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A performer dies suddenly while on the job. If the audience doesn't realize what's going on, it's a Real Life example of All Part of the Show. Can be Harsher in Hindsight if they had acted such a scene in character or a comedian's routine involved jokes about their own death. For understandable reasons, a production where a near or actual death occurs is often a Troubled Production. Film and television usually go around this with a Fake Shemp. The audience knowing what is going on isn't unknown. Throughout the Pax Romana period of Ancient Rome, the Romans would use this as a form of execution. The most typical fashion would be for a professional actor to play the role up to the point of death for the character, and then the condemned would be substituted in as a macabre stuntman. More on this here: Roman Killing Theatre. Most of these and more can be found on the Snopes.com listing Died Onstage. See also: Casualty in the Ring: A Sub-Trope focusing on fighting examples. Deadline News: If the person who bites the dust is a news reporter, then you'll probably be hearing about it here. Died During Production: The creator of the work dies before it's completed. Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: The almost entirely fictional examples of actors being murdered through the replacement of a harmless prop with a real deadly weapon. On-Set Injury: When things happen during production that aren't quite fatal but very well could have been. (Anything formerly listed on this page as "Near Misses" should go there.) The Show Must Go On: When the rest of the performers make an effort to continue the production. Snuff Film: The fictional cases where this is done deliberately. Spectator Casualty: If it happens to an audience member. Swan Song: The creator's very last performance. |
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The 1937 Austrian film The Charm of La Bohème revolves around a pair of opera singers whose romance mirrors that of Rodolfo and Mimà in Puccini's opera. In the end, they sing together in one last Bohéme performance, but the sickly heroine really does die in MimÃ's death scene, with no one realizing it until after the curtain falls. | |
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In the Tales from the Crypt episode "Television Terror", a tabloid news show host and his cameraman are disemboweled and hanged on live television by the ghosts of a serial killer and her victims. | |
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On May 28, 2001, during a training session, Dalip Singh (The Great Khali) hit Brian Ong with a move called the flapjack, but Brian suffered a concussion and died. All-Pro Wrestling was found liable because the two did not train with protective padding and Brian had been ordered to continue training by the higher-ups despite having suffered a previous concussion. | |
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George O'Hanlon, who voiced George Jetson in all incarnations of The Jetsons up to that point, died of a stroke in the recording studio right after recording some of his lines for Jetsons: The Movie in 1990, after having suffered an initial stroke. Likewise, Mel Blanc (Mr. Spacely) recorded his lines in the hospital, in what turned out to be his last VA role before his death. Neither of the two had completed their work, so Jeff Bergman picked up the slack. | |
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Trevor, Hillary's boyfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, proposes to her on live television while bungee jumping. Unfortunately, the bungee cord is too long. Splat! | |
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Subverted in Game of Death (1978): Billy Lo shoots the last scene for Fist of Fury and is shot by one of Dr. Land's henchmen. It turns out that he survived and plans for his revenge. | |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy appears to fall victim to this at the end of the Pollution episode, where he gets tangled in copper wire on a Conveyor Belt o' Doom and loaded into an automated trash compactor. Afterward, however, as Bill's lab coat is shown plastered to a trash bale, Pat Cashman informs the audience that "no science guys were harmed". | |
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Twenty-odd years before the events in Glass Mask began, the famous actress Chigusa Tsukikage was performing her prized Crimson Goddess play but a stage spotlight snapped and fell on her. She barely survived, but her injuries badly deformed half of her face to the point that she stopped stage-acting since and switched to teaching. It also kickstarted her obsession to find the perfect actress to give her the Crimson Goddess role, which was specifically written for her by her long-gone beloved Ichiren Osaki. | |
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Subverted in the penultimate episode of the fifth season of BoJack Horseman. BoJack and his co-star/girlfriend Gina are filming a scene from his detective show Philbert where Gina's character, Malone, confronts BoJack's, Philbert, about having been the murderer all along, causing Philbert to lash out and choke Malone. However, due to BoJack's Sanity Slippage from his painkiller addiction and his anger at Gina for confronting him on that, he keeps choking her after the director yells cut, without even realizing he's doing it. It's highly implied that BoJack would have killed Gina if Mr. Peanutbutter had not pulled him off of her. This is the incident that pushes BoJack to go into rehab. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "A Night to Remember", an actress is poisoned and dies onstage during a performance of Elektra. As she keels over during Elektra's death scene, the audience assumes it is part of the show and erupts into rapturous applause. It is only when she does not get up to acknowledge the applause does anyone realize something is wrong. | |
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CSI: NY: "A Daze of Wine and Roaches": A group throws a high-class fundraiser centered on Marie-Antoinette, in none other than the UN building. The actress playing Marie dies as a prop "guillotine" apparently fatally breaks her neck. Unsurprisingly, the deal turns out to be far more complicated. She was actually poisoned with "infected" candy, after having confronted the acting troupe leader over him supposedly using her name to commit scams... and she did that after her Creepy Child co-actress convinced her to do so... "The Formula": A Formula One racer's car explodes during an exhibition race - with him inside. The car turns out to have been tampered with and the suspects include the victim's wife, his manager, a female rival, and a newbie racer. |
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Probe's "Black Cats Don't Walk Under Ladders (Do They?)": In-Universe, Sabrina Stillwater, a witch, is a guest on the Show Within a Show, The Marty Corrigan Show. She casts a hex on the host while several scientists are there to debunk her "magic". Unfortunately, things go wrong when Marty actually dies from her hex, and Austin tries to figure out who is really behind Marty's death. | |
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An episode of Psych had an actor in a telenovela die after being stabbed with a real knife that someone had swapped out the prop knife with. Shawn goes undercover to determine the guilty party. | |
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Diane on Cheers once put on a performance of Othello with the mentally unbalanced Andy Schroeder as the title character and herself as Desdemona. Unfortunately, Andy still has unrequited feelings for her and tries to kill her during the performance. Luckily, Sam realizes what's going on and rushes to her aid. | |
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In another episode, a theatre actor playing the part of Salieri in a production of Amadeus slices his own throat open when his prop cutthroat razor is switched for a real one. It takes a few moments before Barnaby realizes the truth. For extra irony, in the play, Salieri survives having his throat cut. | |
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The Simpsons It pokes fun at this trope and The Scottish Trope in one fell swoop during "The Regina Monologues", when the family meets Sir Ian McKellen and Homer doesn't catch on to the matter at all. A near-miss occurs in "Krusty Gets Busted" where it's revealed Krusty the Clown had a heart attack while filming one of his shows. The kids in the audience think he's doing an act and burst into laughter, and the whole thing apparently wound up being considered one of television's funniest bloopers according to reporter Kent Brockman. Similarly, in "Brother's Little Helper", Krusty does a sketch where his bowtie spins when he sees Sideshow Melanie strolling in, but the bowtie spins too fast and almost suffocates him as the audience laughs. After he tears it off, the technician comes onstage and apologizes, saying "I choked...", which pisses off Krusty, who starts strangling him, yelling "YOU choked!? YOU choked!?". |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has a game of this. The players play actors in a live stage play that all die as soon as they get on stage leading one player (usually Colin Mochrie) who is still alive to heft the "corpses" around and supply the dialog himself. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "Show Biz Bugs", Daffy Duck, attempting to upstage Bugs Bunny, performs a fatal stunt where he ingests nitroglycerin, gasoline, gunpowder, uranium, and a lit match, thereby blowing himself up. | |
