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Not Quite Dead
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Any situation where the bad guy has been dealt a seemingly mortal blow which they could not possibly have survived, and it looks as though The Hero has won — but a couple of scenes later comes the twist: they're Not Quite Dead. On the contrary, they're back, ready for more, and madder than hell. Maybe they were rescued from certain death by their right-hand man. Maybe their armor or a lucky coincidence of having a metal item in a pocket slowed the bullet down. Maybe they were spared by a healing spell — or in more drastic cases, upgraded to One-Winged Angel status by way of Emergency Transformation, or a case of We Can Rebuild Him. Maybe they're just that hard to kill. Maybe they will be dead from those wounds in a few minutes, but that still gives them a few minutes to take you with them. They may be slowed down from the wound or unable to use one arm. In any case, the fight isn't over yet. Compare Only Mostly Dead and Almost Dead Guy. Often happens after not finding the body or a Mistaken Death Confirmation. There may or may not be some overlap with Staying Alive. It can be shown by having their eyes open, hand poking out of rubble, or fingers twitch. Not to be confused with The Undead or Back from the Dead. If a villain does this a lot, it's probably because they have Joker Immunity. This can also be a character who's Made of Iron because they're just that strong. Often results in Who Needs Their Whole Body? Because of this trope, any Genre Savvy character will Make Sure He's Dead. Characters who cause Hydra Problems tend to also do this at least once before it's made clear that almost killing them helps them. The Living Dead is when this happens unintentionally due to Special Effect Failure revealing the "corpse" is played by a live actor. |
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A couple examples in Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Ghidorah's left head ripped off by Godzilla remains partly alive and it retains San's mind. Luckily, San welds himself to Vivienne's mutated body inside the head, and joining himself to her after being cut off from Ghidorah's other two heads' malignance begins his Heel–Face Turn. It's also revealed in Chapter 5 that the rest of Ghidorah can regenerate From a Single Cell –- or a single head -– if some part of it remains, meaning San's brothers will return in the future. Ichi, Ni, and San's Evil Doppelgänger do regenerate from San's old severed head, which still exists after San shifted his brain to Vivienne. Then there's the Theta Team attempting to wipe out the Many with explosives. The report after the incident calls the operation a success, but the reader knows better. |
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: Turns out, Gertrude Vandergelt did not pass away at all. She instead faked her death and disguised herself as her will's executor in order to catch Snerdly in the act of stealing her fortune. | |
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Tale of Tales: You'd think the ogre would have died falling into the deep chasm, but he just shows up again after a while. | |
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Samurai Jack: In the first episode of Season 5, Jack fights and destroys the robot assassin Scaramouche. Five episodes later, it's revealed that he's actually still alive, albeit reduced to just a head. Come the penultimate episode, Aku makes certain that Scaramouche is dead for good after he finds out that Scaramouche’s information on the status of Jack’s sword was outdated. | |
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A sequel comic based on Disney's The Great Mouse Detective was actually about Fidget the bat being revealed to have survived the fall from Ratigan's blimp at the end of his film, and immediately choosing to be on the side of good. | |
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Alix: Arbaces seems to die at least one in almost every album he appears in. Even when we're shown the body floating up in water (like in the end of L'ÃŽle maudite). | |
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This is one theory among many as to how Oasis keeps returning from the dead over and over again in Sluggy Freelance. | |
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Chucky does this in the first two Child's Play films. | |
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In The Bagges Take Ostania, Katz and Cajun Fox are revealed to have survived the events of "Ball of Revenge" and are working with Westalian terrorists. | |
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In the extended version of Rob Cantor's "Shia LaBeouf", you stab Shia LaBeouf in the kidney with his knife. As you limp away from his cottage thinking you've won, it turns out he's still alive. | |
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The miniseries The Gamers mocks this trope when the players' characters meet up with an angry mercenary the left for dead in the "castle of almost certain death." | |
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A nameless character apparently killed in the first scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly comes back for revenge about two hours later, only to be shot more decisively. | |
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RoboCop has a scene Robo fires at Emil and he crashes his motorcycle and looks like he's dying, but he shows up later alive (though he still has a gash on his face). | |
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Gollum is thrown over a cliff by Frodo in The Return of the King, and returns at Mount Doom. | |
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Parodied on The Simpsons in their Bible Trilogy. A story called David and Goliath 2, an Affectionate Parody of silly actioners, has Ralph Wiggum's character die at one point pretty finally. Later in the story, he suddenly reappears anyway. Bart says "I thought you were dead!" All Ralph says is "Nope!" Absolutely no explanation is given for this. | |
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Happens in Dominic Deegan quite often. Klo comes back from oblivion for no reason, as did Celesto who on top of a similar oblivion, escaped an alternate dimension that is normally unescapable. The Infernomancer also escaped this dimension after being banished there. The return of both Celesto and the Infernomancer is explained: when the souls of the Chosen were detonated by Karnak, it breached the planes, allowing them to return. | |
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The very end of Be More Chill reveals that the Squip isn't quite gone, and can still talk to Jeremy — but it's also weakened to the point that Jeremy can handle it from now on. This makes more sense when you remember that the Squip, besides being an evil supercomputer, is also a metaphor for mental illness, addiction, and/or the desire to fit in. None of those things ever completely go away, but you can win the battle and get them under control, so they won't consume your whole life. So even though the Squip isn't truly "dead," Jeremy ends the show strong enough to fight back. | |
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Winx Club: Valtor, the Big Bad of Season 3, was retconned into being alive and well by the Season 8 premiere, making it so he wasn't really destroyed when Bloom extinguished his fire. In The Stinger of The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, turns out The Ancestral Witches weren't really destroyed when Bloom and Sky destroyed the Obsidian Circle; she instead inadvertently freed their spirits and use their descendants, the Trix, as new hosts, leading into the events of Magical Adventure. |
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The second act of Into the Woods reveals of The Mysterious Man, "I thought you were dead." "Not completely. Are we ever?" What he means by this is left ambiguous. | |
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Done and averted in the 87 cartoon; Baxter was supposedly killed once. Later it became more of a running gag for him to get stranded and not killed. Even his last appearance had him in a fate worse than death: stranded forever in interdimensional limbo. And he was pretty sympathetic, too. | |
