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{{quote|''"[[Trope Namer|Everybody lives]], Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"''|'''The Doctor'''
Some shows naturally have [[Body of the Week|a bodycount in virtually every episode]] (if only the [[Monster of the Week]]). Sometimes, however, no-one dies at all.
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Needless to say, frequently doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. Although it can also come off as very [[Death Is Cheap|cheap]] and maybe with a [[Deus Ex Machina]] thrown in, especially if it's over the whole series.
Contrast [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]], [[Kill'Em All]], and [[Nobody Can Die]]. Not to be confused with ''[[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', it is a rare day indeed when the titular hero can go somewhere without someone dying in a convoluted manner, but it is a good day indeed. Note that these are usually instances where KID is actually attempting to steal something. Not necessarily when he appears, because there was the whole incident where a magician's club was meeting and there was a murder...
** There were also a couple of stories where Conan was able to prevent the murder before it happened. And a couple where there was no murder or crime, just a hilarious misunderstanding.
* The TV series of ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'' was a particularly bloody [[Dark Magical Girl]] show. There was only one episode which had a happy (and [[Les Yay]]) ending and in which nobody died (unless you count evil dolls). However the show seemed to feel the need to compensate for this by killing off an entire village in the next episode.
* While not literally "everybody lives," there was a remarkably low body count in ''[[Turn
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'' season 2 arguably had an everybody lives ending on the side of the good guys, even {{spoiler|Tieria's death didn't count as he gets better to return for the movies.}}
** Also ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|G Gundam]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Wing]]'' and ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'' have almost all of their main cast make it out alive at series end.
** ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' only has four named deaths during its span: the [[Big Bad]], [[The Dragon]], [[The Starscream]], and a [[Red Shirt]] pilot for the heroes, while the sequel ''The Steel 7'' has several heroic characters die in the [[Final Battle]]. What's really ironic is that Tomino, the master of [[Kill'Em All]] wrote the original story and had nothing to do with the sequel.
* ''[[
** The same applies to the manga, {{spoiler|but without the resurrections}}
* The second-to-last episode of ''[[Library War]]'' ended with two major characters potentially dead: one being shot multiple times in the chest, and another getting caught in a large explosion. However, in the last episode, they both make a full recovery.
* Surprisingly happened in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', which up to the very end was definitely moving into [[Kill'Em All]] territory. Then along came the final episode, and know what...
** It could almost constitute a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] of the [[Kill'Em All]] ending in this case, as it really ''was'' building up to that up until the final episode. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] was on the verge of victory, Frontier was getting [[Beam Spam
* {{spoiler|Two arcs}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' ends in this matter. {{spoiler|Though the first iteration becomes subverted in the second season opener.}}
** If you look closely at the ending to {{spoiler|the first season}}, it's quite obvious they've died.
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** Earlier we had the ''Sasuke retrieval arc'', where it looked liked Neji and Chouji died, complete with depressingly sad send offs and stills of their motionless bodies. {{spoiler|They both live, Neji through force and will, and Chouji because he was fat enough that his red pill had more energy to burn than what would have killed him otherwise.}}
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' throws in a few of these to mix things up. There's slightly fewer if you don't count chapters where technically no-one dies, but someone ends up going insane or suffering [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]... and in Chapter 21, Everybody Lives ''is'' the [[Downer Ending|Downer]] [[Twist Ending]], as a character the reader neither wanted nor expected to make it through the chapter without dying or suffering [[A Fate Worse Than Death]] [[Karma Houdini|gets off scot-free.]]
* Total confirmed ''[[Negima]]'' casualties by the end... zero. No dead bad guys, good guys, mooks or civilians. Not even the village that was turned to stone in the backstory. Practically the only character confirmed to be dead currently is Gateau Kagura Vanderburg, Takahata's former teacher. In fact, with the exception of Chigusa, all of the villains go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties. {{spoiler|The only deaths are when Asuna wakes up in the future and [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|the entire class]]<ref>
** Wait. {{spoiler|[[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] [[Fridge Logic|dies of old age]]}}? How does that even work?
