I Woke Up Next to You Again Tvtropes

Not everyone rests in peace.

"Waking upwardly on a slab in a morgue. The story of a character who's been processed and discarded by the bureaucratic machinery of the world…"

If you lot take a character that has a Healing Gene or Resurrective Immortality, a great manner for them to discover the power is for them to wake up at the morgue. Can as well exist done if the character is drugged or Faking the Dead. Either way it can be shocking, every bit the last place a person wants to exist is at the morgue.

Naturally, at that place will be much confusion the first fourth dimension it happens to someone, with or without amnesia and will usually have been completely undressed, and may accept to make exercise without any clothing or equipment. Compare Rise from Your Grave and Waking Up Elsewhere. Tin can be a form of First Episode Resurrection.

Believe it or non, this is an case of Truth in Television set. Rare today (though there is the occasional, erm, incident...), only more mutual in ages past when medical science wasn't all it is at present. The just thing worse than waking up in the morgue, of course, was to be actually Buried Alive, which could also happen from time to time. ^note The Buried Alive part is nearly impossible today since the dead are usually either embalmed earlier burial, or cremated. Neither of which you could wake upwards from. Unless maybe you lot're a Phoenix. And meliorate not think what would happen if you lot're slated for autopsy, peculiarly by a Creepy Mortician...

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Examples:

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    Advertising

• A commercial for Droid smartphones starts In Medias Res with a man escaping a morgue'due south body-drawer, so finding his phone's charge is nigh gone. Cue a long series of flashbacks to bear witness how he'd spent the last 48 hours since he'd charged it.
• Ads for the series Forever employ this trope, but information technology never happens on the series proper considering Henry e'er resurrects in a nearby trunk of h2o.

    Anime & Manga

• In Black Butler, Shinigami Grell falls asleep on the side of the road and forgets to breathe. He's mistaken for expressionless and taken to the local undertaker, where he wakes up afterward beingness called a fourth rate body past the undertaker.
• The Puma Sisters wake upwardly in the morgue in Shirow Masamune'due south Dominion Conflict ane: No More Dissonance. But they're not very surprised—later all, they went to slumber there, thinking information technology was awfully nice of Newport Urban center Law to provide such prissy beds for them.
• This happens to Hyatt of Excel Saga equally a affair of course. Her condition has her constantly dying in an exaggerated way only to stand up up once again every bit she'due south incapable of staying expressionless.
• Since it'southward about an immortal who dies a lot, Mnemosyne has this happen on more than than one occasion.

• In the first few pages of the manga series Variante, this happens.

    Comic Books

• All-New Ultimates: The doctor that was checking Terry calls: the corpse has simply woke up and left when nobody was watching.
• Exploited in the first arc of All New Wolverine. Before the raid on the Alchemax labs, Laura and Bellona (an attempt by Alchemax to clone Laura who lacks her Healing Factor) disguise themselves as each other, and then "Bellona" launches a frontal attack and gets machine-gunned so desperately she flatlines. Later "Wolverine" and Gabby "bolt", the casualty is hauled to an unguarded lab well inside the security perimeter for autopsy/dissection... with predicable results.
• In one issue of Astro City: Local Heroes, mention is made of the fourth dimension Supersonic simply revived at the morgue despite beingness to all medical appearances 100% expressionless. A lawyer uses this as precedent to suggest that the adult female his customer "killed" could have been still alive before her autopsy was performed.

• Klyde and Meriem battle in Cavewoman: Rain, apparently killing each other. In reality, the beatdown (and other damages) had been bad enough that they had been knocked into a death-similar coma... from which Klyde woke upwards while being prepped for dissection.
• Rocky, a member of the Challengers of the Unknown, was seemingly killed during a wrestling lucifer where he was crushed to death by his opponent with a very strong bear hug, but to wake upwardly when the doctors were fix to do an autopsy on his body.
• Happens to Deadpool a lot given his Healing Cistron. It only actually fazes him anymore if he wakes up in a more interesting location

  Deadpool: [wakes up on a dock] Huh, usually when I wake up in a bodybag I'm in a morgue. This isn't a morgue.

