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** Ariel herself gets hit with this in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', though since [[SavedByCanon this is a prequel movie]], some may be more fooled by it than others.

* Disney did this in the ''{{interquel}}s'' to ''its own movies'', at least twice (''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'' and ''WesternAnimation/BambiII''). [[SavedByCanon It's hard to get involved in The Great Prince mourning Bambi's demise when the first movie reveals that Bambi grows up happily to have fawns of his own.]]

* The seldom-seen Disney short ''John Henry'' stays true to the original legend by having the eponymous character work himself to death.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} 2'', Shang takes a terrible fall and everyone believes he is dead, but he turns out to be just fine. (These films can be quite unrealistic.) Also, [[SpoiledByTheFormat one of the tracks on the film's soundtrack is called "Shang Lives"]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2'': Stitch Gets a Glitch'', Stitch dies because of his body being unstable. He gets better. The movie even admits that this is technically impossible!

** Ariel herself gets hit with this in ''Ariel's Beginning'', though since this is a prequel movie, some may be more fooled by it than others.

** In the finale, Luz takes a blast of energy from Belos meant to kill the Collector and ends up covered in MeatMoss that kills her and disintegrates her into light. She then re-emerges in the In-Between Realm and is revived by the Titan with [[CameBackStrong his]] [[HourOfPower remaining power imbued]] [[SuperMode into her to help her defeat Belos.]]

* ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUndertheSea'': Captain Nemo dies from a gunshot wound, as does the rest of the ''Nautilus'' crew, in a rare case of Disney doing DeathByAdaptation, as their fates were ambiguous in the [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUndertheSea novel]].

** In the finale, Luz takes a blast of energy from Belos meant to kill the Collector and ends up covered in meat moss that kills her and transforms her body into MeatMoss and disintegrates her into light. She then re-emerges in the In-Between Realm and is revived by the Titan with [[CameBackStrong his]] [[HourOfPower remaining power imbued]] [[SuperMode into her to help her defeat Belos.]]

* Happens to [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater]] in the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Pixar animated short]] ''El Materdor'' as a result of the bulldozers (resembling bulls) burying him in the sand at one point, as if they were burying him in a grave and sticking a piece of wood with a poster of him on it, giving it the appearance of a tombstone.

* In ''Not Quite Human 2'', we get a Robot Disney Death when the android Roberta seemingly "dies" in Chip's arms from a lack of power. In her case, this means that she will lose all her memories and return to her original state. After Roberta's "death", Chip reveals that he read all of her data with his magnetic finger and saved it to a floppy disk, preserving Roberta's memories and personality.
* In ''Film/InspectorGadget'', John Brown is fatally injured when Sanford Scolex blows him up with a victory cigar. Brown is then turned into a cyborg to save his life. Later in the film he gets a Robot Disney Death when Claw crushes his chip, only for Brenda and Penny to locate him in the junkyard on the outskirts of Riverton and for Brenda to kiss him back to life, proving he didn't need his chip to survive.

* Artemus Bradford at the start of ''Film/InspectorGadget''. His death sets the plot in motion as John Brown goes after the killers, gets blown up by a victory cigar bomb, and becomes Inspector Gadget, playing the trope straight twice in the course of the film (including once as a Robot Disney Death).

* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch 2: Stitch Gets a Glitch'', Stitch dies because of his body being unstable. He gets better. The movie even admits that this is technically impossible!

** Wittgenstein the supercomputer burns out his WFC-11-12-55 tube. Radio, who turns out to have the exact same tube sacrifices his so Wittgenstein can work again. Radio comes back when he's provided with a new tube.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' ends with Toaster jumping inside an industrial conveyor belt in order to save The Master. It was virtually crushed to pieces, but within a few minutes is repaired by The Master.

** Happens to Anne in the series finale, "The Hardest Thing". Anne disintegrates after using the combined powers of the three Calamity Stones to destroy the Core-controlled Moon in Amphibia. She wakes up in a cosmic dimension, and the Cosmic Guardian offers his job to Anne. She declines, but will take the job after another 78 years on Earth, and so the Guardian returns Anne or rather her backup copy to Anphibia.

** Played a bit straighter in "Thanks to Them". After fighting off Belos while possessed by him, Hunter appears to have died or is dying from PossessionBurnout, but Flapjack, who was already badly wounded, [[HeroicSacrifice gives up the last of his life force to revive him]], though he is still CoveredWithScars and now has [[EyeCcolorChange brown eyes]].

