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In fiction, Death is relative [[Discworld|(no, not that kind of relative!)]] and [[How to Cheat Death|less than permanent]] at times. So just like [[Inferred Holocaust|survival is unlikely]] for some, death is unlikely for others.
Perhaps the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|popular]] [[Anti
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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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Harribel has been confirmed to survive, no real word on Grimmjow though one way or the other.
* 4Kids loves applying this trope in their dubs, even when in the original Japanese version it is blatantly obvious that the character died.
* Not that other companies are immune from this. [[
* Despite how most chose to [[Kill Them All|interpret]] the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End Of Evangelion]]'' {{spoiler|ends with this, as narration make clear anyone can regain their individuality if they want to}}.
* The fate of {{spoiler|Chrono}} in the epilogue of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. {{spoiler|He is shown to have survived the final battle with Aion, but was last seen seven years later at Rosette's death. His survival to the last point of the epilogue, sixty seven years later, is not proven. Still, ''somebody'' had to be leaving those flowers on Rosette's grave every year without ever being seen...}}
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** [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|K'kruhk]] is even worse. He later [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it:
{{quote| '''Cade Skywalker:''' ''"K'Kruhk! But... I thought you are dead!"''<br />
'''K'kruhk:''' ''"I died so many times before... [[Healing Factor|at least]] [[Or So
* Spock's death in ''[[Star Trek]] II'' was made non-permanent by a tiny little mind-meld with an unconscious McCoy.
** {{spoiler|Data's}} death in ''[[Star Trek]] Nemesis'' was given an out by {{spoiler|dumping all of Data's memories into B-4}}.
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* 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]].
* Anyone and everyone in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. No, seriously, ''everyone''. This is a setting where [[Unreliable Narrator|Unreliable Narrators]] are endemic (making it somewhat difficult to determine if they actually died in the first place), where the [[Sufficiently Advanced]] technology allows individuals to live as long as they damn well please, where the nature of [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|the Warp]] can make death a minor inconvenience, and where this has repeatedly occured before, characters dead as disco appearing later no worse for wear.
** [[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
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