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* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' has Sam and Frodo, er, [[IncrediblyLamePun chilling on a big rock]] after they destroy the One Ring.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', Ninian collapses after [[spoiler: using her power to knock out two of three fire dragons charging the group]]. Justified in that this was ''just'' after [[spoiler:she was revived by Brammimond so she was likely still a bit disoriented from it. ''Plus'' [[spoiler:she had spent almost the whole game in her human form, save for a short time right before she died; channeling her Dragon-born ice powers probably took a lot of energy in itself.]]

* Early in ''Literature/TheMagicians'', Quentin is already tired and hungry after spending all day on the bewildering [[WizardingSchool Brakebills]] entrance exam, but the process of being spurred into casting [[ATasteOfPower his first Minor Incantation]] leaves him barely conscious. In the end, one of the teachers has to half-carry him upstairs to bed.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', every party member awakens to the Persona when the party is cornered by the enemy and must use it to save everyone. Afterward, they become incredibly tired, side from the protagonist.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', [[spoiler:Sonic faints after defeating [[FinalBoss Dark Gaia]], showing just how tough this battle was and how much he had to overexert himself to win. Unfortunately, he was in his SuperForm at the time and floating hundreds of feet above the Earth's core -- luckily, Chip/Gaia Colossus catches him in time.]]

** In [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox McCloud]] vs [[ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars Bucky O'Hare]], [[spoiler:Fox falls on his back in relief after he uses a last-second IndyPloy to get around the [[AnArmAndALeg loss of his legs]] and barely take down Bucky]].
** In [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] vs [[Franchise/MortalKombat Scorpion]], [[spoiler:Ryu collapses in exhaustion after using the [[SuperMode Power of Nothingness]] to reduce Scorpion to a skeleton. However, Scorpion was still '[[TheUndead alive]]' even like this, so Ryu was left defenseless against Scorpion's Hellfire counter]].

May result when the BottledHeroicResolve or SuperMode wears off. Often produces DeepSleep.

* "The Reigate Puzzle", a story from the original ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' canon, begins with Holmes ill in a hotel room after solving an enormous case (during which he went without sleep for many days).
-->''Even the triumphant issue of his labors could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams I found him a prey to the blackest depression. Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmaneuvered at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration.''
%%* Franchise/SherlockHolmes, of all people, collapses at the end of the pastiche ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution''. Thoroughly justified, for reasons that are too badass to repeat here in their entirety.

* During one of her Ring Warriors Title defenses against Su Yung, [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] received a concussion and fell under the bottom rope to the floor after pinning her. Then she got up to walk out of the arena and fell again. Then she got back up made it to the curtains before falling through them. She ended up needing a stretcher.

** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Hellion]] of the ''New X-Men'', desperate to save [[spoiler: a dying X-23]] by rushing [[spoiler: her]] to Elixir (a mutant with the power to manipulate biology which lets him heal anything short of actual death), begs Emma Frost to help him. Emma does so by temporarily removing Hellion's subconscious limits. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He flew several times the speed of sound, took out a Sentinel with an armored wagon]], and managed to get [[spoiler: X-23]] to Elixir just in time. He immediately passed out afterward and slept for several days.

** Molly Hayes tends to pass out after any given SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, due to her super-strength draining her stamina.

%%* Franchise/SherlockHolmes, of all people, collapses at the end of the pastiche ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution''. Thoroughly justified, for reasons that are [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome too badass]] to repeat here in their entirety.

* In the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' season one finale, John very nearly collapses on the spot after [[spoiler:being released from his bomb jacket]] by a frantic Sherlock, in a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments rare moment of vulnerability on both sides]].

** And again with Vlad who didn't even ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome flinch let alone collapse]]'' from the Ghostly Wail. Danny's friends and OppositeSexClone were the ones who finished him off.

* Seems to happen several times in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''...granted in one, Touma [[spoiler:just after having his arm cut off, ''talks his enemy into insanity'', and beat him since his enemy's reality warping magic relied on if he truly believed he could make it happen]] the rest is generally since he took a massive beating before the good 'ol punch in the face.

* Multiple times in ''Manga/RaveMaster''. The first is after Haru's fight with Lance before his body has fully adjusted to all the fighting. The most understandable was after Sieg's ''week long'' battle with Haja, and there's no telling if he passed out from injuries and energy spent in the fight of the simple fact that he went 168 hours without sleep.