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In Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles, this occurs to the Shredder a grand total of four times — three if you count the occasion that was retconned into Back from the Dead. No Baxter Stockman? Its been lampshaded lots of times and he has practically died at least 5 times. Done and averted in the 87 cartoon; Baxter was supposedly killed once. Later it became more of a running gag for him to get stranded and not killed. Even his last appearance had him in a fate worse than death: stranded forever in interdimensional limbo. And he was pretty sympathetic, too. |
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Used to full effect to justify the creation of Halloween: Resurrection: it turns out that Laurie had killed a paramedic instead of Michael at the end of Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later; Michael had attacked the paramedic, crushed his larynx, and switched places with him before "Michael's" body was carted out to the ambulance. | |
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King Candy/Turbo in Wreck-It Ralph gets devoured by a Cy-Bug before the climax. During the climax, however, he reappears having fused with the Cy-Bug and has become even more powerful. | |
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In the finale to G.I. Joe: Renegades, Duke knocks Cobra Commander into an Acid Pool and escapes his mansion as it implodes, but The Stinger reveals a badly scarred Cobra Commander emerging from the ruins of his mansion and declaring war on the Joes. | |
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The Phantom was the ultimate inversion of this: every time the old Phantom kicks the bucket, a new one is chosen, usually his son or closest kin. This allows them to project the illusion to their enemies that the Phantom is immortal, though their friends know better. | |
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A big example in Cause of Death in Special Agent Shawn Mallory. After becoming the vigilante Big Bad The Hand of Justice throughout Season 5, he is shot atop the roof of Alcatraz prison, and appears to drown in the murky waters below. And he does. But as revealed in the final episode of Season 8, he was resuscitated by Genevieve and the Salazars and had a complete Villainous Breakdown and becomes the Big Bad of Season 8. Emphasised by his unnaturally aged appearance from that point on. | |
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In Trevor (2020), Trevor at first appears to have died of mysterious causes. This turns out to be false in the most horrifying way possible. | |
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The Borrower: Every time the cops think the alien is dead (well, it didn't have a pulse), it just gets up to continue its murdering rampage. | |
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In Endstone, Jon's reappearance is greeted with this. Then, it was fifteen years. | |
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In ROYN: Two Years Later, though it was thought to be defeated, it is revealed that The Greatest Evil Then is alive, still able to speak through the Madatede. | |
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Spamalot references this Trope with the song "He Is Not Dead Yet". | |
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The titular character of The Spirit. | |
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In The Tuxedo, the antagonist falls to the ground and burns his face on acid. He later gets back up to charge at the hero, who finishes him in a somewhat gruesome way. | |
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The Death of Superman: After fighting a brutal battle, both Superman and Doomsday drop dead, seemingly for good... then it turns out that the many years he's been living under a yellow sun has given Superman a strong enough Healing Factor that the battering Doomsday gave him only put him into an absurdly deep coma that took almost a year-ful of treatment with Kryptonian medicinal technology to get him out of; and it turns out that Doomsday's alien physiology is able to bring him back to life. | |
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The end of Sweeney Todd reveals that Mrs. Lovett has not been quite honest about the fate of Lucy Barker. She said that Lucy had drank poison, but never revealed that she'd survived the suicide attempt. Throughout the show, Sweeney has been operating under the assumption that his wife is dead. In reality, she lived but went insane and became the mysterious beggar woman. She did, however, lose a lot of her functioning and basically "go crazy." | |
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Austin Powers plays with this numerous times. Usually by dragging it too far. "Why aren't you dead yet!?" Also Dr Evil's henchman Mustafa, after being shot in the neck with a dart and falling down a cliff. |
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In Time Hollow, Irving pulls this after falling from a cliff. | |
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Crime Doctor: Morgan is Left for Dead on the side of the road by his gang. A group of college kids find him and discover he is still alive, but only just. | |
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In Webwork, the Old Queen dies of old age shortly before Jade's time in the Emptiness ends. Quite some time later, her spirit is revealed to still be lingering on and begins to manipulate events via cutting a deal with Tarantula. | |
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Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls: Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy and Chica all believed Golden Freddy to have been killed during the fire that destroyed their attraction. But then he appears at the end of chapter 5 to save them from the entity, seemingly none the worse for wear. | |
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In the first chapter of DIGIMON 2: RETURN OF DIGIMON, Digimon manages to blow up his enemy, the aptly named Evil Digimon, with the laser cannon of his mech suit. However, an authors note soon reveals that Evil Digimon is not dead, but only pretending to be. Evil Digimon then appears in the next chapter, ambushing Digimon by hiding in his fridge. | |
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In the final episode of Superfriends (under its rebranded title The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians), "The Death of Superman", Firestorm finds Superman motionless and a sickly green when he saves him from a batch of Kryptonite a little too late. The team assumes Superman has died, only to learn that how he was found was actually a method to stave off Kryptonite Poisoning. | |
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In Martin Guerre, Martin is shot on stage saving Arnaud's life, and tells him to return to his hometown to tell his wife he's sorry. One dead person impersonator Becoming the Mask later, Martin returns to Artigat, alive and well, and demanding his name. | |
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Pierre Tombal: A comic strip about a gravedigger at a cemetery who treats the people who are buried there as residents. How? Well, all of them are in fact not quite dead, but living skeletons who spent eternity on the cemetery, while he takes care of them and occasionally tells them frankly to obey the rules. | |
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Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. And all their numerous variants. Especially creepy in Neil Gaiman's adaptation of the former, "Snow, Glass, Apples", in which the huntsman really does remove Snow White's heart and give it to the queen. It just doesn't stop beating until Snow White goes into her coma — and when she wakes up, it starts again... | |
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An example of the scenario which this page is actually about appears at the climax of Iron Man. | |
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Mr. Peabody apparently didn't survive after falling off a cliff with a Trojan horse. However, being Mr. Peabody, he was able to find a way to return to the present after Sherman and Penny returned on their own. | |
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The Transformers: Starscream himself. In nearly all versions, the guy just won't die, or at least stay dead. In both Animated and G1, he's literally immortal. He doesn't survive the former, however, thanks to the MacGuffin that was empowering him getting yanked out of his forehead. Animated takes this to its logical conclusion. Never mind all the times that Megatron almost died and then turns out he didn't. At least 3 times in Season 1: Part 3 of More Than Meets the Eye; Transport to Oblivion, Heavy Metal War, and the end of part 3 of The Ultimate Doom. The last one was the most believable time that he had perished, after all his starship blew up with him in it. All the Decepticons believe he is dead right up until he walks through the door in Countdown to Extinction. |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has Frans Rayner come back for a second round. And now he has "the best laser eye and robot leg". | |
