-Olimar died twice. Once he was revived, the other was in an alternative timeline. -Mother 3 has an ambiguous ending where the world ends, but what happens to the characters is unknown.
One funny thing about Steve and Alex is that both of them die and respawn several times in the CGI trailers that promote new updates for the game, it's probably the closest we'll get to any type of canonical death and cheating death scenario for both of them And I guess the Minecraft Zombie is undead, I don't know where that would even put him
IIRC, Minecraft spinoffs tend to give the characters only one life canonically. The exception was in one of Story Mode's dimensions, specifically the minigame server-based one in Season 1 Episode 8. There, Jesse dies and is respawned in a disqualified section.
Teeny tiny correction There is only one 'clone' of Ridley. The Metroid Prime games take place before Metroid 2 Samus Returns. Ridley canonically has the ability to regenerate his body as long as he is 1: alive and 2: able to consume sustenance. After the events of Metroid Zero Mission, Ridley is partially rebuilt as Meta Ridley to continue fighting until his body can regrow which we see is nearly completed at the end of Samus Returns. After his death in Super, Ridley is cloned on the bottle ship via DNA left over on Samus' suit before being killed again and the corpse of the dead clone is taken to the BSL research station where it is mimicked by the X. The Clone on the bottle ship is an actual Clone while the X copy on the BSL is another species entirely replicating the clone. And of course Ridley doesn't show up at all in Dread. This doesn't really change anything in the video as Ridley is definitely dead (so far) but it was just a minor inaccuracy.
It may also be worth noting that the X parasites steal the memories and knowledge of the creatures they mimic. With the combined facts that they mimicked a clone instead of Ridley himself, and that the X on that station were eradicated, it doesn’t really seem possible for his mind to have been preserved by that process. Still, I would say there’s at least a very small chance that his mind lives on somehow. (IIRC X in Dread were effectively a separate tribe, after hitching a ride with the Chozo to another planet)
Corrin goes into the “Died in an alternate universe” tier. Fates had a series of DLC levels focusing on the child units after all their parents died, including Corrin.
Corrin also kinda dies in the Birthright/Conquest route before the final maps, but he just chats with the characters that have previously died and they tell him to wake up, which actually works.
Small note: While Mario, Luigi and Peach never actually died they did all get sent to the afterlife in Super Paper Mario. Also I think Bowser Jr might've been caught in the same black hole as his dad in Galaxy 1 but it is never directly shown. So he potentially died once.
I think they died, it's just that they died "before their time" and were thus allowed back to the world of the living by Queen Jaydes. Dimentio didn't use a teleport effect on us, he straight up blew us up. They kind of dance around it, but I think you can say the SPM party died.
Shouldn't they turn into Darklings then? Or a Nimbi in Peach's case? Qeen Jaydees tells Mario and Luigi that them being in the Underwhere is a mistake and only those two get sent back by her, whereas Bowser and Peach leave later the same way the leave every chapter. Would be weird that they could just do that if they were actually dead. Also Dimentio uses the same explosion attack on himself and Luigi at the end of the game and they clearly don't die there. Dimentio is a master of trickery, using his explosion to mask teleportation is plausible and again the game reinforces that idea later.
Not sure where the SPM stuff falls in the category of "dead" vs "not dead" but I'm pretty sure the Paper games take place in a separate world anyways, so it doesn't really factor in for the versions of the characters in Smash.
Umm, two corrections: - Toon Link canonically died. The Toon Link from Spirit Tracks is a different character altogether. - Robin dies as a boss in the Awakening DLC.
You forgot to include Joker from Persona 5. There is an alternate path you can go down that actually DOES result in Joker dying for real. If you choose to sell out the other Thieves to Sae, their plan is never executed, and Akechi kills the REAL Joker.
You don't even have to rely on "what-ifs" that are technically non-canon. Yaldabaoth straight up kills the Phantom Thieves and wipes them all from existence, the only way they all live is because the metaverse and the real world were fused, so once they got removed from the real world, they ended up in the Metaverse (Velvet Room) because they still existed there. Why they still existed in the Velvet Room can be theorized (as an example, it can be argued that they still had people who believed they should still exist, thus affecting their congition and the now fused with mementos real world).
Bruh, no Olimar? Okay, as a Pikmin fan, Olimar has died. And no i'm not talking about Pikmin 1 bad ending, i mean that in Pikmin 4 the fact that he's a leafling is a crutial plot point and basically confirm us that he died, lived as a plant zombie for a month, and then got cured.
@@foggy8298 When his life support system ran out of time, he litetally couldn't breath and died. He has mentioned it multiple times, the pikmin planet (PNF-404) has so much oxygen that it is basically a lethal poison. Unless Olimar has strong enough lungs to hold his breath for a month, he was waaaay dead. That's why the pikmin dragged him into the onion after his death, they knew that he died and that turning him into a leafling was a form of resurrection for their captain.
@@ZombieChicken1310 yes but Pikmin 4 retconned the series… where being turned into a leafling doesn’t kill you in any way and is easily curable using glow sap And even in Pikmin 1, that’s a non canon bad ending… And even if it was canon, that’s still not death? He was trying to escape, crashed, and the Pikmin turned him into a Pikmin to save his life…
@@foggy8298 Pikmin 4 being a retcon doesn't mean that the leaflings suddenly stop being corpses tho. Sure, glow sap cures the leaves, but even the game itself questions how exactly this brings the person back to his former self, considering that... you know, a body parasitically controlled by plant life is clinically dead. Being turned into a leafling and then getting cured is like dying, turning into a zombie and then getting cured from the zombieficaton. Sure, you are no longer dead, but you used to be. The process of leaf...ication i guess, and then getting cured is that, death and resurrection. Olimar belongs to the cheated death tier i guess.
*XENOBLADE SPOILERS* It's become a tradition for Xenoblade protagonists to die at some point in all of the mainline games. Shulk spends pretty much 80% of Xenoblade 1 as a high functioning zombie. Rex is stabbed through the heart and basically put on life support with half of Pyra/Mythra's core crystal for the rest of the game at the end of chapter 1 of Xenoblade 2. Noah has died countless times already by the time you play as him in Xenoblade 3 due to Aionios basically being a massive team death match server complete with in-universe respawn mechanics. Shulk and Rex also technically die temporarily again at the end Future Redeemed to essentially keep Aionios alive long enough so that Noah can destroy it properly later but it's made explicitly clear that they'll be revived when Aionios is destroyed.
"massive team death match server complete with in-universe respawn mechanics" Combine that with the interpretation of Aionios as a simulated reality, and it basically just sounds like an video game isekai without permadeath. ... Wait, so that means that Xenoblade has been a mech anime, borderline a magical girl anime, and an isekai anime. Which anime genre will Xenoblade 4 be then?
you forgot to mention the fact that mario, luigi, peach and bowser all die in the events of super paper mario, sending them to the underwhere (or the overthere, in peach's case) which are the mario universe equivalents of hell and heaven. there's obviously contension on whether or not the paper mario games are canon or not, but i think it would've still been worth bringing up as an example of the mario characters cheating death.
@@ven9562 technically those are just story beats that also correlate to regular Mario's world. For example, the Star Rod exists in both PM and normal Mario, but MP8 using it would make zero sense if Paper Mario also happened, given how Bowser flat out won with it in PM64.
Actually, it's heavily implied that Dimentio only pretended to kill them and actually just sent them to the underwhere/overthere using his standard method of dimensional travel. This can be inferred from how Mario and friends don't turn into shades as well as from some of Jaydes' dialogue. You have to remember that Dimentio was orchestrating his power grab the entire time. Actually killing them, especially Luigi, would have been pretty counter productive.
Few fixes I made young link does canonically die. We find his ghost in twilight princess and defeated timeline also would mean that link is killed in the final battle of OoT which you can technically recreate in the game. Lucas is most likely dead. It’s heavily implied that everyone dies at the end of mother 3 with the final scene taking place in the afterlife. Although this “technically” isn’t outright confirmed. Entire Mario cast (except Rosalina) has cheated death with the black hole in Mario Galaxy 1 literally consuming everything requiring the Lumas to recreate it. Olimar cheats death, basically the plot of pikmin 4 lol Byleth cheats death a few times, they have canonical rewind powers that they use in a cutscene early on where the did die. Alternate universe Kirby dies at the end of star allies. Well void termina dies and resurrects to become a new world’s Kirby Oh and since rob is a real life entity you can just snap its head off or wait until it is unable to function
Olimar don't really cheat death, he was dead that's even why he still has his memories and a bit of his mind unlike all the other leaflings, he's even the only Pikmin character who canonically died (with maybe the sage leaf lol)
A bit late, but also the timeskip in FE3H happens because Byleth dies and gets brought back to life through the power of the Progenitor God, which is also why Nemesis got brought back, he just had to have his seal broken first.
@@mikubrot my dude did you even read the actual comment or did you just read mother 3 and reply trying to seem smart? I literally acknowledge that it’s is ambiguous, I just said one of the interpretations that’s commonly used is that they all died
To define whether Inklings die, you'd have to define death. Sure their bodies explode when they get "splatted", but they can make new bodies from ink. You can even see their little ghosts fly off. So is "death" the destruction of the body? Or when the soul moves on to whatever afterlife is canon in that world? *nods philosophically*
Does your soul moving on really count as death? It's not fundamentally different from a pilot getting out of a mech. You still exist. You're just not using that body anymore. I'd argue it's not death unless they stopped existing.
@@DanielLCarrier There are also canon ways to die in Splatoon. During octo expansion your character has no access to a respawn point, so if they die they canonically are just dead.
Rosalina says that the universe keeps being reborn in similar configurations so basically any Mario game you may be playing as a Mario from a past or future universe.
Where’s Byleth? In FE Three Hopes, which is set in an alternate timeline of FE Three Houses where you play as a mercenary Byleth was destined to kill before the events of 3H, you have the option to kill Byleth, which locks you away from the true ending
Even in Three Houses, Byleth canonically dies at the end of Crimson Flower then gets revived using the crest stone lodged in their heart and cheats death in the other timelines at the start of the game using divine pulse. Byleth didn’t get even a passing mention for their deaths yet they would be one of the easiest to find out about.
Joker cheats death too. He got shot in the head in one cutscene. He would have died but canonically avoids death through the Metaverse. And don't forget about the whole Thanos snap Yaldabaoth does in which the Phantom Thieves just cease to exist. That part is canon too.
Sora: - Got turned into a Heartless (He got better) - Actually died and then rewound time, maybe twice? That whole segment was pretty confusing - Rewound time again and got banished from existence to Quadratum, which isn't really an afterlife considering that as far as what we can see in the KH4 trailer, it's basically Japan and ordinary non-dead people live there, plus there's some as of yet unelaborated upon method of travelling there, but Strelitzia is also there and she definitely 100% died so why is she there and not The Final World, and does that mean that Sora didn't die when he was sent to The Final World in bullet point 2?
FE gets even more cases of dead in alternate universes as a result of New Mystery of the Emblem. The bad ending is expanded into a feral Medeus ravaging the land and a major reveal of TMS is that the Mirages are the spirits that were reduced to their base to keep fighting after this calamity. This somehow extends to Awakening characters as well.
Wait, Tokyo Mirage Sessions actually DOES explain why they’re like that?! I’d been looking for the explanation but could never find it! (Also, no wonder all of the Mirages have amnesia, remembering your own death would be super traumatizing.)
