History Main / ConvenientComa

* Hitomi from ''Anime/{{ICE}}'' winds up in a coma after an accident, which causes her mind to blend with that of a woman in the dystopian future.

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* [[spoiler:Tuck]] in ''Literature/TheSagaOfTuck'' is in a short coma after a vicious criminal assault.
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* Before the events of the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' comic series, Franchise/SpiderMan supporting character Madame Web falls into a coma. Coincidentally, she could've perfectly discovered and revealed that [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus had swapped bodies with the true Spider-Man]] if she had been around.
* During the events of ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', Moonstone got a second of the stone that gave her power. The ''Avengers/Thunderbolts'' miniseries eventually had her DrunkWithPower and going on a destructive rampage that both teams decided to fix by taking the stones from her, even if due to their attachment to her it would bring Moonstone into a coma. Took over three years before the issue she was awakened.

* At the beginning of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' story ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', Lightning Lad has fallen into a coma caused by undue stress messing up with his electrical powers, which in turn altered his brain's nerve impulses. Nevertheless, he awakens when Saturn Girl sends a plea for help telepathically.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'': Saturn Girl spends most of the second season in a coma after being attacked by a fellow psychic, and she wakes up offscreen.

** Also, many episodes include the patient of the week slipping into a coma. This adds the urgency and time limit for House&company to find out what's wrong with them.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the only role Bender was suited for in ''[[SoapWithinAShow All My Circuits]]'' was a comatose robot. On another episode, [[spoiler: Leela goes into a coma after a space wasp sting, although the episode actually follows Leela as she dreams Fry died trying to save her from being stung. Her dream gradually keeps getting stranger, and it seems she's going insane from guilt over Fry's death. The audience isn't shown that Leela was comatose until right before she wakes up.]]

* ''Manga/DGrayMan'' 's Cross Marian seems to be in this boat. In chapter 168 of the manga -episode 1 of D.Gray-Man Hallow, he's in his room, bleeding profusely, and seemingly dead. Following chapter and episode, his body has disappeared, leaving behind his innocence and his mask, which is sporting a bullet hole. His fate is still unknown in the anime, as the series ends before the reveal. But manga-wise, his fate is revealed 53 chapters later. [[spoiler: Finally, the question of his status is answer in recent chapter 222 getting confirmation in recent chapter 222. Cross is shown in Nea's sub-conscious speaking to Allen, who has been there since Nea awakened. After their conversation, Road mentions Allen finally going to the mansion to see Katerina, and that she wants Cross to continue sleeping until then.]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': In the PSP port/remake, you get the option to play as a girl and romance some of the resident guys, discovering HiddenDepths in some of the major male characters that couldn't be explored in the original game or the male path of the PSP version due to them not being [[RelationshipValues social links]]. One of them, [[spoiler: Shinjiro Aragaki]], dies from a gunshot wound if you're playing as a guy (which was the only option in the original and its UpdatedRerelease, ''Persona 3 FES''). However, he's a possible love interest for the female main character, and maxing out his RelationshipValues opens up a short fetch quest where if you complete it, in the scene where he would normally die, he survives the gunshot. But since he dies in every other continuity, in order to keep the plot on the same path he spends the rest of the game hospitalized and in a coma. [[spoiler: If it's a NewGamePlus and you successfully romanced him and saved his life, then he can wake up just in time to come and spend the ending of the game with you, turning it into a different kind of ConvenientComa.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': [[spoiler:Ultra Magnus]], which neatly cleared the stage for [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime to take over]]. The odd with this one is that he's still in it by the end of the series.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': Satoshi is in a coma for almost the entire series. It turns out that [[spoiler: he developed the [[HatePlague Hinamizawa Syndrome]], escalated to Level Five, and needed to be sedated to avoid harming himself/others. And of course they didn't tell his little sister.]]

* ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX'', [[TimeSkip set three years]] after the events of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', ends with Subaru learning that [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWaif Ixpellia]] is only [[ArtificialHuman partially functioning]]]] and that she will soon slip into a coma that will last for maybe ten years... The two of them spend her last day being naturally awake together, [[TearJerker until the latter falls asleep in Subaru's embrace]]. [[spoiler:She ultimately wakes up less than a year later during ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]''.]]

