History Main / DeaderThanDead

* The 11 Planetary Masters of Sol from ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' FINAL regenerate even after their bodies are completely destroyed. Once Pisa Sol is killed, this ends them permanently.

* In "Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges", a slave murders the heroine with a hairpin. When she returns as a dove, she has her killed and cooked. When she returns a third time, the king asks what sentence would be suitable for someone who harmed her, and the slave prescribes burning, and the ashes being thrown from the palace roof; so she is.

* In ''Series/BlakesSeven'', actor Gareth Thomas (Roj Blake) appeared in the final episode, "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E13Blake Blake]]", on the condition that his death was sufficiently graphic to rule out a return BackFromTheDead. Ironically, this proved unnecessary as there was no season five.
** To make sure Gareth kept asking the pyrotechnic crew to add more bullet squibs to his chest plate, leading to a quite painful result when they went off.

* The ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' is loaded with characters who cheat death in a variety of ways (being undead, reincarnating, etc...). The two Shikis, [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Shiki Ryougi]] and [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Shiki Tohno]], can kill these things deader, because the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception that they bear allow them to destroy their very ''concept'' of being. In fact, they can even kill things like ghosts, buildings, telekinesis, or ''appendicitis'' using a butter knife. To be specific, they can kill anything they can comprehend the death of. Ryougi has Akasha helping her comprehend the death of some things, so she can kill anything that she can perceive as 'living'; Tohno, meanwhile, doesn't have this assistance ([[CursedWithAwesome and thus]] [[BlessedWithSuck is slowly being driven mad]]). In one of his endings, he kills Arcueid's connection with Gaia so that he stands a better chance of beating her while the moon is out. In another route, he is able to actually kill poison while ''it's still flowing through the bloodstream.''

* This happens in the short story "Singularity Ablyss" in the Transformers Legends anthology novel, (which is set between-the-scenes of the ''Beast Machines'' episode "Spark of Darkness"). Megatron, after being defeated by Nightscream, has his spark approached by Rhinox's who attempts to act as a spirit guide and redeem the tyrant, this failed however and Megatron charged his particles with "purity of purpose" and used the knowledge of his physical state to erase Rhinox's spark from existence.

** Another way to terminate a Transformer with extreme prejudice? ''Rip out its spine'' and use the barely-recognizable carcass to whack another enemy over the head. That's the aforementioned kitty's fate in the [[Film/{{Transformers}} live-action film series]]. And in the movieverse, DeathIsCheap is averted; so far, everyone who looked dead ''was'' dead if you didn't apply [=AllSpark=] energy. But no, Ravage lives on in the comics (though his death and mysterious return were acknowledged, and Soundwave can't sense him anymore, meaning it's less UnexplainedRecovery and more "someone/something brought him back but ''not'' as he was before.") But in all these cases, the original writer wanted the characters capital-D Dead, took steps to show us that yes, this is death-death and not "Waspinator kablooification of the week..." and underestimated the ability of writers to follow to ''easily'' think of a way around it. The FirstLawOfResurrection will not be denied.

* This happens to King Sombra twice in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. First, he is blown into pieces by the Crystal Heart in the Season 3 premiere. Surprisingly, he is resurrected by Grogar six seasons later, only to be ReducedToDust. Grogar does hint that he could revive him again, but decides not to because he wants to make an example to the rest of his LegionOfDoom.

* The Nibiru Entity from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' was destroyed so utterly that it was completely erased from existence, present, future ''and'' past. This led to history being changed so that all the atrocities the creature had orchestrated over the centuries never happened, leaving the gang (and Creator/HarlanEllison) as the only ones who still remember the original timeline.

* This happens in the short story "Singularity Ablyss" in the Transformers Legends anthology novel, (which is set between-the-scenes of the Beast Machines episode "Spark of Darkness"). Megatron, after being defeated by Nightscream, has his spark approached by Rhinox's who attempts to act as a spirit guide and redeem the tyrant, this failed however and Megatron charged his particles with "purity of purpose" and used the knowledge of his physical state to erase Rhinox's spark from existence.