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In Dreamscape, the Possessor Ghost comes back after Melissa supposedly banishes him. This might be the case with The Master of the Dammed. In "A Curse or a Blessing", when Drake looks at the Spirit Rune he has of The Unworld, he notes that it gives off very powerful dark energy, which shouldn't be possible if The Unworld was destroyed. This seems to leave The Master of the Dammed as the only possible source of that dark energy. |
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At the end of Wicked Elphaba is revealed to be, in fact, quite water-insoluble. | |
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Batman: Endgame: Implied to be the case in the epilogue to the final issue. While Bruce Wayne's Batman and the Joker are presumed dead, there is a man on crutches with many bandages including one over an eye (the same eye that was seriously wounded by a razor sharp card on Bruce) with a young child with an R on his shirt with him, and the garbage man who throws out the trash behind the theater looks suspiciously similar to the Joker's disguise in this storyline as Eric Border. The implication appears to be that while their physical bodies are probably not dead, their identities as Batman and the Joker are, for the time being, gone. Subsequent issues reveal that Bruce Wayne and the Joker were physically restored to life by the substance in the pit close to where they were fighting, but the resurrection restructured their brains so that they lost all memories of their personal lives; Bruce has to undergo a traumatic experience to have his memories downloaded back onto his brain. | |
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Deadly Detention: Over the course of the film, the principal and the students are seemingly picked off one-by-one by a mysterious killer, until only one student is left. Then the principal shows up at the end to help out the final student, and reveals that she, as well as all the other students the killer allegedly murdered, are all still alive. | |
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Hammerhead in the Ultimate Marvel and regular continuities make heavy use of this trope. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Darth Maul was revealed to have survived his encounter with Obi-Wan Kenobi, making his debut in "Revenge". He is then (seemingly) killed off by Darth Sidious later in the series, only to return again in Star Wars Rebels, where he is finally killed by Obi-Wan, for real this time (probably). In Season 7's Bad Batch arc, Rex and the titular squad discover that ARC trooper Echo, who apparently died in an explosion in "Counterattack", is alive and a prisoner of the Separatists, prompting a rescue mission. |
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Lampshaded in The Order of the Stick by (who else?) Elan after Sabine kidnaps him and brings him to Nale, who had a No One Could Survive That! moment some time ago. Elan's bardic intuition told him it would happen, but he also knew that he was supposed to think Nale was dead and oh no Nale's gone crosseyed... Also Xykon, in addition to being The Undead, was considered destroyed after Roy's first battle with him, and had to be told by the ghost of his father he's Not Quite Dead. |
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In "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen", John's brothers set on him, to kill him, but he recovers. | |
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Enemy of My Enemy: At the climax, Ferikus combines this with *Click* Hello. "You should have finished what you started." He is then promptly killed by also Not Quite Dead Murphy, who scolds him for not firing first. | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: After Joker attacks Bruce at Wayne Manor, Terry comes in to find the house a wreck and Bruce slumped over the Batcomputer with the telltale rictus grin of Joker venom. As Terry checks his pulse and heartbeat, Bruce springs back to life long enough to tell Terry about the antitoxin, which ultimately saves his life. | |
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Occurred quite often in SWAT Kats, especially in the Season 1 finale "Katastrophe", where four of the major recurring villains are caught in a massive warehouse explosion. They all get better by unknown means. Earlier, this occurred to Dr. Viper in the episode "Destructive Nature", where he falls off a 300-story building only to reappear in "Katastrophe" unscathed. Viper was one of several SWAT Kats villains whose Origin Story involved coming Back from the Dead, so this might explain it. |
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SAPR: Yang is assumed dead after going missing during the Battle of Vale, but in reality was kidnapped by Raven. | |
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In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968), the mortally wounded Hyde falls into the center of the Operating Theatre. Devlin comes closer to the body, only for Hyde to spring back up and try to strangle him. Fortunately, Hyde completely succumbs to his wounds before doing any actual harm. | |
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The Wolverine: Going back to the Yashida house, Logan technically dies when he removes the cause of his weakness with his bare hands. He revives shortly thereafter when hise Healing Factor kicks back in. The Silver Samurai armour keeps Ichir� alive, but he allows others to think he's dead. Charles Xavier came back alive and well in the Stinger, to Wolverine's surprise. |
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In a set of events that occurred before the main storyline in Gosu, the Heavenly Destroyer was believed to have perished at the hands of his disciples and subordinates, the Four Heavenly Kings. However he survived and finished his life by raising a fifth and final disciple to wreak revenge on the the four disciples that betrayed him. Also, the Four Heavenly Kings themselves after they were believed to have killed each other due to in-fighting. This sparked Gang Ryong into leaving his job as a delivery boy to go out in search of one of them. |
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Blake from Gold Coin Comics is a childhood rival that somehow survived his entire hometown being wiped out. | |
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Inverted in Johnny Mnemonic. The Priest is blasted with EMP, frying most of his cybernetics, and is then electrocuted to a crisp. At the very end of the movie, he starts to rise from the floor, and a frightened gasp comes from Jane... only to reveal that his body is actually just being hauled up on a pulley. "Just garbage. Get rid of it." | |
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Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Applejack's parents. Though they died in the human world, Applejack's mother is now a member of Soul Society as a Captain, and her father is still "alive" as the Fourth Espada. Adagio, who is also still "alive" as a hollow. Human Sunset Shimmer, who's not only still alive in Hueco Mundo, but has somehow gotten a Fullbring! |
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The Owl House: At the end of "King's Tide", the Collector throws Emperor Belos into a wall so hard that he splatters, and is instantly reduced to a smear of necrotic goop dripping to the floor. While making their escape to the human realm, the kids have to run through Belos's remains, and some of the goop splashes onto Hunter's shoulder, before slithering away and hiding in his clothes. At the very end of the credits, we see that little glob of Belos-goop fall from the ceiling, land on the doorknob to the abandoned house, and pull the door shut, implying that that piece of Belos is still alive and sentient, albeit in a very diminished state. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The "Regeneration" ability prevents a monster from ever being lethally wounded except through a specific Kryptonite Factor. Any other form of Hit Point damage can, at most, leave them unconscious until their Healing Factor kicks in, even if they have to Pull Themselves Together. Forgotten Realms: The "Dead Three" were Gods Of Evil who were slain by their fellow gods and a mortal mage. However, in fourth edition they managed to come back as demigods with greatly reduced (but still formidable) power and terrorize Baldur's Gate while still being called the "Dead Three". |
