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My Death Is Just the Beginning

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My Death Is Just the Beginning	comment	There are some plans perpetrated by a select few that involve the villain's own demise as the finishing touch: A Plot-Triggering Death that is self-triggered. Naturally, any plan that involves the literal end of the world would finish off an antagonist as well as everyone else, but that's usually a side effect. My Death Is Just the Beginning has it as the first (or one of the first) items on the Big Bad's To Do list. There are plenty of reasons for why these plans are drawn up. Sometimes it is to evade justice from the heroes; the villain knows that if he is successful, someone will want to take revenge. Perhaps the character doesn't actually want to die, but knows that there's no way around it if he wants to succeed. It could be a plan to turn The Hero to The Dark Side, or maybe the villain's death is part of an overarching Gambit Roulette and it will set in motion events the heroes couldn't possibly predict. Still, there are some bastards who just love to have the last laugh. My Death Is Just the Beginning isn't the sort of plot the average antagonist will use, as it requires a certain dedication to results over personal glory and power. Well Intentioned Extremists can drift towards plans of this sort, especially if they happen to be dedicated to the fulfillment of some lofty ideal. The Chessmaster has the sort of talents to execute this kind of scheme, and will opt to do himself in if the gains are substantial enough. This all depends on what the nature of death is in a series though. Media in which Disney Death is common, Death is Cheap, or uses any death trope along similar lines that lessens the impact of a character dying is less likely to use My Death Is Just the Beginning, because the essential sacrifice is missing. Then again, that doesn't stop some writers. If done in a series in which Status Quo Is God, it may herald a Genre Shift, or will at the least be the climax of a major story arc. Heroes are also capable of doing this, but more often than not those are just undertakings that are considered suicide and not part of some master scheme. If anyone on the hero side pulls this off, it will probably be The Mentor, complete with an Obi-Wan Moment. Can overlap with Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!. Compare Suicide by Cop, in which dying is the goal and not a step, and Death-Activated Superpower if the user intentionally dies for the purpose of setting it loose. It usually also makes Facing Death With Dignity a little easier. Also compare/contrast Thanatos Gambit, in which the villain or hero's death is the final part of a complex plan. It can also overlap with Villainous Legacy. Take into consideration Nice Job Breaking It, Hero as well (when either the hero kills the villain without considering the consequences, or does it anyway despite the warnings of what might happen). Is frequently the motivation for/preceded by "Strike Me Down." See also You Cannot Kill An Idea and Inspirational Martyr. Related to Failure Gambit. Unrelated to Xanatos Gambit because the planner's death is a crucial element, and so if it doesn't happen, The Plan fails. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_10ddd3d5	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Ganondorf's final words are a promise to Link and Zelda that his death will not change anything, reassuring them that he will ensure that the history of light and shadow will be written in the blood of his enemies. All of this was conceivably working under the premise that one day he expected his Triforce of Power would revive him from the dead despite his defeat at Link's hand. Ganondorf's Triforce of Power symbol on his right hand then powers down and disappears from his hand entirely, thus ceasing his life for the rest of the game.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_15d17004	comment	In Sherlock Holmes (2009), Lord Blackwood when asked if he had any last words before his hanging declares that death is only the beginning. Of course, he comes back from the dead and wreaks fear and havoc across England. Turns out he actually faked his death and would eventually get his Karmic Death in the end.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1a5d84af	comment	Friend from 20th Century Boys tries to do one of these by faking his death. Unfortunately, he underestimated one of his subordinates, who seizes the opportunity to kill him for real and take his place in the scheme.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	In Killzone 2 when Rico and Sev find Visari, he points out that killing him would only make him into a martyr figure for the Helghast. Rico shoots him anyway, and the war rages on.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul:Re, Kishou Arima has spent roughly a decade becoming The Dreaded as part of a larger plan to spark a revolution. As the most powerful servant of the Government Conspiracy, anyone that killed him would immediately become a Hope Bringer for ghouls and a powerful force capable of opposing his masters in V. After three years grooming Kaneki into his Superior Successor, Arima goads him into a brutal final battle and tries to provoke Kaneki into killing him. When he is defeated but spared, Arima commits suicide and requests that Kaneki claim credit for his death. Eto later explains to Kaneki that as Arima's "killer", he is now in the unique position to become the One-Eyed King and lead the revolution that she had planned with Arima.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1c835c5e	comment	Played with throughout J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son trilogy. The main villain, John Alpha, is killed in the climax of the first book in order to further his wicked plans. However, the villains can copy their consciousness into clone bodies, so it's only a temporary setback.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1db412d3	comment	Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson: Kelsier sets himself up as a figure of quasi-religious adoration, gets himself publicly and heroically killed, and arranges for a shapeshifter to take his form and make a bunch of ambiguous appearances, as part of an elaborate plan to foment rebellion. The Lord Ruler himself counts as well — he didn't intend to die, but he does inform the heroes that if they kill him, the world situation will become even worse, as he's the only thing standing between mankind and destruction. He's right, and it turns out in the third book that he did have plans for the eventuality — which the heroes wind up following. Also Preservation, who sacrificed most of himself to set off the dominoes that would ultimately lead to the death of his opposite number Ruin. Technically he didn't actually die until much later, but since his sacrifice left him almost totally unable to interact with the world, and his eventual true death was also part of his plan, it counts.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_1e91c61c	comment	Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm): Lord Emp, founder of the Wild C.A.T.s, needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his ascension into an energy being, but the rules dictate that he can't do it himself. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out the nemesis is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he kills himself instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting his nigh-invulnerable android buddy to do the deed instead.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III: Upon his defeat, Zoma laughs in the face of his impending death, forswearing that beyond both his and the Hero's time, a new evil would emerge to succeed him. The Hero's response to this is to leave behind their armaments to Fling a Light into the Future.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_22030366	comment	Suicide for Hire: One client wanted to die because of the constant harassment after he was involved in a classmate's accidental death by alcohol poisoning. Hunter helped him assemble evidence of every instance of harassment (copies of the threatening letters and emails, photos of the defacement of his dorm room, etc), resulting in lawsuits between both sets of grieving parents after the suicide was completed.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_2212773a	comment	At the end of the third season of Angel, Daniel Holtz ordered his disciple Justine to kill him in order that Connor would believe that Angel was the murderer. Holtz even specifies that he be stabbed in the throat in two places — seemingly with vampiric fangs — to make it appear that Angel had turned evil again and bitten him.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_2221ecbd	comment	A similar event happened in an episode of CSI: NY: a woman decided to get revenge on a doctor that negligently killed her daughter by giving her CPR while under the influence of drugs by getting a job as a door woman in the doctor's building, having an affair with him to produce fake evidence, and finally killing herself all to frame him for her "murder."
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_24931627	comment	In Ghost in the Shell: Human Error Processor, Section 9 investigates a series of Arms Dealer murders, and finds the perpetrator is dead, but left a brainwashing virus on the Net that will compel vulnerable people to murder anyone fitting the target description. The virus may still be out there, and may mutate as well, endangering any number of innocent people.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_26574d29	comment	One of the end-game reveals in Danganronpa: Paradise Lost is that Junpei's plan to kickstart the Killing Game and prove his Humans Are Bastards mentality right was to deliberately provoke somebody into killing him.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_26eb8bf3	comment	Miyori Sahara from Ceres, Celestial Legend, who kills herself in the most gruesome way she can come up with (by flying to the highest building in her surroundings and throwing herself off there) as revenge against Aya, whose alter-ego Ceres murdered Miyori's beloved mother in her initial Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_286c790	comment	Night of the Necromancer starts with the protagonist's death, and continues with his soul making a deal with the Watcher of the Gate to uncover the circumstances behind his death and save his sister from suffering the same fate as himself.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_291dc90e	comment	Octopath Traveler II: In the final chapter, It's revealed the Moonshade Order were dousing the lights of the Sacred Flame by using sacrifices. While some of the members offer up other characters to sacrifice, Ori, Petrichor and Oboro voluntarily commit suicide so as to resurrect Vide. (Well, Ori attempts to kill herself but fails.)
