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-->-- '''''[[http://www.sydlexia.com/nes100/nes16.htm Syd Lexia]], on ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'''

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' provides two examples of this in "Stardust City Rag." The first sees Icheb mercy-killed by Seven of Nine after having his Borg parts harvested by a black-market dealer. He was last seen in "Endgame" on ''Voyager'', 19 years before. Bruce Maddox also reappeared only to get murdered, after appearing in one episode of ''The Next Generation'', "Measure of a Man", from 1989, over thirty years earlier!

** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Scorponok, who disappeared early in the [[Film/{{Transformers|2007}} first film]] after being badly damaged, pulls a DynamicEntry in the climactic desert battle and guts Jetfire, only to have Jetfire throw him to the ground and pound him into scrap with one blow.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':
** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Scorponok, who disappeared early in the first film after being badly damaged, pulls a DynamicEntry in the climactic desert battle and guts Jetfire, only to have Jetfire throw him to the ground and pound him into scrap with one blow.
** The third film, ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' has Barricade make a return appearance after disappearing inexplicably during the end of the first (although [[AllThereInTheManual with tie-in comics explaining what happened to him]]). He appears rounding up the Autobots as prisoners, before executing Wheeljack/Que, and then angrily berating a few Decepticon troops after Bumblebee seizes an opportunity for freedom and kills Soundwave. His eyes are then shot out by human snipers before his legs are destroyed with boomsticks and is then finished off whilst crippled. Though it's subverted as the subsequent sequel ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' reveals he has ''somehow'' cheated death yet again, and in The Last Knight [[spoiler: he escapes unscathed]].

* In the first half of Season 8 of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Morales returns having allied with Negan and the Saviors- only to be killed by Daryl in the episode following his return.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has [[spoiler:Misty Fey: She's an incredibly important character in the backstory, then finally appears in the last case of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'', only to be murdered fifteen minutes later]]. It's not even revealed that it was that person until much later.

* ''Captain Ginyu'' of all people returns in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in the Freeza Revival arc, [[DesecratingTheDead stealing Tagoma's body]] and making a grand spectacle of his return to a proper body. Then Vegeta shows up and finishes what he started back on Namek.

* ''Captain Ginyu'' of all people returns in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in the Freeza Revival arc, [[KickTheSonOfABitch stealing Tagoma's body]] and making a grand spectacle of his return to a proper body. Then Vegeta shows up and finishes what he started back on Namek.
--> '''Vegeta:''' Well, too bad for you. I don't think you'd have died if you stayed a frog.
--> ''[[CurbStompBattle Vegeta obliterates Ginyu with a single ki blast.]]''

** Chef's voice actor, Music/IsaacHayes, quit the show in apparent protest of the anti-Scientology message of "Trapped in the Closet." Chef had been pretty OutOfFocus by that point anyway, so they used the season ten premiere to kill him off, cobbling his lines together ([[StylisticSuck badly]]) from previous episodes.

** Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} defeated [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] but later lost to ComicBook/BlackPanther and [[Characters/IronMan Iron Man]]. ** Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog won his first battle against [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] but lost the second rematch with his [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie counterpart]] losing to [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] after winning against Mario when composited with video game Sonic.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Captain Marvel]] was defeated by Android #18 and later ComicBook/{{Shazam}}.

* It's not uncommon for combatants in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' to survive one battle and lose another or, even worse, lose another battle. Among those, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] defeated [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] in his first battle but lost the second, [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] lost to [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]], but defeated [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Jin Kazama]], [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]] was defeated by Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} twice, [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Captain Marvel]] was defeated by Android #18 and later ComicBook/{{Shazam}}, and Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} defeated [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] but lost to ComicBook/BlackPanther and [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog won his first battle against [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] but lost the second, Shadow The Hedgehog lost to both Vegeta and later [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]], Charizard first lost the Pokemon Battle Royale, and then, alongside Red, lost to [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Tai and Agumon]], [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]] lost to Manga/AstroBoy and later, in the Mega Man Battle Royale, was the second of the Mega Men to die, only beating [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Volnutt]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] defeated Bowser, but later lost to [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} Dracula]], [[Franchise/PowerRangers Tommy Oliver]] appeared twice, once piloting the Tigerzord, and the other piloting the Dragonzord, where he lost both times, and [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] lost to both [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]].

