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Death sucks. That's why most people are afraid of it. Some people die of old age or gradually succumb to one of a number of illnesses. When death comes, the lucky among us will go out peacefully with dignity. Some of us might go out fighting the good fight, saving the lives of some unfortunate person whom our consciences cannot ignore and force us to help. They'll all die "good deaths" (and in some cases, heroic deaths), and in Video Games, they'll be quite the spectacle. And then there's this. This trope is about the people who die in ways that are, to put it completely bluntly, ridiculous and embarrassing. The manner of their demise are the things you read about on websites dedicated to the Darwin Awards. The kind of death that ends up the punchline of a joke told by a standup comedian who specializes in Black Comedy. The humor in this is, of course, subjective — while we might find the way a person joined the Choir Invisible to be humorous and worth a laugh, to the person's family it is a tragedy. The bereaved naturally think you cruel and inhuman for laughing at such a tragedy. It is a tragedy... someone has died, after all. But that doesn't stop it from being funny when you think about it and, well, in some cases, even grieving friends and relatives might readily admit that it is Actually Pretty Funny. If it's played seriously, it's often a source of Bathos. Sometimes overlaps with Cruel and Unusual Death when the death is not just embarrassing, it's also horrific. Often overlaps with Death by Falling Over. Another likely category of undignified death are victims of The Can Kicked Him, both because a bathroom is usually safe and it takes bizarre circumstances to die there, and because you're likely to be unclothed and/or performing bodily functions. A supertrope to Lame Last Words, since in some cases the last words actually an undignified death make. Also the default consequence of being Too Dumb to Live, since there are few better ways to destroy your dignity than killing yourself through sheer idiocy. See also Dropped a Bridge on Him. Contrast Dying Moment of Awesome, Great Way to Go, "Not How I'm Dying" Declaration, and A Good Way to Die. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In the backstory for the WipEout games, Burnston Burns, the eccentric founder of the Icaras racing team, met his untimely end by choking on a balloon at a children's party. | |
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Between the events of Shin Megami Tensei IV and Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, it turns out that Navarre accidentally drowned himself in a river while peeking at a female hunter bathing. | |
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Hivefled: the top three are probably Dualscar's death via being raped with a gun barrel (which Grand Highblood then fired), Rasasi's drowning in a bucket of semen, and Vanate's death by prolapse of most of his digestive tract (his ghost is still lacking pants and forever trailing his guts behind him). | |
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Adventure Time: Unlike his beloved, who died in battle against him, Clarence realizes he died from stuffing his face with "Softy Cheese" until he exploded like a water balloon. The Hierophant, one of the vampires faced by the heroes in the Stakes mini-series and one who proudly believes in the Good Old Ways of vampires, dies when he is accidentally pushed into the house-shaped Jake without being invited in and gets disintegrated as a result. |
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Watchmen: Some characters die within some inconvenient ways. Dollar Bill was killed by a regular thug when his cape got stuck in a revolving door. The Silhouette was found dead with her lesbian lover hacked up in their bed. Masochistic supervillain Captain Carnage (who gets his kicks off of provoking superheroes into beating him up) died when he tried this tactic on Rorschach, who promptly dropped him down an elevator shaft. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The graceful, dignified Mami Tomoe gets overconfident in a fight with the witch Charlotte. Said witch morphs into a giant head, which clamps its jaws down over Mami's face, eventually biting off and devouring Mami's head, throwing her twitching body to the ground. Then Charlotte comes after the body and devours it too. | |
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Dr. No sees the titular villain be buried under a literal ton of guano, aka bat shit. | |
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Super RWBY Sisters: In the story Wario Land: JINX It!, the Shake King ends up getting blown up by Wario; the explosion that resulted from this was a bit smelly. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In what might be the series' greatest example, Miu dies by being strangled with toilet paper.ExplanationThe cast is inside a virtual reality simulator in which, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent a murder, had the following safeguards in place: there were no obvious weapons available, all objects were unbreakable (so you couldn't make a sharp edge by breaking something), and everyone's strength is set to be equal. Thus, the murderer resorted to toilet paper (present in the virtual house's bathroom) as an improvised garrote because they couldn't strangle Miu with their bare hands and the toilet paper wouldn't break when wrapped around Miu's throat. | |
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In The Tomorrow Series, Chris goes missing for most of the book. At the end of said book, the group finds his totaled car and decomposing body, and it becomes apparent that he got drunk and rolled the car. Most of the other main characters die from Heroic Sacrifices. | |
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Bojack Horseman: The titular character's father Butterscotch was an unsuccessful novelist who was so enraged by a newspaper's negative review of his book (the only review he ever got) that he published an open letter challenging anyone who didn't like his books to a duel. One nutcase took up Butterscotch's offer and midway through the ten paces, Butterscotch tripped over a tree root and smashed his head open on a rock. After his cancer goes into remission, Herb Kazzaz spends the drive home tweeting how he'll live forever, only to collide with a peanut truck, which causes his death by allergic reaction. |
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Geoffrey St. John from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) gets possessed by Ixis Naugus after backstabbing Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to put him on the throne. While it doesn't kill him, this was his last on-page appearance before he was erased in the Soft Reboot following the "Worlds Collide" crossover. Doubles as a cruel Heel–Face Door-Slam, since Geoffrey was regretting his actions by this point. | |
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Samurai Jack: Aku meets his end in the final episode when Jack returns from the future. Too exhausted from his battle with past Jack, Aku can barely hold on as he tries to run away while transformed into what is essentially a Pac-Man ghost before Jack stabs him in the head. | |
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X-23: Kimura's death in All-New Wolverine isn't particularly embarrassing, but it's not pretty, and certainly not a grand final struggle between her and Laura. Instead, Laura takes advantage of the fact that for all her modifications and immunities, Kimura still needs to breathe, and unceremoniously drowns her in the ocean off Madripoor. | |
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X-Men: Cyclops, the first X-Man, leader and revolutionary, is believed by some to have died in his attempt to stop the Terrigen Mists from killing Mutants. Death of X reveals that he actually died by M-Pox, suffocating when he first encountered the Terrigen Mists. His death horrified Emma Frost so badly that she essentially created that lie. | |
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The Walking Dead: Father Gabriel's death is a mix between being undignified and Epic Fail. After finally being trusted to go out on the battlefield on his very first mission, Gabriel is assigned to be a lookout for Alexandria but manages to immediately screw up by falling off his guard tower, breaking his leg, getting said broken leg caught on the ladder which suspends him in the air, flailing helplessly while he desperately cries for help, and ultimately ends with him being found and Gutted Like a Fish by Beta. To add even more insult to injury, his corpse is then devoured by walkers. Rick Grimes, of all people, finally loses his Plot Armor in the final couple of issues of the series and gets unceremoniously shot in his bed by Sebastian Milton. What makes this truly undignified is that Sebastian didn't check his handiwork before running away, which led to Rick dying by bleeding to death, reanimating, and being blown away by his son Carl the morning after when he went to check on his dad — and Carl put a bullet in Rick's head out of reflex, not noticing that it was his father until a few seconds later. To make things even more undignified, Rick Grimes, a Fair Cop and rugged leader-type with a manly beard, died in a simple T-Shirt and boxers. |
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White Tiger: When White Tiger (Hector Ayala) was wrongfully arrested for murder, during the trial, despite his lawyer Matt Murdock's best efforts, he was convicted. Hector had a breakdown and tried to escape the courtroom, but was shot down by guards. The only good thing that happened was that Matt is able to find evidence that proves his innocence after his death. It is clear that Hector's friends and family love and miss him, and they respect his memory. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: Fittingly enough this happens to Dan Hibiki at the end of his fight with Hercule Satan, after a hilariously ridiculous battle and being subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Hercule, Dan doesn't die by the World Champion's hands, at least not directly, but rather he dies because he swallowed a capsule that Hercule dropped earlier which opened in his stomach, causing him to explode to reveal a jukebox. In one of the biggest stomps in the show's history, the battle between Shadow and Mewtwo ends with Mewtwo erasing Shadow's mind so thoroughly that Shadow forgets about all his powers, and then skewering him with a giant spoon. Talk about humiliation. In Android 18 and Captain Marvel, the fight ends with 18 breaking both of Carol's arms in a homage to how she broke Super Saiyan Vegeta's arm, spiking her into the ground, and then, as Carol weakly struggles to stand up, she's Killed Mid-Sentence when 18 caves her skull in with her boot, all while smugly blowing off her opponent's previous boasts and leaving her corpse in the crater with its ass sticking up in the air. Although the fight between Thanos and Darkseid goes to absolutely insane heights, Thanos' ultimate fate meets this trope. He asks Darkseid "Who are you?" and gets invited to Fourth World — another reality, which means the Infinity Stones of his own reality serve no purpose. Thanos, already on the verge of a Villainous Breakdown, goes for what is visually hinted to be a Suicide Attack on the New God, who shrugs it off and hits Thanos with his Omega Beams, condemning him to the Omega Sanction, where he will die a thousand deaths, each worse than the last. The first such death has Deadpool and Death (who Thanos is in love with, by the way) making out on his throne, and Deadpool takes him out with one shot from a pistol. The fight between Wario and King Dedede consistently provides gut-bustingly hilarious moments as the two fighters keep putting the other in embarrassing situations, and the killing blow manages to cap it all off. With both of them grown giant, Wario attempts to finish the fight with another WAFT, but King Dedede throws a Gordo into his ass, stopping up the attack until Wario explodes (and takes the planet they're fighting on out in the process), with Dedede smugly floating through space afterwards. That is a new peak in humiliating deaths. This happens twice in the fight between the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch; The first case has Caboose manage to kill not just Donut but also Agent Texas, Tucker, and Church with a ricocheting sniper round, while the second case happens shortly after with Sarge, after making a badass speech for a final one-on-one Duel to the Death against Caboose, gets anti-climactically blown up by a grenade Tucker threw into a teleporter at the start of the fight. In Rick Sanchez vs. The Doctor, a drunk and naked Rick gets erased from existence by shooting himself with the De-Mat gun when the Doctor tricks him into firing it through one of Rick's own portals. |
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In A Jolly Bad Fellow, Prof. Bowles-Ottery advances his career by poisoning inconvenient colleagues with an untraceable substance he has discovered that induces hysteria and manic behaviour followed by death. Not only do his victims die, but their bizarre behaviour immediately before their deaths completely destroys their reputations. | |
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Critical Point: In one bad ending, Leiji gets impaled with a vibrator. | |
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Wild ARMs 5: After being defeated by the heroes and then in a duel by Greg, Kartikeya blows a hole through his torso to deny Greg the satisfaction of killing the one responsible for the death of his family. Greg calls him an idiot, saying that his vendetta against the demon is no longer his main objective but "just a point to pass along the way". Realizing that he essentially killed himself for nothing, Kartikeya can only mutter an utterly confused "w-what!?" before falling down dead. | |
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Quiz Lady: Anne and Jenny's father died by falling off the railing on a single's cruise and drowning in the Caribbean. They think that their paternal relatives regard this with embarrassment and it factors into their treatment of Anne and Jenny. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II: It's one thing for a slain Nobody to scream in pain and/or fear as they fade into darkness, but Demyx takes it to a whole new level by screaming "NO WAY!!" in a downright whiny tone, and in a manner completely bereft of dignity too. | |
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Discussed by Arvin Sloane in Alias with who he thought was Anna Espinosa. 'Anna' Espinosa claimed that instead of facing Sydney in some final epic melee with her going out as a warrior, she simply shot Sydney in the back. Arvin himself says that Sydney deserved more than an 'anonymous bullet'. As it turns out, the real Sydney was alive and speaking to Sloane, and it was Sydney who had shot Espinosa in the back of the head. | |
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Lindsey McDonald in Angel who is unceremoniously shot by Angel's "flunkie" Lorne rather than Angel himself, who he considers a Worthy Opponent. | |
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Arrow: Laurel Lance/ Black Canary dies while being helplessly immobilized by a telekinetic villain before getting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by one of Green Arrow's arrows. | |
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The title group of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight end up with four of their own members dead when they try to kill their mob boss, Antonio "Baccala" Vestrummo, and/or his right-hand man, Water Buffalo. Two of the deaths are particularly embarrassing: The gang acquires a stick of remotely-activated dynamite to put under Water Buffalo's car. They pose as a demolition crew with a "blasting in progress" sign advising passers-by not to use short-wave radios in case they activate the dynamite. A police car passes by, forcing the gang to act innocent while the one with the dynamite hides in the sewer next to Water Buffalo's car; one of the officers starts to radio his precinct, and... BOOM! Shortly thereafter, another gang member climbs a utility pole outside Baccala's office window, armed with a throwing knife. He raises the knife... straight into a high-voltage cable, fatally electrocuting himself. |
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In Cheers, Carla's former Boston Bruin goalkeeper husband Eddie LeBec died after being run over by a Zamboni while trying to push a fellow cast member of the ice show he was reduced to working at out of the way. This death along with the subsequent revelation that he was a bigamist was deliberate on the part of the writers after Jay Thomas insulted Rhea Perlman's attractiveness on his radio show. | |
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Undignified Death | |
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Elvis Presley famously died in the bathroom. Commonly, it's said he died on the toilet. Actually, he had a heart attack (exacerbated by heavy drug use) while on the toilet, pitched forward, and died with his ass in the air on the bathroom floor and was discovered in this position, which is even worse. | |
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James Bond: Invoked in From Russia with Love when Blofeld tells his SPECTRE subordinates to make James Bond's death "unpleasant and humiliating" to embarrass MI6. The Cold Open of For Your Eyes Only has Blofeld dumped down a smokestack. To make matters worse, his Right-Hand Cat abandons him beforehand. In Quantum of Solace, Elvis is killed by an explosion that destroys his pants. In No Time to Die, rather than get a climactic death, Blofeld and Safin simply die of getting touched with nanobots and getting shot respectively. |
