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* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', Bob claims that his electrical attack does this to the ninjas sent by[[spoiler: NA Mynd. It turns out that the ninjas really did get killed and the other characters just went on pretending otherwise for a while.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', Bob claims that his electrical attack does this to the ninjas sent by[[spoiler: NA Mynd. It turns out that the ninjas really did get killed and the other characters just went on pretending otherwise for a while.]]
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Done multiple times in "The Ecstasy of Agony." Henry is knocked out by a prolonged shock from a cattle prod as part of kidnapping him. When he starts to wake up tied up in the van, he's knocked out again with another zap. When he wakes up chained to a Saint Andrew's cross, he stays conscious while being choked, but is knocked unconscious again by more electric charges. The one on the cross ''might'' be excusable since the killer was described as using a persistent low charge to make his first victim's diaphragm seize up and suffocate him, but there's no indication he was trying to do anything to Henry but cause him pain.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Averted in "Cura te Ipsum". Dr. Tillman is planning to kidnap and murder serial rapist Andrew Benton. She zaps him with a taser and he is almost immediately on the floor, but then Tillman follows this up by administering a drug via nasal spray that knocks Benton out long enough for her to restrain him in a wheelchair and wheel him to her van.
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Averted in "Cura te Ipsum". Dr. Tillman is planning to kidnap and murder serial rapist Andrew Benton. She zaps him with a taser and he is almost immediately on the floor, but then Tillman follows this up by administering a drug via nasal spray that knocks Benton out long enough for her to restrain him in a wheelchair and wheel him to her van.
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* The first appearance of the Ultra-Humanite in ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' had him use electricity on Superman in an attempt to kill him, but it merely knocked him out.
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* ''Fanfic/FlowingStar'': Stella's electric bat can knocks out her opponents unconscious by hitting them hard enough. This is shown with Chandler.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': In one story, Haara stabs a gauss engine with a wet spear to zap the slimes dogpiling her, and it knocks all of them out (though she manages to remain awake herself despite taking massive damage).
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': In one story, Haara stabs a gauss engine with a wet spear to zap the slimes dogpiling her, and it knocks all of them out (though she manages to remain awake herself despite taking massive damage).
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ECT is done under general anaesthesia, so people who didn't know about the drugs and saw unconscious patients might assume have assumed the electrical shocks were responsible.
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You wouldn't know it from fiction, but getting an electric shock will not render you unconscious. If you've ever tried sticking a fork in an outlet, you already know this. If not, do ''not'' try it. You will not fall asleep, you will just get a nasty shock. You ''might'' lose consciousness if struck by lightning... but it's unlikely you will ever wake up. Electricity in the right amount to incapacitate you without killing you will do so not by making you unconscious but by causing muscle contractions.
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You wouldn't know it from fiction, but getting an electric shock will not normally render you unconscious. unconscious.[[note]]It is ''possible'' to be rendered unconscious after a severe electric shock, just not likely -- if it's a serious enough shock to do that, then unconsciousness will be the least of your problems. Permanent impairment or death can occur at shocks much milder than that.[[/note]] If you've ever tried sticking a fork in an outlet, you already know this. If not, do ''not'' try it. You will not fall asleep, you will just get a nasty shock. You ''might'' lose consciousness if struck by lightning... but it's unlikely you will ever wake up. Electricity in the right amount to incapacitate you without killing you will do so not by making you unconscious but by causing muscle contractions.
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* It is ''possible'' to be rendered unconscious after a severe electric shock, just not likely -- if it's a serious enough shock to do that, then unconsciousness will be the least of your problems. Permanent impairment or death can occur at shocks much milder than that.
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* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Towards the beginning of the episode "Truth", Bucky Barnes ends up being thrown into a power grid during a fight. After the power grid shocks him with electricity, he is knocked unconscious for a brief period of time. However, the trope is downplayed in that it was also the force of the impact that knocked him out, not just the electrical shock.
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* Hei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity power]] to render people unconscious at times. In one case he actually pretended to have a [[StaticStunGun taser]], because he wasn't disguised at the time.
