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The trope that launched a thousand Wild Mass Guesses and Delusion Conclusions, the Dying Dream is easily the most fashionable form of "Shaggy Dog" Story. The beginnings may be different — although these days they usually seem to start with a car crash — but each one ends in the same way, with the reveal that The Protagonist has been dead or dying all along, and that everything that has happened has been some kind of dream, or else a purgatorial cleansing of sins. The absolute end of the story may involve the protagonist dying, which can result in them entering Heaven, Hell, The Nothing After Death or just winking out of existence altogether if the writer doesn't believe in an afterlife (or just wants to leave the question open). Typically, the stories have a protagonist going about what they believe to be their normal lives, but finding "reality" becoming increasingly unhinged, with demons, surreal elements and other oddities making them increasingly baffled and afraid. Note that stories don't count if we know all along that the character is dead/dying, or if the dying dream bit only comes in at the end. Compare Dead All Along and Dead to Begin With. May overlap with Schrödinger's Butterfly. Contrast Your Mind Makes It Real for the belief that dying in a dream kills you off for real. If the character finally manages to reject this fake reality and awaken (in a hospital, morgue, crypt or whatever floats your boat), it is Adventures in Comaland. Not to be confused with Death Seeker, in which one has a desire to die. See also My Life Flashed Before My Eyes, when a character dreams about their life on their deathbed in a twist-free and often humorous fashion. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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The entire game of Velvet Assassin is the Dying Dream of Violette Summers, a young British secret agent during WWII who is dying in a hospital. The surreal, disjointed game missions are actually her memories, and there's even a disturbing "morphine mode" where, if Violette becomes too agitated remembering her missions, a nurse will inject her with morphine and time will slow down in the game world, allowing Violette to escape or come to terms with whatever is frightening her. | |
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The scenario of the PC game Weird Dreams. Work your way through various fantastic scenarios trying to prevent them from just being part of a Dying Dream. | |
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An Elegy for the Still-living explodes into full dream state by the end of the first chapter, but it isn't until later on that the second half of the trope gets fulfilled. | |
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The penultimate episode of Bojack Horseman has BoJack attending a dinner and show at his mother's old house, and reuniting with his deceased family and friends (and Zach Braff). It soon becomes clear that this is a dream he's having while drowning in the pool of his old home, as everyone slowly succumbs to all-encompassing tar as they speak of their own lives and deaths. It's revealed in the final episode that Bojack did manage to survive. | |
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Terranigma plays the credits over the final dream that the protagonist is having, dreaming of being a bird that flies across the world and witnessing its technological progress. | |
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In The Stanley Parable, one of the endings has The Narrator retcon the entire story of the game (including the alternate routes) as the dying fantasy of an office worker with a disappointingly mundane life. | |
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In the finale of Glittermitten Grove, the narration, which has been cheekily (and, obviously, fictitiously) making references to the band Korn, reveals that it was all just the dying dream of the last mammal on Earth, After the End. Whether this is actually the case or not, we leave as an exercise to the reader. | |
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Max's happy ending in the first season finale of Dark Angel turned out to be a Dying Dream as a result of her being shot in the heart by her clone. Don't worry, she got better. | |
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Hellraiser: Inferno and Hellraiser: Hellseeker, with the latter being the more straightforward use of the trope. | |
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Thebe and the Angry Red Eye, the tale of an ill-fated space voyage, includes a variation. The Character Narrator is Thomas, the Sole Survivor of a space tragedy, who realizes that soon he will join his shipmates in death no matter what he does. The night after he decides that Living Is More than Surviving and he must keep exploring until the end, he has a vivid dream about how the astronauts' journey should have ended, with himself and his friends returning to Earth safely and receiving a heroes' welcome. And then, just as Thomas is about to embrace his beloved wife Katie, he wakes up... | |
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A variation in the Zone of the Enders anime: In Idolo, Radium starts to see the world around him as the chapel he planned to marry his just-killed fiancee Dolores (a.k.a. Dolly) in shortly before he dies. In Dolores, i, a not-so dead Radium begins to hallucinate again, imagining the Humongous Mecha battle between Hathor and Dolores (named after Dolly) as a fight between himself and James, who is piloting Dolores, in the same chapel. Dolores' AI appears in the chapel as a child-like version of Dolly, while his own frame's AI appears as an evil version of her. When he is mortally wounded, the real Dolores suddenly appears and embraces him, and when he finally passes on, he sees both Dolores and his friend Viola (who died in the first game) waiting for him. | |
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a story written by the titular Ethan Carter, a young boy whose hobby is writing stories, as he dies trapped in a room of a burning house. He essentially "hires" the Occult Detective from one of his other stories (the Player Character) to solve the mystery of his own death. | |
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The Escapist: Although it's debatable. Frank clearly dies, but it's implied that the escape was real and at the very least Lacey escaped. | |
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Deathwatch is about a British team of soldiers who, a day after a heavy fight, found themselves in a foggy German trench system. They did not find it odd that the German soldiers are happy to see them. They kill all the Germans for fun, except one that a young private saves. They cannot get out of the trenches any way they try, and it becomes alive and takes them one by one. At the end of the film, it turns out they all were dead all along, and the trench was a last chance for them to save their souls. | |
