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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 ''[[GoldeneyeGoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]''
** 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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* ''[[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 Fromfrom 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 the Real Monsters]] after all. (The Fantastic Nuking is, notably, the only bit in this entire sequence where Fou-lu ''is'' literally Left for Dead—because ''obviously'' [[No One Could Survive That]]...)
* 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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* [[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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