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{{quote|''"Wanna know the best thing about unconscious chicks? They can't say no."''

 

This is a kissing trope most common in anime and manga; the setting is a bedroom, or simply a place to rest, and two characters, one often harboring unrequited feelings for the other.

Contrast [[Kiss of Life]], which is often mistaken for this.

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'': On one occasion, Hatsumi passes out drunk next to Ryoki. He takes this as an invitation to start groping and stripping her.

* Parodied in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', during the student film episode "The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru". The star is Mikuru as the battle waitress from the future, who faints at one point and is carried to the home of Itsuki Koizumi, her in-movie love-interest. After putting her to bed, he silently deliberates over this, and gets very close to kissing her. She is acting, though, and uncomfortably aware of it. He is belatedly interrupted by Yuki Nagato's character, although there was a good chance of our completely disgruntled cameraman (and in-series narrator) Kyon disrupting the scene. And that's not the only creepy part... As Kyon points out, after she is knocked unconscious, Koizumi took her to his house instead of calling an ambulance, undressed her, bathed her, and then redressed her before trying to kiss her.

** In the novels and the rerun added episodes, this scene is slightly less humorous: Tsuruya and Haruhi spiked Mikuru's drink in order to 'improve her acting', which Kyon realizes from Mikuru's lack of resistance; he refuses to keep filming, and it's the only scene in the series where he becomes seriously angry with Haruhi, to the point of almost [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|socking her in the face]] without realizing it before Koizumi stops him.

** In the [[Gag Sub]] The Adventures of Yuki Nagato, "the narrator" directly references this trope.

*** Or, in the words of Yuki Nagato (sort of) herself: "You weren't going to kiss her, were you? 'Cuz she's unconscious. That would be really weird."

** Mikuru actually invokes this trope ''on herself'' in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody. After she and Kyon travel back to [[Arc Words|three years ago]], she falls unconscious. Her own future self appears and tells Kyon what to do. As a reward she says that he can kiss her (still unconscious) younger self if he wants to. I'm sure a lawyer, a philosopher, and a quantum physicist could have great fun getting drunk and discussing the ethical implications of this scenario.

** She herself attempts to do this to Shungo, and possibly other things. Except he defends himself against her ''while he's sleeping''.

* In ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'', Rin is harboring a reverse [[Bodyguard Crush]] for her bodyguard Manji, so when he passes out after a particularly exhausting adventure she takes the opportunity to plant one of these on him.

* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''

* Subverted in ''[[Naruto]] Shippuden'' 68 as Fuka gave Naruto a "Kiss of Death" while he was unconscious. Then he woke up and was observing that blood in her hair was still there and then Naruto pulled her hair later which lead to her defeat. (Her age is unknown so I assumed that she lived for a long time).

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Shinji deliberates on kissing Asuka when she sleepwalks into his bed. He eventually changes his mind when she calls out for her mother but that doesn't stop Asuka from accusing him of doing it.

** She did not "accuse" him of doing it. She told she was joking, and when his answer implied he had kissed her, she was shocked and appaled.

** Reversed (and a common cry by the audience) in ''End of Evangelion'' when Shinji doesn't kiss her but instead {{spoiler|[[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbates]] over Asuka's comatose body. Even he points out that he is "The lowest of the low". The dubbed version has Shinji say, "I am ''so'' [[Precision F-Strike|fucked up]]."}} {{spoiler|It's sometimes implied that he used HER hand to 'do the deed'.}}

** Considering the silhouette flashbacks of Shizuru undressing, the implication is that she did a bit more than kissing.

*** It is under heavy debate whether that was a flashback or a visualization of the worst possible case. The writers have [[Shrug of God|refused to elaborate.]]

{{quote|[[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged|Attention, everyone! This is the Neighborhood Watch Committee, reminding everyone that necrophilia is still illegal! Thank you, and have a pleasant day!]]}}

* In ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', Tina and Kaoru are forced to spend a night in a love hotel (chaste, since they're [[Just Friends|only friends]]), on account of rain and having missed the homebound trains. While Kaoru is asleep, Tina silently debates with herself about kissing him. Judging from her thoughts the next day, she went through with it several times (and seemed alternately happy, but regretful at taking advantage of him). Kaoru didn't notice.

