Line #6 TheyKilledKennyAgain/AnimeAndManga


1	* Although everyone in ''Anime/AngelBeats'' dies repeatedly, none of them dies as often as Noda, whose appearance WILL guarantee death.
2	* 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.
3	* Sakura ([[GenderBlenderName a boy]]) in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' is killed many times per episode depending upon how much he pisses off [[SociopathicHero Dokuro]] only to be [[DeathIsCheap resurrected seconds later]].
4	-->'''Sakura:''' Why did you just murder me, Dokuro?!\
5	'''Dokuro:''' There was a mosquito on your shirt!
6	* ''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 direct ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', most of his deaths are accompanied with cries of "You bastards!".[[note]]In Japanese, "koto hitodenashi!", same as the ''South Park'' dub. Often given as "You aren't human!" in English due to a [[BlindIdiotTranslation fansub mistranslation]] parsing "hitodenashi" as "hito de nashi" when it's just one word.[[/note]] But the penultimate episode of the series presents him with the chance to avoid all his incoming deaths, [[spoiler:and he ultimately succeeds.]]
7	** 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[[note]]and even then, he outlasts False Assassin[[/note]]. 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. This is likely due to the fact that he's generally OutOfFocus in most routes (everyone else barring False Assassin gets at least one route where they're a major player), and never really gets to show his full strength despite being a powerhouse on paper (not to mention his [[BornUnlucky E-rank Luck]]).
8	** In the spinoff ''Anime/FateGrandCarnival'', which is based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', this gag gets extended to ''all'' versions of Cú Chulainn when they are killed off before the Olympia, with the Lancer, Caster, and Prototype versions killed since only Servants 4 star and above are permitted to survive, while the Berserker Cú is killed simply because there were too many Cú… even though they’d just gotten rid of the others.
9	** Similarily, Orion ([[ActorAllusion who shares the same voice actor as three of the four Cú's]]) is killed twice, both by [[{{Yandere}} Artemis]] for perving on other girls like Mash.
10	* Leomon from ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'' is a special case. Every series but the second and seventh is a hard [[ContinuityReboot 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?
11	** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': [[spoiler:Leomon [[TakingtheBullet eats an attack]] from [=MetalEtemon=] 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]].
12	*** 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, which basically means he can't ever come back. However, it gets complicated when the Digital World is rebooted: it's hinted, but not explicitly shown, that even Digimon who died in the real world were revived this way, meaning there's a chance that Leomon could have come back.]]
13	** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': [[spoiler:Leomon becomes Jeri's partner, and eventually gets run through and absorbed by Beelzemon, sending Jeri over the DespairEventHorizon and setting the stage for D-Reaper's use of her]].
14	** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Löwemon and [=JagerLowemon=], the human and beast spirits of darkness, are clear expies of the Leomon line. Not helping matters is that [=JagerLowemon=]'s Japanese name is [=KaiserLeomon=]. [[spoiler:Actually being ''human'' doesn't even 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, Panjyamon (AKA [=IceLeomon=]), who is an [[AnIcePerson ice-themed]] white recolor and canonical Ultimate level of Leomon. [[spoiler:He gets taken out quite easily, but since he's in Mercurymon's illusionary world, and leaves no egg behind, he may never have been real]].
15	** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'': [=SaberLeomon=] is a "good but misguided" type who believes humans are bad due to the bad actions of one guy. [[spoiler:''His'' death is particularly special.]] See, in all Digimon series but ''Tamers'', Digimon revert to an egg state and begin life again, never truly dying. However, [[MadScientist Kurata]] (the one guy in question) 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 show to get hit with this method, making him the first ''permanent'' onscreen casualty.]] 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.
16	** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': [=MadLeomon=] is a villain general. The first one. As he's a WarmUpBoss, he's offed very quickly, but he's eventually revived and purified into a regular Leomon. 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.
17	*** [[Manga/DigimonXrosWars The manga]] instead has [=MachLeomon=], who serves the same role as [=MadLeomon=] as being the first enemy general that the heroes face. Like his bulkier counterpart, he gets killed off rather easily; ''unlike'' said counterpart, he undergoes some intense SanitySlippage due to fusing with the [[ArtifactOfDoom Abyss Truffle]].
18	** And then there's ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'', where a Leomon dies in the first ''three minutes''. And because he considered the Digimon he was attacking (Dorumon, the main character) more '''worthy''' of being alive!
19	** Despite all of the above examples, there are instances where [[SubvertedTrope this trope is subverted]]. One of them is Leo, his incarnation from ''[[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 V-Tamer 01]]''. Not only does Leo manage to make it to the Ultimate level Panjyamon and even digivolve into the Mega Regulumon, but he goes up against powerful foes like [=VenomMyotismon=] and Arcadiamon, the latter of which killed and absorbed a ''Piedmon'' as a baby, and though he doesn't necessarily win in those encounters, he holds on long enough for Taichi and Zeromaru to pull off a BigDamnHeroes before he has the chance to bite it. This was before the tradition of killing Leomon off had started.