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* Hei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity power]] to render people unconscious at times. In one case he actually pretended to have a [[StaticStunGun taser]], because he wasn't disguised at the time. In the finale, [[spoiler:he learns that his power is actually [[RealityWarper quantum manipulation of matter]], so it might have worked that way because he expected it to.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is following young Hogarth Hughes, curious about where and how the boy lives. Hogarth makes a panicked run into an electric substation. When the giant follows, he gets tangled in the high-voltage lines, and shorts out, toppling supine. As Hogarth starts examining the huge robot, it reboots and sits upright, startling the boy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is following young Hogarth Hughes, curious about where and how the boy lives. Hogarth makes follows a panicked run Hogarth into an electric substation. When substation and the giant follows, he robot gets tangled in the high-voltage lines, lines and screams in pain as the electricity starts frying it. Hogarth is able to trip the circuit breaker, shutting down the substation but the power surge shorts out, toppling supine.out the Iron Giant and he collapses. As Hogarth starts examining the huge robot, it reboots and sits upright, startling the boy. The trope is played with because as a mechanical device, the robot does not get knocked out per se, but rather shuts down and reboots.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales2017}}'' (2017) episode "Let's Get Dangerous" Megavolt zaps Bradford Buzzard unconscious when he objects to Tauras Bulba's plan to use the ramrod.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales2017}}'' (2017) ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "Let's Get Dangerous" Megavolt zaps Bradford Buzzard unconscious when he objects to Tauras Bulba's plan to use the ramrod.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales2017}}'' (2017) episode "Let's Get Dangerous" Megavolt zaps Bradford Buzzard unconscious when he objects to Tauras Bulba's plan to use the ramrod.
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->'''[=McMurphy=]''': And you say it don't ''hurt?''
->'''Harding''': I personally guarantee it. Completely painless. One flash and you're unconscious immediately. No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer. Absolutely painless.
->'''Harding''': I personally guarantee it. Completely painless. One flash and you're unconscious immediately. No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer. Absolutely painless.
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'''Harding:''' I personally guarantee it. Completely painless. One flash and you're unconscious immediately. No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer. Absolutely painless.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' tries to thwart Electric Eel during a robbery. However the Eel lures Underdog into an electric field, which saps his strength and leaves him in a heap, [[DownplayedTrope though conscious]]. Underdog weakly begs not to be thrown into a lake, so the Eel does exactly that. This was a BatmanGambit by Underdog, as the electric charge in his body gets dissipated by the water, restoring him to health.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' tries to thwart Electric Eel during a robbery. However the Eel lures Underdog into an electric field, which saps his strength and leaves him in a heap, [[DownplayedTrope though conscious]]. Underdog weakly begs not to be thrown into a lake, so the Eel does exactly that. This was a BatmanGambit some BriarPatching by Underdog, as the electric charge in his body gets dissipated by the water, restoring him to health.
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->'''[=McMurphy=]''': And you say it don't ''hurt?''
->'''Harding''': I personally guarantee it. Completely painless. One flash and you're unconscious immediately. No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer. Absolutely painless.
-->--''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''
You wouldn't know it from fiction, but getting an electric shock will not render you unconscious. If you've ever tried sticking a fork in an outlet, you already know this. If not, do ''not'' try it. You will not fall asleep, you will just get a nasty shock. You ''might'' lose consciousness if struck by lightning... but it's unlikely you will ever wake up. Electricity in the right amount to incapacitate you without killing you will do so not by making you unconscious but by causing muscle contractions.
ECT is done under general anaesthesia, so people who didn't know about the drugs and saw unconscious patients might assume the electrical shocks were responsible.
Compare ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture for another misconception about electricity.
Supertrope to StaticStunGun. Often happens with ShockAndAwe. Compare/contrast LightningCanDoAnything. Another unrealistic depiction of electricity is SlowElectricity. A character might [[InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation give a goofy grin just before they pass out]]. Subtrope of HarmlessElectrocution.
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* Double subverted in an episode of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. After being tased, [[ShockAndAwe Misaka Mikoto]] cheerfully explains that electric stun guns don't work on her and then uses her powers to render the person who tased her unconscious.
* Hei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity power]] to render people unconscious at times. In one case he actually pretended to have a [[StaticStunGun taser]], because he wasn't disguised at the time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is following young Hogarth Hughes, curious about where and how the boy lives. Hogarth makes a panicked run into an electric substation. When the giant follows, he gets tangled in the high-voltage lines, and shorts out, toppling supine. As Hogarth starts examining the huge robot, it reboots and sits upright, startling the boy.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'': Nigel the Cockatoo chases the leads into the slums of Rio de Janeiro, where Nigel collides with an electrical transformer, botching his attempt to catch them and blacking out the whole city of Rio in the process including a stadium which held a soccer game that Armando and Tipa were watching. After regaining consciousness, Nigel heads back to the smugglers' hideout.
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* ''Film/{{Frequency}}'': The Nightingale killer tracks Frank to a police station interrogation room just as Frank sets off the building's fire sprinklers. When the killer steps through the door, Frank throws a stripped live wire into the puddle he's standing in, shocking him into unconsciousness while Frank escapes. Ironically, the killer is woken by the sprinklers about a minute later and gives chase.
