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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': When Team RWBY reunite in Volume 9, Weiss has the unhappy task of updating her team-mates on what they missed in the Central Location. As it becomes clear just what she's saying, her voice fades away into the background and the screen fades to black as Ruby sways and collapses. [[spoiler:The news that Penny was killed after Ruby had gone to so much effort to save her is too much for Ruby to handle in that moment, so she faints from the shock of it. Volume 9 is a MentalHealthRecoveryArc for both Ruby and Jaune in the aftermath of Penny's death and Cinder's victory.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In "A Place of Particular Concern", this is Ruby's reaction when she learns that [[spoiler:Penny was killed during the battle in the VoidBetweenWorlds (after spending the last few episodes trying to save her life)]].

* The ''[[WebVideo/SandersSides Sanders Sides]]'' episode "[[Recap/SandersSidesS2E7CrofterSTheMusical Crofter's - The MUSICAL!]]" has Logic of all people doing this when he sees that there's a new flavor of Crofter's jam named after
him.

** In [[Recap/SMG4SMG4&SMG3AreForcedToHoldHands "[=SMG3=] And [=SMG4=] Are Forced to Hold Hands"]], TheReveal that the thing keeping [=SMG4=] and [=SMG3=]'s hands stuck together was ''not'' a spell cast by [=SMG1=] and [=SMG2=] but ''Mario's misplaced gum'' is enough to make [=SMG1=] faint.

** In [[Recap/SMG4SMG3AndSMG4AreForcedToHoldHands "[=SMG3=] And [=SMG4=] Are Forced to Hold Hands"]], TheReveal that the thing keeping [=SMG4=] and [=SMG3=]'s hands stuck together was ''not'' a spell cast by [=SMG1=] and [=SMG2=] but ''Mario's misplaced gum'' is enough to make [=SMG1=] faint.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In "A Place of Particular Concern", this is Ruby's reaction when she learns that Penny was killed during the battle in the VoidBetweenWorlds (after spending the last few episodes trying to save her life).

* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Donald faints when Kaplan's vague description of what attacked his boat triggers some memories and a flashback of his encounter with Davy Jones in[[Recap/PaperinikNewAdventuresS1E45TheUlyssesSyndrome "The Ulysses Syndrome"]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': In "[[Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald The Castafiore Emerald]]", Bianca Castafiore and her assistant Irma faint when they hear that her jewels have been stolen.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Violine faints when hearing that [[spoiler:Muller is Marushka's brother, and her "mother" is actually Marushka, her father's former governess]].

* [[FaintInShock/AnimatedFilms Films -- Animated]]
* [[FaintInShock/{{Film}} Films -- Live-Action]]

* FaintInShock/WebComics

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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Grover, Bert, and Mr. Johnson have a tendency to keel over as if they were passing out (though it's hard to tell since, being played by puppets, their eyes remain open) when frustrated.
** For example, when Ernie had finished a pretend doctor examination on Bert, Bert wanted to know if he was healthy. Ernie couldn't tell him because he had 23 years of education before becoming a real doctor.
--->'''Ernie''': (to the audience) Gee, Bert fainted. [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse Is there a doctor in the house?]]

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* ''Podcast/FilmReroll'': In [[Recap/FilmRerollJurassicPark "JurassicPark"]], Gennaro faints a bit preemptively when the main gate opens and he expects to meet a T-Rex. In actuality, it's just the rest of the group coming back. Muldoon ends up taking care of the unconscious lawyer.
* Simmons in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'' Episode 12, upon seeing a teammate's head blow up. He fervently denies this, but a later flashback confirms it.
-->'''Simmons:''' Eek! I'm gonna faint!
* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Meggy faints when she sees Heavy Weapons Guy [[FanDisservice dressed as a "pretty princess"]] in the episode [[Recap/SMG4TheMelancholyOfFishyBoopkins "The Melancholy of Fishy Boopkins"]].
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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoDOTD8EnemyAliens Destiny of the Doctor 8: Enemy Aliens"]], several members of the BBC faint when the Doctor, Charley and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick an eight foot tall glowing green alien]] enter the premises.
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* Papa Smurf in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "[[Recap/TheSmurfsBook27TheSmurfsAndTheBookThatTellsEverything The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything]]" gets so frustrated with his little Smurfs being so dependent on the titular book that he stamps his feet in anger collapses in a faint.
* In [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1 the very first Superman story]], a would-be tough guy faints after he attempts to stab Franchise/{{Superman}} and his knife shatters on impact leaving Superman unscratched.

Partly TruthInTelevision: doctors [[BreakingBadNewsGently tell you to sit down]] when they need to discuss bad news because your body's Fight-or-Flight response can overreact and reduce blood flow to your brain. This happens more often in fiction than in real life. The more stereotypical the circumstances, the longer the faint can last: Monster movie heroines sometimes remain unconscious for hours.[[note]]In real life, fainting from stress usually only lasts a few moments: See the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncope_(medicine)#Neurally_mediated_syncope this Wikipedia article]] for more details[[/note]]

Don't confuse with the hero falling over exhausted after battle. That's PostVictoryCollapse. A character with some vague medical condition such as "Anemia" or [[VictorianNovelDisease "Consumption"]] may be more susceptible to this trope, but more likely just faint due to their illness. Not a character fainting because of pregnancy either --unless the faint is due to the shock of finding out that they are pregnant! Compare AngstComa.

{{Subtrope}} to {{Fainting}}

Don't confuse with the hero falling over exhausted after battle. That's PostVictoryCollapse. A character with some vague medical condition such as "Anemia" or [[VictorianNovelDisease "Consumption"]] may be more susceptible to this trope, but more likely just faint due to their illness. Not a character fainting because of pregnancy either --unless the faint is due to the shock of finding out that they are pregnant!

* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Meggy faints when she sees Heavy Weapons Guy [[FanDisservice dressed as a "pretty princess"]] in the episode [[Recap/SMG4sSuperMario64BloopersTheMelancholyOfFishyBoopkins "The Melancholy of Fishy Boopkins"]].

* FaintInShock/AnimatedFilms
* FaintInShock/{{Film}}

--->'''Ernie''': (to the audience)Gee, Bert fainted. IsThereADoctorInTheHouse

--->'''Ernie''': (to the audience)Gee, Bert fainted. IsThereADoctorInTheHouse?

--->'''Ernie''': (to the audience)Gee, Bert fainted. Is there a doctor in the house?

-->'''Ernie''': (to the audience)Gee, Bert fainted. Is there a doctor in the house?

* Simmons in ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'' Episode 12, upon seeing a teammate's head blow up. He fervently denies this, but a later flashback confirms it.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Meggy faints when she sees Heavy Weapons Guy [[FanDisservice dressed as a "pretty princess"]] in the episode [[Recap/SMG4sSuperMario64BloopersTheMelancholyOfFishyBoopkins "The MelancholyOfFishyBoopkins"]].

