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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]].

* The BigBad of ''Videogame/TalesOfSymphonia'' went bad when, after a long and emotionally-draining ordeal, his sister died. So, as any good KnightTemplarBigBrother would do, he split the world in two, [[spoiler:seeded a PathOfInspiration on both worlds using his sister as God]], and kept her on magic life-support for the next few ''thousand'' years while he tried to find just the right body for her soul to possess. The kicker? When he finally brings her back after thousands of years of laboring on her behalf, her ''first words'' are a massive WhatTheHellHero
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'', the villain [[spoiler:Garland was created, and strives solely for, the resurrection of the Terran people.]]

-->'''Renault:''' ...Nergal, do you remember me?\\

* ''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:

* 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.

* Banjo and Kazooie in ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', for Bottles, who was their mentor in the first ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game.

* 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]].

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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.

* ''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 or become a witch]].

** Jellal's goal as a BrainwashedAndCrazy ArcVillain is to use the R System to bring the TheDreaded Black Wizard Zeref back to life. Unfortunately, even if the heroes hadn't stopped him it wouldn't have mattered because Zeref was never dead to begin with.
** Zeref himself had this as his primary motivation in his youth to bring [[spoiler:his dead little brother Natsu]] back to life. The R System was just one of his original plans to facilitate that which he abandoned due to being AwesomeButImpractical, [[spoiler:and he eventually settled on bringing Natsu back as a demon using his corpse.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', this is the primary motivation of [[EvilOverlord Viego, the Ruined King]], trying to resurrect [[TheLostLenore his fallen queen]]. [[LoveMakesYouEvil His instability following her death]] led him to search down the hidden Blessed Isles to exploit their supposed secrets of eternal life, but the attempted resurrection ritual was so botched that he produced a terrifying curse that transformed the lands into the Shadow Isles, [[UnholyGround a festering home of undeath and eternal suffering]]. From there, he leads his new legion of damned souls in an effort to reclaim and reconstruct his queen's soul so they can be together again, [[{{Yandere}} and he's willing to tear apart Runeterra to do so]].

Supertrope to ResurrectTheVillain and OrpheanRescue (for when it involves traveling to another world). Compare ImmortalitySeeker; contrast DeathSeeker.

* 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.

* [[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 his father back to life (in Bruce's case he was simply convinced that Batman ''wasn't'' dead, ([[HesJustHiding he was right]]). Eventually, every single one of those characters save Tim's father and stepmother was brought BackFromTheDead, but not by Tim's hands.

* DC's ComicBook/RelativeHeroes are a group of siblings (and the youngest one's babysiter) who are seeking out heroes to see if they can revive their dead parents. Oren and Deborah stay dead but their grandfather takes them in.

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* 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.

* 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 claims that science has the ability to do exactly that]].

* ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'': After [[spoiler:Shen Qingqiu sacrifices himself to keep him from being overtaken by [[EvilWeapon Xin Mo]]]], Luo Binghe spends the next five years trying to bring him back, carefully preserving his body with his own spiritual energy and refusing to return it to the his sect. [[spoiler:Five years later, Shen Qingqiu ends up [[ResurrectionGambit coming back on his own.]]]]

* Myth/MesopotamianMythology provides the UrExample: parts of ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' are devoted on the titular king's quest to bring his friend Enkidu back to life.

* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' is mainly focused on the titular king's quest to bring his friend Enkidu back to life.

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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]] (the actual means to do this turns out to involve preventing their death via TimeTravel). 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.

* ''Koudelka'' and the ''VideoGame/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.]]

* In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Batman, driven by [[GodzillaThreshold desperation in the face of Steppenwolf's forces]], leads the League in a plan to resurrect Superman, using the Kryptonian Genesis Chamber from Zod's crashed ship, a Mother Box, and a perfectly-timed bolt from Flash's Speed Force. Wonder Woman initially disapproves of the notion, but does end up going along with it. It works, [[LetsYouAndHimFight though Supes fights the lot of them in blind rage and confusion]] before Lois Lane comes along to deliver a CooldownHug.

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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.
* Also in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', Imhotep attempts to revive his beloved Anck-su-Namun, first in ancient Egypt, and later in 1926 after he is revived.
* 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.

* The eponymous villain from ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again!'' (1972) is trying to bring his dead wife back to life.

** Zeref himself had this as his primary motivation in his youth to bring [[spoiler:his dead little brother Natsu]] back to life. The R System was just one of his original plans to facilitate that he abandoned due to being AwesomeButImpractical, [[spoiler:and he eventually settled on bringing Natsu back as a demon using his corpse.]]

* In the dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Pegasus seeks the 7 Millennium Items and Kaiba's technology to resurrect his dead wife, Cecelia.

* In ''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.]]

* 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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* 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.]]