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This is when you die, and you cease to exist. No afterlife. No feeling, no thought, no perception, no existence. Your existence — everything you were — simply disappears like a popped soap bubble. The cessation of existence is not a lovely Fluffy Cloud Heaven or a terrible Fire and Brimstone Hell. You know nothing, you feel nothing, you are nothing. If you cease to exist and are gone forever, you have no knowledge of anything, not even of your own death or the life you lived before. In other words, permanent and total unconsciousness. Even that is a woefully inadequate comparison, since even the unconscious can still dream. The term most often used to describe this state of affairs is either "nonexistence" or "oblivion". This is fairly inconceivable to those who exist, as not-existing and existing are somewhat mutually exclusive. The idea/belief here is that even after death you'll never know or realize you're dead and that there's no afterlife (even if you've believed in one), meaning the two examples above still don't quite give an accurate impression of what it would be like. Then again, it wouldn't be like anything. Perhaps a good way to think about it is like this: try and remember what it was like before you were born (belief in reincarnation notwithstanding). Perhaps the greatest Primal Fear imaginable,note For the majority of sapient creatures who view their own existences as a net positive state of affairs, at any rate. and one that is arguably not unique to humans (although other animals feel it on a much more instinctual level). It also easily qualifies as one of the quintessential kinds of Existential Horror. However, some people find comfort in this idea, believing that any eternal afterlife would inevitably end up being unbearably boring, regardless of whether it's a Fluffy Cloud Heaven or Fire and Brimstone Hell. In some settings, this is the default state of the dead. In others, it's a violation of the natural order. In still others, it's a fate some dead are naturally destined for, but not all. If this is a universal or common fate, it can provide the motive for an Immortality Seeker to try to live forever. Not to be confused with The Nothing After Death, where you still exist, if only as a mere shade floating between nothing and nowhere. Also not to be confused with Fading Away — that's when you die and your body ceases to exist. Compare Ret-Gone, which is when a character not only ceases to exist, but ceases to have ever existed. Also compare Apocalypse How: Class Z, which is where this becomes the fate of everything everywhere. This can be a result from Deader than Dead. Many examples of the Artificial Afterlife are built either out of fear of this or to try to avoid it. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. noreallife |
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Invoked in DCeased, by Constantine, who knew that when he died he'd go straight to Hell and face a number of demons very eager for revenge. As such, he made sure his Heroic Sacrifice didn't just destroy his body but his soul, avoiding eternal torture and giving one last fuck-you to the Infernal Host. | |
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Adventure Time: Disturbingly implied to be the case if BMO ever stopped working in "BMO Lost"; after having their batteries removed then replaced hours later, BMO cheerfully replies "I didn't have any dreams!" | |
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Daylight Burning: According to the Nightmare, no part of the soul survives the death of the body — instead, all consciousness, memory and being simply cease the moment the physical self does. This is her primary reason for wanting to live forever. | |
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Divinity: Original Sin II: If a soul is consumed from a Soul Jar or a dead person's spirit is completely stripped of Source, they're destroyed utterly rather than passing to the peace of the afterlife. This is portrayed as an absolutely monstrous act that terrifies even beings who have been trapped in a Fate Worse than Death for millennia. | |
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The Worm fanfiction Queen of Blood (SirWill) has this happen to two members of Slaughterhouse Nine after the group is wiped out by Taylor and company. Mannequin, Hatchet Face, Siberian and Shatterbird all end up in their own individual Ironic Hell, Bonesaw is simply purged of her sins and sent to the afterlife with her mother as she wasn't completely to blame for her crimes, and we dont get to see where Crawler ends up (he doesn't technically die during the story, Dragon throws the only remaining piece of him into space, where he eventually regenerates several decades later, until he finally dies about a century later while crushed in the atmosphere of Jupiter). However, Burnscar, or rather, the Superpowered Evil Side that embodies Burnscar, is simply erased from existence while her other half Mimi is sent on to the cycle of rebirth, and Jack Slash is told by Death that his soul is so repugnant and pathetically sadistic that Hell doesn't want him, and he's barred from Heaven. So, he's instead obliberated completely. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): It's revealed that Vivienne Graham experienced this when she was Only Mostly Dead, and it takes San viewing her memories and seeing The Nothing After Death to make her realize that she really did die. It's implied by Word of God and by Godzilla in the story that Cessation of Existence is actually an intermediary stage between death and Reincarnation. | |
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Sunless Skies: The Blue Court's darkest secret is that their god devours all the regular souls in the afterlife for power. 99.99% of existence, from the lowliest virus to the Messengers themselves, all ceased to exist thinking that they were going to move on from purgatory but got eaten by a gluttonous Judgement instead. In irony, Immortality Seekers found guilty in the Blue Court are spared this fate and given the eternal existence they craved - and then they are thrown into a Well containing billions of spiders who will eat their eyes out and string them in web for all eternity. And then you get to Murder A Sun, so thoroughly that not even the soul will remain.note The other Judgements survive their deaths as lessened beings, such as the Killing Wind and the Wells It's the aforementioned Judgement who rules The Blue Kingdom; you commission the sculpting of a perfectly delectable soul, and then inject them with spiritual spider eggs designed to force the Judgement to inadvertently use its Reality Warper powers to create a species of spider that can kill it. Once the soul is eaten, the Judgement is eaten alive from the inside out by its own inadvertent creations, effectively killing its very soul. |
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Death is forced to take a vacation: Fall Harvest, the Reaper for the alicorn race, would rather face this than Princess Celestia, what with their past. | |
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"Life" is a pretty broad concept in Awful Hospital, since almost anything can be self-aware and "death" just changes which bits are eating which, but unexistentialization means that a particular consciousness stops existing "in any form, any place, ever again." It's also the default end for humans. | |
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This was the primary function of the Ultimate Annihilator, the weapon created by Robotnik Prime in the End Game arc of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). Robotnik planned to use it to not only defeat the Freedom Fighters, but wipe them and their home from existence. It worked so well, in fact, that when Snively sabotaged it and it annihilated Robotnik instead of Knothole the whole Universe was thrown into chaos when he was removed from it. | |
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In Dead Birds, Todd encounters a demonic Sam in the field as he’s trying to leave, and evaporates into thin air. | |
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In The World Ends with You, if you are "erased" (aka killed post death), your soul disappears. Players have to escape this fate for a week, and then MAY have the option of returning to life. If not, they play again, become a Reaper (who try to "erase" souls and keep themselves from being "erased"), and a few become angels. Basically, if you play the game you're probably going to cease to exist. However, the secret reports reveal that erasure doesn't actually destroy someone's soul entirely, but it reduces it to whatever souls are made of, which comes down to almost the same thing. One character is actually erased early in the game, but eventually comes back because the energy their soul became was reconstituted into its previous form. NEO: The World Ends with You kicks it up another notch with exorcism: in addition to standard erasure, anyone who's exorcised has their entire existence scrubbed from the timestream, forwards and backwards. Suffice it to say, the only remnant of Tanzo Kubo that remains after his exorcism is the Soul Pulvis he engineered Rindo's Player Pin to create, and neutralizing that is the entire reason Rindo commits to one last Replay. The irony is that Kubo's distortion of the Game ensured that the Soul Pulvis would erase Shibuya; his exorcism by Hazuki's hands now makes the Soul Pulvis' deletion a possibility. |
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Offhandedly mentioned in Misfile. Oddly enough, it's not a universal rule.note Anyone in limbo is free to leave, but they have to reincarnate, which strips their memories and stuffs them in an animal. | |
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This is what Gwynn from Sluggy Freelance is threatened with when K'Z'K takes over her body. | |
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The Walking Dead implies this a couple of times. After her death, Rick's hallucination of Lori says that she wishes she could tell him that she and everyone he's lost is in a better world, but reminds him he was never one to believe in the afterlife anyway. After her Happily Failed Suicide, Maggie tells Glenn that there is nothing after death and that she will take what she can from the Zombie Apocalypse. |
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In Fine Structure, there's supposed to be an afterlife, with dead souls ascending to a higher dimension. The presence of the Imprisoning God causes all souls to be obliviated against the edge of 3+1 space. Paul Klick used the Klick Device to open a hole in reality, intending to take a shortcut to be with his dead wife. A little over 900,000 people - the population of central Berlin - went through the hole. Word of God is that the plan failed utterly - no one gets past the Imprisoning God. Ever. Before Klick used his Klick Device though, and after the Imprisoning God has no need to block the universe, this no longer applies. Word of God states he initially intended for Klick's plan to have accidentally ascended the population of Berlin, but changed it to them having died when it was pointed out that they would've been able to escape the Imprisoning God. |
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In Dragonheart Dragon Sean Connery says that only certain dragons get to have an afterlife, branded by the stars. The others just... disappear when they die. | |
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Bleach: There is a wheel of reincarnation at work in this story. Souls born into the World of the Living die and pass into the Soul Society. They live there for a period of time, then die again and are finally reincarnated back into the World of the Living as a new lifeform. There are some souls born into Soul Society. When those souls die, they also move on through the reincarnation cycle. Even if a soul is interrupted in this cycle by becoming a hollow, the hollow can still be cleansed to return to the cycle and pass on to Soul Society peacefully. Then there are Quincies. Their power does not cleanse hollows. It destroys them. The soul is not only destroyed but will never return to the reincarnation cycle and therefore vanishes for good. In other words, the Quincies don't just destroy the current life of the soul, they're destroying all the soul's future lives as well. The story has stated that Quincies are unique in being the only ones capable of destroying the soul. Their reason to do it is because the Hollows can destroy their souls by merely infecting them. It's later revealed that the truth is actually an aversion. All Quincies and anything killed by a Quincy are infected with a portion of their king Yhwach's power, which inevitably returns to him along with the infected soul upon death. Supposedly, anyone who dies a second time in Soul Society reincarnates back into the living world. But how do they know? It makes you wonder if it's not just a belief, and they don't really know what happens. In the case of souls destroyed by Quincy, normally a Hollow destroyed by a Shinigami goes to Soul Society, while those destroyed by Quincy don't. The idea of the soul being destroyed seems to be an assumption. People killed in the living world go to Soul Society, and those who die in Soul Society reincarnate in the living world without any memory. However, souls of Humans who commited sins are sent to Hell, and tormented forever. Doesn't this means eventually everyone will go to Hell? Existence is endless test, those who succeed will be tested again, and those who fail don't get a second chance. Left unclear in all of this is what happens to souls that are consumed by Hollows. When a Hollow consumes enough souls to evolve into a Menos, the souls will fight for dominance. But nothing has ever been said about what happens when one of them wins out. Are the rest still in there as distinct souls, or is their individuality completely wiped away forever? Since we've never seen a Hollow's soul(s) arriving in Soul Society after being purified, there's no way to know. This may be one of the many things that Bleach borrows from Japanese Mythology and folklore; for example, it was common in Shinto practices to believe that most "common" spirits or ghosts are absorbed into larger ones, such as unimportant ancestors or branch family members losing any individuality and becoming part of the family spirit as a whole. |
