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** The original ''[[Dragonlance]]'' modules for ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' suggested this tactic to the Dungeon Master, as the [[Myth Arc]] of the adventures relies on several key NPCs surviving until the end.
** Module 16 ''Ravenloft''. In the [[Backstory]], Tatyana threw herself from the walls of Ravenloft castle and disappeared in the mists. Her body was never found. She appears in the module in another body, under the name Ireena Kolyana.
*** This is later expanded in the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting. Strahd continually obsesses about Tataya, even centuries after her supposed death, and for his crime he is continually haunted by her image, or women that look just like her. Even if she somehow survived, the Dark Powers torment him endlessly with the possibility that he can find and have her, even though in the end, [[Self-Inflicted Hell| he never will.]]
* The ''[[GURPS]]'' Advantage ''Extra Life'' is designed so that "no matter how sure your enemies are that you have been killed you'll come back". Of course, for purposes of game balance you have to pay points of each Extra Life.
* Encouraged for Game Masters in the PDQ-system superhero game ''Truth & Justice.'' Where heroes get Hero Points to spend on bursts of luck and desperation-fueled skill, villains get Villain Points to spend on "really" being robot clones (and thus never being in the fight in the first place), to have their body never be found, or to make miraculous escapes from prison. Given the free-form nature of power acquisition in the game, it's entirely reasonable to have "Body Never Found" be a standard power for some villains, as a form of [[Joker Immunity|immortality]].
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* In ''[[Hong Kong Action Theatre]]'', a character with the Mysterious Death signature move never dies in a way that would leave no doubt, and usually involves something that engineers a Never Found the Body situation. Then, upon spending all your Chi pool or a number of Star Power points, the character can come back.
* When someone in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' dies and doesn't leave a corpse, chances are they just became a planeswalker.
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