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{{quote|''"What exactly do you think you're doing? ... Young man, I am dead. I was killed in what, for me at least, were fairly unpleasant circumstances. It hurt. It was deeply upsetting and painful. However, it happened. I am dead. If you bring me back to life, my death will have no meaning... I lived a good life, and it ended. Would you take that away from me?"''|''' {{spoiler|Fiddler's Green}}''', ''[[The Sandman]]''}}
A character is dead, or comatose, and for whatever reason isn't happy about being revived from that state.
It also applies to less lethal circumstances - a character who deliberately vanished by hiding or faking their death is unhappy to have to return.
See also [[Unwanted Rescue]], [[Came Back Wrong]].
Obviously, to be brought back from the dead somebody has to have already been dead, so this is technically a [[Death Trope]]. This means there are unmarked spoilers below, so tread at your own risk.
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== Comic Books ==
* Kane Creole, a second gen [[Expy]] clone of Elvis Presley from DC Comics' ''Thriller'', becomes a criminal who robs banks while singing an Elvis-like song. He kills the people that cloned him, claiming that "They robbed my grave."
* In the semi-canon ''[[Transformers]] Mosaic'' comics, an [[Wild Mass Guessing|interesting]] possible story details the ultimate fate of UK-Marvel Galvatron after the Time Wars: {{spoiler|After drifting in timelessness while near death, finally at peace, he is dumped on Cybertron in the distant past, where a group of trying-to-be-helpful cybertronians repair him, giving him his "Gold Megatron" look that he had once, despite his wish to die peacefully. He was [[Stable Time Loop|forced to relive his descent into insanity again]].}}
* ''[[Superman]]'' villain Hank Henshaw / Cyborg-Superman has long been a [[Death Seeker]], as his origin story was a take on the [[Fantastic Four]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], and he was forced to see his friends and loved ones die while knowing he truly couldn't. After joining the [[Sinestro Corps War|Sinestro Corps]], it looks like he might finally get his wish, and he ''thanks'' those who are about to kill him. Then his servants find his disembodied head floating in space, and as they begin the process to reconstruct him, he sheds a single tear...
* In the Spider-Man books recently, {{spoiler|Kraven the Hunter has become such a character, being brought back to life by his ex-wife, in a flawed ritual that has made him more like an undead. He wasn't exactly happy about it}}.
* The Punisher MAX story Six Hours to Kill. At the end of the six hours, he's just annoyed, wondering why the hell he isn't dead yet, and when he feels it coming he calls it the most beautiful thing ever. And then the people who killed him bring him back. He says he wakes up and realises he's still in hell.
* {{spoiler|Dirk Anger}} of ''Nextwave'' is not particularly happy that he was brought back from the dead as a zombified corpse. Or that his organization won't even feed him brains.
* {{spoiler|Fiddler's Green}} from [[The Sandman]] is brought back from death by Dream, only to politely decline. Not because his life was in any way unhappy, but rather because without death, it would have no value.
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* [[Sliders]] did this in a first season ep where Rembrandt's double was the equivalent of Elvis, and a lot of fuss was kicked up over our Remy suddenly showing up. The local version of Rembrandt came around to set the record straight and was actually willing to let him take over until he realized how much cash was in the mix, stealing Remy's thunder at his return show, much to Remy's disappointment.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is all over this (and [[Death Is Cheap]]). Dean and Sam keep yelling at each other about it, though it has more to do with each of them endangering themselves for the other than the place they were in being so good ({{spoiler|Dean was in Hell, and Sam was ''stuck with the devil'', which was arguably worse}}). It got so bad that {{spoiler|Sam asks specifically not to be brought back from the hole with Lucifer, and Dean reluctantly agrees}}. In season 6, while not specifying it, {{spoiler|Samuel and his family at least didn't ask to be brought back, let alone to work for the new self-appointed "devil".}}
* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', {{spoiler|Owen Harper}} isn't very happy when Jack uses the resurrection gauntlet to bring him back. Understandable, being a walking corpse isn't much of a life.
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{{quote|''"As I died, I rejoiced. I would see my family again. But then I woke up back on the battlefield. Back in Kamigawa. Back in hell."''}}
** The business of the Orzhov guild in Ravnica. They are loan sharks in the shape of an opulent church, and souls can be shackled in debt beyond the grave. [[And I Must Scream|Some souls are bound by their ancestors' debt]].
* Averted in ''[[Dungeons
** Of course, there's nothing to prevent someone from manipulating the resurrector, mundanely or magically. The protocol will tell the spirit the above information, and nothing else.
