History Main / MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Clow Reed. He only predicted one particular aspect of everything wrong (that Touya and Yukito would get together), and it was one that didn't have any effect on the plan.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' ends with a song where the villain AI, [=GLaDOS=], taunts that she is "Still Alive", that your escape taught her new things, and that she is continuing her research on new subjects. It spawned one of the largest internet memes ever.
** The sequel reveals that [=GLaDOS=] is, in fact, destroyed, but she is restored around fifteen minutes in by accident.

* Aslan in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. It should be noted that Aslan is Christ -- is Christ -- and thus is linked to the Bible reference below.

* The film ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' had the protagonist turn to this sort of plan to stop Gabriel from releasing Mammon.

* In the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' tale "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", Dark is revealed to be long dead due to a heart condition after she refused Marshall and Carter's life extenders. She continues to run Marshall, Carter, and Dark from beyond the grave through letters containing detailed orders, having used some means of seeing the future to arrange things centuries in advance. Every time Marshall and Carter tried to disobey the orders, they would suffer misfortune.

* At the end of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', V is now unneeded. The destruction is finished -- what is needed is someone with the powers of creation, not the monster who V knows he has become. Thus, he specifically trains his 'sidekick' to succeed him and then commits SuicideByCop. She becomes V, he becomes immortalized, and she picks a new sidekick.
* ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm'': Lord Emp, founder of the Wild C.A.T.s, needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascension]] into an {{energy being|s}}, but the rules dictate that he [[ICannotSelfTerminate can't do it himself]]. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out the nemesis is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting his NighInvulnerable android buddy to do the deed instead.
* Citizen Soldier, a constantly reincarnating ComicBook/CaptainAmerica {{Expy}} from ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}: Team Achilles''. Anticipating that the protagonists, who know about his reincarnation cycle, will put him in cryogenic suspension, he arranges for someone less knowledgeable to find out his location and kill him right as the protagonists are about to take him into custody.

** ComicBook/TheDefenders originate as a result of this sort of plan by a forgotten enemy of Dr. Strange who has created a techno-magical device that will destroy the Earth if he dies -- he then steps in front of a bus. Strange gathers the Hulk and the Sub-Mariner to stop the device from working, only to find out that they're part of the EvilPlan already. The villain eventually returns anyway.
** Supervillainous genetic engineer Maelstrom is the king of this; basically, all but two of his stories end with him killing himself so the heroes can't capture him, and then transferring his soul into a clone body to start scheming anew.
** Perhaps the most ridiculous example from Marvel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. According to one comic, his suicide was only intended to free up his soul to be transferred into a [[YouClonedHitler clone body]], thus not only FakingTheDead but also perfecting the procedures necessary for his ''true'' master plan: To possess the Cosmic Cube. Also, his clone body dresses in a purple Klansman outfit and goes by the name "Hate-Monger". [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hatemonh.htm See for yourself.]]

* Winnowill eventually tries to pull this off in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''. She at least gets the dying part right.
%%* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', though saying anything more would be spoiling some of the most epic moments.%%Saying anything more would also keep this from being a ZCE.
* In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Harbinger is possessed by one of the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons and kills the [[CosmicEntity Monitor]] under its influence. However, the Monitor anticipated her betrayal, and arranged it so that the energy released by his death was able to preserve Earths One and Two from being destroyed by the Anti-Monitor.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheMultiversity Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1]]'', ComicBook/VandalSavage corners Immortal Man and Immortal Man kills Vandal Savage in order to end the war. Then Savage reveals that "spilling immortal blood summons Niczhuotan - Destroyer of Worlds."
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The supervillain Judge Death was already an insane HangingJudge when he was alive. His goal of [[OmnicidalManiac destroying his entire homeworld]] in the name of justice required him to die and then be resurrected through dark magic as a zombie, partly so he would become an unstoppable menace, and partly because "kill everyone" would just have been hypocritical if he didn't.

->'''Daisy Fitzroy:''' But... you mean I won't live to see the -- no...
->'''Robert Lutece:''' It's up to you what matters more.
->'''Rosalind Lutece:''' Your part in the play...
->'''Robert Lutece:''' Or the play itself.

