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* Total confirmed ''{{Negima}}'' casualties by the end... zero. No dead bad guys, good guys, mooks or civilians. Not even the village that was turned to stone in the backstory. Practically the only character confirmed to be dead currently is Gateau Kagura Vanderburg, Takahata's former teacher. In fact, with the exception of Chigusa, all of the villains go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties. [[spoiler: The only deaths are when Asuna wakes up in the future and [[EverybodysDeadDave the entire class]][[hottip:*: Sans Eva and Chao]] [[EverybodysDeadDave is dead]]. To be fair, this takes place 130 years in the future and with the exception of Negi, they all died of old age.]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_Flight_751 Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751]] made an emergency landing near Vängsjöbergs säteri in Gottröra, Uppland, Sweden on December 27, 1991 after both engines lost power.

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* Most of {{Batman}}'s encounters with the Riddler tend to be like this. In comparison to his more homicidal comrades in Batman's RoguesGallery, the cerebral nature Riddler's modus operandi was less likely to involve murder.
* Dan Slott's {{Spider-Man}} has recently declared that no one will die on his watch. Victims, villains, it doesn't matter. No one dies.

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* In ''{{Dresden}}'' the main character (a British pilot), his love interest, their Jewish friend and HIS love interest, the main love interest's dad, and the love rival, ALL manage to survive the bombing of Dresden - even though some of them were in the train station that was the first place to get hit, and which was supposed to be absolutely obliterated. And the protagonist does this all with [[OnlyAFleshWound serious injuries]]. And he escapes back to England. However, this is subverted later when [[spoiler: after the war, Protagonist flies back to see his true love (and, OMG, their child)... when his plane crashes. [[ShootTheShaggyDog So, he is killed... in the post-script... by a voice-over]].]]
* ''TropicThunder'' - well, [[spoiler: the director]] doesn't of course, but that's at the beginning. In the climactic final battle no one on the heroes' or villains' side dies despite being repeatedly caught in explosions and fighting in the midst of a storm of bullets.
* Lampshaded in ''KissKissBangBang'' - "Look, I hate it too. In movies where the studio gets all paranoid about a downer ending so the guy shows up, he's magically alive on crutches, I hate that. I mean shit, why not bring them all back?"

* ''TheExpendables'' doesn't kill off any of the heroes.

* A Work based in the Titanic disaster would be the last place to expect this trope. However, [[TheLegendOfTheTitanic that trope is present in one of those works]],[[TheyJustDidntCare in spite of it being based on the real life disaster]]. Two characters get a DisneyDeath, at the least.
* No one in ''SpyKids'' (not even the bad guys) die. It's a family movie, after all.

* The Western spoof "TheHallelujahTrail" deserves some notice for lampshading its zero casualty rate, since the climax of the movie is a many-cornered shootout between the US cavalry escort of a a whiskey shipment, an armed Temperance Union wagon train, some very un-PC Native Americans and a band of thirsty hard-rock miners; the cavalry commander (Burt Lancaster) exclaimed in the battle's aftermath, "Never have so many bullets been fired by so many people in so small an area AND NOT HIT ANYBODY!" To be fair, there was a dust storm at the time, and one laggardly brave appeared to have been shot in the butt. Twice.

* In TimBurton's version of ''Film/AliceInWonderland'', despite having a epic battle at the end, nobody dies. Well, only [[spoiler:The Jabberwocky]].
* In ''MagicalLegendOfTheLeprechauns''...let's say that the ending is a complete reversal of the source material, Shakespeare's ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
** The same thing happens in ''GnomeoAndJuliet'': While at first its seem like [[spoiler:Tybalt died, he appears glued back together at the DancePartyEnding.]]

* No one dies in ''InsideMan''. This is especially notable because the bank robbers are spending the entire movie making sure no one dies and that everyone thinks the hostages are in danger. This is a central part of the robbers plan since if EverybodyLives and nothing seems to be stolen from the bank, the police are unlikely to expand significant resources pursuing them in the aftermath.

