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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In some depictions of the Thomas and Martha Wayne's deaths, eight-year-old Bruce is shown in denial of what happened. In ''Death and the Maidens'', a flashback vision/hallucination sends Bruce back to that moment as a boy again. Bruce is gathering his mother's pearls, reassuring her that he'll fix her necklace and that by doing so everything will be all right again. His mother's ghost interrupts him and shakes him out of his childlike denial (changing Bruce back into an adult).
* In one ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' story, The Thing took a massive shot from Doctor Doom that actually blew a hole into his chest. Reed spent something like an hour performing CPR in a futile attempt to keep him alive before Sue and Johnie convinced him to stop. Ultimately subverted, since Reed then built a machine that let them go to the afterlife and find Ben, then they met God (who looked just like ''Creator/JackKirby'') and he brought The Thing back to life for them.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' #60 After the battle with Ani-Mator and The Right troopers:

* Probably one of the best-known examples in a comic is ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'' the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story where Gwen Stacy died. Spider-Man catches her with a web after she's knocked off the Brooklyn Bridge, not knowing she's already dead. When he pulls her up and realizes he's lost her, he initially can't believe it.

* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Buttercup's Boyfriend" (issue #2) deals with a boy who receives a belt from Him that causes people to hate after getting zapped from the buckle's ray (this after Buttercup spurns his approach). The ray hit Bubbles, but since she's so full of love the ray short-circuits her and knocks her unconscious. Blossom verbally tells Bubbles she loves her; she entreats Buttercup to tell Bubbles she loves her in order to wake her up.
* Chase Stein of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} has had to go through this ''twice'' - first when his girlfriend Gert was killed by Geoffrey Wilder, and later when an accident apparently killed Old Lace. The second time was probably worse because he actually felt Old Lace's heart stop beating.
-->''"I'msosorrysorrysosorry Gert. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Come back. '''Please''' come back..."''
* ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor: Had two examples from the Battle Lines Arc.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', Magneto has a VillainousBSOD when he finds out mutants are nothing but a by-product of a supersoldier experiment. He starts begging Xavier, whom he just recently killed, for advice and asking where he is.
* Also a PleaseDontLeaveMe: At the end of ''Innocence Lost'', ComicBook/{{X 23}} kills her mother in a chemically-induced berserker rage, just as they destroy and escape the Facility that bred her. As Sarah Kinney dies and tells Laura that she loves her, for a moment she stops being a weapon and is just a little girl again, hopelessly begging, "please don't leave me," even after it's clear that Sarah has already died from her wounds. In a flashback to this same scene in ''Target X'', Laura goes on to numbly ask what her next mission is.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': BIG SPOILER AHEAD: Throughout the season three episode "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan That's Too Much, Man!]]", Bojack requests his friend and previous [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate daughter]], Sarah Lynn, break her nine-month sobriety streak (something she'd been waiting to break) so they could go on an 'epic bender.' She'd suggested at the beginning that they should go to a planetarium, the best place to trip. Bojack had other plans. It's PlayedForLaughs at first when she falls asleep and he nervously calls for her to wake up, causing a large "WHAT?" reaction. Soon after, she experiences a pseudo-breakdown over realizing she doesn't like anything about herself and, after around a month, he finally takes her to the planetarium. There, she confesses that she, someone who'd fantasized about being an architect since she was a young girl, actually just liked the planetarium due to the work that was put into building a dome. The old BaitAndSwitch is pulled as she falls asleep on his shoulder in the middle of him delivering an inspirational monologue. This time, she doesn't wake up.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In ''FanFic/{{Symbiosis}}'', a two-year old [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash]] begs his father's dying Mareep to wake up after Mareep barely manages to get them to safety in the Viridan Forest to hide from the people who killed Ash's parents.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E1MindPollution Mind Pollution]]", Verminous Skumm comes up with a new drug called Bliss and gets Linka's cousin Boris and Linka herself hooked. Boris overdoses on Bliss and collapses, leading Gi to declare him dead after failing to find a pulse. Linka initially denies it, claiming Gi is lying, and attempting to wake Boris up. When Wheeler gently reiterates the truth, it breaks her denial and she [[CryIntoChest crumples to his chest]], finally admitting how horrible the drug is.

* A somewhat more disturbing version is used in the song "Psycho" by Teddy Thompson (among other artists), where the narrator relates to his mother various incidents where he's had blackouts and people have ended up dead. By the end of the song...
-->''You think I'm psycho, don't you, Mama?\\
Mama? Why don't you get up?''
* Frank Kelly Freas' cover for ''News of the World'' by Music/{{Queen}} is a replica of his cover for Tom Godwin's story "The Gulf Between". Even without knowing the context, it's pretty clear that this trope is being invoked.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s song "My Fault," about a guy who convinces a girl to try shrooms, and then watches as she overdoses, ends with this:
-->''My God, I'm so sorry!\\
I'm so sorry!\\
Susan please wake up!\\
Please!\\
Please wake up!!\\
What are you doing?!\\
You're not dead!!\\
You're NOT dead!\\
I know you're not dead!\\
Wake up...\\
Susan wake up...''
* Music/SarahMcLachlan's "Hold On" has this in the chorus:
-->''While you're sleeping peacefully, I'll lie awake and pray\\
That you'll be strong tomorrow and we'll see another day.''
* Music/BluesTraveler's "Pretty Angry" (written by John Popper about the death of a friend):
-->''And I want to shout from my guitar,\\
Come out, come out, wherever you are.\\
The joke is over, open your eyes,\\
A heart like yours it never dies.\\
And I saw your keys behind the chair,\\
I still can see you sitting there.\\
It isn't funny, don't fool around,\\
You let me go, you let me down.''
* Babybird's "I didn't want to wake you up"
-->''The other night, I saw you lying there,\\
I didn't want to wake you up \\
The next day, I saw you lying there,\\
I didn't want to wake you up \\
The next evening, I saw you lying there \\
You hadn't moved an inch \\
The next day, I saw you lying there, \\
I wish that I could wake you up''
* Music/TheOffspring's "End of the Line"
-->''Please stay now, you left me here alone (It's the end of the line!)\\
Please stay, I can't make it on my own \\
Make it on my own \\
(It's the end of the line!)''

* Some recordings of ''Space Oddity'' by Music/DavidBowie end the song this way (with a fair mix of UncertainDoom), by way of the radio dying and Ground Control fruitlessly trying to get a response from an astronaut in a malfunctioning ship.
-->''[[IfIDoNotReturn Tell my wife]] [[DyingDeclarationOfLove I love her very much.]] (She knows)\\
Ground Control to Major Tom\\
[[TheRadioDiesFirst Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong]]\\
Can you hear me, Major Tom?\\
Can you hear me, Major Tom?\\
Can you hear me, Major Tom?''

* Ian's FreudianExcuse in ''Red All Over''.

* Played with in a very disturbing way by the ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/scorpy-the-forest-friend/ this strip.]]
--> "Only one round, and Rokie's already tired!"

* An interesting variation in ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'' is that it's a genuine if sentimental appeal: the person in question ''could'' wake up, and does.
* [[http://www.wtfcomics.com/archive.html?344_335 A variation]] in ''Webcomic/WTFComics''. The father has just taken a [[spoiler:nearly]] fatal blow protecting his child. This [[http://www.wtfcomics.com/archive.html?344_336 triggers]] the kid's UnstoppableRage. [[spoiler:He gets better]].

* In ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'', a carnivorous squirrel who shot an attacking puma and took some of her meat. As she turns to leave, the puma's cubs find their mother dead.
* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': [[spoiler: Faye's death. Justified since she died in her sleep and Fred doesn't realize at first that she is dead. It takes him (and the readers) a few panels to realize the sad truth.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}''. [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/163.htm A grown man's initial reaction after he killed a woman.]] Then, such is his [[ItsAllAboutMe monumental narcissism]] that the death's thwarting him stuns him.

* According to [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Wake_Up one]] {{creepypasta}}, sometimes, if you're the victim of rape or some other form of assault, you'll retreat to a fantasy world where somebody has to remind you to [[TomatointheMirror WAKE UP]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Parodied in "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E14WoodlandCritterChristmas Woodland Critter Christmas]]" when Stan kills a mountain lion. Turns out MonsterIsAMommy, and the adorable cubs come out and utter the familiar line. Don't worry, she comes BackFromTheDead.
** Cartman tries to revive Kyle in "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]", desperately shouting out to Kyle to live, and going as far to doing CPR on him... so he can make him suck his balls later.
* In one of the stranger ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episodes, the mice are forced to watch scenes like this in an experiment, which gives Brain the idea to make a movie so sad that all the world's leaders will be too depressed to stop him from taking over. One of the scenes is ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', but with [[MisplacedWildlife tigers]]: "Papa, wake up. You have to wake up Papa!"

* Played [[TearJerker devastatingly]] straight in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' entitled "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E19MonaLeavesA Mona Leaves-a]]". Homer's mother returns again, and Homer calls her out on her constant abandonment and goes to bed angry. With some wise words from Marge, he decides to apologize, making his mom a card. He goes downstairs, where she's sitting in a chair:
--> '''Homer:''' ''[sweetly]'' Mom, are you asleep? ''[a little worriedly, looking at her]'' Asleep [[DiesWideShut with your eyes open]]? ...Mom? ''[tearfully]'' ...MOM?

