History Main / YouWakeUpOnABeach

* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' begins with Hajime being woken up by Nagito on a beach.

* The ''[[VideoGame/LostInBlue Survival Kids]]'' games always begin in this manner, obviously.

* The Wano Arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', "Monkey D. Luffy" and later "Big Mom a.k.a Charlotte Linlin", starts this way: Luffy wakes up alone on a beach in with the ''Sunny Go'' briefly separated from Sanji, Nami, Brook, Chopper and Carrot, and later Big Mom wakes up separated from her crew after being attacked by King, one of Kaido's commanders.

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* The Wano Arc of Manga/{{One Piece}}, ''Monkey D. Luffy'' and later ''Big Mom a.k.a Charlotte Linlin'', starts this way: Luffy wakes up alone on a beach in with the Sunny Go briefly separated from Sanji, Nami, Brook, Chopper and Carrot, and later Big Mom wakes up separated from her crew after being attacked by King, one of Kaido's commanders.

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* The seventh episode of ComicBook/{{Alix}}, ''Recap/LeDernierSpartiate'', starts this way: Alix wakes up alone on a beach in Greece.
* The first episode of ComicBook/{{XIII}}, ''Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun'', starts when XIII is found unconscious on a beach by Abe, an old angler.

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* ''{{Toys/BIONICLE}}'': ''The Mata Nui Online Game'' begins with Takua, the player character, waking up on the Ta-Wahi Beach with amnesia after the events of ''Quest for the Toa'' launched him there.

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* The seventh episode of ComicBook/{{Alix}}, ''Recap/LeDernierSpartiate'' starts this way: Alix wakes up alone on a beach in Greece.

* The first episode of ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'', ''Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun'', starts when XIII is found unconscious on a beach by Abe, an old angler.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'' opens with a storm sinking the ship taking you to the eponymous city, so you wash up on the shores of High Rock. Given that the game was essentially a 3D DungeonCrawler, however, the first level is not so much a beach as a regular dungeon whose exit happens to be near the shoreline.

* OlderThanFeudalism. In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', Odysseus wakes up naked on a beach in the end of book 5 (short after the protagonist is introduced: the first four books focus on Telemachus). He is found by Nausicaa and her maids.

Compare and contrast YouWakeUpInARoom, where the character is locked in a room.

* The player in ''VideoGame/Polycraft'' wakes up on a beach following the crash of their ship. They must retrieve their blunderbuss and clear some wood away before heading inland to the main game.

This type of beginning gives the author an easy starting point for his story, because it boils everything down to absolute basics and comes standard with a predefined list of relatively simple questions for the author to answer. Which questions he chooses to answer and what answers he gives add more detail to the scene and flesh it out into whatever story the author wishes to tell.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' begins with Marin finding Link washed up on the beach after his ship was wrecked in a storm.

* OlderThanFeudalism. In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', Odysseus wakes up naked on a beach in the beginning of book 6 (short after the protagonist is introduced: the first four books focus on Telemachus). He is found by Nausicaa and her maids.

* In the first episode of ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'', ''Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun'', the story starts when XIII is found unconscious on a beach by Abe.

* In the first episode of ''ComicBook/XIII'', ''Recap/TheDayOfTheBlackSun'', the story starts when XIII is found unconscious on a beach by Abe.

This type of beginning gives the author an easy starting point for his story, because it boils everything down to absolute basics and comes standard with a predefined list of questions for the author to answer. Which questions he chooses to answer and what answers he gives add more detail to the scene and flesh it out into whatever story the author wishes to tell.

In video games, a beach is an ideal tutorial area for new players, since the critters are generally weak and easy to kill and the loot is basic enough for the player to learn how the game's inventory systems work before the game leads them inland to their adventure.