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Chances are throughout life someone you know is going to die in your lifetime, but some for whatever reason can't accept this new status quo and seek to defy the laws of nature resurrect someone.
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The first is as a character driven by their mission to [[BackFromTheDead restore someone to life or undo their death]]. The beneficiary may be their OneTrueLove, a DeadLittleSister, a daughter or son, or true friend. They may have spent years, decades, or even longer trying to bring back that one person who's precious to them. Their methods may include TimeTravel, MadScience, or [[BlackMagic Forbidden Magic]]. The strength of their conviction may make them a {{Determinator}} or lead them to cross the MoralEventHorizon, especially if the author believes in ImmortalityImmorality. For romance especially, this overlaps with {{Necromantic}}.
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The first is as a character driven by their mission to [[BackFromTheDead restore someone to life or undo their death]]. The beneficiary may be their OneTrueLove, a DeadLittleSister, a daughter or son, or true friend. They may have spent years, decades, or even longer trying to bring back that one person who's precious to them. Their methods may include TimeTravel, MadScience, or [[BlackMagic Forbidden Magic]]. The strength of their conviction may make them a {{Determinator}} or lead them to cross the MoralEventHorizon, especially if the author believes in ImmortalityImmorality. For romance especially, this overlaps with the {{Necromantic}}.
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* In ''Film/PumpkinheadIIBloodWings'', in the backstory a disabled teenage boy is murdered by a group of greasers. His distraught mother then researches witchcraft for the next several years (she's completely unrelated to the woods witch from the first film, btw) to bring him back from the dead, but decided against it when she found out that [[CameBackWrong his restless spirit would be reincarnated as an unstoppable demonic monster]], making her a subversion. But rather than destroying any of her work, [[IdiotPlot she just leaves the spellbook lying around in her cabin]] so a bunch of drunk assholes (our main characters, folks) can steal them and revive Pumpkinhead anyway.
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* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves", the title character offers to resurrect all the people buried in an Old West town's Boot Hill. But the townsfolk don't want them back and are willing to pay Garrity to NOT resurrect them. [[spoiler: Garrity is a con artist who used trickery to convince the townsfolk he could resurrect people. '''Double''' spoiler- it turns out he really can.]]
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* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves", the title character offers to resurrect all the people buried in an Old West town's Boot Hill. But the townsfolk don't want them back and are willing to pay Garrity to NOT resurrect them. [[spoiler: Garrity is a con artist who used trickery to convince the townsfolk he could resurrect people. '''Double''' spoiler- it turns out he really can.]]
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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". The villain Klaus Hunderprest is a CthulhuMythos cultist who is desperately trying to find a way to bring his dead wife back to life. He steals the Brazen Head in the hope that it will teach him a way to do this.
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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". The villain Klaus Hunderprest is a CthulhuMythos Franchise/CthulhuMythos cultist who is desperately trying to find a way to bring his dead wife back to life. He steals the Brazen Head in the hope that it will teach him a way to do this.
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** Frankenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
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** Frankenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. [[spoiler: his dead brother]]. He succeeds eventually succeeds in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].''[[CameBackWrong technically]]''.
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* In the backstory of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina wanted to resurrect her dead love, Daniel. After learning that it's impossible for magic to bring someone back from the dead, she has Rumpelstiltskin hire [[Literature/Frankenstein a strange doctor from another Land who's trying to find away to do exactly that using something he calls "science"]].
** Frakenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
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* In the backstory of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina wanted to resurrect her dead love, Daniel. After learning that it's impossible for magic to bring someone back from the dead, she has Rumpelstiltskin hire [[Literature/Frankenstein [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} a strange doctor from another Land who's trying to find away who claims that science has the ability to do exactly that using something he calls "science"]].
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* In the backstory of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina hires Doctor Frankenstein to resurrect Daniel because magic can't bring someone back from the dead, but she's heard that he can. Frakenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
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* In the backstory of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina hires Doctor Frankenstein wanted to resurrect Daniel because her dead love, Daniel. After learning that it's impossible for magic can't to bring someone back from the dead, but she's heard she has Rumpelstiltskin hire [[Literature/Frankenstein a strange doctor from another Land who's trying to find away to do exactly that using something he can. calls "science"]].
** Frakenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
** Frakenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
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* In the backstory of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina hires Doctor Frankenstein to resurrect Daniel because magic can't bring someone back from the dead, but she's heard that he can. Frakenstein himself also counts, as the entire reason he's pursuing his iconic field of research in the first place to resurrect his dead mother, and later, brother. He succeeds eventually in the latter... [[CameBackWrong technically]].
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* Played for horror in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', where a man is driven mad by the desire to resurrect his wife and starts murdering Kirkwall women to harvest their body parts that look like his late wife's and grafting them together in a sick BloodMagic ritual to frankenstein her back into existence. [[spoiler: The worst part of it is that Hawke's own mother is harvested for her face in Act II. It is also worth mentioning that AllDeathsAreFinal in the DA universe, so his efforts are futile.]]
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* Played for horror in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', where a man is driven mad by the desire to resurrect his wife and starts murdering Kirkwall women to harvest their body parts that look like his late wife's and grafting them together in a sick BloodMagic ritual to frankenstein her back into existence. [[spoiler: The worst part of it is that Hawke's own mother is harvested for her face in Act II. It is also worth mentioning that AllDeathsAreFinal in the DA ''DA'' universe, so his efforts are futile.]]
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* Similar to the Dragon Age example, the [[SerialKiller Windhelm Butcher]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' [[spoiler:is the museum curator, Calixto Corrium, seeking to revive his dead sister.]] Unlike the Dragon Age example, it's a bit less clear how well this would have worked, though the results would almost certainly not have been pretty.
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* Similar to the Dragon Age ''Franchise/DragonAge'' example, the [[SerialKiller Windhelm Butcher]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' [[spoiler:is the museum curator, Calixto Corrium, seeking to revive his dead sister.]] Unlike the Dragon Age ''Dragon Age'' example, it's a bit less clear how well this would have worked, though the results would almost certainly not have been pretty.
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* In ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', Conan agrees to work for queen Taramis after she promises to resurrect his deceased love Valeria in exchange for his services. In retrospect, he probably should have insisted on seeing proof she could do this before making the deal.
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* ''{{Tactics Ogre}}'': Nybbas Obderhode a necromancer in the game. Throughout the game, Nybbas has only one goal--to be the best Necromancer in the land. He is willing to sacrifice anything--morals, dignity, and even other people, for the sake of his work. It is revealed that he goes between being a Resurrection Seeker for his wife and son Debordes (which he tried to resurrect as a proper being but botched and brought another soulless undead back, in the ending it shows that Orias manages to recover a part of Debordes soul on her own) and the fact of being an Immortality Seeker by the end of the game. Further expanded when you find him in the {{Bonus Dungeon}} which bring the following gem:
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* ''{{Tactics Ogre}}'': ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'': Nybbas Obderhode a necromancer in the game. Throughout the game, Nybbas has only one goal--to be the best Necromancer in the land. He is willing to sacrifice anything--morals, dignity, and even other people, for the sake of his work. It is revealed that he goes between being a Resurrection Seeker for his wife and son Debordes (which he tried to resurrect as a proper being but botched and brought another soulless undead back, in the ending it shows that Orias manages to recover a part of Debordes soul on her own) and the fact of being an Immortality Seeker by the end of the game. Further expanded when you find him in the {{Bonus Dungeon}} which bring the following gem:
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* WonderGirl was equally obsessed with resurrecting Superboy (who was her boyfriend) to the point that she joined a {{Cult}}.
