History Main / SickbedSlaying

** Gaara tries this with Rock Lee, pre-HeelFaceTurn, but is stopped by Shikamaru and Naruto. Of course, Lee didn't know any particular information. Gaara was just nuts enough to want him dead. (More specifically, Gaara couldn't comprehend why Gai would risk his own life to protect his protégé, when Gaara's own mentor tried to kill him. Rather than try to confront the fact that other people have love and he doesn't, he decided to remove the reminder.)

* In ''Film/HardBoiled'', that the victim is not unconscious but rather in a plaster cast from tip to toe, which only makes the murder ([[{{Squick}} with a scalpel]]) crueler.

* In the 2010 film of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' starring Creator/PatrickStewart, after the line "Get him surgeons!" the nurses treating the wounded soldier inject him with a lethal poison instead, revealing themselves to be TheWeirdSisters.

* In the 2010 TV version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' starring Creator/PatrickStewart, which [[SettingUpdate moves the location to a 20th-century dictatorship]], the three witches are disguised as hospital nurses. They're first seen "taking care" of the wounded soldier who's just brought news of Macbeth's victory to the king.

[[HeKnowsTooMuch Someone is too close to finding out the]] ''[[HeKnowsTooMuch truth]]''. Or perhaps he or she knows too much [[ForYourOwnGood for their own good]]. For whatever reason (possibly an earlier not-quite-successful murder attempt), this person has been seriously injured or gotten ill and is now lying defenseless in a hospital bed. An assailant slips behind the hospital staff and quietly sneaks into the hospital room with intent of killing the patient. Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they [[BigDamnHeroes don't]].

* Barely averted in ''Anime/AldnoahZero''. [[spoiler: Princess Lemrina]] starts to cut off the life support system that keeps [[spoiler:her comatose older half-sister Princess Asseylum]] alive, so [[spoiler:she can effectively "replace" her]]... but backs off at the last minute and re-starts the system because [[spoiler:even if Asseylum is "her puppet" and at her mercy, they're still sisters]].

* Several villains do this to a police detective in the ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' episode "The Fortunate Ones: MISSING HEARTS".
** This is done all the time! When nobody is able to kill the Major in combat, they try something else and send an assassin to kill her when she gets her cybernetic body replaced and is nothing more than a BrainInAJar for a few minutes. [[spoiler:Then the assassin looks away just long enough for the Laughing Man to [[PassiveRescue plug her back in]]...]]

* In one of the arcs of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', [[spoiler:Satoko]] is killed like this when she is left as the sole survivor of Hinamizawa Disaster.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind,'' when Bruno Bucciarati was a child, his father was shot 7 times by two criminals when he saw them making a drug deal, but he survived and was taken to the hospital. When the men came back to finish the job, Bruno was waiting under his father's hospital bed and killed both of them.
* ''Manga/WolfsRain'': Lady Hamona was left comatose from Paradise sickness, an illness that took her soul, which was caused by contact with her lover, Darcia III, due to his curse. Darcia had an advanced life-support system that kept her body alive, but Hamona's older twin sister, the ruthless and cruel Lady Jaguara, was also in love with Darcia, angry because he chose to love Hamona instead of her, and Jaguara became a YanDere over him. Jaguara grew jealous of her sister, and therefore [[KilledOffscreen killed Hamona while she was sick.]] Darcia was utterly heartbroken.

** Kabuto attempts this with Sasuke. Then Kakashi gets in the way. And we still don't know exactly what Kabuto's motives were.