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS6E4Orders Orders]]", Rex does a variant of this [[spoiler:after Fives is shot and killed by Clone Commander Fox]], trying to shake him while pleading for him not to go.

* In one of the most (if only) depressing ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episodes, Chuckie is in serious denial over the death of his little bug, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STIgBDYeRO0 Melville.]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', [[DeathByNewberyMedal his sister D.W.'s pet parakeet Spanky dies]]. She walks over to the cage and pokes him. "Spanky, are you asleep?" She brings him over to her dad and says "Dad, Spanky fell down and he won't wake up", and her dad says "Umm... I think he's dead, honey", and she replies "Dead? When is he going to stop being dead?"
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Tearjerker", a ''Film/JamesBond'' spoof. The titular villain (Roger) plans to TakeOverTheWorld by creating the ultimate {{tearjerker}} film about a mentally handicapped alcoholic Jewish boy whose puppy dies of cancer during the Holocaust, aptly titled "[[OscarBait Oscar Gold]]". After he's foiled by Stan and is escaping, he reveals his backup plan for an even sadder film; six hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother.
* Played for laughs in the Al Brodax-produced ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Ballet De Spinach" where Olive coerces Popeye to be her partner in a dance recital practice. Olive tiptoes to a rose lying on the floor and gently entreats "Wake up, little rosebud... wake up." When she tells Popeye to do it, he stomps over and yells "Hey, bud... wakes up!!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'': In "The Demon Within", [[spoiler:after killing the Mutraddi that turned Ilana into the same type of creature he is, Ilana's heart appears to stop beating. Lance reacts to Octus, having thought that killing the Mutraddi would change her back. He shuts his eyes and holds her hand. Her heart resumes beating and she turns back into herself]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 125, Quack Quack is shot with a bazooka and killed. Kaeloo desperately begs him to wake up and thinks the whole thing is a joke, but soon realizes that he is indeed dead. [[spoiler: Later in the episode, we find out that he was faking it as part of a BatmanGambit.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': It's an early GutPunch in season one. The kids love their class hamster Speedy, and wish him a good weekend when the episode starts. On Monday, Mikey goes to wish Speedy a good morning in his tank, only to realize he's asleep. Mikey taps the glass and shakes it, but Speedy does not budge one bit, as the class gathers around in concern, including Hustler Kid and other background characters. T.J. tries to say he's tired from eating his croutons, but Gus points out the bowl of croutons is ''full''. Ms. Grotke goes OhCrap because she knows what's happened, and tries to lie that Speedy is either meditating or hibernating. Gretchen, the genius of the class, knows that hamsters don't hibernate, and she picks up Speedy to check his heartbeat. Upon hearing nothing, she goes OhCrap and tries to stammer out "He's, he's..." and Mikey finishes her sentence by saying, "SPEEDY'S DEAD!"

* ''Series/Mouse2021'': After Chi-guk's death Ba-reum begs him to wake up.
* ''Series/ScholarWhoWalksTheNight'': Yang Seon begs her father's corpse to wake up when she realises he's dead.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** The ending of "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One]]" had a variation of this trope (in that of course Dean understands death, he just doesn't want his world to come crashing down around him) when Sam is dying in Dean's arms after being fatally wounded and Dean is in [[TearJerker childlike]] denial:
--->'''Dean:''' Sam, Sam, Sam. Hey, hey... Come here, come here, let me look at you. Oh, hey look, hey look at me it's not even that bad. It's not even that bad, alright? Sammy, Sam! Hey, listen to me, we are going to patch you up, okay... You'll be as good as new. Huh? I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. It's my job, right, watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother... Sam... Sam... Sam! Sammy! No... no-n-n-n-n-no. Oh god... Oh god... Sam!
** Another variation for Sam in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E11MysterySpot Mystery Spot]]". He's been stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop where he only wakes up after Dean dies every day. When it's a Wednesday and he believes they've defeated the Trickster, Dean is shot by a mugger (of all the things he could die from) and is dead even before Sam gets there. He says, pitifully, "I'm supposed to wake up" and starts crying but, unfortunately, it's for real this time.
* Heartbreakingly rendered in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s "Loss" between Alex Cabot and Olivia Benson. Benson and Stabler are escorting Cabot, who is under a death threat from some particularly nasty Colombian drug dealers, when said dealers' mooks pull a drive-by shooting. Benson is the first to notice Alex laying mortally wounded on the sidewalk, and tries her best to stop the bleeding, all the while talking frantically in a futile effort to convince herself that Alex is going to survive:
-->'''Benson:''' Alex? ...Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. ''Someone call an ambulance! Call 911 now!'' Alex, it's okay, Alex, look at me, it's okay sweetie, stay with me, stay with me, you're going to be okay, Alex, you're going to be okay, do you hear me? You're going to be fine, you're going to be just fine, stay with me... Alex, it's okay... Alex? Alex...?
** It's not okay at all, of course, as the next scene shows Benson's desk, atop which is her badge with a mourning band and a newspaper headline announcing what most of us already guessed. [[spoiler: Then it turns out it IS, in fact, OK, but she has to remain "dead" in order to go into Witness Protection. The scene got worse during the final scene: it's all about Alex and Olivia, and everyone else fades into the background. They just ''look'' at each other for eons, and then Olivia says:]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Benson:''' [[TearJerker Your funeral is tomorrow]].]]
* Once again, in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', when Xena and Gabrielle are caught in a war zone towards the end of Season One, Gabrielle's head injuries send her to the makeshift infirmary in a temple, where she languishes for some time unconscious before going into a seizure that ends all signs of life. Xena's reaction fills this trope perfectly, as she goes into literally violent denial that she could lose her best friend.
-->'''Xena:''' She is ''not'' dead. I wouldn't let her. Come on, Gabrielle. Wake up. Come on, wake up. Come ''on'', wake up! You're scaring me, wake up! Wake up! Gabrielle, breathe! Come on, breathe! ''Breathe!'' She just needs air. I need to get some air in her lungs!
** Some time later, after desperately administering ancient Greek CPR while all spectators look on in silent grief, she completely loses it, and, sobbing, pounds on Gabrielle's chest with her fists, screaming, "Don't you leave me! ''Don't'' leave me, ''don't leave me! Wake up! WAKE UP!'' '''WAKE UP!'''" [[spoiler: [[DisneyDeath She does.]] Ensue a shower of grateful tears [[HoYay and kisses]].]]

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]", after going mad, Lenore Karidian accidentally kills her father Anton Karidian (a.k.a. Kodos the Executioner) who was shielding Captain Kirk (the one she was trying to murder). She talks to her father's body, saying, "The curtain rises. It rises. 'Tis no time to sleep." It's a surprisingly [[TearJerker tearjerking]] scene.

* To a lesser extent a video clip shown on ''America's Funniest Home Videos'' showed a deer (or a moose, or something similar) trying to mate with a lawn ornament of a deer, which broke into three pieces under its weight. After regaining its balance, the deer (moose?) started lightly kicking one of the pieces, as if trying to get the 'other deer' to wake up.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'', Benton's ex-girlfriend Carla died in a car accident. Upon reaching the hospital, he tried to break the news to their 4-year-old son, telling him via sign language (the boy is deaf) that "Mommy went to sleep forever". Not understanding, the boy kept signing back to him, "Then wake her up," until Benton finally signed (and said) "Mommy died."
* In the Season 1 finale of ''Series/{{Alphas}}'', Gary doesn't at first realize that [[spoiler: Anna]] is dead. And then he just keeps saying her name and trying to get her to come with him to safety.
* On ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'', Opie goes through this in one episode when he shoots his slingshot at a bird. When he realizes he killed it, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he starts crying and begs for it to get up and fly away.]]
* In the second season of ''Series/TrueBlood'', Bill flashes back to his first homecoming since being turned--only to find that his toddler son has died of smallpox. The body has been laid out exposed in its coffin, and Bill falls to his knees clutching at the shroud whispering, "Thomas, get up! Your poppa's here. Wake up now..." His blood tears finally reveal his vampirism to his wife---who screams in horror that he's been possessed by the devil...
* Cora to [[DeathByChildbirth Sybil]] in ''Series/DowntonAbbey''. Again, this isn't an innocence thing -- more denial.
* An episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' has Michelle confronted with the news that her great-grandfather, whom she had just met the day before and became attached to almost immediately, passed away in his sleep. When the family breaks the news to her, she lashes out angrily in denial of the idea that he could possibly be dead after having known him for only a day. Worst of all, he had promised to visit her school for show-and-tell that day to teach her class a folk dance he had taught her earlier.
-->'''Michelle:''' No! HE'S NOT DEAD! ''[smashes the popsicle stick house she made for him]''
* ''Series/BlueBloods''' Danny sits at his comatose partner's bedside (she suffered an accidental drug overdose after handling a suspect's stash) and implores this of her, especially in light of the fact that his wife just died:
-->''"I really can't afford to lose you too."''
* In the Creator/DanielleSteel movie ''A Perfect Stranger'', an adulterous wife returns home from a tryst to find that her elderly husband has overdosed on his medication. Racked with guilt, she tries to rouse him, tearfully and repeatedly apologizing as if this will bring him back. (The sad irony is that the man didn't kill himself out of despair over her affair. He was fed up with battling his illness and ''wanted'' to leave her free to be the other guy).
* At the end of the last episode of ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' a pair of UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex babies desperately try to wake their dead mother, after she was fatally wounded by the tail-club of an Ankylosaurus the previous day. [[TearJerker Then the Asteroid, the same one that will cause the K-Pg extinction, hits Earth, and the babies die.]]

