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*''Anime/JeanieWithTheLightBrownHair'': Angela [=MacDowell=] was nothing but sweet and full of love for Jeanie, Frederick and everyone around her. She died when Jeanie was just a child, after collapsing in front of her, because her illness had progressed so far it was beyond treating.
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* Shouyo Yoshida in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Katsura rejects such a sinful earth and tries to change it (first violently, [[CharacterDevelopment then more peacefully]] after meeting Gintoki again for the first time in years); Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
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* Shouyo Yoshida in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Katsura rejects such a sinful earth and tries to change it (first violently, [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized violently]], [[CharacterDevelopment then more peacefully]] after meeting Gintoki again for the first time in years); Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
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* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
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* Shouyo-sensei in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
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* Shouyo-sensei Shouyo Yoshida in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Katsura rejects such a sinful earth and tries to change it (first violently, [[CharacterDevelopment then more peacefully]] after meeting Gintoki again for the first time in years); Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': All in all, Kiritaka Nagare was a kind boy who looked after others before himself, and absolutely did not deserve to [[BullyBrutality be tortured for months on end]] or to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die such a messy death as he did]].
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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': All in all, Kiritaka Nagare was a kind boy who looked after others before himself, and absolutely did not deserve to [[BullyBrutality be tortured for months on end]] by [[GangOfBullies Okaya's gang]] or to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die such a messy death as he did]].did]].
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolves around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolves around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
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* Kolulu from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even though she was only sent back to the Mamodo World when her book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent of the death in the series, [[TearJerker not to mention the impact it has on people]].
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* Kolulu ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even though her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she wasonly sent back to in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the Mamodo World opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing whenher book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, thedeath flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the series, [[TearJerker not to mention the impact it has on people]].GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when
** And also Cheza, the
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* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
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* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects itKolulu from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even then, though she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. Hewas only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their livessent back to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects Mamodo World when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who getsbook was burned, this twofold. First, during is still treated as the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw equivalent of the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then death in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though series, [[TearJerker not before she gets to mention the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary''impact it has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confrontedon what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.people]].
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets
* ''Manga/FutureDiary''
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
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* ''Anime/GoLion'': [[spoiler:The mother of Prince Sincline]] was an Altean woman who died begging his father not to massacre a group of innocent slaves. Her pelase fell on deaf ears as she was killed as well.
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*''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Juliet Starr (née Murray). She was a happy, free-spirited soul, something which Laura admired about her. She chose to leave the Murray family to marry the man she loved, but died shortly afterwards.
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* [[spoiler:Ace]]'s death in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. While not having a happy childhood, with nearly everyone unknowingly telling him that his father [[spoiler:Gold Roger]] was a cruel, unsympathetic bastard and with the World Government claiming that a child of [[spoiler:Gold Roger]]'s didn't deserve to live, this character was a relatively friendly, polite and all-round nice person.
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** [[spoiler:Bartholomew Kuma]], although initially presented like a villain, is gradually revealed to actually be one of the kindest, humblest, and most righteous characters in the entire series. This in spite of an entire life from young child to adulthood dragged through some of the worst suffering imaginable, culminating in a forced DeathOfPersonality, turning him into a soulless fighting machine in exchange for his daughter's life (a deal he made knowingly, without hesitation).
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** [[spoiler:Bartholomew Kuma]], although initially presented like a villain, is gradually revealed to actually be one of the kindest, humblest, and most righteous characters in the entire series. This in spite of an entire life from young child to adulthood dragged through some of the worst suffering imaginable, culminating in a forced DeathOfPersonality, turning him into a soulless fighting machine in exchange for his daughter's life (a deal he made knowingly, without hesitation).
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'' does this with both [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu Kamio]] and Michiru.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Menma]] from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'', a painfully-cute GenkiGirl who always put others before herself until she one day drowned at the age of ten. She hangs around as a ghost for most of the series, invisible to most people, ultimately for the purpose of playing through the trope all over again as she writes heartfelt final letters for all her friends [[spoiler:and "dies" a second time as her ghost departs for heaven]].
* Marco Bott, from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. Idealistic, kindhearted, genuinely selfless without any sort of complex, always there to encourage the others, and pivotal in holding the 104th Trainees Squad together emotionally during their first battle. His best friend, Jean, discovers [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what's left]] of Marco on the second day of cleaning up after the battle, and is horrified when he cannot [[DyingAlone find anyone]] that saw his final moments. This tragedy serves as a catalyst for Jean's evolution from a selfish {{Jerkass}} into TheLeader Marco always believed he could become. Later events suggest something more [[TheMole sinister]] may have been involved in his death...
* In ''Manga/BarefootGen'', there is Tomoko Nakaoka, along with Shinji, Eiko, and many children who were vaporized in the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath effects.
* Same in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' for [[spoiler:Fuko]], [[spoiler:Nagisa]] and [[spoiler:Ushio]]. Thankfully, they got better.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has two prominent examples:
** [[spoiler:Shirley, who serves as Lelouch's most obvious tie to his civilian life. Kind, supportive, and always wanting to help him, Shirley's death signifies a change in Lelouch that also leads into the Zero Requiem.]]
** [[spoiler:Euphemia]]. It was her naivete and goodwill that led her to do something that led to the political need to meet with the man who could control people's minds, which ultimately led to her death. [[spoiler:Ironically, that same compassion leads to the man admitting his defeat, a claim none of her more ruthless or intelligent siblings can make.]]
* ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'': Given that this is the grand finale of the storyline started in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', this trope pops up more than a few times.
** Daisaku Bandai was the former Ultimate Farmer and the Future Foundation branch leader in charge of distributing food in the post-apocalyptic world. Despite [[GentleGiant his intimidating appearance]], he's a very kind and easygoing guy with the voice of a small child and a habit of creating random proverb-esque sayings that make zero sense.[[spoiler: He's the second victim in the Final Killing Game, dying an extremely cruel and unfair death when his Forbidden Action is triggered and poisons him.]] [[spoiler:His Forbidden Action code was "witness violence by participants"; he died because he was present when Juzo Sakakura kneed Ryota Mitarai the chest.]] [[spoiler:Given that at least half the participants in the Killing Game were either prone to violence or saw violence as the answer to everything (including actual violence itself) the poor guy never stood a chance.]]
** The Great Gozu (the latest GentleGiant character in the tradition of Sakura and Nidai) is the large and immensely strong former ultimate wrestler. Despite the fact that he wears a bull mask and can be ''very'' scary if provoked, he's actually a rather gentle and polite soul with strong morals and a deep sense of loyalty to his comrades. Once the Final killing Game starts, he declares that he won't kill anyone, even if it costs him his own life, and protects Makoto Negaei and Aoi Ashina from Sakakura. After finding a hiding place and encouraging them to have hope, he [[spoiler: is killed by the attacker during the second sleeping phase. He has his eyes slashed out, a knife stabbed through his heart, and his body is then thrown into the exposed cables hanging from the ceiling.]] Tragically, it's later revealed that, like all the other victims of the attacker, [[spoiler: Gozu's death was really an extremely gory brainwashing-induced suicide.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami, or rather, the ''real'' one]] continues to be this. If you've already played ''Danganronpa 2; Goodbye Despair'' (see the Video Games entry), you already know just how sweet and caring [[spoiler:Chiaki is/was]]. [[spoiler:''This'' Chiaki was just as kind and similarly reached out to the brooding Hajime when he was still a reserve student, and was the light of her class. Junko's brutal execution of her becomes a tool to drive the rest of the class into despair, and even makes Izuru Kamukura, who should have forgotten everything as Hajime by then, feel upset. The way the ending of ''Danganronpa 2'' was set up gave the player the impression that she may have been able to come back along with the rest of the class, but that Chiaki was born from her classmates' memories and will never return.]]
** Seiko Kimura is the former SHSL Pharmacist who, despite being part of the radical faction of the Future Foundation, is willing to treat her ideological rivals wounds. Despite her creepy appearance and demeanor, she is actually a very caring person with zero self-esteem who simply wants to be useful to everyone. While she does end up chasing and trying to kill her former friends Ruruka and Sonosuke, it's out of long-repressed anger at Ruruka's apparent "betrayal" in high school and how she used her throughout their friendship, and Seiko ends up giving up without harming them. As the third sleeping phase approaches she curls up in a hallway and thinks about how all she wanted was to have one true friend. She had actually loved Ruruka dearly and still wished that they could somehow make up. As she is knocked out by the sleeping drug, the last thing that she thinks about is the deaths of [[spoiler: Bandai]] and [[spoiler: Chisa]] and how she was unable to help them. [[spoiler: She never wakes up, becoming the third victim after being brutally crucified, meaning that she died feeling worthless and thinking that she was unable to help anyone. And just like Great Gozu, it turns out that Seiko's death was caused by being brainwashed into suicide.]] For added insult, in the finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the seemingly dead Kyoko actually survived due to taking a cure for the poison in the NG code bracelets that Seiko made during the killing game. She died not knowing that she had actually saved someone.]]
* [[GentleGiant Android 16]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' - made to be a killing machine, somehow ended up a FriendToAllLivingThings. If he didn't have a soul when Dr. Gero built him, he would most likely have earned one by the time Cell brutally murdered him. To drive it home further, his is one of the few deaths to stick in a franchise notorious for its [[DeathIsCheap revolving-door afterlife.]]
** Turns out that Dr. Gero based him off of his own son, who died in the Red Ribbon Army. If he was anything like Android 16 was in personality, it would help to explain how his death would drive Gero off the deep end.
* Spoofed in ''Literature/FateZero'''s Einzbern Consultation Room extra. Lancer learns from Irisviel that the source of his suffering was not actually from [[BlessedWithSuck his curse]]. As it turns out, being noble [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]] voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa in an "[[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobutcher]]" series makes his likelihood of dying horribly and tragically 170%.
-->'''Irisviel:''' [[{{Bishonen}} If you're good-looking]], your bad end karma will increase 20%. [[NiceGuy If you have a nice personality]], it'll increase another 30%. [[ChickMagnet If you make girls want it, even when you don't]], that's another 30%. And if you're voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa, that's 90%.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has this in several flavors.
** [[spoiler: Nina and Alexander]], an adorable girl and her dog, who suffer and die in a gruesome way in one of the most infamous scenes. They are literally [[spoiler:''fused'' together by her father, to the point their brains are combined and are mercy killed soon after.]] This event haunts Ed and Al arguably as much as their mother's death.
** [[spoiler:Maes Hughes, who is an unusual case in that he is a veteran of an exceptionally atrocious war and a bit of a DeadpanSnarker. All the same, he is a loving family man who brags endlessly about his wonderful wife and young daughter and tries to help his friends and country the best that he can. So, naturally, he dies not even a quarter of the way into the series, in a cruelly ironic way to boot.]]