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* ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'': As part of a "walk a mile" experiment, Kat and Ronnie change places and assignments at college. When Ronnie reports that she skipped out on Figure Drawing class because it had a live nude model, Kat faints in strip #137. Kat's teacher subtracts a grade for each missed class, which will gank her grade average. Any grade below 3.5 means Kat's parents will stop subsidizing Kat's tuition.
* ''Webcomic/FurWillFly'': Tammy faints on Brad's first night in the apartment when he pops his shoes off. She seems to think that he's removed part of his body, because this is a wold of {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s that has apparently never invented footwear.
* Happens quite frequently in ''Webcomic/MenageA3''--characters often faint due to sheer embarrassment, sheer pleasure, or for other reasons.
* ''Webcomic/NegativeOne'': Meri Lin tends to faint when she's upset.
* ''Webcomic/TheNightBelongsToUs'': Hank is prone to fainting when under a lot of stress (like faced with a werewolf who attacked her or vampires that attacked Ada).
* ''Webcomic/OzzieTheVampire'': Kim faints when she first meets Grimsley, the talking book. The JumpScare from the skeleton that he's forgotten to warn her about doesn't help.
* ''Webcomic/PeanutsUntold'': Charlie Brown faints for joy when Lila gives him a kiss for Valentine's Day.
* ''Webcomic/PinkiePieReadsCupcakes'':
** Rarity only makes it through two pages before fainting. Pinkie, Twilight and Applejack think that this is a mercy.
** Fluttershy doesn't even open the book. The others stop her with a made-up alternate story line that is ''still'' too much for her:
-->'''Twilight:''' um... '''Pinkie steps on a caterpillar.''' And kills it, I guess.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' Wh.. What?? B-B-But who could write something so.. so.. !! ''[next frame: thud]''
* ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'': Danny and Billie both faint when faced with the reality of D.J.'s existence for the first time.
* Mr. Cake from ''Blog/SliceOfLife'' faints periodically.
-->'''Mrs. Cake:''' You get used to it, dear.
* In a side story in ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00587.html Arlen the biomancer]] suffers this when he discovers one field of his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite bauxite]]-purging plants is ''growing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire rubies and sapphires]]''.
* ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'': The first time anyone points a stun gun at Susie she just faints dead away, to the bemusement of the woman intending to achieve the same result by force.
* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': Lucas drops like an empty armor the day he learns that [[http://yafgc.net/comic/0225-you-cant-handle-the-truth/ he's not the baron's son, but the blacksmith's.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': Cameron [[https://zoophobiacomic.com/post/127351485889 faints]] very soon after arriving in Safe Haven. Admittedly, leaning back to find that you are being loomed over by giant cheetah in the previous frame could be traumatic. Luckily, Zech means her no harm.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'': In the episode [[Recap/ThreeTwoOnePenguinsS1E2TheGreenEyedMonster ''The Green Eyed Monster'']], Zidgel faints when he discovers just how big this grass-eating monster is.
* WesternAnimation/AdventuresInOdyssey: In "[[Recap/AdventuresInOdysseyVideoSeriesE12AStrangerAmongUs A Stranger Among Us]]", Eugene passes out from shock after finding that Connie is still alive.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Princess Bubblegum faints with relief after her people were saved from a plague by [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Ice King's pained howls]]. After [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext trying to flip over a bed and shouting in]] GratuitousGerman first.
** Played straight by Marceline of all people. In Recap/AdventureTimeS5E48Betty she gets a little... overwhelmed by the discovery that [[spoiler:her old friend and father figure Simon had been freed from the ice crown's curse.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Hugh and Judy both faint when they see Jimmy get sucked up into the Junkman's ship by the League of Villains in [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS3E20 "The League of Villains"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E31TheSinging "The Singing"]] Teri, who is TerrifiedOfGerms, passes out when she sees the rat spreading music around. She then has a dream about germs that pastiche J-pop.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Played for laughs when Stan outs Terry as a homosexual to his homophobic father. Terry faints into his lover's arms in the most girly way possible, and Stan, drunk off his ass, calls him out on it.
-->'''Stan:''' That's not how a straight guy faints. This is how a straight guy faints! ''[{{faceplant}}s]''
* WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty: In "The No-L 9" Betty's mom understandably faints upon seeing her dad for the first time in 30 years.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' :
** In "The Serpent's Pass", Sokka faints upon seeing the pregnant woman give birth en route to Ba Sing Se.
** In "The Awakening", Aang wakes up from a coma following a life-or-death situation... in a Fire Nation ship. With his friends disguised as Fire Nation soldiers, complete with Sokka in full armor. The shock of the situation (combined with him still feeling physically woozy to begin with) knocks him out cold for a couple more minutes, until his friends get him back up to speed when he wakes up again.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'':
** ''[[Recap/TheBatmanS4E1AMatterOfFamily A Matter of Family]]''. Completely justified for Tony Zucco. He's just had his ass handed to him by a ''very'' angry Batman, then fallen from the top of a trapeze, only to be caught by Robin before he hits the ground. Once he's back on solid ground, he understandably faints dead away.
* WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries:
** In ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE10TwoFacePart1 Two Face: Part 1]]'', Grace faints when she sees Two-Face's face for the first time.
** In ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE20FeatOfClayPart1 Feat of Clay, Part 1]]'', Raymond Bell faints while being questioned by Batman. Considering Batman's terrifying interrogation technique, it is not surprising.
* ''WesternAnimation/Batman The Brave And The Bold'': In the cold open of "Enter the Outsiders!", a bystander faints at the sight of Bwana Beast's TwoBeingsOneBody powers in action.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
** In "Sacred Cow", Bob faints after he witnesses Moolissa's death, resulting in him having a dream about talking to Moolissa on a cloud and kissing [[GenderBlenderName him]].
** In "The Kids Run the Restaurant", Bob passes out at the sight of his hand [[AfraidOfBlood bleeding a bit]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheese'': Boy helps an old lady feed the birds by ripping up her bread for her, and she's so impressed she swoons. We then see her being lifted into an ambulance on a stretcher.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': DM himself, uncharacteristically, faints dead away at the prospect of confronting the world's largest spider in "The World Wide Spider".
* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'': In one episode of the 90s cartoon, Dennis wins a ''Series/BluePeter'' art competition, but when "his" winning painting is unveiled live on air, it turns out that the judges picked the abstract series of splodges that Gnasher painted on the other side of the canvas. When Dennis explains this, the campy art critic in charge of the contest is so shocked that a ''dog'' took first prize that he faints.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
** In "A Duck's Cartoon", Mandark thinks Dexter stole the former's duck and Dexter responds that Mandark's duck isn't in Dexter's laboratory. Then they both faint when they notice Dexter's monkey starting a family with Mandark's duck.
** in the episode ''Dexter Detention'' Miss Wimple who is Dexter's teacher faints when Dexter yells out the answer to the first question in a test out of annoyance when a student bugs him for the answer.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero'': Lucinda faints after seeing a large wave plunge down on John.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's dad faints from shock quite regularly, often preceded by a high-pitched scream. In one episode he does it three times in the space of about twenty seconds.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Before her marriage to Carter Pewterschmidt, Lois Griffin’s mother Barbara was courted by a highly effeminate dandy named Roginald. When she and Carter briefly separated many years later, Roginald reappeared on the scene and came face to face with Carter during a reconciliation attempt. Roginald threatened to fight him over Barbara, but Peter Griffin stepped in and simply uttered the word “penis”, making Roginald faint from the perceived vulgarity.
* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'':
** Chum Chum faints in the episode ''[[Recap/FanboyAndChumChumS1E1Wizboy Wizboy]]'' when Fanboy does the cut-off finger trick, and again in "[[Recap/FanboyAndChumChumS2E37SpeedEraser Speed Eraser]]" when he is shocked over what the magic eraser does when literally attached to Fanboy.
** Lupe faints in "[[Recap/FanboyAndChumChumS2E31AVeryBrrryIcemas A Very Brrr-y Icemas]]" after Mr. Mufflin's Man-Arctica costume is shed.
* ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty'': When Marc Anthony is witnessing ([[DramaticIrony what looks like]]) Pussyfoot getting baked into cookies, he passes out several times.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'': A random orange-haired woman faints when she sees Frosty and the kids marching to the North Pole.
* ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'': Edgar faints when he sees Willie the giant lifting the roof off of the house.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee": Andrea faints in [[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E2FirstDayFrights "First Day Frights"]] when GhastlyGhost Scratch accidentally scares her in the bathroom.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Lampshaded at the end of the episode "Not What He Seems", when [[spoiler:''the Author of the journals'' comes out of the portal in Stan's secret lab, on top of him being ''Stan's long-lost twin brother'']].
-->'''Mabel:''' [[ThisIsThePartWhere Is this the part where]] one of us faints?\\
'''Soos:''' Oh, I am ''so'' on it, dude. ''[faints]''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In [[Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS2E2 "Night of the Living Grim"]] Billy’s reaction upon seeing [[TheGrimReaper Grim]] as a human, instead of his usual [[DemBones walking skeleton]] state is to faint.
* ''WesternAnimation/HorridHenry'': Out of the fear of [[AfraidOfNeedles injections]], Henry faints from his brother Perfect Peter's explanation about said injections.
* ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'': Linus passes out when he sees what he thinks is the Great Pumpkin (actually Snoopy).
* ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'':
** In "Princess Smile", Rita faints after she sees Bello's failed attempt to fix Princess's mouth.
** In "Flying Bathtub", Goomo is extremely nervous that the King will find out that Bello and Mina have gone out with the eponymous bathtub and force him to wash his socks. When Bello and Mina come back JustInTime, Goomo faints.
* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'': The episode "The Secret Six Secret" has the villains loose a Bengal tiger in the girls' hotel room, because [[HeKnowsTooMuch they know too much]]. [[TheBigGuy Alan]] manages to trap the tiger in a Murphy bed. Upon hearing what the girls endured, [[LovableCoward Alexander]] faints. When his sister, Alexandra, tries to give Alan a SmoochOfVictory, she trips over Alex's inert form.
-->'''Alexandra:''' The next time you decide to faint, do it by an open window.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 105, one of the [[spoiler: show's animators]] faints when Stumpy enters the [[spoiler: animation studio making the show]] and informs everyone that he [[spoiler: is taking over the show and making his own episodes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In the episode "Revenge of the Lutefisk," Bobby accidentally starts a fire which destroys the community church. He spends an entire day [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone consumed with shame and remorse]], and the next day, upon hearing an official announcement that the police are on the trail of the "arsonist," the sheer terror on top of it all drives him into a faint.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'': In the short "The Zero Hero", Alfalfa faints after Darla tells him that the bank robbers are not his disguised friends.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}}:
** Tara does this in "Dirgelwch y Llythyr Coll" when it's revealed that [[spoiler:''[[OutOfCharacterMoment Ceri]]'' stole her own letter.]]
** Prys does this when he actually sees the real Siôn Corn for the first time. When he gets up, he thinks he was hallucinating; he wasn't, and he faints again.
** In "O Na, Mrs Tomos!", Tara and Mia both faint once they smell Prys' smelly tuna egg sandwich, and it happens at the end of the episode when Prys himself sniffs the tuna that Sugar Lump ate.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** In [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E5CitySlickersFoolMeTwice "Fool Me Twice"]], the Louds (except Lily and Luan) faint in embarrassment when pranked by their stunt doubles.
** In [[Recap.TheLoudHouseS2E19FutureTenseLynnerTakesAll "Lynn-er Takes All"]], Lola passes out after Lynn wins a game of "Pretty, Pretty Pageant Queen".
** Parodied in [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS4E22AStarIsScornedSeniorMoment "A Star Is Scorned"]], when Lola tells her teddy bear [[EdibleThemeNaming Mr. Sprinkles]] that Lily is a finalist for a cuteness competition, and Mr. Sprinkles coincidentally flops over. Lola responds with, "I know, it's shocking!".
** [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E16SittingBullTheSpiesWhoLovedMe "The Spies Who Loved Me]] has Ronnie Anne walking straight towards an open cellar door. Frida faints because she thinks that Ronnie Anne hasn't noticed.
** In [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E13RuthlessPeopleWhatWoodLincolnDo "Ruthless People"]], Mr. Loud faints upon seeing the termites infesting his house. It takes Lana's smelly shoe to wake him up again.
** From [Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E7LockNLoudTheWholePicture "The Whole Picture"]]:
*** Lincoln faints when he realizes that he forgot to put film in the camera before taking all the photos.
*** Clyde [[RunningGag faints as usual]] when he [[PrecociousCrush sees Lori]]. Clyde also faints when he sees ''himself'' dressed as Lori in a mirror.
** Howard faints multiple times in the episode [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E26SnowWayDownSnowWayOut "Snow Way Down"]], first when Lincoln casually asks if they can go on the Ramp of Insanity. Harold remarks that this is why he is doing the driving. He does it again when he finds the note where Clyde says he is going to sled off the Ramp of Insanity, and [[RuleOfThree again]] at the end when he sees Clyde and Lincoln sledding off of a tall hill.
** In [[ "Hose Music"]] Luna and her father both faint at the end when they find out that the bearded stranger she talked to was really Mick Swagger in disguise.
** Clyde had a crush on Lori in early seasons, which would occasionally cause him to black out.
** [[LovableCoward Lynn Sr.]] in particular has a habit of passing out when afraid, notably in "Tricked!" when he spends most of the episode unconscious due to his fear of Halloween, and "Not a Loud" where he and the President both black out at the prospect of [[DeliveryGuy delivering Lincoln]]. The First Lady ends up delivering him instead.
** Howard, [[HasTwoDaddies one of]] Clyde's fathers, faints out of worry for the safety of his cats in "Purrfect Gig".
** "[[ThanksgivingEpisode The Loudest Thanksgiving]]" has Bobby pass out upon seeing his mother covered in ([[ABloodyMess what he thinks is]]) [[AfraidOfBlood blood]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolbus'': In the episode [[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS2E4GoingBatty "Going Batty"]], seeing Ralphie in a vampire mask horrifies Arnold, causing him to faint.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'': In "The Runaway Rainbow", Rainbow Dash faints when Rarity says (after skating all around Ponyville and splashing Rainbow Dash with mud) [[WasntThatFun that she wants to do it again]].
-->'''Rarity:''' [[WasntThatFun That was fun! Let's do it again!]] \\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' [[OhNoNotAgain Again?!]] ''[faints]''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Rarity in-universe acknowledges that she faints all the time, to the point that she has a special couch to faint onto... Some standout occasions:
*** Twice during the episode "Bridle Gossip". First, when she hears that mysterious zebra Zecora's stripes are not a fashion choice, but something she was born with, and then again when the other ponies list the "horrors" of [[EnchantedForest the Everfree Forest]].
*** In "A Dog and Pony Show", when Sapphire Shores asks her to make five more dresses in addition to the one she just made.
** Happens twice in "Applebuck Season".
*** Applejack ends up fainting after believing she's finished her apple-picking all by herself, only to be shown an acre that still needed to be picked. In the latter case, it's likely justified, as Applejack was suffering from severe sleep deprivation in addition to the shock, thus crossing over with the Exhaustion Faint.
*** In that same episode, this trope is parodied when a Flower Sister faints when faced with a bunny stampede (normal-sized bunnies, mind you, who are rather harmless).
** Rainbow Dash faints twice in "Trade Ya", both times when the pony with the Daring Do book she is after refuses to trade it to her.
** Pinkie Pie faints out of excitement when Coloratura makes her big entrance in "The Mane Attraction".
** Fluttershy faints in "No Second Prances" when she thinks Starlight is eaten by a manticore.
** Fluttershy faints again in "2, 4, 5, Greaaat" when Twilight tells her she will coach a Buckball team. Pinkie almost immediately wakes her up by throwing water on her face.
* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'': Ned faints when he finds out that the parents of a baby that he thinks will play at a New Year's pageant actually live in a town other than Friendly Falls.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'':
** It's a RunningGag for Tunip to faint almost every time he hears bad news.
** In "The Emperor Penguins", Tweak passes out after Barnacles informs her that the GUP-S has fallen to the bottom of an ice chasm. She is pretty quick to wake up, though.
--->'''Barnacles:''' Tweak! I didn't think you'd take it ''that'' hard.
* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': In the episode "Docu-Mentally", Oggy discovers Dee Dee removing the tape from his, well, video tape. He falls to the ground and passes out in shock. The cockroaches then proceed to film themselves playing around with Oggy's body and then send it to television. The result? [[CircleOfShame Well, yeah...]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'': In "Pups Save a Mer-Pup", Chase at the beginning of the episode [[ArbitrarySkepticism insisted that mer-pups aren't real]]. When he sees Skye actually turning into one, he faints.
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'': Miss Rabbit gets so nervous when meeting The Queen that she faints twice.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbThanksButNoThanks "Thanks but No Thanks"]], when he ''finally'' gets some thanks from Major Monogram Carl lets out [[{{Squee}} a squeal of joy]] and passes out.
** Candace faints at the end of the episode [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLightsCandaceAction "Lights, Candace, Action!"]] because she is mortified about the video's success on the internet. Phineas, not looking behind him, says, "Goodnight, Candace."
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** In [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS6EP6LittleMissInterpretsNightMayor "LittleMissInterprets"]], Professor Utonium gives three (failed) cakes to [=Roger McDongle=]. Roger asks if he can eat the cakes and the Professor says yes. Since the Girls have mistaken the Professor's complaining about the cakes for being about ''[[OutOfContextEavesdropping them]]'', Bubbles faints upon hearing this.
