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* ''Film/Drive2011'': A ''very'' subdued one after the Driver is stabbed.
* Survivors that are resurrected with a MagicalDefibrillator in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' will sometimes do this.
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* Survivors that are resurrected with a MagicalDefibrillator in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' will sometimes do this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E1CarnEvil Carn-Evil]]", when Mugman's distraction on seeing the Devil causes Cuphead (Mugman's brother) to lose a skee-ball match and get his soul sucked out of him by the machine, Mugman realizes this and quickly grabs his brother's soul by the tail-end, and when he returns it to Cuphead's [[DeathIsGray gray body]], he wakes up with a gasp in this manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E1CarnEvil Carn-Evil]]", when Mugman's distraction on seeing the Devil causes Cuphead (Mugman's brother) to lose a skee-ball match and get his soul sucked out of him by the machine, Mugman realizes this and quickly grabs his brother's soul by the tail-end, and when he returns it to Cuphead's [[DeathIsGray gray body]], he wakes up with a gasp in this manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E1CarnEvil Carn-Evil]]", when Mugman's distraction on seeing the Devil causes Cuphead (Mugman's brother) to lose a skee-ball match and get his soul sucked out of him by the machine, Mugman realizes this and quickly grabs his brother's soul by the tail-end, and when he returns it to Cuphead's [[DeathIsGray gray body]], he wakes up with a gasp in this manner.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E1CarnEvil Carn-Evil]]", when Mugman's distraction on seeing the Devil causes Cuphead (Mugman's brother) to lose a skee-ball match and get his soul sucked out of him by the machine, Mugman realizes this and quickly grabs his brother's soul by the tail-end, and when he returns it to Cuphead's [[DeathIsGray gray body]], he wakes up with a gasp in this manner.
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* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': This trope is common throughout the [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} franchise]], but the series really codified it as part of the franchise lore. Immortals can be killed through lethal wounds to a human, they simply possess a HealingFactor that will revive them after a time. When that revival occurs, this trope is almost always used. It's especially notable when a "pre-Immortal" dies for the first time, "activating" their full {{Immortality}}.
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Given that Henry revives in a large body of water, gasping for air as he breaks the surface is the usual.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': This trope is common throughout the [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} franchise]], but the series really codified it as part of the franchise lore. Immortals can be killed through wounds lethalwounds to a human, they simply possess a HealingFactor that will revive them after a time. When that revival occurs, this trope is almost always used. It's especially notable when a "pre-Immortal" dies for the first time, "activating" their full {{Immortality}}.{{Immortality}}.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': In the season 2 finale, when Joy gets hit by Nina's lightning and dies, she's brought back to life by Victor. This leads to her immediately coughing after the color returns to her face, to show that she's awake
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': This trope is common throughout the [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} franchise]], but the series really codified it as part of the franchise lore. Immortals can be killed through wounds lethal
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': In the season 2 finale, when Joy gets hit by Nina's lightning and dies, she's brought back to life by Victor. This leads to her immediately coughing after the color returns to her face, to show that she's awake
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* ''Fanfic/WhatAStrangeLittleColt'': Gabriel does this upon being revived, after he sacrifices himself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax brings him back to life from drowning via a make-shift MagicalDefibrillator consisting of two Bar-Ba-Loots.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'': The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax brings him back to life from drowning via a make-shift MagicalDefibrillator consisting of two Bar-Ba-Loots.
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* Strip #300 from ''Webcomic/JustAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' has Glon Smitharm-Bloodhand rise from his casket during his funeral rite. Glon had been dead more than a day at that point, so his resurrection comes as a huge surprise, and includes the requisite coughing and spluttering of someone newly revivified.
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* Strip #300 from ''Webcomic/JustAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' has Glon Smitharm-Bloodhand rise from his casket during his funeral rite. Glon had been dead more than a day at that point, so his resurrection comes as a huge surprise, and includes the requisite coughing and spluttering of someone newly revivified.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Upon the [[{{Macguffin}} AllSpark-fragment]] in his head resurrecting him after Megatron kills him (again), Starscream shoots upright and gasps for air, before tiredly admitting he might need a new approach.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Upon the [[{{Macguffin}} [[MacGuffin AllSpark-fragment]] in his head resurrecting him after Megatron kills him (again), Starscream shoots upright and gasps for air, before tiredly admitting he might need a new approach.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E1CarnEvil Carn-Evil]]", when Mugman's distraction on seeing the Devil causes Cuphead (Mugman's brother) to lose a skee-ball match and get his soul sucked out of him by the machine, Mugman realizes this and quickly grabs his brother's soul by the tail-end, and when he returns it to Cuphead's [[DeathIsGray gray body]], he wakes up with a gasp in this manner.