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* Discussed in ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''. While the two are discussing electroshock therapy, [=McMurphy=] asks Harding if it's [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture painful]], but Harding claims that people who undergo EST go unconscious immediately after being shocked once.
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Lost Stars'', Shadowpaw is struck by lightning and knocked unconscious. He is otherwise unharmed, however.
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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': In "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS1E2OpeningDay Opening Day]]", Laura is asked to bring her black friend Michael to function as a TokenMinority for the Royal Opening of the leisure centre. Unfortunately, he gets trapped in the malfunctioning automated doors of the building and in his attempts to get out, uses a rod against the opening mechanisms of the doors, giving him an electric shock and zapping him unconscious.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In all ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'' where [[ShockAndAwe electric attacks]] were present, they had the propriety of knocking out enemies, allowing for combos involving melee attacks against weakened adversaries.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Mentioned tangentially by one of the Ioka cavemen in 65,000,000 B.C. as a hint to the player:
-->Lightning stun dinosaur! You know?
* In ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'' and ''[[VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII Original Sin II]]'', many ShockAndAwe powers and electrical GeoEffects can [[StatusInflictionAttack inflict the status effect "Stunned"]], which costs the target their next {{turn|BasedCombat}}.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' starts with a lightning bolt knocking Link unconscious and destroying his ship, leaving him stranded on an uncharted island.
* At the start of the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'', the main characters perform the Persona ritual; after seeing an apparition of a girl appearing, the [[HelloInsertNameHere main character]], Nate, Yuki and Mark are all struck by lightning -- ''while indoors'' -- and have a dream of a butterfly while they're unconscious.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': Electrocution can be done in different methods using water and an electrical source, but all of them have the same outcome: kill the other students or render Yandere Chan unconscious.
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* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'': While pitching ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', the Screenwriter says that during the fight between Barbara--"who, by the way, is a cat now"--and Diana, Barbara will get electrocuted and go to sleep. When the Producer assumes Barbara dies, the Screenwriter says no, when cats get electrocuted, they just get "a little sleepy". He recalls when his childhood cat chewed through an electrical cord, his dad said that the cat went to sleep and then [[DogGotSentToAFarm went to live on a farm]] and he never saw him again.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}'' (2017) episode "Let's Get Dangerous" Megavolt zaps Bradford Buzzard unconscious when he objects to Tauras Bulba's plan to use the ramrod.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': In the [[Recap/KidCosmicS1E1KidCosmicAndTheRingsOfPower first episode]], Kid is trying to activate his "Rings of Power" and one of the methods he tries is charging it with electricity. He just ends up electrocuting himself, leaving him out cold for an extended period of time.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Muscle Man and High Five Ghost are knocked out by lightning while high fiving each other.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', [[ShockAndAwe Electro]] zaps Gwen Stacy into unconsciousness so that the [[EvilOldFolks Vulture]] could [[DamselInDistress take her to his lair]] for the [[TheChessmaster Master Planner]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' tries to thwart Electric Eel during a robbery. However the Eel lures Underdog into an electric field, which saps his strength and leaves him in a heap, [[DownplayedTrope though conscious]]. Underdog weakly begs not to be thrown into a lake, so the Eel does exactly that. This was a BatmanGambit by Underdog, as the electric charge in his body gets dissipated by the water, restoring him to health.
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* It is ''possible'' to be rendered unconscious after a severe electric shock, just not likely -- if it's a serious enough shock to do that, then unconsciousness will be the least of your problems. Permanent impairment or death can occur at shocks much milder than that.
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->'''[=McMurphy=]''': And you say it don't ''hurt?''
->'''Harding''': I personally guarantee it. Completely painless. One flash and you're unconscious immediately. No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer. Absolutely painless.
-->--''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''
You wouldn't know it from fiction, but getting an electric shock will not render you unconscious. If you've ever tried sticking a fork in an outlet, you already know this. If not, do ''not'' try it. You will not fall asleep, you will just get a nasty shock. You ''might'' lose consciousness if struck by lightning... but it's unlikely you will ever wake up. Electricity in the right amount to incapacitate you without killing you will do so not by making you unconscious but by causing muscle contractions.
ECT is done under general anaesthesia, so people who didn't know about the drugs and saw unconscious patients might assume the electrical shocks were responsible.
Compare ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture for another misconception about electricity.
Supertrope to StaticStunGun. Often happens with ShockAndAwe. Compare/contrast LightningCanDoAnything. Another unrealistic depiction of electricity is SlowElectricity. A character might [[InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation give a goofy grin just before they pass out]]. Subtrope of HarmlessElectrocution.
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* Double subverted in an episode of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. After being tased, [[ShockAndAwe Misaka Mikoto]] cheerfully explains that electric stun guns don't work on her and then uses her powers to render the person who tased her unconscious.