Ganon also dies in the Defeat timeline. Twice actually. Both times by the hero from Link to the Past, and they're the same guy from OoT. Link kills him in Link to the Past, and again in the Oracle games when he's revived in a botched ritual by Twinrova. Which means OoT's Ganondorf dies four times in four different games.
Ocarina of Time Ganondorf pretty much dies in all 3 timelines, in the downfall timeline like 3 times like you mentioned, then in twilight princess by the hero of twilight and in the wind waker by the hero of winds so Ocarina of Time Ganondorf dies 5 times totally in the timeline probably the most deaths for any Ganondorf I say 5 because of the original Legend Of Zelda but actually 6 because of a Link Between Worlds because Yuga Ganon at least counts for the body
@@sn0wblakeoff the top of my head: Marth, Chrom, Robin, Shulk, Pyra, Mythra, Olimar, Kazuya, Ken, Young Link, and Fox (in one of Command's endings). I'm unsure about Bowser, cause it's never made clear as to whether or not he reproduced asexually (unless you count Miyamoto's comment from that one video as canon, which means that Bowser canonically fucked Miyamoto).
@@williamsanborn9195 No, that's not true at the end of the original game, a post credits scene shows a black screen that says 500 years later and then Nanaki with his puppies in Midgar which is full of moss and plants. So canonically ff7 humanity are dead including Cloud and the others
Also, the Dissidia games exist, and he kinda died in the 2nd one, but it's a prequel of the original Dissidia game, and for lore reasons, all the playable characters who died in that game including him come back to life, so...I guess he'd fall under both "died in an alternate universe" and "cheated death." Cheated death in an alternate universe
@@gilliancastle5106 The Dissidia games are spin off games that do not form part of the official Final Fantasy canon, although there are theories that they join universes, there is nothing confirmed by Nomira or anyone else related to Dissidia
@@christhenerdyderg3916 well, he said it was riku or roxas that brought Sora back but she is 1. A girl 2. Looks nothing like riku or roxas 3. If he confused them because of Rikku from FFX-2 then that’s an even bigger fail. There are only two characters that even resemble kairi. That being Namine and… uh… …what’s her name? Anyways, the point is, Riku and Roxas look nothing like Kairi and Roxas wasn’t even in KH1
Someone who played the game before they fully knew how to read, and never broke the habit of pronouncing it wrong. I still can't seem to stop pronouncing "Ordon" and "Lanayru" as "Oradon" and "Lanaru", even though Ordon is missing an A and Lanayru has a Y. Demise is actual word, though, I don't know how you can go your whole life without fixing that.
I’m shocked you didn’t bring up how Lucas’ fate is completely unknown. What happens at the end of Mother 3 is left as open to interpretation as possible, and it’s entirely possible that the end is the afterlife. But again, nobody knows for sure.
Feel like you could include Joker (Persona 5) in the cheated death category. (SPOILERS) When a god merged the dimension of human cognition (thoughts) with the real world, it also erased Joker and his friends from humanity's collective consciousness, essentially wiping them from existence. They only survived thanks to an extra-dimensional space existing between dreams and reality (the Velvet Room). Not 100% sure if erasure from reality exactly counts as death, nor if being transported to some weird pocket dimenion upon being erased is a form of cheating death, but I think it can count, especially since they were then able to just go back to the combined reality and apparently auto-undo the erasure upon re-entering.
technically, sonic died and got resed in a different timeline, considering they did put out the flame that started the game, so 06 technically didn't happen in 06 and im glad for that
olimar has also cheated death as in both the bad ending of pikmin 1 and pikmin 4 (in all endings) his life support fails and he dies but is brought back to life by being put through an onion and turned into a leafling
No it can't be because the one in smash can mega evolve, the one in the movie was trapped for a long time before the advant of mega evolution and when he came back he didn't even have a trainer to mega evolve.
@@ravinercf I mean yeah sure the one in the movie didn’t mega evolve because the gimmick didn’t exist yet and you do need a trainer to mega evolve, however… Lucario in smash does not have a trainer his intro doesn’t have him come from a Pokéball so how does he mega evolve then? Also he literally speaks English, name another Lucario that has done that ever and not to mention it’s the same voice actor from the movie
@@edwincenteno7266 yeah well I suppose so I’m just saying that Lucario is heavily based off of the movie one, it’s not a 1:1 copy of the movie one though so that’s also valid
Chronologically, after Super Metroid he is DEAD dead. He is cloned in Other M from DNA extracted from Samus' suit, and that clone's corpse is reanimated by the X parasite in Fusion
Ridley dies in Super Metroid. Even if he didn't get killed by Samus, the planet blew up after Mother Brain was killed, consequently blowing up his remains
Cloud Strife is in fact dead (the end of FF7 takes place 500 years after the event of 7 and the only character we see in that point in time is Red XIII, and it’s basically impossible that Cloud (due to being a human among other things) is lasting that long in the timeline. And since that’s something we actually see in the actual game well obviously that means he’s dead.
This list is still incomplete because you forgot Kazuya. According to Tekken lore, Kazuya nearly dies at the age of 5 because Heihachi, his dad, throws him off a cliff, but survives because of the Devil Gene. In Tekken 2 after Kazuya threw Heihachi off a cliff, Heihachi comes back to return the favor by throwing Kazuya INTO AN ACTIVE VOLCANO, KILLING KAZUYA!! Soon after that, a company known as G Corporation manages to recover Kazuya's body... somehow... and try to bring him back from the dead. Nearly 20 years later, Kazuya is fully revived and is ready to tear shit up once again and eventually pays Heihachi back by throwing his ass into another volcano, permanently killing Heihachi.
Keyword nearly. Kazuya didn't actually die at the end of T2. He was kept alive due to his devil gene (just like how he survived the cliff as a kid). G Corp recovered his body and experimented on it but didn't actually "revive" him
@@gv82089 Uhh no, it directly states in Tekken 4 that he was brought BACK to life by G Corporation. Even on his wiki page, it also states that G Corporation restored him back to life.
@@gv82089 Nope Kazuya did die in Tekken 2, he was just reserrected and piece together in the events of Tekken 3 - 4 due to G-Corp. Kinda like Frieza in the movie Dragon Ball Resurrection of F
@invisanon Nah, bro. If you listened to what Harada had to say about Heihachi's status during the waiting period for the release of Tekken 8, he says IN ENGLISH, Heihachi is completely dead." I shit you not. If he says Heihachi's dead, Heihachi is DEAD dead
A lot of errors in this video. 1: Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser all canonically die in Super Paper Mario and get sent to the underworld. 2: In the arcade version of Donkey Kong Jr "Jumpman" (who may or may not be Mario) is seen to fall from the platform and die in the ending. 3: Tellius (Ike's games) does not take place in the same world as Shadow Dragon/New Mystery/Awakening. They take place in another world/universe and someone some time before Awakening brought over the Ragnell (Ike's sword) and stories of Ike from Tellius to Arcanea. (the main world of Fire Emblem) Universe travel is very much a thing in Fire Emblem through outrealm gates. 4: Marth is indeed dead by the events of Awakening and Chrom indeed dies in Lucina's timeline. Robin doesn't die even in Awakening's true ending because right after the FMV with Chrom finding SOMEONE on the field it shows Robin and whoever you married's endings. (short text in FE games for each character telling you want happened to them after the game finished) This basically confirms that the person found on the field was indeed Robin. 5: The Elibe games, the ones with Roy, take place in a different world than mainline. So he canonically never dies. 6: FE Fates is a fictional story within the setting of FE Awakening, so Corrin is actually a fictional character to Chrom and Lucina. Not dead, but she does temporarily die right before the final boss exclusively in the Conquest route. So she technically counts as "died in an alternate timeline." 7: Fodlan, the world that Byleth comes from, like Elibe, is completely separate from the other FE worlds. Also Byleth is canonically an immortal goddess who doesn't age. 8: Ridley canonically dies for good in Super Metroid. Ridley can regenerate his body as long as he's still alive. During the late game of Metroid Zero Mission the space pirates find Ridley's still alive head and heart and turns him into a cyborg so he can move around while the rest of his body regenerates. This is "Meta Ridley" and is the same Ridley as the one in Zero Mission. By the events of Samus Returns Ridley is almost fully regenerated, but dies for good in Super Metroid after he is fully regenerated. The Ridley in Other M is a clone, and the Ridley in Fusion was an alien parasite replicating his DNA based off Ridley's corpse that was being stored in the spaceship fusion takes place in. Ridley does not appear in Dread because at this point it would be even more of an asspull to bring him back AGAIN. 9: Shulk was basically a zombie for the entirety of XB1 until the final chapter. He was undead for most of the entire game and only became fully alive in the final chapter when Alvis granted him power based on Shulk's choice to oppose Zanza. 10: Pyra and Mythra did canonically die, but were revived due to the way how blades work. They only kept their memories because Rex's shared core worked as a memory backup, which was foreshadowed in Chapter 7 when Malos' stole Pyra's memories. 11: BotW/ToTK are implied to be a full series reboot. But that doesn't mean much when all the versions of Link, Zelda, and Ganon are long dead by the last game of each of the branches of the OG timeline. 12: Sora actually died for real at the end of KH3, but because KH hates killing off characters for good he merely ended up in an alternate mirror universe. The only other time Sora "died" (not really) was in KH1 but was very short lived. Also the reason Sora came back in KH1 was because of Kairi's powers. It had nothing to do with Roxas or Ventus. 13: Sephiroth came back only twice. He was killed originally prior to the events of FF7 by Cloud but his body was recovered and placed into statis while parts of Jenova acted as Sephiroth clones controlled by the main body. His true body was destroyed for good at the end of the OG FF7 but he came back in Advent Children via a clone body. (an actual clone, not Jenova parts shapeshifting) It's unclear if the Sephiroth in the remake series is the OG time traveling, another clone, the OG, or something different.
Ness did die technically because he destroyed his timeline which killed everyone and created a new timeline where giygas never existed by ness killing him and porky turning off the devils machine
Ness also possibly never died thanks to news is hot dog guy, where actually he may have died (mother 3 ending) or because of the alternate usiverse mother 3 takes place in(?)
If I remember correctly, Robin survives the events of awakening, vague as it may be. In the final cutscene, Chrom says, "Welcome back. It's over now." Plus the mark of Grima is no longer on Robin's hand
I guess to try and clarify Inklings to the best of my knowledge In turf war and the anarchy modes, getting splatted isn’t fully death, as the soul the flies away during the splatted animation can get to a respawn point and reform it’s body (or something like that). Salmon run is likely similar with respawn tech inside the life rings, but it needs a little ink in order to fully function. Story modes are weird. While I’ve never played any of the first 2 games, I believe there are respawn points in both the overworld and in the levels, so there are respawn points available. Splat 3 is a bit weird. Inside all levels except final boss, there are respawn points. I believe there are no respawn points in crater but some in alterna (though I could be mistaken). However, I would say touching the fuzzy ooze is a death sentence to a turfling, or at the very least would force them to be splatted to be returned to normal. Unfortunately, the DLCs can get a bit confusing. The level’s inside octo expansion do have respawn points, however during break out sequence, there aren’t any (the “checkpoints” aren’t respawn points), meaning that if eight dies during the escape, they would be canonically dead. Sanitization is a weird point. To my knowledge, I believe it’s removing memories from a body and inject null data, or something akin to that. In short, a person without any memories prior to sanitization and basically a zombie. Count that if you want or not. Side order is weirder. To start with, this dlc literally takes place in a simulation, so no death is a true death. If that was it, then it would be simple enough, but with death and death parallels, there is something that could be questioned as death or not, namely in the form of “greyscaling”, which is a fancy way of saying mind control (again). You’re choice on whether or not to call it a death or not
Pretty sure you can kill Byleth in 3 Hopes, which is confirmed to be an alternate timeline from 3 Houses. I could be wrong, but I think the Lucina in Heroes who guards the Tempest is where she went after Awakening. So yeah, she's probably fine. Pit is weird for so many reasons on top of what was mentioned here. In the Gameboy game that nobody played, his wings burn off in the end. Then Uprising comes along and makes that non-canon, so I guess it doesn't count. Uprising also goes and makes him retroactively canon to Smash Bros itself, so does getting turned into a trophy count as death?