* {{Poltergeist}} is a relatively rare horror film in which nobody dies.
* {{TheEntity}} is another horror movie with no deaths... but in a way, this actually makes it SCARIER. Instead of being about an evil force trying to kill someone, it's an evil force relentlessly and endlessly tormenting them. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, no one is dead but the entity hasn't been defeated either. We get one last tense suspenseful scene making it clear that this thing will continue to torment our main character - and in case that wasn't already obvious enough, there are even captions on the end mentioning the events are "still occurring today".]]
* ''TheAmityvilleHorror'', both the 2005 remake and the 1979 original, save for the flashbacks to the murders before the main story. Somewhat forced in that they're based on an allegedly true story which everyone involved survived.

* ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' is a rare example of a science fiction blockbuster that doesn't involve any of the characters dying.

* Someone actually made an animated rip-off of ''{{Titanic}}'' called ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic''... no, actually this was a rip-off of another animated rip-off. Anywho, in ''this'' version, everybody is saved by talking whales and a talking octopus, as gratitude for stopping the plot of an evil whaling magnate. and yes, It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
** Actually, the "other" [[TitanicTheLegendGoesOn animated movie based on the Titanic came after that one]], but released so close together they are simply DuelingMovies. Regardless, this version plays this trope mostly straight as well, with everybody (even the cartoon animals) shown to get off the ship, and the film ended explaining how everybody ''lived happily ever after,'' with no trauma from the event what so ever!

** Inverted in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': There are four unavoidable casualties in the main storyline, but your choices determine ''who'' dies - on Tuchanka, [[spoiler:curing the Genophage results in Mordin's death, persuading Mordin to sabotage it will force you into a fatal confrontation with Wrex.]] During the second Citadel sequence, [[spoiler:Thane will die fighting Kai Leng, but if you didn't talk to him beforehand, it'll be Major Kirrahe who sacrifices himself to save the salarian Councilor.]] On Rannoch, [[spoiler:all outcomes will result in Legion's death, but if you side with the geth, Tali will commit suicide as well.]] And finally, [[spoiler:Anderson dies whether you stop the Illusive Man or not, but if you do, Shepard will have a better chance of surviving the Destroy ending.]] And the body count only gets higher if you [[GuideDangIt don't know what you're doing]]: [[spoiler:Miranda, Jack, Grunt, Kasumi, Zaeed, Samara, Kelly Chambers, Cortez and Ashley/Kaidan]] are all fair game and can easily slip through your fingers. You will also [[spoiler:lose whichever squadmates are with you during the rush to the Citadel Beam if your EMS is too low.]]

** This was tragically subverted - another earthquake stuck Christchurch on February 22 the next year. This killed 185 people, despite only being a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, because the epicentre was located closer to the city (10&nbsb;km rather than 40 km) and buildings that were already damaged by the September earthquake and its aftershocks collapsed on top of people. One building's collapse (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Building CTV Building]]) was responsible for 115 deaths alone. It was New Zealand's second deadliest natural disaster in history, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake (256 killed).

*** [[FridgeLogic Rusting out after no one was around to repair her?]]

* ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' is the only ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book in which no human or animal is killed, with [[spoiler:Pettigrew escaping any possible death sentence and then Harry and Hermione going back in time to save Buckbeak (scheduled to be executed) and Sirius (scheduled to have his soul ripped out of his body)]]. If you only count human deaths, everyone lives in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' too [[spoiler:since only the basilisk died]].