** A Transformer can survive an insane amount of punishment, and many characters come back after being declared dead, or taking an amount of damage that really, ''really'' oughta do the job. The ChunkySalsaRule is but a suggestion. This isn't to say that Transformers ''never'' stay dead... but nobody ever knows what to make of a character's death. There's always someone else who went through worse and was just fine, or fixable, or [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuildable]] into a new [[MerchandiseDriven toy, er, body]].) However, there's one way to know one is truly done for, in-story: make sure that his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent spark]], quite visible in a compartment in any Transformer's chest, is extinguished. (However, even ''then,'' there's Allspark energy...

** Another way to terminate a Transformer with extreme prejudice? ''Rip out its spine'' and use the barely-recognizable carcass to whack another enemy over the head. That's the aforementioned kitty's fate in the [[Film/{{Transformers}} live-action film series]]. And in the movieverse, DeathIsCheap is averted; so far, everyone who looked dead ''was'' dead if you didn't apply Allspark energy. But no, Ravage lives on in the comics (though his death and mysterious return were acknowledged, and Soundwave can't sense him anymore, meaning it's less UnexplainedRecovery and more "[=someone/something=] brought him back but ''not'' as he was before.") But in all these cases, the original writer wanted the characters capital-D Dead, took steps to show us that yes, this is death-death and not "Waspinator kablooification of the week..." and underestimated the ability of writers to follow to ''easily'' think of a way around it. The FirstLawOfResurrection will not be denied.

* In ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', it's established that demons born from human souls lack CompleteImmortality, and if the other psychopaths living among them don't kill them, the angels sent down for "population control" likely will.

** Also, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' Shepard comes back from the dead, but s/he can die forever during the suicide mission. Or by [[DeathBySex having sex with Morinth]].

*** A rules change finally addressed this, and created the "Exile" zone to replace the "removed from the game" zone. Cards that allow the player to bring in a card from "outside the game" cannot affect the Exile zone, like they could with the "removed from the game" zone. This has had the effect of making the Exile zone ''more'' deader than dead than actually not being in the game at all. Some exiling cards, such as Necropotence, return the card to play later; Flicker does so immediately. (It's still useful; it stops stealing, gets rid of auras and counters, and all sorts of other fun.)

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has an amulet of life saving that allows the player to survive a deadly incident... as long as said incident doesn't involve being hit with a mind flayer's brain-sucking attack or genociding oneself.

* ''X-Men Forever'': Creator/ChrisClaremont has said this is the fate of anyone who gets killed. When Wolverine was killed off in Issue 2, his picture in the recap page was overlaid with a big red "DEAD" for at least 10 issues just to drive the point home. He did reappear, but only in flashbacks from his UsefulNotes/WorldWarII service alongside [[Characters/ShieldDirectors Nick Fury]]. And, he finally got to retcon the original ending for ''X-Men (vol.2) #3'', in which instead of surviving, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] and any Acolyte who wasn't Fabian Cortez burn up and die in Earth's atmosphere as Asteroid M disintegrates.

* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', a servant can always be resurrected by their reaper as long as the reaper survives. Killing the reaper will prevent the servant from coming back, and drive the servant into a mindless rampage until their soul decays too much to sustain them. Failing that, a servant can be kept from resurrection by cutting off their head and freezing it.
* ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'' has the creatures of the Dark be soulless and once destroyed, they can never return. One such creature is The Bane who was worshiped as a God, then trapped behind an iron gate, released from the iron gate, brought back to the iron gate (if he returns to the gate, he can never escape again, so already a FateWorseThanDeath) and to top it all off, the main character impales the poor demon three times with his iron rod before causing the demon to explode and disappear from existence.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', the only way to be sure that the Dark One doesn't reincarnate the Forsaken, his lieutenants, is to kill them with Balefire, which retroactively erases them from the timeline a few minutes backwards. This causes the Dark One to miss the window of opportunity to pull them back into the Pattern (time). In addition, killing a spirit residing in ''tel'aran'rhiod'', the World of Dreams, causes that spirit to be removed from the Pattern altogether.
* Deliberately subverted (somewhat) in the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' book series by Diane Duane, where the BigBad is almost always just a particular avatar of the Lone Power, who is so ubiquitous as to be represented in practically every culture (including alien ones)'s mythology or folklore, usually as a TricksterGod as its "gift" of death/entropy has to be accepted by each species as it gains sentience... though it is also rather blatantly a Lucifer figure too (Wizards greet him as "Fairest and Fallen", and his invention of entropy got him kicked out of the Powers That Be's godly clique). Then again, the same holds true of fellow Power "[[ChosenOne The One's Champion]]", who is intended to beat the ever-living crap out of it in its own avatar in a number of key battles... over and over and over again.

