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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaMementoMori'': The epilogue involves Ryoko, who the survivors went through all the trouble they did in the final chapter to save before she died as a result of being poisoned, appearing to [[DiedInYourArmsTonight die in her father's arms]]. Then the next scene reveals that she survived, but her condition had deteriorated to the point that she would remain hospitalized for the rest of her life.
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* In ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers fights a Kree gladiator to death, and then she passes out as a result of her injuries. Later she wakes up in an infirmary, with her friends leaning over her.

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* In ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] fights a Kree gladiator to death, and then she passes out as a result of her injuries. Later she wakes up in an infirmary, with her friends leaning over her.
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* In the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', James is shot but then wakes up in the hospital.
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Touchstarved}}'' starts this way, with the protagonist being mauled within an inch of their life by Soulless only to wake up in Kuras's clinic.
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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too injured to leave it, with her wounds bandaged up, and her torn and bloodied [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].

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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageMummy bandaged up, up]], and her torn and bloodied [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].
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* A radio series ''Radio/{{Craven}}'' tells of a PaterFamilicide father Adam Cook who kills his children, and then suffocates himself in his car. To the amazement of Detective Inspector Craven, he survives, and the Inspector seizes the opportunity to try to find out why some men have this motivation.
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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageBabe bandaged up]], and her torn and bloodied [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].

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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageBabe bandaged up]], up, and her torn and bloodied [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].
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* In ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 4'', the EscapeSequence involves fleeing the exploding base to be extracted via helicopter. If you're too slow or get hit along the way with no extra lives, your character(s) will seemingly perish in the explosion... but later on, they're revealed to be alive, but bedridden and recovering from the injuries sustained.
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* In the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', James is shot but then wakes up in the hospital.
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* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', in the episode ''Out of Gas'', Mal passes out from blood loss and oxygen deprivation just as he restarts the engine, but before he can give the signal for his crew to return to Serenity. He wakes up in the medical facility, with the rest of his crew around him, being treated by Simon. It turns out that Zoe, who had last been seen unconscious and severely injured from an explosion, ordered the crew to go back for Mal, without waiting for his signal.

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* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode ''Out "[[Recap/FireflyE08OutOfGas Out of Gas'', Gas]]", Mal passes out from blood loss and oxygen deprivation just as he restarts the engine, but before he can give the signal for his crew to return to Serenity. He wakes up in the medical facility, with the rest of his crew around him, being treated by Simon. It turns out that Zoe, who had last been seen unconscious and severely injured from an explosion, ordered the crew to go back for Mal, without waiting for his signal.
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* Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' ends with Daniel blowing up the room and we see all characters lying on the ground, dead or unconscious, with severe injuries. Episode 4 begins with Sean in the hospital.
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* People awake in hospital beds all the time in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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** This is a classic trend in all ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games, which don't let death get in the way of continuing. In most games, you and your companions are simply teleported back to Lord British (there is, in fact, a specific spell - 'Kal Lor' - that does this, which Lord British uses) who uses his awesome healing magic to restore you. (Even in the fifth game, when Lord British has vanished, his ghostly form will do the job.) In ''Savage Empires'' and ''Martian Dreams'', passersby will drag your nearly dead bodies back to the shaman and ship's doctor respectively. In ''[[VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII Serpent Isle]]'', the Xenkan monks will teleport you to them and raise you, and you can summon one to resurrect your friends at any time.

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** The most surprising thing about this is that the characters rescuing you ([[Creator/ElectronicArts Elizabeth and Abraham]]) [[spoiler:are the CoDragons of the BigBad, and they very much want to kill you. This discrepancy is never explained]].
** This is a classic trend in all ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games, which don't let death get in the way of continuing. In most games, you and your companions are simply teleported back to Lord British (there is, in fact, a specific spell - 'Kal Lor' - that does this, which Lord British uses) this) who uses his awesome healing magic to restore you. (Even Even in the fifth game, when Lord British has vanished, his ghostly form will do the job.) job. In ''Savage Empires'' ''VideoGame/TheSavageEmpire'' and ''Martian Dreams'', ''VideoGame/MartianDreams'', passersby will drag your nearly dead bodies back to the shaman and ship's doctor respectively. In ''[[VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII Serpent Isle]]'', the Xenkan monks will teleport you to them and raise you, and you can summon one to resurrect your friends at any time.
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* A heartwarming spot for Purina has a little girl being hospitalized. When a nurse enters, the girl holds out her arm expecting more IV treatment. "We thought we'd try something different," says the nurse. The girl's face lights up like a Christmas tree when her dog enters and lays his head on the bed, keeping a watchful and concerned eye on the child.
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In some cases, this is used as a DoubleSubversion of NoOneCouldSurviveThat by having the character die in the hospital. Often used to allow the [[{{Heroes}} hero]] or {{villain}} an ObiWanMoment rather than having them KilledMidSentence.

