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* Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky's seminal ''ComicBook/TheMetabarons''.

* ''Film/SympathyForMrVengeance''

* The French films ''Film/JeanDeFlorette'' and it's sequel ''Film/ManonDesSources''.
* ''Film/OneHourPhoto''

* The ''Breaking Bad'' SpinOff ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' possibly ticks even more of the boxes, especially with it being a {{Prequel}} and the audience thus knowing [[DoomedByCanon it won't end well]]. Jimmy [=McGill=] is [[ReformedButRejected a former conman who tries to put his misspent youth of criminality behind him and make an honest living]], but is constantly thwarted by [[SelfFulfillingProphecy those close to him having no faith in him]], and his own [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness impulsiveness]], [[FatalFlaw greed]], and [[HisOwnWorstEnemy self-sabotaging tendencies]]. He is also portrayed as a kind-hearted and sympathetic {{Woobie}} who gradually [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain evolves into something far sleazier and far less lovable]]. The [[FlashForward Flash Forwards]] to his life post-''Breaking Bad'' show us that he is condemned to follow a RiseAndFallGangsterArc.

* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', a SettingUpdate of Puccini's ''Theatre/MadameButterfly''; most of his other works were tragic as well.

* ''Film/Joker2019'' is fundamentally a ([[MultipleChoicePast possible]]) OriginStory for [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Joker]], but is ultimately a singular character study about a greatly troubled, yet overall decent man [[TraumaCongaLine who endures so much trauma]] that [[FromNobodytoNightmare he becomes gradually devolves into a nihilistic, near-unstoppable nightmare]]. The film eschews any form of superheroic camp or glamor to Arthur Fleck's downfall, instead focusing on how someone's personal flaws can be exacerbated by a flawed society, leading to anyone declared and dismissed as a monster [[ThenLetMeBeEvil becoming more comfortable with]] ''[[ThenLetMeBeEvil being]]'' [[ThenLetMeBeEvil a monster]].

* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' is about a silver miner turned oilman who embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's early-20th century oil boom, along the way descending into madness to the point of alienating everybody including his own son.

* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' is about a silver miner-turned-oilman who embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's early-20th century oil boom, along the way descending into madness to the point of alienating everybody including his own son.

* The fifth ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' movie ''Film/HellraiserInferno'' is one of the few examples crossing over with {{Horror}}. Fundamentally it is the story of a man who receives unimaginable punishment due to his own sins and his abuse of everyone around him.

* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin charactrezies ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' as a Shakespearean tragedy.

* BoysLoveGenre ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'' has a tragic ending which is either a BittersweetEnding or a DownerEnding depending on the viewer. Regardless, [[spoiler:Riki and Iason died for their forbidden love at the end.]]

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', in its most basic level, is a love story between David and Lucy, two young displaced people who try to make it in Night City. Sadly, it's David and Lucy's own choices that lead to their downfalls. [[spoiler:David's FatalFlaw is his pride, and he refuses to believe that he's succumbing to cyberpsychosis even when he begins to exceed his tolerance for cybernetics. He ignores all the warnings he receives in favor of the idea that he's special, taking him on a path to self-destruction. Lucy's FatalFlaw is her [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to communicate with others]]. Driven by fear of Arasaka exploiting and killing David, she tries to solve things on her own and refuses to trust anyone else with the truth of what she's actually doing. The choices they make as a result of these flaws create a disastrous domino effect that ultimately leads to David's death and their romance's tragic end.]]

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', in its most basic level, is a love story between David and Lucy, two young displaced people who try to make it in Night City. Sadly, it's David and Lucy's own choices that lead to their downfalls. [[spoiler:David's FatalFlaw is his pride, and he refuses to believe that he's succumbing to cyberpsychosis even when he begins to exceed his tolerance for cybernetics. He ignores all the warnings he receives in favor of the idea that he's special, taking him on a path to self-destruction. Lucy's FatalFlaw is her [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to communicate with others]]. Driven by fear of Arasaka exploiting and killing David, she tries to solve things on her own and refuses to trust anyone else with the truth of what she's actually doing. The choices they make as a result of these flaws create a disastrous domino effect that ultimately leads to David's death and their romance's tragic doom.]]

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', in its most basic level, is a love story between David and Lucy, two young displaced people who try to make it in Night City. Sadly, it's David and Lucy's own choices that lead to their downfalls. [[spoilers:David's FatalFlaw is his pride, and he refuses to believe that he's succumbing to cyberpsychosis even when he begins to exceed his tolerance for cybernetics. He ignores all the warnings he receives in favor of the idea that he's special, taking him on a path to self-destruction. Lucy's FatalFlaw is her [[PoorCommunicationKills inability to communicate with others]]. Driven by fear of Arasaka exploiting and killing David, she tries to solve things on her own and refuses to trust anyone else with the truth of what she's actually doing. The choices they make as a result of these flaws create a disastrous domino effect that ultimately leads to David's death and their romance's tragic doom.]]