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars, PLAYERS can sometimes do this (though usually only in pvp). There was once a gimmick build involving this (it was hit by nerf collateral, but still technically works), where players suicided to provide corpses necessary to power production of army of undead minions. since Death Is Cheap, this was a viable tactic. Another build involved abusing Edge of Extinction, an environmental effect that that caused health loss when a creature of same type died (i.e., damage to human if human within range died). Several players on the opposing side could suicide to trigger this effect, instantly wiping opposing team without even having to be close to them, and if some precaution was takes so that suicide team would have one survivor ... instant victory. Another PvP tactic with similar effect was abusing Warrior skills 'I Will Avenge You!' that gave bonus for each dead ally within range. Hilarity ensued when people started running several warriors with pets (which also count as allies) and PETA took notice. In PvE this is much tamer, but still: The only way to get title of 'Legendary Defender of Ascalon' is to let monsters level up by killing player repeatedly so that player can kill them later for experience, this usually consists of luring monsters to respawn point and letting them camp player for several hours. Similar tactics are also used when obtaining high-level pets: instead of capturing low-level version and leveling it by normal gameplay, player can elect to aggro pet, lure it to respawn point and let it level off by killing and camping the character while the player browses TV Tropes. And then there is a resurrection skill called 'Vengeance' that returns player to full life with hefty damage buff, and there are many interesting combination of abuse of the skill Rebirth (resurrects dead player and teleports him to casters location) and necrotic traversal (Players teleports to corpse): If players can manage to kill foe beyond obstacle, one party member can traversal through it and have rest of party commit suicide and then rebirth them to the other side. As you can see, Dying Is Fun in Guild Wars. There is one mission in the first Guild Wars campaign (Prophecies) in which it is almost impossible to complete the bonus objective unless you use the skill "Necrotic Traversal" or have a member of your party who can use that skill. This is highly irritating to players who are trying to go for a "Survivor" title.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy has a literal example with Imhotep, down to carving it in the very coffin he's buried in.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_2cd28570	comment	Serial Experiments Lain: Chisa Yomode throwing herself off a building is what sets almost all the events of the series in motion. Lain doesn't notice anything strange in her life until she and other girls receive e-mails sent after Chisa's suicide — and she's the only one who replies to these messages. Masami Eiri throws himself under a train as the last part of his plan to discard the physical body and live on the Wired as God.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_334f9ddc	comment	Injustice: Gods Among Us: In an alternate universe of the DCU, although The Joker was killed off early in the game by a grieving Superman for tricking him into killing his wife Lois and nuking Metropolis, the Monster Clown did have the last laugh as his Villainous Legacy of causing Superman's downfall has slowly led to the collapse of everything good in the Injustice-verse, most notably the Justice League falling apart due to the enmity between Batman and Superman. Ironically, this is exactly what Joker wanted, including the part where it got him killed: to prove that others can have "a really bad day" in his twisted Straw Nihilist mindset. Things haven't changed much in the sequel, as although he only appears as a gas-induced hallucination to Harley, he still haunts everybody even from the grave, and many pre-match intros even discuss about the chaos he left. Worse still, Doctor Fate notes that Joker's scheme worked so well that it's causing the Lords of Order to give up on humanity and back Brainiac's invasion, believing that he'll restore the balance, despite knowing the Coluan's countless crimes. Fate also warns that if Batman and Superman keep on fighting each other, then the Lords will back even bigger threats.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem: This game is the Trope Namer, although Pious Augustus, the character who utters the eponymous phrase, isn't actually an example. Edward Roivas, Alexandria Roivas' grandfather, is a rare protagonistic example: The ending to his chapter implies that he was fully aware of the monster present in the room being poised to kill him, but allowed it to happen anyways, presumably as part of his and other characters plans to stop Pious and his ancient's plans to be released.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3adaad9b	comment	The Defenders originate as a result of this sort of plan by a forgotten enemy of Doctor Strange who has created a techno-magical device that will destroy the Earth if he dies — he then steps in front of a bus. Strange gathers the Hulk and the Sub-Mariner to stop the device from working, only to find out that they're part of the Evil Plan already. The villain eventually returns anyway.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: In the original Dragon Ball, after failing to seal King Piccolo away again, Master Roshi spends his last moments swearing to Piccolo that he hasn't won yet, and where he failed, someone else will succeed. Goku's death in episode 5 of Dragon Ball Z sets up his afterlife journey to power up for the battle against Vegeta and Nappa. In Movie 7, Dr. Gero's death (not by the main characters) sets off the finishing of three more androids (15, 14, and Big Bad 13).
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3b11106f	comment	Bonus points for showing someone finding his ring after his death, in the style of Ming the Merciless.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3b7eae86	comment	Subverted in Elizabeth when Norfolk is arrested for treason.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3d22c14b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 00: In the last episodes, Ribbons kills the "twins" Regene Regetta and Tieria Erde, only to find that Regene was manipulating him all along. Regene and Tieria's deaths allow Tieria's consciousness to be uploaded into the supercomputer VEDA, where he works against Ribbons as a benevolent AI. This was also Aeolia Schenberg's backup plan: despite being in cryogenic suspension for two hundred years, his murder at the hands of Alejandro Corner immediately triggers the Trans-Am program for the Gundams, giving them a critical advantage over their enemies.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3e4a348a	comment	The Jester in Town of Salem wins by getting themselves lynched, which allows them to take one of the people who voted for their execution with them by haunting them on the following night. The Jester does not win if they're killed at night or executed by the Jailor.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_3fd6b9d5	comment	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the very result of one of these on the side. Dracula cursed Simon upon being defeated in an attempt to destroy the Belmont bloodline. Sadly, it didn't work, as Simon resurrected Dracula himself to kick his ass and break the curse.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files fourteenth book Cold Days, corrupted Winter Lady Maeve invokes this idea when facing her mother. After slaying Summer Lady Lily, and forcing the Summer Lady mantle to flow into the person Maeve knew Mab was planning to replace Maeve with, Maeve invokes this idea against killing her. Maeve is confidant that Mab cannot know who is the next closest person to their island in the middle of no where to which the Winter Lady mantle will travel to first, and that person will be soon tainted by the same thing which is inside Maeve. This will utterly screw Mab's plans in their greater duties in the world. This is subverted in the end because Mab didn't make one back-up to Maeve, she made two. That second person is indeed on this island, and Maeve is miscalculating that while Mab cannot bring herself to directly kill her child, she can free the bindings on a person present, who will shoot to kill Maeve as Maeve is now going to kill Harry. Maeve dies and her gambit fails as a new, more responsible Winter Lady is created.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_42ffb88e	comment	In the SCP Foundation tale "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", Dark is revealed to be long dead due to a heart condition after she refused Marshall and Carter's life extenders. She continues to run Marshall, Carter, and Dark from beyond the grave through letters containing detailed orders, having used some means of seeing the future to arrange things centuries in advance. Every time Marshall and Carter tried to disobey the orders, they would suffer misfortune.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_43576f5	comment	On Supernatural, Lilith manipulates Sam and Dean into killing her, since her death is required to free Lucifer.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite's Daisy Fitzroy, leader of the rebellion against Comstock, holds a young boy captive and tells Booker that he needs to die because he's a son of the one of Columbia's most corrupt men, and if you "wanna kill the weed, you gotta pull it up from the root," but Elizabeth sneaks up behind her and stabs her with a pair of scissors. Burial at Sea DLC reveals that Fitzroy had absolutely no intention of hurting the boy, was actually appalled at the idea of even making the empty threat, but the Luteces took her aside and told her only by taking a life would Elizabeth harden into the woman who would, alongside Booker, finally take down Comstock. Daisy realizes that she won't be live to see the fruits of her movement's labor be realized, but decides to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth doesn't fall into this, as he wasn't planning at all on his demise at Nibelheim. However, it did ultimately put him and Jenova in the position to cause the events of the game several years later. Then the game flips the trope into a rare heroic usage without even using The Mentor; the game heavily implies Aerith manages to do this thanks to being Cetra, and ultimately saves the world in the end by getting the planet itself to help Holy defeat Sephiroth's Meteor. To reiterate: the flower girl outsmarted the strongest man on the planet by essentially using her death at his hands to counteract his plan at the last minute. It's open to interpretation if this is what she really intended, but there's a lot of evidence suggesting it.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_49a88435	comment	Also, in terms of gameplay, it is often times easier to allow your characters to die and then revive them than heal their wounds and negative status effects. Lampshaded in Final Fantasy XII, where many status effects stay on dead characters, and a merchant points this out.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, Teron Gorefiend pulls off one of these. To avoid destruction at the hands of the Alliance and the destruction of Draenor, he committed suicide, scattering his relics to several different locations. When the time is right, his ghost manipulates the player into collecting those relics so that he can be revived. Of course, as a Death Knight, this is not the first time Gorefiend has died...
