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* A magical example: Hei from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses his [[ShockAndAwe electricity-based powers]] to reset his heart after it's been affected by [[MakeMeWannaShout a resonance-disturbing sonic scream]]. Just in case we hadn't figured out that he's a badass yet.

* In a ''Series/MrBean'' sketch, the bumbling character revives someone with the bare cable method, but then accidentally electrocutes him soon after.
* ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has Tetsu use his Lightning Fist attack as a defibrillator to save Ban.
* ''Series/{{ER}}'':
** An episode had a perfectly-conscious character who required cardioversion for atrial tachycardia telling the doctors to use a certain energy level, as he had had the problem a number of times before and 200 joules was always what fixed it before. The doctors follow procedure, shocking the patient multiple times at increasing energy levels, but 200 is still what sets his heart rate to normal.
** Compared to other medical shows, ''ER'' avoided this pretty well, and in fact sometimes put placing accuracy over dramatic license to good use. This is where series creator Michael Crichton's experience as a trained MD came to good use. Not using (or better yet, discontinuing) the defibrillator when a patient goes into asystole ramped up the tension, precisely ''because'' uneducated audiences expect this trope to be true. This leads to [[RealityIsUnrealistic accurate procedural facts giving a misleading implication:]] when "even" the "magical defibrillator" is useless, things are ''really'' going south.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** Inverted. The appearance of defibrillators is a sure sign that the patient is a goner.
** Early in the series, Turk encountered a sleeping patient whose heart monitor leads have fallen off, so Turk assumes he is flatlining and tries to shock him. Although it is used for comedy, as a doctor Turk should have known better than to defibrillate what he thought to be an asystole.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' where, in the episode "Gas", Eddie tries to revive a presumably dead gas-man with some electrical wires. He first lodged them in his chest to no effect, then tries them on his crotch before sticking them in his nostrils. He considers this conclusive proof that he's dead (and probably would be anyway after that). Surprisingly the gas man wakes up later and is only dazed with slight amnesia, despite having been [[AmusingInjuries attacked and brutalized in all manner of ways in an effort to revive him or hide his body]], ''after'' initially being punched and hit with the FryingPanOfDoom dozens of times.
* Used in a sketch on Scottish comedy show ''Series/ChewinTheFat'' where doctors are using defibrillators on a patient to no effect except the usual cliche muscle spasms you would expect. One doctor then suggests "Try his nuts!" at which point they use them on the patient's crotch, which revives him immediately.
* Defibrillators often appear in ''Series/StargateSG1'', but strangely, the patient either always revives on their own before the pads are applied, or just dies anyway. One wonders why they bother keeping them around. Averted once in "Singularity"; [[WhyAmITicking the Goa'uld bomb]] causes Cassie to develop a fairly serious arrhythmia, which is successfully treated by one round of defibrillation. (It doesn't stop the bomb, though.)
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'':
** ZigZagged once, where a defibrillator was actually used to ''stop'' John Sheppard's heart to stop an alien parasite from feeding on him. Once his heart is stopped, the defibrillator is used in an attempt to restart his heart, but it doesn't work and it takes CPR plus medical attention to get Sheppard's heart started again. So while they might get the facts about defibrillators wrong, it's not really treated as a magical heart-fixing button.
** In a later episode, Dr. Keller uses a defibrillator to short out an implanted tracking device. However, she notes how risky it is and using it could kill the subject.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the episode "Ground State," Gwen Raiden not only uses her electrical powers to kill and then revive Gunn, but she also manages to shock Angel's 200-plus-years-dead heart into beating temporarily.
* In the ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "The Enemy Within", Mac [[MacGyvering juryrigs]] a defibrillator out of two candlesticks, a floor mat, and an electrical power cord. The idea was not to reverse fibrillation but to counteract some kind of magnetic field that was causing bubbles to form in the victim's blood... somehow. Whatever that meant, it worked.
* In one episode of ''Series/HolbyCity'', the annoying new anaesthetist is messing around with the defibrillators while in surgery... and shocks himself. He dies, not that many of his colleagues mind too much. Being set in a hospital, there are plenty more boring versions of the Magical Defibrillator.
* Averted in ''Series/TwentyFour''. Jack gets brought back, but at the end of the day, he has trouble sniping due to heart pains.
* Parodied in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''; in a [[StylisticSuck poorly-written]] medical drama written by a pair of lazy writers who can't be bothered doing the research, a doctor bursts into a theatre jabbering about how he's going to use "the electric paddles that can make you better if you're really sick but can make you sort of ill if you're fine!" Moments later, after giving the poor sod a fatal electric shock, he muses that the man "''was'' fine, but now he's poorly from too much electric."
* ''Series/Numb3rs'' averts this all together in the season 5 episode "The Fifth Man". While in the hospital, [[spoiler:Don]]'s heart goes into fibrillation, and the defibrillator is used to restore a normal rhythm. You can actually see the monitor displaying an erratic heartbeat. When [[spoiler:he]] flatlines, they use a syringe filled with a drug to attempt to revive [[spoiler: him]], not the paddles.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]", Zoe uses a defibrillator to knock someone out when they break into a hospital. And that's a contrast to the previous scene, where Simon uses a defibrillator to save a patient who is suffering a heart seizure due to an accidental dosage of two drugs that negatively interact. In the latter incident, it appears to be a case of a lack of heartbeat with no pumping, and the shock is used to restart the heartbeat before a drug is introduced via intravenous injection to return the heart to normal.
* During the opening of one episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Jazz, Will's idiot best friend, stumbles upon a defib and applies it to himself. Cut to him being blown down the corridor.
* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', the title character zaps herself with defibrillators in order to short out a tracer inside her breast, even asking from a doctor if it'll kill her before doing it. It should have stopped her heart temporarily, along with the tracer, but she's up and about in a couple of minutes, max.
* An episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has Hunnicutt building a defibrillator from improvised parts after reading about the device being tested on dogs in a medical journal, though the episode has it used in a realistic fashion.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Medium}}'', Lee is shot by the sheriff in a bathroom and dies. His ghost meets the ghost of his brother, who ridicules him for finally dying. The doctors come in later with the defibrillator, and guess who returns to life?
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had a killer getting a reprieve just as he's flat-lining during a lethal injection execution. They defibrillate him, and he recovers. No mention of all the chemicals still in his system.

** ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'', on the other hand, defies this trope. After getting poisoned by a MonsterOfTheWeek, TheHero Yusuke goes into cardiac arrest; the doctor uses the defribillator, but it doesn't work and [[OurHeroIsDead he actually dies]]. He [[BackFromTheDead comes back to life]] later, but this is attributed to the incredible HealingFactor bestowed upon him by his TransformationTrinket, while the electric jolt from the defribillator seemingly gives him his MidSeasonUpgrade[[note]]This is at least Yusuke's theory, since he felt an electric sensation from using it. It's seemingly confirmed late in the series when another monster deliberately shocks itself in order to gain a similar power-up[[/note]].
* In ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', while trapped in 1947, Allison revives a man using jumper cables hooked up to a car battery.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series starting with ''Next Generation'' had their own {{Technobabble}} version of the Magical Defibrillator, the cortical stimulator, which are two little pads attached to the head. They even do the "clear!" and the body-jerking bits. Most memorable during the death of Tasha Yar, used from then on throughout the franchise.
* They very nearly get it right in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in the Series 3 episode "The Wire". Dr. Bashir tries a number of treatments in an attempt to stabilise the unconscious Garak. One of the treatments he tries is a cardio-stimulator in an attempt to get Garak's dysfunctional heartbeat back under control. His heartbeat does stabilise, but it doesn't magically bring him round or make his health problems go away. A body jerk does accompany the use of the stimulator, but it's a much more subdued and far less dramatic jerk than television usually insists upon.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' has a device that is, apparently, supposed to be a futuristic defibrillator. It looks like a ribcage and is attached to the stretcher. The patient jerks when jolted. However, no wires are shown being attached to the patient.
* ''Series/RoyalPains'' tries to play this more realistically. Hank must revive a woman who has just collapsed and does not have a pulse. He uses the ECG display of his portable defibrillator to see that she has an irregular heartbeat (ie not a flatline) and shocks her twice. When this does not work, he diagnoses that she has a condition where a defibrillator will not work so he administers a potassium injection instead to correct the heartbeat.
* An episode of ''Series/SmallWonder'' had Vicki (a RobotGirl) save a character from a heart attack by shocking him, leading to the immortal line "she jump-started Grandpa!"
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E16Fever Fever]]", doctors defibrillate a flatlined patient. She dies.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree The Power of Three]]", the mysterious cubes send an electrical pulse that stops the hearts of people near them, including [[BizarreAlienBiology one of the Doctor's]]. Amy restarts the Doctor's one stopped heart with a defibrillator, and later the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to reprogram the cubes so they will ''restart'' everyone's heart, essentially Magically Defibrillating a third of the population of the planet by remote control. The victims have all been out for far too long to be revived, too, but the Doctor's magic takes care of that as well.
* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' had one of the earliest regular depictions of this device with the usual Creator/JackWebb emphasis on realism. However, the producer did manage to get a more dramatic style to it with a different version that created a rising tonal sound as it charged up for a shock.
* Played straight in ''Series/{{Continuum}}'', when doctors attempt to defibrillate a flatlined gunshot victim. Subverted when it fails. DoubleSubverted because he's a SuperSoldier who apparently has one ''built-in'', which does work.
* One episode of ''Bettys Diagnose'' has them defibrillate a ''botulism'' patient of all things, complete with shocking the flatline. At least they're shown squirting gel on the pads before rubbing them.

