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A character almost dies but is given a chance to or is forced to return. Often overlaps with It Is Not Your Time and My Life Flashed Before My Eyes. Sometimes overlaps with Near-Death Clairvoyance. If the near-death is a near-suicide, may overlap with It's a Wonderful Plot. To some extent Truth in Television, and heavily overlaps with Don't Fear the Reaper. Expect them to want to Go into the Light. Note that how these are reported are heavily culture-dependent. Obviously people from different religions report different afterlives, but they also report a different responses to finding themselves there. Some beg to return to finish the work they're working on, others beg to remain and leave this vale of woe for good. A Flatline Plotline is about deliberately inducing these. Compare with Serendipitous Survival where a character avoids death by being elsewhere due to sheer luck when under normal circumstances, they would have died. Might result from a Divine Misfile if a Psychopomp accidentally collected the character's soul prematurely. As this is a Death Trope, expect unmarked spoilers! |
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Happy Days: In "Fonzie's Baptism", Fonzie becomes a lot less confident than usual after almost dying in a fire. In "Richie Almost Dies", Richie gets into a near-fatal accident, and it ends on An Aesop about how It's Okay to Cry. |
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Divinity: Original Sin II: The player character's ship is destroyed in the middle of the ocean, only for a mysterious voice to tell them (and the optional Companions) that It Is Not Your Time, after which they wash up safely at Fort Joy. Later, they learn that the voice was their patron god and they're The Chosen One. | |
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Over the Garden Wall: Greg's dream adventure in Cloud City as the temperatures slowly drop in "Babes in the Woods" can be read as an in-story example of this trope; more vitally, Wirt and Greg are drowning in real-time, making the entire series a near-death experience. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): San and Vivienne Graham seem to have one, before Mothra revives them during their encounter in Chapter 7, similar to Madison's in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Darker yet, it's suggested that San has an NDE after his head is ripped off of Vivienne and almost Swallowed Whole before an electric jolt from Vivienne restores his head to consciousness. | |
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Death is forced to take a vacation: During Fall Harvest (a recently appointed Reaper)'s first outing to retrieve the soul of a newly deceased pony, he stumbles upon a pony who'd come close to death to the point of having an out-of-body experience, whom he briefly mistakes for the soul he's supposed to retrieve. Once everything is straightened out, Causality assures the stallion that he won't remember most of their meeting after he returns to his body, which he does just a moment later. | |
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Harry Potter himself in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Under normal circumstances, he should have been killed. However, because Voldemort used Harry's blood to give himself a new body back in Goblet of Fire, Voldemort inadvertently made it so as long as he was alive, Harry can't die. | |
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In Mystery Case Files: The Black Veil, the Master Detective is knifed by the game's antagonist in order to summon the Goddess of Death, and goes through a short near-death experience before Ankou (the goddess in question) restores her to life. | |
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Just when Mimi in RENT seems to have died like her equivalent in La Bohème, she suddenly revives and claims she was heading toward a warm light when Angel, who died earlier in the show, appeared and told her to go back. In the Forbidden Broadway parody, Mimi's actress, Daphne Rubin-Vega, is dying but sent back by Lady Thiang from The King and I. | |
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Ranma ½: In a rare serious arc, Ry�ga dies when the superhumanly-strong Lime crushes his windpipe. He finds himself in a field of flowers with a river in the distance, and his grandpa and grandma yelling, from the other side of the river, not to come closer. But when he hallucinates Akane happily saying goodbye to him, together with Ranma, Ry�ga is shocked back to life, depressed enough to summon the Shishi Hokodan and crush Lime with it. This is parodied in a later, much more comedic story, where Ranma, Ry�ga and Mousse are competing to eat horribly bad-tasting noddles. The food is so lethally bad, all three fall unconscious and find themselves on the shore of the same river, with Ry�ga commenting that he'd already been there before. |
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In the climax of π, Max experiences his greatest migraine attack so far. As he goes mad from the pain, he suddenly finds himself in a white void and recites the numerical designation of God's name which he was never supposed to discover. His neighbor begs him to come back and comforts him in her arms when he is resuscitated. Then it turns out that he was hallucinating all of it and is truly alone. | |
