History Main / BuriedInAPileOfCorpses

** In ''Dominion'' and ''The Torture Garden'', Rosco evades the Dark Judges several times by hiding among the piles of corpses they've created. The first time, she had simply been knocked out during the slaughter and got lucky, the second time it's intentional.

** In ''Dominion'' and ''The Torture Garden'', Rosco evades the Dark Judges several times by hiding among the piles of corpses they've created. The first time, she had simply been knocked out during the slaughter, the second time it's intentional.

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* In ''Literature/CiaphasCain'', during a stealth mission, the team's ColdSniper uses someone's corpse to support his rifle and hide himself, to Ciaphas' distaste.

* This is part of Mistle's backstory in ''Literature/TheWitcher'': she was kidnapped from her hometown along with several other women by bandits, who raped, murdered, and buried all of them in a ditch. Mistle survived only because the bandits thought she had already died and threw her in with the other corpses, which is where her future TrueCompanions found her.

* In the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' book ''Battle Magic'' [[spoiler:Evvy, who is a child,]] is stripped, tortured and left for dead in a pile of corpses by the Yanjinyi when they are invading Gyongxe. They only failed to kill her because she used her magic to mentally flee her body to escape the pain making them think she'd died of the injures they'd already inflicted on her.
* In ''Literature/{{Coma}}'', the heroine, a medical student, manages to trap the hitman trying to kill her in the school's anatomy lab.

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* This is probably the ''least'' HarmfulToMinors part of [[spoiler:the ever-smiling Q]]'s backstory in ''Webcomic/GodOfHighschool''.

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* Flippy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' had to hide ''inside'' the corpse of his dead friend and fellow soldier as the Tiger General's forces walk by. This causes him to snap and develop an AxCrazy SplitPersonality that emerges to try and murder everyone around him when something reminds Flippy of the war.

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* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'': When Kara and Alice are taken to a death camp, one of the other androids is shot by the guards when he tries to protest. Kara can volunteer to drag his corpse to the pile of dismantled android bodies, then hide amongst the corpses to save herself [[spoiler:at the cost of Alice's life. If both Markus and Connor (if he turned deviant) fail in their missions, Kara even ends up being the SoleSurvivor of the story and possibly the LastOfHerKind.]]

If a character uses this tactic on purpose to conceal themselves so they can attack expect them to be a CombatPragmatist at best and a DirtyCoward at worst, and if other characters see them doing this they may react with disgust since it falls under both DesecratingTheDead and TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty.

** In ''Dominion'' and ''The Torture Garden'', Rosco evades the Dark Judges several times by hiding among the piles of corpses they've created.

* ZigzaggedTrope in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. After Necropolis, Judge Death hides among the mountain of corpses of his own victims to avoid the manhunt for him. However, he's already a zombie to begin with.

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* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', Trafalgar Law resorted to this by hiding in a cart of dead bodies leaving his hometown after they were attacked and entirely wiped out, not unlike François L'Ollonais.

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* Early in his pirate days, the crew of François l'Ollonais was almost entirely wiped out by Spanish soldiers, l'Ollonais himself survived by covering himself in blood and hiding among his comrades' corpses.
* During the earlier days of the Holocaust, several would be victims survived by pretending to be shot during mass executions and making a break for it after they were pushed into mass graves.

* In ''Film/{{Ravenous}}'', Boyd is a coward who plays dead at a battle with Mexico, and is loaded into a wagon full of corpses. When the wagon arrives at the Mexican HQ, he has a mysterious rush of strength and aggression ([[spoiler:due to accidentally swallowing the blood of the others]]) and destroys the HQ.

* Early in his pirate days, the crew of François l'Ollonais was almost entirely wiped out by Spanish soldiers, l'Ollonais himself survived by covering himself in blood and hiding among his comrades' corpses.

* This happens in the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' prequel movie ''Anime/BardockTheFatherOfGoku''. When Frieza first begins ThePurge of the Saiyans, he sends [[TheBrute Dodoria]] to kill off Bardock and Bardock's squad. When Dodoria launches a final KiAttack on Bardock, the force of it sweeps up the dead bodies of Bardock's squad and he winds up badly injured and buried beneath them. This actually saves Bardock's life, since Dodoria assumes Bardock is dead and flies off.

* This happens in ''Anime/DragonballZ'' prequel movie ''Anime/BardockTheFatherOfGoku''. When Frieza first begins ThePurge of the Saiyans, he sends [[TheBrute Dodoria]] to kill off Bardock and Bardock's squad. When Dodoria launches a final KiAttack on Bardock, the force of it sweeps up the dead bodies of Bardock's squad and he winds up badly injured and buried beneath them. This actually saves Bardock's life, since Dodoria assumes Bardock is dead and flies off.
* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', Trafalgar Law resorted to this by hiding in a cart of dead bodies leaving his hometown after they were attacked and entirely wiped out.

* Mentioned on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when Cotton is accused of setting a fire on the church bathroom, which he blames on "the man with the terrible smell" (actually Bobby, who got sick from eating too much lutefisk). He talks about how he spent two weeks buried under a pile of corpses at Iwo Jima, and says that what he smelled at the church bathroom was ''much worse''.

* ZigzaggedTrope in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. After Necropolis, Judge Death hides among the mountain of corpses of his own victims to the manhunt for him. However, he's already a zombie to begin with.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': In episode 1, while the Baron of Koka Castle is leading his men in massacring the outlying town, Guts hides under a heap of corpses in order to ambush the Baron's horsemen with his repeating crossbow.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' Guy Cecil was buried under a pile of dead women for days after his family was murdered, resulting in his present day phobia of being touched by women.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': One cannibal KingOfTheHomeless villain lived in a pile of corpses brought by his followers. He started down that path in childhood when his morbidly obese mother collapsed on him and he had to eat his way out.

* This happens in ''Anime/DragonballZ'' prequel movie ''Anime/BardockTheFatherofGoku''. When Frieza first begins ThePurge of the Saiyans, he sends [[TheBrute Dodoria]] to kill off Bardock and Bardock's squad. When Dodoria launches a final KiAttack on Bardock, the force of it sweeps up the dead bodies of Bardock's squad and he winds up badly injured and buried beneath them. This actually saves Bardock's life, since Dodoria assumes Bardock is dead and flies off.

* This happens in ''Anime/DragonballZ'' prequel movie ''Bardock the Father of Goku''. When Frieza first begins ThePurge of the Saiyans, he sends [[TheBrute Dodoria]] to kill off Bardock and Bardock's squad. When Dodoria launches a final KiAttack on Bardock, the force of it sweeps up the dead bodies of Bardock's squad and he winds up badly injured and buried beneath them. This actually saves Bardock's life, since Dodoria assumes Bardock is dead and flies off.