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* DoctorDoom's mother is in Hell, and ([[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]) his main goal is to save her.
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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death, while treating [[spoiler:Fate]] like shit.
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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death, while treating [[spoiler:Fate]] like complete shit. In the TV show, she never [[HeelRealization realizes]] the error of her ways, but in TheMovie, [[spoiler:she realizes that she's forgotten Alicia's final wish, which was to have a sister]].
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': In a variation, Akemi Homura for [[spoiler: Kaname Madoka]]. Homura's defining motivation and her primary power is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: her repeated time travel through a GroundhogDayLoop in an effort to create a timeline where Madoka doesn't die]].
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death.
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': In a variation, Akemi Homura for [[spoiler: Kaname Madoka]]. Homura's defining motivation and her primary power is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: her repeated time travel through a GroundhogDayLoop in an effort to create a timeline where Madoka doesn't die]].die or become a witch]].
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back fromdeath.death, while treating [[spoiler:Fate]] like shit.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from
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* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Legend of Korra]]'' fanfic [[FanFic/BookFiveLegends Book Five: Legends]] this is the driving goal of [[spoiler:Temuji]]. Seeking to restore [[spoiler:his mother eventually comes to override any and all other goals, and even [[SanitySlippage common sense]] in the end]].
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* Brutally {{deconstruct|ion}}ed in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}''. [[spoiler:Void (Dark) was Goldion's son and original heir to the Ultimate Demon Technique, but whatever life he had started going downhill when Goldion brought Killidia in as another heir. The latter got the focus from both Goldion and his daughter, Liezerota, which made Void believe he was left in the dust. When Killidia (now Killia) set out, Lieze followed him, only for Void to happen upon the former and try to kill him, only to kill Lieze when she tried to interject and intermediate. The entire reason Void took in Majorita, founded the Lost, brainwashed Goldion, and started a bloodbath across the universe was just to gather everything he needed to undo this one mistake.]] Cementing the deconstruction, [[spoiler:Void actually ''succeeds'', but when his inner malice merges with Lieze, she gets a full view of everything he does, and how does she express her 'gratitude'? By ''begging Killia for death''. Thankfully, Lieze survives, as does Void, but the latter is denied a suicide wish and conscripted into the very group that was originally formed with the purpose of ''killing him''.]]
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* [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] was reduced to this at one point. Over the course of a year ([[ComicBookTime in-universe]]), Tim lost [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} his girlfriend]], his father, his stepmother, his best friends ({{Superboy}} and [[TheFlash Kid Flash]]), and finally [[Franchise/{{Batman}} his adopted father]]. Following the [[TimeSkip "One Year Later"]] storyline, Tim becomes obsessed with bringing Superboy (and later Batman) back to life (although in the latter's case, he was simply convinced that Batman ''wasn't'' dead ([[HesJustHiding he was right]]). Eventually, every single one of those characters was brought BackFromTheDead, but not by Tim's hands.
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* Similar to the Dragon Age example, the [[SerialKiller Windhelm Butcher]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' [[spoiler:the museum curator, Calixto Corrium, seeking to revive his dead sister.]] Unlike the Dragon Age example, it's a bit less clear how well this would have worked, though the results would almost certainly not have been pretty.
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* Similar to the Dragon Age example, the [[SerialKiller Windhelm Butcher]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:is the museum curator, Calixto Corrium, seeking to revive his dead sister.]] Unlike the Dragon Age example, it's a bit less clear how well this would have worked, though the results would almost certainly not have been pretty.
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* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', [[spoiler:Anakin Solo]] is killed, and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:Tahiri Veila]] becomes obsessed with bringing him back. Following [[spoiler:the FaceHeelTurn of Anakin's older brother, Jacen Solo]], he is able to manipulate her into becoming his Sith Apprentice with the false promise that he can bring him back.
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* Ban from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' decides to help Princess Elizabeth save her kingdom from the Holy Knights who took over in hopes of being rewarded with a magic horn. He intends to use this horn to call upon a member of the Goddess Clan to resurrect his dead love, Elaine.
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* Ban from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' decides to help Princess Elizabeth save her kingdom from the Holy Knights who took over in hopes of being rewarded with a magic horn. He intends to use this horn to call upon a member of the Goddess Clan to resurrect his dead love, Elaine.
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* GreekMythology: Orpheus for Eurydice, for whom he travels directly into the land of the dead to bargain with Hades.
* JapaneseMythology: Similar to Orpheus, Izanagi goes into Yomi (the Underworld) to save his dead wife Izanami. In a twist, he found out that Izanami has turned into a hideous-looking fiend-of-a-human and then runs away, with an angry Izanami saying that she'll kill a thousand men every day (and him saying that he'll create 1500 men every day).
* EgyptianMythology has the goddess Isis work to reassemble her dead husband Osiris's body parts after he was killed and chopped into pieces in order to resurrect him.
* JapaneseMythology: Similar to Orpheus, Izanagi goes into Yomi (the Underworld) to save his dead wife Izanami. In a twist, he found out that Izanami has turned into a hideous-looking fiend-of-a-human and then runs away, with an angry Izanami saying that she'll kill a thousand men every day (and him saying that he'll create 1500 men every day).
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* GreekMythology: Myth/ClassicalMythology: Orpheus for Eurydice, for whom he travels directly into the land of the dead to bargain with Hades.
*JapaneseMythology: Myth/JapaneseMythology: Similar to Orpheus, Izanagi goes into Yomi (the Underworld) to save his dead wife Izanami. In a twist, he found out that Izanami has turned into a hideous-looking fiend-of-a-human and then runs away, with an angry Izanami saying that she'll kill a thousand men every day (and him saying that he'll create 1500 men every day).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': In the episode "Grief", a man known as "The Emir" summons [[EgyptianMythology Anubis]] and demands him resurrect his deceased son who tragically died in a car accident. Anubis refused to fulfill his request stating that it would be "unfair for the Jackal God to play favorites". At the end of the episode, this is subverted when the Emir comes to accept that [[WeAllDieSomeday death is a natural part of life]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': In the episode "Grief", a man known as "The Emir" summons [[EgyptianMythology [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anubis]] and demands him resurrect his deceased son who tragically died in a car accident. Anubis refused to fulfill his request stating that it would be "unfair for the Jackal God to play favorites". At the end of the episode, this is subverted when the Emir comes to accept that [[WeAllDieSomeday death is a natural part of life]].
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players may find themselves having to hunt down a high-level cleric or druid to bring one of their fallen companions back to life.
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* Lord Merick Farrow from ''TabletopGame/DescentJourneysInTheDark'' is an Overlord's Lieutenant who was seduced by TheDarkSide while searching the necromantic arts for a way to resurrected his brother, Sir Alric, who fell in battle. He did eventually succeed--but only after he was completely turned evil, so Alric CameBackWrong, too.