** In [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP12CursesBangForYourBuck "Curses"]] Ms. Keane faints in shock when she hears the girls swear.
** The museum curator faints in a cop's arms "Monkey See, Doggy Do" after the girls make a huge mess in the museum while trying to look for the one who stole the Anubial Jewels.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'':
** Carrot faints into Celery's arms when Jet mentions him in his song in "My Fair Jet".
** Moonbeam faints after Sunspot flirtatiously winks at her in "Back to Bortron 7".
** Jet faints after Zerk informs him that his parents will be assigned to another planet after their presentation in "Back to Bortron 7".
** Mitchell faints at the ''very sight'' of [[LoveInterest Mindy]] in "What Goes Up...", after she sneaked up on him a second time.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** In the flashback embeded in [[Recap/RugratsS7E14Kwanzaa "Kwanzaa"]], we see that Great Aunt T fainted when she realized that she had met up with Martin Luther King Jr.
** Chas faints twice in [[Recap/RugratsS3E16UnderChuckiesBedChuckieIsRich "Chuckie is Rich"]]; first when he learns that he's won the sweepstakes and again when he learns that he's lost nearly all his money due to a bad investment.
** [[Recap/RugratsS2E7LetThereBeLightTheBankTrick "The Bank Trick"]]: When Mrs. Trencherman sees that her jewels are missing from her deposit box,[[note]]They've been taken by Tommy and Chuckie[[/note]] she shrieks and passes out.
--->'''Tommy:''' Hmm. Must be her naptime.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': Some of the hot dog buns fall to the floor when they see a human woman eating the (sapient) baby carrots.
* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'': In "The Tale of Mr. Morton", the eponymous Mr. Morton faints after he reads a letter from his crush, Pearl.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'': Shaggy and Scooby frequently faint when they're scared ([[LovableCoward which is often]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E7MypodsAndBoomsticks "Mypods and Boomsticks"]] Lisa faints when she realises that her ShockinglyExpensiveBill is the result of her excessive downloading and not being mindful enough of the cost of the songs.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': Upon hearing that Sonic was unable to destroy the Doomsday Project in [[Recap/SonicTheHedgehogSatAMS2E13TheDoomsdayProject "The Doomsday Project"]], Antoine crys out "We are doomed!" and faints.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Stan, in the episode "The Cissy" when his father Randy tells him that he is Music/{{Lorde}} and proves to him that he's ''not'' making it up.
** In "It's a Jersey Thing", Ike screams and passes out when he sees Kyle [[FauxHorrific donning the Jersey look]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'':
** In the episode "Krusty Dogs", Mr. Krabs takes away Krabby Patties from the Krusty Krab menu and puts hot dogs in their place. [=SpongeBob=]'s reaction is to faint from shock, just as two paramedics immediately arrive and revive him. [=SpongeBob=], however, faints again upon seeing Mr. Krabs take out the kitchen oven.
** Squidward collapses at the sight of the size of [=SpongeBob=]'s swollen splinter in [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E5TheSplinterSlideWhistleStooges "TheSplinterSlideWhistleStooges"]]
** One of the doctors faints at the end of [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS10E2UnrealEstateCodeYellow "Code Yellow"]] upon finding out that [=SpongeBob=] (who has been performing surgery) isn't a real doctor.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E17BlueShadowVirus Blue Shadow Virus]]", Jar Jar Binks faints when the last virus bomb is defused, causing Ahsoka, Padmé and Rex to turn and stare.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': A dock worker faints at the climax of [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS0E10SixtySecondsToDestruction "Sixty Seconds to Destruction"]] when the freighter finally comes to a halt just before smashing into the platform.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E8SeriousSteven "Serious Steven"]], Steven passes out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in once he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone due to his own upset stomach.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':
** Upon encountering the turtles for the first time, April O'Neil mutters "I can't handle this" and sinks to the ground unconscious. She stays out cold throughout the time it takes for them to transport her to their hideout and onto a bed. On waking and sitting up, she then immediately sees ratlike Splinter offering her some tea. At the sight of this, she mechanically utters "I don't believe this" and [[ExaggeratedTrope flops right back onto the bed, gone a second time]]. Somehow, Donatello was able to wake her up easily this time by simply grabbing her hand, but not the previous time.
** Irma faints twice in the episode [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S02E06TheCaseOfTheKillerPizzas "The Case of the Killer Pizzas"]]. First when a monster hatches from April's pizza, and later when she spots one of the monsters fully grown.
-->'''Vernon:''' You can't take her anywhere.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': [[MythologyGag Just like her 1987 incarnation]], April O'Neil faints upon meeting the turtles for the first time, and stays out cold all through them bringing her to the hideout and laying her down on a sofa. After waking up, she tries hard to convince herself that it was AllADream and that she's still dreaming the conversations that she's having with the turtles at this very moment, leaving the turtles exasperated. On seeing Splinter's human-sized rat appearance, April is too shocked to even be able to continue telling herself that what she's seeing isn't real anymore, and [[ExaggeratedTrope goes limp right there on the sofa]]. ''Unlike'' her 1987 incarnation, this April stays in her second faint for ''much'' longer, to the point where Mikey straight-up gives up on trying to wake her up and goes to listen to music instead, telling the others to just notify him when she wakes up. The villain of the episode even manages to carry out an entire bank robbery in the meantime as [[DeepSleep April lies dead unconscious]]. When she wakes up from ''this'' faint, she's finally a bit more open to accepting that the turtles and Splinter ''might'' be real.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Robin faints in the cold open to [[Recap/TeenTitansS3E3Betrothed "Betrothed"]] when Starfire hits him (and the rest of the Titans) the news that she's getting married to someone she has never met.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': In the episode [[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E45WhalesTales ''Whale's Tales'']] Elmyra faints when Buster and Babs explain to her what whaling is.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** Sadie throws her arm over her forehead and swoons when the hunky Justin joins the competition in "[[Recap/TotalDramaNotSoHappyCampersPartOne Not So Happy Campers - Part 1]]".
** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIVWhoWantsToPickAMillionare Aftermath IV: Who Wants to Pick a Millionare?]]", Chris flirts with the airport agent who makes no effort to hide that she's a fan of his. Once he calls her a "fine-looking lady", there's a moment in which she manages to stay upright, but then she throws her arm over her forehead and swoons.
** Sugar is shaken to her core that her team voted off the wizard Leonard in "[[Recap/TotalDramaILoveYouGreasePig I Love You, Grease Pig!]]". She dramatically walks forward with her arm held over her forehead and then goes down.
* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'': A trio of flowers watching the dance off between the K-Pop and Reggaeton trolls faint from excitement watching the Reggaetons get down.
* ''WesternAnimation/UglyDolls'': A Perfection citizen faints when Lucky Bat screams at her --Lucky believes that screaming in terror is how the Perfection citizens greet each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'':
** Elaine stiffens in shock and faints in [[Recap/WakfuS2E21Bellaphone "Bellaphone"]] upon seeing Eva and Cleo getting the ship down from the peak it was stuck on... by shooting it with arrows and making it fall back in the water.
** Slo-Mo does this twice in [[Recap/WakfuS2E11TheMaskedGobbowler "The Masked Gobbowler"]]; first when he realizes that Eva and Amalia are actually girls, and again when the Masked Gobbowler reveals [[spoiler: her true identity]].
* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'': A star-struck TJ faints in [[Recap/WordGirlS2E17TobeysTricksAndTreatsEscapeWham "Tobey's Tricks and Treats"]] when he sees "[=WordGirl=]" (actually Violet wearing a [=WordGirl=] Halloween costume) at his door.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The anime version of ''Anime/AceAttorney'' has Pearl faint in shock when she learns Maya has been kidnapped by de Killer, unlike the original game where she cries uncontrollably.
* In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', Takami "Komo" Komoda faints after learning that she and the other pilots are doomed to die after their battles. Komo's mother also faints after learning that her daughter will be next to fight and die.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Chi-Chi faints all the time, usually when something bad happens to Gohan.
** Bulma faints at the sight of [[spoiler:Raiti and Zaacro's]] true forms, and also when Vegeta [[spoiler:kills several innocents while partially under Babidi's control]].
* Emma of ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'' faints at a ball, partly because her corset is laced too tightly and partly from seeing William with Eleanor.
* In the 2003 version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed faints after seeing the corpse of a murdered woman, as it reminds him of his deceased mother, and of how she CameBackWrong.
* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'':
** In the WhatDoTheyFearEpisode, Kaname is scared out of her wits by all the spooky stuff in the AbandonedHospital that she takes Souske through. ''Most'' the scary things they encountered were actually tricks performed by a group of kids. However, Gen-san notes that the old lady Sousuke and Kaname spotted ''wasn't'' one of their tricks; she was probably the ghost of a woman who died in a fire years ago. Kaname turns blue and faints before he can even finish his sentence.
** When Sousuke tells the teacher that a lethal bacteriological weapon has been released in class, she keels over and spends the rest of the episode unconscious. Which is just as well, given all the lunacy that happens.
* Lady Isuzu, mother to Hana from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', encounters the Anglerfish Team in a market square. After introductions, Yukari burbles about their latest match, which alerts Lady Isuzu that her daughter is doing something indelicate at school. When Hana admits that she's taking sensha-do (tankery) as an elective, Lady Isuzu is aghast that "my daughter's hands have touched a ''tank''?" and promptly faints. Her servant takes her home to recover.
* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''. When the ship is haunted by a ghost, Yuriko Star forces her cowardly captain to search for his first officer, whom Tylor ordered to confront the ghost because he was too scared to do so himself. Yuriko ends up fainting when she's confronted by a skeleton, much to Tylor's surprise. The ship's nurse explains that Yuriko was suppressing her fear, and the sudden shock caused all her emotions to come out at once.
* Tubby faints at the end of Episode 20 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime, in response to his mother telling him that he'll be spending extra time on his violin lessons.
* The cold open of the very first episode of the anime adaptation of ''Anime/LoveLive'' sees the main characters learning from reading a typed poster on a bulletin board that the high school they're in, Otonokizaka Academy, is scheduled to close down. Honoka Kōsaka is most shocked by this, and collapses into her friends' arms in despair but not ''quite'' passing out… and ''cue the opening title sequence''. When the opening's done playing, we see Honoka waking up on a bed in the school infirmary, not quite recalling what happened, and assuming that the notice she read was [[AllADream a dream]], suggesting that the opening credits covered the span of Honoka's faint.
* Played for laughs in ''Manga/{{Kengan|Ashura}} Omega'', where the usually composed Kaede goes limp and falls unconscious when she is unexpectedly approached by [[spoiler:the supposedly dead Ohma]].
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' plays this for laughs when the students discover their new dorms; [[PennyAmongDiamonds Ochaco]] is so shocked and impressed by how big and fancy they look compared to her old appartment that she passes out ''twice''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]] is often depicted as fainting whenever Naruto "surprises" her by randomly popping up inches away from her. In {{canon}}, she only did so once after seeing him for the first time in two years, and after that, it's made patently clear that [[CharacterDevelopment she dropped all of her]] ShrinkingViolet tendencies during the TimeSkip, but {{filler}} episodes, spin-offs, and fanfic [[CharacterExaggeration have her do it more]].
** Sakura faints during her academy graduation exam when her instructor Kakashi tricks her into seeing a hallucination of her teammate and crush Sasuke horrifically wounded and dying.
** Soon after waking up from that faint, she runs into the ''real'' Sasuke, who was almost buried by Kakashi a little while ago, with only his head still left aboveground, mistakes this for Sasuke's severed head, and promptly faints dead away again right in front of him. By the time she wakes up from the second faint, Sasuke has already managed to un-bury himself on his own.
** By the sequel ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', Sakura seems to have officially taken over from Hinata as the fainter of the franchise. She faints in shock when Sasuke returns home unannounced after a long absence, and also when she realizes that she has accidentally destroyed her house with her super-strength. In the latter case, Shizune (who is a skilled medical ninja) examines her and concludes that the shock has knocked her out so deep that there's no point trying to wake her up and that she'll stay totally out cold until ''tomorrow''. Shizune then remarks that Sakura had been a frequent fainter during her teenage years, despite Sakura never being shown being "a frequent fainter", which usually was Hinata.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** [[Recap/OnePieceDressrosaArc Chapter 742]] of the series has an example that is both serious (due to being a plot point) and hilarious: [[spoiler:Usopp is fed the fake grape that was intended to knock Sugar out. He screams so loudly and makes such a horrifying expression that it causes Sugar to scream her lungs out in return, and she faints as a result]].
** A few chapters later, Usopp [[spoiler:shoots in front of her a projectile that expands into the same NightmareFace, causing her to faint again]].
* A RunningGag in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' is Xiao's tendency to faint whenever she's surprised. Since she is very easy to surprise, she faints all the time.
* In ''Anime/PleaseTwins'', Karen fainting at ''any'' surprise or stress is a running gag, though like many such things, it tapers off as the series goes on. Becomes [[HarsherInHindsight a bit less amusing]] when you consider the parent series, ''Anime/PleaseTeacher,'' which had a condition called Standstill, in which a person can spend ''years'' in a coma-like condition (without aging) after too much extreme emotion. One of these days, Karen might not wake up for a ''long'' time...
* In ''Manga/PrisonSchool'':
** Kiyoshi and Hana hide under a bed in the school nurse's room, both naked from the waist down. The proximity to Hana causes Kiyoshi to get an involuntary erection that directly touches Hana's bare privates. Hana not only passes out from embarrassment right then and there but passes out so deep and hard that she wakes up on the bed much later on with ''zero recollection'' of the incident.
** Hana later attempts revenge on Kiyoshi by stealing his [[SacredFirstKiss first kiss]] so that he can't share it with [[LoveInterest Chiyo]]. Kiyoshi turns it around when he realizes that Hana is extremely innocent when it comes to romance, and deliberately deepens the kiss into full-on making out. The shock of being kissed ''with tongue'' for the first time in her life (by someone she secretly harbors feelings for, no less) straight-up ''scrambles'' her mind, shutting her brain down completely as she goes limp in his arms.
** Meiko from the same series occasionally faints too, usually when accidentally subjected to the sights of other people's privates that she's not expecting to see, and sometimes stays unconscious for even longer than Hana.
** Andre passes out when two different dommes command him to serve them at the same time and he can't decide which one to obey.
* Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' has SuperOCD and is absolutely obsessed with symmetry. This causes him to overreact when his symmetry is disrupted:
** He faints after Soul cuts a couple of centimetres off one side of his hair, as this meant it was not perfectly symmetrical anymore.
** He also has a complete breakdown and passes out after he erases too hard and tears his test paper.
** This seems to happen any time he is not perfectly symmetrical. Liz mentions that if he tried to not use GunsAkimbo, "he'd get a {{Nosebleed}} and pass out". However, this only seems to apply to Kid himself. if he encounters an asymmetrical enemy, he's more likely to fight back with UnstoppableRage.
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' "[[Recap/TamagotchiYKDEpisode3 "Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream" episode 3]]: Himespetchi faints after she sees Mametchi and Yumemitchi holding hands and thinks it's because they love each other. (Mametchi was just helping Yumemitchi when she was about to trip). Himespetchi stays unconscious for a part of the episode afterwards, and needs help from Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to regain consciousness.
* Barnaby in Anime/TigerAndBunny faints in Episode 19: He's been plagued by recurring nightmares about his parents' death (which he thought he'd begun to put behind him after [[spoiler:seemingly finding their killer]]). When trying to discuss his fears with Kotetsu, Barnaby breaks down in tears and then passes out (probably exacerbated by exhaustion and lack of food, as he hasn't been able to eat or sleep due to the nightmares).
* In ''Manga/{{Tsukigasa}}'', Azuma faints when Kuroe kills the robbers and it brings up trauma from when he hurt Kuroe.
* ''Anime/TheWonderfulWorldOfPussNBoots'': The [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe kidnapped]] Princess Rosa sees Lucifer, a powerful ogre sorcerer, transform into a [[ScaledUp three-headed dragon]] while facing off against her rescuers. It isn't the transformation itself that gets her, it's when one of his hideous, [[SnakesAreSinister snake-like heads]] slowly starts approaching her. She faints before he can come any closer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ComicStrip/{{Curtis}} decides to prank his class one day for Show-And-Tell by bringing in a bag of "zombie brains". The things certainly look like brains, because they are. Curtis soon admits that they're just cow brains left over from a meat-packing plant. Then Curtis discovers that his teacher, Mrs. Nelson, is lying prone. Curtis doesn't wait for her to regain consciousness, instead taking himself to the principal's office.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** In one strip, Garfield passes out when Jon suggests that maybe he should go on a diet. Jon's response is to [[SarcasticClapping clap sarcastically]].
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2015/04/25 this strip]], Jon wonders if he could've been a doctor. Garfield shows him a splinter in his finger, [[InstantlyProvenWrong causing Jon to faint]].
--->'''Garfield:''' When you're done fainting, I'd like to know where you keep the tweezers, doc.
** Garfield and Odie go outside during a snowy day. Snow falls off the roof and lands on them, making snowmen outlines of themselves. Odie goes back inside, unbeknownst to Garfield. The snowman of Odie falls apart, and Garfield screams and faints.
--->'''Jon:''' Wimp.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/10/29 this strip]], Garfield is talking about how cats get [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], longer claws, [[ScaryTeeth sharper teeth]], and frizzy fur on Halloween night. He then looks in a mirror, [[ColorFailure turns white]], screams, and faints.
** Garfield passes out after Jon accidentally saws a button off his shirt in [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2000/ga000421.gif this comic]].
** In [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1992/ga920430.gif this comic]], Garfield is about to whack a spider with a newspaper, only for the spider to pass out before he can do so.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
** After the Little Red-Haired Girl moves away, Charlie Brown is devastated and faints... while still standing up.
--->'''Charlie Brown:''' I just passed out. I'm still standing, but I've passed out.
** In one strip, Charlie Brown is about to tell Snoopy who won the Daisy Hill Puppy Cup, leading to this:
--->'''Snoopy:''' I think I'm going to faint...\\
'''Charlie Brown:''' Don't faint!\\
''[Snoopy does exactly that]''\\
'''Charlie Brown:''' Didn't you hear me?\\
'''Snoopy:''' [[LampshadeHanging Quiet, please! Never interrupt a good faint!]]
** Snoopy passes out after he receives a letter from the Head Beagle. He even says that one always faints when they get a letter from the Head Beagle.
** Linus tends to feel faint whenever his SecurityBlanket [[LostToyGrievance is lost]]. During the story arc where he agrees to give up his blanket if his grandmother gives up smoking, he faints several times on his way to school and ends up arriving late.
* A Witney Darrow cartoon for ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' depicts a woman sprawled unconscious on her floor after receiving some stunning/horrific news via phone. Meanwhile, the voice at the other end is saying "...And that's not the half of it! Wait until you hear this!"

