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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]].
* Lampshaded in [[Fate Stay Night]] with {{spoiler|Kotomine. He}} doesn't come back and finish off {{spoiler|Caster himself, but her anxious reaction when Tohsaka flatly disbelieves that she could have killed Kotomine was amusing.}}
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** Notably, the Peep tactical officer on the scene, Shannon Foraker, is good enough that even this doesn't fool her entirely. Both she and her commander, Vice-Admiral Tourville, simply fail to voice any suspicions to their superiors, and delete the data in question that might lead to a more in depth investigation.
*** 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 [[Theres No Kill Like Overkill|carve the flesh off their bones and then destroy the bones]]. [[Big Bad|The Baron]] assumes they're dead, and pays them no mind. [[Curb Stomp Battle|It ends badly for him, his family, his allies]], [[God -Emperor|and eventually the entire universe]].
* 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".
 
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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 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]] -- 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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