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Fighting a Shadow

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Fighting a Shadow	comment	So you think you're hot stuff, eh? You actually did it, you punched out Cthulhu. You drove the Hit Points of that Physical God, Demon, or Eldritch Abomination down to zero, and it vanished. Unfortunately — he's coming back. You see, what you killed was only part of him. The physical part that was inhabiting our universe at the time. His reappearance isn't coming Back from the Dead. It's regrowing a fingernail. This is how Powers That Be can occasionally take things into their own hands without breaking Da Rules. This isn't to say there wasn't some accomplishment here. At the very least, he's gone for now. In some cases this can mean peace for years. And in some...days. Better spend that time researching a way to make him Deader than Dead or at least find a way to seal him in a can so that he can't rise again to threaten the world. Sometimes, especially in Video Games, you aren't even that lucky. This can be used as a variation of Hopeless Boss Fight so that The Battle Didn't Count, or Heads I Win, Tails You Lose. A very difficult boss that you aren't expected to defeat is presented to you. If you lose, the plot goes on with your loss, but if you win? "HAHAHA! That was only my shadow!", and then the real boss waves his hand, and you lose, anyway. On the other hand, in most Tabletop and Video Games, you do this all the time, as from the perspective of the gaming world you are effectively a being from a higher dimension that has created / taken possession of a character to go on adventures / rampages, and no matter how gruesomely or thoroughly your character may be maimed or destroyed, it is impossible for anyone or anything in-game to physically harm the real you at all and you can return to life as your gaming avatar (or a completely different one) in a matter of seconds if you so desire. There are four main types: The being's original form is incorporeal and the body is merely a (possibly replaceable) tool that allows it to interact with the physical world. This version counts as a form of immortality, especially if the incorporeal form is Nigh-Invulnerable to other incorporeal beings. The being exists simultaneously in this world and beyond; it really is "dipping" into 3-dimensional space. These tend to look and act very strange. Its awareness is mostly in the form it's taking in this universe; the death of this body merely returns it to its origin point like a rubber band being let go; effectively, the body is just a form of remote control. These types tend to be vulnerable to being made Deader than Dead if killed at said origin point. A more mortal villain may also get in on this act through the use of ensorcelling their actual shadow into an effective Body Double, through Self-Duplication, or through more scientific means of making a clone or Hard Light duplicate of themselves. Unlike a normal Body Double or clone, however, these are characterized by being effectively a remote-control body, and not a separate character with an independent will of their own. See: Actually a Doombot. Not to be confused with fighting someone named Shadow, or with fighting a Shadow Archetype. Not related to (but sometimes achieved by) Casting a Shadow, and definitely not related to Loving a Shadow. Also see: As Long as There Is Evil, Soul Jar, Possessing a Dead Body. The inverse of this trope is Synchronization where killing one part kills the rest. Compare Actually a Doombot, Worf Had the Flu, Backup Twin, Cloning Gambit, and Robot Master, Decoy Getaway and Faking the Dead. This is partially a death trope; examples may be spoiler-y.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_10d30395	comment	Midway through Shin Megami Tensei II, you fight against YHVH, aka God. Except it's not the real one, it's just a false image unconsciously created and empowered by the archangels. In the end, you fight the REAL one, even on Law. And even if you win, He says He will not truly be defeated - as long as there are people praying to him, he will return. The other game He appears in has Him state that He's part of a much greater being who will constantly revive Him. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse reveals that part of that is true - He is part of a larger being. However, this larger being hates YHVH with a passion and has been working to stop Him. The same holds true to any demon or god in the series. Killing them doesn't stop them from showing up in any of the other games, or even later in the same game. Often it gives you the right to summon them as Mons, provided they're not the Final Boss of the game.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm: An interesting variant occurs with Oni Lee. Whenever Lee teleports, his new body is formed at the target destination and his old body continues on for several seconds before dissolving into carbon ash. But those seconds can be a long time in combat... There's also The Siberian, who is eventually revealed to be a projection created by William Manton. This is the case with Scion/Zion too. His humanlike Chrome Champion appearance is A Form You Are Comfortable With; his true form is a transdimensional Sufficiently Advanced Alien whose size is measured in landmasses, meaning that any damage that manages to get through his No-Sell can be quickly "patched over".
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Fighting a Shadow / int_143611d3	comment	In The Questport Chronicles, this is one explanation for the Master of Darkness' return after his defeat a thousand years ago. Or he might have been faking it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_14e9f567	comment	Ultraman Gaia: This is the signature ability of the Mezards, a race of jellyfish-like kaiju from another dimension. XIG first encounters them when what appears to be a giant jellyfish attacks New York. It is unable to be hit by their attacks, but Gamu realizes that what they're fighting is just a projection and they have to somehow draw out the real thing from its home dimension. The first Mezard is dispatched pretty quickly after they figure that out, but the two Psycho Mezards and the Queen Mezard compensate for XIG's familiarity in dealing with them with potent psychic abilities for the former and a vast intellect for the latter.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_15753606	comment	In Waking Nightmares, an attempt by the RED mercenaries to find out what happened to the BLU team draws the attention of their world's counterpart to the Big Bad — The Slenderman — who proceeds to slaughter them despite their efforts, even one-shotting the ubercharged (and thus invincible) Demoman and Medic. It's not until Medic accidentally empowers Heavy's weapon with Harmony that they defeat him... and are told that no, that was just a very minor aspect of his true self.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): The first time Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman kill Ares, Steve believes him finished once and for all. Diana corrects him: since Ares is the God of War, he cannot be slain by mere mortals and any physical form is just a fragment. All he suffered was a temporary defeat and diminution of his power.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): When Diana fights Circe to get to Themyscira to confront her mother the fact that Circe's power is reduced and the witch quickly leaves the fight clues Diana into the fact that she was facing a construct designed to make people think Circe is still around in her normal capacity, in order to hide whatever Circe is currently up to.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_16a9f881	comment	In The Spirit Thief, the problem with fighting Lord of Storms is that his human form is just a shell he's using to communicate with people and use objects; his true form is the hurricane that follows "him" around.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_187db5f0	comment	In the final book of the Blood Sword series, the "direct" path to Storming the Castle is guarded by the Demon-lord, Tirikelu; a Shout-Out to the author's other work. Direct fighting it is likely a Hopeless Boss Fight, but if you somehow do it... "By dint of tremendous luck and courage, you succeed in destroying the demon's earthly form. It vanishes. From what you know of demonology, it will not be able to manifest itself in the mortal world again for another hundred years. Of course, if your quest ends satisfactorily, then no demon will be able to appear in the mortal world ever again."
