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* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' is living the same day over and over due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
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* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' is living [[GroundhogDayLoop the same day over and over over]] due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
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** This continues in [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack the animated series]], which serves as a better medium for such a RunningGag. Poor guy can't catch a break.
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** This continues in [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries the animated series]], which serves as a better medium for such a RunningGag. Poor guy can't catch a break.
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* Creator/PatrickStewart’s Professor Charles Xavier from the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' rivals his comic counterpart for the amount of times he gets Professor X-ed. In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' he gets a bad case of disintegration from Dark Phoenix (he gets better). In ''Film/{{Logan}}'' which is a BadFuture, Charles gets stabbed in the chest by X-24 Wolverine’s EvilKnockoff and dies. In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' (which is a MCU film) Charles returns, only to receive a fatal psychic NeckSnap from FallenHero Scarlet Witch. Creator/IanMcKellen who plays Magneto [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzK9uuh7GU expressed good natured jealousy]] over the fact his best friend [[DeathIsCheap despite getting vaporised]] got to return the franchise again while he didn’t.
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* Creator/PatrickStewart’s Professor Charles Xavier from the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' rivals his comic counterpart for the amount of times he gets Professor X-ed. In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' he gets a bad case of disintegration from Dark Phoenix (he gets better). In ''Film/{{Logan}}'' which is a BadFuture, Charles gets stabbed in the chest by X-24 Wolverine’s EvilKnockoff and dies. In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' (which is a MCU film) Charles returns, only to receive a fatal psychic NeckSnap from FallenHero Scarlet Witch. And that's not even counting him being seconds away from being burned alive by the robotic Sentinels in the BadFuture timeline of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' before a CosmicRetcon kicks in. Creator/IanMcKellen who plays Magneto [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzK9uuh7GU expressed good natured jealousy]] over the fact his best friend [[DeathIsCheap despite getting vaporised]] got to return the franchise again while he didn’t.
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* Creator/PatrickStewart’s Professor Charles Xavier from the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' rivals his comic counterpart for the amount of times he gets Professor X-ed. In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' he gets a bad case of disintegration from Dark Phoenix (he gets better). In ''Film/{{Logan}}'' which is a BadFuture, Charles gets stabbed in the chest by X-24 Wolverine’s EvilKnockoff and dies. In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' (which is a MCU film) Charles returns, only to receive a fatal psychic NeckSnap from FallenHero Scarlet Witch. Creator/IanMcKellen who plays Magneto [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzK9uuh7GU expressed good natured jealousy]] over the fact his best friend [[DeathIsCheap despite getting vaporised]] got to return the franchise again while he didn’t.
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* In ''Timeless Romance'', a fantasy-comedy, the protagonist played by Creator/TonyLeungChiuWai dies a total of ''three'' times thanks to {{Time Travel}}ling shenanigans. Firstly from being stabbed, then throwing himself off a cliff, and finally getting shot InTheBack. [[RuleOfThree The third]] one seems to be permanent, though, with a SmashToBlack as soon as he dies.
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* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[YankTheDogsChain then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The In the fourth one one, she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[YankTheDogsChain then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In the first and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In the first first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim [[YankTheDogsChain then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In the first, second, first and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived.one. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
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* In ''Film/LittleNicky'', the title character is killed a total of seven times throughout the movie. As a son of the Devil, he has ResurrectiveImmortality and can just walk out of Hell. First, he gets hit by a train two seconds after arriving on Earth. Then he gets hit by a bus, attacked by a polar bear, hit by a truck, drowned by his roommate and stoner friends (at his own insistence), and hit by a train ''again'' while protecting his girlfriend -- which, [[spoiler:as a selfless act, sends him to Heaven]]. Finally, Valerie smashes his skull with a boulder given to her by Music/OzzyOsbourne so he can see his dad one last time.
* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
* In the first two ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, the local alien black market dealer Jack Jeebs serves a humorous variant on this trope in which his head is blown off, only to [[GoodThingYouCanHeal re-grow]] within less than a minute. This happens multiple times in both movies, usually with the MIB themselves perpetrating the deed, much to his frustration ("You insensitive pricks, do you have any idea how much that stings?").
** This continues in [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack the animated series]], which serves as a better medium for such a RunningGag. Poor guy can't catch a break.
-->'''Jeebs:''' Even if I did, if it doesn't work, K dies, you blow my head off. If it does work, I brought back K who, just for the fun of it, blows my head off. Sooo, ''what's'' my incentive?\\
[K raises his gun to Jeebs' head]\\
'''Jeebs:''' [Weak laugh] Okay homey, I keep it right downstairs next to the snow blower.
* ''[=MST3K=]'' fan favorite ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' has one character killed, only to inexplicably reappear alive and well... IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE. (Though, in this case, it's due to the movie's editor not paying attention to what order the two scenes were supposed to be shown in, rather than the character actually coming back to life.)
* A long-running joke like this is hard to pull off in a film-format, but ''Film/TopSecret'' manages with the character of Latrine, who shows up three times, mortally wounded, to gasp out the intelligence he gathered.
* In ''Film/TheGamers: Dorkness Rising'', the bard user gets sick of being resurrected (and subsequently losing a level)... so he brings in 50 more bard character sheets. In one scene, the other characters literally use his pile of corpses as cover.
* The QuirkyMinibossSquad in ''Film/The6thDay'' technically does stay dead, but they [[ExpendableClone clone themselves over and over]], and several of the deaths are PlayedForLaughs. One of them repeatedly expresses a feeling of phantom pain from whatever his previous death was.
* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' is living the same day over and over due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
* Scamper the rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' is killed multiple times, but always comes back because he was injected with an immortality potion. At one point his head is blown off, but it just regenerates; a recurring gag is how he just wants to die permanently.
* Scruffy Banister the cat from ''Madhouse'' (the 1990 comedy) died about 7 times in the movie. Its deaths include getting hit by a car, drowning in a fish tank, hit by a lawn mower, blown up by a firecracker, and dying of a heart attack after snorting cocaine. There were attempts to cook and microwave it, with unknown results. In the end, Mark estimates that Scruffy has [[CatsHaveNineLives 3 lives left out of 9]] [[spoiler:and is going to live them in the titular house]].
* Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg do this in every one of their "movies".
* ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' has a character that keeps returning after his death because he thinks it's the sequel already.
* Film/TheThreeStooges die at the end of four of their shorts "Half Shot Shooter", "Three Little Sew and Sews", "You Nazty Spie!" (later revealed to have been averted in the sequel,) and "I'll Never Heil Again".
* The [[http://priceonomics.com/the-wilhelm-scream-cinemas-most-overused-sound/ Wilhelm Scream]] has punctuated the deaths of countless redshirts in film, all dying with the famous last words: "AAAUUGGH!" There's a Wilhelm in most George Lucas and Peter Jackson movies. However, it's become so recognizable that many directors have stopped using it.
* ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' features Jimmy, who serves as Henry's MissionControl. He keeps showing up, getting killed within a few minutes, and reappearing with a slightly different appearance a short time later. [[spoiler: It turns out that the real Jimmy is actually a GeniusCripple remote controlling a small army of {{Expendable Clone}}s.]]
* Too many SlasherMovie villains to count. Chucky from ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' dies in nearly every movie. Jason from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise has died a minimum of three times, possibly eight as it was hard to tell if he was truly dead in many scenarios.
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* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
* In the first two ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, the local alien black market dealer Jack Jeebs serves a humorous variant on this trope in which his head is blown off, only to [[GoodThingYouCanHeal re-grow]] within less than a minute. This happens multiple times in both movies, usually with the MIB themselves perpetrating the deed, much to his frustration ("You insensitive pricks, do you have any idea how much that stings?").
** This continues in [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack the animated series]], which serves as a better medium for such a RunningGag. Poor guy can't catch a break.
-->'''Jeebs:''' Even if I did, if it doesn't work, K dies, you blow my head off. If it does work, I brought back K who, just for the fun of it, blows my head off. Sooo, ''what's'' my incentive?\\
[K raises his gun to Jeebs' head]\\
'''Jeebs:''' [Weak laugh] Okay homey, I keep it right downstairs next to the snow blower.
* ''[=MST3K=]'' fan favorite ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' has one character killed, only to inexplicably reappear alive and well... IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE. (Though, in this case, it's due to the movie's editor not paying attention to what order the two scenes were supposed to be shown in, rather than the character actually coming back to life.)
* A long-running joke like this is hard to pull off in a film-format, but ''Film/TopSecret'' manages with the character of Latrine, who shows up three times, mortally wounded, to gasp out the intelligence he gathered.
* In ''Film/TheGamers: Dorkness Rising'', the bard user gets sick of being resurrected (and subsequently losing a level)... so he brings in 50 more bard character sheets. In one scene, the other characters literally use his pile of corpses as cover.
* The QuirkyMinibossSquad in ''Film/The6thDay'' technically does stay dead, but they [[ExpendableClone clone themselves over and over]], and several of the deaths are PlayedForLaughs. One of them repeatedly expresses a feeling of phantom pain from whatever his previous death was.
* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' is living the same day over and over due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
* Scamper the rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' is killed multiple times, but always comes back because he was injected with an immortality potion. At one point his head is blown off, but it just regenerates; a recurring gag is how he just wants to die permanently.
* Scruffy Banister the cat from ''Madhouse'' (the 1990 comedy) died about 7 times in the movie. Its deaths include getting hit by a car, drowning in a fish tank, hit by a lawn mower, blown up by a firecracker, and dying of a heart attack after snorting cocaine. There were attempts to cook and microwave it, with unknown results. In the end, Mark estimates that Scruffy has [[CatsHaveNineLives 3 lives left out of 9]] [[spoiler:and is going to live them in the titular house]].
* Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg do this in every one of their "movies".
* ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' has a character that keeps returning after his death because he thinks it's the sequel already.
* Film/TheThreeStooges die at the end of four of their shorts "Half Shot Shooter", "Three Little Sew and Sews", "You Nazty Spie!" (later revealed to have been averted in the sequel,) and "I'll Never Heil Again".
* The [[http://priceonomics.com/the-wilhelm-scream-cinemas-most-overused-sound/ Wilhelm Scream]] has punctuated the deaths of countless redshirts in film, all dying with the famous last words: "AAAUUGGH!" There's a Wilhelm in most George Lucas and Peter Jackson movies. However, it's become so recognizable that many directors have stopped using it.
* ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' features Jimmy, who serves as Henry's MissionControl. He keeps showing up, getting killed within a few minutes, and reappearing with a slightly different appearance a short time later. [[spoiler: It turns out that the real Jimmy is actually a GeniusCripple remote controlling a small army of {{Expendable Clone}}s.]]
* Too many SlasherMovie villains to count. Chucky from ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' dies in nearly every movie. Jason from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise has died a minimum of three times, possibly eight as it was hard to tell if he was truly dead in many scenarios.
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