* Remarkably '''averted''' in an episode of ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}''. Lucifer needs to temporarily return to Hell so he tries to get Dr. Linda to stop his heart with the defibrillator. When she refuses out of concern for his safety, Lucifer grabs the paddle and uses it on ''himself'', which does the trick.
** A bit later goes into zigzag - the same trope in a minute of Earth time played straight in attempt reviving him (per original plan), then after understanding that he got stuck in hell loop, to kill his Goddess mother in Charlotte Richards body who is willing to help her child (Mazikeen: "Oops..."), and then straight again to revive both of them.
* Also averted in ''Series/{{Scream Queens|2015}}'' when the Green Meanie attacks Denise with a defibrillator, and [[DisneyDeath nearly kills her in the process]].
* Played laughably straight in an episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', where a handful of doctors use a defibrillator to restart the heart of a corpse that's been dead for days (if not weeks -- it's not made clear how long they've had the body). A corpse that's had [[FrankensteinsMonster all four limbs replaced]] with [[GraveRobbing stolen body parts]], some from cadavers that have been dead for several ''months''.
* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' episode "End of the World". After a Time Tunnel technician suffers a heart attack, Ann uses some ripped-out electrical cables to shock his heart into beating again.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', Barry's heart stops after he's stung by a [[ItMakesSenseInContext robotic bee]], but it turns out that Cisco had a defibrillator built into Barry's suit which he can control remotely. Later in the episode Cisco himself gets stung, only for Barry to revive him with the lightning that speedsters can generate. In a season 8 episode, [[spoiler:Frost flatlines after her battle with Deathstorm. Despite knowing better as a doctor, Caitlin tries to use a defibrillator on her instead of CPR. [[CharacterDeath It doesn't work]].]]
* In ''Series/{{Black Lightning|2018}}'', after Jefferson's heart is stopped by a punch to the chest, his youngest daughter Jennifer accidentally uses her recently manifested electrical powers to shock it into beating again. Then again, metahuman physiology could be different, especially one whose power is absorbing and manipulating electricity.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Awakened". Piper succumbs to Oroya fever and flatlines, so the doctors break out the defibrillator. It ''looks'' like it works, but she's actually saved by Leo, who uses his HealingHands to heal her before her spirit can move on.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': {{Inverted|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E12LeonardBetts Leonard Betts]]"; Scully uses a defibrillator to kill the titular character.
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'' episode 7, "[[Recap/WednesdayS1E7IfYouDontWoeMeByNow If You Don't Woe Me by Now]]", where Uncle Fester is using his electric touch on the wounded Thing to bring him back, although it takes several tries. How that could work exactly on an undead severed hand is anybody's guess.