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Earlier, in season two, Christopher is clinically dead for a minute after a failed hit. He sees a white light, and meets his late father and some mob associates in Hell, which for The Mafia is apparently an Irish bar where it's always St. Paddys day. | |
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Mac on CSI: NY has a whole episode of this after being shot in "Near Death." (Exactly a year earlier he'd had one in "Exit Strategy" that both resulted in a BSoD moment and led him to change careers for a few months.) | |
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In House: The main character had one when he had the infraction in his leg which caused his limp ("Three Stories"). Always the skeptic, he believes that it was just a hallucination. In fact, the way he describes it to his audience is plain impossible, since his dying vision includes two patients of House that he would not meet until years later. In the episode "97 Seconds," a patient had a near-death experience, which made him feel so good that he electrocutes himself to have another one. Intrigued, House also electrocutes himself but pages Amber right before so he would be revived. He sees nothing. This doesn't make much sense, since House already had a near-death experience - or two if you count his hallucinations in "No Reason." Wilson even tells this to him afterwards. It's actually a symptom of his deteriorating mental stability, which comes to a head at the end of the season. |
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Hyatt from Excel♡Saga, who has a near-death experience about once or twice a week. She has them so often that her senior Excel commented that one of them was 'pretty cliche'. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart Simpson has one in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" when he gets hit by a car. In a weird variation, he goes to Hell, and the Devil is the one who tells him It Is Not Your Time, saying he isn't supposed to be here until the Yankees win the World Series, which he claimed wouldn't happen for 100 years. (Of course, it actually happened in 1996... Call customer support, Old Nick.) | |
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My Dad's Tapes: As discussed in backstory, both the father and donotcontinue note lowercase intentional suffered from near-death experiences, which caused them to see the world in such a different way, it drove them to murder. | |
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iCarly: Happens to a rather harsh extent in "iQuit iCarly". Carly and Sam have been at each other's throats for the episode and end up on a scaffold without a harness; their arguing gets the better of them and Carly accidentally causes the scaffold to lower and eventually break, leaving her dangling for her life several floors off the ground, and Sam suffers the same fate, prompting Fleck, Dave, Freddie and Spencer to rescue them. | |
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Hiro has one of these on Heroes during the operation to remove his brain tumor. He's put on trial for irresponsible use of his powers. | |
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Alfred J. Kwak: After Alfred and Henk visit the sawfish to ask for his help, they're caught in a storm and Alfred is thrown overboard. He almost drowns and has a trippy nightmare in which he imagines being alone in the world, before being resuscitated in Captain Stoppel's home. | |
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In Naruto Kakashi had one of these when fighting Pain. His chakra exhausted, he died for a short period of time and his spirit met with his father, who had waited for him. When Pain resurrected the fallen, Kakashi returned to life happier than when he had died. | |
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The Joker nearly dies at the end of the Joker's Last Laugh crossover. This is possibly the first time the reader is able to experience one of his numerous brushes with death with him. | |
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Batman: Black and White: In "Dead Boys Eyes", Batman is shot and, hovering near death, hears the voice of Gotham City speak to him. In "Leavetaking", Batman is shot and relives the night his parents died. |
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In The Curse of Chalion, the eponymous Curse can only be broken by a man "willing to lay down his life three times for the House of Chalion." This leaves poor Cazaril getting just-barely-not-killed twice (once in the backstory and once performing death magic) so his soul is open enough on the third death that the gods can unmake the curse through him. Yes, he had to practice dying. Strictly speaking, only the third time is a real Near-Death Experience, where he gets a full glimpse of the gods' realm and the Lady of Spring gives him the choice whether to return to life or not. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "To Heck and Back", Heffer has one after choking on a chicken bone, where he is sent to Heck for gluttony, and Peaches shows him a montage of the times his gluttony hurt his family and friends, especially Rocko. Rocko's car has one of these in "Manic Mechanic", complete with encountering the Grim Tow Truck and meeting St. Peterbilt at the Pearly Garage Door. |
