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When William Shakespeare put Juliet into a death-like state in Romeo and Juliet, he was probably using a trope that was already lying around. He may have grabbed it from an old Celtic precursor of Sleeping Beauty. Anyway, this one has some years on it. In this trope, people who are not dead appear to be dead and, like Human Popsicles, do not age. Because they look like that, all kinds of ugly stuff happens, either to them or to the ones they love, up to and including being kissed by princes. As to what causes this condition, there can be a range of causes including drinking potions, eating dodgy food, pricking your finger on sewing equipment, triggering some kind of curse and so forth. When intentional, it's a kind of Faking the Dead or potentially Death Faked for You; the character may be trying to get out of a bad situation or protecting loved ones, so they deliberately invoke this to pretend to die more convincingly. Unfortunately, it may work a little too convincingly, which can lead to unpleasant situations such as being Buried Alive, getting autopsied/embalmed, or their loved ones freaking out from grief. If someone is merely sleeping the sleep of the dead, but life can be discerned, see Deep Sleep. Occasionally overlaps with Angst Coma. Supertrope of King in the Mountain. Related to Disney Death, where the other characters/the audience is led to believe a character has died only for them to turn out to be alive after all, and they frequently overlap. It may lead to a Mistaken Death Confirmation or Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated. Due to this trope often being used as a Plot Twist, beware of unmarked spoilers. |
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Queen of the South: Teresa is shot to death. We see her body in the mortuary. But nothing is as it seems: she faked her own death to escape drug criminals. | |
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In the Miami Vice episode "Tale of the Goat," a voodoo chief uses tetrodotoxin to fake his death so he can be smuggled into Miami. Later, cultists inject Tubbs with the poison, almost killing him. | |
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Hitman: Blood Money. A special drug used originally in mission 3, to get a target out of a rehab clinic without actually killing him. The second time it is used is on 47 himself, courtesy of Diana. Admittedly, she does this to save his life. | |
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Happens at least once to Sloane on Alias, which also featured many other examples of Faking the Dead. | |
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Happens to poor Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (or The Two Towers, if you go by the literature) when Shelob stings him. His death-like state is convincing enough for Sam, at least, until the point when the Orcs take Frodo and explain that he's still alive in Sam's earshot, at which point Sam decides to follow them to the orcs' barracks to get his Big Damn Hero on. | |
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A key piece of the mystery presented in Dark Tales: The Premature Burial (inspired by the Poe story of the same name) is the fact that Victorine had a medical condition that made her prone to this. | |
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On Heroes, Sylar tricks the Company's doctors into removing his restraints by stopping all of his vital signs. | |
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Jane the Virgin: Rose, aka Sin Rostro, gives Jane’s husband (Michael) tetrodotoxin to slow his heart rate down making it seem like he died. She had her personal EMT drivers take him away and went on to blackmail the morgue pathologist to sign his death certificate. There's an emotional funeral. Four year later it’s revealed that Michael is alive. But he has amnesia from electroshock therapy. | |
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Days of Our Lives: Vivian used an herbal medicine to put Carly into a death-like state. It was so convincing that Carly was considered dead and buried. But then she woke up underground in a coffin equipped with lights, an air tank, and a two-way speaker system. Vivian eventually confessed to her nephew, Lawrence, and Carly was rescued just as she was running out of air. Will was strangled, but did not die. Dr Rolf found Will to be unconscious but breathing. He then injected Will with something that would make him appear to be dead. After Lucas and Sami had viewed Will in the morgue, Dr Rolf revived Will with his serum. Will's family unwittingly buried an empty coffin at his funeral. When Will is discovered to be alive, he's suffering from amnesia (a side effect from Dr Rolf's serum). |
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Zabuza Momochi in Naruto. Also Faking the Dead, because Haku used this trope to protect Zabuza from Kakashi and his squad. | |
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Night World: Those who are successfully turned into vampires appear physically dead for the final stage of the transformation, before they revive. James takes advantage of this when he turns Poppy; he makes it seem she died of the terminal pancreatic cancer she was recently diagnosed with so as to keep the Night World a secret while still saving her. Poppy even likens it to Juliet in her tomb; she herself is unconscious and dreaming in this state. James does have some obstacles to overcome; he has to mind control Poppy's parents and the funeral staff into not doing any autopsies or embalming, and ensuring they choose burial over cremation. He also has to sneak into the cemetery late at night to dig up Poppy's coffin with her brother's help. | |
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Starting with the novelization of The Death of Superman, this trope has been used to explain how Superman somehow survived his devastating battle against Doomsday while the rest of the world believed he had died. In the novel, it's explained that Superman had drained so much of his solar power reserves battling Doomsday that he went into something of a "power saver" mode that required just some time in the sun to fix. However, the humans all believed Superman had died-died and put him in a grave that could have made the death permanent had it not been for Project Cadmus. | |
