War'' outside of the snap remains dead, with the Hulk even clarifying that he tried to bring back Natasha but it proved impossible.]]

* George Romero's Film/LivingDeadSeries is this trope in full force. In the original Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968, none of the main cast survive the movie. The rest of the series follows suit - while some of the main cast of each movie make it to the end, you have no way of anticipating who. Even the remakes run on this

** 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.
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': While it doesn't feature a ton of main character deaths -- the TNG cast comes out intact - the universe does lose the recurring villains Lursa and B'etor, and oh, by the way, ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready James T. Kirk.]]''

** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' carries on this newly established tradition by killing off quite a few major characters in unexpected ways, showing that even a LighterAndSofter LowerDeckEpisode doesn't mean anyone is safe. Of the newly introduced characters, [[spoiler: Rio Durant, Val, L3-37, Dryden Vos, and Tobias Beckett]] all die - the only major characters not SavedByCanon who survive are [[spoiler: Qi'ra and Enfys Nest.]]

* About halfway through ''Film/{{Drive}}'' starts playing this trope pretty hard until the end when all but two named characters are dead.