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* '''Emotional Faint''' - When done well, this one can be thoroughly justified - in times of extreme high emotion, people do faint. However, such extreme levels of emotion that would make it realistic are actually fairly rare. This is also the reason that [[Breaking Bad News Gently]] involves the phrase "You better sit down".
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=== [[Film]] ===
* This is both played straight and parodied in the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie. Early on, Elizabeth faints from her overly-tight corset; near the end, she pretends to faint in order to distract the local guards. In the sequel, it's parodied again as she pretends to faint in an attempt to break up a fight between her current and former fiancés, and they both ignore her.
== Girly Man Faint ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Sleepy Hollow]]'': In [[The Movie]], the 'cowardly' Ichabod Crane is the hero and can't very well show true cowardice, so he tends to stick out any dangerous situation and then pass out once it's over.
* The [[Cowardly Lion]] (naturally) does this (minus scream) when he faces [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]].
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* Captain Spaulding does this in ''[[Marx Brothers|Animal Crackers]]'' as Mrs. Rittenhouse is hailing him for fearlessly journeying through [[Darkest Africa]].
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Done without the scream on multiple occasions by Mr. Humphries in ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'', typically as a silent collapse into the arms of his coworkers.
* Frank from ''[[
* In the ''[[X Files]]'' episode "The Unnatural", Dales faints away upon seeing Exley's true alien form, and then faints again (and again, and again) when the alien revives him.
* Gomez in [[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]].
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Sokka faints (without screaming) upon seeing the pregnant woman give birth en route to Ba Sing Se.
* Timmy's dad does this regularly on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* In the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' case "Turnabout Sisters," Phoenix faints once he sees {{spoiler|Mia, who is dead and is the victim in the case. It's really Maya channeling Mia for the first time.}} Upon waking up and seeing her once more, he almost faints again. Lampshaded by Mia: "'GACK?!' Is that any way to treat your boss, Nick?"
== Anemia Faint ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Miki seems to suffer from this quite a bit in ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'', giving ''two'' of her potential love interests a chance to get closer to her.
* Brutally parodied with Hyatt in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'', who has the tendency to ''die'' at random moments, only to get up a moment (or a week) later as if nothing happened.
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=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Yoko Tsuno Faints all the time in comic books, usually after being struck on the neck.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Kimberly of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' has done this a time or two.
* Scully in [[The X-Files]] episode "Redux" faints in a meeting with Skinner and other FBI higher-ups after her cancer progresses to a dangerous point. She was about to tell the board who the mole was working in the FBI, and as Skinner catches her before she hits the floor, she whispers "You", implying that she believes he is the mole.
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Miho from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' has this shortly after being introduced.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Mio Kisaragi from ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 1'' has this as one of her main traits. Suffering from anemia, she can faint at any moment. When she utters the [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] words "Memai ga..." (= "I'm feeling dizzy..."), it's the signal of an impending black-out.
== Fake Faint ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[Dave]]'', the eponymous character performs one {{spoiler|after confessing to the President's illegal actions and exonerating the Vice President, during the joint session of Congress. It works because the President (whom he had been impersonating) had suffered a stroke earlier in the movie, and everyone present thought he'd suffered another one}}.
* In Kingsley Amis' ''Lucky Jim'', Bill Atkinson faints loudly and dramatically during a public lecture in order to aid the lecturer's escape. It doesn't quite work, as the lecturer (and title character) faints for real seconds after.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Christine in ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' pulls this one whenever a play would call for the heroine to faint, usually Monster or Emotional Faint situations. Agnes notes with considerable scorn that she even falls in such a way as to avoid hurting herself when she lands.
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novel
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Mr. Scott pulled off a brief Fake Faint to distract and help disarm an intellectually-empowered, yet still-not-all-that-bright female alien in the "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E01 Spocks Brain|Spock's Brain]]" episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''.
* Doctor Cox does this an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' to "demonstrate" how boring J.D.'s story is.
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=== [[Theatre]] ===
* A Fake Faint also occurs in the [[Shakespeare]] play ''[[Macbeth]]'', pulled off by Lady Macbeth in an attempt to draw suspicion away from her murdering husband. Macbeth is being asked some ''very'' awkward questions about why he killed King Duncan's supposed killers (instead of keeping them alive so they can tell who put them up to it). Her fainting diverts the attention of the questioner, and by the time everything is sorted out the king's sons have fled and Macbeth can put the blame on them.
