Disney Death: Difference between revisions

* In Disney's [[Affectionate Parody]] of its own canon, ''[[Enchanted]]'', Giselle takes a bite of a poison apple and "dies". The only way she can be resurrected is through [[True Loves Kiss]], and before [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve|the clock strikes 12]]. Prince Edward happily goes over to kiss Giselle, but it doesn't work. {{spoiler|It takes Robert's kiss to awake her. But there's still a climactic battle before the movie ends.}}

* In ''[[The Sorcerers Apprentice (Film)|The Sorcerers Apprentice]]'', Balthazar actually does die, but [[The Apprentice|Dave]] refuses to accept that and uses his powers to revive them.

* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'', Goofy is believed to have given his life to save Mickey from a falling rock, but since this is partly a Disney property, it later turns out he's okay (though not before Sora and company [[Foe Tossing Charge|tear their way]] through an army of Heartless). Also, aside from Sora, [[We Cannot Go On Without You|whose KO'd would bring a game over,]] nobody else in your party can die for real, human or cartoon characters.

* Invoked but ultimately subverted in the ''[[Tintin]]'' series. Because of [[Executive Meddling]], creator Hergé was forced to imply the possibility of survival in the suicide note of astronaut Frank Wolff in ''Explorers on the Moon'', who stepped out of his space shuttle into space to [[Heroic Sacrifice|save oxygen for the remaining passengers]]. [[Word of God]], after the fact, confirmed that there was [[Killed Off for Real|obviously no way]] Wolff survived.

* In ''[[Terminator (Film)|Terminator]] 2: Judgment Day'', the T-800 robot is seemingly beaten then impaled by the T-1000, leaving Sarah and John Connor helpless. Then his backup power source turns on, and he [[Big Damn Heroes|heads off to save the day]]. Moments later he does die for real, [[I Cannot Self Terminate|but by choice]].

* One of the most mind-boggling examples is in ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'', when a friend of the [[Bruce Willis]] character, who seems to have died in a car fire shortly before, shows up again and explains, "The sprinkler system turned on!" This in spite of the fact that the car careened off of a cliff and exploded upon impact with the ground (but it is a parody/comedy).

* Played with in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' when Gay Perry stays alive after getting shot in the chest. [[Lemony Narrator|Harry]] then [[Lampshade Hanging|comments how he hates it when]] [[Executive Meddling|movie studio executives]] change a death into a [[Disney Death]] to force [[Focus Group Ending|a happy ending]], and they might as well [[Everybody Lives|bring back everyone who died]] (and then all of the dead characters, plus Elvis and Abraham Lincoln, walk into the hospital room), but [[This Is Reality|in this case]], [[But It Really Happened|Perry did survive]].

* This happens may times in the ''[[Friday the 13 th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movies. [[Joker Immunity|Jason Voorhees just keeps coming back]]. Even when he's supposedly incinerated by the time ''IV'' is over, it's revealed at the start of ''VI'' that his (still-living, surprisingly enough) father went out of his way to pay for him to be buried somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Tommy, already driven crazy by Jason entering his mind from beyond the grave (to the point of being the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''V''), exhumes him to [[Kill It With Fire|finish the job]], but lightning strikes before he can torch him, and Jason is back ''yet again''.

* In R.A. Salvatore's ''Drizzt'' novels set in the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', this happens a lot. Out of the [[Five Man Band|five heroes]], Regis is the only one of them who hasn't been presumed dead at least once.

*** This is not so remarkable, given that it is a superhero show. The "willing" part is harder, though, because Linderman tosses [[Bad Powers Bad People]] out the window by being a ''[[Big Bad]]'' whose power is healing. ([[Affably Evil|He's a darned good cook, too.]])

* In ''[[Warhammer]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' this is basically what happens to the named characters in most narratives accompanying games - they are knocked out, sent through accidental warp portals, teleported away just before death, badly wounded but recovered by medics after the battle, temporarily banished to the Realm of Chaos or any number of fates that can be recovered from. It even makes it clear in the rules that casualties don't automatically equate to dead. When a character is [[Killed Off for Real]] it's usually a major event or storyline progression and doesn't stop them being used in historical refights, but this is strongly tempered with [[Status Quo Is God]] (as well as the fact that if the characters stay alive, people will [[Crack Is Cheaper|keep buying the models]]),

* Played straight in ''[[Mass Effect]]''. {{spoiler|The group, having just defeated Sovereign, is fleeing from an incoming chunk of Reaper. Cut to the two party members with you, as a C-Sec officer and Anderson pry open one of the chunks that was a near-miss to reveal them. Anderson asks where Shepard is, they shake their heads, and all parties involved get a crushed expression - cut to the side, where you see a form moving toward the group through the wreckage. Swell of music, Shepard mounting the top of the biggest chunk, with a huge [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu|"I just punched out Cthulhu"]] grin on his/her face. Cut to final sequence.}}

* In the one [[Sega Genesis]] ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' game, Data was the most useful of the command staff for this reason -- it was very hard, if not impossible for him to get severely injured and taken off active duty. He would just get repaired, as opposed to others who have a good chance of getting that injured. All of the other command had a [[We Cannot Go On Without You]] as either Picard is injured (he always seems to be severely injured) or he [[My God What Have I Done|resigns in guilt over causing them to get hurt.]] Thus the player could send only Data and his death wouldn't matter.

* The immortal ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' short, ''[[What's Opera Doc]]'', in which we see Elmer Fudd actually ''kill'' [[Bugs Bunny]] (in a particularly malevolent fashion), at which point [[My God What Have I Done|he laments the foolishness of his actions]], carrying Bugs away. Bugs looks to the audience and asks "What did ya expect from an Opera? A ''happy'' ending?"

* In the first ''[[Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' episode in which the Avengers fight [[Killer Robot|Ultron]], Ultron appears to disintegrate {{spoiler|[[The Mighty Thor]]}} during a battle, much to the shock of the other heroes. Actually, {{spoiler|[[Dark Magical Girl|Amora the Enchantress]] teleported Thor to Asgard less then a second before Ultron's beam could hit him}}. The next episode has the remaining Avengers hold a small funeral and swear to avenge {{spoiler|Thor}}, although {{spoiler|he}} returns well before the episode's end.

* [[Zig Zagged]] with ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' Jaga. [[The Obi Wan]] and [[Court Mage]] of Thundera, initially performs a [[You Shall Not Pass]], seemingly dying in the attempt, allowing Thundera's young king Lion-O and his allies to flee as the city is invaded by the forces of [[Big Bad]] Mumm-Ra. Jaga is soon revealed to instead be Mumm-Ra's prisoner, tortured for information on a mystical [[Great Big Book of Everything]]'s location. Mumm-Ra eventually forces the issue by performing a [[Your Soul Is Mine]], imprisoning [[The Disembodied]] Jaga in a [[Soul Jar]] that will lead them to the book. In a last-ditch effort to prevent Mumm-Ra from getting it, Jaga performs a magical [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that shatters his soul jar, dissipates him, and sends Mumm-Ra fleeing, leaving Jaga's allies to grieve his loss ''again''. Soon after, when Lion-O closely examines the book, it is revealed as [[Magitek]] that draws Lion-O's soul inside, where he meets Jaga, now serving as a [[Spirit Advisor]]/[[Virtual Ghost]]. When Lion-O asks if he's alive, Jaga gives an [[Cryptic Conversation|opaque non-answer]].

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