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* When we first meet [[CubixRobotsForEveryone Cubix]], he's the mysterious trophy sitting around the Botties' Pit that no-one has ever been able to fix. New kid Connor decides to fix him for his initiation, despite the fact that no-one expects him to succeed.

* ''{{Gantz}}'', every character dies before we meet them. When they all meet for the first time they go around the room giving names and method of death.

* Seras from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. She was being held hostage by a vampire priest, and Alucard asked [[VirginPower if she was a virgin;]] when she said yes, he shot ''through'' her to hit the priest. As she was dying on the ground, he offered her a choice between death and becoming a vampire like him. Seras thought she was going to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the vampire priest. Alucard had a million ways he could have avoided killing her ''and'' taken out the priest, but [[MagnificentBastard just one that allowed him to sire a new vampire.]] Initially, Seras is very unhappy as a creature of the night, no one has any idea why he did it, and he won't give a straight answer; a significant through-line of the series is her coming to terms with her power and figuring out why on earth she caught his eye.

* Seras/Celes/Ceres/Seres/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Whatever]] from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''; unlike most of those listed here, however, she occasionally regrets it.
** A double subversion in fact, as Alucard first fatally shoots her to kill another vampire, then offers her a choice of either dying or becoming immortal.
*** Actually he made sure she was able to be transformed first. He asked [[VirginPower if she was a virgin.]] and then shot her. Seras thought she was going to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the vampire priest. Alucard had a million way he could have not killed Seras but [[MagnificentBastard only one allowed him to sire a new vampire.]]

* Cherri, as pictured above, (at the time going by her human name Charlotte) starts the comic ''SchoolBites'' like this, arising as an undead after being fed upon by a vampire.
* ''HannaIsNotABoysName'' uses this trope in a slightly nonstandard way: the eponymous Hanna helps Conrad come back from the dead as a vampire in the first chapter, which is also Conrad's first appearance. He remains a supporting character and NonActionGuy.
* ''{{Kagerou}}'': Kano finds himself transported into a strange other world, then promptly gets himself killed because he doesn't understand [[IKnowYourTrueName the local]] [[SympatheticMagic magic]]. Then a member of the supporting cast raises him from the dead He doesn't turn into anything supernatural as a result, though, just gets put back the way he was. Also this technically happens in the second chapter.

* [[CaptainObvious Can happen in any game where resurrection is possible.]] In fact, Dragon magazine once had one background option for a DungeonsAndDragons character be exactly this.

* Likewise [[MummyTheResurrection Mummies]] have to die before becoming immortal and gaining their powers. [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen Demons]] don't always have to work this way (so long as the soul is basically withered and/or absent, the body can be possessed) but this is one of the common ways it happens.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' has Issei Hyodo happening to him in the first episode by Rias.

%% * Tsutomu from ''BirdyTheMightyDecode''.

* Tsutomu from ''TetsuwanBirdy''.

* [[CatherineWebb Kate Griffin's]] fantasy novel ''A Madness of Angels, or, The Resurrection of MatthewSwift'' begins with its protagonist mysteriously waking up after having been dead for two years.

* Dusk in ''[[ComicBook/{{Sliders}} Sliders]]'', although technically she died in the zero issue preview that came with Wizard Magazine.

* Dusk in ''[[ComicBook/{{Sliders}} Sliders]]'', although technically she died in the zero issue preview that came with WizardMagazine.

* The title character in ''PainkillerJane'' dies in the first episode. She then comes back to life, revealing a super-healing ability.

* In the first scene of ''VideoGame/{{Maximo}}: Ghosts to Glory'', the kingly title character is usurped and killed by the BigBad, and his queen is abducted. Fortunately for him, TheGrimReaper intends to make use of his talents.

* Shirou from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[spoiler: Subverted, he was close but never ''actually'' died.]]

* Thelma in ''{{Hex}}'' is killed halfway through the first episode, then brought back at the end as a ghost. A ghost who, it transpires, can eat and manipulate physical objects, but is invisible and intangible to the living. She can go into their dreams, though...

* The Rebooted ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* The titular character of ''[[{{Oddworld}} Abe's Oddysee]]'' is killed in a cutscene after the first two levels, just as bigface shows up to conveniently bring him back to life.

* RiseOfTheGuardians starts with Jack Frost apparently being born from the water of a frozen pond. Even though it isn't explained until late in the movie that he drowned/froze to death in that pond and was brought back to life (with [[AnIcePerson powers]]!) by the moon, the opening scene still kind of makes it obvious that's what happened.

* In TheDCU, this was the key trope in the origins for Comicbook/{{Deadman}} and TheSpectre (at least before the latter was [[RetCon RetConned]] as something completely different).

* Film/JonahHex's near-death experience at the hands of his archenemy give him the power to talk to the dead.

*** Actually he made sure she was able to be transformed first. He asked [[VirginPower if she was a virgin.]] and the shot her. Seras thought she was going to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop the vampire priest. Alucard had a million way he could have not killed Seras but [[MagnificentBastard only one allowed him to sire a new vampire.]]