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** Mayu after she runs away from home and is living on the street.
* Hatchin in ''[[Michiko to Hatchin]]'' does this in the first episode during her [[Shower of Angst]].
* Hatsumi from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' goes into the [[Troubled Fetal Position]] [http://www.mangareader.net/1361-44862-18/hot-gimmick/chapter-12.html here] once she returns home after {{spoiler|almost getting raped}}.
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'''s second witches' tea party, Bern and Lambda make a few different comments ("What? Are you still hugging your knees?") that imply that Battler wound up doing this after [[Silent Scapegoat|everything]] [[Pater Familicide|that]] [[Kill'Em All|happened]] [[A Fete Worse Than Death|in]] [[Trauma Conga Line|the]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|second]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|arc]].
** At the beginning of EP4, Ronove alerts Beatrice that Battler has assumed the [[Troubled Fetal Position]] once again after {{spoiler|her fake [[Heel Face Turn]]}} at the end of EP3 ("he has been crouching and clutching at his knees for some time now. I spoke to him several times, but he did not answer. I also carried him food, but he made no effort to touch it"), and that he probably won't be able to continue the game unless she snaps him out of it. {{spoiler|Of course, Battler's just ''sleeping'' in the fetal position, but why tell Beatrice that when you can trick her into making an idiot of herself trying to cheer him up?}}
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* The ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' anime has Dororo often take this pose while in his [[Corner of Woe]]. Normally [[Played for Laughs]]. The episode that introduces the [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|Soul Diver]] plays it a bit more seriously, as he gets stuck in his Trauma Mode and has to be pulled out of it, with Dororo staying in this position the whole time.
* Tsubasa does this in episode 4 of ''[[Starry Sky]]''.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation|After her hideous ordeal during the Eclipse]], Casca from ''[[Berserk]]'' is seen in a very paranoid, hostile fetal position. She seems to stop doing this after the [[Time Skip]], when she goes into the more carefree [[The Ophelia|Ophelia stage]] of her insanity.
* Yae from ''[[Hanjuku Joshi]]'' does it [http://manga.animea.net/hanjuku-joshi-chapter-8-page-9.html here].
* So, in ''[[One Piece]]'' at the beginning of the Skypiea saga, Usopp nearly drowns on the way up through the Sea Clouds. Then he jumps out thinking he's going to swim, only to fall right through, barely saved by Luffy and Robin. He then spends half of Chapter 237/Episode 153 curled up in a fetal position muttering "sky island so scary".
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* Nakaba in ''[[Reimei no Arcana]]'' does this a lot.
* Haruhi of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' is [[Fear of Thunder|terrified of thunder]] and goes into this position whenever she hears it. And in a more comedic example Tamaki often does this when he goes into the [[Corner of Woe]].
* ''[[Trigun]]'': Vash shoots Knives and then runs away after Knives first tests his angel arm. Knives clutches his wounded thigh and cries, "My leg! Why is there so much pain in my leg? Did you shoot me? DID YOU JUST SHOOT ME?!" while he and Vash are looking at each other in horror. Then Vash lets out an almighty scream and runs away. After that, Knives curls up in a fetal position while crying his eyes out.
* Sometimes occurs in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' like with Oz, Alice, and Gil.
* Daisuke of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' does this in episodes 2 and 14 and 24. And Satoshi does this in episode 4. And Mio Hio does this in episode 20 because she's actually a voodoo doll and doesn't have that much time left to live as a human.
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* ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'': After Coraline figures out that the Other Mother wants {{spoiler|her to sew buttons into her eyes}} Coraline gets scared, runs up to her room, locks the door, and hides under her blankets in this position repeating, "Go to sleep... Go to sleep... Go to sleep..."
* Chihiro does this on the stairs, while saying "Go away, Go away... Disappear..." after the events of the beginning of ''[[Spirited Away]]'' have unfolded.
* [[The Woobie|5]] from ''9'' drops into this [[Heroic BSOD|complete with rocking and frantically muttering]] the first time he, 9, and 7 take cover from [[Implacable Man|the machine]], {{spoiler|right after [[Heterosexual Life Partners|2]] is killed}}.
* Jesse of ''[[Toy Story]]'' 2 does this when she tells Woody about how she was abandoned by her original owner Emily.
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* The standard "panic position" for the Pierson's Puppeteers of [[Larry Niven]]'s ''Known Space'' stories is to tuck their heads (they have two, on really long necks) between their legs, and collapse into what looks like a perfect imitation of a hair-covered footstool..
* The protagonist of [[Stephen King]]'s ''Pet Sematary'' goes into this after {{spoiler|his wife is killed and eaten by their toddler son that he brought back from the dead as a demon-possessed zombie.}}
* In Graham McNeill's [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]] Novel ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' {{spoiler|after escaping from a daemonic womb that has been trying to take his genetic material via [[Naughty Tentacles|tendrils]] through the interface sockets in his body}} Uriel Ventris does this, screaming and crying in rage and horror.
* The [[Night Lords]] series fields another ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' example with {{spoiler|Uzas of First Claw}} who tends to curl up in his room muttering to [[War God|Khorne]] and begging it/him to stop rearranging his mind.
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg, Hi starts hyperventilating after discovering that CheesyWorld has run out of cheese, and Ho suggests that Hi calm down and assume the position.
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** Also "Lisa's First Word'' had Bart getting really terrified of a scary clown bed and in the morning he is shown rocking back and forth in the fetal position saying "[[Madness Mantra|Can't sleep, clown will eat me. Can't sleep, clown will eat me.]]" over and over.
*** He also did it in "Camp Krusty": "Krusty is coming. Krusty is coming. Krusty is coming..."
* On an episode of ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Goliath was fooled by a hologram of Angela taking this position.
* In the ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode "Das Subway", after the subway train breaks down, the conductor eventually confesses over the train's intercom system that he's doing this.
* Wasp of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is doing this after having escaped from the Autobot stockade where he'd been unjustly imprisoned for what is implied to be a century at least. Flashbacks show him to be a snarky [[Jerk Jock]], his whole escape is done with style and flair (including a quick salute to his former drill instructor), and the episode ends with him hiding behind some wreckage, clutching his knees and rocking back and forth, muttering to himself, a broken shell of the 'bot he once was. Autobots are ''harsh.''
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* Rainbow Dash in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Sonic Rainboom" ends up like this when the time comes for her to compete in a flying competition due lack of self-confidence.
** In "Lesson Zero" Twilight Sparkle does this on a bench, but the way she strokes her tail at the same time is unexpectedly cute.
* On the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' episode "Home Front" [[The Archer|Artemis]], the least experienced member of the team, goes into a this when the rest of her [[True Companions]] have been captured and face imminent death.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': In "Band Geeks", Squidward tells the flag-twirlers to speed it up, which then leads to their flags acting like propellers, sending them up hundreds of feet and crash into a blimp, which then explodes, followed by another band member playing Taps (poorly) and Squidward quietly going into the fetal position.
* In the much loved Disney series ''[[Recess]]'', Miss Finster comes with a new type of playground punishement- the box, which is just a square painted on the blacktop. T.J. ends up having to get put in the box shortly after it's announced. At first he laughs at it, but it eventually breaks him. Ten minutes later, Miss Finster finds the poor boy in the fetal position singing "This Old Man".
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