History DisneyDeath / VideoGames

* 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]].

* A little over halfway through ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler:Crono is killed off by an attack courtesy of the planet-destroying monster Lavos, leaving the game without its main character for an extended period of time. In the meantime, the remainder of the party sets to work on reviving him using judicious use of time travel and a clone won in a carnival game]].

* In the NES version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'', Marian is StuffedIntoTheFridge in the game's opening sequence, only to wake up perfectly fine after the final boss battle, unlike the arcade version, where she is KilledOffForReal.

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' [[spoiler:Fiora "dies" at the claws of Metal Face near the beginning of the game. However, during the ''WhamEpisode'' at Prison Island it is revealed that she survived and was turned into a Face Mechon, piloting [[MeaningfulName Nemesis Face]], and afterward Shulk makes it his goal to get her back]]

* Unless you screw up and get locked into the BadEnding, Nanako seemingly flatlines from her mysterious IncurableCoughOfDeath in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', only to recover a few minutes later.

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'', quite a few Disney Deaths ensue in the build-up to the final battle.

*** [[spoiler: Pigma didn't exactly come back as a person, but more of some kind of mechanical, borderline EldritchAbomination thing, and he seems to have died at the end of ''Command.'']]

*** When talking to [[spoiler:TEC]] after beating the final boss, he mentions that he saw a bright light and heard [[spoiler:Princess Peach's voice]] before being resurrected. It is possible that [[spoiler:Peach, while breaking temporarily free from the Shadow Queen's grasp to send Mario her power, also uses a portion of her power to save TEC]]. This is actually what many fans believe. No clue about the other one, though. Another Disney Death case is [[spoiler:Lord Crump]] who is blown into space.

** When [[spoiler:Sazh]] is driven to the DespairEventHorizon after [[spoiler:his son is turned to crystal and he finds out Vanille was responsible for him becoming a l'Cie]], he apparently [[spoiler:shoots himself in the head, and is soon after shown laying motionless inside a coffin]]. Early into the next chapter we find out [[spoiler:he couldn't bring himself to shoot himself any more than Vanille, and the coffin appearance was because he was knocked out by Nabaat soon after and was therefore unconscious rather than dead.]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' is known for this. Cid is given one when he leaps off of the airship and detonates a bomb in order to let the rest of the party escape from pursuers-you later find him, not just alive but in good enough shape to upgrade the airship. Yang also has one when the Tower of Babil explodes-he seems dead, but if you go down into one of the underworld dungeons, he's alive but comatose and being tended by Sylphs. You can wake him up from his ''coma'' by hitting him in the face with a frying pan.

** Also, Shadow has one of these after [[spoiler:Kefka kills Leo]]. Rather than being unconscious, though, he's gone missing [[spoiler: (to the DiscOneFinalDungeon to take on the baddies, even though he is injured, because he is a badass ninja)]] and, since his dog Interceptor is injured, your party assumes he is dead. Serves as revenge fuel against the Empire, as if there wasn't already enough of that. He will [[spoiler: die for real]] if you don't wait for him during the Apocalypse.

** Shadow Man is an exception in the spinoff game ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman'' after he is defeated, as his body bursts from Mega Man attacking him at full power, presumably as a KarmicDeath for his heinous KickTheDog moment, although in that game's [[ComicBook/MegaMan Archie Comics adaptation]], he does manage to survive.

* At the end of Season One of ''Videogame/TheWalkingDead'', [[spoiler:Kenny]] dives into a horde of Walkers to distract them so that Lee can progress. In the decisions screen, he's stated to have been "lost to the horde" rather than outright dead. Unsurprisingly, he shows up in Season Two, with the handwave of having gotten lucky. However, depending on your decisions he's given a far more conclusive demise in the Season Two finale or [[DroppedABridgeOnHim an unceremonious death]] in a flashback sequence in Season Three.

** Sigma in the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series does this seven times (eight if you count the Archie Comics). Then he [[DeadHorseTrope gets]] KilledOffForReal after the eighth game.

