People die, though not as much in children's cartoons. For a long time, BS&P did not allow for depicting death on-screen (though they were less strict with corpses). A lot of people faced ambiguous deaths, trapped in a fiery blaze or explosion, or falling of a cliff. This list those who are confirmed deceased on-screen, are mentioned as deceased, or have an ambiguous death.
| Episode/Movie | Character | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|
Batman: The Animated Series | ||
| Pre-series | Thomas & Martha Wayne | Shot by Joe Chill. |
| "The Forgotten | Several of Boss Biggis's henchmen. | Killed in mine explosion |
| "Robin's Reckoning" | John & Mary Grayson | Killed in an arranged trapeze accident. |
| "The Mechanic" | Arnold Rundle | Penguin sent Rundle on a boat ride through the sewers, that eventually ended in a giant whirlpool. |
| "Off Balance" | Vertigo | Falls to his death. |
| "Day of the Samurai" | Kyodai Ken | Refuses rescue from the eruption of Mount Kijiki. |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Chuckie Sol | Killed by the Phantasm. |
| Buzz Bronski | Killed by the Phantasm. | |
| Carl Beaumont | Killed by the mob chauffeur that would become the Joker. | |
| Salvatore Valestra | Killed by the Joker. | |
| "Avatar" | Thoth Khepera | Buried by the cave-in. |
| "Deep Freeze" | Grant Walker | Trapped in ice as Oceania explodes around him. |
| Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Submarine crew | Frozen by Mr. Freeze. |
| Gregory Belson | Killed as the oil rig collapses on top of him. | |
Superman: The Animated Series | ||
| "The Last Son of Krypton" | Jor-El | Killed in the destruction of Krypton, along with countless others. |
| Lara-El | ||
| Sul-Van | ||
| Science Council | ||
| "A Little Piece of Home" | Professor Peterson | Killed by Mercy Graves offscreen. |
| "The Way of All Flesh" | Dr. Vale | Taken out by Lex Luthor's henchmen offscreen. |
| "Brave New Metropolis" | Lois Lane (Brave New Metropolis) | Killed by Intergang. |
| Lex Luthor (Brave New Metropolis) | Killed when his escape pod crashes into a statue. | |
| "The Late Mr. Kent" | Kurt Bowman | Sentenced to death and dies in a gas chamber, but not before realizing that Clark Kent is Superman. |
| "Apokolips... Now!" | Bruno Mannheim | Killed in the explosion of Ayers Island Nuclear Power Plant. |
| Several Parademons | Killed in battle with the SCU. | |
| Dan Turpin | Killed by Darkseid's omega beams. | |
| "Where There's Smoke" | Kurt | Could not escape Volcana's fireball. |
| "New Kids in Town" | Brainiac | Teleported into the sun. |
| "Absolute Power" | Jax-Ur | Pulled into a black hole. |
| Mala | ||
| "In Brightest Day..." | Abin Sur | Dies of wounds sustained in the crash of his spaceship. |
| "Unity" | Reverend Howell | Body is destroyed by the Unity creature living inside of him. |
| Unity | Incinerated by Superman. | |
| "Legacy" | Countless Parademons | Vaporized by Superman's heat vision. |
The New Batman Adventures | ||
| "Holiday Knights" | John Erickson | Killed by the Joker. This is the first lethal case of Joker venom—in "The Laughing Fish", the outcome was left inconclusive. |
| "Sins of the Father" | Steven Drake | Killed whilst on the run from Two-Face. |
| "Growing Pains" | Annie | Sacrificed herself to save Robin, by allowing Clayface to reabsorb her. |
Batman Beyond | ||
| "Rebirth" | Harry Tully | Killed by Derek Powers' virus. |
| Warren McGinnis | Killed by Mr. Fixx | |
| Mr. Fixx | Possibly died in the crash of the gas transport. | |
| "Meltdown" | Stephanie Lake | Frozen by Mr. Freeze. |
| Mister Freeze | Suicide by allowing himself to be crushed by a collapsing building. | |
| "Heroes" | Terrific Trio | Their fates are left ambiguous; they were either killed or incarcerated. |
| "A Touch of Curaré" | Various police officers | Cut down by Curaré while they were protecting Barbara Gordon. |
| "The Winning Edge" | Jackson Chappell | The trauma of a blast, combined with the overdose of the drug, left him a brain-dead vegetable. |
| "Ascension" | Derek Powers | Presumed dead in the explosion aboard the submarine. |