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The badass main characters of Wizard People, Dear Reader would greatly prefer this fate to "the perpetual pansiness of Heaven", pontificating on the subject when dramatically appropriate. | |
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This is what one of the two main characters in The Bucket List initially believes. It's implied that he's changed his mind by the end of the film. | |
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In the The Freeport Venture story Come and See, Sunset Shimmer inflicts this on Sombra, after extensive experimentation on his soul. | |
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BoJack Horseman: Implied (though never confirmed, as it's explicitly a Dying Dream rather than any Afterlife Antechamber) in the penultimate episode of the series where BoJack has a Near-Death Experience, which takes the form of a sendoff dinner with the characters who had died during the shows run (as well as before it took place); Herb Kazzaz, Sarah Lynn, Corderoy Jackson, Zach Braff, his mother Beatrice, uncle CrackerJack, as well as a composite of his father Butterscotch and his childhood hero Secretariat, all of whom go through a door to a black void throughout the episode. Herb implies this is what is about to happen. | |
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In My Mother, Anakin and Obi-Wan reveal to Padme that it is impossible for non-Force users to retain sentience after death on their own, and it has even taken time for the Jedi to learn how to manifest as Force ghosts. However, they tell her that they have managed to learn how to teach non-Force-users to retain or even regain their identities after death, with their first success case being Bail Organa. | |
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Frequently discussed in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, mostly by Guildenstern. He turns out to be right, as he and Rosencrantz seem to wink out of existence at the end of the play when they outlive their relevance. Or something. | |
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While the exact nature of the afterlife in The Belgariad is unclear, several characters are erased from existence when they attempt to "unmake" something with magic. The Universe takes harsh exception to this, and trying to do so gets the sorcerer in question deleted from reality. (One is referred to as "dead, and worse than dead" after it happens.) | |
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In the The Simpsons episode "The Serfsons", there is a scene where several characters argue about what the afterlife is like. Bart raises the possibility that there is no life after death and that people who die just stop existing. | |
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In 1/0, you can become a ghost. However, it is possible to commit true suicide by "pulling a Ribby" by getting lost in your own imagination. A character can also be deanthropomophised, or turned back into whatever they were created from. | |
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Towards the end of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope reveals that it was always Bhunivelze's plan to just destroy his soul, preventing him from ever being reborn. Although it ultimately doesn't happen, Hope had accepted his fate, and wasn't expecting anything else. | |
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The ultimate fate of old or unwanted memories and other elements of Riley's mindscape in Inside Out; after being consigned to the vast chasm between the Emotions' Headquarters and the rest of the mind, the memories fade, grow dim, and eventually dissolve away. Bing Bong the imaginary friend pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to allow Joy to escape the pit, symbolizing Riley's need to grow up and leave some of her more childish elements behind. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: If a character is killed outside of their own game, they cease to exist, and their games will then be unplugged. | |
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In Orion and the Dark, part of the reason for Orion’s fears is his belief that there is no afterlife and his inability to comprehend nothingness. However, over the course of the film, he learns to accept that just because you don’t know an ending, you don’t have to be afraid of the middle part, eventually coming to save Dark from a manifestation of this fear in his dream. | |
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In D.Gray-Man, it's stated that this is what's believed to happen to the soul of an akuma who is destroyed by any means other than through the use of Innocence. | |
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In Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, it's revealed that there exists a place of utter nothingness known as Oblivion, accessible through a single portal controlled by the Charred Council. Anything sent through that portal simply ceases to exist, be that a living being, an inanimate object, or anything in-between. It's for this exact reason the Council uses it to deal with the very worst violators of the Balance they're sworn to uphold, and the sentence of being cast into Oblivion is held up as being the Fate Worse than Death for most of Creation. It's also how Death disposes of the Grand Abominations against the Council's orders, knowing full well that only the Creator would be able to remove them from there once they pass through that portal. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: At the end of the Mysterious Console DLC, Noni is told that if she leaves the device, she will disappear forever as she's only a digital construct of the real Noni who died. She decides that she won't remain trapped in the device any longer and bids farewell before vanishing. | |
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Although souls in Fullmetal Alchemist demonstrably exist, they do not appear to be immortal, and instead disintegrate after death just as a person's body decomposes. They can remain "in tact" by being jammed into a Philosopher's Stone, but eventually reach the same end state when its power is exhausted. Granted, the assessment of where souls go after death comes from people of the largely areligious country of Amestris. The Ishvallan religion appears to believe in some other afterlife, and the way alchemy treats and views souls may be part of why they forbid it. However, the manga ends with a sequence showing Trisha and Hohenheim observing the epilogue from the afterlife. | |
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In the Monster Rancher anime, becoming a Lost Disc and Monsters fusing together are portrayed as this. | |
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Johannes Cabal: The trope is all but impossible; even souls eaten by demons survive in some form. However, the Ivory Citadel, built and abandoned by the newly-fallen Lucifer before he founded Hell, utterly annihilates anyone who enters. Even devils are terrified of the place. | |
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In Ghost Theater, spirits that are Barred from the Afterlife can come to the supernatural theater. There, they are allowed to possess the actors to act out a role in a play, to attempt to free themselves from whatever trauma or unfinished business is holding them back. But it's risky, because failure results in the spirit being permanently extinguished. | |
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The inspiration for the above, Hamlet, has the title character hope for this in his famous "To be or not to be" speech, with an eye toward ending his suffering. He concludes, however, that the chance it's not true and he'll be punished in the afterlife is too great to risk. | |
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In RWBY, the Jabberwalker inflicts this on those it eat. While normally Afterans would Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence after death, the Jabberwalker kills them permanently. Neo copies this ability after killing and assimilating the Jabberwalker. | |
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In Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal #3566, hell only lasts for sixty seconds, starting out with the devil telling you you're going to fade into nothingness after that and continuing with his spending the rest of the time dancing and singing teenage pop music and refusing to answer your panicked questions. | |
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Luminosity: Edward believes that, because vampires lack souls, they cease to exist post-death, while humans go on to an afterlife of some kind. Bella, while open to the possibility of an afterlife, points out that there's no actual evidence it exists at all, much less that it discriminates between humans and vampires in this way, and so believes this is what happens to everyone who dies regardless of species — which is why she's so keen on becoming a vampire. The two have several discussions about this, though it's worth noting that Edward isn't particularly good at debating in a perfectly rational field. | |
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Harry Potter: This is what happens to those kissed by a dementor, since they lose their soul. The Ministry actually uses this as a form of punishment... | |
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In Paradise Lost, the fallen angels discuss this as a possible punishment if they rebel against God again. Some feel this would be better than eternity in Hell, but Satan vetoes them. | |
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While I'm the Grim Reaper mostly features a more traditional sort of afterlife (with Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory all existing), the Ninth Circle of Heaven is eventually revealed to be this trope by the Archangel Azrael. Since existence is inherently unpleasant, the highest reward for the virtuous is to cease to exist, in direct parallel to the Ninth Circle of Hell (where, in Scarlet’s words, "All you can do is exist"). Since anyone ascended by an Archangel without God's judgment is sent to the Ninth Circle by default, this is effectively the fate of anyone who they harvest. | |
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In the Deverry series, this is the ultimate punishment for the principal antagonist of the first four books. Everyone else gets to reincarnate. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "The Rickchurian Mortydate", Rick outrights state that "There's no afterlife, everything just goes black." as an attempt to threaten a bodyguard to death. In the comics, a short story revolves around Morty having been so traumatized by his dangerous adventures with Rick that he's been having trouble sleeping because he thinks this is what happens when one dies and he doesn't know how to deal with it. When he asks Rick, Rick shows him an alien device that teenagers use as a dare, because it allows someone to experience death for a moment. We never get to see if it's true or not because Morty chickens out when Rick points out that the experience is why he's watching an old Alf marathon in the middle of the night instead of sleeping himself. Presumably, it's either this or something worse. One of the clips in the episode "Morty's Mind Blowers" alludes to this. Rick and Morty meet an alien warrior who wants to die a warrior's death via Rick so he could go into "an orgasmic afterlife". However, Morty accidentally makes the alien question the afterlife's existence, causing the alien to run away in fear not wanting to die... only to get run over by a passing car and being Dragged Off to Hell. Naturally, the guilt drives Morty to want this incident to be erased from his memories. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin ponders this on a number of occasions, wondering what the point of human existence can possibly be if it's just going to end someday. In at least one case he concludes that since everyone is going to die and stay dead forever, there was no reason to abide by any rules, and he decides to lead a life of shameless hedonism (which is immediately kiboshed by his parents). Hobbes is more accepting of this possibility, pointing out that life is quite wonderful even if it's finite, so we should be grateful. | |
