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Closely related to [[Not Quite Dead]] and [[No One Could Survive That]]. See also [[Unexplained Recovery]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Happens too many times to count - [[What an Idiot!|and too many times to tolerate]] - in ''[[Bleach]]''. If any of the villains had ever had the good sense to cut off the loser's head, the series would be over around episode ten. But no, they always just walk away satisfied that the point was proven.
* Freeza in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' survives an exploding planet after being left for dead by Goku, after which it's [[Retcon|RetConned]] that he survives, and comes back to Earth (with a mechanised body) to exact revenge. In the end, however, he is easily killed by a super powerful [[Kid From the Future]].
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** In his first fight with Luffy, he impaled him in the chest with his hook and buried him in quicksand. Luffy survived thanks to the help of Mrs All-Sunday
** And in the second fight with Luffy, he drained all the moisture of Luffy's body, leaving him as a mummy. He still survived thanks to having [[It Makes Sense in Context|shot water]] to Crocodile before, falling into his dehydrated body and saving him.
* At the end of [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'s Watanagashi and [[Another Side, Another Story|Meakashi]] chapters, {{spoiler|Shion}} stabs {{spoiler|Keiichi}} and runs off laughing, only watching them collapse. [[Unexplained Recovery|They recover]], [[Mind Screw|but then...]]
* What Gin and Vodka do to Kudou Shinichi in the first chapter/episode of [[Detective Conan]]. Not suspecting the seven-year-old is him is one thing, but seriously? Walking away like that just because you'd fed him an 'untraceable poison?' You're supposed to be super-professionals at this game.
** And that's not even getting into how they clearly just sort of stuck the pill in his mouth and made no effort to actually force-feed him. Seriously, the anime shows the water they pour in to wash it down running straight out the other side again! Except he obviously did swallow it since [[It Was His Sled|he shrunk]].
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*** Given that the Emperor was alive and well and only died because Vader killed him, the choice to not kill Vader there saved the galaxy. Maybe Obi-Wan got a sense of that.
**** The novelization of the movie says that Obi-Wan sensed Palpatine's arrival and knew that if he and the others didn't leave ASAP they'd all be dead.
* 006 in the pre-credits sequence of ''[[
** This is a [[Played With Trope|weird example.]] 006 was shot point blank in the head by [[The Dragon|Ourimov]], so Bond was really only leaving a dead body behind in the explosion. {{spoiler|Or so he thought. 006 had Ourimov fake his death, a plan which almost went off the rails when 007 not only escaped, but lowered the timer on the planted explosives, nearly killing them all. In the end, 006 was only Left for Dead by accident and unknowingly on Bond's part.}}
* [[Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight]]:
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*** Closer to the trope, Haven's leadership as a whole has a colossal backfire from this when not only does Honor come back, but comes back after they broadcast her faked execution over every major network. It's hard to say whether the people she rescued or her own survival hurt Haven more.
* In the novel ''Relentless'', Morgan's lover Payton pushed her out of the way of a cave in. Unable to find help or to free him on her own, she held his hand until [[He's Dead, Jim|it went cold]], and then left. When he shows up years later {{spoiler|as The Thresher}}, she is understandably astonished, and he, of course, resentful that she didn't try hard enough to save him.
* This happends quite a bit across the enitre ''[[Dune]]'' series, though most notable when [[The Hero|Paul]] and [[Action Mom|Jessica]] are left for dead after flying right into a storm that was meant to [[
* The Japanese novel ''Black Rain'' by Masuji Ibuse follows a Hiroshima family who were victims of the nuclear bomb. At one point they encounter another family who, panicking and unable to free their nine-year-old son from their burning house, flee and leave the boy for dead. Eventually the kid manages to free himself, and, in what must surely be the [[Understatement]] of the year, his reunion with his family is described as "rather awkward".
== Live
* In the ''[[Lost]]'' season 4 finale, the Others, who really ought to know better, leave {{spoiler|Keamy for dead, not taking into account the body armor he's wearing.}}
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'' - ''Born Under A Bad Sign'', if [[Demonic Possession|Meg!Sam]] had actually checked that Dean had actually drowned instead of checking and then leaving, s/he could have enjoyed Sam's body for a hell of a lot longer.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' places the [[Not Quite Dead]] blunder on the heroes' shoulders - when {{spoiler|protecting the Dark Crystal in the Dwarven Castle}}, Cecil and company are taken out one by one from Golbez's Shadow Dragon. {{spoiler|Rydia}}, previously thought dead ([[Arbitrary Headcount Limit|not uncommon in this game]]), appears and takes out the dragon just before it can kill Cecil, allowing them to turn the battle around and fell Golbez. The party is so overjoyed that {{spoiler|Rydia}} is still alive that they start to leave [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|without checking how alive Golbez is]] - he manages to get up, grab {{spoiler|the Crystal}}, and warp out.
* In the first ''[[Overlord]]'' game it is revealed towards the end that {{spoiler|the player was left for dead in the Tower by his companions, the fallen heroes you've been killing}}.
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV'' possibly takes this trope to its extreme in the [[Trauma Conga Line]] of attempts by [[Evil Empire|the Fou Empire]] to kill its [[King in the Mountain]] and ''literal'' [[God-Emperor]] Fou-lu (who has recently come [[Back
* This trope serves as the set-up for the Courier in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''.
** In the attacker's defense, he did ''shoot the Courier in the head'' (it might not have gotten deep into the brain, but still), and then buried him. Just, that wasn't enough to kill the Courier (or even necessarily cause any real permanent brain damage), and someone was on hand to dig the Courier out and bring him to a doctor as soon as the bad guys left.
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== Web Comics ==
* Kusari [https://web.archive.org/web/20081227181802/http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010304 leaves Oasis for dead] after their first battle in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Oasis actually ''does'' die from her wounds, but dying has [[Death Is Cheap|never slowed her down much]].
* Luke from ''[[Freak Angels]]'' took a shotgun to the chest at point blank range. Averted when Jack followed this up by putting a bullet directly through his brain before dumping him in an alley {{spoiler|And then he came back anyway.}}
** {{spoiler|Mark}} also comes back after being {{spoiler|shot, dumped in a river, and}} supposed dead.
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* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[The Lion King]]'': Simba is Left For Dead in the middle of a burning desert, only to be later rescued by Timon and Pumbaa.
** Simba was supposed to have been finished off by the hyenas, but they blundered this (as usual) -- and of course weren't going to tell Scar about their failure.
* Peter Griffin's fights with the giant chicken in ''[[Family Guy]]'' end with Peter finally triumphing over the chicken and leaving. Then the camera zooms in and the chicken opens one eye over a [[Sting (music)|Sting]].
** Peter never thinks to wring its neck and make a chicken dinner (though they did make peace and [[Go-Karting with Bowser|have dinner together]] at one point, but [[Here We Go Again|then they started fighting over the check]]).
* Morto does this after a round with the titular hero in ''Birdman''.
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* In ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', the title character actually died after being Left for Dead. It's not really an aversion, though, given that she still manages to be a main character and all.
* In ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' Modula was genuinely believed dead by the king, but Modula considers it abandonment.
* In ''[[Shrek the Third]]'', Prince Charming seems to perish in the end, smashed flat when Dragon knocks an entire tower over that falls on him. But it seems he somehow survived, as he appears briefly at the end of the ''Thriller Night'' short.
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[[Category:Death Tropes]]
[[Category:Plot Twist]]
▲[[Category:Left for Dead]]
[[Category:Resurrection Tropes]]
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