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** Subverted in another case, where Xykon is [[Cold-Blooded Torture|mindlessly torturing]] a captive soldier; Xykon thinks that he can just be resurrected if they kill him by mistake, but Redcloak points out that the soldier's soul has to allow itself to be brought back, and given [[Fate Worse Than Death|his situation]], he'd probably rather stay in the afterlife. {{spoiler|Possibly double-subverted, because the soldier was creating a list of Xykon's spells; he might have chosen to come back if he had died before sending this important information to the heroes.}}
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' has returning from the dead as a major plot point.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Words cannot do justice to the eponymous Doctor's death and return (it begins [https://web.archive.org/web/20090201135258/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=36&issue=4 here] and continues until the end of the issue). For that matter, another character returns from the dead not long after - though this has more consequences.
{{quote|'''Ben Franklin''': (Sitting in a restaurant in purgatory) It's alright. I've left this restaurant without paying my bill once before... And I have ensured that it will happen again.
'''Beeman''': That was the most ''menacing'' promise of dine and dash I've ever seen. }}
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**** The fact that the dream bubble afterlife allows the properly dead characters to still take part in the story (mostly as vehicles for exposition) further cheapens death, for the kids and trolls at least.
* ''[[Nodwick]]''. Justified primarily by [[Rule of Funny]]; it's easier to laugh when Nodwick is disassembled as a result of a [[Zany Scheme]] if you know he's coming back next time, covered in duct tape and making [[Deadpan Snarker|smart remarks]].
** He even [https://web.archive.org/web/20100817121910/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2009-08-17 set a record].
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' mocked the idea of bringing back Oasis in [http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=991210 this strip]{{Dead link}} before Death Is Cheap became a real trait of her character.
* ''[[Last Res0rt|Last Res 0 rt]]'' [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/05/death-is-expensive-punchlines-are-cheap/ lampshades it outright] after turning a [[Red Shirt]] Galaxy Girl Scout's brains into [[Pink Mist]]:
{{quote|Death is Expensive. ''Punchlines'' are Cheap.}}
* ''[http://mountaincomics.com Mountain Time]'' regular characters Dave and [http://mountaincomics.com/characters/ Agoraphobic Hamster] have each died and reappeared whenever the plot demands it.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150501024916/http://syx.dino-productions.net/comic/1/ Don't Look It Sucks]'' uses this frequently, to the point where even the characters expect this.
** A guest page filler gag is to have [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428180249/http://syx.dino-productions.net/comic/18/ Tero], the resident [[Cute Ghost Girl]], go back to life, only to have her killed again in the end of the same page, in the most careless way possible.
** Also very common in [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428180057/http://syx.dino-productions.net/comic/43/ Chapter 3], where the cast plays a game of ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''.
** An odd instance of this trope occurs in Chapter 4, where Moon dies after delivering a fatal, explosive [[F-Zero|Falcon Punch]] to Aaron, who tried to steal Moon's life dream. A character brings him back to life in the next chapter. Or so everyone thought. Actually, Aaron, disguised as Moon, was the one brought back to life. Later on, it is revealed that [[Staying Alive|Moon didn't die at all]] and his weakened, barely surviving body was in fact captured by the comic's [[Big Bad]] for researches.
* In ''[[1/0]]'', every character gets one "ghost point" - they can die and come back as a ghost exactly once. They also have the option of removing themselves from the strip by "pulling a Ribby"; that is, imagining a perfect reality to live in and going there. In fact, ''none'' of the characters stay dead. Tailsteak resurrects them all as the strip is winding up, to send them to Oregon. He even brings back characters that pulled a Ribby.
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** "Sadly, just after completing this daring rescue, Doctor Orwell suffered a heart attack and died from his exertions. We will be broadcasting an interview with him shortly."
* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]'s crudely drawn and amazingly long-running comic [[Teen Girl Squad]] exemplifies this trope. Most likely, The Brothers Chap didn't think it would go beyond that one e-mail, but then realized that they had something corny and really easy to animate that they could milk the bejabbers out of and decided to run with it.
* Parodied recently by [[Collegehumor]] in their short [https://web.archive.org/web/20101030130516/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1942996 "Realistic Superhero Funeral"]
* ''Averted'' in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': as it turns out, the only people who ever officially died and came back actually were AI, and therefore never alive to begin with. Played straight with Donut, though, although it's not seen in the series itself, just a sponsor video. Arguably played straight with the red and blue armies Caboose and Sarge meet.
** After Church was revealed to be the Alpha, he was destroyed by the EMP at the end of Reconstruction. The one seen in Recreation and Revelation is the Epsilon AI, a fragment of the Alpha that is reconstructed by Caboose telling him stories about the old Church. At the end of Revelation, the Epsilon AI and Tex are permanently sealed inside the unit, essentially killing them both off.
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