** Also, those [[Bedmate Reveals]] indicate that the girls living in the manor have no qualms about entering Kaoru's room, climbing into his bed, and cuddling up with him - all while he's fast asleep.

* When Souichi in ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'' becomes so drunk that he forgets to lock the door to his bedroom before going to sleep, Morinaga decides that this is the perfect opportunity to steal a few kisses from him. Souichi's murmuring of Morinaga's name in his sleep only stimulates Morinaga into performing increasingly more explicit actions...until Souichi wakes up. Cue [[Armor-Piercing Slap]].

* In ''[[Hana Kimi]]'', {{spoiler|after Sano [[Rescue Romance|rescues]] Mizuki from [[Attempted Rape|being raped]], they fall off a cliff and Mizuki sprains her ankle. Later, she develops a bad fever and passes out. Sano kisses her while she's unconscious and takes care of her until help arrives.}}

* In ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', when Miu convinces the group to dress up and sneak into Matsuri's house on Christmas Eve to "preserve her innocence", Nobue finds Matsuri's sleeping face irresistible ands moves in for a kiss, only to be slapped out of it by Chika.

** Mizuho kisses Kei for the first time while he's in a standstill and therefore unconscious.

* In ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' (manga only) Dark tries kissing Risa who's in bed with a fever only to get caught by Riku. To be fair he was probably using [[Intimate Healing|healing magic]].

* Hayate from the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' Sound Stages shamelessly [[Skinship Grope|takes advantage of Signum's breasts]] while the latter is asleep, to save Signum from being embarrassed if she asked her.

* In episode 6 of ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'' a Russian soldier was willing to rape an unconscious Sasha when he thought he was a girl and even after finding out he's a guy he says while smirking "That's alright." Thankfully he didn't get the chance to do so.

* Ironically, [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Sango]] from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' does this to her dying fiancé [[Handsome Lech|Miroku]]. While he lies unconscious after being poisoned and his [[Curse|Wind Tunnel]] threatens to kill him, a grief-stricken Sango kisses him and asks him not to die before leaving to fight the [[Big Bad]] since [[No Ontological Inertia|killing him]] is the only way to save Miroku's life.

* One of the first things to [[Apple of Discord|drive a wedge into the]] ''[[Litchi Hikari Club]]'' is not simply the fact that Dafu intends to free their captive Kanon, but the addition of ''masturbating over her comatose body''.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' (manga). Hilshire is shot during an operation and his cyborg Triela has to remove the bullet. Triela has just discovered the details of her [[Snuff Film|tragic past]]; realising she's a [[Morality Chain]] to her handler Triela decides to walk out on Hilshire after he passes out from the shock. She's unable to do so, rushing back inside the room and kissing Hilshire whilst making an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]].

* ''[[Dengeki Daisy]]'': Kurosaki plants one of the on-the-cheek variety on Teru while she's in bed ill. She's only half unconcious, but she's woozy and feverish enough to not recognize him, and it's implied she may have fallen asleep again anyway right after she finishes speaking to him and before he kisses her.

* In one episode of ''[[Tokko]]'', Sakura kisses an unconcious Ranmaru before joining him in his [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]].

* Happens more than once in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]''. First [[Brother-Sister Incest|Kaba kisses Himari on the lips]] when she's asleep after having been revived. Later, {{spoiler|Shoma ends up taking Ringo's first kiss while giving her CPR.}} And later it's used [[Played for Drama|quite more darkly]] when {{spoiler|Ringo drugs and almost rapes Tabuki to have him impregnate her, with Shoma barely managing to stop her.}}

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': When Ranma gets knocked unconcious by poisonous plants, Shampoo sees this as an opportunity to try and steal a kiss. Akane doesn't approve.

