History Main / TheyKilledKennyAgain

** It features a hadful of cards whose FlavorText references the various deaths of a hapless goblin named Furt. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39710 See]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45123 several]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=43555 examples.]]

* A major part of''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. Every player character has a set of auxiliary clones that are sent in to replace them when they die, meaning any player can find plenty of ways to die during a session without having to create a new character.

[[caption-width-right:350:{{You bas|tard}}[[http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2008/10/06/YouKilledKenny.jpg tards!]]]]

Although similar to DeathIsCheap, wherein a character may 'die' and come back to life at least once, this is trope refers to when a character is killed many times and usually as a RunningGag.

'''Kyle:''' {{You bastard}}s!

'''Kyle:''' You bastards!

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Vocaloid}}'s Len Kagamine has a reputation for getting killed off in many of his songs and music videos. Also overlaps with ChronicallyKilledActor, as the Vocaloids are often interpreted as AnimatedActors. Though some will come back with the claim that Rin Kagamine dies almost as much. Since they're the youngest Krypton Vocaloids, they're probably invoking DeathOfAChild.
* "But {{the cat came back}}, the very next day. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back 'cause he wouldn't stay away!"
* Music/{{Devo}}'s mascot, Booji Boy, has met many a gruesome end, getting stabbed at the end of the video that marked his first on-camera appearance, and then moving on to getting electrocuted, having his head crushed, and being beheaded by Osama Bin Laden.
* Music/AliceCooper "dies" at the end of his concerts.
* Most of Music/{{Rammstein}}'s videos end with keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz into some sort of death or harm.
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* This also applies doubly to ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms Pizza Head]] who if not killed each time, was at least in critical condition after the end of each commercial, often at the hands of Pizza Cutter Steve.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Although everyone in ''Anime/AngelBeats'' dies repeatedly, none of them dies as often as Noda, whose appearance WILL guarantee death.
* In the first season of ''{{Anime/Bakugan}}'', Julie's Tuskor gets sent to the Doom Dimension (an equivalent for hell) every time he's thrown into the battle, yet he's back the next time she has another brawl like nothing happened, only to be sent to the Doom Dimension again.
* Sakura ([[GenderBlenderName a boy]]) in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' is killed many times per episode depending upon how much he pisses off [[SociopathicHero Dokuro]] only to be [[DeathIsCheap resurrected seconds later]].
-->'''Sakura:''' Why did you just murder me, Dokuro?!\\
'''Dokuro:''' There was a mosquito on your shirt!
* ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', a parody series of the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, spoofs how Lancer dies in every route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' by having him killed in almost every episode. Some of his deaths include getting struck by lightning on a clear day, being caught in a bus crash just before the episode even began, getting eaten by [[ImAHumanitarian Saber in a lion suit]], hit in the face by a volleyball, etc. As a ShoutOut, most of his deaths are accompanied with cries of "You aren't human!", the Japanese localization of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s "You bastards!" But the penultimate episode of the series presents him with the chance to avoid all his incoming deaths, [[spoiler:and he ultimately succeeds.]]
** Strangely enough, he's the only servant to be the butt of this joke, despite the fact that every other Servant except for 3[[note]]said 3 being Saber, who [[spoiler: dies in the Heaven's Feel Route, but lives in the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works]]; Rider, [[spoiler: who dies in the routes Saber lives in, but lives in the Heaven's Feel route]], and True Assassin, who isn't summoned in the first two routes[[/note]] share his fate of dying on every route - the only route he actually dies early on in is the final route, Heaven's Feel. In the Fate route, he's the second to last Servant to be killed,[[note]]the last would be Gilgamesh[[/note]] whereas in the Unlimited Blade Works Route, he outlasts Caster, Rider, and Berserker.
* Leomon from ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'' is a special case. Every series but the second and seventh is a hard {{reboot}}, and all {{Mon}}s of a type are identical, so there are several guys named Leomon or [=SomethingLeomon=] who are not the same guy, or even AlternateContinuity versions of the same guy. And what happens to them?
** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': [[spoiler:Leomon eats a blast meant for Mimi, and after helping vanquish the villain, bites it. Since this shares continuity with Anime/DigimonAdventure02 this is also why he isn't present to die there]].
*** He comes back to life in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', also in the same continuity with the other "Adventure" titles, thanks to the Digital World's reincarnation cycle. [[spoiler: But he's killed off for good when Meicoomon tears him to shreds in the Real World. Preventing him from coming back.]]
** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': [[spoiler:Leomon becomes Juri's partner, and eventually gets run through and absorbed by Beelzebumon, sending Juri over the DespairEventHorizon and setting the stage for D-Reaper's use of her]].
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': [=JagerLowemon=]'s Japanese name? [=KaiserLeomon=]. [[spoiler:Actually being ''human'' doesn't save him from death]] at the hands of [[{{Satan}} Lucemon]], though it turns out that [[spoiler:like Shibumi of ''Tamers'', he's actually physically in the human world and his mind is connected to the digital world, unlike the others. He's alive and well when they get home]]. Bonus points for a MonsterOfTheWeek, Panjamon, who is a white recolor of Leomon. [[spoiler:He gets taken out quite easily, but since he's in Mercuremon's illusionary world, and leaves no egg behind, he may never have been real]].
** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': [=SaberLeomon=] is a "good but misguided" type who believes humans are bad due to the bad actions of one guy. [[spoiler:Not only does he die,]] but... in all Digimon series but ''Tamers'', Digimon revert to an egg state and begin life again, never truly dying. However, Kurata figures out a way to corrupt a Digimon's data so that it can never be revived. [[spoiler:[=SaberLeomon=] is the first Digimon in this series to die ''permanently.'']] Also, [=BanchoLeomon=] turns out to be holding [[spoiler:the spirit of the lead character's father. Naturally, he dies too. When the reformed BigBad gives Daddy back, ''nothing is said about [=BanchoLeomon=].'']] Harsh.
** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'': [=MadLeomon=] is a villain general. The first one. As he's a WarmUpBoss, he's offed very quickly. And he's not the only one; later on there's Apollomon, who while not sharing the name is definitely leonine. He dies ''twice'', but is revived at the end of the series.
** And then there's ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'', where a Leomon dies in the first ''three minutes''. And because he considered the digimon he was attacking (the main character) more '''worthy''' of being alive!
* Where to go in the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise. Many characters in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Android 17, Chiaotzu, Krillin, and Piccolo have ''all'' died about four times, including every ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime ever. The entire population of Earth has died ''twice'' (first by Kid Buu and then by Freiza). Counting ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' the Earth was itself destroyed a third time, but in that instance they managed to get nearly everyone off the planet before it was destroyed.
* Eto-shin in ''Anime/{{Etotama}}'' reincarnate a few days after any deaths. As a result, while Uri-tan dying in episode 3 was treated as a WhamEpisode, over the course of the next two episodes we see Uri-tan die and revive again, the second time in the space of just a few minutes.
* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'':
** Hyatt, often many times an episode.
** The Ropunmatsus. He seems to exist to explode and then be replaced like nothing happened in the next episode.
** Excel herself has suffered this status on occasion. For example, dying roughly two or three times before the second half of the first episode. She gets better.
* ''Manga/GetterRobo'' has an unusual subversion in the form of [[TheBigGuy Musashi Tomoe]]. Musashi is unfailingly KilledOffForReal (usually by way of a Heroic Sacrifice), only to show up alive and well to repeat the process... In the next ''[[AlternateContinuity continuity]]''.
** And not just the anime either. He bites the dust in most of his appearances in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' as well. Very, VERY rarely is he savable. However, despite being savable in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Alpha 2]]'', [[CuttingOffTheBranches his death is canon]].
* Inugami from ''Manga/GugureKokkurisan'' dies almost every chapter (sometimes more than once in a single chapter), and comes back to life within less than a chapter. Apparently he likes to insert himself into the ''Franchise/{{Mario}}'' game to get infinite lives.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has the [[spoiler:Zeppeli family]], in Parts 1 and 2, which has both of their members ([[spoiler:Will A. Zeppeli and Caesar Zeppeli]]) die against one of the major enemies but managing to inspire the protagonist beyond the grave. [[spoiler: Gyro Zeppeli from Part 7 does not escape the same fate.]]
* There seems to be a RecurringCharacter in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', who's almost always the Mook leader, that dies all the time during the latter part of the series. On a side note, he may also be the one that ends up shooting Dekim in the head from the sound of his voice but that's probably due to recycling [=VAs=] rather than intentionally.
* ''WebComic/OnePunchMan'' has an in-universe example in Birdbrain from the comedy show "Animal Empire", who would die in hilariously stupid ways thanks to his own stupidity, but would always turn up fine in the next episode. [[spoiler:Phoenix Man, who became a monster due to wearing a Birdman costume for so long and fusing with it, inherited this trait from the character, and is not only able to revive from death after a certain amount of time, [[CameBackStrong but get stronger from it]]]].
* Chuck the [[spoiler: ghost]] dog from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is killed multiple times in every episode only to reappear at random times alive only to get killed again.
* There is a character in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' who gets killed off several times and always looks the same, but never gets lines (or a name).
* In one episode of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', the main character is shot on-screen by one of the characters, and we see him in angelic state, floating away. He is seen alive and well in the next episode.
* Vrumugun from ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' appears in maybe eight episodes, and dies roughly a dozen times over the course of them. In the anime, this is because [[spoiler:he has been repeatedly cloned]]. In the novels, this is because [[spoiler:the 'Vrumuguns' who are killed are actually people being magically controlled y the real Vrumugun]].
* In ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' most of the cast have died at the end of an episode then come back inexplicable at the beginning of the next, Dr. Gel in particular.
* A weird case of the ''protagonist'' being one of these: the somewhat surreal ''VideoGame/{{Spelunker}} is a Sensei'' anime has the titular Spelunker-sensei being killed by the slightest of inconveniences. Steam, stairs, a baseball, biting into the tail end of a fried shrimp...the list goes on. Yes, he's not just refusing to get up, he's genuinely dead each time he's shown crumpled on the floor, usually with his accompanying death jingle. Being a video game character (and from a notoriously NintendoHard one at that) he inexplicably returns to life without so much as a how-do-you-do, to the point that other faculty (and some of the less easily startled students) come to expect him to die from ''something'' before too long.
* Transgendered chickens in ''Anime/{{Usavich}}'' become this with time. In season 1 it was just Komanech, who was continuously swallowed by a frog and pooped at the end of an episode and had all its relatives killed, roasted and eaten. By season 5 transgendered chickens are mass slaughtered in nearly every episode, but their ghosts move into eggs, from which new chickens hatch.
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* ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'':
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Immortal]]. His one power is the ability to come back from the dead after a few minutes. Since he has a considerable lack of fighting skills, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal this mostly translates to him frequently dying in a variety of hilariously painful and bizarre ways]]. Death by giant novelty scissors, death by impalement from a remote control, death by alcohol poisoning from a ray that was only supposed to make him drunk...
** An interesting variation in the succession of Grasshoppers that join the same team; none of them are the same character, but all of them take the hero name Grasshopper, join the team to replace the last Grasshopper, and then get killed in various ugly ways, each with less panel time than the one before.
* The Magazine/{{Mad}} Magazine comic ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' features a black and a white spy trying to outsmart each other, and either one of them usually ends up beaten or dead by the end of the strip, only to be alive and well by the next gag. (There is also a sub-set of ''Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy'' strips which generally end with both the black and the white spy being dead, outwitted by the (female) grey spy.) According to WordOfGod from creator Antonio Prohías, they are not the same spy, but are instead merely spies from rival nations that die horribly and are replaced -- this was the basis of his commentary on the Cold War.
* The ComicBook/RedTornado gets blown up so many times it's become a running gag in the ''Justice League'', and also makes its way into ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''.
* Similarly, the android [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avenger]] Comicbook/TheVision gets killed / destroyed and then rebuilt all the time, although sometimes he [[CameBackWrong comes back wrong,]] and it takes a few years for StatusQuoIsGod to bring him completely back to normal.
* Emperor Palpatine in ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire''. Practically everyone kills him. Mostly Luke and Leia. Han kills him the last time.
* Due to a combination of BlackComedy and NegativeContinuity, nearly the ''entire cast'' of ''ComicStrip/TwistedToyfareTheatre'', or at least the setting Megoville, dies several times over the course of the series. The character guides in the trades frequently list several deaths for each character. ComicBook/{{Bucky|Barnes}} probably dies the most consistently.
* It's well known among ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' fans that any character without a toy is a RedShirt. The ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' comic series had a recurring RedShirt in Dropshot, whose design was taken from a Japanese transforming robot that was not imported during the original series' run.
** Optimus Prime is probably the most infamous for this; it's often noted by fans that he dies at least once per series. Sometimes this is justified by them being different continuities, but in long-running stories, he's died multiple times. To whit, he died three times in both versions of the Marvel comic continuity, and three times in the original cartoon as well. Add on the various Japanese continuations of the cartoon, and that number goes up to six. He's mortally wounded again in ''Beast Wars'', and his SpiritualSuccessor Primal dies another three times. It's noted in one series that one symptom of "primus apotheosis" (a disorder that causes a person to become an obsessive HeroWorshipper of Optimus) is becoming convinced that you have to die in as impressive a manner as possible.
** The Decepticon Dirge is in any number of unconnected comic series, and meets his doom in nearly every last one, ''and'' blows up ''twice'' in the G1 cartoon. His death count may be higher than Prime. The TF Wiki quotes his BadassBoast, "Death comes to he who crosses me!" and attributes it to "a confused Dirge." However, this is eventually averted in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', which is one of the few series (possibly only) where he survives several potentially lethal incidents (even far outliving [[TerribleTrio his usual buddies]] Ramjet and Thrust) and becomes an important recurring character, only finally biting it in a HeroicSacrifice in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron''.
** The Decepticon Quake is also fairly death prone.
** All the Seacons are fairly susceptible to this, having died across multiple continuities, but among them, poor Nautilator ''easily'' takes the cake.
** One of the comic series plays with Optimus' tendency to bite it (see the Western Animation folder) by titling a special issue ''The Death of Optimus Prime''. [[spoiler:For once, it's metaphorical; Optimus is freed from the burden of leadership and declares ThatManIsDead, returning to his original identity of Orion Pax. That wouldn't take either, as he would return to action as Optimus Prime three years later.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' villain Cy-Kill had a habit of appearing as a dead RedShirt in various stories, as a nod to their old DuelingShows status. This persisted until writers realized that repeatedly murdering a character from an inoffensive and long-gone franchise was more mean-spirited than funny.
* DC's Solomon Grundy is a cursed zombie (sort of), so whenever he dies, he just rises again from the same swamp he died in (often with a completely new personality, including some times where he's been heroic), which of course happens all the time. Eventually they just strand him on an uninhabited planet.
* A number of characters in ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' have died and come back without explanation, but [[SuicideAsComedy Suicidal Sid]] and [[LondonGangster Big Vern]] (and his supporting cast) die almost every time.
* The Finnish western comic, ''Pekkos Bill'', have the titular hero dying violently in every third panel, always with the same smug expression on his face (unless the death involves the obliteration of his head or entire person).
* ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}, in his plots to overthrow the Caliph, always ends up locked in a dungeon, permanently transformed, vanished, etc. and is back to resume his plotting at the beginning of the next episode.
* Freddy in ''Comicbook/{{Horndog}}''.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', the Dream's retinue includes Cain and Abel. Since they are technically an AnthropomorphicPersonification of the idea of fratricide, Cain kills Abel almost every time they appear in the comic, in various ways (most infamously, mincing him into sausages as part of a stage performance for the visiting gods.)
* Uncle Festus in ''ComicBook/TheBojeffriesSaga'' is ridiculously vulnerable to all the standard vampire weaknesses and constantly dies in ludicrous ways as a result. Fortunately, blood always seems to end up falling on his ashes, resurrecting him.
* Given Optimus Prime's track record in this department (See Western Animation below), it was natural this would happen in ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', along with its sequel series ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2''. Optimus dies three times, the first time he's killed [[SenselessSacrifice over a video game]], the second time to destroying Unicron, and the third time to expose the light of the Matrix to the Swarm, from which he recovers almost instantly. That's not counting the alternate future of the UK comics, where he dies as he did in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', or in Regeneration One, where he's possessed by the corrupted Matrix, and then sort of dies. Of course, none of these are actually played for laughs, but... it's Optimus Prime. [[StatusQuoIsGod He's not going to stay dead]].
* Multiple Man of the Comicbook/XMen can fulfill this trope, for [[ExpendableClone obvious reasons.]]
* The Comicbook/MetalMen used to get destroyed at the end of every story, and then Doc Magnus would fix them. They have a better survival rate these days.
* Pepe Cortisona in ''ComicBook/{{Condorito}}'', as is the most hated character most of the jokes he's in end with his death. The comic has absolute NegativeContinuity and every joke is more or less self-contain so his death is always temporary.

