History Main / ClimacticBattleResurrection

* The [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/olympics Olympics plot]] of JLA Watchtower & Roleplay/DCNation ends with a really wild one of these. The Titans are fighting [[Myth/GreekMythology Hades, Lord of the Dead]]. They win the challenge, he turns out to be a sore loser, and all hell breaks loose. Just when the heroes are on the ropes from a brigade of their dead RoguesGallery, [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/424837.html in charges Hawkman]], flanked by Nightwing and Arsenal, backed up by an army of fallen ''allies!'' Semi-inverted as most of the allies and enemies summoned for the battle return to the Land of the Dead afterward.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler:during the final battle atop the Founding Titan, Ymir summons the soulless husks of past Titan Shifters to fight the Alliance, including those of their former friends and allies. However, Armin and a newly invigorated Zeke speak to their late comrades in the Paths, allowing them to take over their Titan forms one last time to help stop The Rumbling.]]

* The ''[[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries Devil May Cry]]'' anime had Dante pulling this off. Normally, [[InvincibleHero no one should be surprised in the least]] - Dante finds ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Hero Shots]] routine, and he's got a HealingFactor that lets him [[CheshireCatGrin laugh at them]]. But the episode leading up to his reappearance does it's ''damnedest'' to make you think that the writers really [[KilledOffForReal killed him off for real]], up to and including a pull-your-heartstrings-out plea speech from [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Patty]] set to a reprisal of the [[NostalgicMusicBox music box theme]] from the original game (the one that plays alongside the picture of Dante's [[DeathByOriginStory dead mother]] and the pendant he inherited from his dead father and brother) that provokes no reaction from Dante's seemingly lifeless body at all. As a way to make the audience actually cheer when Dante ''does'' come back to make with the CurbStompBattle victory, it succeeds.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'', where the conclusion to the second-last arc in the series has the members of the club sacrifice themselves so the others can go on and save Hinamizawa. However, since this is Higurashi, [[DownerEnding all of them are shot to death]], and the villain ends up killing the entire village. ''Also'' because this is Higurashi, they're all sent back with the series' [[ResetButton time loop]], and [[EarnYourHappyEnding overcome the BigBad in the final arc.]]

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' Freddy kills people. [[ItsALongStory He gets their souls, but Alice gets their powers.]] Alone, the victims were unable to defeat Freddy, but, with [[AllYourPowersCombined all their powers combined]], Alice is able to lay the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} smackdown]] on Freddy to the point where all of the souls inside of him revolt and tear him apart.
* ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' had Creator/MichelleYeoh's character resurrecting the people TheEmperor killed, resulting in a battle between two armies of mummies.

* In ''Literature/TheInfiniteAndTheDivine'', TheAgeless [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Necron]] Trazyn the Infinite keeps coming back to the same planet over a period of several thousands of years, and he keeps collecting samples of the different armies of different races that fight there at different ages including [[spoiler: Aeldari Exodites, Destroyer Necrons, Orks, Tyranid Genestealers, Tyranid cultists, and Imperial humans.]] He prefers to preserve these in temporal stasis in his museum, but he can also carry them with him in a pocket dimension and make them fight for him under mind control. In the FinalBattle, he brings back a squad from each army to fight the forces of the BigBad.
--> "I hope you brought an army."
--> "You think so little of me, dear colleague. I brought five."

* Featured in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' novels. At the end of Book 5, the extremely major characters of Aviendha and Mat were killed. However, Rand then used a form of magic called balefire which not only killed the villain responsible for their deaths, Rahvin, but also [[RetGone erased him backwards in time]], undoing his actions. So, when Rand went back outside, his friends were alive again.

* Subverted in that defeated characters don't come back to help fight the Big Bad in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', [[spoiler: they come back in another more sinister form to rip the remaining tributes limb from limb]].
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', the Last Hope, which was originally intended to end the series, [[spoiler: the Dark Forest, effectively Cat-Hell, invades the world of the living, and the clans are only saved when Star Clan and the Tribe of Endless Hunting, the Cat-Heavens, join the fray]]. Every cat who has died over the course of the series is fighting either for Cat-Heaven or Cat-Hell in the final battle. However, given how large the cast is, most go unmentioned aside from the most prominent personal encounters.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' did this in their season six finale episode "Out of Time".
* In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', every good guy and [[HeelFaceTurn reformed bad guy]] offed in the final arc is revived to take on the Master. Notably, the same thing happened in the source show, ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger''.

* The Tenth Doctor in full PhysicalGod mode at the end of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Last of The Time Lords", bringing down the Master, turning time back an entire year, and saving at least a few hundred million people.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' looked to be headed this way, with the return of the only guy who can open the local PhantomZone that had been treated as a FateWorseThanDeath for most of the series. Subverted when only half of the Riders actually take part in the battle, the other half only arrive just in time for a group FinishingMove.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' did this with the episode "The Wish". While Giles worked to restore the normal universe, the main cast went about killing each other.

