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9	[[quoteright:300:[[ComicBook/KravensLastHunt https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1a5fd6b53ad751ff774597265a8b77a1.jpg]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:300:ComicBook/SpiderMan, [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]].]]
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12	->''"He grabbed onto some grass and climbed, pulled himself up out of his own grave, and looked at the time''\
13	''On a watch that had stopped six months after the shots that had got him in the box."''
14	-->-- '''Music/LupeFiasco''', "The Cool"
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16	Bob's come BackFromTheDead! The only problem is that it took several days/months/years to happen, and nobody was expecting him to need a way out of the ground. With nowhere to go but up, he starts clawing his way out, eventually making it out.
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18	Basically, any scene where someone comes back to life inside a coffin and has to dig their way out of the ground. These days, it's pretty much the standard practice for zombies and vampires (or at least the first ones to start spreading the [[TheVirus undead plague]]), but it's especially notable when it happens to normal folks, who seem pretty horrified at the act and certainly weren't expecting to have to do it themselves.
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20	Depending on the character, the reason for doing this varies. Bob may have been thought to have been dead, and was BuriedAlive, or perhaps he was [[BackFromTheDead given a second chance]] a bit too late, and had to get out the hard way.
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22	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 [[RaisedHandOfSurvival hand popping out of the ground]]: instead, the displacement of all that dirt would result in a [[{{Wormsign}} huge mound popping up ahead of you]].
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24	See Also: BuriedAlive, BackFromTheDead.
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26	Compare: WakingUpAtTheMorgue
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29	!!Examples:
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33	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': When Earth's Dragon Balls revive all of Freeza's victims on Namek, Vegeta claws his way out of the grave Goku dug for him. As the entire planet is crumbling into a lava-ridden wasteland thanks to Freeza, he's briefly unsure whether he's alive or in Hell.
35	-->'''Goku:''' Guess it's a good thing I didn't bury you that deep after all.
36	* Sango, from ''Manga/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.
37	* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', 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.]]
38	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the zombies in Thriller Bark make their entrance this way. Until one rises up from its grave... and [[IdiotHero Luffy]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments pushes it back down.]]
39	* ''Anime/OutlawStar'' has [[ProfessionalKiller Shimi]] drag himself from the makeshift grave Gene and co dug him in episode 15.
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
44	** Jason Todd did this after [[CosmicRetcon Superboy-Prime punching reality]] led to his resurrection, using only his fingers and a belt buckle.
45	** Batman himself too, at the climax of the ''RIP'' storyline.
46	--->"Straitjacket's kindergarden. Locks, too. Benchpressing a pine coffin lid through 600 pounds of loose soil that's filling your mouth, crushing your lungs flat and shredding your dehydrated muscles? That's harder...But far from impossible."
47	* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'':
48	-> The Blackest Night falls from the skies.\
49	The darkness grows as all light dies. \
50	We crave your hearts and your demise.\
51	By my Black Hand, the dead shall rise!\
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53	* In ''ComicBook/DeadAt17'', Nara Kilday claws her way out of her grave the second time she comes back from the dead. And in this case, she does have fairly super strength. The first time, she had already been exhumed when she woke up. Implicitly her friends reburied her after her second death.
54	* In the Creator/ECComics story "The Thing from the Grave" (''Tales from the Crypt'' #22), a murdered man rises from his grave to take revenge upon hearing TheScream of his widow.
55	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': A spectacular OhCrap moment comes during the ZombieApocalypse in "Judgment Day". The Judges are preparing for a siege by an inbound army of zombies from the Cursed Earth when they realize that they completely missed the multiple mass graves of the Necropolis victims just outside the city. Cue 60 million zombies rising up out of the ground...
56	* In one of the comics where ''WesternAnimation/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.
57	* Happens to ''ComicBook/{{Morbius}}''. After ComicBook/{{Blade}} killed him, he was [[CameBackWrong resurrected as an undead being]]. A friend was working on a cure and had just finished it when the combination of [[DrivenToSuicide blood deprivation]] and [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight]] felled Morbius. He was injected with the cure but as it didn't do anything his friends deduced [[UndeathAlwaysEnds he was actually dead this time]], and buried him. The cure did turn out to work, it just took some time, which Morbius discovered when he woke up alive in his coffin and had to dig his way out.
