History Main / FingerTwitchingRevival

* The DoctorWho MadeForTVMovie has the Doctor doing this as he's WakingUpAtTheMorgue. The shot alternates with FrankensteinsMonster coming to life in the black-and-white movie the morgue attendant is watching. Yes, they tried to make the Doctor out to be quite spooky. Afterward, he escapes the morgue via BarrierBustingBlow, maintaining the spookiness factor, and then we see him looking confused and clutching his shroud tightly around himself and flinching when the morgue attendant screams and faints when he sees him.

* Also happens in HigurashiNoNakuKoroNiKai, when [[spoiler:Shion discovers that Satoshi had never been [[ReleasedToElsewhere demoned away]], but rather had succumbed to the Hinamizawa Syndrome and was forced into a medicated coma so that he wouldn't kill himself. Irie says that [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism Satoshi has suffered massive brain damage, but has a good chance of recovering]]. Then, a split second before the scene changes, we see Satoshi [[TearJerker shed a tear]].]]
** This also happens in the anime-original arc, Yakusamashi-hen, but this time with [[spoiler:Satoko, after the Hinamizawa Gas Disaster. She's in a [[ComatoseCanary coma]], but moves slightly when Ooishi mentions Rika's death. Unfortunately, she doesn't actually wake up until Ooishi has already left. By the time Ooishi realizes that she has information on who killed Rika, the nurse is already on to her. When Satoko presses the call button, the nurse ignores it. By the time Ooishi arrives, she's dead.]]
* OnePiece ''loves'' this one. It uses variants all the time, especially explicitly in the anime; the example [[NovaKrazny This Troper]] remembers most explicitly is during the final stages of Luffy's final battle with Crocodile.

* Happens in DevilMayCry when Dante first [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice acquires]] Alastor. Again in DevilMayCry 3 when he first [[LimitBreak devil triggers]].

** Possibly the MostTriumphantExample, despite not being a [=REvival=].

* Obviously (and quite so) done in ''TheStrangers'', where it's clearly obvious from the whole lead-up that Liv Tyler's TooDumbToLive character is going to scream and show that she's still alive. Adding yet another disappointment to an already subpar picture.

* [[{{FrankensteinsMonster}} ''It's alive . . . it's alive, it's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!'']]

See also PlayingPossum, NoOneCouldSurviveThat.

This is an [[HowDidWeMissThisOne extremely common trope]], usually done in extreme close-up on the hand as a last-second CliffHanger of a scene or even the entire show/film. The dual categories of whose fingers could be twitching determines the tone of this trope. If it's a hero or a love interest, this is a moment of renewed hope and happiness (and usually is then immediately followed by the full wake-up scene); if it's a villain, the moment is a threat. The ubiquitiousness of this trope covers up the fact that twitching fingers may not always be the most likely part of the body to first signify someone's revival - eyes could open, shoulders could adjust, chest could rise and fall with breath. But even when the arms and fingers of a character have been significantly hurt, and are even bandaged up or suspended in one spot, this is more often than not the way we'll be shown that the character is coming back to his/her senses.

* Subverted in ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles II'' with Super Shredder, who collapses a heavy dock onto himself as the Turtles he is trying to take with him escape. The Turtles emerge from the water to look upon the wreckage, only to find Super Shredder's hand emerging from the wreckage to their horror. Raph exclaims "[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat No one could have survived that!]]" And then the hand falters and falls limp upon the ruins of the dock, never to rise again, signifying that yes, the Shredder is finally done for.

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** Well not really she was totally conscious when she did that, now overcoming 4 years of atrophy over the period of minutes that's just Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

* In the recent film of ''[[TheHulk The Incredible Hulk]]'', Emil Blonsky indicates his impending revival by his fingers coming to staccato life as Gen. Ross is walking away from his hospital bed. Even though his fingers are almost fully wrapped up in bandages and his whole arm and hand are in a suspension cast. Now ''that'' is a commitment to this trope.