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Asuka came out of her mental breakdown-induced coma just in time to take Unit 02 and kick ass [[spoiler: (then get brutally killed a few minutes afterwards).]]

* In ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', [[spoiler: Princess Asseylum has spent a good part of the second season comatose (around a year and a half in-story), locked inside a tank, after having been shot to almost death.]]

* In the third ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' OVA, Mayo finds the Universe of the Four Gods, and enters the book. Miaka (who is three months pregnant with Taka's [[spoiler: Tamahome's]] baby), meanwhile, falls unconscious and is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, tests are done on Miaka, which show no evidence of her being pregnant or ever having been pregnant, and her wedding ring is missing, too. Inside the book, Mayo has Miaka's wedding ring, and is pregnant (despite having no boyfriend or husband and being, presumably, a virgin.) Miaka remains unconscious until the time is right to help Mayo summon Suzaku again in a MetaphysicalPlace, after which the fetus is returned to her, and her pregnancy continues normally.

* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'' plays this more realistically. In the Epilogue, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Gendo]] fell into a coma after a [[DrivenToSuicide self inflicted]] bullet to the brain. It's mostly convenient for Shinji, as he uses the opportunity to gain some closure while explaining what happened at the end of the story, but it ends with the possibility that the character may never recover.

* In Chapter 33 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Professor Oak has to undergo a minor surgery and thus is left out of comission for an entire day. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, that means Ash's female companions can't contact him for help when Ash is forcibly kidnapped by Sabrina.]]

* In K.J. Taylor's ''Literature/TheFallenMoon'' trilogy, Arenadd makes use of this trope whenever he ‘dies’, frequently allowing him to escape when security is lessened over his dead body. Most notable in [[spoiler: Herbstitt where he actually goes as far as being buried.]]
** Also [[spoiler: after being captured by Erian and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] in Malvern:]]

** Ember's tumour will cause her to fall into one just before she dies. [[spoiler: It is likely that this is when she will complete her quest as the Unraveller to free the Unykorn.]]

* Chapter 23 of ''Literature/FiftyShadesFreed'' has Anastasia in a coma. After hitting her head and suffering from a hairline fracture in the skull and some broken ribs, [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine she's in a coma, despite having no brain-swelling]]. She spends a little over one day in a coma, where she is still lucid enough to hear all sorts of conversations taking place near her perfectly, and then wakes up with no repercussions and the drama of Christian [[spoiler: being angry and unhappy that she got pregnant]] is completely gone.

* In ''Series/TheBlacklist'', Liz enters a coma after sustaining a head injury in "Ian Garvey," then wakes up nearly a year later, apparently no worse for wear. Since she's the main character and the show is told from her perspective, the coma was mostly an excuse to have a year-long timeskip, which allowed the writers to (among other things) age up baby Agnes without invoking SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome, have Samar and Aram [[spoiler: get engaged]] in the finale without making it seem like their relationship moved way too fast, et cetera.

* The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' add on ''Broken Steel'' [[spoiler: has both the player and Sarah Lyons(if she survived)]] fall into a coma for two weeks after [[spoiler: the purifier is activated]].

** Bat, brother to Acro, who was put into a coma after [[spoiler: Regina put pepper on his scarf, causing her lion to sneeze when Bat stuck his head in the lion's mouth. This is why Acro tried to kill her.]] By the end of the game [[spoiler: he hasn't woken up and it's unclear if he ever will.]]
** [[spoiler: Godot/Diego Armando]] was poisoned and sent into a coma for years. He woke up to find that [[spoiler: his love interest Mia had been murdered]] and set out on a crusade against [[spoiler: Phoenix Wright, who he blamed for not protecting her.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair,'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: everyone who apparently "died" in the Neo World Program]] is comatose. It's especially convenient for [[spoiler: AI Junko, who intends to perform a GrandTheftMe on all of them.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', Michelle's coma after inhaling toxic fumes serves as the main plot point, and her friends have to set out on a quest for the herbs that will revive her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', after the show was {{Uncanceled}}, the crew had to be revitalized after a painful entry back to Earth. Something went wrong with Leela, causing her to fall into an irreversible coma, which she naturally wakes up from just before they bury her (though granted, Professor Farnsworth's method of trying to wake her up before declaring his verdict...really left something to be desired).
* In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' Michelle's coma after inhaling toxic fumes serves as the main plot point, and her friends have to set out on a quest for the herbs that will revive her.