* Lord Merick Farrow from ''TabletopGame/DescentJourneysInTheDark'' is an Overlord's Lieutenant who was seduced by TheDarkSide while searching the necromantic arts for a way to resurrected his brother, Sir Alric, who fell in battle. He did eventually succeed--but only after he was completely turned evil, so Alric CameBackWrong, too.
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* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' used this on [[spoiler:Brainstorm]], who built a time machine to save his dead love, but ended up getting sidetracked and trying to prevent the entire Cybertronian war. [[YouCantFightFate It went poorly]].
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* The BigBad of ''Videogame/TalesOfSymphonia'' created a massive, complicated, and horrific world order which was ultimately for the sole purpose of bringing [[spoiler:his dead sister]] back to life.
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* Also the scheme of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. Yggdrasil (aka [[spoiler:Mithos]]) wanted to revive [[spoiler:his long dead little sister.]]
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic "[[http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/aeon/mia/mia15.html To Outsit Eternity]]", the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe encounter an immortal widower who's spent the last 13000 years working on a plan to resurrect his late wife. [[spoiler: Who also happens to be Zoe.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Yuga and [[spoiler: Hilda's]] ultimate plan was to revive Ganon, in order to seize his Triforce of Power. HijackedByGanon didn't take place, at least not fully...
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Yuga and [[spoiler: Hilda's]] ultimate plan was to revive involved reviving Ganon, in order to seize his Triforce of Power. HijackedByGanon didn't take place, at least not fully...
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* In the second half of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler:your entire party, and Marle in particular, for Chrono, the ex-main character]]. It's possible to beat the game without going through the resurrection, but if you do so, the ending indicates that with Lavos gone, reviving [[spoiler: Chrono]] has become the characters' new top priority.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Twinrova are trying to resurrect Ganon. They succeed, sort of: they bring back a semi-functional pig-monster instead of the scheming humanoid.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Twinrova are trying to resurrect Ganon. They succeed, sort of: due to being prevented from [[spoiler:sacrificing princess Zelda]], they bring back a semi-functional pig-monster instead of the scheming humanoid.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Twinrova are trying to resurrect Ganon. They succeed, sort of: due to being prevented from [[spoiler:sacrificing princess Zelda]], they bring back a semi-functional pig-monster instead of the scheming humanoid.
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Chances are throughout life someone you know is going to die in your lifetime, but some for whatever reason can't accept this new status quo and seek to defy the laws of nature resurrect someone.
The Resurrection Seeker can come in two varieties:
The first is as a character driven by their mission to [[BackFromTheDead restore someone to life or undo their death]]. The beneficiary may be their OneTrueLove, a DeadLittleSister, a daughter or son, or true friend. They may have spent years, decades, or even longer trying to bring back that one person who's precious to them. Their methods may include TimeTravel, MadScience, or [[BlackMagic Forbidden Magic]]. The strength of their conviction may make them a {{Determinator}} or lead them to cross the MoralEventHorizon, especially if the author believes in ImmortalityImmorality. For romance especially, this overlaps with {{Necromantic}}.
The second type is one in which someone seeks to resurrect an important individual in order to use the resurrectee to aid in the resurrector's own agenda. This variation is more likely to be done by a villain as part of an EvilPlan (in which case it overlaps with BreakingOutTheBoss).
This is OlderThanDirt; see EgyptianMythology and TheEpicOfGilgamesh examples below.
Note that this is a motivation/plot trope, and does not apply to simply anyone who brings someone back from the dead or has the ability to do so; the drive to bring someone back must be a defining aspect of their character.
Supertrope to OrpheanRescue; it's for when it involves traveling to another world. Compare ImmortalitySeeker; contrast DeathSeeker.
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': In a variation, Akemi Homura for [[spoiler: Kaname Madoka]]. Homura's defining motivation and her primary power is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: her repeated time travel through a GroundhogDayLoop in an effort to create a timeline where Madoka doesn't die]].
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Bringing someone back from the dead is considered alchemy taboo, as any attempts often end in CameBackWrong and body part loss from whoever attempts it, such as the Elric brothers in their backstory having their mom com back as a shriveling zombie and losing AnArmAndALeg (and Al's entire body) for their efforts. Attempting it in-series is shorthand for the character being (1) extremely talented, and (2) insanely devoted to whoever they attempt to resurrect. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the alchemists who've done this are the only ones who can open the Gate for Father's plan, as they're the only ones to have seen "The Truth."]]
**In the first anime, [[spoiler: Hohenheim tried to bring his son back to life and made Envy]], [[spoiler: Dante]] is supposed to have committed human transmutation more than one time, and Scar's brother tried to bring back his dead girlfriend, [[spoiler: creating Lust]].
**In both anime and manga, Izumi Curtis tried to return her stillborn baby to life, [[spoiler: causing several of her internal organs to be taken.]]
* The BigBad of the Duelist Kingdom arc of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' is driven by a desire to revive his dead wife.
* John Elwood Shepherd of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' joins up with powder hunters Gamma Akutabi and C.T. Smith in the hopes of finding the other Rings of the Dead to resurrect his sister, who was StuffedIntoTheFridge in the first chapter.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion:'' Gendo Ikari is trying to resurrect his wife, who was absorbed by an EVA unit during testing. He does this by [[spoiler:mixing her DNA with an Angel's to produce Rei Ayanami and then using her for his AssimilationPlot. It falls apart when Rei refuses to go along with him.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'':
** Fai speculates that [[spoiler:Fei Wang]] may have been created from someone else's (presumably [[spoiler:Clow Reed's]]) desire to bring [[spoiler:Yuuko]] back to life.
** [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]] wants to bring his brother back to life, and becomes the main villain's pawn in order to fulfill that wish. The latter attempts to manipulate other people into becoming Resurrection Seekers as well, with varying success.
** At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the protagonists]] hope to use a loophole in the laws of reality to resurrect [[spoiler:the clones]]; since they were technically never considered "alive" in the traditional sense, they are not "dead" and thus may be brought back without damaging the fabric of reality.
*''Anime/VariableGeo'': Bringing his deceased employer, [[BigBad Miranda]], back to life is [[TheDragon Damian's]] primary motivation throughout the series. Which is why he coerces [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]] into joining the VG tournament, as their test subject - with the intent of using her body [[GrandTheftMe as Miranda's new vessel.]]
* Ban from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' decides to help Princess Elizabeth save her kingdom from the Holy Knights who took over in hopes of being rewarded with a magic horn. He intends to use this horn to call upon a member of the Goddess Clan to resurrect his dead love, Elaine.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Madara and Tobi/Obito's plan involves resurrecting the Ten Tailed Beast and absorbing it to complete a MassHypnosis jutsu; they created Akatsuki to help capture the other Tailed Beasts for that purpose. Later on, however, they abandoned the MassHypnosis part and Obito decides to seal the Ten-Tails inside him, granting him its vast powers.
* Professor Viper/Cobra in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' accepted to work for Yubel, the BigBad of season 3, so she would resurrect his adopted son in exchange. After he's done his part of the work, she accepts to [[ExactWords reunite him with his son]], though [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness not in the way he expected.]]
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* Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze) of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', for his wife Nora.
