Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Difference between revisions

"Well, it's supposed so: but, mind you, I don't believe it! The evidence is very weak—mere hear-say. A wandering Jester, with a Dancing-Bear (they found their way into the Palace, one day) has been telling people he comes from Fairyland, and that the Warden died there. I wanted the Vice-Warden to question him, but, most unluckily, he and my Lady were always out walking when the Jester came round. Yes, the Warden's supposed to be dead!" And more tears trickled down the old man's cheeks.'' }}

* A footnote in one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]], '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!''' books reveals that Cain was listed as "killed in action" and then showed up alive (and typically saving the day) so many times that the Munitorum finally gave up trying to keep track and kept him on the payroll regardless -- even long past his ''confirmed'' death ... and burial with full military honors.

* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], Corran Horn has been reported dead and turned up alive again so often (3 times in the five [[X-Wing]] novels he features in alone) that it has been joked that when he really dies, nobody will believe it and will assume he's just in hiding and will turn up again sooner or later.

* ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night Time]]'': Christopher's father told him his mother died. Then Christopher finds all the letters she's been writing to him since she left his father.

{{quote| '''The Doctor''': Have you been telling people I'm dead?}}

* ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'': "I see that the rumors of your demise were unfounded."

* Jonathan Doors is shot by a sniper in the pilot of ''[[Earth The Final Conflict]]'', protecting the Taelon ambassador Da'an. Turns out, it was all a setup. The sniper was working for Doors and was shooting blanks, as was the doctor who confirmed his death. The goal was to set up [[La Résistance]] to figure out the real reason the Taelons came to Earth. A few episodes later, Doors publicly outs himself, using a similar line to this trope.

 

* Some accidental premature publishings on cnn.com revealed that CNN at least has outlines and some graphics prepared for obituaries of famous people, like Dick Cheney and Queen Elizabeth, who have yet to die in anticipation of eventually having to get one up on short notice.

* In 1964, news bulletins widely broadcast a report that [[Nikita Khrushchev]] had died of "hecaphylphocatirosisus". Apparently, this went out when someone did not notice the notation "Can you confirm this?"

* Although he was never officially declared to be dead, a very popular meme in the late 1960s suggested that [[Paul McCartney]] had died in a car accident around the mid 1960s and was replaced by a lookalike, which really took off in the underground media. The fact that the 'evidence' for this theory largely seemed to stem from a number of obscure and oblique 'references' on [[Beatles]] album covers and in song lyrics suggested that large quantities of drugs being ingested probably had something to do with it, but the rumours bedeviled McCartney for years no matter how many times he denied them, including a variation on the Mark Twain 'quote' above: "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. If I were dead I'd be the last to know."

{{quote| "I wasn't really dead." (Paul to Chris Farley on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')}}

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