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Fighting a Shadow / int_190cc0e9	comment	In The Forbidden Kingdom, the monk is actually an enchanted hair off Monkey's head, attempting to reclaim his magic staff while he's Taken for Granite.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_1cba4fec	comment	In Fine Structure, Zykov was just the container for the local manifestation of the Big Bad. Killing himself wasn't surrender, it was just cutting out the middleman to My Death Is Just the Beginning.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_1cf9029e	comment	Unsurprisingly, this is a pretty good ability in DEATH BATTLE!, and beating a character that has it takes some special abilities — if it's at all possible. "Thanos VS. Darkseid": The fact that Darkseid only visits other universes as an avatar thwarts Thanos's first attempt to use the Infinity Gauntlet to wish him out of existence; he just reappears. "Sauron VS. The Lich King": While the Lich King's Plague of Undeath has a serious effect on Sauron's body, it doesn't really matter because (since the fights use the characters at their peak ability) he's able to discard his body, exist disembodied, and create a new body at will.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, Teitoku Kakine becomes like this when his consciousness becomes one with the Dark Matter he creates.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the most dangerous thing about Ultron is the fact that his digital consciousness is spread out among his legions of Mecha-Mooks. During the Final Battle, the Avengers know that they have to destroy each and every one of them in order to ensure his defeat.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2212773a	comment	Angel has another example. The Senior Partners (The Wolf, Ram and Hart) are ancient demons who pull the strings behind the evil law firm that bears their name. They never appear physically, and are described as "eternal" and "in another dimension." In the second season, one of them manifests in a demonic body which Angel is able to destroy. Though not stated outright, its strongly implied that this merely forced the partner back to its home dimension.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_223c2a48	comment	The Blight Ganons in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While Calamity Ganon himself is sealed away in Hyrule Castle, he was still able to send these Mechanical Abominations made of his essence to take control of the Divine Beasts.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise had a mundane version of this in the season 4 three-parter "Babel One", "United" and "The Aenar", which sees the Andorian and Tellarite races being terrorized by an enemy ship that each side believes is under the control of the other as it is able to disguise itself. The audience sees that it is actually being controlled by the Romulans and their pilot, but it is only at the end of the first episode that we learn that the bad guys are actually on Romulus itself and the "ship" is really a drone remote controlled from light-years away.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2284ad36	comment	In Grim Dawn, the Aetherials are a race of extradimensional spirits who are invading the world of Cairn to claim it as their own. They do this by possessing the bodies of living creatures - ideally willing, intelligent, and living hosts. Killing the host doesn't harm the Aetherial at all beyond angering them, and the one possessing Warden Krieg explicitly says that while the player can destroy his body, you cannot truly kill him. The sole exception to this rule is if the Aetherial's host is trapped in a magical ward, in which case killing the host destroys the Aetherial as well.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry (When The Seagulls Cry), this is the case if Beatrice and Battler die on the chessboard since their souls exist elsewhere.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_280378a8	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, the final dungeon is protected by illusions of Espa Roba, Bonz, Weevil, Rex, Mako, and Mai. To defeat them, you have to fight their real selves and gain their special cards.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_283b23c1	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, the Book of Darkness is like this: every time it is physically destroyed, it respawns somewhere else in the multiverse, ready to devour another planet. The Big Bad's "Evil Plan" includes sealing the Book in magical ice for eternity... along with its current Master. Team Nanoha, however, finds a better solution: separate the Defense Program responsible for regeneration from the rest of the book and destroy it. Even so, however, the Defense Program would have regenerated somewhere within days, had Reinforce, the Master Program of the Book, not committed Suicide by Cop. The Battle of Aces shows a What If? scenario of what would have happened, had the Defense Program been allowed to regenerate.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_28917602	comment	In The Tale of the Five series by Diane Duane, there is one day of the year where one can kill the Shadow but it returns immediately the day after and is said to be a waste of time.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix: Double Subversion when Neo destroys Smith at the end of the movie, seemingly for good by destroying his code itself but ultimately only causes him to become more powerful in the next movie (instead of taking over a host when he's "killed", he can turn anyone and everyone he touches inside the program into another copy of himself, even if they are another program or not hardwired into the Matrix). It's unclear whether his ability to defy true deletion is a general rule (any agent so inclined could come back the way he did) or a property specific to Smith because of how he "died" or who killed him (just like Neo, he defies the laws of the Matrix to return to life when he should have died). Smith himself does manage to take out all the other Agents by infecting literally everyone in the Matrix, though whether this destroyed their programs or simply left them without any more bodies to use is unclear.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2c0b7945	comment	Mother of Learning: Throughout the final month, Zorian's magical simulacra skirmish several times with Red Robe's simulacra, typically having the upper hand due to their sturdier construction, but ultimately both types of simulacra are expendable.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2c49204d	comment	The first fight against Ghaleon in Lunar: Silver Star Story is one of these, and his attacks are even suspiciously repetitive. When the reveal is made, cue a domino cascade of going From Bad to Worse when the real one turns up...
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2d11a6d8	comment	Hausen and Saizou from Treasure of the Rudra, you do get to kill them later in their true forms.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	This is illustrated very creepily in the Justice League episode "Twilight", where Hawkgirl smashes Brainiac to pieces, apparently killing him- only for the team to be immediately surrounded by dozens of Brainiacs, all of which are identical extensions of the central consciousness. Yikes.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2f5ca170	comment	Hydreigon in PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity is actually a Nature Spirit known as the Voice of Life, who's taken a temporary physical form as a Pokemon for the sake of protecting the world. His body ends up getting totally annihilated by Kyurem, but this only serves to keep him aiding the heroes in the final battle, as he returns good as new in the ending and laughs off what happened.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2f9517bf	comment	D.Gray-Man: Road Kamelot seems to be a mix of the two first types. It is unclear what her "real body "looks like but it is kept in her own personal dimension. She states that "she's here but she's not here". Her physical body appears to be basically immortal but at the same time this is implied not to be a simple projection but to be also "herself". At some point this physical body was reduced to ashes but she was back perfectly well 10 minutes later. The trope also applies to all 14 Noah clan members: If their current body is slain, a random human will simply "awaken" as the killed Noah (appearance, memories and all) after an indefinite amount of time. This is because every human born after the Flood are descended from the original Noah clan, making them all potential host candidates.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_2fee008d	comment	The Anti-Spiral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann seems to be something like this. Possibly an collective conscience in a shadowy form.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_31aedabc	comment	The above-mentioned Nyarlathotep. The Crawling Chaos is simultaneously a possible Ancient One, a possible Herald, and five to ten separate monsters (depending on expansions.)
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Fighting a Shadow / int_33728d94	comment	Downplayed in Dragaera with Physical Gods. Killing the local manifestation of a god isn't at all lethal — it's almost certainly not even the only manifestation it's operating through at the time — but it does bar the god from appearing in that region again. The area affected varies: one was "killed" in a small country, while a particularly Jerkass God has all his worshipers on the planet massacred before his death and can no longer affect that world.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3717ea4a	comment	DC Animated Universe: Brainiac in Superman: The Animated Series. Even the smallest piece of him contains his complete consciousness- and he always has a back-up copy of himself stored somewhere. As such, he's one of the few opponents Superman will use lethal force on, because the Brainiac you can kill is always just one part of the whole. This is illustrated very creepily in the Justice League episode "Twilight", where Hawkgirl smashes Brainiac to pieces, apparently killing him- only for the team to be immediately surrounded by dozens of Brainiacs, all of which are identical extensions of the central consciousness. Yikes. However, after that, only a small fraction of him survived in nanobot form inside Lex Luthor, and the rest seemed to be his equivalent of spiritual essence. When the former was destroyed, a fragment remained, but it was powerless and seemed to be genuinely dead. The latter was fully reformed in the Grand Finale, but only as part of a resurrected Darkseid. His personality is now totally subsumed by the latter, and the latter was destroyed, and even if he comes back, currently this Brainiac can be considered Deader than Dead. And yet, Brainiac 5 must've come from somewhere. Not to mention the episode in Superman The Animated Series where he came from the very far future indicating that the ending of the Grand Finale didn't get rid of him, to destroy Superman before he even learned about his powers.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Batman came up with a way to beat Wonder Woman using a remotely directed chip to get her to fight simulated battles against an equal opponent who never tired. He figured her body would quit before she did. Wonder Woman (1942): The first time Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman kill Ares, Steve believes him finished once and for all. Diana corrects him: since Ares is the God of War, he cannot be slain by mere mortals and any physical form is just a fragment. All he suffered was a temporary defeat and diminution of his power. Wonder Woman (1987): When Diana fights Circe to get to Themyscira to confront her mother the fact that Circe's power is reduced and the witch quickly leaves the fight clues Diana into the fact that she was facing a construct designed to make people think Circe is still around in her normal capacity, in order to hide whatever Circe is currently up to.