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Like a Dragon: In Yakuza, Sohei Dojima is shot in his own office by his own underling while in the midst of raping a woman. In the endgame of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dwight manages to escape from Ichiban's party via speedboat, taunting them about how he's going to run away to Switzerland and watch Hawaii burn. Mere moments after gloating about this, a shark eats him. Part of the Bittersweet Ending of Infinite Wealth is the implication that this will happen to Kazuma Kiryu — wasting away in a hospital, wheelchair-bound due to terminal cancer, after around 35 years of adventure and many missed opportunities for a Dying Moment of Awesome. Though potentially subverted with another implication that he can now peacefully Face Death with Dignity. |
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At the end of Season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Big Bad known as The Clairvoyent , AKA John Garrett, survives a critical injury to his chest (and Left for Dead) long enough to reach a machine to give him an armored power-up...only to be vaporized mid-sentence from Coulson shooting him from behind with a bazooka-sized laser gun. | |
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: How Super Spesh dies: He's ignominiously shot in the back of the head by Frau Engel, she and her guards have a laugh at his expense, then she double-taps him when his body twitches. A possible death for Adolf Hitler has you stomp on his head while he lies down to take a nap on the floor — he's a senile, seventy-something Dark Lord on Life Support by this point. B.J. ends the game by splitting Frau Engel's head open with an axe. On live television. It stays there past the post-credits scene. |
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Death Parade: Mayu Arita died from slipping in the shower and hitting her head. | |
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In Monarch of the Glen, an eccentric elderly character is pike-fishing with dynamite, when his dog (which he was training to fetch unsuccessfully all episode) decides he wants the explosives back. His last words are "Oh." | |
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True to the name, the "Stupid Deaths" skits on Horrible Histories showcase historical deaths that were extremely embarrassing. | |
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The end of the Warner Bros. cartoon "Rebel Without Claws" has Sylvester getting shot down by his own firing squad instead of the intended victim Tweety. | |
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Into the Drowning Deep: The Egomaniac Hunter Michi is killed, slowly and unpleasantly, by poisoning from a bullet that ricochets off a contaminated surface and wings her. This devastates her husband, who had always expected them to be brought down together by one of their big game quarries. | |
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) movie Turtles Forever, The Utrom Shredder is mere seconds away from victory when he's fried by a laser. By Bebop and Rocksteady. No, seriously. To add insult to injury, since this is the Grand Finale, this kills him for good—none of the other deaths stuck. | |
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Devin Weston of Grand Theft Auto V can have one of these, if the player chooses him to. A Corrupt Corporate Executive who uses his money and connections to bribe and intimidate the protagonists into doing a series of car theft jobs for him, then stiffs them on their final payoff just because he's important enough to do so. Later, when Michael thwarts another of his crooked business ventures, Weston sics his private army on them, then tries to turn the protagonists against each other. If ending C is taken, his private army is lured into an ambush and annihilated, and he's kidnapped from his mansion and stuffed into the trunk of his own luxury car, bound and gagged in his underwear, as the protagonists stand over him, taunting him over his failures to manipulate them and lecturing him about what an asshole he is and why America doesn't need men like him, before shoving him off a cliff. Shortly after, said car explodes (which is a Call-Back to the 3D Era games, where cars that ended up upside down exploded). And just to add insult to injury, Ending C is later revealed to be canon, with every event that followed after his demise including Devin's own men that have survived to the long term being glad that he's gone. For a man who spends the whole story being basically untouchable, it's one seriously embarassing fate. | |
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All "Joker Venom" deaths qualify. You die with a huge grin on your face. This all but guarantees your funeral will have to be closed-casket, because otherwise, the mourners will be screaming in terror or laughing their heads off. | |
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In Death Road to Canada, it's possible for party members to die by swatting a bee or tripping over a rock. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Big Bad, who had previously almost always held himself with a stoic demeanor, is left weeping and begging to the in-universe God not to send him back beyond the gate he came from. His pleas fall on deaf ears and he spends his last seconds screaming in terror. | |
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Mad Men: Miss Ida Blankenship drops dead at her desk of unknown causes. It happens while Don is in the middle of an important client meeting. Her corpse has to be removed from her desk by Joan, Megan, Peggy, and Pete while covered up with an afghan made by Harry's mother, with the clients being none the wiser until Harry comes in, sees what they're doing, and protests "My mother made that!" "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She's an astronaut." - Bert Cooper. Said by the man who later dies whilst watching the moon landing... Lane Pryce tries to kill himself by pumping car exhaust into his brand-new Jaguar, but the car will not start. He ends up hanging himself on his office door and is not discovered for 12 hours. The other partners have to force his body aside to open the door so they can cut him down. It's definitely not how the dignified British gentleman would want to be remembered. Roger Sterling's mother: |
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In The Night Unfurls, Michelle Pantielle, the Arc Villain of the Ansur Arc, writhes in agony on the ground while crying for his mother after he's stabbed in the gut. His screams are only silenced when his head is cut off. To add insult to injury, he expects to face Sir Kyril during his Trial by Combat, but he lets his apprentice Hugh do the deed instead. Almost everyone who witnesses the trial cannot help to lampshade this trope. Kyril, in particular, is more irritated by this waste of time. | |
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One of the casualties in Return Of The Obra Dinn is killed by a giant octopus...while taking a crap. The death audio is noticeably unpleasant. | |
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Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them: It's possible for the main five love interests to die, and in incredibly stupid ways. Each death also has accompanying art of the dead character in Super-Deformed style. the deaths are: Iro may either be eaten by a shark when she goes swimming after a shark warning or get killed in a crash when she tries practice on a motor cross track. Cassie can get food poisoning from pizza or crushed to death by her items during a shopping binge. Mio either gets shocked by an exposed wire while setting up an arcade game or overdoses on energy drinks during a gaming binge. Elle can die of embarrassment after being asked about your relationship with her, or get abducted by aliens. Quill can starve to death because you didn't feed her, or get electrocuted to death while climbing on a telephone pole. |
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The Boys (2019): Stormfront is reduced to a charred, limbless husk by a seven-year-old and commits suicide in the hospital by biting her tongue off. Termite accidentally kills his partner by sneezing and shifting back to his normal size while still in the man's urethra. Kimiko fatally impales several Russian gangsters with dildos. One of the Russian compound guards sent to deal with The Boys gets mauled to death by a hamster. A superpowered hamster, but still. |
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The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: In the spin-off timeline in which Danny chose Kim Possible as his girlfriend, set in the future, Deadpool was hired to assassinate Ed Wuncler I. In the author's notes, he reveals that when he came back to finish the job, Wuncler immediately died of shock... while on the toilet. | |
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In Kill Bill, Pai Mei, a Chinese Old Master of Supernatural Martial Arts, strong enough to punch through solid wood from only three inches away, agile enough to balance on an opponent's sword, and implied to have lived since 1003 AD... dies from poison added in his evening fish head casserole. All he can do in his last moments is lie sputtering ineffectual threats as Elle, sans her right eye, stands over him and gloats. Don't feel too bad, after all, Pai Mei was the one who plucked out her eye. Budd's death is also fairly pathetic, falling for a booby trap (a snake in a briefcase full of money), and writhing in agony as his assassin (again, Elle, who is upset that Budd got the drop on the Bride, explicitly saying that Budd killing Beatrix Kiddo is an example of this trope and "she deserved better") taunts his final moments. Bonus points considering the once top-flight international assassin ended his days living completely alone, in squalor, and working a humiliating job. |
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Invoked in From Russia with Love when Blofeld tells his SPECTRE subordinates to make James Bond's death "unpleasant and humiliating" to embarrass MI6. | |
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Dead Gorgeous: In "Grendel's Cold", it is revealed that Grendel did not die in battle as she always claimed, but rather from a cold she contracted on the way to the battle. Every year, on the anniversary of her death, the cold returns to haunt her. | |
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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen: Chen Zen's first kill in the dojo finale is Chikaraishi's lieutenant, who receives a fatal punch through the nuts. | |
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Some of the Psychopaths in Dead Rising 3 get rather humiliating deaths. Teddy is so shocked by Nick breaking into his room that he dies from a heart attack from his sedentary lifestyle. He then farts upon death. Twice. Darlene gets trapped underneath her scooter and chokes to death on her own vomit, while Dylan asphyxiates on the fumes from his incredibly phallic flamethrower, which even lets out one final puff as he dies. | |
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Sh�gun (2024): Yoshii Nagakado, who desires more than anything to gain glory in combat and die a glorious death, meets his end when he attempts to assassinate his unarmed tired uncle with a sword and instead slips on a wet floor and smashes the back of his head on a nearby rock. Even his target is disappointed after getting over his initial confusion ("Where's the beauty in that that?"). His family and friends in the next episode are split between trying to remember their fond times with him and talking about how lame his death was. | |
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Fear & Hunger: Termina: Again, you can come across a latrine which you can jump into. And yet again, you're stuck in a literal shitpit with no way out except death. One possible death for Caligura is for him to be killed and his corpse left face-down on a bed without his pants, emasculated by a woman he had attempted to take advantage of. |
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Rick and Morty: Tammy checks out of the world in a pretty harsh, Rasputinian way in the Season 4 finale. She is shot, set on fire, her leg is broken, and then finally finished off with a headshot at point-blank range. Then finally, adding insult to injury, her dead body is used as a puppet. | |
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Cracked gives us "The 5 Most Humiliating Ways the Wilderness Can Kill You", as well as The 5 Historical Figures Who Died The Weirdest Deaths. | |
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In Reservation Dogs, Bear's Spirit Advisor William Knifeman died after his horse tripped in a gopher hole at the Battle of Little Big Horn and fell on him before he ever got to fight Custer and his men. | |
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In Twelve Hundred Ghosts, Jacob Marley died by choking on his cereal, then face-planted into the bowl and drowned. | |
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The short stories from the Machine of Death anthologies provide several examples. Though in some cases the "undignified" part is suggested rather than confirmed since the predicted death has not yet come to pass and the Machine doesn't give that much detail. Patrice in "Flaming Marshmallow" thinks that the titular death is going to be one of these. The protagonist of "Vegetables" fantasizes about his boorish co-worker electrocuting himself by drooling into a power outlet. A mathematician mentioned in "Cassandra" received an "unlikely and unpleasant" death prediction involving "sex and horses". Yes, it happened as predicted. (Doubles as a Noodle Incident.) From "Natural Causes", the death prediction "on the john". "Machine of Death" shows us a few, including "a boy accidentally shorting out an electric fence while trying to spray-paint his name on a cow", and a woman who crashes her car because she's eating a burger while driving. "Monsters from the Deep" mentions that very few people would publicly admit to getting a death prediction like "IMPALED BY BRATWURST". |
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Æon Flux: Quite often the Action Girl Anti-Hero dies partway through the episode from some clumsy mistake she'd made. In the pilot, she's trying to infiltrate a tall building, only to end up stumbling off to her death because she stepped on a stray nail. In another episode, she's climbing on the side of an airborne aircraft, she jumps for the hatch... and slips and ends up hanging herself when she misuses her grappling hook to save herself. Some hero. | |
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SCP Foundation SCP-426 causes people to believe they are me, and attempt to emulate my functions, which are that of a toaster, resulting in deaths by electrocution, malnutrition, blood loss the cause of which is censored, or ruptured organs from consuming ten kilos of bread at once. I can do those things of course, because I am a toaster. SCP-7606, an all-powerful indestructible Eldritch Abomination with power over the concepts of fire, darkness, and death... is shot dead by a drunken old Florida Man in the middle of his "reign of terror." Turns out 7606 is just an ordinary sorcerer using a magical ritual to pose as a Lovecraftian God - a ritual that doesn't work on intoxicated targets, as he found out the hard way. And, just to rub salt in the exit wound, he's photographed in the stock Family Guy death pose. |
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Supernatural: The episode "Mystery Spot" has this exchange while Sam is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop in which Dean dies every day: In the very last episode of the series, Dean Winchester (who has survived (or at least came back from getting killed by) and either killed or hurt a whole lot of literally apocalyptic enemies including a very ticked-off God, finally buys it for good in a routine hunt for vampires as he zigs when he should have zagged and gets impaled on a piece of rebar sticking out of an abandoned building's wall. |
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In Halo: Reach, some Spartans of Noble Team sacrifice their lives to blow up enemy motherships. Some do a kamikaze into giant enemy walkers. Some kill their slayers while impaled on their energy sword. Some go out shooting down dozens of enemy airships with no chance of escape. Some... get shot in the head running from cover to cover. | |
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King of the Hill: After surviving battles against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WWII, what finally kills Cotton Hill? An allergic reaction to a piece of shrimp that flew in his mouth and burns from a hibachi grill at a Japanese steakhouse. | |
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Discworld: During Carpe Jugulum, Igor mentions that his ancestor died from a whole herd of buffaloes falling on him. The exact details, however, aren't described; it was apparently embarrassing enough that the family doesn't like to talk about it. | |
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BioShock Infinite: Comstock is bashed against a baptism fountain and then drowned in it. | |
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Metalocalypse: In general, Dethklok concerts tend to have rather high body counts for the fans, the staff, and anyone in the vicinity, and many of these deaths are Bloody Hilarious. Minor character or civilian deaths have included being scalded to death by coffee, eaten by cats, impaled by a forklift, stripped naked, and then also Stripped to the Bone by a hurricane, crushed by a falling concert stage... Kip Slaughter, governor of Florida, was horribly dismembered and ripped to pieces by an angry mob (one of whom was his daughter) before being decapitated and having "DILDO" written on his forehead. Why? Because he didn't want to institute a state holiday dedicated to Nathan Explosion. The Metal Masked Assassin is a Knight of Cerebus whose quest for vengeance against the main characters for the death of his brother provides one of its longest-running subplots. With that in mind, it's rather funny that said brother was ultimately killed when he slipped in a scuffle with one of Dethklok's roadies and fell on Murderface's diamond-encrusted spiky codpiece, with his head being impaled in the process. |
