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A character, despite long odds [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|does something awesomely cool]]. Either a [[Heroic Second Wind]], or a [[To the Pain]] that gets the bad guy to leave or give up without a fight, or maybe he jumps into the fray and beats [[The Dragon]] down with his bare hands.
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[[Truth in Television]], to an extent: Adrenaline and other stress hormones can enable people to go for a long time, despite injuries, only to collapse once the danger is passed and the stress wears off.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Naruto]]'' collapses after hitting Kabuto in the stomach with a Rasengan. Unfortunately for him, Kabuto is not actually unconscious even though he was smashed into a boulder, which ''shattered.''
* ''[[
** Goku was unable to move after overusing the [[Deadly Upgrade|Kaio Ken]] technique during his first bout with Vegeta. Being [[Determinator|Goku]], he didn't collapse or anything, but a congratulatory pat on the back hurt like ''HFIL''.
** ''Happened to Gohan at the end of the Cell saga and in one of the ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movies.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has Setsuna pass out shortly after enduring (and ignoring) an intense [[Agony Beam|force field]] to save [[One True Pairing|Konoka.]] It's implied that Setsuna would have died were it not for Konoka's [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|swift actions.]]
* Kenshin has this happen to him several times in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', especially after fighting Shishio and being [[You Can Barely Stand|barely able to stand up]] and even collapsing once before. Needless to say, after that Kenshin's out of action for quite some time and apparently never fully recovers.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'''s Spike Spiegel ended a few fights like this, including {{spoiler|his last one against Vicious and [[The Syndicate]]}}.
* Uber-[[Determinator]] Kamina from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' takes a fatal shot from Thymilph, {{spoiler|and was '''actually dead''' for a couple minutes}}, ''then gets up anyway'' to help Simon finish him off. {{spoiler|Then promptly returns to being dead}}.
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** Happens again after Luffy beats Rob Lucci in a battle that required every bit of his strength. He's so badly exhausted that even being a Determinator isn't enough to help him get off the floor, and he has to be rescued by his crew.
** Happens for a third time after the fight with Gekko Moriah in Thriller Bark. Luffy was actually unconscious by the time the battle was over, which makes sense given all the damage he took, not to mention downing 100 shadows when the max is usually 2-3.
* Happens in ''[[Ranma
* Happens occasionally to Kazuma in ''[[
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' (manga and ''Brotherhood'') Roy incinerates {{spoiler|Lust}}, despite having just been stabbed twice through the side. He cauterizes his and his dying subordinates' wounds, comes back into the fray with all his badassery intact, and finally defeats {{spoiler|Lust}}. Then, of course, he falls to the floor, asking only some help for {{spoiler|Jean Havoc}}, his wounded subordinate.
* Both Orihime and Chad's first battles against Hollows in ''[[Bleach]]'' end with them passing out from exhaustion having used their newly awakened powers to defeat them.
** Ichigo also does this a few times. In one instance, after his fight with Byakuya in the Soul Society arc, he shouts out a victorious "I won!" and then collapses.
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Hiruma holds together impressively throughout the entire [[Training
** And at the end of the Bando Spiders game, Sena makes it all the way off the field and halfway to the locker rooms before collapsing into Suzuna's arms.
** Also after Hiruma's arm is broken, he puts on an impressive front throughout the whole game and even onto the celebrations afterwards with his arm on a sling. But Musashi reveals to Sena that Hiruma has been going to an oxygen capsule to recover from his injuries and he also left the party early to rest.
* In ''[[Baccano
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Shinji Ikari gets this almost constantly.
* Rolo from ''[[Code Geass]]'' applies [[Explosive Overclocking]] to his Geass and {{spoiler|earns himself an [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] ending}}.
