History Main / RiseFromYourGrave

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. Not to mention that even if you ''could'' escape from a box under six feet of dirt somehow, it still wouldn't result in the usual sight of a hand popping out of the ground: instead, the displacement of all that dirt would result in a huge mound popping up ahead of you.

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* Subveretd in ''Series/LostGirl'', when Kenzi is brought back to life inside her coffin. Dyson and Lauren are informed of it happening, and are smart enough to realize Kenzi is still in her grave. Ultimately, they dig her up.

* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' is seen rising from her grave in the cover of ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl (Vol 5)]]'' issue #28. Four issues later, she has a nightmare where she's been buried alive and has to dig her way out of her grave.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' is seen rising from her grave in the cover of ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl (Vol 5)]]'' issue #28.

* [[ComicBook/BlackestNight RISE!]]
* {{Superman}} did this in one story after having apparently been killed (and insta-buried) by Terra-Man. Since he retained his powers, it was not a very surprising feat. The twist set up by the villain was that he came back looking like Terra-Man, leading him to be hunted by other superheroes [[MistakenForOwnMurderer for obvious reasons]].
* In one of the comics where MickeyMouse is depicted as a hard-boiled detective, he was buried alive by the bad guys, in a fresh grave and without a coffin. He managed to cup some air in front of his face, but he only got a hand out under his own power, which was enough since the police were there by then and dug him up.

* Used in ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'' and [[Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII its first sequel]]. When the local graveyards are doused with Trioxin gas, the dead start busting out of their eternal resting places.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series backstory, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] were all but rendered extinct in the late 1st Era. However, while anyone of sufficient ability can slay the physical body of a dragon, they possess ResurrectiveImmortality and can be brought back to life by another dragon unless their [[YourSoulIsMine soul is absorbed]] by a fellow dragon (or [[TheChosenOne Dragonborn]]). Come ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', [[BigBad Alduin]] has [[SealedEvilInACan escaped the timestream]] and is bringing the dragons back to life. Many are buried in dragon burial mounds throughout Skyrim, and it is possible to witness several literally rising from their graves.

* In ''{{Series/AgentsOfSHIELD}}'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA.

** This is, in fact, not uncommon in EC comics and other pre-ComicsCode horror comics.

* Used in ''The Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' and [[Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII its first sequel]]. When the local graveyards are doused with Trioxin gas, the dead start busting out of their eternal resting places.

* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8793565/chapters/20159878 How the Light Gets In]]'': When Laurel is resurrected (by currently unknown means), she's forced to do this. Described in [[{{NightmareFuel}} horrifying and agonizing]] detail. By the time she gets to the surface, she's torn her knuckles, lost several fingernails, covered in cuts, [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle lost a shoe]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking her hair's a mess]]. Dean later reflects on what a horrifying and lasting trauma this is, see [[Quotes/RiseFromYourGrave here]].

* Windle Poons does this in ''Discworld/ReaperMan''. He's a zombie, more or less, but an intelligent one who thinks he ought to be dead, so he spends a fair amount of time lying in his coffin trying to actually be a corpse before he gets bored and gives up on the idea.
* Mentioned in ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Night Watch]]'': Towards the end of the book, Vimes orders [[spoiler: Reg Shoe]] buried - "but not too deep, he'll be wanting to come out in a few hours". The zombie later buries himself and rises from the grave every anniversary of his death, out of solidarity for his non-zombie comrades.

* In ''{{Series/AgentsOfSHIELD}}'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA earlier.

* In ''{{Series/AgentsofS.H.I.E.L.D.}}'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA earlier.

* In ''{{Series/Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.}}'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA earlier.

** Batman himself too, at the climax of the ''RIP'' storyline (pictured above).

* {{Superman}} did this in one story after having apparently been killed (and insta-buried) by Terra-Man. Since he retained his powers, it was not a very surprising feat. The twist set up by the villain was that he came back looking like Terra-Man, leading him to be hunted by other superheroes for obvious reasons.
* In one of the comics where MickeyMouse is depicted as a hard-boiled detective, he was buired alive by the bad guys, in a fresh grave and without a coffin. He managed to cup some air in front of his face, but he only got a hand out under his own power, which was enough since the police were there by then and dug him up.

* Addressed in the DiscoveryChannel program ''One Way Out''. Escape artist Jonathan Goodwin got the trapdoor in his (oversized) coffin open, but ran out of somewhere to put the dirt long before he could get a large enough hole dug to get out.

* In one of the comics where MickeyMouse is depicted as a hard-boiled detective, he was bured alive by the bad guys, in a fresh grave and without a coffin. He managed to cup some air in front of his face, but he only got a hand out under his own power, which was enough since the police were there by then and dug him up.