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One mission in Grand Theft Auto V has Michael replacing a new model of cell phone with a similar device doctored by Lester. When the head of the company holds a televised press conference to introduce the new model, it explodes and kills him. | |
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While filming Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, a crewman was hit by a US Army Hummer and crushed. | |
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One mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has Victor trying to prevent gangsters from killing a rock star during a performance. It should be noted that the rock star is Phil Collins playing himself. | |
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During the first incarnation of Halloween Horror Nights (then called "Fright Nights") at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1986, scare actor Paul Rebalde Brooks fell between two tram cars on the backlot tour and was crushed to death. This caused Universal to put the event on hiatus until 1992. | |
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One victim of the week on Sledge Hammer! was a used car salesman who died while shooting a live commercial for his dealership. | |
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The Rocky movies did this twice. In Rocky III as Clubber Lang is beating the crap out of Rocky, his trainer Mickey suffers a fatal heart attack. In Rocky IV, Ivan Drago pummels Apollo Creed so badly that he dies of his injuries; Drago's post-fight indifference to this ("If he dies, he dies") led to Rocky agreeing to fight him in Moscow. | |
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Shadow of the Vampire: The film depicts the (fictional) events that supposedly transpired during the filming of Nosferatu. The director, F. W. Murnau (played by John Malkovich) explains that the lead actor, Max Schreck, is trying to 'get into the role' by staying in character - and costume - at all times. Unfortunately, he doesn't mention that his 'Schreck' is actually a real vampire and that the deaths on camera would be very real as well. | |
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Highlander: A Temporary version due to the show’s premise, but they still count: Richie joins a professional motorcycle racing team despite Duncan warning him it’s not a good idea. He gets into a feud with another rider and gets into it with him on the track without even realizing it. The result is a fiery crash and Richie waking up in the morgue. “The Immortal Cimmoli� is about Danny, a newborn immortal who has no clue about the Game and uses his immortality to do circus acts that would kill a mortal. Despite Duncan warning him he’s attracting attention, Danny heads off to Vegas and gets killed in a more final fashion. |
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Used in one of the stories told on Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, where during a pro wrestling match, the guy who was booked to lose died during the match. Of course, the history between the two meant that the dead guy, who was always showing up his current opponent looked like he was just deciding to sell like a ragdoll, and since the guy who won thought he was legitimately winning that way, nobody knew he was dead until after the match. Upon finding out that he was only winning because he was fighting a corpse, the narrator then says "even in victory, he was a loser." | |
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In 2017, the then-upcoming Attack on Titan stage play was cancelled after one of the acrobats fell 10 meters (about 30 feet) from the fifth to second floor of the theater while inspecting the equipment for wire action sequences and suspended himself in mid-air using the equipment. He suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest and was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital. | |
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While on location filming Wagons East!, John Candy's obesity didn't sit well with the high altitude and desert heat, and he died of a heart attack shortly after wrapping up a day of shooting. His remaining scenes were filmed with body doubles and special effects. | |
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Layton Brothers: Mystery Room has a couple of examples show up, with both being more complicated than they initially seem. The victim in the third case is a famous actress who died after being shot onstage by a gun that was swapped with the prop gun. Turns out, the prime suspect (the victim's fiancée) did fire the fatal shot... but he didn't know it would be fatal, as the victim was the one who swapped the guns so she could get back at him for having an affair with another actress. The fifth case has a famous DJ collapse on-air after eating a macaroon, later revealing he was poisoned. Subverted, however, in that the initial on-air collapse was part of a stunt, and that the murderer poisoned him after they had gone to break. |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Fejez (real name Paolo Panigada), a member of the Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese, died of a brain hemorrhage while performing on stage in December 1998. | |
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While filming Deadpool 2, stuntwoman Joi SJ Harris was killed when she lost control of her motorcycle and crashed into a building. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In Necromancer, one of the clients has their daughter killed repeatedly on stage as part of a play, having Asutsuo resurrect her each time. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Played with in an episode of Supernatural. A magician survives incredibly dangerous, impossible stunts, but other people have a tendency of dropping dead of the same things that should have killed him. | |
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The baritone Frederick Baker, known by the stage name of Frederick Frederici, died of a heart attack during a production of Faust at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in 1888. His ghost reputedly haunts the theatre. | |
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In Pippin, the Players explain how in the finale Pippin is supposed to set himself on fire "for real" so he can have the perfect experience he's been looking for all the show. Pippin understandably objects: "Look, it's just that if this isn't it... I'm going to have a tough time trying something else." | |
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Poker Face: "Rest In Metal" sees a heavy metal drummer die onstage when the microphone he's singing into overloads and electrocutes him. His bandmates sabotaged the mike so he couldn't claim songwriting credit for their latest hit. "Exit Stage Death" has two bickering actors in a stage play sabotage the props to injure or kill each other. First, the spotlight sabotaged by the female lead falls near the male lead, triggering a heart attack. Then, the male lead's wife runs up onstage to give him medication only to fall through the trap door he sabotaged and fall to her death just as the actors planned. "The Orpheus Syndrome" has Charlie befriend a visual effects artist who once directed a B-movie monster film. The film's production was marred by an actress drowning while filming an underwater scene and the artist has been troubled by it ever since. It turns out that the producer sabotaged the actress's distress signal so they could finally complete the shot. |
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In the Married... with Children episode "Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics" Jim Jupiter, the "Healthiest Man in Chicago" has become a fat slob after only one day of hanging with Peggy while smoking and eating junk food. Returning to his daily aerobics show the next day, he suffers a massive heart attack on-screen and collapses dead. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In Metalocalypse, Dethklok fans seem to die in droves at every live concert they perform - a sort of Establishing Character Moment for these is when the first of their concerts shown on-screen has their stage airdropped just before showtime, but it detaches its parachutes too soon and crushes a massive group of fans (likely more when it actually opens up), and then during the first song the band pours a gigantic pot of coffee hot enough to burn off flesh over the surviving fans. And yet nobody ever does anything about this, because they're the most popular band in the world in this series. In fact, the fans have to sign death waivers as a mandatory requirement to seeing their concerts. Death is so common that the band can't legally be held responsible. | |
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One episode of Forever Knight ends with a rock star getting gunned down with her backup dancers by an obsessed fan. In reality, this only applies to the dancers as the singer, too strung out to perform, was replaced by an impostor. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Eerily, a little-known fatal accident also occurred during the filming of the classic Top Gun parody Hot Shots! The stunt pilot was flying a Folland Gnat, inverted, mere feet above the ground for footage. The nose dipped down, and it's assumed the pilot intended to gain altitude, but instinctively pulled back on the stick instead of the opposite, causing the jet to plant nose-first into the ground, at ~400 knots. The plane and pilot were basically disintegrated by the tarmac and ensuing explosion. Unlike the Top Gun example, little attention was ever given to this incident. | |