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Several games later, the protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Eivor, is faced with the same revelation after they find out that the Valhalla they and their clan members coveted is nothing but an illusion inside a Lotus-Eater Machine. They turn into the Anti-Nihilist, and when some important people to them die in the following battle, even though they keep a stoic face and deliver the proper rites, they do not take it as well as they previously did. | |
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In the first Assassin's Creed game, the Templar Sibrand believes that there is nothing waiting for him after death, and the idea of this terrifies him so deeply that when he learns that the Assassins are coming for him, he begins executing random priests out of sheer blind paranoia because they wear vaguely similar robes to those of the Assassins. | |
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Wrath of the Titans: This is what happens when a god dies. | |
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SCP Foundation: Happened to one of the test subjects of SCP-896 when he tampered with the SCP's source code to maximize his stats during a containment breach. His account had one single server message on it: "User has been banned for hacking". According to one tale, this is the reason that SCP-447 cannot come into contact with dead bodies. It resurrects them, without any side effects. No zombification, no Came Back Wrong symptoms, not even some consequence of coming back to life similar to The Monkey's Paw, they're exactly the same person in their exact body. But they do remember one thing from the experience of being dead: |
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In Remember11, when either "Satoru" or Kokoro transfer into a time in which the other is dead, as soon as they realize that they should be dead, they simply cease to exist. | |
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In Super Paper Mario, The Void threatens this to all sentient beings. The Void appears simultaneously in all dimensions (though they actually are more or less close to it), and when it reaches maturity, will annihilate that dimension, leaving a blank nothing behind as if that dimension never existed. It turns out the afterlife exists in Mario and is a different dimension, but the Void is present there too. The one dimension shown to suffer this fate onscreen did however leave behind a small amount of debris, including the world's Pure Heart, and everyone who died as a result of its destruction was also revived once the dimension was restored. | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian: One of the crucified victims at the end of the film has a positive attitude about this: "You came from nothing, you're going back to nothing! What have you lost? Nothing!" | |
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Minecraft: Story Mode: It turns out this is what happened to the Ender Dragon, as the Order relied on the Command Block's power to delete it rather than actually killing it. | |
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Not the initial death of Doga and Unei in Final Fantasy III—after forcing the party to kill them in a boss fight, they offer the consolation that they'll remain in spirit. But when the Cloud of Darkness one-shots the kids at the end, Doga and Unei use up their souls to bring them back to life, sacrificing themselves to possibly this fate note Some sources explain it as simply a mandatory Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence (and the "soul energy" they used was simply whatever was keeping them tethered to this plane) instead.. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, when anything dies (be it a person, a bird or a flower), its life energy is absorbed into the lifestream. The lifestream then recycles that energy to make new living things. But then there's the whole mess with Shinra sucking up that life energy and converting it into electricity, which means that this trope may have been the ultimate fate of millions of souls during the game's timeline. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV follows a similar world structure to Final Fantasy VII where the lifestream full of aether flows within the planet and living beings that die have their souls returned to the lifestream where a new life can be made. The main problem that occurs within the story are primals, god-like beings that are summoned to help and protect the beast tribe that summoned them and consume aether to sustain their physical form. It is stated that a single primal alone could absorb all of the world's aether (thus fulfilling the trope) if left alone long enough, therefore the player character is tasked with slaying whatever primals that are summoned in order to keep the planet stable. | |
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World of Warcraft While demons respawn if they die outside the Twisting Nether, if they die while in the Twisting Nether (or some place heavily tainted by it), they are Killed Off for Real. Near the end of Shadowlands Arthas's soul fades away into nothingness. Considering he's been trapped in The Maw for decades, he probably regards this as a good thing. |
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In The Sculptor, David is willing to give his life for his art. Along comes Death and shows him the void that awaits him after death, represented by two pages of blank white paper. David is freaked out by what he sees, since his mind could barely comprehend the absence itself, but he strikes a bargain with Death anyway. | |
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Planescape: There's a group called the Prolongers who believe that this is true for everyone. As a result, they're terrified of death, and have used a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that has transformed them into abominations that can drain the life force of others to restore their own youth. The Dustmen believe that everyone is already dead and trapped in a cruel afterlife full of suffering where we're born, die and continually reincarnate until we can learn to let go. The end state of existence for the Dustmen is "True Death", a state where there is no suffering, or indeed nothing at all. |
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Momo: The Grey Men are parasitic soulless beings which only exist by stealing time from humans. When their stolen time is taken away from them, they simply fade out of existence forever. | |
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In Homestuck, if you die, you can still continue on existing as a ghost appearing in dream bubbles. Unless, that is, the dream bubble is destroyed while you're inside it, in which case you, too, cease to exist forever. It's hinted this is also what happens if you're still alive when the session is Scratched. Meenah didn't want that to happen so she killed herself and all her friends immediately before the Scratch hit them, hoping that they would be safe as dream ghosts away from the session. It was Crazy Enough to Work. It should be noted that the above only applies to Sburb players. Non-players who die in the Homestuck universe (the guardians, for instance) don't get to join the dream bubble party and simply cease to exist. Additionally, players in doomed timelines who manage to survive until the timeline ceases to exist are erased from existence as well. |
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound: Nobody actually knows what happens to the Soulbound when you die, not even the God Of Death Nagash, but the prevailing theory is that your merged souls simply fade out of existence. Given that the afterlie not only is known to exist, but is under the absolute dominion Nagash, many consider this a step-up, and renegade undead who escaped Nagash's control consider it a bonus as it leaves them permanently out of his reach. | |
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The Atheist Tabernacle Choir skit from Spitting Image is a gospel group whose songs had no basis in religion. The choir sings about ending up in a wooden box or little urn and there is no afterlife. They also agree that the idea is depressing. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it's implied this is what happens to Toons who have been killed using the dip, since the weasels who laugh themselves to death become angels, while the one who falls into the dip does not. Though it’s also possible that the implication is that for the ones who laughed themselves to death, Death Is Cheap applies, but the one killed by the dip was Killed Off for Real. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In the final arc of the series, this is implied to be what happens to everyone after death who is not force-sensitive or has not become one with the force. Although it is possible that this could be just the Jedi's (somewhat selfish) view on death. (Other sources suggest that an afterlife is possible for all virtuous sentient beings.) Cessation of Existence is also a core belief of the Sith: they don't believe in life after death, and their fear of this motivates them to hold onto life no matter what, even going so far as to try and discover eternal life. Since the only canon Sith ghost turned out to be an illusion, it's probably true at least for them. Although this has been contradicted by certain things that have been suggested in Star Wars sourcebooks and elsewhere, such as that the Sith fear death not because it ends all, but because after it (for Sith and Dark Jedi, at least) comes drifting through the Dark Side forever and permanent insanity. When Sheev Palpatine was cloned back to life in the Dark Empire comic book series, he remembered at the very least the details of his defeat and death at the end of his previous life, about which he was very, very, very angry. This extreme anger, combined with the psychotic tendencies induced in his spirit by a mishandling of the cloning process, turned Palpatine into a maniacal nihilist, causing him to lash out at everyone and everything – even, to some extent, his own former Imperials – and try to bring about the destruction of every inhabited world in existence with his Galaxy Gun, a sort of Death Star on steroids. Though much of this is no longer canon, so it still might be true for dark siders. |
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In the Dreamblood Duology, Hetawa Dream Walkers can inflict this by draining a dying soul of all its dreamblood, causing it to dissipate rather than reach the afterlife. The main character of the second book deliberately destroys someone's soul as a Mercy Kill, as they were a Tortured Monster whose afterlife would have been an eternal nightmare with no hope of rest. | |
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In The 6th Day, religious extremists believe that clones don't have souls and therefore will simply cease to exist when they die. After being killed and cloned, one of Drucker's mooks notes that he didn't experience any kind of an afterlife in between. However, clones inherit the memories of the person they were cloned from, which are obviously stored in the brain; as those memories stop when the brain becomes inactive, it doesn't preclude the possibility of the previous clone existing in a non-corporeal form. One of them even complains about pain from injuries he sustained after his last brain backup. | |
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DuckTales (2017): The master plan of Bradford Buzzard is to get rid of anything he deems "chaotic" or "adventurous" via the "Solego Vortex," which completely erases anything thrown into it (modified from a device that opens portals between dimensions). Bradford's clones and his Dragon Black Heron are thrown in, but the device is disabled before he can erase anything else. That said, he outright refuses to throw Scrooge into the Vortex as he’s more than willing to bet that Scrooge, the master adventurer, will somehow find his way out it, suggesting that even he isn’t 100% confident that being thrown into the Vortex is completely fatal. | |
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Debated in-universe in Tolkien's Legendarium. Elves are immortal; they will never die of old age or sickness, but having physical bodies they can be killed. Yet even if they are killed, after a period of time they are reincarnated in new bodies. Humans are mortal; if they are not killed by violence, sickness or age claim them quickly. But rather than being reincarnated, their spirits depart elsewhere - where exactly, neither the Elves nor the gods (the Valar) know. Humans experience a lot of angst over this. Morgoth, the Dark Lord, told humans that death means cessation of existence, leading many to worship him out of fear. The key thing is this: Elves are "immortal," but their immortality is bound to the life of the World itself - its life is theirs, and Elves know the World must end one day. When the World ends, the Elves aren't sure that they won't cease to exist with it. Meanwhile humans can "escape" and leave the World, and what has become a source of fear in fact is a source of hope. Both, therefore, are unsure of their ultimate fate. It is said that human's ability to truly die and leave the World is a gift that one day even the Valar will envy. | |
