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'''As a DeathTrope, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' the villains drop like flies, but not a single hero has died yet, no matter how severe their injuries. Many of them are defeated and severely wounded and often given what appear to be death scenes, but are brought back later. A good example is the Soul Society Arc, where ''no one with a name'' really dies (The only person to even have the appearance of being killed was Aizen, who is subsequently revealed to have been FakingTheDead), despite fights to the death happening all over the place, and there being 46 deaths caused by Aizen's OffstageVillainy.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has this trope mostly present in Part I, as Sasuke, Choji and Neji survived their DisneyDeath scenes, but this is balanced somewhat by the fact that most of the major villains also make it out, bar the Sound Five, {{Mooks}} and, crucially, the one exception of BigGood Sarutobi who dies fighting a surviving BigBad. Then it's played with in Part II, where several noteworthy good characters die and several more appear to do so. Gaara gets [[ResetButton brought back]] at the [[HeroicSacrifice cost of another's life]], the heroic sacrificer Chiyo staying dead. Several appear to be KilledOffForReal only to not be in the Pain arc, while Jiraiya and [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed Akatsuki member Konan]] really do die trying to take down respective [[BigBad Big Bads]].

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** Tellah's also the only one that you see die onscreen. Even [[spoiler: Cid]] has the courtesy to leave you behind before [[spoiler: exploding himself to seal the gate between worlds]]. [[spoiler: The twins]] being TakenForGranite doesn't stick, although how it is that Tellah couldn't fix the problem but the master from Mysidia could is just sort of [[HandWave Hand Waved]]. A player-friendly version of NoOneCouldSurviveThat is in full play, apparently

* In ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'', General Pepper's ship being taken over by Aparoids presents you with a Shoot The Dog (literally) scenario, but Peppy manages to save Pepper. Peppy, ROB and the Star Wolf Team make Heroic Sacrifices in the invasion of the Aparoid homeworld, and all of them survive.

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*** Only if you do EVERYTHING right. Remember, Ilya is an expert at Homunculi and such? It's been established in advance, in Fate route, in fact. She turns Shirou into a Homunculus in a couple of endings. What she did was save his 'soul', and transfer it to a new body. Had to pull in a character from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' to get it to work right, though.

->The Bat's stubborn refusal to expire... is ''driving us insane''!
-->--'''Two-Face''', ''Film/BatmanForever''

* {{Superman}} is one of these. ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' was just a big publicity stunt after all, albeit a good-intentioned one (to illustrate why the Franchise/DCUniverse needed TheCape rather than another NinetiesAntiHero). Heck, even if they had the guts to kill off Kal-El (the original 1938 Superman), they've already announced plans to bring him back.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Commander Shepard is killed in the opening of the game, but is rebuilt by Cerberus. Enforced in the finale; although Shepard can suffer PlotlineDeath at the end it's considered a NonStandardGameOver rather than a proper, canon ending. You can't use such a save for ExtendedGameplay and you can't carry that particular save over into ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.

* Inverted in D.Gray-man. So far a good amount of named heroic characters have died : [[spoiler: Six ecorcists killed off screen by the Noah, Daisya, Suman, Tap, Goushi, Kiredori]]. However besides the mooks, only one villain has died. Justified in that the heroes mostly fight mooks whether they are named or not.

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*** Only if you do EVERYTHING right. Remember, Ilya is an expert at Homunculi and such? It's been established in advance, in Fate route, in fact. She turns Shirou into a Homunculus in a couple of endings. What she did was save his 'soul', and transfer it to a new body. Had to pull in a character from ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' to get it to work right, though.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': [[IdiotHero Peter Petrelli]] and [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Claire Bennet]]. Nathan survived being shot and getting caught in a nuclear blast before dying for real.

* {{Superman}} is one of these, as ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' was just a big publicity stunt after all, albeit a good-intentioned one (to illustrate why the Franchise/DCUniverse needed TheCape rather than another NinetiesAntiHero). Heck, even if they had the guts to kill off Kal-L (The original 1938 Superman) they've already announced plans to bring him back.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s Captain Jack Harkness. No matter what happens to him, shooting, stabbing, falling from heights, buried alive, explosions, having his life force sucked out... a stray javelin, he keeps coming back because he's a fixed point in time and space.

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* In ''Webcomic/TemplarsOfTheShiftingVerse'' the titular Templars are immortal.
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** The twins return is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; They previously ''resisted'' attempts to turn them back from stone because then the DeathTrap would kill everyone. When Baron is no longer under evil influence and the trap is turned off, they no longer resist and any attempt to fix them works.
* Balthier's whole schtick in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' is believing this trope applies to him. He's the "leading man" and "the leading man never dies". [[WrongGenreSavvy He's not actually the game's main character]] [[RightForTheWrongReasons but he still survives anyway.]]

*** Only if you do EVERYTHING right. Remember, Ilya is an expert at Homonculi and such? It's been established in advance, in Fate route, in fact. She turns Shirou into a Homonculus in a couple of endings. What she did was save his 'soul', and transfer it to a new body. Had to pull in a character from ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' to get it to work right, though.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has this trope mostly present in Part I, as Sasuke, Choji and Neji survived their DisneyDeath scenes, but this is balanced somewhat by the fact that most of the major villains also make it out, bar the FiveBadBand, {{Mooks}} and, crucially, the one exception of BigGood Sarutobi who dies fighting a surviving BigBad. Then it's played with in Part II, where several noteworthy good characters die and several more appear to do so. Gaara gets [[ResetButton brought back]] at the [[HeroicSacrifice cost of another's life]], the heroic sacrificer Chiyo staying dead. Several appear to be KilledOffForReal only to not be in the Pain arc, while Jiraiya and [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed Akatsuki member Konan]] really do die trying to take down respective [[BigBad Big Bads]].

In ''Webcomic/TemplarsOfTheShiftingVerse'' the titular Templars are immortal.

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In ''Webcomic/TemplarsOfTheShifingVerse'' the titular Templars are immortal.