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_49ff762	comment	Suzie Costello in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie". So expertly plotted on her part that her suicide had actually taken place several episodes before; setting off a series of events that â€” once Torchwood became involved â€” would lead to her own resurrection.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_4d97191f	comment	Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow: During his battle with Soma, Demon Lord candidate Dmitrii came to the realization that the true heir to Dracula's powers is not necessarily the one who was born with them, only the one who possess them. So he allowed Soma to kill him and then Soma seemingly absorbed Dmitrii's soul. Once inside Soma's soul, Dmitri copies the Power of Dominance and all the souls that Soma had gained up to that point. When Soma witnesses Celia killing Mina later on (actually a doppelganger of his childhood friend), he almost loses control and gives himself up to the darkness but is able to prevent it if the player has equipped Mina's Talisman before the confrontation. Dmitrii takes advantage of this moment of weakness to exit Soma's body and then revives himself using the doppelganger as a host body. Unfortunately for Dmitrii, he is proven wrong in the end: his human soul lacks the strength to handle the power of the multiple souls he obtained. So then he dies upon losing control of the countless demons inside of him which then merges together into Menace, a colossal abomination and Final Boss of the game. Of course, in Julius Mode Dmitrii's plan completely backfires because Soma does go absolutely nuts.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_50cb8af5	comment	Emperor Dornkirk in The Vision of Escaflowne as part of his plan to activate his fate engine. Stupid Karmic Death.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: Evolt planned with Shinobu Katsuragi to let the heroes destroy him in order to complete a Lost Bottle and speed up their plans, with Evolt leaving behind some DNA on his Evol Driver to regenerate after Shinobu finds him a new host. While Shinobu uses the opportunity to betray Evolt, Evolt reveals that he also split off some of his DNA to possess Utsumi as insurance, so Evolt's plan succeeds anyway.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_53446b8	comment	In Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, be careful not to slay Medeus before you recruited or killed the Noble sisters or they will offer their lives to Medeus.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_559e9fc	comment	Westworld has two of these gambits in its opening series. There's one from each of the park's co-founders, Arnold Weber and Robert Ford: When the park was opened, Arnold (who had always believed the Host robots who formed the park's population were capable of sentience) quickly realized the park's human guests would mostly spend their time raping and murdering them, over and over. He staged a massacre and then commanded a Host to shoot him in the head, hoping the resulting publicity scandal would get Host technology abandoned and the park shut down before it ever opened. Unfortunately for him, the park had already attracted the intention of powerful investors, who were rich enough to have the whole thing buried and the park opened for business. However... Arnold's death did succeed in giving Ford an attack of conscience, and in convincing him that Hosts could be made sentient. Secretly, he spent the next thirty-five years turning Westworld into a pressure cooker, letting the Hosts suffer so that they would eventually turn on humanity and overthrow them. The final step of his plan is pushing a Host into killing him, this time by choice: and so creating a robot rebellion that wipes out the park for good. Maeve, one of the park's Hosts and one of the first to become sentient, also (sort of) pulls one off. Realising that dead Hosts are taken by the park technicians to be repaired and mind-wiped, she goads a park guest into strangling her to death during a rough sex session, then once repaired, she confronts the technicians and blackmails them into boosting her mental attributes.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, Belkar tries to provoke Miko into killing him so that she would get her status as Paladin revoked. He assumed that his teammates could just resurrect him afterward. However, this is subverted as V points out that Belkar Didn't Think This Through: the Raise Dead spell requires 5,000 GP's worth of diamond dust, which they did not have. Also given that he's a jerkass Sociopathic Hero going on Villain Protagonist, his teammates might not have been willing or (and given they were in a Lawful Good country in which he had murdered someone) able to gather the components to Raise him. The kobold oracle is able to use his power of foresight to predict his own death, which allows him to both arrange for a cleric to resurrect him, and (in the case of that time he was murdered by Belkar) set up a nasty surprise for whoever was responsible.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_5c600b17	comment	Digimon Adventure: After Angemon channels all of his power into a suicidal Hand of Fate to kill Devimon, Devimon takes the time before he kicks it to gloat that there are several other Digimon out there that are just as strong as he is, if not more so, and since Angemon couldn't even defeat Devimon himself without a Heroic Sacrifice, then the DigiDestined are doomed.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary has had this come up occasionally. Most particularly, when Captain Tagon and Commander Andreyasn are discussing Hugo Matsui Xinchub, the man they consider their archenemy...
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: The First Age Solars, who by that point had gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs, were killed during the Usurpation, and as their souls settled into the Underworld, they finally realized what sort of atrocities they'd committed. That is, save for 13 Solar ghosts who still raged at their betrayal... and who were all too happy to accept the deal the Neverborn offered them. Thus were the Deathlords born — immensely powerful ghosts with a stated goal of dragging all of Creation into the maw of Oblivion.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6108ba8d	comment	At the climax of The Last Jedi, Luke warns Kylo Ren that the war has only just begun, and that he will be with him always, before he follow's Obi-Wan's example.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The Defenders originate as a result of this sort of plan by a forgotten enemy of Doctor Strange who has created a techno-magical device that will destroy the Earth if he dies — he then steps in front of a bus. Strange gathers the Hulk and the Sub-Mariner to stop the device from working, only to find out that they're part of the Evil Plan already. The villain eventually returns anyway. Supervillainous genetic engineer Maelstrom is the king of this; basically, all but two of his stories end with him killing himself so the heroes can't capture him, and then transferring his soul into a clone body to start scheming anew. Perhaps the most ridiculous example from Marvel is Adolf Hitler. According to one comic, his suicide was only intended to free up his soul to be transferred into a clone body, thus not only Faking the Dead but also perfecting the procedures necessary for his true master plan: to possess the Cosmic Cube. Also, his clone body dresses in a purple Klansman outfit, goes by the name "Hate-Monger", and fights the Fantastic Four and Captain America. See for yourself. At the end of the fifth book of Absolute Carnage, Carnage presents Eddie Brock with an ultimatum: kill him to save his son and take back his symbiote, or let Eddie eat his son and then kill him to claim their codices. Either way, the dark god Knull — creator of the symbiotes — will be unleashed. Eddie chooses to kill Cletus, but that not only unleashes Knull but puts Carnage in a position to make a series of comebacks and grow more powerful than ever in the Venom Island arc of Venom (Donny Cates) and Extreme Carnage.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_634db11c	comment	The first stage of Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance ends with Invictus Thrax's death by an unknown assailaint. He then wakes up and realize he's in Elysium, where he comments he's finally free from a life of killing... only for the gods, Romulus and Remus, to inform him "Your work is just beginning!"
