History Main / TragicOneShotCharacter

* In ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'', Chuck Billy have Mariana an star that wishes live as human and born as little sister from him but she gets sick and dies and come back as an star and sometimes his back to visit Chuck.
* The unfortunate Philmont Denlinger is introduced in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' #56 and murdered in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' #59. Tim blames himself for the death of this classmate since he's killed by school bullies that Tim knew were targeting him but Tim still, reluctantly and after speaking up for Phil, allowed him to walk away with. This means that outside of his murderers Tim and Ives were the last people to see Phil alive.
* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story "[[http://i.imgbox.com/jp5WyzEH.jpg Leah]]" has a young homeless girl collect pictures of him and look up to him whenever he swings overhead. She gets sick and is carried to the hospital by Spidey, but all they can do is make her comfortable until her liver and kidneys fail. Spidey, who's in a serious funk (having seen the pictures and realizes what he represented for her, when he'd never noticed her) gives her a kiss on the cheek as she dies
* One ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' strip has a character named Gon, who dies pretty much solely for the sake of a Film/GoneWithTheWind pun.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Tammy is introduced as a classmate and friend of Cassie's whose mother works with Cassie's mother at the museum and then murdered in the same issue by the new Silver Swan to ensure ComicBook/WonderGirl will feel enmity and hatred towards her rather than try to save her since Vanessa had been a distant friend to Cassie before being kidnapped and {{mind rape}}d.

* An episode of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' has the titular girls undercover on an assassination mission. Rico meets a boy and it seems like they can become friends (or even spark a PuppyLove scenario) however she is made to LeaveNoWitnesses.

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* The unfortunate Philmont Denlinger is introduced in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' #56 and murdered in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' #59. Tim blames himself for the death of this classmate since he's killed by school bullies that Tim knew were targeting him but Tim still, reluctantly and after speaking up for Phil, allowed him to walk away with. This means that outside of his murderers Tim and Ives were the last people to see Phil alive.

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* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': ''[[TheMovie Mayuri Judgment]]'' introduces the titular Mayuri, a girl that constantly spies on [[TheHero Shido]]'s dates with his [[HaremGenre harem.]] She is actually an entity created from the girls' residual magical energy, and like them, she has developed feelings for Shido as well. She sacrifices her life to protect Shido at the end of the movie, but at the very least gets to experience love and die peacefully in the arms of someone who truly cared for her.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has done this at least three times:

Sometimes the character finds a new character (mostly girls) and likes them, but sadly this new character dies because of illness or other factors by the end of the episode, resulting in a TearJerker. Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

Similar to VictimOfTheWeek, GirlOfTheWeek, MonsterOfTheWeek. Compare ADeathInTheLimelight. A SubTrope of OneShotCharacter. See LongLostUncleAesop and SpecialAesopVictim for characters who die to ram home the week's lesson.

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* The [[BittersweetEnding final episode]] of the 80s ''Anime/AstroBoy'' anime has Astro on a spy mission to find the stolen blueprints of a prototypical version of him. Any robot made from the blueprints is deemed dangerous due to the built in bomb. It turns out the blueprints had been constructed into a robot already, and it was Astro's new friend and crush Nyoka. The bomb is set off to kill Astro. It doesn't detonate however they're unable to fix it and she dies. Astro keeps her legs as a reminder of her.

* In ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' ''Na~i~sho'', Doremi befriends a girl named Nozomi in the hospital and learns that she dreams of becoming a witch. Doremi and her friends use their own witch powers to make Nozomi's dream come true for at least one night, and there is serious talk about officially making her a real witch once she gets better. Unfortunately Nozomi's illness takes a turn for the worse, and at the end of the episode Doremi is informed of her death.
* In ''[[Toys/MachineRobo Machine Robo Rescue]]'', Makoto finds an doctor at same age that him in hospital and she made an "date" with him and buy an present from an child from same hospital, but after saying goodbye she fall down and appears in Hospital in next day, after after she deliver the toy to the child the but the hospital burns, Makoto saves her, but she dies after. After this Makoto endure his work team leader
* An episode of ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' season two sees the ''Nirvana'' resupply at an extremely polluted planet, where pretty much every inhabitant is sick. Bart particularly bonds with a terminally-ill girl and resolves to protect her from the Harvester force attacking the planet, resulting in the most CharacterDevelopment he has seen in the entire series so far. Unfortunately, she succumbs to her illness before the battle is over, and cannot finish a doll of Bart she was making (the hair is still missing). When Bart is given the doll, [[ImportantHaircut he shaves his head bald for the rest of the show in memory of her]].
* The Sisters arc of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' begins with Mikoto Misaka meeting one of her [[ClonesArePeopleToo rumored clones]], MISAKA 9982. Mikoto is having a hard time coming to terms with the experiment not only being real, but active, and the clone is symbolic of that, but the two manage to start bonding nevertheless. 9982 even keeps a gift from [[OneeSama Mikoto]] that she doesn't even like because it was Mikoto that gave it to her. Then Mikoto finds out that that particular clone is scheduled to be killed that night, and [[GutPunch isn't able to stop it]]. Also notable in that the episode starts a shift in tone for that arc [[CerebusSyndrome different than the series so far]].

