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Regardless of what temperature it is outside, lying motionless for a while has a tendency to make one feel cold. We give off less body heat when we're still, after all. So a person who's, say, falling asleep is bound to get colder more quickly than someone who's moving around and still fully awake. If that person is somehow sleeping out in the open, without a blanket (or if they've just fallen asleep in a [[Heavy Sleeper|really weird place]]), they may find themselves shivering in their sleep, turning over in a really fashion way, or clutching themselves. They're uncomfortable, and they show it. If they ''had'' a blanket, it has slipped off them as they've turned and shuddered.

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* One of Hatori's flashbacks in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' showed him doing this to Kana, whom he'd eventually date {{spoiler|before things went ''very bad'' with Akito}}.

* In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', Ashitaka does it to San. Then San does it to Ashitaka.

* In ''[[Spirited Away]],'' Kumaji manages to show that he's [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|not so grumpy after all]] by draping a blanket (well, cushion) over Chihiro after she falls asleep on the boiler room floor.

* Used in [[Full Moon wo Sagashite]] anime when Takuto finds Mitsuki asleep at her desk. He shows his [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|his heart of gold]] by covering her with a blanket and smiling warmly. Though later when she inquires about it and thanks him, he blushes and decides to change the subject . In another episode, he covers her up with his parka while she's sleeping inside a lighthouse.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. On seeing cyborg girl Triela lying on a bed clutching one of her teddy bears, her handler Hilshire pulls the blanket over her.

 

 

* A fanart has [[Batman]] covering a sleeping Robin with his cape.

* Skinner does this for Elizabeth twice in ''[[The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain]]''. She dozes off in the Amazon rainforest, and again in the library of the ''Nautilus''. The first time he covers her with his coat; the second time he carries her to her own bed.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Snake in the Eagle's Shadow]]'' the Old Man does this for Chien, who is the whipping boy for the martial arts school where he's been raised.

* Used as an intentionally cliched romantic device in ''[[Spaceballs]]''. Lone Starr gives Princess Vespa his jacket in the middle of the freezing desert.

* Twice in the 1927 film ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise]]''. Near the beginning, the Wife covers the Man with a blanket after he comes in late, even though she knows he's been out philandering. Then, near the end, the Man shields his wife from the wind with his coat as she dozes on the boat.

* In [[The Blues Brothers]], Elwood does this to Jake.

* At the end of [[West Side Story]], {{spoiler|after Tony's murder,}} Baby John covers Maria's head and shoulders with her scarf - one of the first gestures of friendship shown by one of the Jets towards one of the Sharks.

 

* The page image is from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E07 The War Games|The War Games]]''. The hands belong to Jamie, draping the coat over Zoë.

* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'': The DG/C shippers certainly noticed the fact that when DG woke up from one of her crazy dreams, Cain's [[Badass Longcoat]] had been pressed into service as a blanket.

* A variation of this happens in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'': a spell has put everyone in Camelot to sleep, and when Merlin and Arthur return to the kingdom they find everyone passed out wherever they happened to be when the spell hit. Arthur gently picks Guinevere up from the floor and puts her on a bed. (Everyone else is left on the ground).

* In the ''[[NCIS]]'' episode "Twilight", Gibbs covers Kate with her own jacket while she is sleeping behind her desk in the office. Maybe not crowning, but it is a heartwarming moment. Considering how the episode ended, also {{spoiler|a [[Tear Jerker]] in retrospect.}} Many seasons later, this returns in a flashback as Gibbs does the same for Dr. Rachel Cranston, {{spoiler|Kate's older sister.}}

'''Banquo:''' ''[pushes him away]'' No way, no how. }}

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification|OC!Scotland]] from [[Axis Powers Hetalia]], despite what other fanworks had [[Violent Glaswegian|portrayed him as]], was [http://www.zerochan.net/253551 quite] [http://www.zerochan.net/268771 gentle] [http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae93/Lady_Quintessa/Hetalia/dontcryigotyou.jpg?t=1288297915 with] [http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae93/Lady_Quintessa/Hetalia/11867494_p11.jpg?t=1288298225 a sleeping England.] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|When no one was around that is.]]