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* In a {{filler}} case from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', a young man named Tamanosuke Itou is injured and briefly falls into unconsciousness after [[spoiler:two members from his acting troupe are murdered]]. Kogoro and Conan believe the coma comes less from his injuries and more from the terrible mental fatigue he's been through. [[spoiler:As he's unconscious, the culprit of the case tries to kill him but he's saved since the police counted on the killer's return and staged countermeasures. By the end of the case, Tamanosuke wakes up and is more or less okay]].

* ''{{Franchise/Firefly}}'': Mal shuts down completely in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3720599/1/A-Safe-Place-in-the-Mind A Safe Place In the Mind]]''due to being tortured. He’s catatonic and River tells the crew Inara can reach him. They take Mal to her, and reaching him takes weeks, with the initial signs of progress being small and gradual. Mal gets more comfortable with Inara touching him, massaging him and just holding him, and he later starts doing a few things on his own, like using the bathroom, and letting Inara feed him. Only then does he finally have a breakthrough and begin speaking and waking up again as Inara reassures him it’s not a dream and he won’t be hurt again.

In ''Videogame/rimworld'' this is one of the mental break that can happen

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': This happens to Sam after the "wall" in his mind is broken, which causes [[spoiler:all of his memories of being tortured by Michael and Lucifer back, after having regained his damaged soul]].

A subtrope of the more general HeroicBSOD, this refers specifically to a comatose state to the exclusion of other forms of mental breakdown. Milder forms are DeepSleep and SleepyDepressive.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEarthKing The Earth King]]", Zuko [[SickEpisode undergoes a severe fever]] and enters a coma in which he has vivid dreams in which his uncle and sister appear as dragons and argue over his life choices and another in which he seems to awaken only to look in the mirror and see himself as the Avatar (Zukotar?). Iroh says that this is "not a natural illness" and the whole thing is apparently caused solely by Zuko's self-conflict. The cause of all this? [[spoiler: He freed Appa from the Dai Lee and gave up his SecretIdentidy as the Blue Spirit]] When Zuko wakes up he is... uncharacteristically calm and upbeat.

* ''Manga/ZetsuenNoTempest'': Yoshino tells Hakaze that when he heard [[spoiler:his girlfriend Aika died over the phone]], he went into shock.

->''"Dryden explained that Van had gone into something called an '[[TropeNamer angst coma]],' which is what happens when the brain shuts down as it rapidly approaches the Sasuke Limit."''

** Naruto goes into one of these in Chapter 474 when he can't come to terms with how hopeless Sasuke's situation is. {{Downplayed|Trope}} because it only lasted a couple of hours and ended without any mental journey, so it was more of an Angst Nap.
** Played Straight in the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie''. After [[spoiler:Hinata "rejects" Naruto and leaves with Toneri]], Naruto passes out for three days. According to Sai, Naruto spent those three days repeatedly mumbling [[spoiler:Hinata's]] name, along with "other embarrassing things", while he was sleeping/comatose.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy spends most of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E21TheWeightOfTheWorld The Weight of the World]]" catatonic over her failure to protect Dawn. Willow performs a Journey to the Center of the Mind to snap her out of it.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy spends most of the episode "The Weight of the World" in one of these after Glory kidnaps Dawn.

* In ''Film/WhatAboutBob'', Leo Marvin slips into one when he accidentally gets his house blown up.

* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' after meeting [[MiseryTrigger Lyrah]] at the Fallton and agreeing to let her join the group, Daylen immediately goes into his room and sinks into one of these for the next several hours. When he finally wakes up and gets to his feet (with extreme difficulty), he speculates that [[SentientCosmicForce the Light]] is providing DivineIntervention to make sure he's strong enough to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck face more emotional torture]]. This is an excellent example of how Daylen acts in [[MoodSwinger his darker moods]].

* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' after meeting [[MiseryTrigger Lyrah]] at the Fallton and agreeing to let her join the group, Daylen immediately goes into his room and sinks into one of these for the next several hours. When he finally wakes up and gets to his feet (with extreme difficulty), he speculates that [[SentientCosmicForce the Light]] is providing DivineIntervention to make sure he's strong enough to [[ThisIsGonnaSuck face more emotional torture]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEarthKing The Earth King]]", Zuko [[SickEpisode undergoes a severe fever]] and enters a coma in which he has vivid dreams in which his uncle and sister appear as dragons and argue over his life choices and another in which he seems to awaken only to look in the mirror and see himself as the Avatar (Zukotar?). Iroh says that this is "not a natural illness" and the whole thing is apparently caused solely by Zuko's self-conflict. When Zuko wakes up he is... uncharacteristically calm and upbeat.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', [[spoiler:Fumbles]] falls into one of these after [[ColdBloodedTorture his torture]] by [[KnightTemplar Goblin Slayer]]. Big Ears states that his mind is broken beyond his ability to restore. He ends up taking on bits of other peoples' personalities to fill the gap and wake up. Unfortunately, he just ''has'' to take most of his new brain from ''[[DumbMuscle Minmax]]''.

A subtrope of the more general HeroicBSOD, this refers specifically to a comatose state to the exclusion of other forms of mental breakdown. A milder form is DeepSleep.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' goes into one of these when he can't come to terms with how hopeless Sasuke's situation is. {{Downplayed|Trope}} because it only lasted a couple of hours and ended without any mental journey, so it was more of an Angst Nap.

* Happens to Myn Donos in the ''Literature/XWingSeries''. He'd led a squadron of X-Wings into a trap. He, and his astromech, were the only survivors; after that he was emotionally dead but functional. Until his astromech was destroyed -- the last Talon. His failure became complete. There's mention that his squadmates tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't respond. Myn just lies there, staring off into nowhere. He'll eat if you put food in his hand, drink if you put the cup to his lips. But he's gone somewhere." His squadmates eventually pull him out of it by putting him through a simulation of that same trap. He's understandably quite pissed, but this hair-of-the-dog technique forces him to deal with his emotions - after he gets through the anger, he can feel other things again. Not that he's fully healed, or anything; the trauma comes back to bite him later in the series.