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3a1a4592	comment	In Temple of Elemental Evil, killing the Avatar of Demigod Iuz gives you a special addition to the ending where it's mentioned he did return; but the time away meant his plane is in tatters and he's afraid of your party. Also, whether one either drives the Demon Princess Zuggtmoy back to the Abyss for 66 years upon 0 Hit Points or permanently destroys her depends on what actions you take.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3a38519	comment	Dungeon Keeper has vampires that just respawn with their level decreased by one in their bed if they are killed. Unless it is a priest that kills them or they are at level one.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3aaeb99a	comment	Demon Princes Ishtra and Myurr can either be directly fought with the right abilities or weapons or their Summoning Ritual be reversed; but that just sends them home.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3be307d1	comment	The 3-dimensional bodies of Tenchi Masaki, Washuu, Tsunami, and Tokimi in Tenchi Muyo!, are just shadows of their true hyperdimensional selves.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3c6e7f9f	comment	Cross Ange: Embryo hides in another dimension and uses avatars to interact with the world, so his avatars can quickly heal themselves and automatically reappear if killed. He is finally killed when the heroes are able to enter his dimension and kill his real body.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3ca5cc2d	comment	Firefight: As part of Regalia's hydrokinetic powers, she can shape full-color duplicates out of water and see and speak through them. This means that, unlike most High Epics, the key to killing her is not finding her weakness but figuring out where she's hiding her real body.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_3e6efd69	comment	In the Prequel Godzilla: New Era, Millennian is a Hive Mind organism, and thus killing one of its drones does little to harm the entity as a whole. Downplayed, wholever, as it still has a finite amount of biomass to work with, and destroying enough of it will cause it trouble until it assimulates enough. It only becomes truly killable once it merges together all available biomass to assume a true physical form. It could theoretically have split off some more biomass to survive even in this state, but and Godzilla's DNA makes its Hive Mind fall apart, causing each piece to begin trying to kill and consume one another to maintain the connection. Even then, it takes complete destruction in order to kill it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_41b0198a	comment	Many supernatural beings (such as demons) are like this in The Dresden Files; ordinarily when summoned, their spirit arrives in the mortal world and creates a construct body, and if that body is killed, the spirit is simply sent back to the Nevernever (essentially, the supernatural dimension that exists alongside the mortal world). They can be killed permanently in the Nevernever itself, if they enter directly into the mortal world in their true form (as opposed to a construct body), or with certain powerful spells and weapons. Notably the thirty Fallen Angels are bound to thirty silver Roman coins, yes these ones, who put part of their mind into the first person who takes up a coin and tempts them with power, forcing to use their malevolent powers. Generally people succumb to the shadows of the Angels in their minds and lose their humanity. When Harry becomes the bearer of Lascielnote to save an infant child from grabbing the evil coin tossed at them, what's called her shadow lives in Harry's mind and he battles her temptations and sometimes illusions. He eventually wins by lasting so long, the shadow is no longer just an extension of Lasciel but her own entity and own name, Lash.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_42ffb88e	comment	An SCP Foundation researcher has raised the possibility that this is the true nature of the Nigh-Invulnerable SCPs SCP-682 and SCP-076-2.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_44fe781e	comment	Type one used straight and played with in Neon Genesis Evangelion: the twelfth Angel, Leliel, appears as a floating, apparently unkillable orb over Tokyo-3, disappearing and reappearing at will. Turns out its "shadow" is the real angel.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_4522fd1	comment	This is explicitly how at least the more worrisome types of demons (like the one Phase fought in 'Ayla and the Grinch') work in the Whateley Universe. It's one thing that distinguishes them from devils, which are more like evil spirits that exist in the here-and-now in this setting.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth manages to do this in a number of ways, though he doesn't have any inherent quality of always surviving death. The first times you see him in the game (when you can't fight him, and the characters wouldn't be up to it anyway), it's actually not his real body but Jenova's stuff, so killing it almost certainly would not kill him. When you finally get to him for the Final Boss fights, you have to kill two physical One-Winged Angel forms in a row. After that, he was still hanging out in The Lifestream or something and pulled Cloud in to a mental battle. Even after being defeated, he still refuses to be dispersed in the Lifestream like a normal dead person, but instead eventually (in Advent Children) sends out three avatars (who are separate persons from him) to look for what's left of Jenova. When they find it, one of them uses it to transform into Sephiroth, whom Cloud kills again. But even that isn't enough as it's possible that he might even time travelled back to the past from the beginning of the game in order to alter destiny and undo his defeat. The Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts is apparently a more straightforward example, an embodiment of Cloud's inner darkness who will always return after being defeated by him. Cloud's fighting his own shadow, in a way. Okay, maybe it's not that straightforward. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows Sephiroth is able to possess the black robed men at will and transform them into clones of himself. Each time they die, his spirit simply exits the body and chooses another one.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, the Ascians are incorporeal spirits who interact with the world by possessing human bodies. While lesser Ascians will perish if their current body is destroyed and there are no corpses around for them to possess, the red-masked overlords are more resilient, and the loss of their bodies is at worst a temporary inconvenience.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_49ad83ee	comment	As part of a particularly long quest chain in World of Warcraft, you summon the Avatar of Hakkar in the Sunken Temple and trap his essence into some egg thingy as requested by some troll. You can do this as much as you like as he gives you a scroll to keep summoning Hakkar, saying it weakens his true form. A nearby dwarf continues the chain and you learn that actually, you've been making Hakkar stronger by summoning his avatar repeatedly. Woops! Eventually, you do kill the true form of Hakkar, but that happened later than this quest line was introduced. And it's really not settled yet if he's actually dead or was basically just banished again. According to some quests, demons in the Warcraft universe work like this too. If this is true, presumably the reason Archimonde and pals haven't come back is because it takes quite a while for a powerful demon to regenerate. This is somewhat backed up by the demon "pets" that players of the warlock class can summon. Whenever they "die" (usually by being defeated in battle against either an AI enemy or a player from the opposing faction in PvP), they are apparently simply banished back to whatever demonic dimension they originate from the same way they are when the warlock actively dismisses them. The warlock brings them back by just casting the summoning spell again without needing to use any kind of resurrection technique like a hunter does for their animal pets. According to The War of the Ancients book trilogy, Sargeras was already disembodied at the end of the War of the Ancients, when the portal he was using to enter Azeroth imploded while we was inside (as opposed to him getting disembodies only after he possessed Mediev, the last Guardian, and got killed before he could transfer his spirit back to his body). In that case him appearing on Azeroth as an avatar would fit this trope. One of the endgame boss fights in Wrath of the Lich King involves beating back the mouth of Yogg-Saron as he begins to emerge from his earthly prison. In the Cataclysm expansion, Ragnaros, who was killed by players as the first end boss of WoW 1.0 will make a reappearance, his original death being ambiguously a "banishment". Elementals, same as demons, are considered "Outsiders", and return to their home plane upon "death". Hence the second appearance of Ragnaros in Firelands. All the above said, Eternals can be killed if they're destroyed on their home world or plane, As Ragnaros learned the hard way at the end of the firelands, when he's been confirmed by Word of God to be permanently dead. The final boss of the 5-man dungeon "Darkheart Thicket" fits this trope, as said boss is literally the "Shade of Xavius", a satyr who has been harassing the player all throughout the zone where the dungeon is located. The proper encounter with Xavius only happens as the last encounter of the "Emerald Nightmare" raid, as Xavius cannot use his powers outside of the Nightmare at all.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_4e67e492	comment	SNK's Fu'un Series games (Savage Reign and Kizuna Encounter) feature King Lion as a playable character. Of course, he's actually just a shadow of the real boss character King Leo. Indeed when you beat King Lion in SR, Leo mocks you before challenging you himself.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_51bddf17	comment	KULT subverts this: Archons and other superbeings can have multiple incarnate avatars and it take less than one day to create a replacement when one is destroyed. However, getting killed hurts and, if several incarnates are killed in short period, the pain can actually kill the being.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5251e609	comment	Arkham Horror: The above-mentioned Nyarlathotep. The Crawling Chaos is simultaneously a possible Ancient One, a possible Herald, and five to ten separate monsters (depending on expansions.) Yog-Sothoth is time and space itself, you fight it in game as an Ancient One, a Herald (the Lurker at the Threshold), and every gate in the game.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_53dc3731	comment	This happened to Atomic Robo in the Shadow from Beyond Time arc, where the titular creature, an Eldritch Abomination that existed outside regular spacetime, kept coming back. It wasnâ€™t simply that it kept returning every time Robo defeated it, but that its body intersected multiple time periods, like fingers dipping into a river. Eventually, Robo meets with his fellow time displaced selves inside of the shadow and they detonate a quantum bomb that destroys the creature at all points in time simultaneously.