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Something ''bad'' happens. A character gets into a car accident, or they get attacked by an assailant, or some other situation that results in them receiving a [[TapOnTheHead blow to the head that knocks them out cold]].
Cue a time skip. The character awakens in a daze some time later, usually hours, but sometimes days or even weeks. And they come to only to find that somehow they were transported someplace else whilst they were unconscious - can be just about any place imaginable, but often it is a hospital, a prison, or a kidnapper's lair.
More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleOfDrama for the sake of drama]].
Because this trope usually marks a major turning point in the story... '''beware of SPOILERS!'''
Although this trope is named after a KatyPerry song, the song has nothing to do with this trope.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
* ''{{Naruto}}'': At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:
** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film]]
* ''DiamondsAreForever'' has two examples.
** After receiving a TapOnTheHead, JamesBond wakes up inside a coffin, just in time for an attempt at MurderByCremation.
** After being rendered unconscious by [[InstantSedation sleep gas]], he wakes up in an underground pipe and must face an electrified tunnel integrity checker.
*** [[BondVillainStupidity Why the two goons didn't bother to shoot him before dumping him in the pipe]] ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in ''SilenceOfTheLambs''. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* ''Film/SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''TheHangover'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night's debauchery.
* Taken to an extreme length in ''{{Predators}}'', where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
* The Korean film ''MarryingTheMafia'' opens with one of these. The protagonist wakes up in bed with a MafiaPrincess, with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. HilarityEnsues. At the end, it's revealed how they got there: [[spoiler: the girl's family put them there as a ploy to make her marry a man they approved of]].
* An author wakes up after a car accident to find he has been rescued by his No. 1 Fan and installed in her remote cabin - a situation that isn't as fortunate as it first appears - in StephenKing's ''{{Misery}}''.
* In ''TheLivingDaylights'', JamesBond is drugged in Tangier and wakes to find himself on a plane bound for Afghanistan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Burned'' by {{Ellen Hopkins}}, towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.
* Paolini relies on this trope a lot in ''{{Eragon}}'', using it instead of actual scene transitions in many instances. Examples include: Eragon fainting after finding a wounded Garrow and waking up in the care of the village healer, Eragon fainting of exhaustion after using magic against an Urgal, Eragon fainting again after using too much magic against Urgals, Eragon blacking out when attacked by the Ra'zac, Eragon blacking out again while Murtagh rescues him from said Ra'zac, and Eragon getting knocked out in an Urgal ambush which allows him to be captured.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the ''LawAndOrderSVU'' episode "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
* In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfvNYZcqqM opening credits of the first episode]] of ''ThePrisoner'', the title character was knocked out via [[InstantSedation sleeping gas]]. When he woke up, he was in The Village (no, not MNightShyamalan's version).
* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town''. Two people try to drive home drunk. When they wake up the next morning, they're in a completely deserted town.
* In the episode "Strong Arm of the Law" of ''{{American Gothic}}'', a drunken thug is given something that knocks him out, only to wake up and find himeself inside a coffin, laying next to the body of the man he killed; the coffin is in the process of being buried.
* [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], in one episode, wakes up on the Great Wall of China, thanks to Mimi.
* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series ''TheWalkingDead'' has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
* Happened on ''{{Monk}}'', with Monk being attacked in San Francisco and waking up (with amnesia) in a tiny town in Wyoming.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* SteelyDan's "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:
--> Now you swear and kick and beg us
--> That you're not a gambling man
--> Then you find you're back in Vegas
--> With a handle in your hand
--> Your black cards can win you money
--> So you hide them when you're able
--> In the land of milk and honey
--> You must put them on the table
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''AlanWake'': [[spoiler: The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife]]
* In the original ''HalfLife'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in ''FalloutNewVegas'', once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
** Before the Cass romance was cut for time, the Courier and her were going to wake up in Vegas and find out they got drunkenly married the night before.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WebComics]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]]
[[/folder]]
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Cue a time skip. The character awakens in a daze some time later, usually hours, but sometimes days or even weeks. And they come to only to find that somehow they were transported someplace else whilst they were unconscious - can be just about any place imaginable, but often it is a hospital, a prison, or a kidnapper's lair.