** [[spoiler:He can be wished back to life after beating the BonusBoss, though.]]

* [[TragicVillain Nameless]] was introduced in the ''Unlimited Match'' UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002'' as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for K9999, which most chalked up to the latter being ScrewedByTheLawyers. But then K9999 returned in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'', and Creator/{{SNK}}, having by then consigned Nameless to DreamMatchGame limbo, must have felt that he had served his purpose. So the 2002 Story of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersAllStar'' - Nameless's first appearance outside of ''Unlimited Match'' - ends with him pulling a HeroicSacrifice and subsequently bleeding out in a self-destructing base as he is [[TogetherInDeath spirited away to the afterlife by his dead love interest Isolde]].

* Gauron in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic! The Second Raid''. Kinda a weird example, since Gauron had been "assumed dead" at least 3-or-4 times in the past (and twice in the first season) before the second season. Every time he and Main Character Sōsuke cross paths, something happens that should have killed him (for example, the first time Sōsuke shot him in the head), only for him to reappear later with some excuse as to how he survived (He had a metal plate in his skull from an earlier wound). However, Sōsuke kills him for good in the second season.

** Armand Krol, who was mayor during ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' was briefly written out of the books at the end of ''ComicBook/BatmanContagion'', where among other things, he contracted the Clench himself and screwed up so bad, the governor went ahead and inaugurated Marion Grange as mayor early. The plot of the sequel, ''ComicBook/BatmanLegacy'' is kicked off by the reveal that the Clench was merely rendered dormant, not cured -- by the fact that it flared back up in Krol's body and killed him just as he was preparing to run for governor himself.

* ''Series/Numb3rs'': [[spoiler:Simon Kraft]] who first appeared in the season two episode "Mind Games". [[spoiler:He]] is killed when [[spoiler:he]] returns in the season five episode "Trouble in Chinatown", [[spoiler:when he is run over a car, which he predicted would happen]].

* The character of Carey from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is a weird example of Back for the Dead. After appearing in most of the first season, he stopped appearing except in time travel episodes, leading fans to believe he had died off-screen. After 6 seasons of being used as a "Hey look! We're back in the first season. See? There's Carey!" marker, he showed up alive four episodes before the end of the series and got killed off (as a RedShirt). The writers intended to have a guy the fans know [[TonightSomeoneDies die for the shock value]]. But the problem was that his lack of appearances outside of time travel episodes made people already think he was dead, so the shock was more "wow, he's still alive?" than "GASP! They killed Carey!" The writer of that episode wanted to kill someone off, and was given the choice of Vorik or Carey. He thought Carey would have more impact, since fans would relate to a human more than a Vulcan. Bad choice. He was obviously unaware of how much fans liked Vorik, and of how fans already thought Carey was dead. Furthermore, rumour has it that Carey's odd treatment was because the writers were for a long time confusing him with Lt. Hogan, who had indeed been killed off in Season 2.

** There's also the Cigarette Smoking Man, who was killed off at the end of the seventh season. Two years later he was revealed to still be alive in the series finale, and then proceeded to get blown up by a missile. [[spoiler: He was revealed to be alive in the 2016 return and is revealed as the BigBad of the MythArc.]]

---> '''Vegeta:''' Well, too bad for you. I don't think you'd have died if you stayed a frog.
---> ''[[CurbStompBattle Vegeta obliterates Ginyu with a single ki blast.]]''

* Frieza was apparently killed by Goku at the end of the infamous Namek fight in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. He returned to get his revenge a few episodes later. Then Trunks came in and [[KilledOffForReal proceeded to slice him up into little bits...]]
** The King Piccolo arc does this for several of the characters that appeared way back in the first Tournament arc, most notably Giran who is actually murdered on panel/screen by Tambourine. Unlike most uses of this trope though, they all get revived thanks to the show's MacGuffin.

** Krillin, the poor guy appears to be on his ride with his family. Then he is killed right away by Android 17, setting up his wife a revenge motive.

