Deceased

Characters who died. Those who never died are listed instead under Living characters.

Heroes[]

Heroes who have died and have "remained dead"; this category should only include heroes that are currently deceased rather than ones who have ''died'' then returned. This also is for robots or machines that were destroyed/deactivated permanently. Undead Heroes cannot count unless they are killed. This also include heroes who were erased from existence.

• Died With Honor: The hero has accept the fact that their demise is inevitable and had dignity to face it. Many of the heroes accept it, before they get killed.
• Fought With Honor: Heroes who fight for their friends and/or family, and then suddenly die. Example: Sirius Black.
• Chooses To Die Rather Than To Be Saved: fallen heroes who redeemed themselves but choose to die rather than live to avoid further punishment and find peace in the after-life (if there is). A famous example could be Anakin Skywalker.

• Heroic Sacrifice: Usually most heroes sacrifice themselves to save an innocent life or someone who they care for. Good example for this is Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader sacrificed himself to save his son Luke Skywalker from Palpatine also redeems himself before dying.

• Died in Disgrace: Not many of the heroes commit something dishonorable or had no dignity to face their downfall. Good example for this is Light Yagami who turned to the dark side, in the end he is in despair of dying.

Villains[]

Villains who have died and have remained dead. This category should only include villains that are currently deceased rather than ones who have "died," then returned. This also is for robots or machines that were destroyed/deactivated permanently or ghosts/spirits that were banished to the spirit world as well. Undead villains cannot count unless they are also killed for good. This also includes villains who were erased from existence.

Various means how a villain died/remained dead includes:

• Violent Death: A villain winds up killed in a violent or disturbing way, such as fatally incinerated by an explosion, mutilated alive, etc. (Examples are: Dio Brando, Syndrome).
• Died in Honor: The villain has accepted the fact that their demise is inevitable and had enough dignity to face it. Many of the villains who died in this way are honorable ones. Thus, circumstances were includes:
  • Chooses to Die Rather Than to be Saved: Honorable villains defeated by the heroes choose to take his/her own life, preferring to die with honor than to live in shame like cowards. When they killed themselves, they can either give the heroes sometime to escape from disaster that they already started but cannot undone it (an example being the battle between the hero and the villain took place in the damaged ship/building that about to explode as result of the villains' own mistake or heroes' effort to foil their evil plan) or have the hero whom defeated him/her gave him/her mercy kill (e.g. Doctor Octopus,Baron Praxis,Brackus,President Snow, and Obito Uchiha).
  • Heroic Sacrifice: When a villain commits a heroic sacrifice before death, it is regarded as a way of redemption and dying with honor (e.g. Ingrid sacrificed herself to erase the Spell of Shattered Sight, redeeming herself and saving Storybrooke; and Nagato reviving the Konoha ninja he killed during his invasion).
  • Accepted their Death as their Fate and Faced it with Dignity: In this case, it needn't be a redeemed villain to die with honor. Even a villain that is Pure Evil can somehow die with honor if they accepted the death with no fear. Some of them also held no grudge when the Hero killed them as they simply accepted their fate. Examples of this are Stannis Baratheon (TV series only), Kefka Palazzo, John Doe, Yuuki Terumi, Makuta Teridax, Lord Cutler Beckett,Lord Shen, Siras,and Theo Galavan.
  • Fought with Honor: Villains who fought with honor in order to avenge, protect or defend themselves with no fear can die with honor. Example: Hephaestus died at the hands of Kratos after attempting to back-stab him, but it soon turned out that Hephaestus was trying to protect his daughter Pandora from certain demise. Kratos was deeply moved by it and promised to a dying Hephaestus that he will protect Pandora.
  • Remorseful Suicide: The villain goes aware of his wrong actions, and thus, they discover it's already too late to their redemption. Instead, they take their own life to fix their wrongdoings, it can overlap with Heroic Sacrifice, most probably if the villain was a Pawn or Brainwashed/Possessed. A good example of both of this is Shade (Cyberbots). after Jin defeated G.O.D., Shade, a brainwashed soldier of G.O.D., attacks Jin, so he can't destroy the weapon, but after Jin defeated him, he gained consciousness. Shade felt bad about the (Unwilling)assassination of Jin's father, Ken, which was also his best friend, the responsible of this hideous action was G.O.D. Thus, he used himself to destroy Earth Force’s Super Weapon as a form of redemption towards both, Jin and Ken.
• Died in Disgrace: In this case, the villain commits something dishonorable or had no dignity to face their downfall. Related circumstances include:
  • Villains who try to kill the heroes after being offered mercy or spared to live, only to end up dying in the process. Scar, Gaston, King Stefan, Clayton, Frieza, and Murad are good examples.
  • Villains who are killed by their own allies who come to realize just how evil the villain really is (Jenner is a prime example after being literally stabbed in the back by his own henchman, Sullivan; Scar Aerys II Targaryen was slain by Jaime Lannister after Aerys told Rossart to detonate the wildfire caches, and ordered Jaime to kill his father and bring Aerys his head; Dick Hardly when the clones kill him after realizing that he never loved them; and Emperor Palpatine when Vader throws him to the bottom of the reactor shaft while he tortures his son). Or were killed/abandoned to die by their superiors when they found no use for them or wanting to take over. (A good example are Miraz being killed by Glozelle in attempt to continue the war against the Narnians).
  • Villains who die in an ill-conceived, foolish, and/or desperate attempt on the heroes' life, such as an "I'm taking you with me" type attack that backfires (Good examples include Gleeman Vox's failed attempt to kill Ratchet, the Great Intelligence's reversed attempt to destroy the Doctor, Pete Anderson's failed attempt to kill Rick Grimes, even trying to blame him everything that happened to him, and Deidara's failed attempt to kill Sasuke Uchiha by blowing himself up).
  • Villains who try to weasel their way out of their predicament by trying to talk the heroes into mercy, only for the hero to realize that they have no remorse for their actions and kill them anyway. (Sentinel Prime, Raynare, William Afton, Steven Jacobs, Arkham, Dandy Mott, and ironically Koba are prime examples of such).
  • Arrogants or Egotists who spend their last moments questioning how they could possibly be beaten. (Luciano Bradley and Menomaru are good examples of this).
  • Villains pleading/begging for their death when they are being suffered/tortured. (Cato pleases for help when he was attacked by the Mutt Mutants so Katniss, couldn't bear the agonizing moans, ends his suffering by shooting her last arrow at him; Szayel Aporro Granz, trapped in the drug of Mayuri Kurotsuchi, begs for his death, the sword coming closer, slowly through his senses, pleading it to hurry up as it pierces his heart, killing him; Hiling Care Before her mobile suit exploded by Allelujah Haptism, She was able to cry out to Ribbons for help her).
• Died off-screen: In most cases, certain villains have met their fate onscreen. But, in this case, the villain's death was not shown but was mentioned by a character that he or she met their fate when no one else was there to see it. (Nox, after depleting the last of his wakfu in a failed attempt to return to the past, escapes justice by teleporting out of the Sadida Kingdom, only to fade and crumble away offscreen as his age catches up to him)

By extension, none of the deceased characters can be a Karma Houdini if they have not died of natural causes nor taken their own life, no matter their influence on the plot. Characters who are confirmed dead rather than simply being presumed as much are different; please keep those categories separated.