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* The Orcs, sorry, ''Shanka'' inhabiting the ruined city in Joe Abercrombie's [[The First Law|''Before They Are Hanged'']] live on dead bodies from mass graves.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Black Colossus" a thief among thieves is trying for the great treasure.
{{quote| ''Many a thief sought to gain the treasure which fables said lay heaped about the moldering bones inside the dome. And many a thief died at the door of the tomb, and many another was harried by monstrous dreams to die at last with the froth of madness on his lips.''}}
** In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', necessary to revive the [[Big Bad]].
* Committed a couple times by the protagonists of ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'', since vampires sleep in their coffins. Some of them really [[Due to the Dead|take issue with it]] at first.
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* Larry, Darryl and Darryl of ''Newhart'' were first introduced when they were hired to dig up a long-dead body.
* Obligatory ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' reference - when Giles hears about graves opened from the outside his academic curiosity is stirred:
{{quote| Giles: Grave robbing - that's new...interesting!<br />
Buffy: I ''know'' you meant to say "gross and disturbing!"<br />
Giles: Yes, yes, of course. Terrible thing; must...must put a stop to it. ...umm, dammit! }}
* On ''[[Lost]]'', Charles Widmore took this trope to extremes when he {{spoiler|had 324 graves in Thailand dug up just so he could create a fake wreckage of Oceanic 815.}}
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