** Tragically, [[spoiler: this fate befalls Future Bulma, who is killed by Black Goku in the new Future Trunks arc]].

* [[TragicVillain Nameless]] was introduced in the ''Unlimited Match'' UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002'' as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for K9999, which most chalked up to the latter being ScrewedByTheLawyers. But then K9999 returned in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV'', and Creator/{{SNK}}, having by then consigned Nameless to DreamMatchGame limbo, must have felt that he had served his purpose. So the ''2002 Story'' of ''VideoGame/KOFAllStars'' - Nameless's first appearance outside of ''Unlimited Match'' - ends with him pulling a HeroicSacrifice and subsequently bleeding out in a self-destructing base as he is comforted by the spirit of [[TheLostLenore his dead love interest Isolde]].

** Tragically, [[spoiler: this fate befalls Future Bulma, who is killed by Black Goku in the new Future Trunks arc.]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'':
*** Muhammad Avdol is seemingly killed off by the Hol Horse/J.Geil Combo. Araki eventually brought him back... only to participate in only two fights (neither of which have him as the focus) and then swiftly die again at the hands of [[TheDragon Vanilla Ice]].
*** Noriaki Kakyoin is put out of commission for a good while during the Crusaders' time in Egypt (even though we know he isn't dead... ''yet''). When he does return to the group, he dies two arcs later, but at the very least gives out a DyingClue that helps Jotaro win against DIO.
** Another character from Part 3, Jean-Pierre Polnareff, [[spoiler: returns in ''Manga/GoldenWind''. He is only in a few episodes before being swiftly killed by Diavolo. Ultimately subverted, however, as his soul ends up living on in the turtle named Coco Jumbo via a FreakyFridayFlip.]]
** In ''Manga/StoneOcean'', [[spoiler: Part 3's main character, Jotaro Kujo, tragically falls victim to this. After spending most of the part in a coma and unable to do much in the story, he finally comes back for the final fight... only to be effortlessly killed by BigBad Enrico Pucci in the very next arc. However, like with Polnareff in Part 5, this is ultimately a subverted case. As the universal reset via Pucci's demise reincarnates the main characters of Part 6 and gives them different names, designs, and lives, Jotaro included]].
** In ''Manga/SteelBallRun'', Mountain Tim is around for two and a half arcs, then retires from the race. Some time later, he returns to save [[DamselInDistress Lucy Steel]] from Funny Valentine and his thugs, only to be shot in the head after refusing to reveal her location.

* The Smiling Titan, who killed Eren's mother in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' makes an appearance in Chapter 51, [[ShootTheDog by killing Hannes]] who wished to atone for his inability to save Eren's mother. The Titan was dispatched [[CurbStompBattle within seconds]] by an enraged Eren by [[spoiler:commanding other Titans to devour it]].

* Neji Hyuga in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. After being one of the most important genin before the time skip, he is rarely seen afterwards and has practically no effect on the plot after his fight during the Sasuke Rescue Arc. He doesn't get any real screen time until the Ten Tails Revival arc, where he gets killed off over the course of two chapters.
* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', Pokkle and Ponzu from the first Hunter Exam, who didn't appear for over 150 chapters, and them finally show up only to be brutally murdered by Chimera Ants in the beginning of their arc. Ironically, Pokkle was one of the seven people who were awarded the hunter license in his year, but that didn't prevent him from dying before doing anything else relevant in the story. And unlike many of the other Chimera Ant victims, they ''didn't'' get eaten and were simply left to rot, denying them the opportunity to reincarnate as Chimera Ants themselves.
* In ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'', the Eisenkleids previously used by Orihime Soletta and Leni Milchstraße in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'' appear during the second half of the film, only to get destroyed shortly before the FinalBattle with the BigBad, Brent Furlong.

* In ''Manga/ToYourEternity'', Tonari returns after a 40 years long TimeSkip, now as a middle aged woman. Only to die soon after.

