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* [[https://www.oglaf.com/closed-casket/ This]] (SFW) ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' comic features the "multi-coffin," which is filled with useful tools and weapons, has a removable bottom panel so you can walk around, a slot to see and shoot crossbow bolts out of, and can be used as a canoe. It's not intended to save your life, but to help you out if you get [[AnimateDead raised by a necromancer]].
---> '''Skeleton:''' Demand one in your will!
---> '''Skeleton:''' Demand one in your will!
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* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
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* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. ''Film/{{Rosewood|1997}}'': The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
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* In ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'', the ghost calamity Ship-Sinking Black Water has the power to make anything sink except a coffin that has contained a dead person. Hua Cheng, being aware of his fellow ghost's powers, uses that information to get Xie Lian to safety during the Black Water arc, with Hua Cheng as a ghost counting as the dead person.
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May come attached to FakingTheDead if the hero pretends to actually belong in the coffin. Compare CrammingTheCoffin, where the person hiding (or, more accurately, being hid) in the coffin is already dead. Compare also the BodybagTrick, which uses a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bodybag]] instead of a coffin, but can have similar symbolic effect.
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May come attached to FakingTheDead if the hero pretends to actually belong in the coffin. Compare CrammingTheCoffin, where the person hiding (or, more accurately, being hid) hidden) in the coffin is already dead. Compare also the BodybagTrick, which uses a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bodybag]] instead of a coffin, but can have similar symbolic effect.
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* In ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', towards the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the evil sheriff shows up at [=McGill=]'s cabin ready to hang [=McGill=] and his two companion protagonists (never mind that they've been pardoned by the governor), and has three gravediggers with coffins at the ready; but just then the valley floods (as part of a rural electrification program) and everybody is swept away; the protagonists pop up in the water and are able to cling to one of the coffins.]]
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* In ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', towards the end of the movie, [[spoiler:the evil sheriff shows up at [=McGill=]'s cabin ready to hang [=McGill=] and his two companion protagonists (never mind that they've been pardoned by the governor), and has three gravediggers with coffins at the ready; ready, but just then the valley floods (as part of a rural electrification program) and everybody is swept away; the protagonists pop up in the water and are able to cling to one of the coffins.]]
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* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean escapes from the convent of Petit-Picpus (which is being watched by police who suspect that he's hiding inside) in the coffin of a nun who has just died, and is being taken out for burial.
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* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean escapes from the convent of Petit-Picpus (which is being watched by police who suspect that he's hiding inside) in the coffin of a nun who has just died, died and is being taken out for burial.
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* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/PaleHorseComing''. One of the characters is a coffin maker, and arranged to have a load of coffins shipped to the town of Thebes in order to [[spoiler: aid a prison escape and town evacuation]].
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* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/PaleHorseComing''. One of the characters is a coffin maker, maker and arranged to have a load of coffins shipped to the town of Thebes in order to [[spoiler: aid a prison escape and town evacuation]].
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* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': Galactic undertakers try to steal the Doctor's TARDIS by faking evidence of the Doctor's death so that two of his former companions (Jo Jones (nee Grant) and Sarah Jane Smith) will come to the funeral, where their memories can be harnessed to create a key to the TARDIS. The Doctor shows up and gets Jo and Sarah Jane to remember all of their adventures, overloading the memory capturing machine which, [[SarcasmMode naturally]], starts [[MadeOfExplodium counting down towards blowing up]]. Jo and Sarah Jane survive by hiding in the lead-lined coffin created for the Doctor.
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* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': Galactic undertakers try to steal the Doctor's TARDIS by faking evidence of the Doctor's death so that two of his former companions (Jo Jones (nee Grant) and Sarah Jane Smith) will come to the funeral, where their memories can be harnessed to create a key to the TARDIS. The Doctor shows up and gets Jo and Sarah Jane to remember all of their adventures, overloading the memory capturing memory-capturing machine which, [[SarcasmMode naturally]], starts [[MadeOfExplodium counting down towards blowing up]]. Jo and Sarah Jane survive by hiding in the lead-lined coffin created for the Doctor.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'', a Dark Brotherhood aligned Dovahkiin needs to hide inside the Night Mother's coffin when [[spoiler:The Penitus Oculatus raze the Falkreath sanctuary]].
