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{{trope}}
Someone's lying in a hospital, badly hurt, outright unconscious, in a [[Convenient Coma]] or otherwise incapable of talking, hooked up to a heart rate monitor. The [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|bad cop]] is in need of information, so they walk up and [[Converse
Not to be confused with the Locked-in Syndrome, which might or might not be able to communicate, and frequently results in a [[Disability Superpower]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A talking variation occurs in the Yakusamashi filler arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'', Aya visits her coma-ridden mother in the hospital with Tooya. Aya introduces Tooya to her mother, and Tooya then promises to always take care of Aya... then Aya's mother squeezes their hands.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Used in a recent episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' when Matt Parkman is talking to Molly Walker just before he confronts his dad. In this case, though, it's probably related to Matt's mental powers.
* Showed up in ''[[CSI]]''
** Subverted in ''[[CSI New York]]'': {{spoiler|Mac seemed to be able to communicate with a woman who was put in a coma through blinks, but it was quickly revealed that they were just random spasms (or something of that nature).}}
* Tweaked in ''[[Psych]]''. Shawn, posing as a doctor, admonishes the interns to speak positively around the coma patient, lest they frighten him into remaining comatose. This is a dodge to get them to [[Layman's Terms|speak layman]] to Shawn about the patient's condition.
* A variation was used in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' at the beginning of season 2. Dean was in a coma after a car accident, but he could hear what was being said to him because he was having an out-of-body experience and "haunting" his hospital room. Also used in an episode where the spirit of a comatose girl whose father read her fairy tales was causing people to reenact those fairy tales.
* On an episode of ''[[
* In the Season One finale of ''[[30 Rock
* In an early third season episode of ''[[Babylon
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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