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* In one scene in ''Series/BloodTies'', we see the vampire Henry Fitzroy waking up with a gasp after sleeping through the day - it's implied that sleep for a vampire is indistinguishable from death.
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* Survivors that are resurrected with a MagicalDefibrillator in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' will sometimes do this.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has a habit of [[DeathIsCheap killing and resurrecting]] its three leads, and several times the resurrections feature this. It happens to Sam in late Season 2, both Sam and Dean after being shot by hunters in Season 5, and to Castiel, after he's resurrected by an angel in Season 9.
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* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': Elizabeth gives one after Jack saves her from drowning, and then quickly cuts off her corset which was preventing her from breathing.
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* Strip #300 from ''Webcomic/JustAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' has Glon Smitharm-Bloodhand rise from his casket during his funeral rite. Glon had been dead more than a day at that point, so his resurrection comes as a huge surprise, and includes the requisite coughing and spluttering of someone newly revivified.
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This trope comes into play whenever a character previously axed off is brought back to life, through magic, science or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane both]], and upon waking up takes a deep breath and sometimes coughs, similar to someone coming up from underwater.
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This trope comes into play whenever a character previously axed off is brought back to life, through magic, science science, or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane both]], and upon waking up takes a deep breath and sometimes coughs, similar to someone coming up from underwater.
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* Coffin Jobe, a minor character from the ''Literature/SecretHistories'' UrbanFantasy series, is a "necroleptic": he occasionally drops dead and then revives, much as a narcoleptic involuntarily falls asleep and awakens. It happens so often that he not only takes a large breath upon reviving, but ''savors'' the rush when this inrush of oxygen restores his vigor.
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* Coffin Jobe, a minor character from the ''Literature/SecretHistories'' UrbanFantasy series, is a "necroleptic": he occasionally drops dead and then revives, much as a narcoleptic involuntarily falls asleep and awakens. It happens so often that he not only takes a large breath upon reviving, reviving but ''savors'' the rush when this inrush of oxygen restores his vigor.
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Jack Harkness has ResurrectiveImmortality due to being made a "fixed point in time". Every time he dies, which [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap is often]], he resurrects with a painful gasp.
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Jack Harkness has ResurrectiveImmortality due to being made a "fixed point in time". Every time he dies, which dies (which [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap is often]], often]]), he resurrects with a painful gasp.
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* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. The famous 2007 "Who Killed Vince" angle, where he got into his limosuine (after a surreal ending to a Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' episode) and the car suddenly exploded into flames (with [=McMahon=] seemingly still inside. The angle was supposed to last several weeks, but the events involving Wrestling/ChrisBenoit hastened the end of the angle where [=McMahon=] appeared on-camera, explained that his involvement in the "Who Killed Vince" angle was a storyline and then gave updates on the Benoit situation. An alternate ending to the "Who Killed Vince" storyline eventually came about.
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* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. The famous 2007 "Who Killed Vince" angle, where he got into his limosuine limousine (after a surreal ending to a Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' episode) and the car suddenly exploded into flames (with [=McMahon=] seemingly still inside. The angle was supposed to last several weeks, but the events involving Wrestling/ChrisBenoit hastened the end of the angle where [=McMahon=] appeared on-camera, explained that his involvement in the "Who Killed Vince" angle was a storyline storyline, and then gave updates on the Benoit situation. An alternate ending to the "Who Killed Vince" storyline eventually came about.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work, until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate, [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work, work until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate, affectionate [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
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* Multiple angles involving Wrestling/TheUndertaker. Most often, he's been locked in a casket and the casket either set on fire or set to explode and seemingly being eliminated forever ... only for Undertaker to return several weeks later and, after stalking his would-be assailant, demanding a rematch.
