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* Shown in the AnimatedCreditsOpening of ''Series/{{Harrow}}'', in which the title character is a forensic pathologist.
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* ''Film/TerrorAtBlackFalls'': After [[spoiler:Johnny]] kills [[spoiler:Quito]], Juan lays his body on the bar and pulls a blanket over it.
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* In ''Film/MrRicco'', paramedics pull a blanket over [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s face after she is shot.
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* A very common way of introducing ComicBook/TheJoker's victims from the 1980's on (starting, probably, from ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns''). The victims are almost always RedShirt civilians, but the trademark grin lets you know good and clear who's on the scene.
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Unless, of course, it's just a setup for a BodybagTrick or WakingUpAtTheMorgue, both of which this trope is obviously related to. Can easily be used as a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent. Happens about OnceAnEpisode on any given PoliceProcedural or ForensicDrama.
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Unless, of course, it's just a setup for a BodybagTrick or WakingUpAtTheMorgue, both of which this trope is obviously related to. Can easily be used as a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent. See also IdentifyingTheBody. Happens about OnceAnEpisode on any given PoliceProcedural or ForensicDrama.
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* Seen plenty of times on ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. One particularly poignant moment from "Frame" has Goren learning of the body of a junkie who had fallen out of a window. To his horror and heartbreak, he discovers that it's [[spoiler: his older brother. He]] is then being seen zipped up in bodybag as Goren is interviewed by police.
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* In ''Film/TheOddWayHome'', Maya throws a sheet over Duncan's grandma as she sits on the couch, where she died while watching TV.
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* Subverted in ''Film/Leviathan1989''. After two people are [[NotQuiteDead apparently killed]] by the [[BodyHorror turn-you-into-a-horrible-monster serum]], Doc and Beck put the corpses into bodybags to hide this from the crew and order them thrown out the airlock, [[PoorCommunicationKills telling everyone else that they died of infection]]. So when the bodybags start twitching, the crew naturally want to open them thinking someone is still alive...
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** In "Maximum Homerdrive", after Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. They give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
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** In "Maximum Homerdrive", after Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. For extra [[BlackComedy Black Comedy]] points the bag even has printed on it: "I died at the Slaughterhouse!" (the name of the restaurant) They also give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
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* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "2016," where someone drops dead while [[RightOnQueue waiting in line at the DMV]].
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* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Fiesta at Midnight," a woman is shot in a hold-up and later dies in the hopsital. A doctor pulls a blanket over her head.
* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Fiesta at Midnight," a woman is shot in a hold-up and later dies in the hopsital. A doctor pulls a blanket over her head.
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* ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. Dr Ford is introduced talking with one of his earlier model androids. He tells the android to shut itself down, so it lies on a shelf and zips up its own bodybag.
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* ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': Dr Ford is introduced talking with one of his earlier model androids. He tells the android to shut itself down, so it lies on a shelf and zips up its own bodybag.bodybag.
* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "The Language Barrier," a Chinese man is killed in a hate crime. A cop pulls a sheet over his head before his body is carried away.
* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "The Language Barrier," a Chinese man is killed in a hate crime. A cop pulls a sheet over his head before his body is carried away.
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* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': They did this to [[spoiler:Mike Franks. What, showing him die wasn't enough? *sob*]]
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* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': They did this Ends up happening to [[spoiler:Mike Franks. What, showing Showing him die wasn't enough? *sob*]]was bad enough.]]
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->'''Rhino:''' You put a lotta our buddies in the slammer, Bat-fink! Only way you're gettin' outta here is in a black plastic bag with a zipper up the front.
->'''Cat Burglar:''' A body bag!
->'''Rhino:''' ''He knows what it is!''
->'''Cat Burglar:''' A body bag!
->'''Rhino:''' ''He knows what it is!''
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->'''Rhino:''' You put a lotta our buddies in the slammer, Bat-fink! Only way you're gettin' outta here is in a black plastic bag with a zipper up the front.
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'''Cat Burglar:''' A bodybag!
->'''Rhino:'''bag!\\
'''Rhino:''' ''He knows what it is!''
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'''Cat Burglar:''' A body
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->'''Rhino:''' You put a lotta our buddies in the slammer, Bat-fink! Only way you're gettin' outta here is in a black plastic bag with a zipper up the front.
->'''Cat Burglar:''' A body bag!
->'''Rhino:''' ''He knows what it is!''
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->'''Cat Burglar:''' A body bag!
->'''Rhino:''' ''He knows what it is!''
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* ''Series/TheWire'', we see [[spoiler: Omar]]'s [[spoiler:Omar]]'s body bag being zipped up in the morgue at the end of an episode. Furthermore, in this scene, it's shown that there was a mistake with the ID tags, which the ME has to correct, which further emphasize the point: he's no longer a character, just a statistic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': After Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. They give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
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** In "Maximum Homerdrive", after Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. They give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
** In the "Treehouse of Horror XI" story "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad", Homer dies from eating a piece of broccoli, with Dr. Hibbert and medical attendants arriving at the Simpson home.
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** In "Maximum Homerdrive", after Red Barclay dies from beef poisoning during a steak eating contest with Homer, the coroners zip up the body bag on Red. They give an extra one to Marge just in case, because Homer doesn't look so good either.
** In the "Treehouse of Horror XI" story "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad", Homer dies from eating a piece of broccoli, with Dr. Hibbert and medical attendants arriving at the Simpson home.
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part 2", Joey becomes an extra on a stretcher in Film/{{Outbreak}} 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan''. His BadBadActing keeps ruining Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's line "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dying!", until the line is changed to "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dead!" and zipping Joey up.
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part 2", Joey becomes an extra on a stretcher in Film/{{Outbreak}} ''Film/{{Outbreak}} 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan''. His BadBadActing keeps ruining Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's line "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dying!", until the line is changed to "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dead!" and zipping Joey up.
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* In the ''Series/{{Friends}} ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One After the Superbowl, Part 2", Joey becomes an extra on a stretcher in Film/{{Outbreak}} 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan''. His BadBadActing keeps ruining Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's line "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dying!", until the line is changed to "Can't you see what's going on here? This man is dead!" and zipping Joey up.
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* ''Series/{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}'': Buffy's mother is zipped up in this way, eyes still wide open. So is Ted after Buffy accidentally kills him, but in that case he's NotQuiteDead.
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** Oz is shot with a TranquilizerDart by the Initiative and shoved in a bodybag so he can be smuggled out of the college. As emotions are high among the Initiative commandos because one of their own has been killed by a similar creature, this has nasty implications; Oz barely avoids being terminated by Riley Finn.
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