History Main / ItIsNotYourTime

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': In the episode "Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee," one of the pumpkin girls asks Wirt, "Say, aren't you a little too…early?" He's confused and doesn't know what she's talking about. [[spoiler:The end of the episode reveals that all the residents of Pottsfield are skeletons who have emerged from the ground and donned pumpkins as clothes. It's implied that everyone ends up in Pottsfield sooner or later: "You'll join us someday."]] [[/folder]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': [[spoiler:During the final battle against Izanami, the player is pulled to the brink of death with a OneHitKill and sees his friends and family who motivate him in a LovedOnesMontage]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': [[spoiler:During the final battle against Izanami, the player dies to a OneHitKill and sees his friends and family who motivate him in a LovedOnesMontage]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in the episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car." TheDevil says Bart isn't due, "until the next time the Yankees win the World Series - that's almost a century from now."

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Puhoy", Finn winds up trapped in a world made entirely of pillows where his human abilities make him a living legend. He settles down, raises a family, and eventually dies of old age. But right after he dies, he's flying towards [[EarlyBirdCameo GOLB]], bounces off of it and pops out the pile of pillows in his house as his young self.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Val'kyr in the Death Knight starting area actually say this word-for-word when they resurrect you. The [[BigBad Lich King]] also says it during an Alliance quest if the player gets too close to him (though he kills you anyway, [[ForTheEvulz just for lulz]]).
** The text box for Spirit Healers also says this. Seems like everything in Azeroth that's not [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill you]] is trying just as hard to keep you alive.

* VideoGame/TheDarkness [[spoiler:tries to stop Jackie Estacado from committing suicide over his dead girlfriend, Jenny]].
* After falling in a river and seeming to drown in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', Snake ends up in a very different river (evocative of Styx) in which he encounters a specter called the Sorrow (evocative of Death) along with the restless souls of every enemy the player has killed throughout the game thus far. If the ensuing boss fight goes on long enough without the player figuring out the [[PuzzleBoss trick]], the Sorrow will tell Snake that he doesn't belong here... not yet, anyway.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has the playable "character" [[TheGrimReaper Kindred, the Eternal Hunters]], a [[TheDividual dual personification]] of death whose pursuit of their prey represents the eventual end of their mortal coil. However, their [[LimitBreak ultimate ability]], "Lamb's Respite" (Lamb being [[DontFearTheReaper the more merciful and patient of the two]]), creates a temporary zone where [[PaddedSumoGameplay neither they, friend nor foe can die]], partially to invoke this, and also partially to represent [[TheLastDance one last stand to perhaps turn the tables.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' has what are called Death Defiances, which pull Zagreus from the brink of death back to half-health as many as three times per an escape. Expending them while in a BodyCountCompetition with Thanatos will reveal that TheGrimReaper himself is granting the reprieves, and occasionally he'll use this very line when he does.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' ends with the entire party being annihilated and sent to the [[{{Hell}} Hill of Despair]] where they confront the death god Necron. In a variation on this trope, Necron is perfectly happy to [[OmnicidalManiac annihilate everything]], but because the party declares it's not their time yet, after taking enough damage, it decides to let them go, perplexed, but convinced by their [[{{Determinator}} sheer determination to live.]]

-->"Whoa," the knight said, backing away and holding up a hand. "I'm not dead. Leave me alone."

-->"I know you're not," the Reaper snapped. Still clutching the Warlock Lord with one hand, he pointed a skeletal finger in Leander's face and growled, "And you'd better not be dead for a long time. It'll take me at least half a century to be able to hear your name without screaming." Death turned and began to drag his quarry away in a huff.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3: [[spoiler: After [[NearDeathExperience flatlining]], Rocket meets his old friends, Lylla, Teefs and Floor, in the afterlife. When he asks if he can join them, Lylla says yes...then stops him and adds "But not yet". She urges him to continue living to make the world a better place and they share one final kiss before he's resuscitated.]]