History Main / FirstEpisodeResurrection

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

* Tsuna from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. Of course, Reborn is the same gender as him (not to mention one year old), and Tsuna gets a FirstEpisodeResurrection about OnceAnEpisode, thanks to Reborn's "dying will bullets".

* ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' opens with the protagonist Wei Wuxian's resurrection.

* ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'' begins with Magnus fighting the fire giant Surtr, and dying. Because he died in battle, with a weapon in his hand, he's claimed by the valkyries and taken to the Hotel Valhalla as an ''einherji'', where he learns about his new powers, which include immortality within the hotel itself.

* Cherri, as pictured above, (at the time going by her human name Charlotte) starts the comic ''Webcomic/SchoolBites'' like this, arising as an undead after being fed upon by a vampire.

* In ''Literature/RedRising'', Darrow is executed near the beginning of the story. He wakes up afterword to discover the Sons of Ares saved his life by drugging him so he would seem dead, and agrees to work with them to infiltrate Gold society.

* Same thing happens in ''Series//RoswellNewMexico'', a separate adaptation of the same source material. No sign of powers for Liz beyond a brief psychic bond with Max, though. Yet.

** The follow-up installments ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'', ''Series/UltramanAce'' and ''Series/UltramanTaro'' follows this trope entirely straight, much like the original Ultraman. The Ultra's hosts are normal human (human'''s''', for Ace) civilains who sacrificed their lives to save children during kaiju attacks, just as the Ultra of the show arrived on Earth looking for a suitable host. Deciding the recently-deceased human hero is "worthy" of their powers, they then merged with the humans bringing them back from the dead.

* After accidentally killing the main characters of ''Ultimate Girls'', UFO Man sacrifices much of his power and energy to resurrect them, which has the side effect of shrinking his body.

* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'': Himari Takakura dies of her weak heart and is revived by a spirit that resides in her penguin hat. ItMakesSenseInContext.

%%* ''Comicbook/TheCrow''

* Comicbook/GhostRider2099 marginally qualifies. Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane is dying while connected to the Net, and willing to "upload" his brain patterns as a device to delete information he doesn't want to be collected postmortem. Uber-[=AIs=] catch him instead and rebuild as a robotic anti-hero.

* The first chronological mission of ''Videogame/{{Prototype}}'' has Alex Mercer waking up [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue during his autopsy]] and escaping the Gentek research facility. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the real Alex Mercer died but the virus he was carrying reconstructed his body, giving him {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and erasing [[AmnesiacDissonance the memories of his previous life]]]].

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* The webcomic ''WebComic/{{antiHEROES}}'' features the death of a character in the first strip and the beginning of her new [[TheUndead unlife]] as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] in the second.

* The opening of ''VideoGame/MadRatDead'' involves Mad Rat dying via dissection, but the tutorial sees him resurrected by the Rat God.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Keiji Inafune originally planned to have this happen to Zero; he would be resurrected by a Cyber-Elf at the start of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero1'', a century after being KilledOffForReal at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManX5''. This got reworked into a double subversion to compensate for Zero being retconned BackFromTheDead in ''VideoGame/MegaManX6''. Zero is now hibernating in stasis at the beginning of ''Zero 1'', not dead. But that distinction isn't made relevant until later in the game, so Zero's revival otherwise proceeds as a full resurrection from death.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Keiji Inafune originally planned to have this happen to Zero; he would be resurrected by a Cyber-Elf at the start of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero1'', a century after being KilledOffForReal at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManX5''. This got reworked into a double subversion to compensate for Zero being retconned BackFromTheDead in ''VideoGame/MegaManX6''. Zero is now in stasis at the beginning of ''Zero 1'', not dead. But that distinction isn't made relevant until later in the game, and Zero's revival otherwise proceeds as a full resurrection from death.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'': Lan's twin brother Hub died from a terminal illness when they were infants. Their father, a computer scientist, resurrects Hub as a [=NetNavi=] via BrainUploading, transforming him into [=MegaMan.EXE=].

* Yakumo from ''Manga/SazanEyes''.

* Tsuna from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. Of course, Reborn is the same gender as him (not to mention one year old), and Tsuna gets a FirstEpisodeResurrection about OnceAnEpisode, thanks to Reborn's "dying will bullets".

* ''{{Manga/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.

* ''Manhwa/ImmortalRegis''

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

* The ''FanFic/ANewChanceSeries'' starts out towards the end of ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' when Latios died saving the city of Alto Mare, but a soul-bonding technique with Ash and Latias revived him. The rest of the fic deals with Ash with the Eon Dragons during the rest of the Johto Saga.

* The follow-up installments ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'', ''Series/UltramanAce'' and ''Series/UltramanTaro'' follows this trope entirely straight, much like the original Ultraman. The Ultra's hosts are normal human (human'''s''', for Ace) civilains who sacrificed their lives to save children during kaiju attacks, just as the Ultra of the show arrived on Earth looking for a suitable host. Deciding the recently-deceased human hero is "worthy" of their powers, they then merged with the humans bringing them back from the dead.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Keiji Inafune originally planned to have this happen to Zero; he would be resurrected by the Cyber-Elf Passy at the start of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero1'', a century after being KilledOffForReal at the end of ''VideoGame/MegaManX5''. This got reworked into a double subversion to compensate for Zero being retconned BackFromTheDead in ''VideoGame/MegaManX6''. Zero is now in stasis at the beginning of ''Zero 1'', not dead. But that distinction isn't made relevant until later in the game, and Zero's revival otherwise proceeds unchanged as a full resurrection from death.

** Given that it was a failed pilot for a series that would have involved the Eighth Doctor, Grace, and Chang Lee, the fact that ''all three'' characters die and are resurrected during the course of [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] brings this trope into play. (The count rises to four if you include the executed Master returning as a paramedic-possessing acid-spitting ecto-snake.)

** Given that it was a failed pilot for a series that would have involved the Eighth Doctor, Grace, and Chang Lee, the fact that ''all three'' characters die and are resurrected during the course of [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]] brings this trope into play. (The count rises to four if you count the executed Master returning as a paramedic-possessing acid-spitting ecto-snake.)

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': Kazuki Muto sacrifices his life to protect a girl he's never met when she is attacked by a monster. The girl, Tokiko Tsumura, happens to be an ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl who was just playing helpless to bait out the monster,and feels badly enough about his death that she uses an alchemical device known as a kakugane to resurrect him. With his new {{Magitek} artificial heart Kazuki decides to help Tokiko protect his town from man-eating monster.