Left for Dead: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]],'' Clone troopers shoot at Obi-Wan -- whoWan—who falls into water and is left for dead (despite knowing that Jedi can both fall any distance and breathe underwater (via what Kevin Murphy calls "his trusty 'air-monica'" in ''Rifftrax''). The clones simply remarked (literally): "[[No One Could Survive That|No One Could Have Survived That]]." Their [[Genre Savvy]] commander told them to continue searching.

** 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.}}

* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' has the Bride being [[Left for Dead]] after a truly vicious [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] courtesy of her four former partners, followed by a bullet in the head from Bill himself. She survives the entire thing, though it takes her four years of lying in a coma to recover from the ordeal.

** ''Kill Bill 2'' likewise features the Bride being [[Left for Dead]] -- ''literally'', by being [[Buried Alive]] in an actual grave and coffin... apparently ''many, many'' more than 6 feet underground; but she is somehow able to break out of her coffin and burrow upwards through apparently 20-30 fee of solid earth, to come back and [[Kill Bill]].

* {{spoiler|Sandor Clegane}}, of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', ''might'' apply here -- ithere—it's still not for certain if he's alive or dead, though there is evidence for either.

* In the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' season 1 finale, Sylar is [[Left for Dead]] after being run through with a samurai sword... and at the very end, no one seems to notice his body has suddenly disappeared, with a trail of blood leading to an open manhole nearby.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor is [[Left for Dead]] by an bloodsucking alien after she drained his blood. She was unaware that the Doctor possesses [[Bizarre Alien Biology|a dual vascular system]], so in fact she'd only gotten half his blood, leaving him weakened but ready to pop up and save the day.

* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' was NAMED for this trope. In both games, the setup is while the army was evacuating survivors of the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], and four immune survivors got there late, therefor being [[Left for Dead|Left 4 Dead]].

* ''[[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 From the Dead]], a situation [[The Empire]] finds as ''inconvenient'' because [[The Emperor]] would have to give up his throne). In the most extreme example, Fou-lu is explicitly targeted as Ground Zero of a [[Fantastic Nuke]], operated on the theory that [[Love Hurts]], and ''literally used Mami as a [[Human Resources|Fantastic Human Nuclear Warhead]] after torturing her to the point of suicidal insanity first SPECIFICALLY because of her relationship with Fou-lu''. This merely caused [[Blood From the Mouth]] and shoves Fou-lu across the [[Moral Event Horizon]] to full-blown [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] territory, with the [[King in the Mountain]] now wanting to conduct a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] because he's finally decided [[Humans Are Bastards]] after all. (The Fantastic Nuking is, notably, the only bit in this entire sequence where Fou-lu ''is'' literally [[Left for Dead]] -- becauseDead—because ''obviously'' [[No One Could Survive That]]...)

* 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.