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* ''FanFic/AClashOfNeets'': The go-to solution for the Seven Goddesses when dealing with any major, world-ending threat is to reincarnate various heroes into the imperiled world, and give them divine-boons to deal with the problem. In most cases, this is a one-off situation for the soul in question, and is generally your typical {{Isekai}} plot. In more ''serious'' cases, however, they'll send a Champion; a Champion is a powerful mortal soul tied directly to a specific goddess; for instance, the [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Puella Magi Holy Quintet are Madoka]]'s Champions, while the [[Manga/SaintSeiya Saints, and Seiya in particular, are Athena]]'s. While a normal hero is only reincarnated for a specific purpose once, and than goes back to the normal reincarnation cycle, Champions are exempt from the cycle and spend eternity fighting for their goddess. Since they're the most powerful servants of the Seven, and can only be in so many places at once, sending them is seen as the "nuclear option" for dealing with a problem. The fact that [[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} Aqua and Eris]] have reincarnated ''all twelve'' of their shared Champions into [[Literaute/ASongOfIceAndFire Westeros]] simultaneously is seen as a very, ''very'' bad sign by those who know something about these things.

* ''FanFic/AClashOfNeets'': The go-to solution for the Seven Goddesses when dealing with any major, world-ending threat is to reincarnate various heroes into the imperiled world, and give them divine-boons to deal with the problem. In most cases, this is a one-off situation for the soul in question, and is generally your typical {{Isekai}} plot. In more ''serious'' cases, however, they'll send a Champion; a Champion is a powerful mortal soul tied directly to a specific goddess; for instance, the Puella Magi Holy Quintet are Madoka's Champions, while the Saints, and Seiya in particular, are Athena's. While a normal hero is only reincarnated for a specific purpose once, and than goes back to the normal reincarnation cycle, Champions are exempt from the cycle and spend eternity fighting for their goddess. Since they're the most powerful servants of the Seven, and can only be in so many places at once, sending them is seen as the "nuclear option" for dealing with a problem. The fact that Aqua and Eris have reincarnated ''all twelve'' of their shared Champions into Westeros simultaneously is seen as a very, ''very'' bad sign by those who know something about these things.

* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name might imply]], is all about this. The twist in the setting is that the mysterious Voice of the World interprets the main character's [[FinalSpeech dying thoughts on Earth]] rather [[LiteralMinded literally]], concluding that he should be reincarnated as a slime. These are common enough in the world that these particular Otherworlders are known as "Reincarnators" (though most tend to retain their human bodies with maybe a few physical changes, not an outright species change).

* Implied in ''LightNovel/AnotherWorldReincarnation''. Ren, the 10 year old protagonist, suddenly has the memories of a 30 year old researcher, who died in an explosion, manifest in her mind after she narrowly survives a carriage accident. She ''suspects'' she was that 30+ scientist, but is not certain, since she was raised as a girl her whole life and her Ren persona is the active and dominant one. She may have the researcher's memories, but not his traits.

* In ''LightNovel/TheHeroAndHisElfBrideOpenAPizzaParlorInAnotherWorld'', the protagonist passes away during a pizza delivery gig, and reincarnated into another world where he is given a choice - he can become a wizard, a swordsman, or simply save the world with pizza. Before he can decide, the first two options are snatched up by other people, and he's left to manage a pizza parlor, assisted by the elfen daughter of a demon lord.

* ''Did You Think You Could Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?'': After both he and his younger sister had an encounter with Truck-kun, the main character found himself with a goddess, who told him he was to be reincarnated into another world. Reborn as Jack Lieber, in a world where everyone can use magic, he is determined to have a happy life with his new family. There's just one catch: his former sister was also reincarnated into the same world, and she is ''[[BrotherSisterIncest obsessed]]'' with him, and even that is putting it lightly.

* ''Did You Think You Could Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?'': After both he and his younger sister had an encounter with Truck-kun, the main character found himself with a goddess, who told him he was to be reincarnated into another world. Reborn as Jack Lieber, in a world where everyone can use magic, he is determined to have a happy life with his new family. There's just one catch: his former sister was also reincarnated into the same world, and she is ''obsessed'' with him, and even that is putting it lightly.

* ''Did You Think You Could Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?'': After both he and his younger sister had an encounter with Truck-kun, the main character found himself with a goddess, who told him he was to be reincarnated into another world. Reborn as Jack Liebe,r in a world where everyone can use magic, he is determined to have a happy life with his new family. There's just one catch: his former sister was also reincarnated into the same world, and she is ''obsessed'' with him, and even that is putting it lightly.

