Living on Borrowed Time: Difference between revisions

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* After Desmond prevents {{spoiler|Charlie}}'s death in ''[[Lost]]'', he becomes perpetually suspended in Death because [[You Can't Fight Fate]].

* Burai of ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]''. His days were numbered- literally. He already died once before the events of the series when his sleep chamber collapsed while he was still inside during his suspended animation, but Clotho, the Spirit of Life, revived him to assist the Zyurangers, but only for a limited period. Burai's remaining time was represented by a flickering green candle that would gradually melt down with each passing hour and the only way Burai could preserve his limited lifespan was by staying inside a "lapseless room". Because of this, Burai would only get out of his room to assist the Zyurangers whenever they seriously needed him. The longer Burai would stay outside his room, the less time he had left to live.

** When he came back, Tommy, the [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|American equivalent]], knew he had only a few morphs before he would [[Never Say "Die"|lose his powers]]. ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'' gave us another [[Sixth Ranger]] who was ''actually'' Living on Borrowed Time, cursed with a snake marking that would move higher on his body with each morph. If it reaches his neck, it's adios. Of course, given the nature of the trope...

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** Also, from the same setting, the Ultramarine Primarch Roboute Guilliman, who was also stabbed in the throat with a poisoned sword and frozen in permanent stasis field just moments before death. An [[Urban Legend]] says that he is regenerating despite it being physically impossible in the stasis.

** In the game itself, there's the Black Templars Chaplain Grimaldus - who has a special rule called ''Only in Death does Duty End'', permitting him to ignore fatal wounds as long as he continues to hold his nerve and focus on the Emperor's Will, although it's specified that even if this lets him finish out the battle, he's considered to die at the end.

{{quote|A life cut short. A quest left unfinished. One more task to be done. }}

** Can count as [[Miles to Go Before I Sleep]], and is thus on that page too.

* This is implied to be what is happening to {{spoiler|the Main Character}} in ''[[Persona 3]]'' in the aftermath of the final battle-- [[The Determinator|kept alive only]] by the [[Heroic Willpower|strength]] of [[The Promise|a promise]] [[The Power of Friendship|to meet again]] [[Exact Time to Failure|after graduation]].

* In ''[[Nethack]]'' if you use a scroll of genocide on your normal race while polymorphed into something else, "you feel dead inside" and [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|will die should you change back]]. If you quit, the death message is "quit while already on Charon's boat".

** The spirit is fused with her, so it doesn't have any choice in the matter any more, but its power is limited, and will fail eventually.

** ''All'' Grey Wardens fit this trope. To gain their darkspawn senses and taint immunity, they take in a cocktail of Darkspawn blood and partially transform. Unfortunately, the immunity isn't total. Eventually, the taint drives them mad with neverending prophetic dreams of Darkspawn as the taint takes over their minds. At that point, Senior Wardens retreat to the Deep Roads and choose to go out in a blaze of glory against the Darkspawn.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Rasputin in ''[[Anastasia]]''.