History Main / ConverseWithTheUnconscious

* ''RisingStars'': Not only does the muscle superhero guy talk to the special cop guy for like ten years, when he recovers he remembers every single word of it. Yeah, it's a superhero comic.

* In ''{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Inoue Orihime is forced to go into Hueco Mundo but given a chance to say goodbye to one person. She sneaks into [[ObliviousToLove Ichigo]]'s room while he's out cold, and is perhaps able to confess because she knows he is not knowledgeable of the event. He ''does'' later realizes that she ''was'' there, since when awake he says that he cn sense her feel her reiatsu on him]].

* In ''{{Rocky}} II''. Rocky was talking to Adrian after she spent time in a coma following a complicated childbirth. Fortunately, she got better, but not well enough soon enough to be present for his rematch with Apollo Creed.

* ''SupermanReturns'': Lois brings her son to the hospital to see a comatose Superman and reveals certain information to him.
* In the 2011 dark comedy Film/TheDescendants multiple characters talk to the main character's wife while she's in a coma. Justified in that she is a driving character of the film and spends the entire film in a coma.

* Cody speaks to the ''RescueBots'' while they're paralyzed from radioactive space dust. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming They appreciate it once they're all better.]]

->''I'm going to keep talking, even if you can't hear me.''
--> -- '''Fry''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* Conversed/Lampshaded in NurseJackie, where Akalitus told an unconscious movie critic how she hated movies where people talked to coma patients.
* There is a touching scene from ''{{The X-Files}}'' episode "One Breath" that invokes this trope. Scully is dying after being returned from her abduction, and Mulder spends much of the episode trying to save her. Her family decides to honor her living will and take her off life support. As she is slowly fading away, Mulder is at his home waiting for people from the Syndicate to break in and steal important files. Scully's sister Melissa arrives and encourages him (loudly and angrily) to stop wallowing and tell Dana how he feels. Mulder does, and he has a lovely conversation with the unconcious Scully:

* Subverted in ''{{Foxtrot}}'', after Peter tells his brother Jason to get up on the roof to retrieve their football- then Jason falls down the ladder, getting knocked unconscious. Out of guilt, Peter stays by Jason's hospital bedside all night;

* Subverted in {{Doonesbury}}, where Mike talks to JJ about their relationship problems while she's in a coma, only to find that she was faking it. Furthermore, she was filming him talking to put in a movie.
* Played with in ''{{Peanuts}}''. Lucy fell asleep on Schroeder's piano, and Schroeder began to confess his love to her. Of course, she was only pretending to be asleep--[[NotListeningToMeAreYou and he was just trying to make her blow her cover]].

* In an episode of ''{{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 ''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]].

* As with so many things this is played horribly in [[NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]] with Shinji taking [[spoiler:Asuka's]] descent into a coma badly to say the best of it.

* In ''{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Inoue Orihime is forced to go into Hueco Mundo but given a chance to say goodbye to one person. She sneaks into [[ObliviousToLove Ichigo's]] room while he's out cold, and is perhaps able to confess because she knows he is not knowledgeable of the event. He ''does'' later realizes that she ''was'' there, since when awake he says that he cn sense her feel her reiatsu on him]].

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

Bob is unconscious, for a prolonged time.

* ''{{Anime/Monster}}'': Tenma talks to Johann in the hospital twice in this manner. [[spoiler: The first time he happens to be conscious, and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor takes it upon himself to help the doctor out.]] The second time he remains unconscious. Or does he?]]
* As with so many things this is played horribly in [[NeonGenesisEvangelion End Of Evangelion]] with Shinji taking [[spoiler:Asuka]]'s descent into a coma badly to say the best of it.

* Invoked and subverted in the ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' manga, where Iwata and Misaki are stuck in a snowstorm, and Iwata who is now a cyborg has his power source shut down. Assuming that he's out cold, Misaki first time talks to him affectionally, confessing that she appreciates his company, and may even love him. As it turns out, even though his external functions are offline, he's still perfectly conscious and heard the whole thing. Cue Misaki bribing Dr. Shiouji to delete Iwata's memory of the incident.

