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7	->''"Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;''\
8	''Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die."''
9	-->-- '''King Richard II''', ''Theatre/RichardII'', V.v
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11	A classic way to show someone is dying. They have been shot, stabbed, poisoned, whatever, and then, recoiling from the wound, back into a wall and sink slowly to the ground. A smear of blood trailing down the wall is customary. HandSlidingDownTheGlass could also come into play.
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13	[[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible This isn't only used for character deaths.]] It can also be used for a living character to show how defeated and depressed they are, or to illustrate immense exhaustion after a long string of action or trauma. Slumping down a wall is a good visual shorthand to show the character's waning will to continue, at least temporarily, and can heighten the somberness of a scene compared to if they were standing normally.
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15	This is commonly used in theatre, because it's a good visual cue for the audience. It's also a reasonably [[DeathIsDramatic cool death]], combining SlowMotionFall and RebelRelaxation.
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17	Also see {{Headdesk}} and FacePalm, two variations of the "extremely frustrated" version.
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19	!!As this is a {{Death Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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21	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
24	* There's a {{meme\|ticMutation}} out of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fandom from the scene where Light is staggering away after being shot. He falls dramatically toward a wall, flattening himself against it as he struggles to stay upright. The meme: "I fucking LOVE this WALL!"
25	** Matt slides down against his bullet hole-riddled car after being shot [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill approximately ten-thousand times]]--though not before taking [[OneLastSmoke one last drag]] from his ever-present cigarette.
26	* Rin Tohsaka does this in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' after failing to prevent Kotomine from taking Ilya away from Shirou's house. [[DisneyDeath She gets better]], though, [[SubvertedTrope because she is just that awesome.]]
27	* Happens in ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' to Shao when he fought Junas. He got better.
28	* Misato's death in ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]''.
29	* Tsume does this against a rock in ''Anime/WolfsRain''. It's particularly shocking since [[MortalWoundReveal the audience aren't aware until then just how badly he was hurt]].
30	* The original [[FailureKnight Zest]] in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', after being killed by [[LittleMissBadass Cinque]].
31	* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', this is how one of the conductors on the train falls after being shot in the head.
32	* How Rocinante falls against a treasure chest in ''Manga/OnePiece'' after being shot to death by his [[CainAndAbel brother]] Doflamingo. It's not his final position though. Being a pirate, Doflamingo opts to take the chest, and he leaves Rocinante's body lying in the snow.
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35	[[folder:Comic Books]]
36	* In ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', after V is shot at the end, he staggers and leans against a wall, leaving a V-shaped smear of blood. He still manages to walk a fair distance afterward, though.
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39	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
40	%%* ''Film/TheWall'', naturally.
41	* A rather clever example in ''Film/TheCheat'' (1915) in which the victim, who is Japanese, slumps against a wall in his apartment--but it's a Japanese-style translucent window, so the slump and the trail of blood are shown from the other side, in silhouette.
42	* Inigo Montoya in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', although he rallies afterward.
43	* ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. After Rain Ocampo becomes a zombie, she's shot in the head, moves back and hits the wall of the subway car she's in, then slumps down.
44	* Parodied in the original ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie. One of the vampire minions backs up against the wall, sinks, and then moans and groans and says "ow ow ow" for ten minutes. The EasterEgg at the end of the credits shows him ''still'' bellyaching.
45	%%* Lee's death in ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]''
46	* ''Film/TheMatrix'' scene where Neo dies, when Agent Smith repeatedly shoots Neo after he backs up and hits the wall but before sinking to the ground.
47	* ''Film/FinalJustice'' used this during the opening gunfight. As the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' crew helpfully pointed out, you can tell that the filmmakers recycled footage because you can see the dying guy slide down the same wall ''twice''.
48	%%* ''Film/IceStationZebra'' features one when Ferraday shoots Anders.
49	* Mr. Blonde in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' manages to hold himself half-up against a wall for a moment before slumping to the floor, having been shot multiple times by Mr. Orange.
50	* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': Marion Crane slumps against the wall of the shower after being fatally stabbed.
51	* In ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'', Agent Coulson immediately collapses against a nearby wall after being stabbed through the back by Loki and dies shortly after speaking to Director Fury.
52	* The 1971 version of ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' has Charlton Heston expiring this way in a municipal fountain.
53	* Glazer slumps against the tree that Cropsy impales him on in ''Film/TheBurning''.
54	* Double dose in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' as Spock succumbs to radiation poisoning. First Spock slumps against the transparent wall separating the irradiated compartment from the rest of Engineering. Then Kirk follows suit in shock/grief on the other side of the same wall.
55	%%* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': In the final ending, Mr Boddy dies in this way after being shot by Mr Green.
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58	[[folder:Literature]]
59	* Michael Connelly novels featuring detective Literature/HarryBosch:
60	** ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'': Rourke's look of surprise when he does this after Eleanor shoots him helps Harry figure out her part in the crime.
61	** Bosch himself does the non-fatal "shock" version of this trope in ''Literature/TheDrop'', after going into a serial killer's lair and seeing all the shocking things inside.
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64	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
65	* During a Halloween episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld,'' RedShirt [[ShoutOut Kenny]] gets stabbed through the head with a giant pencil and slumps to his death, leaving a pencil trail on the wall behind him. Cory points at where the trail begins and tearfully tells the others, "we'll always remember he was that tall."
66	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Let's Kill Hitler", a poisoned Doctor slumps weakly against the wall of the TARDIS while talking to a Voice Interface hologram in the shape of a young Amy. He gets better - barely.