* '''{{Dracula}}'''. Every modern appearance of the legendary bloodsucker feels obligated to invent a new way for him to be Deader than Dead by the end of the story, because staking him through the heart, cutting his head off and / or burning his remains ''just won't cut it'' to keep the old bastard down. Solutions include a vampire-annihilating megaplague (''Film/BladeTrinity''), using a stake made from the True Cross (webcomic ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats''), being killed by a werewolf (''Film/VanHelsing''), hanging him from a cross at dawn (''Film/{{Dracula 2000}}''), being absolved by a priest before being killed (''Film/DraculaIIILegacy'') ...and having his castle sealed inside an eclipse and his soul reincarnated into a {{Bishonen}} [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Japanese schoolboy]] (''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' onward...), or [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} being turned into imaginary numbers]]. Needless to say, none of it is particularly convincing, because someone, ''somewhere'', will [[PublicDomainCharacter always want to write a story about Dracula]].
** This was already a trope in the 1970s, when Film/HammerHorror films had to resort to increasingly drastic measures to try to keep Dracula dead ([[Film/ScarsOfDracula struck by lightning]], [[Film/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness sealed in ice]], tangled in ''a briar patch'' in [[Film/TheSatanicRitesOfDracula the last]] of his films).
** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', wisely, didn't even bother to insinuate that Buffy had killed him for good.
*** He was defeated in a way that's normally ignored: despite being the only vampire on-screen to survive being staked (twice), he was humiliated and left in disgrace.
* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', a village-raiding vampire is hit by a thrown garlic sausage while in bat form and, while stunned, eaten by Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo. The narration later mentions that while vampires have risen from the grave before, none have ever risen from the cat.
** In ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', some other methods of ''irreversible'' vampire-disposal are mentioned: scattering their ashes in a gale, dissolving them in the sea, or throwing them off the Disc's Edge to drift through space for millions of years. This is one of the reasons cited for why the Old Count stuck to ContractualGenreBlindness and ConvenientWeaknessPlacement: you may be much easier to kill, but if killing you dead is decent sport but not too hard, and you don't break the 'rules' of it, then people will call it a day when you're dead, leaving you set to return a few decades later when blood is accidentally spilled on your remains. But if you make it ''really'' hard to kill you and make them truly hate you, then once they do get you they're going to be ''creative'' about making sure you don't return...
** One of the mushrooms described in ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Discworld Almanac]]'' falls just short of this trope: it's said to be toxic enough that someone who dies eating it may still arise as a zombie, but a zombie that ''will still feel very sick''.
* The traditional method of execution for the Witted in the ''[[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings Farseer]]'' trilogy consists of hanging the victim over running water, chopping them up, and burning the pieces to make sure they're dead. It's also not really needed, Fitz's return from the dead notwithstanding.
* ''Literature/MasksOfAygrima'': The Lady of Pain and Fire, who is [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head with a crossbow,]] falls dozens of feet into a mine, more than likely crushed by the large gear at the bottom, and has the mine collapsed on top of her corpse. Later her consciousness is torn out of Mara and either crushed by The Autarch's consciousness, or is released and dissipated along with his magic when he dies.
* ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' was written on the condition that Douglas Adams be allowed to destroy everything so utterly and completely that it would never ever ever come back and he would never ever ever have to write in that world again, making the entire Earth Deader than Dead. He later regretted this and started writing another novel which would have brought everyone back but [[DiedDuringProduction died before he could complete it]]. [[Literature/AndAnotherThing A sequel]] was still written eventually by Creator/EoinColfer which saved the main characters, but left every version of Earth in every reality to exist Deader than Dead.
* This happens in the short story "Singularity Ablyss" in the Transformers Legends anthology nover, (which is set between-the-scenes of the Beast Machines episode "Spark of Darkness"). Megatron, after being defeated by Nightscream, has his spark approached by Rhinox's who attempts to act as a spirit guide and redeem the tyrant, this failed however and Megatron charged his particles with "purity of purpose" and used the knowledge of his physical state to erase Rhinox's spark from existence.
* Daemons and daemonhosts from the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe are generally just banished back to [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Warp]] when their physical bodies are killed. So it's especially notable that {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} managed to kill one ([[PunnyName Prophaniti]]) so thoroughly that it was erased from existence, Warp presence and all, at the end of ''Malleus''.
** The Emperor killed Horus by obliterating his soul so he can't even reincarnate by the will of the Chaos Gods.
*** Abaddon managed to get a piece of the action too, by destroying the body of Horus and the cloning facility designed to revive him so thoroughly that no one dared to even ''mention'' Horus's name in his presence ever again.
* In the ''Literature/BlackJewels'' world, if one of the Blood is powerful enough, they can continue to inhabit their body after death, and are called demon-dead. This is why it's important to "finish the kill," or burn out the person's Jewels (source of power) and brain, so that someone you killed last Tuesday doesn't track you down later to return the favor.

