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Perhaps the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|popular]] [[Anti-Hero]] was [[Left for Dead]] in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] [[No One Could Survive That|that no one could survive]], but since they [[Never Found the Body]], and he already had a penchant for [[Faking the Dead]], their survival [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness|isn't so far fetched.]]
Basically, any time an author leaves the door ajar on a character's death to [[First Law of Resurrection|later bring them back]] [[Staying Alive|plausibly]] if [[
See also the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness/WMG|Sorting Algorithm of Deadness]] for the odds of some characters returning.
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** Apparently the characters in ''X-Men'' are pretty [[Genre Savvy]], since her tombstone reads: Jean Grey-Summers: She Will Rise Again.
** It's gotten to the point where they're barely phased at all by dying anymore. One of Cyclops's plans began with "Step 1: Die. Step 2: Come back to life," and works flawlessly. Another character remarked that Mutant Heaven doesn't have pearly gates, but a revolving door.
* Used in character by Siryn in ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]].'' She refuses to believe her father is dead because X-Men come back from the dead all the time. This is partially treated as unhealthy denial but otherwise seems a logical enough assumption to make.
* Corsair was one of the victims of the "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire" arc, but unlike the various people who suffer deaths that are ''far'' more gruesome than X-Men's normal (though not to [[Gorn]] levels) his corpse was very non-brutalized. He was then buried on a habitable but uninhabited planet. ''Hmm.''
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** Shaak Ti is in the same situation. Her established history of cheating death (her death was intended to happen 2 or 3 times previously to this) doesn't hurt either.
** [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|K'kruhk]] is even worse. He later [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it:
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'''K'kruhk:''' ''"I died so many times before... [[Healing Factor|at least]] [[Or So I Heard|that's what I heard]]."'' }}
* Spock's death in ''[[Star Trek]] II'' was made non-permanent by a tiny little mind-meld with an unconscious McCoy.
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== Literature ==
* Powerful magicians in the [[Riftwar Cycle]] tend to find new ways to either survive death as essences of the original, or simply revive straight-out. Though this is often used to bring back a popular character after he or she died in the last series, it also serves, at times, to reinforce the permanence of death for non-magical characters.
* {{spoiler|Sandor Clegane}} in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. He is explicitly stated in ''A Feast for Crows'' to be dead and buried by the priest who found him dying. Clues within the chapter in question suggest otherwise to such an extent that his survival is widely accepted among readers.
** {{spoiler|Gregor Clegane}} may count as well, for varying values of "alive."
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Goddess [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Eilistraee Eilistraee] in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', killed along with [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Qilue_Veladorn Qilué Veladorn] whom she possessed. Even "lesser" powers like her may run multiple avatars. But then, possession ain't the same as avatar, so it would be stretched, but not too
* Anyone and everyone in ''[[Warhammer
** [[Word of God]] has stated that characters will not be killed off as they were before, as not only does it upset the [[Status Quo Is God|state that the storyline has settled into]] and also make it a pain to knit together planned story arcs, people do genuinely get attached to characters and don't want to have them consigned to "historical battles". [[Crack is Cheaper|Oh, and it's silly to kill off characters you still make models for]].
== Live Action TV ==
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* A weird inversion of [[Never Found the Body]] has lead many to believe that {{spoiler|Minamimoto}} from ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' survived. The things is that Reapers normally ''don't'' leave bodies, but they found {{spoiler|his}}.
* In ''[[Advance Wars]]: Dual Strike'', the deaths of {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Von Bolt]] and [[Taking You with Me|Hawke]]}} do this. It's certainly implied enough that {{spoiler|Hawke}} survived, but {{spoiler|Von Bolt}}'s survival is ambiguous.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had the Toughs' former medic Dr. Todd ("Lazarus") Lazkowicz die of a low-caliber headshot, after which his body was packed into a "coffinpedo" and fired at the nearest star. Then we discover he was a fugitive UNS researcher. Then we discover he performed [[Brain Uploading]] into a cryokit, which requires not only ability to heavily and illegally modify low-grade AI (possibly more complex than that of a torpedo variant ''not'' intended for combat at relativistic velocities in heavy countermeasures), but actually having a nanobot interface in his brain. And the "magical cryokit" is capable of administering secret extreme and subtle augmentations. Then we discover his job was doing exactly this as a part of immortality-via-brain-backup project. Then get to see a man using augmentations from "magical cryokit" revived several times after fatal injuries and another using one of the products derived from that project (far more limited than the cryokit's weaponized version) was alive and kicking after a headshot in a few minutes… Of course, he ''could'' opt for "do not resuscitate", but at which point did this hit "[[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]" mark?
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* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with Terra in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''; the writers did it intentionally.
* Expected with Jet in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', but [[Word of God]] actually stated he died. May apply to Smellerbee and Longshot though.
** Not that it stops the fans from crying out that
** Well it is a kids show. It's not suprising they don't want kids to die brutal deaths. The ambiguity is lampshaded when they attend a [[Show Within a Show]] play based on their adventures to date:
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''Sokka:'' It's a bit unclear. }}
* ''[[Beast Wars]].'' Very few "dead" characters suffered more damage than surviving ones who were tossed into a CR chamber and popped out just fine. Except for {{spoiler|Dinobot, and maybe Tigerhawk if he was completely vaporized}}, there's not one of them who wouldn't be just fine if someone were to find them and fix them up. In the comics, it's ''already'' happened to Ravage. {{spoiler|The second Dinobot is even ''last seen on a ship that is going down,'' which is shorthand for "just wait three episodes or so" in cartoon-land. There just... weren't any more episodes.}}
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