History Main / ClimacticBattleResurrection

** The second example spent it's final ''five episodes'' on killing off the main cast. In a subversion, they didn't revive and help - Usagi had to fight Galaxia essentially alone and her allies revived after the fight was over.

* The penultimate level in ''{{Robotron}} 64'' is actually entitled "Battle Royale With Cheese" - though it's functionally the same as every other level.

* Happens ''twice in succession'' in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' in a two-part story arc:
** "Deep Cover for Batman" had the heroes (MirrorUniverse counterparts of the main universe villains) imprisoned by the Injustice Society, except for the Red Hood (Mirror'verse Joker), who enlists Batman's help. Together they free the other heroes and defeat the Society.
** Similarly, "Game Over for Owlman" has the title character return home to find his own mirror counterpart, Owlman, had turned him into a wanted criminal with a high-profile crime spree. Batman was forced to team up with ''[[StrangeBedfellows the Joker]]'' throughout the course of the episode as he eludes his own former comrades. Later, Owlman captured all the heroes (again) and Batman was outnumbered by Owlman and his gathering of main universe villains, until he uses the Phase Oscillator (the McGuffin of the episode) to recruit other Batmen from alternate universes: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Cowboy Batman, Pirate Batman, Vampire Batman, Gorilla Batman, Space Batman, and Hyper-Intelligent Telepathic Alien Batman]], who all help Batman free his allies. Another ''epic'' battle royale ensues.
* SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies was essentially an hour and a half of this. With most of the DCU showing up. It was pure awesome.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'' ends with a Battle Royale With Cheese, as Fox's home planet of Corneria, General Pepper, and Peppy all die Disney Deaths in the final battles with the Aparoids. Thankfully, [[HijackedByGanon Andross is nowhere to be found]].

* ''PersonsUnknown'' pulled one of these. After being in a situation identical to BattleRoyale, they are later found out to be completely okay and just [[FakingTheDead pretending to be dead.]] Apparently the people picking up the dead bodies didn't mind that they were [[FridgeLogic warm, breathing or had a pulse]].

* ''SaintSeiya'' did that more than once, but a special mention must go for when all of the Gold Saints (including several that actually [[DeathIsCheap rose from the dead to come to help]]) joined forces to open up the way so the Bronze Saints can defeat [[CompleteMonster Hades]], [[HeroicSacrifice dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, CrowningMomentOfAwesome and TearJerker.
* The third season of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' apparently kills off Asuka, Manjyome, Fubuki, Tyranno, Ryo, Edo, Amon, Echo, O'Brien, and Jim, but all of them (except, apparently, Amon and Echo) turn out to be NotQuiteDead.

* The VideoGame/DevilMayCry anime had Dante pulling this off. Normally, [[BoringInvincibleHero no one should be surprised in the least]] - Dante very literally finds ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Hero Shots]] routine, and he's got a HealingFactor that lets him, again very literally, [[CheshireCatGrin laugh at them]]. But the entire episode leading up to his reappearance does it's ''damnedest'' to make you think that the writers really [[KilledOffForReal killed him off for real]], up to and including an entire pull-your-heartstrings-out plea speech from [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Patty]] set to a reprisal of the [[NostalgicMusicBox music box theme]] from the original game (the one that plays alongside the picture of Dante's [[DeathByOriginStory dead mother]] and the pendant he inherited from his dead father and brother) that provokes no reaction from Dante's seeemingly lifeless body at all. As a way to make the audience actually cheer when Dante ''does'' come back to make with the CurbStompBattle victory, it [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming succeeds]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome spectacularly]].

* ''ANightmareOnElmStreet 4: The Dream Master'' Freddy kills people. [[ItsALongStory He gets their souls, but Alice gets their powers.]] Alone, the victims were unable to defeat Freddy, but, with [[AllYourPowersCombined all their powers combined]], Alice is able to lay the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} smackdown]] on Freddy to the point where all of the souls inside of him revolt and tear him apart.

* ''SailorMoon'' did this in its first and [[WeAreTeamCannonFodder last season]].

