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| 6 | ->''"Frodo woke and found himself lying in bed. At first he thought he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. Or perhaps he had been ill? But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved."'' |
| 7 | -->-- ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', "Many Meetings" |
| 8 | |
| 9 | 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 being [[GameBreakingInjury seriously injured]], to the point of unconsciousness. |
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| 11 | Cue [[SceneTransition transition]]. The character drowsily awakens sometime later, usually hours but [[AsleepForDays sometimes days or even weeks]]. The character can now briefly serve as TheWatson by learning how long it was, where they are, and what they missed. Often, the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[RuleOfDrama for the sake of drama]]. (This is sometimes {{Subverted|Trope}} as the "helpful" character turns out to be playing a joke on the recently awakened character.) |
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| 13 | Subtropes include AbandonedHospitalAwakening, UndressingTheUnconscious, WakingUpAtTheMorgue, YouWakeUpOnABeach, and YouWakeUpInARoom. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Because this trope usually marks a major turning point in the story... '''beware of SPOILERS!''' |
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| 17 | !!Examples: |
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| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 22 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': After being [[spoiler: rescued by the Skull Knight during the Eclipse]], Guts wakes up to an unfamiliar cave ceiling, which turns out to be Godo's mine (which was previously inhabited by elves, so evil spirits attracted to his brand can't follow him). |
| 23 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': When Uryuu fought Tousen in the Soul Society Arc, he was knocked out by Tousen's Shikai power. Uryuu wakes up manacled and in prison with Sado and Ganju. They update him on what's been happening before the 11th division rescues all the ryouka in one act, allowing them to go on to cause havoc in Soul Society. |
| 24 | * ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': At the beginning of the Agitate Halation Arc, Touma wakes up and finds himself in a box. He breaks free... and finds himself in a girl's locker room, forcing him to fight for his survival and escape the enraged girls. Motoharu calls him and reveals that he knocked Touma out and smuggled him into the locker room somehow without anybody seeing him. |
| 25 | * ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': |
| 26 | ** When Raki travels through the desert trying to look for Clare, she passes out from exhaustion and lack of water. Clare finds her and brings him to an inn in a nearby town. |
| 27 | ** When Clare narrowly escapes being killed [[spoiler:by Ophelia after Ilena saves her]], she passes out from over-expending her energy to reattach her hand. Clare wakes up in Ilena's house, hidden by a secluded valley. |
| 28 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': In the second episode, Suzaku is shot right in his... [[PocketProtector father's pocket watch]], and wakes up to Lloyd and Cecile, who promptly [[FellIntoTheCockpit hand him the keys]] to the SuperPrototype Lancelot. |
| 29 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': At the end of the fifth episode, Spike has a near-death experience, complete with [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes seeing his life flash before his eyes]]. He is promptly informed by Faye that he's been [[AsleepForDays asleep for three days]]. The last thing he sees in his dreams/coma visions is his lover Julia singing a song as she cares for him, he then [[ShipTease wakes up to Faye singing that same song]]. (Although according to Spike, Faye is singing it off-key). |
| 30 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Yamazaki [[ShoutOut references]] the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' show by and specifically saying "unfamiliar ceiling" after waking up in the hospital from food poisoning. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Seras Victoria wakes up in the Hellsing manor after being turned into a vampire by Alucard to save her life. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 33 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': In Johnny's backstory, after he forced a civilian to be dragged off from a line to view a play, the man pulled out a gun and shot him which immediately caused him to blackout. Johnny later awakens at an infirmary, where the coroner explains how the incident humiliated him. |
| 34 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': While out on a speeding-spree in Morioh, Joshu realizes his PlagueOfGoodFortune is suspiciously going too-well and tries to discard anymore received money, which immediately causes it to pile on top of him and he gets knocked out before waking up back the Higashikata residence, thinking the experience was just a dream, until [[ExplodingCloset he opens his bedroom]]. |
| 35 | * In Episode 9 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Teana wakes up in the infirmary after being shot down in a fight against Nanoha, and is shocked to find that it's already 9 at night; according to Shamal, her taking this long to wake up was a result of not getting much sleep. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': After ''The Final Problem'', Sherlock wakes up on a steamship after a rescue from the Thames river. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'': In a second season episode, Ginko passes out on a snowy mountain. A man from the nearby village finds Ginko and takes him home to care for him. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/{{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. After collapsing following [[spoiler:Itachi's death]], Sasuke wakes up in [[spoiler:Tobi]]'s hideout. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Shinji waking up in the NERV sickbay after his first combat. It eventually becomes a familiar sight to him. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': Ashitaka falls unconscious in the aftermath of his gunshot injury. San moves him into safety underneath a tree by the forest lake, so the first thing he sees on waking up is the crown of the tree. He tries to get up but falls back because he is too weak. The next time he wakes up is in a bed of leaves in San's cave. |
| 41 | * ''Literature/ReZero'': Subaru tends to wake up in a location he's been to some time before he died. Since it is more of a "save Point" than a healing factor, he's never actually woken up in a morgue. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'': Hakkai's first conscious impression of Gojyo is the sight of the other man [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything hovering over him as he wakes up]]. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/UndeadUnluck'': After the battle against UMA Spoil and Victor with Fuuko forcing Andy to reawaken before getting swept and knocked out by a flood in the town of Longing, she awakens in The Union's medical room after [[AsleepForDays resting for several days]]. |
| 44 | * ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': |
| 45 | ** When Leila is injured, D gives her first aid and moves her to the side of the road. |
| 46 | ** In the first movie, D manages to bring Doris home after rescuing her. She had been either unconscious or in a trance the entire time, but her first question is if D is okay. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 51 | ** In ''ComicBook/BatgirlYearOne'', Batman and Robin stop ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'s first attempt at roof-jumping. Then Batman uses a sleeping gas on her. When Barbara wakes up, she is lying on a slab on the Batcave, and Batman is looming over her, demanding answers. |
| 52 | ** ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': After dealing with [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul's plan to kill Bruce's loved ones]] and passing out mid-fall, Tim wakes up [[ShirtlessScene stripped out]] of [[UndressingTheUnconscious his costume]]. He immediately needs reassurance that he's in the Batcave's medical area for his injuries to be tended to and then asks how long he's been out because he saw the headline claiming that he is engaged to Tam Fox. |
| 53 | ** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake wakes up after having nearly drowned and watches as the concerned people over him slowly come into focus, before realizing he's in the cave of the monster that grabbed him along with its other victims. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': Peacemaker waking up after ripping a scarab out of his back with a broken bit of armor. Also stands up, then falls down, and is funny. |
| 55 | * In ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'', Mickey is at a high risk of this. Stories to do this to him include "The Midas Ring" and "The Past-Imperfect". A special mention goes to "An Impish Bad Birthday" for having Mickey wake up not elsewhere, but a day later, thereby missing his birthday. |