* ''SeireiNoMoribito'' manages to turn this one around on itself in episode eleven after Tanda performs the "soul call" and gets his spirit stranded out of his body. With no idea of how to return, Tanda talks to Balsa while she watches over his body, admitting that when he'd [[WhatTheHellHero called her out]] two years prior about the people she was killing, it wasn't really what he'd wanted to say. Before he gets around to what he ''did'' want to say, however, Balsa begins talking to his unconscious body, telling him that she'd let her pride get the better of her back then, and thanking him for what he'd said at the time. Tanda and Balsa being the sorts that they are, neither of them mentions it after Tanda manages to return to his body.
* In ''{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Inoue Orihime is forced to go into Hueco Mundo but given a chance to say goodbye to one person. She sneaks into [[ObliviousToLove Ichigo]]'s room while he's out cold, and is perhaps able to confess because she knows he is not knowledgeable of the event. He ''does'' later realizes that she ''was'' there, since when awake he says that he cn sense her feel her reiatsu on him]].

** Just to note, this happened in the 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.

* Sandra Bullock in ''{{While You Were Sleeping}}''. I think the movie title is pretty self-explanatory.

* In the 2011 dark comedy [[Film/TheDescendants The Descendants]] multiple characters talk to the main character's wife while she's in a coma. Justified in that she is a driving character of the film and spends the entire film in a coma.

* In Lee Lightner's {{Warhammer 40000}} SpaceWolf novel ''Wolf's Honour'', Mikal feels heavily burdened by the role that fell on him when Berek was gravely wounded. He [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious sees the unconscious leader and asks why him]] -- and is enraged when he realizes that the skald, Morgrim, listened to him. Morgrim is able to reassure him.

* In the ''{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}'' episode "Becoming", Willow is left comatose after a skirmish and Xander tries to talk her out of it. The expected result of this trope is slightly subverted, in that when he [[{{CanNotSpitItOut}} says "I love you"]], she hears him and wakes up... thinking she'd been talked around by ''her boyfriend Oz''.

* In ''{{Series/Merlin}}'', Gwen speaks to Arthur while he's unconscious after having been bitten by the Questing Beast, telling him she know he's going to be alright because he's going to be king. A few scenes later it turns out he heard everything she said (though admittedly his memory seems a little hazy).

* 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) - yeap 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)).
** Happens again in New Who episode ''The Christmas Invasion'' where the newly regenerated Tenth has hit a bad case of regeneration sickness and Jackie Tyler is sitting with him, trying to get him to tell her what's wrong.

** Scully wakes up shortly thereafter and tells Mulder that she had the strength of his beliefs.

* Subverted in {{Doonesbury}}, where Mike talks to JJ about their relationship problems while she's in a coma, only to find that she was faking it. Furthermore, she was filming him talking to put in a movie.

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

* This is the thrust of the ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) episode "Tales of Leo". After a severe smackdown by The Foot two episodes ago, Leonardo is unconscious and dying. The A-plot of the episode consists of his familiy's conversations with him about his childhood, told in the form of flashbacks.

--> -- '''Fry''', ''{{Futurama}}''

* Geordi spends a lot of time talking to Data after he's damaged in the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration Fifth Annual''.

* In ''StarTrekIII'', [=McCoy=] pours his heart out to a comatose Spock [[spoiler: whose soul has been protected from death by being kept in [=McCoy=]'s body]]:

* As with so many things this is played horribly in End Of Evangelion with Shinji taking [[spoiler:Asuka]]'s descent into a coma badly to say the best of it.

* In ''Shuffle!'', the male lead brought his childhood friend out of a coma by [[spoiler: falsely claiming to have been responsible for the death of her mother]].

* In ''Rocky II''. Rocky was talking to Adrian after she spent time in a coma following a complicated childbirth. Fortunately, she got better, but not well enough soon enough to be present for his rematch with Apollo Creed.