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At the end of I'm Thinking of Ending Things, it's revealed that all the events of the book happened inside Jake's head. He's actually the janitor. A depressed, middle-aged man whose lack of social skills have lead him to a life of depression and loneliness, he commits suicide in a school closet and imagines that he has a girlfriend and is young again as he dies. As the story increases in dread and horror, he gets closer to death before finally expiring at the end. | |
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The Heroes episode "Cold Snap": Matt uses his telepathy to give Daphne a "storybook ending" in Paris as she lay dying in a hospital bed. Episode writer Bryan Fuller said this was an homage to the episode of The Twilight Zone (1959) based on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. | |
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Hypocrites is all about a pastor, sick of his congregation for being a bunch of hypocrites, having a dream in which he reveals all of their hypocrisies. The ending reveals that he died in the church after giving the sermon on the hypocrisy that they all disliked. | |
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Christmas Evil ends with Harry driving his car off a bridge. We than see him in his car flying away. The writers confirmed that the final shot of him flying away in his car was all in his head because he believed he could make his car fly, and he really just drove off the bridge and killed himself, making this his dying dream. | |
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Tales from the Hood: Crazy K is shot by three rival gangsters and arrested by the cops. In prison, he agrees to be put through an experimental therapy where he's shown pictures comparing black gang violence to KKK violence against blacks. Then the people he knows he's murdered show up to ask him why they deserved to die. Either it's a dying dream, or he's already in Hell. | |
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The Last Temptation of Christ: As Jesus is dying on the cross, an angel appears to him and informs him that he's dreaming. He proceeds to wake up in Lazarus's house and discovers that he had dreamt the march into Jerusalem, his trial and crucifixion. All of his disciples had fled during the night, fearing the wrath of the Temple Elder who Jesus had confronted the day before. The angel then begins corrupting him with worldly advice. Jesus heeds Pontius Pilate's advice and returns to Nazareth, knowing that the Temple Elders will lose interest and leave him alone. He weds Mary Magdalene, who is promptly murdered by Saul of Tarsus. He then enters into a group marriage with Lazarus's two sisters and has a score of children. 40 years later he is confronted by his disciples on the day the Second Temple is destroyed. They tell Jesus that he betrayed his mission and them. The angel appears to him again, and reveals himself as the devil: he had been tormenting Jesus with the life he could never have, in revenge for refusing his offer in the dessert. Jesus then wakes up and realizes that it all happened in an instant, and he never left the cross. He then proceeds to die, knowing he accomplished his mission. note This is very different from the movie, in which the devil successfully tempts Jesus and gets him to come down off the cross and flee. Once he realizes his mistake, God sends him back in time to just after the angel appeared, and Jesus chooses to die instead. In the book the Devil never successfully tempted him, he was just torturing him as he died. | |
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The music video for the Imagine Dragons song "I Bet My Life" has two men having a fist fight before one of them flees into the water and goes on an incredible and improbable adventure. Cut to the end of the song and the other man is fishing him out of the water where the man has nearly drowned and clearly would have without the help of the man trying to beat his face in thirty seconds beforehand. | |
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Discussed in Dirty Sympathy, after Edgeworth offers Klavier and Apollo a second chance as his apprentices instead of turning them into the police, Apollo openly wonders if he's imagining everything and is actually dying of his head injury when Kristoph smashed a cup of tea at his head in the beginning of the story or whether Klavier actually exists. Klavier, horrified by such morbid thinking, is quick to reassure him. | |
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The Cracked article Insane Fan Theories That Make Great Movies Better. When discussing the theory that the endings to some movies take place in the main character's imagination, they say they like to think most of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is hallucinated by Indy while slowly dying from radiation poisoning in a lead-lined fridge. | |
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The original Total Recall (1990) already has enough of the it was all a dream theories going around, but some go as far as to say that the entire film was part of a dying brain embolism Arnold is having while in the "Rekall" machine. | |
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Æon Flux: One of the mooks Aeon kills in the pilot has a hallucination in the vein resembling Steamboat Willie. Upon realizing what he is actually seeing is a streak of blood on a wall, a gun floating in the literal lake of blood Aeon has created and an apparently dismembered arm, he sheds a tear of horror. | |
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An early draft of the SCP Foundation article for SCP-4205 details the weeks after an agent saw it (it instantly killed everyone else who saw it). The end revealed the researcher died instantly while typing his report. What was presumably his Dying Dream was somehow put into his report. | |
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Garfield: A famous Halloween story from 1989 has caused a prominent fan theory that the rest of the series is a hallucination experienced by the title character as he starved to death in an empty house. Word of God says otherwise, though. | |
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Flashpoint (1999) has Barry dream of the regular DC universe and its heroes welcoming him as he expends himself saving the world. | |
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The Third Policeman is another oldish example - it was written by Flann O'Brien in 1940 (but not published until 1967), and its protagonist is forced to walk through the same nightmarish dreamscape over and over as punishment for killing a man for his money. On literally the penultimate page, his accomplice joins him. | |