58	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'': Kraven drugs Spider-Man, buries him alive, then puts on the spider costume and starts trying to ''be'' Spidey as part of his attempts to prove his total superiority. Meanwhile, Peter regains consciousness and, driven by his [[ThePowerOfLove feelings for Mary-Jane]], busts his way out.
59	* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
60	** ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'': The Girl of Steel is seen rising from her grave in one issue's cover. Shortly later, she has a nightmare where she's been buried alive and has to dig her way out of her grave.
61	** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'' issue #20, Supergirl has to do this after Parasite seals her in a flying metal coffin.
62	** In ''ComicBook/PowerGirl2009'' issue #11, Ultra-Humanite makes use of Terra's geokinesis to bury Karen alive. She only needs a few seconds to escape. Justified because she's a Kryptonian, ergo she is super-strong and she doesn't need to breathe.
63	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
64	** Superman did this in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #469-470 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]].
65	** ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen2019'': While Jimmy's funeral is in progress, a hand claws its way up from the grave. [[spoiler: It turns out to be Dr. Mantel, who emerged from Ultraspace in that location thanks to tethering himself to Jimmy's signal watch (which Jimmy threw into the grave so he wouldn't be tempted to use it).]]
66	* This happens with many of the dead mutants resurrected by Selene during "Necrosha" in ''ComicBook/XForce''. For the most part she didn't even bother having them dug up; she just let them claw their way out of their graves on their own.
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70	* In one of the ''ComicStrip/HsuAndChan'' comics that ran in ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'', the titular brothers find themselves in a graveyard as part of a video game themed haunted house and the corpses start to rise from their graves. It should be noted that the "corpses" are obsolete video game consoles.
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74	* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8793565/chapters/20159878 How the Light Gets In]]'': When Laurel is resurrected by witchcraft, 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]], and true to his predictions Laurel is left noticeably traumatized by it.
75	** The difficulties of doing so are slightly addressed when Diggle asks how doing so could be possible, but Dean just replies "adrenaline". When Diggle protests that still doesn't make sense, Dean reminds him this is [[AWizardDidIt the supernatural]] and [[GivingUpOnLogic logic has no place in it]].[[note]]Plus, it's later revealed the witches that revived her were planning on digging her up, but ran when they realized something had gone wrong. While not confirmed, it's possible they started to dig before realizing it, and as such made her job a bit easier.[[/note]]
76	* ''Webcomic/InvertedFate'': When Chara comes back to life after [[spoiler:Flowey absorbs all the [=SOULs=] again and resurrects them]], they have to dig themself out of the ground where their body had been buried in the Ruins.
77	* ''Fanfic/{{Quicken}}'': Emma has to do this in chapter 2 when she comes back to life and realizes that she's lying inside a coffin. Since she healed any damage extremely quickly and didn't need to breathe thanks to her powers, the task was possible... but still ''extremely'' hard and painful.
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80	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
81	* in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', Evil Ash creates the titular army by animated the dead who are buried in a cemetery, causing them to rise as [[DemBones walking skeletons]].
82	* ''Film/AxeMurderingWithHackley'': In the prologue, when the people who buried Hackley's body leave his grave, the camera focuses on the ground of his headstone... out of which Hackley's hand bursts.
83	* Done in ''Film/TheBridesOfDracula'' twice: First time is when Helsing goes to stake a recently bitten village girl. Only to find he's been beaten there by the Baron's human servant, Greta, who helps the now undead girl climb out of her grave and coffin. The second time, Gina, another victim of the Baron, is moved to the horse stable under Helsing's request. He takes too long getting there once again while Marianne, the lead female protagonist, goes over to pay her last respects. She's left alone as the locks suddenly drop from the casket, unbolted, and the now vampiric Gina pushes open the coffin's lid and sits up, smiling her fangs at Marianne.
84	* ''Film/ButterflyAndSword'': After Sing-wan faked his own death, he is shown bursting out through his own grave.
85	* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. The undead Buckner family when Dana inadvertently summons them, and [[spoiler:the Ancient Ones at the end of the movie when a huge hand smashes through the eponymous cabin and comes down on the camera. SmashToBlack.]]
