History Main / WaterWakeUp

* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. An unconscious Owen is woken up when a Sinoceratops licks his face. He doesn't have time to feel grossed out about it, given that he's mostly paralyzed from the tranquilizerDart used on him [[OhCrap while lying in the path of a lava flow]].

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. After Bill [[GRatedDrop blows his mind on lemon sherbert]], Graeme snaps him out of it by pouring the contents of a jug over him.
-->'''Vicar:''' Wait! That's the hot water!

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E66Two Two]]", the man revives the woman by throwing a bucket of water over her after knocking her out.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', Geppetto is frightened when his wooden puppet starts moving and talking, so he douses himself with a pitcherful of water in order to "wake" himself from his "dream".

* ''{{Film/Inception}}'': This is how characters wake up from a layered dream into the previous one.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', the episode "Groundpiglet Day'' has Pooh, Rabbit and Tigger [[ItMakesSenseInContext mistake a tiny pile of snow for a frozen-solid Piglet]], and when they try to warm "Piglet" up, "he" melts. Pooh nearly [[FaintInShock faints in shock]], so Tigger tries to throw the bucket of melted snow onto him – Rabbit has to catch the water in a bowl to save "Piglet" from being lost altogether.

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* In ''Immortal Love 8: Sparkle of Talent'' Sam throws a bucket of water on an unconscious Emma after capturing her, due to thinking she's one of Radcliffe's minions.
* ''VideoGame/DeceiveInc'': Accidentally shot an innocent NPC? No need to fear—all it takes to resuscitate them is a bucket of water to the head from another NPC. You can even do it yourself by crouching over them while disguised as anything but a civilian.

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': Dirk uses this method to wake up Jake in [S] Dirk: Unite.

* Done in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead: Do America,'' when Muddy threw water at the two boys who passed out in the desert after the DisneyAcidSequence.

* Ed of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is still screaming from a CatapultNightmare when a huge splash of water snaps him out of it, courtesy of a bucket held by Eddy:
-->'''Eddy:''' I ''told'' ya that'd shut him up!
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Road to Rhode Island", Stewie tries to wake up Brian while they're staying at a motel. After failing to wake him through other means, Stewie drags him into the shower and turns it on.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Tommy and Angelica try to wake up a senior in a retirement center, with Angelica throwing a pitcher of water in his face. This causes the senior, a retired Marine, to wake up shouting "[[WakingNonSequitur Don't submerge, Admiral! I'm still on deck!]]"

* This has been done at least once in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' when Akane found Shampoo sleeping with an oblivious Ranma. (She'd crawled into his futon sometime during the night.) Akane woke him up with a bucket of cold water which, thanks to his curse, also turned him into a girl. Added hilarity came from the fact that Shampoo didn't know about the curse and was trying to kill "Girl-Type Ranma".
* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'': In the first episode, Mugen passes out while fighting Jin in a burning building. He wakes up to a bucket of water, and learns he's going to be tortured and executed for killing the Governor's son.
* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Kenichi Shirahama is often woken up in this manner if he passes out during training.

* One story of ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' starts with Handy Smurf's alarm clock: It starts with a cuckoo, then something louder, and if that's not enough to wake him up, upends a mug of water on him.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12392382/32/Harry-Potter-Harry-Snape-or-Harry-Riddle Harry Potter, Harry Snape or Harry Riddle?]]'' Harry dumps a bucket of water on a sleeping Sirius as a prank.
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After Dusty Joy [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flees]] the hallway in which Dimmed Star appears as a creepy moving stain, the sleep-deprived maid falls asleep in the gardens. When her boss Peach Seed finds her, he wakes her up by splashing her with water from a nearby pond.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13397638/2/Wandering Wandering]]'' Harry faints after hearing that he has a little over a billion galleons in Gringotts and the goblin king throws a bucket of water on him.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9342428/chapters/21167366 Ordinary Days]]'', Angie splashes Kaede with a pitcher of water after [[spoiler: she watches Junko's video and nearly jumps to her death]] in order to get her out of her [[spoiler: despair induced daze.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6429565/26/Bleeding-Feathers Bleeding Feathers]]'' Anthony throws a bucket of water on an unconscious Dolores Umbridge.

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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** The comedic version shows up in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first movie]], as Captain Jack Sparrow and Will wake Gibbs this way when they find him sleeping in a literal pig pen.
--->'''Will:''' ''[throws another bucket of water at him]''\\
'''Gibbs:''' BLAST IT, I'M ALREADY AWAKE!\\
'''Will:''' That was for the smell.\\
'''Gibbs:''' ''[thinks about it, [[{{Touche}} then nods]]]''
** Again in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third movie]], when Jack finds Gibbs asleep on the end of the pier-a pier notably short a ship. Gibbs is also found clutching a stuffed animal, and takes a second to comprehend the followup question regarding the absence of the ''Pearl''.

* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Fezzick revives Inigo from a drunken stupor by shoving his head into buckets of cold and hot water.
* In ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'', Quigley sends a message in which he [[LastSecondChance offers to spare]] any of [[BigBad Martson's]] men who leave Marton's compound before the next day. Marston [[EvilCannotComprehendGood assumes that Quigley is using a ploy like Marston himself would]], and that Quigley intends to attack during the night when their guard is lowered. So Martson forces his mooks to stay awake and on guard duty all night long. One method used to keep them awake is throwing a bucket of water on one of the men.
* In ''Film/{{Talladega Nights|TheBalladOfRickyBobby}}'', Ricky Bobby's father throws a bucket on him to wake him up... then throws another on him when he reacts with confusion... and another because he filled up three.
* In ''Film/CampRock'', Shane Grey gets the comedic version from his uncle after refusing to wake up twice.

* In Chaplin's ''Film/TheCircus'', Merna faints when seeing the Tramp stuck in a cage with a lion. He is able to revive her by pouring the lion's drinking water on her face.

* In ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'', Crockett does this to Bowie.
* The hilarious moment in ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful'' where Jonathan carries drunken Georgia out of her apartment and drops her unexpectedly into a swimming pool to help her sober up.
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': Eggsy is woken this way by his team mates once as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer part of their bullying campaign]]. Earlier in the film, the room was turned into a DrowningPit, and all of the candidates woke up once the water level was high enough. The prank was therefore making Eggsy think this was happening again, making it a rather cruel prank.
* ''Film/JohnnyReno'': After knocking Yates out in the barroom fight, Reno wakes him up by dunking his head in the horse trough several times.
* An accidental version in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. Max is [[ChainedHeat still chained]] to his former captor Nux, [[BringTheAnchorAlong dragging his unconscious body with him]] until he comes across Furiosa and the Five Wives [[WetSariScene washing themselves down]] with a fire hose. Max forces them at gunpoint to hand over the hose and [[ThirstyDesert greedily gulps down the water]]. As Max has his eyes (and shotgun) on the women the whole time, he doesn't notice the water splashing on Nux who's lying at his feet.
* ''Film/TheMermaid'': Liu Xuan, after finding out his new LoveInterest, Shan is actually the titular mermaid, and that Shan's uncle is a mere-octupus, tries fleeing only for another merman to club him from behind. He wakes up after an unspecified amount of time when a merman douses him with water, and realize he's in the merpeople's quarters, surrounded by pissed-off merfolk who wants him to answer for the consequences his project had inflicted on their habitat.
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Captain Willard is badly hungover when soldiers turn up to escort him to where he's going to be briefed on his upcoming mission, so they just drag him into the shower and turn on the water full blast.
* In ''Film/TheRibaldTalesOfRobinHood'', Robin wakes up the unconscious Sheriff by emptying a wineskin over his head.
* In ''Film/TheCriminal'', Clobber knocks Kelly unconscious, but then wakes him up by emptying a cup of water over his head so he will feel feel the rest of his beating.
* In ''Film/{{Preservation}}'', the last hunter empties a bottle of water on the captive Wit's face to wake her up.
* In ''Film/HoodedAngels'', Wes captures the unconscious Hannah and later wakes her up by dumping her in a muddy waterhole.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire:'' Similar to the book (see below), Katniss comes into Haymitch's home finds him passed out (likely drunk) and throws water on him to revive him.
-->'''Haymitch:''' You are a ''strangely'' dislikable person.
-->'''Katniss:''' ''(slams two bottles of liquor on the table)''
-->'''Haymitch:''' ... But you do have your virtues.
* In ''Film/NeverGrowOld'', Dutch returns to the innkeeper in the middle of the night and buys his hotel to turn it back into a saloon; waking him up flicking water on to his face.
* ''Film/TheAwfulDrOrloff'': After reading Wanda's note, Inspector Tanner hunts out the drunkard Jeannot in the tavern, and demands that he guides him to Orloff's castle. Jeannot is falling down drunk, but [[SuddenlySober sobers up instantly]] when Tanner throws a pitcher of water in his face.
* When the long awaited fight between Sean Thornton and his brother-in-law Will Danaher finally starts in the climax of ''Film/TheQuietMan'', the crowd of onlookers is delighted at the spectacle and wants it to keep going, so at various times when one of the combatants is knocked down or seems beaten, the crowd splashes a bucket of water on them to revive them and prolong the fight. It's a RunningGag that Thornton is actually fine and about to get up on his own each time the overly enthusiastic crowd douses him with water, leaving him to react to the shock of the cold water with a [[SnarkingThanks sarcastic "Thanks..."]] each time it happens.
* ''Film/TheMonkeysUncle'': As part of his SleepLearning experiments, Merlin hooks up Stanley the chimp to his device, which plays the recorded instructions: "When the alarm clock rings, wake me up". When the clock does ring, Stanley goes over to Merlin's bed and throws a cup of water into his face, which makes him deem the experiment a success.

