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* While [[DGrayMan Miranda Lotto's]] Innocence power allows her to turn back time (which doubles as a healing ability as she can turn back time on recent injuries,) she can't use it to bring back the dead. Not that the revived person would stay alive for long if she could, as everything returns to normal after she deactivates it (she can, however, keep a person alive after they suffer a fatal injury in the meantime.)
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* TheWheelOfTime has stated repeatedly that death can't be Healed. However, they said that about stilling, too, and Nynaeve really doesn't like being told she can't do something. "Can't be done" in WoT is usually code for "it hasn't been done yet," so this example is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]].
** The Dark One can do it. In any case, since everybody gets reincarnated, and maybe even them, death isn't all that final in WoT.
*** The Dark One is the series' BigBad, he's also known as the Lord of the Grave, and bringing someone back requires at least one new, fresh, healthy body to put the dead person's soul into and other preparation. Therefore, (a) the Dark One's method is still not available to protagonists and (b) it still requires far more effort than other magic and can be prevented with the correct steps.
** Under certain circumstances, someone can be resurrected by [[RetGone balefiring]] their killer, which happened when Rahvin killed Mat, and Rand burned Rahvin back in time about thirty minutes. This isn't quite a resurrection, as the dead individual technically never died, but it figured in the fulfillment of a prophecy.
** Even Nynaeve, who has Healed every other conceivable ailment, has given up on Healing death, and there's never been any indication that it can be done. The Dark One's method is closer in some ways to CameBackWrong than true resurrection, which suits him perfectly.
** The Dark One can do it. In any case, since everybody gets reincarnated, and maybe even them, death isn't all that final in WoT.
*** The Dark One is the series' BigBad, he's also known as the Lord of the Grave, and bringing someone back requires at least one new, fresh, healthy body to put the dead person's soul into and other preparation. Therefore, (a) the Dark One's method is still not available to protagonists and (b) it still requires far more effort than other magic and can be prevented with the correct steps.
** Under certain circumstances, someone can be resurrected by [[RetGone balefiring]] their killer, which happened when Rahvin killed Mat, and Rand burned Rahvin back in time about thirty minutes. This isn't quite a resurrection, as the dead individual technically never died, but it figured in the fulfillment of a prophecy.
** Even Nynaeve, who has Healed every other conceivable ailment, has given up on Healing death, and there's never been any indication that it can be done. The Dark One's method is closer in some ways to CameBackWrong than true resurrection, which suits him perfectly.
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* TheWheelOfTime has stated repeatedly that ''TheWheelOfTime'': While many things can be Healed with the One Power, death can't be Healed. However, they said is considered final. Other ailments once considered unhealable have since been Healed, but the series goes out of its way to establish a finality with regards to death. There are a few loopholes that about stilling, too, and Nynaeve really doesn't like being told she can't do something. "Can't can be done" in WoT is usually code for "it hasn't been done yet," so abused, but none of them are practical:
** All dead souls are eventually reborn as the Wheel of Time spins them out into the Pattern again; thisexample is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]].
on a metaphysical level, however, and, a handful exceptions aside, is a largely academical distinction.
** [[RetGone Balefire]] erases someone retroactively, causing their actions to have never happened during the time spanned. The strength of the balefire weave affects how far back someone is erased; if timed right, and strong enough, it can prevent the death of someone who died at the hands of the erased person. [[spoiler: Mat, Aviendha and a large part of the Aiel force invading Caemlyn are restored to life by balefire stretching back half an hour.]]
** The Dark One cando it. In any case, since everybody gets reincarnated, reincarnate people who died, but another body is needed, the procedure is only possible for a very short time after someone dies, and maybe even them, death isn't all that final balefire in WoT.
***anything but [[WordOfGod very small amounts]] will render the operation impossible. As The Dark One is the series' BigBad, he's also known as the Lord BigBad of the Grave, series, this is reserved for the Forsaken - his strongest underlings - and bringing someone back requires at least one new, fresh, healthy body is considered an undesirable way of returning to put the dead person's soul into and other preparation. Therefore, (a) the Dark One's method is still not available to protagonists and (b) it still requires far more effort than other magic and can be prevented with the correct steps.
