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* ''[[Naruto]]'' has this trope mostly present in Part I, as Sasuke, Choji and Neji survived their [[Disney Death]] scenes, but this is balanced somewhat by the fact that most of the major villains also make it out, bar the [[Five-Bad Band]], [[Mooks]] and, crucially, the one exception of [[Big Good]] Sarutobi who dies fighting a surviving [[Big Bad]]. Then it's played with in Part II, where several noteworthy good characters die and several more appear to do so. Gaara gets [[Reset Button|brought back]] at the [[Heroic Sacrifice|cost of another's life]], the heroic sacrificer Chiyo staying dead. Several appear to be [[Killed Off for Real]] only to not be in the Pain arc, while Jiraiya and [[Heel Face Turn|redeemed Akatsuki member Konan]] really do die trying to take down respective [[Big Bad|Big Bads]].

* The only "good" character who dies in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' without being brought back to life or revealed to have been [[Faking the Dead]] is reluctant ally Murota, who is eaten by the Gourmet, while most of the heroes' opponents die after being defeated. Genkai dies at the end of the series, but only in the manga, and of apparently natural causes.

* The ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' anime got fairly bad at this: While the first season killed off a large amount of [[Sacrificial Lion|Sacrificial Lions]] and wounded a few secondary characters, none of the main cast died. And most of said Sacrifical Lions had an [[Unexplained Recovery]] in the show's second season, {{spoiler|and in the case of Nagamasa, the movie}}.

 

* [[Superman]] is one of these, as his death was just a big publicity stunt after all. Heck, even if they had the guts to kill off Kal-El (The original 1938 Superman) they've already announced plans to bring him back.

** Unlike many other titles, the Superman books were published continuously through the years, so there was no character left behind in the past to be reintroduced in an aged form from "Earth-Two." Kal-El was invented to fill the slot in "Earth-Two" for Superman.

* [[DC Comics]] subverts this trope with ''[[Blackest Night]]'', where most of the characters they've '''ever''' killed off -- including the Earth-2 Superman -- come back... as murderous zombies. Plus, they're not really back in body and soul, just a twisted echo of the person they were.

 

** Tellah's also the only one that you see die onscreen. Even {{spoiler|Cid}} has the courtesy to leave you behind before {{spoiler|exploding himself to seal the gate between worlds}}. {{spoiler|The twins}} being [[Taken for Granite]] doesn't stick, although how it is that Tellah couldn't fix the problem but the master from Mysidia could is just sort of [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]. A player-friendly version of [[No One Could Survive That]] is in full play, apparently

** The twins return is [[Justified Trope|Justified]]; They previously ''resisted'' attempts to turn them back from stone because then the [[Death Trap]] would kill everyone. When Baron is no longer under evil influence and the trap is turned off, they no longer resist and any attempt to fix them works.

* In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', Shirou has a supernatural ability to regenerate as part of his contract with Saber that makes him live through practically anything (short of a DEAD END, of course). By the end of "Fate", we learn this is because Shirou has Avalon embedded in him, which will bring him back from literally anything given that it has magical energy left. He loses its protection in both "UBW" and "Heaven's Feel" and the amount of "was practically killed but made miraculous comeback" all but disappears.

** He wouldn't die if he was killed.