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TekWar tried fooling an AI with the Human Popsicle trick, because it detected the Cryo virus to still be active. Said AI figured they were finally killed by the stronger-than-normal setting of the Cyro tube. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features this as part of an Assassin's Guild quest - the player needs to cut the target with a poisoned dagger to fake his death in front of someone who is trying to kill him for real. | |
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Jack Bauer in the season 4 finale of 24, when he found it necessary to fake his own death in order to prevent being Killed Off for Real. Coupled with his being clinically dead for several minutes during season 2, it inspired the Jack Bauer Fact "Jack Bauer died for his country and lived to tell about it. Twice." | |
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A state that Granny Weatherwax enters in Discworld whenever she's Borrowing. It had caused her enough unnecessary embarrassments (being a very old woman who lives alone) that she now wears a small cardboard sign with the words "I Aten't Dead". | |
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This happens in just about any version of "Snow White" (see here), which is classified as tale type ATU 709, "Snow White", in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. In most versions, she eats a poisoned apple given to her by her Wicked Stepmother that leaves her comatose. Everyone mistakenly thinks she's dead, though luckily they can't bear the thought of burying her and instead craft her a glass coffin to keep watch over her. Depending on which version you read, she wakes up either when the piece of apple is dislodged when the prince accidentally drops her coffin, or when the prince kisses her. | |
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In The Blue Mountains, any man who comes to the princess's castle and doesn't ask what is happening ends up like this. | |
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There's a grand tradition of this in Xena: Warrior Princess, dating all the way back to Xena's "death" by poisoning towards the end of the first season. (Since the trope was still fresh at the time, the resulting mourning process among her friends is thoroughly affecting.) | |
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Cymbeline: Imogen, not feeling well, takes a potion given her by Pisanio, thinking it's a medicine. The potion puts her into a deathlike trance. | |
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Tessa of S.S.D.D. was once mistaken for dead after being shot with a tranquilizer-coated bullet due to her artificial heart not having a pulse. | |
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Father Brown: Happens to Father Brown in "The Wrath of Baron Samedi" when he is drugged with a poison that lowers his heart rate to the point where he appears to be dead. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The spell "Feign Death" makes a willing target appear dead to any mundane or magical examination for a short time. With their vital processes suspended, they have no physical needs and are resistant to most forms of harm, but are immobile and lose their senses of sight and touch. | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The evil queen tricks Snow White into eating an apple dipped in a "Sleeping Death" potion, that causes her to fall into such a deep sleep she'll appear dead, and the only cure is true love's kiss. The queen assumes that the dwarfs will bury Snow White alive due to believing her truly dead, but they instead craft her a glass coffin and keep vigil over her side, enabling the prince to revive her by kissing her. | |
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The Illusionist (2006): Sophie fakes her death as part to trick the police. After a drunken argument, the Prince "kills" Sophie, and after a search, police and Eisenheim find her body in the river. She used fake blood and a potion to appear dead. | |
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Griffith of Berserk blackmails Foss, the leader of the conspiracy to kill him, into placing a drug that does this into his goblet instead of the poison the conspiracy intended to be placed as part of his masterful Batman Gambit that ultimately leads to the Queen and her nobles being locked inside a burning castle to die. | |
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Cameron gets one in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Babylon", in order to get out of a revenge duel to the death. | |
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General Hospital: Jerry orchestrated the abduction and faked death of Robin Scorpio Drake. Patrick finds Robin in a tomb and kisses her. Robin wakes up and reveals she faked her death by taking a drug to slow her heartbeat. | |
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Passions: Sheridan Crane's death was faked (to escape criminals who were pursuing her) and she was buried to continue the ruse. Unfortunately, plans to rescue her immediately were hindered when the criminals in question kidnapped her would-be saviors, leaving her in considerable peril (Sheridan's claustrophobia didn't help matters much). Although she was ultimately rescued at the end of the "day", the scenes played out for over a month. | |
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Romeo and Juliet: Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion to make her look dead. Tragically, Romeo doesn't receive Friar Laurence's message informing him of the "faux" part of her death and commits suicide right before Juliet wakes up. | |
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Happens to poor Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (or Return of the King in the Jackson-films) when Shelob stings him. His death-like state is convincing enough for Sam, at least, until the point when the Orcs take Frodo and explain that he's still alive within Sam's earshot, at which point Sam decides to follow them to get his Big Damn Hero on. | |