* Inverted and PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' with the Dead Parrot sketch. The inversion is that the disgruntled customer smacks the bird around to disprove the shopkeeper's claim that the bird is asleep, not dead.
-->''"No no, sir. It's not dead. It's resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage."\\
"The plumage don't enter into it. It's bleeding demised."''
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In "[[Recap/FireflyE07Jaynestown Jaynestown]]", Jayne tries to wake up the "mudder" who just took a bullet shot at him by the partner he abandoned in the episode's backstory. Jayne doesn't get why the guy still did it after he admitted he wasn't the big hero they saw him as.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In the ColdOpen for "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS01E06TheGangFindsADeadGuy The Gang Finds A Dead Guy]]", Mac and Dee discover a dead body in the bar that they think is just asleep and repeatedly try nudging awake by [[PokingDeadThingsWithAStick poking it with a pool cue]] before they realize it's dead.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode, "Gone But Not Forgotten," Wembley does this as he faces the end of his new friend Mudwell's short lifespan – "Mudwell, what are you doing? This is no time to take a nap. I want to work things out! Come on, Mudwell, wake up! ... [[TearJerker Mudwell?]]"

* Timur in ''Theatre/{{Turandot}}'', at Liu's death: "Liu! Liu! Wake up!"

* Done with a heartbreaking extent in ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' Episode 3, though the Bowdlerized version disturbs this with a good measure of {{Narm}} - someone tries to put blood back into someone who has died. Since the blood is ''removed'' in the English version, this becomes rather silly.
* When the main character dies in ''VideoGame/Persona3'', your MissionControl will occasionally exclaim "Oh no, please wake up!" In addition, [[spoiler: when the protagonist dies at the end of the main game, it's played as just being very tired and falling asleep. Only in The Answer from the MissionPackSequel is it confirmed that he did, in fact, die. The other characters also thought he was sleeping, and by the time they realized something was wrong, it was too late, and he was dead.]] Except for [[spoiler: Aigis, who, judging by the tone of her voice and subsequent breakdown, [[TearJerker was fully aware that the protagonist was dying.]]]]

* Aruruu, the resident BadassAdorable of ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' goes through this after [[spoiler:her grandmother]] dies early on and may have again when [[spoiler:Teoro dies]].
* In ''The Chronicles of Riddick: VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'', shortly after Jaylor, the resident former crewmember of the Athena, now a prisoner and seriously sick guy overall, [[spoiler:randomly shoots]] Silverman, another prisoner and resident WrenchWench, [[spoiler:in the back]], Riddick, of course, then must [[spoiler:kill Jaylor]]. Of course, shortly afterwards, you soon have an obligatory encounter with Lynn, her daughter. [[spoiler:"Is mommy asleep, Mr. Riddick? Is she asleep?!"]] Different in that it's not actually said to the corpse.
* In ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', as [[spoiler:Pey'j]] lies drained of his LifeEnergy, you have an option of talking to him: "[[spoiler:Pey'j]], say something..." After talking to him, if you only press the action button one, Jade will just stand there, waiting for him to answer. As you might have guessed, he won't. ([[spoiler:He gets better, eventually]].)
* Louis' despair over Zoey's death in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has a variety of lines, including one that fits the trope perfectly. "God damn it, Zoey! WAKE UP!". Zoey herself will sometimes react this way to Bill's death.
* In any of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games, if and when you die, 99% of the time, someone from mission control screams "Snake? Answer me! Snake? [[SayMyName SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!]]"
* In the [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]] of Path A in ''VideoGame/RondoOfSwords'', [[spoiler:Altrius/Serdic]] is tired after a long battle and decides he needs to rest right then and there. This is followed by Marie trying to continue their conversation, calling his name, [[spoiler:"Altrius? ...Altrius?"]] His lack of a response strongly implies that he has kicked the bucket.
* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', Elena is caught in a blast during the finale and spends much of it limping, barely conscious. After killing the BigBad, Nathan Drake carries her the rest of the way out. When they reach the surface, he lays her down on a slab and she is not moving or breathing and appears to be dead. Nate, visibly upset by this possibility, starts attempting to wake her up whilst saying she'll be alright. [[spoiler:Turns out, he was right. She is seen recovered at the end of the game. Good thing too, otherwise that could have been a major TearJerker]].
* In ''Alter Ego'', this is a possible event. The player owns a goldfish during the early stages of their lives, and the goldfish eventually dies. The player, however, doesn't understand why the goldfish won't go after her food or interact with the player. The player can then decide to either hide the fish's body in their drawer or ask their mom about it. Even if they do the latter and Mom explains the concept of death to them, the player still doesn't seem too fazed about death even after flushing the goldfish down the toilet.

* One of the many background cries for help in various ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' levels.
* In the canon route of ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'', this is Eimi's reaction when the party gets together to mourn [[spoiler:Siskier]]. It's a partial subversion, as Eimi is stated in other routes to have seen a lot of death on her [[WalkingTheEarth journey to find her brother]] and has a full understanding of mortality--she just doesn't seem to want to accept it.

* In ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'', upon seeing that [[spoiler:Father Sikohlon]] has killed [[spoiler:all his brothers and [[FreakOut gone insane]]]], [[spoiler:Dehl]] says "What happened to [[spoiler:our brothers]]? Why aren't they moving?" Justified in that he ''is'' a [[spoiler:[[WideEyedIdealist Sikohlon]]]], and probably still pretty young by that point.
* Orta in the fourth ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' begs her fallen dragon to open its eyes once they have crashed to the ground from their battle with Abadd. [[spoiler:He doesn't. But that doesn't mean he left her alone.]]
* Tali, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', during her loyalty mission, finds [[spoiler:her father dead, due to the experiments he was conducting on geth and thus being responsible for Tali's predicament throughout her personal mission]] and keeps saying that he would have some way of faking the dead and there is no way he could have died. It takes a second for it to really sink in that he is dead. It is [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] due of the fact that relations between the two are distant and [[spoiler: revealing the truth to the Admirality Board will demonize Tali's father which Tali will not accept.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' some recordings of geth history are shown, including one of a pro-geth quarian resistor trying to protect geth platforms from quarian fighters who are sanctioned to eliminate the entire geth. The fighters activated an explosive that killed the resistor and damaged the geth. Cue "Creator Megara, what is your status? Creator Megara?" Geth, being primarily software, don't die the way organics do. They just lose data. They are still saddened over the deaths of their creators who stuck with them when the rest of the quarians already disowned them.

* In the [[spoiler:[[BittersweetEnding 'Save Your Friends']]]] ending of ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', [[spoiler:Dennis tries to stab Jason with a machete, but Citra [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of the knife]]. When Dennis realizes what he's done, he breaks down crying and pleading with Citra's body]].
* In ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'', pawns scream panicked variations of this when the player character is killed.
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' has this reaction from [[TagalongKid Cecil]] whenever Huiztil/Phobos is defeated.
* In the prologue of ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'', the title character has this reaction upon his foster mother Naru's death.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', whenever the Avatar dies (which is a GameOver), Chrom begins screaming "OPEN YOUR EYES!"
** In the ''Birthright'' path of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Keaton does this when one of his fellow Wolfskin is suddenly killed in the opening scene of Chapter 15. He begs them to get up and stop messing around before acknowledging that they're really dead.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'', if a character dies and another who's very close to him/her is still alive, some of their prospect reactions to their deaths fall into this:
-->'''Tobin''' [if his best friend Gray dies]: "Come on Gray, quit messing around! ... Gray? GRAY?!"
-->'''Delthea''' [if her older brother Luthier dies]: "Get up Lu, you big dummy! GET UP!"
-->'''Luthier''' [if Delthea dies]: "Delthea? Delthea! Open your eyes!"
-->'''Forsyth''' [if his best friend Python dies]: "For goodness sake Python, get up! (...) Python?!"
-->'''Boey''' [if his best friend/love interest Mae dies]: "Mae? Mae, this isn't funny!"
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear [=Xrd=] SIGN/REVELATOR'', [[CreepyChild Bedman's]] [[OneHitKill Instant Kill]] has him subjecting his rival to (thankfully off-screen) MindRape. If his victim is [[spoiler: Johnny]], he can potentially deal the following line, implying that [[spoiler: he's reviving [[DisappearedDad his father's death]].]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Johnny''']]: "[[spoiler: Pops]]... Wake up... it's still the afternoon..."
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin:'' If you kill the troll guarding the bridge to the Dark Forest, his son will say this.
--> Wake up daddy. The humans need clobbering.

