Pietà Plagiarism/Live-Action TV

Examples of in  include:


 * Veronica Mars began and ended its second season with the Pietà; in the first case, Veronica tends to Logan, and in the second, it's reversed.
 * The Season 7 finale of Smallville had  It's further enforced by the former repeatedly apologizing to him and apparently seeing this event   as a great personal sacrifice.
 * Used at least once in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after Drusilla is restored to health and Spike is injured, she holds him in this manner.
 * Also used in the episode The Puppet Show, when Buffy cradles  after his death.
 * Heroes used this twice in season 3 in paintings of the future. One of  and
 * The last episode of the first season of Merlin plays it straight with
 * Also in the season four trailer,
 * Used in, of all places, the first season of The OC, with Ryan and Marissa, who had just taken a painkiller overdose washed down with a lot of alcohol in Tijuana.
 * And in a deliberate parallel to the above scene,.
 * Spoofed in an episode of Upright Citizens Brigade in the Camp Kalterman sketch.
 * Done a few times in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, usually whenever Iolaus dies. (Yes, it happened more than once.) In a commentary, Michael Hurst got his Michelangelo sculptures mixed up and compared it to David.
 * Worf carrying Data during the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Brothers". Data was only deactivated at the time, though.
 * In Doctor Who, the Doctor holds  in this way in the Series 3 Finale. Somewhat ruined by his odd squatting pose on the floor, although that was only as narmy as the odd position of his legs while dramatically floating.
 * He did it again  in 'The Doctor's Daughter,' complete with that little hug-rocking motion. Once again, a secondary character   it was a bit of a callback.
 * Given the way  tends to feel responsible when people die around him, this almost plays as Cradling Your Kill.
 * The scene in "Smith & Jones" where the Doctor carries Martha after she passes out from the lack of oxygen could be seen this way, especially since there was no particular reason she couldn't have stayed where she was besides drama.
 * In the Dark Angel episode "Pollo Loco," Max holds her "brother" Ben in this manner after
 * Seinfeld: Jerry has a bad dream where he ends up in this pose after getting illegal cable and the Cable Police gun him down. Kramer cradles him crying "What have you done to my little CABLE BOY???"
 * Power Rangers in Space: Andros holds the body of  after Zordon's Heroic Sacrifice to stop the attack on the world.