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

* The ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' episode "The Needs of Three" ([[DP 151]]) ended with [[Complete Monster|J's]] ship being gunned down by Legendary Pokemon Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf, and falling into a lake and exploding, killing everyone on board. Just right before the ship explodes, J's glasses, can be see floating out of one of the damaged windows and rising out of the surface, implying her death.

* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', Sabo's signature hat floats to the surface of the ocean after his boat gets attacked for interfering with a nobleman's arrival. Since this is the last we've seen of Sabo, it's safely assumed he's dead.

* Not a drowning, but in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'' when Rena {{spoiler|is shot by Takano's men}} all we see is her hat flying off.

* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: TenthBonds AnniversaryBeyond Movie (Anime)Time|Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie]]'', Yugi finds {{spoiler|his grandpa's bandana after Paradox attacks the city, killing everyone except Yugi.}}

* The guy in the [[Nice Hat|panama hat]] (listed in the credits as "Panama Hat") from the opening sequence of ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'' is implied to have died on his exploding freighter off the coast of Portugal when his hat is seen floating in the water near a swimming Indy.

* In the film version of ''[[James and Thethe Giant Peach]]'', Centipede is left behind fighting underwater ghost pirates. Spider goes back to get him when she sees his hat float up to the surface. Moments later, a pirate's hat emerges, and everyone assumes the pirates have come up to get them. Turns out to be Centipede wearing the spoils of victory.

* Another non-drowning example in the 2009 film version of ''[[Astro Boy (Filmfilm)|Astro Boy]]'', where Toby's hat is all that is left of him after he gets [[Family-Unfriendly Death|vaporized]].

* The original ''[[Piranha (Film)|Piranha]]'' film had a police officer fall into the water during the mass attack near the end. He flails, disappears underwater, and the camera cuts to his hat floating down from the bloody water above through clearer water and onto a carpet of water weeds.

* ''[[JasonFriday Xthe 13th (film)]]'' has Jason's metallic hockey mask float down to the bottom of a lake after he was incinerated in the Earth Two's atmosphere.

* ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Aliens]]'' uses this trope to suggest that Newt is dead after an alien grabs her. Ripley sees her doll's head sinking into the water.

* One victim's demise in the hands of Leech Man is made apparent with his hat floating on the surface of swamp in ''[[The Return of Swamp Thing (Film)|The Return of Swamp Thing]]''.

* Toward the end of ''[[The Pebble and Thethe Penguin]]'', just right before they actually arrive at [[Tim Curry|Drake's]] island to save Marina, both Hubie and Rocko are chased by orcas. When they finally arrive at Drake's island, Hubie noticed that Rocko's bandanna got washed up onto the island, but not Rocko himself, and as a result, Hubie actually thinks that Rocko was eaten by an orca. {{spoiler|It then turns out that Rocko survived, and he actually ends up saving both Hubie and Marina when Drake's island falls into the sea.}}

* After Judd is eaten by his pet crocodile Rocky in ''[[Eaten Alive (Filmfilm)|Eaten Alive]]'', his prosthetic leg floats to the surface of the croc's pool.

* In ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]],'' Skaara's friend Nabeh liked to wear one of the soldiers' helmets. When they're running from the gliders later, one of the gliders' blasts hits where Nabeh had been, and we see the helmet bouncing out of the dust cloud as Skaara yells his name. In the novelization, later on in the book, [[Spared Byby the Adaptation|a mostly okay Nabeh triumphantly reclaims his helmet]] in the usual subversion of this.

* Another non-drowning example: Jango Fett's helmet after his [[Off Withwith His Head|beheading]] in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.

* Mr. Howell faked his death on ''[[GilligansGilligan's Island]]'' by setting his hat on some quick sand.

* ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' uses his jacket to fake his death (long story) in order to go undercover and solve the case without the police (who think he's done the deed) on his back.

* ''[[DadsDad's Army]]'' played with this. Having just rescued Private Pike from a bog, the men see Jones' hat sticking out of the mud. Turns out he'd gone off when they weren't looking to find rope.

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* ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' subverted due to a rare inversion of [[Never Found the Body]]. You steal Minamoto's Hat and it acts as an [[Infinity+1 Sword]] however his body didn't dissapear meaning he's still [[Dead All Along|as dead as he was for the rest of the game]].

* ''[[King's Quest V]]'' has a [[Dummied Out]] image of Graham's hat over water. This image was recycled for the [[Fan Remake|Fan Remakes]]s of the first two games.

* ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom]]'' for the NES had Indy vanish in a poof of smoke when killed, leaving only his hat.

* The very last scene of the ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Mega Man Zero]]'' series is a shot of Zero's damaged helmet in the dust after the space station Ragnarok disintegrates while falling to Earth. Also falls under [[Never Found the Body]].

* ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'' has an ''especially'' tragic, non-water-related version: Mami's bells (which she wears in her hair) serve as this when {{spoiler|they fall out of the sky after Fou-lu is hit by a massive [[Fantastic Nuke]]. What makes this especially tragic: ''Mami was in fact the '''''warhead''''' for aforementioned [[Fantastic Nuke]], which is an [[Evil Weapon]] that literally operates on the principle [[Love Hurts]]''. And she was explicitly ''tortured to insanity and then used as a [[Human Sacrifice]]'' to fire the [[Fantastic Nuke]] because ''she was in love with Fou-lu''. Mami was also pretty much (with one solitary other exception) the ''only'' person to treat Fou-lu with decency, and aforementioned owners of [[Fantastic Nuke]] are ''the direct descendants of the very empire who summoned Fou-lu in the first place'' and whom he is technically [[King in Thethe Mountain]] of--except that his empire is now [[The Empire]] and sees him as an [[Unwanted Revival]], and has spent most of the game going to greater and greater extremes to try to kill their own [[God-Emperor]]. It is probably ''not'' a shocker that this is the [[Wafer-Thin Mint]] that shoves Fou-lu affirmedly into [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] territory.}}

* Noble Six's broken helmet in the [[Book Ends|opening and post-epilogue]] cutscenes of ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. During the epilogue, his final moments are shown from the discarded helmet's camera, [[The Un-Reveal|with his head just off-screen]].

* In Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', this occurs with the titular character. Needless to say, despite the arrow through the hat, he lives.

* In [[Make Mine Music (Disney)|their adaptation]] of ''[[Peter and The Wolf]]'', the Wolf chases the duck into a tree, and comes out with feathers flying, licking its chops. Subverted when the duck turns up alive at the end.

* ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Return to Neverland]]'' subverts it: shortly after Peter and Tinkerbell dive into the ocean to rescue Jane from the octopus, Peter's hat is seen bobbing on the surface of the water. This leads to Hook congratulating himself for finally defeating him... until seconds later, Peter emerges holding the sack Jane is inside of and asks Hook if he missed him.

* Another variation on this trope occurs in the ''[[Defenders of the Earth (Animation)|Defenders of the Earth]]'' episode "The Ghost Walks Again", where the Phantom falls into a river after being shot. On finding his belt floating in the water, Jedda immediately fears the worst and, when the Phantom is subsequently declared dead (even though [[Never Found the Body|his body has not been found]]) has to decide if she is ready to take over his duties. However, the Phantom has, in fact, survived and is reunited with his daughter by the episode's conclusion.

* The ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "Seer No Evil" includes a non-drowning variation on this trope. Here, Chip is seemingly crushed by a falling treasure chest and, when Zipper pulls his hat out from under the chest, the other Rangers mourn his apparent death. However, they then discover that Chip survived by diving into a conveniently placed hole in the floorboards.

* Bart tossing his red baseball cap on to a cardboard box when he ditches the [[Class Trip]] to the box factory leads Homer to conclude that he has been made into a box in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''.

** Another ''Simpsons'' example: season nine's "Simpson Tide," during the [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|random "In The Navy" musical, featuring the actual Village People]] ([[Off-Model|though the cop -- who's black in real life -- is shown with yellow Simpsons skin]]) [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Smithers]] dancing on the submarine -- untilsubmarine—until it begins to dive. [[Status Quo Is God|Naturally]], [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|Smithers disappears]], but the Village People aren't so lucky and end up drowning. The only hats that float to the surface are the Construction Worker's hard hat, the cowboy's Stetson, and the Indian's headdress.

* In the penultimate episode of ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' the battle between Depth Charge and Rampage ends with a massive underwater explosion followed by various bits and pieces (most notably one of Depth Charge's wings) floating to the surface in a deliberate send up of this trope.

* This occurs to a ship-captain extra in the first act of the ''[[TMNTTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) episode "Junklantis". Curiously, this ends in a shot that's almost an exact mirror of the picture above.

* At the very beginning of ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]] 2'', Finn McMissile actually deploys several fake tires to escape the Lemons' oil rig causing them to think that he has died while escaping into the ocean. However, it's played straight with one of the Pacers on the rig; when McMissile pushes him off the railing, once he falls into the sea, only his wheels remain.

* Used against the Hacker in one episode of ''[[Cyberchase (Animation)|Cyberchase]]'' (dealing with odds) when the heroes pull a [[Gambit Roulette]] on him hoping he'd get sucked into cyberspace after choosing the wrong door.

* A bizarre real life example, in Canada, there was a bizarre string of [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4163329.ece running shoes] washing up on shore, with the feet still in them. They could understand why (ankles are fairly weak, so feet will likely snap off in water, and shoes float), they just had no idea where they were coming from, and why they couldn't find the bodies (which will occasionally float themselves.) -->