| "Splicers" | Abel Cuvier | Presumably killed in the explosion. |
| "Earth Mover" | Earthmover | Killed in the cave-in. |
| "Lost Soul" | Robert Vance | Batman destroyed the Batsuit (in which he has downloaded his brain) and every remnant of Vance's self was purged and lost forever. |
| "Rats" | Ratboy | Most likely died in the explosion. |
| "Revenant" | Garrison Jacobs | Accidentally killed during the construction of the east wing. |
| "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" | Cynthia | Overloaded and then exploded. |
| "Sneak Peek" | Nabuo Taka | Died in a house fire. |
| Ian Peek | Consumed by his matter-phasing belt, Peek sinks down to the center of the earth in a permanently intangible state. Peek's ultimate fate is unknown. | |
| "Final Cut" | Society of Assassins | Curaré wiped their minds clean. |
| Master Assassin | Curaré flicked a gas capsule at each of their chests, releasing a chemical that wiped their minds clean. | |
| Mutro Botha | ||
| "Plague" | Falseface | Succumbs to viral infection |
| "April Moon" | Bullwhip | Implied to be killed by Dr. Corso at the episode's conclusion. |
| "Betrayal" | Big Time | Fell from bridge to his apparent death. |
| Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Bonk | Shot by the Joker with a harpoon gun. |
| Joker | Killed by Joker Junior, who had just broken through intense torture and brainwashing. | |
| Countless people | Killed by the Joker with the Hyperion satellite's laser beam as it plowed through Gotham City. | |
| "Out of the Past" | Talia | Possibly killed as her complex on New Cuba exploded. |
| Ra's al Ghul | His mind is in Talia's body as it is destroyed. | |
| "Curse of the Kobra" | Zander | Trapped aboard the airship as it crashed. |
| Kairi Tanaga | ||
| Dr. Childes | ||
| "Unmasked" | Kobra One | Committed suicide by jumping in a snake-pit to avoid arrest after uploading the data of Batman's secret identity. |
Static Shock | ||
| "Shock to the System" | Several gangbangers | Fate left ambiguous after the Big Bang incident. |
| "Frozen Out" | Maureen Connor's mother | Died of illness. |
| "Toys in the Hood" | Darci Mason | Melted by Toyman with a remote control. |
| "Flashback" | Jean Hawkins | Killed in the Dakota riots. |
| "Power Outage" | Hotstreak | Presumably killed in the ship's explosion. |
| Ebon | ||
The Zeta Project | ||
| "Resume Mission" | IU7 | Finally destroyed by Zeta. |
| "The Hologram Man" | Eli Selig | Possibly killed after his life pod crashed into the ocean. |
Justice League | ||
| "Secret Origins" | J. Allen Carter | Killed by the Imperium on Mars. |
| The Imperium | Burnt to death in sunlight | |
| "The Enemy Below" | Orm | Falls off a cliff. |
| "Paradise Lost" | Felix Faust | Killed by Hades. |
| "War World" | Krodar the Terrible | Killed in battle by Draaga. |
| "Fury" | Aresia's mother and many others. | Drowned amidst the wreckage of the ship. |
| The Captain | Died from exhaustion after saving Aresia. | |
| Aresia | Either died in plane explosion or drowned when the wreckage crashed into the sea | |
| "Legends" | Justice Guild of America | Killed in a nuclear war. |
| "The Savage Time" | Countless Allied and Axis troops. | It's war. |
| "Twilight" | Steppenwolf | Killed in a space battle with Orion's forces. |
| Desaad | Killed by Darkseid's omega beams. | |
| Darkseid | Killed in the explosion of Brainiac's satellite. | |
| "Tabula Rasa" | Professor Ivo | Died of natural causes. |
| "Only A Dream" | Penny Dee | Left in a catatonic state as a result of Doctor Destiny invading her dreams. |
| "Maid of Honor" | King Gustav | Poisoned by Vandal Savage's agents. |
| Colonel Vox | Could not escape the palace in time. | |
| "Hearts and Minds" | Arkkis Chummuck | Killed in battle with the Legion of the Third Eye. |
| Galius Zed | ||
| Despero | Consumed by Py'tar. | |
| Kalanorian soldiers | Turned into trees by the Py'tar. | |
| "Eclipsed" | Sarge, Chung and the other soldier | Killed(?) by an eclipsed Burns. |
| "The Terror Beyond" | Solomon Grundy | Dies of wounds sustained in battle. |
| "A Better World" | Flash (Justice Lord) | Executed by President Luthor. |