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In some cases, this is used as a DoubleSubversion of NoOneCouldSurviveThat by having the character die in the hospital. Often used to allow the [[{{Heroes}} hero]] TheHero or {{villain}} villain an ObiWanMoment rather than having them KilledMidSentence.
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* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' does this as a playful MythologyGag. One episode seemingly sets up Ozma Lee to die in same fashion as Roy Fokker from the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross the original series]], including a scene where he and his love interest discuss Pineapple Salad (the dish Roy was going to eat with ''his'' love interest Claudia [[{{Retirony}} when he got back from his next mission]]). However, after his Valkyrie is destroyed, Ozma is shown recovering in the hospital while his wingman Mikhail Blanc [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall leans on the fourth wall]] by remarking on how dramatic it would have been if he had died. [[spoiler:For extra irony points, Mikhail himself ends up dying in a dramatic fashion a few episodes later, while Ozma survives the whole series.]]
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* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' ends with Captain America crashing a Nazi warplane in the Arctic and seemingly dying. Cut to him waking up in the hospital. However, the real surprise isn't that he survived the crash, it's that he woke up [[spoiler:seventy years later.]]


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* Downplayed on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Gob goes to the set of the telenovela his girlfriend works on because he thinks she's cheating on him with a co-star. He accuses one actor and attacks him, only to get knocked out by one punch. (The narrator explains that the actor had been taking boxing lessons for another role.) Gob wakes up in the hospital with Michael looking over him. He asks if he's in two thirds of a hospital room. We then see he's only in a hospital set at the telenovela's studio.
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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too [[spoiler:injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageBabe bandaged up]], and her torn and bloodied]] [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].

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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too [[spoiler:injured injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageBabe bandaged up]], and her torn and bloodied]] bloodied [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].
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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', after Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]], she [[WakingUpElsewhere wakes up in someone else's bed]], too [[spoiler:injured to leave it, with her wounds [[BandageBabe bandaged up]], and her torn and bloodied]] [[UndressingTheUnconscious clothes removed]].
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* A variant occurs at the end of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''. Joel is faced with the SadisticChoice of choosing to save Ellie, the girl he's come to think of like a daughter, or allowing her brain to be harvested to cure humanity of the zombie plague. He chooses to save her, and as he's carrying her unconscious out of the hospital, he's confronted by Marlene, who gives him one last chance to save humanity. Cut to Joel driving alone in a car...as Ellie wakes up in the backseat. He tells her the doctor found other immune people, but couldn't find a cure and have stopped trying. His dialogue is played against a flashback to him shooting Marlene so she can't follow them.

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* A variant occurs at the end of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''. Joel is faced with the SadisticChoice of choosing to save Ellie, the girl he's come to think of like a daughter, or allowing her brain to be harvested to cure humanity of the zombie plague. He chooses to save her, and as he's carrying her unconscious out of the hospital, he's he's confronted by Marlene, who gives him one last chance to save humanity. Cut to Joel driving alone in a car...as Ellie wakes up in the backseat. He tells her the doctor doctors found other immune people, but couldn't find a cure and have stopped trying. His dialogue is played against a flashback to of him shooting Marlene so she can't follow them.
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* A variant occurs at the end of ''VideoGames/TheLastOfUs''. Joel is faced with the SadisticChoice of choosing to save Ellie, the girl he's come to think of like a daughter, or allowing her brain to be harvested to cure humanity of the zombie plague. He chooses to save her, and as he's carrying her unconscious out of the hospital, he's confronted by Marlene, who gives him one last chance to save humanity. Cut to Joel driving alone in a car...as Ellie wakes up in the backseat. He tells her the doctor found other immune people, but couldn't find a cure and have stopped trying. His dialogue is played against a flashback to him shooting Marlene so she can't follow them.

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* A variant occurs at the end of ''VideoGames/TheLastOfUs''.''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''. Joel is faced with the SadisticChoice of choosing to save Ellie, the girl he's come to think of like a daughter, or allowing her brain to be harvested to cure humanity of the zombie plague. He chooses to save her, and as he's carrying her unconscious out of the hospital, he's he's confronted by Marlene, who gives him one last chance to save humanity. Cut to Joel driving alone in a car...as Ellie wakes up in the backseat. He tells her the doctor found other immune people, but couldn't find a cure and have stopped trying. His dialogue is played against a flashback to him shooting Marlene so she can't follow them.
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* A variant occurs at the end of ''VideoGames/TheLastOfUs''. Joel is faced with the SadisticChoice of choosing to save Ellie, the girl he's come to think of like a daughter, or allowing her brain to be harvested to cure humanity of the zombie plague. He chooses to save her, and as he's carrying her unconscious out of the hospital, he's confronted by Marlene, who gives him one last chance to save humanity. Cut to Joel driving alone in a car...as Ellie wakes up in the backseat. He tells her the doctor found other immune people, but couldn't find a cure and have stopped trying. His dialogue is played against a flashback to him shooting Marlene so she can't follow them.
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It can also be PlayedForLaughs if the character is hospitalized after a situation that didn't appear life - threatening or is convinced they are dead and wondering why the afterlife seems strangely familiar, flirting with the 'angels', etc.

