Rise from Your Grave: Difference between revisions

 

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* Sango, from ''[[Inuyasha]]'', after being apparently fatally wounded, is [[Buried Alive]] in one episode. Rather than dying from bloodloss and lack of air, she just gets mad and digs her way out for revenge. With a little help from a magical pain-killer, she then proceeds to hike for miles and then engage in heavy combat and nearly defeat Inuyasha.

* In ''[[MAR|MÄR]]'', Chess Knight Phantom comes back to life in this way; all his Knights gather by his grave to witness his hand burst out of the soil as he resurrects. [[Fridge Logic|One wonders why they buried him, if they knew he was going to resurrect.]]

* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' has [[Career Killers|Shimi]] drag himself from the makeshift grave Gene and co dug him in episode 15.

 

== Comic Books ==

{{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."}}

* [[Blackest Night|RISE!]]

 

== 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''.

* 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.

 

== Literature ==

* 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.

 

* ''[[MythBusters]]'' busted the ''[[Kill Bill]]'' version of this trope. (Punching to break open the coffin, and digging up through six feet of freshly turned dirt.)

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', {{spoiler|Buffy claws her way out of her own grave in season 6 -- upon her return to the living world, Spike notices the state of her (broken and dirt-stained) hands and realizes from his own vampiric experience that she dug herself 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.

 

== Music ==

* 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]].

 

* The zombies in [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Thriller''.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* 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 ==

* ''[[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!"}}

 

* 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]]''.

* 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' parodied this, with Mayor Adam West cementing over every grave in the cemetery... "You'll thank me when no one eats your brain. You'll thank me."

* The zombies in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Halloween episode "Dial Z for Zombie" do this.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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[[Category:Resurrection Tropes]]

[[Category:Horror Tropes]]

[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]