Subtrope of {{Reincarnation}}. See also BornAgainImmortality, though most works just focus on one alternate world instead of multiple worlds. A supertrope to MediaTransmigration, where the character dies and reincarnates into a pre-existing character within a ShowWithinAShow. Contrast with TrappedInAnotherWorld, which doesn't involve death and retains the possibility that the character in question could return home (though most anime fans use the Japanese term ''isekai'' for both.[[note]]Japanese-speakers will sometimes call this one ''isekai tensei'' ("another world reincarnation") to differentiate from ''isekai ten'i'' ("another world transition"), which is TrappedInAnotherWorld.[[/note]])

* Invoked in ''LightNovel/IAmTheEvilLordOfAnIntergalacticEmpire'' when a being calling himself The Guide shows up at the protagonist's deathbed, shows the protagonist how his ex just saw him as another wallet, never loved him, had a daughter that may not even be his, just to milk him for child-support payments and happily mocking him to the guy she was cheating with. After that little rage-invoking show is over, The Guide presents the protagonist a set of alternate worlds where he can get a second chance at life, secretly planning to see the protagonist fall into despair again. The protagonist takes him up on the offer and does indeed start to enjoy this new life when he becomes a Count and planet lord ''at age 5.''

* ''LightNovel/AccomplishmentsOfTheDukesDaughter:'' Iris Lana Armelia regains her PastLifeMemories as a Japanese accountant with the knowledge that she is the villainous rival of the otome game she played. And she's in the game's Good Ending climax where her fiancee Prince Edward publicly humiliates her and breaks off their engagement for the game's heroine. Iris leaves with as much dignity she can carry and enough sympathy to foster as she starts her new life as businesswoman.
* ''LightNovel/AkuyakuReijouLevel99WatashiWaUraBossDesuGaMaouDeWaArimasen'': The protagonist reincarnates into the world of her favorite video game, an [[GenreMashup otome game/RPG hybrid]] and discovers that she's the heroine's rival who randomly becomes an overpowered BonusBoss after the Demon King is defeated. Realizing that being the Bonus Boss means she has the highest stat potential of anybody in the world, she does a bunch of solo LevelGrinding to get strong enough that nobody will harm her. But she goes seriously overboard and hits the LevelCap of 99. And since everybody at the Royal Academy gets scanned for their level on the first day, this ruins her plan to disappear into obscurity.

* ''LightNovel/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'' is about a vending machine-obsessed man who is crushed by one as he tries to protect it from crashing to the ground. Reincarnated as a vending machine in a fantasy world, he plans to see what the world has to offer, but is unable to move or talk due to his new status. Luckily, an adventurer agrees to carry him around on her back.
* ''LightNovel/ReMonster'' centers around a human mercenary from a sci-fi setting who dies violently and reincarnates into an RPG-style fantasy world as a baby goblin. Using his military training and a unique ability that lets him absorb skills from enemies he eats, he takes over his goblin tribe, turns them into a formidable fighting force, and keeps evolving into bigger, badder monsters.
* ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'': Rather than being a luckless twentysomething [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hikikomori with a good heart deep inside]] in order to save the world, the one who's being reincarnated is a ''Japanese {{salaryman}}'' from a Human Resources department who favors efficiency above all else, heartlessly fires people...and gets pushed into a train by one of those people for his troubles. Reincarnating as a ''young [[GenderBender girl]]'' in a magical FantasyCounterpartCulture of early 1920s Europe was supposed to be a punishment by Being X for not only being a bastard, but also ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu mouthing off God]]''. Even as a child, Tanya is a [[SociopathicSoldier horrible monster on the battlefield]] and set up the indirect deaths of two noblemen for not following orders and mouthing off to her.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': After a Hero and Demon King use a powerful magic that rips through dimensions and blows up her entire classroom, a quiet lonely girl finds herself reincarnated into their fantasy world... as a spider. Now she has to use all her wits to try and survive this world's deadliest labyrinth. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she never really reincarnated: she was an otherwise normal spider caught up in the explosion that [[JerkassGods Evil God D]] gave some of her own memories (as she had been masquerading as said quiet lonely girl) to make her think she was human. Played straight with the other students who reincarnated, though. Averted as well, as the spider was a resident of the room who's life had been saved by the teacher, and was a known entity to the rest of the class, and in fact DID die in the same explosion that killed the rest of the class. [[JerkassGods Evil God D]] just exploited her presense to throw off everyone else and correct the numbers. She was a spider who got reincarnated as a monster spider, with the additional implanted memories of a god playing hooky as a human]]

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name might imply]], is all about this. The twist in the setting is that the mysterious Voice of the World interprets the main character's [[FinalSpeech dying thoughts on Earth]] rather [[LiteralMinded literally]], concluding that he should be reincarnated as a slime. These are common enough in the world that these particular Otherworlders are known as "Reincarnators" (though most tend to retain their human bodies with maybe a few physical changes, not an outright species change).
* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': Seventeen-year-old Kaito Sena is choked to death by his [[AbusiveDad abusive father]] in a drunken rage, only to have his "Sinless Soul, stricken down in manner most foul" summoned into a {{golem}} of clay and blood by Elisabeth Le Fanu, the eponymous Torture Princess. {{Enforced}} at editor suggestion as a way to justify why anybody would ''willingly'' work for somebody like Elisabeth.
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The protagonist is a salaryman who dies of exhaustion after being blackmailed into a 48-hour straight gaming session to clear an otome game for his selfish younger sister. He is then reincarnated into the game's world as a background extra or "mob character." Recovering his memory of his past life after some ten odd years, he goes about trying to eke out a peaceful life for himself in a matriarchal society where men are mostly only seen as good for either being trophy husbands or fodder to die in wars. [[spoiler:Later on he runs into Marie, who happens to be the reincarnation of his younger sister, but doesn't discover that until after she attempts to manipulate the events of the game into her favor.]]