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Big Ass Spider!: Of course the spider was only wounded by the missile-strike. | |
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On her arrival in Something*Positive, Kestrel (from Queen of Wands) is hit by a car and left a bloody mess in the street, with no one noticing. A few months later, she returns with head injuries, medical bills, and another not-so-secretly infatuated female best friend. | |
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Karl, Hans Gruber's second-in-command, in Die Hard. | |
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Shendu from Jackie Chan Adventures is killed off at the Season 1 finale, and is assumed dead. The act of "killing" him off allows him to become a spirit and he returns in the body of Valmont. The rest of the series sees him being banished to the demon underworld, reborn, turned back into stone again, released, and finally reimprisoned in the underworld for good. He is never actually killed. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade has clan Cappadocian, who were supposedly annihilated by the Giovanni, a bloodline of theirs, over two hundred years before the Final Nights begin. It didn't work. And those who survived, in some cases, have quite literally ''escaped the underworld'' to destroy the Giovanni. | |
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Forgotten Realms: The "Dead Three" were Gods Of Evil who were slain by their fellow gods and a mortal mage. However, in fourth edition they managed to come back as demigods with greatly reduced (but still formidable) power and terrorize Baldur's Gate while still being called the "Dead Three". | |
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Steven Universe: Pink Diamond was revealed in "Back to the Moon" to have been shattered by Rose Quartz. However, in "The Trial", Defense Zircon suspects that it could have been one of the Diamonds who did it instead, and in "Your Mother and Mine", Steven suspects Pink Diamond may be alive as well. In "A Single Pale Rose", we get our answer: Pink Diamond faked her death with the help of her Pearl (our Pearl). Subverted, however, since Pink Diamond, who is Rose Quartz, eventually gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven. | |
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Averted in the 1997 version of George of the Jungle. After a character falls from a bridge, the narrator reminds everyone that "Nobody dies in this story. They just get really big boo-boos." | |
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A heroic version happens in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Godzilla is struck by the Oxygen Destroyer and thought to be dead, while Monster Zero a.k.a. King Ghidorah is free to control the other Kaiju and destroy the world as he pleases without Godzilla around to stop him. But then it's revealed Godzilla is actually still alive and slowly regenerating inside Hollow Earth, so Monarch set out to revive him. | |
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Amusingly played with in Scream 2, Sidney and Gale point their guns at Mrs. Loomis fully expecting this trope. Then the other killer Mickey jumps up screaming and they gun him down. Sidney then turns around and shoots (the probably already dead) Mrs. Loomis in the head, just to be sure. | |
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Lampshaded in all the sequels, too, but to the best effect in Scream 4: | |
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In Galaxy Quest, Sarris's ship is blown up with mines. However, out of nowhere, he appears on the Protector, having teleported away from his ship at the last second. He is beaten down by Mathasar with a cane, but returns once again before an audience during the final scene, before Jason finally destroys him. | |
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Batman: In Death of the Family, it looked like Deadshot had been killed off. However, he wakes up in a hospital bed. The bullet barely missed his heart. Batman: Endgame: Implied to be the case in the epilogue to the final issue. While Bruce Wayne's Batman and the Joker are presumed dead, there is a man on crutches with many bandages including one over an eye (the same eye that was seriously wounded by a razor sharp card on Bruce) with a young child with an R on his shirt with him, and the garbage man who throws out the trash behind the theater looks suspiciously similar to the Joker's disguise in this storyline as Eric Border. The implication appears to be that while their physical bodies are probably not dead, their identities as Batman and the Joker are, for the time being, gone. Subsequent issues reveal that Bruce Wayne and the Joker were physically restored to life by the substance in the pit close to where they were fighting, but the resurrection restructured their brains so that they lost all memories of their personal lives; Bruce has to undergo a traumatic experience to have his memories downloaded back onto his brain. Pre-Crisis Batwoman was supposedly killed off by the League of Assassins. However, the final issue of Batman Incorporated reveals that Kathy is not only alive, but she's the leader of a major spy organization which was leading a sting operation against Talia al Ghul for years, which Kathy concludes by killing her. |
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Miller's Crossing plays it straight with Bernie's "murder", then lampshades it with Caspar's policy: | |
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Subverted in Graduation Day. The Final Girl thinks that the killer has come back and is now in her bedroom, but it is actually just her drunk stepfather. Her scared mind had only imagined him being there. | |
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Mark Linkous, leader of the band Sparklehorse, fell into a coma after mixing anti-depressants and sleeping pills in a London hotel room in 1995. He was found clinically dead with his legs pinned under him, and was lucky not only to be revived, but also to be able to walk again after six months of rehab. Linkous, who continued to struggle with depression and substance abuse, killed himself more decisively in 2010 by shooting himself in the chest with a rifle in an alley near a friend's house while intoxicated. | |
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Transformers: Prime: Megatron is believed to have been killed when the Space Bridge explodes, but found to have survived due to the Dark Energon inside him in the next episode. However, he's so damaged that the Decepticons have to place him in stasis lock while they repair him. | |
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Red Dragon features this during the final confrontation between Detective Graham and the titular villain, when they shoot each other through a flimsy bedroom door. Later averted when Graham's wife puts a bullet in the killer's head. Several times. | |
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Initially, Mark, then Luke in FreakAngels. Both look worse for the wear though (especially the latter, what with being shot in the head and all) | |
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The Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hare Trigger" has Yosemite Sam go into death throes after he thinks the red ink Bugs pours on his head is blood. When Sam finds out he was duped: Gandy Goose does this as well to a western outlaw with a bottle of ketchup. Bugs' debut cartoon "A Wild Hare" is probably the Ur Example, where he allows Elmer to take a shot at him and plays out the mother of all faux death scenes. |
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In The Land Before Time, Cera stumbles across the body of Sharptooth, apparently dead after the Great Earthshake. She engages in a bit of Desecrating the Dead — until Sharptooth opens his eyes. Cue Oh, Crap! moment as Cera high-tails it. | |
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The Ghost Map: It's revealed that Professor Moriarty somehow survived his duel with Sherlock Holmes. In-universe, this is merely suspected by Holmes and confirmed by Colonel Moran, who isn't the most trustworthy fellow. However, Word of God confirmed that Moriarty is indeed alive — now the author simply needs to explain how. | |