* In ''Eternal Ring'', the God-child recovers from his defeat and goes to his deceased caretaker Lyta's side, asking her to tell him about the baby birds again. He asks her to wake up again and again, to no avail. [[spoiler:Realizing that she is dead, and with it the knowledge of what death is, causes the God-child to mentally and physically mature into an adult.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'', [[spoiler: After Sunny accidentally throws Mari down the stairs in a fit of rage, Basil finds him with her lifeless body like this...[[FromBadToWorse and then the story gets REAL bad]]...]]
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' has Jill fending off Nemesis at the Clock Tower after it infects her with the T-virus. Jill collapses and falls unconscious, prompting Carlos (who arrived moments later) to apologize for not being there for her and begs her to wake up. Subverted that Jill survives and was simply out cold for a few days, but the virus still inhabits her body until Carlos can get the vaccine from a nearby hospital to cure her.
* Should [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] fall in battle in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', expect to hear at least one line like this from the members of the active party. They'll make comments about any one of them falling, but these are sometimes more sarcastic than concerned; if it's Hawke, they range from angry to panicked. It's especially true of Hawke's brother and sister, who are justifiably ''terrified'' at the idea of losing their elder sibling; Bethany in particular literally tells Hawke to "Get up!" in a voice that sounds close to tears.
* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has an [[NightmareFuel incredibly disturbing]] variation. [[spoiler:In her childhood, Athena Cykes did not fully understand the differences between humans and robots. After witnessing her mother's murder, she attempted to "repair" her by dismantling her, as if she were a malfunctioning robot.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Athena:''' Something's wrong with mom, so I'm taking her apart to fix her.]]
* Happens in ''VideoGame/{{Return of the Obra Dinn}}'': [[spoiler:two of the Indian seamen, Soloman Syed and Renfred Rajub, have caught pneumonia while at the lancar house. During the ship's voyage, [[IncurableCoughOfDeath Syed is coughing in the middle of the night]], waking up another Indian seaman, William Wasim, who senses that something is wrong and gets out of his hammock, frantically telling Syed in Hindi to wake up and "drink something", but to no avail, as Syed succumbs to his illness moments later.]]
* Done non-verbally in ''Videogame/JustShapesAndBeats''. [[spoiler: When you [[HopelessBossFight inevitably]] die to the TrueFinalBoss, you are sent to the respawn screen, only to be unable to respawn, since the boss smashes you again before you can. Eventually, your friends appear. The helicopter whacks at your shards, and the boat tries to splash you with water. Only the sad square seems to know what's going on, as they pick up your shards gently before putting them back on the ground and covering their face.]]

* Probably one of the best-known examples in a comic is ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'' the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story where Gwen Stacy died. Spider-Man catches her with a web after she's knocked off the Brooklyn Bridge, not knowing she's already dead. When he pulls her up and realizes he's lost her, he initially can't believe it.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' I saved you, honey, don't you see? I saved you...

* In ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', Magneto has a VillainousBSOD when he finds out mutants are nothing but a by-product of a supersoldier experiment. He starts begging Xavier, whom he just recently killed, for advice and asking where he is.
* ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor: Had two examples from the Battle Lines Arc.
** Outback's reaction to Ricochet's death.
--->'''Flak:''' He's offline.\\
'''Outback:''' Just like Rico to take a stasis nap during a fight.\\
'''Flak:''' No, Outback. He's... gone.\\
'''Outback:''' Oh! ...oh.
** Sprocket is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and constantly talks to famous people, people who are deceased, imaginary people, and inanimate objects. It's all in his head and quite funny. When he and his brother Rumbler are shot, he's fine, but a panel shows the medics staring grimly at Rumbler's body, later pronouncing him dead. Sprocket's final appearance has him talking to an empty chair, still believing Rumbler to be alive.
* Also a PleaseDontLeaveMe: At the end of ''Innocence Lost'', ComicBook/{{X 23}} kills her mother in a chemically-induced berserker rage, just as they destroy and escape the Facility that bred her. As Sarah Kinney dies and tells Laura that she loves her, for a moment she stops being a weapon and is just a little girl again, hopelessly begging, "please don't leave me," even after it's clear that Sarah has already died from her wounds. In a flashback to this same scene in ''Target X'', Laura goes on to numbly ask what her next mission is.
* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Buttercup's Boyfriend" (issue #2) deals with a boy who receives a belt from Him that causes people to hate after getting zapped from the buckle's ray (this after Buttercup spurns his approach). The ray hit Bubbles, but since she's so full of love the ray short-circuits her and knocks her unconscious. Blossom verbally tells Bubbles she loves her; she entreats Buttercup to tell Bubbles she loves her in order to wake her up.
* Chase Stein of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} has had to go through this ''twice'' - first when his girlfriend Gert was killed by Geoffrey Wilder, and later when an accident apparently killed Old Lace. The second time was probably worse because he actually felt Old Lace's heart stop beating.
-->''"I'msosorrysorrysosorry Gert. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Come back. '''Please''' come back..."''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': Like Simba, Littlefoot urges his mother to stand before she dies from her injuries, and afterwards pleads "Mother? Mother?" to no avail.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subversion]] in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''; an injured Shifu thanks Po for defeating Tai Lung and bringing peace to the valley, and slowly closes his eyes.
-->'''Po:''' No, no, no! Don't die, Master Shifu! Please!\\
'''Shifu:''' (''abruptly wakes up'') I'm not dying, ''you idiot''! I mean... Dragon Warrior... I am simply... at peace. Finally...

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', Mowgli says this to Baloo when the bear has apparently died fighting Shere Khan. Bagheera begins to try to gently explain this to the boy but, this being {{Disney|Death}}, Baloo is of course NotQuiteDead.
** [[ExecutiveMeddling Walt himself insisted the bear should live]], after [[Film/OldYeller a previous TearJerker movie]] killed off a beloved character.
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo [[PlayingPossum plays dead]] in order to get flushed to the ocean, but Darla finds the bag he's faking dead in and proceeds to invoke this trope, shaking the bag and yelling at him to wake up.
* Jessie implies this in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. After Spanish Buzz sacrifices himself to save her from a falling television, and he is pulled out from under it, Jessie opens his helmet and shakes him, trying to wake him. Buzz doesn't even move, but after a few seconds of despair, he does wake up... returned to his normal self.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Belle begs the Beast not to leave her after his DisneyDeath.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', Elsa does this for a moment, when [[spoiler: Anna [[TakenForGranite magically freezes solid]] after [[HeroicSacrifice saving her from Hans]], before she breaks into [[SwissArmyTears tears that melt Anna's heart]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' gives us a double whammy, first when the giant attempts to [[spoiler:wake up a recently-shot deer]], which inadvertently teaches him the concept of death. This [[MeaningfulEcho comes back]] when the giant believes that [[spoiler:Hogarth]] is dead and nudges him the same way he did the deer.
* In ''Literature/MayaTheBee Movie'', Maya says to Willy after an intense scene in which they are attacked by bats and he is then knocked to the ground. He's not dead, though, only passed out, and quickly does wake up. Later, also to the Queen Bee, who also isn't dead, though she is a lot worse off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Rapunzel does this to [[spoiler:Eugene after Gothel kills him.]]
-->'''Rapunzel:''' [[spoiler:No no no no no, Eugene... Oh, look at me, look at me! I'm right here, don't go, stay with me, Eugene!]]
* In ''Literature/RingingBell'', minutes after [[HeroicSacrifice Chirin's mother sacrifices herself]] to protect [[SweetSheep Chirin]] from getting killed by [[SavageWolves Woe the wolf]]. Chirin suddenly emerges from his mother's body thinking she was knocked out. After he attempts to wake her up by shaking her hoof, it suddenly hits him that his mother has been killed and [[InelegantBlubbering begins wailing]]. As he's crying, Chirin starts running around her lifeless body [[StunnedSilence while the other sheep can only watch on in silence]].
-->'''Chirin:''' No! You can't die, mom! ''[starts crying hysterically]'' Don't die, mom! Don't die! ''[starts running around her body and shaking her]'' No! Wake up! Wake up, I say! Don't die on me! Mom... ''[falls down her body]'' Don't die!
* In ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'', [[spoiler:when Princess Camille, Professor Genius, and Flip regain consciousness after Nemo's HeroicSacrifice to destroy the Nightmare King, she finds Nemo's body slumped on the floor, rushes to his side, and cradles him, pleading for him to wake up until she bursts into tears. He gets better thanks to King Morpheus and his reclaimed Royal Scepter]].
* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', [[spoiler:the family reacts to Grandma Sakae's death like this. She dies in her sleep, thus when they discover her, everyone crowds around her bed, desperately crying for her to open her eyes]].