Just one little nitpick: technically the greninja we see in smash is one specific greninja as it turns into ash-greninja for it’s final smash. This means that either it is the event exclusive battle bond greninja from before battle bond’s effect was changed, or it’s literally Ash’s greninja from the Pokémon anime. Ash’s greninja is still alive and kicking, while the event exclusive one can’t die because it’s in a Pokémon game. Thus, the greninja in smash has canonically not died. The same thing applies to Mewtwo. There is only supposed to be one Mewtwo in existence, and it is just as alive as it was when it was first created.
Super slight correction. Ike's games take place in it's own universe known as Tellius. Ike simply traveled the outrealms(the multiverse) into Marth's world Altaea where he presumably died.
I’d personally put _BotW_ Link in the list of characters who cheated death. IIRC Cloud also died in _Advent Children_ after being gunned down by Yazoo, but was sent back from the Lifestream by Aerith.
Sonic 06 is.... complicated, 06 is TECHNICALLY the main timeline. However due to the events of the story being undone in the end and the events never happened. Which explains why Sonic from 06 forward never died, however that explains the different version of Silver The Hedgehog in Sonic Rivals.... still doesn't explain why we weirdly have Crisis City and the Silver fight in Generations though
In the Mario and Luigi series.Mario and Luigi aren't scripted to die, but they each can die and be revived by the other using a 1up mushroom. And this isn't like the platforming games where you bubble in. The other brother has to shove the mushroom down the dead brothers throat or else they will remain dead for the rest of the fight.
Correction, Kairi brought him back in KH1, not Roxas, and Sora is actually, explicitly dead at the end of KH3, Strelitza even goes as far as saying that Quadratum is the afterworld for them, and we saw Strelitza get murdered. While Sora has cheated death several times, and will do it again, for now he is dead
14:35 Steve's ability to respawn is also canon, not only is it shown in trailers, but also talked about in the end script. It is also explained in the end script that the player is a god with the power to simply create and destroy universes like they are nothing, meaning that not only can Steve canonically travel between multiverses and canonically respawn at any point, he can go into an immortal state called creative mode, he can use commands to kill beings of his choosing, create blocks in any location, destroy blocks in any location, give himself a weapon capable of destroying a dragon that scales above his base form. Btw by my logic Steve is canonically just an avatar of the player, and the player can do whatever they want to Steve to make him more powerful, less powerful, basically do anything with him, base form being Steve without the player's influence, other than /give commands and arguably the ability to stack chests within each other with ctrl + middle click due to the fact that Steve's stats dont change with that, therefore that can be used as a strength indicator, which gets Steve around 14,000,000^201 kilograms of water when chests are stacked within each other with water buckets in the most inner level of chests. Steve is truly the most powerful character in existence other than truly boundless characters as long as he has the player behind him. this is why Steve is the highest tier character in Super Smash Bros
also there's an easy exploit to revive yourself in hardcore mode too, by going to spectate world then turning on LAN with cheats on, you can /gamemode yourself back into life, therefore meaning even in hardcore mode the respawnability of Steve still exists, it's just not an immediate option for the player, the player still has an easy way to do it due to the players canon infinite power (this infinite power also means mods are canon, so screw you people who say "_____ can beat steve because they are only weak to ____" STEVE CAN SIMPLY MOD THIS ITEM INTO EXISTENCE AND EVEN MAKE IT MORE POWERFUL WITH ENCHANTMENTS Steve is too powerful honestly lol
Fun fact: Captain falcon isn’t a name, but a title that’s progressively passed down to successors. With each iteration of smash and f-zero having a different person as captain falcon. Meaning he’s technically “died” about 3+ times now.
We don't know which captain is depicted in smash or its chronology since there are 3: the main, anime and technically the novel time periods. if its the CF from F-zero GP legend which took place in 2201 he would be dead but that game released after 64 so it's likely the falcon from 2560 (original game/chronology) with it currently sitting on 2610, which would put him as probably retired but not dead. So just like how botw link hasn't "died" in his current incarnation, the captain we see is his joung self or a new one with the other retired.
Surprised Olimar wasn't given a mention given the craziness that Pikmin 1 and 4 hold, but then again it wasn't confirmed if he actually died so it's passable
So hypothetically, if we *were* covering movies. Cloud would be in the cheated death tier. At the end of the movie, after Sephiroth is defeated Cloud does get killed by some if the antagonists, and does get sent to the lifestream (basically the afterworld), but he's sent back by Aerith, and is revived at her church. And I think it could be included, since the ff7 remake is a direct sequal to the movie.
11:55 Wait hold on, the Xenoblade giant is named Bionis? I knew that Xenoblade Chronicles had basically the same sci fi twist as BIONICLE, that all the characters lived inside a giant comatose robot, but I had no idea the names were so similar! Bio means life and Chronicle means story so it's probably just coincidence, but that's wild.
It wasn't in a game, but it was a tie-in series, Captain Falcon dies in the F-ZERO GP Legend anime and passes his title down to Ryu Suzaku, it's an alternate timeline death technically
One thing about Sonic 06 is that technically everything that happened in that game didn’t happen in the main timeline since Elise ended 06’s timeline and resetting time back before the events of the game, so yeah, technically speaking, Sonic never truly died in the main timeline.
Fates is stated to be in the far past of the awakening timeline, there's even hoshidan's still alive in fe echoes, plus, corrin died in the one dlc storyline in fates
Sick video, I'll have to check out your other videos! But a few additions that I can think of off of the top of my head from the games I am more familiar with (Maybe for a part 2 :D ). So Byleth can actually die in the spin off game Fire Emblem Three Hopes, he acts as your rival and depending on what choices you make you may have to kill him, so that could go under the "dies in another universe" section. Corrin dies in a few of the paths, but he comes back like 5 minutes later, so probably cheated death for that one. I THINK Captain Falcon dies in the F Zero anime, so that would be "Dies in another universe." (Double check that one tho) And last Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves die for a bit when they fade from the public's cognition (Persona 5 stuff, don't worry about it), but because Joker is built different they manage to come back.
Addendum to Corrin - the Heirs of Fate campaign follows the children of countless timelines, where all the parent units were slain, including many Corrins.
“Sephiroth, well, he’s Sephiroth.” Ok, if you don’t want to do it, let the ff7 nerd do the explaining. If we’re following the original which is what I think the Sephiroth in smash is. Sephiroth’s first ‘you were supposed to die here’ was in the Nibelhiem incident where he fell into the lifestream with Jenova’s head. Due to SOLDIER stuff, he ended up merging with Jenova as he crystallised his body in the northern cavern which I theorize is what protected him from and normal lifestream victims. The second time was the ending of ff7 where you ‘properly’ kill him. However unlike most beings, you don’t see his body return to the lifestream, instead exploding in streams of light. Later on in the book, On the Way to a Smile, it tells us that if one resists the pull of the current, they can keep their consciousness intact and technically keep living. By attaching himself to a memory in the lifestream he was able to create something like a horcrux being Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo which when exposed to a part of Jenova which in Advent Children was her head. He was able to build himself another body, quote: “I could use Mother’s power. If I had just a piece of her, I could forge another body for myself.” After the final fight in Advent Children, we don’t really see Sephiroth later in that timeline and don’t know what became of him, only really being able to theorise about it. However, destroying Sephiroth again seemingly killed all the remnants as we don’t hear of them in Dirge of Cerberus. Most likely still being in that state of consciousness in the lifestream just less inactive due to Geostigma now being fully cured. Also I noticed you missed Cloud out who also cheated death. In the mainline, he gets shot in the back by a slowly dying Yazoo but via the power of ✨having a friend who is one with the planet but also dead✨ he was basically killed, went to heaven, god said no, and then went back to the living. Advent Children is really confusing and I’ve been trying to figure this entire franchise out for years but hoped this helped 👍
Anyway Cloud is human and will eventually die as will Tifa with the others because at the end of the original game 500 years pass, showing that Midgar flourished.
Corrin goes into the hypet specific "cheated death in an alternate universe" category. The Corrin we see in Smash wields the Omega Yato, implying them to be the Revelation version. But in both the Birthright and Conquest timelines, Corrin does die and go to the afterlife before returning to life through the power of asspull.
Mega man X and zero seriously die at the end of ZX on DS. And Snake doesn't die at the end of 4 he just gets old and sickly and is implied to eventually die.
No one actually knows if Ness is dead. Most people think he died happily of old age, but there is proof against it too. The game never explicitly says anything about it, and I cant elaborate without spoiling all of Earthbound and Mother 3. All I have to say is Po(r)key exists, so it's very possible, but it's still up in the air.
Lucas should go in the other category. At the end of his game, Mother 3, a large catastrophic event, that I'd rather not spoil the cause of, is shown to completely destroy the island where the game takes place and basically end the world. However, in a post-game "cutscene" (there are no visuals, it's just dialogue from unknown characters on a black screen), everyone seems to be alive and well, somehow having survived the event. And if everyone else on the island is, it's safe to assume Lucas is too. However, he can't go in the "cheated death" category, because there's much speculation as to how everyone "survived" such a deadly event, and it's left very open-ended with no one knowing the true ending. Therefore, other category.
A quick addition to this, the final character you talk to in that dialogue sequence is all but stated to be Lucas. So if you interpret the ending as you talking to the survivors, Lucas is among them.
In SPM Mario, Luigi and Peach die, but if you consider that an alternate continuity, everyone except Rosalina got sucked into a blackhole and died in Mario Galaxy and then she created a new universe and copies of all the characters. It's stupid and I hate it, but it's canon. Also, Wario can become a zombie and get better, so... Depending on how you look at the DK64 game over DK and Diddy may have died in an alternate timeline. In Star Fox 64 if you take a route where you fight Star Wolf twice, Wolf dies. It;'s implied Lucas dies after Mother 3 ends. If you don't answer the detective's questions correctly, Joker dies, so possible AU death. Joker also gets erased from the universe temporarily before becoming too rebellious to stay erased. Byleth dies so much they were even born dead, but being the Mary Sue/Marty Stu they are, death never sticks.
The ending of Mario galaxy directly stated that the universe was reborn, not copied. Which would mean that everyone who was a part of the previous version was reborn which as we see is basically resurrection. The Mario you see in new games is the same Mario you’ve always seen, don’t be angry.
joining in on the um actuallying, its implied kirby is brought back to life at the end of most of his games by the omnipresent orange butterfly. because it wakes up kirby, usually in the last cutscene after the final battle, it was long theorized that this was the case, before it was confirmed in star allies when you defeat galacta knight and the butterfly resurrects him as morpho knight.