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Likewise, in Repo Men, something like this happens to Remy himself about halfway through the story. | |
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Directly inspired by (and referencing) "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", the story "Strength in Numbers" features a character undergoing a similar dying dream, only for the dream version of himself to recognize what it is and then turn around to try to enter the real world to save the dreamer/itself. | |
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Maconel, in He Was a Quiet Man, was imagining the events of the movie while dying in two of the three endings. | |
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Rob Zombie's commentary for House of 1000 Corpses suggests that the Hope Spot finale when the heroine escapes from Doctor Satan's lair by killing his axe-wielding minion and makes it to a road, only to be recaptured by Spaulding and Otis was really just a dying dream. | |
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Phelous has the end of the Jacob's Ladder review declare everything to be Phelan's dream after dying from a heart attack reviewing Mac and Me, his very first episode. It's implied that almost all of Channel Awesome since November 2008 was part of the dream. Or, depending on how the line is taken, that WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} and WebVideo/SuburbanKnights were real things that happened. The next episode begins with him in the same "dead" position for a bit and then just getting up and introducing Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time like nothing had happened. | |
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Lucille Fletcher's short story, "The Hitch-Hiker". Adapted into three different radio plays for three different shows, each written and starring Orson Welles. The The Twilight Zone (1959) adaptation changed the protagonist's gender to a woman. | |
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Green Lantern: The third Green Lantern Corps Annual had a story titled "Guardian Angel", where a Green Lantern named Shingo-Wol believed that he had overcome his power ring's weakness towards the color yellow to defeat a whole battalion colored yellow, but the last page reveals that he was actually killed and hallucinated his victory during his final moments. | |
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raocow implies this in his "All the Sonics" series: After his playthrough of Rad Mobile ends due to colliding with another car, the description of the very next video has this hidden below the Read More: | |
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The entirety of the game Eternal Sonata is Frederick Chopin's dying dream. The final boss fight is against him as he refuses to accept he'll die when the dream is over. In the Playstation 3 version, if you lose this fight, you get a Nonstandard Game Over where he wakes up, muses about how odd his dream was, and then falls back asleep, presumably dying. | |
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Going Bovine is this, maybe. The book starts as main character Cameron contracts Mad Cow Disease, which slowly causes bacteria to eat holes in his brain, eventually. It's ultimately left ambiguous, given that the book doesn't end upon Cameron's death in the hospital, but it would explain the slowly encroaching mind screw surrounding the journey. | |
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Gen¹³: The second-to-last arc of Adam Warren's run appears to be a Breather Episode after the Cliffhanger ending of their last storyline (which was resolved off-screen). However, as more and more examples of "dream logic" appear, heroine Caitlin Fairchild eventually realizes that she's retreated to a fantasy version of her life in the last few microseconds before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom from the aforementioned cliffhanger vaporizes her and her friends, making way for Chris Claremont's short-lived revamp of the series. | |
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Silent Hill: The bad ending of Silent Hill - a game that is truly as open to multiple interpretations as any novel or film - has a clip after the credits showing the protagonist in his crashed car, apparently dead - suggesting that the whole thing was all a dying dream. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories seems to follow the same ending. Albeit, with an unforeseen twist. In every ending, Harry is having a dying dream... 18 years after he actually died. And despite it being a dying dream, he's apparently really able to interact with real, living people. And it was all in Cheryl's mind. |
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Near the end of GUN×SWORD, Ray is mortally wounded when the Claw's men gun him down. He wakes up in a rocking chair, on the porch of a house by the sea. His wife - long since killed by the Claw - asks him what he was dreaming about. They talk for a while before he joins her, and "Calling You" starts playing... There's no shame in crying. Subverted in that this isn't how the show ends - It's All Just a Dream Ray has as he dies. | |
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Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid: Dying of multiple gunshot wounds and caught by enemy guards, Haesu dies and dreams he is back in Yeonhaeju with Nokju and his family. | |
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In one episode of The Nostalgia Critic, the Critic jokingly claims that Santa Claus: The Movie ends with this revelation, even going as far as to edit the film's Dance Party Ending so that the scene fades to Santa shivering in the cold at the beginning of the film. | |
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The Punisher: Born has this happen for Steve Goodwin, as he's carried off the battlefield in a plane crewed by beautiful stewardesses back to the "real America" he's been dreaming about his whole deployment. Back in the real world, we see a panel of his corpse, having been stabbed to death with a bayonette. | |
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The bad ending of Silent Hill - a game that is truly as open to multiple interpretations as any novel or film - has a clip after the credits showing the protagonist in his crashed car, apparently dead - suggesting that the whole thing was all a dying dream. | |
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The Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Optimus Prime issue #9 has Sideswipe appear to recover and reconcile with his brother Sunstreaker while learning about what has transpired since he was put out of commission. The end of the comic reveals this to only be a simulation constructed for him by Jetfire, Arcee and Sunstreaker to give him closure during his final moments when it became clear that he couldn't recover and was on borrowed time. | |
