History Main / GraveMarkingScene

** Toward the end of the series, a wounded Jean (helped by a female soldier who was a childhood friend of Enrica) puts flowers on the grave of [[spoiler:his brother Jose who was killed in the FinalBattle.]] He notes that he has many more graves to visit.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Subverted with both Gendo and Shinji Ikari visiting Yui's grave, which is just a marker as they NeverFoundTheBody of Yui after her accident.

** Jean is shown visiting the grave of his dead little sister Enrica who was killed by terrorists, sparking off his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He gets into a confrontation with another relative who gives him a WhatTheHellHero speech about not avenging her (not knowing of his work with the Agency). Jean in turn is upset to see [[CycleOfRevenge he's become a member of a radical organization opposed to the terrorists who killed Enrica]].
** Toward the end of the series, a wounded Jean (helped by a female soldier who was a childhood friend of Enrica) puts flowers on the grave of his brother Jose who was killed in the FinalBattle. He notes that he has many more graves to visit.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': {{Jerkass}} handler Jean is shown visiting the grave of his dead little sister Enrica who was killed by terrorists, sparking off his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He gets into a confrontation with another relative who gives him a WhatTheHellHero speech about not avenging her (not knowing of his work with the Agency). Jean in turn is upset to see [[CycleOfRevenge he's become a member of a radical organization opposed to the terrorists who killed Enrica]].

* In the Italian series ''Gamorra'', Gennaro is given a gun and told to shoot a random junkie to 'make his bones' as a member of the Camorra. He later goes back and finds the residents have put out candles in memory of the man who was killed.

** ComicBook/CarolDanvers -and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} after absorbing her memories- sometimes visited Carol's brother Steve's grave.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** Peter Parker is often shown visiting Uncle Ben's grave.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderManBlue'' has Peter Parker visit the top of the bridge where Gwen Stacy was murdered, once a year, on Valentines Day, and leave a single red rose.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* Examples found in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' franchise:

** In ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'': On Christmas Eve, Catherine Grant visits her son Adam's grave. She brushes snow off the tombstone and wishes Adam happy Christmas.
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': The titular heroine visits the grave of her daddy, whom she lost early in her life.
* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': Upon returning to the [=McDuck=] ancestral castle with his father and sisters, Scrooge takes a quiet moment to visit his mother's grave.
* ''ComicBook/ThanosRising'': Thanos visits his mother's grave on Titan in the opening. Not because he had any real affection for her (being the one responsible for her death), more for ritualistic reasons and to understand his own destiny.
* At the beginning of ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'', Kitty Pryde walks by the concentration camp graveyard and regards the graves of many people dead years ago: Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner, Susan Richards, Reed Richards, Lorna Dane, Henry [=McCoy=], etc.
* ''ComicBook/TheNewTeenTitans: ComicBook/WhoIsDonnaTroy'' ends with [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Dick]] taking [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]] to her biological mother's grave after finally tracking down Dorthy's name and fate which Donna had been curious about for years. Donna left her mother flowers and a note thanking her for her love and trying to do what she could for her infant while terminally ill.

*** The ending of "We Built A Better World" has Diana and Hippolyta paying tribute to the memorial of [[spoiler: [[Character/WonderWomanSteveTrevor Steve Trevor]] ]] on Themyscira.
* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': In "Fight Game" ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} finally goes to see his father's grave years after the man's death to let go of his resentment of his father for killing his mother in a car accident and abandoning him to escape his own gambling debts.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/WayOfX'', Nightcrawler goes to the grave of Ruth Aldin[=/=]Blindfold, who committed suicide a few years before. He goes there because he knows that's where ComicBook/{{Legion}} will be.

* Subverted in ''Series/TheBoys''. Billy Butcher finds the family of his wife Becca--missing and presumed dead by everyone but him--have made a gravestone so they can mourn her, so he smashes it up with a sledgehammer.

This is where a character is shown visiting the grave of a loved one (or fallen comrades in MilitaryAndWarfareWorks), or possibly the spot where they died or some other ShrineToTheFallen, as a periodic ritual. May involve LibationForTheDead and TalkingToTheDead. Often a TearJerker.

