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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* The cast of ''[[Torchwood]]'' seem to get this a lot. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in that it's accepted by the characters that Torchwood agents are lucky if they live to see their first grey hair. Particuarly there's leader Jack, who is [[Immortality|immortal]]. You can make a case for whether he counts, since he ''doesn't'' usually survive, he just refuses to ''stay'' dead. His list of deaths to date include (but are in no way limited to): shot by a Dalek, thrown off a 100 foot building, being stuck on the outside of the TARDIS inside of the vortex, electrocuted, shot in the head, blown up via a bomb implanted in his stomach, encased in concrete, stabbed for days on end by Italians, poisoned... the list goes on.
** Also {{spoiler|Owen}}, who eventually ''does'' die. And comes back as [[The Undead|a sentient but not technically alive]], unhealing, never sleeping, never eating, incredibly grumpy corpse.
** Then there's Ianto. Survived the Dalek and Cybermen massacre of [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E13 Doomsday|Canary Wharf]] (may well have been the only employee of Torchwood One to come out alive and with their sanity intact), nearly killed by a pterodactyl, shot at, electrocuted by half-converted cyber-girlfriend, attacked by cannibals, Weevils... etc. {{spoiler|Eventually dies from a simple gas attack.}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Mass Effect 2]] opens with Shepard's death, where he/she is flung into bulkheads, suffocated by space, and then plummets to the surface of a nearby planet AFTER DYING. Everyone who meets him/her afterward notes that they all thought Shepard was dead. Subverted, though, in that Shepard actually DID die, but was brought back to life over the course of two years in a unique and extremely expensive process. Double-subverted in that there shouldn't be anything left to even salvage. If the corpse was just left in orbit, then there'd be a plausible explanation. But it was stated that the body fell from orbit. If the re-entry burn-up didn't utterly incinerate the body, the surface impact would have atomized it.
** Mass Effect 3 has the additional revelation that Shepard, along with being incinerated, battered and... well, ''dead'', was additionally {{spoiler|braindead as well. This leads to Shepard wondering if he/she's even still him/her, and not some AI that just thinks she is}}.
* [[Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven]], in a series of missions where you must kill the [[Big Bad]]'s little brother and right hand man, Sergio. Sergio goes on to survive four heavily planned assassination attempts through mostly dumb luck, and eventually Tommy just chases him down to his hideout and confronts him directly.
* Phoenix Wright, the original protagonist of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series. Aside from the near brushes with murder from Mafia hitmen, assassins, [[Amoral Attorney|Amoral Attorneys]], etc., he also survived {{spoiler|a hundred foot fall from a burning bridge into a fast-moving freezing river in the middle of winter}} with a bare fever and head cold. He was still hospitalized, but even that is pretty lucky.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Several examples from ''[[8-Bit Theater
** Later [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that [[A Wizard Did It|the Wizard That Did It]] wants to keep them alive for various less-than-altruistic reasons.
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