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* In the finale of the first season of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', {{spoiler|Fakir}} drags himself up to his feet after nearly being killed and dramatically takes away the villain's trump card...then faints backwards into a pool of water and apparently drowning. {{spoiler|He survives, but barely.}}
* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' Rosette collapses {{spoiler|and dies}} after she manages to shoot Chrono's horns off Joshua's head. {{spoiler|Similar to Fakir, she's revived.}}
* In ''[[Until Death Do Us Part]]'', Mamoru waits until {{spoiler|the bad guy's being dragged away screaming}} to collapse. This is ''after'' he's lost his sight, been hounded across the wilderness, and won an apparently-hopeless fight; the man is ''badass''. Also noted by another character.
* Whenever a pilot of a ''[[Bokurano]]'' Robot wins, they collapse {{spoiler|and die due to the fact that the robots drain life force.}}
* This happened to ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' a few times after she'd unleashed new powers or defeated someone particularly nasty.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Judai goes through this early on in the Seven Stars arc after his duel with Darkness ({{spoiler|Asuka's missing brother Fubuki}}), and stayed that way for a while, until {{spoiler|Carmilla tricks Ryo into losing a duel by risking Sho's life}}.
* Seems to happen several times in ''[[
* In episode 13 of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' Kotetsu makes a show of using his Hundred Power to accelerate his natural healing before leaving to help Barnaby fight Jake Martinez. As soon as he leaves the room he collapses against the door since only his superficial surface injuries were
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[
* An issue of ''[[Young Justice (
* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''. For a while, Changeling/Beast Boy's particular method of shapeshifting could physically exhaust him very quickly, particularly when growing to massive proportions or rapid-fire shapeshifting.
* Happens to [[Ultimate Spider
* [[Jerk
* In ''[[Elf Quest]]: The Rebels'' one of the titular rebels has a very surprising chat with the (then on leave) officer in charge of hunting them down, and convinces him he's not one of the wanted, but rather his cousin. And has a minor breakdown as soon as the officer's left.
* [[Doctor Strange]] more often than not after a major magical feat, with effects ranging from 'minor dizzy spell' to 'full blackout.' Ruefully [[Lampshade
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[
* This has happened twice (so far, as of 2019) to Douglas Sangnoir of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'':
** In ''Drunkard's Walk II'', he passes out after ending a combat scene by negotiating with a trio of goddesses for the resurrection of two children accidentally killed in the battle.
** In ''Drunkard's Walk V'' he collapses after acting as a human power conduit for the divine energies needed to redeem a dying demon.
==
* The ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
▲* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]'', this happens to Harry in chapter 6, when he and Professor McGonagall have a showdown.
* In the Gary Cooper movie ''[[
▲* In ''[[Ace Combat the Equestrian War (Fanfic)|Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Fluttershy defeats Night Raven. Despite being very exhausted and feeling immense pain, Fluttershy doesn't collapse, but remains semi-conscious. She passes out after Firefly congratulates her.
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* ''[[The Princess Bride (
▲* The ''[[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Lord of the Rings]]''--or the films, at least--have Sam and Frodo, er, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|chilling on a big rock]] after they destroy the One Ring.
▲* In the Gary Cooper movie ''[[Meet John Doe (Film)|Meet John Doe]]'', romantic interest Ann convinces the title character not to commit suicide. Once he is safe, she promptly faints in his arms.
▲* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Film)|How to Train Your Dragon]]''. In the very beginning of the movie when Hiccup frees Toothless instead of killing him (knowing there's a very high risk of him being killed himself), the very angry dragon pins him to a rock, roars only inches away from his face, and bounds away. Hiccup starts to turn around to head back home and, instead, immediately crumples to the ground and faints out of fear and exhaustion.
▲* ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'': "Why does Westley need helping?" "Because [[You Can Barely Stand|he has no strength]]." "I knew you were bluffing! I knew he was bluffing!"
* ''Napoleon''. The eponymous Napoleon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=-mH6yH_Nc0s#t=452s collapses] after rescuing a wild dog pup from a desert flash flood.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'', all the time.
** The final face-off at the end of book one culminates with the agony in his head reaching such high levels that he loses his sight and all rational function before falling into a three-day coma.
** In book three, after a chase, a fight, a series of mind-blowing revelations, another fight, and almost getting his soul sucked out through his mouth, he faints and gets shipped off to the hospital wing before the second mini-climax.