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Discworld: Due to there being more and more "Bloody Quantum" around these days, Death is increasingly unsure of when anyone will die. He makes the best of it, helped by the fact that apparently only main characters get a 'quantum out'. A literal example of this trope tends to happen to Commander Vimes, as his version involves seeing the Grim Reaper himself, who on one occasion notes that Vimes having a near-death means that he has to undergo a "near-Vimes experience". The Grim Reaper in Discworld is Genre Savvy enough to see Vimes's Plot Armor and acknowledges him for it. Rincewind also has more than his fair share of Near-Death Experiences, though his first in the series is entirely accidental. He runs into Death in the middle of the street, much to their mutual surprise, as Death was expecting to see Rincewind in an hour or so halfway across the Disc. Death offers Rincewind a "very fast horse" to make the appointment, but Rincewind politely declines before hightailing it. Rincewind undergoes a lot of these: As a result of all the implausible events he's been involved in, being Lady Luck's favourite game piece, Rincewind's hourglass isn't so much an 'hourglass' as an 'MC Escher creation in glass'. Even Death is unsure when he'll die, and consequently, he shows up every so often to check up on matters when it looks like it might happen. He seems to be at least slightly dead during the course of the game Discworld II: Missing Presumed..., having survived the explosion that tossed Death quite a ways and later commenting that if he stands still for too long, flies converge on him and he sees zooming star-fields (though considering the form the player's mouse pointer takes, this is more a case of Breaking the Fourth Wall). Rincewind's seeming inability to just roll over and die is referenced and parodied by Death on one occasion, where Death remarks Damn; I feel as if I've had another near-Rincewind experience. In "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents", Darktan has a near-death experience and believes he's seeing the Big Rat (essentially the god of rats). |
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Forever Knight. A flashback to when Nicholas was brought across showed that after his blood was drained by LaCroix, he saw a veiled woman standing in a glowing doorway. LaCroix then called on Nicholas to turn away from the light and return to him, while the veiled woman offers him the choice of going on to the Afterlife, or returning to Earth to live as a vampire. He chose the latter and ends up regretting it. That week's Flatline Plotline involved Nicholas recreating his near-death experience to see if the other choice is still an option or if he's eternally damned. | |
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Happens in Of Fear and Faith to Lilac and Aiden. Their group is caught in a system of underground tunnels when they start collapsing and the two of them stay behind and use their magic to stall the collapse, allowing the others to escape but sealing their own fates. Vatra manages to rescue them just barely in the nick of time, and the event leaves a strong emotional impact on Aiden that he tries to come to terms with in the following chapter. Lilac is just very, very happy to be alive afterwards. | |
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Happens to Mugen three times in Samurai Champloo. Each time it happens, he is shown floating in an empty white space surrounded by grim reaper like beings. And each time, he tells them that he's not ready to die and that they can shove it. | |
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Olive's Last Partner: The climax of the story revolves around Olive and Oscar nearly dying by way of drowning in orange juice. Although her initial fear gives way to her Rage Breaking Point as she lets all her anger loose on Oscar, the pair live to tell the tale thanks to Otto saving them at the last minute. The aftermath of the Odd Squad episode "Skip Day" is depicted as Olive telling Oscar that she nearly died. Perhaps the most amazing part of this is that she tacks on an "again" to her statement, considering she's nearly died three times note The Boiler Room incident, the pienado attack, and her free-falling from the sky in the fanfics of the Ships Ahoy! universe. |
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In the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The End," Larry dies and goes to Fluffy Cloud Heaven, but after getting into a petty argument with his guide angels, he's sent back to his body. | |
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A variant in Murdered: Soul Suspect has detective Ronan thrown out a fourth-story window while chasing a serial killer at the beginning of the game. When he sees his body lying on the street, he initially thinks he's dead but notices some movement. He tries to return to his body, but it's unknown whether or not it would've worked, as the killer shows up and shoots him seven times just to be safe. | |