* The Piccolo Daimaoh and especially Saiyans&Namek arcs in ''DragonBall''. The Boo arc might count too, but it's different.
* In ''Anime/DGrayMan''[='=]s Ark Arc, we are led to believe that being 'downloaded' (standing on an area of the ark as it disappears) is the equivalent of being killed. Throughout the many battles on the arc, many characters (Kanda, Krory, and eventually ''everyone else but Allen, Lenalee and General Cross'') are left behind and lost, but at the end when Allen stops the download, the ark is restored, including the lost exorcists. The people who actually died stayed dead though.

* The {{Devil May Cry}} anime had Dante pulling this off. Normally, [[BoringInvincibleHero no one should be surprised in the least]] - Dante very literally finds ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Hero Shots]] routine, and he's got a HealingFactor that lets him, again very literally, [[CheshireCatGrin laugh at them]]. But the entire episode leading up to his reappearance does it's ''damnedest'' to make you think that the writers really [[KilledOffForReal killed him off for real]], up to and including an entire pull-your-heartstrings-out plea speech from [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Patty]] set to a reprisal of the [[NostalgicMusicBox music box theme]] from the original game (the one that plays alongside the picture of Dante's [[DeathByOriginStory dead mother]] and the pendant he inherited from his dead father and brother) that provokes no reaction from Dante's seeemingly lifeless body at all. As a way to make the audience actually cheer when Dante ''does'' come back to make with the CurbStompBattle victory, it [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming succeeds]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome spectacularly]].

* ''ANightmareOnElmStreet 4: The Dream Master'' Freddy kills people. [[ItsALongStory He gets their souls, but Alice gets their powers.]] Alone, the victims were unable to defeat Freddy, but, with [[AllYourPowersCombined all their powers combined]], Alice is able to lay the [[{{WWE}} smackdown]] on Freddy to the point where all of the souls inside of him revolt and tear him apart.

* In ''PowerRangersMysticForce'', every good guy and [[HeelFaceTurn reformed bad guy]] offed in the final arc is revived to take on the Master. Notably, the same thing happened in the source show, ''MahouSentaiMagiranger''.

* StargateSG1 has many of those episodes: Most of them play in alternate universes, timelines, dimensions or whatever the editors could think of. Just when they are about to return, they get ambushed by all sorts of Mooks and while everyone of the time dies, the last person manages to "return", making all damage undone.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[MemeticMutation Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf!]] Just one example. You can also use [[GameBreaker Yawgmoth's Will]] to revive everything in your graveyard, provided you have sufficient mana.
** Better examples would be cards that bring back every creature that died that game, like Twilight's Call.

** ''And'' nearly all of ''Infinity Gauntlet'', especially the bit after Thanos leaves his body, gets his Plot Coupon stolen, and all of the heroes manage to reform to beat his alledged granddaughter, Nebula.

* In ''DGrayMan''[='=]s Ark Arc, we are led to believe that being 'downloaded' (standing on an area of the ark as it disappears) is the equivalent of being killed. Throughout the many battles on the arc, many characters (Kanda, Krory, and eventually ''everyone else but Allen, Lenalee and General Cross'') are left behind and lost, but at the end when Allen stops the download, the ark is restored, including the lost exorcists. The people who actually died stayed dead though.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', [[MemeticMutation Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf!]] Just one example. You can also use [[GameBreaker Yawgmoth's Will]] to revive everything in your graveyard, provided you have sufficient mana.

* Marvel's '''Destiny War''' begins with Kang The Conqueror battling his future-self, Immortus. Immortus sends armies from throughout history against Kang. Kang's reaction is, in so many words, "a trillion-strong army? Just bring it, bitch!"

* ''[[CrisisCrossover Infinite Crisis]]'' does this in issue 7: after the deaths a long list of heroes over the previous year and a half, the reality-spasm in issue 6 apparently is enough to bring most of them back. And just in time for the epic fightscene, too.

* In ''[[{{Narnia}} The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]],'' Aslan takes the Pevensie sisters to the White Witch's castle and uses his breath of life to restore all those whom the Witch had [[TakenForGranite turned into statues]], so that they could go and assist in the big battle against her forces. This happens again after the battle by making Lucy use her cordial on the fallen.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' did this with the episode "The Wish". While Giles worked to restore the normal universe, the main cast went about killing each other.

* ''PlanescapeTorment'' kills everyone on the team but the hero in the final chapter, but depending on the conversation choices the hero makes in the conversation with the BigBad, he can then raise them all. Then again, one of the hero's default powers during the game is to raise the dead, so it's not like it comes out of nowhere...