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In Final Fantasy VII, the Mighty Sephiroth, Greatest of SOLDIER and self-proclaimed Chosen of the Planet, meets his (temporary) end at the hands of a random Grunt whose town Sephiroth had just torched, by being tossed into a Mako reactor. This one completely unravels what little sanity Sephiroth had left in his head. It probably also goes a long way towards explaining his obsession with making Cloud (i.e. the aforementioned grunt) suffer in subsequent works like Advent Children. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz: Dekim Barton doesn't go out in a blaze of glory or even get killed by one of the heroes. He's simply shot dead mid-rant by one of his own men, who likewise was a Treize loyalist, when it becomes clear his plans are for his own selfish ends. His son, the real Trowa Barton, also died like this, as he was the only Gundam pilot that was willing to carry out the original Operation Meteor and slaughter Earth and its people so that Dekim could rule over what was left. He tried to reveal the scientists' betrayal to his father before one of Gundam Heavyarms' engineers shot him In the Back and another (Our Trowa) took his name and his Gundam as his own. | |
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The Odyssey: One of Odysseus' crewmen, Elpenor, dies embarrassingly. After surviving the Trojan War and plenty of perils on the return journey, he dies on Circe's island when he gets drunk and falls asleep on the roof of Circe's house, then falls off in his sleep and breaks his neck. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Knights of the Everlasting Light, after committing an atrocity during a holy war, were cursed with supernaturally terrible luck. While their history boasts its fair share of bravery and heroism, those same heroes inevitably go on to die in humiliating fashion outside of battle, such as by choking on food or falling down flights of stairs. Thanks to in-depth game rules that simulate disease in ways that RPGs usually overlook (to help fit the setting's The Dung Ages vibe), it's quite possible for a storied and heroic adventuring life to come to a truly miserable and disgusting end from medieval sickness. You can catch the pox, get gangrene from an infected battle wound, have your eyes rot out after being bitten by a Nurglite zombie, or even just develop a bad case of the Galloping Trots from ingesting a "cook 'em fast, sell 'em cheap" Rumster's Special pie. Truly, a shitty way to die. |
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The Boys: Diabolical: The short "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents" has this with the death of Picante Balls' father. There aren't many ways to meet one's maker that are as absurd and degrading as being tea-bagged by your own son. | |
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Jabba in Return of the Jedi is choked to death by a slave (Leia of course) using the very chain he restrained her with. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Miller is killed off by Zorin using her illusions to manipulate him into becoming vulnerable to it. That in itself is somewhat dignified in that he, and the rest of his teammates, stonewalled the Nazis into a one-sided bloodbath before the first instance of Zorin's powers was invoked; what isn't is the nature of the illusion used to expose him to a vertical bisection. | |
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Luna of Bongo and Luna died while running down the stairs to meet her boyfriend and tripping. She finds it humiliating. | |
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Captain Marvel: In The Death of Captain Marvel, few would have called Captain Marvel's death undignified; he died with every important hero in the Marvel Universe, and even his hated enemies the Skrulls at his side, mourning and paying their respects. However, when his spirit was met in the afterlife years later, he was rather upset to have died of cancer and not having fallen in battle, being a Proud Warrior Race Guy. | |
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Carnosaur: Unlike the more action-packed deaths of the other dinosaurs, the Megalosaurus is disposed of in a rather anti-climactic way, as it gets run over by a truck as if it was any modern-day roadkill. | |
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Homestuck: In "[S] Wake", Dream Feferi barely has time to notice Jack before he unceremoniously slices her in two and leaves her for dead. The look on her face "kind of" diminishes the impact. Dream Nepeta was stabbed three times, then kicked over with a "DOOF" sound effect. In the same Flash (and the pages afterward), we also have Tavros, who challenged God Tier Vriska to a fight and lost immediately, despite being given a free shot — then was impaled on his own lance and pitched into an abyss to land hard enough to burst his new robo-legs with a look of dumb shock on his face. Equius himself died with the most idiotic look on his face after being strangled. Jade may well have topped all of the above: she was killed by bombs delivered via several tonnes of highly flammable shaving cream. Shaving cream. Jake's dreamself dies by being fed peanuts in his sleep by Courtyard Droll, the person also responsible for the above kill. |
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This Irregular Webcomic! strip. | |
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Overlord (2012): The death of the giggling psychopath Clementine at the hands of Ainz Ooal Gown. Being a Fragile Speedster rogue fighting against an undead Elder Lich who No Sells her deadliest attacks, he catches her in a bear hug, and then she has an epic Villainous Breakdown where she beats herself into a bloody mess, ruining her pretty face and breaking her own hands and teeth as she thrashes against Ainz in a futile struggle to break free from his grip. To pile on the humiliation further, Ainz explains to her that he didn't use any magic on her because it would have been a waste of his effort, and he wanted to drag out her death because she always did that to her opponents. A more tragic case is the death of King Ramposa III. When the Sorcerer Kingdom declared war on the Re-Estize Kingdom, he knew his kingdom was doomed and his life was forfeit. Having accepted his death, all he wanted was to face Ainz with dignity as the last king of the Re-Estize Kingdom. Sadly he doesn't even get the chance to surrender to Ainz. Instead, he is stabbed in the back by his own daughter Renner to cement her allegiance to Ainz. Even worse, she kills him with Razor Edge, the National Treasure that had protected the royal family for generations. |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar makes something of a Running Gag out of decapitating kobolds and turning their heads into various things, including a hat and a chip bowl. The gladiator Evisceratus was killed by being disemboweled by a housecat. (He's a 1st-level commoner; it's an occupational hazard.) |
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Ivan, one of two villains from Syberia 2, gets stranded on an ice floe and is pecked to death. By penguins. Fairly big ones, and defending their eggs in a large mob, but still... penguins. | |
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They Both Die At The End involves a "Death-Cast" service that calls people to inform them that they'll die within 24 hours, so there's a lot of in-universe interest on when and how those people, known as Deckers, die. There's a DumbDeaths blog that chronicles people who die in an undignified way, such as the "Shower KO" feed, for people who die from a fall in their shower. | |
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This is Spın̈al Tap: The band's first drummer, John "Stumpy" Pepys, died in a "bizarre gardening incident" that the authorities said was "best left unsolved." His replacement, Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, died of choking on vomit that might not have been his own. |
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Raging Loop: Tokuji Kida, the "Old Man who Cried Wolf", is a Serial Killer with decades of experience under his belt. How does he go out in the true ending? By tripping on a grass knot and falling on his own knife while trying to stab Haruaki with it. | |
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The plot of World's Greatest Dad kicks off when the protagonist finds his Jerkass teenage son dead from auto-erotic asphyxiation and makes it look like a romantic suicide to avoid embarrassment. | |
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Incumbent President Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer was killed by a rabid wolverine released by Vic the Veep (he thought it was a pet rabbit). A Vough executive was chewed out for joking the animal was "the best at what he does". | |
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Jennifer Blood: An Amoral Attorney is killed dressed in, again, tights and with an orange up his ass, and seemingly while engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation. | |
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In Joker, the titular character shoots a man in the head, while said man is sitting on the toilet. It might not be the most cruel death, but it's certainly embarrassing. Stay classy, Mr. J. | |
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: This is a game where you can drown a Nazi labor camp guard in his own piss. | |
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, Slit is the villainous spear-throwing Evil Counterpart to the Heel–Face Turn performing War Pup driver Nux. Early in the film, he tries to rob Morsov of his Heroic Sacrifice by performing a Kill Steal and decries Morsov's attempt as "mediocre", a severe insult among Immortan's War Boys. Slit eventually dies as a footnote in the final battle of the film, his car crushed between the War Rig and a large tanker while screaming "VALHALLA!" like a feral animal. It's not even clear that Furiosa was trying to squash him; he got himself killed through stupid driving and nobody participating in the battle witnessed his last moments or even was aware that he died. Mediocre, Slit. | |
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Role Master (and its little brother M.E.R.P) had Critical Failure charts that could result in especially embarrassing deaths. | |
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The Darwin Awards, as noted, are pretty much built on this trope. With the added criterion that it has to be self-inflicted. That said, it is possible for a Darwin Award winner to be alive, if they otherwise render themselves unable to have kids. | |
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Happens to Voldemort in Dudley Dursley Saves the World, when he's smothered to death when Dudley jumps out of the window and falls on him. | |
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The Owl House: After his final defeat Emperor Belos assumes his original human form and tries pathetically to convince a completely unimpressed Luz that he's secretly been under a curse the whole time. Then it starts raining, the scalding-hot rain melting him back into a puddle of goo, and he resorts to an equally ineffective plea that she has to spare him or she'll be just as bad as the demons and witches of the Boiling Isles, before she stands back and lets him get unceremoniously stomped to death by her friends. | |
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LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga makes Snoke's death, already an anticlimactic event as is, one of these by having Kylo Ren initially fail to ignite his lightsaber the right way, forcing him to turn it around. Snoke not only gets sliced in half, but then the top of his throne falls on him as well. | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", there's a psychic who can see how people are going to die. After getting annoyed by Mulder's insistent questions about the nature of his powers, the psychic hints that he will die one by saying "You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation." It turned out he was just trolling, and Mulder was actually going to die in the line of duty (had a later vision by the psychic not allowed him and Scully to prevent this). | |
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Lesbian Zombies from Outer Space: It's hard to imagine a more undignified death than having your gonads bit off by Lesbian Zombies from Outer Space. | |
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Knight of Salem: Ozpin recalls that one of his past bodies met his death when he slipped on a wet floor and broke his neck on a bathtub. And for bonus points, he got reincarnated into a young girl afterwards, which made his then-wife unable to continue a relationship with him. | |
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In Ascendance of a Bookworm, Urano Motosu lived for books. Then died for them too after an earthquake shook up the messy books around her and crushed her to death. Her last thought was that she hoped she could read more books in her next life. | |
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In Yakuza, Sohei Dojima is shot in his own office by his own underling while in the midst of raping a woman. | |
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Dynamo5: Captain Dynamo, the world's greatest hero, did not die heroically in some battle or while saving the world. He died in bed, poisoned by the woman he was sleeping with. His body was left with his superhero costumes so people could identify him. Luckily for Captain Dynamo, details of his death were kept a secret from the public. | |
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The Sims: It's very easy to arrange this; if you had the mind to do, you could subject a Sim to die, burnt up, filthy, stinking to high heaven, and starving in a pool of their own urine. In The Sims 4, it's possible to literally die of embarrassment. This can be brought on by walking in on WooHooing Sims, being the one walked in on, or experiencing a Potty Failure, among other things. |
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In Don't Shit Your Pants, where the goal is to... well... typing "kill yourself", "suicide", or "die" will make the player kill themselves. In an aversion to No Dead Body Poops, it also causes the player to lose by making them shit their pants as they die due to loss of bowel control. Unless they took their pants off beforehand, in which case they shit on the floor as they die. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the episode "Avatar Day", it's revealed that Chin the Conqueror died when Avatar Kyoshi separated Kyoshi Island from the mainland and Chin was too stubborn to notice he was standing on an unstable cliff. To add insult to injury, he was wearing only his underwear when this happened thanks to Kyoshi blowing off his clothes. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice: Puhray Zeh'lot/Rheel Neh'mu/Ogamu Mainiiche/Fon Myou was a Professional Killer working for the Secret Police. His last job had him try to kill a pregnant woman. Said pregnant woman managed to kill him in perfectly justifiable self-defense. Getting killed by a pregnant target in self-defense is probably is one of the most humiliating ways for a hitman to die. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Mondo gets tied to a motorcycle which moves so fast the g-forces turn him into about the consistency of butter. Which Monokuma then eats on pancakes. While Kiyotaka's death- being bashed on the head with a large wooden hammer- isn't humiliating, he's killed right after getting some character development, and the circumstances surrounding Hifumi's death quickly draw his classmates' attention so he's barely even mourned. Hifumi gets clobbered on the back of the head after being played like an absolute fiddle by Celestia, who tells him a blatantly transparent lie to get him involved in the cover-up of his own death... which he never once questions. Celes is supposed to be burned at the stake, and is even seen standing at her own pyre... and then Monokuma denies her the sort of dramatic death she would have wanted by running her over with a firetruck. Mukuro's death is this with the advantage of hindsight. The Ultimate Soldier who survived dozens of battles without ever once being wounded and who can fight on par with the likes of Sakura and Peko dies like a chump because she never expected her sister would murder her For the Evulz, and her classmates don't even know she's dead until Chapter 5 (as she was impersonating Junko when she was killed), by which point her corpse has been blown up. |
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All of the jihadis in Four Lions end up blowing themselves up in stupid ways. For example one of them blows himself up by accident by tripping while trying to cross over a fence with explosives in hand. | |
