History Main / PietaPlagiarism

* Happens in ''StrangeBrew''. Pam carries Bob this way [[spoiler: after he faints when Brewmeister Smith threatens to kill them.]]
* In ''FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Ferris cradles Cameron this way after rescuing him from the bottom of a swimming pool.

* Parodied in ''ThankYouForSmoking'', when kidnappers leave an unconscious Nick in this pose in Abraham Lincoln's lap at the Lincoln Memorial.

* In ''EurekaSeven'' episode 13, Renton carried the unconscious Eureka this way when Nirvash started to move on its own.

* Tetsuya emerges from a burning building carrying Luna this way in ''CasshernSins''. Cue music, then the single-handed [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Curb Stomping of an entire robot army]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': {{Superman}} does this to CaptainAtom after [[spoiler:Superman is forced to beat him unconscious in ''Flashpoint''.]]

* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] does this with MarzGurl in ''{{Kickassia}}'' when she's knocked down by an explosion. PlayedForLaughs, since the entire time he's doing it, she's protesting that she's fine.

* In ''HaloReach'', Carter carries Kat's body this way after she is KilledMidSentence by an Elite sniper.

* The cover art for Volume 13 of ''{{Berserk}}'' has a bloody Guts, minus a hand and an eye, holding a naked and unconscious Casca like this, [[spoiler:in what is presumably the aftermath of Casca being raped by Femto]].

* [[Anime/DarkerThanBlack Hei]] does this at the end of the second season with [[spoiler: Yin's body]].

* The last we see of Hei in the final episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' Ryuusei no Gemini was him carrying Yin this way. Yin's fate is left unknown.

* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (2014). [[spoiler: Peter holding Gwen Stacy after she dies from her fall. That she is hanging from his web puts her body at just the right height for him to start holding her, and then he slowly lowers her to the ground.]]

* The last we see of Hei in the final episode of ''DarkerThanBlack'' Ryuusei no Gemini was him carrying Yin this way. Yin's fate is left unknown.

* [[DarkerThanBlack Hei]] does this at the end of the second season with [[spoiler: Yin's body]].

* ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' has one heralding its finale in Act III: [[spoiler: Billy carries the lifeless body of Penny to a stretcher]] as he sings "Everything You Ever" and [[spoiler:makes his final transformation to Dr. Horrible]].

* ''KevinAndKell'', normally a very gag-based comic, had one [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0922.html here]], following the death of [[spoiler:Danielle]].
* Parson pulls one of these in ''{{Erfworld}}''.
* There's at least one in the {{Walkyverse}}.
** At least one? If a major character dies and leaves a body, there's a greater chance that this will happen as the series goes on. In ''{{Shortpacked}}'', it was used for unconscious character''s'', considering how [[DeathIsCheap Death wasn't so cheap]] there.
* Occurs [[http://www.garanos.com/pages/page-165 near the end of the first volume]] of fantasy comic ''{{Garanos}}''.
* Pastiched by Webcomic/{{Dasien}} and Mindmistress on [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverlord/index.php?p=598517 this]] cover in ''Webcomic/TheCrossoverlord''.

* Rumble Bee of Super Stupor strikes this pose with her mentor when he ceases to exist during the Cataclysm in [[http://www.superstupor.com/sust12242007.shtml this]] strip.
* Seen in {{Juathuur}} [[http://oneway.juathuur.com/1/?strip_id=278 here]], with inverted genders.
* Webcomic/DominicDeegan shows this trope during a flashback to [[spoiler: the slaughter of a group of students by a sadistic Infernomancer.]]

* ''WeaponBrown'': [[spoiler: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/07/25/weapon-brown-245/ ME GOYLE!!]]]]
* In ''BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1086929/blue-yonder-prologue-page-15-finale/ Jared is carried in like that after the injuries he suffered.]]
* KarateBears need [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/01/pita.html a mop.]]

* In the ''Manga/InuYasha'' manga and ''Final Act'' anime, [[spoiler: Kikyo dies in Inuyasha's arms]] in this manner.

* In ''LiloAndStitch 2'', where [[spoiler: Stitch has died, Lilo]] holds him in this fashion. It's okay though, he gets better.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PjMuIhwdA Even Robert Downey Jr. partakes in a little plagiarism.]]

* LordoftheRings : When Faramir is wounded, the Prince of Dol Amroth brings him back to Minas Tirith holding him in his arms on the back of his horse.

* ''ChinesePaladin'': Used in the finale, with [[spoiler: Xiaoyao {{Bridal Carry}}ing Ling'er as she dies.]]
* ''DarkAngel'': In the episode "Pollo Loco," Max holds her "brother" Ben in this manner after [[spoiler: he asks her to kill him and she complies.]]

Michelangelo's sculpture depicting Mary holding the body of the crucified Christ is the best-known example of one of the [[StockPoses most popular poses in art]]. There is a whole class of artwork, referred to as "pietàs", that depict Mary (usually seated) holding the dead Jesus, going back to at least the early 14th century. It includes two other pieces by Michelangelo himself - one in the Cathedral Museum in {{Florence}} and known as the Deposition or Florentine Pietà, the other one one in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and known as the Rondanini Pieta, as well as a third work in the Academia in Florence not generally attributed to Michelangelo today.

* ''{{RWBY}}'''s Volume Two trailer showed a screaming Ruby holding a motionless Weiss in her arms, bringing forth equal parts dread and anticipation from the fans. [[spoiler:[[Turns out that you should NeverTrustATrailer: the two of them were just hamming it up during a particularly epic FoodFight.]]

* In the fifth case of the first VisualNovel/AceAttorney game, Lana Skye holds her unconscious younger sister Ema in this manner after [[spoiler: Ema is attacked by a serial killer.]]

** The Season 7 finale of had [[spoiler: Lex Luthor cradling a (Weakened? Paralyzed? Don't really know.) Clark Kent in a similar fashion as the Fortress of Solitude crumbled around them.]] It's further enforced by the former repeatedly apologizing to him and apparently seeing this event [[spoiler: of killing his former-best friend]] as a great personal sacrifice.

* ''VeronicaMars'': Began and ended its second season with the Pietà; in the first case, Veronica tends to Logan, and in the second, it's reversed.