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Christina Grimmie was gunned down at a fan meet-and-greet after a concert in Orlando in 2016. | |
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Very narrowly averted by Angela Carpenter in Carole & Tuesday. After the one-two punch of her Stage Mom letting slip she's a Designer Baby and not her biological daughter, and then dying of a heart attack straight afterwards, she shows up to the Mars Grammys drugged out of her mind, performs an uncharacteristically depressing song, and then collapses on stage from an overdose. She survives but spends multiple episodes recovering. | |
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Rawhide star Eric Fleming was accidentally drowned in 1966 while filming High Jungle, an installment of the short-lived ABC anthology series Off to See the Wizard. During a location shoot on the Huallaga River in Peru, the canoe Fleming and co-star Nico Minardos were riding in capsized and overturned. Minardos was able to swim to safety, but Fleming was swept away by the current and drowned. High Jungle was never completed. | |
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In xXx, stuntman Harry O'Connor was killed while parasailing down the Vltava River when he crashed into a pillar of the Palacky Bridge instead of going under it. The footage, up to the point where he disappears behind one of the bridge columns, was used in the final film. The director points it out in the commentary. | |
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One gag in This is Spın̈al Tap is that all of the band's drummers have died violently. Two of these deaths involved dying on-stage during a live show. Via spontaneous combustion. In a Shout-Out to this, Guitar Hero II features "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" as an encore song - at the conclusion the drummer explodes. |
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Stuntman Paolo Rigonu became the first fatality on a James Bond movie when he was killed when the bobsled he was driving overturned while shooting a chase scene in For Your Eyes Only. | |
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On March 21, 2015, in AAA, Rey Mysterio Jr. attempted to set up Perro Aguayo Jr. for his patented 619 maneuver, but Aguayo's neck snapped when it hit the ropes. Konnan tried to revive him, but Aguayo was pronounced dead in the hospital a few hours later. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In Undertale, the battle against local superstar Mettaton is broadcast live on television — the amount of viewers is an important element to said battle's mechanics, in fact. Once he starts fighting for real, the player can potentially choose to kill him just like against any other opponent, and monsters who had dialogue about Mettaton will comment on it afterward. "That last episode had me really shaken... But Mettaton's OK. Everyone knows it's just CGI!" "D... don't worry about it... I can always build a different robot!" |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Saints Row: The Third has a series of DLC missions called Gangstas In Space which has the Boss starring in a sci-fi movie. After putting up with the director's verbal abuse throughout the missions, the Boss' co-star Jenny crashes a spaceship into the director while shooting. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Subverted in Return to Cabin by the Lake. Stanley stages at least two attempted murders on his film set. The first time he makes it look like an accident when one of the lead actresses is electrocuted by a defective stage light falling into a water tank, but she barely survives. The second time around he doesn't even pretend to cover it up and tries to have another actress drowned by weighing her down to the bottom, but Allison saves her by shooting through the tank. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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During filming of a scene in Gone Fishin' where a boat was supposed to jump over a ramp, fly over a hedge of mangroves, land between two other boats, and stop in the water, the boat slid off the side of the ramp, flipped over, and landed on a crowd of crew and extras, killing stuntwoman Janet Peters Wilder, and injuring both her husband Scott Wilder and his father Glenn R. Wilder. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Conway Wickliffe, a special effects technician working on The Dark Knight, crashed the Batmobile while preparing a stunt. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In "Icarus", an episode that centers around a Broadway musical of the same name, the actor playing the title character has his flying rig sabotaged so that it gives out mid-scene, causing the actor to fall to his death. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In an episode of Slayers, Lina and Co are performing a play when they are attacked by Zangulus and Vrumugun, who adlib lines to make it seem like their attack is part of the play. Lina adlibs some lines that justify them fighting back, starting a battle that blows up the stage, kills Vrumugun (again) and several mooks, and gets them presented an award for best original production (since nobody had seen the play before, the only people to realize that they had deviated from the script were people working for the theater troupe). | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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A jeep crane driver was killed during the filming of the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode "The Jack Is High". | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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On August 31, 2020, Ronald "Ronnie" McNutt, a US Army veteran and podcaster from New Albany, Mississippi, shot himself in the head during a Facebook livestream. The original one has since been taken down, but not before others began posting the grisly video on other websites such as TikTok, which prompted a lot of criticism towards websites for not taking the videos down sooner. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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A stunt performer drowned off the coast of Malibu during the filming of the skydiving sequence in wacky sex comedy Don't Make Waves. | |
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In Zombie Land Saga, Ai Mizuno was just beginning to hit her big break with her idol group, Iron Frill, when a freak lightning bolt incinerated her during a concert in front of thousands of viewers, leaving her charred corpse still posing on-stage. As a zombie, she's quite bitter that people mostly remember her for how she died instead of her actual musical career. It happens again to her and the rest of Franchouhou in Episode 7, but since they're all already dead, they're perfectly fine. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Abracadaver", a magician named Al Lusion who was disrupted during his act by a little girl who accidentally caused him to fall into an iron maiden. Al comes Back from the Dead as a zombie to exact his revenge and selects Blossom, to whom the little girl bore an uncanny resemblance. | |
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During production of the season 8 premiere of The X-Files, one crew member was killed and six others were injured when a power line struck a scaffolding, sending a 4,800-volt charge through the 15-foot-high structure. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In The Blackwell Convergence, actor Frank Lyons died inexplicably during shooting for "Water Under the Bridge". The press assumed it was a heart attack and the film became an instant hit, mostly due to his death being primary publicity. Turns out Lyons was strangled to death by the Countess' ghost (or what is assumed to be her ghost), who was unassumingly guided by one of the Meltzer brothers so the Meltzer Foundation, who funded the film, could profit from the film's success caused by his death. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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While Top Gear (UK) had an actual close call (Richard Hammond's dragster crash), they've also had some fictional examples: After Perry McCarthy outed himself as The Stig, he was written out by having The Stig attempt to use nitrous oxide to out-accelerate a Harrier on an aircraft carrier. He wasn't able to stop in time and drove into the sea. While the hosts were testing out some small off-road vehicles, Jeremy was thrown from a hovercraft and quipped "I've been killed. I've most definitely been killed." We then see him lying there with a caption reading "J. Clarkson, 1935-2005". An attempt to combine off-roading with fox hunting ended with Jeremy's vehicle stuck in a gully being swarmed by hunting dogs. We cut back to the studio and Richard says that Jeremy was eaten by the dogs. Another time, they tried to build their own electric car and subject it to a series of tests. One of those was an endurance test where The Stig's environmentalist cousin will drive it around the track until the battery and the generator fuel run out. At some point, the exhaust hose for the generator comes loose and the exhaust fumes asphyxiate The Stig's cousin. Their test of three cars suited for the Albanian Mafia ended with them robbing a bank and trying to make a getaway. During the getaway, James drives his car off a cliff (on purpose) and is killed. During their test of the Renault Twingo, Ross Kemp climbs into the boot (or "trunk" if you're American) to demonstrate the space inside. He stays there the rest of the segment...including when Jeremy tries to jump the car onto the ferry back to England. During the subsequent host segment, he says that Kemp did not survive. |