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The main character in Fearless survives a plane crash which radically changes his outlook on life. | |
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In Black Clover, it's stated that intense wishes or determination can grant power in a crisis. This is seen with characters learning new spells representative of their Character Development in dangerous situations. Gauche gains the power to duplicate others when he learns to trust Asta when they fight the transformed Baro; Noelle learns the offensive Sea Dragon's Roar when she and her friends are threatened by Vetto; Rades learns to resurrect himself and his friends after they are sacrificed by Licht; an angry Charmy manifests her power to eat magic when she's nearly killed by Lira, after he rejected her offering of food. | |
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Boots from Cemetery Bird was shoved down the stairs by his abusive father at age six. His heart stopped for five minutes, during which he had a vision of Jesus and the angels bringing him back to life. Ever since then, he's had an obsession with religion. | |
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Likewise, Geist: The Sin-Eaters, a spiritual successor to Orpheus, has it so that Sin-Eaters come into power after a near-death experience. Well, it's not so much a near-death experience as it is actually dying and being led back by a geist, but still. | |
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In Orpheus, a character must have at least one near-death experience to work for the Orpheus Group (or any of its rivals). The more you have gone through, the more likely it is the company will take an interest in you. | |
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Salvation Boulevard: Pastor Dan has one after he's stabbed. Unlike many of them, it's explicitly shown to be a hallucination in which he mistakenly views Carl as an angel. He later bases his new ministry in prison on it. | |
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Happens to (or is mentioned by) several characters in The X-Files. Very notable is AD Walter Skinner, Mulder and Scully's superior. He says he died in Vietnam and that there was nothing "near" about it. | |
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Tony Stark has a few of these across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First in Iron Man which puts the shrapnel in his bloodstream, necessitating implanting the ARC Reactor that allows him to become Iron Man. Then again in The Avengers when he flies through the wormhole that the Chitauri are pouring out of with the nuclear warhead that Fury’s superiors launched at New York, almost suffocating before freefalling back through the portal. Fortunately Hulk caught him on the other side. | |
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Wiseguy. Happens to Frank McPike after he gets shot. He sees a dog leading him towards the Tunnel of Light, only to be called back by the sounds of the long-silent churchbell his friends start ringing. | |
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Farscape. Played for Laughs in "Revenging Angel." Crichton is in a coma and sees his world through the eyes of... Looney Tunes? | |
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The Cry of Mann: Jouglat nearly died in the warr note spelling accurate, shown in a flashback. He was badly injured and losing a lot of blood, and survived mostly thanks to Ghost Lady and his helpful callers. | |
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In the 4th novel of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon experiences this. In his own words: "Damn it, I'm about to die." | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): The film hints that Madison Russell has one when she's buried under debris while hiding in her house's bathtub. The film novelization outright confirms it, stating that Madison saw a vision of Mothra in her NDE and hinting that the real Mothra's intervention via Psychic Link is responsible for resuscitating her. | |
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Lampooned in Bloom County, where it happened to Opus, but made very little sense. (The guy who told him It Is Not Your Time was famed high school principal Joe Clark, who "expelled" him to send him back to the living world and reminded him to watch Lean on Me, which had just been released.) | |
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In Traitor Queen Lara has one near the end but her husband brings her back. Mostly by doing CPR. She describes it as climbing through darkness and fear and then hearing his voice calling her name and ordering her to fight. | |
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In "Sea of Fire," The Equalizer takes a class of juvenile delinquents to speak to a former hitman about his near-death experience where he allegedly spent a brief moment in Hell (the sea of fire in the title). At the end of the episode, Mickey Kostmeyer scoffs at the idea and asks McCall if he saw anything on an occasion when he flatlined after getting shot in Africa. The episode ends on McCall's silent expression. | |