* Hei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity power]] to render people unconscious at times. In one case he actually pretended to have a [[StaticStunGun taser]], because he wasn't disguised at the time.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is following young Hogarth Hughes, curious about where and how the boy lives. Hogarth makes a panicked run into an electric substation. When the giant follows, he gets tangled in the high-voltage lines, and shorts out, toppling supine. As Hogarth starts examining the huge robot, it reboots and sits upright, startling the boy.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'': Nigel the Cockatoo chases the leads into the slums of Rio de Janeiro, where Nigel collides with an electrical transformer, botching his attempt to catch them and blacking out the whole city of Rio in the process including a stadium which held a soccer game that Armando and Tipa were watching. After regaining consciousness, Nigel heads back to the smugglers' hideout.
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* ''Film/{{Frequency}}'': The Nightingale killer tracks Frank to a police station interrogation room just as Frank sets off the building's fire sprinklers. When the killer steps through the door, Frank throws a stripped live wire into the puddle he's standing in, shocking him into unconsciousness while Frank escapes. Ironically, the killer is woken by the sprinklers about a minute later and gives chase.
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* Discussed in ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''. While the two are discussing electroshock therapy, [=McMurphy=] asks Harding if it's [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture painful]], but Harding claims that people who undergo EST go unconscious immediately after being shocked once.
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Lost Stars'', Shadowpaw is struck by lightning and knocked unconscious. He is otherwise unharmed, however.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': In "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS1E2OpeningDay Opening Day]]", Laura is asked to bring her black friend Michael to function as a TokenMinority for the Royal Opening of the leisure centre. Unfortunately, he gets trapped in the malfunctioning automated doors of the building and in his attempts to get out, uses a rod against the opening mechanisms of the doors, giving him an electric shock and zapping him unconscious.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In all ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'' where [[ShockAndAwe electric attacks]] were present, they had the propriety of knocking out enemies, allowing for combos involving melee attacks against weakened adversaries.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Mentioned tangentially by one of the Ioka cavemen in 65,000,000 B.C. as a hint to the player:
-->Lightning stun dinosaur! You know?
* In ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'' and ''[[VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII Original Sin II]]'', many ShockAndAwe powers and electrical GeoEffects can [[StatusInflictionAttack inflict the status effect "Stunned"]], which costs the target their next {{turn|BasedCombat}}.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' starts with a lightning bolt knocking Link unconscious and destroying his ship, leaving him stranded on an uncharted island.
* At the start of the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'', the main characters perform the Persona ritual; after seeing an apparition of a girl appearing, the [[HelloInsertNameHere main character]], Nate, Yuki and Mark are all struck by lightning -- ''while indoors'' -- and have a dream of a butterfly while they're unconscious.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': Electrocution can be done in different methods using water and an electrical source, but all of them have the same outcome: kill the other students or render Yandere Chan unconscious.
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'': While pitching ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', the Screenwriter says that during the fight between Barbara--"who, by the way, is a cat now"--and Diana, Barbara will get electrocuted and go to sleep. When the Producer assumes Barbara dies, the Screenwriter says no, when cats get electrocuted, they just get "a little sleepy". He recalls when his childhood cat chewed through an electrical cord, his dad said that the cat went to sleep and then [[DogGotSentToAFarm went to live on a farm]] and he never saw him again.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}'' (2017) episode "Let's Get Dangerous" Megavolt zaps Bradford Buzzard unconscious when he objects to Tauras Bulba's plan to use the ramrod.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': In the [[Recap/KidCosmicS1E1KidCosmicAndTheRingsOfPower first episode]], Kid is trying to activate his "Rings of Power" and one of the methods he tries is charging it with electricity. He just ends up electrocuting himself, leaving him out cold for an extended period of time.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Muscle Man and High Five Ghost are knocked out by lightning while high fiving each other.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', [[ShockAndAwe Electro]] zaps Gwen Stacy into unconsciousness so that the [[EvilOldFolks Vulture]] could [[DamselInDistress take her to his lair]] for the [[TheChessmaster Master Planner]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' tries to thwart Electric Eel during a robbery. However the Eel lures Underdog into an electric field, which saps his strength and leaves him in a heap, [[DownplayedTrope though conscious]]. Underdog weakly begs not to be thrown into a lake, so the Eel does exactly that. This was a BatmanGambit by Underdog, as the electric charge in his body gets dissipated by the water, restoring him to health.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* It is ''possible'' to be rendered unconscious after a severe electric shock, just not likely -- if it's a serious enough shock to do that, then unconsciousness will be the least of your problems. Permanent impairment or death can occur at shocks much milder than that.
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