* ''LightNovel/TheVillainessWillCrushHerDestructionEnd'': The protagonist reincarnates as the villainess in an otome game, who dies in every route. The twist is that in her previous life she was a GunNut, so her plan is to recreate modern firearms in the stock MedievalEuropeanFantasy world she now lives in and ''shoot her way out'' of the scripted ending.
* ''LightNovel/WiseMansGrandchild'' plays this straight, but pulls more focus on the consequences of someone bringing in PastLifeMemories of a modern world into a world where magic works primarily through ''imagination'' who is raised by a legendary mage and hero as his grandson. Needless to say, Shin is a GeniusDitz extraordinaire as he only learned magic skill and at 15 is thrust into the world to try to give him social skills to match his ridiculous magical power.
* ''LightNovel/WoofWoofStory'': The Protagonist is a salaryman who is quite literally worked to death, and his dying wish is to be reborn as the well-loved pet of a rich family. When a compassionate goddess grants his wish, he happily commits himself to the lazy, carefree, all-you-can-nap life of a pampered pup - until he learns that he was actually reincarnated as the legendary wolf king Fenrir.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'' was killed at the end of ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies'' via nuclear explosion, and reformed himself in the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe, which led to the events of ''Captain Atom: Armageddon''.

* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': Seventeen-year-old Kaito Sena is choked to death by his [[ParentalAbuse abusive father]] in a drunken rage, only to have his "Sinless Soul, stricken down in manner most foul" summoned into a {{golem}} of clay and blood by Elisabeth Le Fanu, the eponymous Torture Princess. {{Enforced}} at editor suggestion as a way to justify why anybody would ''willingly'' work for somebody like Elisabeth.

* ''Comicbook/CaptainAtom'' was killed at the end of the "Public Enemies" arc of ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman'' via nuclear explosion, and reformed himself in the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe, which lead to the events of ''Captain Atom: Armageddon''.

Subtrope of {{Reincarnation}}. See also BornAgainImmortality, though most works just focus on one alternate world instead of multiple worlds. A supertrope to MediaTransmigration, where the character dies and reincarnates into a pre-existing character within a ShowWithinAShow. Contrast with TrappedInAnotherWorld, which doesn't involve death and retains the possibility that the character in question could return home (though most anime fans use the Japanese term ''isekai'' for both.)

The series starts off with a character (usually the protagonist) living in a perfectly normal world. Perhaps the character doesn't like how life goes for them, or they find their world to be boring. Or maybe they don't mind their world at all. But then, a fatal incident (usually [[LookBothWays related to a vehicle]]) ends up killing the character. Then they find themselves in another world (usually) with a new, younger body. Perhaps there's a huge difference compared to their origin world, like magic. Or perhaps it's nearly identical to the origin world, but with some minor differences. Usually, the character still has memories from the origin world intact. There may also be a NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus, even if this extra perk is only the prior knowledge they take with them.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': After a Hero and Demon King use a powerful magic that rips through dimensions and blows up her entire classroom, a quiet lonely girl finds herself reincarnated into their fantasy world... as a spider. Now she has to use all her wits to try and survive this world's deadliest labyrinth. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she never really reincarnated: she was an otherwise normal spider caught up in the explosion that [[JerkassGods Evil God D]] gave some of her own memories (as she had been masquerading as said quiet lonely girl) to make her think she was human. Played straight with the other students who reincarnated, though.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Reborn}}'': Any living being - both humans and animals - that have ever died reincarnates in this fantasy realm in a different form that they used to be in life (though they still retain their memories) and its random from person to person: Bonnie was a old woman before being transformed to a tall and buxom blonde, while her father Tom (who had an average normal build) first appeared in this world as a 3-year old before growing up into a hulking warrior, while evil individuals in general are often turned into twisted monsters and mutants. What happens to them after they die in this plane is unknown, but judging from Estelle's death in the final issue, its implied they reincarnate again in another life.

* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea6DefianceOfDestiny'', Zed's Super Reincarnation process makes him (and his allies) resurrect in a different world at a different time every time it happens, and this process repeats until he's able to defeat the God of Destruction. [[spoiler:It turns out Cerberus, who created Super Reincarnation, can do this at will, and Zed is later able to travel between worlds without having to die to trigger it.]]

** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku asked King Yemna to reincarnate Majin Buu as the human Uub.

* ''LightNovel/TheWiseGrandson'' plays this straight, but pulls more focus on the consequences of someone bringing in PastLifeMemories of a modern world into a world where magic works primarily through ''imagination'' who is raised by a legendary mage and hero as his grandson. Needless to say, Shin is a GeniusDitz extraordinaire as he only learned magic skill and at 15 is thrust into the world to try to give him social skills to match his ridiculous magical power.