86	* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''. The title zombie in the first segment, "Father's Day".
87	* Happens to Eric Draven in ''Film/TheCrow'' when the title bird resurrects him.
88	* ''Film/DanceOfTheDead'': When Jules, Steven and George are chased through the cemetery, the zombies can be seen literally jumping out from their graves and immediately breaking out into a run.
89	* Guerrero has to do this when Satan sends him back to Earth in ''Film/DeadInTombstone''. Fortunately it appears that his gang buried him shallow. They also buried him naked.
90	** In the sequel ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'', Gurrero's CoolHorse rises from its grave in a very spectacular fashion.
91	* ''Film/DeadSnow'': Herzog [[https://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''.
92	* The heroine Christine does this [[spoiler: at what only appears to be the climax]] in ''Film/DragMeToHell''.
93	* The Bride from ''Film/KillBill'' did this in Volume II. 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 glass of water. The clerk's face was priceless...
94	* ''Film/LifeBlood'': Forty years after being transformed into a vampire, Brooke awakens and claws her way out of her shallow grave by the side of the road.
95	* ''Film/LittleDeadRottingHood'': Some time after being buried in the ground by her grandmother, Samantha claws her way out of her grave. When she comes out, she has fangs and claws on her fingers.
96	* [[{{Franchise/Zorro}} Don Diego de la Vega]] appears to die and is buried in ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''. As soon as his grave is left alone, he breaks out of it.
97	* The curse of Hillside Necropolis in ''Film/MonsterBrawl'' comes true as zombies start rising from their graves to show their displeasure of the outcome [[spoiler: of the match between Frankenstein and Zombie Man, in which the latter dies]].
98	* In ''Film/TheNakedWitch'', the witch rises from her grave after the student removes the stake from her chest.
99	* Dr. Thompson in ''Film/ThePlagueOfTheZombies'' has a nightmare where he sees the dead rising from their graves. The actual zombies in the film are very old-school variety of {{Voodoo Zombie}}s.
100	* ''[[Film/CountYorga The Return of Count Yorga]]'' start off Yorga commanding his buried vampire harem to rise from their graves, which they proceed to do from the local graveyard that an unfortunate child was playing in.
101	* ''Film/TheSpirit'' (2008 film version) is shown doing this in a flashback.
102	* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'' does this and is arguably the TropeCodifier if not the TropeMaker alongside [[Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII its first sequel]]. When the local graveyards are doused with Trioxin gas, the dead start busting out of their eternal resting places.
103	* In the first ''Film/{{Subspecies}}'' movie, one the protaginst, Mara, is bitten, dies of blood loss and buried. The vampire, Radu, visits her grave that night as she resurrects as a vampire and rises from the grave.
104	* ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "Poetic Justice", Grimsdyke digs his way out of his grave on the anniversary of his death to take revenge on those who [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to suicide]].
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107	[[folder:Folklore]]
108	* OlderThanPrint: In medieval Europe, vampires were said to rise from their graves. Often, people took measures to find which bodies had already risen, and to prevent others from doing the same (such as lodging a brick in a corpse's mouth). Vampires were sometimes said to turn into mist and escape from a tiny hole, to explain why the ground hadn't been dug up.
109	** In some versions of the vampire myth, the WoodenStake was important not because it possessed some unique property that could permanently kill the vampire, but simply because it would [[PinnedToTheWall pin the vampire into the coffin]], preventing it from rising.
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113	* Dan had to do this in ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'', as do some other zombies. It helps that in their world, coffins are required to be easily escapable from the inside.
114	* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDarkHalf,'' this is the villain's origin. Protagonist Thad Beaumont decides to stop writing under his pseudonym of George Stark, and stages a mock funeral for him that includes a headstone. Stark later manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
115	* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'':
116	** Windle Poons does this in ''Literature/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.
117	** Mentioned in ''Literature/{{Night Watch\|Discworld}}'': 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.
118	* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: City of the Dead'' has Zak wake up in a coffin, buried alive. He couldn't get out, himself, but fortunately a bounty hunter knew where he'd been buried and dragged him out to question him.