* Possibly the most soul-crushing and heart-wrending example in live-action film is the 1979 version of ''Film/TheChamp'', wherein the titular character, (Jon Voight) dies in the locker room shortly after winning a brutal boxing match and his young son, played by Ricky Schroeder (whose acting chops here bury most full grown adult actors), goes into an emotional meltdown trying to get his dad to wake up. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9sAB4JFh4Q You can watch it here.]] It's so sad that at least one [[ForScience study on the biology of crying]] used it as a reliable way to produce tears.
* Jon Voight does this himself as Joe Buck in ''Film/MidnightCowboy'', when his only friend (and arguable [[HoYay love interest]]) Rizzo dies on the bus in the end.
--> OK Rico? Rico? Rico? Hey, Rico? Rico?

* In ''Film/TheAbyss'', PleaseWakeUp meets ClusterFBomb, with a pinch of HowDareYouDieOnMe.
-->'''Virgil Brigman''': Goddamnit, you bitch! You never backed away from anything in your life! Now FIGHT!
** Trope to Trope combat. It worked, thanks to a heaping helping of [[WorstAid The Miraculous Bitchslap of Life]].
* In [[Creator/JamesCameron the same director's]] ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', Neytiri tries desperately to wake Jake up. [[spoiler:He's not in that body at the time.]] And again at the end, but this time she figures out what's up and what she needs to do to help him.
** A mishearing provides an accidental example: When [[spoiler:Eytukan is killed]], Neytiri says something that sounds very much like, "Wakey, wakey," which [[spoiler:spoils the mood entirely.]]
* The Cameron trifecta comes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', where Rose, excited about a lifeboat coming back, tries to wake Jack up... for a full minute... and then breaks down to the point where the boat passed her by...
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', [[spoiler: Zoe]] had a mental snap and refused to believe that [[spoiler: Wash]] was dead, even though [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice it was very clear]]. This was less about the tragic misunderstanding of death and more about how [[spoiler:Wash was Zoe's emotional anchor]]. [[spoiler:She did revert to her military training by the time she and Mal left the ship, however, and by the end...]]
-->''[[spoiler:She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true.]]''

* Tony and Gina in the end of ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''. Though Tony's world was crashing down, and he'd just done about a kilo of cocaine.
* Non-verbally done in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', where the [=AT=]-[=STs=] are firing at the Ewoks, and hit a pair dead on... and one of them gets up and starts nudging the other. Considered a {{Narm}} by some viewers, but considering the child-friendly marketing of the Ewoks, also a strong example of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids
* Subverted in ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'': in the prologue, after the Lincoln assassination conspirator kills his father, young Thomas Gates kneels by the body and begs him to "come back", but then immediately afterward cries out that it is unfair.
* One of the last scenes in ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape'' has Arnie doing this with [[spoiler: his mother]].
* Parodied in ''WebVideo/ItalianSpiderman'', where Italian Spiderman tries to wake Professor Bernadotti up [[HeroicComedicSociopath by punching him]].
* Parodied in ''Film/TropicThunder'' via ''Simple Jack'', the [[StylisticSuck deliberately awful]] OscarBait film-within-a-film.

* In ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', Rick pleads [[spoiler: his wife Evy]] to "come back!" and crashes into HeroicBSOD. [[spoiler:And thanks to the Book of the Dead, it's only temporary anyway. She gets better]].

* ''Film/TheWinningOfBarbaraWorth'': No dialogue to this effect but toddler Barbara can be seen trying to shake her dead mother awake as Worth and his party arrive at the spot in the desert where Barbara's mother collapsed.
* A prolonged version of this in ''Film/SteelMagnolias'' when M'Lynn Eatonton is trying to rouse Shelby when she's in the hospital after her final diabetic episode. Not long after, [[TearJerker she's taken off life support]].
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': "I'm not dead yet! I think I'm getting better!"
* Genuinely tragic moment in ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub'' when An Mei's mother commits her carefully timed suicide and An Mei does this. Yi Ding was a terrific actress.
* ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'': "It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "Westley's only faking, right?" [[spoiler:Fortunately, he was OnlyMostlyDead.]]
* In ''Film/SLCPunk'', Stevo goes downstairs only to find [[spoiler:his best friend, Heroin Bob, dead]]. In a truly heartbreaking scene, he dissolves into a [[InelegantBlubbering sobbing mess]] and screams at [[spoiler:Heroin Bob]].
-->'''Stevo:''' "ONLY POSERS DIE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! Now what am I gonna do for a friend? You're my only friend! Please wake up now! Please, I'm sorry!"

* Occurs in the film ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' when [[spoiler: Junior dies]]. Godzilla tries desperately to wake him up, and, when he realizes he's lost [[spoiler:his son]], he cries.
* Inverted in ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', in which the suicide note left by the hero's parents bids him ''not'' to wake up from his coma to face the ZombieApocalypse.
* Occurs in ''Film/TheFall'', when Alexandria tries to wake up Roy, after [[spoiler: he falls asleep, having taken "sleeping pills" that we later find out are placebos]].
* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', when [[spoiler: the President's wife, her mother]] dies, [[spoiler: then-8-year-old Mae Whitman's character asks her Dad]] "Is she sleeping now?"
* At the end of ''Film/TheRoom2003'', Mark attempts to wake up Johnny... after the latter shot himself through the mouth.
* ''Film/TwentyEightDays'' has flashbacks of the main character and her sister trying to wake their mother when they find her collapsed in the living room [[spoiler: subverted, as she was just passed out from alcohol, and just when they're getting worried a sharp slap brings her around. However, when she really dies, the girls assume it's the same thing, and suggest "slapping her REAL hard" to their aunt, who's come to tell them.]]

* Averted in ''Film/{{Threads}}''. In [[AfterTheEnd post-nuclear war Britain]], society has degenerated to medieval levels and those born after the war are mentally stunted and [[YouNoTakeCandle barely able to speak English]]. Jane only says "Ruth... work... work... up", and shows little emotion once she realises her mother is dead.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': Max, to [[spoiler:Julio]] after Kruger stabs him through the chest after he shows up to stop their data-jacking.
%% * ''Film/{{Divergent}}'': Tris, to [[spoiler:her mom]] mere moments after she dies.
* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' actually shows the enchanted objects [[spoiler:(temporarily) turning completely inanimate. It's already hard to watch, but to twist in the knife even further, just after Cadenza and Gaderobe become inanimate, their dog-turned-footstool, Frou-Frou, runs over and barks at them and paws at them, desperately trying to get a response out of either one of them, clearly not understanding what's happened... before Frou-Frou becomes inanimate, too. It's heartbreaking. (But, on the upside, the curse is broken a few minutes later and the now-human Cadenza and Gaderobe being reunited with their dog is adorable.)]]
** Around the same point in the film, after the Beast (temporarily) dies, Belle is reduced to weeping "Come back!" It's the film's [[TearJerker/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 tearjerker page's]] trope image for a ''reason''.

* Armand at the end of ''Film/Camille1936'', when he realizes Marguerite has [[DiedInYourArmsTonight died in his arms]]: "No, don't leave me! Marguerite, come back!"
* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has a strange case where it's played straight by one character (Spider-Man/Peter Parker) and inverted by another (Pepper). [[spoiler:Iron Man delivers the BadassFingersnap that puts an end to Thanos and his army for good, and the raw power of this action, in a homebrew gauntlet, is far too much for a human to handle. Once it's done and the villains are gone, Tony collapses. Peter, his protege for the entire Infinity Saga, swings over and tries to get him to wake up, but his wife, Pepper, realizes [[HeroicSacrifice what he's done]] and tells him he can rest now as he breathes his last.]]
* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' has [[spoiler:Shazam makes a HeroicSacrifice to defeat [[BigBad Kalypso]] and [[TheDragon Ladon]] by invoking the lightning that strikes him during his transformations to essentially nuke them, but of course, also turns him back into Billy, an ordinary human boy who can't withstand such an attack. After the battle is over, his foster brother and best friend Freddy finds his body in the wreckage, covered with electrical burns, and at first eagerly encourages him to wake up by assuring him he won, before growing more and more frantic and tearful as he realizes Billy really is dead, finally shouting "[[HowDareYouDieOnMe You asshole!]]" and breaking down in sobs. Luckily for everyone, Billy's brought BackFromTheDead by Diana.]]
* In ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', Rambo does this to Gabriela [[spoiler: after she had been overdosed by the HumanTraffickers when they're driving home.]]

* ''Film/JasonsLyric'': When his girlfriend, Lyric, is (accidentally) shot by his own brother, Joshua, Jason tearfully pleads her to stay strong by reminding about their plan to escape town together (after he initially called it off, out of brotherly love). [[spoiler:Thankfully, Lyric miraculously survives as she and Jason are seen riding a bus together in the end.]]
-->'''Jason:''' Lyric... Lyric... I'm ready to go... Come on, you should get up... You gotta get up 'cause we gotta go. Come on.
* In the 1943 film version of ''Literature/JaneEyre'' Young Jane tries to wake Helen Burns the morning after they [[PassedInTheirSleep fall asleep]] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in each other's arms]]:
--> '''Jane:''' Helen. Are you awake? It's morning. Helen! ''([[DeathWail screams]])''

* ''Film/DancingTrees'': After Josephina is shot, her daughter Martha runs out of the car and starts tapping her arm, saying, "Mom, get up. Ice cream. Ice cream, one scoop. Just one scoop." A variation in that Josephina isn't quite dead yet, although she will be soon.