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_56dce3c1	comment	In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Ego is a giant disembodied brain embedded in the core of a planet he built with his Mind over Matter abilities. The human form he uses to interact with others is similarly constructed and he can make a new one in minutes if necessary.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5908ee91	comment	In Skyrim, the Big Bad is Alduin, the legendary draconic Beast of the Apocalypse divinely tasked with "eating the world" so that it can be remade anew. The Dragonborn must fight him twice, first atop the Throat of the World. After this defeat, Alduin retreats to the Nordic Warrior Heaven of Sovngarde, where he consumes the souls of the recently dead (which, due Skyrim's Civil War, there are plenty to be had) in order to grow more powerful. The Dragonborn must pursue him there and fight him once again in order to actually defeat him. (And given that the Dragonborn does not absorb Alduin's soul, the implication is that he will return to fulfill his duty at the appropriate time.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_59215319	comment	In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, the last battle is against an avatar of Nyarlatothep, the Crawling Chaos, who laughs at your efforts and kills a beloved character to prove a point. The semi-sequel, Eternal Punishment, allows us to drive him off, although true to this trope, it isn't permanent.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3 explicitly names its foe thus: Nyx Avatar. The battle is long, gruesome, and difficult, and yet the enemy shrugs off all damage and calls forth the undefeatable being it is a mere fragment of: Nyx, Death itself.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5921531b	comment	In Persona 4 Ameno-sagiri is something like this for Izanami. Same goes for Kusumi-no-okami: killing her gets rid of the fog but doesn't deal with the actual problem. Even Izanami herself is just the shadow of Izanami-no-Okami, who can't be defeated by the party under normal circumstances - knock her down to zero health and she just starts spamming an instant-kill attack which kills the target so hard they can't be revived. Only the full potential of the Wild Card - said to be infinite - is actually able to take her out, and even then her power just passes to a new being. Good thing the new Izanami-no-mikoto actually quite likes humanity.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_59d04ad0	comment	In Superman: Brainiac, Supergirl reveals that every other time Superman fought Brainiac in the past of the Post-Crisis universe, it was a remotely controlled robot probe or some other technological method.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5a7956f	comment	In Lost Dimension, when you first meet The End, Nagi tries to shoot him, but he's not really there, he's just sending a projection of some sort. You don't actually get to meet the real him until, well, the end.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe: The titular Warframes are actually the shadows in this kind of scenario. They are not the Tenno like youâ€™re led to believe; theyâ€™re semi-robotic Remote Bodies that the Tenno use to interact with the world. The real Tenno are a group of human children called Operators who gained the Power of the Void after exposure to it through an accident involving FTL travel. They spend most of their time stashed away in a safe location and in stasis, controlling their Warframes through their psychic powers. In the â€œSecond Dreamâ€� quest, Hunhow and the Stalker figure this out and try to attack the Operators directly, figuring it wonâ€™t matter how many Warframes they kill if the Player Characters can just jump to new ones.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5c897f4a	comment	Petey did a bit of this with holospheres in Schlock Mercenary, although the third hologram transmitter was also rigged as a bomb, following Petey's "three strikes"note as in baseball policy.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Free from Soul Eater manages to do this by projecting a hologram of himself to stall Death the Kid and Blackâ˜†Star, firing a real Magic Eye Cannon at them before they can see him and exploiting his Complete Immortality and ability to No-Sell most attacks to sell the illusion. When Death the Kid realizes that he's just tanking ranged attacks but avoiding melee ones (to avoid giving himself away,) he quickly figures out what's going on.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_5fea5dfc	comment	In the heavily video game-influenced Beet the Vandel Buster, an immensely powerful Vandel (monster) is defeated by the main character, but it turns out that he was only the "shadow" of the real one, who is, incidentally, trying to become the next The Dragon to the incarnation of evil itself. It should be noted that ANY Vandel can use this trick, and while the shadow may be weaker, the shadow of an extremely powerful Vandel is much more than even an experienced buster can handle.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_61354a39	comment	Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows Sephiroth is able to possess the black robed men at will and transform them into clones of himself. Each time they die, his spirit simply exits the body and chooses another one.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: The Summon Monster spells function on this principle. A summoned creature is essentially projected onto the battlefield from their home planes, and killing the summon only returns them home no worse for wear, and depending on the circumstances of their summoning may be augmented in some way. This is explicitly in contrast to a called creature, which is physically teleported from their home plane to fight or serve. A slain fiendish demigod simply respawns at the heart of its domain. If it's killed a second time before a year has passed that death will stick, but they're extremely cautious during that period, so finishing it off for good generally requires invading its lair and fighting through the army of minions it throws in front of itself, on top of beating it again with the additional powers it gets from being in its realm.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_69dabedf	comment	Vampyr has the Red Queen, an outworldly entity that is the mother of all vampires and the game's final boss. When Jonathan kills Harriet Jones, the source of the Skal epidemic, the Red Queen emerges from her body and attacks Jonathan. However, its explicitly noted he is fighting her avatar and after she is defeated, she shrugs it off and is convinced by her son Myrddin to go back to slumber, but not before ensuring her eventual return.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: This is why fighting the Fused singers is so difficult. The Fused are created from the souls of the ancient singers who first waged war against humanity, reborn through the generations by stealing the bodies of common singers, and when they die their spirit simply goes back into the storm and can steal another body within days. The Heralds were able to slow this down by sealing the Fused in Damnation with the Oathpact, but with the Oathpact broken the only other way to stop the Fused would be to exterminate the singers down to the last child.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_6ac55ec7	comment	As a Dungeons & Dragons lich, Xykon of The Order of the Stick is like this- if his body is destroyed, his soul will simply retreat to his Soul Jar and create another one, rendering him nearly impossible to kill. Of course, it made things a lot harder for him when his Soul Jar went missing, but then it was found again.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_6f123944	comment	Our Worlds at War: Superman first battles Lord Imperiex, only to find that he was battling a probe that reports to the real Lord Imperiex who is big enough to threaten the entire universe.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_704decef	comment	In Chaotic, Aa'une, leader of the M'arrillian tribe, can exist as a weak projection than can still fight but once the player has fulfilled the necessary requirements he or she can flip over the card and Aa'une will become a Game-Breaker. Hence this card is an extremely powerful yet fragile Glass Cannon.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Avatar's existence is mostly in the spiritual world; and reincarnates into one person at a time. This trope is actually inverted when in the Avatar State; by pulling all of itself into the physical world, the current Avatar wields tremendous power, but if they should die while in the Avatar State they'll have no way of reincarnating.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ganondorf appears to be the "physical body", while Ganon is the inner demon essence and a physical manifestation of Ganondorf's true power and rage. As is declassified in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Ganondorf's existence is due to the dying curse of Demise, the God of Evil and Greater-Scope Villain. This same curse also affects Link and Zelda, forever trapping the three wielders of the Triforce in an eternal cycle of reincarnation and making the death of any of the three meaningless in the long run. The Blight Ganons in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While Calamity Ganon himself is sealed away in Hyrule Castle, he was still able to send these Mechanical Abominations made of his essence to take control of the Divine Beasts. In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Calamity Ganon is revealed to be nothing more than a magical manifestation of Demon King Ganondorf's hatred leaking out of his sealed body for thousands of years. When Ganondorf finally frees himself from his seal, he immediately destroys the Master Sword and Link's heart containers with one blast of his dark power. Keep in mind, this Link just recently defeated Calamity Ganon in the last game.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_7988cb68	comment	The Reapers from Mass Effect seem to use this trope combined with People Puppets to fight targets planetside. This trope is played straight only really in the second game, however, as killing the supercharged Collector drones doesn't damage Harbinger at all. With the Saren Husk, however... That's because Harbinger is using a proxy - the Collector General - ostensibly to avoid what happened to Sovereign.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_79b82b28	comment	Julius in Sword of Mana has a literal shadow of himself that often does dirty work that he's not available to perform in person. However, it's apparently not remote controlled, given that it actually asks Julius a favor shortly before the final battle. The heroes still act like they're talking to Julius, though, which is somewhat confusing.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_7fc78282	comment	Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings universe: Sauron. It may take 2-3 millennia for him to come back, but only destroying the One Ring will permanently kill him (and even then he'll persist as a powerless spirit). All the Ainur (the Fantasy Pantheon of Middle Earth) are like this; their physical bodies are compared to clothing, to be put on and cast off at will. Zigzagged with Morgoth, who became so obsessed with ruling the physical world that he became bound to a single physical body, unable to cast it off like the other Ainur. It worked the other way as well: he was so intimately involved in the creation of the world that "the world is Morgoth's Ring" and he can't be truly killed until the end of the world itself. (Upon defeat, the other Valar cut off his hands and feet and threw him into the Void to await the final battle and the end of the world.)