| 56 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': |
| 57 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Jimmy Olsen is captured by Bizarrogirl and knocked out. When he comes around he is chained to a wall in Bizarrogirl's lair. |
| 58 | ** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Bleez manages to flee from Atrocitus and makes it back to the Red Lanterns' headquarters before collapsing. When she wakes up, she's lying on a bed in the [[CoolShip Kaalvar]]'s medical bay. |
| 59 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has just fought and beaten Splyce among the radioactive remains of Krypton when she is suddenly teleported away. Supergirl passes out, and when she comes around, she finds herself in the Citadel, captured by war-mongering tyrant Harry Hokum. |
| 60 | ** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlWomanOfTomorrow'', Kara passes out after knocking out a bounty hunter who was trying to steal a little girl called Ruthye. When she wakes up the next morning, she is lying on a bed in Ruthye's inn room. |
| 61 | ** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': After running around an alien city and crashing through a ceiling, Kara is knocked out by one man carrying one glowing green rock. When she wakes up, she finds herself lying on a stretcher placed inside a cave. |
| 62 | ** ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'': As trying to sneak into Insect Queen's hive, Supergirl and Gangbuster are ambushed by a swarm of insects. Despite fighting fiercely, Supergirl is overwhelmed and knocked out. When she awakens, she has been dragged into the lair and encased in a super-tough crystalline substance. |
| 63 | ** ''ComicBook/AdventuresOfSupergirl'': As searching around the sewer network by a dangerous alien, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is ambushed and knocked out by Rampage. When she comes around, Kara finds out she has been dragged to Rampage's lair and thrown into a cage. |
| 64 | ** ''ComicBook/TheDominatorWar'': When the Ranzz siblings land on plant Korbal, they approach the natives to request assistance (since their ship was out of fuel). When they are hit by the Korbalians' lightning bolts, Garth and Ayla lose consciousness immediately. They wake up several weeks later in a Winathian hospital and find out that Mekt has gone missing. |
| 65 | ** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroesBugsBunnySpecial'': Supergirl, who spends the most part of the issue lying unconscious on a hospital bed after falling sick and passing out during a prior battle, wakes up asking what happened to her, to Mordru, and if the Legion won. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 67 | ** In ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman'', Clark Kent gets struck by a speeding car while his powers are blocked off and loses consciousness. When he wakes up he's lying on a hospital bed, and two doctors are hovering over him. As his blurry vision is clearing, Clark asks: "What's going on here...? Who are you... Where am I--?" |
| 68 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', a Legion Cruiser gets destroyed by a Servant of Darkness while the Legion is in route to planet Daxam. White Witch quickly uses her magic to keep her friends alive and asks for help, and then she passes out. When she comes around, White Witch finds herself lying in the Legion HQ infirmary. |
| 69 | ** In ''ComicBook/ReignOfDoomsday'', Superboy gets knocked out by Doomsday. When he comes to, he finds himself trapped in an invisible space station on the far side of the sun together with other members of the Superman Family. |
| 70 | ** In ''ComicBook/MustThereBeASuperman'', Clark Kent collapses on the surface of a remote planetoid after preventing an alien pod from crashing into an inhabited planet. When he awakens, he has been brought to Oa by Green Lantern Katma Tui and placed in the Central Power Battery to get his injuries healed. |
| 71 | * ComicBook/{{X 23}} has a [[TriggerPhrase "trigger scent"]], which causes Laura to [[BerserkButton black out and rage against everyone nearby]]. She reawakens in a different place and [[EasyAmnesia can't remember what happened]]. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 75 | %%* ''Fanfic/{{Ancienverse}}'': Ash awakens on Team Neo's airship after getting knocked out. %%Where did he get knocked out? |
| 76 | * In ''Fanfic/BetweenMinds'', a ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' X ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' fanfiction, the first chapter begins with Chell waking up to see the ceiling panels in the Extended Relaxation Center. [[spoiler: She soon figures out how to escape.]] |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/ABreachOfTrust'': Waking up after his first night at Reigen's place leaves Mob bewildered by the softness of his bedding before he realises where he is. |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'': ICMP investigator Edith, UN representative Pierre, and Royal Guard sergeant Golden Dirk are about to inspect [[spoiler:a supposed secret archive located inside the old Castle of the Royal Sisters]] when the chapter cuts to Edith waking up in a smoke-filled room, partially blinded, with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of where she is or what just happened]]. |
| 79 | * ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'' can't resist lampshading this one either: |
| 80 | --> Shinji stared up at the ceiling. It was as far from unfamiliar as a ceiling could possibly be, which would have been vaguely reassuring if it hadn't been the ceiling he had last seen [[PeggySue shortly before getting That Letter]] and starting down the slow but inexorable path to... [[ApocalypseWow Well, whatever the hell had happened.]] |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' has the protagonist, [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]] (who would later be [[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]] [[HeroWithBadPublicity Mercury]]) waking up in an abandoned dungeon with a [[BigRedDevil Horned Reaper]] who was left behind as well. |
| 82 | * In ''Fanfic/EchoesOfYesterday'', a ''{{Literature/Worm}}'' crossover, Kara wakes up in a dumpster in the back of an alley. She doesn't remember how or why she ended up there, and her only clue are blurred recollections of cities burning and a massive battle. |
| 83 | * The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13167589/1/Gaz-Membrane-Queen-for-A-Day Gaz Membrane: Queen for A Day]]'' opens with Gaz waking up one day to find that she's been transported, bed and all, to an alien planet, whose primitive natives [[MightyWhitey start worshipping her]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, they're much more technologically advanced than they seem, and are in fact the ones who teleported her, so they could fatten her up as a HumanSacrifice.]] |
| 84 | * In ''Fanfic/GoldenThreadsTieUs'', a ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' story, Lucina passes out after taking an arrow for Severa. When she wakes up the next day, her wounds have been properly bandaged up and she's lying on a bed in the abandoned fortress her team is using as a temporary camp. |
| 85 | %% * ''Fanfic/GunnersGenocide'': After Lucario was knocked out, he was sent to the abandoned warehouse, then the same thing happened to Greninja and Cloud but Cloud was chained up rather than being tied to chairs. |
| 86 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Supergirl passes out after fighting against [[EvilTwin Satan Girl]] in the vicinity of a star. She wakes up in a bedroom, and after some confused seconds, she recognizes her old room in the Legion of Super Heroes headquarters. |
| 87 | -->Supergirl awoke with a start. She took in her surroundings in a glance, realized she was in the room she used at Legion headquarters and that she was in bed with her uniform on, except, thankfully, for her boots, which had been taken off and placed thoughtfully by the nightstand. |
| 88 | * In ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'', Freddy Freeman reminisces how he passed out when he was knocked into a river by a supervillain. When he came around, he found himself in a hospital where he had been brought by Captain Marvel. |
| 89 | -->He remembered the blonde man who had killed his grandfather and given him the lamed leg.\ |
| 90 | He remembered waking up in a strange place, with Captain Marvel in front of him. |
| 91 | * ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': Played with; Harry was awake when the CMC found him and took him to the hospital, but he was so beat-up and his eyes hurt so bad that he couldn't see what was happening. When he wakes up the next morning, it's more or less played straight, as he learns he's in a world full of magical sentient ponies and that [[FisherKingdom he's turned into a unicorn]]. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/JustAnUnorthodoxThief'' |