* At the end of ''Film/TheRoom'', Mark attempts to wake up Johnny... after the latter shot himself through the mouth.

** Ciel when [[spoiler: Sebastian died]], and he kept repeating things like, "Sleeping on the floor doesn't look that comfortable to me," and "Get up". Subverted because it ended up being a [[spoiler: fake death]], but Ciel's reactions were still particularly heart-wrenching.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E1Rebirth Rebirth]]", Leela is dead and nothing The Professor tries wakes her. Obviously, she gets better.

* Sometimes, if you're the victim of rape or some other form of assault, you'll retreat to a fantasy world where somebody has to remind you to [[TomatointheMirror WAKE]] [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Wake_Up UP.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a variation that is amazingly carried out in silence, just executed with wordless actions. [[spoiler: Aang]] dies in Katara's arms at the end of the Season 2 finale, and just after [[spoiler: she pours spirit water onto him]] to try and resurrect him, she closes her eyes and holds his dead body close to her in a hug. TearJerker indeed.
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': BIG SPOILER AHEAD: Throughout the season three episode "That's Too Much, Man!", Bojack requests his friend and previous [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate daughter]], Sarah Lynn, break her nine-month sobriety streak (something she'd been waiting to break) so they could go on an 'epic bender.' She'd suggested at the beginning that they should go to a planetarium, the best place to trip. Bojack had other plans. It's PlayedForLaughs at first when she falls asleep and he nervously calls for her to wake up, causing a large "WHAT?" reaction. Soon after, she experiences a pseudo-breakdown over realizing she doesn't like anything about herself and, after around a month, he finally takes her to the planetarium. There, she confesses that she, someone who'd fantasized about being an architect since she was a young girl, actually just liked the planetarium due to the work that was put into building a dome. The old BaitAndSwitch is pulled as she falls asleep on his shoulder in the middle of him delivering an inspirational monologue. This time, she doesn't wake up.
-->'''Bojack''': See, Sarah Lynn? We're not doomed. In the great, grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now, this moment, this one spectacular moment we are sharing together. Right, Sarah Lynn? Sarah Lynn? ... [[TearJerker Sarah Lynn?]]

** The series mocked this trope in "Woodland Critter Christmas" when Stan kills a mountain lion. Turns out MonsterIsAMommy, and the adorable cubs come out and utter the familiar line. Don't worry, she comes BackFromTheDead.
** Also in ''South Park'', Cartman tries to revive Kyle in the Imaginationland episode, desperately shouting out to Kyle to live, and going as far to doing CPR on him... so he can make him suck his balls later.

* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Season 5 finale, "Meet The Quagmires", where Peter flashbacks to when his goldfish died and he fed it as it overfilled the bowl, saying "It's okay, Lieutenant Shinysides, you're just sleeping! You'll eat it later!" and starts crying.
* Played devastatingly straight in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' entitled "Mona Leaves-a". Homer's mother returns again, and Homer calls her out on her constant abandonment and goes to bed angry. With some wise words from Marge, he decides to apologize, making his mom a card. He goes downstairs, where she's sitting in a chair:
--> '''Homer:''' ''(sweetly)'' Mom, are you asleep? ''(a little worriedly, looking at her)'' Asleep [[DiesWideShut with your eyes open]]? [[TearJerker ...Mom?]] ''[[TearJerker (tearfully)]]'' [[TearJerker ...MOM?]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Rebirth", Leela is dead and nothing The Professor tries wakes her. Obviously, she got better.
-->'''Fry:''' ''No! [gets a baseball bat]'' I refuse to give up! Wake up, Leela! ''[[PunctuatedPounding (whack)]]'' [[PunctuatedPounding I!]] ''[[PunctuatedPounding (whack)]]'' [[PunctuatedPounding Love!]] ''[[PunctuatedPounding (whack)]]'' [[PunctuatedPounding You!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Lex Luthor's KryptoniteRing finally gives him terminal cancer. He goes looking for Dr. Ivo, the only person who might be able to cure him. He ends up meeting Dr. Ivo's final creation, A.M.A.Z.O., who is patiently waiting for the Doctor to "wake up." Lex sees an opportunity and asks A.M.A.Z.O. to steal medical supplies (oh and kill the League while you're at it) or he'll "go to sleep and not wake up, just like the Doctor."
* Hilariously subverted in Creator/ChuckJones' ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cugri2hBqxA A Bear For Punishment,]]'' when Junyer Bear attempt to give his dear old Dad a shave with a jagged straight razor.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', In "Orders", Rex does a variant of this [[spoiler: after Fives is shot and killed by Clone Commander Fox]], trying to shake the dead person awake while pleading for them not to go.
* [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery MGM cartoon]] ''Lonesome Lenny'' has WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel taken in as a pet for a [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen suspiciously familiar]] dog. Both near the start and at the end, he states with a hint of regret, "[[AndCallHimGeorge Ya know, I had a little friend once... but he don't move no more!]]" Each time, he pulled out the body of that "little friend". The first one was a mouse. The second one was Screwy himself. Fittingly enough, this was actually [[KilledOffForReal the final Screwy Squirrel cartoon]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Played for laugh in the episode, "Tearjerker", a ''Film/JamesBond'' spoof. The titular villain (Roger) plans to TakeOverTheWorld by creating the ultimate {{tearjerker}} film about a mentally handicapped alcoholic Jewish boy whose puppy dies of cancer during the Holocaust, aptly titled "[[OscarBait Oscar Gold]]". After he's foiled by Stan and is escaping he reveals his backup plan for an even sadder film; six hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'': In ''The Demon Within'': [[spoiler: After killing the Mutraddi that turned Ilana into the same type of creature he is, Ilana's heart appears to stop beating. Lance reacts to Octus, having thought that killing the Mutraddi would change her back. He shuts his eyes and holds her hand. Her heart resumes beating and she turns back into herself]].

** While the words are never uttered, in the episode "Off Colors", Steven kneels down next to [[spoiler:[[CowardlyLion Lars]], [[HeroicSacrifice who isn't moving]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath or breathing]]]], grabs him by the collar and shakes him in a way that is very reminiscent of someone trying to wake up an unconscious person.
--->'''Steven:''' ''[teary-eyed]'' [[spoiler: Lars]]...?
** In the episode "Reunited", [[spoiler: after Steven gets knocked unconscious, Connie frantically tells him to wake up, her tone implying she's afraid he died. However, Steven really is just unconscious, and uses his AstralProjection to tell her.]]
** In "Change Your Mind", [[spoiler: She does it again after White Diamond removes Steven's gem. He does wake up, but is very weak and most likely would have died if he didn't get it back]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': It's an early GutPunch in season one. The kids love their class hamster Speedy, and wish him a good weekend when the episode starts. On Monday, Mikey goes to wish Speedy a good morning in his tank, only to realize he's asleep. Mikey taps the glass and shakes it, but Speedy does not budge one bit, as the class gathers around in concern, including Hustler Kid and other background characters. T.J. tries to say he's tired from eating his croutons, but Gus points out the bowl of croutons is ''full''. Ms. Grotke goes OhCrap because she knows what's happened, and tries to lie that Speedy is either meditating or hibernating. Gretchen, the genius of the class, knows that hamsters don't hibernate, and she picks up Speedy to check his heartbeat. Upon hearing nothing, she goes OhCrap and tries to stammer out "He's, he's..." and Mikey finishes her sentence by saying, "SPEEDY'S DEAD!!!!"

-->[[spoiler:'''Heiji:''' "''Kazuha...hey...wake up, Kazuha! Kazuha!! KAZUHA!!!''"]].

--->'''Kakyoin:''' H-he's just hurt...it's just a minor wound. See? He's going to start speaking...he'll open his eyes at any moment. Right, [[spoiler:Mr Avdol]]? You're going to wake up, right? [[spoiler:Mr. Avdol]], ''wake up! Please! [[spoiler:Mr. Avdol!]]''

* In a flashback in ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'', Margaret tries to wake up her mother...after the plane they were on crashed over Gazth-Sonika.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji to a comatose Asuka, in the hospital scene of ''End of Evangelion''. And then... [[spoiler: the covers slip, showing Asuka's naked body, prompting Shinji to finally break down after 24 episodes of abuse and masturbate over her comatose body]].

-->"Hey, now you hold on or you're gonna fall! Kimishima, are you listenin'? Hey! Kimishima? Heh heh, say something. Kimishima, I am not in the mood to fool around. This isn't funny. Hey, Kaname, what's wrong?...Hey, wait. Kimishima?"\\

** When Yusuke dies again after being killed by Sensui, Kuwabara rushes over to him and thinks he's faking it to fool him, Hiei and Kurama as he did to Yusuke when Younger Toguro seemingly killed him. He desperately puts his hand over Yusuke's mouth and nose to make him drop the act...[[TearJerker but to his horror, Yusuke isn't acting.]]

