Basic Trope: Comas are portrayed as more easy to get out of in fiction, often as a plot point.
- Straight: Bob goes into a coma for about a month, and wakes up just fine.
- Exaggerated: Bob goes into a coma for over 30 years, and is able to walk immediately after, as if he simply just woke up in the morning.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is in a coma for a few days, and has a few complications, but is otherwise fine.
- The amount of muscular dystrophy one would have after a coma is acknowledged, but it's mostly shrugged off and Bob manages to get better rather quickly.
- Justified:
- Bob is some sort of magical being that heals quickly.
- It's an induced coma, not a natural coma.
- Inverted: Bob was in a coma for only a few days, but when he wakes up, he has to take months of rehab to start walking again.
- Subverted: Turns out Bob was never in a coma, he was just sleeping.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody goes into a coma.
- Comas are portrayed realistically.
- Enforced:
- Bob is supposed to be a main character, and giving him serious complications from his coma would hinder the plot.
- Bob just came back from being Put on a Bus, why put him back on the bus to acknowledge his complications?
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice thinks Bob will be just fine when he wakes up, but when Bob finally wakes up, Alice is surprised that Bob has trouble moving around on his own.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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