* On ''Series/OneTreeHill'', at the end of season 6, Peyton falls into a coma shortly after her wedding to Lucas. Her daughter is delivered via cesarian section.
* Fake Amanda on ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' suffers a physics-defying fall [[RailingKill over the banister]] at Grayson manor during her baby shower. The roughly full-term baby boy is safely delivered via C-section after the less fortunate Fauxmanda is placed in a medically induced coma.
* Meg on ''Series/VeronicaMars.'' Originally was supposed to have died in the season two bus crash/explosion, network meddling led to Meg surviving and for added trauma, pregnant with Veronica's old flame Duncan Kane's child. She ultimately woke up long enough to give birth and warn Duncan and Veronica to not let her family raise the child, before Rob Thomas could finally kill her off via her dropping dead from an sudden aneurysm.

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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' had Susan's main love interest Mike put into a coma. Over six months later, she tentatively hooked up with a man she met at the hospital who's wife had been a coma for many years. Of course, the prominence of this trope has lead viewers to assume that all coma patients wake up eventually, and thus accuse them both of cheating on people who were going to wake up any second. (Although, this being TV and not real life, Mike actually did...)
** Previously, in the first season, Carlos's mother was run over by a car a few minutes after discovering Gabrielle's adultery. After several weeks spent in a coma, dreaming about the moment where she will wake up and tell her son; she suddenly awakes in the middle of the night when the nurse is taking a break; she jumps on her feet, slips, falls down the stairs and [[ShootTheShaggyDog dies]]
* The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor spends the majority of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Christmas Invasion" special completely out of it while aliens are in the process of invading.
* In a ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode, a woman is killed by a bomb mailed to her. Monk's investigation leads him to one of her brothers, who turns out to be in a coma. In fact, Captain Stottlemeyer remembers the incident. The guy deliberately hit his police cruiser and tried to run, only to be blindsided by a truck. After the guy wakes up from his coma, Monk reveals that the guy planned to kill his siblings to get all the inheritance, so he glued the packages with bombs in such a way as to drop after a certain time. His plan was to get arrested for reckless driving and spend the time in jail. The coma was an accident but gave him an ever better alibi.
* The early 90s Canadian TV series ''Series/TheOdyssey'' had a comatose young teen undergoing a sort of internal hero's quest as the basis of the series. After he awoke he slowly regained his physical abilities, progressing from a wheelchair to cane to walking unaided; however he wasn't affected cognitively by either the coma or the initial TBI, the biggest challenge in that area being catching up on two years' missed school.
* Prince Charming aka David Nolan in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' was in one of these in his first appearance in Storybrooke, due to having died before the Dark Curse was activated.
** [[spoiler: Henry]] also goes into one after Regina's poisoned apple turnovers.

* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Kramer watches the first half of a movie about a comatose woman and asks Elaine to pull his plug if he is ever in a coma. When he watches the second half and learns that it's possible to ''wake up'' from a coma, he searches for Elaine to tell her he doesn't want his plug pulled after all, but he gets hit in the head and knocked out before he can find her. Elaine brings him a VCR and a movie to cheer him up while he's in the hospital, but finds him asleep. She unplugs a device from the wall so that she can plug in the VCR, and [[NotWhatItLooksLike Kramer wakes up just in time to see her standing over him with a plug in her hand]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' after the show was {{Uncanceled}}, the crew had to be revitalized after a painful entry back to Earth. Something went wrong with Leela, causing her to fall into an irreversible coma, which she naturally wakes up from just before they bury her (though granted, Professor Farnsworth's method of trying to wake her up before declaring his verdict...really left something to be desired).
* In ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'', Duke is grievously and bloodily wounded by Serpentor's snake staff. He uses his last wheezing gasp to force out the words "Yo... Joe..." before collapsing, at which point Scarlett hilariously exclaims "He's gone into a coma!" He stays in it for the entirety of the movie and comes out at the end offscreen. The original plan had been to kill Duke off, but ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' came out a short time earlier and the writers hastily rewrote the scene to avoid seeming to copy Optimus Prime's death.
** "Hastily" isn't the word: these two lines of dialogue are all that indicates Duke's in a coma. In some releases of the movie, Duke actually dies.