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'''Injury and death''' are recurring [[themes]] on ''[[Futurama]]''.
'''Injury and death''' are recurring [[themes]] on ''[[Futurama]]''.
== By Episode ==
== [[Season 6]] ==
=== {{e|6ACV01}} ===
=== {{e|6ACV01}} ===
*At the beginning of the [[Episode Listing|episode]] {{Fry}} is covered with horrible burns, and nine of the eleven [[List of primary characters|major characters]] are dead and hanging gruesomely over a [[Birthing machine|vat]] of [[Adult stem cell|stem cells]]. As we learn later, although these [[Planet Express crew|crewmembers]] are "revived" in some sense, this Fry is a [[Robots|robot]], and the real Fry is dead. That is, really dead.
*At the beginning of the [[Episode Listing|episode]] {{Fry}} is covered with horrible burns, and nine of the eleven [[List of primary characters|major characters]] are dead and hanging gruesomely over {{Farnsworth}}'s [[birthing machine]]. As we learn later, although these [[Planet Express crew|crewmembers]] are "revived" in some sense, this Fry is a [[Robots|robot]], and the real Fry is dead. That is, really dead, his remains having disintegrated when Farnsworth dumped them into the birthing machine.
*{{Zoidberg}} cuts off {{Hermes}}' "umbilical cord".
*Bender dies for a moment after emerging from the birthing machine.
*{{Bender}}'s [[antenna]] pokes Fry in the eye.
*Bender dies for a moment.
*{{Leela}} spends some time in a coma and a euthanasia/memorial service is held for her.
*{{Leela}} spends some time in a coma and a euthanasia/memorial service is held for her.
*Bender causes various unspecified injuries on a dance floor at a [[Studio 122133|bar]] and is thrown out onto his back in the street.
*Leela's comatose body takes a beating in Farnsworth and Fry's final attempts at reviving her.
*Leela's comatose body takes a beating in [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] and Fry's final attempts at reviving her.
*The two Leelas have a karate fight over Fry.
*[[Robo-Fry|Robot-Fry]] accidentally shoots himself in the chest with a [[Raygun|ray-gun]].
*Excessive vibration causes Bender to drop one of his eyes when he decides finally to stop partying.
*Bender explodes inside the [[Cyclophages|cyclops eater]], apparently killing it.


=== [[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]] ===
=== {{e|6ACV02}} ===
* Zapp shoots Emperor Chop-Chop in the chest.
* V-GINY destroys a number of inhabited planets.
* V-Giny destroys three inhabited planets.
* Zapp smacks his nose, and later his groin, against Farnsworth's stealth fighter.
* Bender laments the death of his guinea pig.
* While Farnsworth describes the formation of V-GINY, his presentation holgram explodes, throwing the bodies of everyone pleasant in every direction.
* Farnsworth slaps Fry in the face.
* For a while, Leela believes that the earth has been destroyed.
* For a while, Leela believes that the earth has been destroyed.
* An apple falls from a tree and hits Leela on the head.
* Leela beats Zapp when she finally gets the whole truth of his ruse to get sex from her.


=== [[Attack of the Killer App]] ===
=== {{e|6ACV04}} ===
* [[Third World of the Antares system|Antarians]] partially disassemble Bender.
* Seeing personal items in the captured tornado, the crew believe for a moment that Bender and Amy have been gruesomely killed.
* An Antarian bird flies through a cloud of toxic smoke and comes out a skeleton, which continues flying.
* On the Third World of the Antares system, Fry gets a nosebleed from breathing fumes from a toxic fire.
* An Antarian dog's tail spontaneously falls off.
* Antarian children play in a pile of toxic waste. Later, off-screen, they are whipped.
* On the news, Morbo wraps up a "breaking puff piece" with an overlay depicting a frightened cat on a tree branch and the caption, "Death Plunge".
* An iPhone advertisement explains that an iPhone owner can check his/her email while being hit by a train.
* Approaching the iPhone store, and finding himself walking into bright light, Farnsworth believes that he has died.
* Fry has his iPhone and earpiece installed.
* Mom and her sons appear in this episode; stooge-style injuries ensue throughout
* A character on "[[The Real Housewives of Sim City]]" repeatedly crashes into a wall.
* On an episode of "All My Circuits", Calculon's nephew has had one of his dimensions cut off.
* Leela is thrown through the windshield of the Planet Express ship as it crashes into its hangar. She lands on the company conference table.
* At MomCorp headquarters, an infosquito sucks something from the brain of a market study participant.
* Bender shows a video of Fry being incapacitated by a coat-stand in a mock karate match.
* Farnsworth sets his own head on fire in a Mentos accident.
* Leela lances Susan in the middle of "Amazing Grace". Later, Leela smashes Susan by sitting down hard on a curb.
* Hoschel mentions that Jared from Subway was eaten by a giant caterpillar.
* Fry breaks a diving board, falling two stories onto the Planet Express hot tub deck.