* In ''VideoGame/TheFinals'', the Defibrillator is one of the equipment items available for the [[SupportPartyMember Medium class]] by default. It can instantly revive teammates after a short charge period, bypassing the lengthy default revive duration.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'', a defibrillator is used in an attempt to revive [[spoiler:Sara, who had just drowned.]] Even disregarding the fact that the paddles are supposed to be applied to bare skin (a somewhat forgivable omission, as ''[=Ever17=]'' is one of the rare {{Visual Novel}}s that ''doesn't'' hold an AO rating), the wisdom of attempting to send an electric current into somebody who is wearing wet clothing is truly to be questioned. [[spoiler:Although, interestingly, it did fail.]]
** This is remedied in the Xbox 360 remake, where in its version of said incident, the characters in question take off the other character's wet shirt first, then use the defibrillator on her bare skin. [[spoiler:It still fails.]]
* The Wii versions of ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' sometimes have defibrillators used in operations. When the EKG/health meter begins to fibrillate, the player is supposed to stop operation and wait for it to pass, if it doesn't, the defibrillator is used. The sound effect implies that the player waits until the patient flat-lines before defibrillating, which is really too late, although this may just be a stylistic choice. If it is a situation where defibrillation is impossible (such as when the heart has bullets lodged in it), the heart is massaged by hand instead.

* Franchise/TheDCU:
** ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': In one issue of ''Power of Shazam'', Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel summon their magical lightning to act as a defibrillator. It's made clear that they have to both be involved, using the opposite {{Transformation Sequence}}s so the lightning is channeled correctly. Because otherwise, exposing a flatlining man to magic lightning could be dangerous.
** In another comic, ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'', their evil counterpart ComicBook/BlackAdam attempts to do something not-so-evil and revive his teammate Atom Smasher with his magic lightning.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** ComicBook/{{Storm}} uses her {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} this way once in ''X-Treme X-Men'', to save the life of Davis Cameron, the future dumb rookie Slipstream.
** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} has done this before too, during one of his [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor good]] weeks.

* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' Dr. Nick once tries to revive a goldfish belonging to Ralph Wiggum using these. The nurses refuse to let him try, but he still has them charged up. Then circumstances involving some poorly place wires and the water inside the goldfish bowl result in Drs Nick and Hibbert getting shocked, along with the goldfish, which is miraculously revived.

-->'''Baymax:''' ''Don't worry. I come equipped with defibrillators.''\\
'''Carl:''' ''What's a defib—GYAOWOWZA!''

* ''WebVideo/ShockTroopers'' takes this premise and runs with it. Out of bullets and need to take down an enemy combatant? Defibrillator. Need to [[BlownAcrossTheRoom blast an opponent two stories into the air]]? Defibrillator. Need to set a knife-wielding mook on fire? Defibrillator. Need to revive a comrade [[spoiler:with about a dozen bullet holes in his chest]]? '''Defibrillator.'''

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', a cutscene taking place directly after ''VideoGame/GroundZeroes'' shows Snake being revived from cardiac arrest by two shocks from a defibrillator, with a round of CPR in between. His pulse stabilizes the moment he's shocked a second time.

* Humorous use on ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' . Dexter is [[ProfessorGuineaPig experimenting on himself]] to try and [[FreakLabAccident give himself superpowers.]] In a ShoutOut to Franchise/SpiderMan, he irradiates a spider so he can be bitten by it. Unfortunately, he kills it and has to bring it back to life via a tiny spider-sized set of defibrillator paddles.

* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', when we go through a montage of the Tune Squad's injuries after getting thrashed by the Monstars, Witch Hazel is seen using a defibrillator on Taz. Since the characters are WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, this is naturally PlayedForLaughs (in an otherwise grim-looking scene), as the result is Taz suddenly sitting up with his body turned into a neon sign that reads "Eat at Joe's". The light and sound the device makes are also atypical of the common, fictional defibrillator (unless the device was running off [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Pikachu]]).

* ''Franchise/TheDCU''

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' uses a very literal version of this trope. [[spoiler:Tony and Scott are tasked to take the Tesseract from the 2012-versions of the Avengers. To create a distraction, Tony has Scott mess with his younger self's arc reactor, inducing a heart attack. Younger Tony immediately collapses and starts writhing and gasping for air, which younger Thor immediately rectifies by placing Mjolnir on Tony's chest and shocking him with lightning. Tony is immediately fine again. ''Somewhat'' justified by the fact that younger Tony ''was'' probably fibrillating, and that even Thor clarified he had no idea if it'd work, but that still doesn't explain why there are no other adverse effects from Scott fucking with the device acting as - among other things - Tony's pacemaker.]]
** ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'': The [[SuperWristGadget Kimoyo beads]] worn by every Wakandan citizen can be used as a defibrilator by placing the bracelet on the chest of the person who needs to be revived. Nakia and Okoye use theirs when Ramonda and Riri Williams drown in a flood. [[spoiler:Riri wakes up after a few jolts, [[SubvertedTrope but Ramonda doesn't]]]].

