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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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== 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 much—if not the circumstances of ''Qilué's own birth''. Elué Silverhand was killed while possessed by Mystra, whom this accident neither deterred from acting immediately to save unborn Qilué, nor even lowered in [[Divine Ranks]]. This played out in 5th ed D&D and the Second Sundering, which saw Eilistraee's return to life, and in Ed Greenwood's own [https://web.archive.org/web/20170828103504/http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19841&whichpage=22#476639 explanation of what happened].
* 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]].
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