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Kon-El supposedly died when he went back in time to Krypton one week before its destruction and got stuck there in Krypton Returns. Kara saw him die, which is because she is so shocked when her team happens upon him in Crucible. It was not explained how he survived. | |
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Lucid Spring: The girl who Viktor(?) shoots by mistake. | |
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The entirety of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction is spent trying to kill the Meta. Recreation revealed that this failed, though apparently he suffered damage of some sort, forcing the Meta and Agent Washington to capture Doc to fix him. Church himself is a heroic example. He was killed in the very first season, but it didn't take long for him to come back as a ghost. Really, Red vs. Blue loves this trope; Sarge died for an episode only to be brought back via CPR, Tex died at the end of Season 1 and came back next season, Captain Flowers died in his first appearance, but was brought back in the next season before dying again. Donut can be added to this list, as he was confirmed dead by Doc at the start of Revelation, but gets brought back to life in a sponsors-only ending of Chapter 13 and was confirmed as being alive by Word of God. He finally returns to the show proper in Season 10. |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: One of the first things that happens in the comic is Zoss being decapitated by the Thorn Knights. This does nothing to stop him from appearing semi-regularly to Allison in times of need to give her advice. It's indicated that — being the most powerful of all Demiurges and master of the Wheel — death is simply not much of an issue to him anymore, that he now exists outside the natural life cycle of the universe and is not bound by it's laws. | |
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In Army of Darkness, a possessed woman pretends to be dead, but Ash knows better. | |
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In Monster Party, Elliot takes a bullet the through the head and plunges into the swimming pool. However, just when everything seems to be over, he emerges from the water in a berserker rage only to be stabbed by Alexis. | |
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Soul Eater: Troubled Souls follows the anime in that Medusa supposedly died after Maka used Majin Hunter to get her out of Rachel Boyd's body. She somehow survived and has trapped Maka, Soul, and their friends on Cobra Island. | |
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Some of the Huns in Mulan survive being buried under an avalanche orchestrated by Mulan, including their leader Shan Yu. They proceed to infiltrate the capital and kidnap and extort the Chinese Emperor. | |
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"Why do they call him Boris the Bullet Dodger?" "Because he dodges bullets!" The same can be said about Bullet Tooth Tony who survived a clip being unloaded into him in a flashback. |
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In the second Missile Mouse book, "Rescue On Tankium3", Security Robot #44 comes back on inside the tube he's placed in at the end. | |
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Stinkmeaner in The Boondocks dies in "Grandad's Fight", but in "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back" he beats the Devil's Martial Arts Gauntlet and gets sent back to Earth. Another example of this trope occurs during episode 5 "A Date with the Health Inspector". Ed Wuncler III and his friend Gin rob a store ran by people of Middle Eastern descent. A police officer happens to be there who in a parody of the Iraq War and the status of whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or not is asked by Ed if he sees any weapons on the Middle Eastern man. The police officer refuses at first but then agrees not wanting to get on Ed's bad side, as it turns out the Middle Eastern man did have a gun and he and some other Middle Eastern men open fire on Ed and his friend Gin with the police officer getting caught in the crossfire. Then the police officer is laying down on the ground and Ed's friend Gin has a brief exchange with the man, whose name turns out is Freddie, that is word for word with Monty Python. Freddie then gets up and gets shot again. At the end of the episode backup is called and the Middle Eastern men are arrested and Ed and Gin are viewed as heroes who stopped "terrorists" and Freddie makes a full recovery. |
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In the Pony POV Series Dark World, Rarity kills Fluttercruel during the first fight in Discord's castle. However, it later turns out that her spirit escaped being Dragged Off to Hell and Body Surfed into Sparkler's body, possessing her. | |
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Chocolate Explosion in Dragon Mango. As soon as Cupcake recognizes her, she urges silence -- she's supposed to be dead. | |
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Dragon Ball Multiverse: Captain Ginyu from Universe 8. | |
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In The A-Team, it turns out that General Morrison survived the explosion that apparently killed him. | |
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War: 13th Day has this trope where you might not expect it. Wildfire can join King Barium's harem and stab him in the heart. However, she will find that he's still alive and now very, very angry. | |
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Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!: In the cartoon, Bruce gets zapped by the photon accelerator and everyone thinks he's dead (or rather, had "attained oneness with the universe") as a result. He actually got teleported across the Aniverse. In the comic, however, Bruce was working on the engines when a plasma cannon shot caused severe feedback in the engine circuits... he was instantly reduced to a pile of ash. | |
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Big City Greens: At the end of "Long Goodbye", it's revealed that Chip Whistler had disappeared and been presumed dead after being banished from Big City for trying to destroy the Green family. As an old gravedigger tells his dog about the jerk whose name is on the headstone, a hooded figure with an eerily familiar smile is listening in. | |
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In Blue Milk Special Biggs's X-Wing is exploded during the Death Star run just like canon. So everyone's shocked when he shows up at the medal ceremony expecting a medal. Word of God says he is indeed dead, Biggs just refuses to accept that, or accept that he's not the hero of this story. Unless he can use being dead to get Wedge into trouble. | |
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From The Emperor's New Groove: | |
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The Not Quite Dead theory is used by some people to try to explain away the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth in The Bible. They argue that Jesus was only unconscious and after his disciples stole his "body" from the tomb, they nursed him back to health then invented the resurrection story as a deliberate lie to enhance Jesus' reputation. This argument is just plain silly when you know that not only did Pilate have the Roman guards double-check that Jesus was indeed dead before releasing his body for burial, but also that if the resurrection was a lie then Jesus' disciples must have known this and yet they refused under the most terrible tortures, and in the face of imminent death, to recant their testimony. People will only die for a lie if they believe it to be the truth. Whether or not Jesus was resurrected may still be debatable, but the "not quite dead" theory is obvious nonsense. | |
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Joy Ride 3: Roadkill Heralds the return of Rusty Nail a trucker that will leave you be and let you go on your merry way... unless you wrong him. In that case it's perfectly normal for him to get entirely even with you. I mean you deserve it right?. This time around, the Hero turns the tables and crushes Rusty Nail with a crane, destroying both the truck and apparently the man himself. Everybody's happy and completely unaware that Rusty Nail is fine. He escaped without a single scratch and allowed what was left of the Dwindling Party to live. Hope you all learned your lesson. | |
