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** Earlier in the film, Lampy used himself as a lightning rod to recharge a battery, and appeared to "die" in the process. He appears fine in the next scene outside a somewhat charred nossle and nasty cough.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', Robin "dies" in a hail of arrows while swimming across the moat, sinking under the water and the bubbles slowing until there are none. It turns out Robin had a reed, which he breathed through until it was safe to surface.
* One especially notorious Disney example is ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]''. Chief falls down a cliff, bounces off about 6 or 7 rocks on the way down, and... he's dead. But wait! After a terrifying chase scene for Todd, Copper goes back and it turns out that Chief just has a ''broken leg''. He fell down a cliff and he gets away with just a broken leg.
** Even the makers of the film argued over whether he should have really died. The supporters for his death even cited that as well as falling off a cliff, he was almost hit by a train. One excuse for his survival was that they'd never killed a character onscreen in a Disney movie before and weren't going to start with him.
* In Disney's version of ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'', {{spoiler|Gurgi nobly sacrifices himself, but then Taran trades the black cauldron to the witches in exchange for bringing Gurgi back, [[A Wizard Did It|with magic.]]}}
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* In Disney's [[Affectionate Parody]] of its own canon, ''[[Enchanted]]'', Giselle takes a bite of a poison apple and "dies". The only way she can be resurrected is through [[True Love's Kiss]], and before [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve|the clock strikes 12]]. Prince Edward happily goes over to kiss Giselle, but it doesn't work. {{spoiler|It takes Robert's kiss to awake her. But there's still a climactic battle before the movie ends.}}
* The 1998 ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' gives the title character one.
* In ''[[The Sorcerer's
* In ''Not Quite Human 2'', we get a Robot Disney Death when the android Roberta seemingly "dies" in Chip's arms from a lack of power. In her case, this means that she will lose all her memories and return to her original state. After Roberta's "death", Chip reveals that he read all of her data with his magnetic finger and saved it to a floppy disk, preserving Roberta's memories and personality.
* In ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]'', John Brown is fatally injured when Sanford Scolex blows him up with a victory cigar ([[Xanatos Backfire|and the explosion sends a bowling ball in the same car as Brown onto Scolex's hand]]). Brown is turned into a cyborg to save his life. Later in the film he gets a Robot Disney Death when Claw crushes his chip, only for Brenda and Penny to locate him in the junkyard on the outskirts of Riverton and for Brenda to kiss him back to life, proving he didn't need his chip to survive after all.
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* In ''[[Angel Beats]]'', {{spoiler|Yuri is assimilated by the shadows. Unlike Takamatsu, though, she barely escapes with her soul.}}
** The series practically defines this trope, since anytime someone dies, they come back to life a few hours later.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'' loved this trope, the most notable example being Himari, who {{spoiler|died at least 3 times but was brought back each time and ultimately lived in the end. Masako also died twice only to be brought back both times, and Kanba was severely injured by bullets in episode 21, but was okay with a few bandages by episode 22.}}
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' this is basically what happens to the named characters in most narratives accompanying games - they are knocked out, sent through accidental warp portals, teleported away just before death, badly wounded but recovered by medics after the battle, temporarily banished to the Realm of Chaos or any number of fates that can be recovered from. It even makes it clear in the rules that casualties don't automatically equate to dead. When a character is [[Killed Off for Real]] it's usually a major event or storyline progression and doesn't stop them being used in historical refights, but this is strongly tempered with [[Status Quo Is God]] (as well as the fact that if the characters stay alive, people will [[Crack is Cheaper|keep buying the models]]),
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{{quote|'''Linguica:''' You fag! I'll kill you for killing me!
'''MassMouth:''' Why doesn't anybody stay dead around here? }}
* Albert Wesker gets impaled and apparently dies on-screen in the first ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', yet continues to operate from the shadows in later games. The on-screen death is sort-of retconned in the [[Nintendo
** Ada Wong also "dies" in both of her scenarios of ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', only to return to throw the player a rocket launcher during the penultimate battle. She lives on to be one of the driving forces behind ''[[Resident Evil 4]]''.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' {{spoiler|Link's uncle gives a speech about his and Link's time together before he passes out. During the end credits it shows that he's alive and well in the house}}.
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