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Fighting a Shadow / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, Unicron is Earth, and attacks the Autobots using stone avatars of himself. The first one gives Optimus a bit of trouble, but is ultimately blasted to pieces...only for Unicron to immediately form dozens of replacements.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_86814e56	comment	Kefka of Final Fantasy VI fame was a fan of this technique, using it to taunt and ultimately defeat General Leo.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_86814e94	comment	In one mission in Final Fantasy XI, you get to fight with Professor Shantotto. Win, and "Shantotto" will turn into a doll, only for the real Shantotto to reveal that you'd been fighting with a doll she magic'd into life. She pulls the same trick in Dissidia; when she loses, she turns into a doll, rather than just collapsing like the other characters. Her death quotes range from giving the opponent a B-, to the doll talking in a Creepy Monotone before turning back. Also, the prime and summoned avatars. Also Pandemonium Warden, one of the game's two (previously) unbeatable superbosses. When engaging him, he will disappear, then manifest himself as a randomly-selected boss from the Treasures of Aht Urghan expansion. Kill him, he will disappear, then reappear as another boss, and he will do that nine times, gradually moving up the scale from salvage bosses, to beastman kings to high notorious monsters. Only when all those manifestations have been defeated will he appear in his "true form" to face the players fighting him. And even if a group manages to "kill" him, his parting monologue strongly implies he does not truly die.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_87ffda3d	comment	Final Crisis reveals that Darkseid has been doing this for years, in order to Retcon decades of Villain Decay and justify his defeats in other stories. The real Darkseid is far more powerful and dangerous. Of note, it has been stated several times over the decades that this is what he's got going, not just in Final Crisis. Grant Morrison is just the one who remembered that he could do this, while many other writers seem to have forgotten. As an aside, the avatars of Darkseid in previous stories seem to be more like clones than this trope, since they specifically say they are not Darkseid and often talk about him in the third person (and not the way Darkseid usually does), to the point where they say they are not as great as him. Though in all other senses they are Darkseid and naturally still consider themselves superior to everyone else, and still think and act and behave like he does. The real Darkseid, for the record, was stuck on the Source Wall for millennia, and had never shown up before Final Crisis except in flashbacks to his younger, usually less powerful self. Also a deconstruction in a sense: the true, platonic form of Darkseid is so absurdly large and powerful that it was capable of destroying the universe just by falling on it in its death throes. Fighting a shadow means you are fighting one of the weakest fragments of that thing and have no chance against the real article.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the monsters and gods are almost impossible to truly kill. Monsters dissolve into sand and pop back up after awhile. The time depends on the monster ex. Mrs. Dodds came back after a few days but some take lifetimes. This is played with with gods in the sense that a god's essence is rarely all in one place. When it IS, they take on their true immortal form, killing any mortal looking at them, but if the greater part of their essence is trapped, they are powerless.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, the Kingdom of Lancre has been taken over by vampires. To enforce compliance and maintain a puppet ruler, they suck just enough of the blood of King Verence to make him a hapless figurehead with no power to resist. When he is rescued and taken to a place of safety, it is seen that he has two shadows. One is the embodiment of the poison injected into him by the Vampyrs. Recognising this, a battle ensues with the Shadow and it is conclusively killed with a crossbow bolt - a stake - through where its heart might be, leaving Verence his own man again.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8bb042d4	comment	In In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, the evil wizard Gallian puts his consciousness inside an armored warrior. Every time his avatar is slain, he just laughs and uses a new body to fight.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8c87469c	comment	Ganondorf appears to be the "physical body", while Ganon is the inner demon essence and a physical manifestation of Ganondorf's true power and rage. As is declassified in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Ganondorf's existence is due to the dying curse of Demise, the God of Evil and Greater-Scope Villain. This same curse also affects Link and Zelda, forever trapping the three wielders of the Triforce in an eternal cycle of reincarnation and making the death of any of the three meaningless in the long run.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8dd8ec81	comment	In the Sailor Moon manga, after Demand destroys Wiseman, it is revealed that he was but an avatar of the Death Phantom, who has become one with the planet Nemesis.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Superman: Brainiac, Supergirl reveals that every other time Superman fought Brainiac in the past of the Post-Crisis universe, it was a remotely controlled robot probe or some other technological method. Our Worlds at War: Superman first battles Lord Imperiex, only to find that he was battling a probe that reports to the real Lord Imperiex who is big enough to threaten the entire universe.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_8e68cca9	comment	In Digger, when Shadowchild meets with and eats a shadow of Sweetgrass Voice.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_91ecd9c8	comment	The Bridge (MLP): Bagan's minions Enjin, Doragon, and Mizu are but avatars of the true beasts who inhabit Bagan's body and can be re-summoned if destroyed, though this takes enough time to take them out of the picture in all practical terms. Destroyah seemingly locates and kills the real Giranbo out of her army of clones, but it turns out this was an avatar as well. Her true body was her house, which then turns into her true Kaiju form. The only way to kill her is to eradicate every trace of her. In the past, Wysteria killed the Windigos' physical bodies, but these were just avatars of their spirits. It will take a while for them to make new avatars; meanwhile, their spirits can possess people's bodies. In the Prequel Godzilla: New Era, Millennian is a Hive Mind organism, and thus killing one of its drones does little to harm the entity as a whole. Downplayed, wholever, as it still has a finite amount of biomass to work with, and destroying enough of it will cause it trouble until it assimulates enough. It only becomes truly killable once it merges together all available biomass to assume a true physical form. It could theoretically have split off some more biomass to survive even in this state, but and Godzilla's DNA makes its Hive Mind fall apart, causing each piece to begin trying to kill and consume one another to maintain the connection. Even then, it takes complete destruction in order to kill it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_920bdb7c	comment	Angels in Kill Six Billion Demons are Energy Beings from the Void Between the Worlds who inhabit magical armour to exist in the physical world. Defeating one only forces it back to the Void, although the trip can trigger their Resurrective Immortality and leave them in stasis for what can be a very long time.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_9746a351	comment	According to The War of the Ancients book trilogy, Sargeras was already disembodied at the end of the War of the Ancients, when the portal he was using to enter Azeroth imploded while we was inside (as opposed to him getting disembodies only after he possessed Mediev, the last Guardian, and got killed before he could transfer his spirit back to his body). In that case him appearing on Azeroth as an avatar would fit this trope.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_98dc652b	comment	In Dragon Ball GT, General Rildo's consciousness inhabits all metal on his planet. If he is destroyed, a new body is formed from the surrounding metal.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series: The Pantheon can project Avatars of themselves into mortal reality, and are thus unharmed if something happens to it. Even ones incarnated in the mortal Realm can produce additional ones, and even Cadence has learned how to do it, though out of the Princesses Luna is the best at it. In fact, in general the Concepts are this whenever they manifest in the mortal world, as destroying their physical body just sends them back to the spirit world, though they only get one 'life'. Draconequi have their own variant of this where they can separate off full versions of the animals composing their body to act as extensions of themselves. Nyarlathotrot, an Outer Concept, is a unique case as he has many Avatars, and destroying them generally only succeeds in ticking him off, each one is somewhat independent rather than simply being a form he takes to manifest, but still part of the collective.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The Daedric Princes possess Complete Immortality and thus, cannot truly be "killed". All you can do, even if you are a full-blown Physical God or even Akatosh himself, is slay whatever physical form they have taken and banish them back to Oblivion, where they will reform. While they have been beaten, battered, and even fundamentally changed, nothing in the setting has ever been able to actually kill one. This is also true for lesser Daedra, though they tend to be much easier to slay. This is also the case for the Daedric artifacts associated with the Princes. You can destroy or otherwise unmake them, but they will always reappear somewhere else in Tamriel after a few years, usually per the will of their associated Prince. In Morrowind, you must defeat Dagoth Ur at the end of the main quest. In your first battle against him, he can be slain, but his body disappears and reappears in the next room. This time, he is at full blown Physical God power and cannot be killed. (Instead, you must sever his ties to the source of his power, the Heart of Lorkhan, which kills him for good.) In Skyrim, the Big Bad is Alduin, the legendary draconic Beast of the Apocalypse divinely tasked with "eating the world" so that it can be remade anew. The Dragonborn must fight him twice, first atop the Throat of the World. After this defeat, Alduin retreats to the Nordic Warrior Heaven of Sovngarde, where he consumes the souls of the recently dead (which, due Skyrim's Civil War, there are plenty to be had) in order to grow more powerful. The Dragonborn must pursue him there and fight him once again in order to actually defeat him. (And given that the Dragonborn does not absorb Alduin's soul, the implication is that he will return to fulfill his duty at the appropriate time.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: As shown in the page image, Gecko Moria uses his own shadow to play this trope literally, invoking Type III; the shadow acts as a Body Double, fighting in his place. It really can't be "killed"; Moria can control its shape at will anyway, so breaking it apart doesn't faze it. Moria can even teleport and swap places with the blasted thing!