=== {{e|6ACV07}} ===
* Of course, although everything works out in the end, it is still true that all of the other original characters die when Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender go into the future. And of course, in the final universe, the Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender who were already there are killed by the Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender from the original universe.
* At Hedonismbot's bachelor party, a nuclear accident kills all the participants except for Hedonismbot himself. The crew spend the rest of their lives believing that Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender were killed in the accident.
* When the time-travelers finally drop out of time, the time machine falls to Earth, killing their "duplicates".
=== {{e|6ACV11}} ===
* Lrrr accidentally disintegrates Fry with a ray-gun. For a few moments, everyone believes that Fry is dead. The ray-gun turns out to have been a teleporter, not a real weapon.
=== {{e|6ACV13}} ===
* Although necessarily [[canon|non-canonical]], this episode has everyone on Earth dying twice, and the crew presumably dying a third time.
=== {{e|6ACV14}} ===
In this episode, everyone gets a double-dose of Bender dying. First, when Billy allows Farnsworth to examine his brain, Farnsworth announces that the EBI has destroyed Bender's essence in bumpkinizing him. In his friend's minds, Bender is dead. Second, knowing that Bender is gone but still believing that Billy is Bender's body, they witness Billy's murder. For a short time, everyone believes Bender to be truly gone.
=== {{e|6ACV17}} ===
* Farnsworth shoots Bender with a handgun. For a moment, everyone believes that Bender is dead. Instead, the bullet has been blocked by a bible that Bender happened to have in his torso at that moment.
* Again, after the Bender conglomerate is defeated by the marauding giant, everyone (including the [[Galactic Entity]]) believes that Bender is dead.
=== {{e|6ACV18}} ===
* Fry sustains a hand injury that results in blood loss and a liver disorder.
* Leela is sawed in half by Zoidberg and has her liver removed to replace Fry's.
* Hermes loses multiple vertebrae and much of his torso to Zoidberg's attempt to repair Leela.
* Scruffy is dismembered down to only a head and one arm to Zoidberg's attempt to repair Hermes.
* Amy loses a kidney to Zoidberg for unknown reasons.
* Bender is rendered incontinent by Zoidberg in some unspecified manner and for unknown reasons.
* To spare Farnsworth an unpleasant death, he swears Zoidberg to kill him when he finally begins to show symptoms of [[hypermalaria]]. Zoidberg attempts to kill Farnsworth several times, and even succeeds once, but Farnsworth is accidentally revived.
* The crew work together to create the "[[murdolator]]" to euthanize Farnsworth.
=== {{e|6ACV19}} ===
* Bender kills himself.
* Bender contracts with the Robot Devil to kill Fry.
* A runaway geodesic dome crushes the Robot Devil's body while Bender occupies it. The Robot Devil has a replacement body for himself. Bender remains a ghost for a while.
=== {{e|6ACV22}} ===
* Angus goes on a mission to kill Mr. Peppy.
* When Angus, wearing a bone vampire costume, attacks Fry, Fry shoots and injures him. Fry believes for a moment that he has killed Mr. Peppy.
=== {{e|6ACV23}} ===
* Farnsworth changes history by badly injuring, possibly killing, his ancestor David Farnsworth.
=== {{e|6ACV24}} ===
* In order to create a vaccine for the common cold, Farnsworth attempts to grind Fry into a paste.
== [[Season 7]] ==
=== {{e|7ACV02}} ===
* Leela breaks a leg falling into a hole in the ground into an underground cavern.