• Hellboy: After existence killed by a jaguar god, Helm Daimio is seen slicing his way out of a body purse and demanding to know what the hell'southward going on from the terrified morgue attendant.
• In the first issue of Immortal Hulk subsequently getting shot in the head by a robber, Bruce'south trunk is sent to the morgue although he doesn't stay expressionless for long equally Devil Blob forcefully makes their corpse transform and come back to life.
• Crispus Allen during Space Crisis woke up in a morgue, but was actually dead and had an autopsy. Turns out he was just called to be the new host for The Spectre and he'due south neither alive nor dead now.
• Spider-Human: It happened to Norman Osborn in a Retcon after his climactic battle with Spider-Homo in The Nighttime Gwen Stacy Died—first thing he did was murder a vagrant who vaguely looked liked him and put the poor guy'south corpse in his identify, then made off for Europe to build a criminal empire once he saw that his son Harry was going to take over the Goblin identity.
• In Preacher, Cassidy shoves a knife through his ain throat in society to get out a serial killer's house in a bodybag during daylight hours (having been set up as the fall guy by the bodily killer). Once the sun'south gone downwardly he pops out of his pocketbook, bums a cigarette from the morgue bellboy and goes on his way.
• Robin (1993): Afterwards being injured by Tim and left in a desiccated state due to overusing his powers Johnny Warlock was presumed dead and woke upward in the Kane Country Morgue. He casually strolled out the door with no-one the wiser for at to the lowest degree a month as his body was thought to accept been misplaced.
• In Robyn Hood: I Love NY #seven, the Vapor Lord - having possessed the trunk of one of his previous victims - awakens at the morgue as the body is being shown to the victim's sis. He proceeds to murder The Coroner and the sis.
• In Supergirl Postal service-Crisis story Death & the Family unit, Lana Lang apparently dies due to an unknown disease. She wakes upwardly in the morgue, her listen taken over by Insect Queen, which was making her ill as trying to reclaim her trunk.
• Hannibal Male monarch wakes upwards in the morgue after being turned into a vampire in The Tomb of Dracula.
• Wonder Adult female (1987): After dying from injuries sustained in a boxing with Neron, Wonder Woman is transformed into a goddess and wakes up after existence autopsied and stuffed into a bodybag.
• The Ultimate Marvel version of "Thunderbolt" Ross ended upwards going through this, with Wraith "killing" him in the 2d arc of Ultimate X-Men and waking up in the morgue during the start of Ultimate Fantastic Iv.

    Fan Works

• In Striking List, the Sequel Hook of the epilogue has this happen to Ganondorf, since Link hadn't killed him with the Chief Sword.

• In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, a Kryptonian criminal wakes up in the morgue after getting killed off by a vampire.

  If he'd been more than used to what his body could at present do, fifty-fifty that might have had a different ending. But he'd rarely set foot on this earth before, and simply for a couple of short visits. And then the blasted leech on his cervix was able to have from him what information technology wanted, though he managed to ram an arm straight through the body of the one in front of him, and information technology left him dry.
  And he died.
  Non permanently, though.
  He'd opened his optics in what passed for a preparatory identify for the dead on Terra. Information technology was ghoulish, seeing all the cadavers about him in various stages of autopsy. But information technology was certainly better than what he'd been expecting.