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Borderlands: The biggest Player Punch from the second game comes when Big Good Roland, who was also a playable character in the first game, is unceremoniously shot in the back by Handsome Jack. The DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep is Tina's way of giving him a more dignified fate by making him a GMPC in her tabletop RPG campaign who gets to defeat the villain (who's essentially Jack as a wizard) along with Mordecai's bird Bloodwing (who was also killed by Jack). On a more humorous note, Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Professor Nakayama from Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt trips down a flight of stairs and dies shortly after the Vault Hunters confront him at the end of the DLC. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the episode "The House of Quark", a Klingon named Kozak dies when he gets drunk in a bar, pulls out a knife to try to stab the bartender, trips, and accidentally impales himself with his own blade. His grieving brother actually encourages Quark to lie and say he killed him in personal combat, as the truth about his death would be an embarrassment to the family. It soon transpires this wasn't Kozak's brother, but his rival, and Kozak's sorry death for once would've been a good thing since his wife would've kept control of their house per Klingon law. Later on in the same episode, Quark tries to invoke this to fix everything. Klingon honor requires he fight Kozak's rival, but Quark refuses to fight at all, robbing the situation of any potential glory or honor. It works. The Vorta Keevan is dramatically introduced in "Rocks and Shoals", in which he casually sacrifices his Jem'hadar troops to ensure his own survival. Then he dies in "The Magnificent Ferengi", in a chain of events that involves being hauled along to be traded for Quark's mother, accidentally shot during an argument over money, reanimated by remote control so they can trade him anyway, and finally left to continue bumping into a bulkhead on a deserted space station until either the electrical stimulation of his brain gives out, or his legs do. It's hard to feel sorry for him at any point in these proceedings. |
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In The Borgias, King Charles VIII of France (having managed to get home safely after several encounters with the eponymous family, which is quite a feat in itself) dies by accidentally bashing his head on a door lintel, which he somehow managed despite being very short. The two cardinals who bring this news to Rodrigo are trying unsuccessfully not to laugh, but Rodrigo himself doesn't see anything remotely funny about it, says the dead king had more steel in him than both the cardinals put together, and gives them a penance for their lack of respect. | |
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If you're rude to Conrad Verner in Mass Effect 2, he eventually storms off. A later news report states that while attempting to catch some youths riding the top of a bus, he fell off, struck several cars, and fell into the turbine of a biomass recycling center. That may or may not be a euphemism for a sewage treatment plant. | |
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The Ruling Class begins with Ralph Douglas Christopher Alexander Gurney, the thirteenth Earl of Gurney, accidentally hanging himself attempting auto-erotic asphyxiation. While wearing a tutu. | |
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In BioShock the player beats Andrew Ryan to death with a frick'n golf club. A twist: this was effectively a suicide by proxy since he compelled the player character to do it using a brainwash-conditioned trigger phrase. note The novels imply this was the closest he could get to replicating his Start of Darkness, but with him getting killed instead of his family. It's still undignified because he refuses to take responsibility for failing his city, pretending that his entire life up until that point was a Dying Dream. Frank Fontaine is stabbed to death by a bunch of little girls. While super hulked out on ADAM. Doubles as a Karmic Death since he is directly responsible for turning them into ADAM collecting abominations and they stab him to death with his own ADAM collecting needles. Dr. Suchong discovered that he succeeded in making Big Daddies protective of Little Sisters by hitting a Little Sister and having her Big Daddy pin him to his table with a drill for it. |
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Getter Robo: Emperor Gore, the main antagonist of the original manga, perishes in this way: after a drag-out battle with the Getter Team and the sudden ambush of the Hyakki Empire that saw Musashi's Heroic Sacrifice, the unveiling of Getter-G, and the destruction of most of his army and the retreat of what remains, he's seen the Dinosaur Empire's presence on Earth be whittled down to just him. Having found a level of respect for his longtime rivals, he decides to make a Last Stand in his tiny, barely-armed ship, a glorious sacrifice to show the valor of his people as the surviving Getter Team prepares to meet him head-on... which is then interrupted by a Hyakki Empire mech firing a volley of spikes and pincushioning him. Even the Getter Team are outraged at the fact that Gore essentially died via Kill Steal to a threat he'd barely interacted with. Seemingly returning the favor, Burai, leader of the Hyakki Empire, returns Back from the Dead in Shin Getter Robo and brags about how merging with a massive mobile base has made him unstoppable. The team decides to resolve the problem by ripping him out of his control module, which, as he was fused to it, results in him being reduced to a limbless, mangled torso before getting squashed like a grape. All this happens in a matter of seconds, and he fails to do any damage at all to the now ludicrously-powerful Shin Getter. Professor Lando, main antagonist of much of Getter Robo Go, gets his whole operation hijacked by the Dinosaur Empire and spends his last moments cowering in the corner, utterly shocked at how thoroughly he's been outclassed as all his contingency plans and self-destruct mechanisms turn out to have been disabled. He's such a mess that he doesn't even respond to an Any Last Words? request before Jatego splits his head in half. |
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Adrian Mole once met a somewhat mentally disturbed woman whose father died because a dog fell on his head in Torremolinos. Of course, everyone she tells this story will laugh about it, Adrian included. | |
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Happens to multiple antagonists in the Book of Judges of The Bible. King Ehud gets stabbed in the gut so hard crap falls out, Sisera had a tent peg driven through his head, and Abimelech had a millstone dropped on him by an old woman. Abimelech in particular lived just long enough to request that his armour-bearer stab him, so as to cover up his embarrassing fate. | |
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In Amélie, the title character's mother dies when a tourist committing suicide via freefall lands on her. | |
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Batman: All "Joker Venom" deaths qualify. You die with a huge grin on your face. This all but guarantees your funeral will have to be closed-casket, because otherwise, the mourners will be screaming in terror or laughing their heads off. In Batman (Grant Morrison), Doctor Simon Hurt, leader of the Black Glove, centuries-old founder of the cult of Barbatos, and possible incarnation of Darkseid, is ultimately defeated when he slips on a Banana Peel (dropped by the Joker in the issue prior) and breaks his neck. The Joker then doses him up with venom and buries him alive, while remarking how Hurt never managed to make him laugh. In Joker, the titular character shoots a man in the head, while said man is sitting on the toilet. It might not be the most cruel death, but it's certainly embarrassing. Stay classy, Mr. J. |
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Crescent City: After Bryce shoots Micah in the head with a golden bullet fired from the Godslayer Rifle, she dismembers his body, burns it, and then vaccuums up his ashes and dumps them in the bin out back. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): King Ghidorah meets his end when Fire Godzilla destroys his entire body, leaving one head alive due to his Bizarre Alien Biology. Godzilla then chomps him from the neck stump and Ghidorah attempts to get by flailing before Godzilla's atomic breath destroys him. For an alien dragon that almost destroyed the planet, Ghidorah's death is almost comical. | |
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In Clerks: Randal's cousin Walter. Then there's the old man who died while masturbating in the Quick Stop's bathroom. To make matters worse, someone had sex with his corpse. (By accident. She didn't know he was dead, and was very traumatized when she found out.) |
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In The Sims 4, it's possible to literally die of embarrassment. This can be brought on by walking in on WooHooing Sims, being the one walked in on, or experiencing a Potty Failure, among other things. | |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: What made Puss's loss of his first 8 lives this trope is that none of them were heroic, tragic, or even fitting of the kind of hero he was. All of them were avoidable, but it's only because of his short sightedness, arrogance, or just plain stupidity, he gets himself killed. They were, in order: stopping in the middle of the running of the bulls to flirt with a woman, being caught cheating in a poker game with dogs, drunkenly walking off a tower to prove cats always land on their feet, crushed by weights when he refuses a spotter, insisting he get launched out of a cannon to prove he's in no danger, eating a seafood dinner with shellfish (which he is deathly allergic to) and continuing to eat it, getting burnt to death because he set an oven on too high, and getting crushed from the bell used during his fight with the giant because he was too busy basking in people's praise and gratitude to notice. | |
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Bleach: Tokinada, villain of the Can't Fear Your Own World light novel, dies when he carelessly leaves the door to his manor open and one of the many, many people whose lives he ruined sneaks in and gets a lucky backstab. All while Mayuri is nearby and completely ignoring him. The complete mundanity of his death prompts Tokinada to laugh at how ridiculous it is that he's being killed by someone who's a literal nobody compared to most of the people who were trying to kill him an hour ago. He then dies content that not only will this deny vengeance to the likes of Tousen, Hisagi or Ginjo, who probably wanted him dead the most, but that he will also die without regretting any of his countless acts of evil, petty dickery and dog-kicking. | |
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In KonoSuba, Kazuma Satou sees what is apparently a truck about to hit a girl, so he rushes over and shoves her out of the way. He wakes up in the afterlife and assumes he sacrificed himself to save her and got run over. Aqua, the goddess who greets him, informs him that it was a slow-moving tractor that was going to stop and the girl was in no danger. He suffered cardiac arrest out of fright because he thought he was about to be run over and soiled himself. To add insult to injury, the doctors and his own family all laughed and mocked him for dying in such a pathetic way. At least he got to come back to life as a hero in a fantasy world. | |
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Godzilla: Final Wars: Zilla is given one as a very spiteful Take That! at the character's first American remake. In less than a minute, the original Godzilla tail-slaps them to the Sydney Opera House and blasts them with his atomic breath. Zilla's final words being an undignified "EEEE!". The Xillian Commander that sent Zilla to fight reacts to this failure by throwing a tantrum and calling them a "useless tuna head". | |
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In Anansi Boys, Mr. Nancy's was singing karaoke at an island bar at the time of his death, and as he dies, his last act is to pull off the bikini top of a comely audience member. It's clear that Nancy thinks of this as a great joke, but when his son, the protagonist, learns about it, he sees it as yet another example of his father being embarrassing. | |
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SMPEarth: During the battle with Big Bertha, the upgraded Ender Dragon, Wilbur died to a random enderman away from the battle. | |
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In Hot Rod, Rod had always thought his father died testing a jump for Evel Knievel. In reality, he choked on a pie. | |
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In Captain Ron, Martin and Katherine are having sex in the shower when: the door gets stuck, the drain gets clogged, and the shower handle breaks. The shower starts rapidly filling with water. They get rescued before they drown, but Katherine comments that would have been a very sucky way of dying. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: When Johnny isn't giving a Cruel and Unusual Death, it's this. In his Twitter, he mentions he killed someone with a cheeto. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Toffee of Septarsis is hit by a devastating energy beam from Star's magic wand. Reducing him to a barely-alive skeleton covered in slime. After a rant about how he "makes the plans" and only he "knows how this all turns out", he is anti-climatically crushed to death by a pillar dropped on him by Ludo. | |
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Gundam: The poor pilot of the GM Cold Districts Type in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket that has his suit's hands shot up by a Hy-Gogg and is shot in the cockpit by his own gun as it swings around on mere wires. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz: Dekim Barton doesn't go out in a blaze of glory or even get killed by one of the heroes. He's simply shot dead mid-rant by one of his own men, who likewise was a Treize loyalist, when it becomes clear his plans are for his own selfish ends. His son, the real Trowa Barton, also died like this, as he was the only Gundam pilot that was willing to carry out the original Operation Meteor and slaughter Earth and its people so that Dekim could rule over what was left. He tried to reveal the scientists' betrayal to his father before one of Gundam Heavyarms' engineers shot him In the Back and another (Our Trowa) took his name and his Gundam as his own. Yuuna Roma Seiran receives this in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. By this point, he and his father have led their nation into a foolhardy allegiance with the Earth Alliance, threw many of ORB's soldiers into the blender as a result, then knowingly harboured a war criminal which has led to Orb getting invaded for a second time. He's now rapidly losing support from his subordinates (who can tell he's lying at this point), and when his ex-fiancée shows up to bail Orb out, after getting him to acknowledge her authority as the country's de facto leader, she promptly orders his subordinates to arrest him. Then, he briefly escapes the officers escorting him, only to be unceremoniously crushed by a falling ZAFT Mobile Suit. Resident Corrupt Corporate Executive, Nobliss Gordon of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans finally has fate catch up with him for all the evil he caused in the name of profit. While leaving his bodyguards to use the washroom, one of the titular orphans he had hurt in the past comes back to shoot him to death through the stall while he's sitting on the toilet. |
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In Red Dead Redemption, former gang members Bill Williamson and Javier Escuella get killed after a simple headshot and, in Javier's case, hanging or death while trying to escape. Gang leader Dutch Van Der Linde dies by simply jumping off a cliff after being cornered. | |
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There are a couple of these in Ghost Trick, but the prize has to go to Lynne being crushed to death by a giant plastic chicken. That's not even going into the ways you can make some deaths into this, such as reclining a driver's seat, leaving him flailing helplessly on his back while his truck plows into a building, or Cabanela dying from a hard hat launched at his face at bullet speed. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: Broly: Paragus receives an even more humiliating death than his non-canon counterpart: Frieza shoots him in the chest while he's leaning on a rock for support. He barely has time to react, he doesn't even get a chance to actually fight anyone, and his death is treated rather quickly and casually. In fact, Frieza didn't even have a valid reason to kill him, just wanting to see if Broly would be angry enough to turn Super Saiyan. Compare to his non-canon counterpart, who is crushed to death in his escape pod by Broly, then thrown into the Comet Camori. | |
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New Hope University: Major In Murder: Eugene Alameda, the man apparently responsible for the killing games involving talented but potentially dangerous American college students, chokes to death on a meatball sub. | |
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Danganronpa: Each execution is specifically designed with the verb "humiliating" in mind... along with "ironic", "outlandish", and of course, "brutal". Of course, this isn't to say that some of the murders don't apply, as to be expected of a Deadly Game. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Mondo gets tied to a motorcycle which moves so fast the g-forces turn him into about the consistency of butter. Which Monokuma then eats on pancakes. While Kiyotaka's death- being bashed on the head with a large wooden hammer- isn't humiliating, he's killed right after getting some character development, and the circumstances surrounding Hifumi's death quickly draw his classmates' attention so he's barely even mourned. Hifumi gets clobbered on the back of the head after being played like an absolute fiddle by Celestia, who tells him a blatantly transparent lie to get him involved in the cover-up of his own death... which he never once questions. Celes is supposed to be burned at the stake, and is even seen standing at her own pyre... and then Monokuma denies her the sort of dramatic death she would have wanted by running her over with a firetruck. Mukuro's death is this with the advantage of hindsight. The Ultimate Soldier who survived dozens of battles without ever once being wounded and who can fight on par with the likes of Sakura and Peko dies like a chump because she never expected her sister would murder her For the Evulz, and her classmates don't even know she's dead until Chapter 5 (as she was impersonating Junko when she was killed), by which point her corpse has been blown up. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Teruteru, a chef, is executed by being battered and deep-fried. In a volcano. Mikan gets one of the most bizarre executions in the series, being injected with something and then shot into space while tied to a giant phallic rocket arm. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In what might be the series' greatest example, Miu dies by being strangled with toilet paper.ExplanationThe cast is inside a virtual reality simulator in which, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent a murder, had the following safeguards in place: there were no obvious weapons available, all objects were unbreakable (so you couldn't make a sharp edge by breaking something), and everyone's strength is set to be equal. Thus, the murderer resorted to toilet paper (present in the virtual house's bathroom) as an improvised garrote because they couldn't strangle Miu with their bare hands and the toilet paper wouldn't break when wrapped around Miu's throat. |