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* In the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' fanfic ''Cid Wars'', [[ThoseTwoGuys Biggs and Wedge]] are killed every time they show up, amounting to at least a dozen times over the course of the fic.
** A FanFiction.Net author by the handle of Carbuncle frequently kills off Aeris in his Final Fantasy VII fanfics, which is followed by exclamations of "Oh my god, they killed Aeris!" "You beasts!" This is an obvious reference to Kenny's deaths on South Park.
* In Chris [=McFeely=]'s later ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'' fics, the series' running gag of Leomon dying becomes this.
* Kyo Kusanagi died repeatedly in the early chapters of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' improfanfic ''Reforming Evil Can Be Tricky''. It quickly became a RunningGag.
* Sunsetshine in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4544277/1/Hidden_Prophices Hidden Prophices]].
* Dirge in the ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' fic, ''They Just Don't Care Anymore'', dies in almost every chapter, even parodied in the Halloween Special, where he dresses up as Kenny and, predictably, dies.
** He fares no better in canon.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4568074/1/Youtube_Ed YouTube Ed]]'', after chapter 6, Eddy gets brutally killed in some sort of way. Edd and Edder then give an obvious ''South Park'' reference, as seen below. This was actually required in one chapter to find Edder, though the kids found out it was a trap for them the whole time.
-->'''Edd''': Oh my goodness, they killed Eddy!\\
'''Edder''': You bastards.\\
'''Ed''': I see an obvious crossover here!
* DeathIsCheap in ''Roleplay/InkCity'', and [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren]] tends to die a lot. The fact few of the other residents seem to notice or ''care'' make him even bitterer than usual.
* Adric in ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic setting ''FanFic/ThisTimeRound''.
* In Fanfic/TheEmiyaClan, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Lancer]] gets this shoved upon him at every possible point. It got to the point where [[spoiler: AU!Illya and Zelretch]] were summoning him just to see how many strange and peculiar ways they could make him suffer.
** Also, an army of Lancers makes for a great supply of expendable labor.
* In the ''[[FanFic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Star Wars: Paranormalities]]'' series, Valkoran Trooper Private [[PunnyName Will Helms]] is an unusual example in the context of the rest of the official Franchise/StarWars universe in that his deaths and resurrections are PlayedForLaughs. So far, he has died every time he's had an appearance, [[ButtMonkey sometimes as a result of accidents]] [[TheChewToy from his peers]]. His known deaths include:
** Prologue: Being pushed in a lake and drowned by a teenaged Zolph Vaelor.
** Chapter 1: Where he was first called by name. He got [[NoOSHACompliance trapped]] in the ''Conqueror's'' plasma cannon firing tunnel during the Battle of Ithor and was incinerated by the cannon.
** Chapter 2: Run over by a prototype combat vehicle built by his own allies, after almost being shot by a plasma cannon again.
** Chapter 4: [[ExploitedTrope Sent by his squad to "disarm" (read: take the bait) a trap]], [[AndIMustScream was eaten by a Sarlacc]], [[BaitAndSwitch and then regurgitated into the ruins' ceiling at high velocity.]]
** Chapter 7: Accidentally knocked off a walkway [[NoOSHACompliance without guardrails]] in Bast Castle during a conversation.
** Chapter 8: Although not called out by name, he was blown up by a faulty landmine.
** Chapter 10: Bitten through the pelvis by a Pyron, only to be [[PoorCommunicationKills "mercy killed"]] [[ComedicSociopathy by his fellow miners.]]
** Chapter 11: Ascension cable broke at lethal height.
** Chapter 12: Almost eaten by a cybernetic Rancor, [[YankTheDogsChain only to be accidentally stepped on by it after it was ordered not to eat him]].
** As of the prologue of Episode II, it's been confirmed that he survived the Battle of Krantisi and [[TookALevelInBadass has been promoted to Sergeant]]. From that point forward, he hasn't died as much as he did in Episode I. Zolph has stopped trying to figure out how he keeps coming back despite total obliteration after trying to ask him the one time it seemed absolutely safe only for him to be killed randomly before answering. He now just assumes TheForce is [[CosmicPlaything resurrecting Helms for its own sadistic amusement]].
** [[TheCaligula Masochus]] {{exploit|edTrope}}ts this in Chapter 10 of the same Episode, killing him over and over again to create an undead army from his corpses.
** [[Fanfic/WhotrekTheUltimateAdventure1 Whotrek: The Ultimate Adventure 1]] has [[CreatorsPet Wesley]], who dies ''several times per chapter.'' [[spoiler: This is eventually revealed to be foreshadowing the fact that he is actually the Master, as "Yove all seen how man tims hes did latley. And the mazter is very god at escaping sertain deth. It sold hav bin obvious."]]
* ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'' has [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Grover Underwood]], who has died at least seven times over the course of the series, from being devoured by a swarm of insects sent by God, to having his eyes torn out and his head broken, to being [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]], to having his legs broken and being disemboweled by a spear, to getting stabbed in the throat, to drowning in a failed attempt to save him from DemonicPossession, to getting shot in the head when he's on the verge of [[HisNameIs revealing the name of the Egyptian God in Syria]].
* In ''FanFic/PonyPalsDirkStriderEdition'', the cat Minos comes back to life every time he is killed, which happens four times through the story.
* ''FanFic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'' turns Near into this. He is killed repeatedly throughout the story in various horrible ways, such as being used as a virgin sacrifice, used to test the Death Note, poisoned by Light's mom for no particular reason, and being strapped to a nuke before it explodes. He always shows back up with no explanation.

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* In ''Film/LittleNicky'', the title character is killed a total of seven times throughout the movie. As a son of the Devil, he has ResurrectiveImmortality and can just walk out of Hell. First, he gets hit by a train two seconds after arriving on Earth. Then he gets hit by a bus, attacked by a polar bear, hit by a truck, drowned by his roommate and stoner friends (at his own insistence), and hit by a train ''again'' while protecting his girlfriend -- which, [[spoiler:as a selfless act, sends him to Heaven]]. Finally, Valerie smashes his skull with a boulder given to her by Music/OzzyOsbourne so he can see his dad one last time.
* In the first, second, and third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' films Brenda gets killed and she's always back for the next one. The fourth one she actually survived. In a scene available in the DVD, she is celebrating finally not being killed off in the movie, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim then a cargo container falls on her]].
* In the first two ''Film/MenInBlack'' movies, the local alien black market dealer Jack Jeebs serves a humorous variant on this trope in which his head is blown off, only to [[GoodThingYouCanHeal re-grow]] within less than a minute. This happens multiple times in both movies, usually with the MIB themselves perpetrating the deed, much to his frustration ("You insensitive pricks, do you have any idea how much that stings?").
** This continues in [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack the animated series]], which serves as a better medium for such a RunningGag. Poor guy can't catch a break.
-->'''Jeebs:''' Even if I did, if it doesn't work, K dies, you blow my head off. If it does work, I brought back K who, just for the fun of it, blows my head off. Sooo, ''what's'' my incentive?\\
[K raises his gun to Jeebs' head]\\
'''Jeebs:''' [Weak laugh] Okay homey, I keep it right downstairs next to the snow blower.
* ''[=MST3K=]'' fan favorite ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' has one character killed, only to inexplicably reappear alive and well... IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE. (Though, in this case, it's due to the movie's editor not paying attention to what order the two scenes were supposed to be shown in, rather than the character actually coming back to life.)
* A long-running joke like this is hard to pull off in a film-format, but ''Film/TopSecret'' manages with the character of Latrine, who shows up three times, mortally wounded, to gasp out the intelligence he gathered.
* In ''Film/TheGamers: Dorkness Rising'', the bard user gets sick of being resurrected (and subsequently losing a level)... so he brings in 50 more bard character sheets. In one scene, the other characters literally use his pile of corpses as cover.
* The QuirkyMinibossSquad in ''Film/The6thDay'' technically does stay dead, but they [[ExpendableClone clone themselves over and over]], and several of the deaths are PlayedForLaughs. One of them repeatedly expresses a feeling of phantom pain from whatever his previous death was.
* Phil in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' is living the same day over and over due to a time paradox. He finally loses it, abducts the town's groundhog, and kills himself by driving off a cliff, only to wake up alive and well the "next" morning. He then spends a long time committing suicide, trying to find a way out, only to keep waking up unharmed the "next" day. While the audience only sees a handful of the attempts, he later talks about his predicament to another character and runs down a verbal list of all the various ways he's killed himself.
* Scamper the rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' is killed multiple times, but always comes back because he was injected with an immortality potion. At one point his head is blown off, but it just regenerates; a recurring gag is how he just wants to die permanently.
* Scruffy Banister the cat from ''Madhouse'' (the 1990 comedy) died about 7 times in the movie. Its deaths include getting hit by a car, drowning in a fish tank, hit by a lawn mower, blown up by a firecracker, and dying of a heart attack after snorting cocaine. There were attempts to cook and microwave it, with unknown results. In the end, Mark estimates that Scruffy has [[CatsHaveNineLives 3 lives left out of 9]] [[spoiler:and is going to live them in the titular house]].
* Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg do this in every one of their "movies".
* ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' has a character that keeps returning after his death because he thinks it's the sequel already.
* Film/TheThreeStooges die at the end of four of their shorts "Half Shot Shooter", "Three Little Sew and Sews", "You Nazty Spie!" (later revealed to have been averted in the sequel,) and "I'll Never Heil Again".
* The [[http://priceonomics.com/the-wilhelm-scream-cinemas-most-overused-sound/ Wilhelm Scream]] has punctuated the deaths of countless redshirts in film, all dying with the famous last words: "AAAUUGGH!" There's a Wilhelm in most George Lucas and Peter Jackson movies. However, it's become so recognizable that many directors have stopped using it.
* ''Film/HardcoreHenry'' features Jimmy, who serves as Henry's MissionControl. He keeps showing up, getting killed within a few minutes, and reappearing with a slightly different appearance a short time later. [[spoiler: It turns out that the real Jimmy is actually a GeniusCripple remote controlling a small army of {{Expendable Clone}}s.]]
* Too many SlasherMovie villains to count. Chucky from ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' dies in nearly every movie. Jason from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise has died a minimum of three times, possibly eight as it was hard to tell if he was truly dead in many scenarios.

