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You get to be Batman. <br />
And--when you're a child--you get a handful of years of real happiness, with your father, with me. <br />
It's more than some people get." |''[[Whatever Happened to Thethe 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 Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]? No, it turns out that his ultimate reward is to...stay right here. As a baby. Huh.
 
Note that this is not [[Merlin Sickness|the natural end result of someone aging backwards]]. This is the universe giving a well-deserving character new life, often returning him to the people who loved him in his old life. This can be especially touching when it happens to a character whose life has been full of hardship, fighting, or suffering; now they can return to a time of innocence, being taken care of instead of having to care for everyone else.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Yami to Boushi Toto Hon no Tabibito]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Hatsumi being reborn as [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|her lover]] Hazuki's daughter}}. [[Yuri Fan|Yuri Fans]] were not happy.
* The first series of ''[[Minky Momo]]'' ends with our heroine being run over by a truck--she goes through an afterlife heroquest, and as a result comes back as the [[Humanity Ensues|biological baby daughter]] of her [[Muggle Foster Parents]].
* At the end of ''[[Vampire Game]]'', Duzell, who gave a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], is reincarnated as the son of Ishtar, the woman he loved.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Batman in ''[[Whatever Happened to Thethe Caped Crusader?]]''
* '' [[The New Universe]]'': Star Brand is reborn as a Star Child ''a la'' ''2001''.
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One ''[[Discworld (Literature)|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 Action Television]] ==
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* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', arguably.
* ''7th Saga''
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' did this, but didn't exactly play it straight. Link skipped forward seven years a third of the way into the game so his reward at the end is to regain those lost years. The official timeline, however, has this cause several problems.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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