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'''SPOILER ALERT: This is one of those rare tropes that, by its very nature, has the potential to spoil an ending simply by revealing it occurs within a certain medium. Please read with caution.'''
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'': {{spoiler|Euphie gets to say goodbye to rescuer Suzaku before she dies. On the other hand, Cornelia somehow survives being shot up ''twice''.}}
* People awake in hospital beds all the times in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''.
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* In ''[[Eden of the East]]'', a brief scene near the end shows {{spoiler|Panties in a hospital room, having evidently survived being run over by 1 and 10}}.
* In the animated ''[[Street Fighter]] 2'' movie, Chun-Li is wounded in her fight against Vega roughly half-way through the movie. After Ryu and Ken defeat Bison in the climax, Guile goes to the hospital where she's staying, and talks to her unmoving body, which is covered in bandages. Suddenly Chun-Li pulls off the bandages and sits up - she's made a full recovery while off-screen, and was pretending to be seriously wounded and unable to leave the bed to prank him.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''; at the climax of the Battle City arc, Joey rushes to the infirmary, hoping Dark Marik's defeat has cured Mai, only to find she still seems unconscious and unresponsive, the glum expression from Serenity (who's been watching her) suggesting the worst. He starts sobbing, saying he'd do anything to get her back... until she tells him that his deck has a few cards she's interested in. Indeed, she had been pretending to be dead [[The Gadfly| to goad him a little]], with Serenity "in" on the joke.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': happens multiple multiple times.
** In ''[[The Hobbit]]'' Bilbo gets hit on the head during the climactic battle. He doesn't wake up in hospital, but he's found by a soldier and taken to where Thorin lies mortally wounded. Their final moments count for this troper as one of fiction's greatest [[Tear Jerker|TearJerkers]].
* In the first [[Forgotten Realms|Icewind Dale]] novel, Drizzt is called to Bruenor's bedside after the final battle. He assures his mortally wounded friend that he will look for Bruenor's homeland in the spring. Bruenor then reveals that he isn't that badly hurt, he was just trying to force Drizzt to set a starting date for their perpetually delayed quest to find Mithral Hall in the presence of witnesses.
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