** Under certain circumstances, someone can be resurrected by [[RetGone balefiring]] their killer, which happened when Rahvin killed Mat, and Rand burned Rahvin back in time about thirty minutes. This isn't quite a resurrection, as the dead individual technically never died, but it figured in the fulfillment of a prophecy.
** Even Nynaeve, who has Healed every other conceivable ailment, has given up on Healing death, and there's never been any indication that it can be done. The Dark One's method is closer in some ways to CameBackWrong than true resurrection, which suits him perfectly.life.
** All dead souls are eventually reborn as the Wheel of Time spins them out into the Pattern again; this
** [[RetGone Balefire]] erases someone retroactively, causing their actions to have never happened during the time spanned. The strength of the balefire weave affects how far back someone is erased; if timed right, and strong enough, it can prevent the death of someone who died at the hands of the erased person. [[spoiler: Mat, Aviendha and a large part of the Aiel force invading Caemlyn are restored to life by balefire stretching back half an hour.]]
** The Dark One can
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** Under certain circumstances, someone can be resurrected by [[RetGone balefiring]] their killer, which happened when Rahvin killed Mat, and Rand burned Rahvin back in time about thirty minutes. This isn't quite a resurrection, as the dead individual technically never died, but it figured in the fulfillment of a prophecy.
** Even Nynaeve, who has Healed every other conceivable ailment, has given up on Healing death, and there's never been any indication that it can be done. The Dark One's method is closer in some ways to CameBackWrong than true resurrection, which suits him perfectly.
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* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], it's just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a majwrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], it's just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a majwrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarvesThree different magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main charactercharacters in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have said that AnyoneCanDie at any time, they can't bring back the dead: the Blue Fairy, Rumplestiltskin, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]],Genie have all said it's just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a majwrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just impossible for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.them.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]],
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the titular Exalted, chosen of the gods, are ridiculously powerful and can quite literally [[BeyondTheImpossible do the impossible]]. But there's still absolutely no way to bring back someone from the dead, except as a ghost. This is clearly stated throughout the game line, a book even breaking {{kayfabe}} and explaining that it's because being able to come back from the dead as if nothing happened is a very effective drama-killer.
* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the 2007 Xbox 360/PC game however for gameplay reasons.
* There are very, very few ways to resurrect someone as they were pre-mortem in [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness The World Of Darkness]] and all have huge risks involved, slim chances of success and a high chance of [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the titular Exalted, chosen of the gods, are ridiculously powerful and can quite literally [[BeyondTheImpossible do the impossible]]. But there's still absolutely no way to bring back someone from the dead, except as a ghost. This is clearly stated throughout the game line, a book even breaking {{kayfabe}} and explaining that it's because being able to come back from the dead as if nothing happened is a very effective drama-killer.
* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the 2007 Xbox 360/PC game however for gameplay reasons.
* There are very, very few ways to resurrect someone as they were pre-mortem in [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness The World Of Darkness]] and all have huge risks involved, slim chances of success and a high chance of [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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** There's also still a terrible price to be paid as it is revealed later that bringing Buffy back destabilized the magic of the Slayer line, leaving it vulnerable to being completely wiped out forever. Zombification seems to be a relatively easy magical process though (several novices pull if off multiple times in both shows) and some of the zombies even retain their original personalities. But walking around as a decayed corpse is still portrayed as a rather unpleasant way to exist.
* Three different magical characters in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have said that they can't bring back the dead: the Blue Fairy, Rumplestiltskin, and the Genie have all said it's impossible for them.
* Three different magical characters in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have said that they can't bring back the dead: the Blue Fairy, Rumplestiltskin, and the Genie have all said it's impossible for them.
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** There's also still a terrible price to be paid as it is revealed later that bringing Buffy back destabilized the magic of the Slayer line, leaving it vulnerable to being completely wiped out forever. Zombification seems to be a relatively easy magical process though (several novices pull if off multiple times in both shows) dead. Necromancers are the one real exception, as their mastery of death allows them to come back from fatal wounds.
* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of thezombies even retain their original personalities. But walking around as a decayed corpse is still portrayed as a rather unpleasant way to exist.
