Not looking for a story. I'm asking if anyone has an idea for an Accident where one person ends up in a coma, and someone else is made to blame?
Another possibility would be political assassination attempt (not kill the politician but make him look bad)?
Any suggestions would be appreciated 👍
Small plane crash?
ETA: Author's computer explodes (electrical surge?) and the author ends up in a comma. :)
the author ends up in a comma
At least the author didn't come to a full stop ;-)
But, if it's a female author, a period is possible. ;-)
HM.
I'd appreciate a clarification of what you mean by an accident. Is it just a genuine 'Act of God' type situation that nobody could have foreseen or might it include something like a car accident where someone is almost always culpable?
AJ
Natural disaster? No.
Something that could have been prevented but happened anyway.
In this particular case, the accident is caused by someone who wants to use the situation to make my protagonist look ill-equipped for his position. Most of the core plot revolves around the protagonist investigating the accident and the person responsible trying to usurp his power.
What is the setting of this story? Modern world, Fantasy, or something else? That will play a significant role in what accident is plausible.
Fall down a flight of stairs.
Fall off of a bike.
Car accident.
Mugged by a gang.
Failure of exercise equipment.
The list of potential accidents and not so accidents is a long one.
where one person ends up in a coma, and someone else is made to blame?
Medical error by a doctor or surgeon or anesthesiologist. Or a reaction to a drug and the pharmaceutical company is blamed.
Personally i think we need to hear more about the characters involved before we can give you some good suggestions?
Like why can't this character have his image tarnished?
How wide of an audience do you want this character to be made to look "bad" to?
Otherwise this can go in an infinite amount of directions....
ear more about the characters involved before we can give you some good suggestions?
Like why can't this character have his image tarnished?
How wide of an audience do you want this character to be made to look "bad" to?
Otherwise this can go in an infinite amount of directions....
One thing you should do is not have the person suddenly "wake up" from the coma. That doesn't happen in real life: it's a long process coming out of the coma.
You've just ruined my enjoyment of 'Kill Bill' :-(
I googled "suddenly woke up from a coma". It does happen, although I don't know how common it is.
AJ
suddenly woke up from a coma
Of course it depends on the length of the comatose state, a few days, weeks, months or years. A few days might mean that the person suffered a mild TBI with a quick recovery: longer than that and you are looking a pretty severe brain damage. In those cases, what they mean by "suddenly" is over a period of weeks or in extremely unusual cases days. And those people still suffer from both post and pre injury amnesia and other cognitive, neurological and muscular deficits.
You've just ruined my enjoyment of 'Kill Bill' :-(
Relax. 'Kill Bill' wasn't a documentary. Back in the real world 'California Mountain Snake' still as both eyes...
Also. Did you know that according to IMDb, 'Kill Bill 3' has been announced?
Also. Did you know that according to IMDb, 'Kill Bill 3' has been announced?
O.O holy shit....
are you kidding me?
Also. Did you know that according to IMDb, 'Kill Bill 3' has been announced?
O.O holy shit....
are you kidding me?
Tarantino has announced that he was planning on making a Kill Bill 3 for decades. He even announced a release date for 2014 that never happened.
"wake up" from the coma
It is faster to recover from a period than a comma. To recover something from a colon you need to give a shit. A semicolon may be a pun, punctuation.
"There are 14 punctuation marks that are used in the English language. They are: the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophe, quotation mark, and ellipsis."
I will need help to pun about all 14. If a father or mother is getting a doctorate, they will need to write a parent thesis. Virgins have hyphens. A dentist can give your teeth braces. If you win a trophy on a military post you may have a post trophe.
Well to put my own two cents in on this, I'm not going to get into arguments about comas I still like to think that the beginning of Kill Bill vol 1 actually does work if you consider every visit she gets in the hospital is in itself a change in time frame....
Another possibility would be political assassination attempt (not kill the politician but make him look bad)?
Instead of yet another assassination device, how about your villain paying a young lady to ply the hero with drink, get him to his hotel room so incriminating pictures can be taken whilst he is sufficiently under the influence so as to appear both aware and consenting.
The young lady, due to eagerness or inexperience, came prepared with several 'props', one of which she uses carelessly which results in a trip to A&E to get it removed. It isn't a simple removal and so, maybe because of the drug she gave him that nobody is aware of, whilst in surgery he slips into a coma.
So photos exist that would damage his image, run for election or whatever, but using them makes that person a shoe in for manslaughter, etc etc
You could at a twist with the young lady's identity, maybe the wild child of the person he is standing against?
Ok, tea break over, I'm outta here.
:)
one of which she uses carelessly which results in a trip to A&E to get it removed.
How would a trip to the Arts & Entertainment network help with getting it removed?
Over the last several years I've had a number of trips to the ER (emergency room) or to an urgent care walk-in clinic, but from a medical perspective, A&E doesn't mean anything to me.
A&E doesn't mean anything to me.
Hopefully it never will.
(In the UK an emergency room is one provided in emergencies, such as your own house having fallen off a cliff. It could also be space in a hostel.)
Again, I hope you never need those either.
@joyR
one of which she uses carelessly which results in a trip to A&E to get it removed.
@Dominions Son
How would a trip to the Arts & Entertainment network help with getting it removed?
Over the last several years I've had a number of trips to the ER (emergency room) or to an urgent care walk-in clinic, but from a medical perspective, A&E doesn't mean anything to me.
The ER (Emergency Room), or more properly the Emergency Department in a US hospital is also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.