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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Redundant in the face of other tropes, started by SomeSortOfTroper on Feb 21st 2011 at 10:07:50 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Anyone considering putting an image on the page?

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It's been forever since I've seen the Pokémon movies, but whatever it was Giovanni survived, I'm sure it was somewhere other than Viridian Gym. Maybe a Team Rocket base?

Does this trope apply film characters who should have died near the start of their death sequence but remain conscious right up until the last part of the process or is that more of a trope on it's own?

Examples- In Golden Eye 006 falls about 200 feet and lands on his back yet is still alive enough to scream as the massive burning satellite dish fall on top of him shortly afterwards. Or in The Long Kiss Goodnight - Timothy has an entire Uzi clip emptied into his torso causing him to fall 50 feet landing on his back, either of which should kill him yet he is still conscious enough when the massive chemical bomb in the oil truck he lands on goes off half a minute later.

Sure it's mostly done as a Karmic Death for the Big Bad in the climax to a film but I'll bet there's plenty of examples out there.

The body is but a vessel for the soul, A puppet that bends to the souls's tyranny... but body and soul both demand chocolate!

OK, I screwed up when adding this and accidentally hit enter before typing anything, but this is a duplicate of about a million other survival tropes including Made of Iron, Plot Armor, Normally I Would Be Dead By Now, Amusing Injuries, Strolling Through the Chaos, and about a billion others.

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