| 93 | ** [[spoiler:Sakura]] wakes up in the church after recovering from [[spoiler:having the crest worms taken out of her]]. She thinks she dreamed the night before until Risei confirms that Assassin brought her there. |
| 94 | ** Waver wakes up in a hideout while recovering from [[spoiler:having his arm blown off]]. Rider explains where they are and why. |
| 95 | ** Irisviel wakes up in a hideout and learns that she's been kidnapped by [[Anime/LupinIII Assassin]] and Kirei. |
| 96 | * In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', after the four's boat falls apart and George drowns, he wakes up in a hut with the others, all asleep. They soon find out [[spoiler: they've spent nine days in a telepathic {{MMORPG}}, and the problems they had in there were nothing compared to the problems they ''really'' have.]] |
| 97 | * In ''Naruto Vengeance Revelations'', Ronan and Sakura had fallen asleep after drinking and using drugs. They wake up in Madara's lair with no memory of how they arrived. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': In the last scene, Shinji wakes up, stares at the ceiling above him, and realizes that he doesn't recognize it. Rei is present to update him on the events since he fell unconscious. |
| 99 | -->The darkness slowly resolved itself into light and blurry shapes, and Shinji realized he had opened his eyes. He lay on his back, staring at a ceiling he didn't know, hearing the gentle, rhythmic sound of his own breathing. His mind was blank, and it seemed as though his body was made out of lead. He was warm, covered in a thick white blanket and lying on something soft and surrounded by walls on three sides like a kind of bunk. |
| 100 | * ''Fanfic/NewBeginningsSmallville'': After unearthing Kara's ship, Clark takes her to the Fortress of Solitude so they can wake her up in a familiar environment where her uncle's hologram can explain everything to her. Kara gets shocked anyway when she comes out of her stasis sleep and finds herself in a Kryptonian-styled chamber. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonCanonBreakage'' begins with Mike waking up in a forest as opposed to his bed. He is none too pleased about this. |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/ThePortal'', a ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'' fanfic: |
| 103 | ** Thomas Smith wakes up in the Dragon Temple after he faints from the realisation that he isn't dreaming that he's now a dragon. %%Where did he faint? |
| 104 | ** Sometime after he [[MeaningfulRename changes his name to Blizzard]] and joins the Academy, he rescues Storm from drowning in a river, then passes out from exhaustion. He then wakes up in the infirmary with Storm. |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'': After Carol falls unconscious during her brutal battle against gladiator Iva Kann in a Kree arena, she wakes up in the infirmary of a Shi'ar starship, surrounded by her friends. |
| 106 | * ''Fanfic/RidingASunset'': Downplayed; Charlie (after being rescued from the Beastformers) basically passes out while Prime, Magnus and Jazz detain the Beastformers. It takes her a minute to remember why she's sleeping in Bumblebee's front seat in a junk yard. Optimus later brings everyone up to speed on why the Beastformers were on Earth (another one of [[TheStarscream Starscream's]] [[SarcasmMode brilliant plans]]) and why they went after Charlie. |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/{{Starchaser}}'': |
| 108 | ** After [[DoomedHometown Earth]] gets destroyed, Connie wakes up in a hospital room in the Destiny Islands, [[HeroicBSOD horribly traumatized]] and [[DentedIron physically scarred.]] |
| 109 | ** Happens ''again'' after [[spoiler:the Islands get nommed too]], where Tari wakes up in an alley in Traverse Town and Connie wakes up on the upper floor of Bismuth and Peridot's shop. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': In chapter 14, Shinji wakes up in a hospital after [[AsleepForDays a month-long coma]]. |
| 111 | -->His eyes fluttering open to see an unfamiliar ceiling, Shinji feels the rough texture of the hospital sheets first before he notices the sticky coldness of the sensor pads across his body and the uncomfortable pressure of the IV line in the crook of his arm. He also notes the abrasive coarseness of the straps about his wrists, ankles, and across his thighs and chest. |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/TomorrowsRomanceDawn'': Roronoa, after being tranquilized in the jungle, wakes up aboard the Going Merry. He thinks he is on the ''Thousand Sunny'' until he recognizes the galley. |
| 113 | * In ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1'', Bizarro comes around in a hospital room after being knocked out cold by the [[ManOfKryptonite Blue-Kryptonite Men]]. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': |
| 115 | ** The story starts out with the four protagonists waking up on another planet. |
| 116 | ** 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. |
| 117 | ** When Ringo is scared out of Ehndris, he wakes up in the room of the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris. |
| 118 | * ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'' starts with Paul waking up in space and having no idea how he got there or where the glowing ring on his finger came from. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/YouAreNotAtFault'': After getting torn into pieces and dying, Asuka wakes up on a beach. As she takes notice of the red waters, the ruined buildings, and the giant Rei's head, she wonders how and why she ended up on that beach. |
| 120 | * The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' / ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fanfic ''Fanfic/StarsFade'' kicks off with Commander Shepard being blown up along with the Crucible above Earth... and waking up to find herself in Kirkwall - more specifically, in Anders' clinic. More annoyingly, she was robbed of all her gear before being taken to safety. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 124 | * Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheTurnipPrincess": After getting accosted by a monster, the prince gets wounded and passes out on a turnip field. When he comes around, he finds his body has been moved from the plot of turnips to some faraway place, and he has somehow grown a beard. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 128 | * ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Elsa is knocked out by a falling chandelier of ice. She awakens in a dungeon cell in the Arendelle castle. |
| 129 | * ''WesternAnimation/NIMONA2023'': After escaping prison, Ballister is knocked out. He wakes up in his and Nimona's lair. He asks her how long he was out, and she tells his somberly that it was fifteen years. He's [[BigWhat horrified]], only for [[AvertedTrope Nimona to crack up and say it's only been a few hours]]. |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' has Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie gassed while imprisoned in a government truck and they wake up back inside the encased Springfield. |
| 131 | * ''WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994'': Thumbelina takes shelter from the snow in an old shoe and falls asleep. Then wakes up in bed in Miss Fieldmouse's underground burrow, and learns that Miss Fieldmouse found her and rescued her. |
| 132 | * ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'': After Blanca is defeated by the "Little Daiost", she is thrown into the water and passes out as she sinks. The next time she wakes up she's at snake catcher village, having been rescued by Xuan. Curiously she's wearing the exact same robe despite it probably being wet after Xuan rescued her, {{Avert|edTrope}}ing UndressingTheUnconscious. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 136 | * ''Film/TenCloverfieldLane'': After her car accident at the beginning of the film, Michelle wakes up in an unfamiliar room which turns out to be an underground bunker of a CrazySurvivalist. |
| 137 | * In the ''{{Film/Apocalypse}}'' film series movie ''Tribulation'', Tom Canboro passes out into a coma from an automobile accident that he couldn't avoid, and wakes up in the hospital a few years into the Tribulation and with a TimePassageBeard. |
| 138 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' film franchise: |
| 139 | ** [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 The original film]] has Marty hit by a car after saving his father from the crash. When he wakes, he drowsily assumes the past several hours have been a bad dream when he finds himself comforted by his mother, [[AssuranceBackfire reassuring him he's safe in 1955]]. The news [[ThatWasNotADream shocks him awake]] and leads to a brief freakout as he finds himself in her bedroom. |
| 140 | ** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' has Marty waking up after being knocked out by some bullies. Again, he drowsily assumes that the past several hours have been a bad dream when he finds himself comforted by his mother, [[AssuranceBackfire reassuring him he's safely home with Biff]]. Once again, the news [[ThatWasNotADream shocks him awake]] and leads to a brief freakout. |
