"Kenny? He dies all the time!"
— Cartman, South Park, "Cartmanland"
Panderverse!Stan: Yo, bitch, you killed Kenny!
Panderverse!Kyle: You fat ho!
Panderverse!Kyle: You fat ho!
— South Park, "Joining the Panderverse"
(safe falls on Kenny)
Chef: Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
Kyle: Dude, who's 'they'? A safe fell on him.
Stan: But we always say 'they'. We always say they killed Kenny.
Kyle: But it doesn't make any sense, though.
Stan: Oh yeah...
Chef: Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
Kyle: Dude, who's 'they'? A safe fell on him.
Stan: But we always say 'they'. We always say they killed Kenny.
Kyle: But it doesn't make any sense, though.
Stan: Oh yeah...
— South Park on the Nintendo 64
Otto (After running over Ralph Wiggum): Oh my god! I killed Kenny!
Milhouse: Ralph.
Otto: No, I killed Kenny yesterday. What did I do now?
— The Simpsons, during a South Park-esque Scenario
"Now kids, we all know that sometimes, when cartoon characters die, they’re back again the very next week."
— Krusty the Clown, The Simpsons, “The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochy Show”
"We're dead. Again."
— Rory, Doctor Who
Rocket: So... dead brother, huh? That could be annoying.
Thor: Well, he's been dead before. But this time... I think it really might be true.
Thor: Well, he's been dead before. But this time... I think it really might be true.
"Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again. Die one last time, and know she will never come back for you."
— The Silence, The Wedding of River Song
Amy: You think you'll just come back to life?
Rory: When don't I?
Rory: When don't I?
—Doctor Who, "The Angels Take Manhattan" (Rory dies three times in this episode, twice from old age)
"Forget it, I am not buying it this time."
— Gen. O'Neill, Stargate SG-1, In reference to Daniel's latest case of Never Found the Body.
"Lynne wasn't dead when I got there. For once.''
— Sissel, Ghost Trick
"You can only die once. Busted!"
"If you have a clumsy child: you make him wear a helmet. If you have death-prone children: you keep a few clones of them in your lab."
— Dr. Venture, The Venture Bros.
"Lancer ga shinda!" (Lancer died!)
"Kono hito de nashi!" (You're not human!)
Grail-kun: You're the clown of this festival. You really will be killed if you aren't careful.
Lancer: By who?
Grail-kun: By the story.
"My name is Dr. Gel, they don't give me very much screentime and for some reason I keep dying. I'm officially very dissatisfied."
— Dr. Gel, Space☆Dandy
"It's a new record, Primey!"
—TFWiki.net, discussing the many deaths of Optimus Prime.
Cuddles: Oh my God, I'm gonna die! Not this old death again!
—Happy Tree Friends, "Blast From The Past"
Mike: How many times have the Spies has like, actually died now?
Ashley: Uh, we used to count that, but then we gave up.
Molly: It's fuckin' innumerable.
Mike: It's gotta be in the hundreds at this point, right?
Ashley (Molly): ...Yeah. (Yes).
—Totally Reprise joking around while reviewing Episode 32 of Totally Spies! (at the 57:44 mark)
"My predecessor was unfortunately destroyed, but Cyberlife transferred it's memory and sent me to replace it. This incident should not affect the investigation."
—Connor, Detroit: Become Human
X: Didn't you die?
Ran: Yeah, I do that a lot.
Ran: Yeah, I do that a lot.
Child Emperor: Is Donkan Bird a famous character?
Waganma: It's the mascot of a funny TV show called Animal Empire! The humor was a little dark, so it got canceled. Donkan Bird was stupid and always died...He'd fly into power lines...or get grilled and skewered...but he was so thick-headed he'd return the next episode like nothing happened.
—One-Punch Man, Chapter 96
"Optimus Prime will be back. He always comes back."
— Starscream, The Transformers: Optimus Prime, "The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing"
"Haha, I died again!"
— Lynne following her third death in one night, Ghost Trick
"Well, time to go get killed again."
— Zagreus, Hades
"I noticed on Twitter we're getting a lot of crap for killing Tony a lot. He has become the Kenny of the What If...? universe by accident."
— A.C. Bradley in an Entertainment Weekly interview about episode 8 onwards of What If…? (2021).
"SWAG WHAT THE HELL I THOUGHT YOU DIED OH MY GOD"
— Chris, Weegeepie, "Mario's Squid Game"
SMG4: Swag? Didn't he die like twice already?
Chris: I'm not even gonna try anymore.
Chris: I'm not even gonna try anymore.
— Weegeepie, "Mario's Squid Game"
"I do know that a lot of [Bucky Beaver]'s first shows (at least the ones I've seen in the Nulla Terra Theatre) usually end badly for him... [Rex Broadside] had a passionate[sic] for the macabre, and usually used Bucky as a vehicle for that... as in, every single episode ended with him dying up until his redesign..."
Ulšulah: You've got wrinkles, Ines.
Ines: I died three times and only got a few wrinkles to show for it. I should thank the myriad souls.
Ines: I died three times and only got a few wrinkles to show for it. I should thank the myriad souls.
— Arknights, Episode 13: The Whirlpool that is Passion