Death Is Cheap: Difference between revisions

** And then there's Lyndsey Ballard in "Ashes to Ashes", a [[Death by Origin Story|previously unknown character]] who was resurrected by a species who reanimates the corpses of other species to "procreate".

* The plot line of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' plays it straight, averts, and lampshades it at different times of the series. Played straight with the two leads (who have died so many times that the angels and their dead friends (Ash) in heaven are sick and tired of seeing them. Even [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] himself has become mildly annoyed as of late because the Winchesters keep coming back from the dead. Averted in the case of any main character that the fan base hates enough (the writers are very, very sensitive to pressure apparently...). And Castiel has a get-out-of-death-free card personally guaranteed by [[God]]. That said, death has become cheaper as the series has gone on (in the beginning it was pretty damn expensive). ''Sanity'' is now actually far more expensive than death. Once heaven and hell started taking an active (as in 'interactive') interest in the Winchesters, the bigger worry become not what happens if you die but [[And I Must Scream|what happens]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|after you're dead]]. You just ''know'' the next time either one of them dies Heaven or Hell is gonna rip them to pieces for the rest of eternity (anyone want to count how many angels and demons they've killed?). Most clear was Dean's reaction in "Dark Side of the Moon" when about to be shot in the head: "Do it. But I warn you, when I come back I'm going to be pissed."

* Rimmer from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' has been brought back to life multiple times. He first dies in the accident he causes ([[Retcon|maybe]]) that wipes out the crew which is the set-up for the whole premise. Then he comes back as a hologram. In series 3 after messing with the timeline, he actually gets a body in one episode, but ends up blowing himself up shortly afterwards. So he's back to being a hologram. Then after hologram Rimmer goes off to be Ace Rimmer in series 7, the original Rimmer from 3 million years ago is resurrected by the nanobots who rebuild Red Dwarf with the original crew. It looks like he's about to die in that season's finale, but manages to escape death (literally, he knees death in the privates). And in the 2009 special ''Back to Earth'', set nine years later, he appears to be a hologram again, whether by nanobot Rimmer dying or series 1-7 Rimmer coming back from his Ace adventure is not made explicit.

** Has happened to most of the crew at some point. Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat all die in ''The Inquisitor'', but a clever [[Batman Gambit]] by Lister erases the titular Inquisitor and all resets all the work he's done, bringing them back. ''Out Of Time'' sees the crew attacked by their future selves, killing Lister, Kryten and The Cat and only stopped when Rimmer destroys the Time Drive.