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Tech Romancer has a particularly dirty example: in the "Wise Duck" storyline (about The Squad in a Humongous Mecha), the New Meat Arvin discovers that his unit has been given orders to destroy a nearby village, and is not happy about it. The player is given the choice to have Arvin follow his commander's orders, or continue to to protest. If he protests, the entire unit finds itself in a bizarre Planet Of The Apes-type world where they have to save the remnants of Humanity from rampaging Super Robots. In the end, however, you find out that it's all Arvin's Dying Dream: He was shot by his commanding officer for disobeying orders. Ironically, had you had gone along, the unit would have deserted, eventually turning on their commanders, and taking on the monster responsible for the whole war. Apparently, the choice is a Secret Test of Character, to see if Arvin can be trusted. | |
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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories seems to follow the same ending. Albeit, with an unforeseen twist. In every ending, Harry is having a dying dream... 18 years after he actually died. And despite it being a dying dream, he's apparently really able to interact with real, living people. And it was all in Cheryl's mind. | |
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The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael: One possible interpretation of the ending, as Ichabod lays dying when reality ceases to exist all around him, he finds himself back with Zoe and their child in the cabin. | |
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The Freddy's Nightmares episode "It's a Miserable Life". Half the episode is from one character's point of view, the other half from another's. | |
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Played with in Mass Effect. If you leave rescuing Liara until last, she will be so delirious that she will observe the unlikelihood of a human Spectre, of all things, coming across the galaxy for her personally and believe your entire rescue mission is one of these, until you can get her medical treatment. | |
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The Invisibles has an issue called "Best Man Fall," which tells a man's life story in a fragmented, stream-of-consciousness structure. Only at the end of the story does the reader discover that the protagonist is an enemy soldier who is shot in the face by the hero in the first issue, and that everything we have seen is him having a flashback in the seconds before he dies. | |
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The ending of Brazil plays out this way, only instead of dying the main character suffers a hallucination before being lobotomized. | |
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What the entire episode "The 12 Days of Christine" from Inside No. 9 turns out to be. Christine meets a man, they move in, get married and have a son together. Among these seemingly normal events, bizarre things keep happening. Christine receives a Valentine's card from her first boyfriend (whom she had when she was twelve and who is actually dead in the present day), eggs get thrown and smashed in her apartment out of nowhere and a strange man in a raincoat keeps appearing to her saying that he's sorry about something. Also, she sees her father after he has died from Alzheimer's. Throughout all of these events, she seemingly lapses in and out of timeframes. In her final holiday, joined by her ex-husband, her long-gone flatmate Fung, her mum and her now healthy and alive dad, she realises that this is her life flashing before her eyes. We suddenly are at a car crash with Christine slumped over her wheel fading out of consciousness. She has crashed because the man with the raincoat stepped out onto the road without looking. Her smashed shopping, including a carton of eggs, lies in her passenger seat. Back at the dinner table, after receiving a hug from her son (who survived the crash and is actually dressed as a nativity play angel) and saying goodbye to her family and friends, the episode ends. | |
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Davion & Davion (Deceased) has Hanse Davion dreaming of his distant ancestor from the twilight years of the Star League, John Davion. But John is oddly insistent that he's the one having the dream. When the dream ends, John is indeed the one who wakes up, only now he's haunted by the ghost of a man who hasn't even been born yet. | |
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18if: Episode 3 is this for Kayo Sugisaki, a girl who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease. In her dream, she meets the protagonist Haruto, who decides to make her last moments as happy as possible. Before dying, she admits her love for him. | |
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In the Black Mirror episode "Playtest", everything from the Whack-A-Mole game to Cooper going home and meeting his mom is one long dying dream as Cooper died not even a second in due to his cell phone interfering with the gaming device and his brain being partially uploaded. | |
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Revealed in Final Fantasy XI, Wings of the Goddess : The Vana'diel you know? Turns out to be a lie: the good guys never actually win the Crystal War, and the war is still ongoing. Oh, and this reality is trying to consume the dream you live in, because if it doesn't, it will disappear. | |
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A popular interpretation for the ending of Taxi Driver. Roger Ebert noted that it was too good of an ending to be true. | |
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Used for this delightful exchange in I, Claudius: | |
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Lost's Series Finale 'reveals that the season 6 "flashsideways timeline" is actually an afterlife created when all of the survivors died; they subsequently proceed to remember everything that happened to them while alive and then move on together. However, everything that happened during the course of the show happened, avoiding this trope. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: D tells the party in his final battle that the dreams they have of themselves dying violently are actually the last moments of their previous incarnations that still linger even after revival. | |
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Of all things, Drawn to Life, though Mike eventually wakes back up to see his sister, the only family he has left after the car accident that killed his parents and put him in a coma when the Raposa willingly sacrifice themselves and their world to save his real self. The revised ending in the series' Compilation Rerelease changes it to a more standard version of Adventures in Comaland, as he fell out of a tree instead. | |
