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Then Arceus resurrected him to stop the war going on between Teams Rocket and Plasma. During that time he is killed by Archer and his Giratina immediately tries to bring him back by using a bunch of Dusknoir. Heavily played with in The Rules —it would normally be in effect given the nations' immortality, but The Rules throw uncertainty over their ability to come back to life. The nations are stuck with quite the ethical dilemma—start killing to get home while they can be reasonably confident their victims will recover, or try to find some other way off the island and risk everyone's immortality running out in the meantime?

The impermanence of death in the Marvel universe is one of the reasons authors for the MCU are skeptical of the death of Phil Coulson. There are many more stories where the man has lived than ones where he has remained dead.

In Christian Humber Reloaded , Vash's corrupted self keeps coming back again and again. Soku is apparently killed by Vash for turning him in , then comes back years later to take revenge and gets killed again. It's also debatable whether she is the same little girl who, with her father, helped Vash near the beginning, or if the author just reused the plot device. World of Ponycraft has death about as cheap as it is in WoW gameplay. Heck, in the prologue Deathwing razes Ponyville only for Celestia to cast a mass resurrection bringing everypony back.

The Infinite Loops resets universes rather regularly. As a consequence, most loopers come to view death as an annoyance. The default for humanity in Vigil , where brain uploads, backup copies of everyone's brain, and cortical stacks—small storage devices that maintain a saved brain-state—are ubiquitous except among bio-conservatives. Death just means you get uploaded into a new body. In the Loonatics Unleashed fanfiction The Fragile , Tech builds a machine able to bring people back to life; granted it has limitations It only works if it has a DNA sample and only if someone has been dead for less than 17 minutes , but still.

Kid Icarus Uprising 2: Hades Revenge will not let any major character stay dead, for any reason. In chapter 6, we see both Pit and Pit2 get killed in the chapter's last fight, only for it to be revealed that The Rapers kidnapped Pit to make him Brainwashed and Crazy , except that was actually Pit 2 , who just seemed to want to reveal his plan of using Pit as a Virgin Sacrifice.

Pit reappears as 'zomboy' in chapter 8, and the heroes intend to restore him with a Magical Defibrillator , except they blow him up by mistake. Thankfully, they get a Life Note to bring Pit back. In chapter 12, Pit gets killed, this time with the usage of an Anti-Life Note, which seems to cause Killed Off for Real , until he shows up in chapter 13, possessed, but then the heroes time travel back to chapter 10, undoing this.

In the backstory of Learning the Ropes , Krillin always made a point of reading the morning paper so he could tell King Yemma what's going on in the world if he died that day. That's the prelude to Encore and Improvisation , with Luke coming back to life again and again no matter how dead he gets. Minerva and Cirno A. Celsius also share this trope. In the Ultimate Video Rumble , elimination from the ring, however fatal or messy , just results in a good-as-new respawn in the "Retrieval Booth" no more than 15 minutes later.

It is never explained how this works. Ironically, those who finish their elimination alive but injured might have been better off "dying," since the Retrieval Booth is inconsistent about healing non-fatal injuries. Injuries and deaths outside the ring stick , although the RumbleDome has an excellent infirmary. Astrid is declared dead twice in Prodigal Son , only for her to show up alive and well both times, the first time being a failed hunt for the nest, the second time being snatched up by Stormfly to safety during the Red Death's attack.

This is shown early on when Fix-It Felix is crushed by a falling ceiling only to revive near-instantly. Superman dies from an explosion in space, is revived by the sun, dies from being stabbed by Doomsday, is buried, and returns in Justice League Pirates of the Caribbean has quite a few examples with the main characters, though each has an individual in-universe justification and is considered an exception rather than the rule: Jack who was retrieved from Davy Jones' Locker is a variation since he is technically in limbo and didn't really cross over to the other side.

Will who was made captain of the Flying Dutchman after being stabbed but before giving up the ghost by and then killing Jones. However, the one character with resurrection abilities leaves after the third film , removing this trope for the fourth. The villain in Stargate chooses to live in a human body because they are easy for his technology to repair, giving him the ability to live indefinitely.