* The finale of ''BreathOfFireII'' involves BigBad Deathevan making a big show of killing your party members one by one (eulogizing each one as he does so, [[KickTheDog the sick bastard]]). Protagonist Ryu doesn't take this insult sitting down, and after punching through Deathevan's defenses, the villain transforms into [[OneWingedAngel the hellspawn lovechild of Ganon and Dracula]], Ryu can then ''and only then'' unleash the power of Anfini (a.k.a. Infinity), the entire purpose and function of which is to resurrect your fallen allies so they can all put a proper kibosh on the archfiend.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has enough cheese in its Battle Royale for four {{RPG}}s. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Rocket-Propelled Gouda?]]

* Part of the appeal of fighting in the Colosseo Purgatorio in the UpdatedRerelease of ''{{Persona 3}}'' is that instead of dying, the losers simply turn into flames while the rest of the matches continue, to be restored when the victor is decided. [[SubvertedTrope But...]]the flames are also ordinary fires, in that they burn fuel. [[DeadForReal And if that fuel is exhausted...]]

* Occurs in the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 (2003)]] episode "The Beginning of the End", where the Ninja Tribunal and their non-turtle acolytes appear to die during an assault by the Shredder's heralds. Several episodes later, the acolytes reappear in order to join the final battle against the Shredder, and, one episode after that, the Tribunal appears in order to explain things.

* Played straight in ''DigimonXrosWars'' on the second arc the Bagramon has killed [[spoiler:Shoutmon]], and several characters have died along the way. But later Taiki gains control of the [[MacGuffin Code Crown]] and bring back to life several dead characters, and also revives the digimon in the [=DigiMemories=].

* Subverted in ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': After teasing the audience in the PostEpisodeTrailer for the last episode, the old Admiral who had [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat made a last stand to save our heroes]] in the first half of the series makes a gratuitous return from the dead. Since the ShowWithinAShow, ''{{Gekiganger III}},'' had featured the gratuitous return of of its [[TheLancer Lancer]] in this episode, the audience had been teased -- ''again'' -- with the return of ''Nadesico'''s poster boy for KilledOffForReal, Gai Daigouji.

* ''SaintSeiya'' did that more than once, but a special mention must go for when all of the Gold Saints (including several that actually [[DeathIsCheap rose from the dead to come to help]]) joined forces to open up the way so the Bronze Saints can defeat [[CompleteMonster Hades]], [[HeroicSacrifice dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[TearJerker Tear Jerker]].

* Final arc of ''{{Gash Bell}}''. While the basic rule of the battle to decide Mamodo king is that Mamodo simply return to their world when their book is burnt, a book being burnt and a Mamodo returning to the Mamodo world [[NeverSayDie is nevertheless treated like death]] on this show. This is made even more serious when there are only 10 Mamodo left in the human world, as it is announced that during this final stage of the battle, every single Mamodo in the Mamodo world loses their body and becomes spirits. Remaining competitors will also lose their body as soon as they return to the Mamodo world, and only the new king will have the right to return them their bodies (or ''not'' return their bodies and simply make them disappear from the Mamodo world). During the arc, most of Gash's friends end up returning to the Mamodo world from [[HeroicSacrifice HeroicSacrifices]] or [[HeroicRROD HeroicRRODs]]. However, when the last battle with Clear Note turns out to be almost impossible to win with the protagonist's power alone, Gash's book turns golden, and Mamodo Gash has befriended throughout the whole series appear and help Gash out by letting him use their ultimate spells.

** And ends with every version of every Avengers, from every alternate universe, ''ever'', fighting their [[Main/{{ForWantOfANail}} evil counterparts]], for the fate of the multiverse. It's like CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, with a bonus helping of awesome!

* Featured in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/{{The Wheel of Time}}'' novels. At the end of Book 5, the extremely major characters of Aviendha and Mat were killed. However, Rand then used a form of magic called balefire which not only killed the villain responsible for their deaths, Rahvin, but also erased him backwards in time, undoing his actions. So, when Rand went back outside, his friends were alive again.
* Also featured in Steven Erikson's ''{{Malazan Book of the Fallen}}'' series extremely frequently, where killed characters have a 50/50 chance of being reincarnated in another body (and in one case, reincarnated and teleported to another continent for no adequately explained reason), being resurrected by a passing god (sometimes on a whim), or ascending to {{Physical God}}hood. The other 50% are dead for real, but their ghosts will occasionally continue to play an active and important role in the story.