* A ploy frequently employed in opera:
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Princess Adora, in the pilot of ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power|She Ra Princess of Power]]'', pulls off one of these to convince Skeletor and his cronies that she's a helpless, timid royal. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Humiliations ensue]] for the poor creeps when the ruse is revealed.
== Pregnancy Faint ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Yoko Tsuno the Japanese action girl frequently faints after being subjected to a neck chop, L'or du Rhin being one example.
=== [[Film]] ===
* Zira fainting in the movie ''Escape from the [[Planet of the Apes]]''.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Happens several times in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Requiem", which ends with Scully's pregnancy being revealed.
* Chloe from ''[[24]]'' discovered her pregnancy this way.
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=== [[Theatre]] ===
* Roxie Hart from ''[[Chicago]]'' faked this to attract media attention and help influence the jury in her murder trial.
* Parodied in ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'', where President Wintergreen's impeachment proceedings are interrupted by his wife bringing the news that he's going to have a baby. ''He'' faints, and the Senators have no choice but to exonerate him, since they would never impeach an expectant father. (If you wonder how on earth a show from 1931 could parody a musical from 1975, see [[Adaptation Displacement]].)
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* In ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', your wife faints on the trip to Gotha. Eventually, it's revealed to be this trope when she faints again while meeting King Albert.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Happened to Shannon in ''[[Queen of Wands]]'' due to {{spoiler|gestational diabetes}}.
== The Monster Faint ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Played painfully straight in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-Men]]'' issue 148, when Kitty Pryde (thirteen years old if even that at the time) faints when kidnapped by Caliban (whom we were meeting for the first time, and who was much creepier than his later appearances would make him, but ''still...'')
* Even more painful in ''Uncanny X-Men'' issue 11, where after ''The Stranger'' walks on air and through a wall, someone utters these gentlemanish words:
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=== [[Film]] ===
* Done by Janet Weiss [[Audience Participation|(SLUT!)]] when she sees Frank N. Furter for the first time in ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Having the narrator faint was a standard way for Lovecraft to finish his stories since it saved him having to explain how his very non-[[Badass Normal]]s could live to tell the tale.
* In ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'', we get a nice [[Gender Flip]] with ''Jonathan Harker'' pulling one of these fairly early on. Just as equally an emotional faint, however, as he had just been [[Fetish Fuel|overtly harassed by three beautiful vampire-ladies]] ''and'' [[Ho Yay|apparently his own host.]]
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* This phenomenon popped up in several ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' movies, like ''[[Eegah]]'', ''[[The Phantom Planet]]'' and ''[[The Blood Waters of Dr. Z (Film)|The Blood Waters of Dr. Z]],'' which contains probably the most egregious example of this trope, with the kidnapped heroine managing to remain unconscious while being roughly carried through a hot, noisy, fetid swamp for ''several miles.''
{{quote|'''Crow:''' Apparently women are devoid of the "fight-or-flight" reflex.}}
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* In nearly every version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', April O'Neil does this on her first sight of the turtles, whereupon they pick her up and take her home. In a possible [[Running Gag]], Michelangelo asks "Can we keep her?" in both the first movie and the second series just after she faints.
** In the first movie, April did not faint upon seeing the Turtles for the first time—her unconsciousness was due to being attacked by the Foot Clan before they got their ever-loving asses kicked by Raph. When she woke up in the sewer den, she freaked out instead, which ended up freaking the Turtles out as well.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* A combination of this and Emotional Faint happens in ''[[Xenosaga]]'', when Albedo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95mwIi8lVHQ intimidates the young Momo]. Justified, as this troper was feeling a bit faint himself after he ''tore his head off!''
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Parodied on [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] when a background pony does this when faced with a bunny stampede (normal sized bunnies mind you who were rather harmless)
== Emotional Faint ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[From Eroica with Love]]'': Caesar Gabriel does this [[Once an Episode|twice a chapter]]. (Yes, he was only around for two chapters, but still.)
* In ''[[Onegai Twins
* Emma of ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' faints at a ball, partly due to the fact that her corset is laced too tightly and from seeing William with Eleanor.
