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* No human characters die in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', despite how potentially lethal the Commando Elite toys are. All the human characters make it out of the ordeal with minor injuries at most.

* Most of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''s encounters with The Riddler tend to be like this. In comparison to his more homicidal comrades in Batman's RoguesGallery, the cerebral nature of the Riddler's modus operandi was less likely to involve murder. Though that depends somewhat on the writer; sometimes he's as much of a homicidal maniac as everyone else.
* ''The Technis Imperative'' is the rare crossover event where no one actually dies, and it can even be argued that by the end of it, the result was actually negative one deaths, as Cyborg returned.
* Dan Slott's ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' has declared that no one will die on his watch. Victims, villains, it doesn't matter. No one dies. [[spoiler: After saving more than 7 billion people from Doc Ock's superweapon he considers it a failure because Silver Sable and Rhino were killed]].
* This is the goal of the Great Society from [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman the New Avengers]]. In opposing the collapse of the Multiverse they refuse to take any lives or destroy any inhabited world. The Superman expy who leads them even gave a speech that directly invokes this, contrasting Reed Richard's earlier 'everything dies' speech.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'' #54 from 1991 invokes this. To quote Wally West, "Nobody dies. It's a rule."

* ''VideoGame/{{Insanity}}'': In the good endings, all the protagonists survive. In fact, keeping everyone alive is the only way to get a good ending; if either Kenta or Riho are [[{{Permadeath}} killed]], you'll always get a bad ending.

->''"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"''

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358 Air France Flight 358]] involved an Airbus A340 widebody jetliner that ran off the end of the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport and caught fire on August 2, 2005. These sorts of accidents involving planes catching fire had always been deadly affairs even when the aircraft had either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797 landed successfully]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M failed to leave the ground]]. A combination of toxic smoke in a cramped enclosed space and poor human factors engineering had always conspired to make getting out of a burning aircraft a dicey proposition. However, in the case of Flight 358 better designs and emergency techniques allowed the 309 passengers and crew to evacuate from the burning jet in under a minute without a single fatality.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' manages to pull this trope off, in stark contrast to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the main series]] in which [[spoiler:Madoka and Sayaka are no longer alive in the remade world. And that's after all the previous loops Homura made, full of deaths and becoming Witches.]] By the end, everyone is alive and living happy lives getting what they really wanted, so it's should be all rainbow and sunshine, right? And yet, it is only created via [[spoiler:Homura becoming a SatanicArchtype and overthrowing Madoka's godlike position as the Law of the Cycle, betraying the one whose happiness she wants to protect more than anything else by keeping her and everyone else ignorant, even at the cost of her friendship with her and destroying the goodwill she had built up with the others.]] The movie ends before this is further explored, but somehow an ending which results in fewer deaths and suffering ([[spoiler:except for Kyubey, but no one feels particularly sorry for the AssholeVictim after what the Incubators put Homura through in the movie itself]]) feels at best no more unambiguously good than the series ending.

* Creator/TerryPratchett, while writing ''Literature/GoodOmens'', insisted that nobody would die as a result of [[spoiler:Adam the Antichrist's]] existence, to the point of persuading co-author Creator/NeilGaiman to reverse the deaths of [[spoiler:several innocent [[AcceptableTargets telephone salespeople]] at the mandibles of an enraged demon]].

* Similarly, no one stays dead in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films. Well, it's possible those Libyan terrorists in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first film]] didn't survive the van crash, so they ''might'' have died, but they could have only been injured just as easily. If {{Deleted Scene}}s count, Marshall Strickland was murdered by Buford Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', though the scene was cut explicitly ''because'' of this trope (Buford would have surely been hanged for killing a lawman, but according to the plot he ''had'' to live in order to keep the Tannen bloodline going).

* The climax of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2]]'' features a massive battle that did not happen in the book, in which several supporting characters die before the villains are ultimately vanquished. This is then revealed to have been a ''vision'' shown to the BigBad of what would happen if he actually did fight the protagonists, and knowing he will lose, he allows the conflict to be resolved peacefully.

-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]]

'''This is an {{Ending trope|s}}, so beware of spoilers.'''

* ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', once you complete the game for the first time, you can play the game again and be able to save two of the protagonistic casts. Once the first one is saved, it automatically locks the future ending to its GoldenEnding.