History Main / RiseFromYourGrave

* Happens in ''SchlockMercenary''. Kevyn was buried in a shallow grave after having his throat ripped out on a primitive world. Fortunately, [[{{Nanotechnology}} his blood-nannies]] managed to heal and revive him.

** This troper once saw a documentary where it was explained that during the decay process, the skin contracts from the fingers. This makes it look like as if the nails had grown. Cue superstitious Romanians desecrating a grave to cut out the corpse's heart to prevent it from raising. And this happened ''in the twentieth century''. No comment.

* Possibly the TropeNamer, the old Sega arcade stand and cartridge ''AlteredBeast'' has the player character being reanimated while Zeus appears in the sky with a crystal ball saying, "I command you to rise from your grave and rescue my daughter." The "Rise from your grave" portion is said in audio, and is quite {{Narm}}y (sound compression leads to ElmuhFuddSyndwome): [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJx-qIqWRuo "Wise fwom youw gwave!"]]

* [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] in ''[[TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]]''.

* ''[[CountYorga The Return of Count Yorga]]'' start off commanding his buried vampire harem to rise from their graves, which they proceed to do. As shown in the image above.

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Note that you shouldn't expect this to be possible in real life: Six feet of dirt are ''heavy''. Also, go to any modern morturary. Anything breaking out of those metal streamlined megaboxes we call coffins these days had better have SuperStrength.

* The Bride from ''KillBill'' did this in Part 2. She wasn't actually DEAD, but she still [[ChekhovsSkill one-inch punched]] through the coffin lid and clawed her way out of her own grave. And then walked into a diner across from the graveyard, covered in dirt, with bloody hands, and asked for a bottle of water. The clerk's face was priceless...

** Batman himself too, at the climax of the ''RIP'' storyline.

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* Sango, from ''InuYasha'', after being apparently fatally wounded, is BuriedAlive in one episode. Rather than dying from bloodloss and lack of air, she just gets mad and digs her way out for revenge. With a little help from a magical pain-killer, she then proceeds to hike for miles and then engage in heavy combat and nearly defeat Inuyasha.
* In ''[[{{MAR}} MÄR]]'', Chess Knight Phantom comes back to life in this way; all his Knights gather by his grave to witness his hand burst out of the soil as he resurrects. [[FridgeLogic One wonders why they buried him, if they knew he was going to resurrect.]]

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Note that you shouldn't expect this to be possible in real life: Six feet of dirt are ''heavy''.

* In [[VampireTheMasquerade]], The Sabbat use this as a recruiting technique when they need more foot soldiers. They abduct a bunch of random humans, turn them into vampires, and bury them. If any of them are tough enough to make it out, the trauma and blood-starvation has usually made them crazy enough to join the Sabbat.

->"Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface, Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with, He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it and when he couldn't dirt spit, he swallowed it"\\
--'''Lupe Fiasco''', "The Cool"

* Herzog [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWS__Rb4B8 howls a command]] (to arise, not to Archvile...) and a whole horde of zombie nazis claw out of the ''snow''.

* Averted on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. You would expect the immortal Adam Munroe to eventually be able to work his way free of the coffin Hiro put him in but he doesn't.
** You really wouldn't: Adam's resistance to death comes from a HealingFactor, not any kind of SuperStrength. Coffin opens outward, there's six feet of ground above you... yeah.
** Anyway, he was only in there a few days. Maybe he would have worked himself out eventually, if only when the coffin rotted.

* The heroine Christine does this at [[spoiler: what only appears to be the climax]] of ''DragMeToHell''.

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-->''He grabbed onto some grass and climbed, pulled himself up out of his own grave, and looked at the time''
--> ''On a watch that had stopped six months after the shots that had got him in the box...''\\

-->"Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface, Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with, He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it and when he couldn't dirt spit, he swallowed it"\\
--"Lupe Fiasco," "The Cool"

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* The ''{{Death Note}}'' fanfic [[http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600047145 ''Redeemer'']] used this to great effect:
-->He was soaked on the other side of the door— long hair now hung past his shoulders, plastered to a pale and forlorn face—so familiar and distinctly beautiful and utterly… wrecked with what seemed like misery and anxiety and every last emotion L had heard in his voice [[spoiler:before he’d killed him]]... Until the fist banged on the door from outside, and the voice yelled at him over the weather: “L, goddamnit, open the fucking door!!”