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* ''Manga/IGotMyWishAndReincarnatedAsTheVillainessLastBoss'': In Chapter 2, Chloe gets this twice when Elizabeth gets into dangerous maneuvers, once accidentally (trying to open the window but accidentally falling off the windowsill head-first, luckily saved from TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening) and once intentionally (after the aforementioned awakening, she succeeded in opening the windows by magic and then jumps out of the window from the second floor--of course, also safely landed due to magic).
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* ''Literature/TsukimichiMoonlitFantasy:'' When Makoto shows off his new "mana matter" ability and annihilates the giant rock the demiplane inhabitants were using to compare strength, a [[WingedHumanoid wingkin]] woman (their leader's NumberTwo) faints, complete with the melodramatic hand-to-forehead pose.
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* In ''Anime/SwanLake1981''', Odette faints into Rothbart's arms when she sees Siegfried pledge his love to Odile at the ball. She wakes up very quickly to get out of Rothbart's grasp and escape, though.

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* In ''Anime/SwanLake1981''', ''Anime/SwanLake1981'', Odette faints into Rothbart's arms when she sees Siegfried pledge his love to Odile at the ball. She wakes up very quickly to get out of Rothbart's grasp and escape, though.
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* In ''Anime/SwanLake1981''', Odette faints into Rothbart's arms when she sees Siegfried pledge his love to Odile at the ball. She wakes up very quickly to get out of Rothbart's grasp and escape, though.
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* ''Manhwa/Redrum327'': Jueun faints when they [[spoiler:find Jeongun's bloodied corpse]].
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'': Lauda Neill is so shocked and relieved when [[spoiler:his big brother Guell returns from his self-imposed exile alive and well]] that he faints.

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* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', Takami "Komo" Komoda faints after learning that she and the other pilots are doomed to die after their battles. Komo's mother also faints after learning that her daughter will be next to fight and die.

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* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', Takami "Komo" Komoda faints after learning that she and the other pilots are doomed to die after their battles. Komo's mother also faints after learning that her daughter will be next to fight and die.


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* In ''Vampire-chan x Junior-chan'', Sara faints after learns that she will die within a year as a result of Iris sucking her blood
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* The anime version of ''Anime/AceAttorney'' has Pearl faint in shock when she learns Maya has been kidnapped by de Killer, unlike the original game where she cries uncontrollably.

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* The anime version of ''Anime/AceAttorney'' ''Anime/AceAttorney2016'' has Pearl faint in shock when she learns Maya has been kidnapped by de Killer, unlike the original game where she cries uncontrollably.
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* ''Manga/FarmingLifeInAnotherWorld'': Happens to the point of a RunningGag when new characters meet Zabuton, the friendliest and cutest GiantSpider you ever did see.

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* ''Manga/FarmingLifeInAnotherWorld'': ''Literature/FarmingLifeInAnotherWorld'': Happens to the point of a RunningGag when new characters meet Zabuton, the friendliest and cutest GiantSpider you ever did see.
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* ''Manga/FarmingLifeInAnotherWorld'': Happens to the point of a RunningGag when new characters meet Zabuton, the friendliest and cutest GiantSpider you ever did see.
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* Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' has SuperOCD and is absolutely obsessed with symmetry. This causes him to overreact when his symmetry is disrupted:

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* In the 2003 version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed faints after seeing the corpse of a murdered woman, as it reminds him of his deceased mother, and of how she CameBackWrong.

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* In the 2003 version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Ed faints after seeing the corpse of a murdered woman, as it reminds him of his deceased mother, and of how she CameBackWrong.
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* ''Manga/BabyAndMe'': When Moriguchi’s mother learns her son was one of the children abducted by the bank robbers, she immediately faints. [[MamaBear She then snaps out of it and goes to arrest the bank robbers.]]


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* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': When Sakura hugs Syaoran for the first time in "Recap/CardCaptorSakuraSakuraAndTheShrineOfMemories", the shock of it proves too much for the poor kid and he faints. Doesn't help that he's already completely exhausted.
* ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'': After the rather violent bullfight between Cesare and Henri, [[NonActionGuy Giovanni]], who did not even witness the fight, sees blood and faints.


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* ''Manga/MagicalXMiracle'': Mel is forced to give a speech as Sylthfarn, and faints from the stress when it's over.