* At the end of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', V does this, although here he seems to just commit SuicideByCop once his plan is almost finished. The reason is that V is now unneeded. The destruction is finished, what is needed is someone with the powers of creation, not the monster V knows he has become. So, he specifically trained his 'sidekick' to succeed him, and then committed suicide. She becomes V, he becomes immortalized, and she picks a new sidekick.
* Lord Emp, founder of Wildstorm superhero team ''ComicBook/WildcatsWildStorm'', needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascension]] into an [[EnergyBeings energy being]], but the rules dictate that he [[ICannotSelfTerminate can't do it himself]]. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out the nemesis is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting his NighInvulnerable android buddy to do the deed instead.
* Citizen Soldier, a constantly-reincarnating ComicBook/CaptainAmerica {{Expy}} from ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}: Team Achilles''. Anticipating that the protagonists, who know about his reincarnation cycle, will put him in cryogenic suspension, he arranges for someone less knowledgeable to find out his location and kill him right as the protagonists are about to take him into custody.
* ComicBook/TheDefenders originated as a result of this sort of plan by a forgotten enemy of Dr. Strange, who had created a technomagical device that would destroy the Earth if he died -- then stepped in front of a bus. Strange gathered the Hulk and the Sub-Mariner to stop the device from working, only to find out they were part of the EvilPlan already. Eventually, the villain returned anyway.

* Marvel's supervillain genetic engineer Maelstrom is the king of this; basically all but two of his stories end with him killing himself so the heroes can't capture him, and then transferring his soul into a clone body to start scheming anew.
* Perhaps the most ridiculous example from Marvel is Adolf Hitler. According to one comic, his suicide was only intended to free up his soul to be transferred into a clone body, thus not only FakingTheDead but also perfecting the procedures necessary for his ''true'' master plan: To possess the Cosmic Cube. Also, his clone body dresses in a purple Klansman outfit and goes by the name "Hatemonger." [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hatemonh.htm See for yourself.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', though saying anything more would be spoiling some of the most epic moments.

* ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'': At the end of the fifth book, Carnage presents Eddie Brock with an ultimatum: kill him to save his son and take back his symbiote, or let Eddie eat his son and then kill him to claim their codices. Either way, the dark god Knull -- creator of the symbiotes -- will be unleashed. Eddie chooses to kill Cletus, but that not only unleashes Knull but puts Carnage in a position to make a series of comebacks and grow more powerful than ever in the ''Venom Island'' arc of ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'' and ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage''.

-->-- ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea''

* In the backstory to ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 1}}'', "legimitate businessman" and mobster Frank Fontaine was gunned down in his own office by police. Before going to the mattresses, Frank complained publicly about the city stealing his revenue (they had) and their plans to assassinate him (they did). This cast a baleful light on Rapture's patriarch, Andrew Ryan. Double inverted -- Frank faked his death, then masqueraded as a paddy freedom fighter to demand the city turn Frank's assets back over to the people, i.e. Fontaine himself.
-->'''[=McDonagh:=]''' Strikes me that Fontaine wasn't overly inconvenienced by his own demise.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}'', Subject Delta unless you get the neutral selfless ending. In the evil, neutral selfish, and good endings, Eleanor drains his Adam into her and his viewpoint melts into hers, implying that Delta's living consciousness is now inside of Eleanor, despite his body being lifeless.

* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'''s Daisy Fitzroy, leader of the rebellion against [[BigBad Comstock,]] holds a young boy captive and tells Booker that he needs to die because he's a son of the one of Columbia's most corrupt men, and if you "wanna kill the weed, you gotta pull it up from the root," but Elizabeth sneaks up behind her and stabs her with a pair of scissors. ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' DLC reveals that Fitzroy had absolutely no intention of hurting the boy, was actually appalled at the idea of even making the empty threat, but the Luteces took her aside and told her only by taking a life would Elizabeth harden into the woman who would, alongside Booker, finally take down Comstock. Daisy realizes that she won't be live to see the fruits of her movement's labor be realized, but decides to make the ultimate sacrifice.
-->'''Rosalind:''' It's up to you what matters more.
-->'''Robert:''' Your part in the play...
-->'''Rosalind:''' Or the play itself.
* In the ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' DLC, ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'', Elizabeth dies with a smile on her face with the newly recovered knowledge that her death and telling Atlas/Fontaine the trigger phrase for Jack's mental conditioning will bring Jack to Rapture and, at least in the timeline she's in, lead to the Fontaine's death, the freedom of Sally and the little sisters and the downfall of Rapture.

