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* Towards the end of Netflix's ''Film/DeathNote2017'', Light is put into a medically induced coma that lasts two days, during which several criminals die, seemingly proving that he is not Kira. He wakes up later with his father (and Ryuk) in his room and is told by the former that he knows he is Kira.
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This trope comes into play when the end of a work features a character (usually a hero but occasionally a villain) waking up a in hospital room room, recovering from injuries sustained during the events of the story, very a often a big climactic battle, though whether or not they won is up in the air. One can expect them to be visited by friends and/or family. This trope is often used to symbolize healing and relief after a bad experience.
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* The ending of ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' involves Jeremy waking up in hospital, with Rich in the bed next to him, after all the Squips are destroyed. He is visited by his father and Michael, and Rich, now free from the Squip, proudly embraces his former self.
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* In the Escape and Mother endings of ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'', Henry finally manages to escape his apartment, having defeated Walter Sullivan and undone all the damage the 21 Sacraments have inflicted, and visits Eileen in-person at the hospital.
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* Shows up in [[https://lparchive.org/SimCity-2000/ this]] Let's Play of SimCity2000. In later chapters, it is revealed that the game being played was actually that player's coma dream following a car accident, and his building up the city was essentially a depiction of his brain being repaired. He eventually wakes up in a hospital when his work is done (an arcology represents a full recovery).
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* At the end of ''Film/TheFinalGirls'', Max wakes up in the hospital, reunited with her friends. Given that her friends had all died after they'd been sucked into ''Camp Bloodbath'', Max thinks she's escaped being TrappedInTVLand... until they hear Billy Murphy's {{leitmotif}} and realize that they're now in ''Camp Bloodbath 2: Cruel Summer''.
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* The entirety of ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' can be seen as this to [[Film/Halloween1978 the original film]], taking place at the hospital where Laurie is recovering from her injuries.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'' ends this way. After the battle with the titular antagonist, everyone is shown in the hospital healing.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/HappySugarLife'' ends with Satou and Shio being caught in the fire Satou's aunt set and decide to [[TogetherInDeath commit lover's suicide]], but while falling Satou realizes true love and [[HeroicSacrifice shields Shio's body with her own]], sacrificing her life in the process. Asahi is finally reunited with Shio in a hospital, but Shio rejects him in favor of Satou and decides to live for herself, keeping Satou's love and their "Happy Sugar Life" in her heart forever.
* The first season of ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' ends with Izuku and All Might both recovering in the hospital, after their first encounter with the League of Villains.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': The final chapter of the Farm arc begins with Snow White in a fable hospital after being shot in the head by Goldilocks. It jumps ahead a few times to show her slow recovery, as well as the consequences of the events at the farm.
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* ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' ends with Riggan's daughter visiting him in the hospital after his BungledSuicide.
* Zigzagged with the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Steve Rogers wakes up and is told that he's in a recovery room in New York City. However, the whole thing turns out to be a ruse by Nick Fury to soften the blow of Steve realizing he's now in the twenty-first century.
* At the end of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, and is visited by Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore.
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'': In the wild climax, all of the male main characters suffer serious injuries. The last scene occurs in a hospital, where the men are heavily bandaged. They are visited by their female relatives, who are angry about the males' greediness.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'': After defeating Walker, Ethan recovers from his near-mortal wounds in a hospital in the Karakoram mountains, with Benji, Ilsa, and Julia at his side.
* The ending of ''Film/TheShining'' originally included a scene where Wendy Torrance is in the hospital being told that her husband Jack's body could not be found. The scene was cut a week into the film's run.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': Jim Kirk wakes up in a hospital on Earth after dying of radiation poisoning, having been cured by Dr. [=McCoy=] using some of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Khan's blood]].
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* ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' begins and ends with Holden in some kind of hospital or medical facility.
* ''Literature/FightClub'' ends with the Narrator in a mental hospital, at least one of his followers works there. The follower indicates that they're still ready to follow him.
* ''Literature/LegendTrilogy'': The very end of the final book, ''Champion'', features Day in the hospital after the climatic battle. He'll be okay, but due to his injuries, he'll no longer be able to remember much about the rebellion, including his love interest and fellow-protagonist June.
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* ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office (U.S.)]]'': At the end of [[Recap/TheOfficeUSS5E2WeightLossPart2 Weight Loss: Part 2]], Toby is seen in the hospital during TheStinger, having suffered from a zip-lining accident shortly after arriving in Puerto Rico.
* Happens in the ''Series/Space1999'' episode "The Beta Cloud". While fighting against an alien robot, Tony Verdeschi is injured. The episode ends with his girlfriend Maya visiting him in Sickbay.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': At the end of the episode "Journey to Babel", Captain Kirk, Commander Spock and Ambassador Sarek are in Sickbay recovering (Kirk from a stab wound that nearly killed him, Spock from giving massive amounts of blood, and Sarek from the surgery he just underwent).