** In book four, he is forced to watch a friend die, {{spoiler|witness Voldemort's return,}} gets tortured, and duel both physically and psychologically. He is semi-conscious when he gets back, gets even more danger and revelatory crap dumped on him, and is mercifully put out with sleeping potion afterwards.
** In book five it's notably averted in contrast to book four. He goes on an extended rescue mission, gets into a huge melee chase, which later becomes an all-out brawl, with the Death Eaters, watches a loved one die, and gets possessed. However, this has traumatized him so badly he breaks down and goes into [[Rage Against the Mentor]] mode.
** In the final battle, he is temporarily refreshed {{spoiler|by ''dying''}}, plucking him up enough to save the day, after which he stumbles off to bed on his own power for a sandwich and some sleep.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Harry Dresden, most of the time. Especially at the end of ''Dead Beat'', when Murphy gets back from vacation to find him bedridden and on an IV, and as such he does not get chewed out for trashing her house. But then, he wouldn't have been able to move ''at all'' {{spoiler|from Cassius's torture session on if Lash hadn't ''taught him'' how to block the pain.}}
* Vimes in ''[[Discworld]]'' novels is exceptionally fond of this.
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
** [[Never Mess
* I think there's an example in ''[[Everworld]]'' #7...can't recall much except that it's during a Hetwan-Olympus battle, and April babbles something incoherent before falling over.
* Kahlan, from [[Terry Goodkind]]'s ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, always collapses from exhaustion after using her Confessor power.
* In the ''[[Worlds of Power]]'' book based on ''[[Castlevania]] II: Simon's Quest'', the [[Ascended Fanboy|kid from our world]] accompanying Simon Belmont [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|taunts]] and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|beats up]] [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], believing that the worst thing that could happen would be that he would be sent back home. After the battle, when Simon tells him that, unlike all the other monsters they've encountered, Death really was capable of killing him, he faints.
* ''[[The Power of Five]]'': Happens to Matt at the end of book two. Even put him in a [[Convenient Coma]], to show off [[The Medic|Pedro]]'s power.
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* [[Sherlock Holmes]], of all people, at the end of the pastiche ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution''. Thoroughly justified, for reasons that are [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|too badass]] to repeat here in their entirety.
* In ''The Glass Inferno'' (one of the two books that became the movie ''[[The Towering Inferno]]''), when everyone is rescued and they're no longer in danger, the junkie resumes having withdrawal symptoms which were suppressed while he and everyone else were trying to avoid burning to death.
* In the novelization of the ''[[Star Trek:
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "Gods of the North", [[Conan the Barbarian]] suffers a touch of this after the fight.
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* In [[The Lord of the Rings]]:
** Meridoc and Eowyn collapse, after defeating the Witch King.
** Sam collapses, after stabbing and driving off Shelob.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[
* In the ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* In the ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' episode "Out of Gas," Mal gets shot in the stomach, and then proceeds to run off his attackers, stumble to the infirmary, shoot himself in the heart with a tube of liquid adrenaline, stumble up into the engine room, repair the ship's core, and then stumble all the way to the bridge to activate the recall beacon to bring the rest of the crew back....and collapses, after showing just how hardcore he ''really'' is.
** And the fact that he collapses JUST short of reaching the recall button does nothing to diminish his badassery in that episode. However, it may not fit this trope, as he passes out before completing the task, not after.
* A meta-example of this occurs in ''[[
* The presenters on ''[[Top Gear]]'' occasionally do mild versions of this at the conclusion of their long-distance races. Most recently, Clarkson fell over after the Season 13 London-Edinburgh race after spending eight hours stoking a steam engine and then running a short distance to the finish line.
