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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', Van goes into an
* ''[[The Big O]]'': In the first episode of the second season, the main character goes introspectively catatonic as he struggles to figure out just
* In ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', Kouta, the male lead, suffers amnesia and spends an entire year in a coma after {{spoiler|watching his little sister Kanae and his father get slaughtered right in front of him by Lucy}}.
* In the manga ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', after the carnival battle in volume 5, Chrono forces himself into a [[Convenient Coma]] to keep from hurting Rosette. It takes her [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|going into his mind and digging around in his memories]] before he's prepared to continue on his quest.
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* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' has Kenshin go into one when {{spoiler|Kaoru gets killed by Enishi. [[Faking the Dead|Or so he's led to believe.]]}}
* Margery Daw from ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' goes into this after {{spoiler|discovering that the demon she was chasing for all her life was in fact a piece of herself.}}
* [[Naruto]] goes into an
* In ''[[Aim for the Ace!|Aim for The Ace]]'' Hiromi goes into an
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* Happens to Martini in ''[[The Alien Series]]'' a lot, as whenever his empathetic abilities overload, his body shuts down in self-defense.
* About a billion times in ''[[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]]''. Any time something bad happens, Victor seems to keel over into a months-long coma/sleep. And since it's ''Frankenstein'', bad things happen a LOT.
* Seen in French [[Sci Fi]] novel ''[[Malevil]]''. The cast barely survives [[World War III]] inside a castle cellar. The next day everyone mopes around in a silent daze. When one staggers to his feet to leave, convinced his wife is waiting for him, Emmanuel is angry that he has to leave his ''comfortable''
* Subverted in the [[Dragonlance]] novel, Dragons of Spring Dawning. The [[Badass in Distress|captive Golden General]], Laurana seems to go catatonic after hearing that [[Fate Worse Than Death|she is going to be tortured to death and have her soul given to a death knight]] and seeing her [[Love Interest]] Tanis Half-Elven serving her [[Arch Enemy]], the Dragon Highlord Kitiara. In fact Laurana is just luring her enemies into a false sense of security and, as soon as Kitiara has completely disregarded her as a threat, she breaks free, [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomps Kitiara]], and makes her escape.
* Turin has one in ''[[The Children of Húrin|The Children of Hurin]]'', after he finds out the princess he promised to protect is dead. He collapses on her grave and takes several days to be nursed back to health.
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== Web Originals ==
* [[Vision of Escaflowne Abridged]] is the trope namer (see The [[Vision of Escaflowne]] example above). The characters have a technical discussion of the precise number of megashinjis (the series' standard base unit for measuring angst) Van must have accumulated in order to enter his
* The Nostalgia Chick succumbs to a 'bad movie coma' in her review of Armageddon (part 2?), which is this in all but name.
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