History Main / TheOneWhereEveryoneDies

!!'''As this is a DeathTrope, prepare for unmarked spoilers ahead.'''

* Occasionally occurs in Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series. Turns out, [[ForWantOfANail the smallest change]] to events can result in the destruction of the entire Marvel Universe.

* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi 3'' kills off a very large portion of its very large cast thanks to the hands (heads?) of a mighty eight-headed Hydra, initially leaving almost all of the heroes dead except for Ma Chao, Sima Zhao, and Hanbei Takenaka. It falls on these three to collaborate with Kaguya, princess of the moon, to go back in time and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by strategically inserting themselves into battles and saving heroes who would have otherwise perished in battle, been brainwashed, fell to the dark side, or been captured.

* In the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' CrisisCrossover ''Series/HeroesJoinForces'', the initial aftermath was [[BigBad Vandal Savage]] succeeds in disintegrating all of Central City, along with all of Team Arrow and Team Flash along with it. Only Barry survives as he [[SuperSpeed runs so fast]] he breaks the time barrier and travels back to one day before the explosion, whereby [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Barry learns from their past mistakes]] and succeeds in saving everyone.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Cause and Effect", the ''Enterprise'' crew is trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop that ends in a collision that destroys the ship with all aboard, then starts over several days before the accident.
* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Timeless" opens 15 years in the future and reveals everyone on ''Voyager'' was killed in a crash landing except for Chakotay and Harry Kim (who were aboard the ''Delta Flyer''). The rest of the episode is spent trying to undo the events that led to the fatal accident before Starfleet catches up to them for violating the Temporal Prime Directive.

** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS04E20TheLastMan "The Last Man"]] deals with John Sheppard arriving in a BadFuture where Michael took over the Pegasus galaxy 48,000 years ago. John himself was declared KIA, Teyla was killed by Michael when he extracted her baby, Carter died when her ship was ambushed in a space battle, and [[EnemyMine Ronon and Todd]] died in a raid on one of Michael's bunkers. Even Keller died after the war was already lost from earlier exposure to the ArtificialPlague that cemented Michael's victory. Rodney, as the only survivor of the main team, spent the rest of his life trying to find Sheppard so he could SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by saving Teyla and avoiding the entire chain of events.

** In the Majin Buu arc, Buu thus far proves to be the first villain to succeed in causing genocide on the human race. Over the course of a few days he slaughters Earth's entire population (mostly by [[BalefulPolymorph turning whole cities of people into candy]] and [[ToServeMan devouring them]]. Then it's down to only the heroes remaining along with a patch of survivors, to which Buu either eats them, kills them, or [[TheAssimilator absorbs them]]. If there's any that he missed in the initial slaughter (Gohan, Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, Tien, and Chiaotzu) then they all would have perished when he [[EarthShatteringKaboom blows up the entire planet]]. Of course, given the DeathIsCheap premise of the series, everyone gets revived by way of the [[ResetButton Dragon Balls]]. By the end of the arc, the only two Earth inhabitants to have never died once is Mr. Satan, and Uranai Baba. Mr. Satan, by virtue of Goku who teleported both him and Dende off world just before Buu blew the world up. Mr. Satan has not died prior to the events of the Buu Arc. Meanwhile, Uranai Baba has the ability to teleport herself between the Lower World (living) and the Other World (afterlife). Once she drops off Vegeta to fight Super Buu, she teleports back to the Other World, meaning that she did not die when the Earth blew up.