Kirby, King Dedede and Meta Knight go here as well. They have a little bit of everything, so I will give you everything: *Pinball Land: Kirby dying means that a clone takes his place. The amount of clones being lives. *Mass Attack: Necrodeus splits Kirby into 10 Kirbys and erases 9, the last one escapes and revives the other Kirbys in gameplay. Up to 9 Kirbys can then die and be revived in gameplay. All of them are Kirby in even ways, at the end they "fuse"(?) back into 1. *Lore thing: It's stated that enemies killed by Kirby revive elsewhere like plants (Ask me for the sources), something first said for the second game, where "dying" just means a boss blowing up like in any other game (or getting inhaled by Kirby). Thing is, Dedede has blown up like this across the games a few times, notably in Mass Attack. Blowing up in this videogame-like manner is shown in cutscenes too when Fecto Elfilis died like this, turning into mini stars & sh*t. *Kirby Battle Royale: You play many mini games in this one, in most of them characters can die, you see their souls, and come back to life to keep on playing. The story of the game has it so Kirby defeated Meta Knight and Dedede in these games, so they had to have died and revived a few times, and it's possible for them to have killed Kirby in those same games, as that doesn't give them a win. *Fighters 2: In the story, Kirby can die, turn into a ghost, and revive by hitting a living target. Outside of the story, he can do the same in this and other "Fighter" games as you play with other people, but in Fighters 2 Dedede and Meta Knight are playable. Triple Deluxe, Star Allies, Fighters 2: Across some Kirby games, when you lose to a boss and try it again, the bosses get weaker a bit. There are statements saying that this is because they grow tired of fighting you and this is... Odd. That implies the characters revived to fight again in-universe. Is that for real? If so, Dedede and MK are playable in Star Allies. Ask me for sources and further context.
I think most of the ones you mention fall under the same category of Mario dying to a goomba which he said didn't count. Additionally, Mass attack, Pinball land, Battle Royale and Fighters 2 aren't canon. In Triple Deluxe and Star Allies, just because you lose to a boss doesn't mean you die, I'm pretty sure you just fall asleep. Indeed I believe that Kirby should actually be in the Immortal category because Kirby is a God of Destruction who just falls asleep when in a position a mortal would die.
@@KirbyD-g6c I am almost certain there is no "Dreamland Historia" and that Kirby barely even has a canon. Show me any even semi-official source that lays out which games are not canon because my gut says they all are
@@KirbyD-g6c That's crazy talk at its worse. Mario never died to a Goomba because if he did, he would be dead. If a character CAN die to their Goomba-like enemies and revive due to this being something they can do in-universe, then they canonically could have died to them. It's not the same. All of those games are canon, already you have no grounds for such a claim, but they show up in timelines of the games the series has and some of them get ref'd in a book of past adventures Kirby has in his house, which covers his last 15 or so games. Sectonia and Dark Meta Knight try to kill you in Triple Deluxe, The Mage Sisters, Hyness, and Void try to kill you in Star Allies. You say that he falls asleep because of the game over screen, which is not canon and isn't even the same in all modes a game has. The last thing you say is... I have no way to say so while being nice, so sorry, but it's pure nonsense. The idea of Kirby being a god is already wrong, I have a playlist about it. But adding extra meanings to it the games never imply is super wrong. And Void isn't even immortal, each of their lives die at some point, when they're dead, that's how we know they can do just that.
You forgot Marx being a Kirby character that has died. In super star/star ultra you kill him and then his literal soul. He dies twice and in his second death there's no logical way of reviving him as he has both no body and no soul so is dead in every possible sense of the word. He was an ally to Kirby before getting power hungry at the end of milky way wishes causing his death(s) but there's still no way of reviving him, it's like when a god of destruction in dragon ball hakais a being they die in every sense of the word and are lost to both time and space including the multiverse. Kirby essentially hakaid Marx.
@@AloneTheorist Marx isn't playable in Smash. The Marx Soul fight happens in a parallel universe (for real). The Marx we see in Star Allies (most likely) never became Marx Soul.
Ok so this is incorrect for two reasons. 1. Paper Mario =/= Mario. They most certainly are not the same character. 2. Even if my first point is wrong, Paper Mario and crew get sent to the Underwhere, but do not die. It LOOKS like they die, but Dimentio just teleports them there. This is directly mentioned by a character in the Underwhere saying “your games are not truly over” and other such things.
Metroid Prime hunters had an ending where Samus died, so if that is canon, she can be in resurrected or cheated death, as there are other endings where she lives.
2:18, A lot of those other games, especially the Metroid Prime games take place before Super Metroid. Meta Ridley is basically Ridley as a cyborg due to his injuries in Metroid 1 and Zero Mission. Proteus Ridley is Ridley with most of said injuries already healed up. The Ridley in Other M is a clone, and the X Parasite infected Ridley is that same clone but infected by X Parasites.
Fun Fact: In Kid Icarus: Uprising, in the mission where you confront Palutena to free her from the Chaos Kin, you can actually directly attack her and not the Chaos Kin like you’re supposed to. Doing this results in a Game Over when you defeat her, implying that you actually kill her in that moment. So not only is Palutena able to be hurt like other gods, you could say that Game Over is an alternate universe where she dies.
A small addition that was probably overlooked, Joker in Persona 5 although I'm unsure wether or not this counts similiar to Mario dying to a Goomba. In Persona 5 there is a bad ending at a certain date where, if a dialouge sequence is answered with wrong answers, Joker gets murdered. To go into a bit more detail, while he is in police custody after the fifth dungeon of the game, Joker has to convince the prosecutor interviewing him to assist him with a plan to escape his imminent death. If the player answers with the correct dialogue options in the interaction they will continue the game as intended with Joker faking his death by his assassin killing a cognitive version. However, if the players chooses the wrong dialogue the plan fails and Joker actually gets shot in the head and the player has to load his last safe. I'd say that counts towards dying in an alternative universe. Yet in a weird way, I guess it's no different than Mario dying from a Goomba.
Well, technically, we don't even know if Ness is dead or not. It's implied that Mother 3 takes place in a separate universe instead of sometime in the future.
The reason it's named that is because it follows Adult Link's actions in Ocarina of Time. It is rather funny that both of the Links in that timeline go on their respective adventures as children lmao.
Captain Falcon is a mantle that's passed down to the winner of F-zero tourniment every 50 years or so and I'm pretty sure Samus died at least once and was brought back to life thanks to a baby metroid and even though you said you don't count tie-in movies and whatnot, there was a game about pacster, the son of pac-man and ms-pac-mac, and yes, pacster is an orphan
In the case of Sonic, that's actually a misrepresentation. Looking at the text surrounding the "save Sonic" plan more carefully, it would seem that it was less "died" and more "fatally wounded into unconciousness"... or in Princess Bride terms, "mostly dead, and thus still barely alive". Not that it matters for the (intended) emotional impact at all: he would definitely die without the Emeralds there. He just hadn't crossed that threshold _yet._
Agent 3 has not died canonically speaking in Splatoon. (in the newest game agent 3 leads the squid beak platoon) in Splatoon 2 Agent 3 is taken over by a mind control thing that you have to fight. The only "death" that Agent 3 gets is the inner Agent 3 battle in Splatoon 2 DLC. So technically Agent 3 has died in Agent 8's head. :P
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UM- B-b-b-but sora actually- (paragraph)
Okay, I'll leave my paragraph at the door...
We don’t talk about KH lore it will be longer than most College Essays
Bro Kirby lore is less complex
Real
Not really, he straight up died twice now actually
Sora died and got revived so many times that he straight-up doesn’t understand the concept of death and he had to have it explained to him in KH3.
By having a literal cyclone of heartless and nobodies and the Things from bbs kill Off all of His Friends and then himself
Ok this is super embarrassing for him that this this stupid kid with a comically oversized key who has dies many times can’t understand death
"Oh, please. --Church-- (Sora) has been revived more times than Jean Grey."
One can actually say that Sora has canonically cheated death _too many times._
He still shrugged it off and said "See you in the next game" like ... okay.
-Olimar died twice. Once he was revived, the other was in an alternative timeline.
-Mother 3 has an ambiguous ending where the world ends, but what happens to the characters is unknown.
yea i feel like pikmin 1's bad ending gets to count as an alt timeline because the game "ends" at that point.
One funny thing about Steve and Alex is that both of them die and respawn several times in the CGI trailers that promote new updates for the game, it's probably the closest we'll get to any type of canonical death and cheating death scenario for both of them
And I guess the Minecraft Zombie is undead, I don't know where that would even put him
I feel like that would be the 'cheated death' category.
Something I wonder, the zombies have Steve's clothing and we know Steve dies a lot in the cgi trailers
Are the zombies in minecraft Steve's remains?
Also there is the achievement for using a totem called "postmortal" so yes, very much in the cheated death category
IIRC, Minecraft spinoffs tend to give the characters only one life canonically. The exception was in one of Story Mode's dimensions, specifically the minigame server-based one in Season 1 Episode 8. There, Jesse dies and is respawned in a disqualified section.
The respawn anchor literally exists
Teeny tiny correction
There is only one 'clone' of Ridley.
The Metroid Prime games take place before Metroid 2 Samus Returns. Ridley canonically has the ability to regenerate his body as long as he is 1: alive and 2: able to consume sustenance. After the events of Metroid Zero Mission, Ridley is partially rebuilt as Meta Ridley to continue fighting until his body can regrow which we see is nearly completed at the end of Samus Returns.
After his death in Super, Ridley is cloned on the bottle ship via DNA left over on Samus' suit before being killed again and the corpse of the dead clone is taken to the BSL research station where it is mimicked by the X. The Clone on the bottle ship is an actual Clone while the X copy on the BSL is another species entirely replicating the clone.
And of course Ridley doesn't show up at all in Dread.
This doesn't really change anything in the video as Ridley is definitely dead (so far) but it was just a minor inaccuracy.
It may also be worth noting that the X parasites steal the memories and knowledge of the creatures they mimic.
With the combined facts that they mimicked a clone instead of Ridley himself, and that the X on that station were eradicated, it doesn’t really seem possible for his mind to have been preserved by that process. Still, I would say there’s at least a very small chance that his mind lives on somehow.
(IIRC X in Dread were effectively a separate tribe, after hitching a ride with the Chozo to another planet)
Goodness, I love hearing people explain Metroid lore because it always sounds like deranged ramblings in the best way
The Metroid vaccine basically allowed Samus cheat death.
@@gytrash6167yea but close to death isn't dead.
Small mistake but “explains the body of ridly and the polt of 3 Metroid games”
Corrin goes into the “Died in an alternate universe” tier.
Fates had a series of DLC levels focusing on the child units after all their parents died, including Corrin.
Ans so did ness, it has to do with a theory (ITS NOT SANS IS NESS)
I hate that DLC it's so weird and makes no sense at all, I just like the Close counter
Technically Chrom too.
Corrin also kinda dies in the Birthright/Conquest route before the final maps, but he just chats with the characters that have previously died and they tell him to wake up, which actually works.
@@NosretepI mean, he died in Lucina's timeline
Small note: While Mario, Luigi and Peach never actually died they did all get sent to the afterlife in Super Paper Mario.
Also I think Bowser Jr might've been caught in the same black hole as his dad in Galaxy 1 but it is never directly shown. So he potentially died once.
Those r like books
I think they died, it's just that they died "before their time" and were thus allowed back to the world of the living by Queen Jaydes. Dimentio didn't use a teleport effect on us, he straight up blew us up. They kind of dance around it, but I think you can say the SPM party died.
Doesn’t Domino or whatever his name is actually kill them though?
Shouldn't they turn into Darklings then? Or a Nimbi in Peach's case? Qeen Jaydees tells Mario and Luigi that them being in the Underwhere is a mistake and only those two get sent back by her, whereas Bowser and Peach leave later the same way the leave every chapter. Would be weird that they could just do that if they were actually dead.