* Three different magical characters in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have said that they can't bring backmemories or personality of the dead: the Blue Fairy, Rumplestiltskin, and the Genie have all said body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], it's impossible just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a majwrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for them.knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the
* Three different magical characters in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have said that they can't bring back
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the titular Exalted, chosen of the gods, are ridiculously powerful and can quite literally [[BeyondTheImpossible do the impossible]]. But there's still absolutely no way to bring back someone from the dead, except as a ghost. This is clearly stated throughout the game line, a book even breaking {{kayfabe}} and explaining that it's because being able to come back from the dead as if nothing happened is a very effective drama-killer.
* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the 2007 Xbox 360/PC game however for gameplay reasons.
* There are very, very few ways to resurrect someone as they were pre-mortem in [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness TheWorldOfDarkness]] and all have huge risks involved, slim chances of success and a high chance of [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the titular Exalted, chosen of the gods, are ridiculously powerful and can quite literally [[BeyondTheImpossible do the impossible]]. But there's still absolutely no way to bring back someone from the dead, except as a ghost. This is clearly stated throughout the game line, a book even breaking {{kayfabe}} and explaining that it's because being able to come back from the dead as if nothing happened is a very effective drama-killer.
* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the 2007 Xbox 360/PC game however for gameplay reasons.
* There are very, very few ways to resurrect someone as they were pre-mortem in [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness TheWorldOfDarkness]] and all have huge risks involved, slim chances of success and a high chance of [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] or driving the person insane. Oh and they're held by groups or societies who are unlikely to share them out, and may try to kill you just for knowing about them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ars magica}}'' Raising the dead (in a manner other than the classic zombie) is a boundary that Hermetic magic can not overcome. The closest thing is a costly ritual that gives the dead body a simulated life. And in the best it dissolves into a puddle or becomes a shadow without a will (The spell name is The Shadow of Life). At worst a demon possesses the body or the creature becomes a psychopathic murderer who hates the living.
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]]. There are walking corpses and other zombies, but these are usually just dead bodies possessed by demons (whicery continuity.
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]]. There are walking corpses and other zombies, but these are usually just dead bodies possessed by demons (whicery continuity.(which is why the [[TheChurch Chantry]] advocates cremation).
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.
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* ''ErrantStory'' touches on this in a particularly humorous fashion.
** It`s used [[TearJerker more seriously]] later on.
* The world of ''DominicDeegan'' doesn't have any way to resurrect the dead. In the Maltak arc, Necromancer Jacob Deegan claims that, with a little research into some Orc magic, he'll be able to pull it off (though other comics heavily imply he's lying). Thus far, the only ways to "cheat" this are as an Obi-Wan-style spirit advisor (Klo Tark), by becoming a demon (Siegfried), neither of which are really preferable as you're still dead. Necromancers are the one real exception, as their mastery of death allows them to come back from fatal wounds.
* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], it's just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a major plot character may be entirely resurrected.
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* The Genie in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' lists trying to bring back the dead as one of the three things he can't do, having apparently been wished into perpetrating one too many CameBackWrong incidents.
* An Egyptian man in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "Grief" enlists the help of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Pack]] (minus [[HeelFaceTurn Dingo]]) in a bid to summon [[EgyptianMythology Anubis]] to bring back his deceased son, who had been killed in a car accident two years prior. It takes absorbing Anubis and becoming an avatar of death for him to learn that this cannot be done, and so he performs a HeroicSacrifice in order to save all present from the collapsing tomb; it's implied that he didn't survive.
-->'''Goliath:''' If there's any justice in this world or the next, he's with his son, now.
* ''TransformersPrime'', according to WordOfGod. So far every every death has stuck, since the mindless robot zombies don't count as being "alive". Fans are taking bets on whether or not this will hold true regarding Optimus Prime's [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime tradition]] of dying and resurrecting (sometimes more than once) in every continuity.
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* This is the general rule for {{CLAMP}} series, even in a world like ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' where you have otherwise massively powerful magic at work. (In fact, the denizens of that world attempting to break said rule is what kicks off the massive GambitPileup that we're just starting to get a peek at now.)
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* This is the general rule for {{CLAMP}} Creator/{{CLAMP}} series, even in a world like ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' where you have otherwise massively powerful magic at work. (In fact, the denizens of that world attempting to break said rule is what kicks off the massive GambitPileup that we're just starting to get a peek at now.)