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Webcomic/AkiChansLife'', Asuka's parents faint when their fourteen-year-old daughter drops in unexpectedly, after spending half year abroad, to introduce her husband and four-year-old daughter (TimeTravel [[Fanfic/TheSecondTry was involved]]).
* In ''Fanfic/AndTheStarsWereShiningBright'' ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9666391/1/And-the-Stars-were-Shining-Bright link]]), a fanfic inspired by Khan from ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Maddie (exhausted from no sleep, hasn't eaten in a couple of days, not to mention worried sick for her captive father) faints when she sees that the man she's contracted to kill is the same man who helped her flee a dangerous situation some fifteen months previously.
* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Discussed. Clyde is described as looking like he ''might'' faint when he sees Lori, but he doesn't.
* Webcomic/AnonsPieAdventure:
** Limestone faints when she realizes that Anon is bleeding after his encounter with a giant spider.
** Priestess Padlock faints when Princess Celestia shows up at her church.
* ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'': During Yancy's {{flashback}} to when she was training to become the IdolSinger she was in the present, [[spoiler:Lisia ends up giving a LoveConfession to her, followed by what is revealed to be her FirstKiss]]. These two, combined with Yancy being exhausted from having just exerted herself in a Pokemon Contest not too long ago, cause her to pass out backstage. This incident causes [[spoiler:Lisia]] to cut ties with her mentee, for fear of having gone too far.
* Calvin faints in the ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' episode "[[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS4E13Pug Pug]]" when his dad suggests getting a pug (after he'd spent the entire episode watching over one). In addition, Hobbes (a stuffed tiger to Dad) slumps over, and the MTM shuts itself off.
* Fanfic/TheCapitolGames: Britney faints on stage, causing her to miss her final goodbye to her family.
* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'', when the Black Knights first witness the Lions merge at the Battle of Narita, Tamaki is described as fainting at the sight of Voltron in all of his majesty.
* Fanfic/CrimsonAndEmerald: Izuku passes out when Hawks rescues him from nearly being abducted by a flying Noumu, right after fighting Stain.
* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': In the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'', this is Spliced's reaction when she finds out that, contrary to what she'd believed, that she ''can'' walk on clouds.
* Fanfic/ForADiamondIsAMarveledThing: Steven faints when Connie proposes to him in ''For theTax Benefits''. Possibly exacerbated by [[IntoxicationEnsues all the alcohol]] Mr. Barriga has slipped him over the course of the party.
* ''[[Fanfic/FullCircleOddSquad Full Circle]]'':
** In response to seeing TheBigDamnKiss between Oscar and Olive, [[ShipperOnDeck Oona]] faints dead away. It takes the combined efforts of Otto, Oprah, and Olympia just to wake her up, and when they tell her how she passed out, she almost does so again before she's caught by Olympia.
** Oona and Olympia later faint at the same time when they see another kiss between Olive and Oscar. Otis, meanwhile, tries to wake them up by taking two milkshakes from a waiter's tray and dumping them on his co-workers, much to their chagrin when the come to.
* In ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7712514/1/Happy-New-Year Happy New Year]]'', a ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' fanfic, Alesha Philips faints in shock upon being greeted by the very much alive DS Matt Devlin, who she's been mourning for the past few months. The backstory reveals that he was spirited away to recover from his injuries while his loved ones were told he was dead in order to protect them.
* In ''Fanfic/HomeWithTheFairies'', Maddie faints when she first sees an elf, one of an InhumanlyBeautifulRace. Before she faints, she feels "a strange preternatural sense of both awe and fear"; the elf "looks so perfect it was painful". Someone picks up Maddie and moves her to a bed, where she either eventually falls into a normal sleep or remains completely unconscious until the next morning.
* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'':
** Kyon's mother, who at this point has mentioned several times that she doesn't want Kyon to become a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]], faints when she learns what the [[{{Yakuza}} Tsuruya family business]] really is. Up to this point, she's been a strong supporter of his relationship with the family.
** Sasaki's (quite polite) reaction in Chapter 62 to [[spoiler:finding out and having it proven to her that Aliens, [=ESPers=], and Time Travelers are all real]]:
---> If you do not mind, I would like to faint now.
* In ''Fanfic/LincolnIsDone'', Clyde passes out when he sees or mentions his crush Lori. A bit [[CharacterExaggeration character-exaggerated]], as in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse canon'' he's more likely to just act awkward and/or get a {{nosebleed}}.
* ''Fanfic/MissingSherlockHolmes'': Holmes has spent some time without properly eating or sleeping because he's worried about Watson. He passes out when a constable races into Lestrade's office, yelling that the police have found a corpse.
* In ''Fanfic/MustLoveNedFlanders'' Naomi passes out when she meets Homer, then again when she meets Ned, and yet again when Ned proposes to her. She even lampshades it.
-->'''Naomi''': "And when you asked me to marry you I would have said yes if I hadn't passed out. But, really, what can you expect from me? I've probably been unconscious for at least half of this book."
-->'''Naomi:''' I've probably been unconscious for at least half of this book.
* ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia''
** Inko Midoriya passes out after learning that her son Izuku is the leader of a team with three other gorgeous women his age because she's terrified of becoming a grandmother too soon. When she finally meets them in person, she passes out again when Nora's vague wording brings Inko to the conclusion that Izuku is in a polygamous relationship with every member of Team MNVW.
** Izuku himself has been on the verge of passing out from sheer embarrassment on several occasions.
*** When [[spoiler:he and Yang start dating]], his legs buckle out from underneath him when he realizes that he's clenching her hand.
*** Izuku proceeds to have a brief mental shutdown when Tenya starts accusing him of being a serial philanderer after Nora reveals to Team TABY that he has an entire box of condoms. [[note]]His mother sent them not long after he officially began attending Beacon.[[/note]]
*** He passes out while standing up when Nora convinces Team MADE that he's some kind of SexGod when she tells them that he "[[ThatCameOutWrong finger-banged]]" (used Glenn Smash against) Yang ten times in the middle of sparring class. His team has to drag him back to their dorm room by the scruff of his hoodie.
** Shoto has to [[UndressingTheUnconscious undress]] Weiss to get her cold, wet clothes off of her when she is caught in a frigid blizzard and passes out. When Weiss learns this, the idea that he saw her naked leaves her [[NakedFreakOut so embarrassed]] that she faints on the spot.
* In ''Fanfic/MyMasterEd'', Van passes out and falls flat on his face after seeing that Edward can create gold because he thinks he's been joking with and mocking a [[GodGuise god in disguise]]. At this, his tolerance for weirdness is finally exhausted.
* ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'':
** Inko gets light-headed after learning that Izuku had unknowingly confronted and gained the respect of a member of the yakuza.
** Izuku's first meeting with Lexi Luthor leaves him so unnerved and terrified that he passes out in the snow as soon as her limo drives away.
* ''Fanfic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'':
** In "[[Recap/PAPCAAMIPTCh10StarlightTheFoalsitter Starlight the Foalsitter]]" Starlight Glimmer faints when the Cake twins prank her into thinking they've [[FunWithFlushing flushed themselves down the toilet]]. The twins regret their prank, since they weren't expecting her response to be ''that'' extreme.
** In [[Recap/PAPCAAMIPTCh31OhDeerPt2 "Oh Deer!" Pf 2]], Mr. Cake loses consciousness when Starlight reveals she doesn't know how to turn the twins back into ponies.
** Discussed in [[Recap/PAPCAAMIPTCh21WhenInPublic "When in Public"]]. Mrs. Cake is very relieved that Pound is finally using his potty, because Mr. Cake has a habit of blacking out when stressed.
* In ''Fanfic/ReadingMinds'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2259557/1/Reading-Minds]], a ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' CrackFic, Beast Boy faints from the strain of asking Raven out to a movie. He barely has time to think he managed to do it without fainting.
* ''Fanfic/RolePlayingEvangelion'': Misato passes out in shock when she witnesses Shinji and Asuka enacting a moment of Nerv's history which culminates with Asuka abruptly kissing Shinji.
-->A soft thump alerted her, and she went to investigate. She discovered the door about halfway open, and when she opened it the rest of the way...\\
Misato was there, passed out in the hall. She must have witnessed the reenactment. Apparently, she was not impressed by it.
* In the ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5351470/1/I-Remember I Remember]]'', Legolas faints from shock when he realises his new friend Erin is none other than [[spoiler: a reimbodied Ereinion Gil-galad.]]
* Nearly happens in "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21580636 TMNT Turtles together and forever]]"; when the Turtles, April, Casey and Karai of [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 series]] are transported to the reality of [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003 series]], when 2012 Karai reveals that she is the daughter of Hamato Yoshi and Tang Shen, 2003 Splinter nearly falls over as he's overwhelmed with joy that, at least in one reality, Yoshi and Tang Shen had a family.
* ''Fanfic/TheSevenMisfortunesOfLadyFortune'':
** Adrien wrecks his room and [[DrivenToSuicide almost commits suicide]] after learning the recently assassinated Marinette used to be Ladybug. Once Plagg reassures him she's still alive, he faints.
** Later, Nino faints after being present when Alya gives birth to their daughter.
** Tom faints after coming back home after a vacation and seeing his daughter alive.
* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' has had Luigi faint from the shock of a Chain Chomp.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatYouWishFor'', Lori (who is in a [[AllJustADream dream world]] where [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Lincoln is no longer her brother]]) passes out when she finds out that Lincoln isn't in the photo album.
* John faints in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' when he sees himself in the mirror for the first time and realizes that he's grown wings. He'd kind of worked himself up to it, given that he'd awakened in a strange bed, starving to death, with a growing panicky awareness that something was terribly, terribly wrong with him...