[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', nearly every servant character gets their moment in the spotlight. Lampshaded by Zeff, who at one point kills off a few misguided Vanguard servants, then quickly apologizes to their reapers.
* The Cat from ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars'' dies repeatedly in the series, since he has nine lives.
* In a Literature/RepairmanJack story, Jack is fighting a bunch of mooks when a bomb he'd set as a booby trap went off. Chief Mook: "Oh my Christ, they must've killed Kenny!" Considering that Kenny was his nephew, the Chief Mook took it from merely business to very personal.
* In Joel Chandler Harris' original Uncle Remus stories of Brer Rabbit and company, characters sometimes were said to be actually killed by the actions of Brer Rabbit or the others. In the first volume of stories, Brer Possum burns to death during a 'trial by fire' in ''Brer Rabbit Nips the Butter'', Brer Wolf is locked in a chest and scalded to death in ''The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf'', and Brer Fox is killed by a farmer and decapitated in ''The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox''. But all are back alive again in the second volume, ''Nights With Uncle Remus'' thanks to the NegativeContinuity of the stories. Brer Wolf, in particular, is done in again several times in the second volume, and again back as if nothing happened.
** In fact, Brer Wolf is back in a later story in the first volume, ''How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat'', which lampshades this. The little boy to whom Uncle Remus tells the stories to objects when Uncle Remus introduces Brer Wolf, saying that Brer Rabbit scalded the wolf to death. Uncle Remus is forced to admit that yes, that's what happened in the earlier story, and that the story he's telling now might take place before it happened or be about a different Brer Wolf. He doesn't really know -- he just tells them the way he hears them. And that's his final word on the matter and he goes on with the story.
* Commissar Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''') has been mistakenly reported dead so many times that there is a standing order that he isn't to be taken off the active duty list. Inquisitor Vail notes in the commentary that he is the only officer in the history of the Imperium to remain on the active duty list a hundred and fifty years after being buried with full military honors.
* In Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Young Adult Novel'', installments of the story within the story "Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan" are said to frequently end with Kevin's unceremonious death. Charles the Cat explains: "Kevin is indestructible. You can kill him as often as you like. He can be brought back to life in the next chapter, which usually gets told the following day during lunch."
* In the series of ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' books, Mr. Boddy was always "killed" in the final chapter. He would then explain how he survived in the introduction of the next book, usually by some silly, implausible stroke of luck (i.e., his murderer accidentally picking up a banana instead of a revolver).
* Agrajag from ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is repeatedly reincarnated and is killed again every time - always by Arthur Dent, and always by accident.
** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]]: It's very very not funny from Agrajag's point of view. Learning that his supposed persecutor doesn't even realise he's doing it pretty much pushes him over the edge.
* Actually [[ConversationalTroping conversated]] in an ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, where Rachel dreams she killed the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
* Master Pangloss from Creator/{{Voltaire}}'s ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' dies a few times.
* In ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', CloningBlues + GeneticMemory = poor, poor [[spoiler:Duncan Idaho]].
* Though he (usually) dies once per book and for real, Yuri Semetsky is a character who appears (and dies) in a whole lot of works by many post-Soviet authors. It started when Creator/SergeyLukyanenko "killed" a man randomly named Semenetsky in his ''Literature/AutumnVisits'' and soon met a very real person, book seller Yuri Semetsky. Semetsky jokingly asked Lukyanenko to "kill" his avatar in his next books. The RunningGag quickly transcended to other Russian writers, and for almost two decades "killing Semetsky" has been played straight (ranging from a passing mention to RedShirt to HeroicSacrifice), subverted (Semetsky lives, suffers from DisneyDeath, is "killed" in a video game, an animal named after him (yursem) is hunted to extinction) and zig-zagged (Semetsky has ResurrectiveImmortality or is cloned a hundred thousand times, so he can be killed over and over again in the same book...), although now it's on its way to DeadHorseTrope.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire:'' Lord Beric Dondarrion has been known to die and be revived from time to time, including one instance in which he was nearly cut in half by Sandor "The Hound" Clegane, only to be standing upright and speaking as if nothing had happened within minutes or less.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': "Aio" is apparently Tasio's go-to identity when he needs to have someone die. In ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'' he dies to galvanize Eric. In ''Literature/LoomingShadow'' he does the same thing for Vaya. Eric wonders just how many times Aio has "died".

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Buffybot is horribly mangled in all her appearances.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a ShowWithinAShow called ''Ask Mr. Lizard''. The young volunteer, Timmy, would die as a result of the science experiment every episode, prompting Mr. Lizard to spout his much anticipated CatchPhrase, "We're gonna need another Timmy!"
* ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'' game show does this as H.C. would sometimes kill Penelope, but the show brings her back to life for each new show.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** Mr. Bill is an early TV example.
** A later example on ''SNL'' is Bobby Moynihan's "Ass Dan" character, who has been declared dead in 2009, but has come back (and died again) in 2010 (twice), 2011 (twice) and once in 2012.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** Not necessarily a RunningGag or any sort of comedic effect, but Ensign Kim seems to fit for this. Basically put, he's the series' designated RedShirt and any time he and one other person are on an away mission, you can almost guarantee that Kim is going to bite the big one... again. Of course, he comes back rather easily with all the various temporal stuff, cloning, alternate dimensions, and just damn good medical stuff.
** Likewise, the Vorta (especially Weyoun) fill this role in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', being repeatedly cloned.
--->'''Female Changeling:''' I wish you hadn't done that. That was Weyoun's last clone.\\
'''Garak:''' I was hoping you would say that.
* It's been removed now for being too interesting, but at one point the Wikipedia page on ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had a tally of how many times the sisters had died. They were all in double figures.
* In ''Series/TheMiddleman'' there are the various Interrodroids, and to some extent [[spoiler:Ida]].
* Larry Duff from ''Series/FatherTed''. Whenever Ted calls his mobile, he's in the middle of doing something from which he ''really'' doesn't want to be distracted. The resulting accidents are never shown to be fatal, but he probably qualifies for the trope anyway.
* Spoofed, along with the RedShirt, in an episode of ''MyBestFriendIsAnAlien'', in which the combination of FanDumb and VR results in the school being turned temporarily into an episode of ''Tarbox Moon Warriors'' (an in-universe show everyone except the main character hates). Said main character comments that "[[RedShirt the ensign in the orange shirt]]" is killed every episode.
* On ''{{Series/Misfits}}'', [[spoiler:after Nathan's power is revealed to be immortality, he begins to die frequently in a variety of gruesome (and often comedic) ways]].
* The henchman called "The Cleaner" in ''Series/{{Primeval}}''. It turns out that [[spoiler:he's actually a bunch of clones]].
* ''(Series/{{Eureka}})'':
** In the episode "Welcome Back Carter", the new robotic sheriff Andy is crushed multiple times, but Fargo always seems to be able to fix him, though with varying malfunctions occasionally popping up. He comes back as Jack's new deputy in season 4, and goes in for repairs a lot.
** While not ''technically'' a character, Jack's jeep should certainly qualify, considering that it once took him to task for its repeated destruction.
* The original ''Film/MacGruber'' shorts all end with the team failing to disarm the bomb and the building they're in blowing up. Despite this, the shorts in each episode refer back to one another, and dialogue suggests that they see the bombs as threats to the buildings rather than themselves. [[MST3KMantra Don't ask how]].
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Daniel Jackson dies a ''lot''. [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] used to have a list, in fact. Depending on whether or not you count androids, alternate realities, and virtual reality simulations, he's over 20. Even disallowing every single time he [[DeathFakedForYou didn't actually die]], he still died at least four times. That might not sound like a lot for this page until you consider that in-universe, he's just a BadassBookworm with no actual special abilities. It's not that he's a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, he just keeps on being saved at the last minute or seeing duplicates of himself get killed. After the second time he died (ironically, one of the times he wasn't really dead), his friends basically gave up on even giving him a funeral. Eventually it did become a RunningGag that some of the other characters ([[DeadpanSnarker Jack]]) just stopped buying it whenever someone claimed that "[[{{Pun}} They killed Danny]]!".
-->[''SG-13 finds the ruins of an Ancient city'']\\
'''Dr. Balinsky''': Dr. Jackson's gonna die when he sees this!\\
'''Col. Dixon''': What, again?\\
'''Dr. Balinsky''': Funny.
** Charles Kawalsky dies a fair bit too, but is never actually resurrected. Originally died in the 3rd episode, then an alternate reality in episode 20, then from another reality in season 6-06, and finally in an alternate timeline in 8-20. Really, any time he meets people from earth prime, it's gonna be a bad day. He died in the book continuation of the movie too, but that's LooseCanon and not tied to the series timeline.
** In Season 9 recurring villain Ba'al cloned himself several times. Allowing him to be killed at least once in every episode of the last couple seasons where he made an appearance.
* A Season Five episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' actually opens with a montage of scenes from previous episodes where Sam and Dean "died," along with Bobby Singer snarking "how many times have you two died?"
** [[spoiler: The Trickster/Gabriel]] creates an in-universe example of this in "Mystery Spot" when he traps Sam in a GroundhogDayLoop, and Dean dies in a new way each loop.
* TV's Frank from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' gets killed in a large number of episodes.
** Justified with Tom Servo, who has thousands of replacements of himself.
* One of the few times it's played for drama is Pygmon from the ''Franchise/UltraSeries''. Everytime the little guy shows up, he gets killed or at least severely injured. While in universe this is played for the drama and can be a TearJerker, he's earned the reputation in the fandom as the ''[[FanNickname Kenny of Kaiju]]'' due to this.
** Due to the fact that popular Ultra Kaiju tend to reappear a lot in later installments, every iconic foe of the Ultras has died at least a few times. Unless they are SparedByTheAdaptation.
* The titular character of ''Series/KureKureTakora''.
* Expect any recurring immortal in ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' to die and come back to life several times. Unless the death involves decapitation, it's only an inconvenience to them.
* Kennedy Smith and Allan Kriegman, the feuding retired secret agents and lead characters of ''Series/TheWarNextDoor'', are prime examples of this trope. At least one of them dies at the end of every episode.
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' ended several episodes by killing off all four of the lads, and Neil died once in addition to that. Subverted with Vyvyan, who suffered injuries a few times that would've been fatal for anyone else, but [[MadeOfIron shrugged them off]].
** Neil didn't die when Rik clouted him with that shovel. "Good thing Rik only ''stunned'' me, eh?..."
** One episode subverted this by having the house explode again, only for the credits to show [[IronButtMonkey the boys standing in the wreckage with ash and soot over their astonished faces.]]
* Jack Harkness of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho'' gets killed numerous times, but his status as a living fixed point in time renders him immortal, so he just springs back to life after a few minutes.
** Clara Oswald is shown dying at least four times: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks two]] [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen were]] "echoes" of the original Clara scattered through the Universe to protect the Doctor, one was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTardis an alternate timeline]], and one [[spoiler:was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven the original]], KilledOffForReal. She does sort of live on as a ParadoxPerson, thanks to the Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent abusing some Time Lord technology]], but she must eventually reverse said paradox to prevent the Universe from falling apart.]]
** The most frequent example is Rory Williams-Pond. First, he was killed, then he was erased from existence, then he came back [[spoiler: as a plastic duplicate]], then ''that'' timeline was erased from existence, and then he died again, and then he killed himself (but knew he'd get better-[[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), and after that he died (presumably) of old age.
* ''Series/DansUneGalaxiePresDeChezVous'' has the android Serge who dies repeatedly over the course of the televisions series and multiple times over the course of the movies. His destruction is always PlayedForLaughs and his appearance looks a little more robotic every time he's rebuilt as his creator lacks access to replacement parts and has to improvise.
** This happens no less than ''18 times'' over the course of three seasons and two movies.
* For completeness, the Groundhog Day episode of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' should be listed, although technically she killed poor Joxer only once on screen. Although any further recycled death not mentioned is pure speculation, anyone who knows Joxer wouldn't be surprised if that had happened indeed.
* Happens to Nich Richardson on ''The Roast'' quite a bit, especially in the segment "What's Killing Us This Week?"
* Beaker in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' would be killed or at least gravely injured by Bunsen's experiments. In the original show Bunsen's action were always accidental (albeit in many cases reckless) and never intentionally harm Beaker, and even worries for him and tries to amend the damage. The DarkerAndEdgier series ''Series/TheMuppets'' on the other hand does shows Bunsen intentionally harming Beaker.
* Don Ramón in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' finishes most of the episodes gravely harm whether beaten-up courtesy of Doña Florinda to the point that he ends unconscious or in the need of paramedics, or in some other inescapable trap from Doña Florinda like being enclosed in a wooden box or a sack. At least in one episode he was lynched by his neighbors due to the episode's shenanigans backfiring on him.
* A lot of episodes of ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' have the two main characters Richie and Eddie suffer violent demises right before the episode comes to an end (ranging from getting their skulls crushed by a man named "Skullcrusher" Henderson to falling from the top of a Ferris wheel), yet the next episode shows them alive as if the previous events didn't take place. This trope even extended to the live stage shows, where the first three performances ended with the two characters electrocuting themselves to get out of a debt, getting blown up by a bomb and getting blown up by an atomic bomb.