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MediEvil: In the backstory, Sir Dan Fortesque was a cowardly knight who was the first casualty in the battle against Zarok via an arrow to the eye, but was posthumously honored as the man who defeated Zarok by the King, thus earning him the scorn of the residents of the Hall of Heroes. Years later, he gets resurrected as a skeleton for a second chance to properly defeat Zarok and earn his title as a hero. Karl Sturnguard was a great knight with a magical shield that protected him from harm. He was practically invincible in combat, but then during a feast, his rival Dirk Steadfast made a snide remark about his "cowardly" defensive fighting style, and he promptly choked on the sausage he was eating and died. |
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This happens twice in the fight between the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch; The first case has Caboose manage to kill not just Donut but also Agent Texas, Tucker, and Church with a ricocheting sniper round, while the second case happens shortly after with Sarge, after making a badass speech for a final one-on-one Duel to the Death against Caboose, gets anti-climactically blown up by a grenade Tucker threw into a teleporter at the start of the fight. | |
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Kim Possible: Synthodrone 901 aka Eric wasn't destroyed by a vengeful Kim in her battle-suit or Ron taking advantage of a weak point, but by Rufus biting his leg and leaking all of his fluids out before becoming a shrivelled mess and dropping his weapon, accidentally blowing himself up. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In the episode "The Man Who Killed Batman", the Dark Knight is (apparently) killed by tripping while trying to beat up Minion with an F in Evil Sid "The Squid" Debris and falling off a rooftop right onto a propane tank that explodes. If there's one thing that pisses off the Joker more than Batman dying at the hands of a criminal that isn't him, it's that he was killed by such an astonishingly colossal dweeb. Similar to the above, Everyman Charlie Collins manages to scare the everliving crap out of the Joker in the episode "Joker's Favor" by threatening him with one. As Collins puts it, dying in any way other than a Mutual Kill with Batman is Joker's worst fearnote For further irony, Collins foreshadowed how Joker was really going to die |
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In Fire Emblem Engage, Nelucce, an Elusian soldier who led the attack on Firene Castle and serves as the boss of Chapter 5, flees after the battle and encounters Zephia. Realizing that she will kill him for his cowardice, he sucks up to her and tries to impress her with information she probably already figured out. When that doesn't work, he spends his last moments fleeing for his life and dies with a high-pitched death scream when Zephia kills him with her magic. | |
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The Whitest Kids U' Know: The skit, "What Really Happened To Abe Lincoln" had John Wilkes Booth (depicted here as an Only Sane Man) bludgeon Abe Lincoln to death with a claw hammer because the latter was extremely loud and obnoxious thus ruining the play. According to the skit, American historians thought that this was too ridiculous to document in American lore. | |
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1000 Ways to Die frequently showcases this trope, as the show is all about deaths that are unusual, gruesome, or both. Examples include men being killed in toilet-related accidents, and other people being killed by or during sexual acts. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: Rex Kyubi/Ginji Kyuubi was not only was he drugged by Tenma's aide so he would be fast asleep and unable to defend himself, but the killer used his one of his spears from his weapon collection to kill him with. Not to mention his death was used to frame his own friend. | |
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In A Very Potter Musical, Snape dies from getting bitten in the weiner by a coral snake. | |
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My Hero Academia: The Big Bad, All For One, goes out in an absolutely awful way. After being put on the ropes by the heroes, he uses a refined version of the Quirk-erasing serum as a last resort, which doesn't erase his Quirk but instead reverts his body to a prior state. This gives him a powerful Healing Factor, at the cost of continuously de-aging him, with further damage accelerating the regression. In the end, he's pushed to the point where he's been turned back into a baby, and the once-charismatic Manipulative Bastard is left throwing a tantrum before regressing even further, turning him into a fetus before he disappears entirely. Making this even worse, The Hero of the story, Izuku Midoriya, isn't even involved in his defeat, with Bakugo (along with assistance from most of the supporting cast) being the one to do him in, thus cementing his humiliating demise as a sign that he was actually just a Big Bad Wannabe, with Shigaraki now having surpassed him and taken that position. | |
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Fanatical Nazi superhero and Captain Marvel/Thor knockoff Stormfront was stomped to death, in true Skinhead fashion, by people representing the allied forces during World War II. | |
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In The Boondocks, Uncle Ruckus is attending his grandmother Nelly's funeral with his abusive father, who was himself abused by Nelly as a child. When he berates his father for using Nelly's mistreatment of him to avoid responsibility for his actions, the senior Ruckus tries to hit him with a beer bottle, only to suffer a spasm of back pain and fall into Nelly's grave, breaking his neck. | |
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Although the fight between Thanos and Darkseid goes to absolutely insane heights, Thanos' ultimate fate meets this trope. He asks Darkseid "Who are you?" and gets invited to Fourth World — another reality, which means the Infinity Stones of his own reality serve no purpose. Thanos, already on the verge of a Villainous Breakdown, goes for what is visually hinted to be a Suicide Attack on the New God, who shrugs it off and hits Thanos with his Omega Beams, condemning him to the Omega Sanction, where he will die a thousand deaths, each worse than the last. The first such death has Deadpool and Death (who Thanos is in love with, by the way) making out on his throne, and Deadpool takes him out with one shot from a pistol. | |
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Viridian: The Green Guide: Unlike in the My Hero Academia canon where he died in a Final Battle superheroic struggle for the ages worthy of his power as a Person of Mass Destruction and Greater-Scope Villain of the whole franchise, All For One meets his fate at the hands of Izuku Midoriya (who is the titular Vigilante Man and Quirkless) shanking him to death with a screwdriver and Eraserhead blocking out his Quirk so he won't regenerate. For further undignified points, he figured out Viridian was an extremely annoying Spanner in the Works and yet kept underestimating him to the bitter end. | |
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In the endgame of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dwight manages to escape from Ichiban's party via speedboat, taunting them about how he's going to run away to Switzerland and watch Hawaii burn. Mere moments after gloating about this, a shark eats him. | |
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In Disgaea, Laharl's father King Krichevskoy apparently dies by choking on a black pretzelnote The anime referred to a "dumpling of the damned" instead. In the Japanese version, he dies by choking on a dark manju; the localization change to pretzel is an obvious Shout-Out to the incident when US President George W. Bush choked on a pretzel and fainted. We later find out that this was slander, and Krichevskoy actually died in a far more dignified way; from wounds from fighting Baal, the absurdly overlevelled Superboss of the entire franchise. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Tyrion Lannister kills his father, Tywin, while the latter is on the privy. He even shits himself when he dies. Making it worse, Tyrion killed him by shooting him in the bowels with an arrow, creating an awful stench that persists even until his burial. The dead prostitute in his bed didn't help. Viserys Targaryen dies after getting molten gold dumped on his head by Khal Drogo, after whimpering and begging for his life. A historical example from the same universe turns up in Fire & Blood: Criston Cole, Lord Commander of Aegon II's Kingsguard, finds his forces trapped by a numerically superior enemy army. Out of desperation and pride in his abilities as a warrior, he tries to challenge the enemy commanders to a three-on-one Trial by Combat. They retort that they won't allow Cole any possible romanticisation of his death, since he's partly responsible for starting the civil war they're fighting, then have their archers kill Cole. Aenys I died of a bowel illness at the age of thirty-five, brought on by stress. Aegon IV "the Unworthy" Targaryen. While many kings are fat, Aegon's weight actually caught up with him. By the end of his reign, he was so morbidly obese he could not rise from his seat, which was covered in his feces. His arms were rotten and infested with "flesh-worms" (i.e. maggots). The maesters tried to give him the milk of the poppy, but it could not alleviate his pain, and he died at the age of 49. The septons considered his fate a judgment from the gods- and one can't deny he deserved it. Luthor Tyrell, who rode off a cliff while hawking because he was not paying attention to where his horse was going. Tyrion wonders if his wife, Olenna, was making it up (since the late Robert Baratheon was indirectly killed during his hunting trip), but she seems to be genuine. He also wonders if it was a form of suicide so Lord Luthor could get away from his wife. |
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All four main characters on The Good Place suffered incredibly humiliating deaths shortly before the start of the series that were erased from their memories to ease their transition into the afterlife: Eleanor was bending down to pick up a bottle of Lonely Gal Margarita Mix for One when a wayward column of shopping carts rammed into her and swept her into the path of a truck with a billboard advertising an erectile dysfunction pill. Funnily enough, the first EMT to arrive was an ex-boyfriend of hers. Chidi was crushed by a falling air conditioner while paralyzed with indecision about which bar to go to with his friend. Jason tried to stage an extremely poorly thought-out robbery that ended with him suffocating to death in a fake safe because neither he nor his accomplice thought to put air holes in it. Not helped by Jason doing a bunch of whippets while still inside the safe. Tahani was crushed to death after trying to knock down a golden statue of her sister who was always ridiculously better than her in every single conceivable way, while said sister was in the middle of a party to celebrate her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even worse, she died in Cleveland. |
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One Piece. Zoro's childhood best friend and rival, Kuina, died when she tripped down a flight of stairs. Her sudden and random death is a source of angst for Zoro, who found it outrageous a sword fighter as skilled as her and filled with such great ambitions could die in a mundane household accident. Oars the Continent Puller, a gargantuan giant said to be a ferocious beast hailing from a clan of giants who were especially evil, died not from old age or injuries sustained in battle, but by walking around in an extremely cold environment wearing only his loincloth. "Waterfall Beard" Jorul was a hero to the giants and one of the oldest warriors in the setting. He attempted to stop a 5 years old Charlotte Linlin after she went on a food craving rampage through a village. Linlin broke his sword, grabbed him by the beard, and fatally slammed him into the ground. He later expired from his injuries due to his old age. Jorul's death was most disgraceful for an Elbaf warrior and earned Linlin scorn and hatred from giants around the globe. She was only spared out of the respect that the people of Elbaf felt for Mother Carmel, her caretaker. |
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Dead Like Me: In the very first episode, George dies after getting hit by a toilet seat that broke off of Space Station MIR as it reentered Earth's atmosphere. The Gravelings caused Rube Goldberg-esque chain reactions that caused bizarre, comical, and very undignified deaths for many of the show's victims. |
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The Boys: Butcher reveals the less flattering details of superheroes' deaths, including one who drowned in jizz. Another had a live hamster in his rectum. George W. Bush decapitated himself in a bizarre incident involving a chainsaw at his ranch in Texas. Incumbent President Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer was killed by a rabid wolverine released by Vic the Veep (he thought it was a pet rabbit). A Vough executive was chewed out for joking the animal was "the best at what he does". Fanatical Nazi superhero and Captain Marvel/Thor knockoff Stormfront was stomped to death, in true Skinhead fashion, by people representing the allied forces during World War II. |
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NewsRadio: A coworker no one can remember, "Ted", is asphyxiated after hours when his tie gets caught in the copy machine. | |
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Sweetie: This happens to Sweetie when she insists on jumping in the tree house so hard the floor starts to shake. The house finally breaks and Sweetie does not survive the fall from the tree. | |
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In Quantum of Solace, Elvis is killed by an explosion that destroys his pants. | |
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A historical example from the same universe turns up in Fire & Blood: Criston Cole, Lord Commander of Aegon II's Kingsguard, finds his forces trapped by a numerically superior enemy army. Out of desperation and pride in his abilities as a warrior, he tries to challenge the enemy commanders to a three-on-one Trial by Combat. They retort that they won't allow Cole any possible romanticisation of his death, since he's partly responsible for starting the civil war they're fighting, then have their archers kill Cole. | |
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Some of the potential fates of the King in King of the Castle are particularly embarrassing. For example, if the Coast gains a monopoly on the kingdom's wealth and turns the King into their corporate mascot, the King will end up drowning in milk while advertising cereal. | |
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Fate/Zero: In life, Diarmuid never got the chance to fulfill his dream of serving his lord faithfully and dying with honor. When given another chance as the Servant Lancer to fight as a knight and serve his Master, History Repeats itself when circumstances similar to his first death lead to his second. Before he could finish his duel with Saber, her Master Kiritsugu (a notorious Combat Pragmatist) holds the fiance of Lancer's Master hostage and forces him to use his remaining Command Spells to have Lancer commit suicide. He does this by stabbing himself with Gáe Dearg which causes him to slowly die in a pool of his own blood. His one wish of falling in battle like an honorable knight crushed, he ends up cursing his fate, the grail, and all those present as he dies. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live-Action 90s Trilogy: In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Shredder (aka Oroku Saki) gets an undignified defeat at the hands of Splinter, being tossed over the rooftops by Splinter's singular nunchuck move and falling into a garbage truck compactor which Casey Jones pulls the lever with a comedic "Oops!" to crush Shredder in a cube. This is actually invoked by Splinter, who believes that Shredder doesn't deserve to die with honor since he killed Hamato Yoshi, Splinter's former owner, with dishonorable tactics. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Shredder manages to survive his undignified defeat... only to get a more humiliating demise at the film's climax. He drinks the last vial of mutagenic ooze to become the all-powerful Super Shredder to destroy the Turtles, but his brute tactics and super strength ends up destroying the dock above him and he gets crushed by a pile of wood without managing to land a blow on the Turtles, who simply dive into the ocean for protection. Unlike the last film, he ends up dying for real. |