* The planet Mars is destroyed, killing all of its inhabitants except for those who are able to escape to Earth.
* Fry and Leela each lose an arm while Fry tries to rescue Leela from Mars.
=== {{e|7ACV03}} ===
* Bender drinks so much beer that his body explodes. He repairs himself later with bumper stickers from Nixon's presidential campaign.
* When Leela reminds Bender that he is a convicted felon, Bender responds, "Convicted, sentenced, and executed."
* President-elect Chris Travers ceases to exist due to a {{w|grandfather paradox}}.
=== {{e|7ACV04}} ===
* Calculon feigns suicide on an episode of "All My Circuits".
* Fry, Amy, Hermes, Farnsworth, Leela, and Zoidberg die horribly, some of them on seeing [[Langdon Cobb]], others seeing simply his photograph. We find out later that their "life forces" are simply trapped inside Langdon Cobb's id and readily return to their bodies when the whole [[quantum lichen]] is killed.
* Calculon truly commits suicide in the hope of winning an acting competition.
* Langdon Cobb and his id are both destroyed in an overload of ego-stroking.
=== {{e|7ACV05}} ===
* The episode opens with Scruffy holding a memorial service for his dead goldfish. He flushes the fish down the toilet, and Zoidberg, visiting Leela's parents, is the fish's final destination.
* At the end of their first date, Zapp disintegrates Munda with a ray-gun. Fans who have forgotten Farnsworth's teleporter ray will believe for a moment that she is dead and Leela has just witnessed a murder.
=== {{e|7ACV06}} ===
* The episode centers on the careers of Amy and Leela in the Butterfly Derby, a brutal cage-fight sport.
* Morbo reports the death of [[Eternulax the Immortal]].
=== {{e|7ACV08}} ===
* For a while, all of the crew believe that Fry has been killed in Bender's meat grinder.
* Fry and his fellow Neanderthals set out on a mission to "Kill all modern humans!"
=== {{e|7ACV09}} ===
* Fabrizio is killed in a drive-by shooting.
* Bender shoots Farnsworth so many times that Farnsworth is left in a full-body cast.
=== {{e|7ACV11}} ===
* Traditional English fox hunting is a central theme of the episode.
* To free Bender from a trap, a robot fox chews off Bender's left foot-cup.
* A robot fox kills the robot huntmaster.
=== {{e|7ACV15}} ===
* Fry, Leela, Amy, and Bender are all injured when the recently turbo-charged ship crashes into the Planet Express hangar.
* After the crash at the drag strip, everyone believes for a while that Farnsworth, Fry, Leela, and Bender are dead. There is even a memorial service for them.
=== {{e|7ACV16}} ===
* Jrrr kills the second-to-last clone of the headless body of Vice President Agnew.
* Bender apparently believes that Fry died on Omicron Persei 8, as when he sees Fry's SOS, he exclaims, "He's alive!"
* Lrrr expends consider effort to get Jrrr to kill Fry.
* Lrrr blasts off Drrr's right arm to prevent him euthanizing Fry.
* Jrrr unintentionally embeds a fleem in Drrr's head.
* It is eventually revealed that Fry's illness is not due to Jrrr's turds, but to Jrrr drinking Fry's blood every day.
* For a moment, just before Bender arrives to recover Fry from Omicron Persei 8, everyone believes that Fry is dead.
=== {{e|7ACV20}} ===
* Calculon, who killed himself in "The Thief of Baghead," is exhumed and revived. Later, he is killed again, presumably forever this time.
=== {{e|7ACV21}} ===
* Fry and Leela are the only people to survive a gangland gunfight.
=== {{e|7ACV24}} ===
* Blorgulax eats McMasters, Jackie Jr., Hermes, Scruffy, Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Leela, and Amy. It is later revealed that they are all alive and well.
* Bender and Fry shoot McMasters to death.
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Injury and death are recurring themes on Futurama.