Also Dimentio uses the same explosion attack on himself and Luigi at the end of the game and they clearly don't die there.
Dimentio is a master of trickery, using his explosion to mask teleportation is plausible and again the game reinforces that idea later.
Not sure where the SPM stuff falls in the category of "dead" vs "not dead" but I'm pretty sure the Paper games take place in a separate world anyways, so it doesn't really factor in for the versions of the characters in Smash.
Umm, two corrections:
- Toon Link canonically died. The Toon Link from Spirit Tracks is a different character altogether.
- Robin dies as a boss in the Awakening DLC.
You forgot to include Joker from Persona 5.
There is an alternate path you can go down that actually DOES result in Joker dying for real. If you choose to sell out the other Thieves to Sae, their plan is never executed, and Akechi kills the REAL Joker.
Not to mention when the PTs basically get written out of reality can technically be considered a death
@TheKutiek68 if you fail the 3rd Royal semester Joker gets put to sleep forever and forgotten by the world
You don't even have to rely on "what-ifs" that are technically non-canon.
Yaldabaoth straight up kills the Phantom Thieves and wipes them all from existence, the only way they all live is because the metaverse and the real world were fused, so once they got removed from the real world, they ended up in the Metaverse (Velvet Room) because they still existed there. Why they still existed in the Velvet Room can be theorized (as an example, it can be argued that they still had people who believed they should still exist, thus affecting their congition and the now fused with mementos real world).
Bruh, no Olimar?
Okay, as a Pikmin fan, Olimar has died.
And no i'm not talking about Pikmin 1 bad ending, i mean that in Pikmin 4 the fact that he's a leafling is a crutial plot point and basically confirm us that he died, lived as a plant zombie for a month, and then got cured.
That’s… not death…
@@foggy8298 When his life support system ran out of time, he litetally couldn't breath and died. He has mentioned it multiple times, the pikmin planet (PNF-404) has so much oxygen that it is basically a lethal poison.
Unless Olimar has strong enough lungs to hold his breath for a month, he was waaaay dead.
That's why the pikmin dragged him into the onion after his death, they knew that he died and that turning him into a leafling was a form of resurrection for their captain.
As Captain Olimar Himself, I Must Also Point Out The Bad Ending Of Pikmin One, Despite It Not Being Canon
@@ZombieChicken1310 yes but Pikmin 4 retconned the series… where being turned into a leafling doesn’t kill you in any way and is easily curable using glow sap
And even in Pikmin 1, that’s a non canon bad ending…
And even if it was canon, that’s still not death? He was trying to escape, crashed, and the Pikmin turned him into a Pikmin to save his life…
@@foggy8298 Pikmin 4 being a retcon doesn't mean that the leaflings suddenly stop being corpses tho.
Sure, glow sap cures the leaves, but even the game itself questions how exactly this brings the person back to his former self, considering that... you know, a body parasitically controlled by plant life is clinically dead.
Being turned into a leafling and then getting cured is like dying, turning into a zombie and then getting cured from the zombieficaton. Sure, you are no longer dead, but you used to be.
The process of leaf...ication i guess, and then getting cured is that, death and resurrection.
Olimar belongs to the cheated death tier i guess.
Sonic be like:
- "Not only I came back to life, I erased my death from the timeline."
*XENOBLADE SPOILERS*
It's become a tradition for Xenoblade protagonists to die at some point in all of the mainline games.
Shulk spends pretty much 80% of Xenoblade 1 as a high functioning zombie.
Rex is stabbed through the heart and basically put on life support with half of Pyra/Mythra's core crystal for the rest of the game at the end of chapter 1 of Xenoblade 2.
Noah has died countless times already by the time you play as him in Xenoblade 3 due to Aionios basically being a massive team death match server complete with in-universe respawn mechanics.
Shulk and Rex also technically die temporarily again at the end Future Redeemed to essentially keep Aionios alive long enough so that Noah can destroy it properly later but it's made explicitly clear that they'll be revived when Aionios is destroyed.
"massive team death match server complete with in-universe respawn mechanics"
Combine that with the interpretation of Aionios as a simulated reality, and it basically just sounds like an video game isekai without permadeath.
... Wait, so that means that Xenoblade has been a mech anime, borderline a magical girl anime, and an isekai anime. Which anime genre will Xenoblade 4 be then?
you forgot to mention the fact that mario, luigi, peach and bowser all die in the events of super paper mario, sending them to the underwhere (or the overthere, in peach's case) which are the mario universe equivalents of hell and heaven. there's obviously contension on whether or not the paper mario games are canon or not, but i think it would've still been worth bringing up as an example of the mario characters cheating death.
Pretty sure mario and paper mario are different beings considering they meet in mario and luigi paper jam
paper mario 64 is referenced as having occured in other games, like superstar saga and some of the mario party games
@@ven9562 technically those are just story beats that also correlate to regular Mario's world. For example, the Star Rod exists in both PM and normal Mario, but MP8 using it would make zero sense if Paper Mario also happened, given how Bowser flat out won with it in PM64.
Actually, it's heavily implied that Dimentio only pretended to kill them and actually just sent them to the underwhere/overthere using his standard method of dimensional travel. This can be inferred from how Mario and friends don't turn into shades as well as from some of Jaydes' dialogue.
You have to remember that Dimentio was orchestrating his power grab the entire time. Actually killing them, especially Luigi, would have been pretty counter productive.
A better case a blackhole consumed them all in galaxy
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young link does canonically die. We find his ghost in twilight princess and defeated timeline also would mean that link is killed in the final battle of OoT which you can technically recreate in the game.
Lucas is most likely dead. It’s heavily implied that everyone dies at the end of mother 3 with the final scene taking place in the afterlife. Although this “technically” isn’t outright confirmed.
Entire Mario cast (except Rosalina) has cheated death with the black hole in Mario Galaxy 1 literally consuming everything requiring the Lumas to recreate it.
Olimar cheats death, basically the plot of pikmin 4 lol
Byleth cheats death a few times, they have canonical rewind powers that they use in a cutscene early on where the did die.
Alternate universe Kirby dies at the end of star allies. Well void termina dies and resurrects to become a new world’s Kirby
Oh and since rob is a real life entity you can just snap its head off or wait until it is unable to function
Olimar don't really cheat death, he was dead that's even why he still has his memories and a bit of his mind unlike all the other leaflings, he's even the only Pikmin character who canonically died (with maybe the sage leaf lol)
Void Termina being implied to be reincarnated as a Kirby is a mistranslation
A bit late, but also the timeskip in FE3H happens because Byleth dies and gets brought back to life through the power of the Progenitor God, which is also why Nemesis got brought back, he just had to have his seal broken first.
theres no confirmed ending to mother 3. it's been intentionally left ambiguous
@@mikubrot my dude did you even read the actual comment or did you just read mother 3 and reply trying to seem smart? I literally acknowledge that it’s is ambiguous, I just said one of the interpretations that’s commonly used is that they all died
To define whether Inklings die, you'd have to define death. Sure their bodies explode when they get "splatted", but they can make new bodies from ink. You can even see their little ghosts fly off.
So is "death" the destruction of the body? Or when the soul moves on to whatever afterlife is canon in that world? *nods philosophically*
Does your soul moving on really count as death? It's not fundamentally different from a pilot getting out of a mech. You still exist. You're just not using that body anymore. I'd argue it's not death unless they stopped existing.
@@DanielLCarrier There are also canon ways to die in Splatoon. During octo expansion your character has no access to a respawn point, so if they die they canonically are just dead.
Rosalina says that the universe keeps being reborn in similar configurations so basically any Mario game you may be playing as a Mario from a past or future universe.
Where’s Byleth?
In FE Three Hopes, which is set in an alternate timeline of FE Three Houses where you play as a mercenary Byleth was destined to kill before the events of 3H, you have the option to kill Byleth, which locks you away from the true ending
Since Joker wasn't included, I guess bad/un-golden endings weren't considered. Well, outside of Zelda's Hero Defeated timeline.
"True Ending"
Only on one of the routes. The other two don't really change all that much.
Even in Three Houses, Byleth canonically dies at the end of Crimson Flower then gets revived using the crest stone lodged in their heart and cheats death in the other timelines at the start of the game using divine pulse. Byleth didn’t get even a passing mention for their deaths yet they would be one of the easiest to find out about.
I was going to mention Byleth as well but because they're a stillborn, their mother dies to bring them back to life
Joker cheats death too. He got shot in the head in one cutscene. He would have died but canonically avoids death through the Metaverse. And don't forget about the whole Thanos snap Yaldabaoth does in which the Phantom Thieves just cease to exist. That part is canon too.
If bad ending counted as alternate timelines Inklings as a species are destroyed in the bad ending of Splatoon 2’s dlc and 3’s story mode
Splatoon 3 we have no idea if any Splatarians die, Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion yeah those inklings are dead
Sora:
- Got turned into a Heartless (He got better)
- Actually died and then rewound time, maybe twice? That whole segment was pretty confusing
- Rewound time again and got banished from existence to Quadratum, which isn't really an afterlife considering that as far as what we can see in the KH4 trailer, it's basically Japan and ordinary non-dead people live there, plus there's some as of yet unelaborated upon method of travelling there, but Strelitzia is also there and she definitely 100% died so why is she there and not The Final World, and does that mean that Sora didn't die when he was sent to The Final World in bullet point 2?
FE gets even more cases of dead in alternate universes as a result of New Mystery of the Emblem. The bad ending is expanded into a feral Medeus ravaging the land and a major reveal of TMS is that the Mirages are the spirits that were reduced to their base to keep fighting after this calamity. This somehow extends to Awakening characters as well.
Wait, Tokyo Mirage Sessions actually DOES explain why they’re like that?! I’d been looking for the explanation but could never find it! (Also, no wonder all of the Mirages have amnesia, remembering your own death would be super traumatizing.)
Ganon also dies in the Defeat timeline. Twice actually. Both times by the hero from Link to the Past, and they're the same guy from OoT. Link kills him in Link to the Past, and again in the Oracle games when he's revived in a botched ritual by Twinrova.
Which means OoT's Ganondorf dies four times in four different games.
Dont you mean twice? Or does he die twice in both games?
Ocarina of Time Ganondorf pretty much dies in all 3 timelines, in the downfall timeline like 3 times like you mentioned, then in twilight princess by the hero of twilight and in the wind waker by the hero of winds so Ocarina of Time Ganondorf dies 5 times totally in the timeline probably the most deaths for any Ganondorf
I say 5 because of the original Legend Of Zelda but actually 6 because of a Link Between Worlds because Yuga Ganon at least counts for the body
I hope "which smash character have canonically" videos become a trend
which smash characters have canonically fucked
@@sn0wblake smash ultimate roster: who's actually smash? Tierlist
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@@sn0wblakeoff the top of my head:
Marth, Chrom, Robin, Shulk, Pyra, Mythra, Olimar, Kazuya, Ken, Young Link, and Fox (in one of Command's endings).
I'm unsure about Bowser, cause it's never made clear as to whether or not he reproduced asexually (unless you count Miyamoto's comment from that one video as canon, which means that Bowser canonically fucked Miyamoto).
@@LegendryHeropon im sorry, OLIMAR FUCKS???
@@LegendryHeropon It seems like every month, more and more ideas come out to validate my "Bowser is bisexual" headcanon.
Cloud pretty much dies at the end of Advent Children but comes back after being rejected from the lifestream by Aerith and Zack
But he said no movies or other forms of media are included.