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. A total of two characters are confirmed KIA during the three seasons (excluding the ones killed in flashbacks). Two more are MIA. Just to remind you, this is the show where [[Person of Mass Destruction|nine-year-olds]] wield magic in at least the kiloton-equivalent range.
* Despite the [[Anyone Can Die|huge body count]] in ''[[RahXephon]]'', {{spoiler|everyone lives in the end after Ayato uses the completed [[RahXephon]] system to [[End of the World Special|recreate the world]]}}.
* At the end of ''[[Dancougar Nova]]'', the only one who died was the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Moon Will.}} Though, almost EVERYONE had a brush with death especially Aoi.
* The ''[[Karin]]'' anime ends by killing off Karin's entire family... and then bringing them back to life. A case of [[Adaptation Distillation]], as the manga is far more bittersweet.
** Almost nobody liked the manga ending. Bittersweet it may have been, but it was also, on at least three levels, really really creepy. Even the writer didn't like it.
* The early episodes of ''[[Blue Gender]]'' had such a high body count that it seemed almost unthinkable that the character of Dice, who joined Yugi and Marlene on their journey for a few episodes after [[Kill'Em All|every other team member had been killed]]. They made their shuttle to Second Earth, and Dice walked away no worse for wear.
* In the last episode of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' {{spoiler|Everybody who had died in the series are alive in the new reality created by Lain, where she doesn't exist.}}
* The original ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]'' does this: as the last episode goes on, all the Steel Angels had given up their power to power a cannon to destroy the [[One-Winged Angel]] form of Kurumi, only for Nakahito to start bringing her back... when the cannon's fired, apparently killing them both. In their "afterlife", the two come to, share a [[True Love's Kiss]], reviving them and all the Steel Angels.
== Film ==
* In ''[[Dresden]]'' the main character (a British pilot), his love interest, their Jewish friend and HIS love interest, the main love interest's dad, and the love rival, ALL manage to survive the bombing of Dresden - even though some of them were in the train station that was the first place to get hit, and which was supposed to be absolutely obliterated. And the protagonist does this all with [[Only a Flesh Wound|serious injuries]]. And he escapes back to England. However, this is subverted later when {{spoiler|after the war, Protagonist flies back to see his true love (and, OMG, their child)... when his plane crashes. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|So, he is killed... in the post-script... by a voice-over]].}}
* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' - well, {{spoiler|the director}} doesn't of course, but that's at the beginning. In the climactic final battle no one on the heroes' or villains' side dies despite being repeatedly caught in explosions and fighting in the midst of a storm of bullets.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' - "Look, I hate it too. In movies where the studio gets all paranoid about a downer ending so the guy shows up, he's magically alive on crutches, I hate that. I mean shit, why not bring them all back?"
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** Although {{spoiler|Bill Murray}} dies it is played for laughs.
* Nobody dies in the first ''[[National Treasure]]'' film except for one mook who falls off an elevated platform. This is particularly notable considering how action-packed the movie is otherwise.
* The Western spoof "[[The Hallelujah Trail]]" deserves some notice for lampshading its zero casualty rate, since the climax of the movie is a many-cornered shootout between the US cavalry escort of a a whiskey shipment, an armed Temperance Union wagon train, some very un-PC Native Americans and a band of thirsty hard-rock miners; the cavalry commander (Burt Lancaster) exclaimed in the battle's aftermath, "Never have so many bullets been fired by so many people in so small an area AND NOT HIT ANYBODY!" To be fair, there was a dust storm at the time, and one laggardly brave appeared to have been shot in the butt. Twice.
** Which gives an ironic tone to a tragedy on the set when [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059250/trivia?tr=tr0717551 a stuntman died during the production].
* Nobody ''stays'' dead in the new ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' [[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time|film]], due to a [[Reset Button]] ending. Of course, this avoids being an [[Ass Pull]] due to time travel being a central plot point.
** Well, after the reset {{spoiler|Nizam}} still dies, of course. Disney movies rarely let villains live.
* Similarily, no one stays dead in the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' films. Well, it's possible those Libyan terrorists didn't survive the van crash, so they ''might'' have died, but they could have only been injured just as easily. If [[Deleted Scene
* In [[Tim Burton]]'s version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', despite having a epic battle at the end, nobody dies. Well, only {{spoiler|The Jabberwocky}}.