| 141 | ** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' has Marty fall, exhausted, near the [=McFly=] ranch. While waking up, he, again, drowsily assumes the past several hours have been a bad dream when he finds himself comforted by his great-great-grandmother, [[AssuranceBackfire reassuring him he's safe in 1885]]. For the third time, the news [[ThatWasNotADream shocks him awake]] and leads to a brief freakout. |
| 142 | * ''{{Film/Barbarella}}'': Our heroine wakes up after getting knocked out and thinks she's dead. Not surprisingly, since the first person she sees is Pygar the angel (or ornithanthrope). |
| 143 | * In ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives'', Fred ends up going home with the Stephenson family because he's drunk, and because he hasn't been able to find his wife. Peggy ends up putting him in her room, and when he wakes up, he not only has no idea where he is, he doesn't remember who Peggy is at first. |
| 144 | * At the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Steve Rogers wakes up in a hospital recovery room in New York City [[spoiler:after landing the Valkyrie in the ice. However, after escaping from the recovery room, he soon learns that he's been asleep for nearly 70 years in the ice.]] |
| 145 | * ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'': Similar setup to ''Film/TenCloverfieldLane'' with a young woman waking up in the bunker of a CrazySurvivalist. |
| 146 | * The premise of ''Film/TheHangover'' is the cast waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night's debauchery. |
| 147 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' films: |
| 148 | ** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' has two examples. |
| 149 | *** After receiving a TapOnTheHead, James Bond wakes up inside a coffin, just in time to foil MurderByCremation. |
| 150 | *** After being rendered unconscious by [[InstantSedation sleep gas]], he wakes up in an underground pipe and must face an electrified tunnel integrity checker. |
| 151 | ** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', James Bond is drugged in Tangier and wakes to find himself on a plane bound for Afghanistan. |
| 152 | * In ''Film/KissTheGirls'', when Kate wakes up after her kidnapping, she looks up to see her dreamcatcher hanging from the ceiling but on further inspection the [[MoodWhiplash ceiling turns out not to be her home's]]. The villain had taken that, too. |
| 153 | * In ''Film/TheLostWeekend'', the hero awakes at the alcoholic hospital ward after a StaircaseTumble, wondering where exactly he is and looking up at the ceiling. |
| 154 | * The Korean film ''Film/MarryingTheMafia'' opens with the protagonist waking up in bed with a MafiaPrincess, with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. HilarityEnsues. In 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]]. |
| 155 | * When Neo awakens in ''Film/TheMatrix'' after being ejected from the Matrix, he looks up to see the unfamiliar faces of Trinity and Morpheus and asks if he is dead. |
| 156 | * In ''{{Film/Misery}}'', based on Creator/StephenKing's work, 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. |
| 157 | * ''Film/MurderByProxy'': After Phyllis Brunner picks up the very drunk Casey in the bar of his hotel, the next thing he knows he is waking up the next day in a stranger's apartment, his coat stained with the blood of Brunner's slain father. |
| 158 | * In ''{{Film/P2}}'', the heroine is tasered unconscious by Thomas and wakes up in the trunk of a car. |
| 159 | * In ''Film/PulpFiction'', Butch and Marsellus confront each other in a gun store, only for Butch to be knocked out by the owner and Marsellus to pass out on his own. They wake up in the shop's basement, gagged and tied to chairs. [[RapeAsDrama It only gets worse from there]]. |
| 160 | * ''Film/RoboCop2014'' has Alex Murphy nearly killed by a car bomb. He awakens weeks later to some serious BodyHorror. |
| 161 | * ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'': After spending weeks stalking a victim, Buffalo Bill 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. |
| 162 | * In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', Chekov has a near-fatal fall and is taken to the hospital. [=McCoy=], Kirk, and Gillian infiltrate the 20th-century hospital to administer 23rd-century care. Though he comes to in the operating room enough to give name and rank, he doesn't seem to regain full awareness until he's being frantically wheeled away from the pursuing guards and [[POVCam sees the fluorescent lights zoom by]]. |
| 163 | * ''Film/SuspectZero'': FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway is ambushed by O'Ryan and [[InstantSedation drugged into unconsciousness]]. When he wakes up, he is tied up on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death. |
| 164 | * In ''Film/Unknown2011'', the hero wakes up at the hospital after having been AsleepForDays. The ambient sounds are muffled at first and the [[EyeCam camera mimics his eyes slowly opening]] and adjusting to the brightness of the room. |
| 165 | * In ''Film/{{XXX}}'', Xander Cage is shot with a tranquilizer dart at a party, waking up at a diner just before a robbery occurs. After diffusing the robbery, he reveals he knew it was just a simulation when he noticed some discrepancies. Then he's shot with another tranquilizer dart and wakes up on a plane bound for South America. He initially figures it's another simulation before realizing that it's real that time. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 169 | * You notably start your adventure in this manner in at least two ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' books, ''Literature/CreatureOfHavoc'' and ''Literature/BlackVeinProphecy'', with absolutely no memory of how you ended up in your current predicament. An empty chamber in the former (because were [[ForcedTransformation forcefully transformed]] into a ferocious mindless monster), and in a freshly-opened sarcophagus in the latter (you're a HumanPopsicle frozen by your father, an immortal tyrant, having attempted to oppose him and was subsequently punished for your actions). |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 173 | * Holmes and Dr Watson, from ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', go on a camping trip. After a good dinner, they retire for the night and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." "I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes" replies Watson. "And what do you deduce from that?" Watson ponders for a minute. "Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all-powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?" Holmes is silent for a moment. "Watson, you idiot!" he says. "Someone has stolen our bloody tent!" |
| 174 | * A tourist is exploring [[LandDownUnder the Australian outback]] and suddenly takes a bad fall over a cliff. When he regains consciousness, he's in a strange room in someone's cabin. "Was I brought here to die?" the tourist asks. "No, mate," replies his host, "you were brought here yester-die." |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 178 | * Creator/MalindaLo's ''Literature/{{Adaptation}}'': Reese blacks out after a car crash. She wakes up to find herself in a hospital, 27 days later. |
| 179 | %%* ''Literature/BlankMastermind'': Three instances; Waking up at the opera, The Fernsbys' house after the baseball stadium, and in prison during the flashback. %%Needs more context; who did it happen to? Where did they lose consciousness? Where did they regain consciousness? Optionally; what happened between falling asleep and waking up? |
| 180 | * In ''Literature/TheBorrowers'', Arrietty and her family had been sleeping in a boot but wake up to the underside of a camp bed, which had been picked up by Mild-Eye. |
| 181 | * ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': |
| 182 | ** Ren is a bit confused when she wakes up after her first night at the Whistler home, until her brain boots up enough that she remembers why she's where she is. |
| 183 | ** Near the end of the book, Jerin panics a little. His memory of the last night is fuzzy since he almost drowned and got knocked about after going over that InevitableWaterfall, but soon he recognizes it as his cousin Dail's room. |
| 184 | %%* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'': Happens to Carter a few times, although he generally winds up as a prisoner in those situations. %%Needs more context |
| 185 | * ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': While moving his father's herd to a watering hole, Konyek gets attacked by cattle riders, passing out after getting hit by a spear. When he comes around, he finds himself in an improvised shelter built by a hunter friend of his, who has been nursing him back to health during several days after finding him lying unconscious on the ground. |
| 186 | * In ''Literature/CityOfDevils'', Nick Moss is knocked unconscious by [[BadassBiker Cacophony Jones]] and wakes up bound in the storeroom of a biker bar. This presumably happened "offscreen" earlier, when Harley, a member of Cacophony's band the Disasters, wakes up in Imogen Verity's basement in a mummy coffin wondering what the hell happened. |
