History Main / DiceRollDeath

This doesn't mean the death has to be due to an accident; if a character takes a wrong turn, ends up in a bad part of town, and gets murdered in a carjacking, that's this trope, but if they were lured there and then killed by the same people who did the luring, it's not. A literal version of this trope (such as a serial killer who decides to kill or spare his victims based on a UsefulNotes/{{dice}} toss) could be another way for non-accidental deaths to be involved.

* In 2010, a man went jogging on an otherwise deserted beach in South Carolina. Like many joggers, he was listening to his iPod at the time... meaning he couldn't hear that a plane was making an emergency landing right behind him. To make matters worse, the whole reason the plane was landing was because it had lost a propeller, causing oil to get smeared all over the windshield, meaning the pilot couldn't see the jogger. Needless to say, the jogger was struck and killed.

* Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie survived their initial assassination attempt (via a bomb thrown in their car), but later that same day they decided to visit the hospital where victims of the first attack were being treated, sharing a car with Governor Potiorek. However, their driver took a wrong turn and tried to reverse, but the engine stalled. Right in front of a café where of one of the assassins was enjoying a sandwich. The assassin still had a loaded pistol from his previous attempt and fired twice. Franz was hit in the neck and Sophie in the chest, fatally wounding both (the trope applies even more to Sophie, as at his trial, the assassin claimed the second shot was aimed at the Governor).

* The entire plot of WesternAnimation/{{Soul}} starts with the protagonist's Dice-Roll Death.

* Sam on ''Series/QuantumLeap'' once leaped into a piano player at a lounge. Shortly after he leaped in, a waiter asks him for his car keys so he can drive a drunken patron home. Sam readily hands them over, a move the waiter claims is unlike the piano player. After the waiter goes out to the car, Al appears and tells Sam who he's leaped into. Just after Al informs Sam he was supposed to die around that time, there's an [[ExternalCombustion explosion from the parking lot]]. The trope applies to the waiter and patron, not Sam.

These usually ''aren't'' [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath Surprisingly Sudden Deaths]], since those tend to have an element of intent about them. A character who is BornUnlucky would likely die in this fashion.