History Main / LapPillow

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. Homelander does this with Madelyn Stillwell on several occasions. She is both his ParentalSubstitute (having been raised in a laboratory without parents) and lover, so there's an OedipusComplex vibe to this trope.

** The anime has a scene where Kanna is looking for a comfortable place to take a nap. She eventually decides on using [[CoolBigSis Tohru's]] lap, who lovingly [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead strokes her hair]] as she drifts off to sleep.
** Tohru also rests on Kobayashi's lap during the train ride at the end of the hot spring chapter. Kobayashi appears neutral towards it at best and annoyed at worst.

* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' has Asuka giving these regularly to Tomoko, namely whenever she gets sleepy. The former claims it's because she's never had any younger siblings to dote on, but her often [[AmbiguouslyGay flirtacious interactions]] with the latter leave it ambiguous if she really means it, especially since she's aware of what a LoveableSexManiac Tomoko is. Later on, Tomoko returns the favor when she lets Asuka rest her head on her lap after the taller girl gets a nosebleed, and it marks the point in their friendship where they become less formal with each other and start referring to each other by nicknames.

* A not-even-remotely romantic variant in ''Fuzzy Bones'', William Tuning's continuation of Creator/HBeamPiper's Fuzzy series: a small group of Marines get the word that they've about forty minutes to chill before raiding a criminal stronghold, so they lie down in a rough circle, each man using another's stomach as a pillow.

* In the ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' official art, Cattleya lets her little sister Louise use her as this.

** After using Bankai to kill Lille Barro, Kyoraku rests on the lap of [[EmpathicWeapon Katen Kyokotsu]]. [[spoiler:Then Lille reveals he's NotQuiteDead yet.]]

* In ''LightNovel/ISavedTooManyGirlsAndCausedTheApocalypse'', Iris holds Rekka on her lap after transporting him to her ship makes him unconscious.

* Happened in ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'' during a [[NotADate date]], where Shizuku gives one to Natsuru who fell asleep after eating lunch. It is implied that she also [[DudeShesLikeInaComa kissed him at that moment]].

* ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'':
** In an {{OVA}} episode, Kazuma is slowly being killed by a choker tightening around his throat, and the only way for him to get rid of it is for the wish he made when he first put on the choker to be fulfilled. Using this to his advantage, he guilt trips the girls into performing all kinds of humiliating acts for him, one of which includes him laying on Wiz's lap [[ChivalrousPervert with his face buried right between her legs.]]

'''Kazuma:''' [[BlatantLies In my country, lap pillows were often just like this.]]

* In the second episode of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', the Demon Queen awkwardly asks the Hero to rest his head on her lap while they're in front of the fireplace. She apparently researched about human behavior and found that humans like to do this as a way of affection, so she wanted to try it herself. Unusually for this trope, the Hero immediately complies, and even remarks that the Demon Queen's thighs are rather soft and comfortable.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto gives Touma one during the Sisters Arc [[spoiler:after nearly killing him with her ShockAndAwe power when he wouldn't step aside when she was about to fight Accelerator.]]

* In the ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' official art Cattleya lets her little sister Louise use her as this.

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Has Aiz doing this for Bell after she finds him passed out[[spoiler:(He had exhausted himself by overusing a magic spell he had just gotten)]], at Reveria's suggestion, saying anyone would feel honored to get this from her, when Bell wakes up he freaks out due to his crush and inferiority complex directed at her and runs off, surprising Riveria and Aiz. It's played for laughs.

* ''LightNovel/MayoiNekoOverrun'' has it between Kaho and Takumi in episode four. Both of them are naked, after a series of circumstances involving hot springs, a forest trek and Kaho not having any shame.

* Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', being an InnocentFanserviceGirl who spent most of her childhood in the UK, thinks nothing of putting knocked-out Sorata in her lap.

* The implied intimacy of the situation is the reason why Dolores and Mr. Raptor (Both HumongousMecha, mind you) end up going straight to InstantSeiza when a bump during transportation puts them in this position in ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i''. That, and the cockpit sticking out from between Dolores' legs...

* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'': Rogue accidentally touches Kurt/Nightcrawler, activating her powers and draining him and rendering him unconscious. Kitty/Shadowcat is with him, and after sending a psychic [[DistressCall]] to the Professor, rests his unconscious head in her lap while waiting for help to arrive.

* In the FestivalEpisode of ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'', Sakurai wakes up to this after Uzaki accidentally knocks him out with her purse. He has some trouble seeing the fireworks through her GagBoobs, but he doesn't mind.

* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', in "Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu" Nonna tries the EarCleaning variant with Katyusha, but finds that [[GagBoobs her breasts are in the way]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "The Hidden Memory", John Crichton's cellmate Stark comforts him this way after he's been tortured in the Aurora Chair, showing a different side to Stark's manic and paranoid personality.

* ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'': At the end of Miss Piggy's fantasy of herself and the other Muppets as [[Franchise/MuppetBabies babies]], Baby Piggy lies with her head in Baby Kermit's lap, sucking her thumb. CuttingBackToReality, the adult Piggy is revealed to be ActingOutADaydream with her head in Kermit's lap during their carriage ride, also sucking her thumb.

* ''LightNovel/IfHerFlagBreaks'':

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': The protagonist, upon noticing her {{Workaholic}} attendant is overtired, asks him to rest and offers him two options on where to do so. She more or less threatens to have him sleep on the piece of furniture on which she's currently sitting while using her lap as a pillow if he refuses the initial options.

* ''LightNovel/ReZero'': Emilia offers her lap to Subaru after she realizes that he's about to break down from everything he's been through so far.

* ''LightNovel/FailureFrame'': Seras gives one to Mimori after he wears himself out fighting an army of extremely dangerous monsters to protect her.

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* In ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', [[spoiler:this is how Otoya Kurenai spends his final moments. Dying from using the power of Dark Kiva a grand total of three times[[note]]Twice is supposed to be fatal for a human[[/note]], after getting his affairs in order, Otoya passed away peacefully, his head cradled in the lap of his lover Maya.[[/Spoiler]]

* In a flashback scene at the end of an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', it is revealed that Trudy Monk would put her feet up on the coffee table [[note]]the sole reason why that piece of furniture is crooked in an apartment of perfect right angles[[/note]] so Adrian could put his head in her lap.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In the episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E26HeatWave Heat Wave]]", Wheeler provides a platonic one for Gaia, when she's too sick and weak to not only stand, but even ''sit'' on her own.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E5And6OnlyADream Only A Dream]]", [[LikeBrotherAndSister Hawkgirl and Flash]] are sleeping, Flash's head resting on Hawkgirl's lap.

'''Joker:''' (sounding genuinely confused) What makes you say that?