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''On a watch that had stopped six months after the shots that had got him in the box."''|'''Lupe Fiasco''', "The Cool"}}
Bob's come [[Back
Basically, any scene where someone comes back to life inside a coffin and has to dig their way out of the ground. These days, it's pretty much the standard practice for zombies and vampires (or at least the first ones to start spreading the [[The Virus|undead plague]]), but it's especially notable when it happens to normal folks, who seem pretty horrified at the act and certainly weren't expecting to have to do it themselves.
Depending on the character, the reason for doing this varies. Bob may have been thought to have been dead, and was [[Buried Alive]], or perhaps he was [[Back
Note that you shouldn't expect this to be possible in real life: Six feet of dirt are ''heavy''. Also, go to any modern morturary. Anything breaking out of those metal streamlined megaboxes we call coffins these days had better have [[Super Strength]]. Not to mention that even if you ''could'' escape from a box under six feet of dirt somehow, it still wouldn't result in the usual sight of a hand popping out of the ground: instead, the displacement of all that dirt would result in a huge mound popping up ahead of you.
See Also: [[Buried Alive]], [[Back
Compare: [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]
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== Film ==
* The Bride from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' did this in Part 2. She wasn't actually DEAD, but she still [[Chekhov's Skill|one-inch punched]] through the coffin lid and clawed her way out of her own grave. And then walked into a diner across from the graveyard, covered in dirt, with bloody hands, and asked for a glass of water. The clerk's face was priceless...
* ''[[Creepshow]]''. The title zombie in the first segment, "Father's Day".
* Happens to Eric Draven in ''[[The Crow]]'' when the title bird resurrects him.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* 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}}.
** Also, almost every vampire.
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== 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]]y [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJx-qIqWRuo "Wise fwom youw gwave!"]
* 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
* ''[[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!"}}
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* 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.
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