    Film — Alive Activity

• Played with in The Amazing Spider-Homo 2. Max Dillon falls into a vat full of genetically engineered electric eels at his job at Oscorp that jolt him to high heaven, is pronounced dead and shipped off to the morgue. It speedily turns out that he didn't quite die though. His trunk was undergoing a radical transformation and he wakes up in his body bag having go an electricity based Energy Beingness.
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. During the end credits, Leslie Vernon is shown beingness wheeled around in a morgue. While the lab technician's back is turned, Vernon sits up on the table.
• In the first Blade moving picture, a vampire whom Blade set up on fire wakes upwards in the middle of his own autopsy and takes a seize with teeth out of the medical examiner. Blade noted that the vampire in question and the Large Bad were uncommonly hard to kill. Apparently, Blade had staked him before and it didn't take. Hence the fire, and the M.Due east. developing the magic ammo.
• In Common cold Casualty 2, the police discover the mount homo's body and ship information technology to the morgue at the infirmary, where it begins to stir while a nurse is cataloging his clothing.
• While not quite a morgue, this becomes Mr. Black's Running Gag in Comedy Of Terrors. Black (played past Basil Rathbone) has a form of catalepsy that makes him appear dead to the exterior globe. Of grade crooked undertakers Waldo Trumble and his assistant, Felix Gilly (played respectively by Vincent Price and Peter Lorre) have a plot to murder him and then make money off of his funeral. Every time they think he's safely dead, That Darn Cat comes by and triggers Black'due south allergy, waking him up. It ends up in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge with a gleefully hammy Black chasing Trumbull and Gilly with an axe while shouting out quotes from Macbeth.
• Sean William Scott'south character does this in a postal service-credits in the movie Cop Out with no caption as to how he survived.
• Cradle of Fright: According to Inspector Neilson, this happened to the last of Kemper'southward victims. Blood loss from her wounds, combined with shock, dropped her into a catatonic coma where her vital signs were as well faint to be detected. She woke up in a freezer drawer at the morgue and afterward suffocated. When she was eventually establish, she had broken every bone in her hands pounding on the inside of the drawer to concenter attention, but no one had heard. Neilson blames himself for this because he did not check to see if she was dead before they removed her, and information technology is why he at present insists on touching very body at a criminal offense scene.
• In Danger: Diabolik, the championship grapheme escapes a police dragnet past taking a pill that puts him in a death-like state. His Dark Mistress gives him the antidote just in time for him to stop his own autopsy.
• In Death Becomes Her Madeline fainted after finding out that she died. She ended up waking upwardly in the morgue in a body bag.
• In Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Gruesome passes out and and then freezes rigid after accidentally inhaling the experimental gas. Pat delivers what he thinks is Gruesome's corpse to morgue. When the gas wears off, Gruesome wakes up on the slab and casually lights a cigarette before seeming to observe where he is.
• Parodied in Fletch Lives. Fletch fakes being dead to sneak into a morgue. He hides in a locker to avoid getting caught and ends upward scaring a janitor.
• Friday the 13th: The Concluding Affiliate starts Jason spontaneously reviving and escaping from the cold storage, murdering The Coroner with a hacksaw and gutting a nurse with a scalpel.
• Highlander
  • Connor MacLeod does this as part of the backstory in Highlander (1986). He is an immortal who can only die permanently if his head is chopped off. As a result, other methods of decease just terminate with him standing up again as soon equally his body has healed enough to stop existence dead.
  • Also used in Highlander Two: The Quickening past Conner and Ramirez to sneak into the shield facility. When they wake upwardly, they snarkily compare how many bullets they took getting 'killed.'
• Innocent Blood, a recently-vampirized mob boss wakes up at the morgue. He is quite disgruntled to find a thermometer sticking out of his tum and a human standing over him with a bonesaw.
• In Nightbreed, Aaron Boone is shot to death by the police after his Psycho Psychologist frames him for his crimes. He awakens at the morgue as a new member of the supernatural Nightbreed and escapes to go alive with them.
• In Dice Nacht der lebenden Loser (Night of the Living Dorks), a German horror comedy, 3 boys are killed in a car accident while driving home later on a voodoo ceremony. They wake up at the morgue every bit zombies.
• In The Prophecy iii: The Rise later on being shot by a blind man Danyael wakes up locked in a body storage locker in the Morgue.
• Happens in the 2007 movie Rising: Blood Hunter: The reporter Sadie Blake after being attacked and left for expressionless by a vampire wakes up in a cold box and has to kick it open to become out. After hunting downward and killing her attacker, she ends upwards dead again and the last shot is of her body existence shelved into a cold box in the morgue. The very terminal shot is of her kick open the box.
• Scanners III: The Takeover: Alex temporarily shuts downward his heart to fake expiry in the infirmary to avoid a Sickbed Slaying. He later wakes up at the morgue. There's an initial Bunko where it seems like the coroner is about to saw open up his breast, but it turns out he was working on another trunk.
• See No Evil 2: Tamara, who is fascinated by death and serial killers, leaves the party with Carter to go look at Jacob'south body in the morgue. The experience of being in a room with the body of a real murderer arouses her and she and Carter begin to have sex. Jacob suddenly awakens, and kills Carter while Tamara escapes.
• In the alive-action Street Fighter movie, an example that involves Faking the Dead as Guile wakes up in a morgue (scaring Chun-Li in the process) after apparently getting shot by Ryu and Ken during their prison house break. Of form, it was all part of the plan to get Ryu and Ken on Bison and Sagat'southward good side so that they could take them down later on.

    Jokes

• At the end of a funeral service, the pallbearers conveying the catafalque accidentally bump into a wall. They hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive. She lives for x more than years and then dies. Some other funeral service is held, and as the pallbearers are carrying the catafalque out, the husband shouts "Sentry out for the wall!"

    Literature

• There is a brusque story by Edmond Hamilton almost a man who woke up in his family crypt, after being considered expressionless. He walked around the city, listened to what people really idea of him - and decided to go back into his bury.

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• Betsy the Vampire Queen in the Undead series by Mary Janice-Davidson discovers she's a vampire on waking up in a funeral habitation afterward a truck hits her. Simply having died isn't important to her; what'south of import is the hideous pinkish shoes she'due south in.
• In Christopher Moore'due south Bloodsucking Fiends, the protagonist, a vampire, wakes in a morgue later her body is discovered and her mortal boyfriend is arrested for murder. It is a rude awakening, every bit she is woken upward past a necrophiliac mortician attempting to misuse her corpse.
• Chrestomanci: The protagonist of The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones learns of his regenerating power subsequently he accidentally has his skull broken by a cricket bat, and wakes upwards in the morgue perfectly intact.
• The protagonist in a Nighttime Conspiracy novel wakes upwardly just every bit they're preparing to harvest his body for organs. He manages to alarm them to the fact that he's alive, only to have the doctor society the orderlies to strap him down as he prepares to continue anyhow.
• It'southward on an Igor's tabular array rather than the morgue, merely this happens to Nutt in the Discworld series.
  • Averted in Men at Artillery, just only because the Sentry didn't really have a morgue, and so Carrot left Angua's body in a bedchamber to await her moonrise revival.
  • Fugitive this is the purpose of Granny Weatherwax's "I aten't ded" sign. When she 'borrows' an animal or group of animals her body goes into a deathlike state.
• The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden is injured at the cease of Death Masks and wakes upward in the morgue with the coroner standing over him. He freaks out and starts yelling "I'thou not dead! I'm not dead!" They knew, they just couldn't send him to the hospital with a bullet wound and so had their coroner friend treat him. ^note Non as atrocious as it sounds, he is a qualified Md. Though he has gotten a bit rusty since he last plyed his trade on living people...
• Stephen Rex'southward story "Autopsy Room Four" collected in Everything'south Eventual is told from the point of view of a character to whom this happens later he's bitten by an exotic serpent. The story is a homage to, and follows the plot of, the Louis Pollack story Breakdown, first published in Colliers (June vii, 1947), which has a grapheme who is completely paralyzed in an auto accident and must show that he is alive to avert existence autopsied. The female pathologist checks a scar near his lower parts which gets him kind of... excited

