History Main / SickbedSlaying

* Any ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' level that takes place in Hospital this will occur. HOW it occurs is the question. In the [[Videogame/Hitman2016 2016]] Season 1 finale, you can even show the chief surgeon his patient is also [[YouKilledMyFather his father's killer]], and the nice doctor will off your target himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': While fleeing from the Autobots, Decepticon deep cover Shockwave happens upon the medlab where Autobot Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus is on life support [[note]] Magnus had been gravely injured after Shockwave himself attacked him when his cover as [[MoleInCharge Head of Intelligence Longarm Prime]] was on the verge of being blown [[/note]]. Deciding to take advantage of the opportunity to finish the job, Shockwave prepares to strike Magnus down with his [[DropTheHammer own Magnus Hammer]], the symbol of his [[{{Irony}} position of Magnus]]. [[BigDamnHeroes Luckily]], Ratchet is arrives in time to use his magnetic powers to grab the Hammer mid-swing.

* Manga/WolfsRain: Lady Hamona was left comatose from Paradise sickness, an illness that took her soul, which was caused by contact with her lover, Darcia III, due to his curse. Darcia had an advanced life-support system that kept her body alive, but Hamona's older twin sister, the ruthless and cruel Lady Jaguara, was also in love with Darcia, angry because he chose to love Hamona instead of her, and Jaguara became a YanDere over him. Jaguara grew jealous of her sister, and therefore [[KilledOffscreen killed Hamona while she was sick.]] Darcia was utterly heartbroken.

* In ''Film/Joker2019'', Arthur Fleck kills his mother Penny while she is laying in the hospital bed hooked up to machines due to heart failure, by [[VorpalPillow smothering her with a pillow]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The last we see of the ShowWithinAShow Ducktective, the title character has been outsmarted and shot, dying in a hospital bed. It's not enough for his his EvilTwin brother, who comes to personally finish him off.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}''. In the first season, an assassin disguised as a nurse administers a lethal poison to the IV of a patient in witness protection. [[spoiler:Moments later, Castle and Beckett appear on-scene to arrest her. She smirks, telling them they're too late, and Castle appears to panic - only to reveal that the IV wasn't connected. "It's almost like we knew you were coming."]]

* The first two episodes of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' have a lot of this once [[BadassBookworm Aunt Marie]] is hospitalized. The first attempt is averted thanks to Nick stopping it and taking the poisonous injection himself. The second attempt is thwarted by the reluctant Monroe, by way of [[IncrediblyLamePun disarming]] an attacker. The third attempt is thwarted by Marie herself. [[spoiler:She then promptly dies of her cancer once the assassin is dead and Nick has arrived.]]

* In ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', [[spoiler:"Uncle" Po, TheDon of the Sun On Yee]] mysteriously dies in the hospital as he is recovering from gunshot wounds. [[spoiler:In the end, it was revealed that it was [[DirtyCop Superintendent Thomas Pendrew]] who murdered him by injecting lethal chemicals into his IV-bag in an attempt to cover up the fact that he and Po had been in cahoots with each other in the past.]]

* Manga/WolfsRain: Lady Hamona was left comatose from Paradise sickness, an illness that took her soul, which was caused by contact with her lover, Darcia III, due to his curse. Darcia had an advanced life-support system that kept her body alive, but Hamona's older twin sister, the ruthless and cruel Lady Jaguara, was also in love with Darcia, angry because he chose to love Hamona instead of her, and Jaguara became a YanDere over him. Jaguara grew jealous of her sister, and therefore [[Spoiler: KilledOffscreen killed Hamona while she was sick.]] Darcia was utterly heartbroken.

* Manga/WolfsRain: Lady Hamona was left comatose from Paradise sickness, an illness that took her soul, which was caused by contact with her lover, Darcia III, due to his curse. Darcia had an advanced life-support system that kept her body alive, but Hamona's older twin sister, the ruthless and cruel Lady Jaguara, was also in love with Darcia, angry because he chose to love Hamona instead of her, and Jaguara became a YanDere over him. Jaguara was jealous of her sister, and [[KilledOffscreen killed Hamona while she was sick.]] Darcia was utterly heartbroken.

* ''Manga/WolfsRain: Lady Hamona was left comatose from Paradise sickness, an illness that took her soul, which was caused by contact with her lover, Darcia III, due to his curse. Darcia had an advanced life-support system that kept her body alive, but Hamona's older twin sister, the ruthless and cruel Lady Jaguara, was also in love with Darcia, angry because he chose to love Hamona instead of her, and Jaguara became a YanDere over him. Jaguara was jealous of her sister, and [[KilledOffscreen killed Hamona while she was sick.]] Darcia was utterly heartbroken.

* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''The Door to December'' features a hitman sitting in his car, preparing to sneak into a hospital in the middle of the night to whack a certain patient. The next time we see him, [[spoiler: he's still sitting in his car -- with his neck crushed by an unknown assailant.]]

* In ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', this is implied to happen when Tom winds up in the hospital and some rival gangsters decide to pay him a visit. He is delivered home dead.

* On ''Series/{{Tyrant}}'', [[spoiler:Barry]] reluctantly kills [[spoiler:Sheikh Rashid, who's been beaten into a coma by Jamal]], as he lays in a hospital bed because he can see no other way to keep the diplomatic talks going when one of the negotiating parties is represented by a man in a coma.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': [[spoiler:when Simmons murders Carter, Reese goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge - but the rest of Team Machine, knowing Carter would want Simmons brought to justice, stop him, and Carter's partner Fusco gets to beat Simmons into submission and arrest him properly. However, AffablyEvil mob boss Elias was also fond of Carter and believed he owed her a debt for saving his life... so Elias visits Simmons in hospital, tells him how much he sucks, and then has Scarface garrote Simmons to death.]]