| 187 | * Creator/CharlesDickens's ''Literature/GreatExpectations'': After the death of the old convict, Pip runs home and falls into his bed in a fever, only to discover on his waking that he is now at Joe's house. |
| 188 | * ''The Disappearance of Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' combines this with TimeyWimeyBall. [[spoiler:Kyon wakes up after experiencing being stabbed by Asakura, but by the time he wakes up, the past has been rewritten so that he fell down a set of stairs and hit his head.]] %%But where does he wake up? |
| 189 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 190 | ** In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', Vimes is knocked out or kidnapped by people who want to get him alone for a conversation so frequently that by the third or fourth time he wakes up in an unfamiliar room, he's not so much scared as just exasperated. |
| 191 | ** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Vimes falls unconscious after jumping off the roof of the Watch House to escape a dragon attack. When he wakes up, he takes the bed and presence of a ceiling as possible evidence that he's not dead. The presence of Nobby Nobbs is less conclusive. When he asks the obligatory question ("Have I already said 'Where am I'? Did I get an answer?") Nobby leeringly informs him he's in Lady Ramkin's boudoir. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/DragonCalling'': After Laeka’Draeon [[spoiler: passes out from his forced transformation, he wakes up on his back]], looking up at [[CoolOldLady Madam Lume’s]] thatched cottage ceiling. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles '''s ''Literature/GhostStory'': After being shot at the end of the [[Literature/{{Changes}} previous book]], Harry spends most of this one as a ghost. When everything is wrapped up, he's fully prepared to move on to the afterlife, but instead wakes up in a cave on [[GeniusLoci Demonreach]] with his head in [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Mab's]] lap. Alive though, so that's probably a step up (though he doesn't think so). |
| 194 | %%** Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Happens to Harry Dresden enough that when he's there for Ramirez after a particularly daunting fight, he internally monologues that the reversal took its time. %%Does not provide context on -lose consciousness in Place A and gain consciousness in Place B. |
| 195 | * In the second ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' book, after being attacked by a cave lion in a gorge, Jondalar falls unconscious from shock and blood loss. He wakes up hours later in an unfamiliar cave and is shocked to see a young woman – his rescuer – helping a mare give birth. Jondalar initially thinks he's died and gone to the spirit world until he realizes how much pain he's in and sees his wounds have been tended to. He also soon notices that [[spoiler:his brother – who was also attacked – isn't here and realizes he didn't make it]], much to his distress. |
| 196 | * ''Literature/EmeraldPrince'': This happens to Julien in the beginning, when he's been KidnappedByTheCall. He wakes up in a bath, so, yes, he's shirtless. |
| 197 | * ''Literature/FrontierWolf'': Alexios wakes up from wound fever in the [[spoiler:Onnum]] infirmary, which he doesn't recognise ''per se'' but which looks exactly the same as every Roman army building the length and breadth of the empire. |
| 198 | * ''Literature/GoodOmens'': Newt lost consciousness after he crashed his car on the side of the road, and when he wakes up, he realizes that he can't be in his own room because there are no model planes hanging from the ceiling. |
| 199 | %% ** Happens to Shadwell, who wakes up and thinks he's having an out-of-body experience because he sees his own body from above. After a few panicked seconds of trying to swim back to it, he comes to his senses enough to wonder why Madame Tracy has a mirror on her ceiling. %%Does not establish where he lost consciousness |
| 200 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'''s ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': After Harry falls unconscious fighting Quirrell in the titular chamber, he wakes up in the hospital ward with Dumbledore nearby. |
| 201 | * In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'', Julia is attacked by Scarface the shark-man while she and her boyfriend are scuba diving off the coast of Shark Reef Isle. She is knocked out and wakes up in a very posh guest room with a new leg. |
| 202 | * Creator/EllenHopkins's ''Literature/CrankTrilogy'': In ''Burned'', Pattyn is knocked out cold and wakes up in the hospital sometime later. |
| 203 | %%* Seems to happen to Katniss more and more frequently as ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series progresses, particularly as ''Mockingjay'' is basically one long HeroicBSOD. |
| 204 | * In the ''{{Literature/Hurog}}'' duology, there is a variant where the person waking up immediately knows where she is, and compliments the main character on the beautiful room. It is not clear whether she pretended to be asleep until she was sure she was safe, though. |
| 205 | * In the ''{{Literature/Illuminatus}}'' series novel ''The Widow's Son'', lead character Sigismundo Celine is consigned to the Bastille. He ends up under a heavy security regimen after escaping and being recaptured, effectively confined to his cell where he has ample opportunity to memorise all the details of his room. One day he wakes up after a deeper sleep than normal to realise he is on the ceiling and looking down at his room - the floor has become his new ceiling. Gravity has seemingly reversed itself in the night. But he looks carefully and sees small inconsistencies in placement and arrangement of furniture. He also realises the window has suddenly been boarded over. He deduces he has been drugged and moved to an elaborate hoax set-up. |
| 206 | * ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Book one ends with Frodo finally succumbing to his [[PoisonedWeapons Morgul]] [[SoulCuttingBlade blade]] wound and losing consciousness. Book two begins with him waking up in Rivendell and thinking the page quote. |
| 207 | * ''Literature/MrBlank'': Our hero gets knocked out and awakens tied to a chair in some bunker in San Pedro to be interrogated by a government spook, a dirty tricks specialist, Freemason, an [[FatBastard elephantine]] [[TheMafiya Russian Mobster]], and [[TheMenInBlack a Man in Black]]. It's the first indication he gets not only of people double-dipping in conspiracies (besides him, of course), and that they might not all be communicating with one another. |
| 208 | * Creator/AndreNorton: |
| 209 | ** In ''Literature/IceCrown'', Roane and Princess Ludorica are drugged in the coach and wake up indoors. |
| 210 | ** ''Literature/TheStarsAreOurs'': Dard Nordis wakes up and immediately asks "Where is here?" The attending human praises him for coming up with an alternative to "Where am I?" |
| 211 | * Creator/ChristopherPaolini relies on this trope a lot in ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle 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 from 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. |
| 212 | %%* ''Literature/ParadiseRot'': Basically the only way Kyle wakes up in the whole book. Usually comes with an ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' reference. %%Needs to establish why and where Kyle falls asleep, and where he wakes up. |
| 213 | * In the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book ''Battle of the Labyrinth'', Percy is blown out of Mount St. Helens and loses consciousness as he's plummeting back to Earth. When he wakes up, he's on Ogygia, being tended to by Calypso. He is conscious for a few moments before passing out again. When he finally comes to, he finds himself sleeping on a fine bed in a geodesic cave. |
| 214 | * Most of Creator/TamoraPierce's heroines do this at least once. Per book. %%needs more context, per book. |
| 215 | %%* ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'': This happens to a main character at least once per book. |
| 216 | * Creator/HBeamPiper: In the story "Literature/TimeAndAgain", the protagonist wakes up in his old room in his childhood home... also in his childhood body, thirty years prior to being knocked out. |
| 217 | * ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': Boy 412 falls asleep in a heap of snow outside of the Wizard Tower and wakes up in the rooms of the [=ExtraOrdinary=] Wizard up in the tower. |
| 218 | * ''Literature/AWizardOfEarthsea'': Turns up surprisingly little, given Ged spends an absurd amount of time being generally passed out. This specific trope only occurs once, at Osskil. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 222 | %%* ''{{Series/Alias}}'': This has happened to Sydney Bristow several times. %% |
| 223 | * ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'': In the episode "Strong Arm of the Law", a drunken thug is given something that knocks him out, only to wake up and find himself inside a coffin, laying next to the body of the man he killed; the coffin is in the process of being buried. |