The same technology allows the hero and his wife to come back from the dead. Once it becomes a Cash Cow Franchise , there is no rest in peace for the wicked. Agent Smith from The Matrix shows up in the sequels as he decided not to follow protocol and return to the system mainframe for deletion. Justified since after all, he is a program, not a man and it's not like he was the first one to do so. This trope gets parodied in the movie Soap Dish where the writers on a soap opera talk about bringing a dead character back to life.

Ironically, two of the film's stars go on to star in comic book films, who play this trope just as much as soap operas do Robert Downey Jr. In The Last Starfighter , Centauri dies from injuries sustained from the battle with the Zando-Zan assassin, but Centauri shows up alive later, and fully healed.

In Little Nicky , due to being the son of Satan, the protagonist simply winds up back in Hell upon dying and is free to go through the portal back to Earth. Men in Black 3 subverts this: J goes back in time to prevent K from being killed in the 's, but is told plainly that K was destined to die there. Where there is death, there must always be death. Chucky of the Child's Play series. He ends up being killed at the end of each film, but is always brought back at the beginning of the next film.

As its been put: Go ahead and kill me, I'll be back! I always come back! But dying is such a bitch! The Wrath of Khan. The Last Stand , only to return in X-Men: This trope is quickly becoming the norm for the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Odin and Loki die, but come back. Bucky dies, but comes back. Coulson dies, but comes back. Pepper dies, but comes back. Loki dies again , but comes back. Fury dies, but comes back. Strange dies countless times , but keeps coming back.

Technically, only Coulson and Strange have actually died. The rest of the above characters either faked it or were only mostly dead. Its also worth mentioning that Strange's deaths weren't given the weight of a normal death since its quickly shown they occur in a time loop.

In Edge of Tomorrow , whenever the hero dies in battle, the day is being reset , causing him to die any given number of times. Even invoked when the female love interest wants to reset when the hero flirts with her. Subverted by the end when he loses the ability to reset time and has to destroy the alien Hive Mind in one go without dying. Guerrero dies at least twice in the film, both for getting a second shot on a ridiculously hard job offer as well the Devils amusement.

Whenever someone dies, they just respawn a new body at the nearest church. No one has been able to permanently die for at least 35 years. Some people have adapted to it fairly, incorporating it into the business and economy. Others have not taken it so well Marco gets brought back to life twice.

Although, in one instance, he's not technically dead, just comatose, because he's in cockroach morph, which is practically unkillable. In Elfangor's Secret it's known that one of the kids will have to die to set things right, and Jake is shot in the head as they cross the Delaware. But because Visser Four's host is retgoned at the end, there was no reason for them to travel through time in the first place and Jake pops back, alive. In addition, because Jake died and the Ellimist said only one Animorph would have to die, the rest of the Animorphs are invincible for the rest of the book, even when they should by all means be dead.

Cory Doctorow 's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom takes this trope to its logical conclusion by having everyone take resurrection for granted. Thus, the narrator Julius is killed early in the novel and spends the rest of the story fighting back against those he believes responsible for his murder. He theorizes that they timed his death carefully so that he'd be out of commission at the exact point when his enemies were putting a plan into effect, since obviously if they killed him too early he would be alive again at by that point.

And in both that book and Ken MacLeod 's Newton's Wake , resurrection is so automated that other medical skills have atrophied or been lost; it's easier to get a new body than to fix the one you have. Like consumer electronics today. The Heroes of Olympus: For the monsters , which are regenerating within hours if not minutes because Gaea made a new tunnel into Tartarus.

Eventually, even some demigods are able to come back from the dead without even realizing that they are. Freeing Thanatos puts a stop to that. I might as well install a revolving door. Discworld tends to suffer from this a lot, although it's probably not surprising given the number of Vampires, Werewolves and Igors about, not to mention Zombies only come back once , but are then almost unkillable , as well as latterly, Orcs. Lampshaded in Unseen Academicals where, if it takes an Igor to bring you back, it was technically murder.

In Dragaera , it's a relatively simple process to become "revivified" after death. It's fairly expensive, however, and some circumstances can make it impossible. Assassinations among the Jhereg criminal organization often do not take. In the first novel, Vlad even claims that someone might be assassinated as a warning to back off, though this level of cheapness is not carried over into subsequent novels. The Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K.

