Rise from Your Grave: Difference between revisions

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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 ~~(Comic Book)~~|Jason Todd]] did this after his resurrection.

* [[Batman|Jason Todd]] did this after his resurrection.

** 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.

* ''[[~~Dead Snow (Film)|~~Dead Snow]]'': Herzog [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWS__Rb4B8 howls a command] (to arise, not to Archvile...) and a whole horde of zombie nazis claw out of the ''snow''.

* ''[[Dead Snow]]'': Herzog [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWS__Rb4B8 howls a command] (to arise, not to Archvile...) and a whole horde of zombie nazis claw out of the ''snow''.

* Done in ''[[~~The Brides of Dracula (Film)|~~The Brides of Dracula]]'' twice: First time is when Helsing goes to stake a recently bitten village girl. Only to find he's been beaten there by the Baron's human servant, Greta, who helps the now undead girl climb out of her grave and coffin. The second time, Gina, another victim of the Baron, is moved to the horse stable under Helsing's request. He takes too long getting there once again while Marianne, the lead female protagonist, goes over to pay her last respects. She's left alone as the locks suddenly drop from the casket, unbolted, and the now vampiric Gina pushes open the coffin's lid and sits up, smiling her fangs at Marianne.

* Done in ''[[The Brides of Dracula]]'' twice: First time is when Helsing goes to stake a recently bitten village girl. Only to find he's been beaten there by the Baron's human servant, Greta, who helps the now undead girl climb out of her grave and coffin. The second time, Gina, another victim of the Baron, is moved to the horse stable under Helsing's request. He takes too long getting there once again while Marianne, the lead female protagonist, goes over to pay her last respects. She's left alone as the locks suddenly drop from the casket, unbolted, and the now vampiric Gina pushes open the coffin's lid and sits up, smiling her fangs at Marianne.

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== Literature ==

* Windle Poons does this in ''[[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. He's a zombie, more or less, but an intelligent one who thinks he ought to be dead, so he spends a fair amount of time lying in his coffin trying to actually be a corpse before he gets bored and gives up on the idea.

* Windle Poons does this in ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. He's a zombie, more or less, but an intelligent one who thinks he ought to be dead, so he spends a fair amount of time lying in his coffin trying to actually be a corpse before he gets bored and gives up on the idea.

* 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)|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 (~~Video Game~~)|If he becomes dehydrated, he can feel free to pass 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 (series)|If he becomes dehydrated, he can feel free to pass out.]]

** 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 [[~~Iron Maiden (Music)|~~Iron Maiden]]'s ''[http://zuplemento.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/live-after-death-p.jpg Live After Death]'' has [[Mascot]] Eddie doing this after [[Lightning Can Do Anything|being revived with lightning]].

* The cover for [[Iron Maiden]]'s ''[http://zuplemento.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/live-after-death-p.jpg Live After Death]'' has [[Mascot]] Eddie doing this after [[Lightning Can Do Anything|being revived with lightning]].

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== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[~~Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|~~Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Sabbat use this as a recruiting technique when they need more foot soldiers. They abduct a bunch of random humans, turn them into vampires, whack them unconscious with a shovel (hence the term "shovelhead" for Sabbat vampires made this way) and bury them. If any of them are tough enough to make it out, the trauma and blood-starvation has usually made them crazy enough to join the Sabbat.

* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Sabbat use this as a recruiting technique when they need more foot soldiers. They abduct a bunch of random humans, turn them into vampires, whack them unconscious with a shovel (hence the term "shovelhead" for Sabbat vampires made this way) and bury them. If any of them are tough enough to make it out, the trauma and blood-starvation has usually made them crazy enough to join the Sabbat.

== 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 ''[[~~Medievil~~ (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Medievil]]'', at least in the graveyard area. If they aren't already roaming about when you get to them, their whole coffin rises out of the ground and they exit out easily. As far as this troper remembers, no enemy claws themselves out in the normal way. [[A Wizard Did It]] literally.

* Subverted for some enemies in ''[[MediEvil (1998 video game)|Medievil]]'', at least in the graveyard area. If they aren't already roaming about when you get to them, their whole coffin rises out of the ground and they exit out easily. As far as this troper remembers, no enemy claws themselves out in the normal way. [[A Wizard Did It]] literally.

* 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.

* ''[[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 ''[[~~Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|~~Schlock Mercenary]]''. Kevyn was buried in a shallow grave after having his throat ripped out on a primitive world. Fortunately, [[Nanotechnology|his blood-nannies]] managed to heal and revive him.

* Happens in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Kevyn was buried in a shallow grave after having his throat ripped out on a primitive world. Fortunately, [[Nanotechnology|his blood-nannies]] managed to heal and revive him.

* {{spoiler|Frans Rayner}} in ''[[~~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|~~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.

* {{spoiler|Frans Rayner}} in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.

* 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.