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The most common outcome of [[And Call Him George]]. Sometimes includes [[How Dare You Die On Me]]. Contrast [[Talking to The Dead]]. If the person is unconscious or comatose and not dead, it's [[Converse With the Unconscious]]. If the person who sees the death snaps completely, it could develop into a case of [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Heiji:''' "''Kazuha...hey...wake up, Kazuha! Kazuha!! KAZUHA!!!''"}}.<br />
Thankfully, {{spoiler|she was just unconscious because of a stun gun and woke up.}} }}
* ''[[
** Toboe catches a hawk to impress a girl. He puts it in her arms, and becomes confused and starts to poke it when it doesn't move saying, "Wake up" Not realizing it's dead until she says so. And it was the girl's pet hawk.
** It happened to him again in his origin story the old lady who care for him when he was a pup was accidentally killed when he jumped on top of her and accidentally cut off her oxygen, he nudges and pulls at her body then he howls in sorrow, poor kid.
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Kamina: Later... buddy...<br />
Simon: What was that bro? (screen goes black) Bro? }}
* In the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' episode "The Locked Bathroom Murder Case" {{spoiler|the killer turns out to be the victim's sister. After discovering that her sister loved her more than she thought, she has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment and tries in vain to wake her long dead sister.}}
* In [[Summer Wars]], {{spoiler|the family reacts to Grandma Sakae's death like this. She dies in her sleep, thus when they discover her, everyone crowds around her bed, desperately crying for her to open her eyes.}}
* [[Shinryaku Ika Musume]] gives us a moment in episode 5, in the last segment, titled "Won't You Keep It?" [[Tear Jerker|Mini-Ika sits on a hospital bed as an aged Eiko passes from this world. She tries to wake her lifelong friend, to no avail]]. Thank goodness it turned out to be [[All Just a Dream]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Abyss]]'', [[Please Wake Up]] meets [[Cluster F
{{quote| '''Virgil Brigman''': Goddamnit, you bitch! You never backed away from anything in your life! Now FIGHT!<br />
Trope to Trope combat. It worked, thanks to a heaping helping of [[Worst Aid|The Miraculous Bitchslap of Life]]. }}
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* In ''[[The Astronaut Farmer]]'', the family's youngest goes to get her grandpa from the living room for dinner. She comes back, saying "Grandpa won't wake up."
* Tony and Gina in the end of ''[[Scarface]]''. Though Tony's world was crashing down, and he'd just done about a kilo of cocaine.
* Non-verbally done in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', where the AT-STs are firing at the Ewoks, and hit a pair dead on...and one of them gets up and starts nudging the other. Considered a [[Narm]] by some viewers, but considering the child-friendly marketing of the Ewoks, also a strong example of [[What Do You Mean
* Subverted in ''[[National Treasure]] 2'': in the prologue, after the Lincoln assassination conspirator kills his father, young Thomas Gates kneels by the body and begs him to "come back", but then immediately afterward cries out that it is unfair.
* One of the last scenes in ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Film)|What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'' has Arnie doing this with {{spoiler|his mother}}.
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* In an episode of [[ER]], Benton's ex-girlfriend Carla died in a car accident. Upon reaching the hospital, he tried to break the news to their 4-year old son, telling him via sign language (the boy is deaf) that "Mommy went to sleep forever". Not understanding, the boy kept signing back to him, "Then wake her up", until Benton finally signed (and said) "Mommy died".
* In the Season 1 finale of ''[[Alphas (TV)|Alphas]]'', Gary doesn't at first realize that {{spoiler|Anna}} is dead. And then he just keeps saying her name and trying to get her to come with him to safety.
* On ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', Opie goes through this in one episode when he shoots his slingshot at a bird. When he realizes he killed it, [[My God, What Have I Done?|he starts crying and begs for it to get up and fly away.]]
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ian's [[Freudian Excuse]] in ''[[Red All Over]]''.
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/02/12/episode-383-spinal-snap/ This] episode of ''[[
{{quote| '''Fighter''': "That's the last mistake you'll ever make, ya stinky pile of bones! Give 'im a dose of ultimate destruction, BM."<br />
[[Beat Panel|*beat*]]<br />
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** Gets a callback with {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD|PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S]] [[Alien Blood|JUST GRUB SAUCE]].}}
* In ''[[Something Positive]]'': {{spoiler|Faye's death. Justified since she died in her sleep and Fred doesn't realize at first that she is dead. It takes him (and the readers) a few panels to realize the sad truth.}}
* [[Strays]] [http://www.straysonline.com/comic/163.htm A grown man's initial reaction after he killed a woman.] Then, such is his [[
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