Morgan takes place in a largely post-death world where a person's consciousness is housed in a chip in his brain, called a "stack". When his body dies, his chip is inserted into a new one. Bodies, now called "sleeves", are bought and traded like garments. In the first book of the series, a centuries-old magnate hires the hero to find out how his previous sleeve was murdered.

Anyone who dies on the Riverworld is brought back to life the next day somewhere else. A few characters use this "Suicide Express" to deliberately, though randomly, explore the Riverworld. Later on, the machinery breaks down. Played with in The Lost Symbol. Robert Langdon appears to have been most unambiguously drowned in a tiny coffin filled with liquid, and for a few chapters afterward he's caught in a trippy dream state where both he and the reader assume he's dead, but then it turns out that the liquid in the tank was breathing fluid laced with paralytic drugs, an advanced sensory deprivation chamber used by the Big Bad as a torture device.

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His "rebirth" is unpleasant, but far from supernatural. Although magical resurrection is possible, it takes a lot of energy and carries a heavy price for the person doing the resurrection. The Biting the Sun books take this trope to extremes. Resurrection is a normal use of technology. Even the rare occasions when a character in those books does want to be Killed Off for Real , their base personality will get transferred into a new body — effectively meaning mandatory artificial reincarnation.

In The Worm Dieth Not a depressed superhero agonizes over the fact that heroes and villains kill each other constantly and never stay dead. He compares their never-ending conflict to the trial of Sisyphus and ultimately decides to commit suicide as a means of escape, realizing at the last minute that he'll just show up alive again in time. Occasionally in A Song of Ice and Fire. Most of the time dead means dead, but there are notable exceptions. Martin frequently appears to kill people before revealing it was only a flesh wound.

In a similar fashion, the discovery that Prince Aegon, previously thought to have been killed as an infant was alive and well makes the death of many other characters fall into question. The general rule for character deaths is that unless you witness a character definitively die from someone else's point of view, that character is likely not dead for good. Ned's definitively dead whereas a resurrected Zombie Catelyn is wreaking havoc in the Riverlands. Quentyn Martell may have sustained his fatal injuries in his own chapter, but his death was witnessed from the perspective of Barristan Selmy.

The exception to this overall rule is the Prologue and Epilogue characters—they ALWAYS die at the end of their lone chapters, except for Chett in A Storm of Swords , who does not die onscreen, but who does die sometime between the end of his POV and his next appearance as a wight. While Gaunt's Ghosts overall is very much in the Anyone Can Die camp, this trope still applies to Scout Sergeant Mkoll, who most in the regiment believe to be invincible. Not even after having his transport plane explode in mid-air during an air raid, with the only thing below him an enemy-held city and a "sea" of toxic cloud, most of the Ghosts can't believe he's dead.

Sure enough, he returns later and even manages to get the killing blow on the current Big Bad. People of The Culture usually have brain backups in case they are killed in a lava rafting accident or something. In one side story of Tales of MU a professor caught a rich student who had been turned into a mouse by a trap on one of their dwarven weapons on display.

One of his friends had also been transformed and caught by a cat, he wasn't too concerned because their insurance covered resurrection and they had both been killed before. Then she reminded him that the spell required a body, oh shit indeed. In The Dresden Files , Harry Dresden has goaded someone into killing him and been revived expressly to team up with his own ghost. Harry gets about as close as you can after he gets shot and falls in the lake. It turns out he was actually on magical life-support while his soul was off working for Uriel, but for all intents and purposes he died and came back.

Mantles of power such as the Summer and Winter Knights, Summer and Winter Queens all six of them , the Archive, and so forth all transcend their hosts and warp them towards a certain personality. Even if you manage to kill an immortal a tricky business to begin with, only possible at certain times the next host of that power will become more and more like the mantle, seeming to reincarnate the previous host. In The Wheel of Time , death is cheap for the Forsaken.