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': [=McBadger=] does this twice: first when he learns that Toad has [[spoiler:traded Toad Hall to weasels for a motor car]] and again at the end when Toad has gained a new mania: [[spoiler:airplanes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'': Brittany faints when she encounters [[spoiler:the Wolfman]].
* In the animated ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb'', Wilbur is even more prone to this than in the book:
** He faints when Lurvey force-feeds him a sulphur-and-molasses tonic
** When he first learns that the humans are planning to kill him for meat, and then again when he overhears them talking about it.
** He almost faints again at the mention of "crunchy bacon," but Charlotte stops it by saying, "Wilbur, I forbid you to faint!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': When Miguel sees his finger fade into bone and realizes that he's becoming a skeleton, he almost faints at the shock before his family catches him.
* ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheDragonRacers'': The black sheep, upon seeing Hookfang and Stormfly bearing down on it, starts screaming like a goat before fainting.
* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': Max passes out when he realizes that Goofy is going to take him on vacation.
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'':
** Fear faints when [[MonsterClown Jangles]] shows up while he's on late-night duties.
** Fear also faints in the promo short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBCC7y4uck An Emotional Moment with Fear]]" when trying to watch a nature show.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Carl faints at a JumpScare in Nick's campfire story
* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'': Lucille faints when she first sees Francœur[[note]]A seven-foot-tall ''flea''[[/note]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': When Sulley watches ([[DramaticIrony what he thinks is]]) Boo getting crushed in the trash compactor, he faints four times as a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty''.
* In TheStinger of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsLegendOfEverfree'', upon seeing [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie blow up the just-finished, brand-new dock]], the girls are frozen in shock, except for [[DramaQueen Rarity]] who's so shaken she faints.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'', one lady in the audience passes out in shock when she sees that the pirates and scientists have found a living dodo. In fact, one of the settings on the applause meter is "[[WomenAreDelicate Ladies Fainting]]".
* WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo: {{Parodied}} In "The Were-Doo of Doo Manor". Scooby and his parents faint every time someone says "Were-Doo" out loud. In-Universe, it's called a "Doo Family Faint."
* In the DVD movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'', Velma faints after seeing the supernatural maelstrom the Great Krudsky had created.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', a lady in the audience faints when Fiona reveals to Shrek that she turns into an ogre at sunset.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Miles' {{Muggle|s}} roommate Ganke Lee faints when he looks up to find six AlternateUniverse versions of Spider-Man, one of them a TalkingAnimal, clinging to the ceiling of his dorm. Miles [[ComfortingComforter tucks him into bed]] before leaving.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}''. Mocked mercilessly by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick: "And like all animated heroines, she has a tendency towards fainting. ''Boom''! Unconscious!"
* ''WesternAnimation/LosTrotaMusicos'': In this adaptation of Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians, the mayor's wife usually faints whenever a situation becomes too much for her, complete with her falling into the arms of her husband.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'': Bernadette faints in shock after discovering that [[spoiler: Tick has a son]]. She later complains of having a bump on her head during the show, for which [[spoiler:she blames Tick.]]
* ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'': The film of this Creator/TheMarxBrothers creation has Captain Spaulding fainting as Mrs. Rittenhouse is hailing him for fearlessly journeying through DarkestAfrica.
* ''Film/APlaceInTheSun'' has what is widely considered perhaps the best faint in film history: Angela is told that her LoveInterest George is likely to be sentenced to the electric chair. She calmly thanks her mother for allowing her to hear this information before walking back into her room. There, she stands dazed for a few seconds, and crashes ''hard'' and limp onto the floor without even the tiniest movement to break her fall, as though already utterly out like a light before she began to plunge down.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'':
** Marty's girlfriend Jennifer is accidentally brought into her future home. As she's about to leave, she comes across the 2015 version of herself:
--->'''Jennifer (seventeen):''' ''[gasps]'' I'M ''OLD!!''\\
'''Jennifer (forty-seven):''' ''[gasps]'' I'M ''YOUNG!!''\\
''[both faint simultaneously]''[[note]]This faint lasts a ridiculously long time: Doc predicts that Jennifer would stay unconscious for several hours based on the severity of the shock, which very rarely happens in real life. Jennifer is placed on her house's front porch swing early on in the night, and it is already almost ''noon the next day'' by the time she finally wakes up in ''Part III''[[/note]]
** Doc Brown faints at the end, after Marty (whom he had just sent away in the time machine) reappears behind him.
--->'''Doc:''' ''[screams upon seeing Marty]''\\
'''Marty:''' Doc, calm down, okay, it's me! It's Marty!\\
'''Doc:''' It can't be! I just sent you [[TitleDrop back to the future!]]\\
'''Marty:''' I know, Doc, you ''did'' send me back to the future, but I'm back. I'm back ''from'' the future.\\
[''{{beat}}'']\\
'''Doc:''' [[CatchPhrase Great... Scott!]] ''[faints dead away]''[[note]]This faint ''also'' lasts for many hours, implying that it's simply normal for people who faint from shock to stay unconscious for this long in the universe that these films are set in[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'':
** When Jack Napier's girlfriend Alicia Hunt comes home and discovers not only that he's not dead but that he's turned into the Joker, she faints dead away.
--->'''Joker:''' Honey? You'll never believe what happened to me today!
** The Joker goes to Vicki Vale's apartment and scares her out of her wits, including apparently killing Bruce Wayne. After the Joker leaves, Vicki Vale opens the box he left her. A hand holding a bunch of weeds pops out, and she collapses to the ground.
* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'': Belle faints upon seeing the Beast for the first time, and he tenderly carries her through the castle to a bed, her peasant garb magically changing to a [[GorgeousPeriodDress princess-worthy gown]] along the way.
* In ''Film/TheBigClock'', the highly-strung antiques dealer faints on being confronted by George Stroud, whom he believes to be the murderer. Stroud hides his unconscious form inside a caravan and continues on his way. Later, during the gathering of the witnesses, the barman spots Stroud in the corridor and announces it's the murderer. The antiques dealer faints again.
* ''Film/BloodWatersOfDrZ'': Contains probably the most egregious example of this trope, with the kidnapped heroine managing to remain unconscious while being roughly carried through a hot, noisy, fetid swamp for ''several miles.''
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Love interest Pike (not to be confused with ''Spike'' from the TV series) faints several times over the course of the movie, to the point where it becomes a running gag.
* ''Film/{{Casper}}'':
** Sassy teenager Kat faints from meeting the ghostly hero for the first time.
** Kat's father James Harvey faints when Casper's trouble-making uncles pull a surprise NightmareFace on the Dr.
* ''Film/CharlottesWeb'':
** Fainting in fear is still Wilbur's CharacterTic, just like [[Literature/CharlottesWeb the book]]
** Ike passes out when Charlotte mentions that she drinks fly blood. [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes (he's arachnophobic.)]]
* ''Film/TheClimax'': The soprano who is told that she is to replace [[ThePrimaDonna Jarmila Vadek]] faints out of sheer excitement. Leads to a funny moment when everyone else storms out of the office for various reasons, leaving her still passed out on the floor.
* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': Mrs Peacock begins to faint at the sight of a murder. The butler catches her... and then she slips through his arms and thuds to the floor.[[note]]Doubles as an ActorAllusion to Eileen Brennan's (Mrs. Peacock) previous role of Tess in ''Film/MurderByDeath'', when another butler tries catching her. See that film's entry below to find out how THAT turned out.[[/note]]
* ''Film/TheCrocodileHunterCollisionCourse'': After discovering that her rifle won't work thanks to being in the water, Brozzie faints at the thought of facing down the problem crocodile without it. Luckily, the croc just retreats into the river.
* ''Film/DeathBell'': One of the girls faints in shock/fear when a body drops out of the ceiling in the auditorium.
* ''Film/TheDevilAndMissJones'': Joe, when he finds out that Thomas Higgins is actually John P. Merrick.
* ''Film/DickTracyDetective'': Tess faints when she looks up and sees the Splitface looming over her; his [[TwoFaced deformed visage]] leering at her and a huge knife clutched in his hand.
* ''Film/DraculaVsFrankenstein'': Judith faints after Mike is struck by a blast from Dracula's ring and burns to ash in front of her eyes.
%%* ''Film/{{Eegah}}''
* ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'':
** Wilma's mother faints in shock twice during [[spoiler: Fred and Wilma's wedding.]]
** Fred imagines Wilma fainting at the sight of his giant engagement ring earlier in the movie.
* ''Film/Frankenstein1970'': Judy faints when she opens the door of her bedroom, expecting to see Mike, and is instead confronted by the monster. [[spoiler:It is possible that she actually dies of fright at this point, as in the next scene she is lying dead in Victor's lab with no indication of how she died.]]
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'':
** Guy passes out when he finally meets Sarris in person.
** In the final moments, a FanGirl faints when she witnesses TheBigDamnKiss between Jason and Gwen on stage.
* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': Ursula faints again and again.
** First from seeing George's jungle residence for the first time.
** Then from the shock of Ape being a TalkingAnimal. Repeated a third and fourth time immediately upon waking, as the shock is still too great.
** In the sequel, the sight of [[ProductPlacement an elephant wearing New Balance]] causes Ursula once more to faint dead away.
* ''Film/{{Home Alone 2}}'': Kate faints at the airport upon realizing that her entire family has somehow neglected to bring her son Kevin along on their trip for a ''second time''.
* ''Film/{{Honey I Shrunk The Kids}}'': Diane faints once per film in the series (as well as in the theme park ride) upon learning of the latest shrink ray disaster. Several other characters in the series also contribute to the faint count upon witnessing examples of the machine's results.
* ''Film/{{The House On Skull Mountain}}'': Thomas has to render Lorena unconscious first in order to possess her to join in a voodoo ritual. He does this by getting a snake (which has been planted under the bed on which she is sleeping) to slither onto the bed and over her sleeping body. The movement wakes Lorena from her sleep, upon which she sees the snake on top of her, inches away from her face. She stares in abject terror for a few seconds, and then noiselessly faints right there in her bed.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'': When George Stickle hears the supposedly drowned Henry Limpet's voice coming from the sea, he faints dead away--probably because he thinks he's hearing Henry's ghost.
* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': Sarah faints upon seeing her childhood friend Alan on her doorstep --the last she'd seen of him was when he got sucked into a cursed board game twenty-six years before. She's spent all that time trying to convince herself that it was a hallucination.
-->'''Peter:''' [[IThinkYouBrokeHim You killed her.]]
* ''Film/JurassicPark'': {{Downplayed}} Alan Grant gets woozy and needs to sit down when Hammond's big reveal of living dinosaurs starts to sink in.
* ''Film/TheKid2000'': As Amy realizes Russ and Rusty are the same person, she notes "I wish I was standing on a carpet." before fainting.
* ''Film/KitKittredgeAnAmericanGirl'': Stirling faints twice, both times after discovering hobos.
* ''Film/Legend1985'': When she first meets the terrifying villain Darkness, Lili faints and collapses to the ground. She wakes up a few seconds later and has a long conversation with him.
* ''[[Film/LizAndDick Liz & Dick]]'': Liz faints in a no-nonsense manner upon hearing of Dick's death. Possibly pays homage to Creator/{{ElizabethTaylor}}'s iconic faint in the role of Angela in Film/APlaceInTheSun.
* ''Film/MeetJohnDoe'': At the climax of the movie, a distraught and guilt-ridden Ann pleads desperately to John [[spoiler: on the roof of City Hall not to kill himself]]. At the height of her emotions, she confesses her love for him, and in the next instant, sinks in his arms in a dead faint. As a result, as John finally decides [[spoiler: not to jump at the end of the film and Henry tells off a defeated Norton with a TakeThat]]. Ann is thoroughly passed out throughout and misses all of this.
* ''Film/MenInBlack'': After the Bug gets into his new Edgar suit, Edgar's wife Beatrice tells him that "Your skin is hanging off your bones." The Bug pulls Edgar's face back into a horribly distorted mask and Beatrice faints dead away.
* ''Film/MissCongeniality'': During the climax, Gracie works out that the crown given to the pageant winner is rigged with explosives. She rips the crown off Cheryl's head and hurls it to the back of the stage just before it explodes. On seeing how close she came to death Cheryl immediately passes out and faints into Gracie's arms, who then crumples to the ground under their combined weight.
* ''Film/MurderByDeath'': Moments after her boss Sam Diamond is apparently crushed to death by a falling gargoyle (he gets better), Tess announces she's going to faint and orders the butler to catch her. The butler (who's blind), misses her completely and she thuds to the floor.
* ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'': When Charlotte is shown the truth behind the wax museum, she faints.
* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': Lady Adelaide Stitch learns that the young woman she has been fostering is in fact her nephew’s scullery maid, and when the two declare their intent to marry right in front of her, she gasps and faints at the impropriety of it all.
* ''Film/NationalVelvet'': Velvet faints in joy when she receives her pet horse [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Pie]].
* ''Film/{{Niagara}}'': [[spoiler:Rose plans to have her lover Patrick murder her husband George. Unbeknownst to Rose, George actually manages to kill Patrick in self-defense instead.]] When Rose[[spoiler:, confident that the plan has succeeded,]] is summoned to identify whether or not the found corpse is her husband's, she faints instantly without uttering a single word upon seeing [[spoiler:Patrick's]] body in the morgue. [[spoiler:At this, everybody present ends up believing that the victim really ''was'' George as they wrongly presume that she fainted from grief. Many hours later, long after the police have been informed that George has ''not'' died, Rose was still lying on a hospital bed completely out cold from the shock of this moment.]]
* ''Film/TheNotebook'': Allie faints during her wedding dress fitting when she sees Noah's picture in the newspaper. She thought that he was gone from her life forever.
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In TheMovie GrandFinale, Mr. Conklin faints dead away upon learning the position of "Coordinator of Education" pays only $500 a year. He had been campaigning for the position, essentially head of the public school board.
* ''Film/{{Paul}}'': The general reaction to seeing Paul for the first time.
* ''Film/{{Paws}}'': Zac faints upon seeing PC, a dog, talk to him using his computer. Later, Samantha does the same when PC talks to her, now using a TranslatorCollar.
%%* ''Film/ThePhantomPlanet''
* ''Film/RelativeFear'': Linda collapses after she finds [[spoiler:the housekeeper Margaret]]'s body.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'': Mrs. Hudson faints in shock when Holmes returns from FakingTheDead.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'':
** Done by Janet Weiss [[AudienceParticipation (SLUT!)]] when she sees Frank N. Furter for the first time.
** Parodied during "The Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite," when Janet Weiss faints three times during the songs. Perhaps all the pelvic thrusting was too scandalous for her.
* ''Film/SeanceOnAWetAfternoon'': PhonyPsychic Myra Savage pretends to faint after becoming overwhelmed by the emotions of supposedly communicating with the spirit of kidnapping victim Amanda Clayton at a séance attended by Amanda's mother. Myra's husband Billy rushes in to attend to her and usher out the guests... but as he and Myra are the ones who kidnapped Amanda, and in his haste to attend to his wife, he accidentally leaves Amanda's door unlocked, Myra's fake fainting spell starts a chain reaction that causes their scheme to unravel.
* ''Film/SecretsInTheHotSpring'': Some characters, like Lu Qun and [[TheProtagonist Qie]]'s grandpa, are prone to doing this.
* ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'': Marianne nearly faints when she sees that her disappeared beau, Willoughby, is with another woman at a ball. Her sister Elinor and Mrs. Jennings catch her and keep her walking.
* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': One of the spectators blacks out due to seeing all the celebrities.
* ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'': The 'cowardly' Ichabod Crane is the hero and can't very well show true cowardice, so he tends to stick out any dangerous situation (like, say, any time the Headless Horseman shows up and makes with the [[OffWithHisHead headchopping]]) and then pass out once it's over.
* ''Film/SoapDish'':
** Celeste's eyes roll up into her head and she collapses when she learns that Jeffrey will be reprising his role as the BackFromTheDead Rod Randall.
** Later in the movie, Tawny, the costume designer, also faints briefly [[spoiler: upon learning that Montana Moorehead used to be a man.]]
* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'': Upon seeing Sonic for the first time, Maddie's sister Rachel barely has enough time to ask her young daughter to catch her before passing out.
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'':
** Princess Vespa faints when she realizes that her reunion with her father was a sham and a trap.
** Vespa again, when she is about to be mutilated as part of an extortion attempt on her father.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In''Film/ANewHope'', while he probably didn't actually ''faint'' (being a droid and all), Threepio topples backwards when he first sees the Tusken Raider. He is found some time later just recovering the droid equivalent of consciousness. He seems to have slipped in surprise at the Raider, tumbled down a rough incline, and took damage that knocked him offline for a time. In presentation, it very much captures the feel of "weak character fainting when confronted with sudden, surprising danger."
* ''Film/StrippersVsWerewolves'': After Raven and Dani get the werewolves to leave, and then Dani has Raven explain her owning tanning lights, Dani asks to pass out. Raven gives her permission.
* ''Film/{{Superman}}:'' Superman deposits Lois on the top of a building after catching and saving both her and the helicopter that she fell from. She watches him fly away before collapsing atop the helipad in a dead faint.
