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---->'''The Missy:''' Death is for other people.
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Missy is [[spoiler:shot InTheBack (by her own past self) with a laser screwdriver at a strength that he claims is enough to prevent her from regenerating, minutes before a massive explosion destroys the deck of the spaceship she is on]]. Inevitably, [[spoiler:he turns up in a new regeneration in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]].]]

** One of {{the Master}}'s specialties, going hand-in-hand with their JokerImmunity:

*** The Master was [[spoiler:disintegrated utterly in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]]]]. This example is ultimately an aversion, as unusually for the character, we actually get an explanation as to how she survived this time. [[spoiler:In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:she actually used the disintegrator weapon to power a concealed teleport device]].
---->'''The Master:''' Death is for other people.
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Master is [[spoiler:shot InTheBack (by her own past self) with a laser screwdriver at a strength that he claims is enough to prevent her from regenerating, minutes before a massive explosion destroys the deck of the spaceship she is on]]. Inevitably, [[spoiler:he turns up in a new regeneration in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]].]]

** In one "Space: The Infinite Frontier" sketch, Harry Caray's guest asks him, "Didn't you die?" His response is just, "Yes I did. What's your point?" She's so baffled that she drops the issue immediately.

** In one "Space: The Infinite Frontier" sketch, Harry Caray's guest asks him, "Didn't you die?" His response is just, "Yeah. What's your point?" She's so baffled that she drops the issue immediately.

---->'''The Master:''' Come, come, the whole universe knows I'm indestructible!\\

** At the end of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 2, Buffy is forced to kill Angel to save the world, resulting in him being DraggedOffToHell by the demon Acathla. Three episodes into season 3, Angel is freed from said Hell, and it's never officially revealed how he came back; even years later, by the time of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' season 5, Angel himself has no clue. While the [[UltimateEvil First Evil]] claims to be the one who broke him out, considering [[ManipulativeBastard its]] [[MoreThanMindControl personality]], it may very well have been lying.

* In season 5 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Tony Almeida dies in Jack Bauer's arms. [[spoiler: In season 7, he's alive and well and has pulled a FaceHeelTurn, and Jack is genuinely surprised to learn this. It's implied that his death, which at the time appeared to be a genuine attempt to kill him by a captured terrorist with ties to PresidentEvil, was in fact staged in the same manner that Jack's was in season 4.]] And if you thought [[spoiler:Jack Bauer would kill him... and this time, he'd stay dead! Think again. He's a {{Mole}}! Wait a minute... [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Now Tony's bad again]]]].

** While it's not the first (or last) time that Oliver Queen [[DeathIsCheap came back from the dead]], his mid-season demise in Season 3 where Ra's al Ghul--leader of the League of Assassins, with centuries of experience in killing--stabs Oliver and then throws him off a mountaintop is simply handwaved as being due to HeroicWillpower and being nursed back to health by Tatsu. This is despite the fact that there's a Lazarus Pit InUniverse that could have been used for this instead.

* Supershock rips out [[spoiler: Deena's]] heart out in the ''Series/{{Powers}}'' season 2 finale. This merely lands [[spoiler: her]] in a hospital.

* Mel Tormé guest stars as himself in ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' (his son Tracy was one of the show's creators) and is apparently killed by a car bomb after Rembrandt inadvertently reveals to the Mob that he's working against them - he refers to them "working together", unaware that the Rembrandt of this universe is the head of the FBI. He reappears at the end of the episode and offers only a cryptic explanation, the gist being that he's too smart to be killed in such a way.

* ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'': After Travis and Natalie are hit by a drunk driver, they're both injured. We see him with his arm in a sling, and Natalie has a neck brace on. She also complains of pain in her back and an MRI is ordered to see if her pelvis was fractured. That is the last we see or hear about these injuries-their next appearances have them perfectly fine, and they're never brought up again.

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The first scene begins InMediasRes, starting off with a scene of Vision driving his wife Wanda home. The fact that he was destroyed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War is not addressed at all, and is one of many signs that things are not as they seem in Westview. Those outside the town definitely notice, though, and it's a key point in their ongoing investigation of the town. [[spoiler: In Episode 4, we are treated to the lovely image of what seems to be Vision's reanimated corpse. And then Episode 8 reveals that the Vision in Westview is not the corpse itself (which Wanda decided to leave behind after she saw how S.W.O.R.D. had him cut up in an attempt to revive him), but a recreation made out of her powers alongside the massive illusion that engulfed the town.]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' marks its halfway point with the defeat and apparent death of rival Chase, whose core is shown to explode on camera in front of most of the main characters. The stinger for the episode shows that Chase somehow survived, for which no explanation is ever offered.

* In the season three finale of ''Series/{{Haven}}'', Nathan is shot several times by Jordan, causing him to send Duke into the barn after Audrey rather than follow her himself. Season four begins six months later, and no mention is made of Nathan ever being shot.