* Bell from ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' achieves one, after initially being stricken with fear against an enemy that's leagues above him, he gains a HeroicSecondWind because he does not want to be saved by the same person once again. He sets aside his fear and fights an intense battle. After a hard fought battle he barely manages to win, he then he collapses on his feet, truly a badass moment.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', [[spoiler:Sonic faints after defeating [[FinalBoss Dark Gaia]], showing just how tough this battle was and how much he had to overexert himself to win. Unfortunately he was in his SuperForm at the time and floating hundreds of feet above the Earth's core -- luckily, Chip/Gaia Colossus catches him in time.]]

* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Ayrton Senna was leading the whole pack during the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix when suddenly his gearbox was failing in the last laps of the grand prix and the rain at the closing laps doesn't help him either. By the time when there's just a couple of laps left, he was left with ''sixth'' gear. Despite all odds, Senna gained his first ever home race win with a gap of 2.9 seconds from second place. Senna was so exhausted that he stopped the car in the middle of the track and was lifted from his [=McLaren=] to be driven to the podium with a medical car and could barely lift the trophy.

* In Creator/HansChristianAndersen's version of ''The Six/Wild Swans'', the protagonist Elise passes out after [[spoiler: she's saved from being burned at the stake by her brothers, who then recover their human forms thanks to her magical shirts.]] In the Brother Grimm's version, she doesn't.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', [[spoiler:Sonic defeats [[FinalBoss Dark Gaia]] as Super Sonic -- but then reverts back to his normal form as he faints, hundreds of feet above the Earth's core, from overexerting himself in the battle. Luckily, Chip/Gaia Colossus catches him in time.]]

* In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', [[spoiler:Sonic defeats [[FinalBoss Dark Gaia]] as Super Sonic -- but then reverts back to his normal form as he faints, hundreds of feet above lava, from overexerting himself in the battle. Luckily, Chip/Gaia Colossus catches him in time.]]

* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Ayrton Senna was leading the whole pack during the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix when suddenly his gearbox was failing in the last laps of the grand prix and the rain at the closing laps doesn't help him either. By the time when there's just a couple of laps left, he was left with ''sixth'' gear. Despite all odds, Senna gained his first ever home race win with a gap of 2.9 seconds from second place. Senna was so exhausted that he stopped the car in the middle of the track and was lifted from his McLaren to be driven to the podium with a medical car and could barely lift the trophy.

* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Ayrton Senna was leading the whole pack during the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix when suddenly his gearbox was failing in the last laps of the grand prix and the rain doesn't help him either. With just a couple of laps left, he was left with 'sixth' gear. Despite all odds, Senna gained his first ever home win with a gap of 2.9 seconds from second place. Senna was so exhausted that he was lifted from his McLaren and then driven to the podium with a medical car and barely lifts the trophy.

TruthInTelevision, to an extent: Adrenaline and other stress hormones can enable people to go for a long time, despite injuries, only to collapse once the danger is passed and the stress hormones wears off.

** After defeating Zabuza, Kakashi attempts to continue his journey with his students and the bridgebuilder... but he collapses after taking only one step.

** Also after Hiruma's arm is broken, he puts on an impressive front throughout the whole game and even onto the celebrations afterwards with his arm on a sling. But Musashi reveals to Sena that Hiruma has been going to an oxygen capsule to recover from his injuries and he also left the party early to rest.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'', Luck Gandor manages to keep from passing out until after he's not only torn open [[spoiler:Gustavo]]'s throat [[GrievousHarmWithABody with his own severed arm]], but also delivered an appropriately pithy BondOneLiner ''and'' made sure TheIngenue is okay. Then he falls over.

* Daisuke in ''Manga/DNAngel'' has a moment where he stops a fight with Krad by using ThePowerOfFriendship to turn him back into Satoshi. After the battle he leans against a rock wall and admits sheepishly that he couldn't stand otherwise, before promptly collapsing.
* In the finale of the first season of ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', [[spoiler:Fakir]] drags himself up to his feet after nearly being killed and dramatically takes away the villain's trump card...then faints backwards into a pool of water and apparently drowning. [[spoiler:He survives, but barely.]]

* In ''Yugioh Duel monsters'' this is subverted. After a brutal duel between joey and Yami Marik, Joey is able to survive the sheer power of the Winged dragon of Ra's attack, surprising everyone and giving Marik a Oh Crap face, when joey proceeds to attack the now defenseless marik, and win the duel,before joey can announce his attack, he collapses from exhaustion, but at least with the knowledge he technically would have won.

* Multiple times in ''Manga/RaveMaster''. The first is after Haru's fight with Lance, before his body has fully adjusted to all the fighting. The most understandable was after Sieg's ''week long'' battle with Haja, and there's no telling if he passed out from injuries and energy spent in the fight of the simple fact that he went 168 hours without sleep.

