Audio Play
Sixth Doctor: Not bad, [way of dying] I suppose. Better exit than I ever had. A bang on a head! I ask you.
Seventh Doctor: Even that's more dignified than what I enjured. Didn't seen that one coming did I?
Seventh Doctor: Even that's more dignified than what I enjured. Didn't seen that one coming did I?
Comic Books
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal. And of good people dying in stupid, pointless ways."
— Fisitron, The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers
Live Action TV
Guinan: Tasha, you're not supposed to be here.
Lt. Yar: Where am I supposed to be?
Guinan: Dead.
Lt. Yar: Do you know how?
Guinan: No. But I do know it was an empty death. A death without purpose.
Lt. Yar: Where am I supposed to be?
Guinan: Dead.
Lt. Yar: Do you know how?
Guinan: No. But I do know it was an empty death. A death without purpose.
Video Games
"What kind of end is this?"
— Yeesha, on Kadish's suicide note in Uru
The trial you have chosen belongs to the unfortunate deceased.
Though possessed of a champion's caliber, the fickle path of time steered them to an early grave.
— The Arbiter of Time, on formerly-unfought Jihl Nabaat, Final Fantasy XIII-2
Web Original
"Meanwhile, Medusa herself is trying to shut off the valves, but then a flood of green foam rains down on her. And that, as it turns out, will be the last we ever see of her. I must say, getting slimed is a pretty lame way to dispatch your villain. I want to see her burn in the fires of hell for all eternity, not be a losing contestant on Double Dare."
"Lila Milla Rira of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam died soon after her shower scene shocked me so much at that time. How could Director Tomino allow such a beautiful, booby character casually die? I hated him very much back in the days when I'm in college. I think even though it's fictional anime characters, it's not a good thing for them to die so easily."
Web Video
"I hate when characters die to falling rubble. Especially when these characters can take laser beams to the face and throw meteors and shit and this movie has two characters that die to falling rubble! [...] But when it comes to Captain Marvel's death, she gets killed by a rock!"
"Grandma got run over by a... plot contrivance."
— The Nostalgia Chick, The Christmas Shoes
Strong Bad: Señor Havin' A Little Trouble and Mr. Bland were by far the most popular characters. [Bubs' Concession stand falls on them] Then, they were crushed by a falling Bubs' Concession Stand.
Bubs: [appears in the stand's window] "Hot time!"
Strong Bad: said Bubs.
We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy,
So yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly.
But newsflash! The genre's called fantasy!
It's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee!
So yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly.
But newsflash! The genre's called fantasy!
It's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee!
Webcomics
"I was going through my script and realized I never wrote an exit from this scene for No Face. So I let Mara at him, and he is now dead. Kinda anti-climactic for him. Oh well. Not everything can be epic."
— Megan Gedris, in the author's commentary of YU+ME: dream
Western Animation
The President: [a soldier drops unceremoniously on the floor right after touching Rick] What was that?
Rick: Death.
The President: What kind?
Rick: Instant.
— Rick and Morty ("The Rickchurian Mortydate")
Narrator:note And they all lived happily ever after... except for Kyle, who died of AIDS two weeks later.
Kyle: (in the background) Goddammit, Cartman!
Kyle: (in the background) Goddammit, Cartman!
— South Park ("Woodland Critter Christmas")