* This was the driving force of Faith and Angel in their ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' spinoff. After Angel, as Twilight, killed Giles, he and Faith sought to resurrect him.
* Throughout ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', Ralph Dibney sought a way to resurrect his dead wife.
* In his post-52 miniseries, Black Adam sought a way to bring Isis back to life.
* Creator/BrianKVaughan's last arc on ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' had Chase attempt to make a deal with the Gibborim to bring Gert back.
* DoctorDoom's mother is in Hell, and ([[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]) his main goal is to save her.
* [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] was reduced to this at one point. Over the course of a year ([[ComicBookTime in-universe]]), Tim lost [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} his girlfriend]], his father, his stepmother, his best friends ({{Superboy}} and [[TheFlash Kid Flash]]), and finally [[Franchise/{{Batman}} his adopted father]]. Following the [[TimeSkip "One Year Later"]] storyline, Tim becomes obsessed with bringing Superboy (and later Batman) back to life (although in the latter's case, he was simply convinced that Batman ''wasn't'' dead ([[HesJustHiding he was right]]). Eventually, every single one of those characters was brought BackFromTheDead, but not by Tim's hands.
* WonderGirl was equally obsessed with resurrecting Superboy (who was her boyfriend) to the point that she joined a {{Cult}}.
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* In the ''Fanfic/AlexandraQuick'' series, Alex spends most of the third book trying to bring back [[spoiler: her brother, Max.]] Also parallelled in the fourth book as she decides to bring back [[spoiler: the mind and memories of her biological mother, who is physically still alive, but her mind is considered lost and unrecoverable by other wizards]].
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[[folder:Film]]
* Imhotep, in ''Film/TheMummy1932'', who tried to use a forbidden spell to return his girlfriend to life. The same spell is accidentally used to revive him in the present.
* The main villain of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'', Khalar Zym, wants to use an ArtifactOfDoom to both resurrect his murdered wife and gain immense mystic power. That his wife was murdered to stop him from gaining said power just fueled his quest for vengeance.
* ''Film/{{Creator}}''. Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole) is a Nobel Laureate in biology (sic) who wants to bring his dead wife back to life by cloning her from some of her remaining cells. [[spoiler: Of course, cloning her would only re-create her body and not her mind.]]
* In ''Film/{{Frankenhooker}}'', when his gorgeous fiance "goes to pieces" in a freak lawnmower accident, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken is determined to put her back together again. With the aid of an explosive superdrug, he sets about reassembling his girlfriend, selecting the choicest bits from a bevy of raunchy New York prostitutes.
* The eponymous villain from ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again!'' (1972) is trying to bring his dead wife back to life.
*In ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'', Dr. Bill Cortner is already experimenting in preserving and resurrecting dead tissue, when a very practical application presents itself. His girlfriend Jan is decapitated in a car wreck, so Bill uses his experimental serum to bring her head back to life. He then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] and spends the rest of the film looking for a gorgeous woman he can kill and attach Jan's head to. Jan herself is not happy with this development.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/PetSematary'': Louis suffers SanitySlippage in his quest to revive his son Gage using the IndianBurialGround that his neighbor told him about which is known to revive the dead as [[CameBackWrong horrible caricatures of their former selves]] after being buried there. [[spoiler: It worked.]]
* In Lisa Goldstein's ''Literature/DarkCitiesUnderground'', Sarah Kendall promises to help The Shadow Committee in exchange for them bringing her dead husband back to life.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', [[spoiler:Anakin Solo]] is killed, and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:Tahiri Veila]] becomes obsessed with bringing him back. Following [[spoiler:the FaceHeelTurn of Anakin's older brother, Jacen Solo]], he is able to manipulate her into becoming his Sith Apprentice with the false promise that he can bring him back.
* The backstory of the Resurrection Stone, the second of the titular deathly hallows in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', is of an arrogant wizard who sought to humiliate Death by bringing the dead back to life. When Death gives him a stone that can do just that, he uses it to resurrect his [[TheLostLenore dead fiancee]]. [[DrivenToSuicide It doesn't end well]], and the stone is passed from family to family until it finds itself in Harry's hands.
* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' is mainly focused on the titular king's quest to bring his friend Enkidu back to life.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, [[spoiler:Anakin Solo]] is killed, and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:Tahiri Veila]] becomes obsessed with bringing him back. Following [[spoiler:the FaceHeelTurn of Anakin's older brother, Jacen Solo]], he is able to manipulate her into becoming his Sith Apprentice with the false promise that he can bring her back.
* In ''Literature/TheMonkeysPaw'' Mrs. White forces her husband to use the second of three wishes to bring their son Herbert (whose horrific death made their first wish - for money - come true) back to life.
* Backstory from ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' reveals that since Thanatos was kidnapped, the boundaries between life and death were blurred. Nico attempts to take advantage of this and sneak his sister Bianca (whose death was a major CynicismCatalyst) out of the Underworld. He finds out that she chose to be reincarnated without telling him, much to his chagrin, and he brings his half-sister Hazel BackFromTheDead instead.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves", the title character offers to resurrect all the people buried in an Old West town's Boot Hill. But the townsfolk don't want them back and are willing to pay Garrity to NOT resurrect them. [[spoiler: Garrity is a con artist who used trickery to convince the townsfolk he could resurrect people. '''Double''' spoiler- it turns out he really can.]]
* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'':
** ZigZagged. Most times Sam and/or Dean die [[note]]they tend to die a lot[[/note]] the other will move heaven & earth to try to save him; but at least a couple of times this doesn't happen: at the end of season 5 Sam dies and makes Dean promise not to come looking for him; at the end of season 7 Dean dies and Sam ''doesn't'' try to get him back; this makes Dean pissed in season 8 when he does come back and discovers that Sam didn't try to resurrect him.
** A straighter example would be Samuel Campbell in season 6 wishing to bring his daughter (And also the Winchester's mother) Mary back to life.
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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* GreekMythology: Orpheus for Eurydice, for whom he travels directly into the land of the dead to bargain with Hades.
* JapaneseMythology: Similar to Orpheus, Izanagi goes into Yomi (the Underworld) to save his dead wife Izanami. In a twist, he found out that Izanami has turned into a hideous-looking fiend-of-a-human and then runs away, with an angry Izanami saying that she'll kill a thousand men every day (and him saying that he'll create 1500 men every day).
* EgyptianMythology has the goddess Isis work to reassemble her dead husband Osiris's body parts after he was killed and chopped into pieces in order to resurrect him.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Several groups hope to one day heal the GodEmperor from his current state and return mankind to its former glory.
** Earlier editions had the Sensei, the immortal, non-genetically modified children that the GodEmperor had sired during his millenia of existence, and which the group known as the Illuminati wants to sacrifice to bring the Emperor back.
** The Thorians hope to build a suitable host body for the Emperor's spirit, allowing his ressurection via {{Body Surf}}ing.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". The villain Klaus Hunderprest is a CthulhuMythos cultist who is desperately trying to find a way to bring his dead wife back to life. He steals the Brazen Head in the hope that it will teach him a way to do this.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players may find themselves having to hunt down a high-level cleric or druid to bring one of their fallen companions back to life.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Dr. Palet, in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', who has been spending years trying to revive his mother with MadScience. Momo's father apparently collaborated with him on the technology in hopes of using it on his dead wife, but abandoned the pursuit well before his own death.