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Blood-C: The extremely beautiful Kanako Tsutsutori. An Elder Bairn first chomps down on her neck, drawing a spray of blood and causing her to shriek, after which it rips off a chunk of a shoulder and drains her blood, killing her and casting her corpse down to the ground. Her dead body is then shown lying with her thighs spread and her skirt hiked up, exposing her purple panties, while her camisole top has been partially torn, exposing one of her breasts. May also be a subversion of Drop Dead Gorgeous. Before the previously mentioned example occurs, Nono Motoe — after trying to escape an Elder Bairn by pushing her twin sister in its path — gets her just desserts by being hoisted up in the air, her underwear exposed, before being violently pulled in half starting at the crotch, screaming her lungs out all the while. Nene, said twin sister, gets picked up by the legs and smashed apart on the pavement after Nono elbows her in front of the Elder Bairn... but her death is at least quick by comparison. |
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The Venture Bros.: Most of Hank and Dean's deaths are this, in large part due to their Too Dumb to Live attitudes. One that stands out is Dean being killed by tripping over while running with scissors—safety scissors, no less. It's not for no reason that Doc kept clones of them around for so long. Race Bannon, main character of Jonny Quest and genuine badass, gets killed when he leaps out of a plane, opens his parachute... and then the plane, while careening, clips him with its wing and shatters his ribcage. When a group of kids find him, they use his spy gadgets as toys. He lives long enough to give Brock the information to finish his mission... and then craps himself. The inch-tall hero and member of the original Team Venture Doctor Entmann, once known as Humongoloid, is killed by a rocking chair when the Action Man sits down and leans back, crushing him. The Sovereign dies by getting shot accidentally by Headshot while in his eagle form. 21 lampshades in a recap how "a chump who wanted to be not a chump" "died a chump". The supervillain The Creep, rogue member of the OSI and head of a splinter faction of the Peril Partnership, is killed when he's distracted during a game of lawn darts and one of them lands on his head. (Then again, he did consider it "the most dangerous game"...) |
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In Jack (David Hopkins), a soldier is said to have died after accidentally taking a shit on a landmine. The one telling the story finds it hilarious. | |
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In Nerdy Prudes Must Die, the ghost of Max Jägerman hands these out in the form of classic bully torments taken to gruesome and lethal extremes, with one character killed via lacerations to the chest followed by being drowned in the toiler (purple-nurpled and swirlied to death), while another is cut partway in half vertically via wedgie. | |
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Preacher: Marseille, having learned that the organization he's been serving most of his life is a sham, and the heavily inbred descendant of Jesus dies when the Allfather, a man so enormously fat he caused a plane to fail a landing because he wasn't sitting in the middle is pushed from a helicopter, landing on them. The racist asshole sheriff was forced by Jesse's voice-of-God command to "go fuck himself", and committed suicide after he severed his penis and, well, fucked himself. Jesus did not die on the Cross. His resurrection and ascension into Heaven is a well-fabricated lie to cover up his escape. He lived until he was 48 years old and was run over by an offal cart and then, in fact, died. Tulip's father Jake was shot in the back of the head while taking a shit in the woods. A fellow hunter mistook him for a deer. |
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Fate/Grand Order references several examples on this page, including Medb's death by cheese (which in her Servant incarnation grants her Hyper-Awareness of incoming projectiles and a special animation of her kicking the cheese back as one of her attacks) and Uesugi Kenshin being repeatedly reminded that she succumbed to her cancer while on the toilet. And then there's Morgan's death in Lostbelt 6... | |
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The eponymous death in The Death of Dick Long results from massive internal injuries caused by sex with a horse, inspired by the real-life death of Kenneth Pinyan. | |
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Jonah Hex: Jonah's death is almost deliberately anticlimactic—he was shot by a no-name robber in the middle of a card game while putting on his glasses—but not particularly silly, as an homage to the death of "Wild Bill" Hickok. However, the final fate of his corpse certainly is: he was embalmed, stuffed, put in a goofy outfit, and turned into a roadside attraction. | |
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Hellsing: Incognito, the Big Bad of the first TV anime, is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice in the best tradition of Vlad Tepes' victims, atop the Tower of London for all to see. In the manga and OVA, The Major has his vampire soldiers kill his superior officer by eating the man's entrails while he's Bound and Gagged, dying a sobbing mess. |
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Death Note has this happen at the end of the manga with Light Yagami. After spending the entire series as a megalomaniac with a serious god complex, he spends the final chapter going through a massive Villainous Breakdown that ends with him lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, screaming and begging for someone to save him as Ryuk makes good on his promise in the first chapter and writes Light's name in his own Death Note. The anime at least lets him get the slip from the investigation team eventually to die more quietly somewhere else. | |
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NieR: Automata: In Ending D, 9S manages to kill A2, but gets impaled himself in the process. She dies instantly, but 9S isn’t so lucky; he spends his final moments pathetically writhing and sobbing on the ground as he bleeds out, which takes an uncomfortably long time to happen. | |
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Robb Returns: When Janos Slynt is brought to be executed for corruption, he's already a mess thanks to a day in the Black Cells. Then he takes one look at King Robert and voids his bladder and bowels. Robert lampshades this: When Yoren of the Night's Watch shows up at the Twins with the preserved head of a wight, Lord Walder Frey, already shocked by the identity of the Green Man who called him out, promptly suffers a stroke and loses control of his bladder. His numerous descendants are too busy freaking out to help him, and so the Late Lord Frey dies passed out in a puddle of his own urine. |
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Suicidal Overconfidence: Bitsy Brandenham is beaten to death by the Kingpin after she repeatedly tries to intimidate and insult him, his weight, and his family. While it's only embarrassing because she brought it onto herself, it's nevertheless not a good way to go. | |
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The eponymous hero suffers from this in Jerry Springer: The Opera. In his own words... | |
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Boo, Bitch!: Gia gets crushed by a roadkill moose that was sent flying by a truck. To make things even sillier, she and Erica spend the next few weeks trying to preserve her body, which is still under a dead moose, using ice to prevent decomposition and hot sauce to prevent it from being eaten by scavengers. | |
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Akame ga Kill!: In the manga, the Big Bad Prime Minister Honest is caught by the enraged rebels after years of manipulating and oppressing the kingdom. Unleashing their rage upon the terrified, powerless and captive oppressor, they line up to injure and mutilate his body while he wails in terror, restrained to a table. The last we see of him, his limbs, genitals and nose have all been cut off, the blubbering man sobbing and pleading for his life. Syura and his lackeys in Wild Hunt go out in pathetic ways as well, minus Cosmina, who was a mindless, monstrous insect creature when she was vertically bisected in spectacular fashion by Tatsumi. Champ, after blindsiding Run with his Explosion Orb, decides it's a good idea to fight Run despite having a gaping hole in his gut. When he launches his Fire Orb at him, Run proceeds to reflect it back at the bastard, right into Champ's gut wound. The Fire Orb burns Champ up from the inside, and he dies screaming as he is reduced to a flaming skeleton. Enshin chooses to tuck his tail in-between his legs and flee when Night Raid seemingly kills Cosmina (which leads to her braindead body being used by Dorothea to create a monster with a Philosopher's Stone). He doesn't get far, and Akame cuts him down. His last words are him being dumbstruck by Akame's strength, and this was a guy who went about his daily life raping and killing countless women and and thinking of them as inferior. Syura himself gets his neck snapped by Lubbock, who had endured Cold-Blooded Torture from the former as well as a crushed testicle before using leftover strings from his Imperial Arm, Crosstail, to garrote the son of the Prime Minister. Syura spends his final seconds crying for his life, whining about how he can't die this way and that it's his destiny to become Emperor. One Neck Snap later, his dreams are dust, and he lies dead. Izou, after being mortally wounded in a Curb-Stomp Battle by Akame, tries to Face Death with Dignity after being cut down, and offers the one who killed him his katana, Kousetsu. He hopes that Akame will take his beloved katana with her so that it may "feed on more blood". Akame's response? Walk past him and slice him open again as she leaves. Izou is horrified by Akame's lack of respect in his final moments, and his last words are full of shock. Dorothea is easily the most pathetic when her time comes. After being flattened by Leone, she attempts to play dead, only for Leone to grab a huge boulder with the intent of crushing her with it. Dorothea drops the act and spends her final moments screaming and crying about not wanting to die, terrified at the prospect of dying as she has cheated death for a long, long time. Leone pays her no heed and smashes her to paste with the boulder, nonchalantly stating that all the people Dorothea killed didn't want to die, either. |
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A Bad Week at the Wizengamot: Fudge ultimately dies when he throws a rock through the window of 4 Privet Drive thinking it's Potter Manor and starts an explosive chain reaction that blows up the house and destroys Dudley's triple reinforced steel toilet seat, which flies at him through the window and slices his head off. | |
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Invoked in A Christmas Carol, where Ebeneezer Scrooge is shown that he will have on in his Bad Future, Dying Alone with no one to care or remember him after treating everyone in life so terribly. Thankfully, seeing such an event inspires him to change that. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vanilla Ice deals one to Muhammed Avdol, simply disintegrating him with a charge and eating his remains quickly. Though it is subverted when even he praises Avdol's selflessness, since it was a Heroic Sacrifice, and Ice gets in the receiving end when Polnareff gently pushes the vampire into sunlight while mocking him. His master, DIO, after many years of inflicting pain, terror, and destruction, gets punched in the leg, explodes, and his remains are put into the sunlight. Rudol Von Stroheim's army in Part 2's final battle. Doesn't get much more undignified than being mauled to death by a mutant squirrel. Yoshikage Kira survives both Josuke and Jotaro, but gets run over by an ambulance. Diavolo gets it even worse than all of them above, by being trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop of infinite undignified deaths. He's shown being stabbed by a homeless junkie, being autopsied while paralyzed but still conscious, and falling into traffic after being startled by a puppy. Sports Maxx is sealed inside a pipeline by Ermes' stand Kiss, where he drowns in raw sewage. In other words, he literally eats shit and dies. Enrico Pucci kills all the main protagonists... only to have his head imploded by Jolyne's Tagalong Kid Emporio Alnino, who tricked Enrico into giving him the Weather Report stand he needed to do it. The Rock Humans in JoJolion are almost all doomed to ridiculous deaths. Being set on fire using their own hair as a wick, a young child's stand confusing them into walking in front of a bus, stabbed to death with high heels, the list goes on. For human villains, there's also Ojiro Sasame, who gets caught by one of Jobin's Speed King traps and is boiled to death in his own pool. |
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Happens to both Squilliam and Plankton in Some Things Never Change. The former dies from a heart attack while sitting on a toilet on his 60th birthday (though he claimed it was his 35th), while the latter goes out on a whimper in chapter 3 after his synthetic body starts to deteriorate. He only has enough time to say how he regrets "everything" before withering and crumbling to dust. | |
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Shinji's death in Fate/EXTRA. He falls down, cries, and pleads with the protagonist for his life, citing that he's really only eight years old, and thus too young to die. Rider tells him that that's the way villains like them exit, making pathetic displays of themselves, despite the fact that she stays fairly composed. Later on, Julius seems like he has one of these, falling to his knees, refusing to accept the loss, and screaming in constant pain, though Assassin is amused that he finally found a Worthy Opponent. However this is, in fact, a Disney Death. They die for real later, in a more dignified manner. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Defied in an episode hosted by John Mulaney, who presents a Parody Commercial for a "toilet death ejector" that prevents senior citizens from dying on the toilet, shooting them back into their beds with a book in their hands so they appear to have died reading instead. The ejector isn't flawless, though, so the seniors may end up with their corpses smacking against the wall instead, and they'll still likely have their pants around their ankles and some traces of excrement. One Halloween Episode with Chance the Rapper has Chance as one of four ghosts who sing about their deaths, except Chance is noticably vague about how he died. When everybody else prompts him to explain his death, he admits his insides fried up when he stuck a lightning rod up his anus during a lightning storm to fulfill his fetish of being electrocuted up there. |
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Killing Stalking ends with the antagoinst, Oh Sangwoo, being accidentally killed in the hospital. While Sangwoo has raised hell for a lot of people, the person who kills him is entirely unconnected to him — she's just a little old lady who put a pillow over his head while he was in bed delirious from pain and crying out for Yoon Bum. | |
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The Outer Worlds: Captain Alex Hawthorne was instructed to set up a landing beacon for the Unplanned Variable's landing pod. Unfortunately, due to a recent head injury, he thought he was supposed to hold up the beacon. The landing pod promptly crushes him. | |
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Game of Thrones: Life has not been very kind to House Stark in that they leave it harshly. Their deaths were so brutal that they came to a point where some of it disgusted even some of their enemies. Lord Rickard and Brandon's infamous cruel and unusual deaths disgusted several characters long after it happened. Joffrey Barathron's death is extremely humiliating as it is grotesque, especially since it occurs on his wedding day. To recap, Joffrey chokes on his own vomit until his face turns purple, bleeds out his eyes and pores, and violently flails in his own vomit and blood before finally dying in broad daylight where all of his subjects can witness (and enjoy) his death, while his corpse looks like a bloated fish out of water. Like in the book series, Lord Tywin Lannister, one of the most powerful and feared men in Westeros, is fatally shot with a crossbow while he's using the privy. It doesn't help that there's a dead prostitute in his bedroom. |
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Arlong in Convergent Devil starts off arrogant and certain of victory. By the end of his fight with Luffy, he's hiding inside Nami's old room and praying Luffy doesn't find him. Luffy kills him by beating him against the entirety of the room to destroy the place. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Geoffrey St. John from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) gets possessed by Ixis Naugus after backstabbing Sonic and the Freedom Fighters to put him on the throne. While it doesn't kill him, this was his last on-page appearance before he was erased in the Soft Reboot following the "Worlds Collide" crossover. Doubles as a cruel Heel–Face Door-Slam, since Geoffrey was regretting his actions by this point. Dr. Starline from Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) is a Loony Fan of Dr. Eggman who crosses quite a few lines to gain his idol's recognition. When all his efforts amount to naught and Eggman subjects him to a humiliating Curb-Stomp Battle, Starline is reduced to a broken shell of a man and wallows in defeat as the sewer tunnel he's in collapses, crushing him to a pulp. By then, of course, he'd proven to be such a bastard that both Sonic and Eggman are indifferent to his fate, with only Belle the Tinkerer (who witnessed his death firsthand) even briefly pitying him. As a final insult, Eggman posthumously acknowledges Starline's work later on, just to stroke his own ego. |
