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Angel, of course.
The last scene of the last episode finds the surviving cast members in a rainy alley facing a demon horde. Two of the main characters died earlier in the season; one more died a few minutes earlier in the episode. Of the four in the alleyway, one is mortally wounded; all of them know that they have no chance of surviving the coming fight. They step forward to face their enemy. The main hero - Angel himself - raises his sword, says, “Let’s go to work”…
…and the series ends.
Sure, there’s a lot of conjecture that some of the characters survived, that some deus would come out of some machina as soon as the credits finished rolling, but we can just write that off as wishful thinking. Besides, it would defeat the whole purpose of the ending.
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This is much the same as the ending to Blackadder Goes Forth, in the last episode of which
the main characters all climb out of the trenches and lead an infantry charge against the Germans under heavy machine-gun fire.
Of course, the fate of the characters is left open-ended, as
they may actually have survived “The Big Push”, especially given Blackadder’s talent for extricating himself (and, by extension, Baldrick, and George) from dire situations…
The final episode of Red Dwarf was also somewhat unusual, in that
Everyone else abandons ship, leaving Rimmer alone on the doomed Red Dwarf.
In the final episode of The Young Ones,
The main characters drive off a cliff in a double-decker bus, which bursts into flames at the bottom,
and finally, in Mostly Harmless (The Fifth Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy book)
The Vogons manage to destroy Earth- again- this time killing all the major characters (except Zaphod) and completely eliminating every single “alternate” Earth in the process. Marvin died some time earlier, of extreme old age- he was several times older than the universe itself, because of all the time travel he had done.
Interestingly, in the radio adaption,
There’s an epilogue to the ending of Mostly Harmless in which, at the last minute, the Babel Fish (fishes?) in Arthur and Ford’s ears activate a unique self-preservation ability and transport the main characters to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where they are re-united with many other characters (including Arthur’s girlfriend, Fenchurch), and there are also other endings in which everyone generally lives happily ever after, having escaped the destruction of the Earth by the Vogons yet again.
The Brits seem to have a thing for killing off the protaganists at the end of a series, don’t they? 
