Billy Needs an Organ: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** It's shown in episode 13 that {{spoiler|indeed, it wasn't in vain as Kanade has his heart.}}

* {{spoiler|Adorea}} of ''[[Franken Fran]]'' has this in her backstory: she and her boyfriend had life-threatening illnesses, and they each promised they would give their organs to the other. {{spoiler|The boyfriend died first, so Fran's father donated the organs to Adorea before working his magic on the boyfriend to revive him; the callous boyfriend demanded the organs back, turning Adorea into the...uh..."person" that she is now.}}

* Purely hypothetical in ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'': Miu is claiming that her friendship with Chika is closer than that of Ana and Matsuri. One test is what one friend would do if the other needed the first's organs. Matsuri and Ana would definitely do so, even though Matsuri asks what would happen to her if she were the donor (Matsuri seems to forget for a moment that it ''is'' hypothetical and starts crying); Chika is more ambivalent, but comes to the conclusion that she "probably" would, provided that she herself would live. Miu claims "there's no way I'm giving you any of my organs, though."

* A running theme in ''Ray'' and the animated series based on it. Ray herself was raised on a farm designed to provide black market organs, this was how she lost her [[Eye Scream|eyes]], only to have them replaced by [[Awesome but Impractical|X-Ray eyes]].

* In ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'', the dictator of a country is hiding out in America and is in need of an organ transplant. The doctors decide to use the heart of a baboon to do the job, only for said baboon to be kidnapped. Cue a mad rush to find the thing, for fear of sparking a messy political situation. {{spoiler|And then it turns out that the kidnapper is a man whose daughter also needs a heart transplant. The dictator winds up being sniped by someone from his country and they end up giving the baboon's heart to the girl after all. Oh, and there's a subplot where D is apparently suffering from some disease and his "sister" is sent by their father to give her dear brother any of her organs or body parts to cure him. She herself is actually a baboon, and is killed by the shop's pets when D refuses to accept her offer and she attacks him.}} Needless to say, it was a creepy story.

 

== Film ==

* In ''The Eye'', a woman receives an eye transplant that helps her see into the supernatural.

* The [[Anvilicious]] ''John Q.'' has the title character taking a hospital's emergency room hostage to get his son a heart transplant he can't afford to pay for and his insurance refuses to cover. Further, when there's no suitable donor heart available, he starts planning to kill himself to provide one. {{spoiler|He's stopped seconds before he pulls the trigger, when one suddenly becomes available.}}

* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'Live And Let Die' is basically this trope, with the variant that it was the doctor's wife needing the liver. He orchestrates a medical helecoptor hijacking and kills several people in the process. Mac is naturally not amused, especially recalling his own pain and loss and talks on the fact that the guy will likely be in prison while his wife dies.

* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', many times. The most noteworthy is Denny Dukett, who fell in love with Izzy and was about to get a donor heart when the donor died, meaning that there was only one heart left at that hospital, and it was going to go to another person. Izzy {{spoiler|cut his LVAD wire, purposefully worsening his health to bump him up the list.}} He survived and got the transplant, but {{spoiler|died later of a stroke.}}

* There's an episode of ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' where the villain is giving away his organs to people he feels deserve it, and killing them (in such a way that the organ can be transplanted into someone else) if they stop whatever project or behavior he feels made them deserve it. In the end {{spoiler|they get him to confess in exchange for allowing him to continue donating his organs while in prison}}.

** Another example features a millionaire philanthropist who is so desperate to acquire a kidney for his dying daughter (with the added complication that, due to a rare condition, she will reject any organs provided from any donor who is not a specific match to her blood type) that he bribes a doctor to kidnap some guy, steal his kidney then dump him in a park.

** {{spoiler|Also a [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]], as the woman in need of the transplant has an identical twin, who should've been able to voluntarily donate a liver lobe to her sister without recourse to the donor list.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' Londo ends up needing a blood transfusion, but has a very rare blood type. He is saved by a transfusion from his wife Timov (Who stated that blood type was the ''only'' thing they had in common). While she gets Dr Franklin to promise to not say where the blood came from, the novels about Londo's {{spoiler|reign as Emperor}} state that he eventually figured it out.

* ''[[Forever Knight]]'' did this in season 3. Nick and co are investigating a black market organ ring. Natalie is scheduled for a knee surgery, and has the misfortune to have as her doctor who's connected to it somehow and who's the mother of a girl who needs a heart transplant. She nearly ends up an unwilling donor, but Nick gets there just in time.