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== Tabletop Games ==

* Very much in effect in the Kamigawa block in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. For example, here's flavor text of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74526 Yomiji, who Bars the Way] (a resurrecting Kami):

** The business of the Orzhov guild in Ravnica. They are loan sharks in the shape of an opulent church, and souls can be shackled in debt beyond the grave. [[And I Must Scream|Some souls are bound by their ancestors' debt]].

* Averted in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''. If a spirit doesn't want to return to the living world, no resurrection spell will work, no matter how powerful. The soul being revived even learns the name, [[Character Alignment]], and [[Religion of Evil|patron]] [[Saintly Church|deity]] ([[Nay Theist|if any]]) of the person raising him, and the nature of the spell or effect being used, allowing a well informed decision.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' with Prowl's master Yoketron on the verge of death, Prowl desperately places his fading [[Our Souls Are Different|spark]] inside one of the remaining protoforms, bringing him back to life. Yoketron is horrified at Prowl's actions, telling him that "one must never sacrifice a piece of the future in order to save a piece of the past" before extinguishing his spark.

* Parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' when Bender's head ends up getting left behind in 1947; the crew digs him up in the year 3000 for this exchange:

'''Bender:''' I was starting to enjoy it, until you guys came along. }}