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Fighting a Shadow / int_9e876c22	comment	Crowley is annoyed at getting shot in Good Omens, as "getting a new body was like getting a pen from a particularly bloody-minded stationery department". Fortunately it was with paint-balls.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Mister Mxyzptlk, Vyndktvx, Qwsp, Bat-Mite, and other imps really exist in 5-dimensional space, beyond what 3-dimensional beings can perceive. "Destroying" their bodies in this realm is a laughably trivial inconvenience for them.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_a44ac02e	comment	In Jack Sins respawn in Hell when their head is removed. For the titular character this is much less of an inconvenience as his job pretty much gives him a free pass between Hell and the mortal world.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_a5549ed0	comment	Notably the thirty Fallen Angels are bound to thirty silver Roman coins, yes these ones, who put part of their mind into the first person who takes up a coin and tempts them with power, forcing to use their malevolent powers. Generally people succumb to the shadows of the Angels in their minds and lose their humanity. When Harry becomes the bearer of Lascielnote to save an infant child from grabbing the evil coin tossed at them, what's called her shadow lives in Harry's mind and he battles her temptations and sometimes illusions. He eventually wins by lasting so long, the shadow is no longer just an extension of Lasciel but her own entity and own name, Lash.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_a606596a	comment	An interesting variation occurs in Chrono Cross where the Dragon God is just the part of a bigger entity that exists outside time. When you kill the physical manifestation, it gloats that all it has to do is reform with its main self; however it's then revealed that its main self was killed by the Time Devourer long ago. This is also the reason you can't just destroy the Time Devourer. It will simply switch to/from a different timeline/dimension where you didn't kill it and try again. Now you know how frustrated the computer feels when you're Save Scumming. There is also the battle in Vipor Manor, where you seem to fight Lynx and are mocked by the original right after.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, the Three Eldrazi Titans, Emrakul, Kozilek, and Ulamog, are powerful incorporeal entities who reside in the Blind Eternities that exist between the planes of the Multiverse. Whenever they find a particular appetizing plane, they project extremely powerful physical 'shadows' to wreck havoc and consume. One of the key elements of Sorin, Nahiri, and Ugin's plan to seal the Eldrazi was to trap them in their own shadows using Ugin's mastery of colorless magic. And then in Oath of the Gatewatch Jace and Nissa managed to find a way to force Kozilek and Ulamog to fully incarnate themselves inside Zendikar. At which point Chandra dealt with them in the same way she deals with everything else . Its strongly implied (by Ugin and then by Emrakul herself), that this will have significant consequences, as the Eldrazi are important to the destruction and renewal of planes. Without Kozilek and Ulamog, Emrakul is unable to fulfill her function, and allows herself to be sealed within Innistrad's moon. In the actual game, this is represented by an ability on the Eldrazi Titans (and a few other transcendental creatures, like the Elemental Incarnations) that shuffles them back into their owner's deck when they die, so while they can be dealt with, they will be back if the game goes long enough. However, this ability is sneakily used as a drawback, as they don't leave behind a corpse to reanimate.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_ac0de303	comment	The Shadowlords in Ultima V. Each attack a different town each day; corrupting the minds of those who live there and killing the plant life. Even if one manages to "kill" one in normal battle (which in itself is very, very hard) they reform immediately; as they're really aspects of the Shards of Hatred, Cowardice, and Falsehood. Only a specialized ritual involving their True Name; the Shard they correspond to, and the Flame of the Opposite alignment can destroy them permanently.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_ae727300	comment	In the Paradox Trilogy, this is the nature of the Eldritch Abominations called phantoms. While phantoms have physical bodies which can be seemingly wounded, their true nature is incorporeal beings of pure plasmex. No amount of physical damage to their bodies can kill them, not even complete nuclear immolation; so long as their plasmex remains, their bodies will simply reform.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_af3dd955	comment	As of the comic "Another Light" Multiversal Singularities no longer exist as a concept, and every version of any Multiversal Singularity character is now their own entity rather than this trope.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b45bcd92	comment	Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler: Cooler's remains merged with the Big Gete Star and sends mechanical avatars, his army of Meta-Coolers, to fight the heroes.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b4816c2e	comment	Legacy of Kain: You get to be this guy when you play as Raziel. Raziel is a creature of the Spectral Realm, so when he appears in the Material Realm (where most of the story and gameplay takes place), that is just a new body he creates every time he reaches full power. Every time you die in the Material Realm you simply show up in that same spot in the Spectral Realm, and either suck souls to regenerate your health or simply wait for it to happen on its own; once you reach full health you just need to find a portal and you can return to the physical world (and since time in the spectral realm effectively stands still, whatever killed you may as well have thought you just teleported). Die in the Spectral Realm and you will return to the Abyss, and can continue on from there.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, you must defeat Dagoth Ur at the end of the main quest. In your first battle against him, he can be slain, but his body disappears and reappears in the next room. This time, he is at full blown Physical God power and cannot be killed. (Instead, you must sever his ties to the source of his power, the Heart of Lorkhan, which kills him for good.)
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things season two's Mind Flayer creates a Type Four, taken almost literally. Destroying the avatar by disconnecting it from the brain is simply an inconvenience, as the Mind Flayer's real shape of a living shadow is tethered in another dimension.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b9b796cf	comment	The Heroic Spirits in Fate/stay night are permanently etched into a spiritual domain called The Throne Of Heroes; their "deaths" in any one particular Grail War aren't permanent. In fact, one hero actually attempts to commit suicide by Time Paradox just to get away from existing. It's implied that even that wouldn't work: Heroic Spirits are mostly separated from the concept of time entirely and, as shown in Fate/Grand Order, while some have ways they could be truly killed via removal from the Throne, this doesn't seem to apply to the vast majority. Speaking of the Nasuverse the backstory describes several entities known as Aristotles/Ultimate Ones/Types who are a limited sort of Type 2. Even if their physical bodies are destroyed, they still, in a way, exist, and possibly can reform their physical bodies.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_b9cc7496	comment	In Dogma Metatron states that God's mortal incarnation must have been kidnapped and kept alive because if he were killed he'd just go back to Heaven.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_bab66e95	comment	Nekron, as of the Blackest Night can inhabit any dead body animated by a Black Lantern ring. He's only defeated after the heroes resurrect Black Hand, who's serving as his anchor. This banishes him back into his realm.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: Orthax was defeated in combat and the weapon he seems to have used as a Soul Jar was destroyed. And yet he came back.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_bb55a676	comment	And yet, Brainiac 5 must've come from somewhere. Not to mention the episode in Superman The Animated Series where he came from the very far future indicating that the ending of the Grand Finale didn't get rid of him, to destroy Superman before he even learned about his powers.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_bd67c74c	comment	The Director in CthulhuTech is not Nyarlathotep but only one of its avatars, of which it has at least one more on Earth. Even if you could somehow kill the Director (and it's far from certain that even that is possible) it would be unlikely to do any real harm to the Crawling Chaos itself.