History Main / WorthLivingFor

* In YTheLastMan, Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth after a {{Gendercide}}, repeatedly throws himself into harm's way due to his overwhelming survivor's guilt, until a suicide intervention sets him straight. This gives him an epiphany, showing him the one thing he thinks is worth living for. At the end of the series we find out that it was [[spoiler: his bodyguard, Agent 355]].

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: RedZoneCuba''. Doctor Forrester gets beaten into a pulp by a mob enforcer at the beginning of the episode. Later, he appears to die in his hospital bed, only to suddenly wake up and declare that he has too much to live for. He climbs out of his hospital bed, stumbles out of the room... and immediately gets beaten again by the same mob enforcer.

* In the ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows part two'' trailer:

-->--'''Lorien''', ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}''

* ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'': Stephen Franklin, having been stabbed, and after being berated by a hallucination of himself giving him a potent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[spoiler: Which turns into a sort of RousingSpeech]], realizes that he wants to ''live'', and is willing to fight to survive, even if it means making all of the same mistakes all over again.

* Cain's arc in {{Series/TinMan}}. He was dead-set on killing Zero to avenge his family, then dying. But then his former boss appeals to his honorable streak and forces him to promise that he'll guard [=DG=] [[spoiler: the lost princess of Oz]] "at any cost." Cain is still LawfulGood enough to not turn down the Mystic Man's LastRequest. Between this and learning [[spoiler: his family survived]], he's got enough HeroicWillpower to fend off a bullet and hypothermia.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', Scampers is an immortal rabbit who really wants to die, and makes several humorous suicide attempts throughout the movie. At the very end, he freaks out when he briefly thinks he might actually die, because he [[ThePowerOfFriendship finally made some friends]].

Compare WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* As several characters in ''{{Touhou}}'' are explicitly or not-so-explicitly immortal, some FanFic writers explore the reason they keep pushing forward despite the obvious existential {{angst}}. This trope is commonly brought into the story for Mokou and Eirin, with Keine and Kaguya as their respective reason to live. Note that Keine isn't immortal despite having a very long lifespan; it takes Mokou serious courage to forge a bond with her.

** When Luffy nearly passed the DespairEventHorizon, he remembered that he still had his crew.

--> '''Martha:''' All those things you've been ready to die for...I thought, for a moment there, you'd found finally found something worth living for.

* In ''{{Igor}}'', Scampers is an immortal rabbit who really wants to die, and makes several humorous suicide attempts throughout the movie. At the very end, he freaks out when he briefly thinks he might actually die, because he [[ThePowerOfFriendship finally made some friends]].
* In the ''{{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}} part two'' trailer:

* In DoctorWho serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]'', one Thal is afraid, having found in Jo Grant a reason to live, that he will fail in their SuicideMission. (He doesn't, they don't die, but Jo turns him down.)

WorthLivingFor is when a character realizes he has something [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin worth]] ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin living]]'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for]], be it a loved one, a new-found opportunity, or whatever have you. Will usually inspire new-found [[{{Determinator}} determination]] that might verge on making them a OneManArmy.

* While it was his aim to survive in the first place, Guts from ''{{Berserk}}'' stopped wasting his life away for the purpose of revenge and stopped acting so sociopathic when he realized how the end of his life would ultimately mean the end of Casca, his ill-fated lover, as well.

-->--'''Lorien''', ''{{Babylon 5}}''

* Because of this, by Episode 24 of ''{{Gosick}}'' Victorique finally fears death.

* Happens in ''[[{{Eragon}} Brisingr]]'' after Eragon almost drains himself of life-force [[CastFromHitpoints casting powerful spells]]. A bumblebee lands in front of his nose, where he can contemplate it in detail from a couple inches away, and he realizes that a world that can produce something [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome so vibrantly alive]] as that bee is one he wants to live in.

* In ''{{Igor}}'', Scampers is an immortal cat who really wants to die, and makes several humorous suicide attempts throughout the movie. At the very end, he freaks out when he briefly thinks he might actually die, because he [[ThePowerOfFriendship finally made some friends]].

* In ''{{Igor}}'', Scampers is an immortal cat who really wants to die, and does a number of suicidal things throughout the movie. At the very end, he actually freaks out briefly when he thinks he might die, because he [[ThePowerOfFriendship made some friends]].

* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:Shiki lets himself be killed by vampire Yumizuka Satsuki due to [[AlwaysWithYou his promise to her]] earlier]] in Akiha's route unless you answered earlier in a fashion that makes him realize he has to live for Akiha.

* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:Shiki lets himself be killed by vampire Yumizuka Satsuki due to his promise to her earlier]] in Akiha's route unless you answered earlier in a fashion that makes him realize he has to live for Akiha.

* In ''Tsukihime'', [[spoiler:Shiki lets himself be killed by vampire Yumizuka Satsuki due to his promise to her earlier]] in Akiha's route unless you answered earlier in a fashion that makes him realize he has to live for Akiha.

* ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' : All Carth was living for was the chance to destroy Saul Karath and die in the process. But by the time [[spoiler: Saul is killed by the party]], he's come to find more than simple revenge to live for. Protecting the PlayerCharacter from themselves and the DarkSide has become his reason to keep going.
* ''{{CLANNAD}}'': Oh, Tomoya... One of the BGM is even titled "[[{{Anvilicious}} Worth Living]]".

When the DeathSeeker character actually answer this with great confidence or profound sense of hope, expect a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and/or CrowningMomentOfAwesome.