* In ''[[Magical Legend of the Leprechauns]]''...let's say that the ending is a complete reversal of the source material, Shakespeare's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
** The same thing happens in ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'': While at first its seem like {{spoiler|Tybalt died, he appears glued back together at the [[Dance Party Ending]].}}
* No one dies in ''[[Inception]]'' unless you count the protagonist's wife, who [[Posthumous Character|was dead before the story began.]] Although the [[Mind Screw]] nature of the film allows interpretations all along this line
* No one dies in ''[[Inside Man]]''. This is especially notable because the bank robbers are spending the entire movie making sure no one dies and that everyone thinks the hostages are in danger. This is a central part of the robbers plan since if
* The 1932 film ''[[The Old Dark House]]'' is a rare [[Horror Film]] where
* ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' is the only ''[[Star Trek]]'' film in which no one dies, not even a [[Red Shirt]]. This was a conscious decision on [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s part, as he wanted the film to be [[Lighter and Softer]] after ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' and ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''. In fact, in Nimoy's own words, "nobody is hurt in ''Star Trek IV'' as a result of hostility." Note that when Chekov is injured escaping from the naval base, it's because he falls over a ledge and not because anyone shot at him. (If you want to get ''really'' technical, however, Gillian did slap that guy.)
** The fate of the Federation starship disabled by the Whale Probe at the beginning of the film is ambiguous, however. The vessel is drained of all power and left drifting in space, far from any hope of rescue, as the Federation has a much greater problem to deal with at that point in time.
*** The novelization does mention that the captain of that ship was able to save the ship and her crew (including herself).
* ''[[April Fool's Day]]'' is a [[Slasher Movie]] with no deaths at all - as the title implies, the "killer" is pulling a prank and every death is staged.
== Literature ==
* [[Terry Pratchett]], while writing ''[[Good Omens]]'', insisted that nobody would die as a result of {{spoiler|Adam the Antichrist's}} existence, to the point of persuading the co-author [[Neil Gaiman]] to reverse the deaths of {{spoiler|several innocent [[Acceptable Targets|telephone salespeople]] at the mandibles of an enraged demon}}.
* ''[[
* Done in ''[[Breaking Dawn]]'', when {{spoiler|Bella is pregnant and everyone keeps going on about how she either has to abort the baby or the birthing will kill her. Technically her heart stops twice during the delivery, but Bella survives and has the baby, thanks to Edward turning her into a vampire immediately after the baby is born}}. We get it again in the last part of the book, when {{spoiler|an army of vampires gather to fight the Voulturi, with a huge fight looking eminent. And then, they have a nice talk and everyone goes home. Well Irena dies, but most of them forget about that.}}
** Pretty much the whole series, in regards to the good guys. In all four books, the only good guy who dies is Harry Clearwater in New Moon (And some guy named Waylon in the Twilight movie who wasn't in the book.) It's amazing that in Eclipse, they manage to go through a battle with absolutely no casualties.
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== Live
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the [[Trope Namer]], has a number of examples. For example, "[[Doctor Who
** While there is a body count in Moffat's "[[Doctor Who
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** Moffat has ascended to achieving a whole new level of Everybody Lives in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S5
** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1
** The ''Doctor Who Book of Lists'' has, well, a list of these serials and episodes. In addition to the above, it also mentions ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3
*** Perhaps paradoxically (given the name), [[Doctor Who/Recap/S20
** An interesting case occured with "The Curse of the Black Spot", in which the Doctor, Amy, and Rory land on a pirate ship stuck in the ocean with a crew that's being picked off one by one by a siren, who marks crew members with "the black spot" on their hand. {{spoiler|It turns out that the seemingly evil siren was actually a computer-created doctor from a crashed spaceship which had been taking men who were hurt, even though they did not have serious injuries. All the crew are in fact perfectly fine, and she was just trying to help.}}
** Subverted in "[[Doctor Who
** Add "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
** The 2011 Chrismtas special, "The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe" also pulled one of these.
*** Also with bonus points for {{spoiler|the father and at least two crew of his bomber that turned out to be not so much "lost and presumed dead," as "took a detour through the Vortex."}}
* Being monster hunters, the boys from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' don't usually find out about a hunt unless someone has died already. But in one episode, "Home," the brothers go to the site ''before'' anyone dies, since Sam had a vision, making it the only
** A guy does get his arm ground up in a garbage disposal, though.
*** The ''Supernatural'' season finale for season six is the first in which no main cast member has died (although Castiel did kill Raphael).