-->'''Shinji''': "''Wake up! Don't leave me! Don't...''"

-->'''Riker''': "Please, come back to me, Deanna. Gods, come back to me"

-->'''Kristoff''': "Anna."\\
'''Anna''': "I don't want to wake her up. It's okay, it's not that cold. I can wait until she wakes up by herself. Then we can take her in and get her warm, and…"\\
'''Kristoff''': "Anna. You know better."

-->'''Rapunzel:''' [[spoiler:No no no no no, Eugene....Oh, look at me, look at me! I'm right here, don't go, stay with me, Eugene!]]

* The Cameron trifecta comes in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', where Rose, excited about a lifeboat coming back, tries to wake Jack up...for a full minute...and then breaks down to the point where the boat passed her by...

* Non-verbally done in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', where the [=AT=]-[=STs=] are firing at the Ewoks, and hit a pair dead on...and one of them gets up and starts nudging the other. Considered a {{Narm}} by some viewers, but considering the child-friendly marketing of the Ewoks, also a strong example of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids

* Liz has one of these moments with the red guy himself in ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', including citing various reasons for him to wake up. The one that works: [[spoiler:"You're going to be a father..." At that point, he murmurs, "I... become... father?" and forces himself back alive.]] Liz also has a moment in the comics, when [[spoiler: Abe]] dies; it's not an explicit version of this trope, but the way she shakes his body and keeps calling his name, even after other characters have informed her of his death, implies she was still trying to wake him up.

* Subverted in ''Film/IRememberMama''. "Are you still asleep? Y'old sleepy cat. Wake up. S'morning..." [[spoiler: And he does]]! It's beautifully set up. ''[[TearJerker Make him live, Mama. Please.]]''

* Averted in ''Film/{{Threads}}''. In [[AfterTheEnd post-nuclear war Britain]], society has degenerated to medieval levels and those born after the war are mentally stunted and [[YouNoTakeCandle barely able to speak English]]. Jane only says "Ruth...work...work...up", and shows little emotion once she realises her mother is dead.

* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' actually shows the enchanted objects [[spoiler:(temporarily) turning completely inanimate. It's already hard to watch, but to twist in the knife even further, just after Cadenza and Gaderobe become inanimate, their dog-turned-footstool, Frou-Frou, runs over and barks at them and paws at them, desperately trying to get a response out of either one of them, clearly not understanding what's happened...before Frou-Frou becomes inanimate, too. It's heartbreaking. (But, on the upside, the curse is broken a few minutes later and the now-human Cadenza and Gaderobe being reunited with their dog is adorable.)]]

* Creator/JacquelineWilson's novel Literature/DustbinBaby has a young April speaking to the police after her adoptive mother, unbekownst to her, has [[spoiler: killed herself in the bath.]]
-->'''Policewoman:''' I'm afraid Mummy's gone to sleep.
-->'''April:''' You have to keep shaking her and then she wakes up.
-->'''Policewoman:''' I'm afraid Mummy can't wake up now. She's going to stay asleep.
-->'''April:''' But she's in the bathroom! Has she gone to sleep in the bath?

* Appropriately for its mythic style, sleeping is often a metaphor for death in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. As in, "she laid herself to rest on [some hill], and there is her green grave ..." In both novel and film Sam asks Frodo to wake up after Shelob stabs him, but gives up and declares him dead. It's somewhat more justified here than in the Peter Jackson film, because Sam stays beside him for hours in HeroicBSOD mode before finally getting the strength to leave and take the Ring to Mt. Doom on his own. [[spoiler: Of course, he's alive.]]

--->'''Dean:''' Sam, Sam, Sam. Hey, hey... Come here, come here, let me look at you. Oh, hey look, hey look at me it's not even that bad. It's not even that bad, alright? Sammy, Sam! Hey, listen to me, we are going to patch you up, okay... You'll be as good as new. Huh? I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. It's my job, right, watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother... Sam... Sam... Sam! Sammy! No.. no-n-n-n-n-no. Oh god... Oh god... Sam!

* An American radio PSA from the 2000s against road rage features a mom getting impatient in traffic, a little kid saying "Mommy, Mommy, the light is red!", a car crash sound effect, and the kid saying "Mommy?...Wake up, Mommy!". Somewhat {{Narm}}-inducing due to its poor production value.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''. Rafa wants the dead Malak to wake up to watch the sunrise... and that prompts the ''one'' time that [[spoiler: God acts through a Zodiac Stone instead of the Lucavi, resurrecting him]].

* In ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', as [[spoiler:Pey'j]] lies drained of his LifeEnergy, you have an option of talking to him: "[[spoiler:Pey'j]], say something ..." After talking to him, if you only press the action button one, Jade will just stand there, waiting for him to answer. As you might have guessed, he won't. ([[spoiler:He gets better, eventually]].)

** In the Squiddles soundtrack...this is played for creepiness in ''The Day The Unicorns Couldn't Play Trailer.'' [After the unicorns disappear] "Mommy? W-where are you, Mommy?...Are you with the unicorns?

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E1MindPollution Mind Pollution]], Verminous Skumm comes up with a new drug called Bliss and gets Linka's cousin Boris and Linka herself hooked. Boris overdoses on Bliss and collapses, leading Gi to declare him dead after failing to find a pulse. Linka initially denies it, claiming Gi is lying and attempting to wake Boris up. When Wheeler gently reiterates the truth, it breaks her denial and she [[CryIntoChest crumples to his chest]], finally admitting how horrible the drug is.

* [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery MGM cartoon]] ''Lonesome Lenny'' has WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel taken in as a pet for a [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen suspiciously familiar]] dog. Both near the start and at the end, he states with a hint of regret, "[[AndCallHimGeorge Ya know, I had a little friend once...but he don't move no more!]]" Each time, he pulled out the body of that "little friend". The first one was a mouse. The second one was Screwy himself. Fittingly enough, this was actually [[KilledOffForReal the final Screwy Squirrel cartoon]].

* Played for laughs in the Al Brodax-produced ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Ballet De Spinach" where Olive coerces Popeye to be her partner in a dance recital practice. Olive tiptoes to a rose lying on the floor and gently entreats "Wake up, little rosebud...wake up." When she tells Popeye to do it, he stomps over and yells "Hey, bud...wakes up!!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': It's an early GutPunch in season one. The kids love their class hamster Speedy, and wish him a good weekend when the episode starts. On Monday, Mikey goes to wish Speedy a good morning in his tank, only to realize he's asleep. Mikey taps the glass and shakes it, but Speedy does not budge one bit, as the class gathers around in concern, including Hustler Kid and other background characters. T.J. tries to say he's tired from eating his croutons, but Gus points out the bowl of croutons is ''full''. Ms. Grotke goes OhCrap because she knows what's happened, and tries to lie that Speedy is either meditating or hibernating. Gretchen, the genius of the class, knows that hamsters don't hibernate, and she picks up Speedy to check his heartbeat. Upon hearing nothing, she goes OhCrap and tries to stammer out "He's, he's...." and Mikey finishes her sentence by saying, "SPEEDY'S DEAD!!!!"

** [[ExecutiveMeddling Walt himself insisted the bear should live]], after [[Film/OldYeller a previous TearJerker movie]]) killed off a beloved character.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in Chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/IveGotYourBack'', where [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Pearl]] initially goes to bring breakfast in bed to a sleeping Marina, but, finding her out like a light after more than twelve hours, is momentarily terrified that she had died in her sleep. As it turns out, she had merely needed all of the rest that she could get after the previous night, where she suffered a massive DisabledInTheAdaptation injury.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In the ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'' TV series, [[spoiler: Shiris does this to Orson after his HeroicSacrifice, out of shock since he did it all for her]].

* ''Anime/SCryed'' has one that's [[TearJerker phenomenally brutal]] in its simplicity. Kimishima has been severely injured amidst his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. So Kazuma carries him back home. Somewhere along the way, Kimishima stops talking, but Kazuma [[DistractedFromDeath doesn't realize what this means]]. When they get home, Kaname realizes what's happened, and starts to cry. But [[IdiotHero Kazuma]]...

* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', [[spoiler: the family reacts to Grandma Sakae's death like this. She dies in her sleep, thus when they discover her, everyone crowds around her bed, desperately crying for her to open her eyes.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': In one of the [[TearJerker most profoundly saddening scenes in cinematic history]], Simba tells Mufasa to get up in the aftermath of the stampede. Simba was likely aware of what had happened, considering his BigNo when Mufasa fell, so this scene comes more from denial.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', Mowgli says this to Baloo when the bear has apparently died fighting Shere Khan. Bagheera begins to try to gently explain this to the boy but, this being {{Disney|Death}}, Baloo is of course NotQuiteDead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa does this for a moment, when [[spoiler: Anna [[TakenForGranite magically freezes solid]] after [[HeroicSacrifice saving her from Hans]], before she breaks into [[SwissArmyTears tears that melt Anna's heart]]]].