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* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Sherlock]]'' season one finale, {{spoiler|John very nearly collapses on the spot after being released from his bomb jacket by a frantic Sherlock, in a rare moment of vulnerability on both sides.}}
* Played for laughs in an episode of ''[[3rd Rock
* In an early episode of ''[[
** In the same episode, Crichton has to rescue Rygel from a gang of kidnappers while wearing a [[Arm Cannon|gauntlet weapon]] that doses him with a [[Fantastic Drug|powerful stimulant]]: under the influence of this drug, he runs several miles in the space of a few minutes, fights off two enemy soldiers, and duels their leader to a standstill before the already-overused gauntlet finally runs out of juice. He manages to convince them that Rygel isn't worth keeping, and then carries Rygel back all the way through the jungle to the campsite... then, he finally collapses. For good measure, Crichton is not seen in the epilogue of the episode, being presumably fast asleep.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Warhammer
▲== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
** A number of stories about Space Marine Standard bearers like Ancient Helveticus of the Ultramarines, feature them standing in the midst of an enemy assault, holding their banner high despite grievous wounds, and only ''after'' the battle has been won allowing themselves the luxury of dying.
▲* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', during the Second War for Armageddon, Commissar Yarrick loses an arm in combat with the Ork Warlord Ugulhard, but still manages to cut off the xenos's head. He does not 'allow himself the luxury of passing out' until the Orks are finally driven from Hades Hive. Oh, and he now uses the Ork's [[Power Fist|Power Klaw]] as a prosthetic arm. And this was just the first assault on the hive.
* ''[[Dungeons
▲** A number of stories about Space Marine Standard bearers like Ancient Helveticus of the Ultramarines, feature them standing in the midst of an enemy assault, holding their banner high despite grievous wounds, and only ''after'' the battle has been won allowing themselves the luxury of dying.
▲* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has a spell that gives temporary extra HP and can cause the lethal version of this when it wears off.
** The barbarian's rage ability gives temporary extra HP, as well, leading to the same possibility.
*** From a game mechanics standpoint, the extra HP the Barbarian gets during a rage are distinct from actual "temporary HP". Temporary HP are lost first, so if the character has any left when they go away, he's no worse off than before he got them. The extra HP from a Barbarian's rage come off the bottom, so as early as level 6 a Barbarian could actually drop dead from calming down.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Suikoden IV]]'', every time the main character used the [[Cutscene Power to
* Galuf's [[Deader Than Dead]] scene in ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'': He keeps on fighting well after his HP hit 0, untill finally collapsing after the bad-guy's been beaten.
* Issac in ''[[
* Happens to Dr. Derek Stiles in ''[[Trauma Center]]: Under the Knife'' and its Wii remake ''Second Opinion'' after he uses his Healing Touch power for the second time.
** He successfully (and accidentally) uses it the first on the car-crash victim. As said victim fibrillates, Derek's concentration and "''[[How Dare You Die
* Happens to Zero near the beginning of [[Mega Man Zero|Mega Man Zero 2]], since during the year‐long [[Time Skip]] after the previous game, he’s been fighting the [[The Empire|Neo Arcadian army]] all alone in the desert with no repairs.
* This can happen to your soldiers in ''[[Dawn of War]]'' after using the "Will of the Emperor" ability. It makes surrounding soldiers immune to death, but not damage, which means that they will die easily once the skill wears off.
* Takeshi in ''[[Ever 17]]'' actually gets two of these. The first and more minor is {{spoiler|instantly collapsing after rescuing Tsugumi despite coughing up lots of blood, flu like symptoms, decompression sickness, swimming through frigid water and some other minor things after not eating for a good day or so.}} The second comes just a little later when {{spoiler|he basically comes back from the dead and does the same thing again only this time after being under pressurized water and not breathing for a good half an hour or so at least, rescuing Coco and a couple other impossible things before 'getting tired' and entering a cryogenic chamber which keeps him alive while his body fights off TB.}}
* ''[[Tsukihime]]''. Immediately after defeat Nero Chaos, Shiki collapses and returns to bleeding to death. By his own earlier admission, his entire body is basically one giant wound by this point, so it's hardly surprising. He only lives because Arcueid knows how to heal him with Chaos' remnants. Or Ciel saves him in her route.