*** [[spoiler: Hughes earns triple points because his death is because he's "too good" in three separate ways. (1) [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished He's too good a friend to the Elric brothers.]] (2) [[GovernmentConspiracy He's too good at his job.]] (3) He's too good of a family man, at the worst possible moment.]]
* Played upon in ''Gestalt''. Ohri, the resident CuteMute and ManicPixieDreamGirl starts as a slave girl, offered to Oliver, the main character. As Oliver flatly refuses to accept her (as he's staunchly opposed to slavery), Ohri, willing to follow him, describes this trope point-by-point, telling him that being too cute and helpless to thrive in a world so sinful to accept slavery, she would be eventually sold to someone else, without Oliver's morality, and die in the most {{Anvilicious}} manner possible. Oliver finally relents and accepts her as one of the TrueCompanions.
* Shuu from ''Manga/GetBackers'', when he is killed by Kumon Horii.
** Many childhood friends of Ginji, during his childhood in the Limitless Fortress, especially a girl who was a close friend of his.
* Shouyo-sensei in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
* ''Anime/GoLion'': [[spoiler:The mother of Prince Sincline]] was an Altean woman who died begging his father not to massacre a group of innocent slaves. Her pelase fell on deaf ears as she was killed as well.
* [[spoiler: Hare]] in episode 15 of ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. When a group of students fears they'll be allowed to die because their voids aren't useful enough, they go out to try and get more vaccine from a hospital and prove they aren't useless. Shu and [[spoiler: Hare]] head out to stop them so they won't get killed pointlessly. Before Shu can get them to listen to reason, they are found and attacked by the Antibodies. Souta, having been among the group going to the hospital, asks [[spoiler: Hare]] to use her void in order to [[spoiler:[[MrFixIt "heal" a car]]]] so they can escape. She gets targeted by Daryl, Shu sees this, and he dives to save her. They both get caught in an explosion and get badly hurt. [[spoiler: Hare chooses to use her void to heal Shu ''while she's bleeding out of her stomach'' and talks about a picture book she read once about a "kind king" who tries to make everyone happy, but his kindness ends up ruining his kingdom and angering his people. she says she liked him despite this and loved Shu because he was similarly kind to a fault. she then dies and starts to crystallize, only completely disappearing after Shu wakes up to see her dead body.]] What helps prove how good she is is that the sight of her fading from existence causes Shu's worst HeroicBSOD yet, sends him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and quite possibly (at time of writing) led to a StartOfDarkness in Shu as he seems to lose all hope and kindness.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''
** Angelica is the first of the cyborgs, and everyone at the newly formed agency loves and dotes on her [[FlawedPrototype until her conditioning starts to break down]]. All the cyborg girls have their quirks and flaws, but Angelica is never portrayed as anything but nice, making her slow demise all the more tragic. However this is also the fate of the other cyborg girls who won't die in action, rather than a fate reserved for Angelica alone.
** Subverted with [[PosthumousCharacter Enrica]]; for the first several volumes of the manga, we only know Enrica through Jose's flashbacks, all of which portray her as incredibly innocent. When the manga begins to detail the Croce family's backstory, Enrica is portrayed with a lot of human flaws that weren't initially shown. Not that her dying in the backstory doesn't suck, mind you.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'':
** According to [[BigBad Dio]], his mother was this. A truly kind woman who was ultimately worked to death by his abusive father.
** George Joestar was a kind man who lent mercy to the otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} awful]] Dario and his [[TheSociopath even worse son]], Dio, while wishing he and his own son would eventually get along, [[spoiler:something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decides to kill him in order to become a vampire]]. This is even acknowledged in-universe by Speedwagon, believing that a kind man like him didn't deserve what happened to him.
** [[spoiler:[[TheHero Jonathan Joestar]], in his final moments, despite all the horrible things Dio did to him throughout his life, felt only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as pleading his pregnant wife to take care of a stranger's orphaned baby girl. A truly kind and gentle soul like his father before him, also murdered by his ungrateful brother. Notably, Dio ''agrees'', having only come to truly understand how much of a kind and gentle soul Jonathan was at the end, regarding him as the [[WorthyOpponent greatest of his adversaries]], and in his own twisted way ''does'' love and respects him as a noble paragon]].
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
* Tatara Totsuka of ''Anime/{{K}}'' was an extremely kind and well-meaning young man who just happened to be friends with some dangerous people, the clan of the Red King. He was the light of their group, who kept them at least calm enough to not blow up ''everything''. So when he dies, all hell breaks loose - [[spoiler: just as the Colorless and Green kings wanted]].
* Susannah Julia Von Wincott from ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls under this trope. Can almost be called the MessianicArchetype. It is said that she was too pure for the Shoushu, the BigBad of the show, to possess her. Thus, making Yuuri the last hope. She sacrificed her life trying to help injured soldiers.
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'':
** Lynn's mother, Misuzu, died in a car accident while trying to visit her father, George, and she used her final moments to shield Lynn with her body. Even worse, George's family were racist and would speak badly of her, such as his father lambasting him for being involved with "that Eastern woman".
** Sarah's mother, Frances Russel, was a kind woman who loved horses, but she passed away when Sarah was young. It's implied Sarah inherited her illness.
* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', due to its large cast, has several examples, the absolute crowning example of which is [[spoiler:Siegfried Kircheis]], who serves as the series' first SacrificialLion. He's repeatedly touted, in-universe no less, as a shining ideal of friendship, kindness, and loyalty and one of the greatest military thinkers in the show, and his death [[spoiler:trying to save Reinhart von Lohengramm from an assassin]] haunts an entire half of the cast for most of the series' run. "If only [[spoiler:Kircheis]] had lived..." becomes ArcWords concerning [[spoiler:Reinhart]]'s fate for the rest of the show.