** Also, Kodachi. She has tried to kiss [[Attempted Rape|(and do more than kiss)]] him while he's unconcious and while he's immobile. All instances due to paralysis powder or some other potion of hers.

** Kuno once attempted to kiss Akane while she was unconcious and kiss [[Attractive Bent Gender|"the pig-tailed girl"]] after she passed out.

 

== Comic Books ==

'''Red Jack''': Admittedly, her conversation ''is'' a little dull. But then again, love conquers all. }}

 

* Rumors fly around the ''[[Gorillaz]]'' [[Slash Fic]] writers about [[Squick|what could have happened during the year 2D was in a coma]]. Murdoc probably ''is'' canonically enough of an outright bastard to at least consider it.

* In this ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=13122264 fancomic], Japan takes advantage of a sedated China (if you want to view it, you need to log on to Pixiv and enable R-18 images)

* In more than a couple of ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'' [[Kink Meme]] [http://taekarado.livejournal.com/21601.html?thread=576097#t576097 fi][http://taekarado.livejournal.com/21601.html?thread=1227873#t1227873 lls], [[The Nostalgia Chick]] chloroforms [[The Nostalgia Critic]] so she can have a little fun with him.

* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', Ronan has sex with Sakura while she's in a coma that's slated to last for five chapters. Earlier on, he has sex with her while she's unconscious and she regains consciousnesse while he's doing it, asks if he's having fun and they continue having sex.

 

== Film ==

** That '''was''' in the novel (''[[McTeague]]'', by Frank Norris, 1899) too.

** ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'' has a similar situation, though it's gender-flipped. The dentist in question takes photos of the experience, and threatens to show them to the patient's fiancee unless he agrees to have sex with her while awake.

* Averted in ''[[The Holiday]]'': Amanda wakes up to a hangover and Graham making her breakfast, and asks if anything happened last night. Graham says no, and Amanda wonders why, thinking she might have made a fool of herself. Graham tells her, "Call me old-fashioned, but one does not have sex with women who are unconscious."

* A particularly creepy example occurs in ''[[Terminator]] 2'', when an asylum guard licks Sarah Conner's face while she is (he thinks) catatonic. He pays for it later.

*** They had to reshoot the scene a number of times, because of his uneasiness about hitting her with his nightstick. It was a physically demanding scene, and that was her revenge for his screwing it up and making her do it over and over.

**** And the tragedy was they wound up cutting the scene in question where the guy hit her unless you count the director's cut.

* ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]''. "Your breasts shifted out of whack when you fainted. I was adjusting them."

* Not a kiss, per se, but in ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'', Rocco can't resist the opportunity to cop a feel of the breast of a stripper who fainted when the brothers break into a private dance room to kill a sleazy mid-level crime lord (played by Ron Jeremy, no less).

{{quote|'''Connor:''' What the fuck are you doing?!

** Note that in the book, all three were awake during this.

* Almost happens in ''[[Animal House]],'' but Pinto's [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|shoulder angel]] talks him out of it (much to the disgust of his shoulder devil).

* "Shrek", being a Disney parody at heart, sets up the awakening scene from "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", but then he shakes her awake instead. Bonus points for her pretending to be asleep {{spoiler|merely wanting a True Loves Kiss to break her spell.}}

* ''[[WALL-E]].'' Don't look at me like that. EVE is in hibernate mode, and WALL-E takes her on dates and tries to hold her retracted hand. Though Wall-E didn't do anything ''more'' than this and he may just have been trying to wake her up and {{spoiler|later on, EVE pretty much does the same thing in return.}} Of course, they're both robots so they're not really in "comas" anyway, more like "stand-by".

* In slasher spoof ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'', this is how the teen [[Butt Monkey]] Boner (...[[Fail O'Suckyname|yes]]) ultimately decides to lose his virginity. {{spoiler|He's killed before he gets a chance to rape the girl. The fact that his actual first time turns out to be with a transsexual is probably a case of [[Sexual Karma]]}}.