* In the 14th album of the ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'' series (''Danger to the State'') Irina Svetlanova [[spoiler:disguised as a nurse attempts to do it to the main protagonist]].
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Notorious serial killer PJ Maybe attempts to assassinate a hospitalized Chief Judge Sinfield by using his SexBot companion Inga to infiltrate the hospital room disguised as Judge Hershey. Bonus points in that Sinfield was hospitalized in the first place for narrowly surviving a previous attempt on his life. This one becomes a failure as well when Judge Dredd bumps into the robot and quickly realizes that it's not the real Hershey.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} series ''Strandpiel'' by Creator/AAPessimal, young witch Rebecka Smith-Rhodes runs into one of the ethical dilemmas of being a witch. Specifically, this is the situation where, when dealing with people in the last stages of life, where death is inevitable and the person's last weeks or months on Earth will be ones of pain and indignity, of how the Witch should respond to a request from the family - or more relevantly, from the dying person - concerning not prolonging the end un-necessarily. Visiting Ankh-Morpork, she seeks advice from two older wiser people. One is the Witch who sponsored her and taught her. Having discussed the ethical and moral side with an experienced Witch, she goes to her adoptive Grandmother, who teaches about Poisoning at the Assassins' School. Bekki is clear on why she needs a painless and untraceable poison for times like this. Grandmother Joan accepts she has legitimate and understandable reason for such a drug, and provides both the poison and specialised tuition.

* The ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8309403/16/Iron-Weakened-by-Rust Iron Weakened By Rust]]'' has [[spoiler: Norway]] attempting to do this to [[spoiler:Estonia]] after the latter [[spoiler:[[MisterSeahorse gives birth to a stillborn child.]] ]] Thankfully, he's stopped in time.

* Attempted in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/6896969/1/Once-Upon-A-Rebellion Once Upon a Rebellion]]''. After a rebel mission is sabotaged, a woman who already tried to kill Han Solo once escapes her guards after arrest and tries to kill the injured Han again by strangling him with oxygen tubing. It backfires, though, as Han has enough strength to pull her away and over the bed, and he renders her unconscious. Then,her head catches in the bed rails as he pushes her off of him and her neck breaks, killing her. He's in bad shape and needs more emergency care, but lives.

* The Steve [=McQueen=] thriller ''Film/{{Bullitt}}'' (1968). A hitman sneaks into the hospital with the intent of finishing off his target but is recognized and chased off by Bullitt.
* In ''Film/CarlitosWay'' the odious Dave Kleinfeld is afraid of becoming a victim of this after an assassination attempt, so keeps a gun by his bedside. Unfortunately for him, Carlito has taken the precaution of [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets emptying the gun]]. So when Vinnie Taglialucci enters disguised as a police officer to avenge Kleinfeld's murder of his father and brother, well, [[BoomHeadshot adios, counselor.]]

* Bethany from ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' saves "existence" by doing this.
** ...to [[spoiler:''God'']]

* Barely thwarted in both the first and second ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]]'' films. In the first Michael Corleone arrives to find the police guards have been 'reassigned'. He gets a nurse to move his father's bed to another room, then bluffs the killers by standing outside with Corleone's baker (who came to give flowers to Don Vito) and sliding a hand inside his coat when the carload of killers turn up. The killers assume the guards are still in place and drive off. In the second film the hitman (this time working for Michael Corleone), having [[DeliciousDistraction distracted the nurses with a cake]], is about to press a [[VorpalPillow pillow over the patient's face]] when a squad of Cuban soldiers, who have been tipped off about the hit, march in and shoot him.
** Discussed in Part III when Michael is hospitalized following a diabetic stroke. Vincent Mancini, Connie Corleone, and Al Neri decide to strike against Joey Zasa because they know he would not let Michael survive a hospital stay.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''; [[BigBad Angel Eyes']] EstablishingCharacterMoment has him kill a man and his son in their home, then return to the man who hired him (who's sick in bed) and kill him too because the first victim tried to pay for a counter-hit and Angel Eyes always sees a job through when he's paid.

