History Main / EverybodysDeadDave

* Turned UpToEleven in the prequel novel ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' when Jadis used The Deplorable Word to destroy ''all living things in the world'' except herself.

** [[spoiler: Chao ''DID'' say she was from a [[FridgeBrilliance hundred years in the future]]]].

* Siege of Masada 73 AD.

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'': At the end of the anime, [[spoiler:almost the entire Band of the Hawk gets brutally slaughtered by demons in a manner that exemplifies numerous {{primal fear}}s after their leader, Griffith, [[FaceHeelTurn goes bad]] and sacrifices everyone to become a demon god. The only ones to make it out of the Eclipse alive are Guts and Casca, and neither of them make it out whole, [[LifeOrLimbDecision if you know]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation what we're talking about]]. Enjoy knowing the endearing, BadassNormal minor characters while you can.]]

* ''Franchise/DragonBall''

* In the most recent arc of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' Tsuna and Co. are transported 10 years into the future where they are told many major supporting characters have been killed by a rival mafia group. Including [[spoiler:all the arcobalenos (including Reborn), Yamamoto's father and even ''Tsuna himself'' [[note]]Though this is later revealed to be false[[/note]]. Tsuna's parents, Vongola 9th boss, Shamal and Naito Longchamp are still MIA.]]
** Also, by the same author, ''Manga/ElDlive''. [[spoiler:In Chapter 31, the enemy group, Heaven Sider, planted a lethal virus inside elDLIVE's Solar System District Station. [[TheHero Chuuta]] and the main team were outside, teaching him to move in space. When they decide that it's enough, they head back to the station, but when they try to access, they can't open the door, because there's already an emergency code. They check in their computers the personnel's status. A large screen displaying the personnel's faces was also marking them with a big X over them and a DEAD word below them. They decide to check the bridge, only to find those they were friends with, in their last seconds]].

* After lots of building up to the moment, in Chapter 352 of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', [[spoiler: it is apparent that, while Asuna has been asleep protecting the Magic World, everyone she knew has died -- even Negi, who supposedly has an immortal body, and Ayaka, who lived to the age of 115 to try to meet Asuna at the time she was supposed to wake up. However, it's sort of subverted a little bit, since Evangeline and ''Chao'', of all people, appear to still be alive.]]
** [[spoiler: Chao ''DID'' say she was from a [[FridgeBrilliance hundred years in the future]]]].

* ''FanFic/LastOneStanding'' contains a particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] moment when [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/72998/last-one-standing Twilight Sparkle suddenly realizes that she really is going to die,]] just like all her friends before her.
* In ''FanFic/StarsAbove'', [[spoiler:this is what happens in the future of the [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka-verse]], after the appearance of [[EldritchAbomination Vittoria.]]]]

* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', this is the result of Operation: Badlands Strike in episode 11. Everyone but Mega Man is badly injured or killed.

* By the end of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler:half of the universe's population is extinguished by Thanos' BadassFingersnap. This includes the new Avengers (except War Machine) and the Guardians (except Nebula and Rocket). Earlier in the movie, Thanos and the Black Order massacre half of the Asgardian refugees, including Heimdall and Loki, leaving Thor as one of the few survivors of his kind. However, since some of the dead superheroes have sequels after ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', it is expected that some would come back from the dead in some capacity]].

* The first ever circumnavigation of the Earth was achieved by a crew led by Ferdinand Magellan. The expedition left Spain in 1919 with 270 crew aboard five ships. After experiencing mutinies, starvation, scurvy, storms, and hostile encounters with indigenous people, the expedition returned in 1922 with only 18 crew aboard one ship, with Magellan himself having died in the Philippines.

** In the novel ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', Holly has to start rearranging the words and inflections in the hopes that some combination will get through to him, eventually succeeding after "Dead Dave, everybody is. Everybody is Dave, dead."

* ''VideoGame/[[Unreal]]'': You start off on the Vortex Rikers that has recently crashed, with corpses of both prisoners and prison guards strewn all over the place. Screams of the dying echo throughout the ship.

'''Lister:''' What... Captain Hollister?!\\

*** And it occurs once more with the protagonist of ''Resurrection of Evil'', though McNeil may have survived.

* In "Episode 0: Allocation" of ''VideoGame/Code7'' you eventually find a room where the corpses of the entire [[SpaceStation Schrödinger Station]] crew are perfectly lined up on the floor, [[spoiler:with injection marks on their necks and their brains extracted]]. You and Sam are the only humans left on the station [[spoiler:and even your humanity is ... unclear.]]

** Many island sieges in the Pacific tend to end this way, thanks in no small part to the Japanese military's distaste for surrender and their doctrine of fighting to the last man in the hopes of incurring as many Allied casualties in the process. Of the 21,000 Japanese garrison who fought at Iwo Jima, only 216 were taken prisoner, with other survivors would hide within the island before surrendering years after the end of the war.

** Many island sieges in the Pacific tend to end this way, thanks in no small part to the Japanese military's distaste for surrender and their doctrine of fighting to the last man in the hopes of incurring as many Allied casualties in the process. Of the 21,000 Japanese garrison who fought at Iwo Jima, only 216 were taken prisoner, with other survivors hiding within the island before surrendering years after the end of the war.

** Many island sieges in the Pacific tend to end this way, thanks in no small part to the Japanese military's distaste for surrender and their doctrine fighting to the last man in the hopes of incurring as many Allied casualties in the process. Of the 21,000 Japanese garrison who fought at Iwo Jima, only 216 were taken prisoner, with other survivors hiding within the island before surrendering years after the end of the war.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa The Battle of Tarawa]] pits an estimated 3,000-man garrison of the [[EliteMooks Special Naval Landing Force]] of the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Imperial Japanese Navy]] against an 18,000 invasion force [[SemperFi US Marines]] in a heavily defended island in the Central Pacific. By the time the battle is over the Marines have suffered nearly two thousand dead, while only '''''seventeen''''' Japanese are alive to surrender, alongside 129 Korean laborers.