* In ''Anime/RingingBell'', minutes after [[HeroicSacrifice Chirin's Mother sacrifices herself]] to protect [[SweetSheep Chirin]] from getting killed by [[SavageWolf Woe the wolf]]. Chirin suddenly emerges from his mother's body thinking she was knocked out. After he attempts to wake her up by shaking her hoof, it suddenly hits him that his mother has been killed and [[InelegantBlubbering begins wailing]]. As he's crying, Chirin starts running around her lifeless body [[StunnedSilence while the other sheep can only watch on in silence.]]
-->'''Chirin:''' No! You can't die, mom! (starts crying hysterically) Don't die, mom! Don't die! (starts running around her body and shaking her) No! Wake up! Wake up, I say! Don't die on me! Mom... (falls down her body) Don't die!
* In ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'', [[spoiler:when Princess Camille, Professor Genius, and Flip regain consciousness after Nemo's HeroicSacrifice to destroy the Nightmare King, she finds Nemo's body slumped on the floor, rushes to his side, and cradles him, pleading for him to wake up until she bursts into tears. He gets better thanks to King Morpheus and his reclaimed Royal Scepter.]]

The most common outcome of AndCallHimGeorge. Sometimes includes HowDareYouDieOnMe. Contrast TalkingToTheDead. If the person is unconscious or comatose and not dead, it's ConverseWithTheUnconscious. If the person who sees the death snaps completely, it could develop into a case of MummiesAtTheDinnerTable.

* In ''[[FanFic/Gensokyo20XX Gensokyo 20XXV]]'', Reimu does this twice. The first time is a subversion in the people in which she is trying to wake up aren't dead and the second time is played straight in that the person she is trying to wake up has actually passed away.
* At the end of the first ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'', after the BigBad [=ReGenesis=]/[[spoiler:[[CanonCharacterAllAlong Dib Membrane]]]] hits the ResetButton on their [[OmnicidalManiac destruction of earth]], at the [[DeathEqualsRedemption cost of their own life]]. WesternAnimation/InvaderZim tries this on them... [[TearJerker Sadly to no effect.]]

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode, "Gone But Not Forgotten," Wembley does this as he faces the end of his new friend Mudwell's short lifespan – "Mudwell, what are you doing? This is no time to take a nap. I wanna work things out! Come on, Mudwell, wake up! ... [[TearJerker Mudwell?"]]

* ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'': "Dante! Wake up, run away! No way you'd die from a little wound like this, right? Please wake up and take down the demons like you always do!... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry!.." "...Open your eyes! I promise not to get mad when you mess up your office! I won't eat your strawberry sundaes anymore!"

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji to a comatose Asuka, in the hospital scene of ''End of Evangelion''. And then... [[spoiler: the covers slip, showing Asuka's naked body, prompting Shinji to finally break down after 24 episodes of abuse and have ADateWithRosiePalms]].

* The ending of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" had a variation of this trope (in that of course Dean understands death, he just doesn't want his world to come crashing down around him), where Sam is dying in Dean's arms after being fatally wounded and Dean is in [[TearJerker childlike]] denial;
-->'''Dean:''' "Sam, Sam, Sam. Hey, hey... Come here, come here, let me look at you. Oh, hey look, hey look at me it's not even that bad. It's not even that bad, alright? Sammy, Sam! Hey, listen to me, we are going to patch you up, okay... You'll be as good as new. Huh? I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. It's my job, right, watch out for my pain-in-the-ass little brother... Sam... Sam... Sam! Sammy! No.. no-n-n-n-n-no. Oh god... Oh god... Sam!"
** Another variation for Sam in "Mystery Spot". He's been stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop where he only wakes up after Dean dies every day. When it's a Wednesday and he believes they've defeated the Trickster, Dean is shot by a mugger (of all the things he could die from) and is dead even before Sam gets there. He says, pitifully, "I'm supposed to wake up" and starts crying but, unfortunately, it's for real this time.

-->'''Benson:''' "Alex? ...Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. ''Someone call an ambulance! Call 911 now!!'' Alex, it's okay, Alex, look at me, it's okay sweetie, stay with me, stay with me, you're going to be okay, Alex, you're going to be okay, do you hear me? You're going to be fine, you're going to be just fine, stay with me... Alex, it's okay... Alex? Alex...?"

--->[[spoiler: '''Benson:''' [[TearJerker "Your funeral is tomorrow."]]]]

-->'''Xena:''' "She is ''not'' dead. I wouldn't let her. Come on, Gabrielle. Wake up. Come on, wake up. Come ''on'', wake up! You're scaring me, wake up! Wake up! Gabrielle, breathe! Come on, breathe! ''Breathe!'' She just needs air. I need to get some air in her lungs!"

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "Mom? Mom...? ...Mommy?", followed, of course, by frantic shaking and "Mom! Mom! Mom! MOM!" [[MoodWhiplash Thanks a lot, Whedon...]]
-->'''Buffy:''' ''(in tears, childlike)'' "She's cold. Should... should I-I make her warm?"
-->'''911 Operator:''' "...the body's cold?"
-->'''Buffy:''' "No! My ''mom''!"

** Possibly the only example to replace the sobbing child with a sobbing 900-year-old alien, this was done in "Last of the Time Lords". [[spoiler: The Master lies dying in the Doctor's arms. The Doctor begs him to regenerate; the Master chooses to die instead, accomplishing his final victory by abandoning the Doctor as the last Time Lord in the entire universe. "[[MagnificentBastard I win]]."]]
** [[spoiler:Rory to Amy]] in the 2010 series finale ''The Big Bang'':
--->[[spoiler:'''Rory:''']] "You'd have laughed at that. [[TearJerker Please laugh.]]"
*** {{Subverted|Trope}} when the Doctor zaps in from 1996 and [[spoiler:tells Rory that Amy is OnlyMostlyDead. Still just as heartbreaking.]]
** [[spoiler:Amy to the Doctor]] in "The Impossible Astronaut", after the latter is shot [[spoiler:mid-regeneration]].
** Happened to the Doctor ''again'' with Jenny, his daughter/OppositeSexClone. She is [[spoiler:seemingly]] shot fatally and he begs her to regenerate while cradling her in his arms, even after its clear that her hearts had stopped [[spoiler:for the time being. TheTag showed her still alive and glowing with regeneration energy, likely because she was still technically in the first 12 hours of a regeneration cycle, hence able to heal a wound she normally wouldn't have.]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones:'' In the very last episode, [[spoiler:Daenerys Targaryen]] is stabbed in the gut and bleeds out. It's [[spoiler:her dragon, Drogon,]] who finds the body and keeps nudging it to get her back on her feet, [[DeathWail before freaking out]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Conscience of the King". After going mad, Lenore Karidian accidentally kills her father Anton Karidian (AKA Kodos the Executioner) who was shielding Captain Kirk (the one she was trying to murder). She talks to her father's body, saying, "The curtain rises. It rises. 'Tis no time to sleep." It's a surprisingly [[TearJerker tear jerking]] scene.

* Cora to [[DeathByChildbirth Sybil]] on Series/DowntonAbbey. Again, this isn't an innocence thing- more denial.

---> '''Michelle:''' No! HE'S NOT DEAD!! (smashes the popsicle stick house she made for him)

---> "I really can't afford to lose you too."

--> "No no, sir. It's not dead. It's resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage."\\
"The plumage don't enter into it. It's bleeding demised."
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' in “Jaynestown”, Jayne tries to wake up the “mudder” who just took a bullet shot at him by the partner he abandoned in the episode’s backstory. Jayne doesn’t get why the guy still did it after he admitted he wasn’t the big hero they saw him as.

* In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', the Little Sisters go "Mister Bubbles, please wake up!" when their Big Daddy is killed. This is apparently a side effect of their mental states since they get over it rather quickly when the player heals them. ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You ''are'' healing them, right?]]) They also can't tell the difference between the various Big Daddies, since, [[Videogame/BioShock2 in the sequel]], they will treat the player (a Big Daddy himself) as if he were the same Big Daddy he just killed, with a happy "Mr. Bubbles, you're back!!" Some Splicers also say: "Come on, get up. I was only foolin'!" after they shit-kick you.

-->"Hey, now you hold on or you're gonna fall! Kimishima are you listenin'? Hey! Kimishima? Heh heh, say something. Kimishima I am not in the mood to fool around. This isn't funny. Hey, Kaname, what's wrong?...Hey, wait. Kimishima?"\\

'''Simon:''' "What was that [[spoiler:bro]]? (screen goes black) [[spoiler:Bro]]?"

* Variant in ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide''. When [[spoiler:Asuka gets killed (she gets better later),]] Shinji, utterly broken, pleads [[spoiler:"Asuka, please talk to me. Asuka..."]]

* Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' jams this one, TheyKilledKenny, NotQuiteDead, this one again, and TheyKilledKenny ''again'' into one short scene for one of the Evil Wizard's Mooks in the major battle scene when his buddy is shot.

* In ''Literature/MayaTheBee Movie'', Maya says to Willy after an intense scene in which they are attacked by bats and he is then knocked to the ground. He's not dead, though, only passed out, and quickly does wake up. Later, also to the Queen Bee, who also isn't dead, though is a lot worse off.