* Maria Messa in ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} II'', when she is "sacrificed" by Dalles. ''Ys IV: Mask of the Sun'' does this to Leeza, Lilia, and Adol himself. Also, Adol's near-drowning at the beginning of ''The Ark of Napishtim''.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'', [[spoiler:a villain ''vaporizes'' two significant characters, including Luna Platz, which shakes the main cast so much that Geo has to try and convince the others she isn't dead. In the next portion of the game, Aaron Boreal, a friend of Geo's, indicates that the effects are reversible... but his demonstration of this is a blatant example of Came Back Wrong. Geo decides to proceed with the recovery process anyway, hunting down Luna's digitized fragments, but the recovery attempt is stymied at several points by Dark Phantom, who effectively takes the necessary equipment hostage in a gambit for Mega Man's newest power. Despite all this, Luna effectively recovers, but has no memory of the attack.]]
** The credits indicate that [[spoiler:Ace, who performed a Heroic Sacrifice against the same villain, was also restored or repaired to life and limb following the events of the game]].
** Actually both cases are justified, [[spoiler: It is due to the brotherband between the characters and Luna that the power of the brotherband had helped save Luna. Ace became noise and he was sent to Meteor G by King. This lead to them getting his data and recreating him like Luna]].
* Any time ''VideoGame/MegaManX's'' Zero gets blown to pieces. Don't expect it to last long. [[spoiler: Then he actually does get killed off at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4''.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': Ryuji Sakamoto seemingly gets caught in a explosion while helping the rest of your party escape the sinking Cruise Ship dungeon, only to walk up completely fine a few minutes later and reveal that said explosion ended up blasting him into the real world. Soon afterward, the protagonist and Futaba return to Le Blanc cafe, but Sojiro's missing and the news of someone's kidnapping and murder is playing on TV. However, Sojiro returns soon afterwards, and Futaba says [[LampshadeHanging he's just as bad as Ryuji.]] There's also, at the end of the game, [[spoiler: Morgana. After Yaldabaoth is defeated, Morgana seemingly fades away into nothingness. A few months later, he shows up completely fine. The only reason it took him a few months is because he was too embarassed after that TearJerker goodbye, so he layed low for a while, greatly annoying the rest of the party.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': Ryuji Sakamoto seemingly gets caught in a explosion while helping the rest of your party escape the sinking Cruise Ship dungeon, only to walk up completely fine a few minutes later and reveal that said explosion ended up blasting him into the real world. Soon afterward, the protagonist and Futaba return to Le Blanc cafe, but Sojiro's missing and the news of someone's kidnapping and murder is playing on TV. However, Sojiro returns soon afterwards, and Futaba says [[LampshadeHanging he's just as bad as Ryuji.]]

** Happens to him again in ''VideoGame/{{Sonic The Hedgehog|2006}}''. He is actually killed by Mephiles in order to make Elise cry as part of his big plan, but he is revived just before the final boss battle with the power of the chaos emeralds and a kiss from Elise.

** Happens to him again in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog(2006)''. He is actually killed by Mephiles in order to make Elise cry as part of his big plan, but he is revived just before the final boss battle with the power of the chaos emeralds and a kiss from Elise.

* ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' has Kyle Katarn [[NeckLift choked]] and at Dessann's mercy before ordering his apprentice, Tavion, to murder Kyle's partner, Jan. [[spoiler:This was part of their XanatosGambit to get Kyle to return to the Valley of the Jedi on Ruusan to quickly reconnect with the full power of the Force and leading Dessann and his Reborn warriors straight to a nexus to empower themselves and Jan was spared for interrogation as she was the only other person they knew with the location of Ruusan. Once they meet up again, Jan casually snarks at him taking his time to rescue her while Kyle is just happy that she's still alive, just in pain from Dessann and Galak Fyarr "burning out half a dozen interrogation drones" torturing her for the location of the Valley then the layout of the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV.]]

%%** [[spoiler:Midna]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]''.

** PlayedForLaughs (and a bit of SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}}) in the sequel when [[spoiler: PROXY and Starkiller are reunited, each saying "I thought you were dead!" to the other at the same time.]]

* Done in ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals''. Dekar, the world's strongest man, has a temple dropped on him, with a miniboss holding him with magic so he can't get away. He eats it, and comes back in the end, clearing a path for your dirigible to reach Doom Island.
** In [[VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals the remake]], he gets thrown into a hellish otherworld. [[EscapedFromHell He fights his way out and blows up the entire dimension behind him.]]

* 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.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon: Explorers of Time''/''Darkness''/''Sky'' [[spoiler:ends with the hero character being knocked out of the time line when s/he changes the future (yep, the main character is from TheFuture). However, after your partner cries his or her heart out to Bidoof before the end credits, Dialga decides to grant you partner his or her greatest desire - which is the revival of your character. It's not like you could reach the postgame content if you were dead, huh?]]
** [[spoiler: Hydreigon]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' also comes back to life in the ending, despite [[spoiler: being frozen solid and then [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]]]].

* Albert Wesker gets impaled and apparently dies on-screen in the first ''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.
** Ada Wong also "dies" in both of her scenarios of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', only to return to throw the player a rocket launcher during the penultimate battle. She lives on to be one of the driving forces behind ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.

%%* The ending from the first ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}''.