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{{trope}}
Susan has recently come [[Back
It's not that Susan [[Came Back Wrong]] (her [[Soul]] was in her carry-on luggage and she bought traveler's [[Body Horror]] insurance), but that the after effects of being resurrected are making her feel less than her pre-mortem self. Susan may experience physical ailments like tremors, sweating, nausea, and other symptoms of real life jet lag. Of course, being that her resurrection was likely ''at least'' skirting the wrong side of the [[Scale of Scientific Sins]], she'll probably also experience [[Hallucinations]], vivid flashbacks, and [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|phobias related]] to however she died.
Where this can get ''really'' freaky is if Susan was resurrected with [[Easy Amnesia]] of her past life, as is often the case with clones. Even if she's resurrected from infancy and lived an entirely new life, she may experience Resurrection Sickness when the [[Genetic Memory]] of her past life is awakened. In both cases, a [[Split Personality]] may develop as the past life tries to assert control.
If Susan is in a videogame, this will be represented as [[Continuing Is Painful|a drop in her stats and various penalties]] that go away over time.
See also [[Damaged Soul]], where bouts of depression post-resurrection affect the resurrected.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* {{spoiler|Zest Grangaitz}} in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'' was brought back via cloning but suffers an [[Incurable Cough of Death]] as a result.
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Batman]]'' comics and cartoons, Ra's Al Ghul usually has bouts of madness directly after using the Lazarus Pit.
== Fan Works ==
* Akane briefly suffers from this after an attempt to wake Ranma with a bucket of cold water gets her run through by a jumpy Sailor Uranus in the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' [[Crossover Fic]] ''[[Heir to the Empire]]''. Fortunately, Sailor Saturn resurrects her, but Sailor Pluto notices and even muses about "rez sickness" being a bitch.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' wasn't all there for a bit after resurrection, and had no will to live for most of the season.
* In season 2 of ''[[Angel]]'', Darla is resurrected by Wolfram & Hart, but as a human, not as a vampire. This has the consequence that {{spoiler|she comes back with the same terminal case of syphilis that she was going to die from before The Master sired her}}.
* Several of the Doctor's Regenerations in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' left him loopy, sick, or otherwise out of sorts when bringing himself back to life. For example:
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S4
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S7
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S12
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S19
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S21
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S24
*** Although for Seven that was more because he'd been drugged by the Rani. When he first wakes up, the Seventh Doctor seems perfectly lucid.
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
** [[Doctor Who
** When the Eleventh Doctor's ganger is born, he attacks his real self and then cycles through several of his past regenerations.
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Ariel", Simon and River are given a drug which simulates death. Waking up from this state causes nausea and vomiting.
* The Cylons on [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the new ''
== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** In 1st and 2nd Edition, being brought back to life with a Raise Dead spell left the recipient weak and helpless and needing 1 day of bed rest for each day they were dead.
** In 3.5, the character being brought back would lose a level (or some stats if they were level 1), and the lowest-tier resurrection spell would leave them with only 1 hit point. The third-tier version, True Resurrection averts this trope, bringing them back without the level loss, but quintuples the financial cost in comparison to it's first-tier variant.
** Fourth edition has a temporary resurrection penalty that goes away after 3 milestones (a milestone being two encounters on the same day).
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', although combat only has [[Non-Lethal KO]]-type deaths, each time your character is "killed", they come back with an injury (stacking penalty on the stats).
* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[World of Warcraft]]'s'' Resurrection Sickness. Killed characters have two choices: run across the landscape as a ghost to the place you died and revive without penalty, or choose to have the Spirit Healer resurrect you at the Graveyard. Those that choose the latter option get 10 minutes of Resurrection Sickness (less for low level characters, and as of later changes none until after they have several levels), a debuff that causes 75% reduction in stats, damage, and armor. It also damages all your equipment, requiring you to pay for repairs (and, unlike death itself, applies even to equipment you weren't wearing when you died). But some time and some gold will make your character right as rain again.
* MMORPG's tend to have this in general, to ensure that players may not infinitely resurrect in a too-difficult quest and still expect to function at 100%. Just for two, ''[[Guild Wars]]'' has a death penalty that reduces maximum HP and energy by 15% per death, and ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' afflicts the recently-resurrected with a negative
* In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', the lead character, the Nameless One, is immortal (although this doesn't mean he can't die, he just doesn't stay that way). The reason why he is called the Nameless One is because when he dies, he loses all his memories (although in-game he dies several times without this happening, which is a plot point). He has lived an almost countless number of lives with varying degrees of
** It's also implied that every time he would die, ''someone else'' dies instead, meaning that the Nameless One passes a lethal
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'' Shepard clearly [[Came Back Strong]] after dying at the hands of the Collectors and brought back to life via Cerebrus' miraculous technology, but she was in a coma for two years after the surgery before she could function. Nobody ever said [[Applied Phlebotinum]] was completely without flaws.
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'', being revived from the Psychocrypt leaves the victim with ill effects. Zachary reports that his head hurts and he feels "uncoordinated" after his revival. The other three have to practically carry him into the evacuation vessel.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Death Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Index Syndrome]]
[[Category:Tropes of the Soul]]
[[Category:Resurrection Sickness]]
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