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Spider-Man: Carl King/The Thousand, one of Peter's bullies who became a Hive Mind of spiders. He shows up, talks a big game... and then Spider-Man electrocutes all but one to death. That final spider escapes, vowing revenge- only to immediately get stepped on by a bystander. And that was the end of Carl King, no clones, alternate universe counterparts, or resurrections of any sort. In Spider-Verse an alternate version of Spider-Cat is drained of its life force by Bora after being used to taunt Brix that she got the kill and he didn't. |
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The Final Destination: Carter Daniels, the racist tow truck driver who tried to burn a cross in the backyard of a black survivor, ends up being dragged by his own vehicle, screaming and ablaze, while War (Band)'s "Why Can't We Be Friends?" plays in the background. The trails of fire eventually reach the truck's gas tank, causing it to explode, blowing Carter to pieces. | |
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The Suicide Squad starts off with an absolute flurry of these, as Team A gets almost completely wiped out in their doomed first mission. Weasel starts drowning right after the team airdrops into the water (though The Stinger reveals him to have survived, but fallen unconscious), Blackguard immediately announces he's sold the team out and gets shot in the face by enemy troops, Javelin and TDK are simply riddled with bullets while failing to accomplish much of anything (though Javelin at least gets some dignity in passing on his weapon), Mongal uses her Super-Strength to jump up and bring down a helicopter, but clearly overestimates her ability to survive the crash (which also reduces an injured Captain Boomerang to a pile of giblets), and Savant, after seeing all this chaos unfold, has his cool facade shatter as he turns into a screaming, blubbering mess and leaps into the ocean to swim for his life, ignoring Waller repeatedly pointing out the Explosive Leash he's on, which ends predictably. The credits even play over their various mangled corpses in Bloody Hilarious fashion, complete with Savant being nibbled on by a bird a lot like the one he killed in his Establishing Character Moment. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has the characters using a Speak with Dead spell to interrogate the corpses of various barbarians who died in a pivotal battle. Though several barbarians have comically abrupt deaths (forcing the group to find someone else who saw what happened afterward), one of them, Sven Salafin, takes the cake when he admits that he actually died on the morning before the battle, when he got out of the tub, slipped, and cracked his skull. | |
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Disco Elysium is known for being a game where you can die in very silly ways, due to the way the game calculates physical checks and HP. With a particularly low Physique stat, it's not at all impossible for you to die in the first room by trying to retrieve a tie hanging from a ceiling fan, overexerting yourself, and having a heart attack. One of the most notorious killers in the game is dying of a stroke from the pain of sitting in an uncomfortable chair. | |
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In King's Quest VII, several of the gravestone epitaphs in Ooga Booga Cemetary recount the various embarrassing ways by which the people buried there died, in limerick format. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: While the galaxy is predictably full of horrifying and astonishingly unpleasant ways to die, the death of the Eldar Craftworld Lyanden's Avatar of Khaine (the physical manifestation of a literal god) stands out for sheer humiliation. Losing a desperate battle against the Tyranid swarm, the Eldar sacrifice one of their Exarchs to summon the Avatar, who challenges the leading Hive Tyrant to a duel — and is promptly stomped to death by twelve rampaging Carnifexes while the Tyrant ignores it. Lucius the Eternal is a Chaos Champion with a gift/curse that, whenever he is killed, he is revived via the body of the person who killed him transforming into him, as long as they took some kind of pride or satisfaction in doing so. One of his most famous deaths was when he revived inside a munitions factory—and realized that he, one of the greatest warriors of the Emperor's Children, had been killed, not in an epic clash with some famed Space Marine captain, but by a landmine. The guy he revived from was just a random civilian factory worker who had built the mine, whose "pride" was simply that of doing a good job and providing for his family, and who had never even heard Lucius's name. Lucius is, naturally, outraged at being killed in such a lowly manner, and that this death in any way counted. |
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Hazbin Hotel: For a millennia-old immortal and powerful leader of the Exorcists, Adam's end isn't exactly grandiose. In the end, it's not Charlie, or Alastor, or even Lucifer himself that does Adam in. It's freakin' Niffty (the hotel's janitor and most likely the weakest of the main cast), who stabs him many times In the Back while he's in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown after getting his ass kicked beforehand. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Starscream's final and permanent death. Jazz and Prowl are attempting to reform the AllSpark, which includes the fragment in his head that's the only thing keeping him alive. He only just arrived and nobody even noticed he was around before he fails to stop the fragment from leaving him and he falls to the ground, permanently dead. | |
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In Illuminatus!, one of the old Nazis (presumably Hitler), who is hoping to gain immortality through a mass-sacrifice ritual, dies on the toilet with his pants around his ankles when the plan is foiled. | |
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Ghost of Tsushima opens with a Samurai being sent to challenge the leader of the Mongol invasion force in honorable combat, only for said leader to mockingly splash wine on the samurai, set him on fire with a torch, and let him burn for a bit in humiliating fashion before slicing his head off mid-scream. The sight enrages the samurai's comrades and prompts them to launch a full-scale attack... which proves to have been exactly what the Mongols were aiming for, as the army ends up charging right into a bottleneck and getting slaughtered. Later in the game, Jin meets the burned man's wife and can't bring himself to admit how dishonorably her husband died, saying he died a warrior's death in combat. | |
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Unsounded: The wright Hart in Ethelmik is killed by his own spell backfiring and blowing him up when he's crowded by a bunch of floating magical butts designed to advertise a local brothel. | |
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In Hitman (2016), you can spike your targets' drinks with rat poison, then follow them to the bathroom and drown them in the toilet bowl, while they're throwing up. Target-specific examples include: Pushing Dalia Margolis off a balcony just as her husband Victor Novikov is walking below it, killing them both. Dropping a giant moose statue onto Claus Hugo Strandberg. Dropping a toilet onto General Zaydan's head. Smothering Jordan Cross with the latter's own birthday cake. Drowning Penelope Graves in a slurry pit full of pig feces. |
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In one Warhammer novel, an empire soldier is killed by the way of being impaled on the spikes of an Ork Warboss helmet. As in, the Ork Warboss discarded the helmet and it just happened to land on the soldier. | |
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The Punisher: The Russian is (eventually) defeated when Frank manages to trip his morbidly obese neighbor onto him and weigh him down for twenty minutes. His second, final death is better, dropped out of a plane while chained to a nuclear bomb, laughing all the while. | |
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Goblins in the Castle: Goblins on the Prowl introduces Werdolphus the ghost, who eventually reveals that he used to work at Toad-in-a-Cage Castle as part of the cleaning staff, but he also wanted to impress Hulda, another of the castle staff, by making her laugh. One day, he was dusting the Baron's cannonball collection when he turned to try and make Hulda laugh... but lost his balance, accidentally pulled one of the cannonballs down, and died when it landed on his head, which is why it's his Haunted Fetter. He's too embarrassed by this to admit the truth until he has no other choice, as payment for Flegmire's help. | |
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Delicious in Dungeon: Despite all of Marcille's magical expertise, her first death came when a slime — one of the weakest monsters of all — dropped on her face and suffocated her. | |
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New Mutants: Cypher getting shot had shades of this. He died in the background from a gutshot while a massive battle was being waged. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Teruteru, a chef, is executed by being battered and deep-fried. In a volcano. Mikan gets one of the most bizarre executions in the series, being injected with something and then shot into space while tied to a giant phallic rocket arm. |
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Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor, due to problems getting Colin Baker back to film a regeneration sequence. The TARDIS is shot in flight and he strikes his head against the console - not the best way to go. This would eventually be retconned by the Big Finish audio books, which instead posited that he had lain down his own life to defeat the Valeyard. The Seventh Doctor sticks out for going out like a chump. He materializes in the middle of a gang war, is shot by a couple of punks, and is finished off by a botched surgery. Almost happens to the Doctor in "The Doctor Dances", had his ploy not worked. And another almost happens to Jackie Tyler in "The Christmas Invasion": |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Shredder manages to survive his undignified defeat... only to get a more humiliating demise at the film's climax. He drinks the last vial of mutagenic ooze to become the all-powerful Super Shredder to destroy the Turtles, but his brute tactics and super strength ends up destroying the dock above him and he gets crushed by a pile of wood without managing to land a blow on the Turtles, who simply dive into the ocean for protection. Unlike the last film, he ends up dying for real. | |
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Valter's death stands out in Sacred Stones. While every other boss gets at least part of a line out after being defeated in battle, allowing them some measure of closure by managing to get a last word in, Valter has the dubious distinction of having his last words being “Urggh...Gaaaaah!� | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Giuseppe "Gyp" Rosetti's ignoble demise: literally stabbed in the back by his right-hand man, while urinating and singing ''Barney Google With The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes''. | |
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Silver Surfer: In Silver Surfer 1999, after battling with one of Thanos's monsters, it is transformed into a tiny furry creature. Later, when encountered by Nebula, she notes how the pathetic creature at her feet had fought well for her father, and then nonchalantly crushes it beneath her boot. | |
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Yuuna Roma Seiran receives this in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. By this point, he and his father have led their nation into a foolhardy allegiance with the Earth Alliance, threw many of ORB's soldiers into the blender as a result, then knowingly harboured a war criminal which has led to Orb getting invaded for a second time. He's now rapidly losing support from his subordinates (who can tell he's lying at this point), and when his ex-fiancée shows up to bail Orb out, after getting him to acknowledge her authority as the country's de facto leader, she promptly orders his subordinates to arrest him. Then, he briefly escapes the officers escorting him, only to be unceremoniously crushed by a falling ZAFT Mobile Suit. | |
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The Wire: For all of the increasingly outrageous Gossip Evolution about his "Last Stand", in the end Omar Little (one of the greatest badasses in the series) gets one of the most anti-climactic deaths amongst the cast: a twelve-year-old wannabe gangster looking to build street rep approaches him from behind when he's buying cigarettes in a mini-store and blows his brains out. And that was that. | |
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Hunter × Hunter: While Chrollo Lucilfer was borrowing his Nen abilities, Hisoka effortlessly decapitated Kortopi as he was relieving himself on the john. | |
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Prince Guysbert, Bean's would-be fiance from Disenchantment, gets his head impaled on a chair made of swordsnote a Take That! (and Redundant Parody while we're at it) of Game of Thrones when trying to pick up the wedding ring that Bean threw away. He somehow survives for several months with the sword lodged in his head, only for his brain to fall out when he finally manages to remove it. | |
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Survival of the Fittest has had a few of these over its run. The most notable example would be that of Carson Baye's in v3, where he stops to take a dump... only to learn that the area he's in has become a danger zone. Cue Oh, Crap!. | |
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In The Savage Sword of Sharona, Sharlatin was found stabbed to death on the floor of his bedroom by his slave girl. Engorgia was devoured by the Kharnivors which she used to control. | |
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In Hedda Gabler, the Villain Protagonist Hedda tries to drive Lovborg to suicide by giving him an heirloom pistol and waxing eloquent about how to "do it beautifully", preferably via Pretty Little Headshot. When she later learns that he got shot in the bowels by accident while visiting a brothel, she is appalled. | |
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Donald Gennaro from Jurassic Park gets eaten by a T-Rex while on the toilet. | |
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In Star Trek: Generations, Captain Kirk dies when a small metal bridge falls on him, and he is buried under a small pile of stones on an uninhabited planet. On the other hand, in the process, he saved an entire planetary system from destruction. | |
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Heavy Object: Acres Kiss-of-Rose gets trapped in a barrel, with his head above the surface, that's filled with pebbles and an expanding adhesive that squeezed his body until he died of shock, with his hair falling out and his face grossly bloating with the tongue hanging out. | |
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Race Bannon, main character of Jonny Quest and genuine badass, gets killed when he leaps out of a plane, opens his parachute... and then the plane, while careening, clips him with its wing and shatters his ribcage. When a group of kids find him, they use his spy gadgets as toys. He lives long enough to give Brock the information to finish his mission... and then craps himself. | |
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Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle plays this for laughs: Syalis routinely gets herself killed in ridiculous ways while trying to find sleep aids, forcing the demons to revive her. For example, her quest for a more comforable mattress results in her trying to sleep on top of a gigantic and extremely poisonous mushroom. Repeatedly. Silmoth has a nervous disposition to begin with, but her previous relationship with the Princess' grandmother (who really enjoyed messing with her) means that she's even more high-strung when she's around. Then Syalis happens to sneak up behind her and does an imitation of her grandmother, which causes Silmoth to literally die of embarrassment. She gets better. |
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The stone giant Tessai from Ninja Scroll dies by cleaving his skull open with his own double-edged blade after Jubei cuts off his fingers. On top of that, the reason he dies this way was that he accidentally poisoned himself trying to rape Kagero, whose body is so toxic she can lethally poison a man with a kiss. The poisoning makes Tessai's stone skin fall apart and makes him reckless and demented, leaving himself open to attack and forgetting to catch the blade on its rebound. | |
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Listening to the shades in Hades shows that several of them died like this. Of special note is Aeschylus, who was killed by a falling tortoise after a bird mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped it on himnote which allegedly actually happened. During the early access release of the game (and in the final game after enough successes) Zagreus had various embarrassing ways to die when he reached the surface, including things like running into a brick wall painted to look like an exit, trying to make friends with a venomous snake, getting gored by an angry goat, stepping on a cactus, getting run over by a chariot, dying of boredom, and slipping on an "Exotic yellow fruit of unknown origins". All of them are Played for Laughs. | |
