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Chronically Killed Actor
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This actor's character always dies. Almost inevitable if the actor is confined to villainous roles or ill-fated mentors...which explains the high number of British actors on this page. See also Vasquez Always Dies, when actresses that play Action Girls meet this fate; Black Dude Dies First, when it's a black character that gets offed; and They Killed Kenny Again, where the repeated deaths happen to a character rather than an actor. See also Dead Star Walking, and contrast Contractual Immortality. Websites such as Cinemorgue help put together which actors are bound to this. As of December 2016, the official count can be found here. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Blood Brothers", Tripp Raines is killed with a rock to the head by his half-brother Arturo. | |
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In Sean Bean Saves Westeros, the "real life" Sean Bean is transported into the land of Westeros of A Song of Ice and Fire. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean lampshades this more than once! He goes out of his way to keep himself alive as the "resurrected" Lord Eddard Stark. | |
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In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, his character, Hector Alcázar, was Dead All Along and may not have even been involved in the backstory at all. | |
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Even the advertising of some of his recent projects has gotten into this: TNT's advertisements for their TV series Legends featured the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean. | |
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Jim Troken, who appears in the Channel Awesome Massive Multiplayer Crossover films Suburban Knights and To Boldly Flee has played characters that die pretty early on in gory fashion. | |
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Chucky doesn't believe in Contractual Immortality - just because the actor is returning next season doesn't mean that they're going to still be playing the same character. In particular, Devon Sawa has played four different characters so far and every single one of them has died a gruesome death. | |
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Medici has him as the Big Bad Wannabe of its Season 2, Jacopo de Pazzi. Like Robert Aske above, he was historically executed for his crimes. | |
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Alan Dale has now died of a heart attack on three different shows (Neighbours, The O.C. and Ugly Betty), and, oddly enough, each show had his character in a relationship with a gold-digger and in a strained relationship with his adult children at the time. He's also shot dead on Lost. On Dynasty (2017) meanwhile, his character is killed in a car crash. (Averted on 24 of all things.) | |
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Many of Ice Nine Kills' music videos star frontman Spencer Charnas' girlfriend Nadia Teichmann, often playing somebody who gets killed. This actually becomes a plot point in the music videos for their album Welcome to Horrorwood, which have a Story Arc where Spencer is charged with her murder. The cops are trying to figure out exactly which video actually depicts the crime, and needless to say, they get fed up real fast. | |
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Watching his star-making performance in Sharpe while aware of this reputation can get pretty surreal. Scenes where the original audience would have been confident in our hero's Plot Armor — such as his (faked) execution in Sharpe's Honour — can become surprising nail-biters today. | |
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Michael Coleman is a go-to for walk-on deaths in Canadian productions including Supernatural and Eureka. | |
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Sean Bean again. This time in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, when Martin Septim summons the avatar of Akatosh to defeat Mehrunes Dagon. In this, he still outlasts his father Uriel Septim (Patrick Stewart), who doesn't make it past the prologue. Once more, with suspense: Kholat features Sean Bean as the narrator, who is already dead. |
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Played straight in Civilization VI, of all things. He's the Narrator, but he also voices a character in the intro movie. Said character dies. | |
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Michael Shanks is this for TV roles - Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Burn Notice, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Sanctuary, plus that Little Red Riding Hood remake. Seriously not kidding about SG-1. (It's said that Dr. Daniel Jackson doesn't have a medical history, he has a medical encyclopedia.) | |
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Actress Jasmine Guy doesn't necessarily die chronically, but several films/series immediately preceding or following A Different World have killed her characters off. Namely, "Dominic La Rue" in Harlem Nights, "Roxie" in Dead Like Me, and "Grams" in The Vampire Diaries. In the latter two series, her character continues to exist after being killed, however. | |
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The reaction to Sean Bean being cast as the English dub voice of the father of the protagonist from Final Fantasy XV in the prequel movie Kingsglaive was that Square Enix basically spoiled his fate in the game proper in advance. Sure enough, he dies at the end of the film which occurs concurrently with the first chapter of the game. | |
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In the final episode of Delocated, David is choked to death by his father. | |
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An in-universe example in Monk: In the 100th episode, Randy shows up with an actress girlfriend whose specialty is getting killed in TV shows. It becomes a Brick Joke at the end of the episode when Stottlemeyer and the culprit of the week are wrestling with a gun; it goes off randomly and she certainly looks like she's been shot by accident. But then she recovers and admits, embarrassed, that she acted like she'd been shot on reflex. | |
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Her reputation must have been quite known amongst anime fandom that when Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War is announced to have a voice dubbing via Fire Emblem Heroes, and that's the game with highest mortality count for its protagonists, they picked her to do Tailtiu; the Genki Girl who's considered to have the most heartwrenching unavoidable death amongst the death tolls of the game. | |
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His death as Ned Stark in the first season of Game of Thrones was surprisingly shocking to fans of the show (less so to fans of the then 15-year-old book). Also "Red Wedding" related, this quote from Honest Trailers: |
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Also enforced in Team Fortress 2. After all, Robins' the voice actor for the Medic. | |
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Actually defied in Snowpiercer at the end of season 3. Bean, as the villainous Mr. Wilford at the mercy of the protagonists, is deliberately put in suspended animation rather than killed for fear of making a martyr out of him. | |
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Geoffrey Palmer has appeared as three different characters in three different Doctor Who stories and each time been killed off early onnote "Doctor Who and the Silurians", "The Mutants", and "Voyage of the Damned". By the third time it was a Running Gag. | |
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The Dorkly article, “These Eight Characters are Definitely Going to Die�, includes in the list both Michelle Rodriguez and Sean Bean. | |
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Played with in The Frankenstein Chronicles. His character is killed, but brought back to life, and continues to be part of the story. | |
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One of his early roles was in Inspector Morse, where he played a prisoner who was accidently poisoned. Despite what you are now thinking, he actually survived that and somehow made it all the way to the closing credits. | |
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Once more, with suspense: Kholat features Sean Bean as the narrator, who is already dead. | |
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Also "Red Wedding" related, this quote from Honest Trailers: | |
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