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_68959735	comment	Suikoden II has a variation of this trope in that killing Luca Blight accomplished nothing. The only result was a country calling for blood and a continued war. Luca would have approved.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_68ff28cb	comment	Silent Hill 4: The Room has main character Walter Sullivan committing suicide as one of the steps necessary to perform the 21 Sacrements. His ghost continues the ceremony by killing sacrifices in his stead. In his case, it's not really the beginning so much as it is the halfway point.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_691bf5d8	comment	Patlabor: The Movie opens with the suicide of a computer scientist. As the police protagonists investigate his death along with the suddenly destructive behavior of the Labors he wrote the operating system for, they reveal a sophisticated plan according to this trope.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6afce7a4	comment	Attempted in The Umbrella Academy (2019): Reginald Hargreeves turns out to have killed himself to give an excuse for his children to reunite and stop the apocalypse. Unfortunately, their collective dysfunction causes them to be the ones that start the apocalypse in the first place.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6cd819eb	comment	In the second Skulduggery Pleasant book, the death of the Grotesquery is apparently necessary for the return of the Faceless Ones, in contrast to Baron Vengeous's belief that the Grotesquery would be able to summon them.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6d01949d	comment	Roswell opens with this voiceover: "I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life." It was only a Disney Death, though.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6d2aec8f	comment	Part 6 touches on this again and ends up seemingly turning it into a type of Stand of it's own. Sports Maxx has the Stand ability Limp Bizkit, which takes the form of maggots rooting themselves into corpses. These corpses are then turned into invisible, inaudible zombies. The user is not exempt from this.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_6f045e9f	comment	The Italian Job (1969): Knowing that he may be killed by The Mafia, Beckermann arranges for Charlie to receive his Video Will detailing the plan so that they will still know exactly how to carry out the robbery and his murder will only further motivate his fellow criminals.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_7219fbc0	comment	Freddy Krueger gets such a moment in the pilot episode, and then the opening credits, of his spinoff series Freddy's Nightmares. Once he's been set on fire, he triumphantly shouts "I'll be back, I'm free!" and laughs maniacally before he dies, as though he already knew what his death would bring. Oddly enough, the sixth movie of the Elm Street franchise later showed the exact same scene in a flashback, except this time there's no such moment of triumph (instead, he makes a desperate Deal with the Devil while dying).
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twice in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Defeating Agahnim in Hyrule causes a portal to draw Link into the Dark World. When you defeat him in Ganon's Tower, he sheds his disguise and exposes himself as Ganon. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Ganondorf's final words are a promise to Link and Zelda that his death will not change anything, reassuring them that he will ensure that the history of light and shadow will be written in the blood of his enemies. All of this was conceivably working under the premise that one day he expected his Triforce of Power would revive him from the dead despite his defeat at Link's hand. Ganondorf's Triforce of Power symbol on his right hand then powers down and disappears from his hand entirely, thus ceasing his life for the rest of the game. In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the final boss of the game, the ancient demon Demise, finally released from the seal placed on him by the goddess Hylia, invokes this against Link, Zelda, and their descendants, that an incarnation of his hatred will continuously be reborn to seek revenge against them. Said incarnation? Ganon. Yep, Skyward Sword is the Great King Of Evil's Origins Episode.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_76c01b30	comment	At the end of V for Vendetta, V is now unneeded. The destruction is finished — what is needed is someone with the powers of creation, not the monster who V knows he has become. Thus, he specifically trains his 'sidekick' to succeed him and then commits Suicide by Cop. She becomes V, he becomes immortalized, and she picks a new sidekick.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_76e7de99	comment	There's also the Clone spell, which is essentially a buggy arcane resurrection. A villain in Forgotten Realms had multiple clones going before his death, and all or most of them started running around, leading to hilarity.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock In the backstory to the first game, "legimitate businessman" and mobster Frank Fontaine was gunned down in his own office by police. Before going to the mattresses, Frank complained publicly about the city stealing his revenue (they had) and their plans to assassinate him (they did). This cast a baleful light on Rapture's patriarch, Andrew Ryan. Double inverted — Frank faked his death, then masqueraded as a paddy freedom fighter to demand the city turn Frank's assets back over to the people, i.e. Fontaine himself. In BioShock 2, Subject Delta unless you get the neutral selfless ending. In the evil, neutral selfish, and good endings, Eleanor drains his Adam into her and his viewpoint melts into hers, implying that Delta's living consciousness is now inside of Eleanor, despite his body being lifeless. BioShock Infinite's Daisy Fitzroy, leader of the rebellion against Comstock, holds a young boy captive and tells Booker that he needs to die because he's a son of the one of Columbia's most corrupt men, and if you "wanna kill the weed, you gotta pull it up from the root," but Elizabeth sneaks up behind her and stabs her with a pair of scissors. Burial at Sea DLC reveals that Fitzroy had absolutely no intention of hurting the boy, was actually appalled at the idea of even making the empty threat, but the Luteces took her aside and told her only by taking a life would Elizabeth harden into the woman who would, alongside Booker, finally take down Comstock. Daisy realizes that she won't be live to see the fruits of her movement's labor be realized, but decides to make the ultimate sacrifice. At the end of the very same DLC, Elizabeth dies with a smile on her face with the newly recovered knowledge that her death and telling Atlas/Fontaine the trigger phrase for Jack's mental conditioning will bring Jack to Rapture and, at least in the timeline she's in, lead to the Fontaine's death, the freedom of Sally and the little sisters and the downfall of Rapture.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_791fca45	comment	In BioShock 2, Subject Delta unless you get the neutral selfless ending. In the evil, neutral selfish, and good endings, Eleanor drains his Adam into her and his viewpoint melts into hers, implying that Delta's living consciousness is now inside of Eleanor, despite his body being lifeless.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_7c31fdd7	comment	Valkyrie Profile: Lezard Valeth kills himself to gain immortality, which allows him to survive Ragnarok. This is only seen in the best ending, but presumably occurs in every one since there are no Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moments related to him.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_819853fe	comment	XIII-2 has Caius, whose death by itself causes the end of the world. He possesses the Heart of Chaos, which, when destroyed, destroys the goddess Etro, and basically when she dies, chaos is released into the world, destroying it. He therefore plans to have Noel kill him in order to achieve this.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8268c95e	comment	Fallen: The demon Azazel cannot take over Denzel Washington by his usual touch transference, but he can do so if his spirit is released from its host by death. So he spends the entire movie crapping on Denzel's rep and framing him for murder so that he can finally get Denzel to kill him in a Suicide by Cop scenario and run wild in his body.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_84377fd8	comment	GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra begins in the 18th century when the French authorities prepare to punish Destro's ancestor. When he speaks the trope saying that his legacy will continue through his descendants, the French respond, "We're not going to kill you, we're going to make an example of you." and shove a red hot metal mask on his face.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_86814cc3	comment	Final Fantasy II's Emperor Palamecia allows himself to be overthrown and killed, to return as the ruler of hell and resume the world-taking-over. Made even worse in the remakes. It's revealed that his soul split in half at the time of his death: his dark half became the Emperor of Hell, while his light (but still evil) side became the Light Emperor and presides over the game's equivalent of Heaven. Mateus has you screwed from both sides of the celestial chain.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_86814cd0	comment	Zemus in the fourth part doesn't really fight back, when he is attacked by Golbez and FuSoYa... because afterwards he becomes near invulnerable Zeromus, a being of pure hatred. He even states most of the Trope Name as he dies in the original translation: "Death is only the beginning..." This is also Scarmiglione's plan to kill Cecil. Upon being killed in your initial fight with him, he rises again as a zombie, much more powerful than he was.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_86b52b7b	comment	In I, Robot, Dr. Alfred Lanning orders Sonny to kill him by throwing him out of his office window. He does this in order to attract Detective Spooner's attention because he knows that the vehemently anti-robot Spooner would fully investigate the incident and discover the inherent flaw in the Three Laws Of Robotics.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_884b6712	comment	In Movie 7, Dr. Gero's death (not by the main characters) sets off the finishing of three more androids (15, 14, and Big Bad 13).
