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* DeathIsCheap: A work of fiction makes it so that characters who die can easily come back to life later.

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* DeathIsCheap: A work of fiction makes it so that characters who die can easily come back to life later. This is especially common in superhero comics (to the point that the trope used to be called Comic Book Death), the most frequent reasons being popular demand, a writer choosing to resurrect a character due to believing it was a terrible idea to kill them off in the first place or the character in question simply being far too important to be dead permanently.
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* SacrificialRevivalSpell: A spell kills the caster but brings someone back to life.
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* DeathAmnesia: A resurrected character remembers nothing about the afterlife.
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* ApocalypseHitler

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* ApocalypseHitlerApocalypseHitler: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler comes back from the dead to wreak havoc on the world once more.



* FlatlinePlotline

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* FlatlinePlotlineFlatlinePlotline: A character or group of characters make it so they die for a certain amount of time and then are revived.



* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery

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* ImprobablyQuickComaRecoveryImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: Recovering from a coma is as easy as waking up after a good nap.



* JustifiedExtraLives
* KissOfLife
* MassResurrection

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* JustifiedExtraLives
JustifiedExtraLives: In-game explanation for the existence of [[VideoGameLives 1-ups]].
* KissOfLife
KissOfLife: A character attempts artificial respiration to revive an unconscious person.
* MassResurrectionMassResurrection: A large number of characters who have been killed are brought back to life en masse.



* RespawnPoint

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* RespawnPointRespawnPoint: A place being where the player respawns is {{justified|Trope}} InUniverse.



* ResurrectedRomance

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* ResurrectedRomanceResurrectedRomance: A deceased love interest comes back from the dead.



* ResurrectionGambit
* ResurrectionRevenge

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* ResurrectionGambit
ResurrectionGambit: A character incorporates their own death into a plan that furthers their goals and contrives to be brought back to life upon the plan's completion.
* ResurrectionRevengeResurrectionRevenge: A character comes back from the dead to avenge their own death.



* RevivalLoophole

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* RevivalLoopholeRevivalLoophole: [[YourDaysAreNumbered Death is predicted]], but getting revived afterwards is not.



* SeeksAnothersResurrection
* SelfConstructedBeing

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* SeeksAnothersResurrection
SeeksAnothersResurrection: A character seeks to defy the laws of nature and resurrect someone else.
* SelfConstructedBeingSelfConstructedBeing: A character with no corporeal form constructs one for themself.



* StingyJack

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* StingyJackStingyJack: Irish folkloric trickster who was BarredFromTheAfterlife and doomed to carry [[TropeNamers the first Jack-O'-Lantern]].



* TreacherousSpiritChase

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* TreacherousSpiritChaseTreacherousSpiritChase: A hallucination of a lost loved one leads a character into peril.
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See also DeathTropes, RebirthAndReincarnationTropes, SchrodingersCast, SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness, and the UndeadIndex.

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See also DeathTropes, RebirthAndReincarnationTropes, SchrodingersCast, SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness, ThisIndexWillLiveForever, and the UndeadIndex.
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* DamagedSoul: A resurrected person comes back in a worse mental state than before.


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* DestinationHostUnreachable: Someone is brought back from the dead, but has no way to meet up with the ones who resurrected them.


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* InhumanHuman: A character is resurrected with their mind/soul intact but their body in bad condition.


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* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: A resurrected person becomes a monster.


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* SoullessShell: A character's body is brought back to life, but not their soul/mind.
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* ApocalypseHitler
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* ResurrectedMurderer: A murderous human comes back to kill more.
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