* In the ''Literature/DreamPark'' novels, participants in high-tech adventure [=LARPs=] who get "killed" are designated as slain by a black holographic aura. In ''The California Voodoo Game'', a zombie struck down by the Gamers is immediately cloaked by ''two'' overlapping black auras, indicating it's this trope. Also in ''California Voodoo'', areas of MIMIC that are off-limits for players are marked out with "radiation" symbols. Any character who violates a "radiation area" is not only killed without a saving throw, but their character is ''permanently'' declared dead by the International Fantasy Gaming Society, never to be played again.

* This is the fate of gods and monsters who fade in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', as they are sent back to Chaos and effectively cease to exist. This fate has already befallen the Gorgons, Helios, Selene and two of the Hundred-Handed Ones before the series starts, and Pan fades in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' due to the destruction of the wilderness.
** On rare occasions, immortals who have faded ''can'' be brought back. Gaea restored the Gorgons by unknown means, and the essence of Helios temporarily managed to cling onto Earth due to sheer hatred.
** The same effects can also occur when someone is thrown into Chaos itself, as they are returned to the primordial darkness from which they came. This is the ultimate fate of Python in the final book of ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo''.
* The protagonist of the classic horror novel ''Literature/TheNightLand'' seems more concerned about being "destroyed" than killed. The implication is that being killed allows one to go on to the afterlife, while nothing follows being "destroyed".
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', resurrection is possible (though rare enough that most people assume it to be legend, and are astonished when it happens), but only if the body is in good enough condition. In particular, decapitations are mentioned to be permanent deaths.
* In the book, the Sword of ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'', the Warlock Lord died, and has been driven back multiple times. However, the Sword of Shannara, with the power of the Main/AwfulTruth finally forces him to acknowledge that he was dead, animated only by his own willpower.
* In the ''Literature/{{Doom}}'' novels, this is depicted as an ''advantage'' unique to humans. When a human dies, nothing can bring them back to life. Their souls are gone. [[AndIMustScream The souls of other sentient beings are trapped in their corpses with all of their senses intact.]]
* From ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Clan cats go to an afterlife in [=StarClan=] or, for the worst villains, the Dark Forest, where they often interact with living cats. The cats from there can fade away over time if they are [[RememberTheDead forgotten by everyone]], and can also be killed again so they will never come back. Examples include Spottedleaf, Antpelt, Brokenstar, Hawkfrost, and Tigerstar. Later on it's shown that if a living cat dies while visiting the Dark Forest, they will also be completely [[CessationOfExistence erased from existence]] and cannot come back, as happens to Bristlefrost.

