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* Much like fellow Slasher villain Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' is always resurrected one way or another, no matter what happens to him. He started out as MadeOfIron, surviving situations that would usually be fatal, until finally being killed by having his own machete lodged into his head. However, Jason proved too popular to kill off permanently, so after skipping the fifth film, he was revived via a [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning strike]]. Later films had him melted away by toxic waste, blow to bits by the [=FBI=] and literally dragged into Hell, but he always still managed to come back.
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* Dr. Eggman from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series survives just about everything if he can't just flee from danger. Even if stuck in his collapsing doomsday machines or sent to fall to his death whenever Sonic destroys his escape pods, he'll always return for the next game.

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* Dr. Eggman from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series survives just about everything if he can't just flee from danger. Even if stuck in his collapsing doomsday machines or sent to fall to his death whenever Sonic destroys his escape pods, he'll always return for the next game.
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* Triamond from ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' is able to survive death twice because his brothers souls merged with his upon their deaths. When a killing blow hits him, one of brother’s souls dies instead, to Campbell’s terror.
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* In ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'', while the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient One]] can be stopped from awakening or put back to sleep in the Last Battle ([[RocksFallEveryoneDies except Azathoth]]), they can never be defeated once and for all, as they will stir and try to awaken again a few thousand years later.
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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]] in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise is famous both in and out of universe for this. To boot, he has survived being locked in a metal death trap for years on end, being trapped in a burning amusement park, being trapped in a burning pizzeria, and being trapped in a burning ''mall''. Each time he withers away more and more, but his spirit remains as fiery and ferocious as ever with little canon explanation other than being a supernaturally rage powered {{Determinator}}. He lampshades this with what would become his eventual CatchPhrase:

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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]] in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise is famous both in and out of universe for this. To boot, he has survived being locked in a metal death trap for years on end, being trapped in a burning amusement park, being trapped in a burning pizzeria, and being trapped in a burning ''mall''. Each time he withers away more and more, but his spirit remains as fiery and ferocious as ever with little canon explanation other than being a supernaturally rage powered {{Determinator}}. He lampshades this with what would become his eventual CatchPhrase:catchphrase:
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Apparently, some villains and other characters have discovered the secret to staying alive even after they've visibly died a horrible, gruesome death. Explanation? Apparently, they don not need one. Maybe they're just too badass for death itself. Maybe they bought the advanced ContractualImmortality plan which also includes death insurance, Or maybe they're just [[EscapedFromHell too tough for Hell to contain]], Or maybe you were only FightingAShadow and only succeeded in driving them back to hell for a while, or they are OnlyKillableAtHome. Either way, they're given a full SnapBack [[BackFromTheDead from the dead]] at the start of the next episode, game, or season, and all the audience can do is accept the fact that they're back and at it again!

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Apparently, some villains and other characters have discovered the secret to staying alive even after they've visibly died a horrible, gruesome death. Explanation? Apparently, they don do not need one. Maybe they're just too badass for death itself. Maybe they bought the advanced ContractualImmortality plan which also includes death insurance, Or maybe they're just [[EscapedFromHell too tough for Hell to contain]], Or maybe you were only FightingAShadow and only succeeded in driving them back to hell for a while, or they are OnlyKillableAtHome. Either way, they're given a full SnapBack [[BackFromTheDead from the dead]] at the start of the next episode, game, or season, and all the audience can do is accept the fact that they're back and at it again!
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'', the trope is invoked/discussed as CardCarryingVillain Nigel (who had already survived a painful collision with a plane's engine in the original movie) does a [[WaxingLyrical dramatic reading of "I Will Survive"]] as an audition.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'', the trope is invoked/discussed as CardCarryingVillain Nigel (who had already survived a painful collision with a plane's engine in the original movie) does a [[WaxingLyrical dramatic reading of "I Will Survive"]] as an audition. Although he avoids admitting it to those who may recognize him, the event he refers to is his going through a plane propeller in the first movie, coming out badly mangled and flightless but still alive.


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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]] in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise is famous both in and out of universe for this. To boot, he has survived being locked in a metal death trap for years on end, being trapped in a burning amusement park, being trapped in a burning pizzeria, and being trapped in a burning ''mall''. Each time he withers away more and more, but his spirit remains as fiery and ferocious as ever with little canon explanation other than being a supernaturally rage powered {{Determinator}}. He lampshades this with what would become his eventual CatchPhrase:
-> ''I always come back.''
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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The Dark Judges always return because they're not "alive" to begin with. Imprisoned in glasseen crystals, blown into space, thrown into hell, locked up in Judge Anderson's head, teleported to the void between dimensions, they will find a way.
-->'''Judge Death:''' You think you can beat us?! You know we'll be back. We '''always''' come back!
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Apparently, some villains and other characters have discovered the secret to staying alive even after they've visibly died a horrible, gruesome death. Explanation? Apparently, they don't need one. Maybe they're just too badass for death itself. Maybe they bought the advanced ContractualImmortality plan which also includes death insurance, Or maybe they're just [[EscapedFromHell too tough for Hell to contain]], Or maybe you were only FightingAShadow and only succeeded in driving them back to hell for a while, or they are OnlyKillableAtHome. Either way, they're given a full SnapBack [[BackFromTheDead from the dead]] at the start of the next episode, game, or season, and all the audience can do is accept the fact that they're back and at it again!

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Apparently, some villains and other characters have discovered the secret to staying alive even after they've visibly died a horrible, gruesome death. Explanation? Apparently, they don't don not need one. Maybe they're just too badass for death itself. Maybe they bought the advanced ContractualImmortality plan which also includes death insurance, Or maybe they're just [[EscapedFromHell too tough for Hell to contain]], Or maybe you were only FightingAShadow and only succeeded in driving them back to hell for a while, or they are OnlyKillableAtHome. Either way, they're given a full SnapBack [[BackFromTheDead from the dead]] at the start of the next episode, game, or season, and all the audience can do is accept the fact that they're back and at it again!
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*** Turns out, he also didn't die. And neither did all the demons you killed before Legion. In the Warcraft universe, demons transcend all realities and timelines and can only be killed in the Twisting Nether or places so saturated by Fel energy that there is no real difference between the two.

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*** Turns out, he also didn't die. And neither did all the demons you killed before Legion. In the Warcraft universe, demons transcend all realities and timelines and [[OnlyKillableAtHome can only be killed in the Twisting Nether or places so saturated by Fel energy that there is no real difference between the two.two]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Shogo}}'', Sanjuro faces a recurring opponent named Samantha who barely puts up a fight yet somehow keeps attempting to kill Sanjuro. He eventually starts to wonder how she keeps coming back despite her mech getting blown up every time.

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