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Vocaloid}}'s Len Kagamine has a reputation for getting killed off in many of his songs and music videos. Also overlaps with ChronicallyKilledActor, as the Vocaloids are often interpreted as AnimatedActors. Though some will come back with the claim that Rin Kagamine dies almost as much. Since they're the youngest Krypton Vocaloids, they're probably invoking DeathOfAChild.
* "But {{the cat came back}}, the very next day. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back 'cause he wouldn't stay away!"
* Music/{{Devo}}'s mascot, Booji Boy, has met many a gruesome end, getting stabbed at the end of the video that marked his first on-camera appearance, and then moving on to getting electrocuted, having his head crushed, and being beheaded by Osama Bin Laden.
* Music/AliceCooper "dies" at the end of his concerts.
* Most of Music/{{Rammstein}}'s videos end with keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz into some sort of death or harm.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* Bill the Cat in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' was a frequent example of this in his earlier days in the strip. Notably when he's electrocuted by his tongue being wired into an amplifier while rehearsing with Deathtongue...
-->'''Steve Dallas:''' ...AW, FERCRISSAKES, he isn't dead [[OhNoNotAgain AGAIN]], is he?
-->'''Portnoy:''' ...Naw, naw...I'll get the Bactine.
* ''{{ComicStrip/Brewster Rockit|SpaceGuy}}'' play this one for laughs with pretty much everyone, especially Winky, Dr. Mel's unfortunate assistant, who seems to be able to lose his spleen many, ''many'' times. The comic at least used to have an Ensign Kenny, but Winky basically fills in for him.
* ShowWithinAShow version: In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Rat's "Angry Bob" stories tend to have the titular character die in all sorts of absurd and gruesomely comic ways, only to be alive at the start of the next story with no explanation (though in a few occasions Rat did write that Bob "undied")
** The Brudderhood of Zeeba Zeeba Eata crocodiles either suffer from this or are defying the OneSteveLimit.
** Many of Pastis' characters die multiple times. [[AuthorAvatar Including Pastis himself.]]
* Generic Ted in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' is fired frequently, and has actually died more than once. The cartoon suggested that the company has several identical looking guys named Ted.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Radio]]
* [[OlderThanTheyThink Long before]] ''South Park'', Bluebottle of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' was doing this in every episode, though sometimes inverted when [[KillEmAll all the other characters died]] except him. Of course this show was made of NegativeContinuity.
-->'''Bluebottle:''' [[CatchPhrase You dirty rotten swine you, you have deaded me again!]]
* The later British radio comedy series ''Radio/TheBurkissWay'' featured the character of Eric Pode of Croydon, most of whose appearances ended with him getting shot by whoever he was talking to, usually the long-suffering Fred Harris. On one single occasion, Pode shot Harris, announcing 'I had to do that, he was getting on me nerves.'
* The early "Guy Noir" sketches on ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'' (and its 80s substitute, ''Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company'') were set up in this manner, with the title character and his then-sidekick, Jimmy, repeatedly accidentally killing each other. After the MoralGuardians protested these violent acts, Jimmy was KilledOffForReal and "Guy Noir" adapted its current format, with Noir getting by on his wits alone.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* This also applies doubly to ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''.
* It's also possible in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' but resleeving is more often played seriously given [[CosmicHorror the nature of the setting]].
* It's not uncommon for adaptations of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' to parody the relative ease in which dead [=PCs=] can be resurrected.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
* The Black Baron in ''VideoGame/{{MadWorld}}''. He introduces every death trap-based MiniGame in the game... and is ''always'' thrown into them by his [[TheSpeechless wordless]] [[TheMasochismTango girlfriend.]] "[[CatchPhrase Aw, hell naw...]]"
* The Carmine Brothers from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''. [[spoiler:Clay is an exception.]]
* Gamon from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is a player-based version of this. He's the only NPC in all of Orgrimmar that can be attacked, and due to his low level and the fact that he's sitting in an inn (where people usually hearth to after questing), he seems to exist solely to die over and over again. This is somewhat infuriating to low-level rogues who need to pickpocket him to complete a class-based quest. He later appeared as a card in the World of Warcraft trading card game with the flavor text "Not again!"
** It appears that in the [[http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/november/gamon.jpg chaos of Cataclysm]], he TookALevelInBadass.
** And now in ''Mists of Pandaria'', [[spoiler:Gamon is ''not'' happy about his ButtMonkey treatment over the years and helps players in the Siege of Orgrimmar against General Nazgrim]].
* Maria in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' dies multiple times throughout the game with no knowledge of dying every time she turns up again; however, James fully remembers the deaths and is completely confused about the situation.
* There is a running gag in ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' where each chapter whenever somebody says Watanabe, a random person will get killed, and usually a son will run in streaming tears dragging them away. [[spoiler:Not played for laughs in Cube's chapter.]]
* The titular VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons, [[InformedAbility a supposed master assassin]], dies in-story a grand total of ''seven times''. He actually dies so much that he ''drains the guardians's power'' due to having to bring him back, forcing them to shunt him into one of his previous corpses.
* Bowser from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series.
* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' [[Machinima/TeamFortress2 "Meet the..." shorts]], the entire BLU team, especially the BLU Soldier. The BLU Spy deserves a mention, too.
** And BLU Heavy, who was killed in "Meet the Soldier" (off-screen), "Meet the Demoman" (gets caught in a StickyBomb explosion), "Meet the Engineer" (shot off-screen), "Meet the Sniper" (shot in the head), "Meet the Spy" (stabbed off-screen), and "Meet the Pyro" (axe to the head).
* The Ship Captain in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' gets killed by Kratos on three separate occasions. In [[VideoGame/GodOfWar the first game]], Kratos deliberately lets him fall into the belly of the Hydra, then when they meet in the Underworld, Kratos kicks him into the Styx and leaves him to drown as he escapes. When the Barbarian King summons the Captain as an undead minion to do battle with Kratos in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarII II]]'', he screams "No! Not you again!" before Kratos kills him.
* Lynne from ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''. The game has 18 chapters, [[spoiler:5]] of which feature her dying and you being forced to go back and save her. She can, of course, die many more times if you fail at said "saving" often enough. Eventually, she herself [[DeathAsComedy stops taking her deaths seriously.]] Also, [[spoiler:she almost dies once more in the last chapter, just before Sissel decides that he's had it with Lynne dying and stops it before it happens]].
-->'''Sissel''': It's Lynne! And she's not dead, for once!
* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' as a whole make the player character this Trope. The player character, and many other side characters, are afflicted by a curse that makes them come back to life after death, losing sanity each time until they turn into [[OurZombiesAreDifferent mindless Hollows]]. Naturally, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this does not happen to the protagonist.]]
** [[spoiler: It could be argued that the player character does not go Hollow, because the player has not given up, still has the resolve to continue. Only once the player gives up the character truly goes Hollow. The whole hollow mechanic could be seen as a metaphor for depression. Though on the other hand, it's been hinted multiple times that going Hollow is something that just sort of happens no matter the state of mind of the individual just after dying a certain amount of times, with some characters going from sane and joyful to Hollow out of nowhere and some trying to hold to their sanity even while still in their ''Human'' forms, so you can interpretate the player character's immunity however you want. ]]
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'': Wild Dog, the villainous mascot of the series, is always blown up in every game, only to come back in the next game for more. His apprentice, Wild Fang, also gets in on this habit, from being fatally shot to getting his spine crushed by a speeding plane.
* It's a RunningGag for Yoshi to fill this role in PlatformHell hacks of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', to the point where several of them {{lampshade|Hanging}} this. For example, Springboard and Shells Hack has him say, "All right. Let's just get this over with already. [[MediumAwareness I am going to see you again anyways]]. I hate being used as a sacrifice in many Kaizo hacks." (Naturally, the hack requires you to sacrifice him less than a second later.)
* While the series in general runs on DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, the [[FantasyKitchenSink ridiculously broad]] cast of ''[[VideoGame/NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' includes an obvious ShoutOut to Kenny, who has died so many times that he became a lich.
* Information Guy in ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass''. He dies twice in the demo, and also died of food poisoning in the blog post announcing the demo.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the nameless main character is immortal. Several of the puzzles in the game actually requires you to die.
* Tough fight in ''[[VideoGame/Bioshock1 Bioshock]]''? Chip their health down until you die, respawn at a nearby Vita-Chamber with full health, and carry on chipping away at their still damaged health.
* The Nemesis system in ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and its sequel ''[[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar Shadow of War]]'' can allow an Uruk to die multiple times, but always come back with nothing more than a few injuries that match their previous "death". Unless they get [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]], in which case they get KilledOffForReal.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** The series has the Daedra, loosely demonic spirits of varying levels of power who possess CompleteImmortality. They can manifest in physical forms, and those physical forms can be slain ("banished"), but the spirit ("animus") simply returns to [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Oblivion]] to reform in new bodies. Daedra have been battered, beaten, defeated, and even fundamentally changed, but nothing in the setting has ever been able to actually ''kill'' one permanently. One of the most prominent examples of Daedra that have died multiple times throughout the series is the Golden Saint Staada, who has appeared and died in all three games that she has appeared in.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has a few named [=NPCs=], such as the [[LoonyFan Adoring Fan]], who respawn a few days after they are killed.
* In ''Videogame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', Connor is a SuperPrototype android working for the MegaCorp responsible for creating androids, meaning that he's the only character who will be rebuilt whenever he dies. However, this typically has negative consequences regarding the story and is detrimental to his relationship with his partner Hank. Near the climax, circumstances make it so that rebuilding Connor is no longer an option, meaning that a death from that point onward is a FinalDeath.
* Franchise/MortalKombat.

** The series poster boy for this trope is Johnny Cage. He dies in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3''[[note]] He is also the first MK character to canonically meet his demise. [[/note]], is temporarily resurrected in ''Trilogy'' (meaning that he's dead again at the end), is resurrected in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'',''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' reveals that he doesn't survive the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'' and the aftermath of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', dies in the second Mortal Kombat movie, and even rejects a role in the movie "The Death of Johnny Cage" in ''Deadly Alliance'' ''(even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] that he was tired of starring in roles where he died and came back to life again)''. This makes him [[spoiler: surviving the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' and ''Videogame/MortalKombatX'' very surprising]]!

** Jade the bodyguard and best friend of Kitana is a close second, especially in media outside of the main games' continuity. To list them off, she gets offed by Liu Kang in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'', eaten by a demon in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', killed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', does not survive the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', and ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'''s ContinuitySnarl seems to imply she dies as a revenant sometime before the events of that game[[note]]VideoGame/MortalKombat11 Has both her past revenant and past living selves.[[/note]]

** Kung Lao, the best friend and rival to series protagonist Liu Kang. He was supposedly killed in MK3 but revealed to be alive in the update of MK4, was revealed to have been killed along with all the other heroes except Sub-Zero in the opening of ''Deception'', was shown to be dead again in the events of ''Armageddon'' in the opening of ''9'' and died during the story mode of ''9''.



