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** ''Discworld/NightWatch'': "I'll teach him to walk! I'm ''good'' at teaching people to walk!" *falls over*

* Truth in television: When in literal "Life or death" situations, adrenaline and other endorphins are more than capable of pushing the human body beyond normal limits. Once the danger is over and the body stops producing these drugs, people will obviously crash.

* Has been happening to ''DannyPhantom'' ever since the first episode.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Happens to Aang ''every single time'' he comes out of the [[SuperMode Avatar State]]. But he is only twelve, and under a great deal of pressure.
** Not quite. The first time he swoons, 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.

* Both Orihime and Chad's first battles against Hollows in ''{{Bleach}}'' end with them passing out from exhaustion having used their newly awakened powers to defeat them.

* Kurapika from ''{Hunter x Hunter}'' pulled one at the end of the Yorkshin arc. [[spoiler: He slept for two days.]]

* The "Marathon run" is named after a feat that occurred after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon Battle of Marathon]], in which Pheidippides ran 225km from Athens to Sparta ''in one day'' to ask for aid in the coming battle, participated in the battle, and then ran another 42km in full armor from Marathon back to Athens to head off a Persian counterattack. Popular legend has it that Pheidippides collapsed and died on arrival.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "Why does Westley need helping?" "Because [[YouCanBarelyStand he has no strength]]." "I knew you were bluffing! I knew he was bluffing!"

* ''TalesOfTheQuestor'': Quentyn delivers a truly epic ToThePain speech to the leader of a gang of street punks in the jail ... and delivers a VomitDiscretionShot outside fifteen seconds later. He ''is'' barely over the age of majority, after all, with [[HeroicWannabe all the battle experience that implies]].

* In GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles fights Wessner and then argues with McLean about finishing his round, before he collapses.

* In "The Long Walk" by Stephen King (published under the pseudonym Richard Bachmann), the protagonist reaches the finish line and collapses just when he reaches it, completely exhausted from the march.

But, after he's sure the bad guys have left, he promptly collapses, whether from the stress of dealing with someone who completely terrified him, or the guy he just talked down could have broken him in half without a sweat, or just because he got hurt too badly in the fight. If it was really bad, they may even die, making this a HeroicSacrifice (albeit an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] one).

--->''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 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.

* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Hellion]] of the ''NewXMen'', 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. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome 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.