* Goro's father Shigeharu Honda in ''Manga/{{Major}}''. [[GoodParents A loving father]] whose son looked up to and wanted to follow his footsteps. He was finally moving on from his wife's death to marry again and give his son a new mom, and when it seemed he was going to make a successful comeback as a pinch hitter, he got hit in the head by a dead ball that ended his life.
* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': From Taiyo's memories, it's clear that the Asanos were a close-knit family. Hide and Akari worked as a pharmaceutical worker and a nurse respectively to help ill patients to the point that one of them, Shirai, considered them her family, while Hikaru was by all counts a cheerful, happy child. Then they lost their lives in the car accident that leaves Taiyo the SoleSurvivor.
* Haku of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was incredibly selfless and kind. His death to protect Zabuza was what spurred the man into his SelfDestructiveCharge and revealed the humanity he had long since buried. And then, as if the double-death scene wasn't poignant enough, [[SnowMeansDeath it snowed]]. Furthermore, it was Haku's words that helped Naruto become the good and kind man he became. Kakashi himself lampshades it when [[spoiler: the two are brought back to life during the 4th Shinobi War, thanking for meeting them.]]
* [[spoiler:Ace]]'s death in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. While not having a happy childhood, with nearly everyone unknowingly telling him that his father [[spoiler:Gold Roger]] was a cruel, unsympathetic bastard and with the World Government claiming that a child of [[spoiler:Gold Roger]]'s didn't deserve to live, this character was a relatively friendly, polite and all-round nice person.
* Amber and her clone Ambertwo in ''Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo'' and its animated adaptation in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. Amber was her dad's MoralityPet and she died getting hit by a car. Her father tried to create a ReplacementGoldfish, but human cloning wasn't advanced enough for Ambertwo to survive long. Ambertwo was Mewtwo's CheerfulChild best friend when he was still developing.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' subverts this in a couple of different ways.
** Mami, a rare example of a strong but also kind and heroic magical girl, [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled gets decapitated and eaten by a witch]] to kick off the darker parts of the story. But it later turns out she was capable of some pretty horrifying acts after a good FreakOut, such as [[spoiler:killing her friends so they won't become witches. And, in the end, she comes back to life, so the trope no longer applies]].
** Madoka, the poster child for IncorruptiblePurePureness in a CrapsackWorld, seems doomed to this fate, and [[spoiler:does suffer it ''many'' times in [[GroundhogDayLoop previous timelines]]. In the end, though, she sacrifices herself voluntarily to save all magical girls from becoming witches, [[LoopholeAbuse cleverly saving herself in the process]] and literally becoming a god. She "dies" in the sense of being erased from the mortal realm, but there's no remaining sense of the cruel world punishing her for her goodness]].
* Anchan of ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin'' is this, full stop. You come to realize fairly early on that someone so good and inspirational and beloved and constantly in danger isn't going to make it for very long.
* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has Kaworu "[[MemeticMutation Bishonen space Jesus]]" Nagisa. Although his morality was far more ambiguous in the anime series and the manga adaptation, all ''Rebuild'' Kaworu wanted was to see Shinji happy. And where his death in the TV series came by his own request, ''after'' he had attempted to cause Third Impact, in ''Rebuild'' it was basically because of a mistake on Shinji's part that he died.
* The [[LittlestCancerPatient Dauphin]] in ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' died before the Revolution started.
%%* Sayo aka Magdaria from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.
%%* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Lillias, in the anime series.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Princess Iria]] from ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. She brought hope to everyone who knew her and died trying to save a kid.
* Hokuto is afraid something like this will happen to her brother Subaru in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon''. [[Manga/{{X1999}} Given what happened,]] [[BreakTheCutie this trope might have been more merciful.]] [[spoiler: And in a sense, that's what happened to '''her''' instead.]]
* Hide in the AlternateContinuity of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' √A. Kaneki's only friend since childhood, he has always been there to cheer him up and protect him. He spends the entire series completely devoted to helping Kaneki, even as the other pulls further and further away from him to keep him safe. When Kaneki goes missing, he becomes an Intern at [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] to gather information, and ends up on the battlefield during the finale. The friends ''finally'' reunite, with him acting like nothing is wrong and revealing he knew about Kaneki becoming a Ghoul all along -- but it never mattered to him. He's then [[MortalWoundReveal revealed]] to be fatally wounded, and dies in Kaneki's arms.
* Yuuki from ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' is the sweet, CheerfulChild brother of the cynical protagonist. He died due to [[spoiler:complications arising from getting hit on the head on a piece of falling rubble a few days prior.]]
* Rubina from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' -one of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' sequels-. All she ever wanted was people to stop killing each other and being happy with the man she loved. What did she get for her efforts in stopping the war and try to convince everybody to forgive, forget, and rebuild? [[spoiler:She got killed.]]
* ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' loves this trope so much that some wonder if the writers had problems with these kind of people.
** First we have Aina, the character who deemed the hero's curse as a blessing and was one of the few people accepted Saki Rukino. She is blown to bits, and Kyuma's scream when he finds her is enough to do the same to your heart.
** Then we have Lieselotte, a member of an alien-like clan who wanted her people to coexist with humans. She dies sacrificing her life to protect a person who she once saved as a child.