* The made-for-TV movie ''She Woke Up Pregnant'' is about a sleazy dentist who rapes his patients when they're under heavy sedatives after performing dental surgery on them, and the main character is a woman who winds up pregnant because of this and decides to fight back.

 

== Literature ==

** And lampshaded because he feels embarrassed to catch himself thinking that. Combine this with an [[Intimate Healing]] scene and remind yourself Eragon is a [[Hormone-Addled Teenager|teenager]].

* This is what Prince Charming did to [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]...when he thought she was dead. Fortunately, this magically (?) revived her so they could live [[Happily Ever After]] and not ask what he was doing in the first place.

*** In the original version of the story, she actually ''was'' dead, and stayed that way. However, because the king (not prince) is the king, he's magical and manages to get her pregnant. But she stayed dead.

** And of course, again in [[Sleeping Beauty]], where the above reviving kiss was ripped off from. {{spoiler|Although some interpretations make it even worse than poor Shinji... as it isn't so much a kiss as much as a rape and forced pregnancy, and it is one of her twin babies suckling at her thumb that removes a splinter and awakens her. Also, he's already married.}}.

*** {{spoiler|To an Ogre. That wants to eat Beauty and her children.}}

** The whole thing was much more messy in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s "''Snow, Glass and Apples''". [[Squick|Much more messy]].

** Seriously though, if every curse needs a loophole ([[Curse Escape Clause|and apparently they do]]), isn't this a brilliant one? How many Necro Princes can there actually be?

** On a less... squicky note... [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] kissed [[Expanded Universe|Mara Jade]] while she was sleeping. Don't worry, he kissed her while they were both conscious [[It Was His Sled|by the end of the book.]]

*** On the [[Lighter and Softer|extreme lighter and un-squickier]] end, Luke actually wakes Mara up from a trance by saying "I love you, Mara."

* Happens in the ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' sequel ''Son of a Witch'', when Candle ''has [[Intimate Healing|sex]] with'' the unconscious Liir {{spoiler|and becomes pregnant. In the end she returns, long enough to dump their [[Lamarck Was Right|green-skinned daughter]] on him.}}

* ''Romeo and Juliet''. In one of the most famous scenes in all of literature, Juliet kisses a dead Romeo, who has taken poison due to thinking Juliet herself was dead. The kiss was both out of love and out of hope that a remnant of the poison would still be on his lips, thus killing Juliet. She has to use Romeo's dagger in order to finally end it.

* ''Russlan and Lyudmilla'' by [[Alexander Pushkin]] contains a part that the hero rescues his love, and takes her home while she is in an enchanted sleep. Pushkin lampshades the trope by stating that the narrator insisted Ruslan behaved honorably, and he believes that. Later, she is snatched by [[Fake Ultimate Hero|another guy who brings her home]]... not so clear about him, but considering he was in a hurry, it is entirely possible he averted the trope as well.

 

* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds," when Inara found Mal unconscious from [[Drugged Lipstick|Saffron's poisoned kiss]], she kissed him on the lips - mostly in a panic - resulting in paralysis at a most inconvenient time, since some of the lipstick was still on his lips.

** This trope is further played for laughs as the paralysis causes Inara to realize the depths of Mal's stupidity and curse him for it as she falls unconscious. Inara's denial of said unconscious kiss after everything is "fixed" is further played for laughs due to Mal's cluelessness in general when it comes to women.

* Carly of ''[[iCarly]]'' kisses one of her crushes of the week, after he fell down an elevator shaft.

* ''[[Ideal]]'': Judith, being a recovering necrophiliac, takes advantage of Moz when he passes out during a party (he doesn't mind), and kisses Jenny during her coma.

** Another L&O episode had these couples using drugs for sex. The wife would take something, which would knock her out, and then her husband would have sex with her unconscious form.

* ''[[Torchwood]]'''s Jack does this to Ianto in a very unprofessional "[[Kiss of Life]]" fashion. He then threatens to kill him and then shoots his girlfriend.