* The first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' ends with Will waking up in a hospital after being rescued from the Upside-Down, where he is greeted by his family and later his friends.
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* The final scene of the pilot arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty'' features Aubrey waking up in hospital after blacking out fighting against the Abomination at the climax of that episode.
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* PlayedForDrama at the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralfiction''. One of the villains, Nu-13, becomes bedridden in a church managed by her "sisters" Noel and Lambda-11. She looks rather catatonic due to not just the beatdown she took from Hakumen, but also Ragna taking away her memories of him, making her lose her only drive for living.
* ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' ends with Zoe in a hospital -- she is not recovering, however, but is instead put in a coma by the villains until the sequel. Said sequel, ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'', also ends with Zoe in a hospital following a HeroicRROD-slash-PostVictoryCollapse, but waking up this time around and reconciling with her estranged father.
* In Alisa's storyline in ''[[VideoGame/FrontMission Front Mission 3]]'', Emma is subjected to MindRape by the BigBad, which leaves her comatose. The epilogue begins in the hospital, with the main cast looking after Emma and waiting for her to wake up. When she finally does, the first thing she notices are the pretty CherryBlossoms outside the window.
* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven]]'', Jotaro's changes to the timeline using [[RealityWarper Star Platinum: The World Over Heaven]] revives Avdol, Iggy, and Kakyoin, who died in the original telling of the story. The three are seen in the hospital at the end, recovering from DIO's and Vanilla Ice's attacks, but still alive.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce3'': Ace, who got heavily injured after fighting Dread Joker, is seen later recovering in a hospital in the credits, accompanied by his ex Queen Tia.
* In ''[[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 4]]'', if you fail to escape from the final level during its self destruction sequence, your character will end up be sent to a hospital.
* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'': In the second game's epilogue, the BigBad Kurow gets sent into the hospital after his beatdown in the hands of Hyo, but later he seemed to have escaped the hospital room some hours later.
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* Shows up in [[https://lparchive.org/SimCity-2000/ this]] Let's Play of SimCity2000. In later chapters, it is revealed that the game being played was actually that player's coma dream following a car accident, and his building up the city was essentially a depiction of his brain being repaired. He eventually wakes up in a hospital when his work is done (an arcology represents a full recovery).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Date" ends with the Wattersons visiting Gumball in the hospital after he's bitten by the Fitzgeralds' pet spider.
* In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', Wirt wakes up in a hospital after he and Greg nearly drowned. Greg is already out of bed and on his feet, and is implied to be telling the other people of his and Wirt's adventures.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'':
** The mid-season finale of the first season actually ''begins'' with [[LivingADoubleLife Jim]] in the hospital, recovering from his battle in the previous episode. He tries to hide the truth by telling Barbara that he was [[BlatantLies attacked by coyotes]]. She doesn't buy it.
** Later, in the actual season finale, Barbara loses her memories of discovering the troll world shortly after making Jim promise to tell her everything later. She later wakes up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. In spite of his promise, Jim lies and says that they were in an accident.
* The seventh season of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' ends with the Paladins being seen in a hospital, recovering from their injuries. There, they are [[TheBusCameBack visited]] by several characters who were previously PutOnTheBus but have now come to Earth, including Matt, Krolia, and Shay.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'' ends this way. After the battle with the titular antagonist, everyone is shown in the hospital healing.
* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/HappySugarLife'' ends with Satou and Shio being caught in the fire Satou's aunt set and decide to [[TogetherInDeath commit lover's suicide]], but while falling Satou realizes true love and [[HeroicSacrifice shields Shio's body with her own]], sacrificing her life in the process. Asahi is finally reunited with Shio in a hospital, but Shio rejects him in favor of Satou and decides to live for herself, keeping Satou's love and their "Happy Sugar Life" in her heart forever.
* The first season of ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' ends with Izuku and All Might both recovering in the hospital, after their first encounter with the League of Villains.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': The final chapter of the Farm arc begins with Snow White in a fable hospital after being shot in the head by Goldilocks. It jumps ahead a few times to show her slow recovery, as well as the consequences of the events at the farm.
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* ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' ends with Riggan's daughter visiting him in the hospital after his BungledSuicide.
* Zigzagged with the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Steve Rogers wakes up and is told that he's in a recovery room in New York City. However, the whole thing turns out to be a ruse by Nick Fury to soften the blow of Steve realizing he's now in the twenty-first century.
* At the end of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, and is visited by Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore.
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'': In the wild climax, all of the male main characters suffer serious injuries. The last scene occurs in a hospital, where the men are heavily bandaged. They are visited by their female relatives, who are angry about the males' greediness.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'': After defeating Walker, Ethan recovers from his near-mortal wounds in a hospital in the Karakoram mountains, with Benji, Ilsa, and Julia at his side.
