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[[File:fainting1 3759.jpg|frame|Because breathing should never get in the way of [[Of Corsets Sexy|looking ladylike]].]]
{{quote|''"Beware of fainting-fits... though at the time they may be refreshing and agreeable, yet believe me: they will, in the end, if too often repeated and at improper seasons, prove destructive to your constitution."''
|'''Jane Austen, ''[http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/lovfrnd1.html Love and Friendship]'''''}}
If people in [[Real Life]] actually do faint when presented with a shocking development, it is an extremely rare occurrence. So rare that you may not have actually ever seen anywhere [[Reality Is Unrealistic|but on TV or in the movies.]]
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* Christine in ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' pulls this one whenever a play would call for the heroine to faint, usually Monster or Emotional Faint situations. Agnes notes with considerable scorn that she even falls in such a way as to avoid hurting herself when she lands.
* In the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novel ''Dragons of Spring Dawning'', when the elven princess Laurana is [[Attempted Rape|threatened with rape]] by the [[The Empire|Dragonarmy]] officer Bakaris, she pretends to faint, and then when he moves in to catch her, punches him hard in the stomach.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
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