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** Similarly, there's Shadow's wife, Laura. By dropping a magical coin in her coffin, Shadow brought Laura back from the dead... [[Came Back Wrong|as a zombie]]. She's cold all the time, never eats or sleeps, feels no remorse about horribly killing people, and just wants Shadow to make it all right. {{spoiler|Though at first she wants to be alive again, in the end she opts to return to being dead when given the choice.}} |
** Similarly, there's Shadow's wife, Laura. By dropping a magical coin in her coffin, Shadow brought Laura back from the dead... [[Came Back Wrong|as a zombie]]. She's cold all the time, never eats or sleeps, feels no remorse about horribly killing people, and just wants Shadow to make it all right. {{spoiler|Though at first she wants to be alive again, in the end she opts to return to being dead when given the choice.}} |
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* [[Robert Sheckley]] had a short story about a guy fighting in a war where both sides learned to resurrect their soldiers. He has been killed 9 times already and the 10th time should be legally his last, finally allowing him to rest. He is killed, resurrected, and told that since the enemy has raised the resurrection limit to 15 times, he'll now be resurrected 4 more times. So he goes out and makes damn sure to get himself shot in the head, believing they can't repair brain damage. It turns out, they can... and he got a medal for his "heroism". A very depressing read. |
* [[Robert Sheckley]] had a short story about a guy fighting in a war where both sides learned to resurrect their soldiers. He has been killed 9 times already and the 10th time should be legally his last, finally allowing him to rest. He is killed, resurrected, and told that since the enemy has raised the resurrection limit to 15 times, he'll now be resurrected 4 more times. So he goes out and makes damn sure to get himself shot in the head, believing they can't repair brain damage. It turns out, they can... and he got a medal for his "heroism". A very depressing read. |
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* [[Margaret Weis|Weis & Hickman]]'s ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'' has a character with a resurrection rune enscribed on his skin. He's condemned to never, ever die. (He's also condemned by the same magic to never ever ''kill'', negating much of the [[Badass Normal |
* [[Margaret Weis|Weis & Hickman]]'s ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'' has a character with a resurrection rune enscribed on his skin. He's condemned to never, ever die. (He's also condemned by the same magic to never ever ''kill'', negating much of the [[Badass Normal]]ry he exhibited previously.) Thankfully he's set straight at the end of the series. |
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* Also from [[Margaret Weis|Weis & Hickman]] is the Dragonlance series where Raistlin reluctantly returns from the dead a few times to help save the world before leaving it again. |
* Also from [[Margaret Weis|Weis & Hickman]] is the Dragonlance series where Raistlin reluctantly returns from the dead a few times to help save the world before leaving it again. |
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* A variation occurs with [[Discworld]]'s Granny Weatherwax. Whenever she's "borrowing" (piggybacking her mind on that of an animal) she appears to be dead or in a coma, and being 'woken up' from this is extremely disorienting and annoying, so she has taken to hanging a sign around her neck that says "I ATEN'T DEAD" |
* A variation occurs with [[Discworld]]'s Granny Weatherwax. Whenever she's "borrowing" (piggybacking her mind on that of an animal) she appears to be dead or in a coma, and being 'woken up' from this is extremely disorienting and annoying, so she has taken to hanging a sign around her neck that says "I ATEN'T DEAD" |
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