-->''"How can the fate of the world depend on such a lazy boy?"''
-->[[TheScrappy Navi]], '''LegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time'''

When it comes to {{Kid Hero}}es, they're usually not granted the courtesy of starting their adventure out in the thick of combat. That would just be cruel, unless they're being forced to undergo TrainingFromHell. In many cases, if the main character in a role-playing game is no more than sixteen years of age, they'll likely start the game in bed, sleepy and bleary-eyed. A younger sibling, parental figure or, if it's a DatingSim, UnluckyChildhoodFriend will usually be the one to awaken the hero, informing him/her that they're LateForSchool/an audience with the king/a date with their [[LoveInterests love interest]].

This is an easy way to get the character into their morning routine, giving the audience [[EasingIntoTheAdventure a tour of their daily life.]] It may not look good for the character if he/she wakens up and finds out they [[LaserGuidedAmnesia can't remember a thing about themselves]].

A form of EasingIntoTheAdventure. May be the "wake up and go to school" in WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.
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* The title character from ''SailorMoon''.
*''CardcaptorSakura'' wakes up from a prophetic dream at the beginning of the first episode, as well as many others before the end of the Clow Card Arc.
* Ash from ''{{Pokemon}}'' oversleeps in the first episode and Professor Oak gives him Pikachu instead of one of the Kanto Starters (though Movie 4 implies a certain amount of foreknowledge)
* ''TheTwelveKingdoms'' begins with Yoko having a dream about [[ManipulativeBastard a strange man]]—an important character who continues to taunt her for much of the first arc.
* ''{{X1999}}'' also begins with a "prophetic dream"—really a few moments of the dreamer's next day at school.
* ''{{Haibane Renmei}}'' starts with a dream the main character has immediately before hatching from her cocoon, and spends most of the first few episodes having the world of haibane explained to her, as she has no memory of who she is or where she's from.
* ''ExcelSaga'' episode 4, in its parody of [[DatingSim Dating Sims]], has this: Excel looms over the bed telling the player to wake up, or they will be LateForSchool.
* ''{{Project A Ko}}'' starts with just this trope. More, since the fact that she has superpowers, she does a lot of collateral damage rushing to school.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' spoofs this in the ''final'' episode of the series. Shinji is shown a vision of an alternate life for himself, in which his life is more like a typical shounen series--including being woken up by Asuka, who is now his UnluckyChildhoodFriend.
* ''PrincessTutu'' opens with Ahiru having a nightmare and tumbling out of her bed.
* ''ChronoCrusade'' starts this way as well, although with a bit of a twist. In the manga, Chrono is sleeping in a car when Rosette gets a call to go on a mission. When he's slow to get up, Rosette (literally) kicks him out of the car. In the anime, both Chrono and Rosette are asleep in their car when they get the call--Chrono wakes up first and gently wakes up Rosette, since he's worried Sister Kate won't want to speak to him.

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* [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy It must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays.]]