* The ''Moonlight Sonata'' case of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' was ended with the VillainOfTheWeek Seiji Asou DrivenToSuicide. Shinichi/Conan sees this as MyGreatestFailure and contributes greatly to his CharacterDevelopment.

* Nina Tucker from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''; her transformation into a Chimera and death at the hands of Scar continues to haunt the Elrics for the rest of the series, and never letting someone suffer as she did becomes a secondary goal in their quest.
* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': ''[[TheMovie Mayuri Judgment]]'' introduces the titular Mayuri, a girl that constantly spies on [[TheHero Shido]]'s dates with his [[HaremGenre harem.]] She is actually an entity created from the girls' residual magical energy, and like them, she has developed feelings for Shido as well. She sacrifices her life to protect Shido at the end of the movie, but at the very least gets to experience love and die peacefully in the arms of someone who truly cared for her.
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'''s first season runs on this trope, with each two-episode miniarc introducing a handful of likeable characters, many of whom fall for Hei or whom Hei develops an attachment to, before they're cruelly killed off by the end.

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* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story "[[http://i.imgbox.com/jp5WyzEH.jpg Leah]]" has a young homeless girl collect pictures of him and look up to him whenever he swings overhead. She gets sick and is carried to the hospital by Spidey, but all they can do is make her comfortable until her liver and kidneys fail. Spidey, who's in a serious funk (having seen the pictures and realizes what he represented for her, when he'd never noticed her) gives her a kiss on the cheek as she dies
* One ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' strip has a character named Gon, who dies pretty much solely for the sake of a Film/GoneWithTheWind pun.

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* In ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'', if you're assigned to the 58th and you aren't in the opening credits, [[RedShirt you're doomed]]. The fullest example of this is Kelly Winslow in the "Never No More"/"The Angriest Angel" two-parter, a supporting character in the episode until [[TheDreaded Chiggy von Richthofen]] [[SinkTheLifeboats blows up her escape pod]]. This prompts [[CareerEndingInjury brain-injured]] squadron commander T.C. [=McQueen=] to personally go out and blow Chiggy out of space.
* Holly Gribbs from ''Series/{{CSI}}'' appears only in the Pilot, at the end of which she is shot. Downplayed in that she doesn't die until the next episode, but her death still greatly affects the CSI team and is referenced fairly often throughout the rest of the series.
* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'': "Myriad" Non shows up at [=CatCo=] to monologue and see Kara's face as he uses his MindControl device to force three of her friends to leap off the skyscraper. Two of them we know: James and Winn. [[RuleOfThree The third, "Kelly,"]] is a woman who seems to be a friend of Kara's but who has never been mentioned before. Supergirl races to save all three but misses Kelly, who becomes street pizza as a result so Supergirl has one more thing to angst about.
* On ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'' a priest needs Lucifer's help and is unfazed by the fact that Lucifer claims to be the actual Devil. Lucifer is greatly impressed by the priest courage and deep faith. A the end of the episode the priest dies in a HeroicSacrifice and Lucifer is heartbroken. Lucifer tries to inflict AFateWorseThanDeath on the priest's killer but is talked down by Chloe who reminds him that [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave the priest would not have wanted that]].
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Help" has Buffy trying to save a psychic girl called Cassie who has foreseen her own death. Buffy manages to save Cassie from attempted sacrifice by a demon cult, but she then suddenly drops dead from natural causes.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has Tuvix - a [[TeleporterAccident Transporter Accident]] FusionDance of the stoic Tuvok, and the enthusiastic Neelix. Tuvix has characteristics of both men, bordering on TheAce, and he's certainly a handy crewman to have around. Then the Doctor and Harry Kim find a solution with the transporter to reverse the effects, which should be a cause for celebration until Tuvix utters the WhamLine: "[[IDontWantToDie I don't want to die.]]" The episode then becomes a metaphorical trolley problem - let Tuvok and Neelix stay dead for the sake of this new being, or put Tuvix through the transporter to save two of their friends? StatusQuoIsGod on ''Voyager,'' and since you're on this particular page, [[BittersweetEnding you probably know where this is headed.]]