Season 6

"Rebirth" (6ACV01)
Episode

  • At the beginning of the episode Fry is covered with horrible burns, and nine of the eleven major characters are dead and hanging gruesomely over Farnsworth's birthing machine. As we learn later, although these crewmembers are "revived" in some sense, this Fry is a robot, and the real Fry is dead. That is, really dead, his remains having disintegrated when Farnsworth dumped them into the birthing machine.
  • Bender dies for a moment after emerging from the birthing machine.
  • Leela spends some time in a coma and a euthanasia/memorial service is held for her.
  • Leela's comatose body takes a beating in Farnsworth and Fry's final attempts at reviving her.

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" (6ACV02)
Episode

  • V-GINY destroys a number of inhabited planets.
  • For a while, Leela believes that the earth has been destroyed.

"Proposition Infinity" (6ACV04)
Episode

  • Seeing personal items in the captured tornado, the crew believe for a moment that Bender and Amy have been gruesomely killed.

"The Late Philip J. Fry" (6ACV07)
Episode

  • Of course, although everything works out in the end, it is still true that all of the other original characters die when Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender go into the future. And of course, in the final universe, the Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender who were already there are killed by the Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender from the original universe.
  • At Hedonismbot's bachelor party, a nuclear accident kills all the participants except for Hedonismbot himself. The crew spend the rest of their lives believing that Fry, Farnsworth, and Bender were killed in the accident.
  • When the time-travelers finally drop out of time, the time machine falls to Earth, killing their "duplicates".

"Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" (6ACV11)
Episode

  • Lrrr accidentally disintegrates Fry with a ray-gun. For a few moments, everyone believes that Fry is dead. The ray-gun turns out to have been a teleporter, not a real weapon.

"The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" (6ACV13)
Episode

  • Although necessarily non-canonical, this episode has everyone on Earth dying twice, and the crew presumably dying a third time.

"The Silence of the Clamps" (6ACV14)
Episode

In this episode, everyone gets a double-dose of Bender dying. First, when Billy allows Farnsworth to examine his brain, Farnsworth announces that the EBI has destroyed Bender's essence in bumpkinizing him. In his friend's minds, Bender is dead. Second, knowing that Bender is gone but still believing that Billy is Bender's body, they witness Billy's murder. For a short time, everyone believes Bender to be truly gone.

"Benderama" (6ACV17)
Episode

  • Farnsworth shoots Bender with a handgun. For a moment, everyone believes that Bender is dead. Instead, the bullet has been blocked by a bible that Bender happened to have in his torso at that moment.
  • Again, after the Bender conglomerate is defeated by the marauding giant, everyone (including the Galactic Entity) believes that Bender is dead.

"The Tip of the Zoidberg" (6ACV18)
Episode

  • Fry sustains a hand injury that results in blood loss and a liver disorder.
  • Leela is sawed in half by Zoidberg and has her liver removed to replace Fry's.
  • Hermes loses multiple vertebrae and much of his torso to Zoidberg's attempt to repair Leela.
  • Scruffy is dismembered down to only a head and one arm to Zoidberg's attempt to repair Hermes.
  • Amy loses a kidney to Zoidberg for unknown reasons.
  • Bender is rendered incontinent by Zoidberg in some unspecified manner and for unknown reasons.
  • To spare Farnsworth an unpleasant death, he swears Zoidberg to kill him when he finally begins to show symptoms of hypermalaria. Zoidberg attempts to kill Farnsworth several times, and even succeeds once, but Farnsworth is accidentally revived.
  • The crew work together to create the "murdolator" to euthanize Farnsworth.

"Ghost in the Machines" (6ACV19)
Episode

  • Bender kills himself.
  • Bender contracts with the Robot Devil to kill Fry.
  • A runaway geodesic dome crushes the Robot Devil's body while Bender occupies it. The Robot Devil has a replacement body for himself. Bender remains a ghost for a while.

"Fry Am the Egg Man" (6ACV22)
Episode

  • Angus goes on a mission to kill Mr. Peppy.
  • When Angus, wearing a bone vampire costume, attacks Fry, Fry shoots and injures him. Fry believes for a moment that he has killed Mr. Peppy.

"All the Presidents' Heads" (6ACV23)
Episode

  • Farnsworth changes history by badly injuring, possibly killing, his ancestor David Farnsworth.

"Cold Warriors" (6ACV24)
Episode

  • In order to create a vaccine for the common cold, Farnsworth attempts to grind Fry into a paste.

