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** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': [[spoiler:Leomon [[TakingtheBullet eats an attack]] from [=MetalEtemon=] meant for Mimi, and after helping vanquish the villain, bites it. Since this shares continuity with Anime/DigimonAdventure02 this is also why he isn't present to die there]].

** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': [[spoiler:Leomon becomes Juri's partner, and eventually gets run through and absorbed by Beelzebumon, sending Juri over the DespairEventHorizon and setting the stage for D-Reaper's use of her]].

** Despite all of the above examples, there is at least instance where [[SubvertedTrope this trope is subverted]]: Leo, his incarnation from ''[[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 V-Tamer 01]]''. Not only does Leo manage to make it to the Ultimate level Panjyamon and even digivolve into the Mega Regulumon, but he goes up against powerful foes like [=VenomVamdemon=] and Arkadimon, the latter of which killed and absorbed a ''Piemon'' as a baby, and though he doesn't necessarily win in those encounters, he holds on long enough for Taichi and Zeromaru to pull off a BigDamnHeroes before he has the chance to bite it. This was before the tradition of killing Leomon off had started.

** In a ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' episode, an [=AncientSphinxmon=] goes around and turns people into stone bricks to create a pyramid that summons his master Pharaohmon to enslave humanity and all lesser Digimon. When he fought Angoramon's new Ultimate Evolution Diarbbitmon, he ends up getting pushed into his own attack and presumably dies afterwards. Make no mistake, this guy is completely villainous, but since he's the ancestor of Lowemon and [=KaiserLeomon=], so it counts.

* A weird case of the ''protagonist'' being one of these: the somewhat surreal ''VideoGame/{{Spelunker}} is a Sensei'' anime has the titular Spelunker-sensei being killed by the slightest of inconveniences. Steam, stairs, a baseball, biting into the tail end of a fried shrimp...the list goes on. Yes, he's not just refusing to get up, he's genuinely dead each time he's shown crumpled on the floor, usually with his accompanying death jingle. Being a video game character (and from a notoriously NintendoHard one at that) he inexplicably returns to life without so much as a how-do-you-do, to the point that other faculty (and some of the less easily startled students) come to expect him to die from ''something'' before too long.

* Played for horror and drama in ''Literature/ReZero'' with lead character Subaru dying and reversing time via his "Return By Death" ability several times in each arc, experiencing new forms of pain and trauma in each loop. [[spoiler: To make this worse, "Return By Death" isn't a true resurrection, Subaru is taken to a similar but not the exact timeline of the story. So if he dies in that timeline, he really is dead and gone, leaving behind multiple worlds because of this ability.]]

* Played for horror and drama in ''Literature/ReZero'' with lead character Subaru dying and reversing time via his "Return By Death" ability several times in each arc, experiencing new forms of pain and trauma in each loop. [[spoiler: To make this worse, "Return By Death" isn't a true resurrection, Subaru is taken to a similar but not the exact timeline of the story, if he dies in that timeline, he really is dead and gone.]]

* Vrumugun from ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'' appears in maybe eight episodes, and dies roughly a dozen times over the course of them. In the anime, this is because [[spoiler:he has been repeatedly cloned]]. In the novels, this is because [[spoiler:the 'Vrumuguns' who are killed are actually people being magically controlled y the real Vrumugun]].

* Sakura ([[GenderBlenderName a boy]]) in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' is killed many times per episode depending upon how much he pisses off [[SociopathicHero Dokuro]] only to be [[DeathIsCheap resurrected seconds later]].

* Played for horror and drama in ''LightNovel/ReZero'' with lead character Subaru dying and reversing time via his "Return By Death" ability several times in each arc, experiencing new forms of pain and trauma in each loop. [[spoiler: To make this worse, "Return By Death" isn't a true resurrection, Subaru is taken to a similar but not the exact timeline of the story, if he dies in that timeline, he really is dead and gone.]]

* Vrumugun from ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' appears in maybe eight episodes, and dies roughly a dozen times over the course of them. In the anime, this is because [[spoiler:he has been repeatedly cloned]]. In the novels, this is because [[spoiler:the 'Vrumuguns' who are killed are actually people being magically controlled y the real Vrumugun]].

* Played for horror and drama in ''LightNovel/ReZero'' with lead character Subaru dying and reversing time via his "Return By Death" ability several times in each arc, experiencing new forms of pain and trauma in each loop.