| Lex Luthor (Justice Lords' universe) | Killed by Justice Lord Superman with his heat vision. | |
| "Secret Society" | Morgan Edge | Killed by Killer Frost |
| Clayface | Implied to be killed in the fireworks explosion when the Justice League fought the Secret Society at the football stadium. | |
| Almost all of Morgan Edge's employees | Killed by various members of the Secret Society when they raided his island. | |
| "Hereafter" | Every single person in the world except for Vandal Savage and Superman. | Killed by Vandal Savage's gravity device. |
| Vandal Savage | Fades out of existence due to Superman changing the past. | |
Justice League Unlimited | ||
| "Wake the Dead" | Students | Implied to be killed by Solomon Grundy. |
| Solomon Grundy | Euthanized by Shayera Hol with magic-disrupting Nth metal mace to grant him peace. | |
| "The Once and Future Thing Part Two: Time, Warped" | Batman (Terry McGinnis) | Implied to be killed by Dee Dee by Old Bruce before Young Bruce and Jon reset the time stream. |
| "Hawk and Dove" | Nardoc | Killed by Ares. |
| General Olanic | Killed in battle. | |
| "Fearful Symmetry" | Gilbert Halstrom | Killed by Galatea. |
| General Hardcastle | Killed by Galatea. | |
| "Ultimatum" | The Ultimen | Expire from faulty genetics. |
| "Dark Heart" | Billy | Consumed by the Dark Heart. |
| "The Doomsday Sanction" | Milo | Killed by Doomsday. |
| "Double Date" | Franco Bertinelli and his wife | Killed by Steven Mandragora in a coup. |
| Tommy Monaghan | A loose end cleaned up at Mandragora's orders. | |
| "Hunter's Moon" | Hro Talak | Sacrificed himself to give his troops a chance to escape. |
| Kragger | Fell to his death after Shayera Hol disabled his suit's flight powers. | |
| "Epilogue" | Ace | Succumbs to expanding powers. |
| "I Am Legion" | All Blackhawks except for Chuck Sirianni. | Revealed to have died some time between the 70s and 00s. |
| "Chaos at the Earth's Core" | Dino Trooper | Killed by Deimos. |
| various soldiers of Skartaris | Killed in battle; at least one is eaten by a giant worm; Silver Banshee may also have killed some (it is unclear if they actually died) | |
| Deimos | Killed in battle with Warlord. | |
| "To Another Shore" | Viking Prince | After years of wandering, the prince finally died a peaceful, if lonely death. |
| "Dead Reckoning" | Devil Ray | Killed by Deadman in Batman's body. |
| "Patriot Act" | German scientists | As their hideout explodes. |
| "Ancient History" | Bashari | Poisoned by Hath-Set. |
| Chay-Ara Hol | ||
| Katar Hol | Slays himself upon seeing his lover dead. | |
| Shadow Thief | Absorbed back into Carter Hall | |
| "Alive!" | Angle Man | Killed in the mutiny |
| Blockbuster | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Bloodsport | Blown up. | |
| Copperhead | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Crowbar | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Dr. Cyber | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Dr. Destiny | Blown up. | |
| Electrocutioner | Blown up. | |
| Fastball | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Goldface | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Grodd | Shot out an airlock into deep space after Luthor turned his mental powers against him. | |
| Hellgrammite | Frozen and blown up. | |
| The Key | Frozen and blown up. | |
| KGBeast | Blown up. | |
| Lady Lunar | Blown up. | |
| Major Disaster | Blown up. | |
| Merlyn | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Monocle | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Neutron | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Parasite | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Rampage | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Shade | Frozen and blown up. | |
| Silver Banshee | Killed in the mutiny. | |
| Tala | Drained of life and magic to reconstitute Brainiac. | |
| Weather Wizard | Frozen and blown up. | |
| "Destroyer" | Countless Parademons | Killed in battle. |
| Lex Luthor | According to Dwayne McDuffie they were absorbed into the Source Wall. | |
| Darkseid | ||