History Main / EverybodyLives

** While characters get beaten up in "[[spoiler:Ring of Truth]]", "[[spoiler:A Means to an End]]", and "[[spoiler:Out of the Ashes]]", no one dies in those episodes. * ''Franchise/KamenRider'':

* The second-to-last episode of ''LightNovel/LibraryWar'' ended with two major characters potentially dead: one being shot multiple times in the chest, and another getting caught in a large explosion. However, in the last episode, they both make a full recovery.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':

* ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfVIewTheEmpireStrikesBack:'' "Amara Kel's Rule for TIE pilot Survival (Probably)" features a lot of fighter combat in the incredibly dangerous asteroid belt and makes repeated comments about the short life expectancies of [[NewMeat Amara's rookie wingmates, AKA "cloudflies."]] However, the story ends with the entire squadron alive, even though one pilot briefly gets lost in the asteroid field and another has to be towed back to their ship after ejecting (which is risky whenever there are floating rocks or debris nearby).

* ''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 killed, you'll always get a bad ending.

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

* In the GoldenEnding for ''VideoGame/TheForgottenCity'', [[spoiler:not only are all the people's you've met in the city alive, even the people [[AndIMustScream trapped as golden statues]] long before their arrival are also brought back. Even the villian is still [[FateWorseThanDeath technically alive]] back in the city as the sole remaining golden statue]].

* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''Fanfic/ACharmedLife'' all the main characters survive except for those already dead in canon.

* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies''. The clue's in the title really. [[spoiler: Depending whether you believe Mari is still Mari, or just an Angel that ''thinks'' it's Mari, although the only person who holds with the latter theory in-universe is [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild her mother]].]]
* In the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/NeverSayNever'', [[InMediasRes starts out]] on the 6th class trial showing that all students have survived their murders attempts and execution and have since made peace with each other.
* ''Fanfic/GuiltySparks'': While a lot of people die throughout the story, everyone still alive by the final act, [[spoiler: save Major Silva]], manages to escape Halo alive. Unlike [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved the source material]], hundreds of Marines, Jackals, and Batarians manage to escape the Ring before it explodes thanks to Commander Shepard [[GuileHero just]] [[TheParagon doing]] [[CharmPerson his job]].
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': At the end of the story, not only SEELE's AssimilationPlot has been thwarted and every death in the main cast averted (even Gendo's karmic retribution only puts him in a vegetative state), but Shinji and Asuka's daughter who was assumed to be RetGone is brought back to them, making their family complete again. The only onscreen deaths are Rei (who, par for the course, comes back), Kaworu (after a heartwarming speech to convince a reluctant Shinji of its necessity), and Kyoko (by way of Heroic Sacrifice).

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the GoldenEnding to the Rannoch arc, [[spoiler:where if you have [[GuideDangIt done everything right in the previous game as well as this one]], you can convince the quarians and the Geth to finally make peace after three hundred years of war. Technically, Legion ''does'' cease to exist even then, but it's not so much death as "becoming part of the entire Geth race" to spread the modified Reaper code and give them true sentience. Joker even triumphantly proclaims "We didn't lose anyone!" EDI however, counters that Legion did in fact die, and specifically notes that he referred to himself as "I" rather than "We" in his final moments. She cites this as proof that in his final moments, he was in fact [[DoAndroidsDream a person]]. Even if he became one with the geth, he personally is gone.]]

* ''Film/{{Cam}}}'': Apart from the revelation that the cam girl Baby died (in a genuine accident) several months ago, everybody survives the movie, with the only "victim" being completely non-sentient.

Contrast EverybodysDeadDave, EveryoneDiesEnding, and NobodyCanDie. Not to be confused with ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' (an NGE fanfic).

Contrast EverybodysDeadDave, KillEmAll, and NobodyCanDie. Not to be confused with ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' (an NGE fanfic).

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' manages to be both this and KillEmAll. The only character to survive without dying once is [[PluckyComicRelief Mr. Satan]], but since DeathIsCheap, they all get brought back anyway. The only character to die permanently is Android 16, due to being fully mechanical.