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* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the most recent videogame, however.
** Which let's face it, has about as much relation to canon as a stick insect does to Bug Spirits.
** Which let's face it, has about as much relation to canon as a stick insect does to Bug Spirits.
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* By the [[MagicAIsMagicA rules of magic]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', resurrection is impossible. Averted in the most recent videogame, however.
** Which let's face it, has about as much relation to canon as a stick insect does to Bug Spirits.2007 Xbox 360/PC game however for gameplay reasons.
** Which let's face it, has about as much relation to canon as a stick insect does to Bug Spirits.
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]]. There are walking corpses and other zombies, but these are usually just dead bodies possessed by demons (which is why the [[TheChurch Chantry]] advocates cremation).
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]]. There are walking corpses and other zombies, but these are usually just dead bodies possessed by demons (which is why the [[TheChurch Chantry]] advocates cremation).
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.(whicery continuity.
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
* This is true for VideoGame/{{Hoshigami}} until late in the game unless you can craft a Coinferm that can resurrect the dead.
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* ''ErrantStory'' touches on this in a particularly humorous fashion.
** It`s used [[TearJerker more seriously]] later on.
* The world of ''DominicDeegan'' doesn't have any way to resurrect the dead. In the Maltak arc, Necromancer Jacob Deegan claims that, with a little research into some Orc magic, he'll be able to pull it off (though other comics heavily imply he's lying). Thus far, the only ways to "cheat" this are as an Obi-Wan-style spirit advisor (Klo Tark), by becoming a demon (Siegfried), neither of which are really preferable as you're still dead. Necromancers are the one real exception, as their mastery of death allows them to come back from fatal wounds.
* In ''{{Shadownova}}'' death is commonplace, usually quite painful and always permanent.
* ''{{Clan of the Cats}}'' goes with the EquivalentExchange version: either someone has to die, or the world has to be changed for the better on a very broad scale; the one time it was accomplished was by ending a [[ElvesVsDwarves magical cold war]].
* At the start of the third incarnation of ''RoadWaffles'', [[NoFourthWall the author]] warns the main character that AnyoneCanDie at any time, and no one will come back, killing some talking birds to make the point. True to his word, she dies anticlimactically about two-thirds of the way into the strip, trying ([[SenselessSacrifice and failing]]) to save her original {{Foil}} while the rest of the cast regroups.
* This is the case in ''{{Drowtales}}''. Getting killed or possessed by a demon is both fatal - in the latter case the demon may retain some of the memories or personality of the body. Bodies can be reanimated, but as one character [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]], it's just an empty shell with [[{{Magitek}} golem technology]]. Exceptions exist to some degree - one secondary character cheated death via magic, and a major plot character may be entirely resurrected.
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* The Genie in ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' lists trying to bring back the dead as one of the three things he can't do, having apparently been wished into perpetrating one too many CameBackWrong incidents.
* An Egyptian man in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "Grief" enlists the help of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad The Pack]] (minus [[HeelFaceTurn Dingo]]) in a bid to summon [[EgyptianMythology Anubis]] to bring back his deceased son, who had been killed in a car accident two years prior. It takes absorbing Anubis and becoming an avatar of death for him to learn that this cannot be done, and so he performs a HeroicSacrifice in order to save all present from the collapsing tomb; it's implied that he didn't survive.
-->'''Goliath:''' If there's any justice in this world or the next, he's with his son, now.
* ''TransformersPrime'', according to WordOfGod. So far every every death has stuck, since the mindless robot zombies don't count as being "alive". Fans are taking bets on whether or not this will hold true regarding Optimus Prime's [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime tradition]] of dying and resurrecting (sometimes more than once) in every continuity.
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* For decades, the unbreakable rule in comics has been that only three characters ever stay dead - [[CaptainAmerica Bucky,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Jason Todd]] and [[SpiderMan Uncle Ben.]] It must be noted that within the last five years, both Bucky and Jason Todd have returned from the dead.
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* For decades, the unbreakable rule in comics has been that only three characters ever stay dead - [[CaptainAmerica Bucky,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman [[{{Batman}} Jason Todd]] and [[SpiderMan Uncle Ben.]] It must be noted that within the last five years, both Bucky and Jason Todd have returned from the dead.
