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People die. Sometimes though they're not quite ready to do so yet and strike a deal with a higher power to escape their fate — be it by being rescued against all odds or actually dying but coming back. In addition, their deal includes some kind of Power-Up: They come back as more than they were before. It doesn't matter if the dying person asked for the rescue and/or their new powers. They may get just what they need to finish off whoever caused their death in the first place, or they may be Blessed with Suck or Cursed with Awesome. Maybe their new powers really aren't worth the price, but in some way, they got an upgrade. This can happen anywhere in a story, or maybe it's just the backstory of a character. The resurrected may be a hero or a villain (but rarely neither). They may turn against the higher entity that saved them, but just as often they follow them loyally. Can involve Reforged into a Minion and/or a job to be done by the now resurrected guy, but doesn't necessarily have to. An Emergency Transformation and/or Working for a Body Upgrade may or may not be involved. Sister Trope to Deal with the Devil and Bargain with Heaven, as well as Back from the Dead. Subtrope of Came Back Strong. Compare Death-Activated Superpower when there's no middleman involved. Examples |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Mami Tomoe's backstory involves her being caught in a fatal car accident. In her dying moments, Kyubey appears before her to allow her to make a wish to survive in exchange for becoming a magical girl. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Devil's Feud Cake", Yosemite Sam goes to Hell, where Satan lets him return if he can get him a certain wascawwy wabbit. The premise was expanded upon in the compilation feature Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. | |
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In Bravestarr: The Legend, Stampede finds a cruel prospector who became the victim of his own greed. Stampede saves him and in doing so gives him magical powers. | |
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In Transformers: The Movie, Megatron is mortally wounded. As he's dying, Unicron offers to save him in return for his service. Megatron actually tries to negotiate the terms until Unicron angrily reminds him that he's not in a position to bargain — after he accepts, he is upgraded into Galvatron. | |
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In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002), we learn that Skeletor was originally a blue-skinned humanoid named Keldor, who when mortally wounded begged his master Hordak to save his life. Which Hordak did, at the cost of Keldor being mutated into Skeletor. | |
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Caera from Genocide Man is hit with GM neurotoxin, and even though she manages to take the antidote in time, she's still left crippled. Then a non-rogue Genocide Man offers her a job. | |
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Discussed in The Bermuda Depths. One young zoology student meets a charming young woman named Jennie Haniver. Doctor Paulis, the veteran oceanologist, recounts the myth of Jennie Haniver: she was a bride betrothed to wealthy merchant across the sea. When the ship ferrying Jennie to her groom started to sink during a fierce storm, Jennie prayed to the Devil to spare her life. Her prayer was answered: she became an immortal mermaid, cursed forever to lure able sailors to their doom. The zoology student subsequently drowns. | |
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Gesta Danorum: Sigurd, son of Ragnar Lodbrog, is severely wounded in the first battle he fights in, and it looks like he is going to die. A strange, very tall man who calls himself Roftar appears and promises Sigurd that he will cure him, if Sigurd in turn agrees to "consecrate unto him (i.e. Roftar) the souls of all whom he (i.e. Sigurd) should overcome in battle". When Sigurd agrees, Roftar instantly heals his wound by a touch of his hand, and at the same time makes little snakes appear in Sigurd's eyes. Sigurd, now called Sigurd Snake-Eye, later becomes a great warrior-king. We are expected to understand that "Roftar" was Odin. | |
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Forever Knight: In a Flashback to when Nick was turned, he ends up in an Afterlife Antechamber, and is given the option of dying or coming back as a vampire. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2, Black Garius and his priests are killed about halfway through the second act but are resurrected as Shadow Reavers by the King of Shadows and serve as his Elite Mooks for the rest of the game. | |
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Elsword: This is part of Raven's backstory. After he and his mercenary group had been betrayed by his country's troops and he's left for dead, someone offers him recuperation and empowering; and he agreed. Said someone turns out to be the Nasod King, who then gave him a special left arm (to replace his missing one) and made him his underling. | |
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Exalted: The Abyssal Exalted gain their powers through deathbed deals with the deathlords. They live again and gain a host of death-themed powers in exchange for a promise to work towards the end of all things. And if they try to go back on that promise, their resonance will simply destroy things for them. | |
