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{{quote|''"And now that I have Battlestar and Typeface and Prodigy and Shroud and all these other important characters on my side again... it's time for a big fight that I'm sure will solve '''absolutely everything'''!"''|'''Captain America''', ''[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/i-dont-need-your-civil-war/ "I Don't Need Your Civil War"]'', [http://mightygodking.com/images/Civil_War/cwp_06_22.jpg Issue #6].}}
Situation especially common in [[Final Battle
Using this trope is risky because it can seem like a
See also [[In the End You Are
Compare [[Backup From Otherworld]], in which the the people returning are not exactly alive.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' did this in its first and [[We Are Team Cannon Fodder|last season]].
** In the first example, Episode 45 spent its ''entirety'' killing off the four Guardian Senshi. Episode 46 killed off Mamoru. Sailor Moon had to face down Beryl/Metallia alone, but eventually her power revived her fallen friends (sans Mamoru) long enough to destroy Beryl/Metallia at the cost of Sailor Moon's life. End of the episode, everyone has revived with no memory of the last year of their lives or the battles they fought.
** The second example spent it's final ''five episodes'' on killing off the main cast. In a subversion, they didn't revive and help - Usagi had to fight Galaxia essentially alone and her allies revived after the fight was over.
* Describes the finale of ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' episode 8 parodies this. Tamama, Giroro, and Moa seem to go up against the Nyororo beast invading their new [[Elaborate Underground Base]] and get swallowed by it... but in reality, the "beast" is just Fuyuki and Momoka, and the other characters are following them. Keroro even gets a "memory of those who sacrificed themselves" scene.
* The second season of ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' ends much like this, except that the final victory of the [[Big Bad]] is what triggers the resurrection of most of the dead characters, and a few stay dead.
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* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' doesn't ''quite'' bring all the dead characters back from the dead for real, but the events certainly play out the same way.
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' did that more than once, but a special mention must go for when all of the Gold Saints (including several that actually [[Death Is Cheap|rose from the dead to come to help]]) joined forces to open up the way so the Bronze Saints can defeat [[Complete Monster|Hades]], [[Heroic Sacrifice|dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Tear Jerker]].
* The third season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' apparently kills off Asuka, Manjyome, Fubuki, Tyranno, Ryo, Edo, Amon, Echo, O'Brien, and Jim, but all of them (except, apparently, Amon and Echo) turn out to be [[Not Quite Dead]].
** Speaking of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' - Essentially the entire plot of Mirai Nikki, as almost the entire cast of characters is pit against one another with the ultimate goal being that the winner of the survival game gets to be god himself. However Deus ex Machina (aka God) states that this is impossible without striking up a good ol' fashioned [[Alternate Timeline]].
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'', where the conclusion to the second-last arc in the series has the members of the club sacrifice themselves so the others can go on and save Hinamizawa. However, since this is Higurashi, [[Downer Ending|all of them are shot to death]], and the villain ends up [[Kill'Em All|killing the entire village]]. ''Also'' because this is Higurashi, they're all sent back with the series' [[Reset Button|time loop]], and [[Earn Your Happy Ending|overcome the BigBad in the final arc.]]
* Final arc of ''[[Gash Bell]]''. While the basic rule of the battle to decide Mamodo king is that Mamodo simply return to their world when their book is burnt, a book being burnt and a Mamodo returning to the Mamodo world [[Never Say "Die"|is nevertheless treated like death]] on this show. This is made even more serious when there are only 10 Mamodo left in the human world, as it is announced that during this final stage of the battle, every single Mamodo in the Mamodo world loses their body and becomes spirits. Remaining competitors will also lose their body as soon as they return to the Mamodo world, and only the new king will have the right to return them their bodies (or ''not'' return their bodies and simply make them disappear from the Mamodo world). During the arc, most of Gash's friends end up returning to the Mamodo world from [[Heroic Sacrifice|HeroicSacrifices]] or [[Heroic RROD|HeroicRRODs]]. However, when the last battle with Clear Note turns out to be almost impossible to win with the protagonist's power alone, Gash's book turns golden, and Mamodo Gash has befriended throughout the whole series appear and help Gash out by letting him use their ultimate spells.
* Subverted in ''[[Madlax]]'' where Madlax and Margaret ''may'' have resurrected Vanessa and Elenore with their [[Reality Warper]] powers, but they don't actually show up again.
* The Piccolo Daimaoh and especially Saiyans&Namek arcs in ''[[
* In ''[[D
* The big Gundam Fight Tournament ending fight on Lantau Island from ''[[G Gundam]]''. Domon's friends sacrifice their chance at victory to allow Domon to get to Master Asia. Of course, they all barely survive, though their Gundams are out of commission. At least, until the [[Big Bad]] shows up again...