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Happens in the The Iliad, making this trope at least Older Than Feudalism. While he's walking back to the Greek lines after winning a duel with Paris, Menelaus gets shot by a Trojan archer, but Athena deflects the arrow*Which Athena herself convinced the Trojan archer to fire, so as to make it look like the Trojans had broken the truce set up for the duel and it only hits above his hip after passing through several overlapping pieces of armor. Agememnon, Menelaus' brother, doesn't realize this at first and goes into a long monologue about how pointless the entire war*Which only started because Paris abducted Menelaus' wife would be if he lost his brother. Menelaus eventually cuts him off by pointing out that he's fine and that he's going to alarm the troops. | |
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In The Two Towers, Aragorn plunges off a cliff during the warg battle. To the surprise of no one, he comes back relatively unscathed. Ironically, in the extended DVD of The Two Towers the actor almost drowned when shooting the scene of him floating in the water. |
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Steven Universe: Gone Wrong opens with Steven getting killed by Spinel during their initial confrontation. However, his gem half regenerates as Pink Steven and takes her down. The comic then explores the implications of this, along with the fallout. | |
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Even Freddy gets this in Freddy vs. Jason, when both he and Jason are set on fire and thrown into Crystal Lake. Freddy returns and attempts to kill Lori and Will, before Jason stabs him and Lori decapitates him. Even then, he seems to wink as Jason carries his head away (meaning the "winner" of the battle is indecisive). | |
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In the supernatural thriller Hellbound, a demon named Prosatanos is stabbed by an old Rabbi with one of the sacred knives that were originally used to bind the demon inside a coffin. The demon appears to die, only to reveal that he can't be killed even by those weapons and murdering the poor old man in response. | |
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In The Secret History, Dyo always seems to just cling onto life one way or another. It remains to be seen if this applies to Aker and William de Lecce. | |
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Lampshaded in Scream (1996): Lampshaded in all the sequels, too, but to the best effect in Scream 4: |
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In Wild's End an alien machine is blasted with a shotgun and presumed 'dead.' It soon reactivates and kills again. | |
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In Body, Holly thinks she has killed Arthur after causing him to suffer a Staircase Tumble. Cali concocts a scheme to claim that they killed him in self-defence, but then they discover that he is alive but paralyzed and things get a lot more complicated. | |
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In Disney's TRON, Sark is injured by Tron and for a moment appears to be derezzed but the MCP gives Sark all of his functions and that results in a giant version of Sark that Tron must now battle. | |
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In the Season 1 finale of X-Men: The Animated Series, the massive robotic Master Mold pulls a Chernabog and bursts out of a mountain, insisting it can never be destroyed, after seemingly being destroyed with the rest of the Sentinels by a massive explosion. This is the cue for Professor Xavier to fly in with the TNT-loaded Blackbird jet, fly at Master Mold full speed, and eject. No, this is not Master Mold's final appearance, if you're wondering. |
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In the adaptation of the Scooby-Doo episode "Go Away Ghost Ship" (as "The Ghost Of Redbeard," Gold Key #6), the gang are aboard Redbeard's ship when a loud bang erupts. Velma thinks she's been shot and plays out a death scene, only to be told the door behind them slammed shut. | |
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Westley in the beginning of the The Princess Bride. Supposedly, he goes to seek his fortune and is lost at sea within the first five minutes of the movie. Yeah, right. There's also the bit where he's tortured to death! Well, mostly death: |
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In the movie Ben 10: Race Against Time, the Tennyson trio stumble across the seemingly mummified corpse of Constantine...right before he sits up and declares "I'm not dead!", scaring both Ben and Gwen. Grandpa Max is not surprised, as usual. | |
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Silver's (adoptive) dad in Ball and Chain, much to her dismay. | |
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In Aquaman (1989), Mera appears to die when she's impaled on a jagged piece of metal, but reveals herself as alive when she bursts out of her coffin. | |
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In Ninjago, Pythor is implied to be killed when he's eaten by the Great Devourer in Season 1. He reappears in Episode 30, but with his purple scales now bleached white by stomach acid and his voice now sounding like he can keel over any second, though he gets over the latter. At the end of Season 3, Zane looks like he's been destroyed in the process of permanently defeating the Golden Master, but at the end of the episode uploads his consciousness into a new body based on P.I.X.A.L.'s specs. We don't get to see what his new body looks like until the following season. |
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Jason Statham in Crank. He falls out of an airplane, lands on a car, bounces off, hits the pavement, and then blinks. Crank: High Voltage shows us that he's definitely still alive. | |
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At the end of Firestorm (1998), Jesse throws his axe into the murderous Shaye's chest, knocking him off the boat into the lake. Jesse flipped the boat so he and Jennifer can use it as an air pocket to survive the coming firestorm. Suddenly, gunshots start coming from underneath them and a couple of bullets make a hole in the boat. Shaye has survived his injury, and rises from the depths looking to kill Jesse and Jennifer. | |
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The Cell: Carl Stargher's first onscreen victim hasn't completely expired from Carl's trademark Drowning Pit trap once he returns to his torture lair. She's still at first, but upon closer inspection briefly spasms and thrashes about before finally passing away for good. Even Carl himself is startled by this. | |
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Near the end of Barbie & The Diamond Castle, one of Lydia's spells backfires on her and she disappears. The main characters finally reach the Diamond Castle and are about to undo all of Lydia's spells when guess who comes flying in the window? | |
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Played for drama and then for laughs in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Dying for Pie". The moment the sunset ends (when the supposedly explosive pie SpongeBob ate dropped into his lower intestine meaning it's the time he explodes), there is an explosion behind the brick wall near Squidward, causing him to break down in tears and believe SpongeBob is finally gone for good... but then a second explosion occurs, which makes the brick wall fall and reveal SpongeBob, still alive and well, and blowing bomb bubbles. | |
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Shadowrun: The 4th Edition handbook advocates gamemasters using this trope in order to preserve a desired narrative — if villain being killed off too early would derail a game, then the gamemaster can use doubt, rumors, and obfuscation to cast doubt on whether they actually died and make a potential return easier to accept. | |
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Swindle in Transformers: Animated was, at the end of "S.U.V", paralyzed and trapped in vehicle mode, which the Autobots allowed the Detroit Police to tow away with the stated goal of either selling him or stripping him down for parts, not even mentioning that the "SUV" was a Decepticon. In "Five Servos of Doom", he turns up alive and unharmed, though still stuck, Sentinel Prime having bought him from the impound lot (considering his parts couldn't move, they probably weren't worth much). | |
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In Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Phil Ken Sebben gets hit by a bus in Season 3. Then at the series finale: "Ha! Ha! Final Episode stunt casting!" | |