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In one episode of NUMB3RS, one suspect in the case of the week is a man who had been the producer for an extreme stunts reality show called "Thrill Drill", which was cancelled after a stunt gone wrong resulted in a contestant being decapitated. (The producer had lost nearly all of his money and assets in the ensuing legal process, leading the agents to suspect — correctly, as it turns out — that he got involved with the scheme they're investigating in an attempt to regain some of his previous wealth.) | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Stuntman Tip Tipping was killed when his parachute failed to open while he was filming an episode of the British series 999, which was - ironically enough - a show with the premise of reenacting dangerous accidents. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In The Prestige, Borden accidentally kills Angier's wife during a magician stunt. Angier also kills himself repeatedly using a "teleporter" that creates a clone of him, dumping the original into a tank of water to drown. | |
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Early on in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the player can listen to WCTR and hear an example. Jack Howitzer appears on "Entertaining America" to promote his new film and brings a gun with him, which he, being an insane Schwarzenegger expy, begins threatening the host with. He tries to calm host Billy Dexter by saying that it's not loaded, only to immediately and fatally shoot him. On the bright side, Dexter is replaced by Lazlow. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Spirit of Justice, the second case has Trucy Wright being accused of pulling this. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In Pet Sematary Two, the main character's actress mother is accidentally killed on the set of a movie when she's electrocuted by live wires. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Suburban Commando: Special Effects Technician Michael Colvin was accidentally killed on the stage of the second unit visual effects shoot when he fell through a trap door while testing it. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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In Pulp Fiction Butch the boxer kills his opponent Floyd in the ring, leaving so quickly he doesn't know Floyd died until his getaway cab driver tells him what she heard on the radio. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Sort of, in Deep Wizardry: the part of the Silent One in the ritual involves actually letting the giant shark eat you, and Nita did not know this until she had already taken the oath to participate. Eventually averted, when the ritual goes waaayyy far south and the aforementioned shark throws away his own life in battle, satisfying the death requirement. | |
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Network references this once and uses it once; early on (in a scene likely inspired by Christine Chubbuck's suicide mentioned above), Howard Beale announces that he will be committing suicide on air at a later date. He is deterred from this by being given a new show after his on-air rant inspires record ratings. Later, when his ratings sag, his producers arrange for him to be assassinated live on the air. | |
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All part of the game in Blood Bowl, where character deaths during the matches are a regular occurrence. Whether by falling over, taking a hit, or being fouled, Blood Bowl players will die often and gruesomely. Low armor teams like the wood elves are especially likely to die in a match. | |
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Irene Ryan (best known as "Granny" on The Beverly Hillbillies) died several days after suffering a stroke onstage during a performance of Pippin on Broadway. | |
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Jerome Irving Rodale, author and publisher of Prevention magazine, died during a taping of The Dick Cavett Show in June 1971. Cavett's next guest, journalist Pete Hamill, heard a snore-like sound from Rodale and tipped Cavett and the staff to check on him. Rodale had suffered a fatal heart attack while sitting on Cavett's couch. The episode never aired. Ironically enough, Rodale made several quips during that very interview that he had "never felt better" and "planned to live to 100". He was 72. Legend has it that Cavett said "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?" after Rodale's snore, but both Cavett and Hamill later denied this; a transcript of the episode cited in Rodale's 1974 biography says Cavett actually asked Rodale if he was alright upon hearing the sound. | |
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One Uncle John's Bathroom Reader book relates the story of a Passion Play where Longinus' actor grabbed a real spear instead of a prop spear with a retractable blade, a fact which wasn't discovered until after he stabbed the actor playing Jesus, who shouted "Jesus Christ, I've been stabbed!" and was immediately rushed to the hospital. | |
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Famous stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed in the filming of The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) when he misjudged the rate of descent and crashed into a small hillock. | |
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Robin, the Boy Wonder: Dick Grayson's Robin origin story involves his acrobat parents dying in what looks like a trapeze accident, but was actually an act of sabotage by mobsters. This has played out in multiple adaptations. | |
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Actress Isabel Bonner died onstage of a brain hemorrhage while performing in The Shrike. | |
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R&B singer Johnny Ace (not to be confused with the later wrestler) was taking a break backstage between sets at a concert in Texas on Christmas Day 1954 when he was playing with a revolver, declaring that he knew which chamber was loaded. He pointed it at his head and fired, killing him. | |
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One skit on Not Necessarily the News has a football player collapse on the field. At first, the play-by-play announcers are worried that he injured his knee since he just recovered from a knee injury, but it soon becomes clear that the player died from a heart attack. The announcers are then relieved that it wasn't his knees. | |
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There is an apocryphal story of a production of Macbeth in which Duncan's murder was shown onstage. The prop daggers the title character used to stab him were somehow replaced with real daggers and the actor playing Duncan was stabbed to death. Whether this is a true story or just used to remind the cast and crew to be careful with stage weapons is difficult to say, but it certainly fits the particular superstitions about the play. A similar legend is that an actor was killed in unspecified circumstances during the original production of the play (and that this is what led to the supposed curse). However, there's nothing in actual historical records indicating that any incident of this type occurred, suggesting that the story is likely an Urban Legend. A better-documented case was that of Harold Norman, who was playing Macbeth in 1947 in the Oldham Coliseum, Manchester, in a production that used unsafe swords for the fight scenes. In the final duel between Macbeth and Macduff, the actor was accidentally stabbed and died. |
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The 87th Precinct mystery Eighty Million Eyes is about a Variety Show host murdered on television. | |
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In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Friendenemies", Marco mentions being a fan of an action star named Mackie Hand, who got killed performing a stunt. Tom eventually brings him back to life. | |
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In the B-story of Matilda, the Escapologist and the Acrobat were forced by contract to perform "The Burning Woman, Hurling Through The Air, With Dynamite in Her Hair..." despite the latter being pregnant. The stunt went well until the last moment, when the Escapologist lost his grip on his wife's hand due to using too much fire extinguisher foam, sending her crashing to the ground and breaking nearly every bone in her body. She managed to carry their child to term before dying. | |
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A stuntman died during the filming of The Right Stuff. He was in the scene where Chuck Yeager bails out of a crashing F-104 prototype. There are conflicting reports on it, but his helmet filled with smoke, which either knocked him out, and prevented him from opening the chute, or screwed up his sense of when to open it. | |
