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** He comes back ''again'' from within Sasuke during his battle with Itachi, practically tasting revenge, ''except'' he's almost instantly defeated permanently. '''Then''' you see a snake that's obviously some sort of piece of him that can regenerate, '''''but''''' {{spoiler|the Amaterasu fire spreading all over ''[[Kill It with Fire|completely incinerates it]]''.}}
* ''[[Bleach]]'' is full of these, on both sides but especially with the heroes.
** You'd think someone would die if you do the equivalent of running them through a paper shredder. [[Aloof Big Brother|Byakuya Kuchiki]] does this to two different characters. Neither dies. Even the one character [[Killed Off for Real]] in the early series is
** Happens frequently enough with both protagonists and antagonists in the Hueco Mondo arc, one would think that the giant clouds of dust kicked up by the horrible attack ''du minute'' had incredible regenerative powers.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Etemon]] in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' is sucked into a space-warping... warp... thing that was apparently destroyed, but managed to bide his time and evolve before coming back as Metal Etemon. Vamdemon (aka Myotismon) is shot through the chest by Angewomon, but survives in order to fulfill a prophecy and has to beaten by War Greymon and Metal Garurumon.
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* In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]", the hero's envious brothers shove him down a well to kill him, and succeed in trapping him there.
** Similarly, the brothers in "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/412.htm The Bird Grip]" throw the hero into a lions' den, and in "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/368.htm The Golden Blackbird]", into a lake.
* In "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/212.htm The Story of Bensurdatu]", the hero is trapped at the bottom of the
* In "[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt1/pt113.htm The Brown Bear of the Green Glen]", John's brothers set on him, to kill him, but he recovers.
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* Inverted in ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]''. The Priest is blasted with EMP, frying most of his cybernetics, and is then electrocuted to a crisp. At the very end of the movie, he ''starts to rise from the floor'', and a frightened gasp comes from Jane... only to reveal that his body is actually just being hauled up on a pulley. "Just garbage. Get rid of it."
* A nameless character apparently killed in the ''first scene'' of ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' comes back for revenge about two hours later, only to be shot more decisively.
** Naturally, Sheriff Jed
*** Marshal (not Sheriff) Jed Cooper is Clint's character in ''Hang 'Em High''. The relevant character in ''High Plains Drifter'' is Marshal Jim Duncan. Second, Clint was "The Stranger", but not Jim Duncan; that role was played by Buddy Van Horn, who was Clint's stunt double on many occasions.
* Karl, Hans Gruber's second-in-command, in the original ''[[Die Hard]]''.
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* [[Sandman Slim]] teaches us that when you die in Hell you end up in Tartarus. Not to mention that the main character is virtually unkillable.
* In the tenth and final book of the [[The Pendragon Adventure]] series, every character who has died in or before the other books (including the main character who died at the end of the ninth) turns out to be resurrected in the exact condition (age, etc) they were in at the time of death, minus, of course, the cause of death, and they all band together to fight the [[Big Bad]].
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', there's a mild subversion where the hero ''knows'' the villain is
* Morjin in ''[[Ea Cycle]]'' survives {{spoiler|decapitation}}.
* Prince Andrei in ''[[War and Peace]]''. He's left in a village with other hopeless wounded after the Battle of Austerlitz, and the way the chapter ends suggests that he dies there, but of course [[Only Mostly Dead|he doesn't.]]
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{{quote|And, of course, Over-Befalhavare Venture didn't know the half of it.}}
* In the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novel ''[[Grey Knights|Dark Adeptus]]'', {{spoiler|Magos Antigonus}} survives getting his head pulped through {{spoiler|the use of [[Lost Technology]] to [[Body Surf]] through servitors}}.
* During the course of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', several of the major characters are thought to be dead at one point or
** If you include the First Age and the Second Age, it happens to Sauron often enough to border on [[Joker Immunity]].
*** On a far [[Stealth Pun|smaller]] scale, Frodo, too, has a sort of [[Joker Immunity]]
* ''[[Santiago: A Myth of The Far Future]]'' {{spoiler|inverts this in much the same way as the Phantom example}}. As one of his supporters cackles, after Santiago is quickly murdered by a bounty
* Cunégonde and Pangloss in Voltaire's ''[[Candide]]'': the former is raped and disemboweled; the latter is hanged in a [[Kangaroo Court]]. Both come back with a [[Lampshade Hanging]] .
* Bailey in ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' ([[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]) is thrown from a crashing coach and left insensible. His death is later reported to other characters. Guess who reappears at the denouement, with a bandage round his head, reeling about with comic concussion?
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** She's probably not quite dead either, but I guess we won't know till the next book comes out.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', "The Titan's Curse", the main antagonist Luke falls off an insanely high cliff on to the rocks below. Percy is sure he's dead, after all [[No One Could Survive That]] but alas, Luke is still alive.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Devil in the Moonlight" Conan is, it turns out,
** In "A Witch Shall Be Born", Taramis believes her sister dead.
* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "The Final Problem", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has Holmes commit a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by {{spoiler|throwing himself and the [[Big Bad]] Moriarty off Reichenbach Falls}}, but as we discover in "The Adventure of the Empty House", he didn't actually die.
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{{quote|'''Sylar''': Didn't I kill you?
