Convenient Coma: Difference between revisions

In [[Medical Drama|Medical Dramas]]s and [[Live Action TV]] series, coming out of a coma isn't a matter of if, but '''''when.''''' More often than not it's an ideal way to have a character [[Put on a Bus]] without [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|dropping a bridge on them]] (never <s>burn</s> drop a bridge you may want the casting department to cross again, eh?). If a [[Superhero]]'s [[Secret Identity]] is exposed, a [['''Convenient Coma]]''' to the hapless discoverer solves those dangling plot threads without resorting to killing or changing the [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]]. Speaking of [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|killing]], it's also a good way for moralistic heroes to do away with a bad guy without losing their no-killing reputation. Of course, the coma was [[Hoist by His Own Petard|the villain's own fault.]]

== '''Comatose Childbirth''' ==

== '''[[Happy Place]] Comas''' ==

** In the animated adaptation in the series ''[[Justice League]] Unlimited'', Batman and Wonder Woman manage to help him, by disrupting its hold when trying to pull it off, allowing him to shake himself awake by realizing that Krypton's survival is false--onlyfalse—only for the parasite to end up on Batman, of course being Batman he breaks himself out quite quickly, after watching his dad savagely beat the living daylights out of the mugger who should have killed him. (Wonder Woman didn't get away unscathed, either: while this was going on, she had to fight Mongul, who had sent the thing to Clark in the first place.)

== '''Medical Drama Comas''' ==

== '''[[Put on a Bus]] Comas''' ==

* Michael Corinthos in ''[[General Hospital]]''. Said bus went [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome|through a time warp]] and he woke up five years older -- aolder—a year later.

* In the PSP port/remake of ''[[Persona 3]]'', you get the option to play as a girl and romance some of the resident guys, discovering [[Hidden Depths]] in some of the major male characters that couldn't be explored in the original game or the male path of the PSP version due to them not being [[Relationship Values|social links]]. One of them, {{spoiler|Shinjiro Aragaki}}, dies from a gunshot wound if you're playing as a guy (which was the only option in the original and its [[Updated Rerelease]], ''[[Persona 3]]''). However, he's a possible love interest for the female main character, and maxing out his [[Relationship Values]] opens up a short fetch quest where if you complete it, in the scene where he would normally die, he survives the gunshot. But since he dies in every other continuity, in order to keep the plot on the same path he spends the rest of the game hospitalized and in a coma. {{spoiler|If it's a [[New Game+]] and you successfully romanced him and saved his life, then he can wake up just in time to come and spend the ending of the game with you, turning it into a different kind of [[Convenient Coma]].}}

== '''Other''' ==

* ''[[Kickin It Old School]]'' used a similar (but 20-year) [[Convenient Coma]] much less believably.