* ''Film/{{Superman II}}'': In the Director's Cut, Lois tries to force Clark to expose himself as Superman by jumping out of the window of her office right in front of him. He breaks her fall in a way that doesn't break his disguise, allowing her to land safely on top of a fruit vendor's stand on the street below. He appears back upstairs as Clark at the window by the time Lois looks up again. The (incorrect) realization that Clark ''isn't'' Superman after all, embarrassment, and the realization of how easily she could have killed herself cause Lois to pass out cold on the pile of watermelons and tomatoes.
* ''Film/SupermanReturns'': In an homage to the original faint scene from the 1978 film, an aircraft malfunction almost kills all of the passengers, including Lois. Superman makes his first public reappearance by saving the aircraft and landing it safely in a packed sports arena. He then personally speaks to Lois, echoing their conversation on the helipad in the original film. Completely overwhelmed, Lois follows him out of the aircraft's exit and once again watches speechlessly as he flies off into the sky before she drops and slides limply down the plane's inflated evacuation slide, unconscious.[[note]]The {{Novelization}} cuts the part where Lois faints, but adds an original part where a nurse faints when discovering that Superman has fully healed and left the hospital on his own.[[/note]]
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The franchise loves the trope:
** Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze: Keno faints when he first meets Splinter.
** Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII: In a callback to "II", Kenshin also faints when he meets Splinter. Lampshaded:
-->'''Donatello:''' You sure have a strange effect on people, don't you, Master?\\
'''Splinter:''' Hmmmm... out cold.
** Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014: [[MythologyGag True to more than one previous animated incarnation of the character]], April O'Neil faints upon meeting the turtles for the first time. Unlike them, however, she does not stay unconscious for very long.
-->'''April:''' ''[hyperventilating, already in great shock from seeing the turtles]''\\
'''Michelangelo:''' ''[suddenly jumps to right behind her]'' No, no, no, no. Whoa. Whoa. Chill.\\
'''April:''' ''[hyperventilates even harder]''\\
'''Michelangelo:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's just a mask. See? Don't freak out.]] ''[takes off bandana, making it '''even more undeniable''' that they're turtles]'' Right?\\
'''April:''' … Haah. ''[eyes glaze over and roll back]''\\
'''*THUD*'''
* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'': in [[Recap/TheThreeStoogesBridelessGroom "Brideless Groom"]], Shemp dramatically faints into a chair when he hears the terms behind his inheritance. It's Parodied in that he makes sure that the chair is there first and immediately snaps out of it when Moe mentions a catch to the terms of the will.
* ''Film/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore'': When Lara Jean learns that the secret love letters that she never intended anyone to read have all been sent out to their respective suitors, she faints in the middle of the school track.[[note]]By contrast, in [[Literature/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore the book]] Lara Jean just feels like fainting and [[LampshadeHanging points out that fainting would be just like being in a movie]].[[/note]]
%%* In the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]] of ''Film/OurMissBrooks'', Mr. Conklin faints when he learns [[spoiler:the position he's been campaigning for pays only a nominal amount.]]
* ''Film/{{Water|1985}}'': Baxter Thwaites threatens to blow up the Spenco well using dynamite strapped to a member of the Cascaran Liberation Front. He holds a cigarette lighter to the fuse until everyone else puts down their weapons, whereupon the bomb guy promptly faints.
* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Pete is so freaked out from having half his hand bitten off that he doesn't realize he's been shot until someone points it out. He passes out after seeing the bullet hole.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': During the meeting with the Wizard, each member of Dorothy's group is called forward to face him. When it's the Cowardly Lion's turn, he faints dead away.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AliasGrace'': Grace Marks faints frequently, at situations such as [[spoiler:being sentenced to death]] or [[spoiler:running for her life and hearing a gunshot that she mistakenly believes has hit her]]. Her most significant faint, however, is when she faints [[spoiler:from the grief and shock over the traumatic death of her dearest friend Mary]]: she stays completely out cold for ten hours, during which no one could wake her, before briefly waking up, evidently [[spoiler:possessed by Mary's soul]], and promptly passing out yet again, staying gone for almost as long.
* ''Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse'': Mrs. Bailey repeatedly faints throughout the adventure in the tesseract house.
* ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'': Nancy faints in panic [[spoiler:when she gets her period for real]]. Margaret isn't amused, as Nancy has been ''claiming'' to have already dealt with this situation in a bid to brag about her own maturity.
* ''Literature/BarkGeorge'': When the vet pulls the cow out of George, the pup's mother faints dead away.
* ''Literature/TheBippoloSeedAndOtherLostTales'': Discussed in the story "Steak for Supper" involves six strange creatures following a little boy home. He fears that his "mother would faint and [his] father would roar" if they saw the creatures. Thankfully, the creatures run away, so the mother remains conscious and the father keeps quiet.
* ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'': Wilbur is prone to this:
** He faints when he overhears the humans talking about killing him for bacon and ham; the farmhand Lurvey revives him [[WaterWakeUp with a bucket of water.]]
** He faints from StageFright when he receives his medal at the county fair; this time [[YouDirtyRat Templeton]] revives him by [[AttackTheTail biting his tail]].
* ''Literature/TheChinaBride'': Has Troth faint at the sight of a man who looks exactly like her deceased husband. It is not until she revives that she discovers that he is actually a twin that she never knew about.
* ''Literature/DaisyHeadMayzie'': Downplayed. In the book, Mrs. [=McGrew=] ''says'', "I'm going to faint" when she sees that her daughter has a daisy growing from her head, and she's illustrated looking woozy, but she remains conscious. In the AnimatedAdaptation, however, she does pass out.
* ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'': Not even ''personally witnessing'' [[spoiler:her mistress Linnet being presumably shot and killed by her own husband Simon]] can prepare Louise Bourget for actually ''seeing'' the gruesome sight of [[spoiler:Linnet lying dead in her bed with a bloody wound in the head]] the following morning. The poor maid screams and runs out of [[spoiler:her mistress's]] cabin before flopping unconscious into the arms of a steward on the deck.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In the first book, Greg passes out when he realizes he accidentally put his thumb on [[NoseNuggets snot]] that Fregley left on a letter for him.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidCabinFever'': In a flashback, Greg passes out ([[WingdingEyes with X's for eyes)]] when he finds a puzzle box full of crickets.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Dante faints a few times:
** Near the beginning of ''Inferno'' when crossing the Acheron to the first circle of hell because he's so shocked by how horrible the first tortures are.
** In the circle, for those who succumbed to Lust. There he meets a couple who are the Romeo and Juliet of his time. This one is triggered mainly by empathy, as he himself had loved a woman from afar his whole life.[[note]]combined with a possible FanGirl episode . . . they ''were'' pretty famous[[/note]]
** He faints again towards the end of ''Paradiso'' as he approaches the end of all desires.
* ''Literature/DontCallMeIshmael'':Ishmael faints during his first debate because he is so nervous. Everybody else thinks it's hilarious, as Ishmael also [[ThanksForTheMammary accidentally gropes]] his LoveInterest Kelly as he faints.
* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Many, many characters faint, but the most significant faint has to be Luscinda's. Already having agreed to marry her beloved Cardenio, Luscinda is placed under immense duress when her parents make her marry the nobleman Fernando instead. On the day of the wedding, Luscinda hides a dagger on her body, as well as a letter explaining that her loyalty belongs to Cardenio and that she plans to kill herself. During the wedding, however, Luscinda is unable to defy the pressure and ends up following through with the exchanging of vows and consents to the marriage in a weakened and dismayed voice. [[DespairEventHorizon Realizing the finality of the situation]], Luscinda faints on the spot. Not only does this cause Cardenio to storm out of the wedding feeling betrayed, but Luscinda's suicide plan is also foiled as both her suicide note and her dagger are discovered and removed from her unconscious body. Her despair is so great that she does not wake up from her faint until the following day.
* ''Literature/DoubleStar'': The heroine faints quietly and without fuss after an intense scene which probably means the ruin of all they've been working for. Later another character reveals precautions have been taken and they're safe - whereupon she faints ''again''. Still, given what's at stake and the extended strain she's been under it's hard to blame her.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' Jonathan Harker pulling one of these fairly early on. He has just been overtly harassed by three beautiful vampire-ladies ''and'' [[HoYay apparently his own host.]]
* Literature/{{Dragonlance}}: In the novel ''Dragons of Winter Night'', the elven princess Laurana faints at a public banquet after her father [[SlutShaming calls her a whore]], and her older brother gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* ''Literature/DrGretaHelsing'': [[spoiler:Leonora van Dorne]] takes a ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney attitude to life's problems, but collapses when she gets her first glimpse behind the {{Masquerade}} and sees a {{Mummy}}. Fortunately for her, the mummy is of the [[NonMaliciousMonster non-malicious]] stripe and catches her, though not without a bit of ironic lurching.
* ''Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries: Dimity faints for real every time she sees blood. --The girls are also taught to FakeFaint properly, so a habit of really fainting stands out.
* ''Literature/GestaDanorum'': When Odin makes snakes appear on the eyes of the boy Sigurd Ragnarsson, Sigurd's nurse faints in terror at the sight.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'':
** When the Dementors board the train, Harry faints when they search his compartment, due to him reliving the death of his mother (he even hears her screaming).
** Later, when the Dementors attack him during the Quidditch match, he falls from his broom.
** [[spoiler:He also faints when trying to defend his godfather, Sirius Black, from them, and casts his first Patronus spell to ward them off.]]
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Eragon faints when his mentor, Brom, is fatally stabbed. But then, he faints at the end of almost every chapter.
* ''Imieniny'': In this novel by Creator/MalgorzataMusierowicz, the protagonist Pyza faints very romantically after her little brother gets lost. [[spoiler: He turns up safe and sound, and the nice boys who helped him are very happy to offer their help to Pyza.]]
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'':
** As a child, Jane is locked inside a terrifying room alone one afternoon as punishment and comes to believe that she is being haunted by the ghost of her dead uncle. She is so frightened that she faints, and doesn't regain consciousness until midnight.
** At Thornfield Hall, Jane, who has been wakeful in her bed, is approached by the terrifying figure of a strange veiled woman holding a candle deep in the middle of the night. The increasing terror and nervousness from seeing this causes Jane to sink into her bed in a dead faint, and when she regains consciousness it is already morning and the figure is gone.
** Jane faints after she finds out that [[spoiler:Mr Rochester, who she was going to marry, already has a wife]].
* ''Literature/JudgeDee'': A suspect infuriated by the accusations against him gets up to refute them... and collapses in a faint. His subordinates note that he suffers such crises on occasion.
* ''The Last Test'': In this Creator/HPLovecraft work, Georgina overhears a conversation late at night that leads her to believe that [[spoiler:her brother is involved in carrying out brutal human experiments and savage sacrifices]]. The thought of this increasingly terrifies her until eventually she faints while lying in her own bed, and remains in her dead faint until the next morning. After she awakens, she mistakenly believes that what she overheard and subsequently thought late last night was a dream (since they were the last things she remembers before waking up in the morning). It's not until noon, when she personally witnesses [[spoiler:a subject being captured in front of her]], that she realizes that the conversation last night [[ThatWasNotADream was real]], upon which she instantly faints once again and does not wake up until late into the afternoon.
* ''[[Literature/{{LesMiserables}} Les Misérables]]'': Fantine faints upon realizing that Mayor Madeleine is a genuinely kind man who is willing to help her reconnect with her estranged daughter Cosette.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'': Marmee faints when she receives the news that her husband has contracted pneumonia while serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War.
* ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'': Parodied mercilessly by Jane Austen. In it, Laura and Sophia ''repeatedly'' faint, which [[spoiler:eventually proves fatal to Sophia when she faints and lies unconscious outside in the rain for more than an hour, catching a cold that soon worsens into deadly tuberculosis]]. The aftermath of this provides our page quote.
* ''Literature/TheMadKing'': King Leopold faints when he realizes that [[spoiler:he's going to be executed as a traitor if he can't convince anyone that he's himself and not his fugitive IdenticalStranger cousin]]. One of many repeated reminders that Leopold is not an admirable manly man like the novel's hero.
* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': After Miss Trunchbull witnesses a threatening message written on the chalkboard, seemingly by the ghost of her late brother-in-law (in fact by Matilda telekinetically manipulating the chalk), she faints so deeply that even a jug of water in the face is unable to rouse her.
* ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': During the island getaway episode, the shy time-travelling Mikuru faints promptly upon seeing the stabbed body of the mansion owner, and stays out of the action for a while under Yuki's supervision, providing Haruhi and Kyon an excuse to go exploring alone together.
* ''Literature/MrMen'': At the end of "Little Miss Shy", Mr. Quiet faints when Little Miss Shy [[ShipTease asks him if he'd like to go to her house for tea]].
* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': PlayedForLaughs. Duchess Millidiana Claes, while accompanying Geordo in his marriage proposal to her daughter Catarina, finds her daughter ''farming''. The Duchess immediately faints upon seeing such unladylike behavior from her daughter.
* ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfUdolpho'':
** Emily faints no fewer than ''ten times'' throughout the story from either grief, fear, anxiety, or sudden joy, and also ''comes close to'' passing out almost as many times. The prose frequently emphasizes how deeply and thoroughly unconscious she is and how long it takes for her to wake up every time despite people's best efforts to revive her.
** Annette, Blanche, and a few other characters also contribute to the total count with one faint from each at various points of the novel, but no one comes anywhere close to Emily.
* ''Literature/TheOrdinaryPrincess'': When the titular princess runs away, her letter causes her two ladies-in-waiting it to scream and/or faint, leaving only one standing to deliver the letter to the king and queen, then cry
* ''[[Literature/{{Pamela}} Pamela, or: Virtue Rewarded]]'': Sees its title character faint whenever Mr. B attempts to force himself onto her, with each faint lasting progressively longer (the first time she stays out for two hours, the next time for three) as though the depth of her unconsciousness corresponds with the audacity of Mr. B's actions and the severity of her plight.
* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'':
** Christine faints on stage after her splendid gala performance. Possibly exacerbated by exhaustion.
** The first time the Phantom abducts her, Christine faints due to the smell of death on his hand.
** When Raoul first comes face to face with Erik in the Perros graveyard, he faints. Understandable, as Erik has been trying to freak him out by playing the ghost and throwing skulls at him.
* ''[[Literature/{{Quiller}} The Quiller Memorandum]]'': Invoked when Quiller is faced with torture. He attempts to delay it by putting himself into syncope, through breathing heavily then holding his breath to drop his blood pressure. He is under massive stress, and he uses this to make his enemies believe he is weak.
* ''Literature/TheRailwayChildren'': Bobbie Waterbury, via clever use of red petticoats, manages to [[spoiler:prevent a train from careening into a landslide, but has to stand on the tracks to do so. The train finally manages to stop just inches in front of her]], and she very understandably collapses in a dead faint. Creator/JennyAgutter's rendition of the scene in the 1970 FilmOfTheBook is iconic.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes:''
** In "The Adventure of the Empty House" in ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'', Doctor Watson falls down in a dead faint when Holmes suddenly appears in his study [[spoiler:after having been thought dead for three years]].
** "The Naval Treaty" in ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' ends with Trevelyan fainting when Holmes presents him with the missing treaty on a silver platter (literally).
* ''Literature/TheSilverChair'': Subverted when Eustace falls off a cliff, Jill collapses to the ground and hopes she'll faint, but the author comments it's not that easy.
* ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'': The revelation that the title character is a talking, sentient skeleton causes Stephanie to faint.
* ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'': Charlotte, upon hearing of Werther's suicide, sinks into a faint so deep that others begin to fear for her life.
* ''Literature/TeamHuman'': Cathy faints upon being reunited with the boyfriend she thought had abandoned her, but it's pointed out that she also hadn't eaten much in the past week, what with her love-stricken distress and all.
* ''The Tummy Beast'': This poem by Creator/RoaldDahl ends with the eponymous beast speaking, then the protagonist saying, "Now do you believe me, mummy?", only to find his mother unconscious on the floor.
* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': When Jelaqua Ivirith, a Selphid, which are basically parasites that inhabit dead bodies, ''literally'' opens her stomach to show Erin her true form that is located in that region? Erin faints, when she sees Jelequa waving to her, inside of...well, Jelequa.
* ''Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn''. Tamaris faints at the height of her rescue. After months of ColdBloodedTorture and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation]], having your sister try to feed you to a monster and and then finding yourself in the middle of a battle do make a good excuse.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': In the book ''Veil of Shadows'', [[spoiler:a group of rebels tries to kill the false Bramblestar. Three of them are killed in the ensuing fight, and Bristlefrost faints when she sees that one of the dead cats is Stemleaf, who she had once wanted as her mate.]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', normal people have a habit of passing out in surprise when exposed to the family's antics.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'': Watson faints [[spoiler: when Holmes reveals himself alive and well]]