* In '''Film/GreenForDanger'', Higgins is murdered on the operating table, and the murderer later tries to to do the same to Freddi Linley. In both cases the method is the same: [[spoiler:disguising a cylinder of carbon dioxide as a cylinder of oxygen, so that when the anaesthetist Dr. Barnes administers oxygen to bring the patient round, he is actually giving them pure carbon dioxide, causing them to asphyxiate]].
* Similar thing happens in ''Film/HardBoiled'', only that the victim is not unconscious but rather, in a plaster cast from tip to toe, which only makes the murder ([[{{Squick}} with a scalpel]]) crueler.

* Elle Driver disguises herself as a nurse and attempts to do this to The Bride in the first volume of ''Film/KillBill''. Fortunately, Bill calls at the last minute and cancels the hit. As he puts it, [[EvenEvilHasStandards sneaking around and killing people in their sleep doesn't mesh with their warrior ethic]].

* In Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', it's hinted that Gríma did this to Théodred.

* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak:'' The prisoners kill [[spoiler:Berger, who Connor is questioning about the escape plan]], while he's in the hospital.

* In ''Film/Super8'', done by [[spoiler:Nelec]] to [[spoiler: Woodward]].
* ''Film/{{Telefon}}''. A priest who's been [[ManchurianAgent brainwashed to commit sabotage]] is captured alive. A female KGB agent purchases a nurses' uniform from an on-site outfitters shop, while Creator/CharlesBronson (posing as a doctor) rings up the duty nurse and tells her that another nurse will be replacing her, as she's to report somewhere else. The false nurse then injects air into the IV tube of the patient.

* ''Film/TheTransporter''. The villain visits one of his mooks in hospital and after verifying he didn't talk to the police, wipes his mouth in apparent concern, then shoves the cloth down the man's throat while squeezing his IV bag. He then attaches the heart rate monitor to the man sleeping in the next bed over, so the alarm won't continue sounding.

* The climax of the film ''Film/USMarshals'' sees the corrupt Royce attempt to finish off Sheridan, only to be stopped by Gerard, who has figured out Royce's duplicity.

* ''Literature/AbleTeam'' ("Justice by Fire"). A corrupt FBI agent goes to interview the sole survivor of an Able Team ambush. It turns out he's willing to tell everything about those paying the FBI agent, who notices that the food service workers in the hospital don't have any form of identification. A few hours later, a man dressed as a food service worker presses a pillow over the patient's face.

* [[MeaningfulName Mary Gardner]], the DiscOneFinalBoss of ''[[Literature/IAmNotASerialKiller The Devil's Only Friend]]'' is an angel of death serial killer, using her job as a nurse to hide her kills. She takes it one step farther than the usual-[[WouldHurtAChild she's a pediatric nurse.]] She's an unusual case in that her shtick both covers her ass and makes her more vulnerable. She can pass on any illness she gets, making a hospital a great place to inconspicuously kill, but also is possessed of an incredibly weak immune system, so her "work" makes her sick all the time.
* Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Literature/TheDoorToDecember'' features a hitman sitting in his car, preparing to sneak into a hospital in the middle of the night to whack a certain patient. The next time we see him, [[spoiler: he's still sitting in his car -- with his neck crushed by an unknown assailant.]]
* ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. A soldier who tries to [[UnfriendlyFire frag]] Major Mandella dies on the operating table (after he attempted suicide) under the care of a doctor who has a covert attraction to Mandella. Unfortunately, the suspicious timing of this death offsets the morale problems Mandella avoided by not having the soldier ThrownOutTheAirlock.
* In ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest]]'', TheConspiracy sends a guy to kill [[spoiler:Zalachenko]], who's recuperating in a hospital, as his StupidEvil tendencies have made a horrible mess for them to clean up and has threatened to expose the entire conspiracy.

* Averted in the original novel of ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', an American doctor thinks a Soviet agent attempts to do this to a survivor of the "Alpha" class submarine ''E. S. Politovsky'' by lighting a cigarette next to his oxygen tent. It's just a case of a dumb smoker.