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** Which let's face it, has about as much relation to canon as a stick insect does to Bug Spirits.
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** Of course, it really comes down to the wording. No coming back from the dead, but having your RealityWarper boyfriend convince the universe to ignore your death and proceed normally achieves a similar effect, if only temporarily (a thousand years, give or take). Just ask [[{{xxxholic}} Yuuko]].
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** Of course, it really comes down to the wording. No coming back from the dead, but having your RealityWarper boyfriend convince the universe to ignore your death and proceed normally achieves a similar effect, if only temporarily (a thousand years, give or take). Just ask [[{{xxxholic}} [[Manga/{{xxxholic}} Yuuko]].
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* Magic in ''TheInheritanceCycle'' works like this, draining a fatal amount of energy from whoever attempts it.
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* Magic in ''TheInheritanceCycle'' ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' works like this, draining a fatal amount of energy from whoever attempts it.
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* One of the rules in ''{{Death Note}}''. In the end of the manga, while Light is begging Ryuk to save him from death, Ryuk says that there is no way to do it. The last page (as a follow-up to a previous statement) says, "Once they are dead they can never come back to life."
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* One of the rules in ''{{Death Note}}''.''Manga/DeathNote''. In the end of the manga, while Light is begging Ryuk to save him from death, Ryuk says that there is no way to do it. The last page (as a follow-up to a previous statement) says, "Once they are dead they can never come back to life."
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** The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]] further compounds this: Each time an alchemist performs human transmutation, what comes back evolves into a Homonculus, a soulless HumanoidAbomination wearing the body of the dead person.
*** Actually subverted somewhat in the first anime. The homunculi were actually the deceased brought back by human transmutation, just...not totally themselves. Also, Alphonse managed to bring back Edward, who had just been killed by Envy, back from the dead using himself as the philosopher's stone. Ed managed to bring Alphonse back using himself and ended up in our world instead of dead while Alphonse was brought back with his human body.
*** It can be said that the whole first anime is Ed and Al learned exactly what level of EquivalentExchange is required to return life to the dead. Ed figures out that it requires an exchange of body, mind and soul. In other words, a full human being for a full human being.
**** The manga eventually ends on a note like this as well when Ed sacrifices his Alchemy -- his own internal connection to Truth -- to bring Al back in his human body.
*** Actually subverted somewhat in the first anime. The homunculi were actually the deceased brought back by human transmutation, just...not totally themselves. Also, Alphonse managed to bring back Edward, who had just been killed by Envy, back from the dead using himself as the philosopher's stone. Ed managed to bring Alphonse back using himself and ended up in our world instead of dead while Alphonse was brought back with his human body.
*** It can be said that the whole first anime is Ed and Al learned exactly what level of EquivalentExchange is required to return life to the dead. Ed figures out that it requires an exchange of body, mind and soul. In other words, a full human being for a full human being.
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** The series eventually ends with Ed learning what it'll take to bring an entire human back out from the other side: [[spoiler:his Alchemy -- his own internal connection to Truth]].
** The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistfirst anime]] 2003 anime version]] further compounds this: Each time an alchemist performs human transmutation, what comes back evolves into a Homonculus, a soulless HumanoidAbomination wearing the body of the dead person.
*** Actually subverted somewhat in thefirst 2003 anime. The homunculi were actually the deceased brought back by human transmutation, just...not totally themselves. Also, Alphonse managed to bring back Edward, who had just been killed by Envy, back from the dead using himself as the philosopher's stone. Ed managed to bring Alphonse back using himself and ended up in our world instead of dead while Alphonse was brought back with his human body.
*** It can be said that the wholefirst 2003 anime is Ed and Al learned exactly what level of EquivalentExchange is required to return life to the dead. Ed figures out that it requires an exchange of body, mind and soul. In other words, a full human being for a full human being.
**** The manga eventually ends on a note like this as well when Ed sacrifices his Alchemy -- his own internal connection to Truth -- to bring Al back in his human body.being.
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Compare DeathIsCheap. See KilledOffForReal for when this is applied to individuals. Possible subtrope of EquivalentExchange. Contrast DeaderThanDead where only certain types of death are final. See FinalDeath for the version.
