History Main / MassResurrection

* The "Crisis on Infinite Earths" event in the Series/{{Arrowverse}} includes whole worlds being created, destroyed, and reborn, along with their entire populations. The series finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' goes into the most detail with this: [[spoiler:all of the people in the multiverse but seven are killed, but Oliver Queen uses the power of the Spectre to create a new Earth where one version of every person is brought back to life (including a few of his loved ones who died before the crisis.]]

** The conclusion of Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances, the trope namer for EverybodyLives - Everyone who was turned into a gas-mask zombie is restored to life and health, leading to one of the Doctor's happiest on-screen moments.
** People, planets, stars, entire species, and the Doctor themselves are all restored to life and existence at the conclusion of Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang, thanks to Amy Pond's RippleEffectProofMemory. "Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are ''late for my wedding!''"

*** This ability was a guild perk starting in ''Cataclysm'' until it was removed in ''Legion''. Nowadays, all healer-specialized classes have their own lore-appropriate version, but Priests retain the spell actually named "Mass Resurrection".
*** Used by Terenas Menethil II on the raid after his son, [[BigBad Arthas aka the Lich King]], kills the players.
*** High Inquisitor Whitemane, the final boss in the updated Scarlet Monastery, uses an interruptible version of this.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'': The Necron Lord can bring back a large number of Necron infantry in an area around him, using an ability 'called' Mass Resurrection.
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'': In the end, the Nameless One can manage to resurrect his entire party [[spoiler:who have all suffered a PlotlineDeath in the final dungeon]] if certain pre-conditions are met.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's original [[LimitBreak ultimate]] ability ''Resurrect'' allowed her to resurrect all nearby allies who hadn't respawned yet. The original "Huge Rez" achievement was achieved when she resurrected four or more allies at once. In the September 2017 patch, her ''Resurrect'' was changed to a normal ability which can only resurrect one person, or two if ''Valkyrie'' was used to reset the cooldown, causing it to be a heavily downplayed version of this trope. It is no longer an example now that the cooldown can not be reset, limiting resurrections to one person at a time.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': In the ''Throne of Bhaal'' expansion, high-level clerics can get Mass Raise Dead, which raises all dead party members and then heals the entire party for a significant amount. A very convenient way to recover after an intense battle.
-->''Once one has such powers at one's disposal, can immortality itself be far behind? - Volo''
-->''There is more to being immortal than merely possessing great power...or so I have heard. - Elminster''
* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2: Battle of the Gods'': One of the [[AGodIsYou Miracles you can learn]] is Life, an AreaOfEffect that resurrects dead bodies (who [[EnemyExchangeProgram become your citizens]] in gratitude, if they weren't already) and [[ReviveKillsZombie destroys the undead]].
* Healers in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have a level 3 LimitBreak (only available in a full party of 8 players) where they can fully revive all knocked out party members within range of the player using the skill.

* In the Marvel Comics CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' approximately half of the universe is killed, but they're resurrected by the end of the series.

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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
** This ability was a guild perk starting in Cataclysm until it was removed in Legion. Nowadays, all healer-specialized classes have their own lore-appropriate version, but Priests retain the spell actually named "Mass Resurrection".
** Also used by Terenas Menethil II on the raid after his son, [[BigBad Arthas aka the Lich King]], kills the players.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft 3}}'', the Paladin's ultimate ability resurrects up to six of your own dead units at full health (if their corpses are still around, that is.)
** High Inquisitor Whitemane, the final boss in the updated Scarlet Monastery, uses an interruptible version of this.
* The Necron Lord in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' can bring back a large number of Necron infantry in an area around him, using an ability 'called' Mass Resurrection.
* In the end of ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the Nameless One can manage to resurrect his entire party [[spoiler:who have all suffered a PlotlineDeath in the final dungeon]] if certain pre-conditions are met.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Mercy's original [[LimitBreak ultimate]] ability ''Resurrect'' allowed her to resurrect all nearby allies who hadn't respawned yet. The original "Huge Rez" achievement was achieved when she resurrected four or more allies at once. In the September 2017 patch, her ''Resurrect'' was changed to a normal ability which can only resurrect one person, or two if ''Valkyrie'' was used to reset the cooldown, causing it to be a heavily downplayed version of this trope. It is no longer an example now that the cooldown can not be reset, limiting resurrections to one person at a time.

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** This ability was a guild perk starting in Cataclysm until it was removed in Legion. Nowadays, all healer-specialized classes have their own lore-appropriate version, but Priests retain the spell actually named "Mass Resurrection.

** This ability is a guild perk.

You have a large number of characters who have been [[KillThemAll killed]] and you need to bring them back to life for some reason or another?