* Bigeu, TheDragon to one of the three potential [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'', is this to her Dark Prince. If you choose Duran or Angela as your main character, she succeeds in reviving him, but if you choose one of the other four, his remains are destroyed, and she loses her will to live due to her MadLove for him.
* The BigBad of ''Videogame/TalesOfSymphonia'' created a massive, complicated, and horrific world order which was ultimately for the sole purpose of bringing [[spoiler:his dead sister]] back to life.
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'', the villain [[spoiler:Garland was created, and strives solely for, the resurrection of the Terran people.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Wander sets out to bring Mono back to life.
* Played for horror in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', where a man is driven mad by the desire to resurrect his wife and starts murdering Kirkwall women to harvest their body parts that look like his late wife's and grafting them together in a sick BloodMagic ritual to frankenstein her back into existence. [[spoiler: The worst part of it is that Hawke's own mother is harvested for her face in Act II. It is also worth mentioning that AllDeathsAreFinal in the DA universe, so his efforts are futile.]]
* In the second half of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler:your entire party, and Marle in particular, for Chrono, the ex-main character]]. It's possible to beat the game without going through the resurrection, but if you do so, the ending indicates that with Lavos gone, reviving [[spoiler: Chrono]] has become the characters' new top priority.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Twinrova are trying to resurrect Ganon. They succeed, sort of: they bring back a semi-functional pig-monster instead of the scheming humanoid.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI:'' In between fighting TheEmpire, Locke is seeking the Phoenix in order to resurrect his dead sweetheart, Rachel. [[spoiler:While he is able to bring her back, it is only for a few seconds, in which she tells him to move on.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones:'' [[spoiler:Orson]] betrays Renais in order to resurrect his wife. [[spoiler:She most definitely CameBackWrong, but Orson is a bit too far around the bend to notice.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', this is the mission of the future Professor Layton, who has invested all his time and resources into inventing a time machine to go back in time and save Claire from a fatal explosion. [[spoiler:It is actually the mission of Dimitri, who has been masquerading as said future Layton.]]
* ''{{Tactics Ogre}}'': Nybbas Obderhode a necromancer in the game. Throughout the game, Nybbas has only one goal--to be the best Necromancer in the land. He is willing to sacrifice anything--morals, dignity, and even other people, for the sake of his work. It is revealed that he goes between being a Resurrection Seeker for his wife and son Debordes (which he tried to resurrect as a proper being but botched and brought another soulless undead back, in the ending it shows that Orias manages to recover a part of Debordes soul on her own) and the fact of being an Immortality Seeker by the end of the game. Further expanded when you find him in the {{Bonus Dungeon}} which bring the following gem:
-->'''Nybbas:''' Hmmm. The cells are decaying. It's not complete. "Necro" will only turn the living into the undead... "Revivify" will only bring back life, but the aging process can't be stopped. My son was so close. I was able to regenerate his body cells. But I was unable to retrieve his memory... I am trying to achieve what you would call a soul recovery. It is very difficult. When one condition is met, another thing goes wrong... Sorry, I have failed again. Forgive me. Everlasting life and youth is the one thing that all human beings strive for. ...I guess I'll have to use this.
* ''VideoGame/TacticsOgreTheKnightOfLodis'': Elrik is this in his Modus Operandi he tries to resurrect his wife and ends up chaining the soul of his wife to his daughter's body. It takes a talk of his daughter, after being stopped by Alphonse, to put him back on track and therefore becoming {{the Atoner}}. If his daughter dies in the course of the game he tries to create artificial life in the form of golems, with the implications it might be as a vessel for his daughter.
* Oliver in ''Videogame/NiNoKuni'' is driven to become a hero and a great wizard by the belief that he can bring his dead mother back to life if he can rescue her AlternateSelf, the Great Sage Alicia, from imprisonment by the villainous Shaddar.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', [[spoiler: the former king AZ]] used the Ultimate Weapon to wipe out all life on Kalos, to end a war and gather enough [[PoweredByAForsakenChild souls]] to revive his beloved Floette that died during the conflict. [[spoiler: It worked, but she knew ''[[MoralEventHorizon exactly why]]'' she was alive again, and abandoned him. He was [[WhoWantsToLiveForever cursed with immortality]] in the process as well, and spends the next 3,000 years trying to atone for it.]]
* Banjo and Kazooie in ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', for Bottles, who was their mentor in the first ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game.
* Rue for Claire, his rescuer and "sister," in ''VideoGame/ThreadsOfFate.''
* This is the motivation of [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko Saigyouji]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Perfect Cherry Blossom''. She ordered her underling Youmu to steal essence of spring from Gensokyo, causing an EndlessWinter, so that she can undo the seal of a youkai cherry tree, and reviving the person buried underneath, all because she was [[ItAmusedMe bored and curious]]. After the protagonist beats her, she gave up on it, which is good since [[spoiler: the person buried is ''herself'', a fact that [[GhostAmnesia she forgot]], and reviving her body would make her disappear instead]].
* This was the end-plot for ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. The entire plot revolved around Validar working to revive the Earth Dragon, Grima, who would bring about the destruction of mankind, and so all of Validar's gambits led up to it.
* Also the scheme of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. Yggdrasil (aka [[spoiler:Mithos]]) wanted to revive [[spoiler:his long dead little sister.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Yuga and [[spoiler: Hilda's]] ultimate plan was to revive Ganon, in order to seize his Triforce of Power. HijackedByGanon didn't take place, at least not fully...
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'', Myrkul, TheGrimReaper at the time, decided to test the faith of his most loyal disciple Akachi by arranging the death of his lover, a Faithless Red Wizard. In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' dying as an atheist means you end up in Myrkul's Wall of the Faithless to be consumed over thousands of years, so Akachi waged war on the heavens to retrieve his lover. He failed and was placed in the wall himself, turning him into the Spirit-eater curse which is placed on the PlayerCharacter in the present day.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has a several-arc-long quest to resurrect [[spoiler: the party leader, Roy Greenhilt]], who was killed during [[BigBad Xykon's]] attack on Azure City. Easy in theory; hard when the party is split in half and occupied with LaResistance and a [[WarRefugees refugee fleet]] respectively.
* One character ([[spoiler:the Serqeti trade emirate]]) from ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' is driven by a desire to resurrect his dead wife from a bodyscan and brain readout created during the [[CorporateWarfare RIAA Wars]], even though doing so would involve committing a neurocrime equal to first-degree murder. [[spoiler: He fails, ending up with a version each for the body and brain images, neither of whom is quite the same person and both of whom hate him for what he tried to do.]]
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* In Part 3 of the Flash miniseries, ''Mario Brothers'', Mario attempts to revive Luigi, who had been killed at the end of Part 1, by feeding him a [[OneUp 1-Up Mushroom]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Molly of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' seeks to use the Ultimate Prize of the Great Race of Oban to bring her mother back to life and thus reunite her family. Another competitor, Muir, is on the same quest.
*''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': In the episode "Grief", a man known as "The Emir" summons [[EgyptianMythology Anubis]] and demands him resurrect his deceased son who tragically died in a car accident. Anubis refused to fulfill his request stating that it would be "unfair for the Jackal God to play favorites". At the end of the episode, this is subverted when the Emir comes to accept that [[WeAllDieSomeday death is a natural part of life]].