* In ''Literature/MakingMoney'' Moist briefly thinks Vetinari did this to the old and sick Mrs. Lavish to allow Moist to take control of the bank. Vetinari [[TranquilFury does not take the accusation well.]]
* In ''[[Literature/AfricanImmortals My Soul to Keep]]'', David kills an old, dying woman. She was his daughter, and he wanted to see her one last time, but then killed her to keep her from telling anyone that he's still young (because he's immortal). Big mistake... David's tendency to assume that MurderIsTheBestSolution will get him in lots of trouble in this book.

* Happens to [[spoiler:Chien]] in ''[[Literature/TheBraidedPath The Skein of Lament]]''.
* Happens very early in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' to Bran Stark after he witnessed TwinCest between the queen and her brother Jaime Lannister. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it turns out Joffrey arranged it as a MercyKill. He thought it was; nobody else did, and the act triggers a war between the Starks and the Lannisters.]]

** This is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in season eight -- CTU release a news bulletin saying that the very dead [[spoiler:Farhad Hassan]] is alive and has been taken to hospital in the hope that the villain will send one of his men to finish him off, who they can then capture.

** In ''Live Another Day'' [[spoiler: when Simone Al-Hazari is hospitalized, her mother Margot decides that [[YouHaveFailedMe she's made too big a screw-up]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch and doesn't want to risk her spilling anything]], so she sends someone to finish her, but he's quickly dispatched. What does Margot do in response? Send a remote-controlled drone to ''blow up the entire hospital''. Jack and CIA agent Kate Morgan evacuate her in time, but many others aren't as lucky.]]
* Attempted on the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS03E17Forgiving Forgiving]]", though for revenge rather than to silence someone.
* ''Series/TheATeam'', "[[Recap/TheATeamS3E14CupAJoe Cup 'A Joe]]": Slater's men get Dutton to sign over the restaurant by threatening his wife and daughter and then plan to shoot him. Unfortunately for them, it turns out that they weren't talking to Joe Dutton but to Hannibal Smith.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. In "The Streets of Mos Espa", Black Krrsantan tries to assassinate Boba while he's recuperating in his bacta tank.
* On ''Series/TheBorgias,'' Cardinal Sforza is enlisted by his family to do this to Rodrigo after the latter survives being poisoned, but he's interrupted before he gets the chance [[spoiler: and so far he's ended up siding with the Borgias after all]].

** In Season 2, [[spoiler:Antoine Bleuvenne]] tries to smother Commandant Marceau after learning he emerged from his coma. [[spoiler: He fails because Marceau was already dead and the SDPJ was laying a trap.]]
** In Season 3, [[spoiler: Roxanne]] kills [[spoiler:Theo]] by cutting off his ventilator. Given his condition, however, this was a MercyKill.
* ''Series/BreakingBad:'' The Cousins, Leonel and Marco Salamanca, ambush Hank in a parking lot, having been sent there by Gus Fring to avenge the death of Tuco. Hank is tipped off by Gus, and thus, Marco is killed when Hank shoots him in the head, while Leonel survives, although his legs have to be amputated. To keep Leonel from talking, Gus personally brings fried chicken for every cop at the hospital, which serves to distract the cops while Mike sneaks up to Leonel's room and administers a lethal injection. ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' establishes that Mike had also killed Leonel as retaliation since Hector had used the Cousins to threaten Mike's granddaughter years before.

* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. In the first season, an assassin disguised as a nurse administers a lethal poison to the IV of a patient in witness protection. [[spoiler:Moments later, Castle and Beckett appear on-scene to arrest her. She smirks, telling them they're too late, and Castle appears to panic - only to reveal that the IV wasn't connected. "It's almost like we knew you were coming."]]
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': [[spoiler:Spencer Reid]] gets shot in the episode "Angels" and spends most of the following episode "Demons" recovering in the hospital, attended to by Garcia. When a nurse comes in to give post-op antibiotics, they're suspicious because those drugs have already been given, and [[spoiler:Reid]] outright starts to panic when the nurse identifies the drug as one they're allergic to and refuses to stop. Then they see the gun in his waistband, and the "recovery" subplot turns into a "stop the hospital assassin" subplot which culminates in [[spoiler:Garcia shooting him.]]

