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This trope usually exist in prequels and [[Interquel|Interquels]]. In them, characters from the original material usually appears on their younger ages, and like the new characters, they usually are forced to fight deadly battles against the enemy, and many of those battles are as nasty and brutal as they come, and many of them seems to result with the old characters dying and the villain laughing his ass off in triumph. But you know that whatever convincing they may try to make it look like, they're still alive and will not die since if they did die, the original stories that came first may end up with the [[Canon Dis Continuity]] stamp on their heads.
Constast [[Doomed
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== Literature ==
* In an interesting example of a character being [[Saved
== Film ==
* In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan ends with Anakin losing both his legs, savagly burned and left for death by Obi-Wan. If you watched the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, you know that Anakin will survive since if he died, it would mean no Darth Vader.
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* In ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', we already knew that Kyle Reese would survive Skynet because without him, no ''Terminator'' movies. However, in the original, unused ending would've subverted this trope: {{spoiler|[[Shocking Swerve|John Connor was originally going to die, and the Terminator would graft Connor's skin to become leader of the resistance.]]}}
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* Since ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'' takes place ten years before the first game, you know that most of the bosses will survive after you defeated them, especially Maleficent and Xehanort.
* In ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'', you already knew that neither Darth Vader or Emperor Palpatine would die in their duels with Galen Marek, or that none of the rebel leaders would be executed by the Imperials since the game takes place two-six years before the original trilogy.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'': ''[[Crisis Core]]'', Sephiroth, Aeris and Cloud are gonna survive no matter what, since if they died, then it means that the series' most successful game well might not have existed in the first place. {{spoiler|Zack}} however is [[Doomed
* [[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]] lampshades the survival of Revolver Ocelot by calling you out on creating a [[Time Paradox]] [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|if you actually]] [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|do kill him.]]
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