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kent Saul Kent]], for his mother Dora Kent. After cryonically suspending Dora, the coroner later demanded the head back to be autopsied, which would have completely destroyed any hope of recovering Dora Kent's brain-state. Saul Kent hid his mother's frozen head from the police, fought a legal battle and eventually won a $90,000 judgment against the county. Dora Kent is currently suspended in liquid nitrogen at Alcor. Saul Kent went on to start the Life Extension Foundation, which has made millions of dollars selling nutritional supplements, most of it reinvested in cryonics research.
* In 1955, when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett Ronald Mallett]] was 10, his father died of a heart attack. Mallett resolved to travel back in time to save his father, grew up, became a physicist, and wrote a number of reputable papers about time travel methods based on General Relativity. Critiques seem to indicate that these systems would be physically hopeless of implementation, but at least he tried.
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The Resurrection Seeker can come in two varieties:
The first is as a character driven by their mission to [[BackFromTheDead restore someone to life or undo their death]]. The beneficiary may be their OneTrueLove, a DeadLittleSister, a daughter or son, or true friend. They may have spent years, decades, or even longer trying to bring back that one person who's precious to them. Their methods may include TimeTravel, MadScience, or [[BlackMagic Forbidden Magic]]. The strength of their conviction may make them a {{Determinator}} or lead them to cross the MoralEventHorizon, especially if the author believes in ImmortalityImmorality. For romance especially, this overlaps with {{Necromantic}}.
The second type is one in which someone seeks to resurrect an important individual in order to use the resurrectee to aid in the resurrector's own agenda. This variation is more likely to be done by a villain as part of an EvilPlan (in which case it overlaps with BreakingOutTheBoss).
This is OlderThanDirt; see EgyptianMythology and TheEpicOfGilgamesh examples below.
Note that this is a motivation/plot trope, and does not apply to simply anyone who brings someone back from the dead or has the ability to do so; the drive to bring someone back must be a defining aspect of their character.
Supertrope to OrpheanRescue; it's for when it involves traveling to another world. Compare ImmortalitySeeker; contrast DeathSeeker.
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': In a variation, Akemi Homura for [[spoiler: Kaname Madoka]]. Homura's defining motivation and her primary power is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: her repeated time travel through a GroundhogDayLoop in an effort to create a timeline where Madoka doesn't die]].
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa for her daughter, Alicia Testarossa. Precia has already created a clone of Alicia with some of her memories, namely [[spoiler: Fate Testarossa]]. Precia remains unsatisfied and seeks out the Jewel Seeds in order to bring the original Alicia back from death.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Bringing someone back from the dead is considered alchemy taboo, as any attempts often end in CameBackWrong and body part loss from whoever attempts it, such as the Elric brothers in their backstory having their mom com back as a shriveling zombie and losing AnArmAndALeg (and Al's entire body) for their efforts. Attempting it in-series is shorthand for the character being (1) extremely talented, and (2) insanely devoted to whoever they attempt to resurrect. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the alchemists who've done this are the only ones who can open the Gate for Father's plan, as they're the only ones to have seen "The Truth."]]
**In the first anime, [[spoiler: Hohenheim tried to bring his son back to life and made Envy]], [[spoiler: Dante]] is supposed to have committed human transmutation more than one time, and Scar's brother tried to bring back his dead girlfriend, [[spoiler: creating Lust]].
**In both anime and manga, Izumi Curtis tried to return her stillborn baby to life, [[spoiler: causing several of her internal organs to be taken.]]
* The BigBad of the Duelist Kingdom arc of ''Manga/YuGiOh'' is driven by a desire to revive his dead wife.
* John Elwood Shepherd of ''Manga/{{Zombiepowder}}'' joins up with powder hunters Gamma Akutabi and C.T. Smith in the hopes of finding the other Rings of the Dead to resurrect his sister, who was StuffedIntoTheFridge in the first chapter.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion:'' Gendo Ikari is trying to resurrect his wife, who was absorbed by an EVA unit during testing. He does this by [[spoiler:mixing her DNA with an Angel's to produce Rei Ayanami and then using her for his AssimilationPlot. It falls apart when Rei refuses to go along with him.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'':
** Fai speculates that [[spoiler:Fei Wang]] may have been created from someone else's (presumably [[spoiler:Clow Reed's]]) desire to bring [[spoiler:Yuuko]] back to life.
** [[spoiler:Fai D. Flourite]] wants to bring his brother back to life, and becomes the main villain's pawn in order to fulfill that wish. The latter attempts to manipulate other people into becoming Resurrection Seekers as well, with varying success.
** At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the protagonists]] hope to use a loophole in the laws of reality to resurrect [[spoiler:the clones]]; since they were technically never considered "alive" in the traditional sense, they are not "dead" and thus may be brought back without damaging the fabric of reality.
*''Anime/VariableGeo'': Bringing his deceased employer, [[BigBad Miranda]], back to life is [[TheDragon Damian's]] primary motivation throughout the series. Which is why he coerces [[{{deuteragonist}} Satomi]] into joining the VG tournament, as their test subject - with the intent of using her body [[GrandTheftMe as Miranda's new vessel.]]
* Ban from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' decides to help Princess Elizabeth save her kingdom from the Holy Knights who took over in hopes of being rewarded with a magic horn. He intends to use this horn to call upon a member of the Goddess Clan to resurrect his dead love, Elaine.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Madara and Tobi/Obito's plan involves resurrecting the Ten Tailed Beast and absorbing it to complete a MassHypnosis jutsu; they created Akatsuki to help capture the other Tailed Beasts for that purpose. Later on, however, they abandoned the MassHypnosis part and Obito decides to seal the Ten-Tails inside him, granting him its vast powers.
* Professor Viper/Cobra in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' accepted to work for Yubel, the BigBad of season 3, so she would resurrect his adopted son in exchange. After he's done his part of the work, she accepts to [[ExactWords reunite him with his son]], though [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness not in the way he expected.]]
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* Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze) of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', for his wife Nora.
* This was the driving force of Faith and Angel in their ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' spinoff. After Angel, as Twilight, killed Giles, he and Faith sought to resurrect him.
* Throughout ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', Ralph Dibney sought a way to resurrect his dead wife.
* In his post-52 miniseries, Black Adam sought a way to bring Isis back to life.
* Creator/BrianKVaughan's last arc on ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' had Chase attempt to make a deal with the Gibborim to bring Gert back.
* DoctorDoom's mother is in Hell, and ([[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]) his main goal is to save her.
* [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] was reduced to this at one point. Over the course of a year ([[ComicBookTime in-universe]]), Tim lost [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} his girlfriend]], his father, his stepmother, his best friends ({{Superboy}} and [[TheFlash Kid Flash]]), and finally [[Franchise/{{Batman}} his adopted father]]. Following the [[TimeSkip "One Year Later"]] storyline, Tim becomes obsessed with bringing Superboy (and later Batman) back to life (although in the latter's case, he was simply convinced that Batman ''wasn't'' dead ([[HesJustHiding he was right]]). Eventually, every single one of those characters was brought BackFromTheDead, but not by Tim's hands.