* ''{{Persons Unknown}}'' pulled one of these. After being in a situation identical to {{Battle Royale}}, they are later found out to be completely okay and just [[FakingTheDead pretending to be dead.]] Apparently the people picking up the dead bodies didn't mind that they were [[FridgeLogic warm, breathing or had a pulse]].

* The finale of ''BreathOfFire 2'' involves BigBad Deathevan making a big show of killing your party members one by one (eulogizing each one as he does so, [[KickTheDog the sick bastard]]). Protagonist Ryu doesn't take this insult sitting down, and after punching through Deathevan's defenses, the villain transforms into [[OneWingedAngel the hellspawn lovechild of Ganon and Dracula]], Ryu can then ''and only then'' unleash the power of Anfini (a.k.a. Infinity), the entire purpose and function of which is to resurrect your fallen allies so they can all put a proper kibosh on the archfiend.

* "[[Webcomic/OrderoftheStick Ghost Martyrs of the Sapphire Guard]], ATTACK!". Although in this case the [[RedshirtArmy Blueshirts]] involved stayed dead, as did an important character who died shortly before. Since the comic's [[DeathIsCheap based on D&D...]]

* The big Gundam Fight Tournament ending fight on Lantau Island from ''GGundam''. Domon's friends sacrifice their chance at victory to allow Domon to get to Master Asia. Of course, they all barely survive, though their Gundams are out of commission. At least, until the BigBad shows up again...
* The fifth episode of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. By the end of the tea party, Battler's been killed and banished from the game board, Beatrice's been denied and erased, the Seven Sisters have been captured, and pending investigation, will be denied and erased, Ronove, Gaap, and Virgilia are MIA, but being pursued for the same fate, and even the Siestas, who are following Erika's and Bernkastel's orders, will be erased once they're done(because they served the Witch at one point, and the villains want to completely eliminate Beatrice's Illusion of the Witch). Start up the hidden tea party, and Meta-Beato says her final goodbye to Battler and erases herself forever. Like the game said, however, death in the meta-world simply means that they stopped thinking. Battler simply has one thought: "Now that it's all over... that it's all too late.... let me think." He thinks the game through one more time, discovers Beatrice's truth, comes back to life and takes his place as the new Golden Sorcerer, Endless Sorcerer, and the new Game Master. While beginning his second fight against Erika and the others, all of Beatrice's furniture who were being threatened with erasure show up and beat the living daylights out of Erika. It is very, very satisfying after what she's done.

* The [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/olympics Olympics plot]] of JLA Watchtower & DCNation ends with a really wild one of these. The Titans are fighting [[GreekMythology Hades, Lord of the Dead]]. They win the challenge, he turns out to be a sore loser, and all hell ''literally'' breaks loose. Just when the heroes are on the ropes from a brigade of their dead RoguesGallery, [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/424837.html in charges Hawkman]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome flanked by Nightwing and Arsenal]], backed up by an army of fallen ''allies!'' Semi-inverted as most of the allies and enemies summoned for the battle return to the Land of the Dead afterward.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'' ends with a Battle Royale With Cheese, as Fox's home planet of Corneria, General Pepper, and even Peppy all die Disney Deaths in the final battles with the Aparoids. Thankfully, [[HijackedByGanon Andross is nowhere to be found]].

* The penultimate level in ''{{Robotron}} 64'' is actually entitled "Battle Royale With Cheese" - though it's functionally the same as just about every other level.

* "[[Webcomic/OrderoftheStick Ghost Martyrs of the Sapphire Guard]], ATTACK!".
** Although in this case the [[RedshirtArmy Blueshirts]] involved stayed dead, as did an important character who died shortly before. Of course since the comic's [[DeathIsCheap based on D&D...]]

* The ending of ''{{Transformers}}: [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Machines]]'', in which Megatron finally succeeds in extracting the spark of the last Transformers on Cybertron except his own and Optimus Primal's, turning giant-size and beginning his ultimate plan to remove every bit of organic from the planet. Optimus, of course, manages to bring every Transformer back to life for the very cheesy ending, including all the ones Megatron had previously taken sparks from.

* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Thanks to Kabuto using Orochimmaru's techniques, every character that has died prior to the Shinobi World War arc, plus all the old kages and other legendary ninjas, is fighting the rest of the ninja world.

* ''[[DigitalDevilSaga Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2]]'' initially looks like it's going to KillEmAll as your comrades get picked off one by one in the latter half of the game, finally culminating with Sera and Serph's apparent deaths. Then it reunites everyone's "data" at the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, even including characters that were killed off ''in the first game''. This is a bit of a subversion though, since you're all still technically ''dead'', but everyone is still together again and able [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu.]]

* The third season of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' apparently kills off Asuka, Manjyome, Fubuki, Tyranno, Ryo, Edo, Amon, Echo, O'Brien, and Jim, but all of them (except, apparently, Amon and Echo) turn out to be NotQuiteDead.
** Speaking of ''Anime/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', Yugi defeats Marik's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Winged Dragon of Ra]] in the Battle City Finals with an anime-exclusive card called Ragnarok. Ragnarok removes from play all monsters in the player's hand, deck, and graveyard in order to remove all cards on the opponent's side of the field. This, quite frankly, [[AwesomeButImpractical would]] '''[[AwesomeButImpractical not]]''' [[AwesomeButImpractical be a good tradeoff]] in most cases, but most viewers didn't notice because it was represnted by [[RuleOfCool having all of Yugi's monsters appear to carry the Winged Dragon of Ra away]].

* Nearly all of ''SecretWars'' is a BattleRoyaleWithCheese.

** The Legend War that happened in the backstory of ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' included every prior Sentai warrior, even the ones who had died.

* ''TheMummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' had Michelle Yeoh's character resurrecting the people TheEmperor killed, resulting in a battle between two armies of mummies.

* [[DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor]] in full PhysicalGod mode at the end of Last of The Timelords, bringing down the Master, turning time back an entire year saving at least a billion people.
* ''{{Lost}}'' is dangerously approaching this territory, with characters coming back to life (Jin, Locke) thanks to the very convenient Island Healing Powers, and to the Time Travel which allows dead people to show up again after their demise.
** Was Jin ever really dead, though?
*** Nope. Apparently, when the freighter exploded, Jin got blown out to sea, and survived by clinging to some debris.
** And John Locke, as it turns out, was dead all along. All characters whose dead carcasses have been shown onscreen have remained dead.

* At the end of the time travel arc in ''The Adventures of SonicTheHedgehog'', Robotnik has all the emeralds and seemingly all the power. Sonic and Tails, before confronting him, go back in time to each period they had visited and recruit their own earlier timeline doppelgangers for this battle. Why they can't just go back to when Robotnik seized the emeralds and stop him then (or how they were able to avoid massive paradoxes) is [[MST3KMantra not something you're supposed to ask.]]

* ''RedDwarf'' did this in their season six finale episode "Out of Time".

** Speaking of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', Yugi defeats Marik's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Winged Dragon of Ra]] in the Battle City Finals with an anime-exclusive card called Ragnarok. Ragnarok removes from play all monsters in the player's hand, deck, and graveyard in order to remove all cards on the opponent's side of the field. This, quite frankly, [[AwesomeButImpractical would]] '''[[AwesomeButImpractical not]]''' [[AwesomeButImpractical be a good tradeoff]] in most cases, but most viewers didn't notice because it was represnted by [[RuleOfCool having all of Yugi's monsters appear to carry the Winged Dragon of Ra away]].

* In ''PowerRangersMysticForce'', every good guy and [[HeelFaceTurn reformed bad guy]] offed in the final arc is revived to take on the Master.
** Notably, the same thing happened in the source show, ''MahouSentaiMagiranger''.

* ''KamenRiderDragonKnight'' looked to be headed this way, with the return of the only guy who can open the local PhantomZone. Subverted when only half of the Riders actually take part in the battle, the other half only arrive just in time for a group FinishingMove.

* Depending on your choices throughout ''MassEffect2'', the suicide mission can be like this.
** People dying in suicide mission cutscenes stay dead, there's no "bringing them back" after they're picked off. However, your squad will pick themselves up after combat if they were struck down.

Not to be confused with BattleRoyale, which is a KillEmAll story instead; PantyFighter, which ''could'' be named BattleRoyale [[{{Fanservice}} With Cheesecake]]; or HamAndCheese (though it can certainly include that.) See also InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn, BackForTheFinale.