• Played with in Michael Crichton'southward The Great Train Robbery. The crew exploits a Victorian-era fear of this by having a fellow member fake being dead, just give a false positive on the bell attached to his finger in his casket so that the police would be reluctant to search the coffin with the grieving widow right at that place. To really seal the deal, they make him up to await obviously putrid (and rub a dead cat on him for the stink) and have the "widow" claim he died of something squeamish and contagious...
• In James P. Blaylock's Homunculus, Willis Pule is knocked unconscious during a scuffle with zombies, and so hauled abroad with the bodies left behind when they de-animate. Pule's pare had been stained pale greenish in an earlier incident, then whoever collected the bodies can't be wholly blamed for mistaking him for yet another corpse.
• In Gordon R. Dickson's Necromancer, the protagonist transfers his consciousness to a particularly prepared torso in a morgue.
• The protagonist from the novel I Human foot In The Grave wakes upwardly in the morgue in his backstory every bit a outcome of his being partially transformed into a vampire. Unfortunately to his horror his wife and daughter are on nearby tables in full view, and have already been autopsied.
• A man wakes upwardly at his own funeral - or actually his wake in The Shipping News. The primary character, Quoyle, has trouble explaining this to his young daughter, who doesn't quite empathise the difference between death and sleep.
• Bonfire from Silicon Wolfpack woke up in a morgue, cut his mode out of a body bag, and was greeted by a reaper, who informed him that he was having a nearly-death feel.
• Happens to The Stainless Steel Rat after he'south ambushed by his Evil Is Sexy opponent Angelina. His life is saved by luck and his bulletproof underwear, then he uses this as an opportunity to fake his death as well equally play Musical Identity Tags with the other corpses as a joke.
• In a variant, the protagonist of Strong Spirits is hauled off to the morgue while engaging in astral project, and is unable to re-enter his inert body because of interference by a rival medium. He doesn't actually wake up in that location, only a friend who knows of his paranormal experiments intervenes earlier he has to watch his own body existence autopsied.
• The plot of Last World is kicked off when an angel wakes up in Dr. Quillion's morgue with a message for him.
• Averted by Jack Fleming from The Vampire Files, who woke upward on the shore of Lake Michigan instead. Invoked in-character by Escott in the same serial, when he tells Gaylen that Fleming had died of food poisoning rather than reveal he'd been worked over and murdered past mobsters.

    Live-Action TV

• "Breakdown", an episode the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, based on a story by Louis Pollack (1955). Movie producer Mr. Callew fires a long-time employee on the phone and scoffs at his crying. Callew later on gets into a car accident and is completely paralyzed. He is assumed to be dead and is ignored by everyone, and simply gets the mortician'due south attentions with his tears.
• In a episode of Alias Sydney gets wheeled into a morgue as part of a Faking the Expressionless ploy. Naturally, she wakes upwards and beats people up.
• In Existence Human, this happens to Sasha and the other zombies. In Sasha's case, she wakes upward just as they're well-nigh to dissect her and proceeds to scream pissily at the coroner for it. She doesn't seem particularly fazed by any of it but the other zombies, who are dissected while awake and thrown into furnaces, aren't quite so lucky.
• In one episode of Bones the Victim of the Week was presumed dead of a centre attack, but Basic knew better. It turned out he had been poisoned; but to add injury to injury, he hadn't quite been poisoned to expiry: he awoke in the funeral domicile's embalming room. The embalmer was and then surprised he stabbed him to death.
• Happened more than than once in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (unsurprisingly).
  • The fake Anointed I in the funeral habitation in flavor 1.
  • The vampire in the infirmary in "The Body".
  • The vampire Teresa in "Phases" in season ii wakes up in her coffin in a funeral dwelling house...
  • As does some unnamed lady in "Help" in season seven.
  • Likewise, the robot Ted mentions the look on the coroner's face later on he woke up from an apparent death.
• In the Castle episode "Undead Once again", a man who happens to be the master doubtable in a murder is establish expressionless. Since information technology'south a zombie-themed episode, Castle expects him to ascension similar a zombie. Pearlmutter assures him that he won't, and so jabs him in the forearm. Cue ascent like a zombie. Of course, he wasn't a zombie, but had been dosed with a drug that put him in a fugue-like state and no memory of what happened during that time (in this instance, told to kill the victim of the week by a rival, the human who dosed him).
• Piper does this in the Overjoyed (1998) episode "Styx Anxiety Under". Since the FBI agent who's been post-obit them for the last few episodes is in the room when it happens, it'south the event that finally allows him to penetrate The Masquerade.

