History DisneyDeath / VideoGames

** [[spoiler: [[OnlyAFleshWound It's just a bad sprain!]] [[HesJustHiding Agro is fine, dammit!]]]]

** Played straight in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. [[spoiler:The group, having just defeated Sovereign, is fleeing from an incoming chunk of Reaper. Cut to the two party members with you, as a C-Sec officer and Anderson pry open one of the chunks that was a near-miss to reveal them. Anderson asks where Shepard is, they shake their heads, and all parties involved get a crushed expression - cut to the side, where you see a form moving toward the group through the wreckage. Swell of music, Shepard mounting the top of the biggest chunk, with a huge [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu "I just punched out Cthulhu"]] grin on his/her face. Cut to final sequence.]]

* Namco uses this trope a lot in their ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series. The Mishimas have all been thrown off cliffs in some morbid test of strength, presumed dead but not. Even Jin's mother, Jun Kazama has "died" and returned with little explanation. ''Tekken 5'' tried to sell the death of Heihachi only he didn't die. Even the ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' series has had examples of this, such as Li Long.

** Albert Wesker gets impaled and apparently dies on-screen in the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'', yet continues to operate from the shadows in later games. The on-screen death is sort-of retconned in the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube version, but only after ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' was released.

* In the one UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis ''Franchise/StarTrek'' game, Data was the most useful of the command staff for this reason -- it was very hard, if not impossible for him to get severely injured and taken off active duty. He would just get repaired, as opposed to others who have a good chance of getting that injured. All of the other command had a WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou as either Picard is injured (he always seems to be severely injured) or he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone resigns in guilt over causing them to get hurt.]] Thus the player could send only Data and his death wouldn't matter.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', the robot pump FLUDD is seemingly destroyed in the final battle, and guess what? He/she/it comes back.

* A largely ignored Robot Disney occurs in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. TalkingAnimal Cait Sith agrees to remain inside the [[LostTechnology Temple of the Ancients]], 'solving puzzles' to make it shrink so it can be picked up and taken by the characters -- naturally, this means anyone inside will be crushed. But Cait Sith is actually a robot, with a backup copy lurking nearby in case of disaster, which was why he agreed so readily (although his pre-death speech suggests he is genuinely able to feel sad about dying, even knowing a duplicate will come along). The temple shrinks, Cait is crushed, and 'Cait Sith Number Two' approaches, identical to the first - and naturally arrives at the worst possible time. It's been theorized that the game does this to increase the shock of the death of another main character later on. This copy is not only at the same level as the one that just died, but also has all of his equipment, which is near-impossible.
** Also, as mentioned above Rufus's death gets {{retcon}}ned into a Disney Death because [[EvilIsCool he proved to be a]] [[EvilIsSexy fan-favorite villain]].

* This happens to [[spoiler: almost ''everyone'']] at the end of ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'': [[spoiler: In the end, [[BigBad Xenos]] [[TheBadGuyWins actually succeeds]] in his ultimate goal in destroying the multiverse, thus wiping out all of its inhabitants save for the main gang. Once Xenos is defeated, though, the Auspexes create a new world that revived everyone who perished, with the same people from different realities being merged into one conscious. This includes some people who ''weren’t'' wiped out from the disaster, such as Mordecai. There is one exception though: Euden himself. Since he is a part of Xenos’s heart, if Xenos dies, then he dies as well. When the new world is created, nobody remembers who Euden is, so he is never revived. Zethia feels like something is missing from the new world, which only then does Euden appear. Since Zethia couldn’t fully remember him, this new Euden is a [[CloningBlues mere copy]], and like with [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} Anne Boonchuy]], the Euden that we’ve been following for the entire adventure is well and truly gone.]]

** In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand', the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Magolor]], is last seen vanishing away upon defeat and are not seen again. And aside from his UnexplainedRecovery he has in ''Kirby's Dream Collection'', ''Deluxe'' finally gives us the answer.

** In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToFinalBoss'', the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Magolor]], is last seen vanishing away upon defeat and are not seen again. And aside from his UnexplainedRecovery he has in ''Kirby's Dream Collection'', ''Deluxe'' finally gives us the answer.

* This happens to [[spoiler: almost ''everyone'']] at the end of ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'': [[spoiler: In the end, [[BigBad Xenos]] [[TheBadGuyWins actually succeeds]] in his ultimate goal in destroying the multiverse, thus wiping out all of its inhabitants save for the main gang. Once Xenos is defeated, though, the Auspexes create a new world that revived everyone who perished, with the same people from different realities being merged into one conscious. This includes some people who ''weren’t'' wiped out from the disaster, such as Mordecai. There is one exception though: Euden himself. Since he is a part of Xenos’s heart, if Xenos dies, then he dies as well. When the new world is created, nobody remembers who Euden is, so he is never revived. Zethia feels like something is missing from the new world, which only then does Euden appear. Since Zethia couldn’t fully remember him, this new Euden is a [[CloningBlues mere copy]], and like with [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} Anne Boonchuy]], the Euden that we’ve been following for the enter adventure is well and truly gone.]]

** Cheap explanation? Not so much. [[spoiler:Saturos and Menardi set this up way back in the first game by using the Venus beacon to bring themselves back from the brink of death]]. It still counts, though, because nobody but [[TheChessmaster the Wise One]] realized it would work.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Nostalgia}}'', Gilbert Brown pulls it off so often that [[spoiler:his HeroicSacrifice loses a lot of impact, if not all of it.]]

* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar [[VideoGameRemake Ultra]]'' not only manages to retcon [[spoiler:Marx]]'s death into this trope but also uses it as the explanation for his power boost in the True Arena ([[spoiler:What's left of Nova merges with him.]]). And then he dies for good.

* During the final main campaign mission in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', "The Talon of God", [[spoiler: Mordecai and Brick are apparently killed during the attack on Heroes' Pass when their hijacked transport is shot down, but they appear in time to celebrate your victory after you defeat the final boss]]. Downplayed in that the game makes very little effort to convince you that they're really dead; it's mostly just to explain why they can't help you against the final boss.