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. The famous 2007 "Who Killed Vince" angle, where he got into his limosuine (after a surreal ending to a Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' episode) and the car suddenly exploded into flames (with [=McMahon=] seemingly still inside. The angle was supposed to last several weeks, but the events involving Wrestling/ChrisBenoit hastened the end of the angle where [=McMahon=] appeared on-camera, explained that his involvement in the "Who Killed Vince" angle was a storyline and then gave updates on the Benoit situation. An alternate ending to the "Who Killed Vince" storyline eventually came about.
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* Multiple angles involving Wrestling/TheUndertaker. Most often, he's been locked in a casket and the casket either set on fire or set to explode and seemingly being eliminated forever ... only for Undertaker to return several weeks later and, after stalking his would-be assailant, demanding a rematch.
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon. The famous 2007 "Who Killed Vince" angle, where he got into his limosuine (after a surreal ending to a Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' episode) and the car suddenly exploded into flames (with [=McMahon=] seemingly still inside. The angle was supposed to last several weeks, but the events involving Wrestling/ChrisBenoit hastened the end of the angle where [=McMahon=] appeared on-camera, explained that his involvement in the "Who Killed Vince" angle was a storyline and then gave updates on the Benoit situation. An alternate ending to the "Who Killed Vince" storyline eventually came about.
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A sub-trope to BackFromTheDead.
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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': After getting killed by Gideon, Scott realises that he has a 1UP which revives him. Upon coming back to life, he gasps for air.
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* ''Film/{{Drive}}'': A ''very'' subdued one after the Driver is stabbed.
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* Coffin Jobe, a minor character from the ''Literature/SecretHistories'' UrbanFantasy series, is a "necroleptic": he occasionally drops dead and then revives, much as a narcoleptic involuntarily falls asleep and awakens. It happens so often that he not only takes a large breath upon reviving, but ''savors'' the rush when this inrush of oxygen restores his vigor.
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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': After getting killed by Gideon, Scott realises that he has a 1UP which revives him. Upon coming back to life, he gasps for air, invoking this trope.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5 episode "Save The Cat", She-Ra uses her HealingHands on Catra to revive her. It seems that it doesn't work, until she starts coughing before giving her a weak but affectionate, [[MeaningfulEcho "Hey, Adora".]]
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* ''Film/{{Drive}}'': A ''very'' subdued one after [[spoiler: the Driver is stabbed]].
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So, you've recently died.
Maybe you made a HeroicSacrifice. Maybe you were unfortunate enough to be the hero's SatelliteLoveInterest turned SacrificialLamb. Maybe you were even the {{Jerkass}} villain and whichever hero defeated you didn't abide by the ThouShaltNotKill-rule. Either way, you're dead.
Luckily for you, there is a way to bring you back, through an old, forbidden ritual, a MagicalDefibrillator or something similar.
GAAAAASSSPP!!
Welcome back to the world of the living!
This trope comes into play whenever a character previously axed off is brought back to life, through magic, science or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane both]], and upon waking up takes a deep breath and sometimes coughs, similar to someone coming up from underwater.
Presumably, this is supposed to represent air coming back into the characters' lungs after a long time of, well, that not being the case. Often this will be accompanied by the characters' upper body shooting upright like they've just had a CatapultNightmare and maybe even some WakeUpFighting if that's what the character was doing before getting killed.
A sub-trope to BackFromTheDead.
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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': After getting killed by Gideon, Scott realises that he has a 1UP which revives him. Upon coming back to life, he gasps for air, invoking this trope.
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[[folder: Films--Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'':When Jason Todd is resurrected by the Lazarus Pit, he gasps loudly as he stands up and pulls his bandages off.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax brings him back to life from drowning via a make-shift MagicalDefibrillator consisting of two Bar-Ba-Loots.
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[[folder: Films--Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': Gandalf gasps for air after being resurrected into Gandalf the White.
* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': Zordon gasps when revived at the end of the movie.
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* In the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'', when Paul Duré writes about the ResurrectiveImmortality of the Bikura, he describes the first breath of a reborn tribe member as "a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch".
