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Knockout Gas or Sleeping Gas is a common trope often found in fictional stories as a harmless way to capture to render a character unconscious for the plot or action of the story. Even though anesthetic gas exists in real life, it doesn't quite work the way it does in fictional stories. Plot wise it generally serves the same purpose as the use of chloroform, however knockout gas can render more than one person unconscious at the same time, for example a group of people in a room or vehicle. The gas usually has an instant effect, with the character quickly breathing it in and immediately going to sleep. It has often been used in superhero stories both comic and live action, in film and television shows.

Examples. There was a you tube series in which many episodes depicted a secretary getting knocked out by sleeping gas many times as part of the plot of the story. The series is no longer on you tube, but the outtakes including the sleeping gas scenes can still be found. The series was on you tube from 2018-2020 and depicted the secretary being put to sleep by sleeping gas nearly 20 times over the course of the show, so it was perhaps an overused trope on this show. The gas usually knocked out the secretary instantaneously, but usually in fiction it works very rapidly.