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A rather "real" risk in Kaleido Star, which features a stage that is basically an anime version of the Cirque du Soleil: Marion's reason to be so critical of the stage and especially of Sora's use of the trampoline is that her Missing Mom, Cynthia, was the trampoline expert of the Stage... but she suffered an ultimately fatal accident: she fell off during an act, apparently hit her head and died in the hospital despite having been conscious when she was taken away. One of Kalos' best friends, Aaron, was a talented trapeze artist who wanted to pull the very flashy but dangerous Great Legendary Maneuver and died trying on stage. This is why Yuri Killian hates Kalos and takes the Stage away from him: he is Aaron's son, witnessed his father's fatal accident, and has always blamed Kalos for his death. (Plus Kalos already blamed himself for his friend's death.) |
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In ¡Three Amigos!, the Amigos appear before the Mexican bandit El Guapo and his gang, believing he's a Mexican entertainer who invited them to perform with him. As they're performing their act, Jefe shoots Lucky Day's arm. Once he inspects their weapons, finding real bullets, Lucky realizes that they are real bandits who will kill them. | |
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Chris Candido died from a blood clot in his leg, resulting from a bad reaction to surgery. He was having surgery as a result of a botch suffered at TNA's 2005 Lockdown event, making this a combination of medical and accidental (although the medical cause was the ultimate cause of death). | |
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One episode of Monk has an actor die onstage of a knife to the heart. Supposedly, the actress grabbed a real knife instead of the prop knife. In reality, the actor collapsed due to an allergic reaction to the peanut oil on the apple he'd taken a bite from and the "doctor" who ran up to check on him stabbed him for real. | |
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Law & Order goes to this well twice. In "Sweeps," a child molester is murdered on live television - a tabloid talk show - by the father of his victim. In "Swept Away: A Very Special Episode," a reality show cast member kills one of his castmates during a heated argument, which of course is captured on videotape. | |
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Takes place in 1000 Ways to Die, of course. In the segment "Coffin to Death", a Japanese rock star gets trapped in a coffin by the lead guitarist who upstages him with a three-minute rock solo, causing him to choke to death on carbon dioxide from dry ice that was meant to be used for theatrics. The segment "Abracadaver", a magician attempts to replicate the infamous "Bullet Catch" trick, one of the most dangerous magic tricks, wherein he would appear to catch a bullet fired from a gun in his teeth. Unfortunately, a piece of his wand fell into the barrel of the prop gun, which was propelled by the fired blank straight into his neck. In "Dumbrella", a sword swallower attempts to swallow an umbrella, only for his throat to accidentally trigger the release, causing the umbrella to open and close off his airway. |
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An episode of Dollhouse features attempts on the life of a pop singer, some of which occur onstage. In one case a stunt double is killed in her place. | |
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In Dirty Sympathy for Klavier's rock concert, one of their acts requires him to be covered in chains. He nearly dies in his concert when his lover, Daryan deliberately tangles the chains with the moving platform's winch for his infidelity, causing the chains to tighten around his neck and asphyxiate him. | |
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The back story for Ridge Racer Type 4 has it that the son of Racing Team Solvalou manager Enki Gilbert was killed the previous year in a racing accident. Shinji Yazaki, the manager of the Pac Racing Club, was involved in the crash and is largely believed responsible. | |
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Al Mulock, a Canadian actor playing one of the gunmen in Once Upon a Time in the West's opening scene, died of suicide by jumping out his hotel window - in full costume - between takes. | |
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British Professional Wrestling disappeared from television networks and nearly vanished altogether after a wrestler named King Kong Kirk suffered a fatal heart attack in the ring in late August 1987. | |
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In AFK Arena, Idre the Grotesque Mage, a non-playable Graveborn boss, was once a stage magician named Gaston attempted a trick where the idea was to make it look like he decapitated himself and then miraculously reattach his head. Unfortunately, he actually decapitated himself by mistake. | |
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Owen Hart fell to his death in Kemper Arena (now known as Hy-Vee Arena) in Kansas City during WWE's Over the Edge pay-per-view show in 1999, while preparing for a big stunt entrance that would see him, as his Hulk Hogan parody character The Blue Blazer, being lowered in from the rafters. He had done so in a rehearsal earlier in the day with no problems, but unlike Sting's harness circa 1997, which had multiple connection points and a full vest that took a good amount of time to remove once he actually landed, Owen's contraption was held with a single release point around his chest that could be (and probably was) triggered simply by breathing too deeply. According to rumor, this was because he was supposed to end the stunt by coming off the rig a few feet above the ground and falling on his face (on the mat, not the top rope), in keeping with his character persona of being bumbling and incompetent... only the riggers failed to recognize that they also needed to ensure it wouldn't release when it wasn't supposed to, and what Hart ended up with was a rig that was so easy to release that it was an accident waiting to happen (Hart's family would later allege that the WWE hired unqualified riggers in order to save on costs rather than pay the higher price for qualified experts who would have known better). He ended up falling nearly seventy-eight feet while being lowered, where his chest impacted the top rope. He managed to survive until arriving at the hospital but was soon after pronounced dead from a severed blood vessel near the heart. This led to a series of disputes and lawsuits between Vince McMahon's company and the Hart family. The latter was divided into two camps, and the bitterness got to the point where one side faxed important case information to Vince, which forced a settlement. DC101 radio show personality Bryan "Flounder" Schlossberg conducted a phone interview with wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts shortly afterward. Flounder mentioned Hart's death, with Roberts' reaction showing this was the first time he had heard; Roberts abruptly said goodbye and hung up at that point. |
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Early on in Rush, which prides itself on its historical accuracy, Francois Cavert's car is seen sitting on the other side of a section of ARMCO that it apparently went through, with his headless body still sitting in the car, before a TV in the pits announces that he was killed, along with naming other drivers that had died in the past few seasons, all of which, including Cevert, were actually killed in real life. Niki Lauda had a near miss later in the film when he became trapped in his burning car and suffered severe burns. A priest actually gave him his last rites as he lay in the hospital. | |
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Invoked in the The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Lights! Camera! Danger!". Jimmy wins a screenplay contest and gets to act in a movie with his friends, but the director, Quentin Smithee, changes the script so the actors keep ending up in near-death situations. Their Wire Fu fails and drops them off a rooftop, the rollercoaster track for a love scene is busted, the actors are given robotic top hats that try to kill them during a musical number, and a giant robot snake tries to kill them during a scene at a wizarding school. It turns out that Quentin Smithee is actually Professor Calamitous trying to destroy Jimmy and his friends. | |
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In Faces of Death IV, stage magician Orendo the Magnificent performs a grand illusion in which he must escape from a straightjacket before a candle burns through a rope and drops a set of Spikes of Doom on his head. Expectedly, he fails, and the foot-operated safety lever fails as well, so the spikes descend and kill him instantaneously. | |
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In Remote Man, Jay Laana was killed in a botched stunt on an action movie. The shot of his body falling out of the car made it into the movie. | |
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In The Boondocks episode "The Story of Gangstalicious", the eponymous gangster rapper writes a song titled "I Got Shot" after he got shot during a feud with another rapper. Unfortunately, due to the song's subject, when a performance of it is interrupted by gunmen storming the stage and shooting Gangstalicious again, the audience believes it's All Part of the Show and doesn't call an ambulance until 45 minutes later. | |
