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* ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'', Vita-Chambers.
* Being Bioshock's spiritual predecessors, the ''[[System Shock]]'' duology had these.
** With the important caveat that you had to activate them on each level, or you'd die. The second game also had a monetary requirement.
* ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'', New-U Stations. [[Played for Laughs]] as well.
* ''[[Eve Online]]'', cloning stations.
** Another MMO, ''[[Anarchy Online]]'', also have cloning stations that are only functional on Rubi-Ka, the planet's setting, due to the specific nature of the planet's make up. A popular sport ([[All There in the Manual|mentioned in supplementary materials]]) is committing suicide.
* The classes in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' reappear in the locker room. (This plays into [[Competitive Balance]] as the better a team does, the faster they can respawn. On Control Point maps, players of either teams get spawns closer to the next contested control point, and on Payload, the attacking team gets spawns closer to the Final Terminus.)
* The hospitals in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', which work by teleporting defeated heroes to safety upon defeat.
* [[Save Point|Home Points]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]''.
* ''[[Planet SidePlanetSide]]'' With a Justification, The Terran-Republics Research of the Warpgate systems Reconstruction-abilitys has discovered that a Person can Be reconstructed after death, thus turning the story into an [[Forever War|Endless War]]
* In ''[[Runescape (Video Game)|Runescape]]'' the respawn point for most players is in the first city Lumbridge, it's handwaved that the life stream that returns the player to life connects with the teleport way from the Tutorial Island to Lumbridge, so when the player comes back its in the same place. Some quests allow the user to change its respawn point to other cities.
** The respawn points are more or less hierarchical based on proximity to a bank. The Lumbridge point is furthest away. The Falador point is slightly closer, unlocked by an easy quest. The Camelot point is closer still, unlocked by a hard quest. The Soul Wars point is as close as you can realistically get, unlocked by the consensus hardest quest.
*** Being closer to a bank is highly desirable in that it allows players to gear up and rush to their corpse, which they'll have to do in order to recover their [[Continuing Is Painful|dropped items]].
* In ''[[Rohan Online]]'', Bindstones act as respawn points for players who die. Each major area in the Rohan setting has its own bindstone, which you can set as your own in order to respawn there after you die.
* Resurrection shrines in ''[[Guild Wars (Video Game)|Guild Wars]]''.
* ''[[Dystopia (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dystopia]]'' has a rather hazy example. If a person is equipped with a CCU, their mind can be reused in freshly cloned bodies that are sent to the spawnpads when they die. However, there have been reports of employers choosing to simply not respawn their soldiers. Even worse, there are rumors of corporations tampering with the minds of soldiers between the time that they die and the time they the new bodies are activated.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series - When you die you are transported to the nearest Hospital, and lose a set amount of money for the "costs of surgery".
* ''[[Red Faction]]'' Guerrilla - takes you to the nearest "Safe House", with a -3 drop in the Morale of the sector.
* The Tuurngait artefacts in ''[[Penumbra (Videovideo Gamegame series)|Penumbra]]''. "I felt like I left a part of myself in there..."
* In some parts of the ''[[Ultima]]'' series, a defeated party would be resurrected by Lord British in his castle. In ''[[Ultima VII]]'' they would wake up in a Fellowship shelter instead.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online (Video Game)|Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' has Spirit Binders, which can be found in any tavern. Once you've set your resurrection point, you can respawn at the tavern if you die during a dungeon crawl and your party has no means of raising you. There are also Resurrection Shrines which are found in dungeons and wilderness instances (along with Rest shrines) which can be used to revive dead party members whose Soul Stones are brought to the shrine in question.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', your character's ghost respawns at a graveyard; you then have the choice of resurrecting then and there for a penalty, or finding your body and reviving yourself there.
* Robot chutes in the multiplayer mode of ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'': The robots are mass-produced.
* Nanodrive restoration units in ''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]'' teleport you back to them in one piece, though they only work once.
* ''[[Unreal Tournament III3]]'': 'Respawners' are in widespread use, even changing the nature of war.
* Bonfires in ''[[Dark Souls]]''. It's part of the curse/blessing of the Dark Sign -- until you go permanently Hollow and insane, an Undead ''can't'' stay dead.
 
{{examples|Non-Video Game Examples:}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'': Rika appears between worlds as a part of her [[Groundhog Day Loop]].
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' uses it for {{spoiler|Rei}}.
 
== [[Comics]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Film/The Sixth Day|The Sixth Day]]'', clones.
* ''[[Groundhog Day (Film)|Groundhog Day]]'' - even when he dies he wakes up again in the bed & breakfast, as part of his [[Groundhog Day Loop]].
** The movie ''12:01'' (a more serious take on the same concept that was coincidentally released the same year) also has this.
* ''[[Moon (Film)|Moon]]'' - {{spoiler|big secret clone base on the moon}}.
* The Tall Man from ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' use his portals as this.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Cylon Resurrection Chambers from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]] 05''.
* ''[[Stargate SG -1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'', the Goa'uld are healed in their sarcophagi. (It also makes them go steadily insane.)
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' [[Forgotten Realms]] setting. Manshoon of the Zhentarim had many hidden chambers filled with clones of himself, kept in stasis. Any time he died, a clone would automatically activate and take over right where he left off. (This worked great until, by accident, a dozen clones activated all at once. Each claimed to be the real thing. This era of history became known as "The Manshoon Wars.")
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]] - [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2]. If completely destroyed, he automatically reforms inside SCP-076-1.
* Dark Pegasus in ''[[Dan and MabsMab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]]''. For security reasons.
 
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