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So recently got into a discussion about the wraithknight and ways to kill it. I suggested tank shock. Everyone said no because gargantuan creatures can't be removed from play only d3 wounds. After reading up I noticed a failed death or glory is not removed from play however. It states the model is immediately removed as a casualty. Now the way I see it is that no matter what if a GC fails a death or glory it's dead as it is removed as a casualty. If GC are immune to this they are literally unkillable as in the section for removed as a casualty you take the model off the table. So far I've accepted to treat the wording in tank shock as removed from play but I wanted a second opinion on this matter.

Removed as a casualty triggers the D3 wounds.

But if that's so surely when it loses it's final wound it has to be removed as a casualty. But this just inflicts d3 wounds instead, and set's it at zero wounds. It then has to be removed as a casualty but instead has to take d3 wounds and so on forever and effectively making a game that can never end?

Which is true, except when it hits zero wounds.

I think you're discounting the fact that whenever ANY model is reduced to zero wounds/HPs then they're removed from the board as a casualty (superseding unit type).

The rule you're confused about is basically stating that a non-Gargantuan Creature unit will take wounds equal to it's total current wound count, but a Gargantuan Creature can't suffer that effect. Instead it suffers only D3 wounds, BUT if it's reduced to zero wounds from this effect, it's still removed from the game as a casualty as per the normal "death" rules for units.