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Used several times in Case Closed: In one filler case Conan, the Mouris and Kogoro's Old Master Heihachirou Shirota attend a theater rehearsal in which the troupe's diva, Shouko Ooide, dies while rehearsing. It immediately turns out that she was murdered via having a glass of water that she was supposed to drink on-stage laced with poison. The culprit was the troupe's manager, Hitomi Sasaki, pissed off after the victim stole her boyfriend (and the lead actor) purely to spite her and told her so to her face. Another case involved an ikebana exhibition, where the artist in charge had received more than one threat. The Sympathetic Murderer, Midori, had secretly arranged for the death of the Asshole Victim, Rika, whom she worked for as her manager and aidé: the moment she started with her flower show, the flowers would release a huge dose of poison that would kill both of them. Another case involved the murder of Michiko Oosawa, a young actress who played the role of Venus in an aquarium show. She was supposed to emerge from a huge shell-shaped prop and when it opened during a rehearsal, her lifeless body was released instead. The killer was the lead stagehand, Murakawa, who killed Michiko to avenge his wife and child, whom Michiko ran over with her car two years ago. She was such a bitch that she laughed about it when she accidentally found out about him. In another, a rabid fan of tokusatsu is tricked into committing suicide in front of the Kamen Yaiba club he belonged to, and in the middle of a cosplay party, they had organized for fun. He was already not well in the head, and then he took a pistol and shot himself, thinking it was just a prop. One of the leaders of the club was the culprit since said rabid fan stole his younger brother's prized memorabilia and caused the poor little boy to get hit by a truck while pursuing the thief. Also pulled by stage magician Motoyasu Tsukumo, who killed his best disciple Yashiro Kinoshita via tampering with his equipment when he was about to perform a dangerous trick in a water tank and transforming said tank in a makeshift Drowning Pit. Twenty years later, he gets his karma back when Yashiro's sister Mako, also one of his pupils, kills him. In one case, all three actors in a play attempt to murder another actor in the play. One attempts to switch a fake rapier with a real rapier, one attempts to put real poison in the cup that is used a pretend poisoned cup for the play, and a third attempts to electrocute another actor. All of this is averted when Conan foils their plans. The famous "Shinichi Kudo's New York Case" has a musical in which a famous singer and actor is shot on-stage. The other four actresses in the play are suspects since the victim was The Casanova and three of the women were his lovers while the other was his legal wife, but there's a catch - it might have been a completely unrelated Serial Killer who has been on the run. It turns out one of the actresses was the culprit since she was In Love with Love and wanted the man to be immortalized as his best role before he left the troupe. The Unfriendly Girls Band case also uses this, when the drummer and leader of an all-female rock band are somehow strangled to death on stage without anyone noticing at first. It turns out the killer, the keyboardist of the band, managed to use very resistant wool and a freaking selfie stick placed in a vital position to create a makeshift gallow and strangle her bandmate without even touching her. She did it because she believed the drummer to have driven the original singer of the band to lose her voice and then commit suicide, which was wrong: in reality, the drummer tried to help the singer in a terribly misguided way, the singer died in an Heroic Sacrifice to save a child, and the drummer heavily blamed herself for her friend's death. |
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Top Gun is dedicated to Art Scholl, a stunt pilot who died in a plane crash during the filming of the flat spin scene. Scholl's Last Words, as his Pitts Special spun past its safe recovery altitude, were, "There's a problem - there's a real problem here." | |
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Actor Ken Steadman died when he flipped a dune buggy on the set of Sliders. | |
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In The Winds of Winter, one of Arya's/"Mercy's" duties as a mummer in Braavos is to check the trick daggers used before each performance and make sure nobody's replaced them with real ones. Apparently, before one performance, someone replaced a trick dagger with a real one and it caused the death of a mummer on-stage. | |
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On the CSI: Miami episode "Show Stopper", an expy of Lady Gaga and Hannah Montana is incinerated onstage during a concert and later dies from her injuries.*It later turns out that the performer onstage was merely a doppelganger; the real singer had been confined to a bedroom in a Miami flat. | |
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Penn & Teller Get Killed is built around teasing this trope, unsurprisingly, as Penn and Teller love doing this in their live stage shows. | |
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The cause of performer Victoria Cindry's death in One Piece was falling off the stage from a great height. | |
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H.B. Halicki, who wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the original Gone in Sixty Seconds, was crushed by a telephone pole felled by a broken cable during the filming of an unfinished sequel to that film. | |
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Joker (2019): Murray Franklin is shot dead by his final guest while the former's show is airing live. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: In "Danse Diabolique", a ballerina is murdered on stage. As she succumbs to the poison during her death scene, it is only when her partner kneels at her side that he notices that she is really dead. | |
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DC101 radio show personality Bryan "Flounder" Schlossberg conducted a phone interview with wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts shortly afterward. Flounder mentioned Hart's death, with Roberts' reaction showing this was the first time he had heard; Roberts abruptly said goodbye and hung up at that point. | |
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Invoked in Futurama by Calculon, who kills himself with food coloring poisoningnote Food coloring is highly poisonous to robots on Futurama ... just go with it on stage to beat Langdon Cobb at an acting duel, since the only way to out-act Cobb was to do a realistic death scene by actually dying. Cobb won anyway. He was revived in a later episode, only to be killed again right after his first moment of true acting ability, as he accidentally pulls a prop rope that brings part of the stage down onto him. | |
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Charlie Chan at the Opera had such an incident when an escaped lunatic (played by Boris Karloff) kills an Opera actor to take his costume to perform his role to exact his revenge against a female actor in the show. As it happens, the lunatic is an experienced and talented opera performer himself and does his part so well that he traps the woman on stage, who can't escape or call for help, until his character is supposed to fatally stab her as part of the show, but the knife he uses is real. It seems so convincingly All Part of the Show that even Charlie Chan does not realize what is happening until it is too late. | |
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Comes up a couple of times in Jonathan Creek. On one occasion it happens offscreen and is only mentioned briefly; Jonathan's employer, egomaniac and dim stage illusionist Adam Klaus, had some sort of inner-ear infection that messed up his balance and led to him falling off the stage and breaking his leg. The second and most memorable one involved a live python and Adam's new bodyguard... It has to be seen to be believed. | |
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Lucha Libre wrestler Silver King died of a heart attack in London during a match with Juventud Guerrera on May 11th, 2019. | |
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In Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, five people (including a cameraman and one of the actors) were killed in a helicopter accident and two others were injured when the engine failed. | |
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Curtis Mayfield: equipment falling on him caused severe injuries. He was paralyzed from the neck down though he continued to record. His paralysis, as well as diabetes, eventually caused his death, but it would take 9 years. He still recorded one more album, New World Order, entirely on his back (so that he had enough breath to do vocals). | |
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In The Gallows, the titular play had an ending scene where the lead character would be hanged by a gallows prop. During one performance, the prop suddenly malfunctioned, causing the actor Charlie to be hanged for real while his ghost haunts the school. | |
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Actor Anthony Wheeler accidentally hanged himself while performing Judas' climactic suicide scene in Jesus Christ Superstar. | |
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At the end of Black Swan, The Perfectionist Nina enacts the role of "Dying Swan" by stabbing herself with a shard of mirror and dies after the performance. Or so it seems. | |
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The Big Sho' Theater in Paper Mario: The Origami King has several on-stage performances for its Toads to enjoy. These include a Western theater show where the guns have real bullets, a street musical with actual gang warfare, and a Swan Lake performance where the dancers are able to body-check their guest stars. It's almost like someone wants the guests to die. Turns out that's actually the case; the actors are all Paper Macho soldiers on orders from Rubber Band to kill Mario. | |