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The Order of the Stick: This is what happens to "immortal" creatures like imps and elementals if somebody manages to kill them because they have no soul that can continue on into the afterlife. It's noted at one point that this means "mortal" creatures like humans are actually less afraid of death than "immortal" creatures because they know they'll continue on in some form and may even get resurrected at some point. Celia mentions that she'd just become one with the Plane of Air. It's also stated to be the fate of anyone destroyed by the Snarl, though there's evidence that this may not be true. As the characters live in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse (and know it), it's been noted that this isn't always the case, and that the rules of what happens to Outsiders (the immortal creatures of the Outer Planes) if they're killed keep getting changed. |
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In Diaspora by Greg Egan, Cessation is generally presented as a voluntary option for any being which has achieved everything they might have set out to accomplish. At the end of the novel, having reached a kind of literal end of all things, Yatima and Paolo, probably the last two recognizably human-derived beings in the multiverse, consider their choices. Paolo accepts Cessation; "That's not death. It's completion." Yatima chooses to spend the rest of eternity in abstract research. In the end, there was only mathematics. | |
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Persona 2 had something similar to Shakugan no Shana, and did it first. Someone who loses their "Ideal Energy", the will and energy to pursue their dreams, becomes drained and lethargic, unwilling and unable to do anything, as Muggles forget about them and can no longer see or hear them. After a while, they simply cease to exist entirely. | |
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Persona 5: When Yaldabaoth fuses the real world with the Metaverse, human cognition begins to affect reality. Because humanity collectively believed the Phantom Thieves never truly existed, the Player Character and his friends and allies vanish from existence. They manage to reverse this in the end, however. | |
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Undertale: Taken a step further than usual with W.D. Gaster. Never heard of him while playing the game? It's because when he ceased to exist, he ceased to exist from the game's narrative itself. It's only possible to find direct references to him by poking through the game's code or by capitalizing the "fun" value in the game's files and setting specific numbers to trigger random appearances. He's essentially a canon character who was literally Dummied Out In-Universe. After being reincarnated and lacking the ability to have empathy due to not having a soul, Flowey thought about ending his life and then stopped himself from doing it after realizing that without a soul, he cannot exist after death. The fear goes out the window once Flowey discovers he has the ability to SAVE and LOAD, effectively cheating death. His death defying abilities were removed when Frisk arrived in the underground since Frisk has the same abilities and theirs are stronger than Flowey's. In the end of the No Mercy path, Flowey is ecstatic that Frisk (who has become the Fallen Child thanks to the player's slaughter spree) shares the same "kill or be killed" mindset and notes that the two of them wouldn't hesitate to kill each other if they got in each other's way... Cue moment of dawning comprehension as Flowey realizes that his "best friend" can and will murder him and fully remembers what will happen to him if he dies without a soul. Possibly played straight for monsters in general, as it is stated that without the power of Determination, their souls don't remain after death the way humans' do. Flowey's dialogue hints that monsters with souls have an afterlife but it's never stated outright. |
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Night Watch (Series): The afterlife is only for Others; muggles just cease to exist. Since the afterlife is the dead existing as ghosts, unable to affect the real world, and always feeling that everything around them is not real, they actually wish for the cessation. Anton grants them this at the end of The Last Watch, but it doesn't stop new dead Others from suffering the same fate. | |
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Exalted: This is the fate of anything that falls into the void of Oblivion that lies beneath the Underworld. There are also certain powers that confine the victim (or, eventually and in exchange for great benefits, the user) to Oblivion. The Neverborn ultimately want to fall into Oblivion, because they regard it as preferable to their torturous and impotent unlives. | |
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The titular character in Sasmira, upon her resurrection, swore that there was nothing after death and that the Egyptian gods didn't exist. She was sentenced by her father to have her mouth gagged with a device in order to silence her. | |
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In the Marvel Universe, this is the forte of the Cosmic Entity known as Oblivion. His sister Death claims anyone who actually dies. People claimed from him are subject to either this trope, Ret-Gone, Deader than Dead, or some other type of Fate Worse than Death. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, it's revealed that only a Gray Warden can properly kill an Archdemon. If anyone else does it the Archdemon will just possess the nearest darkspawn and come back to life; however, the method of killing the Archdemon means the Warden's soul and the Archdemon's will both be annihilated in the process. | |
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The Sunset Limited: White positively longs for this. He wants to die and have it be the end. | |
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Pathfinder: Your soul usually get assigned to an afterlife depending on your actions in life. However, your soul isn't immortal and can be killed permanently. This is also the modus operandi of daemons, who can and will utterly obliterate your soul if they kill you rather than allow you to pass on. While petitioners and other outsiders can be brought back by powerful magic, the implication is that they basically stop existing until resurrected. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Stone Shamanism, the religion of Shinovar, teaches that people who follow the religion and sin are tortured after death, but people who refuse the religion simply stop existing. Szeth-son-son-Vallano is so terrified of nonexistence that he continues following orders to slaughter thousands despite being a pacifist who knows it is wrong. | |
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In Forgotten Realms, people who refused to believe in a god during life are punished in the afterlife by slowly having their souls and minds erased in the Wall of the Faithless | |
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In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen hopes that this will be his fate when he dies, as an alternative to an endless, infinite hell for all of his sins. | |
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Off-White: The White and Black Spirits can be reincarnated, but apparently they also can die a final death, one in which they don't rejuvenate. Apparently being eaten alive is one way for this to happen, going by what Sköll said. Happened to Askr. |
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The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael: When Charon escapes to the land of the living, he has to be returned to his duties before he is killed. Since in his case he's not supposed to be there in the first place, he won't be sent to purgatory like any regular soul but his demise means he will simply cease to exist. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, this occurs upon Pucci utilizing Made In Heaven to recreate the entire universe. After Pucci killed all the heroes, with the exception of Emporio, prior to the reset, he explains that dying during the acceleration of time and the subsequent rebirth of the universe does not bring anyone Back from the Dead and therefore had their souls erased forever and were replaced by an Alternate Self. In the last battle, after Emporio defeated Pucci before his universe could be completed, the cosmic-snapback has Pucci Ret-Gone, while everyone else is restored entirely as new selves with their souls back. | |
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The Kane Chronicles: Being based on Egyptian Mythology, good people go to Heaven and bad people get their souls eaten and stop existing. It's also specified that people who don't believe in an afterlife just stop existing when they die, though exceptions to this rule do exist; the next series in the ‘verse has a Valkyrie take the main character’s soul to the Norse Valhalla even though he died an atheist. This is the ultimate fate of Apophis — all components of his existence are destroyed by the end after his Shadow is execrated. |
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In The Skinjacker Trilogy, cessation of existence normally does not occur - you're either living, in Everlost, or you've gone into the light - but a scar wraith can extinguish an Everlost soul by merely touching them. This is the fate of Squirrel in Everfound. | |
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A Matter of Faith: During the debate, Kamen states he believes death is the end, to Stephen's dismay. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, should the current Avatar die while they are in the Avatar state, the reincarnation cycle ends with them. | |
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Princess Cyd: Discussed by Cyd and Miranda. The latter doesn't believe in an afterlife, probing Miranda about what she believes. Miranda doesn't claim to believe in Heaven and Hell, but does think there's something more. She doesn't answer however when Cyd asks if she really believes that they'll see Cyd's mom again. | |
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Love of the S*n: The quote by Alan Watts in the Opening Monologue discusses this, but in the end there really is an afterlife: the S*n. | |
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In Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol Marley and the Bogle see a few souls in Hell that appear to blink out of existence. At the climax, the Bogle worries this will happen to Marley if he takes Scrooge's place in death. | |
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Liz in September: Liz, while contemplating the idea of death, muses that she believes this happens when you die, saying there will be nothing left from her after. | |
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Steven Universe: Prior to the start of the series, it is mentioned that Steven's mother, Rose Quartz gave up her physical form to give birth to him. In Season 5, Steven's Gem outright states "She's gone". It's unsure whether she still exists in any afterlife, but she's certainly nowhere she's easy to reach. | |
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In Destroy All Humans!, one of the core mechanics of the game is that if the player should die, the protagonist would respawn in a new clone body. In the fourth game, Crypto will spout bits of humorous dialogue. One of these is "By the way, there is no afterlife". | |
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In Slightly Damned, while Medians keep their bodies in the afterlife, Sakido informs Rhea (and the audience) that Angels and Demons have no afterlife. She dies 15 pages later. Much later, Darius and Blue further explained that Angel and Demon souls were immediately recycled into new souls upon death, while Median souls were given an afterlife in order to resolve their worldly sins before being similarly recycled. There's no indication of what happened when the gods regulating this process disappeared. | |
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Ghost Roads: This is what happens to a ghost killed in the Halloween rites, or one who kills one of the living on Halloween but fails to do so next year. Also the fate of those unfortunate souls fed to Bobby's car. | |
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In Stray Gods, the Idols in the game can pass on their eidolon, which makes them what they are, and keep living on through the person they bestow it upon. Aphrodite, for example, is the latest Aphrodite in a series of them. However, if they don’t pass it on if they die, that Idol ceases to exist. | |
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In Princess of the Blacks, a ghost who loses their way will eventually simply fade away into non-existence. | |
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In "Long Dream" from the Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection, the terminally ill girl Mami is terrified of this imminently happening to her. She is ultimately saved from this fate by being "treated" with the crystals from Mukoda's corpse, possibly allowing her to enter a state of eternal existence in dreams. | |
