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You get to be Batman.
And--when you're a child--you get a handful of years of real happiness, with your father, with me.
It's more than some people get."
|''[[Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?]]'' }}
So it's the end of the story. Our hero has fought the good fight, and now it's time for him to go on to something greater. Will he find himself in [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]? Will he [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]? No, it turns out that his ultimate reward is to...stay right here. As a baby. Huh.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Hatsumi being reborn as [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|her lover]] Hazuki's daughter}}. [[Yuri Fan
* The first series of ''[[Minky Momo]]'' ends with our heroine being run over by a
* At the end of ''[[Vampire Game]]'', Duzell, who gave a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], is reincarnated as the son of Ishtar, the woman he loved.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' this happens to {{spoiler|Hotaru}} after her [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* Dave in ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
* In the film version of ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'', [[The Hero]] and his wife choose reincaration over heaven and hell.
* One of the various movies in the Italian comedy series ''Fantozzi'' has this trope [[Played for Laughs]] at the end when the titular protagonist, [[Butt Monkey|Ugo Fantozzi]]<ref>
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One ''[[Discworld]]'' novel features a [[It Makes Sense in Context|guru-abbot from an order of time-traveling monks]] who's been in a cycle of death and rebirth for hundreds of years. After his most recent death, his spirit hovers over the house of a nice married couple as he waits to be conceived. The real kicker comes after that when he's right back to being a guru, drooling and bonking senior monks with his rattle whilst dispensing wisdom.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the TARDIS reverted a [[Villain of the Week]] back into egg form. The Doctor promptly [[Raise Him Right This Time|hands her over to a loving family]] for her to start all over again.
== [[Music]] ==
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