* In the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/TheAbyss'', it was really an intervention by the [=ETs=] that saved her. The only thing that saves the scene from being completely wrong is the fact that the defibrillator is an early 80s model that wouldn't have had a "quick look" ECG function, and hence the Deep Core crew had no way to tell if the victim was in asystole ([[KilledOffForReal hosed]]) or pulseless VT/VF ([[OnlyMostlyDead recoverable]]). All they knew was that the victim had no pulse.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Literature/{{Changes}}'', Harry Dresden awakens to find Waldo Butters attempting to revive him with a defibrillator. Mere moments later, Butters uses the same defibrillator to stun a hitman.
** Though Harry's body was in a kind of magical slumber while his mind was meeting with Mab and Lea [[spoiler: and becoming the Winter Knight]], and had just been released back into the real world. But his heart had stopped anyway, so maybe it was a combo of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane?

** Early in the series Turk encountered a sleeping patient whose heart monitor leads have fallen off, so Turk assumes he is flatlining and tries to shock him. Although it is used for comedy, as a doctor Turk should have known better than to defibrillate what he thought to be an asystole.

* In the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "The Enemy Within", Mac [[MacGyvering juryrigs]] a defibrillator out of two candlesticks, a floor mat, and an electrical power cord. The idea was not to reverse fibrillation but to counteract some kind of magnetic field that was causing bubbles to form in the victim's blood... somehow. Whatever that meant, it worked.

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' the titular character zaps herself with defibrillators in order to short out a tracer inside her breast, even asking from a doctor if it'll kill her before doing it. It should have stopped her heart temporarily, along with the tracer, but she's up and about in a couple of minutes, max.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Medium}}'' Lee is shot by the sheriff in a bathroom and dies. His ghost meets the ghost of his brother, who ridicules him for finally dying. The doctors come in later with the defibrillator, and guess who returns to life?

* An episode of ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has the heroes kill a civilian on purpose to get a dangerous [[TransformationTrinket Gaia Memory]] out of her body, then restart her heart by using the Electric Blade function of Kamen Rider Accel's ''sword''.

* In ''{{Series/Eureka}}'', while trapped in 1947, Allison revives a man using jumper cables hooked up to a car battery.

* They very nearly get it right in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in the Series 3 episode ''The Wire''. Dr. Bashir tries a number of treatments in an attempt to stabilise the unconscious Garak. One of the treatments he tries is a cardio-stimulator in an attempt to get Garak's dysfunctional heartbeat back under control. His heartbeat does stabilise, but it doesn't magically bring him round or make his health problems go away. A body jerk does accompany the use of the stimulator, but it's a much more subdued and far less dramatic jerk than television usually insists upon.

* ''{{Series/Mythbusters}}'' tested a couple of oddball claims about defibrillators, none of which were at all related to heart function. A defibrillator will cause a nitroglycerin patch to detonate: Busted. Defibrillating will cause burns if the patient wears an underwire bra or nipple rings: plausible under very abnormal circumstances.
* Remarkably '''averted''' in an episode of ''Series/Lucifer2016''. Lucifer needs to temporarily return to Hell so he tries to get Dr. Linda to stop his heart with the defibrillator. When she refuses out of concern for his safety, Lucifer grabs the paddle and uses it on ''himself'' which does the trick.
* Also averted in ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'' when the Green Meanie attacks Denise with a defibrillator, and [[DisneyDeath nearly kills her in the process]].
* Played laughably straight in an episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', where a handful of doctors use a defibrillator to restart the heart of a corpse that's been dead for days (if not weeks - it's not made clear how long they've had the body). A corpse that's had [[FrankensteinsMonster all four limbs replaced]] with [[GraveRobbing stolen body parts]], some from cadavers that have been dead for several ''months''.
* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' episode "End of the World". After a Time Tunnel technician suffers a heart attack, Ann uses some ripped out electrical cables to shock his heart into beating again.
* In an episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry's heart stops after he's stung by a [[ItMakesSenseInContext robotic bee]], but it turns out that Cisco had a defibrillator built into Barry's suit which he can control remotely. Later in the episode Cisco himself gets stung, only for Barry to revive him with the lightning that speedsters can generate. In a season 8 episode, [[spoiler:Frost flatlines after her battle with Deathstorm. Despite knowing better as a doctor, Caitlin tries to use a defibrillator on her instead of CPR. [[CharacterDeath It doesn't work]].]]
* In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', after Jefferson's heart is stopped by a punch to the chest, his youngest daughter Jennifer accidentally uses her recently manifested electrical powers to shock it into beating again. Then again, metahuman physiology could be different, especially one whose power is absorbing and manipulating electricity.
* ''Series/Charmed1998'': {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Awakened". Piper succumbs to Oroya fever and flatlines, so the doctors break out the defibrillator. It ''looks'' like it works, but she's actually saved by Leo, who uses his HealingHands to heal her before her spirit can move on.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando''. In it, the commandos can use what appear to be defibrillators shaped like guns to revive each other almost instantly and regardless of damage received or time incapacitated... however, dialogue reveals that what the paddles actually do is activate cybernetic implants that release bacta, the setting's miracle cure-all.
** To add to that, the commandos are not killed after their health bar runs out, they are simply paralyzed and are unable to move. Possibly a stun mechanism built into the armor to keep the commandos from dying like typical grunts. You only die when all commandos are incapacitated.