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This trope was used to bring Batman's butler Alfred back from the dead after he was supposedly Killed Off for Real in the Silver Age. It turned out he was actually in a deathlike trance before being transformed into the supervillainous Outsider. | |
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Sun, Moon, and Talia is the story that influenced "Sleeping Beauty". In this version, the princess falls asleep after getting a splinter of flax in her finger. Then a king turns up. We'll warn you though, this version isn't nearly as romantic as the later adaptations; the king rapes the unconscious Talia, causing her to become pregnant and give birth to twins. One of the babies sucked upon her finger and managed to suck the splinter out, after which Talia is revived. "Sleeping Beauty" and its adaptations tend to remove that last part. | |
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Lost: Paralyzed by spider bites into a death-like state, a couple are buried alive. They died rich, though, so it wasn't a complete downer. | |
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Prison Break: Michael is forced to work for Poseidon. He fakes his death to protect his family. We see his "corpse" in the season 5 premiere. When Lincoln digs up Michael's grave, his body is gone. | |
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Thriller: an aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée plans to take advantage of his next cataleptic seizure, by marrying him and then making sure he stays in his grave. | |
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Any version of "Sleeping Beauty", which is classified as tale type ATU 410, "Sleeping Beauty", in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index (see here for a list of many), will feature some variation of this. In most versions, the princess pricks her finger on the spindle of spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep, waking after a prince kisses her. | |
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After Wolfram's heart is stopped in Kyo Kara Maoh!, his body is put in a nice little magical life-support box until his fiancé, Yuuri, can defeat the Big Bad and get him going again. It's kind of up to interpretation if he was actually at any point dead or not, but Yuuri certainly has a strong opinion that he wasn't. | |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: When Mrs Norris the cat is found still and unresponsive, it's initially believed she's dead but the Hogwarts staff quickly deduce she's actually Petrified; she's still alive but unable to move or react (it's further indicated those who are Petrified are essentially unconscious too). Several students suffer the same fate and can't be cured until the school's mandrakes have matured enough to be made into a restorative potion. It's revealed a Basilisk is responsible; looking a Basilisk directly in the eye will kill a person or animal, but if someone looks only indirectly (such as via a reflection or through a camera) they just get Petrified instead. | |
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Captain Kirk, from Star Trek: The Original Series, had a rather 'Romeo and Juliet'-esque faux death in "Amok Time", that was caused by the Doctor...of all people. | |
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The Black List: In order to disappear from Reddington's watch, Liz has her ex-boyfriend (who is a doctor) use a certain drug to slow down her heart rate. The drug gave a very convincing illusion that Liz was dead after giving birth to her daughter. There was even a funeral. A few episodes later, Liz is revealed to be alive. | |
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Legacies: Dana is bitten by Arachne, a giant spider. Her body is found in the woods, seemingly dead. A few moments later, she gets up and leaves. Unfortunately, the poison liquified her from the inside. She literally pukes out her guts, vomiting herself to death (for real this time). | |
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John Carter: When John is banished back to Earth, he takes puffer fish toxin that puts him into a death-like sleep to throw the Therns off his trail. | |
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Fraser did this on Due South with an Inuit concoction that slowed his body down. | |
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In the final episode of Super Friends "The Death of Superman", Superman is irradiated with Kryptonite while Firestorm is briefly captured. When Firestorm frees himself and gets to Superman's side, he finds him and fears him dead, which the others feel as well. After his funeral, in which they send him into the sun, the team goes to the Fortress of Solitude and, while they're getting Superman's stuff in order, the Superman Robot there tells them of a trance that Superman can use to slow the radiation poisoning. They realize Superman is in that state when Firestorm realizes he found him like that and the heroes race to rescue Superman before he really does die and Darkseid and his minions invade Earth. | |
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Naked Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has a pill that can induce this state to fool enemies into believing him dead. If you let him go too far before using the revival pill, however, he really will die. | |
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Ophelia: While fleeing an angry mob come to burn her as a witch, Mechtild drank a potion containing snake venom that caused temporary paralysis and collapsed near the edge of the forest. She appeared dead to the mob, who dumped her 'corpse' in the woods, enabling Mechtild to drink the antidote once the effects began to wear off and go into hiding. Ophelia fakes her drowning death by ingesting the same potion, taken from Mechtild's hovel. She looks dead to everyone save Horatio, who had figured out the truth and digs up her coffin after the funeral as she instructed. In Ophelia's case, she took a little too much and needs Horatio to help her get to Mechtild in time to drink the antidote. |
