Basic Trope: Someone wakes up violently, often attacking whatever/whoever woke them up.
- Straight: After Bob wakes her up, Alice punches him in the face.
- Exaggerated: Alice destroys the entire room she's in just as soon as she got woken up.
- Downplayed: Alice instinctively punches the air, but doesn't hit anything.
- Justified:
- Alice was fighting before she was knocked unconscious.
- Alice was dreaming about fighting.
- Alice had some sort of nightmare or night terror, and Bob suddenly waking up made her feel as if she was in danger.
- Alice is mad at Bob for waking her up.
- Alice is suffering Power Incontinence.
- Inverted:
- Alice has a dream where she's hugging someone, and when Bob wakes her up, she hugs him because she thinks he's a part of the dream.
- Bob wakes Alice up by punching her.
- Subverted: Alice throws a punch, but turns out to still be asleep.
- Double Subverted: Bob tries again to wake her up, and he succeeds this time, albeit not without getting hit again.
- Parodied: Upon being woken up by Bob, Alice hits him with a Pie in the Face.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice doesn't attack Bob while half-asleep.
- No one is seen sleeping or waking up.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob avoids waking Alice up, knowing she could possibly hurt him if she's startled.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Alice accidentally kills or severely injures Bob, much to her horror.
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