* WonderGirl was equally obsessed with resurrecting Superboy (who was her boyfriend) to the point that she joined a {{Cult}}.
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* In the ''Fanfic/AlexandraQuick'' series, Alex spends most of the third book trying to bring back [[spoiler: her brother, Max.]] Also parallelled in the fourth book as she decides to bring back [[spoiler: the mind and memories of her biological mother, who is physically still alive, but her mind is considered lost and unrecoverable by other wizards]].
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* Imhotep, in ''Film/TheMummy1932'', who tried to use a forbidden spell to return his girlfriend to life. The same spell is accidentally used to revive him in the present.
* The main villain of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'', Khalar Zym, wants to use an ArtifactOfDoom to both resurrect his murdered wife and gain immense mystic power. That his wife was murdered to stop him from gaining said power just fueled his quest for vengeance.
* ''Film/{{Creator}}''. Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole) is a Nobel Laureate in biology (sic) who wants to bring his dead wife back to life by cloning her from some of her remaining cells. [[spoiler: Of course, cloning her would only re-create her body and not her mind.]]
* In ''Film/{{Frankenhooker}}'', when his gorgeous fiance "goes to pieces" in a freak lawnmower accident, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken is determined to put her back together again. With the aid of an explosive superdrug, he sets about reassembling his girlfriend, selecting the choicest bits from a bevy of raunchy New York prostitutes.
* The eponymous villain from ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again!'' (1972) is trying to bring his dead wife back to life.
*In ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'', Dr. Bill Cortner is already experimenting in preserving and resurrecting dead tissue, when a very practical application presents itself. His girlfriend Jan is decapitated in a car wreck, so Bill uses his experimental serum to bring her head back to life. He then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] and spends the rest of the film looking for a gorgeous woman he can kill and attach Jan's head to. Jan herself is not happy with this development.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/PetSematary'': Louis suffers SanitySlippage in his quest to revive his son Gage using the IndianBurialGround that his neighbor told him about which is known to revive the dead as [[CameBackWrong horrible caricatures of their former selves]] after being buried there. [[spoiler: It worked.]]
* In Lisa Goldstein's ''Literature/DarkCitiesUnderground'', Sarah Kendall promises to help The Shadow Committee in exchange for them bringing her dead husband back to life.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', [[spoiler:Anakin Solo]] is killed, and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:Tahiri Veila]] becomes obsessed with bringing him back. Following [[spoiler:the FaceHeelTurn of Anakin's older brother, Jacen Solo]], he is able to manipulate her into becoming his Sith Apprentice with the false promise that he can bring him back.
* The backstory of the Resurrection Stone, the second of the titular deathly hallows in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', is of an arrogant wizard who sought to humiliate Death by bringing the dead back to life. When Death gives him a stone that can do just that, he uses it to resurrect his [[TheLostLenore dead fiancee]]. [[DrivenToSuicide It doesn't end well]], and the stone is passed from family to family until it finds itself in Harry's hands.
* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' is mainly focused on the titular king's quest to bring his friend Enkidu back to life.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, [[spoiler:Anakin Solo]] is killed, and his LoveInterest [[spoiler:Tahiri Veila]] becomes obsessed with bringing him back. Following [[spoiler:the FaceHeelTurn of Anakin's older brother, Jacen Solo]], he is able to manipulate her into becoming his Sith Apprentice with the false promise that he can bring her back.
* In ''Literature/TheMonkeysPaw'' Mrs. White forces her husband to use the second of three wishes to bring their son Herbert (whose horrific death made their first wish - for money - come true) back to life.
* Backstory from ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' reveals that since Thanatos was kidnapped, the boundaries between life and death were blurred. Nico attempts to take advantage of this and sneak his sister Bianca (whose death was a major CynicismCatalyst) out of the Underworld. He finds out that she chose to be reincarnated without telling him, much to his chagrin, and he brings his half-sister Hazel BackFromTheDead instead.
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* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves", the title character offers to resurrect all the people buried in an Old West town's Boot Hill. But the townsfolk don't want them back and are willing to pay Garrity to NOT resurrect them. [[spoiler: Garrity is a con artist who used trickery to convince the townsfolk he could resurrect people. '''Double''' spoiler- it turns out he really can.]]
* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'':
** ZigZagged. Most times Sam and/or Dean die [[note]]they tend to die a lot[[/note]] the other will move heaven & earth to try to save him; but at least a couple of times this doesn't happen: at the end of season 5 Sam dies and makes Dean promise not to come looking for him; at the end of season 7 Dean dies and Sam ''doesn't'' try to get him back; this makes Dean pissed in season 8 when he does come back and discovers that Sam didn't try to resurrect him.
** A straighter example would be Samuel Campbell in season 6 wishing to bring his daughter (And also the Winchester's mother) Mary back to life.
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* GreekMythology: Orpheus for Eurydice, for whom he travels directly into the land of the dead to bargain with Hades.
* JapaneseMythology: Similar to Orpheus, Izanagi goes into Yomi (the Underworld) to save his dead wife Izanami. In a twist, he found out that Izanami has turned into a hideous-looking fiend-of-a-human and then runs away, with an angry Izanami saying that she'll kill a thousand men every day (and him saying that he'll create 1500 men every day).
* EgyptianMythology has the goddess Isis work to reassemble her dead husband Osiris's body parts after he was killed and chopped into pieces in order to resurrect him.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Several groups hope to one day heal the GodEmperor from his current state and return mankind to its former glory.
** Earlier editions had the Sensei, the immortal, non-genetically modified children that the GodEmperor had sired during his millenia of existence, and which the group known as the Illuminati wants to sacrifice to bring the Emperor back.
** The Thorians hope to build a suitable host body for the Emperor's spirit, allowing his ressurection via {{Body Surf}}ing.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". The villain Klaus Hunderprest is a CthulhuMythos cultist who is desperately trying to find a way to bring his dead wife back to life. He steals the Brazen Head in the hope that it will teach him a way to do this.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players may find themselves having to hunt down a high-level cleric or druid to bring one of their fallen companions back to life.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Dr. Palet, in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', who has been spending years trying to revive his mother with MadScience. Momo's father apparently collaborated with him on the technology in hopes of using it on his dead wife, but abandoned the pursuit well before his own death.
* Bigeu, TheDragon to one of the three potential [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'', is this to her Dark Prince. If you choose Duran or Angela as your main character, she succeeds in reviving him, but if you choose one of the other four, his remains are destroyed, and she loses her will to live due to her MadLove for him.
* The BigBad of ''Videogame/TalesOfSymphonia'' created a massive, complicated, and horrific world order which was ultimately for the sole purpose of bringing [[spoiler:his dead sister]] back to life.
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'', the villain [[spoiler:Garland was created, and strives solely for, the resurrection of the Terran people.]]
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Wander sets out to bring Mono back to life.
* Played for horror in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', where a man is driven mad by the desire to resurrect his wife and starts murdering Kirkwall women to harvest their body parts that look like his late wife's and grafting them together in a sick BloodMagic ritual to frankenstein her back into existence. [[spoiler: The worst part of it is that Hawke's own mother is harvested for her face in Act II. It is also worth mentioning that AllDeathsAreFinal in the DA universe, so his efforts are futile.]]