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[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* In one scene in ''Series/BloodTies'', we see the vampire Henry Fitzroy waking up with a gasp after sleeping through the day - it's implied that sleep for a vampire is indistinguishable from death.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Jack Harkness has ResurrectiveImmortality due to being made a "fixed point in time". Every time he dies, which [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap is often]], he resurrects with a painful gasp.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': This trope is common throughout the [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} franchise]], but the series really codified it as part of the franchise lore. Immortals can be killed through lethal wounds to a human, they simply possess a HealingFactor that will revive them after a time. When that revival occurs, this trope is almost always used. It's especially notable when a "pre-Immortal" dies for the first time, "activating" their full {{Immortality}}.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': In the season 2 finale, when Joy gets hit by Nina's lightning and dies, she's brought back to life by Victor. This leads to her immediately coughing after the color returns to her face, to show that she's awake
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* In the most elusive ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', achieved by accumulating 5000+ Effective Military Strength points before the endgame and then [[LastSecondEndingChoice choosing to Destroy the Reapers]], we see a body in N7 armor lying motionless amidst the wreckage before suddenly gasping for air. While we don't see the person's face and their identity has never been revealed, most players assume that this figure is [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]], who dies in the (regular) Destroy, Synthesis, and Refusal endings (and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence]] in the Control one).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Upon the [[{{Macguffin}} AllSpark-fragment]] in his head resurrecting him after Megatron kills him (again), Starscream shoots upright and gasps for air, before tiredly admitting he might need a new approach.
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Maybe you made a HeroicSacrifice. Maybe you were unfortunate enough to be the hero's SatelliteLoveInterest turned SacrificialLamb. Maybe you were even the {{Jerkass}} villain and whichever hero defeated you didn't abide by the ThouShaltNotKill-rule. Either way, you're dead.
Luckily for you, there is a way to bring you back, through an old, forbidden ritual, a MagicalDefibrillator or something similar.
GAAAAASSSPP!!
Welcome back to the world of the living!
This trope comes into play whenever a character previously axed off is brought back to life, through magic, science or [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane both]], and upon waking up takes a deep breath and sometimes coughs, similar to someone coming up from underwater.
Presumably, this is supposed to represent air coming back into the characters' lungs after a long time of, well, that not being the case. Often this will be accompanied by the characters' upper body shooting upright like they've just had a CatapultNightmare and maybe even some WakeUpFighting if that's what the character was doing before getting killed.
A sub-trope to BackFromTheDead.
!!Since this is somewhat of a DeathTrope, all spoilers will be unmarked. Beware.
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* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': After getting killed by Gideon, Scott realises that he has a 1UP which revives him. Upon coming back to life, he gasps for air, invoking this trope.
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[[folder: Films--Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'':When Jason Todd is resurrected by the Lazarus Pit, he gasps loudly as he stands up and pulls his bandages off.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': The Once-ler shoots upright and gasps after the Lorax brings him back to life from drowning via a make-shift MagicalDefibrillator consisting of two Bar-Ba-Loots.
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[[folder: Films--Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': Gandalf gasps for air after being resurrected into Gandalf the White.
* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': Zordon gasps when revived at the end of the movie.
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[[folder: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'', when Paul Duré writes about the ResurrectiveImmortality of the Bikura, he describes the first breath of a reborn tribe member as "a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch".
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[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* In one scene in ''Series/BloodTies'', we see the vampire Henry Fitzroy waking up with a gasp after sleeping through the day - it's implied that sleep for a vampire is indistinguishable from death.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Jack Harkness has ResurrectiveImmortality due to being made a "fixed point in time". Every time he dies, which [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap is often]], he resurrects with a painful gasp.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': This trope is common throughout the [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} franchise]], but the series really codified it as part of the franchise lore. Immortals can be killed through lethal wounds to a human, they simply possess a HealingFactor that will revive them after a time. When that revival occurs, this trope is almost always used. It's especially notable when a "pre-Immortal" dies for the first time, "activating" their full {{Immortality}}.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': In the season 2 finale, when Joy gets hit by Nina's lightning and dies, she's brought back to life by Victor. This leads to her immediately coughing after the color returns to her face, to show that she's awake
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* In the most elusive ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', achieved by accumulating 5000+ Effective Military Strength points before the endgame and then [[LastSecondEndingChoice choosing to Destroy the Reapers]], we see a body in N7 armor lying motionless amidst the wreckage before suddenly gasping for air. While we don't see the person's face and their identity has never been revealed, most players assume that this figure is [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]], who dies in the (regular) Destroy, Synthesis, and Refusal endings (and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence]] in the Control one).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Upon the [[{{Macguffin}} AllSpark-fragment]] in his head resurrecting him after Megatron kills him (again), Starscream shoots upright and gasps for air, before tiredly admitting he might need a new approach.
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