* Albert of ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' faints from when he accidentally drank water that was laced with poison.
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=== [[Fan Fiction]] ===
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon's mother, who was until this point mentioned several times how she doesn't want Kyon to become a [[Japanese Delinquents|delinquent]], faints when she is told about her son's relationship with a [[Yakuza]] family. A relationship of which, ironically, she was a strong supporter.
* John faints in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' when he sees himself in the mirror for the first time and realizes that he's grown wings. He'd kind of worked himself up to it, given that he'd awakened in a strange bed, starving to death, with a growing panicky awareness that something was terribly, terribly wrong with him....
=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[Jumanji]]'', Sarah faints when she realizes Alan is standing on her doorstep. (And like the Sherlock example above, it's because she had thought he was gone forever)
* ''[[The Incredible Mr. Limpet]]''. When George Stickel hears the supposedly drowned Henry Limpet's voice coming from the sea, he faints dead away - probably because he thinks he's hearing Henry's ghost.
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* Subverted in ''[[Narnia|The Silver Chair]]'': Jill collapses to the ground when Eustace falls off a cliff and hopes she'll faint, but the author comments it's not that easy.
* Doctor Watson faints when [[Sherlock Holmes]] reappears in his office after a long absence. (He has good reason to faint, though, since he thought Holmes had died in the battle with his nemesis, Prof. Moriarty, ''three years earlier.'')
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=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' has featured this version in a couple of episodes: Rimmer does it in "Psirens" after viewing a graphic demonstration of how and what the eponymous monsters eat, while in "Nanarchy" The Cat freezes up and keels over after seeing Kokanski apparently chop off her own arm. (Amusingly, in the latter case, he's just left lying on the floor, incredulous index finger still extended.)
* Olive does this in the fifth episode of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' when it seems a dead horse jockey's ghost is out to kill all the other jockey's from that race, which includes her. Justified-ish in that Pushing Daisies never pretended to be realistic medically or otherwise - {{spoiler|later the "dead," jockey shows up really tall, because he was paralyzed so the doctors cut off his dead horse's legs and put them on him.}}
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=== [[Theatre]] ===
* Thoroughly justified in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' - In the course of the first act, Elsie Maynard is A. Forced to marry a condemned criminal to buy medicine to save her mother. In one of the other plots, Fairfax was framed in order that his cousin can inherit his fortune, but, by the terms of the will, he can shift the inheritance to another branch of the family if he's married, so he arranges with his guards to sort out a marriage with anyone whatsoever, for cash. B. She witnesses the highly-charged leadup to his execution by beheading, and, C. She then finds out he's escaped, meaning she, as a poor woman in Tudor times, is now permanently a criminal's wife. And being a moral woman, love is now forbidden her, because loving anyone else would be adultery. It is at this point she faints.
** At the end of Act II, the jester Jack Point, who is in love with Elsie Maynard, faints because Fairfax is pardoned and is married to Elsie.
*In ''Zone'', Ciboulette faints during her interrogation when told that an American border patrol officer was killed, as she is afraid it was Tarzan who killed him.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* In the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series, Miles Edgeworth loses consciousness due to his extreme seismophobia. He developed a fear of earthquakes after a traumatic experience in his past that resulted in the murder of his father.
* [[Intrepid Reporter|Tae Asakura]] of [[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]] appears to either have a problem with this or the Anemic Faint, not sure which. Troper thinks it may be this. Or, who knows, she may be wearing a badly-designed corset or something. It's never even discussed in-game, she just has a fainting problem that nobody seems to think about. Whatever it is (if not this, please move to proper section), it certainly must be aggravating for her, since she's trying to represent a feminist (the perfectly-sane kind, thanks, not the Hollywood kind) push (setting: 1931 Japan).
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Happens quite frequently in ''[[
* In a side story in ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', [http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00587.html Arlen the biomancer] suffers this when he discovers one field of his [[wikipedia:Bauxite|bauxite]]-purging plants is literally ''growing [[wikipedia:Sapphire|rubies and sapphires]]''.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* The highly girly [[The Nostalgia Critic|Nostalgia Critic]] does this in his review of ''[[Judge Dredd]]''. He even does the hand to the forehead thing.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Rarity faints twice during the ''[[My Little Pony:
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