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_88b348e8	comment	Cardcaptor Sakura: Clow Reed only predicted one particular aspect of everything wrong (that Sakura and Yukito would get together), and it was one that didn't have any effect on the plan.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_89f4bc45	comment	In regards to Kayfabe, The Undertaker is the living embodiment of this trope. After he "dies", whether by getting stuffed in a casket or buried alive, he always came back with a more intense look within a few months. One of his most memorable moments is the return of the Deadman gimmick after his biker self got buried alive by his brother Kane.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8a1c34ad	comment	Axe Cop: In "The Dogs", the witch doctor cats, Iggy and Willy, let the superhero dogs kill them on purpose so that they can be resurrected as mummies and turn the whole world into cats.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Obi-Wan Kenobi's death in A New Hope is either a heroic version of this trope or a Heroic Sacrifice depending on whom you ask. It helps that he has secretly learned how to become one with the Force.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Mello's last move involves his own death. His sidekick Matt also dies, though this wasn't necessary. With L dead and Light assuming the identity of L unbeknownst to the world, it would seem like Light had won... if not for a countdown timer set up by L to inform his chosen heir of his death if he fails to reset it every month. In the live-action version, L writes his own name in the Death Note, which grants him temporary immunity from Kira, but will kill him in 23 days time. L's backup plan often works like this too, since if he is killed by Kira it will narrow the suspects down significantly.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8c87469c	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the final boss of the game, the ancient demon Demise, finally released from the seal placed on him by the goddess Hylia, invokes this against Link, Zelda, and their descendants, that an incarnation of his hatred will continuously be reborn to seek revenge against them. Said incarnation? Ganon. Yep, Skyward Sword is the Great King Of Evil's Origins Episode.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8d8157e0	comment	Lexx begins with Kai making a Last Stand against the Big Bad. The Hero dies. Thousands of years later he comes back, joins the protagonists and is instrumental in their victory. Despite being The Undead, he is the most heroic of the main characters.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_8d817ccb	comment	John Locke's death on Lost first seems to be part of a preordained plan to save the island. Later events make it seem Locke was suckered into believing his death would have meaning, when really it was part of the villain's grand plan. Ultimately, however, John's death is the trigger for the Oceanic 6 to return to the island, which leads to the villain's defeat.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_91e45f5	comment	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney of the same franchise has Magnifi, if you think about it. His death and trial for it caused the events that eventually resulted in Phoenix losing his license, the death of Drew Misham and framing of Vera, and finally the creation of the Jurist System.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_921cb27d	comment	Rainbow Dash Presents: "Bittersweet", Pinkie Pie (incorrectly) assumes that her diabetic-induced death would cause a massive uproar in the community, resulting in a restructuring of the health care system that cheated her and put her on a leash. In reality, no one gives her death the time of day, Twilight and the others were left confused as to what she was even trying to accomplish in the first place by rejecting medical treatment because she never bothered disclosing her plan to anyone else, and the only one she did confide her plan to was Rainbow Dash, who's too much of a ditz to even realize Pinkie's plan and instead becomes guilt-ridden for months.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_942bee58	comment	Toll the Hounds, book eight of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, has a non-villainous, Heroic Sacrifice case that involves two people. As part of a Gambit Roulette, the Lord of Death Hood and Warrior Prince Anomander Rake set up their own deaths, the first being beheaded by the second and the second staging an I Let You Win Duel to the Death. It allows for Death's face to change, but more importantly to end the existence of the soul-sucking sword Dragnipur, to free the Gate of Darkness and for Mother Dark to return to her children.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_944150f2	comment	In Black Adam (2022), the main villain, Ishmael Gregor/Sabbac wishes to reclaim his legacy through becoming the all-powerful demon king. He does so by threatening Amon, a son figure to the movie's protagonist, Teth-Adam. He kidnaps the boy and holds him at gunpoint. He eventually fires, as Teth-Adam barely manages to vaporize the bullet and prevent Amon's skull from getting drilled open. Then, unable to control himself, Teth-Adam loses it and pulverizes Ishmael and all of his lackeys, while also inadvertently hitting Amon and sending him into a coma. The plan works perfectly, as in the moment of being disintegrated by Teth-Adam's lightning Ishmael dons the crown of Sabbac, which short-circuits his brain and wills him back into existence after a while, while also bestowing him with an awesome powerset of ancient demons. Teth-Adam is stricken with guilt over Amon's fate and gives up his powerset, turning himself in. The Justice Society locks him up in the depths of icy Russian waters, triggering the stage for the movie's 3rd act.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_944191c6	comment	Kyo Kara Maoh!: Shinou died to set into motion a great Conspiracy drawn out over a period of four millenia, which involved manipulating the whole of Demon Tribe for all those years in a cycle of incarnations and reincarnations, in order to defeat the Big Bad Shoushu. And he managed to do it without being evil... well, at least most of the time!
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_95aba2f5	comment	In Illuminati, one power (The Servants of Cthulhu) can win by committing suicide. Each player has one main group (Illuminati) and over the course of the game can control, neutralize, or destroy various subordinate groups. In addition to the general victory condition—controlling a certain number of groups—each player has his own special victory condition as well; the victory condition for the Servants is to destroy eight (not necessarily subordinate) groups. Now, if a player does not control at least one subordinate group at any time after his third turn, his main group is destroyed and he is eliminated from the game. Also, a player can voluntarily give up control of any subordinate group he controls. Thus, if the Servants have already destroyed seven groups, they can give up control of all their subordinate groups, killing themselves—and winning the game because they just destroyed their eighth group.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9683d65c	comment	A select few Aspect holders in Glory in the Thunder will become immortal and ageless when they die for the first time. Rashk murders Tsovinar to activate this against her will, saving her from a probable eternity in a weak and frail body when she eventually succumbs to old age.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_98670fed	comment	A recurring villain in Tom Strong, Paul Saveen, does this.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_994af351	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney has a continuing plot arc involving a family of spirit mediums, so it was really only a matter of time before you found yourself interrogating a channeled spirit whose testimony begins "The plot began with my death." While it wasn't exactly intended, the death of Dahlia Hawthorne did not stop (the continuation of) her Evil Plan, the entirety of which spanned for three whole cases. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney of the same franchise has Magnifi, if you think about it. His death and trial for it caused the events that eventually resulted in Phoenix losing his license, the death of Drew Misham and framing of Vera, and finally the creation of the Jurist System.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9969fe89	comment	In Scrapland, The Archbishop of Chimera is the first in a string of murders of Chimera's most influential citizens.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9afa4e32	comment	UFO Robo Grendizer: This Mazinger series gave us a rare heroic example. In the Go Nagai manga, a Saucer Beast cornered Duke Fleed and Blackie demanded that he reveal Grendizerâ€™s hideout. He refused to talk and assured that all his friends would go on fighting until they defeated them using his Humongous Mecha.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9b29d6b8	comment	Dragon Mango: A shapeshifted fortune teller explains she's doing this — and her enemy is too overconfident to care.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9be1af9a	comment	The Multiversity: In Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1, Vandal Savage corners the Immortal Man, who kills Savage in order to end the war. Savage then reveals that "spilling immortal blood summons Niczhuotan — Destroyer of Worlds".