More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleOfDrama for the sake of drama]].
Because this trope usually marks a major turning point in the story... '''beware of SPOILERS!'''
Although this trope is named after a KatyPerry song, the song has nothing to do with this trope.
----
!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
* ''{{Naruto}}'': At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:
** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film]]
* ''DiamondsAreForever'' has two examples.
** After receiving a TapOnTheHead, JamesBond wakes up inside a coffin, just in time for an attempt at MurderByCremation.
** After being rendered unconscious by [[InstantSedation sleep gas]], he wakes up in an underground pipe and must face an electrified tunnel integrity checker.
*** [[BondVillainStupidity Why the two goons didn't bother to shoot him before dumping him in the pipe]] ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in ''SilenceOfTheLambs''. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* ''Film/SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''TheHangover'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night's debauchery.
* Taken to an extreme length in ''{{Predators}}'', where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
* The Korean film ''MarryingTheMafia'' opens with one of these. The protagonist wakes up in bed with a MafiaPrincess, with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. HilarityEnsues. At the end, it's revealed how they got there: [[spoiler: the girl's family put them there as a ploy to make her marry a man they approved of]].
* An author wakes up after a car accident to find he has been rescued by his No. 1 Fan and installed in her remote cabin - a situation that isn't as fortunate as it first appears - in StephenKing's ''{{Misery}}''.
* In ''TheLivingDaylights'', JamesBond is drugged in Tangier and wakes to find himself on a plane bound for Afghanistan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Burned'' by {{Ellen Hopkins}}, towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.
* Paolini relies on this trope a lot in ''{{Eragon}}'', using it instead of actual scene transitions in many instances. Examples include: Eragon fainting after finding a wounded Garrow and waking up in the care of the village healer, Eragon fainting of exhaustion after using magic against an Urgal, Eragon fainting again after using too much magic against Urgals, Eragon blacking out when attacked by the Ra'zac, Eragon blacking out again while Murtagh rescues him from said Ra'zac, and Eragon getting knocked out in an Urgal ambush which allows him to be captured.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the ''LawAndOrderSVU'' episode "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
* In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfvNYZcqqM opening credits of the first episode]] of ''ThePrisoner'', the title character was knocked out via [[InstantSedation sleeping gas]]. When he woke up, he was in The Village (no, not MNightShyamalan's version).
* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town''. Two people try to drive home drunk. When they wake up the next morning, they're in a completely deserted town.
* In the episode "Strong Arm of the Law" of ''{{American Gothic}}'', a drunken thug is given something that knocks him out, only to wake up and find himeself inside a coffin, laying next to the body of the man he killed; the coffin is in the process of being buried.
* [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], in one episode, wakes up on the Great Wall of China, thanks to Mimi.
* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series ''TheWalkingDead'' has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
* Happened on ''{{Monk}}'', with Monk being attacked in San Francisco and waking up (with amnesia) in a tiny town in Wyoming.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* SteelyDan's "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:
--> Now you swear and kick and beg us
--> That you're not a gambling man
--> Then you find you're back in Vegas
--> With a handle in your hand
--> Your black cards can win you money
--> So you hide them when you're able
--> In the land of milk and honey
--> You must put them on the table
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''AlanWake'': [[spoiler: The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife]]
* In the original ''HalfLife'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in ''FalloutNewVegas'', once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
** Before the Cass romance was cut for time, the Courier and her were going to wake up in Vegas and find out they got drunkenly married the night before.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WebComics]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]]
[[/folder]]
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Cue a time skip. The character awakens in a daze some time later, usually hours, but sometimes days or even weeks. And they come to only to find that somehow they were transported someplace else whilst they were unconscious - can be just about any place imaginable, but often it is a hospital, a prison, or a kidnapper's lair.
More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleOfDrama for the sake of drama]].