| 224 | * ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In the episode "The Archbishop", Lord Graveney signs a will on his deathbed, leaving his lands to the church to avoid going to hell, and falls asleep, expecting to die. Then Edmund (as the Archbishop) bursts in and desperately wakes him. |
| 225 | -->'''Graveney''': Am I in Paradise?\ |
| 226 | '''Edmund''': No!\ |
| 227 | '''Graveney''': Then this must be hell!\ |
| 228 | '''Edmund''': No you're all right, it's England.\ |
| 229 | '''Graveney''': And you are not Satan?\ |
| 230 | '''Edmund''': No, I'm the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 231 | * ''{{Series/Bones}}'' |
| 232 | ** Hodgins and Brennan wake up in a car buried underground in “The Aliens in the Spaceship.” |
| 233 | ** Bodgins also wakes up in the desert after Angela’s dad tattoos him. |
| 234 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' |
| 235 | ** Catherine wakes up in a motel after being [[SlippingAMickey given roofies]] in her drink at a bar. |
| 236 | ** Nick wakes up buried alive in a glass coffin after being knocked out with chloroform at a crime scene. |
| 237 | * In ''Series/DayBreak2006'', Hopper gets knocked unconscious in county prison and wakes up BoundAndGagged at the rock quarry, where he is told to confess to Garza's murder. |
| 238 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]], after accidentally setting off a sonic mine in a junkyard, the next thing the Doctor and her companions know, they're waking up in a medical facility. |
| 239 | * ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'': Drew once wakes up on the Great Wall of China, thanks to Mimi. |
| 240 | * ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': |
| 241 | ** Whenever Henry dies, he wakes up in a nearby large body of water, naked. |
| 242 | ** In "The Ecstasy of Agony" Henry is [[ElectricityKnocksYouOut knocked out by a cattle prod]], and first wakes up briefly in the killer's van, then fully revives in the killer's lair, chained to a Saint Andrew's Cross. |
| 243 | * When Daniel ''Series/{{Harrow}}'' digs up Francis Chester's grave to try to prove that the anesthetist-turned-serial-killer is still alive, he's attacked from behind and injected with a syringe. When he wakes up, he's inside the coffin, buried, with a locked cell phone (with no emergency call function) which Chester uses to taunt Harrow and send video calls as he stalks Harrow's daughter. |
| 244 | * In the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologists' 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. |
| 245 | %%* ''{{Series/Lost}}'', many many times, with little explanation. %%Needs more context |
| 246 | * ''{{Series/Monk}}'': While Monk is investigating information about his wife's death at a truck stop in San Francisco, he gets attacked and stuck into one of the trucks. When he finally wakes up (with amnesia), he's in a tiny town in Wyoming. |
| 247 | * In ''Series/NoahsArc'', Ricky passes out due to an infection, waking up in a hospital. |
| 248 | * In a later episode of ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', [[SixthRanger Tyzonn]] gets rendered unconscious in a battle with [[ArchEnemy the Fearkats]], waking up later on his home planet with his [[TheLostLenore presumed dead fiancé, Vella]], who tells him his experiences have been AllJustADream. [[spoiler: Turns out that she's [[ActuallyADoombot really one of the Fearkats]], and he never left Earth at all.]] |
| 249 | * ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': In the opening credits of the first episode, the title character was knocked out via [[InstantSedation sleeping gas]]. He wakes up in The Village, where the series is set. |
| 250 | * There are at least three episodes of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' where Shawn is struck in the head and wakes up somewhere else. Lassiter's apartment, tied up in a chair, and strapped in a bed respectively. |
| 251 | * In the ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Sam is abducted from a diner in Iowa, waking up in Cold Oak, South Dakota. |
| 252 | * ''Series/TropicalHeat'': In the episode "Alive and Kicking", Nick passes out from blood loss after being shot. When he comes to, he finds himself in the care of a beautiful lady, who turns out to suffer from severe delusions and doesn't want to let him go. |
| 253 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E30StopoverInAQuietTown 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. |
| 254 | * Like in the comic, the beginning of the series ''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. |
| 255 | %%* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': In the last episode of the second season, Neal and Peter have been drugged. %%Should establish where they were drugged, needs to establish where they wake up. |
| 256 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': In episode "Anasazi": |
| 257 | ** Agent Mulder gets really sick after he's been systematically drugged and after he sort of witnessed his father's murder. He manages to get to his partner's apartment because his own place became too dangerous. When he wakes up alone [[MrFanservice in his underpants]] at Agent Scully's, he doesn't quite recollect where he is. |
| 258 | ** Later in the same episode, Scully [[PercussivePrevention intentionally shoots Agent Mulder in the shoulder to stop him from killing his father's murderer]]. He's been put out to let the drugs wear off and they have driven for two days to New Mexico. He wakes up at Albert Hosteen's, their new ally and a translator from Navajo code. Obviously he wonders what happened and he thanks Scully for taking care of him. |
| 259 | * In "No Compass" from ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', Taissa has led a group on an expedition to try to find help. She volunteers to take an evening watch but ends up falling asleep. When she wakes up, she finds herself up a tree with no memory of having [[{{Sleepwalking}} sleepwalked]] there and the others below trying to fend off a pack of wolves. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 263 | * 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: |
| 264 | -->''Now you swear and kick and beg us\ |
| 265 | That you're not a gambling man\ |
| 266 | Then you find you're back in Vegas\ |
| 267 | With a handle in your hand\ |
| 268 | Your black cards can win you money\ |
| 269 | So you hide them when you're able\ |
| 270 | In the land of milk and honey\ |
| 271 | You must put them on the table'' |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 275 | * In ''Literature/TheAchilleid'', Achilles goes to sleep in a cave under a mountain and wakes up in bright daylight with waves crashing right next to him as an unfamiliar woman looms over him. He's frightened at first and it takes a second for him to realize the woman is his MissingMom, who explains how she abducted him in the night. |
| 276 | * There's an urban legend where a man traveling on business checks into a hotel and then goes to the hotel bar, where he meets and flirts with a woman there. He invites her to his room and she accepts. They have sex and he falls asleep afterwards. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the bathtub, which is full of ice, and he feels a pain in his back. There's a phone on a small table next to the bathtub, and a note reading "call 911." He calls 911 and is taken to the hospital, where they discover that one of his kidneys has been removed, supposedly to sell on the black market. |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 280 | * Sahmad has one in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', where he is told he has been asleep for 750 years. [[spoiler:However, it turns out to be AllJustADream.]] |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 284 | * ''VideoGame/AlanWake'': The protagonist wakes up with amnesia in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife. A week has passed and she's nowhere to be found, the cabin they were staying in apparently doesn't exist, and shadow creatures start attacking Alan. Most of the game is spent trying to figure out exactly what happened that week. |
| 285 | %% Needs Context * ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'': Happens pretty much every time Alice wakes up from her Wonderland hallucinations. |
| 286 | * ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': During her first battle against Absalom beneath Freeway 42's UndergroundCity, Ann is momentarily knocked unconscious and awakens in the realm of [[EldritchLocation Hinterland]]. After awakening her SuperMode and managing to force Absalom into a retreat, she collapses from exhaustion and later wakes up at the other side of the sewer after being recovered by the inhabitants. |