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Compare DeathIsCheap. See KilledOffForReal for when this is applied to individuals. Possible subtrope of EquivalentExchange. Contrast DeaderThanDead where only certain types of death are final. See FinalDeath for the video game version.
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* In ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', human transmutation -- trying to bring back dead people through Alchemy -- is forbidden. The whole series is kicked off when the protagonists try to bring someone back and have a close encounter with Truth as a result. The end result: Truth [[EquivalentExchange takes Al, and Ed's leg, in payment]] for returning [[BodyHorror a barely functional organ pile]]. Things taken by Truth do not count as 'dead', however, and Ed is able to retrieve Al's soul by sacrificing his arm for it.
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* In ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', human transmutation -- trying to bring back dead people through Alchemy -- is forbidden. The whole series is kicked off when the protagonists try to bring someone back and have a close encounter with Truth as a result. The end result: Truth [[EquivalentExchange takes Al, and Ed's leg, in payment]] for returning [[BodyHorror a barely functional organ pile]]. Things taken by Truth do not count as 'dead', however, and Ed is able to retrieve Al's soul by sacrificing his arm for it.
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** The [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]] further compounds this: Each time an alchemist performs human transmutation, what comes back evolves into a Homonculus, a soulless HumanoidAbomination wearing the body of the dead person.
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* In ''FullMetalAlchemist'', human transmutation -- trying to bring back dead people through Alchemy -- is forbidden. The whole series is kicked off when the protagonists try to bring someone back and have a close encounter with Truth as a result. The end result: Truth [[EquivalentExchange takes Al, and Ed's leg, in payment]] for returning [[BodyHorror a barely functional organ pile]]. Things taken by Truth do not count as 'dead', however, and Ed is able to retrieve Al's soul by sacrificing his arm for it.
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* In ''FullMetalAlchemist'', ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', human transmutation -- trying to bring back dead people through Alchemy -- is forbidden. The whole series is kicked off when the protagonists try to bring someone back and have a close encounter with Truth as a result. The end result: Truth [[EquivalentExchange takes Al, and Ed's leg, in payment]] for returning [[BodyHorror a barely functional organ pile]]. Things taken by Truth do not count as 'dead', however, and Ed is able to retrieve Al's soul by sacrificing his arm for it.
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* TheWheelOfTime has stated repeatedly that death can't be Healed. However, they said that about stilling, too, and Nynaeve really doesn't like being told she can't do something. "Can't be done" in [=WoT=] is usually code for "it hasn't been done yet," so this example is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]].
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* TheWheelOfTime has stated repeatedly that death can't be Healed. However, they said that about stilling, too, and Nynaeve really doesn't like being told she can't do something. "Can't be done" in [=WoT=] WoT is usually code for "it hasn't been done yet," so this example is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]].
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** The [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist first anime]] anime further compounds this: Each time an alchemist performs human transmutation, what comes back evolves into a Homonculus, a soulless HumanoidAbomination wearing the body of the dead person.
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** The [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist first anime]] anime further compounds this: Each time an alchemist performs human transmutation, what comes back evolves into a Homonculus, a soulless HumanoidAbomination wearing the body of the dead person.
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]].
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]]. There are walking corpses and other zombies, but these are usually just dead bodies possessed by demons (which is why the [[TheChurch Chantry]] advocates cremation).
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
** There ''have'' been two cases when the recently killed people were brought back: [[spoiler:Wynne and Evangeline de Brassard in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Dragon Age: Asunder]]''. In both cases, however, it was the work of a very powerful spirit, who may or may not be TheMaker himself, and the end result is more akin to LivingOnBorrowedTime: the moment said spirit leaves the resurrected body, the person dies for good.]]
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* Real life follows this trope with a near 100% consistency.
** Please list aversions.
*** [[RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment Please don't.]]
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* Real life follows this trope with a near 100% consistency.
** Please list aversions.
*** [[RuleofCautiousEditingJudgment Please don't.]]
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* In DragonAge, one of the cardinal rules of magic is this. Even bringing someone back from the brink of death can be [[YourDaysAreNumbered problematic]].
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** Until Shippuden reveals that resurrection is ''[[EquivalentExchange extremely]]'' [[EquivalentExchange costly]], but doable with the right ancient knowledge.