*** Made ''[[UPToEleven even worse]]'' in the remakes. It's revealed that his soul split in half at the time of his death: his dark half became the Emperor of Hell, while his light (''[[LightIsNotGood but still evil]]'') side became the Light Emperor and presides over the game's equivalent of ''Heaven''. Mateus has you screwed from '''both''' sides of the celestial chain.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Ganondorf's final words are a promise to Link and Zelda that his death will not change anything, reassuring them that he will ensure that the history of light and shadow will be written in the blood of his enemies. All of this was conceivably working under the premise that one day he expected his Triforce of Power would revive him from the dead despite his defeat at Link's hand. Ganondorf's Triforce of Power symbol on his right hand then powers down and disappears from his hand entirely, leaving things up in the air if Ganondorf will ever return.
*** Until ''Hyrule Historia'' revealed that he did, in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]''.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4: The Room'' has main character Walter Sullivan committing suicide as one of the steps necessary to perform the 21 Sacrements. His ghost continues the ceremony by killing sacrifices in his stead.

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Clow Reed. He only predicted one particular aspect of everything wrong (the YaoiGuys, Touya and Yukito), and it was one that didn't have any effect on the plan.

*** This would be the ''only'' time in Castlevania history that someone resurrected Dracula specifically to beat him down.
*** Not the only time, Simon's grandson Juste did it too.
*** Not really. Maxim tried to, but it wasn't time. Juste collected the parts that Evil Maxim had scattered which pulled the evil out of Maxim when he rejected it at the sign of Juste's friendship and formed a brainless monstrousity composed of Dracula's latent power. It wasn't Dracula however because it was too soon for his revival (getting his butt kicked twice in succession by Simon set him back 100's of years in power). Death openly admits that his lord is not in the castle and has been trying to figure out why it's even appeared.

* Played with throughout J.C. Hutchins' ''[[Literature/SeventhSon 7th Son]]'' trilogy. The main villain, John Alpha, is killed in the climax of the first book in order to further his wicked plans. However, the villains can [[CloningGambit copy their consciousness into clone bodies]], so it's only a temporary setback.

* In DJ [=MacHale=]'s Pendragon series in Raven Rise, book 9, Naymeer, the leader of a huge cult, is killed by Bobby. It turned out his death made him a martyr to the cult, and corrupted Bobby.

* ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'': At the end of the fifth book, Carnage presents Eddie Brock with an ultimatum: kill him to save his son and take back his symbiote, or let Eddie eat his son and then kill him to claim their codices. Either way, the dark god Knull -- creator of the symbiotes -- will be unleashed. Eddie chooses to kill Cletus, but that not only unleashes Knull but puts Carnage in a position to make a series of comebacks and grow more powerful than ever in the ''Venom Island'' arc of ''ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom'' and ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage''.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia'', be careful not to slay Medeus before you recruited or killed the Noble sisters or they will offer their lives to Medeus.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', the final boss of the game, the ancient demon Demise finally released from his seal placed on him by the gods invokes this against Link and Zelda and their descendants. He says that an incarnation of his hatred will continuously be reborn to seek revenge against them. Said incarnation? Ganon.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]], Carne approaches the plane the heroes are about to take, apparently unarmed. Mista guns him down on the spot. Unfortunately for the heroes, Carne was something of a suicide bomber - [[DeathActivatedSuperpower his death was the trigger to awaken Notorious B.I.G.]], one of the most powerful and dangerous Stands in the series. (How powerful? Try ''absolutely indestructible''.)

* Due to a device attached to his heart, the death of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jason Wynn]] in ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' would cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. He believes he'll be able to use it as a DeadMansSwitch to protect himself from Spawn, but the demon who suggested he install it is using both him and Spawn, expecting the latter to kill Wynn and unwittingly end civilization.

-->"I know you have come here to kill me. Shoot, you coward, but you will only kill a man."

* Lord Emp, founder of Wildstorm superhero team ''ComicBook/{{Wildcats}}'', needs to ditch his corporeal body in order to complete his [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascension]] into an [[EnergyBeings energy being]], but the rules dictate that he [[ICannotSelfTerminate can't do it himself]]. Because the process of ascending releases enough energy to incinerate the killer, Emp tries to trick his long-time nemesis into killing him, thereby killing two birds with one stone. However, it turns out the nemesis is apparently so obsessively attached to their ongoing rivalry that, unable to accept the situation, he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] instead, so Emp moves on to plan B, getting his NighInvulnerable android buddy to do the deed instead.

-->-- ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'':''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea''

-->-- ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' : ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea''

-->-- ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea''

* In the ''Literature/Gameknight999Series'', [[spoiler:Herobrine leaves behind malicious code after his death, which will corrupt and overload the Minecraft server]].

'''Robert Lutece:''' It's up to you what matters more.
'''Rosalind Lutece:''' Your part in the play...
'''Robert Lutece:''' Or the play itself.

->''"The Darkness is not so easily destroyed! No... my death is just the beginning!"''
-->-- '''Pious Augustus''', ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''