* The fifth episode of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
** Also happens in Episode 8. EVERY character shows up for the Battle at the Mansion, and later, the Battle in the Golden Land.
* Happens in ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', as members of all factions run into each other on the way to the Galactic Leyline, and promptly eliminate each other in one-on-one combat.
* Done ''twice'' in ''[[Angel Beats
* ''[[
* Happens in ''[[Macross Frontier]] [[The Movie|Sayonara no Tsubasa]]'' after having thought to have died by having been sucked into space, Sheryl and Ozma are revealed to have been saved by [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Ai-kun]]. The former then proceeds to sing, bringing everyone back from their [[Despair Event Horizon]] and taking the final battle/sing-off [[Up to Eleven]].
* Sort of happens at the end of the [[Record of Lodoss War]] OVA. Each of the surviving members of the Heroes of Lodoss end up getting picked off, one-by-one, as they stay behind to hold off various nasty critters that are coming out of the woodwork as the ceremony to resurrect the [[God of Evil]] continues.
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== Card Games ==
* In ''[[Magic:
** Better examples would be cards that bring back every creature that died that game, like Twilight's Call.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Marvel's '''Destiny War''' begins with Kang The Conqueror battling his future-self, Immortus. Immortus sends armies from throughout history against Kang. Kang's reaction is, in so many words, "a trillion-strong army? Just bring it, bitch!"
** And ends with every version of every Avengers, from every alternate universe, ''ever'', fighting their [[For Want of a Nail|evil counterparts]], for the fate of the multiverse. It's like [[Crisis
* ''[[Crisis Crossover|Infinite Crisis]]'' does this in issue 7: after the deaths a long list of heroes over the previous year and a half, the reality-spasm in issue 6 apparently is enough to bring most of them back. And just in time for the epic fightscene, too.
* Another Marvel Comics example is ''Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2'', the concluding chapter in the story of the conflict between Adam Warlock (and the Avengers) and Thanos. An early flashback in the story shows that after killing Warlock, Thanos defeated all the Avengers and began planning anew. Spider-Man asks for the Thing's help and soon brings the Avengers back from stasis (rather dramatically, too).
* Nearly all of ''[[Secret Wars]]'' is a [[Battle Royale With Cheese]].
** ''And'' nearly all of ''Infinity Gauntlet'', especially the bit after Thanos leaves his body, gets his Plot Coupon stolen, and all of the heroes manage to reform to beat his alledged granddaughter, Nebula.
* The ending of [[JLA-
== [[Fanfic]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[A Nightmare
* ''[[The Mummy
== [[Literature]] ==
* At the end of ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (
** A straighter example from the same book is the final battle at Hogwarts, featuring everybody who hasn't died yet. [[Anyone Can Die|Yet...]]
** Also, at the end of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (
* The Battle of Borodino in ''[[War and Peace]]''.
* In ''[[Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]],'' Aslan takes the Pevensie sisters to the White Witch's castle and uses his breath of life to restore all those whom the Witch had [[Taken for Granite|turned into statues]], so that they could go and assist in the big battle against her forces. This happens again after the battle by making Lucy use her cordial on the fallen.
* Featured in Robert Jordan's ''[[
* Also featured in Steven Erikson's ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' series extremely frequently, where killed characters have a 50/50 chance of being reincarnated in another body (and in one case, reincarnated and teleported to another continent for no adequately explained reason), being resurrected by a passing god (sometimes on a whim), or ascending to [[Physical God
** That's what you get in a story where the god of death is a major player.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'', every good guy and [[Heel Face Turn|reformed bad guy]] offed in the final arc is revived to take on the Master. Notably, the same thing happened in the source show, ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]''.
** The Legend War that happened in the backstory of ''[[
* [[Stargate SG
* The Tenth Doctor in full [[Physical God]] mode at the end of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Last of The Time Lords", bringing down the Master, turning time back an entire year saving at least a few hundred million people.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'' looked to be headed this way, with the return of the only guy who can open the local [[Phantom Zone]] that had been treated as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] for most of the series. Subverted when only half of the Riders actually take part in the battle, the other half only arrive just in time for a group [[Finishing Move]].
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' did this with the episode "The Wish". While Giles worked to restore the normal universe, the main cast went about killing each other.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', ''Swan Song''. Castiel, Bobby and Sam die one by one... and after the climax they all come back to life! Although in Sam's case we don't know for sure whether [[Not Himself|it's really him]].
* ''[[Persons Unknown]]'' pulled one of these. After being in a situation identical to [[Battle Royale]], they are later found out to be completely okay and just [[Faking the Dead|pretending to be dead.]] Apparently the people picking up the dead bodies didn't mind that they were [[Fridge Logic|warm, breathing or had a pulse]].