119	* In ''Literature/HungryAsAWolf'', the town doctor is bitten by a screamer and succumbs to infection. After he is buried, he reanimates and claws his way out of his own grave as another screamer. Averted with his two victims, though, as they are burned on-site due to the horrific nature of the attack and the condition of the remains.
120	* ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknights'': While walking along the trail of the dead, the Midknights spot a few grave stones in the woods. Soon after, a trio of armed zombies climb out of the graves to attack the kids. Thankfully, sunlight seems to hurt them, as direct exposure sends them running back into their graves.
121	* In ''Literature/NightWorld'', Thierry recalls digging himself out of his own grave after awakening as a vampire. Given he was turned in the Stone Age, he didn't have a coffin and was simply buried under dirt at the back of his tribe's cave, so he just has to dig his way out. Vampires are also preternaturally strong. It still wasn't pleasant for him, though, or for the shocked mourners.
122	** Defied in ''Secret Vampire''. James goes to great lengths to ensure this ''doesn't'' happen to Poppy; he puts her into a deep sleep and tells her she'll only wake when he sends her a telepathic message. He and [[spoiler: her brother Philip]] sneak into the cemetery the night after her funeral and dig up her coffin to let her out (which realistically takes a while, even with James being a vampire).
123	* Beneath "Literature/TheRedTower" is a CreepyCemetery filled with blank headstones. No one is buried beneath them - they are the factory's highly experimental "birthing graves" for the production of [[UndeadAbomination hyper-organisms]].
124	* In the short story ''Where there's a will...'' by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson, the protagonist has been BuriedAlive, and [[{{Determinator}} refusing to give up,]] manages to break the coffin, push through the dirt and escape his grave. Then we find out just how much of a {{Determinator}} he really is;[[spoiler: turns out he wasn't buried ''alive.'']]
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128	* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Simmons finds herself doing this when she enters the Framework as her virtual version had been killed by HYDRA. Digging out of a ''mass'' grave no less.
129	* A variation in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. The title character was seemingly left for dead (or AFateWorseThanDeath) in the first act of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' after [[SwallowedWhole falling into the mouth]] of a Sarlacc. A flashback in the first episode showed how Boba survived and used his flamethrower to burn his way out of the creature, including a classic "rise from the grave" shot as Boba's gauntleted fist punches through the sand into the open air.
130	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
131	** Buffy herself while temporarily a vampire in season 1's "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]".
132	** [[spoiler: Buffy claws her way out of her own grave in season 6 -- upon her return to the living world, Spike notices the state of her (broken and dirt-stained) hands and realizes from his own vampiric experience that she dug herself out. Xander eventually figures it out too, and curses that they were all too stupid to remember to dig her up ''before'' casting the resurrection spell.]]
133	** Also, almost every vampire. [[FailedAttemptAtDrama And sometimes they get stuck]].
134	* Happens in the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Boo" (which actually aired on Oct 31st) where a man who had faked his death with tetradetoxin and was buried alive smashes his way out of a jute coffin and claws his way to the surface where he is mistaken for a zombie before dying in the street.
135	-->'''M.E. Sid Hammerback:''' He was dead before he was killed. Medically, that makes him a zombie. Happy Halloween.
136	* 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. Well, he hasn't ''yet''. Since he lacks any sort of SuperStrength with his immortality, it could take a very, very long time. [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} If he becomes dehydrated, he can feel free to pass out.]]
137	** On the other hand, played straight with [[spoiler:Sylar/Nathan]] in season 4, but he had powers to help him out there.
138	* Happened with a couple immortals in ''{{Series/Highlander}}''. Kanis, for example, was buried in one after being hanged, despite Duncan’s pleas to the queen to behead him. There’s also an episode where Amanda and Cory Raines kept getting shot and buried and dug up by an unamused Duncan.
139	* Subverted 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.
140	* After killing her rapist Richard, ''Series/MelrosePlace'''s Jane and her sister Sydney bury him and drive off, declaring her nightmare to be "over". Sure enough, just as they drive away, Richard's hand comes up out of the grave and the following episode shows him fully emerging.