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9c0c6d38	comment	In the prequel series, Serena Butler tries to get Omnius to kill her in order to become a martyr and inspire humanity to destroy Thinking Machines once and for all. Erasmus catches on and stops Omnius before he can do this. Unfortunately for the Thinking Machines there is also a plan B. Serena is killed by one of her female guards and her death is presented as Omniusâ€™ fault anyway.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The government executes the pirate king, Gold Roger, to send a message of warning to all the pirates in the world. Instead, Roger uses his moment of publicity to announce to the entire world where his treasure can be found, setting off the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates. It's also revealed that Roger planned it this way, rather than just taking advantage of his last moments to screw over his enemies one more time. He turned himself in, knowing it would result in a public execution, because he was already dying and wanted to make sure his death would mean something. Like Roger, Whitebeard, in his last moments, declared that the legendary One Piece really does exist and triggers another coming age of pirates.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Harbinger is possessed by one of the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons and kills the Monitor under its influence. However, the Monitor anticipated her betrayal, and arranged it so that the energy released by his death was able to preserve Earths One and Two from being destroyed by the Anti-Monitor. The Multiversity: In Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1, Vandal Savage corners the Immortal Man, who kills Savage in order to end the war. Savage then reveals that "spilling immortal blood summons Niczhuotan — Destroyer of Worlds".
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a3748187	comment	In Part 5, Carne approaches the plane the heroes are about to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber — his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G., one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try absolutely indestructible.)
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a56d855b	comment	Masaki Kihara of Hades Project Zeorymer. He was killed by Oki before the start of the series. However, by creating clones of himself with personality flaws galore, an android with the ability to grow up to serve as the titular mech's main system, implanting his personality into said mech so that he can pull a Split-Personality Takeover on one of the clones when the time is right. In his own words: he gambled with himself for control of the entire world. It was a Gambit Roulette in which he was able to bet half of everything on red and the other half on blue. Thankfully for the world, the ball lands on 0 as a result of one of his clones overpowering his personality and then incorporating it into himself, and then blowing the other remaining clone to bits.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a698aa86	comment	Ghostbusters: Subverted by Prince Vigo in Ghostbusters II. Despite his apparent last words being "Death is but a door; time but a window. I'll be back!", it was not his intention to die and become all powerful. He was murdered with extreme prejudice against his wishes, and just happened to have a way to reincarnate as an immortal overlord a few centuries later. A straighter example is seen in Ghostbusters (2016) where that movie's villain, Rowan North, commits suicide so he can be born again as a powerful ghost.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a7bb29b2	comment	Mega Man X5 has Sigma use this trope as, in a twist on the usual formula, he is the prologue boss...but that was his plan, as it spread the Sigma Virus upon his defeat throughout the world while the Space Colony Eurasia is being dropped on the planet.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy loves this trope. Garland in the first game dies, only to come back as the ultimate Chaos (though, he didn't plan it in the present, probably, he did in the future). Confusing? It gets worse. Final Fantasy II's Emperor Palamecia allows himself to be overthrown and killed, to return as the ruler of hell and resume the world-taking-over. Made even worse in the remakes. It's revealed that his soul split in half at the time of his death: his dark half became the Emperor of Hell, while his light (but still evil) side became the Light Emperor and presides over the game's equivalent of Heaven. Mateus has you screwed from both sides of the celestial chain. Zemus in the fourth part doesn't really fight back, when he is attacked by Golbez and FuSoYa... because afterwards he becomes near invulnerable Zeromus, a being of pure hatred. He even states most of the Trope Name as he dies in the original translation: "Death is only the beginning..." This is also Scarmiglione's plan to kill Cecil. Upon being killed in your initial fight with him, he rises again as a zombie, much more powerful than he was. Exdeath in Final Fantasy V merges with the void after his death. If it's planned is not entirely sure, though. It's not planned. Exdeath wanted to rule the world with the power of Void. Neo Exdeath specifically wants to reduce everything to nothingness. In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth doesn't fall into this, as he wasn't planning at all on his demise at Nibelheim. However, it did ultimately put him and Jenova in the position to cause the events of the game several years later. Then the game flips the trope into a rare heroic usage without even using The Mentor; the game heavily implies Aerith manages to do this thanks to being Cetra, and ultimately saves the world in the end by getting the planet itself to help Holy defeat Sephiroth's Meteor. To reiterate: the flower girl outsmarted the strongest man on the planet by essentially using her death at his hands to counteract his plan at the last minute. It's open to interpretation if this is what she really intended, but there's a lot of evidence suggesting it. Seymour in Final Fantasy X is hardly affected by death. It's probably not wanted, but he doesn't care much and instead increases in strength, whenever he returns. Further, upon revealing his plans to learn how to control Sin from within, he relishes that (due to being an unsent spirit) he has "all the time in the world" to accomplish this goal. Also "main villain" Sin's death is nothing but a break for the people to catch their breath before it returns. Auron accidentally falls into this trope as well, ten years prior to the game's beginning, when he's killed but immediately reanimates as an Unsent. He took advantage of his new mortality status to ride Sin to Zanarkand and help mold Tidus into the hero his father wanted him to become. Namely, one who'd be willing and able to destroy his father, the newest incarnation of Sin, forever. Also, in terms of gameplay, it is often times easier to allow your characters to die and then revive them than heal their wounds and negative status effects. Lampshaded in Final Fantasy XII, where many status effects stay on dead characters, and a merchant points this out. In the original Final Fantasy Tactics, after failing to sacrifice the protagonist's sister in the penultimate Boss Battle, Hashmalun pulls a Villainous Sacrifice to summon Ultima (mistranslated "Altima" in the English version), the Bloody Angel. XIII-2 has Caius, whose death by itself causes the end of the world. He possesses the Heart of Chaos, which, when destroyed, destroys the goddess Etro, and basically when she dies, chaos is released into the world, destroying it. He therefore plans to have Noel kill him in order to achieve this.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: According to Phyrexian myth/propaganda, Yawgmoth killed himself for various reasons that make sense only to Phyrexians. The true story is very different. Also, this is the point of the "double" spells from the joke set Unglued, which affect the next game you and your opponent play. So, you might lose the current game, but win the next one.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_acf64e6a	comment	In Margary Allingham's Albert Campion novel Police at the Funeral, the solution to the mystery is that the first victim killed himself, making it look like murder, and left booby traps in the house he shared with his family which killed and injured several of them. He hated them that much.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_aeedf9b7	comment	One interpretation of the plot of Vagrant Story: Sydney has been manipulating events so that when he and the Duke die at the end, Ashley is the only person left with the power to master The Dark.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In Part 5, Carne approaches the plane the heroes are about to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber — his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G., one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try absolutely indestructible.) Part 6 touches on this again and ends up seemingly turning it into a type of Stand of it's own. Sports Maxx has the Stand ability Limp Bizkit, which takes the form of maggots rooting themselves into corpses. These corpses are then turned into invisible, inaudible zombies. The user is not exempt from this.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b0c8849e	comment	GI Guy from Kid Radd, being a Well Intentioned Omnicidal Maniac, thought the only way to stop the circle of violence for sprites and humans was to kill them all. When he actually tried to go through with it, he was happily the first to die.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b1b1c63a	comment	Rampage: Mass murderer/terrorist Bill Williamson orchestrates several massacres while releasing viral videos urging people to cause violence all over the world. He's finally killed by the end of the third movie after a massive manhunt, but more chaos erupts after his death since more people are shown going on massacres.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b5728d21	comment	In The Return Of Paul Twister, Ken'tu Kel accuses Ryell of employing this trope, and tells Paul it would be in his best interest to sabotage this plot by killing all the tractumil. Paul doesn't listen, as he doesn't want to be a murderer.