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One Ecco the Dolphin fanfic portrayed Ecco as immortal, living for billions of years and seeing the Earth change and the sun swell over time, until finally he dives down to the bottom of the ocean and sees his old friends from long ago before dying. At the very end it's revealed that he did live a very long time for a dolphin - about three times longer than normal, as opposed to billions of years. He just went very senile in his old age and his dying dream was actually closer to reality than the hallucination he'd been living in. | |
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Steel Ball Run: Before his defeat, Ringo Roadagain briefly envisions a path made of light that he believes hold the true road to victory before getting finished off by Gyro. | |
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Blindspot offers up a deliberately ambiguous series finale, of which a dying dream is one possible interpretation. Central character Jane has been exposed to a deadly drug that is also a hallucinogen, and she defers treatment because she is certain the hallucinations can help her locate a bomb that will expose most of Manhattan to the same substance. And she is right about that; she locates and defuses the bomb. Then she receives the needed treatment, the entire now-decommissioned FBI team moves on, and about a year later they gather with friends and family for a lovely dinner party. But when Jane's husband Kurt mentions how close they came to failure, the viewer sees Jane collapse, dead, immediately after defusing the bomb, having gone untreated for too long. At the dinner party, Jane is seemingly aware of this. So the dinner party could be a dying dream, or her death could be a vision of mortality; if it's a dying dream, it also means that all the characters' storylines and relationships were left unresolved, since those scenes occurred after Jane would have died. Characters in the hallucinations also suggested that they represented events in alternate realities, opening a third possibility, that both events occurred in different realities. | |
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Pacific Rim: The Black: After Brina is mortally wounded helping to save the Boy from the Sisters, Loa and Hayley place her in a Drift-created simulation of them all reaching Sydney and being reunited with the siblings' father. She passes away shortly after this moment occurs in the simulation. | |
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JoJolion: In his last moments, Toru sees a hornet flying away, the closest beings to family and food he ever had. He realizes that it was just a memory as he crumbles away. | |
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Spiritfarer is about a young woman named Stella and her cat acting as a Psychopomp for her passed relatives and some other wandering souls. Towards the end, it becomes apparent that Stella has been Dead All Along, and her ferrying the souls is the last part of her conscious reconciling her experiences in life before passing on fully. | |
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An alternate ending to the manga Pretty Face has the entire story be just a dream before Rando dies in a coma. Thankfully it wasn't chosen as the true ending. And in the last panel, Rando beats the mangaka into a pulp for being so dark. | |
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Yellowjackets: The Season 1 finale: After a bitter confrontation with her BFF Shauna, Jackie stomps out of the cabin and struggles to stay warm. A smiling Shauna comes out and invites her back in. Everything seems fine—the group tells her they love her, and she's offered hot chocolate and a blanket. Then Laura Lee and an unknown man (assumed to be the previous cabin occupant) reassure her that "it isn't so bad." Since those two are deceased, this is her clue that this is not real. Next morning, Shauna finds her buried in the snow. In the Season 2 finale the adult Natalie finds herself alone aboard a plane, with Javi (who died trying to save her from being hunted down) telling her it is not bad, and her younger self showing up. Teen Lottie also appears: |
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In The Boys, Garth Ennis' sendup of traditional caped heroes, Tek-Knight dies in a Heroic Sacrifice that results in him hallucinating how he saves the day. After pushing a woman and her child out of the way of a falling meteorite (one that heralds an Armageddon-style meteor shower) the mortal hero makes an unlikely flight into orbit to personally destroy an enormous asteroid about to smash the Earth. Turns out the initial "meteorite" that he saved the family from was actually a wheelbarrow load of bricks spilled from above by a construction worker and the hero suffered fatal head trauma from said bricks. | |
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In the last episode of Fate/Zero, Kariya Matou staggers into the bug room, close to dying, and rescues Sakura, reuniting her with her sister Rin and mother, and both Rin and Sakura call him 'Daddy'... then cut to Sakura watching his dead body being eaten by the bugs. | |
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Golden Wind: After getting killed by Diavolo, Abbacchio finds himself eating a meal before having a conversation with an officer about his past before realizing the man he's speaking to was his former partner and he is now leaving for the afterlife. | |
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Menace II Society. At the end of the film, Caine is thinking about his life as he lies there dying, and it's at this point that we realize (if you consider this interpretation of the film) that the ENTIRE film we've just seen has been Caine's life passing before his eyes, as he lies dying. | |
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Dark Simpsons: In the "Underwater Wonderland" scene at the end of "Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly", Homer drowns himself in reality after being humiliated by public. | |
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Carnival of Souls predates Jacob's Ladder, however, as does the Oscar-winning French short An Occurrence at Owl Creek, based on the short story by Ambrose Bierce. | |
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In the third season of Hell Girl, Yuzuki has actually been dead the whole time and the past few years have been an illusion, which she only discovers when evidence of her "life" starts disappearing. | |