| 287 | * After slaying a certain boss in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', hooded Snatchers start to appear around the Cathedral Ward. Should one of them kill you, instead of respawning next to the last checkpoint, you wake up inside a [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe hypogean gaol]] in a wholly different part of town, to the sounds of extremely [[OminousLatinChanting unsettling Latin chanting]]. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': After winning the fight at the top of the tower in Ostagar, The Warden loses consciousness while [[spoiler:King Cailan and his forces are slaughtered]]. When they wake up, it is in the cottage of a Witch of the Wilds, who has healed The Warden's injuries. Morrigan walks in just in time to answer their questions and to show them to Alistair. |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': |
| 290 | ** Once you reach a certain level, the next time you enter a bar you'll find a nice guy named Sam who challenges you to a drinking contest. Regardless of where the party starts, you wake up in Markarth, having trashed the Temple of Dibella (and fondled the statuary) in a drunken stupor. [[WhatDidIDoLastNight The quest that follows]] indicates that your alcohol-fueled adventure led you across the breadth of Skyrim. |
| 291 | ** If you pose as a [[ProfessionalKillers Dark Brotherhood]] assassin and kill [[OrphanageOfFear Grelod the Kind]] for Aventus Aretino, the next time you sleep, you'll wake up in a locked shack in the middle of nowhere, to have a little chat with a real member of the Dark Brotherhood. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/ExitLimboOpening'' has two instances of this right at the first level. The game starts with you awakening in a train filled with dead bodies, having no idea how you even got there or memories of what happened before, and you're then assailed by a horde of the zombie-like infected. After killing a whole bunch of them, you pass out before regaining consciousness, being tended to in a nearby village by your new ally Vivian - according to her, you're out cold for ''two days''. |
| 293 | %%* ''VideoGame/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. %%Needs more context |
| 294 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 295 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', if you spend too much time wandering around the Great Glacier, Cloud will pass out from the cold and awaken in a hut. |
| 296 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Squall wakes up in the Balamb Garden infirmary after getting slashed in the face by Seifer during a "training battle." |
| 297 | * In ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'', you black out after an accident with your motorbike and wake up at Maureen's place. She tells you that she took care of you and that she fixed your bike. |
| 298 | * In the first ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', during the InevitableTournament, dying in battle makes you wake up in the infirmary, surrounded by your friends, who will then inform you that you were just dreaming. Then you have to restart the tournament from the beginning. And if you win... you wake up in the infirmary, surrounded by your friends, who will then inform you that you won. |
| 299 | * A possible outcome of gameplay in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', especially in [[MemeticPsychopath Trevor's]] case. No stranger to waking up in strange places in the aftermath of drunken rampages, one of the optional activities available to this particular character is - wait for it - huffing gas from a sock; actually doing so will result in Trevor passing out and waking up in a random location. One particular random encounter also results in this: players have the option of inspecting a suspicious-looking van in the street... only to get tased by the driver and [[UndressingTheUnconscious wake up naked]] and lying in the [[RailroadTracksOfDoom path of an oncoming train]]. |
| 300 | * In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor. %%It would be nice to know where Gordon was ambushed |
| 301 | * Happens multiple times to Henry in the ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries''. Once in "Infiltrating The Airship" when he's [[BoxedCrook boxed]] into taking down the Toppats, once at the start of "Fleeing The Complex" where Dmitri [[EvilGloating gloats]] about Henry's [[TemptingFate long stay there]], and once in the Free Man route for "Completing The Mission", where he's imprisoned by Right-Hand Man who lampshades Henry's predicament. |
| 302 | -->'''Right-Hand Man:''' ''"You've gotta be pretty tired of wakin' up like this."'' |
| 303 | * This happens a lot in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games. It's not uncommon for Sora to enter worlds unconscious if he's taken there by force; for example, in [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first game]], he's passed out in an alleyway in Traverse Town, with Pluto shaking him awake upon being discovered. His entry into [[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' had him fall unconscious while he's being "arrested". |
| 304 | * In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', the player character escapes a doomed ship and wakes up in an apartment on an unfamiliar planet, with an ally dropping the news that they've been AsleepForDays. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'': This happens after the dramatic events of the ending of the first game, in which the protagonist, Rean Schwarzer [[spoiler:awakened a massive combat robot known as a Divine Knight and fought his classmate, Crow Armbrust, who was secretly a terrorist leader and another Awakener. Rean's Divine Knight, Valimar, is badly damaged and he is forced to flee.]] He awakens [[AsleepForDays a month later]] in the Eisengard Range, near his hometown, as the Awakener shares the damage taken by the Divine Knight and it's taken almost all of the Knight's mana just to recover him. |
| 306 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', Link is knocked out by a volcanic blast as he tries to land in the Eldin Volcanic region. He wakes up with no items and only three filled hearts, in a jail cell. |
| 307 | * ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': |
| 308 | ** At the end of the first part of [[VideoGame/MaxPayne1 the first game]], Max is knocked out with a spiked drink in a bar full of corpses and wakes up tied to a chair in the basement of another building, talking to Frankie "The Bat" Niagara. Frankie proceeds to use Max's head for batting practice. Averted later, though: after he's knocked out with an overdose of Valkyr, he wakes up in the same place, since he was left for dead. |
| 309 | ** In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'', after Max is shot [[spoiler: by Winterson]], he wakes up in the hospital, barely alive. |
| 310 | * During the introduction to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', Big Boss [[spoiler:(Or, at least, the person assigned to impersonate Big Boss)]] wakes up from a years-long coma to find himself in a military hospital in Cyprus. |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'': After completing each Age, the player is sent back to the Library, looking up at the ceiling. It may well be unfamiliar the first time, as many players may not have thought to look up. This [[ImpliedTrope implies]] that the player has lost consciousness, but it isn't explicit. |
| 312 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', after awakening to his Persona, the protagonist is AsleepForDays and wakes up in Tatsumi Memorial Hospital. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' begins with Ratchet, Clank, and Big Al being taken from the Starship ''Phoenix'' by [=DreadZone=] warbots. After the opening cutscenes, we learn that Ratchet has been unconscious for hours as Al places him in armor, and now they're stuck as contestants in the Shadow Sector. |
| 314 | * In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', after Leon attacks Bitores Mendez and gets his butt handed to him, he wakes up in a dead-end area of the village, chained to Luis, and with an [[PressXToNotDie inbound Mook dragging an executioner's axe]]. |
| 315 | * ''VideoGame/Road96'': One scenario is a highway motel where the player can choose to sleep on a pile of cardboard or a rented bed. Regardless of the choice, they'll wake up in a different motel room with Jarod who forces the player to help dispose of a corpse. |
| 316 | * ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Shortly after [[HowDoIShootWeb gaining control of their powers]] in the prologue, new recruits to the [[AncientConspiracy Dragon]] then receive a visit from one of the [[MouthStitchedShut Silent]] [[WarriorMonk Monks]], who promptly knocks you unconscious with a touch. You then wake up alone in Seoul, with no money, no passport, no explanations, and [[WhenItRainsItPours no umbrella]]. Suffice to say, the Dragon like tossing their recruits in the deep end. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowGuardian'' begins with your character, Jason, waking up StrappedToAnOperatingTable in Dr. Novik's laboratory. He then interrogates you on your past missions, and [[HowWeGotHere the rest of the game is told in flashback]]. |
| 318 | * Very prominent in ''VideoGame/ShironeTheDragonGirl''. The story [[YouWakeUpInARoom starts with Shirone waking up in a bed]], in a room withing a mysterious castle. [[spoiler:When she walks through the supposed exit door of the castle, she instead wakes up in the same bed. When she breaks the first memory orb, she wakes up in the same bed again, and very shortly after, she falls into a trap door only to wake up in the Archives. After that, each time she destroys a memory orb, she wakes up in the Archives.]] |
