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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In the episode "The Pharaoh", the titular villain seeks to resurrect his wife (even though he's not the original pharaoh, but a BrainwashedAndCrazy Jalil Kubdel).
** [[spoiler:The show's BigBad, Hawk Moth, is a downplayed version of this, as his wife is not yet dead, but she's clearly very close to dying due to her reckless use of [[ToxicPhlebotinum the Peacock Miraculous]], and Gabriel wants the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to reverse her condition.]]

** 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.

** The Thorians hope to build a suitable host body for the Emperor's spirit, allowing his ressurection via {{Body Surf}}ing.
** The Dragon Warriors Chaos Warband are attempting to use the knowledge of shamanistic magic from the prehistory of Nocturne, home of the Salamanders, to resurrect the Traitor Chaplain who led them. This is noteworthy because the vast majority of the Chaos-worshipers of the setting despise the dead and see them as failures. The Dragon Warriors are the only faction in Chaos explicitly working to resurrect a dead character, at least by the 'present day' of the tabletop game. This is further explored in ''Literature/Salamanders.''

Supertrope to OrpheanRescue; it's for when it involves traveling to another world. Compare ImmortalitySeeker; contrast DeathSeeker.

* 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.

* ''Koudelka'' and the ''Franchise/ShadowHearts'' series feature the Émigré Manuscript, a ancient document created by the Formors of Irish Mythology that contains instructions to bring the dead back to the living world. The tome was sought after by several character through the entire trilogy and invariably used to bring back their loved one. [[spoiler:Save for one case, all the attempts failed because the instructions were never meant to resurrect the dead the way they were because the Formors could never unravel the secret of the soul and thus they employed it to raise the dead and use them as mindless slave labor.]]

** ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'': [[spoiler: Yuri attempted to bring his lover Alice back after she died at the end of the first game.]]] [[spoiler:It failed this time because the catalyst used to created the vessel crumbled before it could finish the process. Alice's soul was brought back but without a body to host her spirit, the resurrection ritual ended.]]

** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', two of Voldemort's old followers put together a plan to revive the Dark Lord fully, albeit for different motives. One of them (Wormtail) was a turncoat who had been hiding for years and simply ran out of options after being discovered, while the other ([[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.]]) was a true believer in Voldemort's cause.

* 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.

* ''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.]]

* 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.

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* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': In season 2, during the battle with the Beast, [[spoiler:Quentin's girlfriend Alice goes full niffin to kill the Beast--meaning that she uses so much magic that it burns her out, leaving nothing but the power and a violent sense of humor behind. After Alice kills the Beast, she is about to kill everyone else, so Quentin unleashes his cacodaemon to kill her. After Quentin recovers from the battle, he finds the White Lady, one of the Questing Creatures of Fillory, and tries to get her to resurrect Alice, but is informed this is impossible. He eventually finds out that Alice is still alive in her niffin form; the cacodaemon couldn't kill her, so it bound her into the magical tattoo on Quentin's back. Quentin then becomes obsessed with trying to reverse Alice's niffin transformation. Many have tried to cure niffins over the centuries (Alice herself being one of them), but no one has ever succeeded. Quentin only begins making real progress when he discovers that the transformation stripped Alice of her shade, the part of her soul that feels pain and guilt, and brings it back from the Underworld]].

* 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.]]

* 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''.]]

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}}.

* 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/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', Yuga and [[spoiler: Hilda's]] plan involved reviving Ganon, in order to seize his Triforce of Power. HijackedByGanon didn't take place, at least not fully...

* [[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 (ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and [[Franchise/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': In the episode "Grief", a man known as "The Emir" summons [[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]].

** 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 ''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.