Character dies on startup.

No, its not an issue of it vanishing when dying. Its when i turn the game play on the character is literally destroyed at the moment of startup and there is no such attached script. Has anyone else had this issue and how did you resolve it.

In fact i have removed several scripts and tried each one out individually. I even went as far as to only apply a single UNanimated basic motion script and the same thing is happening. I put char in scene, hit play and poof, its gone.

It has a rigid body and capsule collider. I removed these and reapplied them. still i hit play and character is destroyed. T removed Terrain and placed a cube for it to stand on just as is so there was no "falling into the abyss. Cube stays, character vanishes and is destroyed instantly,

I threw out the whole thing including the meshes, scripts, etc. I redid the whole thing following the tutorials i was learning from. The moment i am ready to once again try out the moving of the character, poof, its destroyed by the Engine itself. So what is causing this?

I went as far as have others send me a zipped copy of the tutorial. Same thing. I open it as a new project like you are suppose to. I open the scene, drag the character into scene, hit play and its destroyed.