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In Touched by an Angel episode "Restoration", a silent movie director’s pregnant wife (and the lead actress) dies in a stunt while the camera is rolling. The way the shot took, the wonders of Manipulative Editing allow him to turn the film’s happy ending into a Downer Ending. | |
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Ricky from Nope was a cast member of a sitcom called Gordy's Home when he was a kid. The show was about a family that adopts a chimpanzee named Gordy. The show ended when they shot an episode where they celebrate Gordy's birthday and the chimp goes on a rampage. The actors who play the parents are killed, the actress who plays the daughter, Mary Jo Elliott, is left severely disfigured, and the chimpanzee himself is shot and killed. Ricky is the only cast member to escape physically unharmed. | |
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During a 2010 outdoor concert by the Irish-Czech indie-folk duo The Swell Season (comprising Once stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova), a man killed himself by jumping off from scaffolding near the amphitheater and landed on the stage, mere inches from Hansard. In fact, the jumper would have killed Hansard if he had landed just a couple of feet closer. | |
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During the production of You Only Live Twice, John Jordan lost a foot in a helicopter accident. Years later, he was Second Unit Director of Catch-22, and refused a safety harness while filming in an airplane. He was subsequently sucked out of the plane when the door opened and fell to his death. | |
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Near the end of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Pietro Rossi had taken part of a passion play re-enacting the crucification of Jesus Christ. The Roman Rite of Templar Order planned to invoke this trope had it not been for protagonist Ezio Auditore learning about the plot and sneaking in for the rescue. | |
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Mad About You: "Citizen Buchman" has Paul's uncle dying while being interviewed for Paul's movie. The rest of the episode tries to find out the meaning of his Last Words. | |
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Almost happens to Anne Shirley during a performance of an Arthurian drama in Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars when she's swept up in a current during her character's death scene. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Sing a Song of Patrick", a radio studio promised to record a song in a newspaper ad. Patrick sent them "I Wrote This", an atrociously bad meandering pile of nonsense that is barely a song at best. So bad, it killed the band at the radio studio to produce a record. In an earlier episode, "Band Geeks," the two flag twirlers in Squidward's marching band apparently die during rehearsal when their twirling sends them airborne like helicopters and they crash into a blimp, causing a massive explosion. |
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The French/Italian disco singer Dalida invokes this trope in her song "Mourir sur scène" (To Die On Stage), where she expresses a preference for this kind of death above all other. (Unfortunately, she did not get her wish in Real Life, where she intentionally ODed on barbiturates following many years of depression.) The chorus translates as follows: | |
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Which sounds similar to the Blackadder episode "Born to Be King", where it's Played for Laughs. | |
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In the Pushing Daisies episode "Oh Oh Oh . . . It's Magic", a stage magician's act Goes Horribly Wrong and he ends up suffocated inside a block of cement. Subverted when they crack open the block at the morgue and find no body inside . . . then Double Subverted when it turns out the wrong block was sent to the morgue. | |
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In Future GPX Cyber Formula, Bleed Kaga's flashback in Zero shows images of a car explosion, him being restrained by race marshals, and witnessing a racer being burned to death in that car. The last SAGA II CD reveals this in further detail: It was his best friend and rival, Eiji. He and Kaga were involved in a horrific crash years earlier and, while Kaga was trying to rescue Eiji, the car suddenly exploded: Eiji burned to death with his corpse still inside the car and a piece of the debris cuts Kaga's forehead. Hayato Kazami goes through a near-miss variant during the British GP when he makes contact with the Zero Zone, he crashed into his rival Randoll's car and his car goes through the railing and crashes into the ground. Although he ultimately survives, he misses the rest of the racing season because of rehabilitation and retires from the sport for a while. |
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CSI: There's an episode entitled "Snuff", where a snuff film actress was murdered during the performance. Another episode had a comedian who died just after a performance in a nightclub. There's an episode where a fire broke out at a club. Two members of the white supremacist band burned to death, an audience member was trampled, and another was stabbed. |
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Stuntman Frankie Howard contracted a stomach illness during location filming of The Bridge on the River Kwai in Ceylon (after having already almost drowned while filming a scene in which he fell into the river) and had to be flown to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London; sadly, he did not recover. | |
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This led to a series of disputes and lawsuits between Vince McMahon's company and the Hart family. The latter was divided into two camps, and the bitterness got to the point where one side faxed important case information to Vince, which forced a settlement. | |
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Ironically, Austrian tenor Josef Mann, who had been set to cover for Caruso during his illness (it was presumed he'd recover), really did die onstage of heart failure at the Berlin State Opera during a performance of Aida (Verdi) September 5, 1921. Those near him onstage thought he had only fainted until he was carried to his dressing room where a doctor pronounced him dead. The audience was informed and left quietly. | |
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In a literal example, a method actor visiting Fantasy Island asked for the chance to practice for the role of Dracula. He nearly drained his Love Interest's blood with the vampiric abilities and appetites he received, although Mr. Rourke intervened before the "Fatal" part of this trope could play out. | |
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You can set several up in the Hitman games, including replacing a prop gun with a real gun in a production of Tosca during one level in Blood Money, electrocuting a musician mid-recording in Hitman (2016), or rigging an on-set explosion during an action movie filming. | |
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In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the Joker makes his grand comeback by murdering his handler, the David Letterman expy and the entire audience. | |
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Legendary Japanese pro wrestling star Mitsuharu Misawa died in 2009 after an internal decapitation from taking a "typical" backdrop suplex, a common finishing move in puroresu. This is in part medical, as Misawa had taken many neck, head, and upper shoulder bumps like the one for this move for many years and never got his neck examined, or took an extended leave of absence, leaving his neck in a very weakened state. He had also been complaining about neck pains and numbness since earlier that year and maybe the previous one. | |
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In the last episode of Oz, Chris Keller exchanged Tobias Beecher's stage knife with a real one for a performance of Macbeth, resulting in Beecher accidentally killing Verne Shillinger. Which sounds similar to the Blackadder episode "Born to Be King", where it's Played for Laughs. |
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The Sandman (1989): A comedienne dies onstage, via electrocution by mike. A stripper who is actually a diminished goddess commits suicide by channeling all her power into one last dance, which makes the audience die of pleasure and then blows up the building. |
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The season 3 premiere of Only Murders in the Building, shows Oliver's new Broadway show opening, starting with a monologue by Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd). When he collapses and dies on stage, it takes a while before the audience realizes something's wrong. Subverted when he later turns up alive, his death being a misdiagnosis...only for him to die later offstage. | |
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The tragic ending of Moulin Rouge! has the heroine die of natural causes (tuberculosis) during a curtain call. | |
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Attempted in Private Actress, when Shiho and her Evil Counterpart Kana/Satoka are filming a movie scene that involves Shiho's character being thrown out of a window by Satoka's chara. Satoka tries to throw Shiho off for real, but (barely) fails. And in the Grand Finale of the manga Shiho sort-of invokes the trope via basically making Satoka believe that she will go the Murder-Suicide way (again, coinciding with a murder scene they're both filming)... but what she actually does is scaring Satoka into Trauma-Induced Amnesia. | |