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Star Trek: Jean-Luc Picard has a Near-Death Experience featuring Q and the origin of his artificial heart in the episode "Tapestry" on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The plot kicks off when a diplomatic mission goes south and Picard is shot with a disruptor beam that causes said artificial heart to falter. As he's rushed to sickbay, he's taken to an afterlife run by Q, much to his dismay, where the omnipotent trickster offers the captain the chance to prevent the incident that caused him to have said artificial heart in the first place—another near death experience where he gets stabbed by a Naussican he pissed off in his youth. Though it turns out that it was a Secret Test of Character by Q to get Picard to appreciate that he was injured all those years ago, as not being harmed left him as a pitiful and otherwise unremarkable lieutenant noted for being meek and unnoticeable instead of the Captain of the Enterprise. note The episode ends with neither Riker nor Picard 100% convinced that Picard actually interacted with Q, however in the novel Q-Squared Q does reference his actions during Picard's near death experience. Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Janeway has a near death experience in the episode "Coda" after a shuttle she is on crashes. After the crash an alien entity enters Janeway's mind, manifests itself as her deceased father, and tries to get her to come back to its matrix but Janeway refuses to go and the Doctor is able excise the being from Janeway's brain. |
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Near-death experiences are a dime a dozen in Hell Teacher Nube. Once, a moribund Hiroshi ran into a cute girl while in the fields of the afterlife, and fought valiantly to bring her back with him... only to have her turn out to be an ancient old woman in a hospital who was suddenly quite smitten with him. | |
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Girl Genius, as a world filled with Mad Scientists, has quite a few — although some possibly count as actual death experiences. The killing of Gil, Tarvek, and Agatha was the subject of the particularly lengthy Si Vales Valeo arc - it was necessary for all three to have near-death experiences to cure them of Hogfarb's Resplendent Immolation. Tarvek's sister Anevka was saved from her near-death experience, following her involvement in one of her father's experiments, by Tarvek connecting her barely-living body to a clank that she would be able to control. This didn't exactly go as planned, as according to Tarvek her body died anyway, and the clank continued living Anevka's life without realizing it wasn't her. Tarvek has had a couple of other near-death experiences separate from his illness and the Si Vales Valeo — one when he was stabbed and then shot in Sturmhalten, and then another when he was stabbed by Martellus and poisoned with something that should have made him dissolve within half an hour. Luckily for him, that was when the Baron set off the timestop, and Gil was able to heal him once he pulled him back into realtime. |
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The Loud House: In Pool of Pity, Lincoln almost drowns in a pool, causing him to develop a fear of all liquids. In Tokyo Louds, Lisa almost drowns in a hot tub. In Popcorn Flick, Lincoln almost chokes to death on a piece of popcorn, causing much angst for his sister Lynn who threw the popcorn into his mouth as part of a game. In Easily Broken, Lisa almost drowns at the beach, but Lincoln saves her with his sudden superpowers. In Lucy's Birth, a younger Lincoln and Lynn nearly drown. |
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In the Dinosaurs episode "The Last Temptation of Ethyl", Grandma Ethyl has two near-death experiences. After the first one, she gets her own talk show telling the world about the afterlife. In the second, she briefly reunites with her husband Louie, who warns her not to obsess with the afterlife or profit from it anymore, or else she'll end up in an Ironic Hell instead. | |
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An important plot point in Wapsi Square is that Monica and Shelly both had near-death experiences on the same day long before the comic started. They were both saved by Jin. A third major character actually did die that day. | |
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The aftermath of the Odd Squad episode "Skip Day" is depicted as Olive telling Oscar that she nearly died. Perhaps the most amazing part of this is that she tacks on an "again" to her statement, considering she's nearly died three times note The Boiler Room incident, the pienado attack, and her free-falling from the sky in the fanfics of the Ships Ahoy! universe. | |
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Calleigh on CSI: Miami after suffering from smoke inhalation while she and Ryan try to evacuate a burning building. She finds herself in a place between life and death, being assisted by the ghost of a victim of the fire, to help solve who set the fire that nearly killed her and did kill him. | |
