Big Sleep: Difference between revisions

'''Ren:''' So wake him up.

'''Jasper:''' You don't wake up from the *big* sleep.

'''Ren:''' ...he's DEAD! DEAD, YOU EEDIOT! DO YOU KNOW WHAT "DEAD" IS!? IT'S WHAT WE'LL BE IF WE DON'T GET OUT OF HERE!!|''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', "Big House Blues"}}

 

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' anime, this happens to both the [[Great Detective]] antagonist L, and the [[Anti-Hero]] Light in similar ways as they die from the [[Artifact of Doom]], the titular Death Note. Light didn't go so peacefully in the manga.

* Makoto in ''[[Kanon]]'' sleepily shuts her eyes just before [[Downer Ending|she dies]] [[Tear Jerker|and disappears into air]].

** Misuzu's death in the finale of ''[[AIR]]''.

* In the end of ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' adaptation, as Saber lies dying back in her own time, she tells her knight that she has been [[Dying Dream|dreaming]]. The knight tells her that if she closes her eyes, she'll be able to see that dream again. Then, in a massive [[Tear Jerker]] scene, Saber slowly closes her eyes, uttering "[[Famous Last Words|This sleep is going to be a bit... longer...]]" Then, just to make sure the audience weeps like crazy, after she passes away, the knight gently asks: "Do you behold, King Arthur, the continuation of you dream?"

** Nasu just likes this trope. Tsukihime's best example is Kohaku, after stabbing herself in the chest. Arcuied actually goes into perpetual sleep in her True ending.

* Angelina of ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. In the anime, she wakes up in season 2, making her dramatic death scene in season 1 a bit hollow. In the manga, she's not so lucky.

* Subverted in ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Did you really think Aisha was going to get killed?

* Lelouch in the ''[[Code Geass]] R2'' finale. While he's uttering his last words to Nunnally, a backwards [[Really Dead Montage]] plays in the background until it reaches their childhood at which point he finally expires with a slump. Cue Nunnally breaking down in tears as she just realized moments before that Lelouch was running a [[Thanatos Gambit]] for world peace, hence why everyone else is cheering at his killer.

* The king of the [[Subverted Trope]], [[Joss Whedon]], does this in the pilot episode of ''[[Firefly]]''. Kaylee, having been shot by a jumpy Alliance lawman who was after Simon, closes her eyes and goes limp; Mal goes to Simon and informs him she's dead. He rushes to the med-bay, where he finds out that not only is she alive, she's awake and talking. Turned out she was taking a nap and the rest of the crew decided to play a rather cruel joke on the man who was partially responsible for her injury.

** Played straight in episode 2 of the 2nd season of ''[[Angel]]''. He finds the woman who betrayed him long ago. After she is forgiven, she proclaims that she will go outside after she has her rest. She never wakes up.

* Jack Shephard in [[Lost]] goes out like this in the last scene, mirroring the opening scene of the series.

 

* At the end of ''[[Persona 3]]'' the protagonist, running on pure willpower after doing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], finally goes to "sleep" when he realizes that his [[True Companions]] ''are'' going to keep [[The Promise]] to meet up on graduation day. He falls asleep in Aigis' [[Lap Pillow]] or, in the [[Updated Rerelease]], [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|in the arms of his/her lover]].

* Almost averted at the end of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'', when the mortally wounded Guybrush's eyes open wide in a blank stare at a saddened Elaine (almost in a [[Dies Wide Open]] position), but then gently close as he collapses and "falls asleep" with his mouth open. (Possibly [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in a way previously in Chapter 1, when Guybrush looks at the quarters door of either Elaine's ship or the Screaming Narwhal and says, "[[Warren Zevon|I'll sleep when I'm dead.]] Or later tonight.")

** So does Captain Anderson {{spoiler|if you kill the Illusive Man before he can shoot Anderson dead}}.

 

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