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Sacred and Terrible Air: The Pale not only made the girls disappear, but also starts to erase their existence completely, as people’s memories of them start getting warped and erased, and even the pictures Trentmöller took of the girls get corrupted. Zigi himself also wants to disappear, possibly hoping to reunite with the girls, and eventually drives into the Pale. | |
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Runescape: The Grim Reaper is cagey about what happens to Physical Gods who get destroyed, but admits that their energy disperses into the world and they forfeit the right to an afterlife, implying that they cease to exist entirely. | |
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At the end of Final Fantasy XV, Noctis, after the sacrifice of his life on the throne, goes into a spiritual world wherein he kills definitively Ardyn with the spiritual support of his three companions, who have an Uncertain Doom as they are seen for the last time facing a huge amount of dangerous daemons, and of the late Lunafreya. | |
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What naturally used to happen to humans (and still happens to Merfolk) in the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Recursive Fanfiction Following the Phoenix. The Atlanteans tried to avert this trope by creating souls as a backup of every human's mind, but they failed to give souls the ability to think up new thoughts, or even to do much of anything without some additional charms, so they just ended up with The Nothing After Death. However, this trope can still apply when souls get destroyed, such as after a Dementor's Kiss. | |
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This was the afterlife (or the lack thereof) depicted in The Invention of Lying before the main character invented religion to make people feel better. | |
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In Heroine's Quest, mess up during some of the end game sequences, and you'll be erased from existence for altering the past. | |
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Vinland Saga takes place in the Viking Age and many viking warriors believe they will be taken to the afterlife by the Valkyries if they died in combat. There is big battle in the last third of the story. A Mook is mortally wounded, already having lost his sight, hearing and the feeling of his body. As he lies dying, we are shown his last thoughts. At first he's calmly waiting for the Valkyries in the silent darkness, but after a while he gets nervous and later panics, having realized there are no Valkyries and no afterlife. As he slowly fades away, he wants to warn his comrades of this and his very last thought is that he doesn't want to die. Then he is gone. | |
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The underlying message of the "Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow" monologue from Macbeth. | |
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In Death Note, Ryuk tells Light that since he's used the Death Note, he can go neither to heaven nor hell, but instead "Mu", or nothingness. At the end of the series, a flashback that shows the entirety of that scene occurs, where Light deduces that Mu isn't exclusive to Death Note users; there's no afterlife for anyone. This is confirmed onscreen by Ryuk, as well as by the Rules of the Death Note shown between chapters, Word of God, and an Eye Catch in the anime. While this could alternatively entail The Nothing After Death, the Japanese meaning of "Mu" can be interpreted in a When Is Purple sense, leaning more toward this trope. | |
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Ghost Trick: This is what happens to ghosts at sunrise. It's not, Ray's lying to make sure Sissel is properly motivated. | |
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The Neanderthal Parallax: The Neanderthals universally believe that death is the end of being. Even "life after death" is an oxymoron to them. Ponter says that our afterlife beliefs might enable war, as we can tell ourselves that the dead are still "here" in a sense. Cornelius hopes they're right before killing himself. | |
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Persona: Persona 2 had something similar to Shakugan no Shana, and did it first. Someone who loses their "Ideal Energy", the will and energy to pursue their dreams, becomes drained and lethargic, unwilling and unable to do anything, as Muggles forget about them and can no longer see or hear them. After a while, they simply cease to exist entirely. Persona 5: When Yaldabaoth fuses the real world with the Metaverse, human cognition begins to affect reality. Because humanity collectively believed the Phantom Thieves never truly existed, the Player Character and his friends and allies vanish from existence. They manage to reverse this in the end, however. |
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Implied to be the case in The Night Land and Awake in the Night Land when people have their soul Destroyed, or maybe they are just prevented from reincarnating again. | |
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In Being Dead Ain't Easy, Joey is in danger of this since he's already dead; dying again would mean he'd utterly cease to exist. | |
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Patapon 3: After defeating the Final Boss, The Hero was given Last Second Ending Choices by Patapon God either he continues to live, or live peacefully in heaven or allow Patapon God to use his soul that sacrifices his both physical and spiritual existences to remove the stone curse which was casted to Patapons after his brother opened the chest that seals 7 Archfiends and Silver Hoshipon at the beginning of the story. | |
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In The Wheel of Time: This is what Moridin wants, for himself and everyone else. At the end of the series, the world is saved and Moridin dies. Word of God is somewhat ambivalent over whether or not he actually got the oblivion he craved, though. Wolves in the series have it worse off than humans. A wolf who dies then lives on in the World of Dreams (which only a few humans do). A wolf who dies in the World of Dreams is gone. Characters swear by their "hope of salvation and rebirth", which implies there is a chance of not being reborn (presumably for doing wrong) and thus ceasing to exist. However this is never gone into with any detail. This is the fate of anyone hit with Balefire. Balefire will leave an empty hole in the cosmic fabric the titular Wheel spins where you once were. Get hit with enough of it, and not only do you cease to exist, but the consequences of your actions and proof of your existence up to a certain point in the immediate past are undone as well via a combination of Ret-Gone and Cosmic Retcon. The sheer terrible power of this, plus the strains it put on the fabric of reality, led to both sides of the War of Power to ban its use. |
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In the The Crumpets episode "Belief Relief", while the family discusses what happens to leeks after dying, Ma explains to her husband that there is no afterlife. Their youngest child Li'l-One agrees with her. | |
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My Hero Academia: Eri's father ends up being accidentally vanishing from existence when Eri was incapable of controlling her Quirk. In the Final War Arc, All for One suffers this fate. Using an unstable copy of Eri's rewind quirk allows him to cheat death and rewind to before his Career-Ending Injury, as well as making him unkillable, but at the cost of being unable to stop rewinding, giving him an Hour of Power before he gets rewound out of existence. A combination of being held back by several groups of heroes, and being baited into a final battle with his hated Arch-Enemy causes him to run out of time and erased from existence before being able to accomplish his goal of securing his Grand Theft Me on the Big Bad Tomura Shigaraki. |
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Dragon Ball Super establishes that a God of Destruction is capable of destroying someone's soul along with body, as demonstrated with erasing Dr Mashirito despite him being a ghost. Beerus later also does it to original timeline Zamasu, simply erasing any trace of his existence in the blink of an eye. Zen'o seems capable of doing this to entire universes (and by extension their afterlife), as demonstrated by erasing what remained of the immortal Merged Zamasu and the future timeline he corrupted, as well as the universes that lost in the Tournament Of Power (though the latter were eventually restored by 17). | |
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In the Pony POV Series there is decidedly an Afterlife, with Heaven, Hell, and a form of Purgatory (which is more Limbo). However, there's also Oblivion, where half a person who was erased from existence's soul (called a Shadow of Existence, representing their life, appearance, and experiences) goes which can still one day exist again if merged with a fitting being or becoming part of a Draconequus. Even if this Shadow is destroyed, their Light of Existence (the other half they began with and is the base, core being) will go back to Fauna Luster and be Reincarnated. This does not apply to deities, so if their Shadow of Existence is destroyed, they're gone permanently. D__t had this happen to him, and thus no longer exists in any sense of the word. There's also the Shadow of Chernobull/Makarov, who never had a Light to begin with, so after being devoured by the Blank Wolf his Shadow is all that's left. | |
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Attempted by Director Fulcher in You Are On Fire (Sign Here Please.) as a last ditch effort to put Nathan's file in order. By destroying Nathan's file entirely, he hopes to make it so that Nathan disappears from existence completely. The book is centered on the gang's attempt to correct this before Fulcher can get done editing adjacent files of any mention of Nathan. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: This is one theory about what happened to the Dwemer. They may have tried, through the power of the Heart of Lorkhan, to break themselves down into their base elements and then reforge themselves into new ascended beings. The theory goes that they got the reforging process wrong and caused themselves to blink out of existence. If asked in Morrowind, Dunmeri Tribunal deity Vivec states that he cannot sense them on any known plane of existence. Adding further ambiguity, the existence of Dwarven Specters suggest that at least some of the Dwemer have come back as ghosts. A prominent theory in the Elder Scrolls lore community suggests that these are the ghosts of Dwemer who died before the cataclysm that caused their race to vanish. Though, to date, they have only been hinted-at in-game or have been mentioned dripping in heavy metaphor, there exist several "ascended" metaphysical states in the ES universe. (Each has been further fleshed out by developer supplemental texts.) Each of these states requires one to become aware of the nature of Anu's Dream and maintain one's individuality. If one fails to do so ("Zero Sum"), they "fade into" the dream, ceasing to exist. |
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Wanted: Mr. Rictus was originally an extremely religious man who did only good but after briefly dying on the operating table and realizing there was no afterlife, he became one of the world's worst supervillains after becoming enraged that his virtue would never be rewarded by God and realizing there were no consequences for being bad after he died. Of course, being hideously disfigured in the process probably didn't do him any favors either. Weirdly, Mark Millar's other comic Chosen is implied to be set in the same universe, and it's about the second coming of Jesus. | |
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This is what happens to Magypsies in Mother 3 after the needle they exist to guard is pulled out of the ground. They seem to completely accept this fate. | |
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Schooled in Magic: This is pondered by Emily in the first book, after she hears the elves can destroy souls. She fears that without an afterlife, people would just do whatever they wanted. | |
