History Main / DoomedByCanon

** Especially notable is the {{Harry Potter}} fics, because so many side characters are killed offscreen - including fan favourites like [[spoiler:Lupin]]

* Similarly, Abnett's {{Eisenhorn}} has to end with Eisenhorn and Cherubael alive, although mostly the question is whether Eisenhorn will slip into heresy, rather than die.

*** And any match against Vader or the Empire usually ends in defeat unless you are Boba Fett. There was a reason why the Battle Of Yavin was seen as a major victory in the films.

*** And any match against Vader or the Empire usually ends in defeat

** Barely subverted in ForceUnleashed, Galen isn't buying the farm just yet as Vader brought him back from the dead. However, the 2nd one is the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark entry]] to the series, so expect a ShootTheShaggyDog moment for Galen

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* Because of the existence and continuity connection of ''BatmanBeyond'', some moments in ''JusticeLeague'' sometimes fell into this trope.

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* Because of the existence and continuity connection of BatmanBeyond, some moments in JusticeLeague sometimes fell into this trope.
* All the flashbacks of Jason Todd as Robin in BatmanUnderTheRedHood were this.

*** Nothing says Juno Eclipse won't live past ''A New Hope'' but yeah, things don't look so great for Galen. It's this troper's hope that he gets frozen in carbonite or something so he can come back after the original trilogy. One can hope!

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* The entire ''StarWars'' prequel trilogy (and by extension, [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic nearly]] everything in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse set before ''A New Hope'') is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Everyone that isn't in the original doesn't live through ''RevengeOfTheSith'', and everyone that is does. So what does that tell us about [[StarWarsTheCloneWars little Ahsoka?]] Or [[TheForceUnleashed Galen Marek]]?

** And ''TheForceUnleashed'' is getting a sequel, so Galen isn't buying the farm just yet. But the chances of him affecting the universe any further is now much slimmer as we have learned that Vader decides to bring him BackFromTheDead

A subtrope of ForegoneConclusion and AnthropicPrinciple. Compare DeathByOriginStory. Unrelated, despite similar-sounding names, to DoomedProtagonist.

* In ''Film/{{Tarzan}} 2'', Tarzan has to survive, and so do Tantor and Terk.

* Any of the ''{{Gundam}}'' {{Midquel}} or [[GaidenGame Sidestory]] manga and games are doomed to suffer from this. Because the continuity has been set in stone for thirty-some years, it's a ForegoneConclusion that, for example, Zeon will lose the One Year War in ''GundamIGLOO'', or that the Titans will form in ''{{Gundam 0083}}'', and that the major characters in whatever story will either die or fade into obscurity. Sometimes Sunrise toys with this by referencing these characters in later works; for example, Jack Bayard from the long-closed ''Gundam'' theme park ride, crops up in the IMAX film ''Green Divers'' and the manga ''Ecole du Ciel'' as a member of the [[ZetaGundam AEUG]]. Some characters get canonical nods to the future, such as ''Blue Destiny'' protagonist Yuu Kajima and the player characters of the arcade game ''Dual Stars of Carnage'', all of whom are still fighting for their respective sides during ''[[{{ptitleexh6mkl0fnye}} Char's Counterattack]]''.

** [[MemeticMutation Spartans don't die. They're just listed as missing.]]

** In ''Magneto Testament''[='=]s defense, it completely avoids foreshadowing its main character's descent into supervillainy. In fact, if you take off the covers, there's nothing at all to mark it as an X-Book (which is really the best way the writer could have handled it).