** Even the makers of the film argued over whether he should have really died. The supporters for his death even cited that as well as falling off a cliff, he was almost hit by a train. One excuse for his survival was that they'd never killed a character onscreen in a Disney movie before and weren't going to start with him. Apparently, the one who made that claim had forgotten about Bambi's mom, though to be fair, Bambi's mom's death is not nearly as onscreen as Mufasa's death in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.

* Disney did this in the ''{{interquel}}s'' to ''its own movies'', at least twice (''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid III'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} II''). [[SavedByCanon It's hard to get involved in The Great Prince mourning Bambi's demise when the first movie reveals that Bambi grows up happily to have fawns of his own.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'', after Ariel saves Prince Eric from drowning Scuttle declares him dead (it doesn't help that he is listening for a pulse in Eric's ''foot''), but Ariel sees him breathing and realizes he is only unconscious.

* Another exception: ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''. Pulling a Disney Death wouldn't make sense in a movie about the cycle of life and death (and inspired by ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', which is about [[YouKilledMyFather avenging death]]); as a result, Mufasa gets killed in a massive stampede near the middle of the film, and when he dies, [[KilledOffForReal he dies for real]]. Though [[SpiritAdvisor he does come back in spirit]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' has the eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, getting basically vaporized by a stray bolt from the trident - you can even see bits of flesh, bone, and eyes after they get exploded.

*** After King Andrias has revealed his true intentions for the Calamity Box and caused the castle to take off into the sky, he drops Sprig out of a window to his death. However, while everyone else is distacted by Anne's powers suddenly manifesting from her anger and grief, Marcy uses Joe Sparrow to rescue him.

** Played a bit straighter in "Thanks to Them". [[spoiler:After fighting off Belos while possessed by him, Hunter appears to have died or is dying from PossessionBurnout, but Flapjack, who was already badly wounded, [[HeroicSacrifice gives up the last of his life force to revive him]]]].

** At the end of the Season 2 finale "True Colors", Marcy defies against King Andrias' orders for dimensional conquest by messing with the Calamity Box to send Anne and the Plantars to Earth; she is then stabbed fatally through the chest by Andrias' flaming sword. She was eventually brought back to life when Andrias uses the Moss Man's healing powers combined with the Shadow Moth to heal her, so she can eventually become the human host for Andrias' master, The Core.

* A non-lethal example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler: In "Agony of a Witch", Eda the Owl Lady uses all of her magic to save Luz causing her to succumb to her curse and seemingly turn into the Owl Beast for good, with no trace of her regular self apparently left. However, in the next episode, Emperor Belos restores Eda's mind, albeit still in her Owl Beast form and for his own, nefarious purposes.]]

** Played a bit straighter in "Thanks to Them". [[spoiler:After fighting off Belos while possessed by him, Hunter appears to have died or is dying, but Flapjack, who was already badly wounded, [[HeroicSacrifice gives up the last of his life force to revive him]]]].

** By the truckload in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''. Aside from Sora and co. seeing the canon {{Disney Death}}s in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', and ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', there's also the original [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Baymax]] model who was brought back from the dimension he and Hiro saved Abigail from by a Xehanort-controlled Riku, and returned to normal after being turned into a Heartless. Ventus is woken up from his 10+ year sleep after Aqua is saved from the Realm of Darkness. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Ven, Aqua, ''and'' Lea are taken out by an entire swarm of Heartless, leading Sora to come BackFromTheDead to save everyone. [[TheBusCameBack Xion, Roxas and Naminé are all given replicas so they can exist as their own separate entities, and Terra reclaims control of his own body.]] Isa is revealed to have been revived after his defeat in the Keyblade Graveyard, and shown hanging out with his best friend again. And lastly, Kairi is brought back to life ''again'' after Xehanort kills her to motivate Sora into completing the χ-blade, but doing so [[HeroicSacrifice costs Sora his existence alongside everyone]]. Even ''then'', it's hinted in the secret ending (and confirmed outright in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsMelodyOfMemory Melogy of Memory]]'') that Riku's going to bring Sora back from Quadratum in another future title. Also, Xigbar returns and reveals himself to be Luxu.