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In the backstory to Ghostbusters II, Vigo the Carpathian had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered. Before his head died he uttered this prophetic warning: "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back." | |
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Men in Black II: Serleena is shot by Jay and blown to bits, however it is shown she survived, in worm form. Later, she chases after them in her ship, but is tricked and eaten by Jeff, the giant worm. However, she once again returns, this time in a more powerful form, until she is finally destroyed. | |
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Transcendence: It is implied at the end that Will and Evelyn's consciousnesses still exist in their garden, preserved in the only remaining sample of nanomachines. | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman suffers greatly from Doomsday, so much so that he is declared dead. They hold two funerals, one in Metropolis and one in Smallville, the Smallville coffin being the only one occupied. After Lois Lane drops a handful of dirt on the coffin, it starts levitating like when he learned to fly. | |
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Played with in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. With the return of Monokuma and the High School Life of Mutual Killing, one would think that Junko Enoshima, the mastermind of the original game had somehow survived her execution. However, it's eventually revealed that while the Big Bad of the second game is Junko, it's merely an AI simulation of her, while the real Junko is still long dead. It's also implied at the end of the game (and confirmed in Danganronpa 3) that everyone who died is still alive (they all died in a VR simulation after all) but probably in some kind of comatose state, since Hinata and the survivors are trying to find a way to revive them. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In part 1 of the final season opener "The Beginning of the End", King Sombra takes over the Crystal Empire and the Mane Six use the Elements of Harmony to seemingly defeat him. But as it turns out, Sombra only faked his defeat to fool them; once all is done, he follows them back to the Tree of Harmony and destroys all sources of their power. | |
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Men in Black loves this. Kay shoots the giant cockroach from the inside and splits him in half. However, his top half lives and attacks them for a split second before he is finally killed by Laurel. And Poor Jeebs having his head blown off time and again. | |
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In Nip and Tuck, the Show Within a Show Rebel Cry features the hero surviving an exploding ship by trickery. | |
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In Get Out (2017), Chris seemingly kills Jeremy Armitage with a bocce ball. Just as he's about to escape, however, Jeremy ambushes Chris with a headlock. | |
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In Death of the Family, it looked like Deadshot had been killed off. However, he wakes up in a hospital bed. The bullet barely missed his heart. | |
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Charles Manson Vs The Teletubbies: | |
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In G.I. Joe: Retaliation Storm Shadow is seen clearly alive after a Disney Villain Death in GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra, although he now has a scar along his stomach. The scene where he slows his heart-rate may also count. | |
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Believe it or not, Survival of the Fittest has this in Andrea Vanlandingham and Denise Dupius. There are also hints that more supposedly-dead characters may show up, at least the ones whose deaths haven't been shown. It's been revealed that most of the students whose deaths weren't shown ended up being involved in an escape plot and had their collars removed. However, around half of those have now been Killed Off for Real by the terrorists. In V4, Clio Gabriella knocks Garry Villette off a cliff and watches him plunge into the water below. She doesn't bother to check to see if he surfaces again and believes him to be dead. He isn't. |
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Superman The Death of Superman: After fighting a brutal battle, both Superman and Doomsday drop dead, seemingly for good... then it turns out that the many years he's been living under a yellow sun has given Superman a strong enough Healing Factor that the battering Doomsday gave him only put him into an absurdly deep coma that took almost a year-ful of treatment with Kryptonian medicinal technology to get him out of; and it turns out that Doomsday's alien physiology is able to bring him back to life. Who is Superwoman?: As fighting Supergirl, Superwoman's powered Magitek suit suffers a malfunction which causes it and its bearer to explode. Everyone believes Lucy is dead, but several chapters later she shows up alive again. It turns that the spells woven into her suit, combined with the DNA alien grafted into her cells, allowed Superwoman to regenerate her entire body. Kon-El supposedly died when he went back in time to Krypton one week before its destruction and got stuck there in Krypton Returns. Kara saw him die, which is because she is so shocked when her team happens upon him in Crucible. It was not explained how he survived. Superman (Brian Michael Bendis): Amanda Waller abandons General Lane to a creature sent by Leviathan so she can escape. At first, it appears Lane died but Action Comics #1009 reveals he survived and was sent to the hospital. He later dies during Event Leviathan. |
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Played straight and oddly parodied in StageFright -Aquarius-. The straight examples come when the killer survives a fall and then being set on fire. The odd part comes in after the killer has been shot between the eyes, and as he lays on the ground, suddenly turns to audience and smirks. According to the director this was added to poke fun at "the Slasher Movie convention of the killer always being alive at the end". | |
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Jarringly played in Plutona: after the kids make plans for what to do with the body, she wakes up and flies off. | |
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In Nomine: During the Purity Crusade, Uriel cleaved Jormungandr's head from its body and threw both parts into the ocean. The serpent has been assumed dead in the centuries since, but unknown to most it cannot actually be killed as long as its head is intact. As a result, it has gradually been regrowing its body while protected by the secrecy of the ocean and the fact that nobody thought to go looking for it, and is sufficiently restored to become a very serious problem once he's stirred back to wakefulness. Notably, as The Final Trumpet points out, the Aesir are perfectly aware of this detail and could have told Uriel, if he hadn't been so busy trying to kill them. | |
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Naturally, a lot of slasher films tend to do this. Michael Myers (Halloween) and Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) routinely get their fair of stab wounds from the Final Girl before it's all over. Jason was eventually Killed Off for Real in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, but since then he came back from the dead in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and is even more unstoppable.note Although since he was stopped before, he was not unstoppable and couldn't be more unstoppable afterward. More like, "We really mean it this time unstoppable." Used to full effect to justify the creation of Halloween: Resurrection: it turns out that Laurie had killed a paramedic instead of Michael at the end of Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later; Michael had attacked the paramedic, crushed his larynx, and switched places with him before "Michael's" body was carted out to the ambulance. Chucky does this in the first two Child's Play films. Even Freddy gets this in Freddy vs. Jason, when both he and Jason are set on fire and thrown into Crystal Lake. Freddy returns and attempts to kill Lori and Will, before Jason stabs him and Lori decapitates him. Even then, he seems to wink as Jason carries his head away (meaning the "winner" of the battle is indecisive). |