This is where a character is shown visiting the grave of a loved one, or possibly the spot where they died or some other ShrineToTheFallen, as a periodic ritual. May involve LibationForTheDead and TalkingToTheDead. Often a TearJerker.

* In 'Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the "Memories in the Rain" story arc has Ichigo, his sisters and their father visit Ichigo's mother's grave. During that arc, it is revealed how Ichigo lost his mother to a Hollow known as Grand Fisher(although the truth behind Masaki's death later turns out to be somewhat more complicated), and Ichigo fights Grand Fisher, forcing him to retreat.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', if [[spoiler: Niles]] and [[spoiler: Beruka]] reach an A support, she tells him that she's found the grave of [[spoiler: ''both'' of their long-lost mothers]]. If one more support talk is obtained, they decide to do this ''and'' have a RelationshipUpgrade.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': When Cassian retirns to his hometown on Ferrix for what he realizes will be the final time he stops at his adoptive father's cremains for a moment while planning his rescue of Bix.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': When Cassian retirns to his hometown on Ferrix for what he realizes will be the final time he stop at his adoptive father's cremains for a moment while planning his rescue of Bix.
* Sun and Hurley visit Jin's grave on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' as a way of letting the audience know he's dead. Except of course that HesJustHiding!
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Mongrels}}''. A guide dog explains to Destiny that since his owner can't see, he is free to lead him anywhere he likes. Cue the owner placing a bouquet of flowers next to a trashcan and saying "Hello Mother".

* The loved ones of [[spoiler:Michael Scofield]] gather around his grave at the end of the season finale of ''Series/PrisonBreak''.
* Adrian ''Series/{{Monk}}'' frequently visited both his wife's grave and the parking garage where she was killed.

** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Upon arriving at Skyfall, the eponymous home of his parents Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix in Scotland, James (Creator/DanielCraig) sees their grave.
** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Bond's SecondLove Madeleine Swann brings him to the grave of [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper]] [[TheLostLenore Lynd]] in Matera, Southern Italy, so he can turn the page once and for all. When raching the grave, burns a paper with a "Forgive me" message on it per a local tradition. Sadly, this is the moment and place [[NebulousEvilOrganization Spectre]] chose to ambush him, [[BoobyTrap putting a bomb in the grave]], also DesecratingTheDead doing so.

* It's established in the Literature/XWingSeries that people who were not on Alderaan have a tradition called the "Return", where they visit the ruins of their homeworld and say ritualistic things and leave grave goods for their friends and kin who died there.

* In the Japanese novel ''{{Kokoro}},'' [[TheMentor Sensei]] visits the grave of his friend [[ThePhilosopher K]] every month. It's eventually revealed that he feels guilty over K's death, because [[spoiler:the pair were [[LoveTriangle both in love]] with the woman Sensei is now married to, and K was DrivenToSuicide after Sensei tricked him into not pursuing her]].

* In ''Hard Rain'', HitmanWithAHeart Literature/JohnRain is shown walking to the cemetery where his father is buried, but refusing to enter as he doesn't believe in an afterlife and the memory of his father's death is still painful. After an [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech emotionally-tense confrontation]] with a former LoveInterest, Rain does enter and ends up angsting about his life over his father's grave.

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'''s ChristmasEpisode comic "Reflections" features several appearances of various characters spending their holidays. One of the most memorable shows [[ColdSniper Widowmaker]] [[PetTheDog visiting the grave of Gérard Lacroix]], her [[HappilyMarried loving husband]] she was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] to assassinate, revealing that after [[BrainwashedAndCrazy being conditioned]] into becoming [[TheHeavy one of Talon's deadliest weapons]] [[BloodKnight who only feels alive from killing targets]], [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Gérard's death]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes is the only one]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's not proud of]].

* ''Film/WhatHappenedToSantiago'': Santiago goes to visit the grave of his wife, dead several years, to talk to her and to lay flowers. This is apparently a regular thing, as he's irritated at his daughter Nereida when she says she's busy and can't make it.

Not to be confused with DesecratingTheDead.