| 319 | * Happens a lot in ''Franchise/SilentHill'', with characters waking up near or in the titular town. If they're already there, it often happens again when coming across an important bit of information, after defeating a boss, and when the Otherworld takes over yet again. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' begins with Count Bleck kidnapping Princess Peach, Bowser, and Luigi. Peach and Bowser wake up and are shocked to find themselves standing at an altar in wedding garments and then Bleck officiating their wedding, though Bowser quickly goes along with it. Luigi was left on the floor and wakes up a few minutes later, equally shocked. |
| 321 | * In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', Nathan passes out from a gunshot wound and the cold of the Himalayas, then wakes up in a Tibetan village. |
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| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 325 | * ''Webcomic/{{Awaken}}'': After Piras passes out upon being rescued by the Athena the reader gets a first-person perspective of the med-bay ceiling coming into focus for him before it hops to normal perspective and he starts to ask where he is and is quickly reminded of his situation by the crew. |
| 326 | * ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Fern starts out waking up not in her own bed, but the hospital bed. Bears some resemblance to AbandonedHospitalAwakening, but as becomes clear, The Hospital is anything but. %%This would be better if it said where Fern lost consciousness. |
| 327 | * ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'': After the titular character is badly injured, her first words are to wonder why heaven is so poorly decorated. Needless to say, she's not dead. |
| 328 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': After Elliot passes out after transforming he [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-11-21 wakes up]] tied to a pole in the Nest having been brought there by Hedge. The title notes that it's "A strange place to wake up". |
| 329 | * ''Webcomic/TheFoxSister'': The opening sequence closes with a classic example when Yun Hee wakes up in the hospital. %%This would be better if it said where Yun Hee lost consciousness. |
| 330 | * In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', during the {{Flashback}} arc explaining how Ki and Fooker know each other, Fooker gets so drunk that he hits on Ki, who [[GroinAttack kicks him in the groin]]. When he wakes up, he finds out that she's taken him to hospital and she helps him to quit his alcoholism by threatening to kick him again. |
| 331 | * In ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'', on [[http://mildegard.ru/Gifts_of_wandering_ice/English/page97_eng.html page 97]], Elie wakes up while Tim carries her away from the cliff she nearly fell off. She is not herself and says eerie things. |
| 332 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When Gil wakes up in Mama Gkika's, he assumes he's been out of action for days when it's only been a few hours. |
| 333 | * In ''{{Webcomic/Godslave}}'', after Edith is knocked out by Turner, she spends a moment staring blankly at the museum library ceiling and wondering where she is. |
| 334 | * In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]] |
| 335 | * In ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', Radd, after taking some infected code, wakes up in the Moderators' infirmary, initially believing that he's in hell before he opens his eyes. |
| 336 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Outside of ''King of Swords'', this happens to Allison [[OnceAnEpisode Once a Book]]. |
| 337 | * ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis'': Joan Of Arc [[http://www.timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=352 passes out at her execution in 1431...]] [[http://www.timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=353 and then wakes up in a modern-day hotel room,]] having been rescued by Cassie and Matt. |
| 338 | * ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' - Edin after being sedated by a guy hired by Khun, wakes up in Khun's house, with Nobic sitting next to him. |
| 339 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': When Duane falls into the Uneasy Mines he blacks out, to awaken far beneath the earth with [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch14/ch14_69.html Lemuel hovering worriedly over him.]] |
| 340 | * In ''Webcomic/WTFComics'', Annashi notices an unfamiliar ceiling in the first panel [[http://www.wtfcomics.com/archive.html?388_5 here.]] When she wakes up after being knocked out and enslaved. |
| 341 | * In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', Yokoka passes out going through Betel's barrier at the end of chapter 1 and wakes up in Yin's home at the start of chapter 2. Yokoka [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle is beaten unconscious]] by Hurricane]] at the end of chapter 8, and wakes up [[spoiler:[[BandageMummy bandaged]] and [[HospitalSurprise being cared for]] by Grace]] at the end of chapter 9. Both times she [[UndressingTheUnconscious lost her clothes]], though for different reasons. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 345 | * ''WebAnimation/InvaderZimAVeryTallProblem'': In the first episode, the Almighty Tallest are about to be executed by rebels when they suddenly disappear in a flash of light. When the two wake up, they find themselves in a desert on Earth with no idea how they got there. |
| 346 | * ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Red vs. Blue: Recreation]]'': Subverted/played for laughs when Donut keeps passing out and coming to, and each time he's told strange stories about what has been happening while he was asleep, which makes him wonder and ask how long he's been out. Turns out he's only been out for a few minutes, and the stories sound strange because it's [[TheDitz Caboose]] who's been telling him the news. |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 350 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "No One Can Hear You", Finn is injured and knocked out fighting with a deer harrassing the Candy People. He [[AbandonedHospitalAwakening awakens in the Candy Kingdom hospital]] to find both his legs are in casts and [[EveryoneIsGoneEpisode seemingly everyone in the Candy Kingdom has vanished]]. |
| 351 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}} Arcane: League of Legends]]'': After Jinx knocks out Vi at The Last Drop, the next time Vi awakens she's tied up in the warehouse. |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Aang waking up six weeks after getting struck by lightning, in a [[spoiler:Fire Nation ship]], and panicking. |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode has Peter, Brian, Joe, and Quagmire getting into an accident and waking up in the hospital with no memory of who they are. [[spoiler:It's all a simulation by Stewie, who does the same thing to Lois, Meg, and Bonnie.]] |
| 354 | * ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Homecoming", Hal loses consciousness after attempting a trip through a portal on Zamaron. He awakens back on Earth with amnesia until Carol is able to help him remember his mission. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh'': In "Eeyore Sleeps On It", Porcupine finds Eeyore sleeping by a stump in a meadow. When she and the Super Sleuths finally wake him after much effort, he says he doesn't know how he got there and that he went to sleep at home the night before. They discover that he's {{sleepwalking}} and it turns out it's because [[spoiler:he's being lured in his sleep by Porcupine practicing her flute music, which he considers the most beautiful he's ever heard. She always practices right before she goes to sleep.]] |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has a slightly more comedic variant in the episode "Marvolo the Wizard." After Pops panics and runs into a wall, he groggily comes to and asks Skips if he's back home. A similar scene occurs near the end of the episode. |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS6E7FullMetaJackrick Full Meta Jackrick]]", Morty is startled when he wakes up in a chair by a warm fireplace after collapsing in a frozen blizzard. |
| 358 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E9EternalMoonshineOfTheSimpsonMind Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]" opens with Homer passed out outside in the snow with no memory of the past 24 hours. |
| 359 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E6NomadDroids Nomad Droids]]", after running out of power, R2 and 3PO are salvaged by pirates and wake up in the hold of their captors' ship. |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'': The protagonists apparently drop over dead in a lab. They wake up in a flooded storm drain, very confused. |
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