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# [[ImmortalityImmorality Immortality]] when it doesn't revive the dead.

* This is THE plot point in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Any attempts to bring back the dead are bound to fail and anyone attempting it will lose a body part as a Karmic Punishment.

* In the backstory of ''Franchise/Barsoom'' novel ''Literature/SyntheticMenOfMars'' Ras Thavas has done this. As is par for the course, it proved to perhaps be ill-advised, which kicks off the actual story.

* According to the Church of Yevon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', in the backstory Spirans relied on technology ("machina") to live proud and hedonistic lives, and [[{{Kaiju}} Sin]] is their punishment, a monster attracted to technology. [[spoiler:Later we learn Sin was [[SubvertedTrope instead]] created so as to seek revenge of the technologically advanced city of Bevelle and to hinder the advancement of civilization.]]

** Despite the Council's laws against it, you encounter ''two'' rogue AI programs in just the first game - one which evolved from a casino-cheating program, and one built by your own bosses as a tactical tool. [[spoiler: Cerberus steals the second one and it ends up working for you under her new name, [=EDI=].]]

* And also in ''Film/TheTerminator'', particularly in the second and third movie.
* ''I, Robot''. See Asimov's entry for literature below.

* Jacob Crow in ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters: Future Perfect'' [[spoiler:creates the Timesplitters]] as part of an attempt to gain immortality.

** Demise, a projecting telepath. Projects the memory of his own death to kill. Demise had drawn the Black Queen (in the setting's SuperPowerLottery, 90% of those afflicted by the Mass Empowerment Event just die horribly) and was treated with the experimental Drumpf cure. He CameBackWrong.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. [[MachineWorship Adeptus Mechanicus]]. [[SkeleBot9000 Necrons]]. First believe they can use the second. The second think only about killing them. The second succeeds 99,(9)% of the time.

** Demise, a projecting telepath. Projects the memory of his own death to kill. Demise had drawn the Black Queen (in the setting's SuperPowerLottery, 90% of those afflicted by the Mass Empowerment Event just die horribly) and was treated with the experimental Trump cure. He CameBackWrong.

* ''SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom'' has done this on at least two occasions. In the first case, it turned out that he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation wasn't quite capable of]] [[PowerIncontinence handling the Beyonder's power]]. The second time, he gave it up because [[VictoryIsBoring being God bored him.]]

->''The Krells, in the insolence of their success, tried to usurp the power of God. And were destroyed.''

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' , while future medical science is sophisticated enough that characters almost routinely come back from clinical death. However, some extreme attempts have fallen into this trope, such as Kira wanting her boyfriend, Vedek Bareil, to be rejuvenated by using artificial parts to replace decaying brain tissue. This is progressive and further replacements leave him less and less Bajoran till he asks to be allowed to die.

* Project F of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', which attempts to bring back the dead by creating a clone [[GeneticMemory with the memories and personality of the original]]. As it's a subset of Artificial Mage research mentioned under Genetic Engineering, this is also banned by TheFederation.

* ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Thanos}}'' loves this one. Inevitably though, he ends up losing whatever godlike power he's gained due to his own subconscious belief that he's unworthy of it. Although in one case it was heavily implied that [[TheOmnipotent The One Above All]] was just trolling him the entire time.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' features resurrection as a major issue among royalty. To prevent [[WhoWantsToLiveForever eternal reigns]] death and resurrection are considered an abdication.

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has a backstory in which [[spoiler: the Major is nearly killed during the battle of Stalingrad, but is found and made a cyborg by the Doktor. Not only that, but he's now pretty much immortal.]]

** 3.1 When it's [[EmergencyTransformation unwilling]], but otherwise [[SculptedPhysique mostly human.]]

* ''Webcomic/CrimsonDark '' shows humanity's way from prosthetics to augmentation. While there are laws to prevent GhostInTheShell scenarios, at least one side of the in-universe conflict employs literal cases of CyberneticsEatYourSoul - technically dead human bodies, augmented and modified beyond recognition, held alive by said augmentations with conscience replaced by AI, referred in-universe as [=JAKs=].