*** The cost is arguable, as a person who was already exhausted could revive a large number of people. And it's even cheaper to revive a person as a zombie, apparently with their thoughts and memories intact, though without an independent will, as done by Orochimaru.
**** Honestly, when I first read the manga, it seemed that Pain was specifically reviving the people he'd killed using that freaky "Truth or Die no Jutsu" by returning the souls he'd taken. But I guess it works differently? The anime appears to work differently, at least. Note that the Zombie method requires you to KILL someone; it's implied that two of the Sound Ninjas from the Chunin exam were used to bring back the dead hokages. There's likely a time limit on Zombie mode, also. So it is still costly. Mass resurrection, if possible, seems limited to the recently deceased, and possible only for a guy with the God Mode ocular jutsu, the Rin'negan. Which means don't expect it to happen again.
*** The cost is arguable, as a person who was already exhausted could revive a large number of people. And it's even cheaper to revive a person as a zombie, apparently with their thoughts and memories intact, though without an independent will, as done by Orochimaru.
**** Honestly, when I first read the manga, it seemed that Pain was specifically reviving the people he'd killed using that freaky "Truth or Die no Jutsu" by returning the souls he'd taken. But I guess it works differently? The anime appears to work differently, at least. Note that the Zombie method requires you to KILL someone; it's implied that two of the Sound Ninjas from the Chunin exam were used to bring back the dead hokages. There's likely a time limit on Zombie mode, also. So it is still costly. Mass resurrection, if possible, seems limited to the recently deceased, and possible only for a guy with the God Mode ocular jutsu, the Rin'negan. Which means don't expect it to happen again.
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** Until Shippuden reveals that resurrection is ''[[EquivalentExchange extremely]]'' [[EquivalentExchange costly]], but doable with the right ancient knowledge.
knowledge, limited to the recently deceased, and possible only for [[spoiler: [[DeusExMachina the one guy with the God Mode ocular jutsu, the Rinnegan.]]]] Which means don't expect it to happen again.
*** The cost is arguable, as a person who was already exhausted could revive a large number of people. And it's even cheaper to revive a person as a zombie, apparently with their thoughts and memories intact, though without an independent will, as done byOrochimaru.
**** Honestly, when I first read the manga, it seemed that Pain was specifically reviving the people he'd killed using that freaky "Truth or Die no Jutsu" by returning the souls he'd taken. But I guess it works differently? The anime appears to work differently, at least.Orochimaru. [[EquivalentExchange Note that the Zombie method requires you to KILL someone; it's implied that two of the Sound Ninjas from the Chunin exam were used to bring back the dead hokages. There's likely a time limit on Zombie mode, also. So it is still costly. Mass resurrection, if possible, seems limited to the recently deceased, and possible only for a guy with the God Mode ocular jutsu, the Rin'negan. Which means don't expect it to happen again.someone.]]
*** The cost is arguable, as a person who was already exhausted could revive a large number of people. And it's even cheaper to revive a person as a zombie, apparently with their thoughts and memories intact, though without an independent will, as done by
**** Honestly, when I first read the manga, it seemed that Pain was specifically reviving the people he'd killed using that freaky "Truth or Die no Jutsu" by returning the souls he'd taken. But I guess it works differently? The anime appears to work differently, at least.
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* Despite the numerous times things come back from the dead in ''{{Angel}}'', in ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}]], very rarely can magic bring those who died of mundane things come back from the dead, as in the cases of Tara and Joyce. After all, the vase that brought back Buffy was the only one in the world, and it was destroyed.
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* Partial example with ''DungeonsAndDragons'': while DeathIsCheap for those physically killed, no one can be resurrected after death by old age due to their spirit being too fragile to survive the process; in addition there are several other ways of permanently killing or removing from existence that involve the destruction of the soul meaning that all deaths are indeed final if it's not a physical death.
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* Supposedly this is now true for the DCUniverse following the events of BlackestNight, [[ComicBookDeath We'll see how long that lasts.]]
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* In ''ElfQuest'' it's possible for a healer to resurrect a recently-dead elf's body if it's relatively intact, but if the elf's spirit doesn't wish to return then the body remains an empty shell.
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