• Subverted in a CSI episode, when the senior coroner was walking his banana through a routine dissection on a (supposed) expiry by cardiac arrest. When David (the assistant) began the Y-incision, though, the "corpse" bled heavily and the two doctors rushed to resuscitate the human. Unfortunately, the human being dies without regaining consciousness, and the coroners somewhen discover that he was poisoned. Cue Grissom and Brass.
• CSI: Miami:
  • A body of a young adult female, was lying in a morgue locker, when she all of a sudden woke up. She was in daze, and disoriented. Luck was on her side, since coroner Alex Woods was close by, and was the one who opened the locker. Every bit it subsequently revealed, a woman was cooled past enormous amount of cold h2o. She survived.
• Diagnosis: Murder: In "Claret Will Out", Amanda is preparing for an autopsy when the trunk on her slab wakes upwardly and chokes her into unconsciousness before escaping.
• Dr. Who:
  • In the Made-for-TV Movie, the Seventh Physician is shot by a street gang upon his arrival on World. He dies on the operating table thanks to the doctors inadvertently killing him due to his dissimilar beefcake. A few hours afterwards, he regenerates into the Eighth Doctor and wakes up inside ane of those metal box cooling units in a hospital morgue with amnesia and a few feet of camera probe sticking out of his chest (Eight did non take the most pleasant first solar day). He gain to scare the shit out of the attending orderly past kicking his fashion out via Barrier-Busting Blow.
  • "Death in Heaven": Danny Pink does this, and finds to his horror that he'due south been turned into a Cyberman.
• Father Dark-brown: Happens to Father Brown in "The Wrath of Baron Samedi" when he is drugged with a toxicant that lowers his centre rate to the point where he appears to be expressionless.
• In an episode of Firefly a presumed corpse wakes up when Simon begins his autopsy. Admittedly, Placidity doesn't technically have a morgue...
  • Only the hospital on planet Ariel did. Which is why Simon isn't every bit put off by this happening equally the others are, given that he and River did wake up in a morgue subsequently faking their ain expiry in a similar fashion, a few episodes earlier. Note that i of the offset things he does later realizing this is to ask Jayne to hand him a bowl because he knows that one of the side effects of the drug used for that is airsickness.
• In vampire cop show Forever Knight, the protagonist met his coroner friend when he woke up on her dissection table.
• Ghost Whisperer twists this trope when a corpse wakes upward in the morgue in the episode "The Walk-In". Not because he wasn't expressionless (he was), but because another ghost took the opportunity to possess his body.
• Harrow: In "Mens Rea" ("Guilty Listen"), Harrow is shocked when ane half of a Murder-Suicide rises upwards of the slab and proceeds to pull the knife out of the other half and take him earnest.
• An early episode of Heroes, when Claire, a grapheme with a Healing Factor patently killed last episode, has her regeneration powers only kick in when the branch in her caput is removed. She wakes up, looks downward, and sees her ribs exposed for autopsy.
  • Her father, brought dorsum with life with an infusion of her claret, not simply goes through something similar, but has the same reaction.
• Highlander has a few of these just like the films. In ane, the female immortal kills the coroner earlier walking off. Another has a similar scene with a different immortal adult female. And then at that place'south Richie, who was indicated to take woke up there afterwards a motorbike crash and had to brand information technology to the barge in only a blanket considering Mac wasn't happy with his gamble taking and wanted him to learn a lesson.
• The House episode "Brave Heart" concerned a patient who was convinced he was going to die of a center attack. When he had his heart attack, Foreman called House in to observe so that he could go his answer. The homo began screaming seconds later Foreman started slicing him upwards the middle.

  House: I estimate the autopsy's going to take to wait a little bit.