Because this trope usually marks a major turning point in the story... '''beware of SPOILERS!'''
Although this trope is named after a KatyPerry song, the song has nothing to do with this trope.
----
!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
* ''{{Naruto}}'': At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:
** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film]]
* ''DiamondsAreForever'' has two examples.
** After receiving a TapOnTheHead, JamesBond wakes up inside a coffin, just in time for an attempt at MurderByCremation.
** After being rendered unconscious by [[InstantSedation sleep gas]], he wakes up in an underground pipe and must face an electrified tunnel integrity checker.
*** [[BondVillainStupidity Why the two goons didn't bother to shoot him before dumping him in the pipe]] ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in ''SilenceOfTheLambs''. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* ''Film/SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''TheHangover'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night's debauchery.
* Taken to an extreme length in ''{{Predators}}'', where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
* The Korean film ''MarryingTheMafia'' opens with one of these. The protagonist wakes up in bed with a MafiaPrincess, with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. HilarityEnsues. At the end, it's revealed how they got there: [[spoiler: the girl's family put them there as a ploy to make her marry a man they approved of]].
* An author wakes up after a car accident to find he has been rescued by his No. 1 Fan and installed in her remote cabin - a situation that isn't as fortunate as it first appears - in StephenKing's ''{{Misery}}''.
* In ''TheLivingDaylights'', JamesBond is drugged in Tangier and wakes to find himself on a plane bound for Afghanistan.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Burned'' by {{Ellen Hopkins}}, towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.
* Paolini relies on this trope a lot in ''{{Eragon}}'', using it instead of actual scene transitions in many instances. Examples include: Eragon fainting after finding a wounded Garrow and waking up in the care of the village healer, Eragon fainting of exhaustion after using magic against an Urgal, Eragon fainting again after using too much magic against Urgals, Eragon blacking out when attacked by the Ra'zac, Eragon blacking out again while Murtagh rescues him from said Ra'zac, and Eragon getting knocked out in an Urgal ambush which allows him to be captured.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the ''LawAndOrderSVU'' episode "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
* In the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfvNYZcqqM opening credits of the first episode]] of ''ThePrisoner'', the title character was knocked out via [[InstantSedation sleeping gas]]. When he woke up, he was in The Village (no, not MNightShyamalan's version).
* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town''. Two people try to drive home drunk. When they wake up the next morning, they're in a completely deserted town.
* In the episode "Strong Arm of the Law" of ''{{American Gothic}}'', a drunken thug is given something that knocks him out, only to wake up and find himeself inside a coffin, laying next to the body of the man he killed; the coffin is in the process of being buried.
* [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], in one episode, wakes up on the Great Wall of China, thanks to Mimi.
* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series ''TheWalkingDead'' has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
* Happened on ''{{Monk}}'', with Monk being attacked in San Francisco and waking up (with amnesia) in a tiny town in Wyoming.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* SteelyDan's "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:
--> Now you swear and kick and beg us
--> That you're not a gambling man
--> Then you find you're back in Vegas
--> With a handle in your hand
--> Your black cards can win you money
--> So you hide them when you're able
--> In the land of milk and honey
--> You must put them on the table
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''AlanWake'': [[spoiler: The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife]]
* In the original ''HalfLife'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in ''FalloutNewVegas'', once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
** Before the Cass romance was cut for time, the Courier and her were going to wake up in Vegas and find out they got drunkenly married the night before.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WebComics]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]]
[[/folder]]
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* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:
** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
[[/folder]]
* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:
** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
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* NeonGenesisEvangelion: Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
* {{Naruto}}: At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.
* {{Naruto}}: At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.
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* NeonGenesisEvangelion: ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
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* An author wakes up after a car accident to find he has been rescued by his No. 1 Fan and installed in her remote cabin - a situation that isn't as fortunate as it first appears - in Stephen King's Misery.StephenKing's ''{{Misery}}''.
* In ''TheLivingDaylights'', JamesBond is drugged in Tangier and wakes to find himself on a plane bound for Afghanistan.
