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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"He grabbed onto some grass and climbed, pulled himself up out of his own grave, and looked at the time''
''On a watch that had stopped six months after the shots that had got him in the box."''|'''Lupe Fiasco''', "The Cool"}}
Bob's come [[Back
Basically, any scene where someone comes back to life inside a coffin and has to dig their way out of the ground. These days, it's pretty much the standard practice for zombies and vampires (or at least the first ones to start spreading the [[The Virus|undead plague]]), but it's especially notable when it happens to normal folks, who seem pretty horrified at the act and certainly weren't expecting to have to do it themselves.
Depending on the character, the reason for doing this varies. Bob may have been thought to have been dead, and was [[Buried Alive]], or perhaps he was [[Back
Note that you shouldn't expect this to be possible in real life: Six feet of dirt are ''heavy''. Also, go to any modern morturary. Anything breaking out of those metal streamlined megaboxes we call coffins these days had better have [[Super Strength]]. Not to mention that even if you ''could'' escape from a box under six feet of dirt somehow, it still wouldn't result in the usual sight of a hand popping out of the ground: instead, the displacement of all that dirt would result in a huge mound popping up ahead of you.
See Also: [[Buried Alive]], [[Back
Compare: [[Waking Up At the Morgue]]
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== Anime
* Sango, from ''[[Inuyasha]]'', after being apparently fatally wounded, is [[Buried Alive]] in one episode. Rather than dying from bloodloss and lack of air, she just gets mad and digs her way out for revenge. With a little help from a magical pain-killer, she then proceeds to hike for miles and then engage in heavy combat and nearly defeat Inuyasha.
* In ''[[MAR|MÄR]]'', Chess Knight Phantom comes back to life in this way; all his Knights gather by his grave to witness his hand burst out of the soil as he resurrects. [[Fridge Logic|One wonders why they buried him, if they knew he was going to resurrect.]]
* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' has [[Career Killers|Shimi]] drag himself from the makeshift grave Gene and co dug him in episode 15.
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Batman|Jason Todd]] did this after his resurrection.
** Batman himself too, at the climax of the ''RIP'' storyline (pictured above).
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* [[Blackest Night|RISE!]]
== Film ==
* The Bride from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' did this in Part 2. She wasn't actually DEAD, but she still [[Chekhov's Skill|one-inch punched]] through the coffin lid and clawed her way out of her own grave. And then walked into a diner across from the graveyard, covered in dirt, with bloody hands, and asked for a glass of water. The clerk's face was priceless...
* ''[[Creepshow]]''. The title zombie in the first segment, "Father's Day".
* Happens to Eric Draven in ''[[The Crow]]'' when the title bird resurrects him.
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* ''[[Dead Snow]]'': Herzog [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWS__Rb4B8 howls a command] (to arise, not to Archvile...) and a whole horde of zombie nazis claw out of the ''snow''.
* Done in ''[[The Brides of Dracula]]'' twice: First time is when Helsing goes to stake a recently bitten village girl. Only to find he's been beaten there by the Baron's human servant, Greta, who helps the now undead girl climb out of her grave and coffin. The second time, Gina, another victim of the Baron, is moved to the horse stable under Helsing's request. He takes too long getting there once again while Marianne, the lead female protagonist, goes over to pay her last respects. She's left alone as the locks suddenly drop from the casket, unbolted, and the now vampiric Gina pushes open the coffin's lid and sits up, smiling her fangs at Marianne.
* [[Older Than Print]]: In medieval Europe, vampires were said to rise from their graves. Often, people took measures to find which bodies had already risen, and to prevent others from doing the same (such as lodging a brick in a corpse's mouth). Vampires were sometimes said to turn into mist and escape from a tiny hole, to explain why the ground hadn't been dug up.▼
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Windle Poons does this in ''[[
** Mentioned in ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'': Towards the end of the book, Vimes orders
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Half]],'' this is the villain's origin. Protagonist Thad Beaumont decides to stop writing under his pseudonym of George Stark, and stages a mock funeral for him that includes a headstone. Stark later manifests himself by digging out of his fake grave.
* ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' busted the ''[[Kill Bill]]'' version of this trope. (Punching to break open the coffin, and digging up through six feet of freshly turned dirt.)
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', {{spoiler|Buffy claws her way out of her own grave in season 6 -- upon her return to the living world, Spike notices the state of her (broken and dirt-stained) hands and realizes from his own vampiric experience that she dug herself out}}.
** Also, almost every vampire.
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** On the other hand, played straight with {{spoiler|Sylar/Nathan}} in season 4, but he had powers to help him out there.
* Happens in the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Boo" where a man who had faked his death with tetradetoxin and was buried alive smashes his way out of a jute coffin and claws his way to the surface where he is mistaken for a zombie.
== Music ==
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* The cover for [[Iron Maiden]]'s ''[http://zuplemento.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/live-after-death-p.jpg Live After Death]'' has [[Mascot]] Eddie doing this after [[Lightning Can Do Anything|being revived with lightning]].
=== Music Videos ===▼
▲== Music Videos ==
* The zombies in [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Thriller''.
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
▲* [[Older Than Print]]: In medieval Europe, vampires were said to rise from their graves. Often, people took measures to find which bodies had already risen, and to prevent others from doing the same (such as lodging a brick in a corpse's mouth). Vampires were sometimes said to turn into mist and escape from a tiny hole, to explain why the ground hadn't been dug up.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Sabbat use this as a recruiting technique when they need more foot soldiers. They abduct a bunch of random humans, turn them into vampires, whack them unconscious with a shovel (hence the term "shovelhead" for Sabbat vampires made this way) and bury them. If any of them are tough enough to make it out, the trauma and blood-starvation has usually made them crazy enough to join the Sabbat.
== Video Games ==
* Possibly the [[Trope Namer]], the old Sega arcade stand and cartridge ''[[Altered Beast]]'' has the player character being reanimated while Zeus appears in the sky with a crystal ball saying, "I command you to rise from your grave and rescue my daughter." The "Rise from your grave" portion is said in audio, and the sound compression in the Genesis/Mega Drive version leads to a [[Narm
* Subverted for some enemies in ''[[MediEvil (1998 video game)|Medievil]]'', at least in the graveyard area. If they aren't already roaming about when you get to them, their whole coffin rises out of the ground and they exit out easily. As far as this troper remembers, no enemy claws themselves out in the normal way. [[A Wizard Did It]] literally.
* In ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' started with you rescued from a shallow grave after being left for dead. When you finally catch up with the man who buried you, one of the possible things you can tell him is that you dug yourself out of the ground to come after him.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|Parodied at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Guybrush wakes up as a [[Ghost Pirate]] in his own grave at the Crossroads' Gateway and believes he is "[[Buried Alive]]... again!"}}
== Web Comics ==
* Happens in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Kevyn was buried in a shallow grave after having his throat ripped out on a primitive world. Fortunately, [[Nanotechnology|his blood-nannies]] managed to heal and revive him.
* {{spoiler|Frans Rayner}} in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.
* In ''[[Horndog]]'', Freddy is shot by a sniper, briefly dies, but returns to life. He is [[Killed Off for Real]], returns as a zombie, and is killed by his roommate, Bob. If that wasn't enough, he is reincarnated as a teenage boy, but is killed by a chupacabra.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' parodied this, with Mayor Adam West cementing over every grave in the cemetery... "You'll thank me when no one eats your brain. You'll thank me."
* The zombies in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Halloween episode "Dial Z for Zombie" do this.
== Real Life ==
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