  • In an earlier episode, House brought Kutner and Taub downward to the morgue to see the body of a immature woman who Kutner diagnosed online under Business firm's name with Taub'south aid. House berated them and told them their incompetence cost the woman her life. He and then said he might still be able to salvage her, and, to Kutner and Taub's puzzlement, started doing chest compressions on the woman, who then gasped and saturday bolt upright. It turned out she was a hooker House hired to teach them a lesson.
• Largely averted in iZombie, because the Victim of the Week is dead past the time Liv starts feeding. But Liv was on her style to the morgue when she reanimated in the pilot (she sat upward in a body handbag on the embankment).
• In a season 2 episode of Lost, "?", this has happened to a girl who was believed to take drowned. It'southward not really shown, but we become to hear the coroner'southward audio recording of the interrupted dissection. It'due south later indicated that the daughter was actually expressionless for while.
  • This is the only time Lost e'er ascends to bodily horror with a genuinely spooky turn of events.
• In an episode of The Mob Doctor, a patient comes into the emergency room and and so has an apparent eye attack. The doctor is trying to explicate what happened to the man'due south pregnant wife. She insists on seeing her husband'southward body. The body is still in the trauma room so they take the wife there. And then the husband wakes up and wants to know what is going on and why his married woman is crying. The man obviously has a very rare condition where his heart can stop for a few minutes and and then starting time chirapsia over again. The rest of the episode the doctors endeavor to determined what caused the condition and how to stop information technology from occurring over again since the adjacent time the man might not wake upwards. Also they practice non want to exist know as the doctors who had the same patient dice on them twice in a mean solar day.
• The British sitcom Mulberry features the son of Death who is trying to go into the family business and has been ordered to kill a wealthy erstwhile woman who he winds upwards befriending instead (it's more than lighthearted than you might call up). Actually, as Death reminds Mulberry, it is not his job to 'kill' his new friend, information technology's his job to be on mitt to take her to what comes next when she dies. In i episode, Mulberry has an accident and is taken to the morgue. His begetter is kind plenty to have him out of the freezer and remind him that he can't die.
• Murdoch Mysteries: In "Hangman", Play a trick on escapes hanging by means of an impromptu tracheotomy and the hangman deliberately shortening the driblet. He wakes up at the morgue and terrifies Juia as she makes his escape.
• NCIS:
  • In the episode "Iceman", the medical examiner Ducky is in autopsy, doing his usual "talking to the corpse" thing every bit he's fixing his forenoon tea. When the tea kettle starts whistling, the "corpse" opens his eyes and sits upward. Apparently the man was institute nearly frozen, and "a torso isn't dead until it'southward warm and expressionless." The man however, has severe brain impairment considering of a lack of oxygen when he was frozen, and dies at the end anyhow.
  • In the premiere of season 3, the corpse on the examining table (it's Kate, who was killed by Ari) starts speaking to Ducky. Unfortunately, the person has been Killed Off for Real and Ducky was just doing his normal Talking to the Expressionless. It's merely that the expressionless was talking back. In his mind.
• Happens in the pilot of New Amsterdam (2008). Initially it appears to be a throwaway gag and a mode to explicate John's "gift". It actually ends upwards having serious repercussions across the season, every bit in this day and age you lot can't just stroll out of the morgue without explaining yourself.
• This happens to a higher professor who had been experimenting with a listen-enhancing drug in the The Outer Limits (1963) episode "Expanding Human".
• The Outer Limits (1995):
  • In "The Inheritors", Jacob Hardy is struck in the head by an apparent falling star fragment and dies instantly as the fragment became embedded in his brain. When his body is brought to the morgue, the pathologist Dr. Ian Michaels and his assistant Ollie Gibb brainstorm to perform an autopsy. Ian's first pace is to remove the fragment, which turns out to a metal projectile. A tentacle then emerges from the hole in Jacob's head, much to the horror of Ian and Ollie. Before they can react, Jacob opens his eyes, takes a deep breath and sits upright, having been resurrected by the alien engineering.
  • In "Inner Child", Anne Marie Reynolds dies in an emergency room, having lost all of her brain functions, after being struck in the head with a lead pipe by a mugger. Approximately ten or fifteen minutes subsequently, she wakes upwards in the morgue. It is later determined that she is growing a second encephalon on her spine, which contains the personality of her Conjoined Twin Marie who was absorbed into her during her mother'south pregnancy.