* Young Army Boys in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' who slept past wake-up time are usually awakened this way and forced to sleep in the wet bed afterwards.
* Kiron has to do this to Aket-ten in ''[[Literature/DragonJousters Alta]]''. She is affected by the Magi's sleep spell, he isn't, and they both need to get into the air as soon as possible.
* In ''Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas'', after the Youth sleeps in on his wedding day, his bride-to-be throws a bucket of cold water on him to wake him up. In versions in which the Youth went forth to learn what shivering was, he comments that now he knows.
* ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar The Black Gryphon]]'': At one point, an exhausted Winterhart pretends to be asleep so she doesn't have to have sex with Conn Levas. She thinks that if he pulls this, she won't be able to keep pretending because she knows perfectly well she would have woken. (He doesn't, because he doesn't want to use a soaked bedroll.)
* In ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'', farmhand Lurvey revives Wilbur with a bucket of water when the latter faints after overhearing the humans talk about butchering him. Later, when Wilbur faints from StageFright at the county fair, Lurvey runs off to get water again, but instead Templeton revives Wilbur by biting his tail. Lurvey reappears with the water moments later, impulsively throws it before noticing that Wilbur has already revived, and accidentally drenches Mr. Zuckerman and Avery.
* Evoked but averted in ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]]'': when the White King faints from fear after the much-bigger Alice picks him up in her hand, Alice goes to look for water to throw on him. But she finds only a bottle of ink, and when she comes back with it she finds him already revived on his own.
* In the short story [[Creator/HPLovecraft "The Last Test"]], Georgina faints from relief upon seeing her brother returned and alive. He frantically fetches a jug of water and pours it on her, waking her up.
* In "Literature/TheManWhoGotOffTheGhostTrain", Richard--at the urging of eight-year-old Vanessa--wakes up Annette by dumping a jug of water on her face.

* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames: Catching Fire'', Katniss splashes Haymitch with water to wake him up in time to get ready for the victory tour when she is unable to wake him up any other way.
* Played with in ''Gunner Cade'' by Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril. The entire barracks is a shower, and one soldier who is NotAMorningPerson barely gets his bedding shoved in his locker before the water vents open up.
* During the events of ''Literature/CuriousGeorge Takes A Job'', George [[MushroomSamba trips out]] and then passes out on the floor after smelling the contents of a bottle of ether while waiting to be picked up from the hospital by The Man with the Yellow Hat. This is how the doctor, nurse, and The Man find George when they return, and they wake George up by putting him in the shower. George is very surprised and confused when he comes to.
* In the Creator/RobertHeinlein novella "Literature/IfThisGoesOn", very much combined with "interrogation": The hero is being subjected to a lengthy bout of ColdBloodedTorture; he avoids too many horrific details, but does note that "I must have passed out repeatedly, for my clearest memory is of catching a bucket of ice water in the face not once but over and over again".

* This happened to Fraser on ''Series/DueSouth'' in the Season 2 episode "Red, White or Blue".

* A flashback in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Fragments". [[spoiler:With Captain Jack and a "couple" of Victorian-era Torchwood members.]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E66Two Two]]", the man revives the woman by throwing a bucket of water over her after knocking her out.

* In season seven of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer,'' the Scoobies capture Andrew -- who barely qualifies as a villain and is regarded as more of a pest, and so the capture-and-interrogation routine is entirely PlayedForLaughs. While he's unconscious and tied to a chair, Dawn tries to wake him up, first by slapping him and later by throwing cold water in his face. Neither method works, but he comes to on his own before she can try throwing ''hot'' water on him. Since Buffy doesn't approve of this, Dawn and Anya try to pretend the water came from Andrew drooling all over himself.
* ''Series/TheExpanse''. In "Back to the Butcher", an unconscious Holden is woken up by a droplet of blood that's floating in zero gravity until it strikes his face.

* ''Series/TheHead''. One of the Winterers locks the others outside in the Antarctic winter, but someone is able to get inside and choke him unconscious so they can open the door. He's woken by an understandably pissed-off colleague rubbing snow in his face.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'':
** When Álex shows up at LaResistance headquarters, fumbles the password and refuses to disclose the identity of the person who gave him the password because he promised to do so, Jorge and Iris suspect him of being a government informant, knock him out, and later use water to wake him up so they can interrogate them.
** Manuela uses a glass of water on Iván for that purpose when she finds him sleeping on a deckchair near the pool after yet another night of partying and needs to talk to him before starting work.

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Callisto Soul", Faye Valentine crashes her spacecraft doing a HeroicSacrifice, but we find she's still alive via a POV shot of [[LickedByTheDog Ein licking her face]]. Faye is suitably disgusted once she wakes up.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''
** In "Stakeout", an atomic bomb is about to go off, but the bomb maker decides he doesn't want to die for the cause. Before he can defuse it however, he's knocked out by his more fanatical colleague. Doyle empties the contents of a fire bucket over his face to bring him round again.
** In "Long Shot", an assassin tries to shoot Cowley while he's taking a shower. Fortunately Cowley has been forewarned, leaving the shower running while he knocks out the assassin from behind. Bodie and Doyle then wake the assassin up by dunking his head under the still-running shower.

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': Dirk uses this method to wake up Jake in [S] Dirk: Unite.

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': Dirk uses this method to wake up Jake in [S] Dirk: Unite.

* In ''Webcomic/GastroPhobia'', Gastro wakes up his mother Phobia this way... because he can't sleep and want her to tell him a story. She's understandably ticked off, and gives him first a good spanking.