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Final Fantasy: Not the initial death of Doga and Unei in Final Fantasy III—after forcing the party to kill them in a boss fight, they offer the consolation that they'll remain in spirit. But when the Cloud of Darkness one-shots the kids at the end, Doga and Unei use up their souls to bring them back to life, sacrificing themselves to possibly this fate note Some sources explain it as simply a mandatory Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence (and the "soul energy" they used was simply whatever was keeping them tethered to this plane) instead.. In Final Fantasy VII, when anything dies (be it a person, a bird or a flower), its life energy is absorbed into the lifestream. The lifestream then recycles that energy to make new living things. But then there's the whole mess with Shinra sucking up that life energy and converting it into electricity, which means that this trope may have been the ultimate fate of millions of souls during the game's timeline. Final Fantasy XIV follows a similar world structure to Final Fantasy VII where the lifestream full of aether flows within the planet and living beings that die have their souls returned to the lifestream where a new life can be made. The main problem that occurs within the story are primals, god-like beings that are summoned to help and protect the beast tribe that summoned them and consume aether to sustain their physical form. It is stated that a single primal alone could absorb all of the world's aether (thus fulfilling the trope) if left alone long enough, therefore the player character is tasked with slaying whatever primals that are summoned in order to keep the planet stable. At the end of Final Fantasy XV, Noctis, after the sacrifice of his life on the throne, goes into a spiritual world wherein he kills definitively Ardyn with the spiritual support of his three companions, who have an Uncertain Doom as they are seen for the last time facing a huge amount of dangerous daemons, and of the late Lunafreya. Towards the end of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Hope reveals that it was always Bhunivelze's plan to just destroy his soul, preventing him from ever being reborn. Although it ultimately doesn't happen, Hope had accepted his fate, and wasn't expecting anything else. |
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In the Magic: The Gathering novel Planeshift, the lich Lord Dralnu claims that this is what happened when he died. You never get to find out whether he spoke the truth, though. | |
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Voyage of the Unicorn: Discussed by Alan and one of his students after he asks what if anything happens when we die. Alan calls this view "sad" and "boring". There is a deep subtext here, as he's recently lost his wife. | |
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ALTER EGO (2018): In the SUPER EGO ending, Es reaches the conclusion that she'll never reign in her impulses, and therefore is not worthy of existing. As a result, she makes herself fade out of existence. | |
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The Name of the Game (Elrod): Contrary to common knowledge, demons who're killed on the Realside aren't sent back to the Otherside (ergo Hell). Instead, they simply stay dead in both worlds. | |
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Oshi no Ko initially appears to have an afterlife, as Aquamarine and Ruby both have fully-remembered past lives. After Aqua asked the Crow Girl if his murdered mother also reincarnated, she explains almost everyone's souls are destroyed after death. Aqua and Ruby's "reincarnation" was essentially their souls being placed in newborn bodies that never had souls. | |
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In Life in Hell, Bongo swats a fly, and then asks Binky what happens after someone dies. Binky responds that people believe all kinds of things, but the reasonable ones believe exactly in this trope, prompting Bongo to apologize to the fly. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: If you kill a demon or devil on its home plane in they're gone for good (see Order of the Stick, below). This depends on the version being played; 3.5 edition, for example, held that Outsiders (demons, devils, angels, etc.) and Elementals could only be restored to life using the True Resurrection spell. On the other hand, it's possible for mortal souls to be outright destroyed by gods or powerful outsiders, and at least one mortal spell (Necrotic Termination), if successful, creates an undead creature that kills the target and devours their soul, noting explictly that nothing can bring them back. Planescape: There's a group called the Prolongers who believe that this is true for everyone. As a result, they're terrified of death, and have used a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that has transformed them into abominations that can drain the life force of others to restore their own youth. The Dustmen believe that everyone is already dead and trapped in a cruel afterlife full of suffering where we're born, die and continually reincarnate until we can learn to let go. The end state of existence for the Dustmen is "True Death", a state where there is no suffering, or indeed nothing at all. |
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In the Rampage trilogy, Bill Williamson is a firm believer that there is no afterlife, which is first brought up in the second film Rampage: Capital Punishment, where he shoots one of his hostages dead and points out that no soul or spirit is rising from her remains, then later goes on a rant that religion is just a scam because God does not exist and there's nothing more to dying other than your corpse being put into the ground. | |
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Both the bad guys and the good guys in R.I.P.D. use "soul-killing" bullets against their respective enemies. The two protagonists are also temporarily threatened with this after screwing up an assignment - perhaps the very ultimate in Disproportionate Retribution. | |
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In Wisdom and Courage, this happens to Link after the final battle in chapter 34. The hero uses the Fierce Deity's Mask during the battle in order to defeat Veran, but the conflict between his own soul and that of the mask ultimately ends up mutually canceling each other out and destroying them both, leaving Link as essentially an Empty Shell. But thanks to Zelda's wish on the Triforce, they both are restored. | |
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In Fairy Tail, this is Mard Geer's plan to kill Zeref. Since he's essentially immortal and thus incapable of dying, the best way to deal with him is to remove the very concept of life and death entirely and erase him from the fabric of existence altogether. He even developed a technique specifically to do this. | |
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Dogma: A Class X-4 Apocalypse will result in this if the Big Bad gets his way. Basically, Azrael was so tortured by the absence of God and the self-imposed suffering of the damned in Hell that he would rather be wiped out of existence than suffer it any longer, consequences to the universe be damned. | |
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M3GAN: After learning about death, the robot M3GAN appears to regard it this way. When Cady asks if the recently deceased Brandon is really in a better place like Gemma says, M3GAN's answer is "No. He's nowhere." | |
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Wraith: The Oblivion: The threat of death is ever present, even though, in Wraith, you're already dead when the game starts. The unstated goal of the game is to move on from the Shadowlands, and there are two ways to do this. The first is the ultimate enlightenment, Transcendence. This is where the ghost accepts its death and moves on. To what, who knows? Transcended ghosts aren't around to tell. That's why it's called moving on. The second way to move on is the titular Oblivion. Ignoring for the moment the fact that Oblivion is also a force of nature and essentially the big bad of the metaplot, for the sake of this explanation it is a phenomenon: a very rare form of death after death. When the ghost is damaged enough it goes into a manic/psychotic episode called a Harrowing, and if this happens badly/often enough, the soul obliviates and ceases to exist. The horror of it all? Transcendence and Oblivion look exactly the same to the onlooker. | |
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In the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice crossover story, Say It Thrice, this is what can happen to ghosts who end up destroyed rather than moving on or being exorcised. When he forces his way into the human world through the Ghost Portal, Betelgeuse almost succumbs to this fate. | |
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In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, Laura Roslin states that this is the fate of anyone who dies on Kobol as their souls will fade rather than pass on, making it clear to Tom Zarek after she kills him for trying to kill her family that she will ensure nobody remembers him once she gets back to the fleet. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: During the Horus Heresy, this happens to two people in the span of about 30 seconds, specifically when the Emperor fought Horus in a one-on-one duel and sought to redeem the latter from the Chaos Gods. Horus, however, resisted and committed one last Kick the Dog act by making the Emperor's last bodyguard cease to existnote Who the bodyguard was differs depending on which canon you read. The original story has the bodyguard be an ordinary human soldier; other stories change the bodyguard to one of several Space Marine legions and/or a Custodian, which pushed him well beyond the moral horizon for the Emperornote Again, the reason for this changes depending on the canon. In the original story, the human soldier posed literally zero threat to Horus and could not harm Horus in any way, which means Horus killed him just to kill him. In the retellings where the guard was a Space Marine, the Marine that Horus kills was one of the Emperor's close friends and confidants. The Emperor then unleashed such a powerful psychic attack that Horus's very soul was destroyed (much like the bodyguard Horus just killed). It's later shown that this was both due to the Emperor's rage and out of practicality; Chaos Gods can resurrect champions so long as their soul still lives (as with the case of Lucius and Kharn, the champions of Slaanesh and Khorne respectively) but Horus's soul was utterly destroyed, meaning that he's even out of the Chaos Gods' grasp. What the Emperor did not count on was that Horus' first captain, Abaddon, was ruled "close enough" by the Chaos gods, nor did it stop Fabius Bile from just making a thinking clone of Horus with the original's DNA (though Abaddon didn't like that and killed said clone). At one point, Ahriman was offered a reward for being Tzeentch's most favored pawn, which amounted to this. While that sounds pretty bad, this is a setting where dying can result in your soul being claimed and used as plaything by the Chaos Gods, for all eternity. So the reward is a sincere Pet the Dog moment, no matter how twisted, especially coming from Tzeentch. |
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In Codex Equus, this is normally subverted, as the afterlife and souls are an established fact. Generally each pantheon has their own Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory Realms for their worshipers, unaligned ones exist, and Reincarnation also happens. However, rarely something can happen to entirely destroy a soul, resulting in the being ceasing to exist entirely. One example is Queen Dark Crystal, whose soul was so unstable due to the ritual that turned her into a Made of Evil abomination that when she was finally slain by Fairytale, it violently exploded. Some crimes are also so unspeakably evil that Primeval Law dictates the guilty party have their soul destroyed. | |
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Unsounded: In Kasslyne human memories are contained by a mind/soul and are taken into and stored by the khert after death. The major religions teach that the soul keeps getting reincarnated and the memories returned with the final reincarnation, though there is no evidence of that. If an efheby eats a person it melts and drinks their memories and mind/soul so there is nothing to go into the kerht and that person ceasses to exsist. | |
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Arc of Fire: Myrren reveals that death is simply not like anything after she's revived, implying this. | |
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In Warhammer, this is one of two fates that Elves will get upon their deaths via being eaten by Slaanesh. The other is being imprisoned in the underworld of Mirai. Thankfully they have a way to avoid either fate, they can have their souls put inside Waystones that will help protect their homelands, which are almost always in danger. | |
