History Main / CelebrityCasualty

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Last of the Time Lords" implies that Bill Gates was one of the people the Master had killed.

* Sisters Meg and Jennifer Tilly both die in ''Series/{{Chucky}}''. Meg is stabbed to death by Tiffany Valentine and Jennifer (in doll form) gets hit by a truck.

* In ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', Music/BritneySpears is killed when Chucky runs her off the road. Also, the main plot concerns Chucky and Tiffany trying to transfer their souls into the bodies of Redman and Creator/JenniferTilly (the latter of whom is [[ActingForTwo Tiffany's voice actress]] and subjected to [[AdamWesting many jokes about her real-life career]]) so they can become human again. Redman gets killed, while the ending reveals that Tiffany managed to successfully switch bodies with Jennifer, who died when, trapped in doll form, Chucky hacked her up.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainLaserhawkABloodDragonRemix'' has Wrestling/CodyRhodes be blown up by an ExplosiveLeash implanted into his skull as a warning to the other Warden's Ghosts of what will happen should they step out of line.

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E5HelterShelter "Helter Shelter"]], after TV ratings for the family's reality show begin to decline when the family stops fighting with one another, the producers send actor David Lander as his character Squiggy from ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' to stir things up. When that fails to get anybody fighting again, the producers deliberately set out to make the family miserable by relocating the 19th Century house to a river and watching it float downstream and over a waterfall, destroying the house and killing "Squiggy" in the process.

** In the "Treehouse Of Horror VII" segment "Citizen Kang", Homer accidentally sends incumbent president UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his Republican presidential opponent Bob Dole [[ThrownOutTheAirlock out of an airlock into space]].
** In the "Treehouse of Horror IX" segment "Starship Poopers", Jerry Springer is strangled to death by the alien Maggie.
** In the "Treehouse of Horror X" segment "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die", the following people are incinerated by the sun: UsefulNotes/RossPerot, Creator/SpikeLee, Dan Quayle, Music/CourtneyLove, UsefulNotes/TonyaHarding, Al Sharpton, Creator/TomArnold, Creator/PaulyShore and Creator/RosieODonnell.

** The "Treehouse of Horror XIX" segment "How To Get Ahead In Dead-vertising" is built around this, as Homer gets the job of murdering celebrities so they can be used in advertising without their permission. We see three of these murders depicted: He drowns Creator/GeorgeClooney in extra-deep quicksand, then stabs, chokes, and bludgeons Music/{{Prince}} with his own guitar, and hits UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong with the golf club at the National Air & Space Museum.

* ''Series/{{Frontline}}'': The first episode has Brooke interviewing "living legend" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Dave_Gray Ugly Dave Gray]], who dies offscreen and forces them to turn the segment into an InMemorium at the last minute.

* The version of ''Ride/RevengeOfTheMummy'' at Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando has a FramingDevice of production on the titular film, a fictional sequel to ''Film/TheMummy1999'', being stalked by the real Imhotep. The ride ends with Creator/BrendanFraser, who had [[AdamWesting acted like a primadonna]] throughout the preshow, welcoming riders back to the station before [[SuddenlyShouting angrily demanding a coffee]]. Imhotep shows up to hand him one. Brendan accepts, then [[OhCrap notices the shriveled, mummified hand]] that gave him the coffee and starts screaming before a SmashToBlack.

* In ''ComicBook/OnceAndFuture'', Boris Johnson gets his head ripped off on national television by King Arthur after Boris revealed the Holy Grail against Hempleworth's advice.

* In 2006, a six-part miniseries of Monty Python clip shows were released called ''Monty Python's Personal Best''. Each episode had a different wraparound format. The Creator/JohnCleese episode features the actor in makeup that made him look twenty years older than he was, being interviewed. The final gag was Cleese supposedly dying of a heart attack on screen and the interviewer running away. Many viewers thought that Cleese had actually died, but he's still with us.

** J.K. Rowling also dies as the result of an IRA car bomb.

** [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman Political campaign manager Alex Jones]] (IOTL a radio host and {{conspiracy theorist}}) ends up killing himself in this story after learning that President Ted Bundy, whom he enthusiastically supported and worked to get elected, was a serial killer.

** In the "Treehouse of Horror X" segment "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die", the following people are incinerated by the sun: UsefulNotes/RossPerot, Creator/SpikeLee, Dan Quayle, Music/CourtneyLove, Usefulnotes/TonyaHarding, Al Sharpton, Creator/TomArnold, Creator/PaulyShore and Creator/RosieODonnell.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10177155/1/Tricksters-and-Gods Tricksters and Gods]]'': Creator/StephenieMeyer is murdered by Dracula, who exsanguinates her and leaves her drained corpse.

* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': Film critic Creator/LeonardMaltin, who disliked the first ''Film/Gremlins1984'', is shown giving the movie a bad review and is then mauled to death by Gremlins.

* ''VideoGame/HongKong97'': Deng Xiaoping (or "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Tong Shau Ping]]", as the game calls him) is said to have recently died, and the Chinese government converted his body into an "ultimate weapon". He was still alive when the game was released, though in an eerie coincidence, he really ''would'' die in 1997 as the game implies he did.

* ''Literature/TheBidenExpress'': UsefulNotes/DickCheney suffers a fatal heart attack during a heated argument with Newt Gingrich.

* ''Literature/TheLeapfroggedConsoleWars'':
** Prince Charles and Prince William die in an IRA car bomb on March 1, 1996.
** George R.R. Martin dies of a heart attack in April 1996.
* ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart'': Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto is killed in the year 2000 after he's hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Other celebrities killed off include Creator/ShondaRhimes (killed by Chris Chandler, who subsequently committed suicide), Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Creator/NicoleSullivan (were on board American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11) Creator/AngelinaJolie (killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami), Creator/GordonRamsay (died in a fire at Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace), Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/RisaTaneda, Creator/KenjiNojima, Creator/KenichiSuzumura, Creator/MaayaSakamoto, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/TakumaTerashima, and Creator/TiteKubo (all died in the Kadokawa Massacre), and Creator/HideoKojima would die of a stroke on August 20, 2020.

* The horror comedy short ''Super Brainy Zombies'' stars a bunch of British YouTubers as themselves, including Creator/TomSka, Music/EmmaBlackery, WebVideo/{{charlieissocoollike}} and WebVideo/{{doddleoddle}}. Many of them get turned into zombies and are subsequently killed by survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Mention is also made of Creator/SandraBullock getting eaten alive.

* ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/166643479-the-cabin The Cabin]]'': Melanie meets this fate thanks to being processed. [[spoiler: Well, Emma had something to say about that, once Melanie's body goes missing]].