141	* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', similarly, showed [[spoiler: the immortal Nathan]] trying to punch his way out of a coffin. "Uma Thurman did it, and she's just a girl." No luck - he had to be dug up.
142	* ''Series/MythBusters'' busted the ''Film/KillBill'' version of this trope. (Punching to break open the coffin, and digging up through six feet of freshly turned dirt.)
143	* Addressed in the Creator/DiscoveryChannel program ''Series/OneWayOut''. 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.
144	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS10E06Harvest Harvest]]", Clark Kent loses his powers while in a village filled with [[PowerLimiter blue kryptonite]]. Eventually, the crazy villagers stab him in the gut and bury him. Once shielded by the dirt from the kryptonite, he gets his powers back, heals, and bursts from the grave.
145	* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
146	** [[spoiler: Dean in the Season Premiere of season 4]].
147	** In Season 5, a number of people in Bobby's hometown rise from their grave, including [[spoiler: Bobby's wife Karen.]]
148	* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'':
149	** "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E4TilDeath 'Til Death]]": When the LovePotion restores Margaret to life, her hand bursts through the soil of the grave as her lover Logan is kneeling beside her grave. She crawls out of the grave and immediately pulls him into a passionate embrace.
150	** "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E6TheThingFromTheGrave The Thing From the Grave]]": When Stacy screams for help as Mitch prepares to murder her, Devlin's hand bursts up out of the shallow grave where Mitch buried. A series of intercut shots then show Devlin hauling himself out of his grave and coming to rescue Stacy.
151	* On ''Series/TheTerrorInfamy'', Yuko Tanabe rises from her grave as the ''yurei'' that haunts the other main characters throughout the series.
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155	* The cover art for ''[[http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/3/9/539.jpg?4832 Darkness Descends]]'' by Music/DarkAngel has three disembodied hands rising from their grave.
156	* Used in Lupe Fiasco's song "The Cool". The titular character wakes up some six months after he was killed. The first verse details how he was killed, his burial and his subsequent awakening. The second verse tells how he digged his way out, using his chain and even his own teeth to reach the surface. The third and final verse ends with him being mugged with the same gun that killed him.
157	* The cover for Music/IronMaiden's ''[[http://zuplemento.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/live-after-death-p.jpg Live After Death]]'' has {{mascot}} Eddie doing this after [[LightningCanDoAnything being revived with lightning]].
158	* The protagonist of Music/{{Kreator}}'s "Pleasure to Kill" rises from their grave to go on a murderous rampage.
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162	* The zombies in Music/MichaelJackson's ''Thriller''.
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165	[[folder:Pinballs]]
166	* In ''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'', the player can make Elvira and Dracula pop out of their coffins.
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169	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
170	* In ''TabletopGame/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, whack them unconscious with a shovel (hence the term "shovelhead" for Sabbat vampires made this way) 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.
171	** A popular pastime for Sabbat vampires: take a shovel, find a grave with a failed inductee, dig them out, and try to kill them. Said failed inductees are usually mindless, Frenzy-driven maniacs, so it's a bit like wearing a suit made of steaks and walking through a tiger cage.
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175	* The {{Trope Namer\|s}} by way of MemeticMutation, the old Sega arcade stand and cartridge ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'' 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." Lightning then strikes your headstone, and your character pops out of the ground ready to brawl. The "Rise from your grave" portion of Zeus's message is said in audio, and the sound compression in the Genesis/Mega Drive version leads to a {{Narm}}y ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihEhsdwiIk "Wise fwom youw gwave!"]]
176	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': After being turned into a vampire spawn, Astarion had to dig himself out of his own grave. Apparently, the transformation doesn't take unless the corpse is buried.
177	* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', [[spoiler:Batman does this after the Joker [[PrettyLittleHeadshots shoots him in the forehead]] and the player chooses to retry in the [[FissionMailed fake "Game Over" scene]], all in the Scarecrow's final MindScrew segment.]]
178	* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': In one of Lance's many death-and-resurrection sequences.
179	* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', Hollow Prisoners crawl out from the soil of Undead Crypt, and they respawn constantly.
180	** In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' this is what happens to the Lords of Cinder when they're called to link the First Flame, and any Unkindled (such as the player character) who are called to hunt them.