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Final Fantasy: One Final Fantasy VIII fan theory to explain the second half of the game and the ending is called "Squall's Dead". It postulates that Squall was killed by the ice spear through the chest at the end of disk 1, and the rest of the game is his mind trying to come to terms with it and piece together what was really going on as his body falls to the ground. Word of God says that was never his intention, but he likes the idea and might even use it if they ever do a remake. Revealed in Final Fantasy XI, Wings of the Goddess : The Vana'diel you know? Turns out to be a lie: the good guys never actually win the Crystal War, and the war is still ongoing. Oh, and this reality is trying to consume the dream you live in, because if it doesn't, it will disappear. |
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In some versions of Swan Lake, Siegfried dreams of Odette and her transformation before meeting her. In one variation, this turns out to be foreshadowing a Dying Dream that he has in the finale, helplessly watching Rothbart take Odette as he did in the prologue. | |
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Ebenezer has Jacob Marley hallucinate before and during his death, ending with everyone he spurned chaining him up and dragging him to Hell. | |
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The entirety of Katherine Anne Porter's short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". An old woman, on her deathbed, dreams of when she was young and her groom did not show up for their wedding. | |
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Life on Mars was revealed in the end to be the dream of Sam Tyler as he lies in a coma. In the final episode he finally wakes up, but realises that he preferred his imaginary world to the real one and jumps off a building. He falls, re-enters the dream world, where he apparently remains. Time Dilation Note:The correlation between dream time and real-time (and its relation to the stages of death and post-death) is up to interpretation and is expanded in Ashes to Ashes (2008) (see below). Ashes to Ashes (2008) is Alex's Life on Mars wherein Alex finds out that Sam died in a car crash shortly before she arrived. She hypothesizes that the time he spent in the "dream world" (up to the in-dream crash) was actually the amount of time it took for him to die after he hit the ground in the real world, and that her time in the dream world follows the same principle. As revealed in the finale, the entirety of Season 3 was actually post-death. |
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Discussed in YuyaVision. Kiryu wakes up in the arms of his boyfriends Yusei and Placido and assumes that everything he's witnessed — escaping the Facility, getting recovered, falling in love — is all a horrible dream in his head and he's about to be executed. Yusei and Placido reassure him that it's not and he's safe now. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: In the climax, Yoshikage Kira seems to activate Bites the Dust after getting utterly decimated by Josuke to get away from the protagonists and rewind himself back in time before the whole event, fully convinced that he has beaten them. And then Reimi shows up to reveal that it was all in his head as he laid dying and was shown that he had actually got ran over by an ambulance. Golden Wind: After getting killed by Diavolo, Abbacchio finds himself eating a meal before having a conversation with an officer about his past before realizing the man he's speaking to was his former partner and he is now leaving for the afterlife. Steel Ball Run: Before his defeat, Ringo Roadagain briefly envisions a path made of light that he believes hold the true road to victory before getting finished off by Gyro. JoJolion: In his last moments, Toru sees a hornet flying away, the closest beings to family and food he ever had. He realizes that it was just a memory as he crumbles away. |
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Ashes to Ashes (2008) is Alex's Life on Mars wherein Alex finds out that Sam died in a car crash shortly before she arrived. She hypothesizes that the time he spent in the "dream world" (up to the in-dream crash) was actually the amount of time it took for him to die after he hit the ground in the real world, and that her time in the dream world follows the same principle. As revealed in the finale, the entirety of Season 3 was actually post-death. | |
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Pathologic 2: In The Marble Nest DLC, you play as Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky, who's an unplayable character in the main game (not counting the game's predecessor where he is playable). The DLC is a stand-alone story that takes place on the 10th day of the sand plague outbreak. You, as Daniil Dankovsky try to protect the last uninfected area of the town. At the same time death, quite literally, has an appointment with you in the evening. Talking with some of the children in town reveals that you are in actuality lying in bed, feverish and delirious after having contracted the sand plague yourself. In real life these children, Sticky, Sleepyhead and Shrew are taking care of you. Most dialogue options have you either ignore their claims or you can tell them that you're fine and that they're the delirious ones, not you. There are still a few options to ask for water or thank them for taking such good care of you. As the evening approaches so does your appointment with the personification of death. | |
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Stay: the entire film is Henry's dream as he bleeds out following a car accident which killed his girlfriend and parents. | |
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In the final season of Six Feet Under Nathaniel Fisher Jr. dreamt he was driving to the beach with his brother and father, before finally submerging in the ocean, never resurfacing. | |
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The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories: The events were all based on a dream J.J. was having, while she was in a coma-like condition from her suicide attempt. She manages to wake up, with renewed desire to continue living. | |
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Destiny (Afterandalasia) is a fanfic trilogy where all Disney animated films are the dying dreams of various people. Just before they pass, they're allowed to dream of the perfect life they couldn't have. Considering the prompt, their dreams might also count as an afterlife. | |
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Let There Be Light (2017): The scientific explanation Sol gets of his Near-Death Experience is that it's only a hallucination caused by his brain in stress. Sol's wife dismisses this out of hand, and he soon follows. | |
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Flatliners is about a group of medical students attempting to invoke this via an experiment in which they manually slow their heart rates until they're legally dead for a few seconds, all to learn about the afterlife. Their experiment ends up trapping each of them in their own personal Ironic Hell, where they're forced to face the demons of their greatest mistakes. | |