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* How many times have Gabe and Tycho from ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' died now?
* Half the point of ''Webcomic/NobodyScores!'', in which the entire cast dies with alarming frequency.
* In ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'', death is cheap. Revives are easy. And one of the characters, Rainer, has multiple bodies. A measure of his killed-count reveals he's beginning to approach this trope.
* Ran from ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', who dies multiple times in a single comic from the slightest touch. Justified that he is a robot made out of absurdly cheap parts, so his chasis breaking with restored personality is easier to accept than a living Red-Shirt.
* Done excessively with Red Shirt in ''Webcomic/LegostarGalactica''. It runs in the family.
* ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy''. The tag line was 'mad scientist roommates who periodically die!'. It was always their fault too.
* Cooch of the [[Series/StarskyAndHutch Bulldog And Cooch]] strips in ''{{Webcomic/PvP}}'', always by falling victim to StuffBlowingUp.
* From the ''Fire Emblem Online Comics'', we have... You know what, ''the entire cast''.
* ''{{Webcomic/Nodwick}}'''s title character is pretty much this trope - he often dies multiple times per story.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}'', Quine's vital role as Protocol Officer means he is equipped to be automatically revived in a fresh clone body any time he dies, which makes him a convenient frequent target for death.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the string of clerics always standing next to Redcloak so he can [[TheWatson have someone to explain to]] before they die? His name is Jirix. Now [[MookPromotion ruler]] of a sovereign goblinoid nation.
* The blond woman in ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' gets stomped by T-Rex every single strip, usually without comment.
* In #465 of ''DoubleFineActionComics'', one of the flies is cut in half by a spear, but is perfectly fine in #673.
* Yaythunder from [[http://landslide.zymichost.com/Bad_Drama/ Bad Drama]] dies at least once in all six story arcs of the 150-strip comic (twice in the second story arc, though his first death in that arc occurred in a dream world). Yaythunder's deaths appear to be a direct reference to Kenny's deaths on ''South Park'', especially considering the utterance of "Oh my god, they killed Yaythunder!" and "You bastards!" in response to his first death. David, Yaythunder's equivalent in the Bad Drama remake [[http://landslide.zymichost.com/ Landslide]], has not died so far and it is not clear yet if that running gag will still be used.
* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'''s early strips would feature Ethan getting killed every once in a while by ninjas or arrows fired from off-screen. The other characters don't pay much attention, as if this were absolutely normal, and Ethan (being the main character) is invariably alive and well in the next strip. Players 1, 2, 3 and 4 also get regularly murdered in gruesome fashion, only to come back to receive the same treatment.
* Used in a crossover of game mechanics in ''Webcomic/Level30Psychiatry''. Take [[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Roger Wilco's]] penchant for [[EverythingTryingToKillYou getting killed]], add some [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros 1-up mushrooms]] and you've got this trope.
--> '''Gardevoir''': ''The worst part is, when Roger comes back to life, he'll have to mop up his own shredded remains.''
* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'''s Ed is [[AxCrazy a crazed, murderous psychopath]] who only ever manages to kill himself [[SerialEscalation in increasingly ridiculous ways]], recovering each time thanks to impossibly advanced medical technology. May be a weird sort of foreshadowing; when he [[spoiler:finally manages to kill one of the other characters, she experiences an UnexplainedRecovery and reappears unharmed in a hospital]].
* ''[[Webcomic/DummComics 1930's Nightmare Theater]]'' had plenty of frequent deaths of the recurring characters yet they were just fine come the next comic.
* The Tommy series in ''Webcomic/PlanescapeSurvivalGuide'', whenever one dies another pops up with full plate and a longsword only to rush into the enemy and get killed. [[spoiler: So far averted by the First World Tommy]]
* Adam and Jamie of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' have a tendency to accidentally kill themselves testing myths in ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''.
-->'''Adam:''' You can only die once. Busted!
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** Strangely, despite his acceptable survival rate in the original series, Gohan is starting to become this, due to all the times he gets [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ruthlessly killed]] in the specials. [[spoiler:Not to mention Bardock's vision in Chapter 19 of a Vegetto that has attacked and ''might'' have killed Gohan.]]
** Frieza is becoming this too, for similar reasons.
* In [[http://skeletonscomic.blogspot.com Skeletons!]], the guy at the bottom of the page is murdered (or at least maimed) on three separate occasions by [[WeatherOfWar the weather.]]
* In ''Webcomic/BatmanAndSons'', Ace the Bathound gets killed multiple times over the course of the poor dogs' StoryArc, with a replacement being found after each death, only to die moments after in various darkly humorous ways. [[spoiler:Even the goldfish that Tim names Ace dies the moment it's introduced]].
* In ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'' Cait Sith's bodies are destroyed on a regular basis, forcing him to always send a new one out to rejoin the others.
** Currently the comic is up to Cait Sith #9, and thanks to the idea that ''CatsHaveNineLives'', Cait Sith is worried that he is on his last life. Of course, [[spoiler:the comic is approaching the one time Cait Sith's body is destroyed and then replaced in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'']].
* Jacinda's grandmother in ''WebComic/MyRoommateIsAnElf''. They're cat people with nine lives, but Jacinda's grandmother gets a thrill out of dying, and she expressed displeasure at being old. She started the series with five lives, and they're slowly dwindling. Every time she dies, she comes back to life fully healed. In the case of old age, she got her youth restored.
* Lieutenant Der Trihs in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' was reduced to a head in a jar at least three times, eventually he had a new body cloned each time. After the third time it turned out he'd replaced his skull with [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-12-22 carbonan]] because he got shot up so much and didn't want to risk the one injury 31st century medicine couldn't fix.
* The entire ''planet'' of Prospit in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has been destroyed in every game session seen so far. A1 Prospit was deleted by the Scratch, A2 and B1 Prospits were destroyed by B1 Jack Noir, B2 Prospit was blown up by a Lord English possessed B2 Jack, and Uu Prospit was obliterated when Uu Skaia exploded into a black hole.
* Part three of ''Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie'' has [[spoiler: [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] get killed repeatedly, each time regenerating as a new one.]]
* In ''Webcomic/RezzAndCoBountyHunters'', Sebastian Krezznar almost always dies within a few strips of being seen on screen. He always regenerates, however.
* In ''Webcomic/BleachHappyToServeYou'' Loly gets killed fairly often, but luckily for her, Menoly's usually on hand to fetch Orihime, who heals her with her Shun Shun Rikka.
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* {{WebVideo/Phelous}} often dies at the end of his reviews.
** This running gag stopped for awhile after doing a ''Series/DoctorWho'' parody for an April Fools joke, where he became someone else and then became himself again. He almost never dies by the end of the episode unless he lampshades it.
** He does this again for ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', with actual "in-story" reason: he is a RedShirt. Whenever a redshirt is killed, there is always one more just like it (although usually with a different name) waiting in the ship. He is their only redshirt. Thus, whenever he is killed, there is suddenly another Phelous waiting in the ship. Or, to put it another way, he's running simultaneously on Original Series rules (the RedShirt trope) and Next Generation rules (in which red shirts are important characters).
* Masaya in ''WebVideo/TokyoMewMewInANutshell''.
* Samario, from ''[[WebAnimation/DaAmazinOTAdvenchr DAOA]]''. He dies in one episode and then appears in the next without any explanation. {{Justified|Trope}}, since Samario is a villi [[OriginalCharacter OC]] from ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}''.
* At least one member of the ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' dies comically at the end of almost every issue[[note]]The exceptions being 2, 3, and 6[[/note]], only to return without explanation between issues.
* The Spelunker in the ''[[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Quest]]'' flash series by Sikamako.
* John & Richie animations do this pretty often with [[AuthorAvatar John]].
* The Battle Creek Grunts from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. They exist to {{lampshade|Hanging}} almost every multiplayer FPS trope, including respawning at the end of a match.
** Lopez gets blown up/shot/crushed/reduced to a head at least once whenever he shows up. As a robot, he's rather easy to repair, and he anticipates this enough to make backups of himself whenever he's placed in a dangerous situation.
* In ''WebAnimation/DinosaurOffice'', any time the Intern appears, Terry (a tyrannosaurus and their boss) eats him not long afterwards.
* As a reference to her counterpart [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Aerith]]'s death, the character Aeromite from the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' parody ''Kingdom Paf'' gets killed several times in gruesome ways, only to ALWAYS come back alive a few minutes later.
* Joe in ''[[WebVideo/TedCrusty Ted Crusty's]]'' videos.
* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206 The Madgie, what did you do? series]]: Madgie is this or, occasionally, some of the stories has it where her fate is ambiguous but in most of them has it that she dies, often in horrible ways, ever since the second story to the rest. She gets better once time is reversed back to the way it was.
** Actually, ANYONE that dies in series is like this, however, Madgie dies the most. This should be noted that this isn't for comedy, rather, in the first instance, it was to make the story moe poignant.
* Icarus in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''. After Goku mentioned him during his fight against Vegeta as a pet of Gohan's who died before the series even began, he has since reappeared alive and well in the Abridged Movies... where he has gained a tendency to get cooked and eaten by Gohan's family by the end of each movie.
* Justified in the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' with Dr. Bright uses [[SoulJar SCP-963]], which transfers his consciousness to the next living thing to touch it. That said, the original Bright is long dead, and so are lots of replacement bodies.
** Research Assistant Renfield dies often, too. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/theysayshelooksjustlikeo5-8 Here]], she wakes up at 9:00, dies at 10:19, and has a new clone body at 11:00.
** Connor from the fan series ''WebAnimation/{{Confinement}}'' is a D-Class test subject who is revealed in the first episode to have ResurrectiveImmortality after SCP-082 bites his head off. Connor ends up dying ''at least'' OnceAnEpisode.
* In canon, [[spoiler: Kyubey]] of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' gets [[spoiler: "killed" repeatedly in non-joking situations, since he's implied to be a HiveMind who can just activate a new body when the old one gets too damaged]], but fanworks often upgrade it into this territory, because [[spoiler: [[MemeticMutation everybody hates Kyubey]], especially in the infamous [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/2939 Danbooru image pool]]]].
* ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' does this to L.
* ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'' tried to make a running gag out of being DrivenToSuicide, but dropped it after the second instance. Not before having a chance to lampshade it, though: "Once again, my faith in pop music has been destroyed, which means that once again, it's time to kill myself."
* A justified example in ''Series/FlandersCompany'': villain-wannabe Kevin is explicitly stated to have the ability to resurrect each time he is killed; sadly for him, he also has the ability to piss off [[CombatSadomasochist Hippolyte]], who takes advantage on this power to kill him as many times as he can in always more gruesome ways.
* ''Blog/OccupyRichieRich'' states that ComicBook/RichieRich's numerous [[TooDumbToLive stupid stunts]] often get him killed, and the immoral lab workers simply grow a new batch specifically for these instances.
* Black Kitty of ''WebAnimation/GoodbyeKitty''.
* Every ''WebAnimation/YouTubePoop'' character has died ''at least'' once.
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd has died a few times.
** In "Dragon's Lair", he is [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext turned into a skeleton when he touches the door]].
** In "Dracula", he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] by exposing himself to the sun ([[DontExplainTheJoke he was a vampire in that episode]]).
** In "Frankenstein", he gets killed by a TV explosion along with the Franken-Nerd.
** In "Transformers", Optimus Prime shoots him with a laser.
** In "Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle", him and Woody Woodpecker are blown up by a bomb.
** In "Alien 3", the Cinemassacre chainsaw logo bursts out of his chest while falling into a lava furnace.
** In "Nintendo World Championships", he is possibly strangled to death by Pat the NES Punk.
** In "Seaman for Dreamcast", he dies after playing the titular game for nearly a thousand years.
** In "Mega Man Games", he [[DrivenToSuicide jumps out the window]] after playing ''Mega Man Soccer''.
* ''WebAnimation/DumbWaysToDie'': Klaus in the "Countdown to Christmas" videos.
* Lord Tourettes from ''WebAnimation/DickFigures'' dies in most of his appearances.
* The entire cast of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' however Splendid, Cro-Marmot, and Flippy die less often than the others. Cuddles has just barely died the most times.
* The characters in ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' get killed on a semi-regular basis. This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall by]] Mario in "Black Yoshi's Fried Chicken", after Chef Pee Pee is murdered and his remains are cooked into chicken nuggets.
-->'''Mario''': So many fans are going to think that he's not gonna be in the next video, but he really is!
* The Wise Sage from ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' has died at least 3 times and spends most of the series as a ghost. A flashback from the "Contra" episode reveals that he died of a sickness during high school. In the "Aladdin" episode, they find a genie and he wishes to be alive again, however, he dies again five minutes later. He then uses his second wish to be brought back to life ''again'', [[YankTheDogsChain only to get crushed to death by a giant snake]].
* [[http://theperilsofdawn.deviantart.com Dawn Meadows]], a reporter who gets killed off (and also ladders her pantyhose) in every story but is inevitably back for more punishment at the start of the next.
* The Black Knight from the French series ''[[Website/VoxMakers Rémi le Radis]]'' dies in almost every episode he appears... And then comes back with the only explanation given being "You need more than that to kill me!".
* Oftentimes, "Grounded" videos made with Website/GoAnimate end with multiple people, though especially the person being grounded, dead. Typically, though, the deceased characters tend to return alive and well with little explanation next time the plot of a video requires them to.
* Almost everyone in ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'', except for [[KilledOffForReal the Sheriff]].
* Pretty much the entire cast in ''WebAnimation/BionicleAdventures'', sans Monkeydude.
* Several characters have died in ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' - Ruby has accidentally hanged herself, and Jaune has drowned - but it never sticks. In an early episode, a character who is canonically dead in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' shows up alive to establish that nobody dies in the Chibi continuity.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Balloon dies OnceAnEpisode, but always comes back later on. Cody references this in 'The Camping Webisode":
--> '''Cody''': Is this guy gonna die in ''every'' episode?!
* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': George Waitingtrose 'dies' in every episode in gradually more horrifying/awesome ways.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has died in some of his skits. There is one episode that shows him being revived by Optimus Prime.
* ''WebAnimation/TheMisadventuresOfR2AndMiku'' near-always kills off one or both of the two title characters in every episode, then [[SnapBack snaps back]] at the start of the next. One episode lampshades it when, after an AmbiguousCloneEnding leaves Miku a bit shaken about the prospect of her original self dying, she realizes that she's died twice prior at that point.
* The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' fan Website/YouTube channel Tolarian Community College occasionally does skits with The Professor seeing one or more characters from the game in his office, many of which involve him dying at the end. Death by [[{{Necromancer}} Liliana]], death by [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur]], death by [[TheVirus Phyrexian oil]], death by [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Gruul raiders]], death by [[TheMafia debt to Teysa]]...