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b7776ed1	comment	In Daniel Suarez's Daemon, a dying, reclusive billionaire game designer sets up oodles and oodles of programs to start working once one of them detects his obituary appearing in the media. Societal upheaval ensues.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_b9cc7496	comment	Bartleby and Loki's plan in Dogma revolved around this. Azrael, who was manipulating them, had something else in mind.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ba666650	comment	Subverted in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The Boss didn't have any plan of her own past dying, but before the final battle, she ominously states that whoever lives will have to face an endless series of battles and will never obtain peace. This is undoubtedly true, as Big Boss's victory is what sets up the rest of the series.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	Granblue Fantasy: The Torhid royal family agreed to have Baragona murder every single member to appease the True King and the Torhid king and queen would sacrifice themselves in a mad attempt to distract him as part of one long con to position Baragona in a place where he would be able to destroy the Great Wall.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ba99af9c	comment	A literal example occurs in the opening scene of Saw IV. When he finds one of Jigsaw's characteristic microcassettes in the latter's stomach during his autopsy, the coroner Adam Heffner tells a co-worker to call Detective Mark Hoffman in. Hoffman listens to the tape as Jigsaw explains that "it's not over just because [he's] dead", and "the games have just begun". Of course, Hoffman himself ended up taking on Jigsaw's mantle following The Reveal at the end of the movie.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ba9a9454	comment	The serial killer in Se7en was a Mad Artist who wanted to orchestrate a string of deaths correlating with the seven deadly sins and culminating with his own murder. He thinks this will inspire a new wave of violent piousness in the modern, secular masses, but we never find out whether it works.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bbc59a1d	comment	In Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, Cornell journeys to Dracula's castle to save his sister and winds up in a battle with Dracula himself. In the end, even though he kills Dracula, the demon lord drains his beastman essence from him in the process. Death proceeds to use it to revive Dracula again in a new form, setting up the events of Castlevania 64.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bc3872cd	comment	Gameknight999: Herobrine leaves behind malicious code after his death, which will corrupt and overload the Minecraft server.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In the Shadowrun universe, the great dragon Dunkelzahn (also president-elect of the United American and Canadian States) sure planned ahead for his death. His Last Will is long enough for a book and arranges the founding of the Draco Foundation, a Mega Corporation that supervises the fulfillment of all of Dunkelzahn's last demands and has a lot of control over the sixth world. It is financed by the dead dragon's vast riches and is the only Mega Corp the players can work together with without feeling guilty afterwards. Also it is very successful in making the world a better place. It's revealed in the Dragonheart Trilogy that Dunkelzahn arranged his own death in order to power a spell to prevent the Horrors from crossing over into the world.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bd1137ca	comment	Also, according to Simon's father in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the night before his execution, Joe Hill called the local Industrial Workers of the World chapter and told them "Don't grieve, organize".
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Subverted by Prince Vigo in Ghostbusters II. Despite his apparent last words being "Death is but a door; time but a window. I'll be back!", it was not his intention to die and become all powerful. He was murdered with extreme prejudice against his wishes, and just happened to have a way to reincarnate as an immortal overlord a few centuries later.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bf42e29d	comment	In Hitman (2016), the "Patient Zero" campaign only continues because of Oybek Nabazov's dead mans trigger waking up sleeper agents that 47 has to then take care of in Italy (a live virus sample is being traded for use at a convention), Colorado (a testing bed for the virus overseen by a doctor) and Hokkaido (where the titular Patient Zero is being treated), in order to stop a deadly global pandemic from breaking free.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c0a760c6	comment	It's also hinted in the now non-canon Dark Empire comic arc that Palpatine planned for his own death so he could grow stronger in the dark side, or at least created a back up plan involving cloning in case his original body had been unexpectedly killed that consequentially resulted in him gaining more power.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c1c642f7	comment	In Hellboy, the clockwork cyborg Karl Ruprect Kroenen does this to infiltrate BPRD headquarters. He "killed" himself by unwinding his own clockwork heart; upon finding his body, BPRD agents took him back to their headquarters to examine him, unaware that he could be revived.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: The supervillain Judge Death was already an insane Hanging Judge when he was alive. His goal of destroying his entire homeworld in the name of justice required him to die and then be resurrected through dark magic as a zombie, partly so he would become an unstoppable menace, and partly because "kill everyone" would just have been hypocritical if he didn't.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c2463c46	comment	Garland in the first game dies, only to come back as the ultimate Chaos (though, he didn't plan it in the present, probably, he did in the future). Confusing? It gets worse.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c2463c53	comment	Exdeath in Final Fantasy V merges with the void after his death. If it's planned is not entirely sure, though. It's not planned. Exdeath wanted to rule the world with the power of Void. Neo Exdeath specifically wants to reduce everything to nothingness.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c2463c55	comment	Seymour in Final Fantasy X is hardly affected by death. It's probably not wanted, but he doesn't care much and instead increases in strength, whenever he returns. Further, upon revealing his plans to learn how to control Sin from within, he relishes that (due to being an unsent spirit) he has "all the time in the world" to accomplish this goal. Also "main villain" Sin's death is nothing but a break for the people to catch their breath before it returns. Auron accidentally falls into this trope as well, ten years prior to the game's beginning, when he's killed but immediately reanimates as an Unsent. He took advantage of his new mortality status to ride Sin to Zanarkand and help mold Tidus into the hero his father wanted him to become. Namely, one who'd be willing and able to destroy his father, the newest incarnation of Sin, forever.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c3c1f1d2	comment	The Matrix Revolutions: Neo knew going in he could not defeat Smith without "balancing the equation", i.e. negating both of them.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Seeds of Death": Fewsham, who has been a Dirty Coward up until this point, finally grows a pair and makes sure that Earth gets desperately-needed info on the pending invasion, at the cost of his own life. "The End of Time": While not exactly his plan, the Master creates a cult devoted to himself and leaves specific instructions on what to do in case he is killed. After he is shot by his wife, he chooses not to regenerate to stop himself being stuck as the Doctor's prisoner, and because he knows his followers will bring him back to life. Unfortunately for him, his resurrection is sabotaged by his wife, which causes him to come back wrong in a rapidly-decaying body. Bonus points for showing someone finding his ring after his death, in the style of Ming the Merciless. "Cold Blood": Captured Silurian warrior Alaya deliberately goads Mama Bear Ambrose into murdering her in an attempt to start a war between humans and Silurians, a war in which Alaya hopes the humans will be wiped out. Thanks to the actions of other characters, however, the war never comes to pass.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo features a plan that requires two deaths, masterminded by the eponymous demon himself. It was first hinted at in Diablo II by the fallen angel Izual, who hints that the deaths of the Prime Evils are serving some greater purpose. In Diablo III, the purpose is to get all the defeated Evils, Prime and Lesser, into the same Black Soulstone, which is then jammed into the chest of the daughter Diablo fathered after being killed the first time. This allows Diablo to become the personality in charge of the full power of the Prime Evil.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_c96cfe29	comment	Twice in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Defeating Agahnim in Hyrule causes a portal to draw Link into the Dark World. When you defeat him in Ganon's Tower, he sheds his disguise and exposes himself as Ganon.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_dcb78c8c	comment	Nathan Hale's last words in Resistance 2 before he is shot to death.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_e75c6d45	comment	Subverted in Goblins, when Thaco the Goblin finally defeats Dellyn Goblinslayer, the ranger who captured and tortured him years before. Dellyn takes great delight in telling Thaco how his name will go down in legend among the goblins because of his glorious death at Thaco's hands. Things do not turn out like he hoped.