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Some interpreted The Little Match Girl's vision of her Grandmother as this instead of a Ghostly Visitor. | |
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The 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Episode "Last Christmas" is this trope crossed with Dream Within a Dream for most of its runtime, save for the final few minutes. Clara, four innocent strangers, and the Doctor himself have all become victims of Dream Crabs who have put them to sleep and are slowly consuming their brains, using shared dreams of alternative, happier realities to distract them from their impending demises. Santa Claus — a mental construct of the victims, representing their will to escape — helps them work their way back up through the multiple layers of the dreamworld to reality and life with multiple false climaxes on the way, though one of the strangers does not make it. | |
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Kinetic: This was the original ending for DC Comic's short-lived series, where a hemophiliac gains superpowers after being hit by a truck. The original ending was, described by the writer in a Wizard Magazine article later as, a Downer Ending because the original idea was the boy was killed by being hit by the truck and the whole series was his Dying Dream. | |
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Changeling: The Lost features a "horoscope" of dreams drafted up by a member of the Autumn Court, with each type of dream associated with a planet. The Pluto Dreams are the last dream a person has as they lay dying and their brain shuts down; they're usually filled with revelation, which makes catching one extremely difficult but rather worth while. Of course, some particularly foolhardy Autumn courtiers will attempt to ride a Pluto Dream the "easy" way... | |
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All That Jazz is all about the idea that death and show business go together like peanut butter and jelly, so it's no surprise when it whips one of these out for the final number. Alternatively, like many movies on this list, the entire thing might count. | |
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Secretly, Greatly: After Hae-rang is killed by a grenade and Ryu-hwan jumps off a roof with Hae-jin's bullet-ridden body, we get a flashback of the three spies cleaning anchovies back in the village. They discuss their wants and dreams in life. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: The last scene of Season 4 finale "Farewell Daddy Blues", played as a Shout-Out to Trope Maker "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." Richard Harrow, after a botched hit on Dr. Narcisse leaves him mortally wounded, escapes the city and travels to the country to reunite with all his loved ones. Then his disfigured face suddenly looks normal again and we see his corpse beneath the Atlantic City boardwalk. | |
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Implied to be the case in the film Waking Life, which is rather ironic considering the title. Although there are some digressions to other random figures, much of the film follows the main character (credited only as The Dreamer) who appears to be having a lucid dream, which he spends interacting with people, exploring ideas and philosophies, and occasionally exploiting the power of lucid dreaming. However as time goes by, The Dreamer finds himself apparently unable to wake up, as every time he thinks that he does wake up it just leads him into another level of dreaming, and furthermore, the figures he meets and the scenery of the dream become more foreboding; some speak about themselves as if they are dead and use the past tense when speaking of their lives, others say cryptic and vaguely threatening things about death or dying, and The Dreamer starts to worry that he's dead and not aware of it. The ending can be taken as more evidence that this trope is in play, but ultimately leaves the question unanswered. | |
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Dead End (2003) reveals that the family all died in a car accident. | |
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Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass is the dying dream of a child with cancer, centering around the illness and how it affects the members of his family. | |
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During the Batman: Contagion storyline, Tim Drake has vivid hallucinations of his family while lying dying from the Clench. | |
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Serves as the final twist in the text-based adventure game Shade. No, you're not about to leave your apartment for a trip to a rave in the desert; you've already wandered away from the rave in a drug-induced haze, and are dying of heatstroke and dehydration. | |
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In Little Busters!, it's revealed that the entire world the story takes place in is a dream world constructed by Kyosuke. The Little Busters were all victims of a bus accident, and while most of them are dying, Kyosuke created the dream world for Riki and Rin, the only ones who will survive, as a way for them to become stronger and deal with everyone else's deaths. The dream world itself stems from a ripple effect based on the other Little Busters' desires for Riki and Rin to live. | |
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Counter Side: The "Bottom of the Shade" sidestory has a Framing Device of its protagonist recounting her adventures at a bar. In the end it is shown to be a virtual environment to give her soul some solace long after she was transformed into an undead monster and given a Mercy Kill. | |
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The horror anthology The Hunger (1997) opened its second season with one in "Sanctuary". Eddie Falco is on the run for the murder of Mad Artist Julian Priest's agent and asks the reclusive Julian (David Bowie) for help; Priest decides to make him the subject of an especially grisly piece of performance art. The Reveal is that this is Julian's deathdream. Eddie is actually a manifestation of Julian's regret over living long enough to have lost his touch as an artist, modeled on a rival who committed suicide back in The '70s and thus cemented his reputation without risking the career downturn Julian did. In truth, Julian — driven 'round the bend by outrage and shunning for his increasingly grotesque work — killed his agent and then turned himself into his last work of art, resulting in a slow death, to achieve the immortality he wanted. It works too well, though — rather than passing on into an afterlife, he becomes a ghost who dwells in the abandoned prison that became his home in life, and the narrator who introduces and closes each subsequent episode. | |