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* The TropeNamer is one of the opening lines in the initial translation of ''ChronoTrigger'', where Crono's mom wakes him up to go to the Millenial Fair. Later, Crono has a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone bizarre dream]] where the exact scenario plays out with the MysteriousWaif instead of momma.
** The Dream is replayed in a [[RoadCones secret]] [[MultipleEndings ending]] where Crono is a Reptite and his Reptite Mother wakes him up and he meets [[AlternateTimeline Reptite Marle]] in Millennium Fair.
** A similar occurrence happens in ''ChronoCross'', where Serge's mom wakes him up (from a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone prophetic dream]]) warning that he's late to a date with [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Leena]].
* In the opening to ''{{Disgaea}}: Hour of Darkness'', demoness Etna awakens Prince Laharl by smacking him with a number of weapons, and is just about to ''shoot'' him when he finally wakes up. From a ''two-year'' nap. Talk about a HeavySleeper...
** In the [[NewGamePlus "Etna Mode"]] for the PSP and DS versions she fires the shot, apparently accidentally kills him, and decides to become Overlord herself. [[spoiler:Except he turns out not to be dead at the very end of the story.]]
* ''DragonQuestIII'' also starts this way, with the hero's mother waking him or her up for an audience with the king... on his/her [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday sixteenth birthday]], no less.
** Ends up being a [[ChosenOne different trope altogether]], as the hero was raised from a young age to ''be'' a hero, and would start his/her epic quest on his/her sixteenth birthday by design.
* The ''TalesSeries'' love to do this:
** The first day of ''TalesOfPhantasia'' begins with the main character waking up in the morning.
** Stahn Aileron, the main character of ''TalesOfDestiny'', has [[HeavySleeper narcolepsy]] as his entire gimmick.
*** As does his son Kyle in the sequel, to the point that his mother wakes him up in the same fashion that Stahn's sister did (by banging a ladle very loudly against a frying pan right next to his head)
** ''TalesOfSymphonia'' begins with Lloyd being awakened from sleeping while [[StandingInTheHall standing up and carrying buckets]].
** ''TalesOfLegendia'' is an exception, but protagonist Senel ''does'' have a great deal of trouble getting up in the morning; one of the party usually has to go and wake him.
** Your created character in ''Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology'' wakes up at the foot of TheWorldTree and, yep...you've got amnesia. Of course, your character [[MysteriousWaif isn't the only one]]...
** The prologue in ''TalesOfInnocence'' turns out to be the protagonist's [[ReIncarnation dream about being a general in an alien war]]. The game proper begins as he wakes up from it.
** Like Lloyd, Shing of ''TalesOfHearts'' opens the game waking up from a daydream he has... ''while practicing swordplay''. Ouch.
*''KingdomHearts'' begins with Sora being woken up on the beach by Kairi. (Okay, ''technically'' it begins [[AllJustADream within the dream he's having]], but...)
*''TheLegendOfZelda'' games also love to do this: it happens in ''A Link to the Past'', ''Link's Awakening'', ''Ocarina of Time'', ''The Wind Waker'', ''Minish Cap'', ''Twilight Princess''...
** To be fair, Link's Awakening [[spoiler:runs with the idea]].
*At the beginning of the first ''GoldenSun'' game, Isaac's mother awakens him... in the midst of a huge thunderstorm... in the middle of the night... to inform that a massive boulder is about to fall on the town.
*The graphical roguelike ''Azure Dreams'' starts out with the KidHero sleeping comfortably in bed...until his sister awakens him by violently jumping on the bed.
** It's his female friend (and possible love interest) ''and'' his little sister. Depending on your actions in the game, this can change.
* In ''Heart of Darkness'', the game opens with the protagonist being awakened by his SadistTeacher after falling asleep in class. Oddly enough, it sounded like the teacher was actually explaining something ''interesting'' for once...
* Also seen at the beginning of the online multiplayer game ''Monster Hunter'', although nobody is there to wake your character up from his/her slumber.
* Oddly, ''DarkCloud'' does this, but doesn't give you control of the character - in fact, the character is promptly knocked unconscious when, urm, civilization is wiped off the map.
* ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' does this in the first game as well as having it as the opening of many of the chapters across the series.
* In a dark twist, ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'''s protagonist, The Nameless One, starts the game by waking up [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue on a mortuary slab]] with [[IdentityAmnesia no memory of who he is]] or [[OntologicalMystery how he got there]]. His wake-up call comes from a floating, [[DeadpanSnarker wise-cracking]] skull. His day doesn't improve from there, though it does (if you can believe it) get more interesting.
* EarthBound starts this way too, but it isn't your mother waking you up... it's the crash-landing of a meteorite carrying future not-bee that does.
** It's treated more conventionally in Mother3 when Claus wakes Lucas up by yelling at him to come and play.
* ''FinalFantasyVIII'' begins with Squall regaining consciousness in the Balamb Garden infirmary after a fight with [[TheRival Seifer]].
* Subverted in ''CommanderKeen: Keen Dreams'', where (in the backstory) the protagonist is woken up by a bunch of enemies, which he quickly dispatches.
* In ''TheJourneymanProject'', Agent 5 is awoken from a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone psychic dream that only he has]] to find he is late for work. In the UpdatedRerelease ''Pegasus Prime'', [[strike:Crono's mom]]a fellow agent calls him on his eyepiece to inform him as such, and to see the doctor about all those ominous dreams he keeps having.
* In LucasArts' ''{{Loom}}'', the hero is napping on a cliffside at the beginning and is awoken by a messenger nymph: "Rise, son of Cygna! It is the dawn of your 17th year. The elders await you in the council."
* The beginning to every ''{{Pokemon}}'' game.
** Except for Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, where the game starts with you... in the back of a moving truck. Hmm.
** Diamond, Pearl, ad Platinum feature you watching a TV report.
* The main characters in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' get carried into Ivalice in their sleep. In the sequel however, the adventure starts sometime in the afternoon after school's over.
* ''[[LegendOfLegaia Legaia: Duel Saga]]'' features a character trying to wake the protagonist at the beginning of the game with a spoon and bucket. How the player chooses to react to this sudden stimulus (wake up calmly, wake up fearfully, go back to sleep) helps determine the protagonist's attitude for the rest of the game.
* ''StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' begins with the player character asleep on a spaceship. That's losing a fight with a Sith battle fleet. "HeavySleeper" doesn't even cover this.
* ''EternalDarkness'' starts by giving control to the player in the middle of protagonist Alex's dream, in which she's fighting off a neverending stream of zombies, probably to give you some level of the hang of fighting early on - no matter how you do, you won't take any damage and Alex wakes up, more properly starting off the game, after a set time.
* Hikari Netto of ''RockmanEXE'' only begins the first game sleeping, but he does begin each chapter thus, since "go to bed" is the game's chapter break. Of course he fits the standard "lazy sleepyhead" schtick to a tee, making him lucky to have a sentient and diligent alarm clock for a brother.
* ''DragonQuestSwords'' starts out with your father awakening you with a nasty [[StuffBlowingUp Kaboom]] spell and sending you on your way to the castle.
* ''ShinMegamiTensei'' begins with the hero having a dream where he is told he is the center of the balance between Law and Chaos... and then his mother yells at him to wake up. It's when he goes ''back'' to the dream that things get weird.
* PrincessWaltz also begins like this.
* Your landlady yells at you to wake up at the beginning of the Gamecube ''CustomRobo'' game (after a brief flashback sequence.)

