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* ''Film/{{The Hateful Eight}}'': Only 2 characters are still alive by the end of the film, albeit heavily wounded. It's made clear that they won't live.
* ''Film/{{Revenge of the Sith}}'': Practically every named character who doesn't show up in the original trilogy is dead by the end of the movie. That's not even counting the literal hundreds of Jedi killed by Order 66.
** The interquel ''Film/RogueOne'' took this to the extremes, killing off ''every character'' not SavedByCanon. This includes the protagonistic characters.

** The entire series pits the entire cast against each other, Battle Royale style (or ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', sans the gratuitous award at the end). The premise is to get someone to murder someone else and get away with it. [[TitleDrop And boy do they start dropping like flies.]]

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' is notably pretty much the only outright ''aversion.'' A few villains suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, and in the first two story arcs [[SacrificialLamb Josuke's grandfather]] and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Okuyasu's brother]] both die. All in all, though, the deaths we see can be counted on your hands: two rats who were TooPowerfulToLive, followed much later by Shigechi, a SacrificialLion who had only just joined Josuke's friend group a story arc before and then, again, followed by the recently introduced Aya Tsuji, who is used by the BigBad for his getaway. One more FateWorseThanDeath for the road towards the end, a one-time character dying and his stand being passed onto Rohan, and then the BigBad kills a couple of background characters after spending the second half of the series deliberately holding his urge to kill back. The main characters do all die ''[[GroundhogDayLoop a lot]]'' in the penultimate story arc, but in the end, Bites the Dust is called off before it could be made permanent. After that, Okuyasu seems to die in the final battle, only to pull a BigDamnHeroes, and the last character to die is the BigBad himself, though his already-dead father's ghost is destroyed during the final battle. Enough villains undergo DefeatMeansFriendship in this Part that the exceptions are what stand out (the norm is that one or two ''main'' characters per Part do this, here it's every single main and recurring character besides Josuke, Koichi, Hayato, Jotaro, Joseph, and [[GoodAllAlong Tonio]]), and the Part is generally LighterAndSofter than every other [=JoJo=] Part. This is part of why it stands out so much to its fans.

* Lampshaded by the author himself in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'', especially during the second part of the story: new antagonists, mainly the [[EliteMook Division Commanders]] tend to die all too easily, sometimes even in the [[WeHardlyKnewYe very same chapter that introduces them.]]
* Largely PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'', in which maid cafes in Akiba are treated like a yakuza turf war, with mostly cute girls beating or killing each other with alarming regularity.

* [[AnyoneCanDie Everyone is fair game in]] ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' and since it's a DeadlyGame we're talking about here, there's always going to be a good bunch of (named) players around to be killed. Also, [[DeadToBeginWith since the players end up in the game by dying in the first place]], many (or most) of them get to die more than just once. [[spoiler:And then the protagonists start to run into [[WeAreTeamCannonFodder other teams with equally named and expendable characters]]... ''and then the war starts]]''.

* WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie: [[spoiler: during act two, Zar gets torn to shreds by Cobalt and his goons, followed by Alador being essentially flayed by Cobalt and succumbing to his injuries. The final battle however does this in spades, where Arrow is brutally torn open by the Death Alpha, while Damien is possessed by him and ends up getting mercy killed. And these are just the major deaths.]] If we were to count every death, depending on how you look at it, Wolf Song has a body count of at least 60… in a 95 minute film

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': As the successor to ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', naturally, this game features death on a frequent basis. In Chapter 0 alone, five Master Detectives alongside the impersonator culprit die altogether; following that, throughout the entire game, the player discovers even more death while executing the culprits, such as four Nail Man victims killed by two culprits, of whom die as well, the death of one student killed off during a SchoolPlay in a OneGenderSchool, killed by three students, who also die as punishment, a FalseFriend killing off the leader of the Resistance against Amaterasu, the head researcher of Amaterasu Corporation itself being stabbed InTheBack, and finally, the main detective characters' chief, Yakou Furio, also being stabbed. Off-screen, Fink the Slaughter Artist, the assassin aiding the final on-screen death, is killed off by the BigBad as well. The BigBad then attempts to kill off the protagonist by trapping him in the Mystery Labyrinth, only failing due to a HeelFaceTurn.

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': As the successor to ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', naturally, this game features death on a frequent basis. In Chapter 0 alone, five Master Detectives alongside the impersonator culprit die altogether; following that, throughout the entire game, the player discovers even more death while executing the culprits, such as four Nail Man victims killed by two culprits, of whom die as well, the deaths of one student killed off during a SchoolPlay in a OneGenderSchool, killed by three students, who also die as punishment, a FalseFriend killing off the leader of the Resistance against Amaterasu, the head researcher of Amaterasu Corporation itself being stabbed InTheBack, and finally, the main detective characters' chief, Yakou Furio, also being stabbed. Off-screen, Fink the Slaughter Artist, the assassin aiding the final on-screen death, is killed off by the BigBad as well. The BigBad then attempts to kill off the protagonist by trapping him in the Mystery Labyrinth, only failing due to a HeelFaceTurn.

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': As the successor to ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', naturally, this game features death on a frequent basis. In Chapter 0 alone, five Master Detectives alongside the impersonator culprit die altogether; following that, throughout the entire game, the player discovers four Nail Man victims killed by two culprits, of whom die as well, the deaths of four students in a OneGenderSchool, two members of the Resistance against Amaterasu, the head researcher of Amaterasu Corporation itself, and the detectives' chief, Yakou Furio. Off-screen, Fink the Slaughter Artist, the assassin aiding the final on-screen death, is killed off by the BigBad as well. The BigBad then attempts to kill off the protagonist by trapping him in the Mystery Labyrinth, only failing due to a HeelFaceTurn.