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* Kenny [=McCormick=] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is the most well-known example and {{Trope Namer|s}}. During the first five seasons, Stan and Kyle would always give their trope-naming exchange (seen above), sometimes varying it depending on the situation. There's even a ''pie-chart'' devoted to the causes of each of his deaths at the top of this page! The formula was played with quite a bit over the years to keep it amusing--giving an obvious way he would die and then using something else instead, [[CameBackWrong having him come back as a zombie]] for a HalloweenEpisode and get killed again, [[ThrowTheDogABone having his girlfriend give him CPR]], etc. The show creators were aware that this could become an OverusedRunningGag though, and made one VerySpecialEpisode where Kenny's death [[KilledOffForReal actually stuck]]. His place in the Four Man Band was later filled by [[ProperlyParanoid Tweek]] or {{Butt|Monkey}}ers, but he then [[UnexplainedRecovery returned with no explanation]] after one season (WordOfGod has hinted that it might have had something to do with Jesus dying in the episode he comes back). Now he no longer dies...[[MauveShirt as often]]. [[WordOfGod Trey and Matt]] mentioned that they were originally planning to kill Kyle off at the end of season 5, but then decided to spare him and have Kenny bite the dust instead since they were getting tired of killing him off in every episode and were running out of original ways by which to do so.
** In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', Kenny dies for real however, and goes to Hell. He is resurrected only when the forces of Hell invade Earth, and [[spoiler:sacrifices himself so that there will be no Hell on Earth. Luckily, he then finds out that he's going to Heaven this time]].
** This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a few episodes, particularly in "Cartmanland":
--->'''Attorney:''' ...and the rest of the money is owed to the family of a boy who died on one of your rides.\\
'''Cartman:''' ''Kenny?!'' He dies all the time!
** And also in "Cherokee Hair Tampons":
--->'''Stan:''' I've tried everything to save Kyle. Holistic medicine is going to kill my friend! ''(starts crying)''\\
'''Kenny:''' ''(muffled)'' You don't seem to care when ''I'' die!
** One of the funniest versions of this trope was in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", where Stan and Kyle were directly responsible (accidentally, to be fair) for Kenny's death.
--->'''Stan''': ''(completely deadpan)'' Oh my god, we killed Kenny.\\
'''Kyle:''' We did?\\
'''Stan:''' ''(still deadpan)'' Yep. We killed Kenny. We're bastards.
** In later seasons they've taken to subverting/averting this trope. For example, in "Poor and Stupid," Kenny finds himself on an active NASCAR track while accidents are happening all around him and cars are ramming each other trying to win, and manages to not get killed. In other episodes, they use him to avert LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt. The audience is so used to seeing him die, that whenever they want to have real tension in a potentially fatal situation, they stick Kenny in there.
** The Mysterion episodes later give Kenny's immortality an actual explanation: [[spoiler:Due to his parents attending cult meetings while they were pregnant with him, he was born with a form of BornAgainImmortality in which every time he dies, his mother gives birth to an infant that ages into Kenny overnight. The process also erases the memories of everyone else but Kenny, who remembers all the deaths. His parents do seem to be somewhat aware, but the stress of doing this over and over again combined with their perpetual substance abuse-induced haze means they tend to ignore it when it's not happening.]]
** Non-Kenny Example: In "Probably," Satan's caught in a LoveTriangle, with his two potential boyfriends (UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and some random dude) constantly killing each other. However, since they're already dead and in Hell, this just means they disappear for about a day and show up again with the next batch of damned souls. ([[RunningGag "Where was I supposed to go, Detroit?'']])
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed Example]]: In "Good Times with Weapons", Butters gets stabbed in the eye with a shuriken. By the next episode, his eye is shown to be intact.
** UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden has been killed twice on the show (maybe three times if the events of his real life death occurred in their universe).
** Cartman seems to be capable of this, to a lesser extent; in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" his head exploded. Next time we see him, he's fine.
** Also present in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', where if Princess Kenny dies in combat, he'll be picked apart by rats and dragged off, so he cannot be revived. He returns either after two turns or after the combat ends.
*** [[spoiler:Princess Kenny exploits this trope for all it's worth after [[FaceHeelTurn betraying the group]] and becoming the FinalBoss. He is killed several times, but keeps coming back (though he does become gradually weaker), until finally, after several resurrections, the New Kid breaks a taboo by [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique farting on]] [[CombatPragmatist his balls]]. He does come back again, but is [[HeelFaceTurn no longer evil at that point.]]]]
** In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', getting killed off is actually part of Mysterion's (Kenny's) gameplay. Whenever he dies, he becomes "Dead Mysterion", a floating spectre that has its own moveset different from regular Mysterion. He can return to life with his LimitBreak, which consists of his soul rising to heaven only to change his mind at the last second and reviving as regular Mysterion, which also heals the rest of the team.
* [[FunWithAcronyms N.I.G.E.L]] in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' was destroyed in just about every episode. Of course, being a robot, the crew would often send him into dangerous situations so they wouldn't put themselves at risk.
* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' has the whole base blow up with all hands in several episodes. It once led to the line, "Once again, your stupidity has killed us all!"
** Note that this line was from the show's very ''first'' episode.
--->'''Dr. Quinn:''' "You know Sealab is prone to massive explosion!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Hans Moleman dies in most of his appearances.
** Gil Gunderson has also died a few times. He gets shot to death during a bank robbery in "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" but returns in later episodes with no explanation.
** Itchy kills Scratchy in nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''. In "The Tears of a Clone", Scratchy is seemingly KilledOffForReal. Itchy then decides to clone him a bunch of times, just so he can kill them.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror V", Groundskeeper Willie gets murdered with an axe to the back in all 3 segments while trying to assist the protagonist(s).
-->'''Willie:''' ''Hold on, kids! I'm coming to rescue the lot of you! I'll- '''OW!''' Ugh, I'm bad at this. (collapses)''
** "Holidays of Futures Past" reveals that this is the case for [[ExpendableClone future Ralph]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': All of the Griffins have been killed at least a few times.
** Peter often dies in the {{Cutaway Gag}}s, which are usually non-canon and not part of the episodes' main plot. Examples include snapping his own neck to avoid the book club, watching the video from ''Film/TheRing'', having his head explode due to a severe case of brain freeze, getting shanked by a mongoose, getting the death penalty for making a PrisonRape joke, and getting eviscerated in the neck by ants.
** Several episodes end with Meg dying at the end. In "Jungle Love"; when the rest of the family manages to escape from a tribe of South American natives (in a parody of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''), she's last seen falling face-down into the river, having been pierced by a whole bunch of darts and arrows.
* ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'': Aeon Flux (the main character) died at the end of the first, serialised, season, and in every episode of the second season. The show had NegativeContinuity during this period.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has Waspinator.
** [[TemptingFate "Waspinator having good day! Not get shot once." BLAM]]
** Apparently the folks at Mainframe believe in kharma: after being the ignominious ButtMonkey for the ''entire show'', at the end of the big finale the Predacons are either destroyed or imprisoned, the Maximals are on their way home... And Waspinator is still on Earth, living large as the king of the proto-humans.
** [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Until he gets bored, the proto-humans revolt against him and he goes back to Cybertron on his own]], only to have his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent spark]] stolen by Megatron and used to power [[spoiler: the vehicon general Thrust]]. He was okay with that for a while but after that character [[MenaceDecay became less threatening]] he started getting smacked around some more once new villains showed up.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a minor character, a used car salesman named Malfunctioning Eddie. Every episode he appears in, his head explodes at some point. Of course, being a robot, he is always fixed by his next appearance.
** The entire cast has died at some point at least once, most notably the first Comedy Central episode (Rebirth) when everyone BUT the Professor died, and the Professor himself often declares himself to not be technically alive. In the episode Ghost in the Machines, even the robots [[spoiler:Bender and the Robot Devil]] die during the episode and are alive again before the end of it, which is amusing considering in the prior season [[spoiler:Bender was told he'd {{killed off for real}} if he ever died. The episode doesn't technically violate continuity, since Bender wound up in his same body while the Robot Devil downloaded to a new one]].
** Even the city of New New York and Earth itself have been Kenny'd several times, from being scorched by the Omicronians to being consumed by a {{Grey Goo}} of Benders, only to be rebuilt perfectly in time for the next episode. Even lampshaded during one such ending.
* Virtually everyone in ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'', especially Rusty, the Sheriff, Granny, the convenience store guy, and Early himself. Technically justified for the Sheriff, as it's revealed he's actually one of hundreds of identical Sheriffs grown in a field, all just as stupid and incompetent as him.
* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', but mostly Carl. [adult swim] even has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwuMjcVvxsc video]] of some of Carl's deaths.
* In most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' H.E.L.P.[=eR=]. has something horrible happen to him, including being sent into orbit around the Earth and shrunk to ant-size and stepped on. Of course he's a robot so it's likely that he gets repeatedly fixed up. As well, Hank and Dean are shown in the first episode of the second season through flashback to have been killed/died and then re-animated via cloning many, many times.
* Fluffy and Uranus the teddy bear secretaries from ''{{WesternAnimation/Duckman}}'' died in every episode they appeared in except one.
* The entire cast of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' are subjects to this, with Toot and Ling-Ling getting killed the most.
** Somewhat justified with Xandir, as he is a video game character with numerous extra lives in reserve. In one episode, however, Ling-Ling was so angry with him that he killed off ''all'' of Xandir's extra lives, though that didn't stop Xandir from coming back to life the next episode anyway. Totally justified; he used a CONTINUE after that one. He also lost all but one of his extra lives in "Gay Bash", but it still didn't stop him from coming back from the dead in later episodes.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Wooldoor in "Lost In Parking Space: Pt. 2": "We can't just keep dying and coming back to life the next episode! IT'S TOTALLY ILLOGICAL!" After which Ling-Ling appears to say he agrees with that--two minutes after dying himself.
** Finally subverted in the movie as, since their show was canceled, there was no NegativeContinuity to glean from to resurrect them. Once they were dead, it was for keeps.
* Optimus Prime of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' is known to die once or twice in almost every continuity he appears in. However, it is '''not''' played for laughs at all. The TF Wiki even has a special page for recording [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime The Many Deaths of Optimus Prime]].
** This also happens to Starscream who is immortal in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. And voiced by Tom ''Kenny''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has the host of the Blooper shows, who always ends the show by killing himself. The entire show's staff has been killed at least once as well.
* Tom of WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry has died at least three or four times, not counting the short "Heavenly Puss" which was AllJustADream. He's been executed in Revolutionary France in "WesternAnimation/TheTwoMouseketeers", and in another cartoon is blown up and floats upward toward Heaven after a failed attempt to catch Jerry. Hell, it's implied that he and Jerry committed suicide in "WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues"! But of course [[NegativeContinuity he's back next cartoon as if nothing happened.]]
* Virtually every ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon featuring [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] has the coyote suffer amusing injury after amusing injury with seemingly no long-term consequence. But occasionally, the final backfiring trap has apparently killed him:
** In "WesternAnimation/ToBeepOrNotToBeep," where he makes ''six'' attempts to use a catapult to hurl a large boulder on top of the unsuspecting Road Runner. Each attempt fails, often in comically spectacular fashion; the sixth attempt has -- after much prodding -- the catapult finally working (he jumps up and down repeatedly to get it to unjam ... only for him to be hurled toward a large rock formation and then a series of electrical transmission lines, after which he is hurled back to the catapult and finally killed. (After Wile E. is finally flattened, the catapult's manufacturer is revealed -- The Road Runner Manufacturing Co., the Road Runner on the name plate "beep-beeping" for joy as he runs off.
*** In his pairings with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, the most spectacular deaths come in:
*** "WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit" In the final gag, Bugs uses a tractor to pull away a shed (where the Coyote is busy pouring nitroglycerin into carrots) and unhooks it on some railroad tracks ... just in time for a train to be coming. The train hits the shack, resulting in a huge explosion and sending Coyote high into the air. The dazed Wile E. lives long enough to visit Bugs one last time and admit defeat.
*** "WesternAnimation/CompressedHare," where in the final gag, Wile E. builds a 10 '''''billion'''''-volt magnet to -- after getting Bugs to eat a metal carrot -- pull his prey to his cave for an easy dinner. However, not only does Bugs send the carrot back, but the magnet begins pulling everything with metallic properties toward Wile E.'s cave, trapping him inside as the final object, a Mercury rocket attempting liftoff, is pulled into the cave; immediately thereafter, everything explodes and (presumably) kills the Coyote once and for all.
*** On one occasion, he blasted himself into space on an out-of-control rocket sled which explodes and turns him into a constellation of stars.
** Sylvester J. Pussycat died the most out of any golden age cartoon character at 24 deaths in 16 cartoons. He even goes to Hell in "WesternAnimation/SatansWaitin", after losing all nine of his lives.
** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck has died four or five times: first in "Daffy and the Dinosaur" when a giant inflatable duck he set up and goaded another character into attacking exploded and both are last seen as [[FluffyCloudHeaven angels on clouds]] with Daffy remarking that maybe the whole gag "wasn't such a hot idea after all". In "Draftee Daffy" when the rocket he's riding on crashes and explodes and his soul is last seen in Hell. In ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'' he is vaporized by Marvin the Martian (but revived by Porky so this one may not count), in "WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel" he may or may not have died after shooting himself in the head, and in "Show Biz Bugs" he swallows a bunch of explosives and tosses a lit match down his throat causing himself to explode and is then seen as a ghost.
** Another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character to get this treatment is Yosemite Sam. In the short "Devil's Feud Cake", Sam has a run-in with Bugs Bunny and gets himself killed. He finds himself in Hell, where the Devil offers to bring him back to life if he can send him Bugs's soul to take his place in Hell (by killing Bugs). Sam ends up getting himself killed a second time while going after Bugs, so the Devil "gives him another chance" and sends him after Bugs again. After dying the third time, Yosemite Sam tells the Devil that if he wants Bugs so badly he should go get him himself - he's staying put this time.
*** He also died at the end of "Dumb Patrol" after his plane crashed into an ammunition dump and he's last seen as a spirit in a devil costume strumming a harp.
** Elmer Fudd died at least twice. After being buried alive in "The Old Grey Hare", Bugs hands him a huge stick of dynamite and the explosion rocks the title card as the ending plays. In "WesternAnimation/BackAlleyOproar" he is fed up with Sylvester's singing so he plants a bunch of dynamite around the fence; it explodes as he lights it, killing both of them. He's seen as an angel on a cloud surrounded by Sylvester's past 9 lives (still singing). This last one may or may not count but in the ending of "Hare Do" he is eaten by a lion but he's still alive before the IrisOut.
*** It's also possible he died at the end of "Ant Pasted", Elmer is at war with a colony of ants who use firecrackers as arsenal, at the end Elmer gathers up the remaining firecrackers and runs away yelling "You'll never take me alive!" unknowingly leaving a trail of gunpowder behind, the ants light the powder and blow him up in a massive explosion and you don't see him after that.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''
** The title characters died at the end of many of their shorts, most notably in "Terminal Stimpy" when Stimpy keeps getting killed and he tries to stop himself from losing his last life.
** Muddy Mudskipper has died at least three times; in "Powdered Toastman" he is left behind on an exploding dynamite keg and his skeleton is seen flying from the debris of the explosion, in "Bass Masters" he is seen as a trophy mounted on a wall, and in "Terminal Stimpy" he is run over by Stimpy and after his dying wishes are fulfilled he asks Stimpy to be skipped across a pond and he is then hit by a bus and his corpse is seen sticking to the grill.
* Mr. Scarface the Ventriloquist's puppet from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is destroyed at the end of every episode he appears in. The creators said they went out of their way to give Scarface the most gruesome "deaths" they could, which they'd never get away with if he was a human, because hey, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman he's a puppet, so it's okay.]] Since he's ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane probably]]) just a projection of the Ventriloquist's addled mind, he comes back in the time it takes the Ventriloquist to carve a new dummy.
