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* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', it is a rare day indeed when the eponymous hero can go somewhere without someone dying in a convoluted manner, but it is a good day indeed. Note that these are usually instances where KID is actually attempting to steal something. There were also a couple of stories where Conan was able to prevent the murder before it happened, and a couple where there was no murder or crime, just a hilarious misunderstanding.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Unless you count the vampire who died off-screen and was turned, there are no deaths in "The Body". Kind of ironic, considering the subject of the episode.

* In ''Film/TheBestOffer'' nobody dies, the climax consists of the hero [[MassiveMultiplayerScam getting scammed]] big time.

* ''VideoGame/{{Insanity}}: In the good endings, all the protagonists survive. In fact, keeping everyone alive is the only way to get a good ending; if either Kenta or Riho are killed, you'll always get a bad ending.

* Total confirmed ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' 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]][[note]]Sans Eva and Chao[[/note]] [[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.]]

* This is the goal of the Great Society from [[Comicbook/JonathanHickmansAvengers the New Avengers]]. In opposing the collapse of the Multiverse they refuse to take any lives or destroy any inhabited world. The Superman expy who leads them even gave a speech that directly invokes this, contrasting Reed Richard's earlier 'everything dies' speech.

* ''Franchise/{{TheFlash}}'' #54 from 1991 invokes this. To quote Wally West, "Nobody dies. It's a rule."

* In ''FanFic/TheWizardInTheShadows'', many ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' characters who died are saved, including Theoden and Boromir. And Grima Wormtongue, for [[CruelMercy an entirely different reason]].

* The ''{{Series/Grimm}}'' episode "Bad Moon Rising" doesn't involve anyone dying, but there is a brief scene advancing the investigation of a murder from the previous episode.

* ''Series/{{The Mentalist}}'' would normally go out of its way to have collateral victims even in the cases involving kidnappings or faked deaths, however "Ruby Slippers" ultimately became the first episode to put this to use. [[note]]They do use an actual body to fake the supposed victim's death, but it was an already-dead body that they stole from a mortuary; there are no deaths actually connected to the case.[[/note]]

* ''Franchise/MassEffect''

* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''

* In 2013 [[https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/us/wisconsin-skydivers-crash/index.html Two skydiving airplanes crashed into each other mid-air]]. One was damaged to the point that it effectively disintegrated in mid-air, and caught fire. [[OutrunTheFireball Meaning the skydivers who had bailed out from both planes now had to dodge fiery shrapnel as they plummeted to the ground.]] Somehow no died including the pilot of the airplane that disintegrated because he[[CrazyPrepared also had a parachute on.]]

* Much to the surprise and relief of its fans, this ends up being the case in ''Manga/RiddleStoryOfDevil''. [[spoiler: Everyone, even Chitaru and Hitsugi, is shown to be alive and well in the final episode.]]

* Much to the surprise and relief of its fans, this ends up being the case in ''Anime/AkumaNoRiddle''. [[spoiler: Everyone, even Chitaru and Hitsugi, is shown to be alive and well in the final episode.]]

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' is a relatively rare horror film in which none of the human characters dies.

* ''Anime/MaiHime'': [[spoiler: At the end EVERYBODY that died comes back to life, with the exception of the defeated BigBad the Obsidian Lord and possibly Father Joseph.]]

* ''FanFic/TouhouIbunshu'', despite being a DarkFic, plays this straight for the first three arcs; although there are deaths no-one ''stays'' dead, and they'll all fine by the end. The fourth and final arc has the sole aversion, with the death of [[spoiler:Fujiwara no Mokou.]]
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''FanFic/ACharmedLife'' all the main characters survive except for those already dead in canon.

* In the ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/NeverSayNever'', [[InMediasRes starts out]] on the 6th class trial showing that all students have survived their murders attempts and execution and have since made peace with each other.

* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' downplays this. Everyone's hearts are still beating, but the people who "died" in the virtual Jabberwock Island are rendered comatose {{Empty Shell}}s, and the 5 survivors face relapsing into their BrainwashedAndCrazy states as a very real possibility. [[Anime/DanganRonpa3 The anime sequel]] reveals [[spoiler:that Hajime regained control of his body and restored all of his classmates to normal, resulting in this trope being played fully straight in the end]].

* ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' uses this a lot, Shinigami are almost impossible to kill, even when bisected. Hollows when 'killed' by a Shinigami are actually just reincarnated to Soul Society. Only in the 1,000 Year Blood War has the body count started to climb and even then, it's still relatively light considering the war they are in.

*** Due credit has to go to Charlotte as well. There were 4022[[note]]a surprisingly small number[[/note]] people using the Library when the Vashta Narada attacked. There were no survivors. But she saved Every. Single. One. of them.

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the GoldenEnding to the Rannoch arc, [[spoiler:where if you have [[GuideDangIt done everything right in the previous game as well as this one]], you can convince the quarians and the Geth to finally make peace after three hundred years of war. Technically, Legion ''does'' cease to exist even then, but it's not so much death as "becoming part of the entire Geth race" to spread the modified Reaper code and give them true sentience.]]

* In the "Happy Birthday, Emily" storyline from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', Omni-lethal assassin Demise (who can turn any object into a lethal weapon and is a master of every combat art) and Achilles are trapped in a children's hospital with a group of terrorists trying to kidnap the daughter of a US Supreme Court Justice, who happens to be a cancer patient at the hospital. Not only does the normally lethal assassin ''not'' kill anyone, but she also helps Achilles prevent anyone else from dying as well. When, at the end of the story, she's asked why, she explains that she never kills anyone on her daughter Emily's birthday. Emily, it turns out, is also a cancer patient at the hospital.

** A later episode has Kenny and a new girl fall in love. When his inevitable death occurs, she runs over to him and screams,"SOMEBODY HELP HIM!" To which Stan and Kyle reply "help....him?" All this time it had never even occurred to them to try and do something to prevent Kenny from dying. The girl gives Kenny CPR, and the episode ends with him alive and well.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The finale of season 5, [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]], resolves the Homeworld storyline with a lasting peace between humanity, the gems, the healing of all the corrupted gems, and most of all, nobody died. Steven's capacity for empathy and forgiveness, against all odds, redeems everyone and helps them EarnYourHappyEnding.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The finale of season 5, [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]], resolves the homeworld storyline with a lasting peace between humanity, the gems, the healing of all the corrupted gems, and most of all, nobody died. Steven's capacity for empathy and forgiveness, against all odds, redeems everyone and helps them EarnYourHappyEnding.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition Ernest Shackleton's crew]] on the ''Endurance'' became trapped in pack ice in Antarctica in 1914 and sank, but all crew returned to England after a long and risky rescue process. As in, they lived on the Antarctic ice for ''six months'' while waiting for it to melt enough to try to reach the nearest land (800 miles away) in a rowboat. (However, three of the crew of the ''Aurora'' which had travelled to the opposite side of Antartica were lost.)