* Series/KamenRiderStronger: Delza's Great Leader resurrects an army of past kaijin from the season (only one of which was actually a Delza kaijin) when he knows the Seven Riders are coming to rescue [[TheMentor Tachibana]] and [[DwindlingParty there are only 3 Delza kaijin and several Mooks left]].
* ''Series/PersonsUnknown'' pulled one of these. After being in a situation identical to ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', they are later found out to be completely okay and just [[FakingTheDead pretending to be dead.]] Apparently the people picking up the dead bodies didn't mind that they were [[FridgeLogic warm, breathing or had a pulse]].
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Community}}'', where a "Last Man Standing" paintball game spirals completely out of control, pitting student against student and decimating the community college, picking each other off for the ultimate prize -- priority registration for courses next semester. Naturally, when the dust settles all is back to normal because it's just paint.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' kills everyone on the team but the hero in the final chapter, but depending on the conversation choices the hero makes in the conversation with the BigBad, he can then raise them all. Then again, one of the hero's default powers during the game is to raise the dead, so it's not like it comes out of nowhere...
** The tactic here is tricking the BigBad to temporarily leave long enough for you to resurrect them as it has to be done one by one. Also it turns out that [[spoiler: the undead one was just playing dead.]] He of course returns just in time after your resurrect the last one.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'':
** When the party needs to shut down the Giant of Babel [[FantasticVoyagePlot from within]], all of their old allies come back in Dwarven tanks and airships to hold the Giant off, including several that were put out of commission one way or another and one that by all means [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat should have died]]. In the [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance GBA]] UpdatedRerelease, you can actually have them in your party again.
** ''Final Fantasy IV'' also has a less traditional version before the final boss: After a cutscene wherein said boss nearly kills the entire party, apparitions of all of the past party members (only one of which was dead) give the heroes words of encouragement, fully restoring health and mana.
* Another ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' related, and [[InvertedTrope reversed]] version would be "Apocalypse Nigh", an endgame mission after the completion of the Rise of the Zilart and Chains of Promathia expansions for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''. The opening cutscene has every surviving major NPC ally join you in a brawl against every main enemy NPC you defeated, brought back by the Emptiness. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted, however,]] as the actual fight only involves your PC party against the two enemy leaders of the Rise of the Zilart expansion.
** In ''Rhapsodies of Vana'diel'', we learn that this was [[spoiler:The Adventurer's last idea to stop the Cloud of Darkness in Iroha's future. It ends up as a failure though.]]

* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' ends with one, as Fox's home planet of Corneria, General Pepper, and Peppy all die Disney Deaths in the final battles with the Aparoids. Thankfully, [[HijackedByGanon Andross is nowhere to be found]]. Star Wolf apparently pulled a HeroicSacrifice as well, but they aren't seen after the battle. Fox muses it is definitely possible; and while the other the characters actually did appear to die, Wolf's team was last seen being chased by the enemy so bringing them back would be easy.
* Part of the appeal of fighting in the Colosseo Purgatorio in the UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' is that instead of dying, the losers simply turn into flames while the rest of the matches continue, to be restored when the victor is decided. [[SubvertedTrope But...]]the flames are also ordinary fires, in that they burn fuel. [[KilledOffForReal And if that fuel is exhausted...]]

* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Bowser, Peach and Luigi all seemingly sacrifice themselves so Mario can go on. Then they appear to help Mario during his battle with Count Bleck and tell Mario (and the player) how they survived.
** Subverted in [[spoiler:the next battle with Dimentio, where Luigi is absorbed as one of the main components of the final boss and is ''not'' reenabled at any portion of the fight.]]

* Ironically, ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' manages to use this trope despite the fact that all the characters start off dead. They bump into Shiki (who was Neku's week two entry fee) at the Shibuya River, Joshua was proved to fake his HeroicSacrifice, and you finally gain access to Rhyme's Noise. Doubly ironic because the FinalBoss is the only battle where none of your partners fight.
* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga 2'' has your comrades getting picked off one by one in the latter half of the game, finally culminating with Sera and Serph's apparent deaths. Then it reunites everyone's "data" at the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, even including characters that were killed off ''in the first game''. This isn't just the heroic characters, either - four major antagonists from the first game, as well as Meganada, serve as bosses guarding certain areas, with Meganada guarding the Final Boss. This is a bit of a subversion though, since you're all still technically ''dead'', but everyone is still together again and able [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', during the party's second trip up the Tower of Salvation, they continually run into dangerous situations and traps. Each time, one of the party members performs a HeroicSacrifice for the good of the others. Eventually the cast is whittled down to just Lloyd, and when he confronts the BigBad at the end, the rest of the party promptly shows up to support him, having been saved when no one was looking. The fact that equipment for the other party members could still be found in the dungeon did little to preserve the drama.
* ThePaladin Dupre performs a HeroicSacrifice in ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII'' but is resurrected for the final battle against the Guardian in ''VideoGame/UltimaIX''.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': "Ghost Martyrs of the Sapphire Guard, ATTACK!". Although in this case the [[RedshirtArmy Blueshirts]] involved stayed dead, as did an important character who died shortly before. Since the comic's [[DeathIsCheap based on D&D...]]

* Occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'' (2003) episode "The Beginning of the End", where the Ninja Tribunal and their non-turtle acolytes appear to die during an assault by the Shredder's heralds. Several episodes later, the acolytes reappear in order to join the final battle against the Shredder, and, one episode after that, the Tribunal appears in order to explain things.
* At the end of the time travel arc in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Robotnik has all the emeralds and seemingly all the power. Sonic and Tails, before confronting him, go back in time to each period they had visited and recruit their own earlier timeline doppelgangers for this battle. Why they can't just go back to when Robotnik seized the emeralds and stop him then (or how they were able to avoid massive paradoxes) is [[MST3KMantra not something you're supposed to ask.]]