* ''VideoGame/Rage2011'' features a defibrillator that can not only revive your character from absolutely anything, but ''produces enough electricity to fatally electrocute nearby enemies.'' Even weirder, it's actually based on nanotech, so they ''could'' have used something that makes more sense, but chose to explicitly identify it as a defibrillator.

* In ''Videogame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', during the first fight with Thor he manages to seemingly kill Kratos [[FissionMailed to the point that the game cuts to the loading screen]]. Thor then declares that the fight's over when ''he'' says it's over and proceeds to resuscitate Kratos with lightning from Mjolnir.

* Use of this in a video game for teammate revival is discussed in a ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-bullshit-video-game-healing-methods/ 7 Video Game Healing Methods Least Likely to Actually Work]]

* ''WebVideo/ShockTroopers'' takes this premise and runs with it. Out of bullets and need to take down an enemy combatant? Defibrillator. Need to [[BlownAcrossTheRoom blast an opponent two stories into the air]]? Defibrillator. Need to set a knife-wielding mook on fire? Defibrillator. Need to revive a comrade [[spoiler:with about a dozen bullet holes in his chest]]? '''Defibrillator.'''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'', Stormy tosses his high-powered hairdryer to a swimming Quinn, shocking him. When Quinn regains consciousness, Stormy tries to revive him by shocking the pool with a defibrillator, knocking out Quinn again.

* Hime from ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' uses a defibrillator offensively to incapacitate a room full of people. The head physician was [[IncrediblyLamePun shocked]] by her clearly impossible action before realizing she had wired her android to the defibrillator to use her as a more effective energy source.

Another common thing dealing with Defibrillators is showing someone rubbing the paddles together to spread the gel. Nowadays adhesive pads are used instead, and rubbing the paddles could ruin the equipment.

* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'': The character of Heartman goes into cardiac arrest every twenty-one minutes, and, after three minutes have passed, he is revived by a defibrillator strapped to his chest. Putting aside the fact that defibrillators are useless on a flatline, the trope is played to an absurd degree by the effectiveness and reliability of the machine: it revives him perfectly with a single jolt, and he is fully conscious immediately, without the need for resuscitation. Additionally, being clinically dead, without a heartbeat, for three minutes would wreak havoc on one's body and brain, and being revived after so long a time would be similarly damaging, yet Heartman suffers no obvious health issues; this latter fact may be justified by the game being set in a world where the realm of the dead has intruded upon the living, and the traditional mechanisms of death are in a state of chaos.

This trope implies that defibrillators work by administering an electric shock to the patient which gets the heart back to doing what it needs to do. Unfortunately, this is not the case; in RealLife, a defibrillator ''stops'' a dysfunctional heart rhythm, and CPR is needed to get the heart doing what it's supposed to do if it doesn't restart on its own. Therefore, shocking an asystolic (flatline) patient will do absolutely nothing of value, which is why a flatlined patient will first be given a round of drugs such as Epinephrine (not with a ShotToTheHeart) to jumpstart the heart into ''any'' kind of activity, which will hopefully then be shockable (not all of these rhythms are).