** Mr. Scarface is finally destroyed for good when the Ventriloquist undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and does the deed himself.
* A running gag in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' was Don King getting killed randomly during matches; he eventually had a deathmatch himself against Donald Trump who kills him for the last time in the series when he climbs down his throat and tears him apart from the inside.
** After King's permanent death, he was replaced by an unnamed popcorn vendor.
** Several other celebrities were also killed more than once:
*** The members of Hanson were killed by being crushed under a light rigging in "Deathbowl '98" and sliced themselves to pieces with a chainsaw in "Nick Returns".
*** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was killed twice: Jack Nicholson slams his face into a turnbuckle until it caves into his skull in "Presented by Big Bull Beer", and he's eaten by a Venus flytrap in "Nick Gets High".
*** Creator/BruceWillis was killed by Stone Cold Steve Austin in "The Missing Girl" and Demi Moore kicks his head off in "The Changing of the Guard".
*** Courtney Love was ripped to pieces by a bear in "Masters of the Martial Arts" and crushed by a piano in "Courtney Love Returns", but this may not count because she turned out to be NotQuiteDead the first time.
*** The Backstreet Boys were crushed by a rocket in "Battle of the Boys With Toys" (but Nick brought them back via DealWithTheDevil so this also might not count) and impaled on spike railings in "Fandemonium 2000".
*** Drew Barrymore's face is smashed in in "The Unknown Murderer" and she is decapitated sliced in half in "The Prisoners".
*** Ben Stiller is electrocuted by Bob Dylan in "Family Night I" and his head is punted off by a football in "Night of Comedy Comeback".
*** Sean Penn's spine and spleen are torn out by Tom Hanks in "The Laser Pointer", and Mills Lane slams a brick into his head in "Stand-up vs. Smack-down".
*** Music/RickyMartin was ripped apart from the inside by Marilyn Manson's giant hand in "Fandemonium II" and he dies in an unknown manner in "Season Finale".
*** The Olsen Twins are torn to shreds by Betty Sue Olsen in "Teen Night" and in "Sibling Slaughterhouse" Mary-Kate's stomach bursts out of her body and Kelly Osbourne stabs Ashley to death with CDS.
*** Tommy Lee is eaten by baby monkeys in "Sex, Lugs, and Rock 'n' Roll" and his head is crushed between Pamela Anderson's breasts in "Season Finale".
* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' when Dao Lon Wong turns Finn, Chow, and Ratso into Dark Chi Warriors they got killed multiple times per episode exploding into dust every time they do so, until they are changed back. Uncle explains that Wong had the power to resurrect them any time he wanted.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' shorts, the title character died in 6 out of his 15 shorts [[TooDumbToLive all due to his stupidity;]] these were made to teach soldiers what they shouldn't do when in the army.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Superjail}}'' the fat, balding, lecherous inmate (the one who wants to show you his penis) gets killed many times but always comes back the next episode.
** Actually this extends to all of the inmates of the prison in general.
** The leader of the lunch ladies is often killed or maimed in some fashion. If there are a group of them around, chances are the rest will suffer in some way too.
* Nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/StressedEric'' had Eric die from stress at the end, except for the final one, which has an AmbiguousEnding.
* Katnip Cat of ''WesternAnimation/{{Herman and Katnip}}'' died at the end of many of their shorts.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has completely exploded... and somehow returned... ''seconds later in the same episode''. It's justified as it's explicitly shown he can regenerate.
** Scooter apparently drowned when [=SpongeBob=] left him buried up to his neck on the beach. He appeared later in that episode as an angel. Let that sink in for a few seconds. Scooter was seen alive and well in later episodes but died on two other occasions. In "Something Smells" [=SpongeBob=]'s stinky breath killed him and another fish, and in "My Pretty Seahorse" after he thinks Mystery the seahorse is a ride and inserts a coin into her, she kicks him and he explodes where he lands.
** Fred doesn't ''die'', but whenever he shows up you can expect him to get horribly injured and scream "MY LEG!".
* In ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' his nemesis Buzz Buzzard died in a couple of shorts. In "Wild and Woody" Woody locked him in a stove and threw dynamite inside causing it to explode and then guides his soul to hell, in "Buccaneer Woody" he lights a match in a gun barrel he's carrying and after it explodes he's seen as a ghost, in "Scalp Treatment" he's blasted off into the distance with a large explosion where he lands, and in "The Great Who Dood It" he launches him into space with exploding cigars. Woody himself has died in a couple of cartoons such as "Ration Bored."
* There's a series of short films based on a picture book named "The Many Deaths of Norman Spitall," in which the title character would die or be executed by quirky methods.
* Bluto from ''{{ComicStrip/Popeye}}'' has died in a couple of shorts like in "Blow Me Down" after being punched around the world twice by Popeye he falls to the ground with x's on his eyes and in "We Aim To Please" at the end Popeye punches him into a wall where he lands on a meat hook and he turns into cuts of meat labeled "a bunch of baloney"
* In ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'', the crew had a trio of robots who they would sometimes use to protect them, they would give them a command and they would repeat the command they were given and be instantly destroyed by the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* In the ''South Park'' parody segment in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Arthur}}'' special episode "The Contest", Buster's character fell victim to this trope after aliens landed directly on top of him right when he told the aliens to land. Staying true to the source material, Francine's character shouts "'''Hey!''' You squished Buster!"
* Many of Chris's interns in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' series end up dying in various horrible ways only to come back perfectly fine in future episodes.
* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck may have died at least three times. In "Uncle Donald's Ants" after getting sick of the ants invading his house he attempts to blow them up, resulting in him blowing himself and his shed sky high instead. The cartoon ends without seeing him come back down. In "Dragon Around" Chip and Dale attach explosives to his ladder, again blowing him into the air, and like the previous entry he isn't seen again. In "All In a Nut Shell" Donald is knocked unconscious and Chip and Dale place him in a log then stuff a bee hive into it. When the bees sting Donald he goes bolting out of the log like a cannonball into the horizon. Chip and Dale hold their hats while "Taps" plays and they laugh.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', the ResetButton has been used for the whole cast, but Eustace tends to need it the most. Of course, most times [[AssholeVictim he deserved it]], seeing as he was usually the one who got himself, Courage, and Muriel into whatever mess they were in that got him killed in the first place.
* Zorak from ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' died at the end of a lot of episodes, most commonly being shot or blown up.
* Several characters such as Grim, Billy, Irwin, General Skarr and even Mandy from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' have died multiple times. And despite having TheGrimReaper under their control it doesn't have to do much with easily reversing death but more that it flaunts NegativeContinuity to the point of making a joking twist out of the few times that there is continuity.
* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNOW''; every episode usually involves heavy objects falling on the characters, someone getting dismembered, run over by cars...and more!
* Anton the toast from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is often eaten alive, but he always gets better. In the third season episode "The Recipe", we see his parents replace him with a clone (made by a toaster) every time he dies. The living balloon Alan Keane has also been popped multiple times.
* Rigby from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has died or almost died on multiple occasions, often getting better through supernatural means.
* Harry Sachz the man whom WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead prank phone called repeatedly to make fun of his name died twice, the first time was in "Butt Flambe" when he received a gunshot wound and later died in the hospital and in "Nothing Happening" he is killed during a standoff with the police; he came back both times with no explanation.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' has this with [[TheChewToy Invader Skoodge]], who's been thrown to a [[PlanetOfHats planet of "slaughtering rat people"]], shot out of a cannon into space, eaten by the Hogulus beast ''twice'', etc. only to return later on completely unharmed.
-->'''Zim''': I thought [[TheEmpire the Almighty Tallests]] killed you.
-->'''Skoodge''': Yeah, but I'm better now.
** Several characters in the show have this happen occasionally; notable examples include Zim's death at the end of "Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars" and "Hobo 13", both his and Dib's presumed deaths in "Walk For Your Lives" and "Bolognius Maximus", and [[StalkerWithACrush Keef]]'s death in "Bestest Friends"; all of them apparently recover by the next episode. Made more confusing by the occasional ContinuityNod, implying that the show doesn't actually run on NegativeContinuity.
* A minor character on ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' died in almost all of his appearances. He's knocked out a window in a regular episode, gets shot in the ''Film/DieHard'' parody, and gets shot ''again'' in another non-canon episode spoofing ''Series/TheSopranos''.
* Entree of ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' may have died at least twice: In "Whirrel Call", he is killed when his brain goes flying out of his head after he falls off a cliff and his body is then destroyed by being crushed by a boulder, and he may have died in "Sgt. Snuggums" when the island is blown up.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Several characters have been [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]], blown up, [[SuicideAsComedy committed suicide]], etc... yet everyone is perfectly fine in the next episode.
* The Fly kid in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh''. A running gag on the series is showing Busby (a teen version of [[TheFly1958 The Fly]], as all students are based in movie monsters) in mortal peril screaming the iconic "Help me!" in every episode. Among other stuffs he's eaten by a carnivorous plant, taken away by a giant ant and even put in a soup by the school's cook!
* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has Fred the Mutant, a masochistic Mook that is often abuse and use in experiments producing him grave harm, which he happily enjoys.
* Fall-Apart rabbit in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is a toon stunt double that, as his job implies, gets destroyed often. He's even seen always with bandages and a medical robe, and his body parts are shown to be detachable.
* Xayide in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' animated series gets killed at the end of almost every episode, but somehow she always comes back for the next one. And yes, it's a kid show.
* Xanatos' robot mook Coyote gets destroyed in every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' he's in.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', the episode "The Island of Lost Dakotas" reveals that Cavendish is this trope, though he is completely unaware of it. His time travel partner Dakota has created a system where he goes back in time to prevent his friend's constant deaths, with all the prior versions of himself that result from doing this going off to live on a deserted island to minimize temporal irregularities.
* The episode "Reformed" in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Amethyst repeatedly getting poofed (having her physical form destroyed) and reforming to conform to what she thinks Garnet wants her to look like. It's not until the end of the episode that she takes four hours to regenerate a new form-- the only one that pleases Garnet because it's the one Amethyst chose for herself and no one else. Amethyst retains the form for the next season until she is poofed again by Jasper in "Crack the Whip".
* Jay Leno has been killed twice in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', first in "Stan of Arabia part 1" when he annoys Stan causing him to break his neck, then in "Casino Normale" when Roger locks him in the basement and he dies from starvation.
** Dr. Ray, the CIA Psychiatrist dies in every episode he appears in starting with “The Shrink”. Someone always notices he’s died before, but he simply denies that it happened.
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'': [[AlphaBitch Nanette Manoir]] often dies in Angela's {{Imagine Spot}}s, themselves happening OncePerEpisode.
* ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'': In addition to being the antagonist, Le Teigneux is definitely the ButtMonkey. He is the one to get shot, decapitated, or killed in several ways during the series, more than anyone else.
** In "The Fertile Valleys", he plays the role of Goliath, who ends up struck in the head by a smooth stone courtesy of [[BratsWithSlingshots a kid with a sling]].
** In "The Carolingians", he plays the role of a Frankish warrior who disagreed with Clovis over who gets what share of the booty after a battle. One year later, Clovis retaliates by [[DisproportionateRetribution killing Frankish!Teigneux with his ax]]. Teigneux reappears as a Frankish nobleman, though.
** In "The Age of Vikings", he plays the role of a Viking chieftain-turned-outlaw who [[spoiler: stabs Viking!Pierre InTheBack]], only to be put to the sword himself by Viking!Pierrot.
** In "The Quattrocento", he plays the role of a Renaissance nobleman caught up in a vendetta with Renaissance!Nabot. This vendetta ends when Renaissance!Teigneux stabs Renaissance!Nabot InTheBack only to die because his victim has poisoned his drink.
** In "Elizabethan England", he plays the role of Thomas Doughty, who is condemned for mutiny and is [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] on orders of Sir Francis Drake.
** In "The French Revolution", he plays the role of Maximilien Robespierre's second, who too ends up beheaded, this time [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized by the guillotine]].
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* At the New York Renaissance Faire, Sheriff of Nottingham Philip De Marque has been killed off a number of times at the end of many years' story lines.
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* Where to go in the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise. Many characters in ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Android 17, Chiaotzu, Krillin, and Piccolo have ''all'' died about four times, including every ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'' anime ever. The entire population of Earth has died ''twice'' (first by Kid Buu and then by Freiza). Counting ''Anime/DragonballGT'' the Earth was itself destroyed a third time, but in that instance they managed to get nearly everyone off the planet before it was destroyed.