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After all, the Dark One's domain is death. As long as they aren't killed by balefire, they can be brought back in new bodies. Sergey Lukyanenko 's trilogy Line of Delirium has technology allowing people to be resurrected upon death. The "cheap" part is averted, though, as not everyone is able to afford even one resurrection. Basically, when a person first buys the aTan resurrection, he or she undergoes an excruciating molecular scan in order to store the body template in the database. At the same time, a neural net is implanted into the brain in order to transmit the person's memories back to aTan.

Most people think that the neural net works only at the moment of death, sending a massive dump of information back, also signaling death. However, in reality, the net is working constantly, and the end of transmission is considered death by aTan. If the recently deceased paid for his or her resurrection always in advance , the body is replicated from the template at the nearest aTan facility with the memories then downloaded into the new brain.

Another fact that most people don't know is that creating two identical bodies and implanting the same set of memories into them will result in only one of them becoming fully self-aware. The other one will be without will i. Thus aTan proved then existence of the human soul. Neomages in New Arcana regularly resurrect each other. Each of the main characters dies at least once in the first two books. At one point it is stated that the average neomage can expect to die and be resurrected more than fifty times in a career. In Warrior Cats , the Clan leaders are given nine lives by Starclan, the feral cat afterlife.

The first eight times they die, they heal for a few minutes, then get back up. In The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August , death is very cheap for kalachakra , dying simply sends them back to their birth, though it does take a few years for them to remember their previous lives it is generally agreed that by their third year, kalachakras regain their memories. The only real drawback is that after a while, The Fog of Ages creeps up and the kalachakras wind up forgetting how long they've lived.

Played With in Murder at Colefax Manor. If you die in the manor or its grounds, you get sent back to in front of the manor, but don't have to erase any clues you've found or items you've acquired. If you die in the caverns under Colefax Manor, you get sent back to the tunnel entrance.

Naturally, they regularly abuse the crap out of this during their training, fighting to the death every single day. However this trope only comes into play in Valhalla. If an Einherji dies in any of the other eight worlds, it's permanent. Otis and Marvin , the goats who pull Thor's chariot, are killed every night by the god of thunder to be his dinner, only for them to resurrect the next morning.

Neither of them are huge fans of this. Characters that die in the Matoran Universe are immediately brought back to life on the Red Star, but can't go back to their people due to a design failure in the process. Bill the Cat dies often, once from acne. Opus has had a few other near-death experiences, meaning that either he can return from death or he's just incredibly resilient. From what we've seen of him, the former is a lot more plausible.

Dilbert , Asok, and the Pointy-Haired Boss have all been brought back by cloning within weeks of their deaths. Dogbert on the other hand was kicked out of heaven. It is unclear, however, what this has to do with winning wrestling matches. The one incident that stands out in particular was when he threatened to send Edge to Hell; at the end of the match, he apparently did just that, by chokeslamming him through the ring apron with flames shooting out, as both he and the announcers proclaimed that Edge had indeed gone to Hell.

Edge returned a few months later without explanation. The Undertaker does not seem discouraged by this. Done for Rule of Cool mostly.

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The Undertaker himself has "died" and come back to life before, quite a few times in fact. There was the Royal Rumble incident, in which Yokozuna and a bunch of other heel wrestlers bombarded him, opened his urn which caused him to lose his powers, and rolled him into a casket. As Paul Bearer rolled the casket away he was shown on the titantron inside the casket and he gave a speech in which he promised "I will not rest in peace.

Then of course there was the Survivor Series in which Kane buried Undertaker alive, thus "killing" his Biker persona and leading to his return as the Deadman we all know and love at WrestleMania. Everyone else dies once at least. Gently Benevolent, the Big Bad , has variously been raised in seance, reincarnated into a pigeon, a ghost, and many more. The only ones who are sure to stay dead are the various Harshsmackers, Grimpunches, etcetera.

So while death isn't literally cheap on the contrary, it can be rather expensive , it's not difficult to get out of since PCs tend to accumulate vast amounts of treasure. There are a few spells such as Barghest's Feast that can make it so that the target cannot return to life by mortal magic. This page recognizes the potential implications of cheap resurrection spells for the society and proposes alternative rules, which can roughly be described as "dead is dead, but you'll be surprised what you can live through ".

