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* Neither he or [[Batman]] ever die, but [[The Joker]] tries, a lot.
** There was one time where the Joker killed himself to ruin Batman's reputation: ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''.
** In one [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] story, the Joker confessed to all of his crimes and allowed himself to be executed. His henchmen then stole the body and revived it. This left the Joker a free man as he had [[
* Hyde in [[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]] volume 2. He faces the tripods by Polka dancing, and when one of them fires at him, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he rips the alien out of its cockpit and eats it.]] This cause all the others to fire on him at once.
* Nerio Winch, Largo's adoptive father from the ''[[Largo Winch]]'' franchise is a good example of this trope. After a lifetime of [[The Chessmaster|pulling people on strings]] he even tries to use his death to his advantage and arranges for a co-worker he wants to get rid of to shoot him—too bad the guy sees through the scheme and decides to make it look like suicide instead, asking him what it feels like not being in control for the first time before he throws him off the roof. And in the end the old guy still gets the upper hand when it turns out that he has secretly adopted an heir (the protagonist).
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