Season 7

"A Farewell to Arms" (7ACV02)
Episode

  • Leela breaks a leg falling into a hole in the ground into an underground cavern.
  • The planet Mars is destroyed, killing all of its inhabitants except for those who are able to escape to Earth.
  • Fry and Leela each lose an arm while Fry tries to rescue Leela from Mars.

"Decision 3012" (7ACV03)
Episode

  • Bender drinks so much beer that his body explodes. He repairs himself later with bumper stickers from Nixon's presidential campaign.
  • When Leela reminds Bender that he is a convicted felon, Bender responds, "Convicted, sentenced, and executed."
  • President-elect Chris Travers ceases to exist due to a grandfather paradox.

"The Thief of Baghead" (7ACV04)
Episode

  • Calculon feigns suicide on an episode of "All My Circuits".
  • Fry, Amy, Hermes, Farnsworth, Leela, and Zoidberg die horribly, some of them on seeing Langdon Cobb, others seeing simply his photograph. We find out later that their "life forces" are simply trapped inside Langdon Cobb's id and readily return to their bodies when the whole quantum lichen is killed.
  • Calculon truly commits suicide in the hope of winning an acting competition.
  • Langdon Cobb and his id are both destroyed in an overload of ego-stroking.

"Zapp Dingbat" (7ACV05)
Episode

  • The episode opens with Scruffy holding a memorial service for his dead goldfish. He flushes the fish down the toilet, and Zoidberg, visiting Leela's parents, is the fish's final destination.
  • At the end of their first date, Zapp disintegrates Munda with a ray-gun. Fans who have forgotten Farnsworth's teleporter ray will believe for a moment that she is dead and Leela has just witnessed a murder.

"The Butterjunk Effect" (7ACV06)
Episode

  • The episode centers on the careers of Amy and Leela in the Butterfly Derby, a brutal cage-fight sport.
  • Morbo reports the death of Eternulax the Immortal.

"Fun on a Bun" (7ACV08)
Episode

  • For a while, all of the crew believe that Fry has been killed in Bender's meat grinder.
  • Fry and his fellow Neanderthals set out on a mission to "Kill all modern humans!"

"Free Will Hunting" (7ACV09)
Episode

  • Fabrizio is killed in a drive-by shooting.
  • Bender shoots Farnsworth so many times that Farnsworth is left in a full-body cast.

"31st Century Fox" (7ACV11)
Episode

  • Traditional English fox hunting is a central theme of the episode.
  • To free Bender from a trap, a robot fox chews off Bender's left foot-cup.
  • A robot fox kills the robot huntmaster.

"2-D Blacktop" (7ACV15)
Episode

  • Fry, Leela, Amy, and Bender are all injured when the recently turbo-charged ship crashes into the Planet Express hangar.
  • After the crash at the drag strip, everyone believes for a while that Farnsworth, Fry, Leela, and Bender are dead. There is even a memorial service for them.

"T.: The Terrestrial" (7ACV16)
Episode

  • Jrrr kills the second-to-last clone of the headless body of Vice President Agnew.
  • Bender apparently believes that Fry died on Omicron Persei 8, as when he sees Fry's SOS, he exclaims, "He's alive!"
  • Lrrr expends consider effort to get Jrrr to kill Fry.
  • Lrrr blasts off Drrr's right arm to prevent him euthanizing Fry.
  • Jrrr unintentionally embeds a fleem in Drrr's head.
  • It is eventually revealed that Fry's illness is not due to Jrrr's turds, but to Jrrr drinking Fry's blood every day.
  • For a moment, just before Bender arrives to recover Fry from Omicron Persei 8, everyone believes that Fry is dead.

"Calculon 2.0" (7ACV20)
Episode

  • Calculon, who killed himself in "The Thief of Baghead," is exhumed and revived. Later, he is killed again, presumably forever this time.

"Assie Come Home" (7ACV21)
Episode

  • Fry and Leela are the only people to survive a gangland gunfight.

"Murder on the Planet Express" (7ACV24)
Episode

  • Blorgulax eats McMasters, Jackie Jr., Hermes, Scruffy, Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Leela, and Amy. It is later revealed that they are all alive and well.
  • Bender and Fry shoot McMasters to death.