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*''Legendary'''s [[http://legendary.comicgenesis.com/d/20060710.html opening]] is very similar.
* Like every other console RPG trope, it [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0026.html makes an appearance]] in ''{{Adventurers}}!''
* Parson Gotti of {{Erfworld}} is introduced this way. Except that it's not his mother, but his alarm clock getting him up at 5:18 pm to work the graveyard shift at Kinko's. Is it any wonder that he ''[[IWishItWereReal wanted]]'' to be summoned to Erfworld?
* In ''OrderOfTheStick'', Durkon's segment in "[[{{Prequel}} Origins of PCs]]" starts out with the high priest of Thor waking him up.

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*''KungFuPanda'' starts out with Po awakening from a kickass, awesome dream (complete with the amusing touch of his father's voice coming out of the Furious Five's mouths) to find out he's late for work in the noodle shop. We then get to see his daily life, from his struggle to get out of bed and [[{{Otaku}} the posters and action figures he's collected]], to his clutziness that prevents him from throwing a throwing star (and topples him ignominiously down the stairs) and the mess he makes of the dining area with his large size. And, of course, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial the boring, ordinary life that he longs to escape from]].
* The pilot episode of ''KimPossible'' opens with Kim bursting through the school doors, printing her homework from the computer in her locker, meeting [[{{Sidekick}} Ron]] and [[NonHumanSidekick Rufus]] and having encounters with [[TwoTeacherSchool Mr. Barkin]] and [[TheLibby Bonnie]].
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