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In Cori Falls’s Pokémon: The Series fanfics, Jessie reads her dead father’s diary and learns that Ash’s father was a whiny manchild who abandoned his wife and infant son out of the delusion he could continue his failed Pokemon journey (years after losing horribly to Jessie’s mom in the first round of the Indigo League) but brought with him no supplies, and relieved himself by pissing on an electrified fence, which killed him instantly. Cori wrote Ash and his whole family so disrespectfully that someone else wrote a Recursive Fanfiction, titled At The Food Court, which says this was a lie and Ash Sr. really died in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Kanto region from a Chernobyl-like meltdown, explaining why the Power Plant is abandoned in the present. | |
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The fight between Wario and King Dedede consistently provides gut-bustingly hilarious moments as the two fighters keep putting the other in embarrassing situations, and the killing blow manages to cap it all off. With both of them grown giant, Wario attempts to finish the fight with another WAFT, but King Dedede throws a Gordo into his ass, stopping up the attack until Wario explodes (and takes the planet they're fighting on out in the process), with Dedede smugly floating through space afterwards. That is a new peak in humiliating deaths. | |
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Soap tells the story of Smithy Robinson, an old geezer who was beaten to death with a "15-inch black rubber cock" as a cautionary tale of what happens to the people that don't pay Hatchet Harry what they own him. | |
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The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Almost every death scene is undignified, as part of the comic's Deconstruction of War Is Glorious. Rotorstorm gets his brains blown out about ten seconds into the mission. The Jumpstarters die switching on a computer. Snare is shot in the head and spends a few moments rolling in agony before being Mercy Killed. Pyro makes a stand against a Decepticon horde to save his friends and gets graphically ripped to shreds in lieu of a glorious Last Stand. Ironfist survives the mission... just to die of a brain aneurysm a day later. These are just the main characters that die; many of the supporting cast and extras get even worse. | |
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South Park loves this trope. In the episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom dies by falling in the toilet when the lid is left up. The pressure of the toilet sucks out her internal organs. | |
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In the educational film Apaches, Tom drowns in liquefied cow dung due to falling into a slurry pit. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Shredder (aka Oroku Saki) gets an undignified defeat at the hands of Splinter, being tossed over the rooftops by Splinter's singular nunchuck move and falling into a garbage truck compactor which Casey Jones pulls the lever with a comedic "Oops!" to crush Shredder in a cube. This is actually invoked by Splinter, who believes that Shredder doesn't deserve to die with honor since he killed Hamato Yoshi, Splinter's former owner, with dishonorable tactics. | |
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Pincus of Ghost Town acquired his ability to see ghosts after a near-death experience during a colonoscopy. | |
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In No Time to Die, rather than get a climactic death, Blofeld and Safin simply die of getting touched with nanobots and getting shot respectively. | |
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has Arthur Morgan, survivor of countless shootouts and animal attacks and one of the most badass men in the Van der Linde gang, finally meet his maker at the hands of... tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs that, while treatable today with a course of antibiotics, was a death sentence for anybody who contracted it in 1899. Which he only got because he decided to get rough with a sick debtor. Arthur gradually wastes away to Nothing but Skin and Bones, coughs up bloody mucus, and looks like death. Possibly Subverted if he has high honor in the ending, as he dies from his TB watching the sunset on a mountaintop, content that John and his family will get away because of his sacrifice and that he has redeemed himself as a man. This trope is played straight with his low honor endings, as he either gets shot in the face and spat on, or stabbed in the back (figuratively and literally) and dies face-first in the mud. This trope is played straight with most of the other gang members, with Lenny Summers dying via gunshot wound to the chest while he wasn't looking, Micah Bell dying by the gun of the very man who was with him for years and years, Hosea Matthews dying in the street via a shot through the chest from behind, and Keiran Duffy dying offscreen via decapitation. In Red Dead Redemption, former gang members Bill Williamson and Javier Escuella get killed after a simple headshot and, in Javier's case, hanging or death while trying to escape. Gang leader Dutch Van Der Linde dies by simply jumping off a cliff after being cornered. |
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The poor pilot of the GM Cold Districts Type in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket that has his suit's hands shot up by a Hy-Gogg and is shot in the cockpit by his own gun as it swings around on mere wires. | |
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In the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust", while dressed as "Peter the Peanut", Chuckles the Clown is killed by a rogue elephant who tried to "shell" him. | |
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Several characters in ghostgirl have this in their backstories. For example, Charlotte choked on a gummy bear while CoCo got drunk, vomited in her handbag, and ended up drowning in her vomit when she passed out into the bag. | |
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A lot of deaths in the Homestuck fancomic Alabaster: The Doomed Session are ridiculous and demeaning, but the Award goes to the thousand guys who were killed during their orgy. Also, special mention to the trolls who managed to get impaled on Ophiuchus' ridiculous oversized horns. | |
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The Authority: In the side-story, Kev, an important British government official (actually an alien in disguise) demands to be given a prostitute. Kev's team takes him to one of their houses, where the girl freaks out and runs away to reveal the guy wearing garters, tights and an orange shoved up his ass. The team shoves him into the basement as they've been followed by paparazzi. Unfortunately, it also turns out the house's owner had rescued and kept an adult male tiger in the basement... | |
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Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: Rex Kyubi/Ginji Kyuubi was not only was he drugged by Tenma's aide so he would be fast asleep and unable to defend himself, but the killer used his one of his spears from his weapon collection to kill him with. Not to mention his death was used to frame his own friend. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice: Puhray Zeh'lot/Rheel Neh'mu/Ogamu Mainiiche/Fon Myou was a Professional Killer working for the Secret Police. His last job had him try to kill a pregnant woman. Said pregnant woman managed to kill him in perfectly justifiable self-defense. Getting killed by a pregnant target in self-defense is probably is one of the most humiliating ways for a hitman to die. |
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Twisted Metal (2023): Shepard is bludgeoned to death with a pistol while he was busy masturbating to a lolicon manga. | |
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Jobu Tupaki, main antagonist of Everything Everywhere All at Once, introduces herself by using her abilities as a Reality Warper to subject a group of cops to these, culminating in her killing the last one by beating him to death with a pair of dildos. | |
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Goblin Slayer: Spearman binds Evil Wizard in magic webbing, knocks out several teeth to make him incapable of talking or spellcasting, and then complains to Goblin Slayer and Heavy Warrior about how to get rid of him, to which the former suggests tossing him off the tower and the latter enacts by literally booting him over the railing. While all three make fun of how much of a non-threat he was. | |
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If your last name happens to be "Carmine" in any Gears of War game, then there’s a very good chance this will happen to you. So far we’ve seen one have his head taken off as he’s showing his superior officer his jammed weapon, we’ve had one swallowed by a GIANT WORM! and painfully dissolved in digestive juices, one was crushed when a deployment pod for a combat bot landed on him, and one was incinerated by the Hammer of Dawn while trapped inside of a vehicle. | |
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While Alastor's deaths in both Viewtiful Joe games aren't themselves especially ignoble, they're kind of undermined by him complaining in a whiny voice afterward that he didn't get a bigger part and begging for more screentime. | |
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Coco: Initially, Hector believes that he died of food poisoning by eating chorizo, which is a Mexican pork sausage and (because of its thickness) Mexican slang for male genitalia. This makes him a laughingstock until it's revealed that he was poisoned to death by his own childhood friend Ernesto de la Cruz. Ernesto died in 1942 when he was crushed by a falling bell at the conclusion of a live performance of the song he murdered Hector for, "Remember Me", due to a stagehand leaning on the wrong lever. |
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In Ptolemy's Gate from The Bartimaeus Trilogy Bartimaeus is forcefully trapped in a silver tureen of fish soup and has a ceiling dropped on it to prevent him from prying the lid off; his final thoughts before blacking out are lamenting how this was a pathetic way to die. The death part is subverted when the soup insulates him from the effects of the silver long enough for his master to summon him back. | |
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Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor: Albert kills Burks Blaumohn by throwing knives at him to make him bleed so that the drug in his system will get out. As a result, he dies pathetically from normal bleeding instead of magic. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: Adam Smasher is the Final Boss of all but one storyline route, and the game nudges you into this direction as he winds up as an immobile, burned-out wreck who can be finished off with a single attack of any kind, after you have been given exceedingly little reason to spare his life or offer him any kind of dignified exit. Popular player choices include a lead kiss right on the forehead from Johnny's Malorian, decapitating him with Evelyn's Cocktail Stick (a pink katana), avenging poor Rebecca by splattering him with Guts, or you can pull out Sir John Phallustiff and make Adam Smasher go down in Night City legend as the psychopathic walking tank who was beaten to death with a dildo. | |
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Gai Daigoji from Martian Successor Nadesico, the Hot-Blooded mecha pilot who in a more traditional Humongous Mecha anime would've met his end in a glorious Heroic Sacrifice, is instead shot in the back by a fleeing enemy and left to die 3 episodes in. What's even worse is that he nearly performs a badass Heroic Sacrifice earlier in the episode, only to survive just long enough to suffer a more unceremonious death. | |
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Fittingly enough this happens to Dan Hibiki at the end of his fight with Hercule Satan, after a hilariously ridiculous battle and being subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Hercule, Dan doesn't die by the World Champion's hands, at least not directly, but rather he dies because he swallowed a capsule that Hercule dropped earlier which opened in his stomach, causing him to explode to reveal a jukebox. | |
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In Batman (Grant Morrison), Doctor Simon Hurt, leader of the Black Glove, centuries-old founder of the cult of Barbatos, and possible incarnation of Darkseid, is ultimately defeated when he slips on a Banana Peel (dropped by the Joker in the issue prior) and breaks his neck. The Joker then doses him up with venom and buries him alive, while remarking how Hurt never managed to make him laugh. | |
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In Spider-Verse an alternate version of Spider-Cat is drained of its life force by Bora after being used to taunt Brix that she got the kill and he didn't. | |
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In Frasier, Roz tells Frasier the following story: | |
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Gigi Cestone from The Sopranos suffers a heart attack while constipated on a strip club toilet and surrounded by porn magazines. The series finale puts it best: | |
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Relatively common in Survival Of The Fittest Mini due to the Deadly Game premise, with a promimnent example being when Bridgette Sommerfeld meets her end as the result of being smacked in the face with a frozen fish. | |
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In the Gungrave anime, Millenion made man Cid Gallarde accepts execution in place of his son who unwittingly assassinated an associate of the organization. When it looks like his former rival turned best friend Bear Walken will kill him, he's poised to Face Death with Dignity, but when Bear can't bring himself to shoot him and lets Brandon do it in his stead, Cid breaks down. He dies weeping his son's name as a relative stranger guns him down. | |
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Succession: Logan Roy, billionaire media mogul and one of the most powerful people on the planet, ultimately dies of a pulmonary embolism while trying to fish his cellphone out of a clogged airplane toilet. | |
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High Risk: "The Doctor", the Mad Bomber leader of the thieves-pretending-to-be-terrorists of the film, manages to escape the final battle with only a little cut to show for it and calls the hero Li to gloat that he will continue to terrorize in the future… and that is when he starts to bleed from the nose. Turns out that the knife was coated in snake venom and the Doctor is too late to administer the antidote. He dies slowly and in agony, and to add complete insult to injury he encounters some people that disregard his pleas for help to steal his shoes, money and jewelry and dump him on the side of the road. | |
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James' parents in James and the Giant Peach were eaten by a rhinoceros. Not merely killed by a rhino (which is improbable enough given that they lived in southern England), but eaten by one. | |
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In chapter 14 of Smirvlak's Stone, Lorko Maeliss is killed by Nick, of all characters. While he's naked and orally raping Nick, Nick snaps and bites off his penis. Lorko's repeatedly stabbed to death shortly afterward with one of his own knives, while he's screaming hysterically. | |
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Wikipedia has a list of unusual deaths going all the way back to the 7th century BCE, though the majority listed are from the 19th century onwards. Many are unfortunate, others simply bizarre, but some qualify as embarrassing. One example may be dancing instructor Alberto Fargo of Lisbon, Portugal, who in 1998 was demonstrating to his students how to keep their heads held high by looking at the ceiling. He then tango-ed straight out an open window and fell to his death. | |
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The climax of Gravity Falls creates a stark contrast between Bill Cipher, who goes out panicking and begging for his life, and Stanley, who accepts the erasure of his mind with dignity. | |
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Fear & Hunger: One possible way to die is to jump into a latrine... with no way to climb back out. So you're left to starve to death or cut your own throat in a pit of feces. | |
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In The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Shen Yuan died of food poisoning in the middle of furiously ranting about a trashy stallion webnovel series. It also turns out that Shang Quinghua suffered a similarly undignified death when he accidentally electrocuted himself while plugging in something. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has one of the more heartbreaking examples with the death of Tasha Yar, who dies after being casually blasted by Armus in the episode "Skin of Evil". All she had done was just blow off Armus' boasts and tried to get to Troi when Armus blasts her, sending her flying into an undignified pile. The creature even admits he did it for laughs. Worf, a Proud Warrior Race Guy, is seen bristling at the idea of getting her old position when Picard promotes him. Heck, even the creators thought it was too undignified that they went and gave her a better death in "Yesterday's Enterprise"! ... and then they managed to pork that up by revealing Tasha survived that one and was taken prisoner by Romulans, kept as a concubine, and killed some years later attempting to escape. | |
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Grendel: During the climax of the Eppy Thatcher arc, villainous Torture Technician and Ignored Enamored Underling Mother Aimee is shot in the back, falls into a giant vat of crushed bananas, and drowns. (Yes, there was a plot reason for the bananas.) | |
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