** Then we have Kyuma Inuzuka, who had a crush on Aina and wanted to prove his curse is also a blessing by protecting the people who five minutes ago wanted him dead for that curse.
** Think that's enough? ''Nope''. In the finale, the hero Haruto loses all his memories as a result of his curse in his final fight. He dies shortly afterwards.
* Kolulu from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even though she was only sent back to the Mamodo World when her book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent of the death in the series, [[TearJerker not to mention the impact it has on people]].
* The ''Anime/YourName'' side novel ''Another Side: Earthbound'' reveals that Mitsuha's late mother Futaba was WiseBeyondTheirYears and very well-respected, revered even, by the people of Itomori. After her death by illness, some of the townspeople started saying this of her InUniverse.
* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Menma]] from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'', a painfully-cute GenkiGirl who always put others before herself until she one day drowned at the age of ten. She hangs around as a ghost for most of the series, invisible to most people, ultimately for the purpose of playing through the trope all over again as she writes heartfelt final letters for all her friends [[spoiler:and "dies" a second time as her ghost departs for heaven]].
* Marco Bott, from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. Idealistic, kindhearted, genuinely selfless without any sort of complex, always there to encourage the others, and pivotal in holding the 104th Trainees Squad together emotionally during their first battle. His best friend, Jean, discovers [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what's left]] of Marco on the second day of cleaning up after the battle, and is horrified when he cannot [[DyingAlone find anyone]] that saw his final moments. This tragedy serves as a catalyst for Jean's evolution from a selfish {{Jerkass}} into TheLeader Marco always believed he could become. Later events suggest something more [[TheMole sinister]] may have been involved in his death...
* In ''Manga/BarefootGen'', there is Tomoko Nakaoka, along with Shinji, Eiko, and many children who were vaporized in the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath effects.
* Same in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' for [[spoiler:Fuko]], [[spoiler:Nagisa]] and [[spoiler:Ushio]]. Thankfully, they got better.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has two prominent examples:
** [[spoiler:Shirley, who serves as Lelouch's most obvious tie to his civilian life. Kind, supportive, and always wanting to help him, Shirley's death signifies a change in Lelouch that also leads into the Zero Requiem.]]
** [[spoiler:Euphemia]]. It was her naivete and goodwill that led her to do something that led to the political need to meet with the man who could control people's minds, which ultimately led to her death. [[spoiler:Ironically, that same compassion leads to the man admitting his defeat, a claim none of her more ruthless or intelligent siblings can make.]]
* ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'': Given that this is the grand finale of the storyline started in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', this trope pops up more than a few times.
** Daisaku Bandai was the former Ultimate Farmer and the Future Foundation branch leader in charge of distributing food in the post-apocalyptic world. Despite [[GentleGiant his intimidating appearance]], he's a very kind and easygoing guy with the voice of a small child and a habit of creating random proverb-esque sayings that make zero sense.[[spoiler: He's the second victim in the Final Killing Game, dying an extremely cruel and unfair death when his Forbidden Action is triggered and poisons him.]] [[spoiler:His Forbidden Action code was "witness violence by participants"; he died because he was present when Juzo Sakakura kneed Ryota Mitarai the chest.]] [[spoiler:Given that at least half the participants in the Killing Game were either prone to violence or saw violence as the answer to everything (including actual violence itself) the poor guy never stood a chance.]]
** The Great Gozu (the latest GentleGiant character in the tradition of Sakura and Nidai) is the large and immensely strong former ultimate wrestler. Despite the fact that he wears a bull mask and can be ''very'' scary if provoked, he's actually a rather gentle and polite soul with strong morals and a deep sense of loyalty to his comrades. Once the Final killing Game starts, he declares that he won't kill anyone, even if it costs him his own life, and protects Makoto Negaei and Aoi Ashina from Sakakura. After finding a hiding place and encouraging them to have hope, he [[spoiler: is killed by the attacker during the second sleeping phase. He has his eyes slashed out, a knife stabbed through his heart, and his body is then thrown into the exposed cables hanging from the ceiling.]] Tragically, it's later revealed that, like all the other victims of the attacker, [[spoiler: Gozu's death was really an extremely gory brainwashing-induced suicide.]]
** [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami, or rather, the ''real'' one]] continues to be this. If you've already played ''Danganronpa 2; Goodbye Despair'' (see the Video Games entry), you already know just how sweet and caring [[spoiler:Chiaki is/was]]. [[spoiler:''This'' Chiaki was just as kind and similarly reached out to the brooding Hajime when he was still a reserve student, and was the light of her class. Junko's brutal execution of her becomes a tool to drive the rest of the class into despair, and even makes Izuru Kamukura, who should have forgotten everything as Hajime by then, feel upset. The way the ending of ''Danganronpa 2'' was set up gave the player the impression that she may have been able to come back along with the rest of the class, but that Chiaki was born from her classmates' memories and will never return.]]