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Weaponized by Jewelry Bonney in One Piece, who can use her NDE Bullet attack to age her opponents into a rotting corpse. They quickly return to their proper age (as all of her Devil Fruit's effects are temporary) but the shock alone is enough to render most targets unconscious. | |
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Jujutsu Kaisen: During his first confrontation with Toji Fushiguro, Gojo got his chest slashed open along with several stab wounds in his leg, throat and brain. The only reason he survived is because, on the brink of death, his mind focused entirely on figuring out how to use Reverse Cursed Technique, something he had been trying to accomplish for a while to no avail. Once he did figure it out and healed his wounds, Gojo went on a Power High and had a rematch with Toji, during which he used his newly mastered power to curb-stomp him. | |
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The "plot" of DanceDanceRevolution tracks "Healing Vision" and "Healing Vision: Angelic Mix" (if you have the background animation turned on) suggest near-death experiences. In Angelic Mix, you even hear an explicit flatline about halfway through the song (and the arrows freeze momentarily) and a ghostly angel fades into view. | |
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The Dilbert animated series has an entire episode revolving around this. Dilbert gets hit in the head in a gas station parking lot and winds up seeing the afterlife, which, much to his chagrin, turns out to be an office cubicle in the middle of a white void. He receives a second head injury near the climax of the episode, where he finds that Wally is now in a cubicle next to his (in accordance with the beliefs of the Wallyites, a cult who had established a religion based on Wally due to a series of events during the episode). | |
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Witkacy undergoes this in Shaman Blues after the wraith pulls his soul out of his body after it itself is pulled into the afterlife. The Old Ones would keep him there, too, if it wasn't for Vulture's timely intervention. | |
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A rather strange example occurs in Ghost Hunter. Torak actually does die, but whilst he's confusedly and aimlessly wandering around on the Mountain of Ghosts, Wolf comes and guides him back into his body. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Okuyasu is seemingly killed during the final battle, only to return in Big Damn Heroes fashion. He explains that he had a dream where he saw a bright light and met his dead brother Keicho and realized that he must have died. However, Keicho, who'd always done the thinking for both of them, told Okuyasu that it was time for him to decide for himself what he was going to do; he decided to return to Morioh and help his friends, and woke up just in time to save Josuke. | |
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This happening to the protagonist in Fate/stay night in his childhood is his primary motivation for most of the routes in the game, and indeed lost his own sense of self because of this. Having been the only survivor of the incident, he does not want anybody else to go through that, even if it means his own sacrifice. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has a boss fight take place during one of these after Snake jumps off a cliff into a river some 50-100 feet below to escape from an enemy base. There you meet The Sorrow, a medium and former member of The Cobras, and you have to face everyone you've killed in the game before you can come back to life. | |
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Let There Be Light: Harkens undergoes one where he sees his dead son, which convinces him he's still alive and in heaven with God, bringing him back to his former faith. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Katsuki Bakugou nearly dies after Izuku accidentally throws him through a wall when they were kids. He comes so close to death that he's visited by Death of the Endless, who pulls his soul out of his body so they can chat before he regains consciousness. | |
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The entire film of Flatliners is a plot built around this. The protagonists are medical students purposely inflicting these on themselves so they can record what the afterlife looks like. It's a kind of Ironic Hell where they're faced with the vengeful spirits of the people they wronged in their lives. They can only stop the spirits tormenting them by making peace with the people they wronged. In the one case this does become a problem when the person in question themselves died years ago... | |
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The Punisher has this in The Punisher: Born. At the end, during the big battle, he makes a deal with Death. He is given the option of dying there in Nam or having supernatural protection and thusly, a guarantee to see his family again. But the latter option will have a price. Hint: it's his family. | |