67	* In ''Series/TopGear'', after the "Race to the North" challenge Clarkson slumps against the wall of the hotel bar they were racing to. Because he's been on the footplate of a steam locomotive, he leaves a trail of soot rather than blood.
68	* In the final episode of ''Series/ForeverKnight'', Tracy Vetter does this after being shot for her MortalWoundReveal.
69	* ''Series/TheScarletPimpernel'': [[spoiler:Lord Tony Dewhurst]] dies this way in the first episode. He's shot and badly wounded, but he manages to stand up, and he leans on a wall. Chauvelin shoots him later [[PrettyLittleHeadshots in the head]]. He just slumps down and ends up half-sitting, half-lying, this time dead for good.
70	* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', unaware that she's been injured while diving for cover during a shoot-out, a pregnant Abby is gathering supplies when she realizes that she's bleeding. The loss of blood--from a placental abruption--rapidly becomes enough for her to slump against the wall and pass out
71	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Agent Scully is shot and falls down, slumping down against a wall, with the obligatory smear of her blood behind her. It happened in "Tithonus" during season 6. She got better.
72	* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': This happens to the group's second, third and fourth probation workers as they die horrible deaths.
73	* Dean Winchester slumps dying against the wall in the ninth season finale of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', after his fight with Metatron.
74	* ''Series/TheUndeclaredWar'': On being told her father is dead, Saara sits down with a thud against the wall looking stricken.
75	* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In "Jade Gets Crushed", Robbie does a depressed slump after his efforts to tutor Tori for her Tech Theater exam result in her not only acing the exam but beating his record as top student in the class, after which he has to watch his picture get put in the trash and replaced with Tori's. His ventriloquist dummy Rex even [[ThisIsThePartWhere directly]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.
76	-->"And now just slide your back down the wall, in sadness and despair."
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79	[[folder:Music]]
80	* A non-death version (specifically a drunken version) from the song ''Only A Friendly'' by folk singer Chris Wood:
81	-->''she had a laugh like a bowling ball / as she slid down the gentleman's toilet wall / it wasn't exactly a fall / but that was definitely all for tonight''
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84	[[folder:Theatre]]
85	* Page quote from ''Theatre/RichardII'', after the former king of England is stabbed by conspirators.
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88	[[folder:Video Games]]
89	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1,'' Shepard slumps down after having his/her ship impounded and crew locked down right when they need them most. Shepard's love interest comes over and gives him/her a pep talk to keep fighting.
90	* Nia Lochlain's last moments in ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'' shows her leaning against the wall of Eremon's ship after telling Yuri that she will make her escape soon. Whether she actually managed to fulfill her words or simply said that to assure him, we will never know.
91	* Asch does this in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''.
92	* This is the position that Mia is found in after her murder at the start of the second case of the first ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game. It's also how Officer Meekins and Maggey Byrde were found after falling unconscious in cases 1-5 and 3-3 respectively.
93	** The victim in the first case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' is also found in this position surrounded by bloody handprints, providing the page image. The victim in the second case also did this [[spoiler:although his body was placed in that position after he had been killed]].
94	* The first victim ([[spoiler:[[DecoyDamsel Sayaka Maizono]] in the full game, [[ShooOutTheClowns Yasuhiro Hagakure]] in the demo]]) of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' is found slumped up against a shower's wall with way too much blood covering them.
95	* In the 'Missing Link' DLC for ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', Netanya Keitner dies this way after Pieter Burke discovers her working with the player.
96	* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': After Isaac has sent away love interest Ellie to protect her, he slumps down as he is alone on a station infested with necromorphs and confronted by the Marker-induced hallucination of his dead girlfriend Nicole, appearing to him against the wall beside him.
97	* On rare occasions in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', you can observe Common Infected leaning against a wall, slowly sliding down it, and then just falling over dead.
98	* Golden Freddy does this in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', though it's more a symbol that YOU'RE going to die instead (or at least get booted out of the game). [[spoiler: He returns in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the sequel]], though now he kills you by ''sending his disembodied head flying towards you''. There's also Shadow Freddy, who crashes the game like Golden Freddy did.]]
99	** Bonnie starts out in this pose in the Parts and Service room in the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 second game]]. Shame he's NotQuiteDead...
100	** And the trailer to [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 the third game]] shows the main antagonist, Springtrap, [[{{Undercrank}} violently thrashing against the wall.]] [[spoiler: The fifth night mini-game heavily implies that this is really the Murderer's death throws as he was being ''crushed/maimed to death in side the suit''.]]
101	* In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', [[spoiler: Lotus]] dies like this in the [[spoiler: Knife]] Ending.
102	* [[http://zeroescape.wikia.com/wiki/File:CloverTenmyouji.jpg Clover and Tenmyouji]] die like this in one path in ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''. [[http://zeroescape.wikia.com/wiki/File:AliceDead.jpg Also Alice.]]
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105	[[folder:Web Original]]
106	* In ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', after Penny is impaled with exploded death ray bits, she does this.
107	* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'': Wall Slump is how Jules and Vincent meet their end in "How Film/PulpFiction should have ended" episode. [[http://youtu.be/ASs8odtJjLI?t=1m26s See it here.]]
108	* Jaune does the depressed variant in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.
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111	[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
112	* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch does this in "Gobs of Gabaloons" when a coin expert tells them the Ptomanian treasure they found is unspendable under penalty of arrest and imprisonment.
113	-->'''Square:''' We're not rich anymore?\
114	'''Hair:''' Look, even if we go to Ptomania we're broke.
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