* In the climax of ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Father is initially successful of stealing all of the souls of virtually [[KillEmAll everyone in all of Amestris]], giving him [[OneWingedAngel enough power to usurp God as he had planned]]. However, [[XanatosGambit Hohenheim's countermeasure he'd spent the series setting up finally kicks in]] and ends up reversing Father's initial spell, returning everyone in the country back to life and leaving Father [[ClippedWingAngel devastatingly unstable.]]]]

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Shenron can revive a virtually limitless number of people at one time, with some restrictions. At one point, it is used to revive everyone killed by Frieza in the past year, or on his orders, which effects a staggering number of people, including most of the population of the planet Namek.

* In ''Comicbook/SecretWars1984'':

* When the majority of the Autobots are slaughtered in a Decepticon ambush in issue #80 of Marvel's ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', the day is saved by the arrival of the nearly mythical Last Autobot, who at Optimus' behest begins resurrecting fallen Autobots faster than the Decepticons can kill them. Interestingly, it's implied that he does not perform this task on batches of fallen Autobots, but is instead ''very'' fast at rebuilding and restoring them serially.

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* In the MLP:FIM/World of Warcraft crossover ''Fanfic/WorldOfPonycraft'' Princess Celestia resurrects almost all of Ponyville at once after Neltharion razes it.

* The Catholic dogma of the Resurrection of the Dead[[note]]the idea that God will resurrect every person who has ever lived at the end of time[[/note]] is referenced throughout ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' by various ghosts suffering from their separation from their bodies. The ghosts in Heaven in particular long for their bodies again so they can enjoy Heaven in body and soul, but the damned in Hell fear the Resurrection because their tortures will only grows worse when they have a body to fully feel pain with.

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* Literature/TheBible:
** In Book of Ezekiel, God commands Ezekiel to [[CavalryOfTheDead resurrect a whole army of skeletons into living beings]] in order to reclaim Israel.
** According to the Book of 1st Thessalonians, a mass resurrection of "the dead in Christ" shall occur. They will then be swept up to heaven along with the believers that still live.
** According to the Book of Revelation, God will do this on the Last Day to everyone who had ever lived, raising them from the dead just before the Judgment.

* {{UsefulNotes/Islam}}, too, teaches a mass resurrection will happen before God judges all human beings.
* Perhaps the TropeMaker is {{UsefulNotes/Zoroastrianism}}, whose teachings first held that a mass resurrection and then judgment would occur when [[GodOfGood Ahura Mazda]] defeated his evil rival [[GodOfEvil Ahriman]]. Some scholars believe this belief influences the Jews (who were liberated by the Persians from the Babylonian Captivity) then the Christians and Muslims in turn. Regardless, it's grown in popularity obviously.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

** The first third of ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' depicts a lot of the strangeness and drama that would come about for half the world coming back to life. Peter suddenly finds that his classmates who weren't killed have graduated and kids that were in middle school are now the same age as him, including a kid who became super-handsome after hitting puberty and who wants to make a move on Peter's crush, MJ.

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', the heroes' main goal is to find a way to reverse [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar the Snap]], essentially bringing back ''half of all life in the universe''. [[spoiler:They succeed, but the resurrection ''only'' applies to victims of the BadassFingersnap, meaning that everyone who died before or after the Snap stays dead. Also, two of their number die over the course of the film.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Riverworld}}'', the entire human race is brought back in the titular world after a cataclysm.
* ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'': TheEmpire was founded when a man somehow [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended to godhood]] as the first {{Necromancer}}, resurrected the nine planets of the Dominicus star system and their populations, and installed himself as eternal GodEmperor. Of course, ten thousand years later, [[UnreliableExpositor his is the only word on the subject]]...

* When the majority of the Autobots are slaughtered in a Decepticon ambush in issue #80 of Marvel's''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', the day is saved by the arrival of the nearly mythical Last Autobot, who at Optimus' behest begins resurrecting fallen Autobots faster than the Decepticons can kill them. Interestingly, it's implied that he does not perform this task on batches of fallen Autobots, but is instead ''very'' fast at rebuilding and restoring them serially.

You have a large number of characters whom have been [[KillThemAll killed]] and you need to bring them back to life for some reason or another?

->''"The elevator to Firmament has become a river Styx. One by one, condemned souls return from the netherworld..."''
-->-- '''Mission: Stratosphere''', ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''

* At the end of the first season of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Usagi's dying wish on the silver crystal brings the entire team back to life, herself included. Unfortunately, this comes at the cost of losing all their memories of their battle and their friendship.

* In ''Comicbook/SecretWars'':