[ EU ] A dead character in a work of fiction is brought back to life before the resolution of the plot .

`` Let four captains 
 
 Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; 
 
 For he was likely, had he been put on, 
 
 To have proved most royally: and, for his passage, 
 
 The soldiers' music and the rites of war 
 
 Speak loudly for him. 
 
 Take up the bodies...'' 
 
 
 `` I'm not dead!'' 
 
 
 `` I said take up the bodies..'' 
 
 
 `` Hey, do n't ignore me, I'm *not dead*, actually I'm feeling much better!'' 
 
 
 `` You're not feeling better, you're dead!'' 
 
 
 `` No, no really I'm much better now, I think I'm going to go for a walk!'' 
 
 
 `` umm Horatio... a little help?'' 
 
 
 *THWACK* 
 
 
 `` Oh poor Hamlet! Now cracks a noble heart...'' 
 
 
 `` Ouch! That really hurt! I'm very badly injured, please stop hitting me!'' 
 
 
 `` *Horatio he is still not dead. *'' 
 
 
 `` Oh.'' *THWACK THWACK THWACK* 
 
 
 `` Good night sweet prince: 
 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!'' 
 
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 Full disclosure: yes this is very similar to monty python. 