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* ''Manhwa/Redrum327'': Jueun faints when they [[spoiler:find Jeongun's bloodied corpse]].
* ''Manga/TheSecretRecipe'': Yuuko faints when she sees how grasshoppers are cooked. ''While she's still standing''.
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* The anime version of ''Anime/AceAttorney'' has Pearl faint in shock when she learns Maya has been kidnapped by de Killer, unlike the original game where she cries uncontrollably.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', Takami "Komo" Komoda faints after learning that she and the other pilots are doomed to die after their battles. Komo's mother also faints after learning that her daughter will be next to fight and die.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Chi-Chi faints all the time, usually when something bad happens to Gohan.
** Bulma faints at the sight of [[spoiler:Raiti and Zaacro's]] true forms, and also when Vegeta [[spoiler:kills several innocents while partially under Babidi's control]].
* Emma of ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'' faints at a ball, partly because her corset is laced too tightly and partly from seeing William with Eleanor.
* In the 2003 version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed faints after seeing the corpse of a murdered woman, as it reminds him of his deceased mother, and of how she CameBackWrong.
* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'':
** In the WhatDoTheyFearEpisode, Kaname is scared out of her wits by all the spooky stuff in the AbandonedHospital that she takes Souske through. ''Most'' the scary things they encountered were actually tricks performed by a group of kids. However, Gen-san notes that the old lady Sousuke and Kaname spotted ''wasn't'' one of their tricks; she was probably the ghost of a woman who died in a fire years ago. Kaname turns blue and faints before he can even finish his sentence.
** When Sousuke tells the teacher that a lethal bacteriological weapon has been released in class, she keels over and spends the rest of the episode unconscious. Which is just as well, given all the lunacy that happens.
* Lady Isuzu, mother to Hana from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', encounters the Anglerfish Team in a market square. After introductions, Yukari burbles about their latest match, which alerts Lady Isuzu that her daughter is doing something indelicate at school. When Hana admits that she's taking sensha-do (tankery) as an elective, Lady Isuzu is aghast that "my daughter's hands have touched a ''tank''?" and promptly faints. Her servant takes her home to recover.
* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''. When the ship is haunted by a ghost, Yuriko Star forces her cowardly captain to search for his first officer, whom Tylor ordered to confront the ghost because he was too scared to do so himself. Yuriko ends up fainting when she's confronted by a skeleton, much to Tylor's surprise. The ship's nurse explains that Yuriko was suppressing her fear, and the sudden shock caused all her emotions to come out at once.
* Tubby faints at the end of Episode 20 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime, in response to his mother telling him that he'll be spending extra time on his violin lessons.
* The cold open of the very first episode of the anime adaptation of ''Anime/LoveLive'' sees the main characters learning from reading a typed poster on a bulletin board that the high school they're in, Otonokizaka Academy, is scheduled to close down. Honoka Kōsaka is most shocked by this, and collapses into her friends' arms in despair but not ''quite'' passing out… and ''cue the opening title sequence''. When the opening's done playing, we see Honoka waking up on a bed in the school infirmary, not quite recalling what happened, and assuming that the notice she read was [[AllADream a dream]], suggesting that the opening credits covered the span of Honoka's faint.
* Played for laughs in ''Manga/{{Kengan|Ashura}} Omega'', where the usually composed Kaede goes limp and falls unconscious when she is unexpectedly approached by [[spoiler:the supposedly dead Ohma]].
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' plays this for laughs when the students discover their new dorms; [[PennyAmongDiamonds Ochaco]] is so shocked and impressed by how big and fancy they look compared to her old appartment that she passes out ''twice''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]] is often depicted as fainting whenever Naruto "surprises" her by randomly popping up inches away from her. In {{canon}}, she only did so once after seeing him for the first time in two years, and after that, it's made patently clear that [[CharacterDevelopment she dropped all of her]] ShrinkingViolet tendencies during the TimeSkip, but {{filler}} episodes, spin-offs, and fanfic [[CharacterExaggeration have her do it more]].
