Examples of Faint in Shock in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Arc Phantoms: Shuzo faints twice upon seeing Taweret. Understandable since it's not every day you meet up with a hippo goddess.
- In Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron, 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.
- For a Diamond Is a Marveled Thing: Steven faints when Connie proposes to him in For the Tax Benefits. Possibly exacerbated by all the alcohol Mr. Barriga has slipped him over the course of the party.
- Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Yuri faints when he learns that gods and demons exist on the Train in "The Cyan Desert Car". Anubis snarks that he was expecting Yuri to do it earlier when he arrived. Yuri then does this twice when he learns of Augustine being possessed by a dragon demon and just made a contract with them.
- In Kyon: Big Damn Hero:
- Kyon's mother, who at this point has mentioned several times that she doesn't want Kyon to become a delinquent, faints when she learns what the 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 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.
- The Mountain and the Wolf: A Red Priest passes out on learning the Wolf has a sorcerer with access to Warpstone (a dangerous way of greatly boosting their powers).
- My Huntsman Academia
- 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 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
- He passes out while standing up when Nora convinces Team MADE that he's some kind of Sex God when she tells them that he "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 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 so embarrassed that she faints on the spot.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!:
- 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.
- Shadows over Meridian: When Jade uses shadow chains to subdue a group of escaped rebel soldiers in Chapter 31, she leaves behind the one who angered her by assuming her to be "just a demon child". He faints by the force of her glare.
- Calvin faints in the Calvin & Hobbes: The Series episode "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.
- In the Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy episode "Lift Life", the ambulance for the labouring Mrs. Adelstrop arrives just as the elevator is unstuck, and as Elvis runs in with the paramedics, he sees the messy results of Penny having already delivered the baby and promptly passes out.
- In My Master Ed, 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 god in disguise. At this, his tolerance for weirdness is finally exhausted.
- The Capitol Games: Britney faints on stage, causing her to miss her final goodbye to her family.
- In Happy New Year
, 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.
- Anger Management: Discussed. Clyde is described as looking like he might faint when he sees Lori, but he doesn't.
- In Lincoln is Done, Clyde passes out when he sees or mentions his crush Lori. A bit character-exaggerated, as in canon he's more likely to just act awkward and/or get a nosebleed.
- In What You Wish For, Lori (who is in a dream world where Lincoln is no longer her brother) passes out when she finds out that Lincoln isn't in the photo album.
- The Seven Misfortunes of Lady Fortune:
- Adrien wrecks his room and 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.
- Crimson and Emerald: Izuku passes out when Hawks rescues him from nearly being abducted by a flying Noumu, right after fighting Stain.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Anon's Pie Adventure:
- 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.
- Escape from the Moon: 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.
- Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (and Misadventures) in Potty Training:
- In "Starlight the Foalsitter" Starlight Glimmer faints when the Cake twins prank her into thinking they've flushed themselves down the toilet. The twins regret their prank, since they weren't expecting her response to be that extreme.
- In "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 "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 Aki-chan's Life, 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 (Time Travel was involved).
- Role-Playing (Evangelion): 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.
- FullCircle:
- In response to seeing The Big Damn Kiss between Oscar and Olive, 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 they come to.
- As Fate Would Have It: During Yancy's flashback to when she was training to become the Idol Singer she was in the present, Lisia ends up giving a Love Confession to her, followed by what is revealed to be her First Kiss. 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 Lisia to cut ties with her mentee, for fear of having gone too far.
- John faints in With Strings Attached 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...
- Missing (Sherlock Holmes): 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 Must Love Ned Flanders 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.
- "Restoration" sees the team rescue Elizabeth Weir from the Asuran ship where she has been held captive since before the destruction of Asuras, retrieving her from a stasis chamber. In the process, Doctors Beckett and Keller determine that Weir is pregnant with twins conceived using samples taken from John Sheppard during his previous visit to Asuras (created as part of Oberoth's experiments with Ancient DNA), with the result that he is the biological father of her children. Sheppard is so shocked at the news that he faints after taking a moment to process this, prompting McKay and Teyla to joke that at least Sheppard can't say he "passed out from manly hunger" and Teyla assuring Ronon she'll explain the "inside joke" later.
- In And the Stars Were Shining Bright, a fanfic inspired by Khan from Star Trek Into Darkness, 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.
- Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers has had Luigi faint from the shock of a Chain Chomp.
- In "Reading Minds", a Crack Fic, 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.
- Nearly happens in "TMNT Turtles together and forever"; when the Turtles, April, Casey and Karai of the 2012 series are transported to the reality of 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.
- In Raphael's Big Mistake, Taylor faints from seeing the turtles. She was already stressed and terrified after being kidnapped and seeing her abductors weren't human was the last straw.
- In Home with the Fairies, Maddie faints when she first sees an elf, one of an Inhumanly Beautiful Race. 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 the Lord of the Rings fanfic I Remember, Legolas faints from shock when he realises his new friend Erin is none other than a reimbodied Ereinion Gil-galad.
