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

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all[[spoiler:, truthfully just most]] Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* ''OnePiece'' mainly teases viewers with the potential deaths of secondary characters, (for example the Franky Family and Galley-La shipwrights in Enies Lobby) rather than the Straw Hats, but Zoro managed to take all of Luffy's injuries and fatigue from his fight with Gecko Moria and survive against all odds. Hardly anyone has died in the present timeline; the most important were [[spoiler: Ace and Whitebeard]] for whom the arc in which that happened was mostly ADeathInTheLimelight,, and that took nearly ''600 chapters'' to happen. Oddly for this trope though, this applies to the majority of the ''[[JokerImmunity villains]]'' as well.

*** [[spoiler: So he made a HeroicSacrifice... and became a puppet? What the...]]
**** [[spoiler: 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 KaraNoKyoukai to get it to work right, though.]]

** This is sort of true. The only named protagonists to ever die are Kaien Shiba and his wife Miyako, both of whom [[PosthumousCharacter died before the story started.]]
** That said, many villain deaths, [[spoiler: Ulqiourra, Gin, Starrk]], were as heartbreaking as a hero's death, due to mixed moralities, and many were [[AntiVillain AntiVillains]].

Compare BoringInvincibleHero, where the character never even '''loses''', and DeathIsCheap, in which this trope tends to apply to villains as well as heroes. JokerImmunity is this applied to villains.

* In ''FateStayNight'', Shirou has a supernatural ability to regenerate as part of his contract with Saber that makes him live through practically anything (short of a DEAD END, of course). By the end of "Fate", we learn this is because Shirou has Avalon embedded in him, which will bring him back from literally anything given that it has magical energy left. He loses its protection in both "UWB" and "Heaven's Feel" and the amount of "was practically killed but made miraculous comeback" all but disappears.

* ''{{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]].

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

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has this trope 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, criucially, the BigGood Sarutobi who dies fighting a surviving BigBad. Then it's averted in Part II, where several noteworthy good characters die (one gets [[ResetButton brought back]] at the [[HeroicSacrifice cost of another's life]]). Then it's played straight again when a few characters (Kakashi, Shizune and Fukasaku) seem to die in the last arc, but Pain resurrects them, although Jiraiya is still dead.

* In ''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.

** That said, many villain deaths, [[spoiler: Ulqiourra, Gin, Starrk]], were as heartbreaking as a hero's death, due to mixed moralities, and many were ''[[AntiVillain AntiVillains]]''.

** That said, many villain deaths, [[spoiler: Ulqiourra, Gin, Starrk]], were as heartbreaking as a hero's death, due to mixed moralities.

* ''{{Torchwood}}'': Captain Jack Harkness. No matter what happens to him, he keeps coming back because he's a fixed point in time and space. Most recently, he came back from being blown up by a bomb placed inside his body; he grew a new body from his head, a piece of neck, and a leg. WOW.
** Justified because, as you said, he's a fixed point in time and space, and subverted as he had a very moving permanent death scene as the Face of Boe in Doctor Who, at the ripe old age of several billion.
*** Although I believe it was a complete death others continue to speculate that Boe/Jack rejuvenated after the Doctor left.
*** If he is the Face of Boe at all. It was initially intended as a joke.
**** Meh. Probably wouldn't be the first time a joke became canon.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Peter Petrelli, Nathan Petrelli, and Claire Bennet. The Petrellis are pretty much indestructible.
** Nathan died, actually.

* ''OnePiece'' mainly teases viewers with the potential deaths of secondary characters, (for example the Franky Family and Galley-La shipwrights in Enies Lobby) rather than the Straw Hats, but Zoro managed to take all of Luffy's injuries and fatigue from his fight with Gecko Moria and survive against all odds. Hardly anyone has died in the present timeline (the most important were [[spoiler: Ace and Whitebeard]] for whom the arc in which that happened was mostly ADeathInTheLimelight); oddly for this trope though, this applies to the majority of the ''[[JokerImmunity villains]]'' as well.

->Whew! Okay, kids, let's settle down and review the important information - [[BigBad Lyle is a big doofus]]. [[TheHero Poor George]] was really shot, but can't die because, hey, let's face it, he's the hero.

* ''PlanescapeTorment'' follows the story of The Nameless One, who's literally immortal. With a couple of exceptions, getting killed in the game just means you'll wake up somewhere else at full health. You don't even suffer any sort of temporary penalty for dieing.

* {{Superman}} is one of these, as his death was just a big publicity stunt after all. 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.
** Unlike many other titles, the Superman books were published continuously through the years, so there was no character left behind in the past to be reintroduced in an aged form from "Earth-Two." Kal-L was invented to fill the slot in "Earth-Two" for Superman.

* ''OnePiece'' mainly teases viewers with the potential deaths of secondary characters, (for example the Franky Family and Galley-La shipwrights in Enies Lobby) rather than the Straw Hats, but Zoro managed to take all of Luffy's injuries and fatigue from his fight with Gecko Moria and survive against all odds. Hardly anyone has died in the present timeline (the most important were Ace and Whitebeard for whom the arc in which that happened was mostly ADeathInTheLimelight); oddly for this trope though, this applies to the majority of the ''[[JokerImmunity villains]]'' as well.

* In the opening of ''MassEffect 2'', Commander Shepard is killed in the opening of the game, but is revived by Cerberus.
** Then averted when (s)he can die in the finale as well, and the developers say you won't be able to start up a Mass Effect 3 game from that ending.

-->--The Narrator, ''George of the Jungle''

->Whew! Okay, kids, let's settle down and review the important information - [[BigBad Lyle is a big doofus]]. [[TheHero Poor George]] was really shot, but can't die because, hey, [[BreakingTheFourthWall let's face it, he's the hero]].

** Even then, Aizen had failed to kill a character that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness outlived their usefullness]], despite the fact that he stabbed them in the chest at point blank range, while intentionally letting them let their guard down.

->[[MemeticMutation NOBODY DIES IN]] {{Bleach}}!!
-->--SelfExplanatory

*''{{Naruto}}'' has this trope present in Part I, as Sasuke, Choji and Neji survived their DisneyDeath scenes, but the villains were either KilledOffForReal or escaped. Then it's averted in Part II, where several noteworthy good characters die (one gets [[ResetButton brought back]] at the [[HeroicSacrifice cost of another's life]]). Then it's played straight again when a few characters (Kakashi, Shizune and Fukasaku) seem to die in the last arc, but Pain resurrects them, although Jiraiya is still dead.