• Pretty Little Liars: In "Game On, Charles", The Liars fail to escape A'south dollhouse and go hit with a Knockout Gas. They wake upwardly later in a morgue-similar room, and notice that they've been undressed and just have a Modesty Bedsheet draped over their naked bodies.. Spencer theorizes A took photos of them like that to transport to their families and so that they assume they were dead and would stop looking for them.
• Happens at least In one case an Episode in Pushing Daisies, but most of the corpses don't stay alive very long.
• In an episode of Quincy, M.Eastward., a victim wakes upwardly on the autopsy table causing a substitute coroner to go running out of the autopsy yelling "We've got a live one!"
• Rizzoli & Isles: Someone is delivered to the morgue non quite dead in "This Is How A Heart Breaks". Maura realises he is alive when she feels a pulse in his penis. She saves his life past by performing an emergency tracheotomy.
• Smallville:
  • In "Reaper" Kryptonite Freak Of The Week'due south Tyler Randall has his powers manifest when he wakes up in the morgue. He'd been thrown out a window and woke up simply in time to grab the coroner'south arm and stop him from cutting him open with the bonesaw.
  • Also happened to Chloe in "Bizarro, when she Comes Dorsum From The Dead thanks to her healing powers.
• Star Trek: The Adjacent Generation: In the very aptly-named Flavour 4 episode "Nighttime Terrors", Dr Crusher is working alone in an improvised morgue fix up in one of the cargo bays containing bodies recovered from some other Starfleet ship that had a fatal run-in with a Negative Space Wedgie, and turns around to see every single shrouded body sitting upwardly on their gurneys. Information technology turns out to be a hallucination, the cause of which is direct related to how the other starship'southward coiffure died.
• St. Elsewhere: In "Where There'due south Hope, There's Crosby", Morrison is working in the morgue when he hears breathing coming from one of the shelves. He opens it to find that the supposedly dead Richard Jenkins is still alive, though only barely. Morrison and a crash squad are able to resuscitate him. Elliot, who pronounced Jenkins DOA, swears that he was dead and is at a loss to explain information technology. Fiscus retorts that he was in fact AAKOA: alive and boot on inflow. Jenkins is non grateful to Morrison for resuscitating him as he was trying to kill himself.
• An episode of Tales from the Crypt involved a medical researcher getting some morbid payback on his practical-joking brother. The researcher (whose blood brother had accidentally maimed him during a long-ago botched prank) had developed a serum which induced a state of total bodily paralysis. He drugged his Jerkass bro with it, and then let his helpless but witting sibling believe he'd died, even so somehow remained enlightened of what happened to his body. The drug wore off just as the M.East. was leaning over him with the bone saw... and so the jokester had a real heart attack, when the researcher popped into the (faked) "morgue" and the "G.E." revealed he'd been in on the prank. Nope, the guy didn't wake up in the for-existent morgue.
• Parodied in the Tatort episode "Satisfaktion": Subsequently pathologist Professor Boerne is knocked out by beingness hit on the head from behind with a sabre at an academic fraternity, he wakes up on one of his morgue's steel tables and asks: "Am I expressionless?" His assistant Alberich answers to the negative. It turns out he had just been brought to their place of work where she stitched up the cutting and sat dorsum to expect for him to regain consciousness.
• In the series 1 finale of Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness fights an Eldritch Abomination that feeds on life energy. Since Jack is immortal, he lets the monster accept as much as he wants from him, causing Abaddon to "asphyxiate" on information technology and dice. Jack himself is seen as completely blue and unresponsive. The team assumes that this was too much even for Jack. As they say their adept-byes in the Torchwood morgue, simply Gwen is left by his side. She kisses him and turns to leave, just to hear a weak "Cheers." Slightly subverted in that he's used to being killed and is not shocked.
• The reverse of this trope was the entire premise behind Tru Calling. The protagonist discovered her powers when other people woke up in the morgue.
• An episode of The Twilight Zone (1959) has a young hillbilly wake up at his own funeral. He insists he was merely in a coma; the local coroner insists he was dead. His character changes; he becomes a become-getter, where before he was a layabout. The locals believe that he's occupied past a demon. He gives an angry speech communication denying it, but says if he is possessed, everybody better beware. He disperses the crowd, and his girl believes him - until the terminate, when she sees him light a cigar without matches or a lighter.
• Leonard Betts, the Monster of the Calendar week from The X-Files episode "Leonard Betts" walks away from the morgue. After decapitation, no less. His regenerative power was truly impressive.

    Music

• The music video for Incubus' Anna Molly.
• The Irish gaelic folk song "Tim Finnegan'southward Wake", thanks to some whiskey (non a morgue, but close enough).

    New Media

• The Onion reports that this happened to Joe Biden. He was quoted as saying "Not again".

    Radio

• The 3rd Doc, in the radio serial The Paradise of Expiry. The Brigadier, who's present at the fourth dimension, simply remarks "Told y'all and then."

    Tabletop Games

• The basis for Bound characters in Geist: The Sin-Eaters.

    Theatre

• Juliet did the medieval equivalent (waking up in the burying vault) in Romeo and Juliet. The twist is that she deliberately feigned expiry and expected to detect herself in that location when she woke up. Likewise bad Romeo didn't get the memo and had already killed himself out of grief.

