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== [[Anime]] ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Used for double significance in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc of ''[[Naruto]]''; after Choji defeats Jirobo, allowing Naruto, Kiba and the rest of the retrieval team to continue on, he staggers to a tree and sags against it in a very moving death scene; [[Unexplained Recovery|he gets better]]. Right after he collapses, a blue butterfly passes Shikamaru, who looks dismayed. Doubly significant in that Choji's name means 'butterfly', and that is the form that his [[Deadly Upgrade|supposedly fatal final attack]] takes: [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|glowing butterfly wings of chakra]].
* Used for double significance in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc of ''[[Naruto]]''; after Choji defeats Jirobo, allowing Naruto, Kiba and the rest of the retrieval team to continue on, he staggers to a tree and sags against it in a very moving death scene; [[Unexplained Recovery|he gets better]]. Right after he collapses, a blue butterfly passes Shikamaru, who looks dismayed. Doubly significant in that Choji's name means 'butterfly', and that is the form that his [[Deadly Upgrade|supposedly fatal final attack]] takes: [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|glowing butterfly wings of chakra]].
** In Shippuuden, {{spoiler|Choji achieves this form without pills, and it enables him to defeat his undead sensei. It also symbolises Choji's growth as a person; indeed, the Akimichi clan's oath, which clan members take as a coming-of-age ceremony, uses the symbol of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and taking flight.}}
** In Shippuuden, {{spoiler|Choji achieves this form without pills, and it enables him to defeat his undead sensei. It also symbolises Choji's growth as a person; indeed, the Akimichi clan's oath, which clan members take as a coming-of-age ceremony, uses the symbol of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis and taking flight.}}
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* The butterflies seen in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' the movie by people infected with nanomachines.
* The butterflies seen in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' the movie by people infected with nanomachines.
* These appear in ''[[Ga-Rei Zero]]''. They're ''evil''.
* These appear in ''[[Ga-Rei Zero]]''. They're ''evil''.
* At the end of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', Yukio Oikawa's dying wish is to transform his body into a mass of butterflies which spread across the Digital World to protect it and restore its weakened barrier after his [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]. ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'''s [[Anime Theme Song]] is titled "[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Butter-Fly]]", though its lyrics barely involve this trope; however, it does play over ''02'''s [[Distant Finale|distant]] [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], during which Oikawa's butterflies do show up.
* At the end of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', Yukio Oikawa's dying wish is to transform his body into a mass of butterflies which spread across the Digital World to protect it and restore its weakened barrier after his [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]. ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''{{'}}s [[Anime Theme Song]] is titled "[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Butter-Fly]]", though its lyrics barely involve this trope; however, it does play over ''02''{{'}}s [[Distant Finale|distant]] [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], during which Oikawa's butterflies do show up.
* ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' has Papillon, the butterfly-themed villain whose entire deal was that he replaced his dying, mortal body with an immortal [but still sick, oddly] homunculus body.
* ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' has Papillon, the butterfly-themed villain whose entire deal was that he replaced his dying, mortal body with an immortal [but still sick, oddly] homunculus body.
* Butterflies appear in the second season 2 OP for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', although they range in color, and a separate one appears for each of the four different female characters ( {{spoiler|Marina, Feldt, Louise and Anew}}) featured. It's possible that the symbolism isn't death here, but rather a drastic change set for them all.
* Butterflies appear in the second season 2 OP for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', although they range in color, and a separate one appears for each of the four different female characters ( {{spoiler|Marina, Feldt, Louise and Anew}}) featured. It's possible that the symbolism isn't death here, but rather a drastic change set for them all.
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