@@williamsanborn9195 No, that's not true at the end of the original game, a post credits scene shows a black screen that says 500 years later and then Nanaki with his puppies in Midgar which is full of moss and plants. So canonically ff7 humanity are dead including Cloud and the others
Also, the Dissidia games exist, and he kinda died in the 2nd one, but it's a prequel of the original Dissidia game, and for lore reasons, all the playable characters who died in that game including him come back to life, so...I guess he'd fall under both "died in an alternate universe" and "cheated death." Cheated death in an alternate universe
@@gilliancastle5106 The Dissidia games are spin off games that do not form part of the official Final Fantasy canon, although there are theories that they join universes, there is nothing confirmed by Nomira or anyone else related to Dissidia
@angelicayamiletcristobalol2904 I am fully aware of this, hence the alternate universe comments I made
No no, he was brought back to his human form thanks to Kairi, not Roxas.
Mixed up the names, thanks for clarifying!
@@MintJoyPictures HOW DID YOU FAIL SO BADLY!?!?!?
@@Themoo_atcowsgive the guy a break
@@christhenerdyderg3916 well, he said it was riku or roxas that brought Sora back but she is
1. A girl
2. Looks nothing like riku or roxas
3. If he confused them because of Rikku from FFX-2 then that’s an even bigger fail.
There are only two characters that even resemble kairi. That being Namine and… uh… …what’s her name?
Anyways, the point is, Riku and Roxas look nothing like Kairi and Roxas wasn’t even in KH1
@@Themoo_atcows Xion. And yeah, that's true. Of course, he cheated death in 3 as well.
Who pronounces the word demise as “de-meese”
I do it for jokes like "Dededemise"
But otherwise yeah idk
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Someone who played the game before they fully knew how to read, and never broke the habit of pronouncing it wrong. I still can't seem to stop pronouncing "Ordon" and "Lanayru" as "Oradon" and "Lanaru", even though Ordon is missing an A and Lanayru has a Y. Demise is actual word, though, I don't know how you can go your whole life without fixing that.
I’m shocked you didn’t bring up how Lucas’ fate is completely unknown. What happens at the end of Mother 3 is left as open to interpretation as possible, and it’s entirely possible that the end is the afterlife. But again, nobody knows for sure.
Feel like you could include Joker (Persona 5) in the cheated death category. (SPOILERS)
When a god merged the dimension of human cognition (thoughts) with the real world, it also erased Joker and his friends from humanity's collective consciousness, essentially wiping them from existence. They only survived thanks to an extra-dimensional space existing between dreams and reality (the Velvet Room).
Not 100% sure if erasure from reality exactly counts as death, nor if being transported to some weird pocket dimenion upon being erased is a form of cheating death, but I think it can count, especially since they were then able to just go back to the combined reality and apparently auto-undo the erasure upon re-entering.
technically, sonic died and got resed in a different timeline, considering they did put out the flame that started the game, so 06 technically didn't happen in 06 and im glad for that
Sonic White and the Seven Chaos Emeralds
steve's respawning is explained in the end poem
steve is canonically the avatar of a higher being known as 'The player' Death is only an inconvenience
olimar has also cheated death as in both the bad ending of pikmin 1 and pikmin 4 (in all endings) his life support fails and he dies but is brought back to life by being put through an onion and turned into a leafling
The Lucario in smash is likely based off of the one from his movie so if you wanna be technical that specific Lucario died
No it can't be because the one in smash can mega evolve, the one in the movie was trapped for a long time before the advant of mega evolution and when he came back he didn't even have a trainer to mega evolve.
@@ravinercf I mean yeah sure the one in the movie didn’t mega evolve because the gimmick didn’t exist yet and you do need a trainer to mega evolve, however… Lucario in smash does not have a trainer his intro doesn’t have him come from a Pokéball so how does he mega evolve then? Also he literally speaks English, name another Lucario that has done that ever and not to mention it’s the same voice actor from the movie
That was in a movie, it isnt valid for this videos criteria.
@@edwincenteno7266 yeah well I suppose so I’m just saying that Lucario is heavily based off of the movie one, it’s not a 1:1 copy of the movie one though so that’s also valid
@@ravinercf there is also the possibility of that specific Lucario not being in the mega timeline, from what OR/AS established.
If we count paper mario, He died in Super Paper Mario
Ridley doesn't actually die, his cells only regenerate in between games
Chronologically, after Super Metroid he is DEAD dead. He is cloned in Other M from DNA extracted from Samus' suit, and that clone's corpse is reanimated by the X parasite in Fusion
Ridley dies in Super Metroid. Even if he didn't get killed by Samus, the planet blew up after Mother Brain was killed, consequently blowing up his remains
finally, a smash fan who knows (a little bit of) earthbound lore
Cloud died between FF DOC and the scene set 495 years later with Red XIII/Nadaki.
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Cloud Strife is in fact dead (the end of FF7 takes place 500 years after the event of 7 and the only character we see in that point in time is Red XIII, and it’s basically impossible that Cloud (due to being a human among other things) is lasting that long in the timeline. And since that’s something we actually see in the actual game well obviously that means he’s dead.
Everybody talks about KH1 Sora dying… everybody forgets there’s an entire gameplay segment and world in KH3 about cheating death LOL
Yeah, can’t wait for my sister to have to collect 111 Soras in the final world when she reaches that point…
This list is still incomplete because you forgot Kazuya.
According to Tekken lore, Kazuya nearly dies at the age of 5 because Heihachi, his dad, throws him off a cliff, but survives because of the Devil Gene.
In Tekken 2 after Kazuya threw Heihachi off a cliff, Heihachi comes back to return the favor by throwing Kazuya INTO AN ACTIVE VOLCANO, KILLING KAZUYA!!
Soon after that, a company known as G Corporation manages to recover Kazuya's body... somehow... and try to bring him back from the dead.
Nearly 20 years later, Kazuya is fully revived and is ready to tear shit up once again and eventually pays Heihachi back by throwing his ass into another volcano, permanently killing Heihachi.
Keyword nearly. Kazuya didn't actually die at the end of T2. He was kept alive due to his devil gene (just like how he survived the cliff as a kid). G Corp recovered his body and experimented on it but didn't actually "revive" him
@@gv82089 Uhh no, it directly states in Tekken 4 that he was brought BACK to life by G Corporation. Even on his wiki page, it also states that G Corporation restored him back to life.
@@gv82089 Nope Kazuya did die in Tekken 2, he was just reserrected and piece together in the events of Tekken 3 - 4 due to G-Corp. Kinda like Frieza in the movie Dragon Ball Resurrection of F
"Permanently killing Heihachi" Just you wait. Bro is probably in hell training like Stinkmeaner plotting his return.
@invisanon Nah, bro. If you listened to what Harada had to say about Heihachi's status during the waiting period for the release of Tekken 8, he says IN ENGLISH, Heihachi is completely dead." I shit you not. If he says Heihachi's dead, Heihachi is DEAD dead
A lot of errors in this video.
1: Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser all canonically die in Super Paper Mario and get sent to the underworld.
2: In the arcade version of Donkey Kong Jr "Jumpman" (who may or may not be Mario) is seen to fall from the platform and die in the ending.
3: Tellius (Ike's games) does not take place in the same world as Shadow Dragon/New Mystery/Awakening. They take place in another world/universe and someone some time before Awakening brought over the Ragnell (Ike's sword) and stories of Ike from Tellius to Arcanea. (the main world of Fire Emblem) Universe travel is very much a thing in Fire Emblem through outrealm gates.
4: Marth is indeed dead by the events of Awakening and Chrom indeed dies in Lucina's timeline. Robin doesn't die even in Awakening's true ending because right after the FMV with Chrom finding SOMEONE on the field it shows Robin and whoever you married's endings. (short text in FE games for each character telling you want happened to them after the game finished) This basically confirms that the person found on the field was indeed Robin.
5: The Elibe games, the ones with Roy, take place in a different world than mainline. So he canonically never dies.
6: FE Fates is a fictional story within the setting of FE Awakening, so Corrin is actually a fictional character to Chrom and Lucina. Not dead, but she does temporarily die right before the final boss exclusively in the Conquest route. So she technically counts as "died in an alternate timeline."
7: Fodlan, the world that Byleth comes from, like Elibe, is completely separate from the other FE worlds. Also Byleth is canonically an immortal goddess who doesn't age.
8: Ridley canonically dies for good in Super Metroid. Ridley can regenerate his body as long as he's still alive. During the late game of Metroid Zero Mission the space pirates find Ridley's still alive head and heart and turns him into a cyborg so he can move around while the rest of his body regenerates. This is "Meta Ridley" and is the same Ridley as the one in Zero Mission. By the events of Samus Returns Ridley is almost fully regenerated, but dies for good in Super Metroid after he is fully regenerated. The Ridley in Other M is a clone, and the Ridley in Fusion was an alien parasite replicating his DNA based off Ridley's corpse that was being stored in the spaceship fusion takes place in. Ridley does not appear in Dread because at this point it would be even more of an asspull to bring him back AGAIN.
9: Shulk was basically a zombie for the entirety of XB1 until the final chapter. He was undead for most of the entire game and only became fully alive in the final chapter when Alvis granted him power based on Shulk's choice to oppose Zanza.
10: Pyra and Mythra did canonically die, but were revived due to the way how blades work. They only kept their memories because Rex's shared core worked as a memory backup, which was foreshadowed in Chapter 7 when Malos' stole Pyra's memories.
11: BotW/ToTK are implied to be a full series reboot. But that doesn't mean much when all the versions of Link, Zelda, and Ganon are long dead by the last game of each of the branches of the OG timeline.
12: Sora actually died for real at the end of KH3, but because KH hates killing off characters for good he merely ended up in an alternate mirror universe. The only other time Sora "died" (not really) was in KH1 but was very short lived. Also the reason Sora came back in KH1 was because of Kairi's powers. It had nothing to do with Roxas or Ventus.
13: Sephiroth came back only twice. He was killed originally prior to the events of FF7 by Cloud but his body was recovered and placed into statis while parts of Jenova acted as Sephiroth clones controlled by the main body. His true body was destroyed for good at the end of the OG FF7 but he came back in Advent Children via a clone body. (an actual clone, not Jenova parts shapeshifting) It's unclear if the Sephiroth in the remake series is the OG time traveling, another clone, the OG, or something different.
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Don't forget how he called Demise "Demeese" Literally no one else calls him that.
Ness did die technically because he destroyed his timeline which killed everyone and created a new timeline where giygas never existed by ness killing him and porky turning off the devils machine
Well ness died twice?, maybe, mother 3 possibly takes place in a difficult timeline, and there’s also ness is the hot dog guy theory exists
Ness also possibly never died thanks to news is hot dog guy, where actually he may have died (mother 3 ending) or because of the alternate usiverse mother 3 takes place in(?)
If I remember correctly, Robin survives the events of awakening, vague as it may be. In the final cutscene, Chrom says, "Welcome back. It's over now." Plus the mark of Grima is no longer on Robin's hand
I guess to try and clarify Inklings to the best of my knowledge
In turf war and the anarchy modes, getting splatted isn’t fully death, as the soul the flies away during the splatted animation can get to a respawn point and reform it’s body (or something like that). Salmon run is likely similar with respawn tech inside the life rings, but it needs a little ink in order to fully function.
Story modes are weird.
While I’ve never played any of the first 2 games, I believe there are respawn points in both the overworld and in the levels, so there are respawn points available. Splat 3 is a bit weird. Inside all levels except final boss, there are respawn points. I believe there are no respawn points in crater but some in alterna (though I could be mistaken). However, I would say touching the fuzzy ooze is a death sentence to a turfling, or at the very least would force them to be splatted to be returned to normal.