* Bell from ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' achieves one, after initially being stricken with fear against an enemy leagues above him, he gains a HeroicSecondWind because he does not want to be saved by the same person once again. He sets aside his fear and fights an intense battle. After a hard fought battle he barely manages to win, he then he collapses on his feet, truly a badass moment.
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', this is regular feature of post-battle scenes. It once goes horribly wrong for Saizo and the others when after defeating Hanzo and Okatsu, UsefulNotes/DateMasamune shows up and effortlessly kidnaps Isanami while everyone's too weak to stand.

** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Hellion]] of the ''New X-Men'', desperate to save [[spoiler: a dying X-23]] by rushing [[spoiler: her]] to Elixir (a mutant with the power to manipulate biology which lets him heal anything short of actual death), begs Emma Frost to help him. Emma does so by temporarily removing Hellion's subconscious limits. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He flew several times the speed of sound, took out a Sentinel with an armored wagon]], and managed to get [[spoiler: X-23]] to Elixir just in time. He immediately passed out afterwards and slept for several days.

* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest: The Rebels'' one of the titular rebels has a very surprising chat with the (then on leave) officer in charge of hunting them down, and convinces him he's not one of the wanted, but rather his cousin. And has a minor breakdown as soon as the officer's left.

** During a trip to 1907, Karolina and Xavin had to combine their powers to create a barrier strong enough to withstand a nuclear explosion. The barrier holds, but they collapse on top of each other afterwards.

* In ''FanFic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles'', Fluttershy defeats Night Raven. Despite being very exhausted and feeling immense pain, Fluttershy doesn't collapse, but remains semi-conscious. She passes out after Firefly congratulates her.
* In ''Fanfic/AnExtendedPerformance'',the Great and Powerful Trixie accidentally summons her SuperPoweredAlterEgo, the Alicorn Illusion, to [[CurbStompBattle defeat]] the Shadow Coven. When the power departs her, Trixie is left confused and exhausted on stage, with no very clear idea of what just happened. She attempts her smoke-bomb exit, but faints on stage halfway through the trick.

* In Creator/HansChristianAndersen's version of ''The Six/Wild Swans'', the protaghonist Elise passes out after [[spoiler: she's saved from being burned at the stake by her brothers, who then recover their human forms thanks to her magical shirts.]] In the Brother Grimm's version, she doesn't.

** MakesSenseInContext: Westley could barely muster the strength to stand before that, having been mostly dead for the better part of the day. He shouldn't have been able to do anything but collapse, yet he had the determination to strike an AssKickingPose and deliver a ToThePain speech to Prince Humperdinck, and achieved victory with that alone.

* In the original version of ''Film/GameOfDeath'': After Hai Tien (Bruce Lee) defeats his last opponents his collapses from exhaustion. He does not go to highest floor and asks the mafia guys for help. They don't care very much and tell him that there's more fighting downstairs.

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', after Franchise/{{Godzilla}} [[spoiler:flambes the female Muto's innards and rips her head off]], he takes a power nap. The military think he's dead until he wakes up a few days later. In a parallel, human protagonist Brody manages to [[spoiler: get the remaining nuclear warhead (which has a hardwired countdown)]] onto a boat and set course for the ocean before he collapses on the deck, and looks back to see Godzilla do the same.

* ''Literature/{{Another}}'' has a rather dark example when [[spoiler: Kouichi kills Reiko after finding out she's the extra. His collapse was due to his collapsed lung flaring up after he kills her. It becomes the victory part after he wakes up to find most of class 3-3 not remembering Reiko as Matsunaga implied would happen.]]

** [[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Weatherwax]] gets a similar event once. She had to [[BareHandedBladeBlock catch the villain's sword with her bare palm]] to make him surrender - and afterwards there wasn't any cut. However, ''a long time after'', when she had finally travelled back through half a continent to her home (and prepared bandages and water), she allows the cut to finally happen.

-->''The Cimmerian stood upright, trailing his sword, a sudden sick weariness assailing him. The glare of the sun on the snow cut his eyes like a knife and the sky seemed shrunken and strangely apart. He turned away from the trampled expanse where yellow-bearded warriors lay locked with red-haired slayers in the embrace of death. A few steps he took, and the glare of the snow fields was suddenly dimmed. A rushing wave of blindness engulfed him and he sank down into the snow, supporting himself on one mailed arm, seeking to shake the blindness out of his eyes as a lion might shake his mane.''

