History Main / ResurrectedRomance

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been a Chaos Magic construct unconsciously created by Wanda in her grief along with the rest of the Hex, while the corpse of the real Vision was revived and weaponized by SWORD.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been an Chaos Magic construct unconsciously created by Wanda in her grief along with the rest of the Hex, while the corpse of the real Vision was revived and weaponized by SWORD.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been an Chaos Magic construct unconsciously created by Wanda in her grief, while the corpse of the real Vision was revived and weaponized by SWORD.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been an artificial construct unconsciously created by Wanda in her grief, while the corpse of the real Vision was revived and weaponized by SWORD.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been an artificial construct unintentionally created by Wanda in her grief, while the corpse of the real Vision was revived and weaponized by SWORD.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'': The lynchpin of the plot is that Vision has been resurrected somehow, and he and Wanda have been able to get married and continue their relationship in a sitcom setting.

* In ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'', when notorious necromancer Wei Wuxian is forcibly revived thirteen years after his death, his UnresolvedSexualTension with LoveInterest Lan Wangji picks right back up where it left off.

* Played with in the Creator/SeananMcGuire song "[[http://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=175 Zombie Wedding]]". The narrator's boyfriend died in a war, but she doesn't care that he's dead, and plans to kill herself so they can be together.

* ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'': Evelyn died while at a concert in 2004 with her girlfriend Olivia, and still loves her. Riley arranges a meeting so they can reconnect. [[spoiler:Except RealityEnsues, and it turns out, since it's been ''sixteen years'' since Evelyn died--and she's also, y'know, ''dead''--Olivia has moved on and [[HerHeartWillGoOn gotten married to somebody else]]. Until she found out Olivia was married, Evelyn was fully convinced they could find a way to make it work, even though she's now permanently in her early [=20s=], and unable to speak directly to anyone living without posesssing them. Olivia leaves, saying the meeting was a mistake, but asks Riley to look after her]].

* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' has Vivi, a living girl, meets Lewis, a ghost who holds a candle for her; while she doesn't recognize him due him looking vastly more monstrous as a ghostly skeleton wreathed with unearthly flames, he was her boyfriend before he was brutally murdered.

* In ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound,'' Ryan manages to raise his dead girlfriend via a DealWithTheDevil. The problem is that she CameBackWrong, as a pale shambling zombie. He flees in terror, then stops to remember what his momma always told him: Make things right with that sweet little gal.
-->At the phone booth: "Momma, did that include sweet li'l ''dead'' gals? No this is ''hypothetical''. No, damn, I'm not being smart with you, momma..." (She gets better.)

* Happens with [[spoiler: Rootbeer Guy]] on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Months after he died, his wife's new boyfriend convinces her to scatter his ashes, but they mix with magic/irradiated dirt and he's accidentally resurrected as some kind of super strong mud golem. The episode deals with the LoveTriangle that forms between him, his wife, and her new love interest (who happens to be an undertaker).

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-->'''Chihiro:''' "[...] I'd like to meet a cute zombie girl... I want to go out with a girl whose arm is also ripped out and guts are flowing out..."

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-->''They try to comfort me with platitudes.''\\
''They don't know I'm in a real fine mood.''\\
''There's no reason I should shed one tear.''\\
''Can't you see we got a good thing here?''\\
''Don't talk to me of "death do us part."''\\
''Between us we share one beating heart.''\\
''Candles flicker in the chandelier.''\\
''Can't you see we got a good thing here?''

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* If you romanced her in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', Liara T'Soni and Shepard's relationship proves to be what may be the most triumphant example on this page. Two years after his/her death, Liara went to hell and back recovering Shepard's body from the Shadow Broker and provided it to Cerberus just to bring him/her back from death.
** Hell, [[UndyingLoyalty she does this]] even ''if'' you didn't romance her.

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* In ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound,'' Ryan manages to raise his dead girlfriend via a DealWithTheDevil. The problem is that she CameBackWrong, as a pale shambling zombie. He flees in terror, then stops to remember what his momma always told him: Make things right with that sweet little gal.
-->At the phone booth: "Momma, did that include sweet li'l ''dead'' gals? No this is ''hypothetical''. No, damn, I'm not being smart with you, momma..." (She gets better.)

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* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' has Vivi, a living girl, meets Lewis, a ghost who holds a candle for her; while she doesn't recognize him due him looking vastly more monstrous as a ghostly skeleton wreathed with unearthly flames, he was her boyfriend before he was brutally murdered.

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* ''Literature/GoldTreeAndSilverTree'': In this Literature/SnowWhite variation, Gold-Tree happily reunites with her prince once [[ReplacementLoveInterest the woman he married after she ‘died’]] breaks the sleeping death spell. From there, [[{{Polyamory}} all three of them]] live HappilyEverAfter.

%%* The ''MST3K'' movie ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie''

* Kikyo from ''Manga/InuYasha'', who was [[DamagedSoul resurrected against her will]]. Bonus points in that the other contender in the Kikyo-Inuyasha-Kagome LoveTriangle is her [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation]].

* ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'' subverts this in a rather heartbreaking manner, [[spoiler: when Queen Himika revives a warrior named Takeru... but only him, and not his beloved wife who died of illness before him. Later Takeru meets TheHero's partner and girlfriend Miwa aka Micchi, who [[IdenticalStranger is identical to his lost love]]...]]