History Main / ConverseWithTheUnconscious

* In "Blink", the first episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', Mac shares memories of his wife, Claire, who had been killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with an unconscious victim in the hospital...all the while hoping the woman will recover enough to help solve her own case.

* During the One Year Later timeskip, ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} was deactivated while repairs were underway. During that time, the other ComicBook/TeenTitans used him as a sounding board, even ones who'd never met him in person.

* The one time Snake-Eyes of ''ComicBook/{{GI Joe}}'' '''ever''' speaks is whispering Scarlett's codename to her while she's in a coma. Naturally, this is enough to wake her up. Just to note, this happened in the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel Marvel comics]] run, where he wasn't completely mute, but his vocal cords were so damaged that he could only speak in a very low whisper, and it was implied that is was painful to do so.
* ''ThePlainJanes'' by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg has an unconscious character to whom the main character talks and (after moving away) sends letters.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': While his father was in a coma during the early part of Tim's stint as Robin Tim would sit by his bedside and talk to him about his worries and plans, and note that they never really got to talk candidly while his father was awake.
* In issue #50 of ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'', Mayday (Spider-Girl) sits at the bedside of her comatose friend Courtney Duran, even bringing up things she did as Spider-Girl earlier in the issue. Their mutual friend Moose arrives at the point, and Mayday and Moose are telling each other not to blame themselves for the accident that put Courtney in the coma when Courtney awakes. It's not clear just how much of the conversation Courtney heard, though if her behavior in subsequent issues is any indication, she doesn't know that Mayday is Spider-Girl.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Something similar happens after Smith kills Neo, and Trinity is talking to his dead body in the real world.

* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': Attempted in ''Tempest Unleashed'' after Moku is attacked while surfing by [[BigBad Tiamat]]. He hits his head on a rock and ends up in a coma. Tempest, Rio, and their dad all spend hours talking to him, but he doesn't respond until Kona brings in a selkie with HealingHands.

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest 3'', the main character does this on a daily basis after [[spoiler:the villain puts his wife in a coma]]. ItsPersonal, of course.

* ''Literature/{{ByAnyOtherName|2013}}'': [[spoiler:After the trial, Holly visits Katya, who was [[PistolWhipping pistol-whipped]] by her kidnappers, resulting in severe brain damage, in hospital. She tells Katya that the men who hurt her are all either dead or in prison, and asks her to try to wake up. It doesn't work - Katya remains in her vegetative state.]]

-->'''Shinji''':''Physically, she was now fine. She had suffered from a bit of malnutrition, but nothing severe. However, she wouldn't wake up. The doctors had said it was all up to her. She didn't wake up because she didn't want to.''\\
''So I waited for her to come back.''\\
''Most of the time, I simply waited in silence. It wasn't easy. In fact, it was exhausting. It reminded me much of my experience inside the Twelfth Angel. There wasn't really anything else I could do but stay put and wait. When I got too bored, I would talk to her, hoping that the sound of my voice could reach her somehow... wherever she was. I spoke of the past, of what I thought when I first saw her on that aircraft carrier, looking so pretty in her yellow dress and how impressed I had been by her air of confidence.''

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': While his father was in a coma during the early part of Tim's stint as Robin Tim would sit by his bedside and talk to him about his worries and plans, and note that they never really got to talk candidly while his father was awake.

* At the start of Episode 19 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', [[WrenchWench Alto]] does this with [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vice]] who had slipped into a coma due to recent events, telling him to rest as she takes over helicopter pilot duties as his [[SenpaiKohai Junior]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls Beyond: Two Souls]]'', some accessible memories reveal that [[spoiler:Stan and Tuesday]] visit [[spoiler:Jodie]] several times in the hospital after she was put in a coma.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', Riku would talk to a comatose Kairi, desperate to retrieve her heart in order for her to awaken.
** He does this again in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', but to [[spoiler: Sora]] instead after [[spoiler: the latter is [[DeepSleep rendered comatose]] by [[MoralEventHorizon Young Xehanort]]]].

-->'''[=Zero=]''': So be it...but that's why we are the best partners.
* In ''[[VideoGame/PoliceQuest Police Quest 3]]'', the main character does this on a daily basis after [[spoiler:the villain puts his wife in a coma.]] ItsPersonal, of course.

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* Aaron Herbst in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Disappearing Inque" has spent months talking to the frozen Inque as if she were his confidant; he's fired when it gets to the point of kissing her ice block. Inque, who was conscious the whole time, is not happy about it after she gets out. He'd later be on the other end of this at the end of the episode.

* In [[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when [[spoiler: Leela]] falls into a coma, [[spoiler:Fry stays at her bedside for at least two weeks straight, constantly pleading her to wake up. It works.]]

---> '''Chief Wiggum''': "Ah, looks like you just bought yourself a lottery ticket... to jail."\\
'''Officer Lou''': "He's unconscious, Sir."\\
'''Chief Wiggum''': "Ah, they can still hear things."

* Creator/MelBlanc was nearly killed in a car accident and was left in a coma. The doctor tried to talk to him to see if he would come to, but he was unresponsive. The doctor finally gets an idea, and asks Mel, "WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, can you hear me?" and Mel replies, [[{{Catchphrase}} "What's up, doc?"]]

* ''Literature/ByAnyOtherName'': [[spoiler:After the trial, Holly visits Katya, who was [[PistolWhipping pistol-whipped]] by her kidnappers, resulting in severe brain damage, in hospital. She tells Katya that the men who hurt her are all either dead or in prison, and asks her to try to wake up. It doesn't work - Katya remains in her vegetative state.]]

* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]]'' Shinji took [[spoiler:Asuka]]'s descent into a coma badly (and that is a massive understatement). He talked to her to tell her that everything was going to Hell, everyone frightened him and she was the only one that could help him and he needed her, and he ''desperately'' pleaded her waking up... Up to that point the scene was touching and angsty, but then [[ADateWithRosiePalms it took a very disturbing turn]]. It's shown [[spoiler:during Instrumentality]] that somehow she knew what he did, and she was ''not'' happy.

* ''Manga/AngelicLayer'' does this in the final episode. [[spoiler: Hikaru has just been hit with Athena's Astral Emission attack, which has been shown to instantly defeat any Angel. Cue Misaki crying out for Hikaru to get up, to keep fighting; then Hatoko starts, then Tamayo and Kotaro...followed by every single person in the audience (even Ogata in the control room) shouting Hikaru's name and calling for her to get back up. Hikaru not only gets back up but continues fighting with just a tiny bit of her "life bar," sprouts a pair of wings and counters a second Astral Emission to win the fight.]]

* In the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' novel ''Enigma Tales,'' Dr. Bashir is comatose and being cared for by Garak's personal physicians. Dr. Parmak urges Garak to talk to him, but Garak says that it's pointless and that there's nobody there to hear. By the end of the novel, he changes his mind and is reading Bashir an [[TitleDrop enigma tale]] when [[spoiler: [[FingerTwitchingRevival Bashir's fingers twitch for the first time]]]].

* At the end of the first season of ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', Rebecca is at a pie contest with her friend Paula but passes out just as the prizes are being awarded and is rushed to the hospital. It's cleared up pretty quickly that Rebecca's going to be fine -- she passed out due to an untreated UTI, but it gets taken care of at the hospital -- but before the doctor informs Paula (and us), we're treated to a scene where Paula sits next to Rebecca's bed, holding her hand and talking to her, telling her that they won the contest and begging her to be okay, before tearfully asking the doctor what's wrong with "my [[AffectionateNickname Cookie]]." In a dark comedy where Paula's tendency to [[ParentalSubstitute act like she's Rebecca's mother]] is PlayedForLaughs, it's surprisingly touching.

* In "Blink," the first episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}},'' Mac shares memories of his wife, Claire, who had been killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with an unconscious victim in the hospital...all the while hoping the woman will recover enough to help solve her own case.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Battlefield," the Doctor cradles the apparently-killed-by-exploding-daemon body of [[spoiler: Brigadier, and later Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] bemoaning the pointlessness with the comment "you should have died in bed." Obviously, he got better, gave the Doctor a tart retort "Really Doctor. Do you think I'd have been so stupid as to have stayed inside?" and went back to his gardening. As for his eventual fate (according to the expanded universe) - yeah, the Doctor was right. In bed. Aged roughly 125 (after being rejuvenated by accident, and becoming a lord in the Human Dreaming (kind of like Avalon in the Marvel Universe).

** ''Whenever'' the Doctor does this with a sleeping/unconscious Amy, she somehow manages to hear every word. It was a Time Lord mind meld ''once,'' but only once. It's unknown at this point if it's a side-effect of the [[spoiler:time cracks thing]] that makes her able to [[RippleEffectProofMemory remember parts of altered timelines]].

* Squall in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has a fairly extensive one-sided conversation with Rinoa while she is in a coma. Of course, Squall is [[InnerMonologue used to having extensive one-sided conversations]]. The irony is that he actually ''wants'' a conversation now and can't have it - and he even makes the observation that "this is like talking to a wall," which is a callback to his blow-off of Quistis early in the game (when he says that if Quistis wants someone to listen to her but not say anything, she should talk to a wall).

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when [[spoiler: Leela]] falls into a coma, [[spoiler:Fry stays at her bedside for at least two weeks straight, constantly pleading her to wake up. It works.]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer is sent to the hospital in a coma after a failed April Fools prank by Bart (he put one of his beer cans in a paint pot shaker, and when Homer opened it, [[MadeOfExplodium it caused a massive explosion]]). Late into the episode (which was a ClipShow episode, by the way), Bart comes into the room to confess the prank he pulled on Homer. As he tells it all, Homer's condition improves, until he gets up... and starts [[RunningGag strangling Bart]].

** In the episode ''Separate Vocations'' Wiggum gives a pre-arrest one-liner to an unconscious thug named Snake.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth "Storm over Ryloth"]]: Admiral Yularen is knocked out during the initial attack on the blockade, and while he's unconscious in the medbay, Ahsoka apologizes to him for her recklessness that caused his injury. He turns out to have been awake and heard her.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Raf tells Bumblebee a story playing a racing game while the latter is powered down. Ratchet brings up that Bumblebee can't hear him in this state
* Cody speaks to the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' while they're paralyzed from radioactive space dust. They appreciate it once they're all better.

* In ''Fanffic/MistakeSherlockHolmes'', Watson ends up in a coma after a case goes wrong. The doctor tells Holmes that it's possible Watson can hear him, so he takes up a habit of talking about cases and reading to him while waiting for him to wake up. After Watson awakens, he tells Holmes he heard it.

* At the start of Episode 19 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', [[WrenchWench Alto]] does this with [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vice]] who had slipped into a coma due to recent events, telling him to rest as she takes over helicopter pilot duties as his [[SempaiKohai Junior]].