Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Difference between revisions

* An episode of ''[[Millennium]]'' focussed on a conspiracy among mothers murdering their daughters. The incident that began the episode was a plane crash, fatal to everyone onboard, caused by one of the mothers. At the crash site there was an overly abundant amount of butterflies, said to be attracted by the chemicals in tears.

* In episode 5 of ''[[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]]'', the civilian girlfriend of Owen, a secret Division operative, is an artist and makes stained-glass butterflies. Obviously, by the end of the episode, {{spoiler|she's killed in the crossfire between Division operatives, Owen, and Nikita.}}

* From ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'': One character, Dr. K, has been raised in a secret government think tank named Alphabet Soup under the pretense that she suffered from a sunlight allergy. A butterfly one day appears on her keyboard while she works on the Ranger suits. She follows it as it flies away towards an opening in the wall in which the sunlight shines through. She looks at her hands and realizes that her handlers have lied to her the whole time about the sunlight allergy. She attempts escape along with her only friends Gem and Gemma by wirelessly uploading a sentient computer virus named Venjix in hopes that it would blind the security servers long enough for them to escape. However, before she can install the firewall which would contain the virus to the compound, guards take her and her friends away. In a span of three years, Venjix has destroyed every human city (except Corinth), killed almost every living thing, and destroyed almost every biome on Earth. [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], indeed.

* On ''[[The Fades]]'', butterflies are heavily associated with the Angelics' [[Healing Hands|powers of healing]] -- people who have been successfully healed are shown puking out a butterfly, and Paul's resurrection in the fourth episode produces an entire swarm of butterflies. In addition, Fades are shown becoming Reborns by breaking out of sticky cocoons, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' has some butterflies at one of the artworks. It ''might'' mean that the dream world of Ivalice was born, but then dies at the end of the game.

* One of the quests in ''[[Romancing SaGa]]: Minstrel Song'' is appropriately called 'Creepy Butterfly', and involves a young wife being tormented by a strange butterfly visiting every night. Turns out it's the spirit of her father, who she thought abandoned her family after her mother grew deathly ill. He actually died searching for a cure; learning this helps her let go of her grudge, and allows him to move on.

* They come up frequently in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', down to the names of the various AI weapons corresponding to stages of butterfly growth.

* Evacaneer DOOM, [[True Final Boss]] of ''[[Ketsui]]'', has a set of energy wings that seem designed to evoke butterfly imagery. In this case, it's the '''death''' aspect being referenced more than rebirth, as DOOM is [[Harder Than Hard|going to kill you a lot no matter how good you are]].