    Video Games

• We don't get to see it, but information technology happens in Batman: Arkham Aviary: when you first visit the morgue, one of the bodies stored there is that of Ra's Al Ghul (which y'all can detect out by investigating). Knowing who Ra's is, when yous come back later, he'south long gone from the morgue.
• In The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush has to imitation his death with a paralysing drink in society to get into a crypt past way of burial. He then has to practise it again to get into another catacomb.
• Dark Souls III takes it one further - the Ashen I wakes up in their grave, starting the game in the Cemetery of Ash.
• The Elderberry Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a quest for the Dark Alliance (the local assassins' guild) where you lot have to help someone fake his own death. Y'all take to deliver the antidote to him personally, and he thusly wakes up in the mausoleum.
• Played for laughs in M Theft Auto V. Michael is knocked unconscious so that he tin can infiltrate a infirmary through the morgue. As he is waking up he hears a physician chat with his banana about Michael's concrete flaws, explaining how each is indicative of a different bad habit that probably contributed to his death.
• While it'southward not immediately afterwards his assumed death, in Ghost Pull a fast one on Yomiel uses Sissel's body to infiltrate the police morgue and possess his own seemingly-expressionless torso. Yomiel then gets off the table and walks out the door. The medical examiner promptly quit his job in order to devote his life to finding out what the fuck only happened.
• In the terminal main level of Hitman (2016), gear up at a hospital, one of the available starting options is 'undercover at the morgue', with Agent 47 first the mission on a trolley in said morgue. Not that the morticians ever notice that he's gone.
• Information technology'south not technically a morgue, only in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, y'all wake up in a rotting pile of corpses which is where the resident Mad Scientist has been storing his failed reincarnation experiments.
• A couple of Legacy of Kain games kickoff this way (including the first one, after a brief intro); fitting, given the nature of the "protagonists."
• Midnight Nowhere opens with the protagonist waking in a mortuary,
• Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie highlights one of the problems with trying this mid-game. The actor has to allow themself to be killed in order to awaken his hidden powers, which obviously isn't preferred. It doesn't help that this only works after a specific, completely united nations-hidden-power-related effect has taken place (which involves another credible neglect condition, by the way). Then again, interactive movies are not known for their logic, self-consistency or quality...
• Planescape: Torment opens with this scene. Mind you lot, the morgue is three storeys high and staffed by, variously, zombies and skeletons in various states of decay and the death-obsessed. Features amnesia, although the character has instructions carved on his back and a helpful talking, flying, smartmouthed skull willing to read them out loud to you.
• In Prototype, the protagonist does this near the beginning of the game, much to the surprise of the two (presumed) pathologists who were almost to dissection him (while he was withal fully clothed, for some reason). ^notation Alex is a Technically Naked Shapeshifter merely the pathologists don't know that.
• In Sanitarium, the human action "The Morgue" starts you out, appropriately enough, within a locker in the morgue. Since y'all were simply before a four-armed cyclopean hero from a comic volume, how you ended up in that location in man class is not explained.
• The Shadowrun game for the SNES opens with the Amnesiac Hero waking upwards in a morgue and promptly scaring the hell out of the attendants, who think that he is a zombie. This is also referenced in Shadowrun Returns when you wake upward the very aforementioned Jake Armitage in the morgue - apparently he just has a bad habit of sleeping there because information technology'southward cheaper than a cabin.
• Shin Megami Tensei Three: Nocturne: Afterwards witnessing The Stop of the World as Nosotros Know It and having a Creepy Child drop a demonic parasite that eats his center and burrows into his head, the Demi-Fiend's day starts as he wakes upwardly at Shinjuku Hygienic Hospital'southward morgue. It speaks volumes about the game that this is the high point of his twenty-four hours.
• Earth of Warcraft takes this to its logical extreme. If you lot start a new Undead grapheme, you literally wake up inside a graveyard.

    Webcomics

• The titular Sidekick Daughter does this once after beingness captured by The Coroner, a supervillain who wants to dissection all the earth's superheros so he can effigy out how their powers work. Her healing cistron immune her to recover from his ministrations. The other super he captured wasn't and then lucky.
• Tina of Wapsi Foursquare woke upwards in a morgue with amnesia as function of her backstory. The catch was that the original Tina had really died, and her demons had taken over the trunk.
• Md from The Whiteboard wakes upwardly in a hospital room underneath his paintball shop (courtesy of DARPA; It Makes Sense in Context) covered in a sheet and with a toe tag. Why he woke up in that location was never explained.

    Real Life

• Waking up in the morgue does (rarely) happen in existent life. A woman named Allison Burchell, who had a severe class of a rare condition called cataplexy, was mistaken for dead on three divide occasions. It was more common in the past, before advances in medical technology made information technology possible to notice very faint signs of life. This probably led to several people being Buried Alive.
• A actually creepy version of this happened with turn-of-the-century magician Walford Bodie. He was prone to severe seizures, and carried a notation explaining the care that he should exist given if he was found apparently dead. He revived several times later these seizures, but at i point he had a seizure, and the doctor treating him either didn't read the notation, or didn't find information technology, and he was autopsied even though he probably wasn't actually dead.
• Snopes has a practiced listing of these, some of which are hilarious, others horrifying.
• A Venezuelan dude was being examined in the morgue when the doctors noticed he was haemorrhage, and decided to stitch the wound without thinking there was anything odd (even if bleeding is a luxury of living beings). Then he sits up on the table, screaming.
• In Russia, a woman by the proper noun of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanova suffered a fatal middle set on after waking upward during her ain funeral and finding herself surrounded by mourners.
• In 1786, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, afterwards Male monarch Charles Fourteen John of Sweden and Kingdom of norway, but then a sergeant of Louis XVI'southward regular army, suffered from a severe lung disease, was mistaken for dead and but narrowly escaped a premature burial, thank you to the meticulousness of a young surgeon.
• You wake upwardly at the morgue... but no, you lot don't have any superpowers and nix weird happened, yous were but and then ridiculously drunk the paramedics really thought you were dead.
• In the days of sail British sailors who died at sea were sewn up in their hammocks and buried at sea. To forestall them being mistakenly tossed overboard while still alive, a sew together was passed through the victim's nose, with the reaction to the pain supposedly revealing if he was still alive.

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