** In a ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' episode, an [=AncientSphinxmon=] goes around and turns people into stone bricks to create a pyramid that summons his master Pharaohmon to ebslave humanity and all lesser Digimon. When he fought Angoramon's new Ultimate Evolution Diarbbitmon, he ends up getting pushed into his own attack and presumably dies afterwards. Make no mistake, this guy is completely villainous, but since he's the ancestor of Lowemon and [=KaiserLeomon=], so it counts.

* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise has several examples, though most hero deaths are [[DeathIsCheap very easily undone]] by the [[MacGuffinTitle Dragon Balls]] or [[PhysicalGod Whis]]. In particular, Android 17, Chiaotzu, Krillin (''especially Krillin''), and Piccolo have ''all'' died about four times, including every ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime ever. The entire population of Earth has died ''twice'' (first by Kid Buu in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', and then by Frieza in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'' and its ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' arc). Counting ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' the Earth was itself destroyed a third time, but in that instance they managed to get nearly everyone off the planet before it was destroyed.

* In ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' most of the cast have died at the end of an episode then come back inexplicable at the beginning of the next, Dr. Gel in particular.

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': [[spoiler:Leomon eats an attack from [=MetalEtemon=] meant for Mimi, and after helping vanquish the villain, bites it. Since this shares continuity with Anime/DigimonAdventure02 this is also why he isn't present to die there]].

** In the spinoff ''Anime/FateGrandCarnival'', which is based on ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', this gag gets extended to ''all'' versions of Cú Chulainn when they are killed off before the Olympia, with the Lancer, Caster, and Prototype versions killed since only Servants 4 star and above are permitted to survive, while the Berserker Cú is killed simply because they were too many Cú.

* ''Manga/GetterRobo'' has [[TheBigGuy Musashi Tomoe]], who gets KilledOffForReal in nearly every continuity, as a reference to his death at the end of the original anime and manga. The nature of his death varies, but it's almost always a HeroicSacrifice. This is taken to the point of BlackComedy in ''Getter Robo Arc'', the canonical last series, where it's revealed that in the far future, the Getter Emperor has created an artificial version of Musashi to serve in its army... and every time he dies, it simply makes another one.

* ''Manga/GetterRobo'' has an unusual subversion in the form of [[TheBigGuy Musashi Tomoe]]. Musashi is unfailingly KilledOffForReal (usually by way of a Heroic Sacrifice), only to show up alive and well to repeat the process... In the next ''[[AlternateContinuity continuity]]''.

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'': [=SaberLeomon=] is a "good but misguided" type who believes humans are bad due to the bad actions of one guy. [[spoiler:''His'' death is particularly special.]] See, in all Digimon series but ''Tamers'', Digimon revert to an egg state and begin life again, never truly dying. However, [[MadScientist Kurata]] (the one guy in question) figures out a way to corrupt a Digimon's data so that it can never be revived. [[spoiler:[=SaberLeomon=] is the first Digimon in this show to get hit with this method, making him the first ''permanent'' onscreen casualty.]] Also, [=BanchoLeomon=] turns out to be holding [[spoiler:the spirit of the lead character's father. Naturally, he dies too. When the reformed BigBad gives Daddy back, ''nothing is said about [=BanchoLeomon=].'']] Harsh.
** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'': [=MadLeomon=] is a villain general. The first one. As he's a WarmUpBoss, he's offed very quickly, but he's eventually revived and purified into a regular Leomon. And he's not the only one; later on there's Apollomon, who while not sharing the name is definitely leonine. He dies ''twice'', but is revived at the end of the series.

* ''Manga/Sabagebu'' shows most of the regulars dying from bloody gunshots every episode ([[RunningGag starting with Maya]]), which the narrator justifies by the deaths not being diegetic: we are seeing their imagination at work in airsoft games. However this becomes harder to credit in later episodes as passer-bys and ''aliens'' spontaneously join in the game. It culminates in the first OVA episode in which Urara is apparently eaten by sharks, complete with a skull bobbing on the water, and even the narrator is uncertain what is happening.
* In ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'', Miyubi the sloth dies every time she physically exerts herself, to the point it has become the series' most popular RunningGag. She has died four times in her introductory episode.