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer / Warhammer 40,000: Daemons behave like the D&D ones, as their physical forms are merely manifestations of their warp-based nature. Destruction of their physical form merely send them back to the warp. If you go to its roots, every daemon is effectively an avatar of its respective god, with some of their personality depending on how strong it is (the Greater Daemons are effectively embodiments of the gods' overall personalities, but with their own sentience, while the Daemonic Beasts are effectively mindless), and can be absorbed back into the gestalt whole at a whim. So you aren't so much fighting the shadow of the daemon as the shadow of the god in millions of different avatars (which shows just how powerful the Dark Gods are, considering the strength of your average daemon). On the other hand, the Daemon Princes, who were once mortal, can considered to be this trope played straight - their bodies are comprised of warp energy and, if defeated, they are forced to return to the Warp for a few millenia while they pull themselves together enough to reconstruct their bodies. Admittedly, there are ways to permanently destroy the very essence of a daemon and thus kill them for good (for example the Chaos Gods themselves can do it if they're in a particular mood and the Emperor of Mankind's sword is so infused with his anti-daemon psyker energy it does the job well enough), but most of these methods are so complex and/or contrived most have an easier time just banishing or imprisoning the daemon instead. The C'tan Stargods can be considered a variant of this. They are immense Energy Beings that normally absorb radiation from stars and are unable to interact with physical objects. The Necrontyr gave them bodies of living metal in which they could manifest and interact with mortals, with one of the first things they being turning the Necrontyr into their enslaved Necron servants. Destruction of the body does no harm for the C'tan but prevents them from doing much until they get built a new one. Not that this stopped most of them from being killed thanks to being eaten by their fellows before most of those remaining few were then shattered into Shards that the now-freed Necrons imprisoned to use as weapons, though nothing is stopping enough Shards from coming together to reform the original C'tan... The Eldar Avatar of Khaine, despite its name, isn't quite an example of this. It's an animated construct that houses a fragment of the Eldar war god's essence after he was shattered during his fight with Slaanesh, which also involved Khorne butting in trying to claim Khaine's soul as a fellow War God. Technically, multiple Avatars of Khaine could be invoked at the same time with enough fragments and willing Eldar sacrifices. Should the Swarmlord die, the Tyranid Hive Mind has all the data to rebuild it when it feels like it, complete with all previous memories and experience.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c2297a9c	comment	The Dark Judges of Judge Dredd can take any dead body as their vessel. Destroying it only releases their ethereal form, which is completely invulnerable and can only be contained. The closest anyone ever got to permanently disposing of them was when an angel threw their leader into hell for his crimes—he was later freed by his two witch-demon allies.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c2463c55	comment	This is the case with the antagonist Sin from Final Fantasy X, who always comes back after a period of tranquility that has come to be known as "The Calm". In this case, it's a scam to make people think Sin is immortal, it's because the very method being used to "defeat" Sin actually fuels its reincarnation and return. What infected it then infects the Final Aeon that "killed" it. Your first fight against Omega Weapon turns out to be just a shadow of the real thing, which is further into the cave.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c25b78e4	comment	Albion: You fight and defeat a man turned into the avatar of Kamulos, the God of War, who reverts back into his human form at the end. If Kamulos is actually a separate entity (the game is a bit ambiguous about the existence of gods), he probably survives. You can fight and destroy Ned, the powerful android that the spaceship Toronto communicates through. That won't destroy the AI, obviously. And there are secretly a lot of "Neds". The actual housing of the AI is indestructible.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c51cb60a	comment	Changeling: The Lost has the True Fae work like this; it's revealed in a book late in the line that the forms the Gentry take on Earth are known as "Titles", and most Gentry have more than one. They're most commonly seen on this side of Arcadia as Actors, but they can be Realms (little pocket dimensions), Props (items of great power) or Wisps (armies of hobgoblins). The Gentry constantly battle against one another for more Titles, and the only way to truly kill one of them is to make your way back to Arcadia and smash the crap out of every one of those titles. However, if they're truly capable of such an emotion, the True Fae hate losing one of their Titles (it's the equivalent of a mortal losing a limb), and if one of their Titles — particularly an Actor — is in danger of being destroyed, they will often offer extremely powerful oaths to avoid this fate.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c5556066	comment	Little Nicky is the son of the Devil, and if killed while on Earth, which happens a lot, he goes back home to Hell.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_c6d3f9a6	comment	In Magnus, the title character ends up battling one of these.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_ce97a859	comment	Groudon in PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky in the Steam Cave is actually an illusion created by Uxie to repel intruders from finding Fogbound Lake in order to protect a Time Gear.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_cfd860dd	comment	Speaking of the Nasuverse the backstory describes several entities known as Aristotles/Ultimate Ones/Types who are a limited sort of Type 2. Even if their physical bodies are destroyed, they still, in a way, exist, and possibly can reform their physical bodies.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d05d65d6	comment	In Kaiju Revolution, Biollante's main body is located on Skull Island, but she can use her spores to created temporary bodies to fight with simultaneously. She's also able to alter the forms and abilities to better fight her opponents. To fight Godzilla's raw power she uses an enormous Prime body to overwhelm him, she makes a flying spore form to even the playing field with Rodan, to defeat Anguirus she crafts an aquatic algae body to take advantage of his lack of swimming prowess and smother him and to counter Kong's agility she uses a Godzilla-like melee body to battle him.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d0b0076	comment	The boss of Icewind Dale is a demon, so killing him just sent him to the Nine Hells. He's still there 80 years later in Baldurs Gate 1
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Explicitly stated what The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is to Gozer in Ghostbusters, hence it being banished in the first movie, "killed" in the 2009 game, then implied to be killed again by Ivo at the end.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d1702e57	comment	In PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus, it's revealed that this is how the titular Pokemon interacts with the world- rather than the real Arceus, any Arceus that appears in battle, be it the ones received from events or indeed, the one you fight at the very end of the game after capturing every Non-Mythical Pokemon in Hisui, are mere pieces of the original Arceus.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: If the corporeal vessel/body of a celestial (angel/demon) is killed, the celestial will re-awaken near its Heart in the appropriate celestial realm: Heaven for angels, Hell for demons.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d4e486c7	comment	Dota 2 has the Fundamentals, beings from "a far upstream plane, where the fundamental laws of the universe have found sentient expression." They can't be killed, as the form slain is only a part that is inhabiting this plane, as stated in Wisp's lore. The two eponymous Ancients, the Dire and Radiant, were feuding Fundamentals that were banished through the stars and eventually caught by a planet's gravity well, eventually shattering their moon prison and raining down upon the earth. They can't be destroyed forever, only weakened, allowing their rival to regain power for a while until the fallen is strong enough to rival it and spark another war. Heroes that are explicitly stated to be Fundamentals are Chaos Knight, Keeper of the Light and Enigma, heroes that are implied to be Fundamentals are Wisp and Ancient Apparition. The Ancients also have the ability to bring any hero that has fallen for them back from the dead, meaning that, in a way, every hero is this trope.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: Nocturne is summoned to the material world due to a fluke involving a Nexus near someone being attacked in their sleep. The Summoners chained Nocturne to this world, fearing that dispatching him would ok simply return him to the dream realm he occupied before.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X: Sigma becomes this, after he becomes The Virus; eradicating his current body, his viral self is still intact. Erase it, and a backup copy will pop up later in a new body. It takes killing him on the moon to finally destroy him, supposedly because his viral form will just fade away to nothing with no other robots to infect there. Unfortunately, by that time, an entire army of New Age Reploids were made, all supposedly programmed with a chip containing the DNA of every Old Age Reploid, including Sigma...