* Parodied in ''[[
==Mythology And Religion==
* In [[Norse Mythology]] the dead fight in the war between gods and giants, Ragnarök.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' kills everyone on the team but the hero in the final chapter, but depending on the conversation choices the hero makes in the conversation with the [[Big Bad]], he can then raise them all. Then again, one of the hero's default powers during the game is to raise the dead, so it's not like it comes out of nowhere...
* ''[[
** ''[[
** In the rerelease, you can actually have them in your party again.
* Another [[
* The finale of ''[[Breath of Fire]] 2'' involves [[Big Bad]] Deathevan making a big show of killing your party members one by one (eulogizing each one as he does so, [[Kick the Dog|the sick bastard]]). Protagonist Ryu doesn't take this insult sitting down, and after punching through Deathevan's defenses, the villain transforms into [[One-Winged Angel|the hellspawn lovechild of Ganon and Dracula]], Ryu can then ''and only then'' unleash the power of Anfini (a.k.a. Infinity), the entire purpose and function of which is to resurrect your fallen allies so they can all put a proper kibosh on the archfiend.
* ''[[
* ''[[Star Fox (
* Part of the appeal of fighting in the Colosseo Purgatorio in the [[Updated Rerelease]] of ''[[Persona 3]]'' is that instead of dying, the losers simply turn into flames while the rest of the matches continue, to be restored when the victor is decided. [[Subverted Trope|But...]]the flames are also ordinary fires, in that they burn fuel. [[Dead for Real|And if that fuel is exhausted...]]
* Lu Bu's version of the Battle of Hu Lao Gate in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 6'' is ''all'' about inverting this trope... since you're the former [[The Dragon|Dragon]], it's the antagonists who have two of their members (despite being villains themselves they're allying with the normally protagonist characters) come back from the dead just to set up this battle... and when you take out all of the antagonists, they all come back in "hyper mode."
* Towards the end of ''[[
* The penultimate level in ''[[Robotron]] 64'' is actually entitled "Battle Royale With Cheese" - though it's functionally the same as just about every other level.
* The end of [[Onimusha]]: Dawn of Dreams has all the characters of the party facing off against their personal rivals so that [[The Hero]] Soki can continue on to [[Big Bad]] Hideyoshi.
* Ironically [[
* ''[[Digital Devil Saga|Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2]]'' initially looks like it's going to [[Kill'Em All]] as your comrades get picked off one by one in the latter half of the game, finally culminating with Sera and Serph's apparent deaths. Then it reunites everyone's "data" at the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], even including characters that were killed off ''in the first game''. This is a bit of a subversion though, since you're all still technically ''dead'', but everyone is still together again and able [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punch out Cthulhu.]]
* ''[[Romancing
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* "[[The Order of the Stick
** Although in this case the [[Redshirt Army|Blueshirts]] involved stayed dead, as did an important character who died shortly before. Of course since the comic's [[Death Is Cheap|based on D&D...]]
* ''[[Little Dee]]'', of all comics, has [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Most of the [[Teen Titans (
** It got rather excessive with villains like Malchior and Mother Mae-Eye showing up out of nowhere; [[Rule of Cool|nobody really cared, however]].
* The ending of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars
* Occurs in the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Happens ''twice in succession'' in ''[[Batman:
** "Deep Cover for Batman" had the heroes ([[Mirror Universe]] counterparts of the main universe villains) imprisoned by the Injustice Society, except for the Red Hood (Mirror'verse Joker), who enlists Batman's help. Together they free the other heroes and defeat the Society.
** Similarly, "Game Over for Owlman" has the title character return home to find his own mirror counterpart, Owlman, had turned him into a wanted criminal with a high-profile crime spree. Batman was forced to team up with ''[[Strange Bedfellows|the Joker]]'' throughout the course of the episode as he eludes his own former comrades. Later, Owlman captured all the heroes (again) and Batman was outnumbered by Owlman and his gathering of main universe villains, until he uses the Phase Oscillator (the [[McGuffin]] of the episode) to recruit other Batmen from alternate universes: [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Cowboy Batman, Pirate Batman, Vampire Batman, Gorilla Batman, Space Batman, and Hyper-Intelligent Telepathic Alien Batman]], who all help Batman free his allies. Another ''epic'' battle royale ensues.
* [[Superman
* At the end of the time travel arc in ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Robotnik has all the emeralds and seemingly all the power. Sonic and Tails, before confronting him, go back in time to each period they had visited and recruit their own earlier timeline doppelgangers for this battle. Why they can't just go back to when Robotnik seized the emeralds and stop him then (or how they were able to avoid massive paradoxes) is [[MST3K Mantra|not something you're supposed to ask.]]
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