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'':
** Lois faints the second time the titular wolf shows up in [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS1E23GhostWolf "Ghost Wolf"]], and doesn't come around until the guys come on the scene.
** The MonsterOfTheWeek Swami's female assistant Lura passes out when Superman barges in on the villains at the end of [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS2E3TheManWhoCouldReadMinds "The Man Who Could Read Minds'']]. Hey, it means Superman gets to [[WouldntHitAGirl avoid punching a woman]].
** in the Episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS2E21TheGoldenVulture "The Golden Vulture"]] [=McBain=] keels over when his sword bends against Superman's chest.
* ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Maria Santos faints in elated shock when her presumed-dead husband Edmund walks into his own funeral.
* ''Series/AlloAllo'': Lieutenant Gruber faints after seeing what he thinks is the ghost of the "first" René.
* ''Series/AlmaGemea'':
** A pregnant Dalila faints when she hears that Raul kissed Kátia in public.
** Olívia faints when she discovers that Raul sold her house, and again when she finds out that he's the true father of Dalila's baby.
** After constantly trying to avoid him, Generosa faints when Romeu finally finds her.
** Crispim faints after seeing [[MsFanservice Kátia]] naked.
* ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'' has Ethel Rogers wail and faint right after hearing herself accused of a murder she'd hoped to hide. Later on, Vera Claythorne faints from the increasing stress and terror of the situation she finds herself in. Finally, after [[spoiler:shooting Philip Lombard (whom she presumed was the murderous mastermind of the story) dead and finding herself the apparent sole survivor]], the intensity of her emotions and relief cause Vera to faint once again. The show uses Vera's two faints as narrative framing devices, showing the viewers flashbacks to her past (that reveal progressively more details about her backstory) while she's out cold.
* ''Series/AnyDayNow'': Mrs. O'Brien faints upon being told that Johnny was killed in action in Vietnam.
* Done on multiple occasions by Mr. Humphries in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', typically as a silent collapse into the arms of his coworkers.
* In the 1993 TV remake of the 1958 ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'', Harry attempts to cause his wife Nancy to suffer a heart attack and die by deliberately insulting and angering her. Nancy only faints instead, but Harry believes himself to have succeeded in killing her and drives away from the scene. Nancy later comes back for revenge, but only after spending most of the night lying sprawled on top of the house she collapsed onto, completely passed out.
* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon tends to faint when he's over-stimulated.
** Sheldon faints due to his fear of heights while rock climbing with Kripke in [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS2E13TheFriendshipAlgorithm "The Friendship Algorithm"]]. He's left hanging unconscious on the harness.
** Sheldon faints in [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E7TheGoodGuyFluctuation "The Good Guy Fluctuation"]] when he's scared by Leonard in a mask. The guys apparently were making bets on whether he would.
--->'''Howard:''' Who had money on faints?\\
'''Raj:''' I had [[PottyFailure peed his pants.]]\\
'''Leonard:''' Hang on. Looks like everyone's a winner!
** In [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E21TheHawkingExcitation "The Hawking Excitation"]] Sheldon faints when he realizes the paper he gave Hawking had a mistake. Judging from Hawking's reaction, this happens quite often.
--->'''Stephen Hawking:''' Great. [[OhNoNotAgain Another fainter]].
* ''Series/TheBorgias'': Lucrezia faints during a confrontation in season three where she discovers that all her plotting resulted in the crowning of a king who did not have her or her family's best interests at heart.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'':
** Carole passes out in [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead "Back From the Dead"]] when she realizes that Brittas has apparently come back from the dead.
** In [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS3E6TheStuffOfDreams "The Stuff of Dreams"]] Colin can't comprehend the fact that Brittas was Mr. Didcot the whole time and faints because of it.
** In [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E1BackWithABang "Back with a Bang"]]Brittas falls unconscious after learning of his death in the previous episode, "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS5E8TheLastDay The Last Day]]".
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndTheBeasts Beauty and the Beasts]]" When her werewolf boyfriend Oz is suspected of having killed someone, Willow goes to the mortuary at night to get samples from the victim. As Xander and Cordelia retch and express their disgust at what's been done to the body, Willow is completely focused on the task, but on finishing, faints in their arms.
* ''{{Series/Bunkd}}'': In "Zuri Had A Little Lamb", Emma first faints when Lou's sheep is in labor. She wakes up right after the lamb is born, but faints again at the sight of the afterbirth.
* ''Series/CasteloRaTimBum'': Gato Pintado faints when he sees [[SelfDuplication three Pedros]] pass by the library in episode 8.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': When Casey shoots Bryce for breaking into in his house, NonActionGuy Chuck faints at the same time that Bryce goes down.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]": Adam Mitchell faints when he sees a view of the future Earth. The Doctor and Rose don't bother to look back and see what happened.
--->'''The Doctor:''' He's your ''boyfriend''.\\
'''Rose:''' Not anymore.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]" has a RunningGag involving minor character Mr. Thursday coming face-to-face with things like [[LizardFolk Madame Vastra]] or [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Strax]] for the first time and immediately, noiselessly fainting. And he does it [[RuleOfThree a third time]] when he sees the TARDIS dematerializing.
* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': An episode centers around Patty giving kisses to Quico and El Chavo and causing them to faint, and whenever it happens, they're "revived" [[HilarityEnsues with buckets of water.]] At the end of the episode, Don Ramón ends up getting one from Patty's aunt Gloria and faints too. Chavo then calls dibs on him, but instead of a bucket of water, he grabs one full of bricks...
* In the ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'' episode "The Polish Affaire", Lady Diana Prideux faints dead away on finding an escaped prisoner hiding in her garden shed. When she recovers, it turns out that he's not just any escaped prisoner, but a man she loved and lost before the war.
* ''Series/FatherTed'', in the episode "[[Recap/FatherTedS1E2EntertainingFatherStone Entertaining Father Stone]]":
** Dougal drops to the floor like a puppet that's had its strings cut when Ted reveals - after a long, drawn-out preparation - that the guest in the next room is the excruciatingly dull Father Stone. He does get up immediately on command.
** Dougal faints a second time when Father Stone indicates that he intends to stay a while:
--> ''[Father Stone]'' Oh, I don't know. A few weeks, maybe.
--> ''[Dougal hits the floor]''
* ''Series/FawltyTowers''.
** In "[[Recap/FawltyTowersS2E1CommunicationProblems Communication Problems]]", Basil is robbed of his gambling winnings by Mrs Richards, then she's complaining it was "ten pounds short". When a man enters the hotel carrying a vase she bought the previous day and asks Basil if he knows her. He is so immensely frustrated that even the ''mention of her name'' makes him faint. (He does get straight back up though).
** At the end of "[[Recap/FawltyTowersS2E6BasilTheRat Basil the Rat]]", he also faints from the pressure.
* ''Series/FlandersCompany'':
** Hippolyte is overwhelmed by all the differences and faints [[spoiler:in the alternate universe]].
** Kevin faints at the sight of [[spoiler:Gladys' severed arm]].
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Sansa Stark's reaction to [[spoiler: seeing her father, Lord Eddard, beheaded.]]
** Jon Snow, (born of a noble family) tries to explain the concept of swooning to his wildling girlfriend Ygritte. She mocks the idea mercilessly, having come from a society where people have to be tough to survive.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'':
** In the episode "Ghost a Go-Go", Gilligan faints when he pulls up the window blind and sees the ghost outside the hut. The Skipper faints when he looks out the hut door and sees the ghost walking through the trees.
** In the episode "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS3E18TheHunter The Hunter]]", Gilligan passes out from fear (and quite possibly exhaustion) after the Skipper tells him how narrowly he escaped being killed. He and his tree disguise fall on the Skipper's foot.
** In "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," Ginger and Mary Ann both faint when they see Gilligan with white hair, then again when he becomes bald.
* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero:'' Pam faints when Ralph demonstrates the power of the alien-bestowed super-suit by casually picking up the front end of her car.
* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'':
** Roger in "The Richest Astronaut in the World", upon seeing Jeannie emerge from her bottle for the first time. He then faints ''again'' after being revived by Jeannie.
** Tony in "My Wild-Eyed Master", upon being granted XRayVision and seeing Jeannie and Roger as skeletons. Like Roger in "The Richest Astronaut in the World", he ''also'' faints a second time upon being revived.
* ''Series/IHearYourVoice'':
** Hye Sung faints upon hearing of her mother's death.
** Hye Sung also faints upon witnessing Soo Ha fall off a rooftop.
* ''Series/JandaKembang'': Salmah faints in Malik's arms when the odong-odong driver reveals that the kid who fell of his odong-odong (which she assumes to be her missing daughter Laila) was brought to a hospital.
* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'' tends to play this for laughs, mostly with the male characters.
** Bohort is afraid of every animal as scary as rabbits and pheasants or worse. After Arthur spends half an hour trying to convince him there are no wild animals in or around the camp, Léodagan shows up saying he was just taking a leak and a bear came out of the bushes. Well...
** Perceval once faints when Arthur, having guilt-tripped himself over his abusive treatment, gives him a compliment. Arthur has to bring him back by repeatedly slapping him while yelling [[PunctuatedPounding "Wake up! You are a disgrace!"]]
** Arthur once faints when Perceval claims he has successfully carried out a mission. This is the case, although he forgot what the medallion he'd recovered actually did. [[spoiler:When kept in a locked room overnight, it turns everything else in the room into gas. Locked rooms like Kaamelott's treasury...]]
** Father Blaise faints on hearing the tritone (diabolus in musica) in person.
* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'': Yan Yan faints when she hears about her father's death.
* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "[[Recap/LegionS3E3Chapter22 Chapter 22]]", Gabrielle Xavier is so terrified by a "phantom" that abruptly materializes next to her son's crib that she faints.
* ''Series/LifeOfRiley'': Anthony is prone to fainting, usually as a result of Maddy unintentionally scaring him.
* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': In [[Recap/TheMagicians2016S05E06OopsIDidItAgain "Oops!...I did it again"]] Alice passes out when Penny tries to travel to the moon and ends up {{TeleFrag}}ing himself.
* ''Series/MagnificentCentury'': After learning that she can marry the man she loves, Hatice passes out.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}''
** Recap/MashS1E20TheArmyNavyGame: Frank Burns faints when he draws the short straw to go check out the bomb.
** Recap/MashS3E20LoveAndMarriage: On a bus, when a wounded Mrs. Kwang goes into labor, Radar practically has a HeroicBSOD.
* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'':
** While Alan and Prima just cringe when they see a goat being slaughtered in episode 3, Bambang outright faints.
** In the ending of episode 26, Mami Bibir faints after finding out that [[spoiler:not only Rio and Adul had left the dorm without telling her, but they had stolen many furnitures from the dorm]].
* ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': Clifford faints early in the first episode when he's told he's going to get the job of hosting a show and he has to be ready in 30 seconds.
* ''Series/MyRoommateIsAGumiho'': After seeing Woo-yeo transform into his full gumiho form, Dam screams for a few seconds and then collapses.
* ''Series/MyThreeSons'': Miss Pitts faints when she sees [[NotWhatItLooksLike what appears to be]] Chip beating his grandfather's dead body. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In the episode ''Something Blue'', Timothy Mcgee finds out from a doctor that his wife Delilah is pregnant - something she apparently wasn’t aware of, either. His body freezes up, his eye twitches, and he faints flat on his back. Far from being surprised at his reaction, however, Delilah dryly comments:
--> '''Delilah''': "That’s exactly how I imagined it."
* In one episode of ''Series/NightCourt'' Dan keels over in relief after learning that he's just been the victim of Mac's elaborate prank, and hasn't literally [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul]] to the devil.
* ''Series/NorthernRescue'': Taylor blacks out from the pressure while competing in a spelling bee. A little while later, a competitor spots a video of it online.
* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** In the episode [[Recap/OddSquadS1E21SixOClockToSixOFive "6:00 to 6:05"]], Octavia faints when she realizes that she forgot to feed the dinosaurs... four-and-a-half hours too late. Luckily, Otto manages to catch her before she can get a concussion as well from hitting the hard floor.
** Implied in ''Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]] when Olympia has a FreakOut. She wakes up in Dr. O's office in confusion, asking what happened.
* On ''Series/OneTreeHill'' when Lucas angrily confronts Dan about his role in Keith's death, Karen, who is heavily pregnant with Keith's baby, is overwhelmed at the news and faints. [[spoiler: In spite of going into shock and momentarily being reunited with Keith in Heaven, she and their little girl, Lily, survive.]]
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E12KeeperOfThePurpleTwilight "Keeper of the PurpleTwilight"]] Janet faints when Ikar shows her his true alien form.
* ''Series/TheOutpost'': After discovering Wren is pregnant and that he's going to be a father, the first thing he does is faint. Presumably out of shock.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In [[Recap/ParksAndRecreationS07E11 "Two Funerals"]], Ron passes out when he finds out his personal barber died. Apparently, the man had been the one constant left in his life.
* Two occurrences happen on ''Series/{{Passions}}'':
** Ivy faints when it's revealed that Sam is Ethan's father and not Julian: An angry Julian demands she awake.
** A newly pregnant Grace faints and falls down a [[StaircaseTumble flight of stairs.]] [[spoiler: Though she ultimately survives the ordeal, her and Sam's unborn son, who was to be named Jack, does not.]]
* In ''Series/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' MiniSeries, Christine faints at the sight of Erik's unmasked face, much to his devastation (she'd promised to love him enough to overlook what he looked like, but to no avail).
* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'': In ''Literature/TheMurderOnTheLinks'', when Eloise Renauld sees her husband's body in the morgue, she gives off loud "No"s before fainting.
* Olive faints in the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode ''[[Recap/PushingDaisiesS1E5Girth Girth]]'' when she believes that a dead horse jockey's ghost is out to kill all the other jockeys from that race, which would include her. [[spoiler:Later the "dead" jockey shows up, and he's really tall; because he was paralyzed the doctors cut off his dead horse's legs and put them on him.]]
* The ForensicDrama ''Series/QuincyME'' has an opening montage which includes Quincy conducting an autopsy while six police academy recruits observe. Three recruits whoop their cookies while the other three faint and collapse onto the floor. Quincy takes a moment to peer beyond the corpse to assess his "audience."
* A recurring gag on ''Series/RaisingHope'' as much of the show's comedy is based on secret revelations. In particular Jimmy faints several times in the 2-part season 2 finale upon hearing ludicrously illogical news about his baby's mother.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** Rimmer faints while watching an ApocalypticLog found aboard a derelict ship in [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens "Psirens"]]. The comes when a crewman backs off-screen away from a hideous alien... and then red stuff spurts across the screen.
** In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme "Epideme"]] the Cat reacts to Kochanski cutting off her own arm by fainting. He points incredulously then keels over, and is left lying on the floor still frozen in that
* In an early episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Rodney learns that the city is in danger and responds by promptly keeling over. After a brief moment of panic, his teammates are only too happy to inform him that he pulled one of these.
* ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet'':
** Joel and Abby faint when they see Sheila's "blood", which has turned thick and almost black from decomposition.
** Eric passes out when Sheila intentionally (and casually) breaks her own thumbs to escape a pair of handcuffs.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E13CriticalMass "Critical Mass"]], Kavanaugh faints at the prospect of his impending torture.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Episode [[Recap/StargateUniverseS2E3Awakening "Awakening"]] has an amusing reversal of the classic 50's cinema "Monster Faint." When one of the aliens runs into a human, it's the ''alien'' that faints. To make it even funnier, the alien faints in front of Volker, probably the least combative character on the show.
* In Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration, Season 1, Episode 25 ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone The Neutral Zone]]'' Claire passes out when she sees Worf, because he's an alien and she's never seen one of his species before. Justified, since she's recently been in [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic stasis]], which has made her a bit weak.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** In [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter "Nightshifter"]] Sheri faints when Sam and Dean confront her with [[spoiler:what appears to be her own corpse]].
** Sam faints after he sees the "angel" in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E13HousesOfTheHoly "Houses of the Holy"]].
* ''Series/Tarzan1991'' has Jane fainting in Tarzan's arms from the relief of being saved from certain death after falling out of a tree.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E95HocusPocusAndFrisby Hocus Pocus And Frisby]]". When Frisby punches one of the aliens in the face, the alien's human head is revealed to be a mask covering his true alien head. When he sees this, Frisby collapses. He wakes up five minutes before the aliens are scheduled to leave.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** Although Agent Scully is hardly the frail heroine, even she keels over when a ghost removes his hat to reveal a large shotgun hole through his head.
** Played for laughs in 1947 Roswell in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E19TheUnnatural The Unnatural]]" when Dales, the cop protagonist, sees [[TheGreys Exley's true alien form]] for the first time. The alien keeps trying to wake him up to explain things, but as soon as the cop does so he passes out again. And again. And again.