** Invoked for revenge in "Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael."
** The killer in "Unspoken" considers this with a hospitalized Lindsay, but ultimately doesn't go through with it.

* In an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Carl ends up in a hospital after being hit with a bullet during a shootout. A shooter, seeking revenge for his relative who Carl recently arrested, dresses up as a doctor and sneaks into the hospital room intent on killing Carl. [[spoiler: Steve, who at the time was also a patient and roommates with Carl, sneaks up behind the shooter and knocks him out with the metal squatting pan.]]

%%* Happens in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', episode 1x09

-->'''Tyrion:''' ''POD!'' (Tyrion's loyal squire rushes in) Find Bronn, or [[TheSpymaster Varys]]. Tell them I am here with Maester Pycelle. Tell them, I am ''very'' much alive.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', "The Beantown Bailout Job." [[spoiler: The bank manager]] behind the whole scam is on his way to the hospital to kill the only witness, who's lying in a coma... only to find the Massachusetts State Police waiting for him when he arrives.

* In the 2010 TV version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' starring Creator/PatrickStewart, which moves the location to a 20th-century dictatorship, the three witches are disguised as hospital nurses. They're first seen "taking care" of the wounded soldier who's just brought news of Macbeth's victory to the king.
* After being shot, ''Series/TheMentalist'''s Bosco nearly died this way. Luckily, his ActionGirl friend/co-worker/one true love, Teresa Lisbon manages to stop the shooter. [[spoiler: Poor Bosco dies anyway, but at least he and Lisbon get to have their AnguishedDeclarationOfLove before he does.]]
* [[spoiler: Uther]] in ''{{Series/Merlin 2008}}''. [[spoiler: Morgana]], having [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]], gave him a locket that caused Merlin's healing magic to actually kill him instead.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Drawing Death," the first VictimOfTheWeek is a woman in a coma. The murderer enters her room and shuts off her life support. When the victim wakens and sits up, the murderer finishes the job by shoving a comic book down her throat: choking her to death.

** "Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital" sees Monk go to a hospital for a severe nosebleed. While there, he stumbles onto the murder of a neurosurgeon and determines that he was killed by Dr. Davis Scott, a cardiosurgeon he was to testify against for malpractice. Knowing that Monk is onto him, Dr. Scott attacks him and has him put into a hospital bed under an assumed name, with the false story that he fell down a stairway. He then intends to silence Monk by tricking a day nurse into administering a drug that he's deathly allergic to. Fortunately, Natalie arrives and manages to stop the injection just in time.
** In "Mr. Monk and the Rapper", a notorious rapper is killed when his limo is blown up, and his driver is left in critical condition. When the driver comes out of intensive care, the culprit, who fears that he was seen planting the bomb, goes to the hospital and kills the driver by strangling him with a gold neck chain, planting additional evidence to frame the rapper's rival for the crime.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Buffalo Shuffle", the first VictimOfTheWeek is a cancer patient who is killed with an overdose of heroin as he lies in his hospital bed.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. When DirtyCop Simmons murders Joss Carter, John Reese goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge -- but the rest of Team Machine, knowing Carter would want Simmons brought to justice, stop him, and Carter's partner Fusco gets to beat Simmons into submission and arrest him properly. However, AffablyEvil mob boss Elias was also fond of Carter and believed he owed her a debt for saving his life, so Elias visits Simmons in hospital, tells him how much he sucks, and then has Scarface garrote Simmons to death.
* In ''Series/ThePretender'' Miss Parker is sent to kill [[spoiler: Sydney's twin Jacob]], who was in a persistent vegetative state after [[spoiler:a car [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accident]] caused by him wanting to leave The Centre. She [[FakingTheDead faked his murder]] with Sydney's help.]] In a later episode [[spoiler:this was found out, which lead to sweepers were sent in to [[KilledOffForReal do the job properly]]. They did not arrive on time.]]
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "The Purging of [=CI5=]", Cowley is caught in a bomb explosion and rushed to hospital in a critical state. The assassin dons a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine, [[BavarianFireDrill bluffs his way past the guard at the door]], and tries to inject the patient with a lethal drug only to have his arm grabbed by Cowley who was acting as TheBait to lure him out. [[FakeKillScare Turns out Cowley's injuries weren't serious]] as he was able to get out of the building before it blew up.

* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', George is in the hospital and keeps going on about how he doesn't want to suffer and just be sick forever so he asks Jerry, that if it comes to that, to put him out of his misery. Jerry says "Like this?", grabs a pillow, and starts suffocating him while he struggles.

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a killer intending to finish off Quark visits him with a bunch of flowers, which he shoves against the Bajoran deputy's chest, then removes to reveal he's stabbed the man with a knife. He then uses a VorpalPillow to finish him off, only to be interrupted by Quark's brother who starts screaming; Odo rushes in with more deputies and arrests the killer.
-->'''Odo:''' It's over Rom, you're a hero! You saved your brother's life.
-->''(Rom starts to smile, then realises he's going to lose the bar if Quark lives and starts screaming again. On his not-so-deathbed, Quark smiles.)''
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. Done as BookEnds in "Stardust City Rag". In the opening flashback scene, Seven of Nine has to MercyKill [[spoiler:Icheb]] who has been StrappedToAnOperatingTable and [[OrganTheft vivisected for his Borg components]]. At the end of the episode [[spoiler:Bruce Maddox]] has been rescued from criminals, but he's suffering from severe internal injuries, so he's taken to the ''La Sirena'''s sickbay. [[spoiler:His former lover Jurati is revealed to be TheMole when she turns off his bio-bed]] and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone watches in horror]] as he dies of internal hemorrhaging.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
** An overt version is committed in "State of Flux". There's an unconscious Kazon in Voyager's sickbay who may know the identity of TheMole sending information to the Kazon-Nistrim. Their leader comes on board to see his injured man. Janeway is having a quiet word with the Doctor, asking him to delay any demand for the man to be removed, when the Kazon leader jabs him with a needle-ring containing a fatal nerve toxin. All Janeway can do is throw them off her ship.
** In "Fury", Kes has turned evil and traveled back in time to when her younger self was the nurse on Voyager. This proves handy when Tuvok starts to [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling sense that something is wrong]]. After Tuvok is brought to Sickbay after collapsing, Kes dials up the setting on his cortical stimulator, sending him into shock. He does recover, but not soon enough to interfere in events.
** And another one, overt to the point of parody, in "Author, Author." In the Doctor's holo-novel, he's tending to a critically-injured crewman when Captain "Jenkins" comes in with a bridge officer who has a concussion. The Captain demands priority treatment for her officer, and ''[[TriageTyrant shoots]]'' the poor RedShirt when the Doctor protests.

* On ''Series/Tyrant2014'', [[spoiler:Barry]] reluctantly kills [[spoiler:Sheikh Rashid, who's been beaten into a coma by Jamal]], as he lays in a hospital bed because he can see no other way to keep the diplomatic talks going when one of the negotiating parties is represented by a man in a coma.
* ''Series/TheXFiles''. After A.D. Skinner is shot Scully thinks this has happened to him when she finds his room empty and the police guards missing. It turns out he's being transferred to another hospital. She decides to accompany Skinner there in the ambulance, which is just as well as that's where the attempted murder occurs.
** And Skinner himself attempts to do this to the comatose Mulder in "Deadalive", thinking he is saving Scully's unborn child by doing so. It fails but ends up saving Mulder from a life of alien replication.