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Comes up occasionally in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction: Daylight Burning: According to the Nightmare, no part of the soul survives the death of the body — instead, all consciousness, memory and being simply cease the moment the physical self does. This is her primary reason for wanting to live forever. Last One Standing is the first time this happens. Notable because it's left ambiguous as to whether or not that is what actually befalls the dead. Reflections is the second time it comes up. The two immortal protagonists discuss the idea of eternal nothingness. They do not agree. I Did Not Want To Die mentions the well of souls twice as a possible afterlife. Whether or not it's real is ambiguous. In Dying to Get There, Rainbow Dash believes that Twilight's Destructive Teleportation would result in multiple copies of herself in the afterlife, something which upsets her greatly. Twilight comforts her by pointing out that her teleportation doesn't actually work like that, but even if it did, it wouldn't matter anyway because there is no afterlife. Rainbow Dash suffers an off-screen Existential Crisis and reappears at the end of the story wearing a helmet and kneepads to keep herself safe. In the Pony POV Series there is decidedly an Afterlife, with Heaven, Hell, and a form of Purgatory (which is more Limbo). However, there's also Oblivion, where half a person who was erased from existence's soul (called a Shadow of Existence, representing their life, appearance, and experiences) goes which can still one day exist again if merged with a fitting being or becoming part of a Draconequus. Even if this Shadow is destroyed, their Light of Existence (the other half they began with and is the base, core being) will go back to Fauna Luster and be Reincarnated. This does not apply to deities, so if their Shadow of Existence is destroyed, they're gone permanently. D__t had this happen to him, and thus no longer exists in any sense of the word. There's also the Shadow of Chernobull/Makarov, who never had a Light to begin with, so after being devoured by the Blank Wolf his Shadow is all that's left. In the The Freeport Venture story Come and See, Sunset Shimmer inflicts this on Sombra, after extensive experimentation on his soul. In Codex Equus, this is normally subverted, as the afterlife and souls are an established fact. Generally each pantheon has their own Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory Realms for their worshipers, unaligned ones exist, and Reincarnation also happens. However, rarely something can happen to entirely destroy a soul, resulting in the being ceasing to exist entirely. One example is Queen Dark Crystal, whose soul was so unstable due to the ritual that turned her into a Made of Evil abomination that when she was finally slain by Fairytale, it violently exploded. Some crimes are also so unspeakably evil that Primeval Law dictates the guilty party have their soul destroyed. In The Bridge, after Giranbo is killed by Destroyah, it's mentioned she lacks a soul and thus ceased to exist after death. |
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Night Train to Lisbon: Discussed by Amadeu while giving his speech in the church. He feels that eternal life would in fact be worse than this, saying it would devalue present existence and could be unbearable. | |
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Crysis 2 had Jack Hargreave say he found the prospect of "simple oblivion" to be preferable to an actual afterlife after spending fifty years as a fully aware Human Popsicle. | |
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In 2:37, Sean explicitly rejects the notions of heaven, hell and reincarnation, instead subscribing to this view of death. He also notes that he doesn't fear dying. | |
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The fate of reality, courtesy of the Anti-Monitor, according to the Amazonian prophecy, in DC's Darkseid War. | |
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For things and beings that didn't make it before (thanks to the Multiversal collapse, courtesy of the Beyonders), during (thanks to simply being killed) and after (more importantly, this is the deciding one) the course of events of Marvel's Secret Wars (2015). | |
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Villains by Necessity: The entire universe will be "sublimated" in a flash of light if the "Good" side isn't stopped. | |
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In The House in Fata Morgana it is revealed that if your soul is too damaged while in the land of death, you risk this fate. And then one character directly asks Michel to willingly cause this to them: the White-Haired girl, in order for her to reunite with Morgana's soul and put an end to the curse. She makes it clear nothing of her will survive, that her sense of self will be gone, that nothing will remain of her: she asks purely and simply for the eradication of her soul. Nonetheless, she asks of Michel to go through with it anyway. Depending on how you interpret things, Georges' soul may very well have suffered the same fate. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, it's pointed out via extreme Breaking the Fourth Wall that anytime a show ends everyone and everything in the universe it takes place in ceases to exist. | |
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Dragon Ball: The series has an afterlife, but according to Goku, if Vegeta (who retained his body in the afterlife to help fight Majin Buu) was killed by Pure Buu, he would cease to exist. Android 16 is fully mechanical, so when Cell destroyed him in Dragon Ball Z's Cell arc, he had no soul to be restored. Some types of fusions are permanent (i.e. Nail and Kami-sama who were assimilated by Piccolo), and apparently even their souls fuse and they stay fused in the afterlife. Similarly, if one of the parts of a fusion is gone, the fused being can no longer be formed (such as with Evil Buu case). Dragon Ball Super establishes that a God of Destruction is capable of destroying someone's soul along with body, as demonstrated with erasing Dr Mashirito despite him being a ghost. Beerus later also does it to original timeline Zamasu, simply erasing any trace of his existence in the blink of an eye. Zen'o seems capable of doing this to entire universes (and by extension their afterlife), as demonstrated by erasing what remained of the immortal Merged Zamasu and the future timeline he corrupted, as well as the universes that lost in the Tournament Of Power (though the latter were eventually restored by 17). |
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In Warriors Redux, the Dark Forest is Adapted Out. Instead, bad Clan cats fade away into nothingness when they die. | |
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In the Nasuverse there exist such things as "life after death," "the soul," "ghosts," "spirits," "higher planes that exist independent of time," and things like that. That means death is not the end and for some few characters, death may even be cheap. That is unless you are killed by the Eyes of Death Perception. When killed by these eyes, you simply cease to exist and the only way you can see the light of day again is to turn back the hands of time. On the other hand, no character in the Nasuverse is truly immortal; that concept may not even exist, though there are many that pine after it. Those who have achieved something close to it are only hiding or not yet aware of their continued weakness. Wallachia only has to be restored to his original form. Those in the Throne of Souls cease to exist when the Earth dies prior to Angel Notes(only not really, because they exist outside of time. They just can't actually interact with the World anymore. At least not this one.), and they spent the rest of their existence trolled by the Counter Force and Grail Wars. For the otherwise almighty Aristoteles, there is Black Barrel and Slash Emperor. The lone exception to this rule seems to be the the fifth Dead Apostle Anscestor: Type-Mercury, official designation, the ORT. And that's not because its special, its just so far removed from anything the Earth has to offer that its very pretense there gradually rewrites reality. So it might not be immortal, it just lacks Gaia's concept of 'death' altogether. It might have its own - completely different - version. This is because souls in the Nasuverse work in a particularly Buddhist way. While humans do have souls that return to Akasha (the Origin) upon death and are eventually recycled into life, their previous existences' identity is wiped clean, similar to the Theravada concept of anatman ("no soul" or "no self"). One character attempted immortality by permanently imprinting his own identity and memories on his soul, essentially creating reincarnation. On the other hand, since the Eyes of Death Perception don't destroy a thing's soul, just its existence... Note that this might not always have been the case. During the Age of the Gods, genuine deities walked the Earth. Modern Magi have classified their very existence on the same level as the Five True Magic, which in order, allow their user to Create from Nothing, 'Operate' parallel universes, manipulate and materialize the soul(including making it last indefinitely, which is essentially immortality, unfortunately this magic has been lost for over a thousand years), a forth with an unknown effect, and the final one which allows its user to manipulate entropy, which can lead to time travel. The proper use of those magics could potentially stave off the Cessation of Existence indefinitely, and considering that many people believed in an Afterlife, and it was a Clap Your Hands If You Believe world... unfortunately, because of the actions of Gilgamesh, the gods are dead, magecraft is a pale, dying shadow of what it was and the World no longer operates under such laws. To be fair, the gods were definitely jerksasses. |
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In Nomine: Souls are fairly sturdy things, but some situations can result in the Forces that make them up being scattered and disbanded. If this happens, the individual is gone, utterly and forever. This is typically what happens to celestial or ethereal beings who are destroyed in celestial combat, as this results in damage being deal directly to their spiritual selves. Demon Princes are also fond of forcefully destroying the souls of disappointing or disobedient underlings as a form of punishment and as an example for others. This is the fate that awaits all undead, as the process of becoming a mummy or a vampire causes the subject's body to become the only thing holding their Forces together. An undead can keep going potentially forever, but if its body is ever destroyed its soul will scatter to the four winds and it will cease to be. Occasionally, the souls of humans who don't lean strongly towards Heaven, Hell, or a given Ethereal domain just... scatter and dissolve on death. Celestials blame this on any number of things, including existential despair, profound suicidal urges, atheism, and excessive reincarnations, but nobody actually knows for sure. |
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In These Are the Damned, Tom asks Jake what it felt like to be deadnote Jake died and then came back to life due to time travel shenanigans in The Forgotten; Jake responds that he remembers nothing, and it terrifies him. | |
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Normally, people who die in the world of The Quintessential Mary-Sue go to either Heaven or Hell, but if one's soul is absorbed to increase another being's power, that soul will cease to exist completely and experience no afterlife. A soul that goes to Hell can still meet this fate if another damned soul learned the ability to absorb souls during their lifetime. | |
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It's mentioned in The Little Mermaid that, while mermaids can live three times as long as a human, they have no immortal souls. When they die they turn to sea foam, and that is that. The little mermaid's desire to marry the prince and turn human is inspired in part by her love for him and in part by her want for an afterlife. After she fails to marry him and turns to sea foam, she is given a chance at earning a soul by doing good for 300 years as a spirit. | |
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In Mike Carey's Lucifer, the title character makes his own cosmos with no afterlife. When he destroys the man he creates for disobeying his one command not to serve him, Lucifer says, "Did the ten thousand years before thy birth trouble thee? Well, no more will the ten thousand years after thy death." | |
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Reaper (2016): What the deletion weapon does; literally deletes players' minds from Game, leaving their frozen body as an empty shell. For a time, Jex is concerned that the Reaper has used it to Kill and Replace Hawk. In fact, he's replaced another Founder Player, using their position to take Jex hostage and almost use the weapon on her. | |
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The dead in The Book of Life go to The Land Of The Forgotten when nobody on Earth remembers them. They're implied not to last long there as some souls are seen turning into sand and being blown away by the wind. | |
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In the Warrior Cats series, the characters do have an afterlife - StarClan if they're good, the Dark Forest if they're bad. Either way, when the StarClan or Dark Forest cat is completely forgotten by living cats, they gradually fade away into nothing. However, if they receive an injury that in life would be fatal, they just disappear instantly. Whether the 'fading away' constitutes this or not isn't exactly clear. It is mentioned that StarClan cats become more and more wispy over time (having "earned their peace"), but even cats who died ages before the beginning of the series—indeed, long enough ago that even a human would struggle to remember them—are shown to still interact with others and give advice to the living. Dark Forest cats, on the other hand, are outright stated to play this trope straight. |