--> "Give me one more mission, chief."

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''; X-9, an ex-robot assassin who wanted nothing more than to play jazz with his PreciousPuppy Lulu, when she gets kidnapped he's blackmailed into OneLastJob against the titular samurai [[spoiler: and get cut down just like every other robot mook that challenged Jack.]]

Similar to VictimOfTheWeek, GirlOfTheWeek, MonsterOfTheWeek. Compare ADeathInTheLimelight. A SubTrope of OneShotCharacter.

* The ''Moonlight Sonata'' case of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' was ended with the VillainOfTheWeek Seiji Asou DrivenToSuicide. Shinichi/Conan sees this as MyGreatestFailure and contributes greatly to his CharacterDevelopment.

Similar to VictimOfTheWeek, GirlOfTheWeek and MonsterOfTheWeek and compared to ADeathInTheLimelight. It's a SubTrope of OneShotCharacter.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' involves the titular characters creating an additional Powerpuff Girl... with ingredients that aren't exactly the same ones Prof. Utonium used, resulting in a [[TheGrotesque horribly deformed Powerpuff Girl]] they called Bunny. Because of the StatusQuoIsGod rule, at the end of the episode, Bunny explodes into a big ball of light due to her growing unstable. At the end of the episode, the [=PPGs=] and the narrator himself mourn her.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''; X-9, an ex-robot assassin who wanted nothing more than to play jazz with his PreciousPuppy Lulu, only to be called back for OneLastJob against the titular samurai [[spoiler: and get cut down just like every other robot mook that challenged Jack.]]

** The premiere episode devotes a lot of time to Angel befriending a waitress called Tina who's in a dangerous relationship with a vampire. Tina in fact becomes a SacrificalLamb to remind Angel that he won't always be able to save an innocent.

Sometimes the character finds a new character (mostly girls) and likes them, but sadly this new character dies because of illness or other factors by the end of the episode, resulting in a TearJerker. NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* On ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'' a priest needs Lucifer's help and is unfazed by the fact that Lucifer claims to be the actual Devil. Lucifer is greatly impressed by the priest courage and deep faith. A the end of the episode the priest dies in a HeroicSacrifice and Lucifer is heartbroken. Lucifer tries to inflict AFateWorseThanDeath on the priest's killer but is talked down by Chloe who reminds him that the priest would not have wanted that.

* In ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' ''Na~i~sho'', Doremi find an girl in hospital that wishes became an witch in future The girls make an secret event and transform her and she believes she is witch, but after this happy moment, she dies days after, and she do an snowball fight with her mother as last wish. In next day she find one kid of same room from her, and she hugs and cries a lot.

-->'''The narrator''': For the first... and final time... The day is saved... thanks to the Powerpuff Bunny! [sobs]

* In ''[[Franchise/MachineRobo Machine Robo Rescue]]'', Makoto finds an doctor at same age that him in hospital and she made an "date" with him and buy an present from an child from same hospital, but after saying goodbye she fall down and appears in Hospital in next day, after after she deliver the toy to the child the but the hospital burns, Makoto saves her, but she dies after. After this Makoto endure his work team leader

* Episode 5 of the second season of ''Anime/ACertainScientificRailgun'' has Mikoto Misaka meet one of her [[ClonesArePeopleToo rumored clones]], Misaka 9982. Mikoto is having a hard time coming to terms with the experiment not only being real, but active, and the clone is symbolic of that, but the two manage to start bonding nevertheless. Misaka 9982 even keeps a gift from [[OneeSama Mikoto]] that she doesn't even like because it was Mikoto that gave it to her. Then Mikoto finds out that that particular clone is scheduled to be killed that night, and [[GutPunch isn't able to stop it]]. Also notable in that the episode starts a shift in tone for that arc [[CerebusSyndrome different than the series so far]].