** Seiko Kimura is the former SHSL Pharmacist who, despite being part of the radical faction of the Future Foundation, is willing to treat her ideological rivals wounds. Despite her creepy appearance and demeanor, she is actually a very caring person with zero self-esteem who simply wants to be useful to everyone. While she does end up chasing and trying to kill her former friends Ruruka and Sonosuke, it's out of long-repressed anger at Ruruka's apparent "betrayal" in high school and how she used her throughout their friendship, and Seiko ends up giving up without harming them. As the third sleeping phase approaches she curls up in a hallway and thinks about how all she wanted was to have one true friend. She had actually loved Ruruka dearly and still wished that they could somehow make up. As she is knocked out by the sleeping drug, the last thing that she thinks about is the deaths of [[spoiler: Bandai]] and [[spoiler: Chisa]] and how she was unable to help them. [[spoiler: She never wakes up, becoming the third victim after being brutally crucified, meaning that she died feeling worthless and thinking that she was unable to help anyone. And just like Great Gozu, it turns out that Seiko's death was caused by being brainwashed into suicide.]] For added insult, in the finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the seemingly dead Kyoko actually survived due to taking a cure for the poison in the NG code bracelets that Seiko made during the killing game. She died not knowing that she had actually saved someone.]]
* [[GentleGiant Android 16]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' - made to be a killing machine, somehow ended up a FriendToAllLivingThings. If he didn't have a soul when Dr. Gero built him, he would most likely have earned one by the time Cell brutally murdered him. To drive it home further, his is one of the few deaths to stick in a franchise notorious for its [[DeathIsCheap revolving-door afterlife.]]
** Turns out that Dr. Gero based him off of his own son, who died in the Red Ribbon Army. If he was anything like Android 16 was in personality, it would help to explain how his death would drive Gero off the deep end.
* Spoofed in ''Literature/FateZero'''s Einzbern Consultation Room extra. Lancer learns from Irisviel that the source of his suffering was not actually from [[BlessedWithSuck his curse]]. As it turns out, being noble [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]] voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa in an "[[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobutcher]]" series makes his likelihood of dying horribly and tragically 170%.
-->'''Irisviel:''' [[{{Bishonen}} If you're good-looking]], your bad end karma will increase 20%. [[NiceGuy If you have a nice personality]], it'll increase another 30%. [[ChickMagnet If you make girls want it, even when you don't]], that's another 30%. And if you're voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa, that's 90%.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has this in several flavors.
** [[spoiler: Nina and Alexander]], an adorable girl and her dog, who suffer and die in a gruesome way in one of the most infamous scenes. They are literally [[spoiler:''fused'' together by her father, to the point their brains are combined and are mercy killed soon after.]] This event haunts Ed and Al arguably as much as their mother's death.
** [[spoiler:Maes Hughes, who is an unusual case in that he is a veteran of an exceptionally atrocious war and a bit of a DeadpanSnarker. All the same, he is a loving family man who brags endlessly about his wonderful wife and young daughter and tries to help his friends and country the best that he can. So, naturally, he dies not even a quarter of the way into the series, in a cruelly ironic way to boot.]]
*** [[spoiler: Hughes earns triple points because his death is because he's "too good" in three separate ways. (1) [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished He's too good a friend to the Elric brothers.]] (2) [[GovernmentConspiracy He's too good at his job.]] (3) He's too good of a family man, at the worst possible moment.]]
* Played upon in ''Gestalt''. Ohri, the resident CuteMute and ManicPixieDreamGirl starts as a slave girl, offered to Oliver, the main character. As Oliver flatly refuses to accept her (as he's staunchly opposed to slavery), Ohri, willing to follow him, describes this trope point-by-point, telling him that being too cute and helpless to thrive in a world so sinful to accept slavery, she would be eventually sold to someone else, without Oliver's morality, and die in the most {{Anvilicious}} manner possible. Oliver finally relents and accepts her as one of the TrueCompanions.
* Shuu from ''Manga/GetBackers'', when he is killed by Kumon Horii.
** Many childhood friends of Ginji, during his childhood in the Limitless Fortress, especially a girl who was a close friend of his.
* Shouyo-sensei in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the ''only'' purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. [[spoiler:Even when he is revealed to be one of BigBad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.]]
* ''Anime/GoLion'': [[spoiler:The mother of Prince Sincline]] was an Altean woman who died begging his father not to massacre a group of innocent slaves. Her pelase fell on deaf ears as she was killed as well.
* [[spoiler: Hare]] in episode 15 of ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. When a group of students fears they'll be allowed to die because their voids aren't useful enough, they go out to try and get more vaccine from a hospital and prove they aren't useless. Shu and [[spoiler: Hare]] head out to stop them so they won't get killed pointlessly. Before Shu can get them to listen to reason, they are found and attacked by the Antibodies. Souta, having been among the group going to the hospital, asks [[spoiler: Hare]] to use her void in order to [[spoiler:[[MrFixIt "heal" a car]]]] so they can escape. She gets targeted by Daryl, Shu sees this, and he dives to save her. They both get caught in an explosion and get badly hurt. [[spoiler: Hare chooses to use her void to heal Shu ''while she's bleeding out of her stomach'' and talks about a picture book she read once about a "kind king" who tries to make everyone happy, but his kindness ends up ruining his kingdom and angering his people. she says she liked him despite this and loved Shu because he was similarly kind to a fault. she then dies and starts to crystallize, only completely disappearing after Shu wakes up to see her dead body.]] What helps prove how good she is is that the sight of her fading from existence causes Shu's worst HeroicBSOD yet, sends him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and quite possibly (at time of writing) led to a StartOfDarkness in Shu as he seems to lose all hope and kindness.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''
** Angelica is the first of the cyborgs, and everyone at the newly formed agency loves and dotes on her [[FlawedPrototype until her conditioning starts to break down]]. All the cyborg girls have their quirks and flaws, but Angelica is never portrayed as anything but nice, making her slow demise all the more tragic. However this is also the fate of the other cyborg girls who won't die in action, rather than a fate reserved for Angelica alone.