* This is ridiculously common during big CrisisCrossover events in superhero comics. Almost every single one features a scene where some forgotten character who hasn't shown up in a comic since forever gets killed just to establish how dangerous the villains are. The other heroes will of course react as if the deceased was a major player who had been around all along. The most infamous example probably comes from Marvel's ComicBook/CivilWar crossover. Early advertising for the storyline implied that many beloved heroes would die. In reality, only one established hero died: Bill Foster - alias Black Goliath, a character who hadn't done anything of note since the 1970's. CListFodder is a SubTrope dedicated to the CrisisCrossover variation. Further examples of this type go there.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''

** In late 2010, DC came out with a ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'' comic mini-series (canon to the Franchise/{{DCAU}} and DarkerAndEdgier). A villain escapes from Cadmus, supposedly Hush. He kills some former Batman villains (Bruce-era) in the style of other villains. At one point, we cut to Armory, one of Terry's villains, who only was a villain once. This is the first time since "Armory" we've seen him. Him, his wife, and his high-school age step-son (who is a friend of Terry and Max) are promptly killed by Hush.

* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': The Freedom Fighters return and get totally wrecked.

** ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' isn't holding back on this trope, killing off the Spider-Men from ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'', ''ComicBook/SpiderManReign'', ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' (and given Slott, like many people, holds the opinion of ''Unlimited'' being a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', this means that show's Spidey is dead, too), ''ComicBook/BulletPoints''[[note]][[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] and Peter Parker having swapped roles[[/note]], and ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', as well as the Mary Jane Spider-Woman from ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' and Twinkies-advertising Spider-Man from ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'', the Prince of Arachne from ''Marvel Fairy Tales'', the Betty Brant Spider-Girl, Arachnosaur, and the Spidey from ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom''. The ''Amazing Friends'' version of Iceman and Firestar, the ''Unlimited'' versions of the Knights of Wundagore, as well as [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl Mayday Parker's father]] is also dead. The sequel ''Spider-Geddon'' also kills off Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Man UK. However, the sequel ends with The Other reviving Mayday's father and Noir is also later revived.

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaBattleOfTheGenerations'': [[spoiler:Staci is eliminated first, just as she is in Revenge of the Island.]]

** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' brings back Comicbook/AmandaWaller, Comicbook/HarleyQuinn, Captain Boomerang and Rick Flag from [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 the first movie]], only to [[spoiler: have Boomerang get shredded by an exploding helicopter within the first 12 minutes. Flag survives much longer, but then gets stabbed in the heart by Peacemaker during the third act]].

** The Other, Thanos's servant in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', who served as communication between Thanos and Loki to hide the former's identity until the mid-credits scene. In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', he is there to keep [[BigBad Ronan]] from looking like a wimp compared to Thanos... by being killed by him. He is [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome absent from flashbacks and alternate timelines set at points in which he would still be alive]] so this is his only appearance after ''The Avengers'', and accounts for his absence in the present day of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', which would otherwise have been unexplained.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

** The third film, ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' has Barricade make a return appearance after disappearing inexplicably during the end of the first (although [[AllThereInTheManual with tie-in comics explaining what happened to him]]). He appears rounding up the Autobots as prisoners, before executing Wheeljack/Que, and then angrily berating a few Decepticon troops after Bumblebee seizes an opportunity for freedom and kills Soundwave. His eyes are then shot out by human snipers before his legs are destroyed with boomsticks and is then finished off whilst crippled. Though it's subverted as the subsequent sequel ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' reveals he has ''somehow'' cheated death yet again, and in The Last Knight [[spoiler: he escapes unscathed.]]

* The third appearance of {{Crossdresser}} Beverly Lasalle on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' ended with her being beaten to death offscreen by a gang.

** Played with in regards to Sara -- it's believed since the pilot that she's been dead since the ''Queen's Gambit'' sank, only to turn out to be alive and well in Season 2, during which she's an important secondary character. At the end of the season, she leaves town, only to return midway through the Season 3 premiere... and is killed in the closing moments. Heavy fan backlash resulted in her getting brought back to life using the Lazarus Pits a season later (with [[Series/{{Constantine}} John Constantine]] helping to recover her soul), and she's currently in charge of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow gallivanting across space/time]].

** Blake returned in [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E13Blake the last episode]] and was killed off there by ''Avon'', because Blake was too stupid to explain his real motives, leading Avon to think Blake was a traitor. Definitely a FanonDiscontinuity moment for diehard fans. Blake's death was apparently a condition for Gareth Thomas (Blake) to appear in the episode, his death included blood to make sure that he was [[KilledOffForReal really dead]]. Seeing as it ended up being the final episode, it didn't really matter anyway, especially as just about everyone else [[EveryoneDiesEnding ended up dead by the end of the episode anyway]].

* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' had a YankTheDogsChain example of this. Shawn's father reappears for the first time in about a year and a half and promises that he will stay around this time. He promptly dies from a heart attack.

* ''Series/EastEnders''

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}''

* ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}''

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''

* Lieutenant Ford from ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' was almost killed by Wraith and managed to leave hopped up on the Wraith enzyme (a nasty drug) in the season 1 finale. In the season 2 midseason two-parter Ford comes back, and ends up on a Wraith vessel as it explodes.
** Subverted as [[spoiler:the later novels reveal that he survived his 'death', but remained on the run for years until he was caught by the Wraith and surrendered to Atlantis as part of a new peace treaty]].

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* ''Series/TheXFiles''.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}''

* In ''Memory's Dogma'' [[spoiler: Sorano Mizunashi, who was stated to have died almost a month before the story began and whose death kicks off the plot, is revealed to be alive in a lab under the Connect Center, albeit in a vegetative state. Upon [[BigBad Kuroda Renjuro]]'s death, Sorano dies for real after becoming disconnected from Kuroda's mind.]]

* It's not uncommon for combatants in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' to survive one battle and lose another or, even worse, lose another battle. Among those, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] defeated [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] in his first battle but lost the second, [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] lost to [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]], but defeated [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Jin Kazama]], [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]] was defeated by Franchise/{{Superman}} twice, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]] was defeated by Android #18 and later ComicBook/{{Shazam}}, and Franchise/{{Batman}} defeated ComicBook/CaptainAmerica but lost to ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/SpiderMan. Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog won his first battle against [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] but lost the second, Shadow The Hedgehog lost to both Vegeta and later [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]], Charizard first lost the Pokemon Battle Royale, and then, alongside Red, lost to [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Tai and Agumon]], [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]] lost to Manga/AstroBoy and later, in the Mega Man Battle Royale, was the second of the Mega Men to die, only beating [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Volnutt]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] defeated Bowser, but later lost to [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} Dracula]], [[Franchise/PowerRangers Tommy Oliver]] appeared twice, once piloting the Tigerzord, and the other piloting the Dragonzord, where he lost both times, and [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Lex Luthor]] lost to both [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man]] and [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]

* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Professor Milo was a minor recurring villain on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. He shows up again 13 years later in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' only for Doomsday to kill him offscreen.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has Tammy appear in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E10StarMortRickturnOfTheJerri Star Mort Rickturn Of The Jerri]]" after last being seen in TheStinger for "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption The Rickshank Redemption]]", leading a hunt for Clone(?) Beth, which leads her and the New Galactic Federation to Earth. She ends up being killed with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] from Rick about halfway through.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' , [[spoiler: Prince Orm/Ocean Master]] returns in the season 3 episode "Home Fires" after being mysteriously absent from season two, only for Lady Shiva to slice off his head so he doesn't jeopardize their plans.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', the Blue Team's former leader Captain Butch Flowers died prior to season 1, but returns near the season 5 finale... only to get sniped out of nowhere when he's about to reveal how to beat the Red Team to Tucker. [[spoiler: It was an AccidentalMurder on the part of a time-travelling Tucker, who was messing around with the sniper rifle.]]

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'':

* Sans in WebAnimation/Glitchtale is killed at the end of Dust, then CameBackWrong at the end of Love Part 2. While he is purged of the HATE that BigBad Bete Noire put into his soul, it leaves him Fallen Down. When Gaster tries to inject him with Determination, it just guarantees he’ll be fully awake to experience his death, and this comes to fruition when he uses up the last of his magic in a BeamOWar with Bete and promptly melts, his soul shattering for good measure.

* Sans in [[WebAnimation/{{Glitchtale}}]] is killed at the end of Dust, then CameBackWrong at the end of Love Part 2. While he is purged of the HATE that BigBad Bete Noire put into his soul, it leaves him Fallen Down. When Gaster tries to inject him with Determination, it just guarantees he’ll be fully awake to experience his death, and this comes to fruition when he uses up the last of his magic in a BeamOWar with Bete and promptly melts, his soul shattering for good measure.