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* In the Law & Order SVU episode ''Infiltrated'', Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
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* In the Law & Order SVU ''LawAndOrderSVU'' episode ''Infiltrated'', "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
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* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series TheWalkingDead has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
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* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series TheWalkingDead ''TheWalkingDead'' has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
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* AlanWake: [[spoiler: The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife]]
* In the original HalfLife, Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in FalloutNewVegas, once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
* In the original HalfLife, Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in FalloutNewVegas, once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
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* AlanWake: ''AlanWake'': [[spoiler: The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife]]
* In the originalHalfLife, ''HalfLife'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times inFalloutNewVegas, ''FalloutNewVegas'', once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
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* Happens three times in FalloutNewVegas, once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
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* The Korean film ''MarryingTheMafia'' opens with one of these. The protagonist wakes up in bed with a MafiaPrincess, with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. HilarityEnsues. At the end, it's revealed how they got there: [[spoiler: the girl's family put them there as a ploy to make her marry a man they approved of]].
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* Paolini relies on this trope a lot in ''{{Eragon}}'', using it instead of actual scene transitions in many instances. Examples include: Eragon fainting after finding a wounded Garrow and waking up in the care of the village healer, Eragon fainting of exhaustion after using magic against an Urgal, Eragon fainting again after using too much magic against Urgals, Eragon blacking out when attacked by the Ra'zac, Eragon blacking out again while Murtagh rescues him from said Ra'zac, and Eragon getting knocked out in an Urgal ambush which allows him to be captured.
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* In the original HalfLife, Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
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* SteelyDan's "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:
--> Now you swear and kick and beg us
--> That you're not a gambling man
--> Then you find you're back in Vegas
--> With a handle in your hand
--> Your black cards can win you money
--> So you hide them when you're able
--> In the land of milk and honey
--> You must put them on the table
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* SteelyDan's "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:
--> Now you swear and kick and beg us
--> That you're not a gambling man
--> Then you find you're back in Vegas
--> With a handle in your hand
--> Your black cards can win you money
--> So you hide them when you're able
--> In the land of milk and honey
--> You must put them on the table
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* Happened on ''{{Monk}}'', with Monk being attacked in San Francisco and waking up (with amnesia) in a tiny town in Wyoming.
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* ''SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
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* ''SuspectZero'': ''Film/SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
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*** Why the two goons didn't bother to JustShootHim before dumping him in the pipe ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in Silence of the Lambs. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in Silence of the Lambs. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
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*** [[BondVillainStupidity Why the two goons didn't bother to JustShootHim shoot him before dumping him in the pipe pipe]] ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO inSilence of the Lambs.''SilenceOfTheLambs''. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in
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* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]]
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More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleofDrama for the sake of drama]].
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More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleofDrama [[RuleOfDrama for the sake of drama]].
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* Taken to an extreme length in Predators, where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
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* Taken to an extreme length in Predators, ''{{Predators}}'', where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
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*Taken to an extreme length in Predators, where the protagonists wake up while falling down from the sky at high speed.
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not the best quality first line: \"Look everybody, we\'ve just been a bit rubbish with the name.\" Just get to the trope.
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Although this trope is named after a KatyPerry song, the song has nothing to do with this trope.
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* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series TheWalkingDead has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the [[ZombieApocalypse]] has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
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* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series TheWalkingDead has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the [[ZombieApocalypse]] ZombieApocalypse has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.
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*** Why the two goons didn't bother to JustShootHim before dumping him in the pipe ([[SarcasmMode surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
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* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''The Hangover'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night'd debauchery.
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* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''The Hangover'', ''TheHangover'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night'd night's debauchery.
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* ''SuspectZero'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the {{serial killer}} [[spoiler: [[SerialKillerKiller killer]]]] O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
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* NeonGenesisEvangelion: Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"
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* In ''Burned'' by Ellen Hopkins, towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.
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* In ''Burned'' by Ellen Hopkins, {{Ellen Hopkins}}, towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.