** Subverted with [[PosthumousCharacter Enrica]]; for the first several volumes of the manga, we only know Enrica through Jose's flashbacks, all of which portray her as incredibly innocent. When the manga begins to detail the Croce family's backstory, Enrica is portrayed with a lot of human flaws that weren't initially shown. Not that her dying in the backstory doesn't suck, mind you.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'':
** According to [[BigBad Dio]], his mother was this. A truly kind woman who was ultimately worked to death by his abusive father.
** George Joestar was a kind man who lent mercy to the otherwise [[{{Jerkass}} awful]] Dario and his [[TheSociopath even worse son]], Dio, while wishing he and his own son would eventually get along, [[spoiler:something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decides to kill him in order to become a vampire]]. This is even acknowledged in-universe by Speedwagon, believing that a kind man like him didn't deserve what happened to him.
** [[spoiler:[[TheHero Jonathan Joestar]], in his final moments, despite all the horrible things Dio did to him throughout his life, felt only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as pleading his pregnant wife to take care of a stranger's orphaned baby girl. A truly kind and gentle soul like his father before him, also murdered by his ungrateful brother. Notably, Dio ''agrees'', having only come to truly understand how much of a kind and gentle soul Jonathan was at the end, regarding him as the [[WorthyOpponent greatest of his adversaries]], and in his own twisted way ''does'' love and respects him as a noble paragon]].
* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the [[ImpoverishedPatrician problems]] [[GoldDigger for]] [[AbusiveParents her]] [[ArrangedMarriage son]] [[HomelessHero Marc]]...
* Lady Hamona of ''Anime/WolfsRain'' was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, [[spoiler: she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose.]] If that wasn't enough, her EvilTwin Jaguara became a GreenEyedMonster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Hamona while she was sick.]]]]
** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
** And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the GrandFinale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.]]]]
* Tatara Totsuka of ''Anime/{{K}}'' was an extremely kind and well-meaning young man who just happened to be friends with some dangerous people, the clan of the Red King. He was the light of their group, who kept them at least calm enough to not blow up ''everything''. So when he dies, all hell breaks loose - [[spoiler: just as the Colorless and Green kings wanted]].
* Susannah Julia Von Wincott from ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls under this trope. Can almost be called the MessianicArchetype. It is said that she was too pure for the Shoushu, the BigBad of the show, to possess her. Thus, making Yuuri the last hope. She sacrificed her life trying to help injured soldiers.
* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'':
** Lynn's mother, Misuzu, died in a car accident while trying to visit her father, George, and she used her final moments to shield Lynn with her body. Even worse, George's family were racist and would speak badly of her, such as his father lambasting him for being involved with "that Eastern woman".
** Sarah's mother, Frances Russel, was a kind woman who loved horses, but she passed away when Sarah was young. It's implied Sarah inherited her illness.
* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', due to its large cast, has several examples, the absolute crowning example of which is [[spoiler:Siegfried Kircheis]], who serves as the series' first SacrificialLion. He's repeatedly touted, in-universe no less, as a shining ideal of friendship, kindness, and loyalty and one of the greatest military thinkers in the show, and his death [[spoiler:trying to save Reinhart von Lohengramm from an assassin]] haunts an entire half of the cast for most of the series' run. "If only [[spoiler:Kircheis]] had lived..." becomes ArcWords concerning [[spoiler:Reinhart]]'s fate for the rest of the show.
* Goro's father Shigeharu Honda in ''Manga/{{Major}}''. [[GoodParents A loving father]] whose son looked up to and wanted to follow his footsteps. He was finally moving on from his wife's death to marry again and give his son a new mom, and when it seemed he was going to make a successful comeback as a pinch hitter, he got hit in the head by a dead ball that ended his life.
* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': From Taiyo's memories, it's clear that the Asanos were a close-knit family. Hide and Akari worked as a pharmaceutical worker and a nurse respectively to help ill patients to the point that one of them, Shirai, considered them her family, while Hikaru was by all counts a cheerful, happy child. Then they lost their lives in the car accident that leaves Taiyo the SoleSurvivor.
* Haku of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' was incredibly selfless and kind. His death to protect Zabuza was what spurred the man into his SelfDestructiveCharge and revealed the humanity he had long since buried. And then, as if the double-death scene wasn't poignant enough, [[SnowMeansDeath it snowed]]. Furthermore, it was Haku's words that helped Naruto become the good and kind man he became. Kakashi himself lampshades it when [[spoiler: the two are brought back to life during the 4th Shinobi War, thanking for meeting them.]]
* [[spoiler:Ace]]'s death in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. While not having a happy childhood, with nearly everyone unknowingly telling him that his father [[spoiler:Gold Roger]] was a cruel, unsympathetic bastard and with the World Government claiming that a child of [[spoiler:Gold Roger]]'s didn't deserve to live, this character was a relatively friendly, polite and all-round nice person.
* Amber and her clone Ambertwo in ''Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo'' and its animated adaptation in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. Amber was her dad's MoralityPet and she died getting hit by a car. Her father tried to create a ReplacementGoldfish, but human cloning wasn't advanced enough for Ambertwo to survive long. Ambertwo was Mewtwo's CheerfulChild best friend when he was still developing.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' subverts this in a couple of different ways.
** Mami, a rare example of a strong but also kind and heroic magical girl, [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled gets decapitated and eaten by a witch]] to kick off the darker parts of the story. But it later turns out she was capable of some pretty horrifying acts after a good FreakOut, such as [[spoiler:killing her friends so they won't become witches. And, in the end, she comes back to life, so the trope no longer applies]].