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'': In "Nature Calls", Roy passes out at the sight of Baby's soiled diaper while he and Earl are [[TheDiaperChange changing him]].
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** Miss Piggy faints after knocking out Kermit and then seeing a robot Kermit standing right there. Fortunately, there's a squishy frog to break her fall.
** Kermit faints in the John Cleese episode, after nearly being hit by two heavy weights falling from the rafters.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Grover, Bert, and Mr. Johnson have a tendency to keel over as if they were passing out (though it's hard to tell since, being played by puppets, their eyes remain open) when frustrated.
* ''Series/StBearsDollsHospital'': In "The Forgetful Elephant", when the titular elephant (who thinks he's a rabbit), is told he's an elephant, he faints.

[[folder:Roleplays]]
* ''Roleplay/AstralCabal'':
** In ''Astral Blue'' a combination of guilt and not sleeping for over a day causes Elara to faint after chapter 1's trial.
** The aftermath of ''Astral Acedamia'' chapter 2's trial is too much for Jaz, so she faints.
** Masayoshi faints [[spoiler:after the culprit's execution]] in ''Astral Academia'' chapter 4, shouting to the class that this happened because they weren't willing to trust each other.
* ''Roleplay/CDTUniversity'': Maxwell faints after reading a graphic page in a {{Yaoi}} Book.
* ''Roleplay/DanganRoleplayRoundTwo'': Sycamore faints when he sees Lysandre [[spoiler:fake his death]].
* ''Roleplay/ItsCurtains'': Eliza faints at the first body discovery.
* ''Roleplay/RouletteRampage'': In Chapter 3, Etsuko Reiki faints when she opens the bag [[spoiler: with the very much dead Oten Kouei inside]] that she was supposed to bring into the Cathedral.
* ''Roleplay/TrustfellRoundOne'': Blue faints when she finds the gory second crime scene.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/CastleFalkenstein'', being a game of Victorian period adventure, has rules for fainting from shock, paralleling those for damage from combat or magic, but with less long-term effects.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has a "Fright Check" system to represent the effect on people of overwhelmingly horrible experiences, and some of the results on the Fright Check Table do involve fainting dead away. The third edition supplement ''GURPS Screampunk'' and the fourth edition update supplement ''GURPS Steampunk 1'' augment this with a secondary system of fright checks in response to horrifying revelations of social inappropriateness, to suit the 19th century, Victorian milieu that both cover. Both note that actual period fiction might make the sexist assumption that only ladies will faint away in shock, but modern games don't have to follow this.
* In Gamelords Ltd.'s ''Thieves' Guild 8'' adventure "Rescue from the Trolls' Hole", when the PlayerCharacters show up to rescue the girl Constance from the trolls, she will faint from the relief of seeing them.
* ''TabletopGame/TrailOfCthulhu'' actually creates an incentive for characters to faint occasionally, in best gothic horror fashion. Adventurers are prone to suffer a prolonged process of sanity loss as the CosmicHorror of reality presses on them, but those who faint dead away as a result of specific shocks may at least avoid even worse sights that could destroy their minds.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/CanCan'', hot-tempered but cowardly artist Boris is egged on by his friends to challenge the art critic Jussac to a duel after Jussac steals his girlfriend and writes a review trashing Boris's work. The moment the referee announces the beginning of the duel, he faints dead away. Theophile, the friend who had been most enthusiastic in egging him on, is informed that as Boris's second it is now his duty to pick up Boris's sword and fight in his place -- and he faints too.
* ''Theatre/TheCatAndTheCanary'':
** Annabelle faints after being molested by the hand.
** Annabelle faints a second time after discovering the corpse of the lawyer.
* Santuzza and Mamma Lucia in ''Theatre/CavalleriaRusticana'', when [[spoiler:Turridu's death]] is announced.
* Donna Anna in ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'', when she finds her father's corpse.
* ''Theatre/{{Fairview}}'': Hearing that the birthday cake has burned causes Beverly to freak out and faint. This is when the comedy of Act One starts turning to something darker.
* ''Theatre/FaustFirstPartOfTheTragedy'': Gretchen attempts to seek solace and forgiveness, but when confronted with the severity of her sins, she eventually cannot bear it any longer and faints dead away.
* In ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'':
** Tamino faints when chased by a giant snake in the opening scene.
** Pamina as Monostatos is harassing her, paralleling her love interest Tamino's earlier incident with the snake.
* Des Grieux in ''Theatre/{{Manon}}'' [[spoiler:When Manon dies in his arms.]]
* ''Theatre/MomsGift'': Trish faints at the end of the first act [[spoiler:when she accidentally overhears Dad telling his daughters that he wants to ask Trish to marry him. [[FriendlyGhost Mom]] faints at the same time.]]
* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' sees Hero faint when she's falsely accused of unfaithfulness and publicly denounced and humiliated at her own wedding. She faints so deeply that others at the scene believe her to have died.
* ''Theatre/MyFairLady'': At the horse race, one lady faints after hearing Eliza shout "Come on Dover! Move yer bloomin' arse!"
* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. At the conclusion of "The Music Of The Night" number, Christine becomes completely overwhelmed by everything the Phantom has put her through, including presenting her with a mannequin replica of her wearing a wedding dress, and finally collapses.
* ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'': Ruth faints from stress in the first scene. [[spoiler:Her [[PregnancyFaint pregnancy also contributes]].
* The title character in ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'', when he realizes his daughter has been kidnapped, and again in the end, after [[spoiler:she dies in his arms.]] Although, for the latter event, whether Rigoletto faints or breaks down into InelegantBlubbering depends on the baritone portraying him.
* Faninal in ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier'', when he realizes Baron Och's true character. (He was mentioned early on to be in frail health).
* Leonora in ''Theatre/IlTrovatore'', when Manrico rushes off to risk his life trying to save his mother.
* Violetta in ''Theatre/LaTraviata'', when Alfredo publicly insults her. (Understandable, since she's sick with tuberculosis).
* Isolde in ''[[Theatre/TristanUndIsoldeWagner Tristan & Isolde]]'' after [[spoiler:Tristan dies in her arms.]]
* Sieglinde in ''[[Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen Die Wälkure]]'', first in guilt and fear over her {{Twincest}} with her brother Siegmund, and again after [[spoiler:Siegmund is killed.]]
* Charlotte in ''Theatre/{{Werther}}'' When [[spoiler:Werther dies in her arms.]]
* ''Theatre/TheYeomenOfTheGuard'':
** In the course of the first act, Elsie Maynard is thoroughly justified in fainting:
### She's been forced to marry a condemned criminal to buy medicine to save her mother. [[note]]Fairfax was framed in order that his cousin can inherit his fortune, but, by the terms of the will, he can shift the inheritance to another branch of the family if he's married. He arranges with his guards to sort out a marriage with anyone whatsoever, for cash.[[/note]]
### She witnesses the highly-charged leadup to his execution by beheading.
### She then finds out he's escaped, meaning she, as a poor woman in Tudor times, is now permanently a criminal's wife.
### Being a moral woman, love is now forbidden to her, because loving anyone else would be adultery. It is at this point she faints.
** At the end of Act II, the jester Jack Point, who is in love with Elsie Maynard, faints because Fairfax is pardoned and is married to Elsie.
* In ''Zone'', Ciboulette faints during her interrogation when told that an American border patrol officer was killed, as she is afraid it was Tarzan who killed him.
* In George Balanchine's classic choreography of ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', Marie faints onto the Nutcracker's doll bed at the sight of the Nutcracker killing the Mouse King. The bed proceeds to magically fly out the window with Marie on it, and Marie revives to find herself in snow-covered forest, with the Nutcracker Prince standing before her, now changed back into human form.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BorrowedTime'': Bruce Light, being a very fragile man, flops unconscious to the floor from fear due to questioning.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': When Conker sees [[BuxomIsBetter how huge Jugga's breasts are]], he passes out.
-->'''Conker:''' ''[gasps]'' Paradise...
* In the Ork ending of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II: Retribution'', Kaptin Bluddflagg catches Inquisitor Adrastia and she loses consciousness as he swings his massive fist at her -- but he stops short of actually hitting and killing her, since he [[BloodKnight prefers to leave her alive and with a grudge]]. She'll wake up without her NiceHat.
* ''VideoGame/DarkTales'': The player character's initial reaction to seeing the violent ghost in the graveyard is to faint.
* ''VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy'': Moe faints when Dolfy (who he thought was a ghost) scares him in the Sunken Ship.
* ''VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy4'':
** Moe faints when Akureima announces that he's captured and hidden away Ruby.
** Moe also faints when the Mirage Fairy reveals her true form.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fabulous}}'':
** Principal Morgan faints at the end of level 40 [[spoiler:when it's revealed that Janet is pregnant.]]
** The Warden of Snuggford Prison (Same person as Principal Morgan) [[spoiler:when he finds out that his own daughter is a prisoner!]]
* ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotMyOrganicGarden'': At the cutscene that ends Chapter 4, Irene thinks that Hamomoru would faint at seeing the bodiless organs at her shop.
* Fiona in ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' [[spoiler:upon learning that her pursuer, Riccardo, and her father, Ugo, are clones of the game's main antagonist and that Riccardo killed her father.]]
* ''VideoGame/KilledUntilDead'': Agatha faints if you [[spoiler:correctly]] accuse her.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'': [[NonstandardGameOver When Rosella is forced to marry Edgar]], she faints after kissing him. The thought of Rosella's father dying, failing to save Genesta, being stranded in Tamir, being forcibly married to an ugly hunchback, having Lolotte as her mother-in-law and dooming the world by giving Lolotte Pandora's box probably took its emotional toll on the poor girl.
* ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'': Discussed in "The Cat in the Hat", when the boy says, "Mom would faint at this mess!".
* ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': Luigi faints on seeing a purple mushroom covering Princess Peach's face. Seemingly Peach faints as well, but this is likely more of a FakeFaint as [[spoiler: she is really Princess Shroob in disguise]]. Peach faints for real on seeing [[spoiler:Elder Princess Shroob's OneWingedAngel form for the first time]].
** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Luigi mentions fainting at the sight of Hizza and the second head on his tail. The book adaptation misinterprets this (or else Luigi told it differently) by saying he ''feinted''.
* Jennifer, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' keeps fainting at the slightest provocation during the early cutscenes; they actually tend to mark the borders between chapters. But when she finds her inner courage in the last chapter, she can watch far more traumatizing sights than all the previous ones put together and keep her consciousness.
* VideoGame/TrailsSeries: Alfin Riese Arnor ends up fainting twice in ''Cold Steel III''. The first time happens [[spoiler:when Ash shoots her father]] and the second time happens when [[spoiler:the Courageous explodes in the sky]] just a day later.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', when Albedo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95mwIi8lVHQ intimidates the young Momo]].
* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': King Eryk has to deal with TheChainsOfCommanding on a daily basis. There are a few moments in the game where he gets ''really'' bad news on top of this. Those moments consistently knock him out.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'':
*** In the case "Turnabout Sisters," Phoenix faints once he sees Mia, who is dead and is the victim in the case. It's really Maya channeling Mia for the first time. Upon waking up and seeing her once more, he faints again. Lampshaded by Mia: "'GACK?!' Is that any way to treat your boss, Nick?"
*** Miles Edgeworth loses consciousness a few times due to his extreme seismophobia. He developed a fear of earthquakes after a traumatic experience in his past that resulted in the murder of his father.
*** Happens twice to [[spoiler: Ema Skye]], once as [[spoiler: she witnessed what she thought was a SerialKiller stabbing another man]], and then [[spoiler: two years later, when she realizes that she may have accidentally killed the aforementioned man.]]
** In the final case of ''VisualNovel/{{PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice}}'', [[spoiler:Rayfa]] faints while trying to [[spoiler:perform the Divination Séance to show her father Inga's final moments]].
%%** Game 6: Wheelchair-bound shut-in Armie Buff from Case 5, whose pyrophobia becomes a plot point during her testimony.
* ''VisualNovel/AoiShiro'': During Yasumi's route, Kohaku thinks Yasumi fainted out of fear. [[spoiler:Turns out Yasumi was merely sending out her soul to save Syouko]].
* ''VisualNovel/BlessingOfTheCampanella'':
** Carina faints in Episode 1 after Leicester holds her hand to "make up" for not being able to fulfill her earlier fetishes.
** Carina in Episode 4 after everyone sees her in FunbagAirbag position with Leicester and she frantically tries to explain that it was NotWhatItLooksLike.
* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'': After Takeru truly realizes that there's a serious possibility of him dying in combat against the BETA, he faints in relief upon learning that the BETA are ''not'' going to attack the base he's stationed at. He takes it as further proof of his weakness in comparison to the rest of his squad, and beats himself up over it. However, none of the military cast holds it against him. His Sergeant is uncharacteristically kind and supportive, stating that breakdowns like that are a very common reaction among recruits and no one blames him for it.
* In ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', right before participating in the Main Game in chapter one part two, Sara comments that there is the sound of somebody fainting in a different room. Given the circumstances, this would likely be either [[spoiler:Joe or Kai, who have at this point learned that the cards they received, the Sacrifice and Sage respectively, are likely to result in their deaths.]]
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MyStoryAnimated'': The unfortunate nurse in "A Spider Has Been Living In My Ear For Years" hits the floor when she realizes that there's a spider inside the narrator's ear.
* ''WebAnimation/ZatannaTrialOfTheCrystalWand'': The rabbit faints when he sees Zatanna fall from the pole supporting her escapeology act.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'': As part of a "walk a mile" experiment, Kat and Ronnie change places and assignments at college. When Ronnie reports that she skipped out on Figure Drawing class because it had a live nude model, Kat faints in strip #137. Kat's teacher subtracts a grade for each missed class, which will gank her grade average. Any grade below 3.5 means Kat's parents will stop subsidizing Kat's tuition.
* ''Webcomic/FurWillFly'': Tammy faints on Brad's first night in the apartment when he pops his shoes off. She seems to think that he's removed part of his body, because this is a wold of {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s that has apparently never invented footwear.
* Happens quite frequently in ''Webcomic/MenageA3''--characters often faint due to sheer embarrassment, sheer pleasure, or for other reasons.
* ''Webcomic/NegativeOne'': Meri Lin tends to faint when she's upset.
* ''Webcomic/TheNightBelongsToUs'': Hank is prone to fainting when under a lot of stress (like faced with a werewolf who attacked her or vampires that attacked Ada).
* ''Webcomic/OzzieTheVampire'': Kim faints when she first meets Grimsley, the talking book. The JumpScare from the skeleton that he's forgotten to warn her about doesn't help.
* ''Webcomic/PeanutsUntold'': Charlie Brown faints for joy when Lila gives him a kiss for Valentine's Day.
* ''Webcomic/PinkiePieReadsCupcakes'':
** Rarity only makes it through two pages before fainting. Pinkie, Twilight and Applejack think that this is a mercy.
** Fluttershy doesn't even open the book. The others stop her with a made-up alternate story line that is ''still'' too much for her:
-->'''Twilight:''' um... '''Pinkie steps on a caterpillar.''' And kills it, I guess.
-->'''Fluttershy:''' Wh.. What?? B-B-But who could write something so.. so.. !! ''[next frame: thud]''
* ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'': Danny and Billie both faint when faced with the reality of D.J.'s existence for the first time.
* Mr. Cake from ''Blog/SliceOfLife'' faints periodically.
-->'''Mrs. Cake:''' You get used to it, dear.
* In a side story in ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00587.html Arlen the biomancer]] suffers this when he discovers one field of his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite bauxite]]-purging plants is ''growing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire rubies and sapphires]]''.
* ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'': The first time anyone points a stun gun at Susie she just faints dead away, to the bemusement of the woman intending to achieve the same result by force.
* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': Lucas drops like an empty armor the day he learns that [[http://yafgc.net/comic/0225-you-cant-handle-the-truth/ he's not the baron's son, but the blacksmith's.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': Cameron [[https://zoophobiacomic.com/post/127351485889 faints]] very soon after arriving in Safe Haven. Admittedly, leaning back to find that you are being loomed over by giant cheetah in the previous frame could be traumatic. Luckily, Zech means her no harm.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Simmons in ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'' Episode 12, upon seeing a teammate's head blow up. He fervently denies this, but a later flashback confirms it.
-->'''Simmons:''' Eek! I'm gonna faint!
* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': Meggy faints when she sees Heavy Weapons Guy [[FanDisservice dressed as a "pretty princess"]] in the episode [[Recap/SMG4sSuperMario64BloopersTheMelancholyOfFishyBoopkins "The MelancholyOfFishyBoopkins"]].
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/KidFarm'': {{Downplayed}} BJ is so nervous after proposing to Lizzy, that he nearly faints. Jean catches him before he can.
* ''WebVideo/{{TheNostalgiaCritic}}'', in his [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E46 review of Judge Dredd]]: {{Parodied}}. The Critic pretends to do a whole overwrought, nail-biting reaction to the tension at the Judge's trial. When the verdict is read, he throws his hand up to his forehead, and collapses face down.
* The ''[[WebVideo/SandersSides Sanders Sides]]'' episode "[[Recap/SandersSidesS2E7CrofterSTheMusical Crofter's - The MUSICAL!]]" has Logic of all people doing this when he sees that there's a new flavor of Crofter's jam named after
him.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Mario in "Jeffy's Sister!", over the stress of both Jeffy and his sister Feebee losing his house.
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