** The "manga" ''Winds of Change'' follows as its protagonist Mudclaw, the [[NumberTwo deputy]] of [=WindClan=] and next in line for leadership, who is respected and devoted to his Clan but xenophobic and prone to thinking the worst of other Clans out of a desire to protect his own Clan's security. When his leader dies, he is suddenly replaced as his successor under suspicious circumstances that he did not witness but [=ThunderClan's] leader did, and though unbeknownst to him this was actually a legitimate switch motivated by said leader's fear of Mudclaw's tendencies leading his Clan to war and strife, Mudclaw's suspicions makes him interpret it as a conspiracy by [=ThunderClan=] to install a puppet friendly to their interests as leader, and that xenophobia combined with his ego not accepting being cheated of his position, leads him to attempt a coup [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis against his own Clan]] fully believing it is to save it. In the end, he fails, losing everything he has, and dies shortly after, not before realizing just how foolish he had been.

** The ''Power of Three" arc features as one of its protagonists Hollyleaf, an ambitious and proud cat [[LawfulStupid dedicated to following the warrior code]], who seems to have a bright future ahead of her with her diplomatic and political instincts and supposedly being a subject of a prophecy promising her more power than even their [[AncestorVeneration worshipped ancestors]]. But after finding out that [[ChildOfForbiddenLove her birth secretly defied the code she cares for so much]], and also realizing she might not truly be a part of the prophecy and someone is threatening to tell this secret to everyone, her frustration with being ordinary and wish to have some kind of power makes her feel like she must do ''something'' about it, her pride won't let her accept the social stigma of everyone knowing about her and her siblings' birth, and her KnightTemplar devotion to the code convinces her that said cat threatening to reveal the secret, who [[AssholeVictim has shown himself to be a very horrible cat and attempted murderer]], needs to be dealt with. So she kills him, [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis breaking the code she follows]], but her guilt over the murder and horror and self-hatred over her birth just causes her to self-destruct further afterwards and ultimately run away from her Clan having lost all of her former standing and goals, seemingly dying at the end. [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the next arc in which she is revealed to be alive and has a chance to atone for her previous actions]].

* Neil Gaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is a five-year tragedy, carefully crafted in the Greek tradition of {{Tragedy}}, about a mythical god-king trying to fix the mistakes of his past but unable to change the rigidity that caused those mistakes to begin with [[spoiler: so he kills himself to allow a new god-king to rule]].

** ''Film/RogueOne'' tells the tragedy of the Erso family. The story begins with the Empire finding research scientist Galen Erso and his family after they've gone into hiding, killing his wife Lyra and forcing him to complete the world-destroying Death Star. His daughter Jyn Erso manages to escape, and spends most of her life on the streets as a criminal, but is recruited by the Rebel Alliance in it's early stages to retrieve the Death Star plans. Galen makes up for his part in building the Death Star, and Jyn helps secure a victory instrumental in getting a leg up on the Empire, [[spoiler: but she and her father end up dying by film's end, marking the end of the Erso line as a whole]], and it doesn't stop the Empire from destroying at least one planet [[Film/StarWarsANewHope later down the line]]. [[spoiler: Making it even worse is that both deaths are a demonstration of cruel irony. Galen is wounded by an attack from the Rebel Alliance, who he's been working to protect this whole time, and Jyn is vaporized by the Death Star, the very weapon her father was forced to make, and he only did it so the Empire wouldn't hurt her]]. The film is also a tragedy in a more general sense in that [[spoiler: [[KillEmAll all the main protagonists are dead by the end of it]], having [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed their lives for the good of the galaxy]]. Though their sacrifices are the catalyst for Episode IV, and their deaths are a ForegoneConclusion, so it's a BittersweetEnding with particular emphasis on the bitter]].
* Creator/AkiraKurosawa's film ''Film/{{Ran}}'', being ''Theatre/KingLear'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN SENGOKU-ERA JAPAN!]], does tragedy to a T.

%%* Pretty much any retelling of the Myth/KingArthur myth is this [[ForegoneConclusion by default]]. ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur'' and ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' are probably the best examples.

* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' is a tragedy, set in a world of hell - implied by Hidaka Ken - where villains are free to get what they want at the expense of the innocent lives, and without getting punished by laws. The heroes, Weiss, are themselves bloody, murderous monsters as well, and are determined to live a life full of guilt in order to provide the innocent better tomorrows.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': The whole show could just as well be titled "The Tragedy of Jinx". To wit: [[spoiler:By the final scene in the final episode, Jinx has burned all her bridges, more or less permanently prevented peace between Piltover and Zaun, and made clear that she will never [[UsedToBeASweetKid return to the innocent child she once was]].]] It's a similar tragedy to that of [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Anakin Skywalker]] becoming [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Darth Vader]], where a major character does not die physically, but undergoes a spiritual death instead.]]