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Fungi From Yuggoth''.
** In the playtesting of the first adventure "The Dreamer", the {{PC}}s entered Paul [=LeMond=]'s hospital room to find the cultist Clarence Rodgers strangling him. Rogers had infiltrated the hospital dressed as an orderly.
** ''The Worm That Walks''. While a {{PC}} is in the hospital Mr Edwin sends the title monster to murder him by ripping him to shreds. The monster will masquerade as one of the {{PC}}'s colleagues until it can attack him.

* ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' has the killing of Magnifi who was dying in hospital from liver cancer and diabetes when his murderer apparently came in and shot through the head. Subverted in that he ordered his own killing. [[spoiler: And further subverted in that neither of the people who he ordered to kill him could bring themselves to do it, and so he committed suicide.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' you must pretend to be a doctor to speak to someone, however an assassin does exactly the same thing, invoking this trope. Nico lampshades this.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': Attempted by the mastermind when Naegi develops a severe fever during Chapter 5, in an attempt to [[spoiler:kill someone and frame Kyoko, so they would have grounds to execute her]]. Luckily, [[BigDamnHeroes Kyoko foils the attempt]].

* Any ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' level that takes place in a Hospital or medical bay:

* Considered in the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'' game by Nanjo at upon discovering that [[spoiler:their friend Maki is trapped in Kandori's DVA system, which has been the cause of all their problems]]. [[YouBastard Mark decks him for it]].

* ''VideoGame/Tekken4'': After King II beats Craig Marduk to the point of hospitalizing him, he comes to the hospital to try and kill him as revenge for killing his mentor. It's only when he sees a picture of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Marduk with his parents]] does he realize that revenge is the not answer and refrains from killing him.

* It's revealed near the end of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' that James Sunderland killed [[spoiler: his wife, Mary via VorpalPillow. Due to Mary having an unnamed illness that had given her only a short time to live, she constantly lashed out at James while simultaneously begging him to not leave her, causing his negative feelings towards her to increase until he couldn't take it anymore.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'', [[spoiler:"Uncle" Po, TheDon of the Sun On Yee]] mysteriously dies in the hospital as he is recovering from gunshot wounds. [[spoiler:In the end, it was revealed that it was [[DirtyCop Superintendent Thomas Pendrew]] who murdered him by injecting lethal chemicals into his IV-bag in an attempt to cover up the fact that he and Po had been in cahoots with each other in the past.]]

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Gil has to defend his injured father Klaus, current ruler of much of Europe, from waves of assassins. The first attacker poses as a nurse and tries to poison the patient, and the attempts only escalate from there, up to a giant mechanical ant [[ThereWasADoor smashing in through a wall.]] Eventually, the entire hospital gets destroyed, but Klaus still survives.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "I Am The Night", Commissioner Gordon is badly wounded in a shootout. The mobster who shot him (who wants revenge on Gordon for sending him to prison) goes to the hospital to finish the job, but [[BigDamnHeroes Batman stops him]].
** During the episode "The Call" in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', the Justice League's traitor is about to finish off a comatose Micron (the only casualty of the traitor's murder attempts on the League) by sabotaging his stasis field before the rest of the League come in and stop him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': While fleeing from the Autobots, Decepticon deep cover Shockwave happens upon the medlab where Autobot Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus is on life support [[note]] Magnus had been gravely injured after Shockwave himself attacked him when his cover as [[MoleInCharge Head of Intelligence Longarm Prime]] was on the verge of being blown [[/note]]. Deciding to take advantage of the opportunity to finish the job, Shockwave prepares to strike Magnus down with his own Magnus Hammer, the symbol of his [[{{Irony}} position of Magnus]]. [[BigDamnHeroes Luckily]], Ratchet is arrives in time to use his magnetic powers to grab the Hammer mid-swing.