Unfortunately, the DLCs can get a bit confusing. The level’s inside octo expansion do have respawn points, however during break out sequence, there aren’t any (the “checkpoints” aren’t respawn points), meaning that if eight dies during the escape, they would be canonically dead. Sanitization is a weird point. To my knowledge, I believe it’s removing memories from a body and inject null data, or something akin to that. In short, a person without any memories prior to sanitization and basically a zombie. Count that if you want or not. Side order is weirder. To start with, this dlc literally takes place in a simulation, so no death is a true death. If that was it, then it would be simple enough, but with death and death parallels, there is something that could be questioned as death or not, namely in the form of “greyscaling”, which is a fancy way of saying mind control (again). You’re choice on whether or not to call it a death or not
Splatoon is weird
Pretty sure you can kill Byleth in 3 Hopes, which is confirmed to be an alternate timeline from 3 Houses. I could be wrong, but I think the Lucina in Heroes who guards the Tempest is where she went after Awakening. So yeah, she's probably fine.
Pit is weird for so many reasons on top of what was mentioned here. In the Gameboy game that nobody played, his wings burn off in the end. Then Uprising comes along and makes that non-canon, so I guess it doesn't count. Uprising also goes and makes him retroactively canon to Smash Bros itself, so does getting turned into a trophy count as death?
Yup, you can kill Byleth in Three Hopes. You nailed it.
was coming down to comment that too! byleth def goes in "died in an alternate timeline"
Dedede Never Actually Cheats Death As He Is Never Killed By Kirby
Sonic's Case is the Strangest one yet, he was brought back but his Death and Return to Life were Erased, returning back to his Single life
Sonic still remembers the events of 06
@@SparkleWolf404 Even if he does, that timeline still got erased
@@strelitziathekeyblader1657 no it didnt, in both sonic and shadow gens, the time eater brought back places and people from 06
Just one little nitpick: technically the greninja we see in smash is one specific greninja as it turns into ash-greninja for it’s final smash. This means that either it is the event exclusive battle bond greninja from before battle bond’s effect was changed, or it’s literally Ash’s greninja from the Pokémon anime. Ash’s greninja is still alive and kicking, while the event exclusive one can’t die because it’s in a Pokémon game. Thus, the greninja in smash has canonically not died.
The same thing applies to Mewtwo. There is only supposed to be one Mewtwo in existence, and it is just as alive as it was when it was first created.
reverse applies to Lucario as it is basically explicitly Sir Aaron's Lucario and that one died
Super slight correction.
Ike's games take place in it's own universe known as Tellius. Ike simply traveled the outrealms(the multiverse) into Marth's world Altaea where he presumably died.
I’d personally put _BotW_ Link in the list of characters who cheated death.
IIRC Cloud also died in _Advent Children_ after being gunned down by Yazoo, but was sent back from the Lifestream by Aerith.
Sonic dies in 06 which is an alternate timeline that was erased. So he died in a different timeline. But cheated death is fine
Sonic 06 is.... complicated, 06 is TECHNICALLY the main timeline. However due to the events of the story being undone in the end and the events never happened. Which explains why Sonic from 06 forward never died, however that explains the different version of Silver The Hedgehog in Sonic Rivals.... still doesn't explain why we weirdly have Crisis City and the Silver fight in Generations though
id still say cheated cause he was revived FIRST then undid it
In the Mario and Luigi series.Mario and Luigi aren't scripted to die, but they each can die and be revived by the other using a 1up mushroom.
And this isn't like the platforming games where you bubble in. The other brother has to shove the mushroom down the dead brothers throat or else they will remain dead for the rest of the fight.
Correction, Kairi brought him back in KH1, not Roxas, and Sora is actually, explicitly dead at the end of KH3, Strelitza even goes as far as saying that Quadratum is the afterworld for them, and we saw Strelitza get murdered. While Sora has cheated death several times, and will do it again, for now he is dead
Kazuya died when Heihachi threw him into a volcano, but his body was recovered and brought back to life
This is definitely some subject matter I never thought of and I have to say you were quite creative for coming up with this
What About Olimar? In Pikmin 4, It’s A Plot Point That He’s Actually Dead (Or A Leafling, Technically) And You Have To Find And Revive Him.
Yeah even if Robin does the self-sacrifice he/she is back at the end. it's not an implication in the game it's full-on confirmed right after
14:35 Steve's ability to respawn is also canon, not only is it shown in trailers, but also talked about in the end script. It is also explained in the end script that the player is a god with the power to simply create and destroy universes like they are nothing, meaning that not only can Steve canonically travel between multiverses and canonically respawn at any point, he can go into an immortal state called creative mode, he can use commands to kill beings of his choosing, create blocks in any location, destroy blocks in any location, give himself a weapon capable of destroying a dragon that scales above his base form. Btw by my logic Steve is canonically just an avatar of the player, and the player can do whatever they want to Steve to make him more powerful, less powerful, basically do anything with him, base form being Steve without the player's influence, other than /give commands and arguably the ability to stack chests within each other with ctrl + middle click due to the fact that Steve's stats dont change with that, therefore that can be used as a strength indicator, which gets Steve around 14,000,000^201 kilograms of water when chests are stacked within each other with water buckets in the most inner level of chests. Steve is truly the most powerful character in existence other than truly boundless characters as long as he has the player behind him.
this is why Steve is the highest tier character in Super Smash Bros
also there's an easy exploit to revive yourself in hardcore mode too, by going to spectate world then turning on LAN with cheats on, you can /gamemode yourself back into life, therefore meaning even in hardcore mode the respawnability of Steve still exists, it's just not an immediate option for the player, the player still has an easy way to do it due to the players canon infinite power (this infinite power also means mods are canon, so screw you people who say "_____ can beat steve because they are only weak to ____" STEVE CAN SIMPLY MOD THIS ITEM INTO EXISTENCE AND EVEN MAKE IT MORE POWERFUL WITH ENCHANTMENTS
Steve is too powerful honestly lol
Fun fact: Captain falcon isn’t a name, but a title that’s progressively passed down to successors. With each iteration of smash and f-zero having a different person as captain falcon. Meaning he’s technically “died” about 3+ times now.
We don't know which captain is depicted in smash or its chronology since there are 3: the main, anime and technically the novel time periods. if its the CF from F-zero GP legend which took place in 2201 he would be dead but that game released after 64 so it's likely the falcon from 2560 (original game/chronology) with it currently sitting on 2610, which would put him as probably retired but not dead.
So just like how botw link hasn't "died" in his current incarnation, the captain we see is his joung self or a new one with the other retired.
F-Zero GP Legend is based on the anime which isn't canon to the F-Zero original games timeline
Nope, that’s GP Legend. That has nothing to do with the mainline games. They are all the same Captain Falcon and that includes Smash.
Snake should be in the unknown fate category, as he's terminally ill at the end of MGS4 and doesn't appear in MGRR.
Surprised Olimar wasn't given a mention given the craziness that Pikmin 1 and 4 hold, but then again it wasn't confirmed if he actually died so it's passable
So hypothetically, if we *were* covering movies. Cloud would be in the cheated death tier. At the end of the movie, after Sephiroth is defeated Cloud does get killed by some if the antagonists, and does get sent to the lifestream (basically the afterworld), but he's sent back by Aerith, and is revived at her church. And I think it could be included, since the ff7 remake is a direct sequal to the movie.
11:55 Wait hold on, the Xenoblade giant is named Bionis? I knew that Xenoblade Chronicles had basically the same sci fi twist as BIONICLE, that all the characters lived inside a giant comatose robot, but I had no idea the names were so similar! Bio means life and Chronicle means story so it's probably just coincidence, but that's wild.
Yes, Xenoblade 1 has two titans that serve as that world's landmasses - the organic Bionis, and the robotic Mechonis. I know, groundbreaking names.
02:48 for Megaman there's a "theory" that he's still alive but as Quint
0:32 THE ONE PIECE IS REEEEEEEAAAAAAAL
It wasn't in a game, but it was a tie-in series, Captain Falcon dies in the F-ZERO GP Legend anime and passes his title down to Ryu Suzaku, it's an alternate timeline death technically
I usually don’t see people talk about FSA Ganon. People usually forget about him and say there are only two.
You forgot that the duck from duck hunt gets shot
One thing about Sonic 06 is that technically everything that happened in that game didn’t happen in the main timeline since Elise ended 06’s timeline and resetting time back before the events of the game, so yeah, technically speaking, Sonic never truly died in the main timeline.
Fates is stated to be in the far past of the awakening timeline, there's even hoshidan's still alive in fe echoes, plus, corrin died in the one dlc storyline in fates
Sick video, I'll have to check out your other videos!
But a few additions that I can think of off of the top of my head from the games I am more familiar with (Maybe for a part 2 :D ).
So Byleth can actually die in the spin off game Fire Emblem Three Hopes, he acts as your rival and depending on what choices you make you may have to kill him, so that could go under the "dies in another universe" section.
Corrin dies in a few of the paths, but he comes back like 5 minutes later, so probably cheated death for that one.
I THINK Captain Falcon dies in the F Zero anime, so that would be "Dies in another universe." (Double check that one tho)
And last Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves die for a bit when they fade from the public's cognition (Persona 5 stuff, don't worry about it), but because Joker is built different they manage to come back.
Addendum to Corrin - the Heirs of Fate campaign follows the children of countless timelines, where all the parent units were slain, including many Corrins.
“Sephiroth, well, he’s Sephiroth.”
Ok, if you don’t want to do it, let the ff7 nerd do the explaining.
If we’re following the original which is what I think the Sephiroth in smash is. Sephiroth’s first ‘you were supposed to die here’ was in the Nibelhiem incident where he fell into the lifestream with Jenova’s head. Due to SOLDIER stuff, he ended up merging with Jenova as he crystallised his body in the northern cavern which I theorize is what protected him from and normal lifestream victims. The second time was the ending of ff7 where you ‘properly’ kill him. However unlike most beings, you don’t see his body return to the lifestream, instead exploding in streams of light. Later on in the book, On the Way to a Smile, it tells us that if one resists the pull of the current, they can keep their consciousness intact and technically keep living. By attaching himself to a memory in the lifestream he was able to create something like a horcrux being Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo which when exposed to a part of Jenova which in Advent Children was her head. He was able to build himself another body, quote: “I could use Mother’s power. If I had just a piece of her, I could forge another body for myself.” After the final fight in Advent Children, we don’t really see Sephiroth later in that timeline and don’t know what became of him, only really being able to theorise about it. However, destroying Sephiroth again seemingly killed all the remnants as we don’t hear of them in Dirge of Cerberus. Most likely still being in that state of consciousness in the lifestream just less inactive due to Geostigma now being fully cured.
Also I noticed you missed Cloud out who also cheated death. In the mainline, he gets shot in the back by a slowly dying Yazoo but via the power of ✨having a friend who is one with the planet but also dead✨ he was basically killed, went to heaven, god said no, and then went back to the living. Advent Children is really confusing and I’ve been trying to figure this entire franchise out for years but hoped this helped 👍
Anyway Cloud is human and will eventually die as will Tifa with the others because at the end of the original game 500 years pass, showing that Midgar flourished.
@@angelicayamiletcristobalol2904 well then most of this list should be everyone dies
Corrin goes into the hypet specific "cheated death in an alternate universe" category.
The Corrin we see in Smash wields the Omega Yato, implying them to be the Revelation version. But in both the Birthright and Conquest timelines, Corrin does die and go to the afterlife before returning to life through the power of asspull.