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In Team Fortress 2, the Spy can pull this off regularly with the use of his Dead Ringer watch: if the Spy is killed while the Dead Ringer is active, they will leave behind a fake ragdoll corpse and turn invisible while the kill feed announces their death to the enemy team, allowing them a few seconds to reposition themselves to a safe spot or get behind enemy lines. The only drawbacks are that it cannot be recharged via dispensers or ammo crates, and that turning visible once more produces a very loud noise, giving away their position to anyone standing nearby. Also, since the Dead Ringer eats up half of the cloak meter upon use, it cannot be used consecutively. | |
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In Doctor Who, the Time Lords have the ability to temporarily suspend their life functions, making them appear to be dead. The Doctor does this on more than one occasion and Romana uses this trick to escape from the Daleks' slave mines in "Destiny of the Daleks". | |
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Changeling: The Lost: The rare goblin fruit Myrsina puts the eater into a twelve-hour coma so deathlike it even fools Fate, negating any lifelong Pledges they're bound in. | |
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Silent Witness: At the end of "Trust: Part 1", the forensic pathologists receive what appears to be a dead body of murder victim. However, he was actually just paralysed from pufferfish venom. In the next part, he wakes up and walks right out of the morgue, grabbing a scalpel in the process. It's just as well, because he was due to be autopsied next. | |
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Guybrush Threepwood pulls this off in The Curse of Monkey Island with a combination of alcohol and a homemade hangover cure. Twice. On the same people. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Nick Fury uses a modified form of tetrodotoxin (see the Real Life folder) to suppress his vital signs after he is near-fatally shot by the Winter Soldier, allowing him to continue covertly working against Hydra while they believe their assassination attempt was successful. | |
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In John Carter of Mars' The Master Mind of Mars, Ras Thavas does this to preserve the bodies he swaps (or swaps parts of). When Valla Dia is in danger, Ulysses Paxton resorts to it as the only way to hide her safely. | |
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In Superman Returns: Everyone laments Superman's apparent death. But when Lois and Jason go to see him, there a (very clear) faint heartbeat on the monitor. He hasn't even died! It's visible as Jason and Lois leave the Daily Planet that Perry White has two templates of the front page prepared ahead of time: one announcing Superman's death and the other announcing his recovery. | |
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The immortals of The Madness Season have a technique that allows them to impersonate a walking corpse. The most skilled ones are able to temporarily stop their metabolic functions. The hero's father ultimately died when he went too far in his corpse transformation. Daetrin himself almost wound up doing the same. | |
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The Count of Monte Cristo: the count gives Valentine a pill that makes her appear dead. She's buried in the family crypt. The count then carries her off to the island of Monte Cristo. For a month, Maximilian believes that Valentine is dead. Which causes Maximilian to long for death himself. Monte Cristo then reveals that Valentine is alive. The lovers are reunited. | |
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River and Simon do this in Firefly to get into a hospital. Later, Tracy uses it as a way to run away. | |
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In The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, a djinn put Briar Rose into an eternal sleep. Thomas becomes convinced that he must locate her and awaken her with True Love's Kiss in order to break the Curse on his family bloodline. | |
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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow allows protagonist Alexander to fake his death with a potion that actually does kill him, but then wears off after a few minutes. The in-game purpose of this is to fool a spy into reporting to the Big Bad Vizier in order to lower the security at the castle you inevitably have to infiltrate, but the actual purpose (because the security is the same either way) is to trigger a cutscene in which you can see the genie's lamp, so that you can replace it with a fake one later on. | |
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Arthur did it on Merlin to lure his father into crying the tears of true remorse needed to break the troll magic spell. He did, however, require an antidote to stop the potion he took killing him for real. | |
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After the titular character of The Saga of Darren Shan was turned into a half-vampire Mr. Crepsley faked his death by carefully breaking his neck without severing his spinal cord and drugging him so that he seemed dead. Later digging him out of his grave. | |
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The Arithmancer: Introduced in Chapter 61 of the sequel Lady Archimedes, Hermione invents a spell that can put the victim in a deep coma by intervening with their nervous system regulation, and can't be woken up with anything but the specific counter-curse; its incantation is based on the original Grimms' fairy tale title for Sleeping Beauty. She first uses it on two captured Death Eaters in lieu of executing them (as that would be a war crime in the non-magical world), then casts it on another Death Eater in the sequel Annals of Arithmancy because he's too dangerous to be kept around. | |
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It is rather unclear whether Babylon 5's Captain John J. Sheridan really died on Za'Ha'Dum or if Lorien kept him suspended in a state near death (between tick and tock). Lorien says "He was dying, he was dead" but he has a tendency to be vague. Zack Allen doesn't know anymore, and Michael Garibaldi is skeptical. In either case: And later: |
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