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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Dream grants rebirth to his former lover Nada. Nada was noble and virtuous, but had been made to suffer so much that, of the options Dream gave her after rescuing her from Hell, she felt this clean break was best.
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* At the end of season 10 episode 28 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', when Happy S. breaks the gun that can age its targets, it ends up hitting Careful S. and Kalo, turning them into babies. Cue DownerEnding.
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* ''Webcomic/MomImSorry'': After Henry dies, he is judged for his noble deeds but also for [[OutlivingOnesOffspring making his mother Olivia suffer from his death]]. He is allowed to be reborn, [[spoiler:albeit to an abusive mother. Fortunately, his friends and family find him, and Olivia adopts him back into the family]].
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* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' ends with [[spoiler:Hatsumi being reborn as her lover Hazuki's daughter]].
* The first series of ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' ends with our heroine being run over by a truck--she goes through an afterlife heroquest, and as a result comes back as the [[HumanityEnsues biological baby daughter]] of her MuggleFosterParents.
* At the end of ''Manga/VampireGame'', Duzell, who gave a HeroicSacrifice, is reincarnated as the son of Ishtar, the woman he loved.
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* Happens to Reira at the end of the Fusion Dimension arc in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. After joining forces with [[BigGood Ray]], they manage to defeat [[BigBad Zarc]] and seal him within Reira's body. When the dimensions are rebooted and the damage Zarc inflicted has been undone, Reira is seen being turned into a baby. In the post-CosmicRetcon Pendulum Dimension, Reira is shown to be well-taken care of by his adoptive mother. However, his de-aging is seen as a bad thing, as he's practically catatonic and shows no joy. His family seek Yuya to "bring back Reira's smile" and turn him back.
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* At the end of ''Manga/VampireGame'', Duzell, who gave a HeroicSacrifice, is reincarnated as the son of Ishtar, the woman he loved.
* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' ends with [[spoiler:Hatsumi being reborn as her lover Hazuki's daughter]].
* Happens to Reira at the end of the Fusion Dimension arc in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. After joining forces with [[BigGood Ray]], they manage to defeat [[BigBad Zarc]] and seal him within Reira's body. When the dimensions are rebooted and the damage Zarc inflicted has been undone, Reira is seen being turned into a baby. In the post-CosmicRetcon Pendulum Dimension, Reira is shown to be well-taken care of by his adoptive mother. However, his de-aging is seen as a bad thing, as he's practically catatonic and shows no joy. His family seek Yuya to "bring back Reira's smile" and turn him back.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''' ''Night Warriors'', Hsien-Ko and her sister Mei-Ling are reincarnated as human children after defeating Pyron.
* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', after traipsing around the ghost world frantically figuring out the cause of his death, [[spoiler:Sissel gets to live forever as a family kitten. He's pretty happy with his fate.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' did this, but didn't exactly play it straight. Link skipped forward seven years a third of the way into the game so his reward at the end is to regain those lost years. Though later games seem to show that this causes a lot of problems with the two timelines later on.
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* ''Fanfic/MessageInABottleStarscribe'': In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/368986/89/message-in-a-bottle/epilogue "Epilogue"]], Olivia gets her reward of a life without violence by being reborn years after her death, in a new safer world, who is also her DeadGuyJunior.
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* The inciting incident of ''Literature/RebornToMasterTheBlade'' is the good King Inglis being granted a wish on his deathbed in reward for his wise ruling over a people who crowned him king for being a heroic mercenary. He regrets not being able to ''truly'' master the blade due to his kingly responsibilities and wishes to be reborn as someone who can, and wakes as [[ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex the daughter]] of a Knight many, many years in the future.
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* Pride, from ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''. Once he's defeated, he's returned as a tiny infant to Mrs. Bradley, who manages to raise him as she would a normal boy.
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