The Heirs of Fate campaign would be a better example (in which many parents, including Corrins, were slain in countless timelines).
A near-death experience. It's called a near-death experience and it happens in real life.
Sonic has died in like every game I’ve played and just said, “screw it I’ma walk it off”
Mega man X and zero seriously die at the end of ZX on DS. And Snake doesn't die at the end of 4 he just gets old and sickly and is implied to eventually die.
No one actually knows if Ness is dead. Most people think he died happily of old age, but there is proof against it too. The game never explicitly says anything about it, and I cant elaborate without spoiling all of Earthbound and Mother 3. All I have to say is Po(r)key exists, so it's very possible, but it's still up in the air.
Lucas should go in the other category. At the end of his game, Mother 3, a large catastrophic event, that I'd rather not spoil the cause of, is shown to completely destroy the island where the game takes place and basically end the world. However, in a post-game "cutscene" (there are no visuals, it's just dialogue from unknown characters on a black screen), everyone seems to be alive and well, somehow having survived the event. And if everyone else on the island is, it's safe to assume Lucas is too. However, he can't go in the "cheated death" category, because there's much speculation as to how everyone "survived" such a deadly event, and it's left very open-ended with no one knowing the true ending. Therefore, other category.
A quick addition to this, the final character you talk to in that dialogue sequence is all but stated to be Lucas. So if you interpret the ending as you talking to the survivors, Lucas is among them.
In SPM Mario, Luigi and Peach die, but if you consider that an alternate continuity, everyone except Rosalina got sucked into a blackhole and died in Mario Galaxy and then she created a new universe and copies of all the characters. It's stupid and I hate it, but it's canon.
Also, Wario can become a zombie and get better, so...
Depending on how you look at the DK64 game over DK and Diddy may have died in an alternate timeline.
In Star Fox 64 if you take a route where you fight Star Wolf twice, Wolf dies.
It;'s implied Lucas dies after Mother 3 ends.
If you don't answer the detective's questions correctly, Joker dies, so possible AU death. Joker also gets erased from the universe temporarily before becoming too rebellious to stay erased.
Byleth dies so much they were even born dead, but being the Mary Sue/Marty Stu they are, death never sticks.
The ending of Mario galaxy directly stated that the universe was reborn, not copied. Which would mean that everyone who was a part of the previous version was reborn which as we see is basically resurrection.
The Mario you see in new games is the same Mario you’ve always seen, don’t be angry.
joining in on the um actuallying, its implied kirby is brought back to life at the end of most of his games by the omnipresent orange butterfly. because it wakes up kirby, usually in the last cutscene after the final battle, it was long theorized that this was the case, before it was confirmed in star allies when you defeat galacta knight and the butterfly resurrects him as morpho knight.
10:04 That looks so brutal. Like that one Stage Fatality in Mortal Kombat 2011.😱🔥💀
An extra (you’ll see the pun) death thing for sonic is how in the comics, extra life’s are apart of the lore.
Kirby, King Dedede and Meta Knight go here as well. They have a little bit of everything, so I will give you everything:
*Pinball Land: Kirby dying means that a clone takes his place. The amount of clones being lives.
*Mass Attack: Necrodeus splits Kirby into 10 Kirbys and erases 9, the last one escapes and revives the other Kirbys in gameplay. Up to 9 Kirbys can then die and be revived in gameplay. All of them are Kirby in even ways, at the end they "fuse"(?) back into 1.
*Lore thing: It's stated that enemies killed by Kirby revive elsewhere like plants (Ask me for the sources), something first said for the second game, where "dying" just means a boss blowing up like in any other game (or getting inhaled by Kirby). Thing is, Dedede has blown up like this across the games a few times, notably in Mass Attack. Blowing up in this videogame-like manner is shown in cutscenes too when Fecto Elfilis died like this, turning into mini stars & sh*t.
*Kirby Battle Royale: You play many mini games in this one, in most of them characters can die, you see their souls, and come back to life to keep on playing. The story of the game has it so Kirby defeated Meta Knight and Dedede in these games, so they had to have died and revived a few times, and it's possible for them to have killed Kirby in those same games, as that doesn't give them a win.
*Fighters 2: In the story, Kirby can die, turn into a ghost, and revive by hitting a living target. Outside of the story, he can do the same in this and other "Fighter" games as you play with other people, but in Fighters 2 Dedede and Meta Knight are playable.
Triple Deluxe, Star Allies, Fighters 2: Across some Kirby games, when you lose to a boss and try it again, the bosses get weaker a bit. There are statements saying that this is because they grow tired of fighting you and this is... Odd. That implies the characters revived to fight again in-universe. Is that for real? If so, Dedede and MK are playable in Star Allies.
Ask me for sources and further context.
I think most of the ones you mention fall under the same category of Mario dying to a goomba which he said didn't count. Additionally, Mass attack, Pinball land, Battle Royale and Fighters 2 aren't canon. In Triple Deluxe and Star Allies, just because you lose to a boss doesn't mean you die, I'm pretty sure you just fall asleep. Indeed I believe that Kirby should actually be in the Immortal category because Kirby is a God of Destruction who just falls asleep when in a position a mortal would die.
@@KirbyD-g6c I am almost certain there is no "Dreamland Historia" and that Kirby barely even has a canon. Show me any even semi-official source that lays out which games are not canon because my gut says they all are
@@KirbyD-g6c That's crazy talk at its worse.
Mario never died to a Goomba because if he did, he would be dead. If a character CAN die to their Goomba-like enemies and revive due to this being something they can do in-universe, then they canonically could have died to them. It's not the same.
All of those games are canon, already you have no grounds for such a claim, but they show up in timelines of the games the series has and some of them get ref'd in a book of past adventures Kirby has in his house, which covers his last 15 or so games.
Sectonia and Dark Meta Knight try to kill you in Triple Deluxe, The Mage Sisters, Hyness, and Void try to kill you in Star Allies. You say that he falls asleep because of the game over screen, which is not canon and isn't even the same in all modes a game has.
The last thing you say is... I have no way to say so while being nice, so sorry, but it's pure nonsense. The idea of Kirby being a god is already wrong, I have a playlist about it. But adding extra meanings to it the games never imply is super wrong. And Void isn't even immortal, each of their lives die at some point, when they're dead, that's how we know they can do just that.
You forgot Marx being a Kirby character that has died. In super star/star ultra you kill him and then his literal soul. He dies twice and in his second death there's no logical way of reviving him as he has both no body and no soul so is dead in every possible sense of the word. He was an ally to Kirby before getting power hungry at the end of milky way wishes causing his death(s) but there's still no way of reviving him, it's like when a god of destruction in dragon ball hakais a being they die in every sense of the word and are lost to both time and space including the multiverse. Kirby essentially hakaid Marx.
@@AloneTheorist Marx isn't playable in Smash.
The Marx Soul fight happens in a parallel universe (for real). The Marx we see in Star Allies (most likely) never became Marx Soul.
Bruh u forgot when mario literaly gone to hell cuz he died
(Hell = under-were, mario = paper mario, died = dementio blitzing him)
Ok so this is incorrect for two reasons.
1. Paper Mario =/= Mario. They most certainly are not the same character.
2. Even if my first point is wrong, Paper Mario and crew get sent to the Underwhere, but do not die. It LOOKS like they die, but Dimentio just teleports them there. This is directly mentioned by a character in the Underwhere saying “your games are not truly over” and other such things.
Metroid Prime hunters had an ending where Samus died, so if that is canon, she can be in resurrected or cheated death, as there are other endings where she lives.
Sephiroth? Well, he’s sephiroth.
Most real answer ever for if he’s dead or not.
Id say being erased from reality is death so id say joker should be in the cheated death list
The way you said demise aggravates meso much
I feel like while it's also a species character, it's obvious by definition alone that Zombie has cheated death.
2:23 ridley isn't fought in dread or in the original metroid 2, he is fought in the remake tho
I’m pretty sure Ridley isn’t in any of those games tbh
4:52 who is “demese” lol
2:18, A lot of those other games, especially the Metroid Prime games take place before Super Metroid. Meta Ridley is basically Ridley as a cyborg due to his injuries in Metroid 1 and Zero Mission. Proteus Ridley is Ridley with most of said injuries already healed up. The Ridley in Other M is a clone, and the X Parasite infected Ridley is that same clone but infected by X Parasites.
Fun Fact: In Kid Icarus: Uprising, in the mission where you confront Palutena to free her from the Chaos Kin, you can actually directly attack her and not the Chaos Kin like you’re supposed to. Doing this results in a Game Over when you defeat her, implying that you actually kill her in that moment.
So not only is Palutena able to be hurt like other gods, you could say that Game Over is an alternate universe where she dies.
A small addition that was probably overlooked, Joker in Persona 5 although I'm unsure wether or not this counts similiar to Mario dying to a Goomba.
In Persona 5 there is a bad ending at a certain date where, if a dialouge sequence is answered with wrong answers, Joker gets murdered.
To go into a bit more detail, while he is in police custody after the fifth dungeon of the game, Joker has to convince the prosecutor interviewing him to assist him with a plan to escape his imminent death. If the player answers with the correct dialogue options in the interaction they will continue the game as intended with Joker faking his death by his assassin killing a cognitive version. However, if the players chooses the wrong dialogue the plan fails and Joker actually gets shot in the head and the player has to load his last safe. I'd say that counts towards dying in an alternative universe. Yet in a weird way, I guess it's no different than Mario dying from a Goomba.
It's just a gameover in the end.
Also sixth palace, not fifth.
@@mrkicks7817Eh, the credits still roll, so I’d consider it a bad ending.
Also technically Morgana dies in another bad ending if you want to count him with joker
Joker is also dead in the end of Persona 2 IS
I don’t think he was counting bad endings because that would also mean Olimar died as well
Well, technically, we don't even know if Ness is dead or not.
It's implied that Mother 3 takes place in a separate universe instead of sometime in the future.
Have you seen- no I have not I need more explanation 😡
Byleth belongs in the “died but was brought back” as Sothis outright says Byleth died in the tutorial for Divine Pulses when Byleth shielded Edelgard
4:56 Ironic how Link in the "Adult Timeline" (aka the Toon Link Era) looks even more like a child than in the "Child Timeline".🤣
The reason it's named that is because it follows Adult Link's actions in Ocarina of Time.
It is rather funny that both of the Links in that timeline go on their respective adventures as children lmao.
Captain Falcon is a mantle that's passed down to the winner of F-zero tourniment every 50 years or so
and I'm pretty sure Samus died at least once and was brought back to life thanks to a baby metroid
and even though you said you don't count tie-in movies and whatnot, there was a game about pacster, the son of pac-man and ms-pac-mac, and yes, pacster is an orphan
In the case of Sonic, that's actually a misrepresentation. Looking at the text surrounding the "save Sonic" plan more carefully, it would seem that it was less "died" and more "fatally wounded into unconciousness"... or in Princess Bride terms, "mostly dead, and thus still barely alive".
Not that it matters for the (intended) emotional impact at all: he would definitely die without the Emeralds there. He just hadn't crossed that threshold _yet._
Finally someone in one of these types of videos gets the Zelda timeline
Agent 3 has not died canonically speaking in Splatoon. (in the newest game agent 3 leads the squid beak platoon) in Splatoon 2 Agent 3 is taken over by a mind control thing that you have to fight. The only "death" that Agent 3 gets is the inner Agent 3 battle in Splatoon 2 DLC.
So technically Agent 3 has died in Agent 8's head. :P
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