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== Anime ==
* ''[[xxxHolic]]'' and ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' example- {{spoiler|Yuko Ichihara.}} A full explanation would require an eight paragraph course in semi-made-up-by-CLAMP-mysticism, [[Mind Screw|confusingness]], [[Gambit Pileup|multiple overly-complex-plan pileups]], and would leave you more confused than educated.
* Goes with the territory of the ''[[Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]''
* [[Bleach]]'s afterlife is a bit messy and it's a little hard to say exactly how it fits into this trope. For starters, there are Pluses, good spirits. They have three possible outcomes: A) Be sent to Soul Society by a Shinigami, B) Get eaten by a Hollow, or C) Become a Hollow yourself. For Hollows, you A) Get killed by a Shinigami, sending your now pure spirit to Soul Society, B) Get killed by a Shinigami, sending your evil-as-a-human spirit to Hell, C) Get killed by a Quincy, AKA, end of the line, D) Get eaten by another, stronger Hollow, or E) Eat other Hollows and eventually become stronger forms of Hollows. It becomes even more confusing when you get to the Soul Society...
* Happens ''by the wazoo'' in [[Saint Seiya]]'s Hades Saga. {{spoiler|To both good guys ''and'' enemies.}}
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* The end of [[Let the Right One In]] averts this trope in that {{spoiler|Eli is still "living" as a vampire at the end of the film. What's more, "she" now has Oskar with her whom she might turn into a vampire as well, or keep around as her new caretaker (it's never mentioned how old that father figure was when he first met here).}} It could be argued that before she met Oskar, Eli was unhappy with her vampiric existence, but meeting Oskar gave her a new lease on unlife.
* At the conclusion of ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', when Victor chooses to marry Victoria, the titular undead bride wishes them luck and then disappears into butterflies. Presumably she ascended to some higher plane rather than the afterlife seen in the movie.
* ''[[Frankenhooker]]''
* In the movie ''[[Fright Night]]'' (1985), Jerry Dandrige (vampire) and his ghoul servant end up dead, and Charley's girlfriend Amy (turned into a vampire) is returned to life.
** But subverted in the movie's final frames, where we learn that {{spoiler|Evil Ed was only playing possum.}}
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** On the other hand, there is only the word of an evil demon that signing it away would really work. Even if it did, there is another vampire with a soul running around and the prophesy is ridiculously vague...
*** The ''After the Fall'' comics revealed that {{spoiler|while Angel did indeed sign away his destiny, Wolfram & Hart never filed it. They still need him to flip out and kill everything.}}
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' plays it straight, surprisingly. While the reapers are indeed undead and stay that way for decades, they do eventually get to go to [[Heaven]]
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' had a particularly disturbing variant on this: Owen is turned into a kind of undead in the middle of the series and remains that way for several episodes until the end of the series. He can't feel pain, can't eat or drink (since food just settles in his stomach), any wounds sustained do not heal (and have to be sewn up weekly) and worst of all, he can no longer have sex. {{spoiler|At the end of the series, he "dies" when he is trapped in a nuclear reactor and [[Nightmare Fuel|his body literally melts into goo, with him remaining conscious until the very end]]}}.
* In one episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' a student from Buffy's school reanimates the body of his dead brother (who says he shouldn't have been brought back) and stitches together parts of different women to make him a girlfriend. Buffy and company are [[Debate and Switch|spared the moral dilemma]] of deciding his fate when a fire breaks out in the house and the corpse-brother dies while trying to retrieve his future bride.
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** The wraiths of ''[[Wraith: The Oblivion]]'' have three options: Oblivion, and utter destruction; [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|Transcendence]], and an ambiguous fate; or remain in the Underworld. Some older wraiths have been around for thousands of years.
* As a rule, undead in standard ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' are evil because they're animated by "negative energy." Even the completely mindless ones. Therefore, lesser undead tend to fall by the dozen before player characters, and greater (intelligent) undead are also in the queue to be eliminated eventually, usually as bosses of some stripe or another. Individual settings shake things up a bit more, with prominent lich and vampire NPCs in some, and whole nations that revere or employ undead in others.
** ''[[Eberron]]'' being particularly notable, where one nation, Karrnath, employs intelligent undead in its armies and whose king is secretly a
** Second Edition AD&D also had a unique form of Elven Lich that 'lived' for the sole purpose of hunting down other undead and destroying them. As this would clearly not be possible simply because they occur more rapidly than the elven kind can kill them, and that such endeavors are innately dangerous, it's not certain whether or not they would live that much longer than a normal elf would, especially in worlds where Elves can count their potential lifespans in millenia and not centuries.
** Shows up also in a host of [[Forgotten Realms]] modules and books, including several moments where the various undead elves complain about being dead for so long, despite canonically only approaching old age as an elf.
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