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Heroes usually don't start 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 is no more than [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday sixteen years of age]], they'll likely start the game ''in'' bed, sleepy and bleary-eyed. A sibling, parental figure or, if it's a more romantic genre, PatientChildhoodLoveInterest 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 {{love interest|s}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/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]].

** Spoofed 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 [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Asuka]].

* Parodied in ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}''. Kyousuke gets woken up by his mildly {{tsundere}} little sister in a stereotypically cute fashion; but he immediately realizes this is implausible and, right after a TitleDrop, [[AllJustADream he wakes up for real, having fallen out of bed while dreaming about his little sister waking him up.]]

{{Kid Hero}}es in video games usually aren't 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 [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday sixteen years of age]], they'll likely start the game in bed, sleepy and bleary-eyed. A sibling, parental figure or, if it's a DatingSim, PatientChildhoodLoveInterest 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]].

Very often begins with a dialog box on an otherwise empty black screen, which fades in to reveal the hero in bed after the person speaking has yelled at him to wake up a few times. Depending on how connected the character is to what is to come, there may be a [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic dream as a form of prologue]] beforehand.