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=== Films -- Animation ===

* ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' has a Heroic Death rescuing Gepetto from the whale. He seems gone, but surprise! He's a real boy now and fully alive.

** The bonus features on the DVD show an alternate ending where Gepetto is the one who seems to die, but the Blue Fairy revives him along with making Pinocchio human. Interestingly, this version of the ending was used for the ''[[Disney on Ice]]'' adaptation.

* Araruu's death in battle in ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' was so dramatic that it awakened a dormant super power in the amnesiac hero, which served as a [[Deus Ex Machina]] that allowed him to triumph against overwhelming odds. A lot of blood was lost by the little girl. Too much. She even went limp. Some confusing stuff happens and she is soon back to normal again without a scratch and no emotional traumas or scars from the incident.

** Actually, {{spoiler|he is the [[Deus Ex Machina]]. Or rather the vessel of half of a god. In the beginning, before the game begins, Aruruu is mortally wounded by an earthquake and is saved by Witsuarunemitea after Eruruu pledges herself to him, so this was not unprecedented.}}

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' does this in the ''very first chapter'' where protagonist Tsuna is told to "go die" by Reborn and then shot in the head. Tsuna lies motionless in the street for a page, then gets up again, full of energy and resolve. Only then do we learn that he was shot with a special "dying will bullet" which kills and instantly resurrects the victim, and in the process transforms the victim's final regrets into tremendous strength of will.

** Played more straight elsewhere; many battles throughout the series end with someone lying on the ground, presumably dead. They almost always end up spending several chapters in the hospital before making a full recovery. Note that this is usually what happens to ''the winner'' of the battle...

* In ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', Holland's LFO got split into half and exploded at the hands of Anemone in episode 42, but later turned up still alive and didn't suffer any form of injury at all. In the final episode, {{spoiler|Eureka was presumed dead by everyone, including Renton. However, Anemone told everyone that Eureka was still alive, which gave Renton hope of saving her.}}

* In the final manga volume of GTO, Onizuka was presumed dead in the hospital bed when his heart stopped beating. However, he later miraculously recovered and able to ride a bike to save the principal of his school from a fire.

** The series practically defines this trope, since anytime someone dies, they come back to life a few hours later.

* ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'', seventh movie: {{spoiler|both Mikiya and Shiki. Mikiya's [[Disney Death]] (though Shiki and us did not know it was the case at the time) finally goads Shiki into killing Lio for vengeance, but she then lays down to die after losing Mikiya (and a large quantity of blood). We then see Mikiya still alive, limping, and then ''crawling his way to Shiki'', and find out that he arrived just in time.}}

* This happens in ''[[Shrek]]: The Final Chapter''. At the end of the movie Shrek fades out of existence, as he gave up the day of his birth to Rumple Stillkin in exchange for a day to live his life the way he wanted to as an ogre, but gets one last chance to tell Fiona how much she means to him before he dies. They exchange one last kiss and Shrek disappears... only for the entire reality that Stillkin had created to fade out of existence as well. As it turns out the contract was to be made null and void if Fiona and Shrek exchanged a kiss between two lovers, as Fiona had fallen in love with Shrek in the alternate universe then the contract ends and the universe with it. Shrek is returned to his original universe with his friends and family surrounding him at his children's birthday party. Shrek gets his happily ever after.

* In ''[[Puss in Boots (animation)|Puss in Boots]]'', {{spoiler|When Puss is trying to save his friend Humpty and the Golden Goose and it's mother and Puss is holding on to Humpty with only a thin rope on a broken bridge, while the Golden Goose is dangling above the far-below ground with its mother also close to falling to its death. Humpty sacrifices himself to save the Golden Goose, it's mother, and the town while Humpty supposedly fell to death and cracked open. However, in the credits, it is revealed he came out alright.}}