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A character is seen in the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_position:Fetal position|fetal position]] before or after going through some kind of "rebirth": legs replied against the body, head close to the knees and arms crossed in front of the legs.
 
This is of course highly symbolic, this position being one of an unborn child. The character will also often be nude (for reasons like [[Naked On Revival]] or [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]), and sometimes floating (in a void, in a liquid...) to better deliver the analogy with a baby in the mother's womb.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* A sinister example happens in the movie version of ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and Thethe Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]''. After Lord Voldemort (in the shape of a horrific homonculus) is leveled in the mixture that will resurrect him fully, the cauldron explodes and his misshapen body is seen in a fetal position while he's growing back to full power.
* ''[[Demolition Man (Film)|Demolition Man]]'': John Spartan as he's unfrozen from [[Human Popsicle|cryosleep]].
* ''[[Austin Powers (Film)|Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'': The title character as he's awoken from cryosleep, as a parody of ''Demolition Man''.
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* The final shot of the third season of ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]'' has Clark floating in a black void, in the nude, doing this with the Superman Shield logo appearing behind him, after he has agreed to accept his inheritage and become Kal-El.
* The pilot of ''[[John Doe (TV)|John Doe]]'', when the eponymous unnamed protagonist wakes up on Horseshoe Island.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has, at the end of "Daleks in Manhattan", the armor of Dalek Sec opens up to reveal the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] Sec, dressed in a pinstripe suit, in a fetal position. He then unfolds and gets shakily to his feet.
* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'': At the end of the first season, {{spoiler|when Darla comes [[Back From the Dead]] and is in that box, when we first see her, she's curled up in a rather fetal pose.}}
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
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