* The ending of ''Film/TheShining'' originally included a scene where Wendy Torrance is in the hospital being told that her husband Jack's body could not be found. The scene was cut a week into the film's run.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': Jim Kirk wakes up in a hospital on Earth after dying of radiation poisoning, having been cured by Dr. [=McCoy=] using some of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Khan's blood]].
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* ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' begins and ends with Holden in some kind of hospital or medical facility.
* ''Literature/FightClub'' ends with the Narrator in a mental hospital, at least one of his followers works there. The follower indicates that they're still ready to follow him.
* ''Literature/LegendTrilogy'': The very end of the final book, ''Champion'', features Day in the hospital after the climatic battle. He'll be okay, but due to his injuries, he'll no longer be able to remember much about the rebellion, including his love interest and fellow-protagonist June.
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* ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office (U.S.)]]'': At the end of [[Recap/TheOfficeUSS5E2WeightLossPart2 Weight Loss: Part 2]], Toby is seen in the hospital during TheStinger, having suffered from a zip-lining accident shortly after arriving in Puerto Rico.
* Happens in the ''Series/Space1999'' episode "The Beta Cloud". While fighting against an alien robot, Tony Verdeschi is injured. The episode ends with his girlfriend Maya visiting him in Sickbay.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': At the end of the episode "Journey to Babel", Captain Kirk, Commander Spock and Ambassador Sarek are in Sickbay recovering (Kirk from a stab wound that nearly killed him, Spock from giving massive amounts of blood, and Sarek from the surgery he just underwent).
* The first season of ''Series/StrangerThings'' ends with Will waking up in a hospital after being rescued from the Upside-Down, where he is greeted by his family and later his friends.
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* The final scene of the pilot arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty'' features Aubrey waking up in hospital after blacking out fighting against the Abomination at the climax of that episode.
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* PlayedForDrama at the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralfiction''. One of the villains, Nu-13, becomes bedridden in a church managed by her "sisters" Noel and Lambda-11. She looks rather catatonic due to not just the beatdown she took from Hakumen, but also Ragna taking away her memories of him, making her lose her only drive for living.
* ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' ends with Zoe in a hospital -- she is not recovering, however, but is instead put in a coma by the villains until the sequel. Said sequel, ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'', also ends with Zoe in a hospital following a HeroicRROD-slash-PostVictoryCollapse, but waking up this time around and reconciling with her estranged father.
* In Alisa's storyline in ''[[VideoGame/FrontMission Front Mission 3]]'', Emma is subjected to MindRape by the BigBad, which leaves her comatose. The epilogue begins in the hospital, with the main cast looking after Emma and waiting for her to wake up. When she finally does, the first thing she notices are the pretty CherryBlossoms outside the window.
* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven]]'', Jotaro's changes to the timeline using [[RealityWarper Star Platinum: The World Over Heaven]] revives Avdol, Iggy, and Kakyoin, who died in the original telling of the story. The three are seen in the hospital at the end, recovering from DIO's and Vanilla Ice's attacks, but still alive.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce3'': Ace, who got heavily injured after fighting Dread Joker, is seen later recovering in a hospital in the credits, accompanied by his ex Queen Tia.
* In ''[[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 4]]'', if you fail to escape from the final level during its self destruction sequence, your character will end up be sent to a hospital.
* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'': In the second game's epilogue, the BigBad Kurow gets sent into the hospital after his beatdown in the hands of Hyo, but later he seemed to have escaped the hospital room some hours later.
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* Shows up in [[https://lparchive.org/SimCity-2000/ this]] Let's Play of SimCity2000. In later chapters, it is revealed that the game being played was actually that player's coma dream following a car accident, and his building up the city was essentially a depiction of his brain being repaired. He eventually wakes up in a hospital when his work is done (an arcology represents a full recovery).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Date" ends with the Wattersons visiting Gumball in the hospital after he's bitten by the Fitzgeralds' pet spider.
* In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', Wirt wakes up in a hospital after he and Greg nearly drowned. Greg is already out of bed and on his feet, and is implied to be telling the other people of his and Wirt's adventures.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'':
** The mid-season finale of the first season actually ''begins'' with [[LivingADoubleLife Jim]] in the hospital, recovering from his battle in the previous episode. He tries to hide the truth by telling Barbara that he was [[BlatantLies attacked by coyotes]]. She doesn't buy it.
** Later, in the actual season finale, Barbara loses her memories of discovering the troll world shortly after making Jim promise to tell her everything later. She later wakes up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. In spite of his promise, Jim lies and says that they were in an accident.
* The seventh season of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' ends with the Paladins being seen in a hospital, recovering from their injuries. There, they are [[TheBusCameBack visited]] by several characters who were previously PutOnTheBus but have now come to Earth, including Matt, Krolia, and Shay.
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