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* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': Galactic undertakers try to steal the Doctor's TARDIS by faking evidence of the Doctor's death so that two of his former companions will come to the funeral, where their memories can be harnessed to create a key to the TARDIS. The Doctor shows up and gets the companions to remember all of their adventures, overloading the memory capturing machine which, [[SarcasmMode naturally]], starts [[MadeOfExplodium counting down towards blowing up]]. The companions survive by hiding in the lead-lined coffin created for the Doctor.
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* In the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' album ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'' Tintin and professor Sarcophagus are drugged and then smuggled on board a ship inside coffins, then thrown overboard into the sea when the smugglers are nearly caught by coastal police. They manage to open the coffins and drift back to shore.
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* In the ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' album ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'' Tintin and professor Professor Sarcophagus are drugged and then smuggled on board a ship inside coffins, then thrown overboard into the sea when the smugglers are nearly caught by coastal police. They manage to open the coffins and drift back to shore.
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* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.
* In ''Film/OnceBitten'', Mark and his LoveInterest hide in a coffin when the Countess and her aide are searching the house for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work for very long, but long enough for the love interest to ''very quickly'' relieve Mark of his virginity, rendering him unsuitable for the vampiress's tastes.]]
* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.
* In ''Film/OnceBitten'', Mark and his LoveInterest hide in a coffin when the Countess and her aide are searching the house for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work for very long, but long enough for the love interest to ''very quickly'' relieve Mark of his virginity, rendering him unsuitable for the vampiress's tastes.]]
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* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.
* In ''Film/OnceBitten'', Mark and his LoveInterest hide in a coffin when the Countess and her aide are searching the house for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work for very long, but long enough for the love interest to ''very quickly'' relieve Mark of his virginity, rendering him unsuitable for the vampiress's tastes.]]
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* Laurel and Hardy used this in one of their first films, ''A-Haunting We Will Go'', where they are escorting a coffin, not knowing that a criminal gang leader has hidden in it to escape the police.
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* Captain Jack Sparrow hides with a dead man in a coffin to escape from prison at the beginning of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''.
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* ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'':
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pair of sympathetic undertakers.
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken tries to escape with his loot through Allied inspection by hiding in a coffin transported by a corrupt undertaker he paid off. He is intercepted by the surviving two resistance members, and suffocated by bolting the casket shut.]]
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pair of sympathetic undertakers.
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken tries to escape with his loot through Allied inspection by hiding in a coffin transported by a corrupt undertaker he paid off. He is intercepted by the surviving two resistance members, and suffocated by bolting the casket shut.]]
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* ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'':
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pairCreator/LaurelAndHardy used this in one of sympathetic undertakers.
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken triestheir first films, ''A-Haunting We Will Go'', where they are escorting a coffin, not knowing that a criminal gang leader has hidden in it to escape with his loot through Allied inspection by hiding in a coffin transported by a corrupt undertaker he paid off. He is intercepted by the surviving two resistance members, and suffocated by bolting the casket shut.]]police.
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pair
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken tries
* In ''Film/OnceBitten'', Mark and his LoveInterest hide in a coffin when the Countess and her aide are searching the house for them. [[spoiler: It doesn't work for very long, but long enough for the love interest to ''very quickly'' relieve Mark of his virginity, rendering him unsuitable for the vampiress's tastes.]]
* Captain Jack Sparrow hides with a dead man in a coffin to escape from prison at the beginning of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''.
* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.
* ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'':
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pair of sympathetic undertakers.
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken tries to escape with his loot through Allied inspection by hiding in a coffin transported by a corrupt undertaker he paid off. He is intercepted by the surviving two resistance members, and suffocated by bolting the casket shut.]]
* Captain Jack Sparrow hides with a dead man in a coffin to escape from prison at the beginning of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''.
* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}''. The hero's mother is killed by white racists attacking the black town, and the hero himself is smuggled out in her coffin.
* ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.
* ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'':
** The Jewish refugee Rachel passes through German inspection to her new hiding place by posing as a corpse and being smuggled by a pair of sympathetic undertakers.
** Subverted at the end when [[spoiler:the treacherous Dr. Franken tries to escape with his loot through Allied inspection by hiding in a coffin transported by a corrupt undertaker he paid off. He is intercepted by the surviving two resistance members, and suffocated by bolting the casket shut.]]