** Gil Gunderson has also died a few times. He gets shot to death during a bank robbery in Season 19's "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" but returns in later episodes with no explanation.

** Gil Gunderson has also died a few times. He gets shot to death during a bank robbery in "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" but returns in later episodes with no explanation.

** In the HalloweenEpisode "Treehouse of Horror V," Groundskeeper Willie tries to assist the protagonist(s) in all 3 tales, only to be murdered with an axe to the back.

** Gil Gunderson has also died a few times. In "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", he gets shot to death during a bank-robbery but returns in later episodes with no explanation.

* Many ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' characters have been killed, only to [[UnexplainedRecovery come back in the next episode as if nothing happened]]. This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall by]] Mario in "Black Yoshi's Fried Chicken", after Chef Pee Pee is murdered and his remains are cooked into chicken nuggets.

* The Wise Sage from ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' has died at least 3 times and spends most of the series as a ghost. A flashback from the "Contra" episode reveals that he died of a sickness during high school. In the "Aladdin" episode, they find a genie and he wishes to be alive again, however, he dies five minutes later. He then uses his second wish to be brought back to life ''again'', [[YankTheDogsChain only to get crushed to death by a giant snake]].

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has died numerous times and in his ''Film/DoubleDragon'' review even [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges it.]] There is one episode that shows him being revived by Optimus Prime.

** "Holidays of Futures Past" reveals this is also the case with [[ExpendableClone future Ralph]].
** Gil Gunderson was apparently shot to death in "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings". He returns in later episodes with no explanation.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': All of the Griffins bar Lois have been killed at least a few times.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter, Meg, Chris, Stewie and Brian have all been killed at least a few times.

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** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Immortal]]. His one power is the ability to come back from the dead after a few minutes. Since he has a considerable lack of fighting skills, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal this mostly translates to him frequently dying in a variety of hilariously painful and bizarre ways.]] Death by giant novelty scissors, death by impalement from a remote control, death by alcohol poisoning from a ray that was only supposed to make him drunk...

* Not necessarily a RunningGag or any sort of comedic effect, but Ensign Kim from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' seems to fit for this. Basically put, Ensign Kim is the series' designated RedShirt and any time he and one other person are on an away mission, you can almost guarantee that Kim is going to bite the big one... again. Of course, he comes back rather easily with all the various temporal stuff, cloning, alternate dimensions, and just damn good medical stuff.

--> '''Female Changeling:''' "I wish you hadn't done that. That was Weyoun's last clone."
--> '''Garak:''' "I was hoping you would say that."

* In the episode "Welcome Back Carter" ''(Series/{{Eureka}})'', the new robotic sheriff Andy is crushed multiple times, but Fargo always seems to be able to fix him, though with varying malfunctions occasionally popping up. He comes back as Jack's new deputy in season 4, and goes in for repairs a lot.

* Daniel Jackson of ''Series/StargateSG1'' dies a ''lot''. [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] used to have a list, in fact. Depending on whether or not you count androids, alternate realities, and virtual reality simulations, he's over 20. Even disallowing every single time he [[DeathFakedForYou didn't actually die]], he still died at least four times. That might not sound like a lot for this page until you consider that in-universe, he's just a BadassBookworm with no actual special abilities. It's not that he's a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, he just keeps on being saved at the last minute or seeing duplicates of himself get killed. After the second time he died (ironically, one of the times he wasn't really dead), his friends basically gave up on even giving him a funeral. Eventually it did become a RunningGag that some of the other characters ([[DeadpanSnarker Jack]]) just stopped buying it whenever someone claimed that "[[{{Pun}} They killed Danny]]!".
-->''(SG-13 finds the ruins of an Ancient city.)''\\

* Sylvester J. Pussycat from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' died the most out of any golden age cartoon character at 24 deaths in 16 cartoons. He even goes to Hell in "WesternAnimation/SatansWaitin", after losing all nine of his lives.

* Virtually every cartoon featuring [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] has the coyote suffer amusing injury after amusing injury with seemingly no long-term consequence. But occasionally, the final backfiring trap has apparently killed him:

* Several characters such as Grim, Billy, Irwin, and General Skarr from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' have died multiple times. Granted, they have TheGrimReaper under their control. They could easily reverse death with him.

* Virtually every cartoon featuring [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] has the coyote suffer amusing injury after amusing injury with seemingly no long-term consequence. But occasionally, the final backfiring trap has apparently killed him:
** In "WesternAnimation/ToBeepOrNotToBeep," where he makes ''six'' attempts to use a catapult to hurl a large boulder on top of the unsuspecting Road Runner. Each attempt fails, often in comically spectacular fashion; the sixth attempt has -- after much prodding -- the catapult finally working (he jumps up and down repeatedly to get it to unjam ... only for him to be hurled toward a large rock formation and then a series of electrical transmission lines, after which he is hurled back to the catapult and finally killed. (After Wile E. is finally flattened, the catapult's manufacturer is revealed -- The Road Runner Manufacturing Co., the Road Runner on the name plate "beep-beeping" for joy as he runs off.
** In his pairings with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, the most spectacular deaths come in:
*** "WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit" In the final gag, Bugs uses a tractor to pull away a shed (where the Coyote is busy pouring nitroglycerin into carrots) and unhooks it on some railroad tracks ... just in time for a train to be coming. The train hits the shack, resulting in a huge explosion and sending Coyote high into the air. The dazed Wile E. lives long enough to visit Bugs one last time and admit defeat.
*** "WesternAnimation/CompressedHare," where in the final gag, Wile E. builds a 10 '''''billion'''''-volt magnet to -- after getting Bugs to eat a metal carrot -- pull his prey to his cave for an easy dinner. However, not only does Bugs send the carrot back, but the magnet begins pulling everything with metallic properties toward Wile E.'s cave, trapping him inside as the final object, a Mercury rocket attempting liftoff, is pulled into the cave; immediately thereafter, everything explodes and (presumably) kills the Coyote once and for all.
** On one occasion, he blasted himself into space on an out-of-control rocket sled which explodes and turns him into a constellation of stars.

* Tom of WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry has died at least three or four times, not counting the short "Heavenly Puss" which was AllJustADream. He's been executed in Revolutionary France in "WesternAnimation/TheTwoMouseketeers", and in another cartoon is blown up and floats upward toward Heaven after a failed attempt to catch Jerry. Hell, it's implied that he and Jerry committed suicide in "WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues"! But of course he's back next cartoon as if nothing happened.
** It's an established cartoon fact that cats have nine lives, so he still has reserves.
* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck has died four or five times: first in "Daffy and the Dinosaur" when a giant inflatable duck he set up and goaded another character into attacking exploded and both are last seen as [[FluffyCloudHeaven angels on clouds]] with Daffy remarking that maybe the whole gag "wasn't such a hot idea after all". In "Draftee Daffy" when the rocket he's riding on crashes and explodes and his soul is last seen in Hell. In ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'' he is vaporized by Marvin the Martian (but revived by Porky so this one may not count), in "WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel" he may or may not have died after shooting himself in the head, and in "Show Biz Bugs" he swallows a bunch of explosives and tosses a lit match down his throat causing himself to explode and is then seen as a ghost.

* Another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character to get this treatment is Yosemite Sam. In the short "Devil's Feud Cake", Sam has a run-in with Bugs Bunny and gets himself killed. He finds himself in Hell, where the Devil offers to bring him back to life if he can send him Bugs's soul to take his place in Hell (by killing Bugs). Sam ends up getting himself killed a second time while going after Bugs, so the Devil "gives him another chance" and sends him after Bugs again. After dying the third time, Yosemite Sam tells the Devil that if he wants Bugs so badly he should go get him himself - he's staying put this time.
** He also died at the end of "Dumb Patrol" after his plane crashed into an ammunition dump and he's last seen as a spirit in a devil costume strumming a harp.
** Elmer Fudd died at least twice. After being buried alive in "The Old Grey Hare", Bugs hands him a huge stick of dynamite and the explosion rocks the title card as the ending plays. In "WesternAnimation/BackAlleyOproar" he is fed up with Sylvester's singing so he plants a bunch of dynamite around the fence; it explodes as he lights it, killing both of them. He's seen as an angel on a cloud surrounded by Sylvester's past 9 lives (still singing). This last one may or may not count but in the ending of "Hare Do" he is eaten by a lion but he's still alive before the IrisOut.
*** It's also possible he died at the end of "Ant Pasted", Elmer is at war with a colony of ants who use firecrackers as arsenal, at the end Elmer gathers up the remaining firecrackers and runs away yelling "You'll never take me alive!" unknowingly leaving a trail of gunpowder behind, the ants light the powder and blow him up in a massive explosion and you don't see him after that.

* Pretty much the case for any main character you play as in certain video games.

A {{recurring|Character}} RedShirt, as impossible as it sounds. This character is, and sometimes only exists to be, killed off repetitively and [[SnapBack inexplicably come back to life by the next episode]], as a RunningGag.

A {{recurring|Character}} RedShirt, as impossible as it sounds. This character is, and sometimes exists only to be, killed off repetitively, only to [[SnapBack inexplicably come back to life by the next episode]], as a RunningGag.

A {{recurring|Character}} RedShirt, as impossible as it sounds. This character is, and sometimes exists only to be, killed off repetitively (sometimes even OncePerEpisode), [[SnapBack always returning in perfectly health condition by the next one]], as a RunningGag.

** In pretty much every episode, whenever Stimpy does something stupid (which is [almost] always), Ren dies...[[spoiler:of embarrassment]].

** Peter often dies in the {{Cutaway Gag}}s, which are usually non-canon and not part of the episodes' main plot. Examples include snapping his own neck to avoid the book club, watching the video from ''Film/TheRing'', having his head explode due to a severe case of brain freeze, getting the death penalty for making a PrisonRape joke, and getting eviscerated in the neck by ants.