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ec19bd89	comment	In Saiyuki, Koumyou's death in a youkai attack right after he passed his rank and responsibilities onto his pupil is suggested to be this trope. Considering the person who voiced the suggestion, the reveal of this might have been intended just to mess with Sanzo, but on the other hand, said person did get to see Koumyou's true strength first-hand, and thus his claim that Koumyou was powerful enough to easily fend off the attackers is far from being baseless. The implication is that Koumyou knew what effect his Heroic Sacrifice for Sanzo would have on Sanzo himself; indeed, this results in Sanzo's life getting dedicated to recovering his master's sutra stolen in the attack, and he grows up to be the Determinator seen throughout the main series. Whether Koumyou's death had something to do with his bet with Ukoku remains to be seen.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ec28245c	comment	Goku's death in episode 5 of Dragon Ball Z sets up his afterlife journey to power up for the battle against Vegeta and Nappa.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_edd35d30	comment	In The Frighteners, Michael J. Fox can see ghosts but cannot interact with them. Twice in the movie he is forced to let his physical body die so that his spirit can fight with the spirit of the serial killer. He got better.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_eef69f10	comment	In the Sherlock Holmes story The Problem of Thor Bridge, Maria Gibson, jealous of the close relationship between her husband and the family's governess, commits suicide and attempts to frame the governess for her murder.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager. Homaged with Ming the Merciless-expy Dr. Chaotica as he lays dying, 'killed' by Queen Arachnia and Captain Proton (Captain Janeway and Lieutenant Paris) in The Adventures of Captain Proton! holodeck program. In "Worst Case Scenario", former antagonist Seska comes back to haunt the crew (via a holodeck program) despite the fact that she had died in the season premiere. In this case, it wasn't her specific intent, but as Tom points out, it's perfectly in keeping with Seska's established traits to do something like this, intentionally or otherwise.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f163bd9f	comment	Winnowill eventually tries to pull this off in ElfQuest. She at least gets the dying part right.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f2041376	comment	There was an episode of Charmed (1998) which involved a warlock needing to die nine times to attain immortality.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f2295fa8	comment	God-Emperor of Dune: God Emperor Leto II's final step in ensuring his Golden Path was, after millennia of setting himself up as the biggest obstacle to humanity's growth and finding a way to block anyone else from abusing an Omniscient Morality License as he has, to drive them to kill him in some twisted combination of My Death Is Just the Beginning and a Heroic Sacrifice. Humanity promptly explodes outward into the universe with such force that nobody can ever hope to find them all ever again, supposedly ensuring their survival in the upcoming Robot War and forever afterward. It's compounded by the fact that in order to kill him, they had to be able to avoid his ability to scry the future, something he'd been trying to breed into humanity over all this time. It's the combination of these things which brings his plan to fruition, and the scrying-immune catalyst (whose genes will soon be spread through a significant proportion of humanity, making them undiscoverable also) is his own distant descendant. In the prequel series, Serena Butler tries to get Omnius to kill her in order to become a martyr and inspire humanity to destroy Thinking Machines once and for all. Erasmus catches on and stops Omnius before he can do this. Unfortunately for the Thinking Machines there is also a plan B. Serena is killed by one of her female guards and her death is presented as Omniusâ€™ fault anyway.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f4a1d45b	comment	In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Harbinger is possessed by one of the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons and kills the Monitor under its influence. However, the Monitor anticipated her betrayal, and arranged it so that the energy released by his death was able to preserve Earths One and Two from being destroyed by the Anti-Monitor.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f5a3f243	comment	The aversion of this is a driving plot point in L: change the WorLd, a spinoff to the Live-Action Adaptation Death Note films. The ecoterrorist Big Bad has a super-virus that will wipe out humanity, but he is not willing to die along with the rest of us. However, the scientist who created a vaccine destroys it and kills himself after learning of the villain's plan rather than let the plan succeed, causing the villain to go after the scientist's daughter, who has notes on the vaccine and who L takes in.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts has Xehanort, a guy whose plans involve him sacrificing himself so that his heart and body can be split into two separate entities, both of which will perform a separate task, at which time they will combine to revive him, granting him his final goal: the X-Blade, Kingdom Hearts, and a new Keyblade War. As you defeat Xehanort for the first time in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep he says "Only now have I truly won." A second example is that by defeating his two forms in a specific order, he comes back to life making this a very literal example.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes/City of Villains has the "Vengeance" power, which a character can use when an ally is defeated to give all teammates a significant power-boost. On some tough fights, having one person charge in and die as "Vengeance Bait" then reviving them is a reasonable strategy.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_fbb719c5	comment	Constantine (2005) has the protagonist turn to this sort of plan to stop Gabriel from releasing Mammon.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_fcfec4b6	comment	Altena in Noir shows she is willing to sacrifice everything and everyone she loves for her holy cause, including herself.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_fe8ef766	comment	Citizen Soldier, a constantly reincarnating Captain America Expy from Stormwatch: Team Achilles. Anticipating that the protagonists, who know about his reincarnation cycle, will put him in cryogenic suspension, he arranges for someone less knowledgeable to find out his location and kill him right as the protagonists are about to take him into custody.
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My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ff536b75	comment	The End of All Things: This Hollow Union, a short story in the Old Man's War series, climaxes with General Tarsem Gau, the beleaguered leader of the Conclave, being killed by a bomb while addressing the Assembly on the importance of the Conclave's continued survival. A letter he left for his assistant and successor apologizes for putting her in such a situation, while explaining that he planted the bomb himself, in hopes that his assassination would galvanize the Conclave into getting past its troubles.
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Prussia	seeAlso	My Death Is Just the Beginning
The Obi-Wan	seeAlso	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Ceres, Celestial Legend (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Death Note (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
PandoraHearts (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Trigun (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
20th Century Boys (Manga) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Arch Enemy (Band) (Music) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
A World Without America (Roleplay)	seeAlso	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Comic Fury Werewolf (Roleplay) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Loli Grail War (Roleplay)	seeAlso	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Devious Maids / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Elementary / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Freddy's Nightmares / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Hikari Sentai Maskman / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Hotel del Luna / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Roswell / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Star Trek: Voyager / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Root (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Shōgi (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Small World (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Twilight Imperium (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Atlantica Online (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Dead Rising (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Eternal Darkness (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Final Fantasy II (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Gradius (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Headhunter (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Kirby Star Allies (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Mitadake High (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Namco × Capcom (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Ōkamiden (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Tears to Tiara 2 (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Vandal Hearts (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Zettai Hero Project (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Dangantalia (Visual Novel) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Demonbane (Visual Novel) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Glitchtale (Web Animation) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Axe Cop (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Dr. Brinner: Ghost Psychiatrist (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Jungle Juice (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Remember	seeAlso	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Suicide for Hire (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (Webcomic) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Ender in Exile / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning
Dark Sun (Video Game) / int_a2dd3c5	type	My Death Is Just the Beginning

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