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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 on Your Own]], [[Back for the Finale]].
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** 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 ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' and ''[[Vandread]]'' almost to a T. The former mildly subverts it, though as the massive resurrection had nothing to do with the actions of the main character. In the latter, only one main character dies, Gascone, and comes back. The other cameo-characters that died stay dead: Bart's friend on the planet where everyone's sick, and the girl Hibiki met during his short exile from the Nirvana (plus her brother and the rest of her shipmates).. Doesn't mean the ending isn't still satisfyingly cheesy though ;).
* Subverted in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'': After teasing the audience in the [[Post Episode Trailer]] for the last episode, the old Admiral who had [[No One Could Survive That|made a last stand to save our heroes]] in the first half of the series makes a gratuitous return from the dead. Since the [[Show Within a Show]], ''[[Gekiganger III]],'' had featured the gratuitous return of of its [[The Lancer|Lancer]] in this episode, the audience had been teased -- ''again''
* ''[[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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** 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!]]''. Enhanced by the fact that all involved ''[[Immortal Life Is Cheap|know
* ''[[Naruto]]'': Thanks to Kabuto using Orochimmaru's techniques, every character that has died prior to the Shinobi World War arc, plus all the old kages and other legendary ninjas, is fighting the rest of the ninja world.
* 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]].
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* 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 ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' novels. At the end of Book 5, the extremely major characters of Aviendha and Mat were killed. However, Rand then used a form of magic called balefire which not only killed the villain responsible for their deaths, Rahvin, but also erased him backwards in time, undoing his actions. So, when Rand went back outside, his friends were alive again.
* 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.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Community]]'', where a "Last Man Standing" paintball game spirals completely out of control, pitting student against student and decimating the community college, picking each other off for the ultimate
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Another [[Final Fantasy]] related, and [[Inverted Trope|reversed]] version would be Apocalypse Nigh, an endgame mission after the competion of the Rise of the Zilart and Chains of Promathia expansions for ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''. The opening cutscene has every surviving major NPC ally join you in a brawl against every main enemy NPC you defeated, brought back by the Emptiness. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted, however,]] as the actual fight only involves your PC party against the two enemy leaders of the Rise of the Zilart expansion.
* 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.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' has enough cheese in its Battle Royale for four [[RPG
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]] Assault'' ends with a Battle Royale With Cheese, as Fox's home planet of Corneria, General Pepper, and even Peppy all die Disney Deaths in the final battles with the Aparoids. Thankfully, [[Hijacked by Ganon|Andross is nowhere to be found]].
* 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...]]
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