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Guiding Light (AuroraRose2081) opens with Mirabel nearly dying of blood-loss after just barely getting away from a group of horsemen out to either kill or kidnap them. | |
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In Yakitate!! Japan, Azuma's recipe for Ja-Pan #44 briefly sends whoever eats it to heaven because it's just that good. | |
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Jasper in Deadland: Having a near-death experience gets Jasper to the entrance of Deadland, but it takes some effort for him not to immediately get pulled back out, and getting through the city gates is impossible without Cerberus's permission. Inverted later on - when Jasper's presence starts restoring the memories of Deadland's citizens, the effect is referred to as a "Near-Life Experience". |
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For the Luigi's Mansion games, supplemental material exists in the form of Professor E. Gadd's Research Journal which gives the backstory and creation process for Gooigi. In it, E. Gadd notes that he suffered a near-death experience twice, once when some goo was accidentally knocked on to his face, causing him to nearly suffocate, the next when he was nearly sucked into a gooey Poltergust. Both times he only escaped thanks to Gooigi's weakness to water. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Nearly every single movie has a Pokémon die and come back to life, or barely avoid dying in the first place. During the Orange Islands arc, for the episode "Charizard Chills", Ash's stubborn and disobedient Charizard goes berserk against a Poliwrath and winds up being frozen in a block of ice, causing his tail flame (which is established to be necessary for him to live) to nearly go out. Ash and Pikachu spend all night trying to warm him up to the point of exhaustion, which causes the big lug to have a Heel Realization about how poorly he's been treating his kind and loving trainer, and regains the loyalty he once had as a Charmander once he's full recovered. In the third episode of Sun & Moon, Meowth got hexed so badly trying to peek under Mimikyu's outfit, that he suffered a near-death experience. He walked down a tunnel, then ran toward a light, and found a Glaceon, Gardevoir, and a Lopunny calling for him. But those were really projections by Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar. Then everything disappeared, and he fell into an abyss. At this point, Jessie and James dumped buckets of water on him, reviving him. |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: In the aftermath of Zenitsu’s winning bout against Kaigaku he has a vision of the river of death, Zenitsu sees his beloved master on the other side, Zenitsu apologizes for not being a good pupil and preventing his death, the master, however, cries tears of joy and tells Zenitsu he has always been his pride and joy, Zenitsu tries to cross the river to his master’s side but spider lilies bind his feet, preventing him from crossing over, symbolizing it’s not Zenitsu’s time just yet, he then gets reanimated back to life. | |
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In Hereafter, Cecile De France plays a French reporter who is caught in a tsunami and suffers a near-death experience, causing her to become obsessed with the afterlife. | |
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Tsukihime loves this trope. The protagonist first narrowly escapes death as a child when all of his clan except for him is slaughtered, then again when he technically does die, but Akiha gives him half of her life force so he can live (this experience is actually what gives him his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception), and for the entirety of the game, he is almost a papers-width away from death. He can sense his own death so well it borders on precognition, allowing him to barely survive against some of the strongest beings in the world. He gets another one during Ciel's True Ending, where he's briefly trapped in a near-death coma dream after "killing" himself and Roa. He realizes that it's fake, and decides to risk never waking up by ending it. |
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The Fall (2013): Spector appears to undergo one after being shot. | |
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Despite its light-hearted tone, this is not uncommon in Dragons: The Nine Realms. Especially the reckless protagonist Tom has had a few. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett: After he's knocked into the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi, the titular bounty hunter's time in said pit is shown as he struggles to escape from being slowly digested over the next several thousand years, with the page image showing the end result of him finally getting out. He's left with some pretty nasty scarring, and is wiped out from having to crawl out of the pit (which he was shown suffocating in, and had to flamethrower his way out), he collapses from exhaustion. | |
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Big Bob Pataki, Hey Arnold!, "Big Bob's Crisis", which plays out as a "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome. | |