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* In ''Literature/MobyDick'', Ishmael survives the sinking of the ''Pequod'' by clinging to the coffin intended for Queequeg.
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* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/PaleHorseComing''. One of the characters is a coffin maker, and arranged to have a load of coffins shipped to the town of Thebes in order to [[spoiler: aid a prison escape and town evacuation]].
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Franchise/TheWitcher: Literature/TheLastWish''. Geralt hides inside a striga's stone sarcophagus both for protection and because his contract is to cure the striga, King Foltest's daughter Adda. Spending a night near a striga's coffin breaks the curse long enough for one to suppress it with various charms, and the stone lid is just handy protection. (The sequence also appears in the opening cinematic of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' video game.)
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Franchise/TheWitcher: Literature/TheLastWish''. Geralt hides inside a striga's stone sarcophagus both for protection and because his contract is to cure the striga, King Foltest's daughter Adda. Spending a night near a striga's coffin breaks the curse long enough for one to suppress it with various charms, and the stone lid is just handy protection. (The sequence also appears in the opening cinematic of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' video game.)
* ''Literature/EvaLuna'': [[spoiler:Elvira, a mother figure to Eva,]] saves up to buy a coffin to avoid being buried as an indigent. She frequently uses it as AnOddPlaceToSleep to prepare herself for death. Later on, it ends up saving her from drowning during a flood.
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting case appears in ''Literature/GhostStory'', when Harry Dresden seeks protection in his open grave, "gifted" to him by an old adversary. The catch is that Harry [[spoiler:is already [[NotQuiteDead (mostly) dead]]. He's a ghost, and as a being of pure spirit is at risk of being destroyed by the light of the sun without sheltering in some sort of magical refuge. His grave fit the bill.]]
* ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn''. A member of LaResistance mentions to the protagonist that he was hypnotised into a comatose state, then smuggled across the country in a coffin.
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting case appears in ''Literature/GhostStory'', when Harry Dresden seeks protection in his open grave, "gifted" to him by an old adversary. The catch is that Harry [[spoiler:is already [[NotQuiteDead (mostly) dead]]. He's a ghost, and as a being of pure spirit is at risk of being destroyed by the light of the sun without sheltering in some sort of magical refuge. His grave fit the bill.]]
* ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn''. A member of LaResistance mentions to the protagonist that he was hypnotised into a comatose state, then smuggled across the country in a coffin.
* In ''Literature/MobyDick'', Ishmael survives the sinking of the ''Pequod'' by clinging to the coffin intended for Queequeg.
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* ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn''. A member of LaResistance mentions to the protagonist that he was hypnotised into a comatose state, then smuggled across the country in a coffin.
* ''Literature/EvaLuna'': [[spoiler:Elvira, a mother figure to Eva,]] saves up to buy a coffin to avoid being buried as an indigent. She frequently uses it as AnOddPlaceToSleep to prepare herself for death. Later on, it ends up saving her from drowning during a flood.
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting case appears in ''Literature/GhostStory'', when Harry Dresden seeks protection in his open grave, "gifted" to him by an old adversary. The catch is that Harry [[spoiler:is already [[NotQuiteDead (mostly) dead]]. He's a ghost, and as a being of pure spirit is at risk of being destroyed by the light of the sun without sheltering in some sort of magical refuge. His grave fit the bill.]]
* ''Literature/EvaLuna'': [[spoiler:Elvira, a mother figure to Eva,]] saves up to buy a coffin to avoid being buried as an indigent. She frequently uses it as AnOddPlaceToSleep to prepare herself for death. Later on, it ends up saving her from drowning during a flood.
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting case appears in ''Literature/GhostStory'', when Harry Dresden seeks protection in his open grave, "gifted" to him by an old adversary. The catch is that Harry [[spoiler:is already [[NotQuiteDead (mostly) dead]]. He's a ghost, and as a being of pure spirit is at risk of being destroyed by the light of the sun without sheltering in some sort of magical refuge. His grave fit the bill.]]
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* ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn''. A member {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Literature/PaleHorseComing''. One of LaResistance mentions to the protagonist that he was hypnotised into a comatose state, then smuggled across the country in a coffin.