== Video Games ==
* In [[Phoenix Wright|Phoenix Wright: Justice for all]], when {{spoiler|Edgeworth "came back from the dead" and showed his face again to Franziska, she said that he soiled the Von Karma's name and dragged it through the mud}}. Gee, and you'd think Franzy couldn't get any colder...
** Phoenix was also offended {{spoiler|by his return, saying "It was better for everyone if you never came back from the dead, Edgeworth!"}} Ouch.
** OF course "came back from the dead", here, means {{spoiler|returned after faking a suicide note and running away because he didn't know what it meant to be a "real prosecutor" and wanted to do some soul searching.}} It sort of changes the context.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' 4, Solid Snake wasn't exactly pleased to see {{spoiler|Big Boss}} alive again. But he did feel kind of sorry for him.
* A major point in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'''s [[Big Bad]]'s plot is the resurrection of his sister- a double take of this trope: Not only do all the forces of good not want her back (Even her fiance, [[Turncoat|Yuan]]), but for the brief moment when she does come back, she merely hands her brother the [[What the Hell, Hero?]] treatment he deserves, and then is relieved to go back to being dead.
* Karurawaturei, princess of the Giryagina clan in [[Utawarerumono]] went missing ten~ years or so ago or more when her country underwent a civil war, leading to the near extermination of her clan. Her brother assumed she was dead, and she was fine with that. However, she's forced to return because she still cares about her people, revealing that she's still alive and well. After the war is over and her brother put in charge, she vanishes again so she can return to living a simpler life.
* [[Planescape: Torment]] - By roughly halfway through the game, at least, this is the Nameless One's opinion of having been seperated from his mortality. Even discovering that his first incarnation committed deeds of such hideousness that an eternity doing good would not have spared him from the Blood War, he never contemplates not taking his mortality back and ending his inability to die. Granted, though, he pays a considerable price for his resurrection; he invariably draws tormented souls to himself, and, more darkly, whenever he is resurrected, someone elsewhere in the multiverse dies and becomes an undead shadow as their life is sucked away to fuel his resurrection.
* Ziggy in the ''[[Xenosaga]]'' series most definitely did not want to be revived, going as far as replacing parts of his body piece by piece until he would become completely machine, and having his memories erased. Fortunately for MOMO, he didn't go through with it completely.
* Occurs near the end of ''[[The Dig]]''. {{spoiler|You have to activate The Eye, but Maggie fears it will exact a price from them, and if she dies, she doesn't want to be resurrected with a life crystal since [[Came Back Wrong|it wouldn't be her]]. If you betray her trust and revive her anyway, she'll panic and then jump off the top of the tower, killing herself. And at the end, when the aliens use Spacetime Six to bring back your friends properly, she ''slaps'' you.}}
* A notable (and tragic) example in ''[[Breath of Fire 4]]'' with Fou-lu, who was meant to be the [[King in the Mountain]]. The Fou Empire wants him dead, due to being seen as 'inconvenient' and the acting Emperor Soniel prefers to keep the throne, spread propaganda that he's the 'Dragon of Doom' who'll destroy the empire. Only his shiisa-like dog wants him back, Bunyan/Babaderu being the only person commenting positively on his rule and was treated nicely by love interest, Mami. {{spoiler|Then the empire use Mami as a [[Fantastic Nuke]] warhead, fueled under the assumption that [[Love Hurts]]}}, causing Fou-lu [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|to snap]] and decides that [[Humans Are
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' ''V'', {{spoiler|Nicholai}} is brought back to the land of the living. He is ''very'' pissed off at {{spoiler|Isabel}} for bringing him back because 1) he was at peace in heaven with his parents and 2) he was brought as a ''bloodthirsty vampire'' and damned forever.
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'': [[Memetic Mutation|"I never asked for this."]]
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'': Solomon Grundy, upon learning his own origin and the fact that he has no soul, wants nothing more than to get his soul back. It was implied that his happened after he died fighting Ichthultu. So when he gets reanimated by Chaos Magic in "Wake the Dead", he's really ticked off, and he basically just rampages until he gets killed again.
** Alternately, this is a straight-out '[[Came Back Wrong]]' thing, as he came back without any personality.
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' with Prowl's master Yoketron on the verge of death, Prowl desperately places his fading [[Our Souls Are Different|spark]] inside one of the remaining protoforms, bringing him back to life. Yoketron is horrified at Prowl's actions, telling him that "one must never sacrifice a piece of the future in order to save a piece of the past" before extinguishing his spark.
* Parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' when Bender's head ends up getting left behind in 1947; the crew digs him up in the year 3000 for this exchange:
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