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* In the ''Tale Of The Five'' series by [[Diane Duane]], there is one day of the year where one can kill [[Satan|the Shadow]] but it returns immediately the day after and is said to be a waste of time.
* The [[Satan|Lone Power]] of the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series [[Time Dissonance|exists mainly outside of time]], so the protagonists usually have to be satisfied with only ever defeating the fragments of It which are inside of the timestream. Sometimes, however, the defeat has a metaphysical component which has a permanent effect on the [[Big Bad]].
* Sauron in Tolkien's ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' universe. It may take 2-3 millennia for him to come back, but only destroying the One Ring will permanently kill him (and even then he'll persist as a powerless spirit).
** All the Ainur (the [[Fantasy Pantheon]] of Middle Earth) are like this, with a few exceptions. [[God of Evil|Morgoth]] became so obsessed with ruling and then destroying the physical world that he became bound to a single physical body, though even that was still [[Nigh Invulnerable]] (rather than risk him coming back, the other Valar cut off his hands and feet and threw him into the void); the Wizards were deliberately bound into mortal bodies to limit their powers so they wouldn't be tempted to fight Sauron directly and risk [[The End of the World as We Know It]] (Gandalf was only able to come back with help, either from [[Council of Angels|the Valar]] or [[God|Eru]]).
** The Maiar ([[Big Bad|Sauron]], [[The Mentor|Gandalf]], Saruman) residing in Middle-Earth in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' can create material bodies for themselves, but when these are destroyed they can normally just make a new one, given enough time. That Saruman and Sauron can't is partly a result of the psychological degeneration that comes with a fall from grace.
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* In ''[[Fine Structure]]'', {{spoiler|Zykov was just the container for the local manifestation of the [[Big Bad]]. Killing himself wasn't surrender, it was just cutting out the middleman to [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]].}}
* In ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'', this is one explanation for the [[Big Bad|Master of Darkness']] return after his defeat a thousand years ago. Or he might have been [[Faking the Dead|faking]] [[Never Found the Body|it]].
* In the ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'', canon characters cannot be genuinely killed by fanfic. They can be made to think they're dead, but only their original author has the power of life and death over them. (Luckily this doesn't apply to fan-created characters, or the PPC's job would be much harder.) This has led to such unpleasantnesses as [[The Simpsons (animation)|Snowball II]] surviving being crushed by a car, [[The Lord of the Rings|Thranduil]] surviving being boiled alive, disembowelled and beheaded, and [[Redwall|Redtooth]] surviving having a spear forced an impressive distance into his lower intestinal tract.
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