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Darth Sidious was able to come back from the dead twice through transferring his spirit to clone bodies of himself, but after the destruction of Byss, the force ghost of Jedi Knight Empatojayos Brand bound Sidious' soul to his own and dragged him into the Force, never to return.
** In general, every ghost of Force-sensitive, Jedi or Sith, shall return to the Force flows, either willingly or because of an exorcism, where they will remain definitely out of reach of living people.
* As it takes place for the most part in a world populated by ghosts, ''Literature/MayBird'' has other threats than just dying. Such as the threat of being sucked into nothingness or having your soul vaporized.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Sirius Black. His physical body literally enters the afterlife, such that no one can recover him without suffering the same fate as he does.
** Voldemort dies before the story begins, but keeps popping up in some form or another before fully reincarnating at the end of the fourth book. Once his {{Soul Jar}}s are destroyed, his soul is in such a ruined state that he can neither pass on to the afterlife nor return as a ghost, trapped in a tormented state in Limbo for eternity.
* ''Literature/MotherOfLearning'': Souls are generally agreed to have an indestructible core; thousands of years of unethical necromantic experimentation have not managed to crack them. However, WordOfGod is that the souls left in the loop at the end of each month are completely annihilated. The key is that the loop world is cut off from the spiritual realms, so the souls cannot pass on as usual, and when the loop world is collapsed and recreated, the souls cease to exist with no universe for them to exist in. Theoretically, mortals could reproduce the effect if they knew how to isolate a pocket dimension in that way.
* In the post-Melding Plague "Rust Belt" orbital settlement in Alastair Reynolds' ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' universe, committing an atrocious crime - for example, seriously damaging a space habitat - can land one a penalty called "irreversable brain death". As described in ''Redemption Ark'', it is a form of death sentence where not only the physical body of the convict is destroyed, but so is every existing computer simulation of the person, so that they can't be brought back into any form of existence ever again. One of the secondary characters tries to avoid this fate by making Antoinette's Bax father hide his Alpha (capable of learning and mentally growing like a real person) simulation inside the family spaceship before his real body is killed, posing as the ship's onboard AI Beast. Antoinette is not amused when she finds out.
* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': In order to ensure that someone ''stays'' dead (given that powerful healers are able to resurrect them), assassins will burn the body, take off the head or cut out their heart. Sam's done about a dozen "permanent" hits.
* In the works of Creator/JRRTolkien, when elves die their souls enter the Halls of Mandos in Valinar, where they can remain or reincarnate into new bodies. The souls of Men, by contrast, pass beyond the Walls of the World when they die, and none among the Valar know where they go. More interesting, however, is the tale of Luthien Tinuviel, who fell in love with the human Beren, and by virtue of that love became the only elf who was allowed to die in truth, her soul passing out of the world along with Beren's. Similarly, their half-elven descendants were granted the unique right to choose whether they would be counted as human or elf, and which path their souls would walk after death.
* In ''Literature/TheCosmere'', a person's soul normally lingers in the Cognitive Realm for a few minutes after death before being pulled into the Beyond. However, with the proper magic it is possible to preserve the soul as a Cognitive Shadow, and even incarnate that shadow into a new body. There are a few different ways to send a Cognitive Shadow to the Beyond. The simplest is to simply cut off the Shadow from whatever is feeding it Investiture, but if this is not possible more extreme measures may be required.
** ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' introduces Nightblood, an incredibly powerful sword which drains Investiture from both its wielder and its targets to feed its hunger. Nightblood devours and digests the souls of those it kills, preventing them from forming Shadows and permanently destroying any Cognitive Shadow it touches.
** ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' adds another method with anti-Light. A properly tuned anti-Light weapon can destroy Cognitive Shadows by annihilating the energies that compose them, killing a Shadow beyond any possibility of restoration.
* One of the defining traits of ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' is how hard the setting averts SquishyWizard. At one point, The Limper is the most powerful man in the North, despite being ''a severed head.'' When we do see a wizard well and truly dead, for keeps, it's because their enemy killed them, chopped them into pieces, burned the body, then scattered the ashes over a wide area. Indeed, when the Company goes after the BigBad of the first few books, they devote all their effort to finding the weakness that will leave her permanently DePowered, because that's a more reliable way to get rid of her than killing her would be.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' punches Jubileus' soul into the sun and annihilates the body to rubble. As of ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' Loptr is rendered as this after suffering a massive beatdown, getting his body punched from his soul and then having said body devoured by Gommorah, trying to escape but then Young!Balder containing him within himself before he returns to the 1400s. The scene at the beginning of Bayonetta 2 is Loptr trying to escape from Balder, but Balder [[TakingYouWithMe keeps him inside until the moment they die so Loptr will definitely die]] with him.

** This was also the fate of [[spoiler:Xion]]. Being a replica made of Sora's memories, [[RetGone everybody forgot about her existence]] after [[spoiler: she is killed by Roxas, though this gets later subverted as Lea and Sora seem to remember some fragments about her. She does come back in ''III'' due to TimeTravel [[KudzuPlot shenanigans]].]]