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In the first season of Las Vegas, Jean-Claude Van Damme makes an appearance and gets killed off in a sabotaged stunt. It turns out he wasn't the intended target; the director was trying to kill Van Damme's stunt man because he was sleeping with the director's wife. It's because Van Damme insisted on No Stunt Double and went behind the director's back to do so that he died instead of the stunt man. | |
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Dutch actor Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, from Flodder was attending a party with actors and producers from the series, to celebrate its 5th season. He and his fellow colleagues were dressed as the characters from the show, and as Coen jumped on top of the Pink Chevrolet the series is well known for, he suffered a major heart attack and died on the spot. | |
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Curtains centers around the murder investigation of Jessica Cranshaw, a Hollywood actress who was set to star in the fictional Broadway musical Robbin' Hood and killed during the curtain call at the out-of-town tryouts. The fact that she was terrible in the role and everyone hated her gives the detective plenty of suspects. | |
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In Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Arthur Leander dies onstage during a performance of "King Lear." | |
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In 2004, guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, formerly of Pantera, and three others were shot onstage by a mentally unstable fan while Abbott was performing with his new band Damageplan. The shooter was shot and killed, also onstage, by the police. | |
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In The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Chuckles the Clown was killed at a parade while dressed as a peanut when an elephant tried to peel him. | |
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Blues singer/guitarist Johnny "Guitar" Watson died of a heart attack in the middle of an intense guitar solo while on stage in Japan. His last words were the title of one of his earlier songs: "Ain't that a bitch..." | |
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Pro wrestler "Iron" Mike DiBiase had a heart attack during a match in June 1969. Despite an attempt from his friend Harley Race to perform CPR, DiBiase died shortly thereafter. His death was later used to explain the gimmick of his son, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase: the family's life insurance payout was what kick-started Ted's wealth. | |
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Ghanaian percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah, a former member of the prog-rock groups Can and Traffic, died of a cerebral hemorrhage while performing at a Jimmy Cliff concert in Sweden in 1983. | |
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Actor Henry Daniell, who appears uncredited in My Fair Lady as the Hungarian ambassador, died from a heart attack a few hours after completing the dress ball sequences. He was replaced by Alan Napier. | |
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Done as a plot point in the Ace Attorney series. In the third case of the first game, one actor, Manuel, was accidentally impaled on a fence. This leads into Dee Vasquez's blackmail of Jack Hammer, the person who accidentally pushed Manuel during a fight scene onto the fence. Hammer would then attempt to murder Vasquez, who pushed him off onto the exact same fence five years later. Spirit of Justice, the second case has Trucy Wright being accused of pulling this. |
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Midsomer Murders: In the episode The Axeman Cometh, a singer is killed by an electrified mic stand while on stage. The crowd initially thinks it's part of the act. In another episode, a theatre actor playing the part of Salieri in a production of Amadeus slices his own throat open when his prop cutthroat razor is switched for a real one. It takes a few moments before Barnaby realizes the truth. For extra irony, in the play, Salieri survives having his throat cut. |
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The first day of Hypnospace Outlaw has fictional 80's rockstar Chowder Man planning on making a triumphant return at Coolfest '99, a concert for the fictional music genre of Coolpunk. The player finds out on the second day, however, that Coolfest '99 was an absolute disaster — Chowder Man's private helicopter crashed into and killed his drummer and best friend, "Kruff" Johnson, along with injuring seven fans who won a contest to ride in the copter with Chowder Man, and Chowder Man himself having his leg severed. The weight of this tragedy was an in-universe Genre-Killer for Coolpunk and forced the completely devastated Chowder Man back into retirement. | |
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Sound director James Emswiller died of a two-story fall during filming of the biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood after suffering a heart attack on set. | |
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In Captain Tsubasa, one of the cliffhangers in the first part's Nankatsu/Musashi game takes place when the ailing Meiwa captain, Misugi, suddenly stops playing and it seems like his ill heart is gonna stop beating. It's even spiced up in the original anime, with Tsubasa being so shaken at the sight that he lets out an anguished Big "NO!". Misugi manages to get an Heroic Second Wind and finish the game, but he must be rushed to the nearest hospital. | |
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Coco: Miguel's favorite performer Ernesto de la Cruz died in 1942, decades prior to the events of the film, when he was accidentally crushed by a giant prop bell during a stage performance. This is depicted in a Death as Comedy way. This later turns out to be a Karmic Death, since it is revealed he murdered the man who actually wrote his hit songs, took the credit, and bastardized them — the bombastic song he was performing at his death was meant to be a lullaby. | |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Sgt. Pepper suffers a heart attack while playing his cornet at the end of the prologue montage, explaining how Mr. Kite came to possess the band's instruments. | |
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Diagnosis: Murder has done this a few times. The third episode has the episode's Asshole Victim wander out on stage during the telethon he is hosting and keel over with a knife in his back. The ending to part one of "Trash TV" ends with Jackson Burley shooting at a gangster who attempts to kill his character with his Hand Cannon. After the take, Jesse approaches the gangster actor and realizes he is actually dead. Andy Baxter of "The Roast" ends up stabbed in the back as he heckles the roast he wasn't invited to. |
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Months after being recognized by Guinness World Records as having had the longest orchestral career (71 years), 87-year-old Atlanta Symphony Orchestra double bassist Jane Little collapsed during a pops concert in 2016 and died shortly afterwards. | |
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Mark Sandman, the lead singer and bassist of the cult alternative rock band Morphine, died in 1999 of a heart attack in the middle of a sold-out show in Rome, Italy. | |
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On one episode of The Tonight Show Johnny Carson had an effects technician as a guest. The tech had built a guillotine that supposedly looked more realistic than former effects, and Carson demonstrated it. After the gag, Carson remained unresponsive for some time; the other people on set appeared visibly worried that something had gone wrong until they got the hood off and Carson grinned at them. | |
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Stuntwoman Heidi Von Beltz was rendered paraplegic after a stunt failed on the set of The Cannonball Run, eventually dying in 2015 at the age of 59 due to health issues bought on by the accident. It didn't help that she was thoroughly Screwed by the Lawyers and received a ridiculously small payout after she sued the production company, leaving her in poverty and pain for the rest of her life. | |
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Boris Sagal, director of The Ωmega Man and father of actress Katey Sagal, died like Vic Morrow; he was nearly decapitated when he walked into a helicopter blade during the filming of the miniseries World War III. | |
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Joe E. Ross, an actor known for TV shows like Car 54, Where Are You? and Hong Kong Phooey, also performed standup comedy. He died of a heart attack on August 13, 1982, in the middle of performing his act in the clubhouse of the apartment complex where he lived. | |
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In Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, this shows up in Martin Brown's missions. Specifically, in the last one, the woman playing his victim guns him down with what was supposed to be a fake gun... but it's strongly implied it turns out to be a real one. | |
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