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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]].
This isn't to say there wasn't some accomplishment here. At the very least, he's gone for now. In some cases this can mean peace for years. And in some...days. Better spend that time researching a way to make him [[Deader Than Dead]] or at least find a way to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal him in a can]] so that he can't rise again to threaten the land.
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== Mythology and Religion ==
* [[The Bible|Jesus]] from Christianity and the [[Avatar
* The concept of an immortal soul, either via [[Reincarnation]] or a true afterlife, implies that this is the case for humans or indeed, all mortal beings, plant or animal.
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* In the ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series, ''you'' get to be this guy when you play as Raziel. Raziel is a creature of the Spectral Realm, so when he appears in the Material Realm (where most of the story and gameplay takes place), that is just a new body he creates every time he reaches full power. Every time you die in the Material Realm you simply show up in that same spot in the Spectral Realm, and either suck souls to regenerate your health or simply wait for it to happen on its own; once you reach full health you just need to find a portal and you can return to the physical world (and since time in the spectral realm effectively stands still, whatever killed you may as well have thought you just teleported). Die in the Spectral Realm and you will return to the Abyss, and can continue on from there.
* Midway through ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'', you fight against YHVH, aka God. Except it's not the real one, it's just a false image unconsciously created and empowered by the archangels. In the end, if you're not choosing the Lawful path, you fight the REAL one. And even if you win, He says He will not truly be defeated - as long as there are people praying to him, he will return.
** The same holds true to any demon or god in the series. Killing them doesn't stop them from showing up in any of the other games, or even later in the same game. (Often it gives you [[You Kill It, You Bought It|the right]] to [[Summon Magic|summon]] them as [[Mon
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== Web Original ==
* This is explicitly how at least the more worrisome types of demons (like the one {{spoiler|Phase fought in 'Ayla and the Grinch'}}) work in the [[Whateley Universe]]. It's one thing that distinguishes them from ''devils'', which are more like evil spirits that exist in the here-and-now in this setting.
* An ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' researcher [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-076-2-682\] has raised the possibility that this is the true nature of the [[Nigh Invulnerable]] SCPs [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682] and [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2].
* 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]].
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