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Fighting a Shadow / int_dddf90e6	comment	The Krawlni in To Save Her are of the 2nd type. When they appear, only cross-sections of them can be seen, as they exist in at least 5 dimensions or more. When one character angers a Krawlni, not only is it a Curb-Stomp Battle, but it goes after their parallel selves as well. They gave other species Mover technology, allowing 3D species to move between parallel dimensions, a major theme of the webcomic.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e09bacf4	comment	In Webwork, Jade ultimately gets around the problem of her pregnancy pains all but crippling her during battle by learning how to transfer her consciousness into a specialized Gumo Khan whenever she needs to leave her lair for an extended period, thus not exposing her physical form at any point. However, there are downsides, such as the fact that whenever that particular Khan is "poofed", it takes the rest with it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e11715a2	comment	The Perfect Run: Sometimes becomes quite the problem when fighting villains like Bloodstream, Psyshock and The Alchemist, since they tend to use Self-Duplication and Grand Theft Me methods to avoid death.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e293455a	comment	The First from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an incorporeal evil entity, capable of taking the form of anyone who has died. It can fight by "merging" with a willing host, granting said host incredible strength and durability. Only one such host is seen during the series, with The First remarking that Caleb was "The only one strong enough to be my vessel." His death at Buffy's hands seems to irritate The First, but causes no real damage to it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e381e71f	comment	The D-Reaper from Digimon Tamers was capable of existing in and absorbing both the digital and physical worlds by creating an unlimited number of mega-level "Agents" alongside a red mass called "The Chaos". Destroying dozens of either barely slowed it down.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e3c4fe80	comment	Parodied by RPG World. The Big Bad knows that the band of heroes is going to storm his fortress, so vacates it and leaves a Shadow of himself behind to fight them. The good guys know that it's just a Shadow, but Hero insists on defeating it anyway.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In GURPS: Fantasy the god Tiamut exists like this. The avatar of hers presented in the book has Unkillable 3 so that if it dies the body vanishes until it returns unharmed with the next spring rain. Meanwhile her real body is half the matter in the universe.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e655ace1	comment	Demon Lord Zouna (aka Malix) from The Legend of Valkyrie. When Kurino aka Whirlo beat him in his game, it turned out to just be a shadow. When Valkyrie herself gets to him at the end of her first game, she has to fight multiple shadows that keep spawning until he drops the Key of Time, which she takes and uses to seal him up again.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: The demons behave much like those from Dungeons & Dragons. Negi has a spell that can kill a demon permanently, but it's implied something very bad would happen if he were to cast it. Evangeline uses her "Boss"-level powers to freeze and completely shatter the Demon God that was released during the Kyoto Arc. Nevertheless, Konoka's father and the other priests still had to reseal it; presumably it would regenerate otherwise. Albireo Imma uses a more or less indestructible magical projection of himself to guarantee himself a spot in the finals of the Tournament Arc. The only ways to defeat it are to dismiss the projection, or attack his physical body (which is several miles away). Nobody except Kaede (a ninja who uses similar body replication techniques) figures out what he's doing, and admits that she can't really do anything about it. Later in the Magic World arc, Fate's minions use this to taunt Jack Rakan and Konoka after trapping them in their pocket dimension. Unfortunately for them, they were close enough for Chamo to spot them.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e68decb8	comment	The Orz in Star Control are heavily implied to be like this. If you can figure out their dialogue. Fortunately, you can destroy their ships just fine if you have to.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e8d19c42	comment	Phantasy Star Online 2 uses this as an in-story justification for the repeating nature of raid bosses. Whenever a major enemy is defeated in the plot, they inevitably leave behind echoes of themselves or get cloned by some external means to continue menacing the heroes.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_e9d7acf9	comment	In Book 10 of the Lone Wolf series, The Dungeons of Torgar, driving Demonlord Tagazin to Endurance 0 does not kill him; it just sends him home. In fact, the Remake of the series feels obliged to point out that even if you roll a One-Hit Kill with the Sommersword, no, he's not dead. You can fight him on his home turf in a later book, The Deathlord of Ixia, where he can be destroyed permanently.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_eaeeea9b	comment	In StarCraft II, the hybrid, when killed, will regenerate by siphoning power from trapped protoss. Legacy of the Void reveals that this is how Xel'Naga interact with the material realm. If their body in the material realm is killed, their essence and spirit simply return to the Void, to their real bodies; you have to actually travel into the Void Between the Worlds and kill their real selves there to put them down for good. In the Epilogue arc of that game, the Terran/Zerg/Protoss alliance does just that, killing Narud and Amon once and for all after their physical-realm bodies were killed by Kerrigan and the Protoss fleet, respectively.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_ebffc81f	comment	Likewise, the Exarchs (essentially, omnipotent god-beings) of Mage: The Awakening are capable of projecting aspects of themselves across the Abyss into the Fallen World, where they take more-or-less physical form. These soul sheaths, or "Ochemata", are still absurdly powerful and are quite capable of doing things like wiping out entire cities.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_efc923b	comment	In Mighty Avengers, a fragment of Shuma-Gorath was summoned and tried to establish a beach-head to bring in the rest of it. The Mighty Avengers still needed to empower and summon a god of their own to defeat it.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: The First from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an incorporeal evil entity, capable of taking the form of anyone who has died. It can fight by "merging" with a willing host, granting said host incredible strength and durability. Only one such host is seen during the series, with The First remarking that Caleb was "The only one strong enough to be my vessel." His death at Buffy's hands seems to irritate The First, but causes no real damage to it. Angel has another example. The Senior Partners (The Wolf, Ram and Hart) are ancient demons who pull the strings behind the evil law firm that bears their name. They never appear physically, and are described as "eternal" and "in another dimension." In the second season, one of them manifests in a demonic body which Angel is able to destroy. Though not stated outright, its strongly implied that this merely forced the partner back to its home dimension.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f53022c6	comment	Demons in Feng Shui are the same way. Killing one only sends him back to the Underworld, though if one kills a demon in the Underworld, then the death is permanent.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f5672aaa	comment	Ghosts of Mars: The evil Martian ghosts are intangible. While it's possible to resist possession, destroying their current host body only delays them. The heroes actually attempt the Nuclear Option, which is ultimately proven to be an inadequate solution.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f5855286	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Calamity Ganon is revealed to be nothing more than a magical manifestation of Demon King Ganondorf's hatred leaking out of his sealed body for thousands of years. When Ganondorf finally frees himself from his seal, he immediately destroys the Master Sword and Link's heart containers with one blast of his dark power. Keep in mind, this Link just recently defeated Calamity Ganon in the last game.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f6a1016f	comment	In The Matrix_ Series-wide: The Agents are computer programs working for those running the Matrix, so there's no reason they should stay dead. If you actually manage to kill one by the rules of the simulation, the "body" reverts back to the human it was originally and the Agent program claims a new host (out of anyone still plugged into the Matrix). Conversely, while humans plugged into the Matrix are technically "shadows" as well, Your Mind Makes It Real is in effect so if you die in the Matrix, you still die in the real world. The Matrix: Double Subversion when Neo destroys Smith at the end of the movie, seemingly for good by destroying his code itself but ultimately only causes him to become more powerful in the next movie (instead of taking over a host when he's "killed", he can turn anyone and everyone he touches inside the program into another copy of himself, even if they are another program or not hardwired into the Matrix). It's unclear whether his ability to defy true deletion is a general rule (any agent so inclined could come back the way he did) or a property specific to Smith because of how he "died" or who killed him (just like Neo, he defies the laws of the Matrix to return to life when he should have died). Smith himself does manage to take out all the other Agents by infecting literally everyone in the Matrix, though whether this destroyed their programs or simply left them without any more bodies to use is unclear.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f6a54e75	comment	The Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts is apparently a more straightforward example, an embodiment of Cloud's inner darkness who will always return after being defeated by him. Cloud's fighting his own shadow, in a way. Okay, maybe it's not that straightforward.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_f9368d52	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: The party fights the ruler of Castle Oblivion, Marluxia, in what basically feels like a standard form of fight of all the other Organization XIII members. After the battle, it turns out that they were just fighting an illusion.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes takes this Up to Eleven, with Nemesis, who is rarely the real nemesis in a fight, and usually turns out to be a robot decoy.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Lord Boxman's robots don't really fight the heroes personally, they're using disposable, mass-produced shells that hold their minds; whenever something destroys one of their bodies, their consciousness just instantly downloads into a new one. This gets demonstrated in the first episode when Boxman seemingly kills an injured Darrell for failing him, only to casually continue their conversation once Darrell's new body is brought into the room.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: The death of anyone who is considered to be a "multiversal singularity" is considered to be this, so don't count Unicron, The Fallen, or Vector Prime out just yet. Mind you, it is an All There in the Manual thing and within their series, there is nothing to hint their survival - when shown to be completely destroyed. (Blow Unicron up but leave the head? He'll be back.) To specify, they are both extremely hard to actually kill rather than weaken, and, once you do actually kill them, it doesn't stick. They've long since learned the ins and outs of cross-multiversal existence, and periodically spend time in reverse-time universes, which basically allows them to save their e Spirit game and resume from there when a physical body kicks it, as the consciousness just jumps to the concurrent body in the reverse-time universe, which retroactively becomes their "true form", despite having been a past/future self a few minutes ago. So, essentially, they revive themselves by telling causality to suck it. As of the comic "Another Light" Multiversal Singularities no longer exist as a concept, and every version of any Multiversal Singularity character is now their own entity rather than this trope. In Transformers: Prime, Unicron is Earth, and attacks the Autobots using stone avatars of himself. The first one gives Optimus a bit of trouble, but is ultimately blasted to pieces...only for Unicron to immediately form dozens of replacements.
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Fighting a Shadow / int_fcf43f47	comment	Standard Operating Procedure in the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks for Demon Lords and Archdevils. Demon Princes Ishtra and Myurr can either be directly fought with the right abilities or weapons or their Summoning Ritual be reversed; but that just sends them home. The Big Good at the end of Tower of Destruction has to take steps so the Big Bad Relem doesn't just go after you again after you beat him. The Shadow Warriors play from [[Literature/Legend of the Shadow Warriors]]. Defeating them in battle will only make them go away for a few hours, where you will likely fight them again later on, unless you complete a side quest teaching to rip off their masks, which will still only banish them, but for years instead of hours. Only detransforming their master will stop them permanently. And since there master is an embodiment of death, defeating him in battle will result in him getting up unharmed and the book mocking your efforts.
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