If these are lost due to damage, the character will die.

"When I played a game just now, my character died!"

Over the course of the series, some notable characters have died.

The character, one realized, had been dying from the start.

Where else can you see so many major characters die in a single scene?

It would disappear as time passed or when the character died.

His character died in a car crash on 31 December 2007.

His character died of a heart attack nine months later.

Once a character dies, the player must begin a new game.

The character died after a car accident on 18 April 2008.