** Madoka, the poster child for IncorruptiblePurePureness in a CrapsackWorld, seems doomed to this fate, and [[spoiler:does suffer it ''many'' times in [[GroundhogDayLoop previous timelines]]. In the end, though, she sacrifices herself voluntarily to save all magical girls from becoming witches, [[LoopholeAbuse cleverly saving herself in the process]] and literally becoming a god. She "dies" in the sense of being erased from the mortal realm, but there's no remaining sense of the cruel world punishing her for her goodness]].
* Anchan of ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin'' is this, full stop. You come to realize fairly early on that someone so good and inspirational and beloved and constantly in danger isn't going to make it for very long.
* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' has Kaworu "[[MemeticMutation Bishonen space Jesus]]" Nagisa. Although his morality was far more ambiguous in the anime series and the manga adaptation, all ''Rebuild'' Kaworu wanted was to see Shinji happy. And where his death in the TV series came by his own request, ''after'' he had attempted to cause Third Impact, in ''Rebuild'' it was basically because of a mistake on Shinji's part that he died.
* The [[LittlestCancerPatient Dauphin]] in ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' died before the Revolution started.
%%* Sayo aka Magdaria from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.
%%* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Lillias, in the anime series.
* [[PosthumousCharacter Princess Iria]] from ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. She brought hope to everyone who knew her and died trying to save a kid.
* Hokuto is afraid something like this will happen to her brother Subaru in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon''. [[Manga/{{X1999}} Given what happened,]] [[BreakTheCutie this trope might have been more merciful.]] [[spoiler: And in a sense, that's what happened to '''her''' instead.]]
* Hide in the AlternateContinuity of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' √A. Kaneki's only friend since childhood, he has always been there to cheer him up and protect him. He spends the entire series completely devoted to helping Kaneki, even as the other pulls further and further away from him to keep him safe. When Kaneki goes missing, he becomes an Intern at [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] to gather information, and ends up on the battlefield during the finale. The friends ''finally'' reunite, with him acting like nothing is wrong and revealing he knew about Kaneki becoming a Ghoul all along -- but it never mattered to him. He's then [[MortalWoundReveal revealed]] to be fatally wounded, and dies in Kaneki's arms.
* Yuuki from ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' is the sweet, CheerfulChild brother of the cynical protagonist. He died due to [[spoiler:complications arising from getting hit on the head on a piece of falling rubble a few days prior.]]
* Rubina from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' -one of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' sequels-. All she ever wanted was people to stop killing each other and being happy with the man she loved. What did she get for her efforts in stopping the war and try to convince everybody to forgive, forget, and rebuild? [[spoiler:She got killed.]]
* ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' loves this trope so much that some wonder if the writers had problems with these kind of people.
** First we have Aina, the character who deemed the hero's curse as a blessing and was one of the few people accepted Saki Rukino. She is blown to bits, and Kyuma's scream when he finds her is enough to do the same to your heart.
** Then we have Lieselotte, a member of an alien-like clan who wanted her people to coexist with humans. She dies sacrificing her life to protect a person who she once saved as a child.
** Then we have Kyuma Inuzuka, who had a crush on Aina and wanted to prove his curse is also a blessing by protecting the people who five minutes ago wanted him dead for that curse.
** Think that's enough? ''Nope''. In the finale, the hero Haruto loses all his memories as a result of his curse in his final fight. He dies shortly afterwards.
* Kolulu from ''Manga/ZatchBell''. Even though she was only sent back to the Mamodo World when her book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent of the death in the series, [[TearJerker not to mention the impact it has on people]].
* The ''Anime/YourName'' side novel ''Another Side: Earthbound'' reveals that Mitsuha's late mother Futaba was WiseBeyondTheirYears and very well-respected, revered even, by the people of Itomori. After her death by illness, some of the townspeople started saying this of her InUniverse.
* ''Anime/ReCreators'': [[MagicalGirl Mamika Kirameki]] is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
* ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
** Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, [[MercyKill forcing Akira to kill them both.]]
** Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his HorrorHunger, he starts ''eating his mother''... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive DespairEventHorizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being ''seconds'' too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, [[PoorCommunicationKills who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun,]] resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
* The ''Manhwa/{{Priest|1998}}'' has Nera, one of the fallen angels who serve [[BigBad Temozarela]] and the only genuinely good character in the entire series. She refuses to infect the village close to her caravan with [[TheVirus the Dark Doctrine]] despite given the order to do so and in fact protects it from any harm. Nevertheless, [[HumansAreBastards the villagers]] mistake her as a witch, slaughter her friends, and hang her. Even then, she refuses to spite people; when Temozarela himself appears to Nera as a vision and offers to free her if she declares her hatred against God, she tells him that despite [[RageAgainstTheHeavens everything Temozarela has done]], deep down he still wants forgiveness from God and then calmly accepts her fate.
* ''TAL'' brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed [[spoiler:even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark]]. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but was stopped by [[spoiler:Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity.]] Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
** In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
** Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
** In ''Ordinal Scale'', there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to [[DrawAggro draw the boss's minions away from the other players]] which allowed them to beat it [[HeroicSacrifice but costed her life]]. And then in the movie proper, her VirtualGhost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has two examples:
** Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
** Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' revolve around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. [[spoiler:She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. [[DrivenToSuicide She then commits suicide.]]]]
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband [[PrincelingRivalry rivaled Zambajil]] for the throne.