* In ''StarTrek III'', [=McCoy=] pours his heart out to a comatose Spock [[spoiler: whose soul has been protected from death by being kept in [=McCoy=]'s body]]:

* ''Superman Returns'': Lois brings her son to the hospital to see a comatose Superman and reveals certain information to him.

* Played with hilariously in the film version of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince''. When Ron is unconscious from a poisoning, Lavender Brown (who he had been dating) rushes to his bedside. She starts to call his name, which causes him to stir...and croak out Hermione's name. Cue Lavender running away in tears, while Hermione takes her place sitting by Ron. After Ron recovers, he apparently remembers none of this and has no idea why Lavender is angry with him.

* In the ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' miniseries, ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', Aeryn talks to a [[spoiler: comatose John while holding their son in her arms.]]
-->'''Aeryn:''' You did it, [[spoiler: John]]. All the fighting has stopped. There's no more dying. And all of a sudden, three is not such a scary number. But no matter how wonderful this is, I will ''not'' accept it as a trade-off for losing you.

* In Hannah Montana, Oliver tells Miley, "I love you" while she's unconscious in the hospital, although she could hear him. Subverted in that [[spoiler:he was practicing to say it to Lily.]]

* In ''{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Inoue Orihime is kidnapped, but given a chance to say goodbye to one person. She sneaks into [[ObliviousToLove Ichigo]]'s room while he's out cold, and is perhaps able to confess because she knows he is not knowledgeable of the event]].
** Also, after [[TheWoobie Momo Hinamori]] is put in a coma by [[spoiler: Sosuke Aizen]], Captain Unohana tells Captain Hitsugaya that if he talks to her it would help, because she needs to hear the voice of someone who cares for her. He doesn't, and probably regrets it later when [[spoiler: she wakes up and starts proclaiming Aizen's innocence]].

* In the ''{{Farscape}}'' miniseries, ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', Aeryn talks to a [[spoiler: comatose John while holding their son in her arms.]]

* Invoked and subverted in the ''ExcelSaga'' manga, where Iwata and Misaki are stuck in a snowstorm, and Iwata who is now a cyborg has his power source shut down. Assuming that he's out cold, Misaki first time talks to him affectionally, confessing that she appreciates his company, and may even love him. As it turns out, even though his external functions are offline, he's still perfectly conscious and heard the whole thing. Cue Misaki bribing Dr. Shiouji to delete Iwata's memory of the incident.

* In ''Manga/AKB49RenaiKinshiJourei'', Minoru disregarded his [[WholesomeCrossdresser masquerade]] completely and poured his heart out to his crush Hiroko, who had collapsed due to fatigue.

* In KyouKaraMaou, while [[spoiler: Wolfram]] is technically dead, Yuuri doesn't have any doubt that he'll get better and promises to save him.

* In KyouKaraMaou, while [[spoiler: Wolfram]] is technically dead, Yuuri doesn't have any doubt that he'll [[IGotBetter get better]] and promises to save him.

* In ''Rocky II''. Rocky was talking to Adrian after she spent time in a coma following a complicated childbirth. Fortunately, [[IGotBetter she got better]], but not well enough soon enough to be present for his rematch with Apollo Creed.

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SisterTrope to [=~Dude, She's Like, In A Coma!~=] and UnbrokenVigil. Compare TalkingToTheDead.

* In [=~Imagine Me & You~=], after Heck falls asleep Rachel confesses that she fell in love with someone else, but is going to stay with him anyway. Subverted in that [[spoiler: he was faking it.]]

* Famously done in the climax of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'': as [[PietaPlagiarism Ranma cradles Akane's body]], [[TalkingToTheDead thinking her dead]], he [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove finally admits his love for her]]. Of course, that's when she finally recovers and wakes up, having heard the whole thing (though the word bubbles are ambiguous enough that the reader can interpret them as a silent soliloquy or an outspoken shout.)