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It can also be PlayedForLaughs if the character is hospitalized after a situation that didn't appear life - threatening life-threatening or is convinced they are dead and wondering why the afterlife seems strangely familiar, flirting with the 'angels', etc.



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* In the animated ''[[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie Street Fighter 2]]'' movie, Chun-Li is wounded in her fight against Vega roughly half-way through the movie. After Ryu and Ken defeat Bison in the climax, Guile goes to the hospital where she's staying to tell her the news, but finds her with a sheet pulled up over her face, as if she'd died. He sadly tells her that at least Bison went down- then she suddenly pulls off the sheet and sits up, even showing him the newspaper with news of Shadowlaw's destruction in it, revealing she already knew. She'd just been pretending to be dead to prank him.

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* In the animated ''[[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie Street Fighter 2]]'' movie, Chun-Li is wounded in her fight against Vega roughly half-way through the movie. After Ryu and Ken defeat Bison in the climax, Guile goes to the hospital where she's staying to tell her the news, news but finds her with a sheet pulled up over her face, as if she'd died. He sadly tells her that at least Bison went down- then she suddenly pulls off the sheet and sits up, even showing him the newspaper with news of Shadowlaw's destruction in it, revealing she already knew. She'd just been pretending to be dead to prank him.
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** Both Luke and Anakin end up stranded and injured, and are shuttled to a hospital.

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* Played for Laughs in ''Film/TheWeddingPlanner'': Mary is pushed out of the way of a hurtling dumpster, passes out, and wakes up in a hospital with a doctor leaning over her. Actually, it's a little girl 'pretending' to be a doctor; Mary's rescuer was a pediatrician, and brought her to the children's hospital where he worked.

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* Played for Laughs in ''Film/TheWeddingPlanner'': Mary is pushed out of the way of a hurtling dumpster, passes out, and wakes up in a hospital with a doctor leaning over her. Actually, it's a little girl 'pretending' to be a doctor; Mary's rescuer was a pediatrician, pediatrician and brought her to the children's hospital where he worked.
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* People awake in hospital beds all the time in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''.

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* People awake in hospital beds all the time in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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* In ''Fanfic/SpectacularSeven'', Sunset gets one after waking up from having her soul briefly locked in the Soul Lock by Tempest Shadow, nearly in a state of panic. Lucky for Sunset that Twilight was waiting by Sunset's beside to calm her down.
* In ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers fights a Kree gladiator to death, and then she passes out as a result of her injuries. Later she wakes up in an infirmary, with her friends leaning over her.
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* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'': happens multiple times.

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* In ''[[Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy The Crystal Shard]]'', Drizzt is called to Bruenor's bedside after the final battle. He assures his mortally wounded friend that he will look for Bruenor's homeland in the spring. Bruenor then reveals that he isn't that badly hurt, he was just trying to force Drizzt to set a starting date for their perpetually delayed quest to find Mithral Hall in the presence of witnesses.

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* In ''[[Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy: The Crystal Shard]]'', Shard'', Drizzt is called to Bruenor's bedside after the final battle. He assures his mortally wounded friend that he will look for Bruenor's homeland in the spring. Bruenor then reveals that he isn't that badly hurt, he was just trying to force Drizzt to set a starting date for their perpetually delayed quest to find Mithral Hall in the presence of witnesses.
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* People awake in hospital beds all the time in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''.

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* People awake in hospital beds all the time in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''.''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''.
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** This is a classic trend in all ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' games, which don't let death get in the way of continuing. In most games, you and your companions are simply teleported back to Lord British (there is, in fact, a specific spell - 'Kal Lor' - that does this, which Lord British uses) who uses his awesome healing magic to restore you. (Even in the fifth game, when Lord British has vanished, his ghostly form will do the job.) In ''Savage Empires'' and ''Martian Dreams'', passersby will drag your nearly dead bodies back to the shaman and ship's doctor respectively. In ''[[VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII Serpent Isle]]'', the Xenkan monks will teleport you to them and raise you, and you can summon one to resurrect your friends at any time.

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** This is a classic trend in all ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games, which don't let death get in the way of continuing. In most games, you and your companions are simply teleported back to Lord British (there is, in fact, a specific spell - 'Kal Lor' - that does this, which Lord British uses) who uses his awesome healing magic to restore you. (Even in the fifth game, when Lord British has vanished, his ghostly form will do the job.) In ''Savage Empires'' and ''Martian Dreams'', passersby will drag your nearly dead bodies back to the shaman and ship's doctor respectively. In ''[[VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII Serpent Isle]]'', the Xenkan monks will teleport you to them and raise you, and you can summon one to resurrect your friends at any time.
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Basically, a character is in [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat a situation it seems no one could survive]], and later they turn up clinging to life in a hospital.

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