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** Also Gwen Stacy.

* The whole ''idea''—or at least a good chunk of it—behind death knights in WoW.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'' the whole story of the titular character is set in motion by the Yondaime Hokage sealing the Kyuubi into Naruto, even though he loses his own life in the process, which is shown right at the start of the manga/anime. Likewise the massacre of the Uchiha clan leads to Sasuke changing his personality and focusing almost entirely on his revenge.

** In the SilverAge, a bunch of Kryptonians (including various criminals, a miniaturized city, and [[{{Supergirl}} Superman's cousin]] and [[ABoyAndHisDog pet dog]]) did come back. The '80s reboot retconned all this so that Superman was really "the last son of Krypton," but it didn't quite stick, with writers going out of their way to bring back the SilverAge mythos without technically violating this--e.g., Supergirl came back as an artificially-created shapeshifter and the bottle city of Kandor came back as an alien ghetto. Recent comics have decided to forget about the whole "Last Son of Krypton" thing again and bring back the Phantom Zone criminals, the real Supergirl and now Kandor.

* Hiroyuki Kazami in ''FutureGPXCyberFormula''. The computer system he created, Asurada, is driven by his son, Hayato.

* Hiroyuki Kazami in ''FutureGPXCyberFormula''. The computer system-equipped race car is driven by his son, Hayato.

* Brook, of OnePiece died along with his entire crew, however he was the only one who could come back. (Though only once)

* This was one of the reasons that the Barry Allen {{Flash}} stayed dead once his former KidSidekick Wally West came into his own as his successor. That's been undone now, though, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready in case you somehow managed to escape finding out]].

* {{Blade}}s mother staying dead is necessary for his powers to even exist so it is unlikely for her to be resurrected.

* In ''{{Alias}}'', Sydney's fiancé Danny is killed in the pilot episode after she tells him she's a spy, and provides the motivation for her turning on SD-6 and starting to work for the real CIA. Despite the introduction into the series mythos of zombies, clones, zombie clones and immortality juice (oh, if only it [[ItMakesSenseInContext made sense in context]]) and multiple fakeout deaths for Sydney's main in-series love interest, Vaughn, Danny stays dead and is never seen again.

* In ''TheGodfather'' game, Johnny Trapani serves as the DecoyProtagonist for the prologue and is gunned down at the end, paving the way for his son Aldo to become the real player character and giving him motivation to go out and kick the asses of other mobsters.

* [[Metroid Samus Aran's]] family and the Chozo who raised her are all dead thanks to Space Pirates. This is elaborated in the manga, and only hinted at in the games.

* One of the characters in ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' -- it's Neku though you don't realize it for a while.

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* ''{{Highlander}}''--an Immortal becomes an Immortal when s/he 'dies' the first time.

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** Also, in ''{{Homestuck}}'', the backstory of John's Nanna features the accidental death of her adopted grandfather [[spoiler:Colonel Sassacre]].

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* ''MsPaintAdventures'':

** Also, the backstory of John's Nanna features the accidental death of her adopted grandfather [[spoiler:Colonel Sassacre]].

*** ''{{Smallville}} has treated things similarly, with Kryptonian's coming out of the woodwork. Zod's minions, Zod, Zod's wife, Brainiac (kinda counts), Kara, Kara's father, Clark's mother, and more, leading Chloe to eventually [[LampshadeHanging say]] "for the last of your race there certainly are a lot of you."

* ''Film/{{X-Men}} Origins: Wolverine'' has LoveInterest Kayla. Being Logan, a character who in the comics collects dead lovers and was unattached in the first three movies, it seemed she was doomed to die, and the film doesn't disappoint... ''at first.'' But when it's revealed he death was faked and their affair false, the trope seemed [[AvertedTrope averted.]] But then it turns out she [[BecomingTheMask really loved him]]... SoYeah, she was dead as a doornail by the end, and the now amnesiac Wolverine didn't even know to cry over her corpse. Tragic in all the wrong ways.

* Why is ''GeGeGeNoKitaro'' not here yet?
** [[NotSelfExplanatory Why indeed...]]
*Pretty Much the entire cast of SailorMoon died in their orgin story and reincarnated in present day (as of when the Series was released) The senshi aside from Venus are kept in the dark about this for much of the first season. It is unknown how Venus already knows in the anime but in the manga she learned in her own series, CodenameSailorV.

* Subverted by one of the best known Friendly Ghosts, ''Casper'', as we don't get his origin story until the second live-action Movie.