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** There was also the episode with the [[All Just a Dream]] ending, so after Jess returns to reality we see the "murder victim" alive and well.
* Be very wary when ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' does this - if the [[Victim of the Week]] is still standing at the start of the trial segment, as a rule, the assailant will plead out and ''he'll'' be the one on trial for whatever made people try to kill him.
** Although the Season 16 episode "[[Law
** Another rare straight example is the [[Series Finale]]. The detectives come across a website of someone boasting they're going to shoot up and blow up a school while showing off enough ammo and explosives to make their threat credible. The scramble is to try to find the perp before he can carry out his boast. In the end, a school shooting does occur, but the shooter is overpowered before he can kill anybody. Also, at her retirement party, Van Buren learns that her cancer tests have come back negative, and happily introduces everybody to her fiancee.
* ''[[Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'', whose main premise was [[There Can Be Only One]], ends with {{spoiler|Len/Knight}} as the last remaining Rider after everyone else has been killed off. However, the master of the Rider War isn't too happy with this outcome (since {{spoiler|his proxy Odin wasn't the winner}}) and attempts to [[Reset Button Ending|start things over by rewinding time]]. However, Yui finally convinces him that no matter how many times the Rider War is run, {{spoiler|[[You Can't Fight Fate|she will never accept a new life from him]] if it's at the cost of thirteen others}}. So this time when he rewinds everything, he stays in the [[Phantom Zone|Mirror World]] with Yui and never starts the Rider War in the first place. Thus,
** Save Scissors, who is still very much dead. He was a corrupt bastard so we will let it slide
* Surprisingly, even ''[[CSI]]'' has done one of these - in "You Kill Me," all the murders took place in the Lab Rats' (and Grissom's) imaginations.
* Subverted in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Help." Cassie knows by precognition when she will die. Buffy rescues her from cult sacrifice. Cassie then dies at the appointed time from a hereditary heart defect that her mother hadn't mentioned to her.
** Unless you count the vampire who died off-screen and was turned, there are no deaths in "The Body." Kind of ironic, considering the subject of the episode.
** A notable Buffy episode for this would be 6x22, "Grave"; it is the ONLY season finale Big Bad battle where mass deaths do not ensue. Despite Willow's [[Face Heel Turn|superpowered evil rampage]] to finish off the Trio, which culminated with Buffy and Dawn trapped underground fighting earth elementals, Giles slowly dying, and Xander standing in front of a supremely tweaked-off Dark Willow zapping him with dark magic as she tries to blow up the world, everyone (including the generic Sunnydale redshirts) makes it out alive.
* All of two characters die in ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', mostly due to its [[Lighter and Softer]] tone and the fact that the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] allows victims of the [[Monster of the Week]] to come back as long as somebody remembers them. One of the dead characters isn't remembered, but will come back once the person who does comes out of his coma, and the other is {{spoiler|Kai, the Big Bad}}. {{spoiler|The older Sakurai}} disappears in the final episode, but it's implied that he'll come back somehow.
* In the Volume 5: Redemption season finale of ''[[Heroes]]'', the Heroes manage to stop Samuel's plot to destroy New York City without causing or allowing a single death. Thanks to [[Big Bad]] Samuel's many [[Kick the Dog]] moments throughout the season, his [[The Dragon|right-hand men]] and other followers are all convinced to [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal|turn against him without a fight]], rendering the previously all-powerful Big Bad into a powerless sap to be dragged off by the cops. Meanwhile, [[Arch Enemy|Sylar]] stay true to his redemption and incapacitates Doyle without killing him in order to save Emma. This is pretty noteworthy considering the show's tendency to purge all its secondary characters at the end of each Volume, typically with a massive Sylar-centric bloodbath.
