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[[File:doppleman 3 1676.jpg|link=One Piece|frame|[[Living Shadow|Some like to use this trope literally.]]]]
So you think you're hot stuff, eh? You actually did it, you [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punched out Cthulhu.]] You drove the [[Hit Points]] of that [[Physical God]] or [[Eldritch Abomination]] down to zero, and it [[No Body Left Behind|vanished]].
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** It should be noted that ANY Vandel can use this trick, and while the shadow may be weaker, the shadow of an extremely powerful Vandel is much more than even an experienced buster can handle.
* Type one used straight and played with in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': the twelth Angel, Leliel, appears as a floating, apparently unkillable orb over Tokyo-3, disappearing and reappearing at will. {{spoiler|Turns out its "shadow" is the real angel.}}
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* {{spoiler|The Anti-Spiral}} from [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] seems to be something like this. Possible an collective conscience in a shadowy form.
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* The death of anyone in ''[[Transformers]]'' who is considered to be a "multiversal singularity" is considered to be this, so don't count {{spoiler|Unicron, The Fallen, or Vector Prime}} out just yet. Mind you, it is an [[All There in the Manual]] thing and within their series, there is nothing to hint their survival - ''when shown to be completely destroyed.'' (Blow Unicron up but leave the head? He'll be back.)
** To specify, they are both extremely hard to actually ''kill'' rather than weaken, and, once you ''do'' actually kill them, it doesn't stick. They've long since learned the ins and outs of cross-multiversal existence, and periodically spend time in reverse-time universes, which basically allows them to save their e Spirit game and resume from there when a physical body kicks it, as the consciousness just jumps to the concurrent body in the reverse-time universe, which retroactively becomes their "true form", despite having been a past/future self a few minutes ago. So, essentially, they revive themselves by telling causality to ''suck it''.
* Brainiac in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''. Even the smallest piece of him contains his complete consciousness - and he ''always'' has a back-up copy of himself stored somewhere. As such, he's one of the few opponents Superman ''will'' use lethal force on, because the Brainiac you can kill is always just one part of the whole.
** This is illustrated very creepily in the [[Justice League]] episde "Twilight", where Hawkgirl smashes Brainiac to pieces, apparently killing him- only for the team to be immediately surrounded by ''dozens'' of identical Brainiacs, all of which are identical extensions of the central consciousness. Yikes.
** However, after that only a small fraction of him survived in nanobot form {{spoiler|inside [[Lex Luthor]]}}, and the rest seemed to be his equivalent of spiritual essence. When the former was destroyed a fragment remained, but it was powerless and seemed to be genuinelly dead. The latter was fully reformed in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|but only as part of a resurrected [[Darkseid]]. His personality is now totally subsumed by the latter, and the latter was destroyed and even if he comes back}}, currently this Brainiac can be considered [[Deader Than Dead]].
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[[Category:Otherness Tropes]]
[[Category:Religion Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Immortality]]
▲[[Category:Fighting a Shadow]]
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