** A more minor example happens during the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets second book]], when he wins a Quiddich game by catching the Snitch, only for a Bludger to hit him on the arm hard enough to break it. He falls off of his broom and says "Ah, we won," before fainting.

** In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire book four]], he is forced to watch a friend die, [[spoiler: witness Voldemort's return,]] gets tortured, and duels both physically and psychologically, all the while bleeding from a leg injury. He is semi-conscious when he gets back, gets even more danger and revelatory crap dumped on him, and is mercifully put out with sleeping potion afterwards.

** And Frodo and Sam, as in the movies, both collapse after disposing of the Ring in Mt. Doom and then hiking back to the foot of the mountain. They had burned through all their reserves just to get there, and had long since given up on the idea of getting home again after.
* In Creator/JohnHemry's ''Literature/TheLostStars'' novel ''Tarnished Knight'', Kontos insists on opening the bridge to Iceni alone, but once he does, he and the rest of the forces collapse virtually instantly; the major problem was starvation, because they had been on short rations for days.

-->''Even the triumphant issue of his labours could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams I found him a prey to the blackest depression. Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmanoeuvred at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration.''

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Three-Cornered Wheel'', the natives arrive as TheCavalry to save young David Falkayn and he faints. Meaning his comrades have more time to worry about their youngest crewmate, because the natives can't operate his radio.

* In ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E20HarderThanItLooks Harder Than it Looks]]", B.A. beats a very strong opponent, and collapses when Face and Murdock give him congratulatory pats on the shoulder.

** In an early episode, D'Argo ends up getting shot in the back while escaping from an enemy fortress, but manages to keep on running the next few hundred metres to safety. As soon as he stops moving, he promptly keels over, revealing that he is seriously injured.

* At the end of the ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "Sateda", Ronon Dex collapses just as Dr. Beckett offers him a tranquillizer before removing a Wraith tracker. To be fair, Ronon had spent the whole episode getting beaten up by Wraith hunters, and especially by their leader, the [[TheBrute "Big Wraith"]]. Any lesser man would be dead.

* Another for La Rosa Negra was her match against Datura at ''STARDOM Appeal The Heart #2'' where she countered a flying attack off the ropes by catching Datura in her arms, and broke her knees in the process. Datura pressed hr advantage but La Rosa made a comeback [[VillainousValor after finding she could put weight on one leg]], ''won'', and could no longer stand on either leg after that.

* In ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'', every time the main character used the CutscenePowerToTheMax of the Rune of Punishment, he'd collapse immediately afterwards due to the rune's soul-draining side-effects. [[spoiler:Depending on which ending you get, it ends up killing him after the final battle, or he manages to push the rune into its rarely seen 'Forgiveness' form, where it's got all the ass-kicking with none of the side effects.]]
* Galuf's DeaderThanDead scene in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': He keeps on fighting well after his HP hit 0, untill finally collapsing after the bad-guy's been beaten.

** He successfully (and accidentally) uses it the first on the car-crash victim. As said victim fibrillates, Derek's concentration and "''[[HowDareYouDieOnMe don't die on me!]]''" determination kicks the Touch in. After he REFINES the touch in ''Power of Asclepius'' he complains of headache. After squandering it in the very NEXT surgery, he collapses and spends the next few days asleep in a ward.

* Takeshi in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' actually gets two of these. The first and more minor is [[spoiler:instantly collapsing after rescuing Tsugumi despite coughing up lots of blood, flu like symptoms, decompression sickness, swimming through frigid water and some other minor things after not eating for a good day or so.]] The second comes just a little later when [[spoiler:he basically comes back from the dead and does the same thing again only this time after being under pressurized water and not breathing for a good half an hour or so at least, rescuing Coco and a couple other impossible things before 'getting tired' and entering a cryogenic chamber which keeps him alive while his body fights off TB.]]

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', every party member awakens to the Persona when the party is cornered by the enemy and must us it to save everyone. Afterwards, they become incredibly tired, side from the protagonist.

** Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''; if you manage to defeat Leon in Traverse Town, Sora will pass out afterward, allowing the story continue in the exact same way as if you had lost.
** Near the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', Xion, who has absorbed [[spoiler:half of Roxas' strength]], and Axel clash outside of the old mansion in Twilight Town, and Axel wins. He collapse from exhaustion after bringing her back to The World That Never Was, indicating a very close match.

** In [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox McCloud]] vs [[ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars Bucky O'Hare]], [[spoiler:Fox falls on his back in relief after he uses a last second IndyPloy to get around the [[AnArmAndALeg loss of his legs]] and barely take down Bucky]].