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Primal: The heroine is the spirit of a girl lying critically injured in a hospital ICU. Averted in that her injuries were caused by an obviously demonic form in the real world. While it still all may be a dying dream, there's some evidence for a supernatural explanation. | |
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Tsukihime: Shiki experiences a long Dying Dream in Ciel's True Ending, which serves as a foreshadowing of the Far Side of the Moon routes. Fortunately, he survives, in no small degree thanks to his actions within said dream. Also all of the 'sequel' Kagetsu Tohya. This time around, it's not Shiki's Dying Dream, but Len's. |
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The Comic Strip Presents episode "Les Dogs" has a man crashing his car at the very start of the episode; he then goes to a surreal wedding where he seduces the bride. Just as they are about to have sex, her eyes turn into headlights - there is a screeching sound and the film cuts to black. | |
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Spider-Girl: Issue #63 features dying dreams of both Normie Osborne (Harry's son) and The Kingpin, the former being haunted by his grandfather Norman Osborn, the original Green Goblin, while the latter is tormented by his son Richard Fisk. One survives, but you don't find out which until the next issue. It's Normie. | |
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This trope's lightly touched on in the last chapter of The War of the Worlds, as the narrator finds himself haunted by the idea that the Martian defeat and humanity's recovery is his own hallucination, and that the city around him is really still in ruins. That most of the happy ending only started after the narrator had gone temporarily insane makes this Downer Ending interpretation eerily plausible. | |
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Jacob's Ladder is probably the best-known example of this trope, and stars Tim Robbins as a Vietnam vet who eventually discovers that he never made it out of 'Nam and that the demons he keeps seeing are just stripping him of his worldly cares. | |
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To the Moon has the main characters work for a company that creates a Dying Dream for clients on their deathbed that never fulfilled a last wish of life. However, it is not much a dream, but a literal rewriting of the client's memories to give them their contractually-established happy ending they requested. | |
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Emesis Blue: Two of the characters who die (Cyclops and Ludwig) find themselves at a bar owned by Dell Conagher, who has been missing since Dustbowl was lost. After the scene, they are later found to be frozen to death or in a fatal car crash, respectively. | |
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The helicopter scene (where Walker realizes that he has "done this before") hints that Spec Ops: The Line is either this, or an Ironic Hell. | |
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One interpretation of the last 15 minutes of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, because it has no dialogue, is that Hedwig died in the crash and the rest is a dying dream. | |
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Subverted in The Walking Dead (Telltale) Season Two, where Clementine is shot in the chest by Arvo and has a dream about the already deceased Lee, her caretaker and the protagonist from Season One. She doesn't die, though. | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: In the climax, Yoshikage Kira seems to activate Bites the Dust after getting utterly decimated by Josuke to get away from the protagonists and rewind himself back in time before the whole event, fully convinced that he has beaten them. And then Reimi shows up to reveal that it was all in his head as he laid dying and was shown that he had actually got ran over by an ambulance. | |
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One Final Fantasy VIII fan theory to explain the second half of the game and the ending is called "Squall's Dead". It postulates that Squall was killed by the ice spear through the chest at the end of disk 1, and the rest of the game is his mind trying to come to terms with it and piece together what was really going on as his body falls to the ground. Word of God says that was never his intention, but he likes the idea and might even use it if they ever do a remake. | |
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All of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant may or may not be this - the First Chronicle involves three separate serious accidents for Covenant, each of which he survives; the second, he dies, and in the Last Chronicle, it appears that Linden has been shot and killed on Earth. | |
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In the early episodes of How Did This Get Made?, Jason Mantzoukas would often theorize that the movie being discussed is actually an example of this trope, so as to justify some of the frequently outlandish events. He specifically refers to it as a "Jacob's Ladder-type scenario". More recently, if he doesn't theorize this, someone in the audience will do it for him. | |
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In the Creepypasta-inspired tale Ash's Coma, Ash is believed to be having one after being shocked by Pikachu. | |
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Londo gets one in the Babylon 5 episode "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" while he's in a coma, trying to recover from a heart attack. He must soothe his own guilty conscience in a Battle in the Center of the Mind to regain his will to live. | |
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The events of Carlito's Way are all a flashback after Carlito has been shot just as he's about to escape from the Mob. By another crook in retaliation for an unrelated incident. | |
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The music video for Grouplove's "Colours" (which was inspired by "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") | |
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Solid jj: "Breaking Down" is implied to be Walter White's. It starts with Walt telling Jesse that they need to cook meth as typical of him, only for Jesse to explain that they already did and Walt can rest now. After feeling a headache, Walt meets characters who are dead in Breaking Bad; Gus and Mike tells Walt to rest, while Hank offers him a drink. | |
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Kafei from Happy Heroes at the near end of season 14, in the final confrontation against Dark Demon, before dying, she have a dream where she reunited with her former boyfriend. | |
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