Sometimes the character finds a new character (mostly girls) and likes them, but sadly this new character dies because of illness or other factors by the end of the episode, resulting in a TearJerker, NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* The [[BittersweetEnding final episode]] of the 80s ''Manga/AstroBoy'' anime has Astro on a spy mission to find the stolen blueprints of a prototypical version of him. Any robot made from the blueprints is deemed dangerous due to the built in bomb. It turns out the blueprints had been constructed into a robot already, and it was Astro's new friend and crush Nyoka. The bomb is set off to kill Astro. It doesn't detonate however they're unable to fix it and she dies. Astro keeps her legs as a reminder of her.

* MachineRobo Rescue, Makoto find an doctor at same age that him in hospital and she made an "date" with him and buy an present from an child from same hospital, but after saying goodbye she fall down and appears in Hospital in next day, after after she deliver the toy to the child the but the hospital burns, Makoto saves her, but she dies after. After this Makoto endure his work team leader
* An episode of {{Vandread}} season two sees the ''Nirvana'' resupply at an extremely polluted planet, where pretty much every inhabitant is sick. Bart particularly bonds with a terminally-ill girl and resolves to protect her from the Harvester force attacking the planet, resulting in the most CharacterDevelopment he has seen in the entire series so far. Unfortunately, she succumbs to her illness before the battle is over, and cannot finish a doll of Bart she was making (the hair is still missing). When Bart is given the doll, [[ImportantHaircut he shaves his head bald for the rest of the show in memory of her]].
* Episode 5 of the second season of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' has Mikoto Misaka meet one of her [[ClonesArePeopleToo rumored clones]], Misaka 9982. Mikoto is having a hard time coming to terms with the experiment not only being real, but active, and the clone is symbolic of that, but the two manage to start bonding nevertheless. Misaka 9982 even keeps a gift from [[OneeSama Mikoto]] that she doesn't even like because it was Mikoto that gave it to her. Then Mikoto finds out that that particular clone is scheduled to be killed that night, and [[GutPunch isn't able to stop it]]. Also notable in that the episode starts a shift in tone for that arc [[CerebusSyndrome different than the series so far]].
* Not only one, but two episodes In Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE After Kio has been captured by Vagans, Ezelcant frees him to know the colony, and he's find Deen his Illness sister Lu that suffer because of radiation of Mars rays, Kio cooperate to Ezelcant to find medicine to her, but she didn't live much days after. Afters his rescued by Ash and his decide to became TechnicalPacifist.

* The ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story "[[http://i.imgbox.com/jp5WyzEH.jpg Leah]]" has a young homeless girl collect pictures of him and look up to him whenever he swings overhead. She gets sick and is carried to the hospital by Spidey, but all they can do is make her comfortable until her liver and kidneys fail. Spidey, who's in a serious funk (having seen the pictures and realizes what he represented for her, when he'd never noticed her) gives her a kiss on the cheek as she dies.
* One UsagiYojimbo strip has a character named Gon, who dies pretty much solely for the sake of a GoneWithTheWind pun.
* In MonicasGang, Chuck Billy have Mariana an star that wishes live as human and born as little sister from him but she gets sick and dies and come back as an star and sometimes his back to visit Chuck.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'': "Myriad" Non shows up at [=CatCo=] to monologue and see Kara's face as he uses his MindControl device to force three of her friends to leap off the skyscraper. Two of them we know: James and Winn. [[RuleOfThree The third, "Kelly,"]] is a woman who seems to be a friend of Kara's but who has never been mentioned before. Supergirl races to save all three but misses Kelly, who becomes street pizza as a result so Supergirl has one more thing to angst about.
* On ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' a priest needs Lucifer's help and is unfazed by the fact that Lucifer claims to be the actual Devil. Lucifer is greatly impressed by the priest courage and deep faith. A the end of the episode the priest dies in a HeroicSacrifice and Lucifer is heartbroken. Lucifer tries to inflict AFateWorseThanDeath on the priest's killer but is talked down by Chloe who reminds him that the priest would not have wanted that.