In 4th Edition, resurrection is less common at low levels, but more common at higher levels. There are some epic level powers that can be activated "once per day, when you die. Your character automatically revives 24 hours after each death, for free, in a different graveyard or tomb somewhere in the world. The Undying Warrior epic destiny takes this to an extreme, being able to come back to life five times a day.

The fifth time isn't the last time he can use it, just it takes 24 hours to return to life at this point, so that counts as a different day. The 1st Edition Dragonlance modules had the "Obscure Death" rule. If a significant character one with a name died, the Dungeon Master was encouraged to have the death occur in such a way that it was easy for the DM to explain how the character managed to survive anyway. It's essentially a combat resurrection designed to let defeated party members get back into the fray.

Hero Realms is an odd example. When Champions are dealt enough damage, they are considered "Stunned" instead of being dead even if hit with a curse or are assassinated. It makes some sense: This being a Deckbuilding Game , discarded cards get reshuffled to reform the deck, so fallen Champions will appear again. Also, there is a card called Varrick, the Necromancer - who can return discarded Champions to the top of the deck, so maybe necromancy or healing spells are involved as well.

The Resurrection has this as a core mechanic, as the most important ability of the titular mummies is to not die permanently. There's only a handful of ways to kill an Amenti permanently, and the only "mundane" method is to hit them with a nuke. And even that just traps them in the Underworld.

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On the other hand, mostly due to the game mechanics, dying is still really inconvenient Paranoia embodies this trope. You are only dead for as long as it takes for your next clone to be shipped somewhere. At least, until you run out of clones And in the latest versions, you can buy more! Although they start developing genetic defects you can get these scrubbed out of your template for an extra fee.

Warhammer 40, has the Tyranids, who give a whole new meaning to Death Is Cheap. Any Tyranid that gets killed in an invasion is just digested and used to make more 'Nids. Not to mention that any semi-sentient Tyranid i. Hive Tyrants just get their consciousness re-absorbed into the Hive Mind whenever their current body is destroyed and can easily get a new one with all their experiences intact and maybe some new cool bio-weaponry to boot. The Necrons get out of death most of the time by just teleporting out and regenerating. Things a Necron can get patched up from include: If Necron forces are on the verge of defeat then they, remains and all, get teleported back to their tomb world for be repaired; taking this to the logical extension, this means that very, very few Necrons have actually been truly "killed", which is bad because their opponents often only defeat at truly great cost.

Dark Eldar have Doctor Frankenstein-esque 'surgeons' known as Haemonculi and their 'augmented' Igor-like Wracks who can reconstruct entire new bodies for those Dark Eldar willing to pay an often esoteric price. The best can, given the client's will is strong enough, regrow an entire body from a charred hand. This being Warhammer 40, , the procedure naturally involves torturing dozens of slaves to death, and the prices can range from slaves to souls to dying breaths.

Naturally, the Haemonculi save the best and most reliable methods for themselves; the most senior of their number have died and come back countless times Some Dark Eldar have actually come to find the whole process exhilarating. To them, death isn't just cheap, it's a hobby.

Urien Rakarth, the oldest and most insane of all Haemonculi, actually enjoys dying, he can't wait to see what new mutations the process will cause in his body. The Craftworld Eldar to a lesser extent , as well. Although their physical bodies can be killed, their souls are stored in little gems called Soulstones. Soulstones are either sent to the Infinity Circuit of their home craftworld, or they are placed into Eldar walkers like Wraithguard and Wraithlords.

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Eldar generally try to live for as long as they can and have taken great steps to ensure that when they do go, they have some reprieve. They aren't motivated by cowardice, but because they're well aware of what's waiting to claim their souls on the other side. It is not impossible for incredibly powerful psykers to either reclaim people's souls from the warp the Emperor is implied to have done it or find a way to anchor themselves to the physical world.

The Emperor, whilst not technically dead , is believed by some fans to be being set up for this - when his physical body finally croaks, his soul will simply reincarnate for a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. In prehistoric Earth the shamans could force their souls into newborn bodies after death. Until the Daemons became strong enough to snatch their souls from the Warp. Then they decided to commit mass suicide and all reincarnate in a single immortal body, who became the God-Emperor of Mankind 40, years later.

