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== 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.}}
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* 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.}}
* ''[[Seven Pounds]]'' is about [[The Atoner]] looking for {{spoiler|worthy recipients of his organs before he commits suicide}}.
* This happens in ''[[Awake (
* Scifi variant in [[Star Wars]]: When R2D2 returns from the attack on the Death Star with some structural damage, C3PO offers to donate any of his circuits or gears that might be needed to repair his companion. Awwww....
* In ''Return to Me'', the female lead's recent heart transplant provides some major plot {{spoiler|when she finds out the guy she's dating is the donor's widower}}.
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== Live Action Television ==
* One ''CSI'' episode centered around a family with an ill son whose younger sister was conceived [[Walking Transplant|for the express purpose of finding a match for a bone marrow transplant]].
** The [[Jodi Picoult]] novel ''[[My
** There was also a black market bone/tissue market discovered in another episode, when strange objects used to replace the harvested items were found inside corpses.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
* [[Earth: Final Conflict]]: Liam Kincaid anonymously donates blood to Ronald Sandoval. Notable because the doctor said it ''had'' to be from a first-degree relative (parent or child) to work. Furthermore, Sandoval considers Liam his enemy while Liam's feelings for his human father are a little more complicated.
* [[House (TV series)|House]]. Oh so many times. There's an episode where a father kills himself to give one of his organs to his son, another where a patient has to find a kidney on the black market, and another where they have a brain-dead donor who'd be perfect for a man with an ailing heart -- they just have to figure out what was wrong with her so that the donor board will sign off on it. Then there was the time they had a donated pair of lungs that were going to be implanted but couldn't be because they had some kind of illness, so House was called in to cure them when they were nothing more than a pair of lungs in a box.
* There's an episode of ''[[Law
** 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.
*** This episode may have contributed to the persistence of the "[[Organlegging|kidney theft]]" urban legend.
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** {{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.
* On ''[[
* ''[[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.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Batman and Mister Freeze Sub Zero]]'', where Mr Freeze's wife Nora will die without an organ transplant. Notably, they get through the entire movie without ever specifying which organ it is that she needs; it's implied that she needs several. {{spoiler|It turns out she just needs a blood transfusion, but from a very compatible donor... who happens to be Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl. By the end of the movie, Nora is saved.}}
* [[The Venture Brothers
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