* Link almost collapsed after killing Ganondorf in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* In ''[[Wild
* In the ending of ''[[Persona 3]]'', an extreme version occurs to {{spoiler|the protagonist, who lives on for a month after his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], and fades away just as his friends shake off their [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] and rush to meet him.}}
* Non-violent example: Chris, your character in ''Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches'', passes out each time one of the elemental orbs is successfully completed. Overexcited by the special effects, perhaps?
* Raiden from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' collapses in exhaustion at the end of his battle against the ''30'' Metal Gear Rays. Understandable, but the bad news is that there are [[Oh Crap|still 3 Rays left.]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Inspired by [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080310 this] ''[[Girl Genius]]'' comic.
* There's one scene in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' where Raven has to stare down {{spoiler|Big Boss}}, who has possessed Liquid's body. {{spoiler|Big Boss}} has already been shot with a tranq, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect. Despite this, and despite Raven knowing that he would get his ass handed to him in a fight, Raven calmly stands there, eye to eye in a staredown, and even [[Trash Talk
* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'': Dechs does this after infiltrating TeraCorp and nearly dying several times, and also after having to fight during the daytime.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'': Quentyn delivers a truly epic [[To the Pain]] speech to the leader of a gang of street punks in the jail ... and delivers a [[Vomit Discretion Shot]] outside fifteen seconds later. He ''is'' barely over the age of majority, after all, with [[Heroic Wannabe|all the battle experience that implies]].
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Riff's [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980406 Mark-1] robot is able to [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980412 kill the Easter Bunny], [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980414 rob a bank], and [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980415 take down] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980417 the U.S. military]. However, once they get it back home, it promptly [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980419 breaks into a hundred tiny pieces].
** [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/041209 This] gut-wrenching final panel of the "That Which Redeems" arc, as Torg finally arrives home from weeks or months of fighting demons, [[Took a Level
* Straha on [http://www.wtfcomics.com/archive.html?348_203 this page] of ''[[WTF Comics]]''.
* In [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/be-okay/ this] strip of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Tina breaks down crying after a terrifying encounter with a sphinx.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', Roan [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712222631/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter002/ib013.html escapes to collapse] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131007235241/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter003/ib017.html sleep like the dead].
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2010/06/07/issue-3-webpage-40/ Cole collapses after her escape].
* In ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In what is also a [[Power Strain Blackout]], Tori, the title character of the [[Reincarnation Fantasy|Isekai]] web novel ''[[Tori Transmigrated]]'', passes out after overtaxing her ability to use crystal magic to contain and effectively defeat an ''entire army'', after which she is [[Asleep for Days]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Has been happening to ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' ever since the first episode.
** Subverted in [[The Movie]]: Danny's Ghostly Wail knocks Dan into a building, and as it crumbles on him, Danny turns back to his human form, falling on his knees...only for Dan to emerge from the rubble, leading to Danny whipping out the Fenton Thermos for the win.
** And again with Vlad who didn't even ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|flinch let alone collapse]]'' from the Ghostly Wail. Danny's friends and [[Opposite
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Happens to Aang ''every single time'' he comes out of the [[Super Mode|Avatar State]]. But he is only twelve, and under a great deal of pressure.
** Not quite. The first time he swoons, but there's notably less effect with each successive use. By the first season finale he can stay on his feet, and as of the grand finale he seems to have overcome the problem entirely.
* Spider-man does this pretty often. In one episode of the ''[[Spider
* An episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' had Superman raiding Cadmus headquarters to rescue a missing comrade, only to find his old friend Professor Hamilton working there. He confronts the good doc about his betrayal, only to get a verbal bitchslapping over his ''own'' betrayal of Earth at the hand of Darkseid and subsequent rage at him to save Supergirl's life last year. Big Blue looks like he's about to crush Hamilton's head between his fingers, but backs down, and after he leaves, Hamilton collapses in relief, having just stood up to a living god of a man ''and survived''.
* In an episode of ''[[
* Mild version in the ''[[Teen Titans (
** A straighter version in "Fear Itself"
* Happens to Ben quite often in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** The worst case was when he would pass out just before ''every commercial break''...in the middle of the final battle with the Highbreed.
* In the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
== [[Real Life]] ==
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