** The Season 11 episode "Don't Call Me Shurley" takes this trope UpToEleven, as not only does no one die, but [[spoiler: [[DivineIntervention God's intervention]] resurrects the people who ''had'' died, bringing the number of deaths into the negative numbers.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'', whose main premise was ThereCanBeOnlyOne, ends with [[spoiler:Ren/Knight]] as the last remaining Rider after everyone else has been killed off. However, the master of the Rider War isn't too happy with this outcome (since [[spoiler:his proxy Odin wasn't the winner]]) and attempts to [[ResetButtonEnding start things over by rewinding time]]. However, Yui finally convinces him that no matter how many times the Rider War is run, [[spoiler:[[YouCantFightFate she will never accept a new life from him]] if it's at the cost of thirteen others]]. So this time when he rewinds everything, he stays in the [[PhantomZone Mirror World]] with Yui and never starts the Rider War in the first place. Thus, Everybody Lives. Bravo, Yasuko Kobayashi.
** However, it's not known if this applied to Scissors, who may or may not be still very much dead. He was a corrupt bastard, so...

* This is the goal of the Great Society from [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers 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.

* In ''Dresden'', the main character (a British pilot), his love interest, their Jewish friend and HIS love interest, the main love interest's dad, and the love rival, ALL manage to survive the bombing of Dresden - even though some of them were in the train station that was the first place to get hit, and which was supposed to be absolutely obliterated. And the protagonist does this all with [[OnlyAFleshWound serious injuries]]. And he escapes back to England. However, this is subverted later when [[spoiler: after the war, Protagonist flies back to see his true love (and, OMG, their child)... when his plane crashes. [[ShootTheShaggyDog So, he is killed... in the post-script... by a voice-over]].]]

** The same thing happens in ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'': While at first, it seems like [[spoiler:Tybalt died, he appears glued back together at the DancePartyEnding.]]

* The original ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'' does this: as the last episode goes on, all the Steel Angels had given up their power to power a cannon to destroy the OneWingedAngel form of Kurumi, only for Nakahito to start bringing her back... when the cannon's fired, apparently killing them both. In their "afterlife", the two come to, share a TrueLovesKiss, reviving them and all the Steel Angels.

* In ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'', DIO resurrects characters killed in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure the manga]] to fight the heroes, but after Jotaro and allies defeat him, all the revived characters stay alive and return to their time periods better equipped to handle their upcoming battles. This leads to different outcomes to the various Parts, including [[spoiler: [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Zeppeli surviving to see Jonathon's final fight with Dio]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Caesar tag-teaming with Joseph in his duel with Wamuu]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Shigechi alive while Kira (or Kosaku) eyes him disdainfully]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Bucciarati's Gang standing together in the Colosseum]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean the Green Dolphin Street inmates and Jotaro relaxing together]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Johnny and Gyro facing Alternate Universe Diego together]], and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Avdol, Kakyoin and Iggy saying goodbye at the airport with an intact Polnareff]].]] [[ExaggeratedTrope Not only do our heroes live but so does every other heroic character in the setting!]]

** Your own party also has some work to do to be entirely whole by the end of the game. Sten will die in Lothering if you don't pick him up. Leliana and Wynne will fight you to the death if you decide to defile the Urn of Sacred Ashes with them present [[spoiler: Leliana survives to play her role in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' regardless, explaining the incident as waking up at the foot of the mountain with no idea how she survived.]] "Dog" can be killed instead of recruited, ditto Zevran. Either [[spoiler: Alistair or Loghain]] can end up executed as a result of the Landsmeet, and it takes some doing to keep both of them alive, ''particularly'' if you want to keep the former involved in the plot and [[DrowningMySorrows sober]]. Morrigan is the only companion that can't end up dead by the end of the Blight, [[spoiler: and even then, you can stab her and leave her for dead at the end of the Witch Hunt DLC.]] Keeping that grab bag of dysfunctions and disorders wholly alive through the game takes a spot of work.

* 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.