'''Peter''': Didn't take. }}
** Arthur Petrelli used his super powers to knock {{spoiler|Hiro Nakamura}} over the edge of a building. When Arthur teleports away, assuming that {{spoiler|Hiro}} is finished, (because [[No One Could Survive That]]), the camera pans over to the edge of the building, where he seems to be dangling from a flagpole for dear life. Even [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] [[Evil Overlord
** Nathan Petrelli and Sylar both tend to invoke this trope at the end of every season. In all seriousness, these guys die at the end of a season and are usually confirmed alive by the time the next [[All There in the Manual|Graphic Novel]] comes out. This is taken to its (il)logical conclusion in the 3rd season finale ({{spoiler|Nathan is "resurrected" in Sylar's body}}), where both appear to be
* At the end of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "Amok Time", Spock resigns in disgrace after having killed {{spoiler|Jim Kirk}}. Tri-ox compound, my ass.
* When the ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "Great Barrier" aired, NBC let viewers vote on whether [[Magnificent Bastard|Nicole Wallace]] would be [[Killed Off for Real]] or given a [[No One Could Survive That]]. They chose the latter, and Nicole returned for a couple more eps.
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* Seriously, [[Power Rangers]] love this trope. In ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'', King Mondo is destroyed yet somehow he returns towards the end of the series, {{spoiler|only to be blown up again}}. Even after that he appears in ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]''. An earlier example in Zeo was when Adam assumed Rito and Goldar didn't survive the explosion of the Command Center. The viewers soon learned he was wrong.
* {{spoiler|Trakeena}} from ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' does a cross-series one. Surviving the events of the finale, {{spoiler|Trakeena}} appears in ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'' seeking to regain her former power.
* Zeltrax from ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' has to set some kind of record. His ''backstory'' is {{spoiler|being a former friend of Tommy's who was ''thought'' dead}}. He goes on to eat a [[Finishing Move]] at the end of a climactic battle against Tommy on his airship, which soon ''explodes'' from the damage it had taken during the battle. Dead, right? Nope, he comes back, though his mind isn't what it used to be. He eventually gets his own [[Super Mode]] and fights Conner's [[Super Mode]], and gets quite kablooified. ...and immediately stands up in his normal mode. Destroyed by ''all'' the Rangers in the penultimate episode... and reveals that he'd used a hologram to fake his death and had actually jumped out of the way of the combined-weapon [[BFG]] blast. We're ''pretty'' sure his defeat in the season finale was his [[Final Death]] (his ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' appearance was by way of [[Time Travel]].) but there's such a thing as [[Reunion Show
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* On her arrival in ''[[Something Positive]]'', Kestrel (from ''[[Queen of Wands]]'') is [[Look Both Ways|hit by a car]] and left a bloody mess in the street, with no one noticing. A few months later, she returns with head injuries, medical bills, and ''another'' not-so-secretly infatuated female best friend.
* This is one theory among many as to how Oasis keeps returning from the dead over and over again in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
* ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'': The Boy finds Prince Ricardo right after the "fall off the cliff" part. Not too startled when he surges to
{{quote|''WOW! You're the third-liveliest dead man I've ever met!''}}
* The page quote is parodied in [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/011123 this] [[Bob and George]] strip as well.
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== Western Animation ==
* Kenny in ''[[South Park]]'' does this often in Season 1, only to be killed seconds later.
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'', this occurs to the Shredder a grand total of four
** No Baxter Stockman? Its been lampshaded lots of times and he has practically died at least 5 times.
*** Done and averted in [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|the 87 cartoon]]; Baxter was supposedly killed once. Later it became more of a running gag for him to get stranded and not killed. Even his last appearance had him in a fate worse than death: [[And I Must Scream|stranded forever in interdimensional limbo]]. [[Alas, Poor Villain|And he was pretty]] [[Jerkass Woobie|sympathetic, too]].
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== Real Life ==
* (Possibly) Real life example: Rasputin was [[Rasputinian Death|poisoned, shot, beaten, shot a couple more times, and had his body dumped in a river]]
** He must have survived drowning then to die of hypothermia, that's how - at the post-mortem - they knew he was alive when they put'' 'his body' ''in the river: there was water in his lungs!
** He also had his belly sliced wide open in a previous assassination attempt, eliciting a cry of ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|"I have killed the Antichrist!"]]'' from his would-be murderer.
** [[But Wait! There's More!]]! It turns out that when they cremated his body, they forgot to cut the appropriate tendons in his body, thus, the heat caused them to contract, causing him to ''sit up''.
* Rapper [[Fifty Cent|50 Cent]] laughs at your [[Instant Death Bullet
* [[Simo Hayha]]. Finnish sniper in WWII had over seven hundred confirmed kills of Soviets, 505 with his sniper rifle and two hundred or so by submachine gun. They tried everything up to Artillery strikes to kill him. He finally took a bullet to the jaw and it exited the left side of his face taking most of it. His buddies commented half his head was blown off. He woke up a few weeks later and lived to the ripe old age of 96, dying in April
* A famous case in Belleville, Illinois. A teenager was attacked by the teacher she was friends with (and may have been having a relationship with) who broke her neck and then strangled her with a belt before dumping her body in the woods. Thirty hours later, in a driving rainstorm, the police found her body. Only she had somehow survived (her attacker pleaded guilty and went to jail for 20 years). I won't name the people involved, but look up Miracle Girl.
* Mark Linkous, leader of the band Sparklehorse, fell into a coma after mixing anti-depressants and sleeping pills in a London hotel room in 1995. He was found clinically dead with his legs pinned under him, and was lucky not only to be revived, but also to be able to walk again after six months of rehab. Linkous, who continued to struggle with depression and substance abuse, killed himself more decisively in 2010 by shooting himself in the chest with a rifle in an alley near a friend's house while intoxicated.
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