* In the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series, after being killed and resurrected as many times as [[TheLancer Zero]], [[BigBad Sigma]] is considered gone for good in the final game ''X8''. Because his decimation took place on the Moon's surface, where the Maverick virus isn't as potent, Sigma is denied his ability to regenerate again. Though the game does provide a possible means for Sigma to return via his DNA being within the Copy Chips of the New Generation Reploids, this trope finally takes full effect on Sigma in the time between the ''X'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series in which a special cure program known as the Mother Elf finally wipes out every last trace of the Sigma Virus.

* The 1982 graphic novel ''The Death of Captain Marvel'' did this to [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Captain Mar-Vell]]. The fact that [[LifeWillKillYou he died of cancer]] in [[TheTopicOfCancer a story specifically meant to raise awareness of cancer]] means that any attempt to bring him back permanently would come across as incredibly disrespectful, and it has been claimed at a few points that he isn't coming back until a reliable cancer cure is created. A few stories dealing with what would happen if he survived have claimed it would lead to ''much'' worse things happening, and while there have been occasional fakeouts, they're invariably revealed as imposters, zombies, or cases of mistaken identity. In fact in the Realms of Kings one-shot prelude to [[ComicBook/TheThanosImperative]], we see the consequences of Mar-Vell being "cured": The Cancerverse.

* The 1982 graphic novel ''The Death of Captain Marvel'' did this to [[Characters/MarvelComicsMarvels Captain Mar-Vell]]. The fact that [[LifeWillKillYou he died of cancer]] in [[TheTopicOfCancer a story specifically meant to raise awareness of cancer]] means that any attempt to bring him back permanently would come across as incredibly disrespectful, and it has been claimed at a few points that he isn't coming back until a reliable cancer cure is created. A few stories dealing with what would happen if he survived have claimed it would lead to ''much'' worse things happening, and while there have been occasional fakeouts, they're invariably revealed as imposters, zombies, or cases of mistaken identity.

** In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'', the BigBad, Dio Brando, had been crushed under the flaming wreckage of a mansion, decapitated, and caught in the explosion of a ship. [[RasputinianDeath He still manages to come back in Part 3 to terrorize the heroes yet again.]] During the final battle between Dio and [[TheHero Jotaro]], Jotaro [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]], destroying his Stand and killing Dio in the process. Just to be sure, Jotaro exposes his remains to the sunlight, since, as a vampire, the sun will vaporize him. And in case you were wondering if there was any chance Dio could still come back, there's a side note stating that Dio has been [[KilledOffForReal "completely destroyed"]]. Not even his DragonAscendant from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', Enrico Pucci could avert this despite killing the main protagonist and her father.

* ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'': Because the humans the story follows are DeadToBeginWith, the destruction of their souls basically means they will [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]]. The same goes for any of the {{Valkyries}} or gods who die during the tournament.

* The Data Entities in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' could ''delete'' certain events -- and, to some extent, beings.

* People die in ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' by having their "power of existence" consumed -- i.e., removing them from having ''ever'' existed in the first place.
* This is the fate of anyone who dies in Ragnarok in ''Manga/ShuumatsuNoWalkureRecordOfRagnarok''. Because the humans the story follows are DeadToBeginWith, the destruction of their souls basically means they will [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]]. The same goes for any of the {{Valkyries}} or gods who die during the tournament.
* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'':

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':

* In ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' the dead can usually [[DeathIsCheap come back to life]]; this both applies to you and is referenced in-story. There are ways to bring permanent death, though: destroying (decapitating etc.) the victim's body (and even then Feducci has been known to come back from being reduced to mincemeat), or the "Cantigaster venom." Death from disease or old age is also final.

* ''Videogame/SunlessSkies'' takes place in the same universe, though people aren't quite as durable up there as they once were in the Neath. However, one particular option you can take when presented with one of [[SentientStars the Judgements]] is to essentially perform a RageAgainstTheHeavens while the Heavens are standing right there. The game outright warns you this will kill you, probably harder than anyone has ''ever'' been killed. Since you are essentially killed by getting outlawed by reality itself right where it's most capable of enforcing this, nothing you are or ever ''were'' continues to exist the instant the Judgement in question has turned its gaze to you.