* There's one scene in ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' where Raven has to stare down [[spoiler:Big Boss]], who has possessed Liquid's body. [[spoiler:Big Boss]] has already been shot with a tranq, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect. Despite this, and despite Raven knowing that he would get his ass handed to him in a fight, Raven calmly stands there, eye to eye in a staredown, and even {{Trash Talk}}ing his enemy until the tranq finally kicks in. Afterward he looks ready to collapse with relief, and says "That took waaaaaaay too damn long".

* Happens to Humphrey a couple times in ''Webcomic/UseSwordOnMonster''. We don't ''see'' it happen with Oz or Hilda, but Hilda's apparently [[http://www.useswordonmonster.com/?comic=2013-04-29 familiar with the problem]].

* ''Roleplay/CerberusDailyNews'': During Operation Death To Discord, the asari commando Desta T'Res collapsed after delivering a mortal blow to Discord. She had already been [[EyeScream seriously wounded]], and was running on pure adrenaline. She made a full recovery.

-->'''Tucker''': Nah, it's only been a couple hours.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. At the beginning, this trope happened to Aang when he came out of the [[SuperMode Avatar State]], but there's notably less effect with each successive use. By the first season finale he can stay on his feet, and as of the grand finale he seems to have overcome the problem entirely.

* In the premiere episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Bruce and Terry fight off a gang of Jokerz. Terry then has to help Bruce back to Wayne Manor to get his medicine, after which Bruce falls asleep in his chair. This serves as a EstablishingCharacterMoment -- Bruce Wayne still has his old skills, but time has left him without the stamina to engage in an extended battle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', in episode Nightfright, a has-been horror movie actor named Vincent van Ghoul invites shaggy and scooby to his mansion, where a monster called night fright terrorizes them for the whole night. In order to trap the monster,Vincent must act unfazed by its threats and lead it to the trap, by confusing it with his non caring attitude,Vincent surprisingly pulls this off, but the minute the monsters caught, he collapses out of the sheer terror he was in, but is impressed with his acting skills.

* During the "Thrilla in Manila", often considered the best and most absolutely brutal heavyweight boxing match in the history of the sport, UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli fought his arch-enemy "Smokin'" Joe Frazier for the third and final time. After 14 grueling rounds that left both men absolutely battered and near-death, Ali (who described the event as "the closest to dying I've ever been") told his corner he would be quitting, but his trainer refused to pull him out. Meanwhile, the exact opposite happened in Frazier's corner, with Frazier's trainer pulling out Frazier off the fight despite Frazier's vehement protests. So Frazier quit in his corner (against his will) and Ali was declared the winner by TKO. Shortly thereafter, Ali briefly celebrated his victory walking around the ring but right afterwards collapsed on his stool and had to be rushed to a hospital suffering from serious dehydration.

* During the "Thrilla in Manila", often considered the best and most absolutely brutal heavyweight boxing match in the history of the sport, Muhammad Ali fought his arch-enemy "Smokin'" Joe Frazier for the third and final time. After 14 grueling rounds that left both men absolutely battered and near-death, Ali (who described the event as "the closest to dying I've ever been") told his corner he would be quitting, but his trainer refused to pull him out. Meanwhile, the exact opposite happened in Frazier's corner, with Frazier's trainer pulling out Frazier off the fight despite Frazier's vehement protests. So Frazier quit in his corner (against his will) and Ali was declared the winner by TKO. Shortly thereafter, Ali briefly celebrated his victory walking around the ring but right afterwards collapsed on his stool and had to be rushed to a hospital suffering from serious dehydration.

* In ''Scooby doo Mystery incorporated'', in episode Nightfright, a has-been horror movie actor named Vincent van ghoul invites shaggy and scooby to his mansion, where a monster called night fright terrorizes them for the whole night. In order to trap the monster,Vincent must act unfazed by its threats and lead it to the trap, by confusing it with his non caring attitude,Vincent surprisingly pulls this off, but the minute the monsters caught, he collapses out of the sheer terror he was in, but is impressed with his acting skills.

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* There is, of course, the tale of Ragnarok, from Norse Mythology, where Thor, the son of Odin, slays the Miðgarðsormr (a giant serpent), takes nine steps, then falls dead as a doornail (due to the fatal venom of Jörmungandr).
* The Tall Tale of John Henry had him beat the Steam Drill in hammering a mine; but he died from the exertion.
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* Literature/{{Another}} has a rather dark example when [[spoiler: Kouichi kills Reiko after finding out she's the extra. His collapse was due to his collapsed lung flaring up after he kills her. It becomes the victory part after he wakes up to find most of class 3-3 not remembering Reiko as Matsunaga implied would happen.]]