History Main / ClimacticBattleResurrection

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', most cases don't qualify as the resurrections are done ''after'' the final battle. There are a few exceptions, however:

*** Goku manages to [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zag]] this trope: while he ''did'' participate in the conflict with Buu, he was only brought back temporarily, and did so before Buu was known about. [[ItMakesSenseInContext He was also still technically dead]], with his original death being at the end of the previous arc seven years prior, not during the fight with Buu. Also zig-zagged are the people of Earth: while they were brought back to help with Goku's [[CombinedEnergyAttack Genki-Dama]] and some ''did'' die fighting Buu as part of an army, everyone else was killed by Buu without having participated before then.

* ''Manga/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 Hades, [[HeroicSacrifice dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and TearJerker.

* The ''[[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries Devil May Cry]]'' anime had Dante pulling this off. Normally, [[BoringInvincibleHero no one should be surprised in the least]] - Dante finds ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Hero Shots]] routine, and he's got a HealingFactor that lets him [[CheshireCatGrin laugh at them]]. But the 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 a 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 seemingly 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 [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments succeeds]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome spectacularly]].

* The [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/olympics Olympics plot]] of JLA Watchtower & Roleplay/DCNation ends with a really wild one of these. The Titans are fighting [[Myth/GreekMythology Hades, Lord of the Dead]]. They win the challenge, he turns out to be a sore loser, and all hell 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]], [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Professor Hulk uses the Infinity Stones to undo Thanos's [[BadassFingersnap fingersnap of doom]] from the end of ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' with one of his own, thus bringing back everyone he snapped out of existence and allowing several killed-off characters to join the final battle.

* The ending of ''WesternAnimation/{{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 manages to bring every Transformer back to life for the very cheesy ending, including all the ones Megatron had previously taken sparks from.

* Describes the finale of ''Anime/MaiHime'' and ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' almost to a T. The former mildly subverts it, though as the massive resurrection had nothing to do with the actions of the main character. In the latter, only one main character dies, Gascone, and comes back. The other cameo-characters that died stay dead: Bart's friend on the planet where everyone's sick, and the girl Hibiki met during his short exile from the Nirvana (plus her brother and the rest of her shipmates).. Doesn't mean the ending isn't still satisfyingly cheesy though ;).

* 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!" 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 ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, with a bonus helping of awesome!

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

* The Piccolo Daimaoh in ''Manga/DragonBall'', and especially Saiyan & Namek arcs in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.

* ''Manga/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 Hades, [[HeroicSacrifice dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, CrowningMomentOfAwesome and TearJerker.

* The ''[[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries Devil May Cry]]'' anime had Dante pulling this off. Normally, [[BoringInvincibleHero no one should be surprised in the least]] - Dante finds ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Hero Shots]] routine, and he's got a HealingFactor that lets him [[CheshireCatGrin laugh at them]]. But the 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 a 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 seemingly 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]].

* The [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/olympics Olympics plot]] of JLA Watchtower & Roleplay/DCNation ends with a really wild one of these. The Titans are fighting [[Myth/GreekMythology Hades, Lord of the Dead]]. They win the challenge, he turns out to be a sore loser, and all hell 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 one, 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]]. Star Wolf apparently pulled a HeroicSacrifice as well, but they aren't seen after the battle. Fox muses it is definitely possible; and while the other the characters actually did appear to die, Wolf's team was last seen being chased by the enemy so bringing them back would be easy.

* The end of ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}: Dawn of Dreams'' has all the characters of the party facing off against their personal rivals so that TheHero Soki can continue on to BigBad Hideyoshi. However, they all end up together by the FinalBoss.

* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' had MichelleYeoh's character resurrecting the people TheEmperor killed, resulting in a battle between two armies of mummies.

* At the climax of "ThoseLackingSpines", the [[UnusualEuphemism you knows]] of most of [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Organisation XIII]] are turned back into Semes. They team up against [[BigBad the Grand Master Fangirl]].

** When the party needs to shut down the Giant of Babel [[FantasticVoyagePlot from within]], all of their old allies come back in Dwarven tanks and airships to hold the Giant off, including several that were put out of commission one way or another and one that by all means [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat should have died]]. In the {{GBA}} UpdatedRerelease, you can actually have them in your party again.

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** In the first example, Episode 45 spent its ''entirety'' killing off the four Guardian Senshi. Episode 46 killed off Mamoru. Sailor Moon had to face down Beryl/Metallia alone, but eventually her power revived her fallen friends (sans Mamoru) long enough to destroy Beryl/Metallia at the cost of Sailor Moon's life. End of the episode, everyone has revived with no memory of the last year of their lives or the battles they fought.
** The second example spent its 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.

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* ''FushigiYuugi'' doesn't ''quite'' bring all the dead characters back from the dead for real, but the events certainly play out the same way.

* 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, ''GekigangerIII,'' 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.

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' - Essentially the entire plot of Mirai Nikki, as almost the entire cast of characters is pit against one another with the ultimate goal being that the winner of the survival game gets to be god himself. However Deus ex Machina (aka God) states that this is impossible without striking up a good ol' fashioned AlternateTimeline.

* ''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 Hades, [[HeroicSacrifice dying in the process]]. It also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, CrowningMomentOfAwesome and TearJerker.

* ''Manga/MiraiNikki'' - Essentially the entire plot of Mirai Nikki, as almost the entire cast of characters is pit against one another with the ultimate goal being that the winner of the survival game gets to be god himself. However Deus ex Machina (aka God) states that this is impossible without striking up a good ol' fashioned AlternateTimeline.

* The end of ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}: Dawn of Dreams'' has all the characters of the party facing off against their personal rivals so that TheHero Soki can continue on to BigBad Hideyoshi.

* At the end of the time travel arc in ''TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', 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.]]

* At the climax of "ThoseLackingSpines", the [[UnusualEuphemism you knows]] of most of [[KingdomHearts Organisation XIII]] are turned back into Semes. They team up against [[BigBad the Grand Master Fangirl]].

* ''OnePiece'' had a variation in Chapter 743 during the Dressrosa arc: [[spoiler:Usopp knocks out Sugar, returning all the toys to their original forms, whom then proceed to wreak havoc against Doflamingo's regime.]]

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'', where the conclusion to the second-last arc in the series has the members of the club sacrifice themselves so the others can go on and save Hinamizawa. However, since this is Higurashi, [[DownerEnding all of them are shot to death]], and the villain ends up [[KillEmAll killing the entire village]]. ''Also'' because this is Higurashi, they're all sent back with the series' [[ResetButton time loop]], and [[EarnYourHappyEnding overcome the BigBad in the final arc.]]
* Final arc of ''GashBell''. 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.

* Describes the finale of ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'' and ''{{Vandread}}'' almost to a T. The former mildly subverts it, though as the massive resurrection had nothing to do with the actions of the main character. In the latter, only one main character dies, Gascone, and comes back. The other cameo-characters that died stay dead: Bart's friend on the planet where everyone's sick, and the girl Hibiki met during his short exile from the Nirvana (plus her brother and the rest of her shipmates).. Doesn't mean the ending isn't still satisfyingly cheesy though ;).

** [[MemeticMutation Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf!]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247151 Lhurgoyf's]] power is equal to every creature in the graveyard.
** You can also use [[GameBreaker Yawgmoth's Will]][[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5629 ]] to revive everything in your graveyard, provided you have sufficient mana.

* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga 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.]]