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Geist: The Sin-Eaters: Sin-Eaters gain their powers in this fashion- when they are about to die, they strike a bargain with a geist, who saves their lives and gives them cool powers. The downside is that the sin-eater and the geist are stuck together for the rest of the sin-eater's life, which can be quite long indeed, since a geist can keep bringing the sin-eater back from death... for a price. | |
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Valgaav from Slayers was originally an Ancient Dragon named Valteria. He was mortally wounded in a civil war between dragons, in which the Golden Dragons slaughtered the Ancients. When he was dying, Gaav (a demon lord and archdevil) appeared and offered Valteria to be reborn as a half-demon and Gaav's apprentice. He took the offer and became the demon-dragon Valgaav. | |
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The Punisher: Born: Frank Castle's start down the road to being the Punisher is during a massive Vietcong attack on his base, at which point he makes a Deal with the Devil to continue his war forever. He's left the only survivor, discovered still standing and holding the mauled remains of his rifle, surrounded by hundreds of corpses. When he returns, the voice that offered him the deal tells him that his family is the price he has to pay. | |
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In God of War, Kratos served in the Spartan army when he led his men against a barbarian invasion. Heavily outnumbered, the Spartans were all but massacred by the barbarians. When the Barbarian King was about to finish him off, Kratos called out to Ares and offered his life in exchange for the destruction of his enemies. In response, Ares obliterated the barbarian army and bound Kratos to the Blades of Chaos, which he promptly used to decapitate the Barbarian King. It all went downhill from there. | |
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Trigon from Teen Titans (2003) does this for Slade in the fourth season, giving him a number of demonic abilities while Demoting him to Dragon. | |
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In Prince of Persia (2008), the Warrior is a Tragic Monster who almost died fighting to protect his kingdom but, at that very moment, traded his soul to Ahriman for power. He saved his people, but they rejected him, throwing him in despair. | |
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Lady Death: A young lady named Hope is accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burning at the stake. As the flames begin to consume her, she recites an incantation she overheard from her father, which results in a demon being summoned and offering her a deal to avert death and serve Hell. Thus, Lady Death is born. | |
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: The Devil hires some goons to watch Danny, but they prove no match for the Rider. When the leader dies, the Devil resurrects him and gives him 'the power of decay', turning him into Blackout. | |
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Every servant in The Zombie Knight starts out this way; they die, and then a Grim Reaper offers them eternal life and superpowers in exchange for becoming the reaper's servant. Most of them are non-villainous examples, unless the reaper is a member of Abolish. | |
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3 sees Galactus make this offer to Thor, Amaterasu or Shuma-Gorath, should he defeat one of them. | |
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The Last Story: The Guraks give Jirall a cursed sword to help him consummate his revenge against Zael, but at the cost of destroying his sanity in the process. | |
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A heroic example occurs in The Book of Life when Manolo seeks death at the hands of Xibalba to spend eternity with Maria. When it turns out that she isn't dead because Xibalba cheated, Manolo makes his way through a heroic ordeal and makes a bet to get his life back. Xibalba tries again to stack the deck in his favor, but Manolo wins, so he goes from dead skeleton boy to living human boy and gets all of his dead family temporarily restored to the real world (still dead) to help fight off the living world's Big Bad. | |
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At the end of the first volume of Project Superpowers, Fighting Yank dies but agrees to take his cursed ancestor's place in Hell in exchange for being granted sufficient power to save his friends from an ambush. | |
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Primal (2019): After losing a battle with Spear and Fang, including losing his son, the chieftain is brought to a large horned creature deep underground, and given a chance for revenge, being turned into a huge fire creature. | |
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The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns makes a deal with Anubis for a new army after his first one is defeated (as opposed to, say, a deal with Set or Apep). | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, after you defeat your Nemesis for the third time during the Nemesis Quest, they call out the name of a demon lord and unlock a One-Winged Angel form which they use for the fourth and final battle. You can later use that name during a demon summoning ritual, to learn that your nemesis hated you so much they pledged their soul to the demon lord of revenge in order to defeat you. | |
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Hellsing opens with Seras Victoria getting shot and being resurrected as a vampire. It turns out that Alucard himself, upon his execution by his enemies, made a deal of his own to become a vampire. | |
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