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** "Tablua Rasa" focused solely on the trial of a serial killer who had woken up from a four year coma. Amazingly, even when he escapes no one new dies (the girl they think he's taken turns out to be the corpse of his first victim, which he ran to find once his memory came back).
** The episode "Seven Seconds" had no new deaths either. It was about a girl who went missing in a shopping mall and the only reason the BAU was called in was that they orginially thought it was connected to a previous death of a child under the same circumstances.
* In the season 6 premiere of ''[[Bones]]'', Booth, dissatisfied with the Everybody's Dead Dave nature of their work, forces his own
* ''[[Smallville]]'' usually featured some deaths in most episodes, but thanks to Clark's [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] policy, there's actually a fairly substantial minority of episodes, on average about 7 per season for 10 seasons, where Clark managed to save the day for everybody. So in about 70 episodes, nobody dies and
* For a crime drama, ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' has a surprisingly low amount of deaths, especially in the first season where there is only one death in the whole season: Logan's mother. More people started to die in later shows but not only the level ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'', ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', or ''[[Criminal Minds]]''.
* No one died in the ''[[Psych]]'' episode "Shawn and the Real Girl", though there were a few attempted murders.
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== Video Games ==
* [[Persona 4]] had a happy ending and all the party members came out alive. Three random characters died, but they're just random NPCs who get about a minute of screentime which is used to establish them as [[Asshole Victim
* This is one of the endings from the third game of the series ''[[Splatterhouse]]''.
* The [[Golden Ending]] of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has this as the result of the much vaunted [[Suicide Mission]]. ''Only'' if you {{spoiler|fully upgrade the ship, gain the whole squad's loyalty, enter the final mission as soon as the crew is kidnapped, assign the mission duties ''perfectly'', and perform the mission itself quickly}}. This is one happy ending you will have to ''[[Earn Your Happy Ending|earn]]''.
** ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' inverts this. You can't save everyone. Either {{spoiler|Mordin or Wrex}} ''will'' die, either during or before the game. {{spoiler|Thane}} ''will'' die if he's still alive for ''3''; if he isn't, {{spoiler|Kirrahe}} will die. {{spoiler|Anderson}} will die too. {{spoiler|Legion}} will "die" or be simply destroyed no matter what happens. In addition, any or ''all'' of the previous game's squadmates can die, along with {{spoiler|Tali}}.
* At the end of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]-2'', one of the protagonists details his plan to sacrifice his own life, and possibly that of a close comrade, to take out the Big Bad. At that point, Yuna decides to voice her honest opinion:
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** She then goes on to explain that she's sick of winning through [[Heroic Sacrifice]], and that this time nobody is going to die.
** Of course, that's because the last third or so of [[Final Fantasy X]], of which X-2 is a sequel, was devoted to help Yuna save the world without preforming [[Heroic Sacrifice]], and ended up with {{spoiler|two people willingly doing something they know will kill them (Tidus helps destroy the Fayths who keep him alive, and Auron vanishes in the Sending of said Fayths}}. She was reasonably annoyed at the idea of another such sacrifice.
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* Somewhat unusual for a ''Tales'' game, the ending to [[Tales of Vesperia]] not only finds the whole party alive and well, but the final boss too.
* Sissel's mission, in each chapter of ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', is to make sure the dead person in every chapter lives this time around. {{spoiler|At the end he reverses time to ten years ago and saves Yomiel from the meteorite, erasing the horrible effects to him and those he hurt in his attempt at revenge. Everyone lives...including Yomiel and Kamila's mother, who were dead before the game even started.}}
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', most of the big quests require hard choices. The Dalish? {{spoiler|At the very least, a whole bunch of werewolves (who may be innocent) Zathrian, and Witherfang/The Lady Of The Forest are going to die, even if you decide to spare the ones left when you get to the Gatekeeper}}. The Circle Tower? {{spoiler|Even if you dedicate yourself to saving the mages, only Irving and a handful of other mages survive the carnage.}} Orzammar? {{spoiler|All your powers of persuasion can't convince Bhelen to spare Harrowmont, or talk him down from initiating a brawl in the Assembly Chamber if you chose Harrowmont.}} But Redcliffe, now, Redcliffe... {{spoiler|You can motivate people into defending their hometown from a horde of undead when they thought they were too cowardly. You can ensure that everyone still kicking when you first arrive in town survives the battle. You can save a mother who was willing to sacrifice herself to save her demon-possessed son, save her son by entering a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|battle in the center of his mind]], and then cure the husband and father of the poison he was afflicted by. Just once, and [[It Got Worse|for now]],
** Also, {{spoiler|in the endgame, it may be possible to avoid making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], depending on the choices you've made, by having a male Warden, Alistair, or Loghain conceive a child with Morrigan who will serve as a vessel for the untainted soul of the Old God of Beauty who became the Archdemon. Oddly, given the sequel, this seems to be the the canon ending.}}
* ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]'': Play your cards right, and everyone'll make it out alive (save the 9th Man, but he bites the dust before the player even has a dialogue choice.)