Many of the Chaos Space Marines such as Kharn, Lucius and Eliphas are simply brought back from the dead when they're killed, thanks to intervention by their patron Chaos gods and general Warp shenanigans. Like any good villain, they just won't stay dead. Humans that have been brought back from the dead for any reason become Perpetuals, with the ability to self-resurrect from anything up to and including disintegration and immortality. It plays havoc with their sanity though.

The Primarch Vulkan was apparently "born" with this ability. In Toon , running out of hit points causes you to Fall Down, but this just means you have to sit out for a few minutes before returning with your hit points back up to full. In Eclipse Phase resleeving is expensive, but fairly routine. And Firewall guarantees resurrection for all its agents if they lack insurance, no promises on the quality of the new morph though.

In addition a morph whose head hasn't been destroyed can be thrown in a healing vat and revived if within a couple hours of death or if put immediately in stasis which medichines do automatically. In Smash Up , this is the Zombie faction's hat. Just like how zombies come back from the dead, they have abilities that allow them to draw and even play from their discard pile. They even have a unit that can be played from the discard pile itself! As a general rule in Hc Svnt Dracones if the brain is intact they're eligible for Body Replacement surgery. Cogsune take it a step further with a quantum backup system that downloads them immediately at death.

In Citadels , the Assassin can kill any other character, but their death will only last for 1 round, as the character cards are reshuffled every turn.

It makes sense in context , because he's figured out the source of his immortality and is giving it up, but Memetic Mutation has made it into a synonym for Captain Obvious. Berserker, on the other hand, has the power to be killed 12 times before he dies, and comes back instantly without any adverse effects.

This is supposedly a huge difference from mere quick regeneration. Not to mention, it then makes him permanently immune to whatever killed him after he regenerates. It's not without averse affects. After losing five lives taking down Archer his combat abilities are severely weakened to the point where, left to his own devices, he would not have chased after and fought Saber. You learn quite early that there's a time loop that occurs whether the main characters live or die. Thus, Shirou is free to get killed off much more quickly than in FSN.

In fact, you have to die multiple times. When They Cry appears to have this, thanks to the series' "Groundhog Day" Loop , but later on it's shown to be subverted, since the "Groundhog Day" Loop doesn't show time repeating over and over, but alternate universes. Thus, if the characters die in one universe, they will remain dead. Death seems to be even cheaper in Umineko: When They Cry thanks to the Endless Witch being able to kill and revive endlessly at will.

Hell, even outside the fantasy aspect and into the meta-world in EP5 some characters like Battler "die" since he stopped thinking and his body stopped as well, but then makes his awesome comeback when he reaches the truth. And then in EP6 he revives a gone Beato with, uh, magic it's a complicated process, don't ask. Ultimately subverted by the end of the series, though, since it turns out that while they can be revived as pieces for each new game, in the real world nearly everyone who was on the island is dead and will remain so. Parodied and explicitly called out in New Dangan Ronpa V3 , when Monokuma comes back after being crushed early in the game.

Also subverted; Roy dies fighting Xykon. Haley and Belkar recover his body, but have to lug it around for the next few months with no access to a resurrection spell. He isn't resurrected until more than strips later. It still gets lampshaded , with Belkar saying that Roy will be back before you can say "Reduced impact of character mortality". The prequel book On the Origin of PCs also has fun with this trope. While informing his son Roy that he's about to die for good because he's reached the end of his lifespan Natural Death being the only form you can't come back from , Eugene mentions that Roy's little sister can't understand her daddy "won't be coming back—this time.

Even more amusingly, a nearby tombstone belonging to a man described as "the Unlucky" also has multiple death dates - the last four all in the same year.

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Subverted in another case, where Xykon is mindlessly torturing a captive soldier; Xykon thinks that he can just be resurrected if they kill him by mistake, but Redcloak points out that the soldier's soul has to allow itself to be brought back, and given his situation , he'd probably rather stay in the afterlife. Possibly double-subverted, because the soldier was creating a list of Xykon's spells; he might have chosen to come back if he had died before sending this important information to the heroes.

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