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{{quote|''And when at last poor Emblus died''
''The osbick bird was at his side.''
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''Was left to sit upon his stone.''
''But after several months, one day''
''[[Subverted Trope|It changed its mind and flew away]].''
|'''Edward Gorey'''}}
If a character, often a hero, is in a coma, unconscious, ill beyond lucidity, has had their [[Soul]] stolen, has just had major surgery or whatever, then the odds are that they will have a friend or family member who refuses to leave their side. Ignoring all distractions and necessities, they will keep watch over them. Other well-meaning characters may urge the watcher to go take care of themselves, but their efforts always fail. As long as their charge is helpless, the watcher isn't going ''anywhere''.
The watcher may keep their vigil until they pass out from exhaustion, usually slumped over their charge's bed. Sometimes they'll be reawakened only when their charge comes to. Other times they're found by a third party who was just coming to see if they could talk the watcher into going home and resting ''this'' time. You might well find this trope in a [[Sick Episode]] or [[Fever Dream Episode]] (though in the latter it can be tricky to tell what's going on...)
Occasionally emotion has nothing to do with it. Maybe the unconscious is the primary witness in a murder case, and the watcher is a detective waiting to spring the second there's a flickering of consciousness, for example.
Sometimes they are trying to save the unconscious person from the terror of [[Dying Alone]].
Sister trope to [[Converse with the Unconscious]], which often occurs in conjucture with the
See also [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Mikiya Kokutoh visits Shiki every damn week for two years that she spends in coma in ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''. This even earns him the nickname "Puppy-kun" among the hospital staff.
* [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] herself did this for Kyon {{spoiler|after he gets stabbed but she thinks he fell down the stairs. It's complicated.}}
* The titular character of ''[[Ranma ½
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In ''[[
* This happens in ''Player Kill'', when Yonggi spends the night at the hospital after {{spoiler|Gihoon gets blinded by Harata for [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|sparing him]]}}.
* Repeatedly done by Rei for Shinji in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' - an action that serves as a gauge of the closeness of their relationship throughout the series. Later on, when Asuka starts doing the same thing (Shinji does a lot of waking up in the hospital) the tension that results makes for some of the show's best scenes.
* Whenever [[Naruto]] is in the hospital, Shikamaru is inexplicably sitting in his room. The first time, it was coincidental; he was there to visit Choji, who had been hospitalized for overeating. The second time, it was more likely intentional, as he presumably was also visiting the other injured members of his five-man team.
* Yomiko in the ''[[Read or Die]]'' OVA does this with Nancy.
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== Comic Books ==
* Happens in a ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] Annual''. Including the falling asleep by his side thing. Understandable in that not only is Data his closest friend, but Geordi's the one trying to ''repair'' him so it's probably better that he sticks around.
== [[
* In
* A lot of ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' fanfic has {{spoiler|Mia}} acting like this to {{spoiler|Diego}}, before eventually giving up.
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', after Kyon had a bullet surgically extracted, Haruhi, Yuki, Mikuru and Tsuruya stay the night in the hospital keeping him company, even if Yuki had already healed him. As a bonus, both Haruhi and Yuki sleep in the bed with him.
* Most fanfics that start after the third season of ''[[Castle]]
== Film ==
* ''[[The Matrix|The Matrix Reloaded]]''. Neo falls unconscious after destroying several Sentinels.
{{quote|'''Maggie:''' He's in some kind of coma, but his vitals are stable. What about you?
'''Trinity:''' I'm fine.
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== Literature ==
* Happens multiple times in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. "He's hardly left your side these last three days."
* Edward in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' doesn't leave Bella's side while she's in the hospital for several broken bones and loss of blood and maybe a few more things.
** Never the less, he's perfectly willing to leave her AFTERWARDS
* Caitlin to {{spoiler|Bran}} in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. {{spoiler|She goes pretty mad with grief, but her madness, and his dire wolf saves his life from the hired idiot of a killer Joffrey sent.}}
* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', Cloudtail does this with Brightpaw in ''[[Warrior Cats/Recap/A Dangerous Path
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* In the ''[[Bones]]'' season 3 finale, the team's commitment to their intent to constantly watch over their injured co-worker Zack leads them to assigning shifts. In doing this, they unwittingly {{spoiler|prevent him from escaping, as he was working with the [[Serial Killer]] and had engineered the explosion that injured him.}}
* Done in an episode during the first season of ''[[Titus]]'', Erin refuses to leave Christopher's side after his dragster crashed, leaving him braindead. Played for laughs in that her refusal to even let go of his hand leads her to almost drag him completely out of bed.
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* Played straight and subverted in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' where Billy Ray promises to be awake and smiling when his daughter wakes up only to predictably fall asleep. The subversion comes when Jackson tells him that there's pie in the cafeteria. Not only does this wake him up instantly, but he runs off instantly and doesn't come back until after she's left the hospital.
* Series 5 of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has what might be the best example: {{spoiler|Auton!Rory spends almost ''two thousand years'' protecting the Pandorica that holds Amy, becoming the [[Shrouded in Myth|legendary Lone Centurion]] in the process.}}
* Any given episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' has Mulder or Scully doing this.
** This actually has a bit of [[Fridge Logic]] to it. During the entire series, we see Mulder and Scully sitting by each other's respective bedsides without any problems from staff. But during season 8's "Empedocles", Mulder gets kicked out of Scully's hospital room for not being immediate family (specifically, he's not her husband)--repeatedly. Which begs the question...how were they able to do it before?
*** Given the way those two act, nurses and doctors likely just assumed they were married. The nurse in "Empodocles" was probably just the first nurse who bothered to ask!
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* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' season 1 finale, Gwen will do a vigil when {{spoiler|Jack}} is assumed dead.
== [[Radio]] ==
* Ianto to {{spoiler|Jack}} in the ''[[Torchwood]]'' radio play "The Dead Line".
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One ''[[Futurama]]'' episode has Leela fall into a coma, and Fry stays by her side for weeks talking to her. When she wakes up, they hug, and then:
{{quote|'''Leela:''' ''(whispers)'' You could really use a shower.
'''Fry:''' ''(whispers)'' So could you. }}
** There was also Fry's puppy, who grew old and fossillised waiting for his master to come back.
* In ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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