** Sakura faints during her academy graduation exam when her instructor Kakashi tricks her into seeing a hallucination of her teammate and crush Sasuke horrifically wounded and dying.
** Soon after waking up from that faint, she runs into the ''real'' Sasuke, who was almost buried by Kakashi a little while ago, with only his head still left aboveground, mistakes this for Sasuke's severed head, and promptly faints dead away again right in front of him. By the time she wakes up from the second faint, Sasuke has already managed to un-bury himself on his own.
** By the sequel ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', Sakura seems to have officially taken over from Hinata as the fainter of the franchise. She faints in shock when Sasuke returns home unannounced after a long absence, and also when she realizes that she has accidentally destroyed her house with her super-strength. In the latter case, Shizune (who is a skilled medical ninja) examines her and concludes that the shock has knocked her out so deep that there's no point trying to wake her up and that she'll stay totally out cold until ''tomorrow''. Shizune then remarks that Sakura had been a frequent fainter during her teenage years, despite Sakura never being shown being "a frequent fainter", which usually was Hinata.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** [[Recap/OnePieceDressrosaArc Chapter 742]] of the series has an example that is both serious (due to being a plot point) and hilarious: [[spoiler:Usopp is fed the fake grape that was intended to knock Sugar out. He screams so loudly and makes such a horrifying expression that it causes Sugar to scream her lungs out in return, and she faints as a result]].
** A few chapters later, Usopp [[spoiler:shoots in front of her a projectile that expands into the same NightmareFace, causing her to faint again]].
* A RunningGag in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' is Xiao's tendency to faint whenever she's surprised. Since she is very easy to surprise, she faints all the time.
* In ''Anime/PleaseTwins'', Karen fainting at ''any'' surprise or stress is a running gag, though like many such things, it tapers off as the series goes on. Becomes [[HarsherInHindsight a bit less amusing]] when you consider the parent series, ''Anime/PleaseTeacher,'' which had a condition called Standstill, in which a person can spend ''years'' in a coma-like condition (without aging) after too much extreme emotion. One of these days, Karen might not wake up for a ''long'' time...
* In ''Manga/PrisonSchool'':
** Kiyoshi and Hana hide under a bed in the school nurse's room, both naked from the waist down. The proximity to Hana causes Kiyoshi to get an involuntary erection that directly touches Hana's bare privates. Hana not only passes out from embarrassment right then and there but passes out so deep and hard that she wakes up on the bed much later on with ''zero recollection'' of the incident.
** Hana later attempts revenge on Kiyoshi by stealing his [[SacredFirstKiss first kiss]] so that he can't share it with [[LoveInterest Chiyo]]. Kiyoshi turns it around when he realizes that Hana is extremely innocent when it comes to romance, and deliberately deepens the kiss into full-on making out. The shock of being kissed ''with tongue'' for the first time in her life (by someone she secretly harbors feelings for, no less) straight-up ''scrambles'' her mind, shutting her brain down completely as she goes limp in his arms.
** Meiko from the same series occasionally faints too, usually when accidentally subjected to the sights of other people's privates that she's not expecting to see, and sometimes stays unconscious for even longer than Hana.
** Andre passes out when two different dommes command him to serve them at the same time and he can't decide which one to obey.
* Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' has SuperOCD and is absolutely obsessed with symmetry. This causes him to overreact when his symmetry is disrupted:
** He faints after Soul cuts a couple of centimetres off one side of his hair, as this meant it was not perfectly symmetrical anymore.
** He also has a complete breakdown and passes out after he erases too hard and tears his test paper.
** This seems to happen any time he is not perfectly symmetrical. Liz mentions that if he tried to not use GunsAkimbo, "he'd get a {{Nosebleed}} and pass out". However, this only seems to apply to Kid himself. if he encounters an asymmetrical enemy, he's more likely to fight back with UnstoppableRage.
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' "[[Recap/TamagotchiYKDEpisode3 "Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream" episode 3]]: Himespetchi faints after she sees Mametchi and Yumemitchi holding hands and thinks it's because they love each other. (Mametchi was just helping Yumemitchi when she was about to trip). Himespetchi stays unconscious for a part of the episode afterwards, and needs help from Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to regain consciousness.
* Barnaby in Anime/TigerAndBunny faints in Episode 19: He's been plagued by recurring nightmares about his parents' death (which he thought he'd begun to put behind him after [[spoiler:seemingly finding their killer]]). When trying to discuss his fears with Kotetsu, Barnaby breaks down in tears and then passes out (probably exacerbated by exhaustion and lack of food, as he hasn't been able to eat or sleep due to the nightmares).
* In ''Manga/{{Tsukigasa}}'', Azuma faints when Kuroe kills the robbers and it brings up trauma from when he hurt Kuroe.
* ''Anime/TheWonderfulWorldOfPussNBoots'': The [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe kidnapped]] Princess Rosa sees Lucifer, a powerful ogre sorcerer, transform into a [[ScaledUp three-headed dragon]] while facing off against her rescuers. It isn't the transformation itself that gets her, it's when one of his hideous, [[SnakesAreSinister snake-like heads]] slowly starts approaching her. She faints before he can come any closer.
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