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Kouji: Boss! Come on, Boss, wake up!
Boss: Let me alone. I am dead.
Kouji: Don't be dumb! Dead men can not talk!
Boss: Oh. Right. Then I'am alive! I'm alive! I love being alive!
Boss: Let me alone. I am dead.
Kouji: Don't be dumb! Dead men can not talk!
Boss: Oh. Right. Then I'am alive! I'm alive! I love being alive!
—Mazinger Z, Episode 91
Fan Works
Sanae: (crying) Marisa, you didn't die right!?
Reimu: Of course she didn't. Who would tell you the story if that were the case, now?
Sanae: Buuut!
[Yuyuko waves at the screen]
Reimu: Of course she didn't. Who would tell you the story if that were the case, now?
Sanae: Buuut!
[Yuyuko waves at the screen]
—Fantasy Kaleidoscope, The Red Mist Incident, Part 2
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
Man in Jail: The Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
Jack Sparrow: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?
Jack Sparrow: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?
Blinkin: Master Robin, is that you?
Robin: Yes!
Blinkin: Back from the crusades?
Robin: Yes!
Blinkin: And alive?!
Robin: ...Yes.
Robin: Yes!
Blinkin: Back from the crusades?
Robin: Yes!
Blinkin: And alive?!
Robin: ...Yes.
Web Animation
Luigi: Nothing below me but boiling lava! *sploosh* I died.
[Beat]
Luigi: Wait... a skull raft came by! *thud* I died.
Yoshi: Luigi no die!
Luigi: ... how'd you know?
[Beat]
Luigi: Wait... a skull raft came by! *thud* I died.
Yoshi: Luigi no die!
Luigi: ... how'd you know?
Web Video
Oh wait, she can't be dead. This has already happened. Or, rather it hasn't happened yet, but she obviously made the jump back farther if she's telling us the story. Most stories don't end with 'and then I died.'
—Ross's Game Dungeon, reviewing A New Beginning