Basic Trope: Someone gasps for air after being resurrected/revived.
- Straight: After Charlie comes Back from the Dead, he bolts upward and gasps for air.
- Exaggerated: Charlie has been dead for a while. When he's resurrected, he gasps for several minutes straight.
- Downplayed: Charlie's heart stops momentarily. When he's revived with a Magical Defibrillator, he takes a deep breath and/or coughs.
- Justified:
- Charlie didn't have any air in his lungs when he died, and the force of being resurrected suddenly brought air back into his lungs, causing him to gasp.
- Alternatively, he's taking a deep breath in order to get more air into his lungs.
- Inverted:
- For some reason, Charlie exhales dramatically after getting resurrected.
- Charlie exhales as he dies.
- Subverted: After getting resurrected, Charlie gasps... and then falls down dead again.
- Double Subverted: He gets successfully resurrected a little later, and takes a deep breath as his first sign that he's alive.
- Parodied:
- Charlie is a living skeleton that does this, despite having no lungs to speak of. Even he comments that it's strange.
- Alice does CPR on Charlie to bring him back. When he's successfully resuscitated, he gasps to bring air back into his lungs... and then he finds out that it was his love interest Alice who brought him back, and he gasps in shock because his love interest technically kissed him.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody gasps for air after getting resurrected.
- Nobody is resurrected/revived to begin with.
- Enforced: As the first sign that Charlie is alive.
- Lampshaded: "Wait - I just saw him breathe suddenly! He's okay!"
- Invoked: Alice tries to induce the reflex that will cause Charlie to gasp for air when reviving him.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz is about to win the battle, and cites Charlie's death as a reason why he can win, due to Charlie being the best fighter of the group. Then they all hear Charlie start gasping for air...
- Defied: Charlie is prevented from being resurrected.
- Discussed: "Woah, looks like you really were skilled at CPR!"
- Conversed: "You ever notice how in the movies, characters gasp after they come back to life?"
- Implied: Charlie being resuscitated isn't shown onscreen, but other characters are shown telling him later on that the first thing he did was suddenly bolt upward and gasp for air.
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