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* Harry Kim from ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' and his habit of dying and coming back to life. It's been exaggerated by the fans, though, to the point where someone who only knew the show through its fans would think Harry's grave says "Harry Kim: Born: 2341. Died: 2371, 2372, 2373, 2374..."

** The same could be said of [[Stargate SG 1|Daniel Jackson]]'s many deaths/resurrection/ascension (although that last one only happened twice). It's lampshaded in the series itself. [[The Other Wiki]] used to list them; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Jackson_(Stargate)&oldid=236270772 it's about 22 times.]

** Everett Young beat the crap out of Rush and left him to die on a desolate planet. The civilian population on the ship [[The Mutiny|didn't take it too kindly.]]

** It was addressed before then - one earlier episode showed them to have ''somehow'' got up a staircase without it actually being shown on screen.

** And in some quarters it's ''still'' what the Daleks are most famous for, despite the fact that the Daleks in the new series spend half their time flying around like nobody's business.

** Similarly, any discussion of "Classic" (1963-89) Doctor Who will feature a lot of people talking about "shaky sets and monsters made of bubblewrap". One particularly dedicated fan has watched every episode of Classic Who available on DVD (which includes most of the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker era that most people are recalling), and counted exactly '''one''' incident of each of those.

** The Doctor, especially the Third, is often referenced by his supposed catchphrase: "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!" Which the Third Doctor said exactly two times, ''eleven years apart'', as well as once more in a play. The Fourth and a clone of the Eleventh ([[It Makes Sense in Context|going through other phrases of his incarnations]]) used it once and the Fifth and the Tenth twice.

** Rory has been referred to ''in-show'' as "the man who dies and dies again." He's only done it for real once. He's just... very good at creating the ''illusion'' of death. By accident. Lots.

** Rose Tyler eats lots of chips. She doesn't, they're mentioned in her first two episodes, then she eats some in her first finale and School Reunion. But fans are convinced.

* Many ''[[Lost]]'' fans tend to ignore Michael's more positive (or at least less negative) traits after his [[Moral Event Horizon]] moment in season 2 (i.e., {{spoiler|murdering Ana Lucia and Libby}}) and feel content with labeling him a [[Complete Monster]] because of it. While the act was certainly indefensible (which makes this a partial case of [[Justified Trope]]), fans gloss over the fact that having your son kidnapped by strangers on a weird island doesn't exactly make a loving parent rational, nor did the fans acknowledge what he did AFTERWARD, which contradicts the assumption that he's an amoral, heartless bastard. This includes never ending guilt for doing the aforementioned act, which sparked numerous suicide attempts, and a last ditch effort to help the friends he betrayed on the island. Hell, even Hurley later forgave Michael for what he did, despite him {{spoiler|killing Hurley's girlfriend Libby}}. Good luck finding fans who feel the same way Hurley did.

** Jack is rather well-known for his frequent emotional outbursts (Jears) around the interwebs. In the actual show, he's a mostly-stoic character (for the first few seasons, anyway) who relies on logic and rarely tells people how he feels.

** Amusingly enough, most people tend to forget that in the ''Riding with Death'' episode, Mike himself makes a suggestive joke shortly after reprimanding Crow, who responds "And you think '''I'm''' bad?".

** In-universe example on MST; [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]].