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!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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[[DeathIsDramatic The great love of the hero's life has died,]] and the hero simply [[LoveMakesYouCrazy cannot take the grief]]. Desperate to have his significant other returned to him, the character [[{{Necromantic}} delves into things better left unlearned]] and discovers a way to bring the loved one back.

This rare SubTrope of CameBackWrong occurs when the resurrectee comes back just fine, but [[SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness due to the logic of death in the story]], lands in a [[TrappedInAnotherWorld different reality/dimension/existence]]/class/situation and becomes completely or almost completely unreachable to the resurrectionist. To further the tragic effect, the resurrectionist (who may have been indirectly involved in the resurrected one's death) may feel they have to distance themselves from the reanimated character as self-punishment, or as the only means to "let her/him lead the life they deserve."

Depending on whether or not the LoveInterest was mutual and/or whether or not the resurrected one knows his/her situation, either the resurrectionist, the resurrectee, or both may suffer lifelong or eternal bereavement. In other words, body and soul come back fine, but the ominous shadow of death is just too strong to be overcome.

* ''ComicBook/KangTheConqueror'', his young self Nathaniel loses the love of his life, Ravonna, when his future self kills her to teach him to never love. He later finds her reincarnated, but each time they get close, she dies. Eventually he discovers she is "destined to die", so he decides to break that fate by forcing time to keep reincarnating her, invoking this trope by writing her soul into time itself at thousands of points.

** This is lampshaded when he goes through with the deal, only to be confused when she doesn't actually show up. When he asks the Devil where she is, he's told, "You're her father. Can't you keep track of her?" It's implied that since his daughter reached the age of legal adulthood shortly before this all happened, she left [[OverprotectiveDad him]] of her own free will. [[MortonsFork Either way, he lost his daughter.]]

* At the end of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed ''finally'' gets Al's body back... in exchange for being shunted from Amestris (and erasing all of Al's memories from being a suit of armor) and ends up stranded in another world, forever separated. You ''just can't win'', can you?

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* In ''Comicbook/ElfQuest,'' after One-Eye's death, as his mate Clearbrook is mourning him, the healer Leetah strains harder than she ever has before, trying desperately to literally bring him back to life. She actually succeeds in resurrecting his ''[[CameBackWrong body]]'' -- his heart beats and everything -- but it just lies there, because [[TheSoulless his spirit has passed on]] [[EmptyShell and she could not pull it back.]] Leetah is horribly ashamed of what she's done and sees it as a terrible perversion of the natural order.

* In ''Comicbook/ElfQuest,'' after One-Eye's death, as his mate Clearbrook is mourning him, the healer Leetah strains harder than she ever has before, trying desperately to literally bring him back to life. She actually succeeds in resurrecting his ''[[CameBackWrong body]]'' -- his heart beats and everything -- but it just lies there, because [[TheSoulless his spirit has passed on and she could not pull it back.]] Leetah is horribly ashamed of what she's done and sees it as a terrible perversion of the natural order.

* In ''Comicbook/ElfQuest,'' after One-Eye's death, as his mate Clearbrook is mourning him, the healer Leetah strains harder than she ever has before, trying desperately to literally bring him back to life. She actually succeeds in resurrecting his ''[[CamBackWrong body]]'' -- his heart beats and everything -- but it just lies there, because [[TheSoulless his spirit has passed on and she could not pull it back.]] Leetah is horribly ashamed of what she's done and sees it as a terrible perversion of the natural order.

* In ''Comicbook/ElfQuest,'' after One-Eye's death, as his mate Clearbrook is mourning him, the healer Leetah strains harder than she ever has before, trying desperately to literally bring him back to life. She actually succeeds in resurrecting his ''body'' -- his heart beats and everything -- but it just lies there, because [[TheSoulless his spirit has passed on and she could not pull it back.]] Leetah is horribly ashamed of what she's done and sees it as a terrible perversion of the natural order.

* In ''Comicbook/ElfQuest,'' after Strongbow's death, as his mate Moonshade is mourning him, the healer Leetah strains harder than she ever has before, trying desperately to literally bring him back to life. She actually succeeds in resurrecting his ''body'' -- his heart beats and everything -- but it just lies there, because [[TheSoulless his spirit has passed on and she could not pull it back.]] Leetah is horribly ashamed of what she's done and sees it as a terrible perversion of the natural order.

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* In ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'', the titular doctor loses a bet for his daughters soul. Distraught over the loss, he makes another deal to get her back by sacrificing the life of a conman. Once his daughter returns, Doctor Parnassus decides to remove himself from his daughter's life, rather than continually subject her to his otherworldly gambling addiction.

* This is the theme of Creator/MichaelMoorcock's continuation of the ''Literature/{{Hawkmoon}}'' series; Hawkmoon broods over the lover and friends killed in the last battle with the Dark Empire, and seeks to get them back at any cost. He ends up plunged into alternate universes, and restores his wife - at the expense of their children, who in this phase of the Multiverse are dead...

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* In the curious [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast1946 Jean Cocteau]]'s French film ''Orphee,'' the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus]] is changed so that, even after he [[ToHellAndBack brings her back from the underworld]], Orpheus can still never look at his wife Eurydice or else she'll return to the underworld for good. Needless to say, this doesn't last long.

* At the conclusion of ''{{Persona 2}} Innocent Sin'', [[CoolBigSis Maya Amano]] is stabbed fatally with TheLanceOfLonginus, fulfilling the Oracle of Maia and destroying the world. Philemon offers a solution by creating an alternate reality, at the cost of the party's memories and their ''friendship''. However, [[SilentProtagonist Tatsuya]] refuses to forget, initiating the events of ''Eternal Punishment''. However, even at the end of this chapter, the original Tatsuya from ''Innocent Sin'' must return to the post-apocalyptic world he'd left behind in order to avoid a paradox in the new world and leave his friends, including Maya, to their lives without him.

* In ''TheUltimates'', Ghost Rider returns to life after making a bargain with a demon to continue sending souls to it. His wife is happy now, with a new family and a "great sex life" (as the demon is ''oh so proud'' to taunt Ghost Rider with), but he keeps his distance from her, just [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy satisfied to know that she's happy]].
* In ''{{Spawn}}'' the title character comes back from the dead, but arrives several years late to find his love has already remarried.