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Cheers]]''. Sam is alone with a passed-out Rebecca and whispers to himself, "do it!". He proceeds to... dress her up in a bandito costume and draw a moustache on her face.

* Sue White ''impregnates herself with Mac's sperm'' when he's in a coma in ''[[Green Wing]]''. Caroline is also seen kissing him and trying to lie next to him.

== Music ==

* The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma".

 

== Mythology ==

* A male version is the myth of Endymion, who is placed in an eternal sleep by the goddess Selene in order to preserve his beauty, and then apparently raped by her, producing fifty (!) daughters.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* [[Krazy Kat]] has kissed Ignatz in his sleep a few times.

{{quote|'''Ignatz:''' [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|I dreamed an angel kissed me...]]}}

 

== Video Games ==

** Ironically she's angry because she thinks you were trying to kill her in her sleep. Maybe its better to let her think that.

*** Even worse, if you take the obvious action and kill her, you end up dead. So [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|fondling her is the ''best thing to do''.]] Huh. Way to go, Sierra.

* The [[Fan Remake]] of ''[[King's Quest II]]'' has this as a possibility {{spoiler|but you'll need a different tactic to wake Valanice}}.

* [[Gender Flip|Gender flipped]] in ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Hit the Road]]''. Trixie the giraffe-necked girl falls in love with Bruno the Frozen Bigfoot (they're circus attractions). She reads him bedtime stories and bakes cakes for him while he's [[Human Popsicle|sealed in a block of ice]]. However, Bruno is eventually thawed and the two run away together.

* In ''[[Yosuga no Sora]]'', Sora does this to Haruka, oh and by the way Haruka is ''her'' [[Twincest|twin]] [[Brother-Sister Incest|brother]].

* ''[[Shining Force]] II'' for the Sega Genesis presented this, naturally, as the only way to awaken the otherwise comatose Princess of the Granseal Kingdom after the [[Big Bad]] was beaten once and for all.

 

== Visual Novels ==

 

== Web Comics ==

* Used in the manga webcomic, ''[[Misfile]]'', between a heavily sleeping Ash, [[Gender Bender|a boy transformed semi-permanently into a girl]], and his/her best friend, Emily, who thinks she's straight but definitely likes the guy-who's-biologically-a-girl... no interruptions occur, though afterwards, Ash reflects on his/her 'odd dream', while Emily silently rages that it didn't help clear up her feelings at ALL...

** Notably, the incident is very clearly indicated as rape, and is referred to as such for the rest of the series, even though it was non-violent and both parties probably would have been willing participants in different circumstances.

*** The definition of rape is non-consensual sex. Whether he ''would have'' agreed or not is immaterial, as is whether or not it's violent.

** Given a continuity nod later on when Kim pulls Davan into a supply closet:

{{quote|'''Kim''': "Davan, you're doing something different this time. What is it?"

* [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20061227.html This] disturbing throwaway line in ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'', demonstrating the true levels of [[Sick Sad World|Sick Sadness in the comic's world]].

* In ''[[Red String]]'', Morita moves to kiss the teacher she's been crushing on when she finds him dozing in the teacher's lounge. She realizes what she's doing at the last second and runs off.

* ''[[Oglaf]]'' strip "Eight Legs of Love" {{spoiler|Ivan wakes up to find a [[Giant Spider]] [[Squick|giving him oral]]. The spider confesses it usually bites him with a paralytic venom first when it does this, so he remains asleep through the act. [[Paranoia Fuel|Ivan is understandably horrified]].}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Subverted in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. In an episode where everyone except Jimmy is in hibernation, he goes into Heloise's room to try and wake her up. After failing, [[Ship Tease|he reads a book she was holding saying that a sleeping girl can be awakened with a kiss]]. He looks at Heloise a moment...then tosses the book aside, muttering that you can't believe everything you read.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' did a skit where a bird overlooking Prince Charming attempt to kiss Snow White (or maybe it was Sleeping Beauty) starts yelling "Date rape! Date rape!"

 

== Other ==

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