* In the second half of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler:your entire party, and Marle in particular, for Chrono, the ex-main character]]. It's possible to beat the game without going through the resurrection, but if you do so, the ending indicates that with Lavos gone, reviving [[spoiler: Chrono]] has become the characters' new top priority.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', Twinrova are trying to resurrect Ganon. They succeed, sort of: they bring back a semi-functional pig-monster instead of the scheming humanoid.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI:'' In between fighting TheEmpire, Locke is seeking the Phoenix in order to resurrect his dead sweetheart, Rachel. [[spoiler:While he is able to bring her back, it is only for a few seconds, in which she tells him to move on.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones:'' [[spoiler:Orson]] betrays Renais in order to resurrect his wife. [[spoiler:She most definitely CameBackWrong, but Orson is a bit too far around the bend to notice.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', this is the mission of the future Professor Layton, who has invested all his time and resources into inventing a time machine to go back in time and save Claire from a fatal explosion. [[spoiler:It is actually the mission of Dimitri, who has been masquerading as said future Layton.]]
* ''{{Tactics Ogre}}'': Nybbas Obderhode a necromancer in the game. Throughout the game, Nybbas has only one goal--to be the best Necromancer in the land. He is willing to sacrifice anything--morals, dignity, and even other people, for the sake of his work. It is revealed that he goes between being a Resurrection Seeker for his wife and son Debordes (which he tried to resurrect as a proper being but botched and brought another soulless undead back, in the ending it shows that Orias manages to recover a part of Debordes soul on her own) and the fact of being an Immortality Seeker by the end of the game. Further expanded when you find him in the {{Bonus Dungeon}} which bring the following gem:
-->'''Nybbas:''' Hmmm. The cells are decaying. It's not complete. "Necro" will only turn the living into the undead... "Revivify" will only bring back life, but the aging process can't be stopped. My son was so close. I was able to regenerate his body cells. But I was unable to retrieve his memory... I am trying to achieve what you would call a soul recovery. It is very difficult. When one condition is met, another thing goes wrong... Sorry, I have failed again. Forgive me. Everlasting life and youth is the one thing that all human beings strive for. ...I guess I'll have to use this.
* ''VideoGame/TacticsOgreTheKnightOfLodis'': Elrik is this in his Modus Operandi he tries to resurrect his wife and ends up chaining the soul of his wife to his daughter's body. It takes a talk of his daughter, after being stopped by Alphonse, to put him back on track and therefore becoming {{the Atoner}}. If his daughter dies in the course of the game he tries to create artificial life in the form of golems, with the implications it might be as a vessel for his daughter.
* Oliver in ''Videogame/NiNoKuni'' is driven to become a hero and a great wizard by the belief that he can bring his dead mother back to life if he can rescue her AlternateSelf, the Great Sage Alicia, from imprisonment by the villainous Shaddar.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', [[spoiler: the former king AZ]] used the Ultimate Weapon to wipe out all life on Kalos, to end a war and gather enough [[PoweredByAForsakenChild souls]] to revive his beloved Floette that died during the conflict. [[spoiler: It worked, but she knew ''[[MoralEventHorizon exactly why]]'' she was alive again, and abandoned him. He was [[WhoWantsToLiveForever cursed with immortality]] in the process as well, and spends the next 3,000 years trying to atone for it.]]
* Banjo and Kazooie in ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', for Bottles, who was their mentor in the first ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game.
* Rue for Claire, his rescuer and "sister," in ''VideoGame/ThreadsOfFate.''
* This is the motivation of [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko Saigyouji]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Perfect Cherry Blossom''. She ordered her underling Youmu to steal essence of spring from Gensokyo, causing an EndlessWinter, so that she can undo the seal of a youkai cherry tree, and reviving the person buried underneath, all because she was [[ItAmusedMe bored and curious]]. After the protagonist beats her, she gave up on it, which is good since [[spoiler: the person buried is ''herself'', a fact that [[GhostAmnesia she forgot]], and reviving her body would make her disappear instead]].
* This was the end-plot for ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. The entire plot revolved around Validar working to revive the Earth Dragon, Grima, who would bring about the destruction of mankind, and so all of Validar's gambits led up to it.
* Also the scheme of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. Yggdrasil (aka [[spoiler:Mithos]]) wanted to revive [[spoiler:his long dead little sister.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Yuga and [[spoiler: Hilda's]] ultimate plan was to revive Ganon, in order to seize his Triforce of Power. HijackedByGanon didn't take place, at least not fully...
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'', Myrkul, TheGrimReaper at the time, decided to test the faith of his most loyal disciple Akachi by arranging the death of his lover, a Faithless Red Wizard. In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' dying as an atheist means you end up in Myrkul's Wall of the Faithless to be consumed over thousands of years, so Akachi waged war on the heavens to retrieve his lover. He failed and was placed in the wall himself, turning him into the Spirit-eater curse which is placed on the PlayerCharacter in the present day.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has a several-arc-long quest to resurrect [[spoiler: the party leader, Roy Greenhilt]], who was killed during [[BigBad Xykon's]] attack on Azure City. Easy in theory; hard when the party is split in half and occupied with LaResistance and a [[WarRefugees refugee fleet]] respectively.
* One character ([[spoiler:the Serqeti trade emirate]]) from ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' is driven by a desire to resurrect his dead wife from a bodyscan and brain readout created during the [[CorporateWarfare RIAA Wars]], even though doing so would involve committing a neurocrime equal to first-degree murder. [[spoiler: He fails, ending up with a version each for the body and brain images, neither of whom is quite the same person and both of whom hate him for what he tried to do.]]
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* In Part 3 of the Flash miniseries, ''Mario Brothers'', Mario attempts to revive Luigi, who had been killed at the end of Part 1, by feeding him a [[OneUp 1-Up Mushroom]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Molly of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' seeks to use the Ultimate Prize of the Great Race of Oban to bring her mother back to life and thus reunite her family. Another competitor, Muir, is on the same quest.
*''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': In the episode "Grief", a man known as "The Emir" summons [[EgyptianMythology Anubis]] and demands him resurrect his deceased son who tragically died in a car accident. Anubis refused to fulfill his request stating that it would be "unfair for the Jackal God to play favorites". At the end of the episode, this is subverted when the Emir comes to accept that [[WeAllDieSomeday death is a natural part of life]].
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kent Saul Kent]], for his mother Dora Kent. After cryonically suspending Dora, the coroner later demanded the head back to be autopsied, which would have completely destroyed any hope of recovering Dora Kent's brain-state. Saul Kent hid his mother's frozen head from the police, fought a legal battle and eventually won a $90,000 judgment against the county. Dora Kent is currently suspended in liquid nitrogen at Alcor. Saul Kent went on to start the Life Extension Foundation, which has made millions of dollars selling nutritional supplements, most of it reinvested in cryonics research.
* In 1955, when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett Ronald Mallett]] was 10, his father died of a heart attack. Mallett resolved to travel back in time to save his father, grew up, became a physicist, and wrote a number of reputable papers about time travel methods based on General Relativity. Critiques seem to indicate that these systems would be physically hopeless of implementation, but at least he tried.
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