181	* Early in ''VideoGame/DevilsHunt'', after Desmond was revived as the devil's collector of souls and returns to the land of living. We see a close-up of his tombstone before his hand pops out.
182	* In ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'', TheUndead crawls out from the ground at night, and in the catacomb.
183	* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series backstory, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] were all but rendered extinct by 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. Similarly, the members of the Dragon Cult, a ReligionOfEvil which worshiped the dragons, were cursed with undeath for their crimes. They too are rising from their graves following Alduin's return in the form of [[OurLichesAreDifferent Dragon Priests]] and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Draugr]].
184	** In a case of SuperStrength, dragons burst out of their burial mounds in explosions of dirt, and draugr often announce their presence by shattering the stone lids of the sarcophagi.
185	* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' started with you rescued from a shallow grave after being left for dead. When you finally catch up with the man who buried you, one of the possible things you can tell him is that you dug yourself out of the ground to come after him.
186	* Subverted for some enemies in ''VideoGame/MediEvil'', at least in the graveyard area. If they aren't already roaming about when you get to them, their whole coffin rises out of the ground and they exit out easily. No enemy claws themselves out in the normal way. AWizardDidIt literally.
187	* It took the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' series until [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis the third game]] to do this. Jill has to make her way through a cemetery and wouldn't you know it? The dead won't stay dead.
188	* ''VideoGame/SuperDungeonBros'': The [[DemBones skeleton]] {{Mook}}s make their appearance in levels by crawling out of the dungeon floor.
189	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'': [[spoiler:Parodied at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Guybrush wakes up as a GhostPirate in his own grave at the Crossroads' Gateway and believes he is "BuriedAlive... again!"]]
190	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', Necron Flayed Ones (who ironically, prefer to flay ''enemies'') appear like this when summoned onto the battlefield.
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194	* [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.
195	* [[spoiler: Victoria]] after coming back as a vampire in ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate''.
196	* ''Webcomic/HeroesOfHomeroomC'': When Damien summons his zombie army from Tranquil's cemetery, they make their appearance by clawing their way out of the ground.
197	* In ''Webcomic/{{Horndog}}'', Freddy is shot by a sniper, briefly dies, but returns to life. He is KilledOffForReal, returns as a zombie, and is killed by his roommate, Bob. If that wasn't enough, he is reincarnated as a teenage boy, but is killed by a chupacabra.
198	* Miss.Loveworth from ''Webcomic/IronGate'' digs her way out of her grave upon returning as a vampire.
199	* Parodied in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' webcomic ''[[http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/gallery/12245725/Jobe-Watch Jobe Watch]]'' (NSFW) with a mad scientist's escaped {{Animate Body Part\|s}}.
200	* Happens in ''Webcomic/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.
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204	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': From the second campaign, Mollymauk Tealeaf's earliest memory is digging himself out of what is apparently his own grave -- or rather, the grave of the person he used to be. He has no recollection of any life beforehand, and as far as he's concerned whoever it was that got buried is another person entirely.
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208	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' episode "Ghosts In The Attic" when the head of Ditzy (who is not dead and is wearing a wig and a table cloth) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlbmsCBdf8&t=10m50s emerges from the bone-ridden earth]]. She frightens Ms. [=McBrisk=] at the right timing before reuniting with her body.
209	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parodied this, with Mayor Adam West cementing over every grave in the cemetery.
210	-->"You'll thank me when no one eats your brain. You'll thank me."
211	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Treehouse of Horror III", the zombies from the segment ''Dial Z for Zombies'' do this.
212	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': In the short "Donald's Halloween Scare", Donald's nephews do this as part of their ploy to scare their uncle in retaliation for stealing their candy.
213	-->'''Dewey:''' ''Unca Donald...''
214	-->'''Louie:''' ''You scared us...''
215	-->'''Huey:''' ''To DEATH!''
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219	* Erich Weiss (Creator/HarryHoudini) did this once in real life, testing to see if it was worth adding to his regular escape routines. He got out of the restraints and buried coffin (collapsing the latter afterwards to make working space) and made it to the surface without aid. He never even attempted this again. Quoted: "The weight of the earth is crushing..."
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