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In Next of Kin (1982), one of the elderly residents of the Montclare retirement home, Lance, tells Linda that her unstable aunt Rita did not die as initially believed but is in fact still alive. Later, while going through the family's financial records, she notices dubious payments made to Dr. Barton by Rita, further suggesting that her supposedly dead aunt is still alive. However, both Barton and the house caretaker Connie insist that she did die and tell Linda not to go digging into the past. | |
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Who is Superwoman?: As fighting Supergirl, Superwoman's powered Magitek suit suffers a malfunction which causes it and its bearer to explode. Everyone believes Lucy is dead, but several chapters later she shows up alive again. It turns that the spells woven into her suit, combined with the DNA alien grafted into her cells, allowed Superwoman to regenerate her entire body. | |
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In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, the traitor Roberto is stabbed by his compatriot because he knows too much, and might reveal their connection. Cesare figures it out fairly quickly, and while he's interrogating the latter, the first traitor, who had been dismissed as dead, gets up and attempts to stab Cesare. | |
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In Tales of MU, the main character's mother is believed by everyone to be dead, but side stories reveal that she may be alive and living under an assumed name, for reasons not completely clear yet. | |
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Asajj Ventress returns in the season three episode "The Harbinger" despite having been killed by Count Dooku in the Dark Disciple novel. No explanation is given for her return other than a vague comment that she still has a few lives left. Nightsister magic likely has something to do with it. | |
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Twice in Godzilla (2014). The female Muto was discovered dormant and thought to be dead after being dissected by the military, and the male Muto was electrocuted after Dr. Serizawa deemed its EMP-pulses making it be too dangerous to be kept alive. However, neither of them are dead either time. A heroic version happens in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Godzilla is struck by the Oxygen Destroyer and thought to be dead, while Monster Zero a.k.a. King Ghidorah is free to control the other Kaiju and destroy the world as he pleases without Godzilla around to stop him. But then it's revealed Godzilla is actually still alive and slowly regenerating inside Hollow Earth, so Monarch set out to revive him. |
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While A Hero's Wrath is set long after the events of Asura's Wrath, the mantra's remanifestation on Earth, the wielding of such recreating the demigod race through humanity and Izuku's dream of encountering the Golden Spider implies that either Chakravartin was never killed or was killed and brought back to life by some means. Whether or not any of this has anything to do with the manifestation of quirks is still a mystery though. | |
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Queen of All Oni: During the flashbacks, it's shown that Tarakudo killed the Oni Elders when he seized control of the Shadowkhan. But in the present it's revealed that their spirits have clung to a semblance of life in the ruins of their Shadow Realm city, waiting for a chance to reclaim their full existence. They try to do this by luring Jade in and draining her chi, only for her to render them Deader than Dead for their troubles. | |
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There Was a Little Girl: Just as it seems Mary has finally been done in, she suddenly springs back to life and attempts to strangle Julia before finally dying from her wounds. | |
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In DSBT InsaniT, it happens in 'Beach Brawl' when Bill 2 destroys Cell's brain, only for him to regenerate later on, and in 'The Camping Webisode' when Dave crushes Killer Monster with a large stone slab, only for him to melt it with lava soon after. | |
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Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: During the Season 2 finale, Mandarin gets swallowed whole by the Dark One Worm. An entire season later, he's revealed to still be quite alive inside, but has suffered both physically and mentally from the ordeal. | |
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The comedy Freaked parodies this trope to death. | |
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No Rest for the Wicked: The Boy finds Prince Ricardo right after the "fall off the cliff" part. Not too startled when he surges to attack — then he is The Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was | |
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In Family Guy's famous chicken fights the chicken is killed three times yet he always returns for more. Within a single fight (the first) he is seemingly beaten to death, only to attack Peter again seconds later. For that matter, this should also apply to the monkey in Chris's closet, Connie, Mort, and Meg, who have all sustained typically fatal injuries and led fans to wonder whether or not they were actually Killed Off for Real by the end of these episodes until they show up fine in later episodes. |
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The Lord of the Rings In The Two Towers, Aragorn plunges off a cliff during the warg battle. To the surprise of no one, he comes back relatively unscathed. Ironically, in the extended DVD of The Two Towers the actor almost drowned when shooting the scene of him floating in the water. Grishnakh, who is more or less a mook, is stabbed by a Rider of Rohan in The Two Towers, yet he is still able to chase Merry and Pippin into the forest before Treebeard kills him. Gollum is thrown over a cliff by Frodo in The Return of the King, and returns at Mount Doom. |
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In the final arc of Interstitial: Actual Play, two figures pop up on the Lost island that were previously believed dead. First is Ennora, who was presumed destroyed when she became the Nobody Roxanne. Second revealed is David Blaine, previously believed to dead after Criss banished him. | |
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According to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Terminal storyline, the whole clan thought Souza was killed in the Worm War. He's not. | |
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Transformers: Swindle in Transformers: Animated was, at the end of "S.U.V", paralyzed and trapped in vehicle mode, which the Autobots allowed the Detroit Police to tow away with the stated goal of either selling him or stripping him down for parts, not even mentioning that the "SUV" was a Decepticon. In "Five Servos of Doom", he turns up alive and unharmed, though still stuck, Sentinel Prime having bought him from the impound lot (considering his parts couldn't move, they probably weren't worth much). The Transformers: Starscream himself. In nearly all versions, the guy just won't die, or at least stay dead. In both Animated and G1, he's literally immortal. He doesn't survive the former, however, thanks to the MacGuffin that was empowering him getting yanked out of his forehead. Animated takes this to its logical conclusion. Never mind all the times that Megatron almost died and then turns out he didn't. At least 3 times in Season 1: Part 3 of More Than Meets the Eye; Transport to Oblivion, Heavy Metal War, and the end of part 3 of The Ultimate Doom. The last one was the most believable time that he had perished, after all his starship blew up with him in it. All the Decepticons believe he is dead right up until he walks through the door in Countdown to Extinction. Transformers: Prime: Megatron is believed to have been killed when the Space Bridge explodes, but found to have survived due to the Dark Energon inside him in the next episode. However, he's so damaged that the Decepticons have to place him in stasis lock while they repair him. |
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Superman (Brian Michael Bendis): Amanda Waller abandons General Lane to a creature sent by Leviathan so she can escape. At first, it appears Lane died but Action Comics #1009 reveals he survived and was sent to the hospital. He later dies during Event Leviathan. | |
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