* The GoldenEnding of ''MassEffect2'' has this as the result of the much vaunted SuicideMission. ''Only'' if you [[spoiler: fully upgrade the ship, gain the whole squad's loyalty, enter the final mission as soon as the crew is kidnapped, assign the mission duties ''perfectly'', and perform the mission itself quickly]]. This is one happy ending you will have to ''[[EarnYourHappyEnding earn]]''.
** Inverted in ''MassEffect3'': There are four unavoidable casualties in the main storyline, but your choices determine ''who'' dies - on Tuchanka, [[spoiler:curing the Genophage results in Mordin's death, persuading Mordin to sabotage it will force you into a fatal confrontation with Wrex.]] During the second Citadel sequence, [[spoiler:Thane will die fighting Kai Leng, but if you didn't talk to him beforehand, it'll be Major Kirrahe who sacrifices himself to save the salarian Councilor.]] On Rannoch, [[spoiler:all outcomes will result in Legion's death, but if you side with the geth, Tali will commit suicide as well.]] And finally, [[spoiler:Anderson dies whether you stop the Illusive Man or not, but if you do, Shepard will have a better chance of surviving the Destroy ending.]] And the body count only gets higher if you [[GuideDangIt don't know what you're doing]]: [[spoiler:Miranda, Jack, Grunt, Kasumi, Zaeed, Samara, Kelly Chambers, Cortez and Ashley/Kaidan]] are all fair game and can easily slip through your fingers. You will also [[spoiler:lose whichever squadmates are with you during the rush to the Citadel Beam if your EMS is too low.]]

* ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' is the only ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book in which no human or animal is killed, with [[spoiler:Pettigrew escaping any possible death sentence and then Harry and Hermione going back in time to save Buckbeak (scheduled to be executed) and Sirius (scheduled to have his soul ripped out of his body)]]. If you only count human deaths, everyone lives in ''ChamberOfSecrets'' too [[spoiler:since only the basilisk died]].
** [[spoiler: Though technically in ChamberOfSecrets 1/8th of Voldemort died as well, but that could also not be counted either since Voldemort was still "alive".]]

** The sequel ''VisualNovel/Virtue'sLastReward'' also plays this trope in the true ending though you have to work quite hard to get it.

** [[spoiler: Though technically in ChamberOfSecrets 1/8th of Voldemort died as well, but that could also not be counted either since Voldemort was still "alive".[/spoiler]

** This was tragically subverted - another earthquake stuck Christchurch on February 22 the next year. This killed 185 people, despite only being a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, because buildings that were already damaged by the September earthquake and its aftershocks collapsed on top of people - one building's collapse (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Building CTV Building]]) was responsible for 115 people alone. It was New Zealand's second deadliest natural disaster in history, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake (256 killed).

* In the season 6 premiere of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Booth, dissatisfied with the Everybody's Dead Dave nature of their work, forces his own EverybodyLives by finding a victim alive.

* Subverted and parodied in two episodes of ''AdventureTime'', one set on a train and the other in a mansion, in which everybody is supposedly killed one by one, but both times it turns out to be an elaborate prank by Jake.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358 Air France Flight 358]] involved an Airbus A340 wide body jetliner that ran off the end of the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport and caught fire on August 2, 2005. These sorts of accidents involving planes catching fire had always been deadly affairs even when the aircraft had either [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797 landed successfully]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M failed leave the ground]]. A combination of toxic smoke in a cramped enclosed space and poor human factors engineering had always conspired to make getting out of a burning aircraft a dicey proposition. However in the case of Flight 358 better designs and emergency techniques allowed the 309 passengers and crew to evacuate from the burning jet in under a minute without a single fatality.

* Someone actually made an animated rip-off of ''{{Titanic}}'' called ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic''... no, actually this was a rip-off of another animated rip-off. Anywho, in ''this'' version, everybody is saved by talking whales and a talking octopus, as gratitude for stopping the plot of an evil whaling magnate. andyes, It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* No one dies in ''Film/{{Inception}}'' unless you count the protagonist's wife, who [[PosthumousCharacter was dead before the story began.]] Although the MindScrew nature of the film allows interpretations all along this line

* {{TheAmityvilleHorror}}, both the 2005 remake and the 1979 original, save for the flashbacks to the murders before the main story. Somewhat forced in that they're based on an allegedly true story which everyone involved survived.