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{{trope}}
[[File:Dig Your Own Grave 9426.jpg|frame|[[Superdickery.com|Doesn't Batman have a code against killing too?]]]]
When a character must literally dig a hole for their body, usually being forced to as the last thing they do before being killed or even [[Buried Alive]].
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== Film ==
* Happens to all the (former) deputies at the hands of the wanted mass murderer, {{spoiler|former District Attorney Mike Powers}}, in ''[[
* The Nazi prisoner who uses the opportunity to try to endear himself to his captives in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''.
* Happens in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]''. Digging a grave by hand does take a lot of time, a lot of things can happen.
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* In ''[[Life]]'', there was a two-partner called "Dig A Hole" and "Fill It Up." In the first episode, Crews and Reese solve a murder case where the [[Sympathetic Murderer]] forced his victim to "dig a hole" and then "fill it up." In the second episode, when Crews finds the real killer of the crime he was falsely imprisoned for, he forces him to dig a hole...{{spoiler|but doesn't kill him}}.
* In the ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' episode "The Way Through The Woods", the murderer forces Lewis to dig a grave for himself and another victim. As per the trope text, this gives Morse time to come to the rescue.
* In the ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' episode "The Council", a shady mobster digs his own grave before being beaten, tossed into the grave, and buried alive by his boss. The IM Force dig him up immediately afterward so they can interrogate him about that boss.
* Subverted on ''[[Las Vegas]]'', when Ed hauled a creep out to the desert and ordered him to dig his own grave with his bare hands, terrorizing him for his misdeed, then just left him standing there.
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Dungeons
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== Video Games ==
* Officer Tenpenny has C.J. do this in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' when C.J. finally outlives his usefulness. Though it isn't C.J. who ends up in the grave.
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