* ''Literature/EvaLuna'': [[spoiler:Elvira, a mother figure to Eva,]] saves up to buycharacters is a coffin maker, and arranged to avoid being buried as an indigent. She frequently uses it as AnOddPlaceToSleep have a load of coffins shipped to prepare herself the town of Thebes in order to [[spoiler: aid a prison escape and town evacuation]].
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Franchise/TheWitcher: Literature/TheLastWish''. Geralt hides inside a striga's stone sarcophagus both fordeath. Later on, protection and because his contract is to cure the striga, King Foltest's daughter Adda. Spending a night near a striga's coffin breaks the curse long enough for one to suppress it ends up saving her from drowning during a flood.
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting casewith various charms, and the stone lid is just handy protection. (The sequence also appears in ''Literature/GhostStory'', when Harry Dresden seeks protection in his open grave, "gifted" to him by an old adversary. The catch is that Harry [[spoiler:is already [[NotQuiteDead (mostly) dead]]. He's a ghost, and as a being of pure spirit is at risk of being destroyed by the light opening cinematic of the sun without sheltering in some sort of magical refuge. His grave fit the bill.]]''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' video game.)
* ''Literature/EvaLuna'': [[spoiler:Elvira, a mother figure to Eva,]] saves up to buy
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Franchise/TheWitcher: Literature/TheLastWish''. Geralt hides inside a striga's stone sarcophagus both for
* While not exactly a coffin, an interesting case
* ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "Final Escape", remade under the same title in ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', subverts this when a male prisoner (female in the remake) plans an escape using this method. The prisoner is supposed to hide in the next coffin being used, then the prison undertaker is supposed to come and dig the coffin up once the coast is clear. [[spoiler:When the prisoner feels that they've been waiting too long, they light a match to see that they're buried with ... the undertaker.]]
* ''Series/BreakoutKings'': In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
* ''Series/BreakoutKings'': In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' eludes the police when they raid the Trinity Killer's house (he was there to kill Trinity) by hiding in a coffin that Trinity had made himself until enough time had passed that Dexter (a member of the police department) could realistically have arrived.
* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "Deathlock", Mac uses this ploy to be carried out of East Germany (with stolen microfilm). Of course in this case the coffin is also a fully functional motorized water vehicle.
* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "Deathlock", Mac uses this ploy to be carried out of East Germany (with stolen microfilm). Of course in this case the coffin is also a fully functional motorized water vehicle.
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* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "Deathlock", Mac uses this ploy to be carried out of East Germany (with stolen microfilm). Of course in this case the coffin is also a fully functional motorized water vehicle.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' eludes the police when they raid the Trinity Killer's house (he was there to kill Trinity) by hiding in a coffin that Trinity had made himself until enough time had passed that Dexter (a member of the police department) could realistically have arrived.
* ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "Final Escape", remade under the same title in ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', subverts this when a male prisoner (female in the remake) plans an escape using this method. The prisoner is supposed to hide in the next coffin being used, then the prison undertaker is supposed to come and dig the coffin up once the coast is clear. [[spoiler:When the prisoner feels that they've been waiting too long, they light a match to see that they're buried with ... the undertaker.]]
* ''Series/BreakoutKings'': In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' eludes the police when they raid the Trinity Killer's house (he was there to kill Trinity) by hiding in a coffin that Trinity had made himself until enough time had passed that Dexter (a member of the police department) could realistically have arrived.
* ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "Final Escape", remade under the same title in ''The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', subverts this when a male prisoner (female in the remake) plans an escape using this method. The prisoner is supposed to hide in the next coffin being used, then the prison undertaker is supposed to come and dig the coffin up once the coast is clear. [[spoiler:When the prisoner feels that they've been waiting too long, they light a match to see that they're buried with ... the undertaker.]]
* ''Series/BreakoutKings'': In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'', a Dark Brotherhood aligned Dovahkiin needs to hide inside the Night Mother's coffin when [[spoiler:The Penitus Oculatus raze the Falkreath sanctuary]].
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/LauraBow 2'', Laura evades the killer by hiding in a sarcophagus.
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/LauraBow 2'', Laura evades the killer by hiding in a sarcophagus.
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* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Part One]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ends with Erina Joestar (née Pendelton) surviving the destruction of her honeymoon ship by floating in Dio Brando's coffin.
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* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Part One]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ends with Erina Joestar (née Pendelton) surviving the destruction of her honeymoon ship by floating in Dio Brando's bomb-proof coffin.
