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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'', "Kraven's Last Hunt" - Kraven drugs Spider-Man, buries him alive, then puts on the spider costume and starts trying to ''be'' Spidey as part of his attempts to prove his total superiority. Meanwhile, Peter regains consciousness and, driven by his [[The Power of Love|feelings for Mary-Jane]], busts his way out.
* [[Batman
** Batman himself too, at the climax of the ''RIP'' storyline (pictured above).
{{quote| "Straitjacket's kindergarden. Locks, too. Benchpressing a pine coffin lid through 600 pounds of loose soil that's filling your mouth, crushing your lungs flat and shredding your dehydrated muscles? That's harder...But not impossible."}}
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* The heroine Christine does this {{spoiler|at what only appears to be the climax}} in ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]''.
* ''[[Count Yorga|The Return of Count Yorga]]'' start off Yorga commanding his buried vampire harem to rise from their graves, which they proceed to do from the local graveyard that an unfortunate child was playing in.
* ''[[
* Done in ''[[
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== Literature ==
* Windle Poons does this in ''[[Discworld
* Mentioned in ''[[Discworld|Night Watch]]'': Towards the end of the book, Vimes orders {{spoiler|Reg Shoe}} buried - "but not too deep, he'll be wanting to come out in a few hours". The zombie later buries himself and rises from the grave every anniversary of his death, out of solidarity for his non-zombie comrades.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Half]],'' this is the villain's origin. Protagonist Thad Beaumont decides to stop writing under his pseudonym of George Stark, and stages a mock funeral for him that includes a headstone. Stark later manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
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* In ''[[Supernatural]]'', {{spoiler|Dean in season 4}}.
* Addressed in the [[Discovery Channel]] program ''One Way Out''. Escape artist Jonathan Goodwin got the trapdoor in his (oversized) coffin open, but ran out of somewhere to put the dirt long before he could get a large enough hole dug to get out.
* Averted on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. You would expect the immortal Adam Munroe to eventually be able to work his way free of the coffin Hiro put him in but he doesn't. Well, he hasn't ''yet''. Since he lacks any sort of [[Super Strength]] with his immortality, it could take a very, very long time. [[Portal (
** On the other hand, played straight with {{spoiler|Sylar/Nathan}} in season 4, but he had powers to help him out there.
* Happens in the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Boo" where a man who had faked his death with tetradetoxin and was buried alive smashes his way out of a jute coffin and claws his way to the surface where he is mistaken for a zombie.
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== Music ==
* Used in Lupe Fiasco's song "The Cool". The titular character wakes up some six months after he was killed. The first two verses are of about him waking up and digging out, while in the third he's mugged with the same gun he was killed with the first time.
* The cover for [[
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Possibly the [[Trope Namer]], the old Sega arcade stand and cartridge ''[[Altered Beast]]'' has the player character being reanimated while Zeus appears in the sky with a crystal ball saying, "I command you to rise from your grave and rescue my daughter." The "Rise from your grave" portion is said in audio, and the sound compression in the Genesis/Mega Drive version leads to a [[Narm|Narmy]] [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJx-qIqWRuo "Wise fwom youw gwave!"]
* Subverted for some enemies in ''[[
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]]'', Necron Flayed Ones (who ironically, prefer to flay ''enemies'') appear like this when summoned onto the battlefield.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' started with you rescued from a shallow grave after being left for dead. When you finally catch up with the man who buried you, one of the possible things you can tell him is that you dug yourself out of the ground to come after him.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|Parodied at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Guybrush wakes up as a [[Ghost Pirate]] in his own grave at the Crossroads' Gateway and believes he is "[[Buried Alive]]... again!"}}
== Webcomics ==
* Happens in ''[[
* {{spoiler|Frans Rayner}} in ''[[
* In ''[[Horndog]]'', Freddy is shot by a sniper, briefly dies, but returns to life. He is [[Killed Off for Real]], returns as a zombie, and is killed by his roommate, Bob. If that wasn't enough, he is reincarnated as a teenage boy, but is killed by a chupacabra.
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