Stock Phrase: one character is narrating an adventure they went through, and at a particularly dramatic moment, someone in the audience asks, trembling, "did ... did you make it?"
Subtrope of Foregone Conclusion, as they clearly did live to tell the tale — except when they had an Unexplained Recovery. (Other exceptions may involve a From a Single Cell Healing Factor, The Undead, or coming Back [...] [tvtropes.org]