20	** Subverted yet again with ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020''. Leomon is the leader of LaResistance against evil forces and helps the heroes on numerous occasions. [[spoiler:While making it to the Eternal Continent via [=ElDoradimon=], Leomon and his two allies, Spadamon and Falcomon, direct the attention of several lightning bolts so the [=DigiDestined=] can escape. Leomon, his allies, and [=ElDoradimon=] are [[NoBodyLeftBehind seemingly reduced to digital atoms]]. However, all four of them turn out to be alive and well, and from that point onward, Leomon stays alive throughout the the whole season, finally breaking tradition.]]
21	** In a ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' episode, an [=AncientSphinxmon=] goes around and turns people into stone bricks to create a pyramid that summons his master Pharaohmon to enslave humanity and all lesser Digimon. When he fought Angoramon's new Ultimate Evolution Diarbbitmon, he ends up getting pushed into his own attack and presumably dies afterwards. Make no mistake, this guy is completely villainous, but since he's the ancestor of Lowemon and [=JagerLowemon=], it counts.
22	** Leomon isn't safe from this even in the ''card games'', in ''TabletopGame/DigimonCardGame'' Leomon cards tend to have effects which trigger on deletion, almost certainly as an intentional reference to the franchise trend.
23	* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise has several examples, though most hero deaths are [[DeathIsCheap very easily undone]] by the [[MacGuffinTitle Dragon Balls]] or [[PhysicalGod Whis]]. In particular, Android 17, Chiaotzu, Krillin (''especially 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 in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', and then by Frieza in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'' and its ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' arc). 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. Among the villains Frieza is the most prominent example especially taking non-canon material into account: he’s been diced into chunks by Future Trunks and vaporised, OneHitKill punched by Ultimate Gohan in ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn'' and then vaporised by Goku’s Kamehameha in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'' and ''[[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]]'' (this means he’s been killed by every central Saiyan character except Vegeta, whom ironically has the [[ItsPersonal biggest beef]] with him).
24	* 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.
25	* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'':
26	** Hyatt, often many times an episode.
27	** The Ropponmatsus. They seem to exist to explode and then be rebuilt like nothing happened in the next episode.
28	** 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.
29	* ''Manga/GetterRobo'' has [[TheBigGuy Musashi Tomoe]], who gets KilledOffForReal in nearly every continuity, as a reference to his death at the end of the original anime and manga. The nature of his death varies, but it's almost always a HeroicSacrifice. This is taken to the point of BlackComedy in ''Getter Robo Arc'', the canonical last series, where it's revealed that in the far future, the Getter Emperor has created an artificial version of Musashi to serve in its army... and every time he dies, [[BodyBackupDrive it simply makes another one]].
30	** 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]].
31	* 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.
32	* 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.
33	* ''Manga/NickAndLever'': The titular characters often die at the end of the strips and get brought back to life by the next chapter without explication. It's such a RunningGag to the point where one volume cover features them as skeletons (Volume 2) and other one as ghosts (Volume 3).
34	* ''WebComic/OnePunchMan'' has a ShowWithinAShow 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]].]]
35	* 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.
36	* Played for horror and drama in ''Literature/ReZero'' with lead character Subaru dying and reversing time via his "Return By Death" ability several times in each arc, experiencing new forms of pain and trauma in each loop. [[spoiler: To make this worse, "Return By Death" potentially isn't a true resurrection, Subaru may be taken to a similar but not the exact timeline of the story. So if he dies in that timeline, he really is dead and gone, leaving behind multiple worlds because of this ability. This is not confirmed, but theorized by Echidna after Subaru takes the second trial. However, she says that the only person to know for sure is Satella herself, since it is her Authority.]]
37	* 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).
38	* ''Manga/{{Sabagebu}}'' shows most of the regulars dying from bloody gunshots every episode ([[RunningGag starting with Maya]]), which the narrator justifies by the deaths not being diegetic: we are seeing their imagination at work in airsoft games. However this becomes harder to credit in later episodes as passer-bys and ''aliens'' spontaneously join in the game. It culminates in the first OVA episode in which Urara is apparently eaten by sharks, complete with a skull bobbing on the water, and even the narrator is uncertain what is happening.
39	* In ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'', Miyubi the sloth dies every time she physically exerts herself, to the point it has become the series' most popular RunningGag. She died four times in her introductory episode alone.
40	* 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.
41	* Vrumugun from ''{{Literature/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 by the real Vrumugun]].
42	* ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': Princess Syalis dies, by her own estimation, about once a week, typically due to being overly incautious around the hazards in the Demon Castle. Because the series takes place in an RPGMechanicsVerse, she usually gets resurrected without issue.
43	* In ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' most of the cast have died at the end of an episode then come back inexplicably at the beginning of the next, Dr. Gel in particular.
44	* 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.
45	* 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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