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The Walkyverse appears to combine this with The Nothing After Death; after one character dies, he meets several others floating in an empty void; they have a brief debate about whether this is "purgatory" or just the residual energy of their minds bouncing around space before dissipating entirely. | |
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Gorr's god-killing rampage in Thor: Love and Thunder is kicked off when his god tells him there's no afterlife and he'll never see his daughter again. Though a Post-Credits Scene shows that Valhalla exists. | |
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American Gods: Shadow asks for this when he's allowed to choose an afterlife after he dies. What he gets is a mindlessly happy Nothing After Death until he gets brought back to life. | |
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Purgatori: The demon Cremator invents a sword capable of erasing demons from existence, including Lucifer. If they are hurt with any other weapon, they'll just regenerate. | |
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Inheritance Cycle: The elves and the dragons believe this happens when living things die, presumably due to their natural telepathic abilities, as living minds always simply fade and disappear during death. In the end, Eragon himself admits that he would prefer this option to some form of eternal existence. | |
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When Dawn starts talking about breaking the rules in Reaping the Whirlwind, George warns her that if a Reaper breaks the rules too badly or too many times, Upper Management will erase them from existence. | |
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The Sun Is Also a Star: When talking to Daniel, Natasha indicates that she thinks death is the end. | |
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In Shakugan no Shana, this is basically what happens whenever one's Power of Existence is lost (usually after being consumed by a Crimson Lord). If one's Power of Existence dwindles and fades away, they become increasingly lethargic and slow to react, while their presence starts to go by unnoticed by others. Eventually, they just vanish, and everything continues as though they never existed at all. | |
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Ending D of NieR is all about this. Having accepted to sacrifice himself to bring back Kaine from her Shade corruption, the price is for the main protagonist to be wiped from existence entirely, even from everyone's memory. As a final testament to the permanence of this fate, your entire save file is deleted — not only that, you can't even use that character name again. You are not permitted to even "reincarnate" the same character all over again for another shot that doesn't result in oblivion. The creators wanted to include an "Ending E" where you could pull your original character out of oblivion, at least letting you re-use the name, but never had the opportunity to implement it in any kind of satisfactory manner.note Until the Updated Re-release, that is. The love Cavia held for their games' players is very hard to distinguish from hate. | |
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The Pkunk in Star Control 2 claim that the only people who reincarnate are those who have been famous, rich, or otherwise interesting. Everyone else kind of ceases to exist. | |
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In The Bridge, after Giranbo is killed by Destroyah, it's mentioned she lacks a soul and thus ceased to exist after death. | |
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In Receiver, the player is a survivor of the Mindkill, which causes this. The sequel expands on this: Humanity exists in reality B, while our minds exist in reality A. Reality B is, in fact, a shadow cast by reality A. Normally when you die in reality B you "wake up" in reality A. What the Mindkill does is sever the connection between the two realities, destroying all of reality B except the parts trained minds could protect, and causing intense trauma to the sleeping minds in reality A. The severing and mental damage mean that after death you no longer wake up but instead fade back into the pattern of reality A. | |
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Jennifer's Body: Colin's mother says he's just a corpse now, not in some better place like his emo friends say (at his funeral, no less). | |
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While Family Guy does have an afterlife, this is used as a Cutaway Gag in an early episode when Peter talks about how he used to teach Sunday School. | |
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This is the effect of the God Killer in Drive Angry. Technically, though, those shot with it do exist in a very specific form... that being their gibbed remains painting everything close by from the explosive power of the gun. Metaphysically, it plays this trope straight. | |
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In Mage: The Awakening, those who are deemed so dangerous that their very existence in any plane —alive or dead— could destroy the world are taken to the edge of the universe and thrown into the collective unconscious and become non-sentient universal energy. This is considered to be such a horrific thing to do that the mage who does so will step down from their seat on their council and cease practicing magic forever. | |
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Being based on the same mythology, Coco has souls fade away when no-one remembers them. It's wondered in-universe if they stop existing or move on somewhere else. Word of God implies it's the latter. | |
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Android 16 is fully mechanical, so when Cell destroyed him in Dragon Ball Z's Cell arc, he had no soul to be restored. | |
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During Day of Vengeance, Ragman tries to attack absorb Eclipso into his suit of rags, but her resistance creates a shockwave that ends up destroying hundreds of the evil souls already trapped there, causing them to simply cease to exist. This sends Ragman into a brief Heroic BSoD; as much as he despised all those souls trapped in his suit, he believed that they still deserved a chance to redeem themselves. | |
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In the Baldur's Gate series, the Player Character's soul has a different nature from other mortal beings. This is because he or she is a partial Soul Jar for their father Bhaal, the dead god of murder. Consequently, if he or she is killed, the essence of their being will merge back with the god, effectively becoming this trope. This also justifies why the Player Character's party can't simply resurrect them. You also have to inflict this fate upon at least five half-brothers and sisters. That said, one of them does come Back from the Dead; his dialogue suggests that this was only possible due to the highly unusual circumstances, and another who happens to be a party member can be resurrected anyway (a scene of party banter between the two aforementioned characters suggests that this isn't a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation, either.) And, in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, this is ultimately what happens to the Big Bad Amelyssan, no matter what you decide to do with Bhaal's essence. | |
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In Durarara!!, this is what Izaya fears above all else. This is why he plans to initiate Ragnarok. His hope is to create a war only he can win, thus earning a place in Valhalla, but he'll take an eternity of torment in Hell so long as it means still existing. | |
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In both New World of Darkness and Old World of Darkness vampires can preform diablerie, which involves sucking out another vampire's soul. It is strongly implied victims of this simply cease to exist, as such diablerie is commonly considered a Moral Event Horizon by vampires. | |
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The Camp Half-Blood Series: Gods who fade away (such as Helios, Selene and Pan) will return to the Chaos, the first goddess and the void from which all existence began. The Burning Maze reveals that Helios, long believed to have faded, had actually managed to temporarily avert this by tethering his will on Earth due to pure hatred. Once Medea is killed, Apollo manages to convince him to move on. Later, it's revealed that anyone who falls into Chaos will also suffer this fate, as Python does in Apollo's climactic battle with him in The Tower of Nero. Tartarus absorbs Hyperion and Krios' essences in The House of Hades, resulting in them ceasing to exist. |
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This is a risk that Tony Hawk runs in the Interstitial: Actual Play one-shot Reality and Other Falsehoods because he's using The Memory playbook, where if he loses all connections with other players he fades from memory and existence. That's exactly what happens partway through due to several extremely bad rolls, forcing player Riley to create a new character for the back half of the one-shot. | |
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The Silerian Trilogy: Discussed by Tansen and Josarian. The latter thinks the Otherworld might not really exist, and that spirits whom the Guardians call up could be just illusions. Josarian denies this though, and Tansen later concedes. This is the fate of anyone taken by the White Dragon too. | |
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This was a constant danger for Aelita in the first, second, and some of the third season of Code Lyoko. Unlike the other heroes who were "devirtualized" and kicked out of Lyoko if their health reached zero, Aelita was tied too much to Lyoko itself and would cease to exist if it happened. Around the mid-point of season three, however, her powers and ties to the real world evolved enough so that she could survive it too, the "devirtualizing" effect able to restore her as it did the others. | |
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Assassin's Creed: In the first Assassin's Creed game, the Templar Sibrand believes that there is nothing waiting for him after death, and the idea of this terrifies him so deeply that when he learns that the Assassins are coming for him, he begins executing random priests out of sheer blind paranoia because they wear vaguely similar robes to those of the Assassins. Several games later, the protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Eivor, is faced with the same revelation after they find out that the Valhalla they and their clan members coveted is nothing but an illusion inside a Lotus-Eater Machine. They turn into the Anti-Nihilist, and when some important people to them die in the following battle, even though they keep a stoic face and deliver the proper rites, they do not take it as well as they previously did. |
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In YuYu Hakusho, this is what happens if someone who is already dead is somehow killed. In addition, certain creatures can eat a person's soul and cause them to cease to exist. | |
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Oracle of Tao: although it's temporary. The main character successfully convinces herself that she doesn't exist, and begins to fade away. At the last possible second though, the other heroes have a Clap Your Hands If You Believe moment, and cheer her on, convincing her to exist again. This is after she's stopped existing. | |
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In the True Arena in Kirby: Planet Robobot, the pause screen for the fight with Star Dream Soul OS (who has assimilated President Haltmann) states that Haltmann is being erased from the OS during the fight. Additionally, when Kirby smashes the pillars inside of Star Dream Soul OS, Haltmann can be heard screaming in pain, after smashing all of them, the pause screen states that Haltmann is gone. Implying Kirby unknowingly completed Haltmanns erasure for Star Dream Soul OS. | |
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The Sword of Truth: Due to the chimes' starting to destroy magic in Faith of the Fallen, its later revealed that the underworld (being magical) was destroyed, with there no longer being an afterlife. Thus, now people who die simply stop existing. This is just fine, according to the protagonists. | |
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NEO: The World Ends with You kicks it up another notch with exorcism: in addition to standard erasure, anyone who's exorcised has their entire existence scrubbed from the timestream, forwards and backwards. Suffice it to say, the only remnant of Tanzo Kubo that remains after his exorcism is the Soul Pulvis he engineered Rindo's Player Pin to create, and neutralizing that is the entire reason Rindo commits to one last Replay. The irony is that Kubo's distortion of the Game ensured that the Soul Pulvis would erase Shibuya; his exorcism by Hazuki's hands now makes the Soul Pulvis' deletion a possibility. | |
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: The Wise Men teach that death is the end, with nothing after it. | |
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