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In Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, it's made pretty clear that the only reason Blossom didn't die in the Mandark arc was that Angel!Dee Dee convinced Grim to hold off on claiming her for a few extra seconds...which were thankfully exactly long enough for Dexter to save her. | |
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From Family Guy: In the episode "Death Lives", Peter Griffin ends up struck by lightning, which knocks him out into a spirit form and immediately encountering Death, though it's quickly established that he's merely experiencing one of these, though according to Death, he will die for real shortly after his wife divorces him some time in the future. As Peter's presently in the middle of a marital crisis, he takes the opportunity to do some soul-searching with Death to figure out how to salvage their relationship. The three-episode story arc, "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Stewie Griffin ends up in one after one of his schemes goes wrong and he's crushed by a lifeguard chair, explicitly ending up in Hell for his troubles before he snaps back awake. After facing struggles in trying to be good to avoid such a fate again, several shenanigans lead to him to encountering his future self, who as a result of the extended trauma of the incident turned him into an unambitious loser living a safe, but uneventful life. |
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Amphibia: In Season 1 Finale, Sasha Waybright let herself fall from the crumbling tower, so she wouldn’t drag Anne with her. Fortunately, Grime manages to catch her in mid fall and saves her life at the last moment. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Janeway has a near death experience in the episode "Coda" after a shuttle she is on crashes. After the crash an alien entity enters Janeway's mind, manifests itself as her deceased father, and tries to get her to come back to its matrix but Janeway refuses to go and the Doctor is able excise the being from Janeway's brain. | |
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Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai has two examples: Popp enters cardiac arrest when using the self-sacrifice spell Megante, and Leona fails raising him from the dead. He is then shown to be walking in a cloudy landscape with his feet moving on their own, headed to the next world. He is stopped by a suddenly speaking Gomechan calling him out for abandoning Dai just because he's dead. Popp is so incensed at the accusation, that he summons the willpower to cast a spell at Baran and actually HARM him while being in cardiac arrest! This impossible gesture is what makes Baran realize that maybe Humans Are Special, and he grants Popp the boon of dragon blood to bring him back for good. A borderline example - Dai doesn't almost die, but he does dream of his dead parents with the usual tropes of happy and peaceful afterlife environment, but choosing to go back to fulfill his responsibilities. |
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The Sopranos: After Tony is shot in season six by a senile Uncle Junior, he goes into a coma where he dreams about being in another city when his wallet and ticket back home get stolen. Before he wakes up he's standing in front of a house party where a person he had killed offers to take his bag and tells him to come inside, but he's distracted from moving on by voices in the wind calling for him (his family in the hospital). Earlier, in season two, Christopher is clinically dead for a minute after a failed hit. He sees a white light, and meets his late father and some mob associates in Hell, which for The Mafia is apparently an Irish bar where it's always St. Paddys day. |
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Babylon 5: In the fifth season episode "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari," Londo (naturally enough) had a Near-Death Experience in the wake of a near-fatal heart attack. Stephen Franklin's "walkabout" actually does end with him meeting himself, in a hallucination after being stabbed. And then there's what happens to Sheridan after he blows up Z'ha'dum, although how close he actually came to dying is an open question. |
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In the Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force manga, Signum and Agito are nearly killed by Cypha of Huckebein. | |
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Deadpool is only allowed to have these. Because of his healing factor, even when he dies, it's never permanent. Which sucks for him because he's in love with Death. | |
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In The Beast Legion Xeus is almost killed at the hands of Dragos in Issue 04 before Brilight saves him. | |
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In Ice Age: The Meltdown, Scrat has this at the end of the movie. Right as he is about to embrace the biggest acorn in the acorn heaven he's entered, Sid revives him. | |
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