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** Jack? Yeah, he's that guy who dies once an episode, right? Now, not to say he ''doesn't'' die often, but saying he does so ''that'' frequently on the show is definitely stretching the truth. The ''Children of Earth'' miniseries is a special exception, but realise that most of Jack's team didn't even know he was immortal until the final episode of series 1. Prior to {{spoiler|his constant state of suffocation and rebirth}} in "Exit Wounds" (which is another special example where {{spoiler|he feasibly died millions of times while buried alive}}), he died nine times in seven episodes, plus twice in a flashback of one of those episodes; barely a quarter of the episodes that had aired up to that point. {{spoiler|Following ''Children of Earth'', there were only two episodes in ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day|Miracle Day]]'' where he was shown to die, due to his new state of being mortal for much of that series, and one of those was only in a flashback}}.

*** In fairness, this is a little bit like A. J. Rimmer's roast beef. You'd hardly say that someone who eats roast beef nine times in two series is constantly eating roast beef, but anything more than one is a little on the excessive side, deathwise, so it's a justified trope. (Although actually, that much roast beef ''would'' be a little different, wouldn't it?)

* Ben Wyatt of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' won a brief measure of nationwide fame when he rode a wave of local anti-incumbent sentiment and got elected mayor of his town at the tender age of 18. He got some more fame when he bankrupted his town and got impeached after a month. Needless to say, he doesn't like being reminded of it, which any citizen with a search engine is happy to do.

 

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