** In fact, {{spoiler|that's the "true" ending of the game, which Akane was aiming for.}}
** Some people don't see this as a good thing as this includes {{spoiler|the Chessmaster who arranged the entire harrowing incident to save their own skin, and the [[Complete Monster]] who drove them to it.}}
* It is possible to invoke this trope in the [[
== Webcomics ==
* Subverted in the ''[http://zebragirl.keenspot.com Zebra Girl]'' [[Story Arc]] "The Magi-Net." After Jack defeats Harold DuVase, the mages whom he had devoured
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* [[wikipedia:Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition|Ernest Shackleton's crew on the Endurance]] Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice in Antarctica in 1914 and sank, but all crew returned to England after a long and risky rescue process. (However, three of the crew of the Aurora which had travelled to the opposite side of Antartica were lost).
** For those unfamiliar with the expedition, long and risky doesn't even begin to cover it. They lived on the Antarctic ice for ''six months'' while waiting for it to melt enough to try to reach the nearest land (800 miles away) in a row-boat. Frankly it would have been a miracle if any of them had survived, let alone every single man.
* [[wikipedia:Apollo 13|Apollo 13]] suffered an oxygen tank rupture 300,000
* [[wikipedia:British Airways Flight 9|British Airways Flight 9]] had all four engines stall due to volcanic ash before being restarted. The plane made a successful instrument landing at Jakarta on June 24, 1982 after the ash had reduced visibility through the cockpit windows.
* [[wikipedia:TACA Flight 110|TACA Flight 110]] had both engines lose power during a thunderstorm but landed with only minor injuries to those on board near its destination of New Orleans on May 24, 1988.
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* The [[wikipedia:Miracle on the Hudson|Miracle on the Hudson]], aka US Airways Flight 1549, made a successful water landing on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 after losing all power following a double bird strike shortly after takeoff. [[Danger Deadpan|Hero pilot]] Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger executed the near perfect landing and all 155 persons on board were evacuated safely onto arriving boats despite the freezing temperatures. The birds do not count.
* The [[wikipedia:2010 Copiapó mining accident|2010 Copiapó mining accident]] in the Atacama desert in Chile. 33 men are trapped 700 meters underground for two months. All are successfully rescued. With a [[Rube Goldberg Device]] invented specifically for the purpose. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Yeah!]]
* The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, on September
** This was tragically subverted - another earthquake stuck Christchurch again on February the next year. This killed 181 people, despite only being a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, because buildings that were already damaged by the September earthquake and its aftershocks collapsed on top of people. It was New Zealand's second deadliest natural disaster in history.
** Furthermore, the first earthquake struck at about four in the morning, when everyone was at home in bed. The second one struck in the afternoon, when people were out and about in the city.
* The Talladega Prison Rescue. Prisoners tooks over the prison, and took hostages. The FBI responded by calling up the HRT and SWAT teams, who then stormed the building. The death toll of the raid was... zero. Not one hostage, FBI Agent, or prisoner was killed.
* On April 13, 2012 El Salvador celebrated its first homocide-free day in nearly three years, due to a recent truce called by rival gangs Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18. In the last three years, the average was 12 murders per day, reaching as high as 18. News articles even showed jailed members of the gangs giving thanks for the respite.
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