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* ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'': "Kara and the Dreamsmith", the chapter which kicks off the proper FanVerse, begins when [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream of the Endless]] wakes [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]] up.

* ''Film/GhostLab'': The movie begins with Dr. Wee being woken up by his cellphone ringing. He then sees he's surrounded by a bunch of scary-looking figures and lets out a scream... then his vision clears up and he sees that they're all mannequins.

* ''FIlm/DontLook'': After the title, we see Nicole sleeping in the back of the car with some of her friends, one of whom (Lorena) wakes her up.

* ''Film/{{Horrorvision}}'': Near the start of the movie, [[TheProtagonist Dez]] is woken up by his girlfriend. First she tries talking him awake, and then smacks him in the butt when that doesn't work.

* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'': "Saigon. Shit! I'm still only in Saigon."

* Season 3 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' opens with Tucker waking up in the middle of the canyon after having been seriously injured and knocked out at the end of the previous season. Donut wakes him up out of boredom, and catches Tucker up on the events of the season 2 finale, helpfully giving the audience a recap on what the characters are doing now.

* ''Literature/{{Afterglow}}'' begins with Josie waking up from a nightmare, a few hours before she's supposed to.

* ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda The Legend of Zelda]]'' [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda animated series]] began its first episode with Link waking up, in true Link fashion.

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* Seeing as ''VideoGame/AnotherEden'' shares a lot of themes and even a writer from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', this is also a running gag in this game. Aldo is awoken in almost the exact same manner by his sister Feinne, and is awoken by his other comrades as he progresses through the main story.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'':
** The TropeNamer is one of the opening lines in the initial translation, where Crono's mom wakes him up to go to the Millennial Fair. Later, Crono has a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone bizarre dream]] where the exact scenario plays out with Marle instead of momma. And when you finish the game normally, the trope is again replayed, but this time with a soldier waking him up.
** A variant: at one point in the game, Crono and the party spend the night at Frog's place while a plot-critical decision is being made. Frog wakes the party with, "Awake'th, Crono!"
** The Dream is replayed in a [[MultipleEndings secret ending]] where Crono is a Reptite and his Reptite Mother wakes him up and he meets [[AlternateTimeline Reptite Marle]] in Millennium Fair.
** Oddly, advertisements for the Nintendo DS re-release referenced the line verbatim... even though in the retranslation the actual phrase isn't used.
** A similar occurrence happens in ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'', 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.]]
** From the creators' earlier effort ''VideoGame/RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'', the game starts with our heroine Cornet being woken up by her fairy puppet Kururu while she's mumbling about the prince of her dreams. Kururu, fed up with her charge's fantasy, [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender smacks her in the face with a sword]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'''s first chapter begins with [[PlayerCharacter Kris]] getting woken up by Toriel to go to school. The second chapter starts the same way, but with the addition of Toriel scolding Kris for eating all the pie the night before.
* The City Elf storyline of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' involves the player character being woken up by their cousin Shianni for their wedding day.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/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.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'', you start with a dream in which you are defeated by the BigBad, after which you are woken by your sister. [[spoiler:Except it's the ''opposite''. You really did go to fight this guy, he curbstomped your group, and now you're playing as the Dream World counterpart of himself.]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestSwords'' starts out with your father awakening you with a nasty [[StuffBlowingUp Kaboom]] spell and sending you on your way to the castle.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** Although ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' doesn't ''technically'' start with this, since the first couple minutes are a ColdOpen, the story proper begins with Chrom and Lissa waking up the Avatar in the middle of a field. [[spoiler: It's repeated, with an extra line of dialogue, if the player decides to sacrifice the Avatar in order to destroy Grima.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', after the Prologue (which was a dream), the Avatar is awakened from their slumber by their {{ninja maid}}s Flora and Felicia.
* At the beginning of the first ''VideoGame/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 "main" story of the sequel begins with Felix waking up after being knocked out by a tidal wave.
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** Both the original trilogy and the Reclaimer Saga begin with the Master Chief waking up from [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] in order to defend the CoolSpaceship he's aboard, first in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' and then in ''VideoGame/Halo4''. Heck, the "defending the ship from invaders" part really isn't too different from the Master Chief's everyday life either.
** ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST''[='s=] SupportingProtagonist enters the story by being rudely woken up by Romeo. Right afterwards, he's in a DropPod hurtling towards Earth. Don't worry, he's an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper; falling from orbit in a metal coffin is just a regular day at work for him.
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' starts off with Hat Kid getting startled awake by her radio, and by startled, we mean she ''launches'' herself out of bed.
* In ''VideoGame/HeartOfDarkness'', 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...
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' begins with Sora being woken up on the beach by Kairi. (Okay, ''technically'' it begins [[AllJustADream within the dream he's having]], but...)
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII The sequel]] starts with Roxas waking up in his room, but there is more to it than it looks like.
** This happens again later when Sora, Donald, and Goofy wake up after sleeping for a year after the events of ''Chain of Memories''.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' starts with Roxas waking up in his room in The Castle That Never Was.
* ''VideoGame/AKnightsQuestForMilk'':The game starts with Knight being woken up by his mother to get milk.
* Link waking up at the beginning of each installment of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has become a tradition in the series ever since ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'', as a StealthPun on [[KingInTheMountain "the hero's awakening"]] folktale motif. Over the course of the series, various Links have been woken up from sleep by [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast mysterious]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild voices]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening friendly strangers]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime fairies]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker siblings]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap their best friend]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword their best friend's pet bird]]...
** Double subverted in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. The first cutscene with Link has him awake and talking with one of the villagers... but you're only given control of Link after a second cutscene, where he's woken up by a different villager the next day.
** The SpinOff game ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' uses this trope, except it's ''Zelda'' whose awoken from slumber (thanks to a CatapultNightmare), while Link is already awake and training with other soldiers in the castle courtyard. The side story Linkle's Tale begins with Linkle waking up to learn that Hyrule is under attack.
** Completely averted in the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI NES]] [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink originals]], ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages/Seasons]]'', ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords the]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures multiplayer]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes games]]. Those installments have Link wide-awake as someone who JumpedAtTheCall or managed to be the RightManInTheWrongPlace.
* In ''VideoGame/ShounenKinindenTsumuji'' the story starts with Tsumuji's mother waking him up to get meat for her to cook.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** The first day of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' begins with the main character waking up in the morning.
** Stahn Aileron, the main character of ''VideoGame/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)
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' begins with Lloyd being awakened from sleeping while [[StandingInTheHall standing up and carrying buckets]].
** ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' opens the game waking up from a daydream he has... ''while practicing swordplay''. Ouch.



* ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'' starts out with the KidHero sleeping comfortably in bed...until his female friend and his little sister awaken him by violently jumping on the bed.

* Also seen at the beginning of the online multiplayer game ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'', although nobody is there to wake your character up from his/her slumber.
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', you wake up to Amata telling you that your dad is gone, Jonas is dead, and her dad is trying to kill you.
** In fact, in ''Fallout 3'' you wake up for the first time EVER, as [[AHeroIsBorn you are born]].
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' you wake up in Goodsprings clinic a few days after having been shot in the head.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overblood}}'' begins this way from a freezing tube.
* Oddly, ''VideoGame/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.
* ''VideoGame/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, ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'''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.
* ''VideoGame/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. In the middle of the night, no less. Jeff, too, is awakened in the middle of the night, this time by Paula's telepathic message, and sneaks out of the boarding school to come to the rescue.
** It's treated more conventionally in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' when Claus wakes Lucas up by yelling at him to come and play.
** And ''VideoGame/{{Mother|1}}'' starts with you waking up to your house being possessed by ghosts.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' begins with Squall regaining consciousness in the Balamb Garden infirmary after a fight with [[TheRival Seifer]].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen: Keen Dreams'', where (in the backstory) the protagonist is woken up by a bunch of enemies, which he quickly dispatches.
* In ''VideoGame/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 VideoPhone to inform him as such, and to see the doctor about all those ominous dreams he keeps having.
* In ''VideoGame/{{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."
* An odd variant in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'': the game effectively starts with the player waking up old mentor and expert Professor Oak and then telling him the time.
** It's presumably you having a dream, one of those sorts when you start to wake up.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', the player is instead woken up by their mother's Fletchling bumping into them.
* The main characters in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' get carried into Ivalice in their sleep. In the sequel however, the adventure starts sometime in the afternoon after school's over.
* ''[[VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia Legaia II: Duel Saga]]'' opens with a character trying to wake the protagonist 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.
* ''VideoGame/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.
** The second game begins very similarly, except that the entire prologue shows how the astromech droid gets the Ebon Hawk to Peragus II. It isn't until after you've been there a while that Kreia wakes you up. Things have not gone well since your arrival.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' series subverts this, with various vicious wake-up calls. "Rub some acid into his eyes!"
* ''VideoGame/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.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' uses this regularly in the main numbered games, almost always accompanied with a dream sequence. [[spoiler:Coincidentally, everyone who wakes up the hero is killed.]]
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' 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. [[spoiler:His mother is murdered and impersonated by a demon shortly after he leaves]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' starts with Aleph (under the name Hawk for the prologue) woken up by his trainer Okamoto immediately. The usual dream sequence is instead scattered throughout the prologue as flashbacks due to Aleph being an amnesiac. [[spoiler:Okamoto is killed when Abaddon destroys his district]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has the protagonist, on his way to visit a sick teacher, fall asleep before the game starts. The dream consists of said teacher foreshadowing the fact that the apocalypse is about to happen, as well as a few naming screens. He is then woken up by an announcement on his train. [[spoiler:The unseen announcer is killed during the Conception]].
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', Flynn goes through a MindScrew of a dream in which he is briefly introduced to each faction. At the end, his childhood friend Issachar wakes him up so they can make the Gauntlet Rite. [[spoiler:Issachar turns into a demon and Flynn has to MercyKill him]].
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' starts with visions of the past before Nanashi is woken up by his childhood friend/adoptive sister Asahi for a mission. [[spoiler:Asahi dies saving Nanashi from a demon]].
** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are more of a "Good Evening". In the former, one of your party members will greet you when you return to the dorm. In the latter, your adorable cousin [[TheCutie Nanako]] will greet you every night when you get home. [[spoiler:Cloying as it is, you'll still miss it when it's gone.]] Both games also play the trope straight, as they both start with the main character having a dream while taking the train to their home of the moment (the MC of ''3'' dreams of meeting Pharos and then wakes up just before the Dark Hour; the MC of ''4'' visits the Velvet Room in his dream and wakes up just in time for his uncle to pick him up).
* ''VisualNovel/PrincessWaltz'' also begins like this.
* ''VisualNovel/AmnesiaMemories'' plays with this in Clover and Spade World, with the heroine waking up in her room and the spirit Orion greeting her. He then asks if she remembers him and their conversation in the prologue. Said prologue could also apply, as Orion is calling out to the heroine to wake up after he accidentally crashed into her.
* Naturally ''VideoGame/LinearRPG'' in its parody glory uses this to start... each chapter.
* Your landlady yells at you to wake up at the beginning of the Gamecube ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' game (after a brief flashback sequence). She does this in subsequent days also, but eventually you either start waking up from a phone call instead or just on your own.
* The [[InteractiveFiction Text Adventure Game]] ''VideoGame/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984'' starts with you as Arthur Dent, waking up in his home with a serious hangover.
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireI'' subverts this; the game starts with Ryu being awakened by his grandmother... because their village is ''on fire''.
* Arguably appears in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. While the game technically starts with a scene of [[spoiler:the Normandy being destroyed]], the main gameplay starts with Shepard waking up [[spoiler:in a Cerberus lab that's under attack]].
** This trope is inverted before [[spoiler:the attack]]: Shepard wakes up [[spoiler:in the lab, but since s/he's not quite ready to come BackFromTheDead yet, Miranda tells him/her to go back to sleep...then administers a tranquilizer so Shepard doesn't have time to argue.]]
* ''VideoGame/Portal1'' begins with the player being brought out of suspended animation.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' does the same, but in a dedicated crate decorated to look like a hotel room. Twice, even: first for the JustifiedTutorial as a routine scheduled checkup, and then by Wheatley who has been desperately scouring the stacks for anyone who's still alive.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' begins with the title character asleep in bed, then adventure literally falls into his lap in the form of Bunston.
* Happens quite a few times throughout the ''VideoGame/ShiningSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' You're being woken up after passing out during training.
** ''VideoGame/ShiningForceII'' the protagonist begins the game by being woken up by his mother.
** Mars from ''VideoGame/ShiningWisdom'' is awakened by his grandmother and told he has to get into town because today is the day he joins the army.
* ''[[VideoGame/BatenKaitos Baten Kaitos Origins]]'' starts like this, with the main character waking up from a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone Prophetic Dream]] to begin his first mission with the Dark Servicemen.
* Both main characters wake up this way in ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' both start with the PlayerCharacter waking up, but lack the "hey you, wake up!" part of the trope.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the player character is woken up by another prisoner on a prison ship about to make landfall in the eponymous province.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' begins with you waking up in a cart leading you to a mass execution -- one which you aren't supposed to be a part of and is quickly interrupted by a dragon attack.
* The Prince/Princess in ''VideoGame/FableIII'' is awakened by Jasper, the butler, at the start of the game.
* ''VideoGame/SummonNight: Swordcraft Story'' starts off this way, the main character being told to wake up a seventh time.
* Yuuto in ''VisualNovel/AseliaTheEternalTheSpiritOfEternitySword'' starts the game out with his little sister trying to wake him up and failing, and his friend Kyouko trying to wake him up and succeeding.
* This happens at the beginning of ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'' with Shahra trying to wake up Sonic.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/BraveSoul''. The hero starts the game sleeping, then wakes up to find that he's tied up in the middle of the forest.
* ''Videogame/JablessAdventure'' begins with Jables waking up with a squid on his head. This squid is there to deliver the CallToAdventure.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven 2'' and ''3'' starts out this way.
* Played both subverted and straight in ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis''. The main character, Sieg, who usually oversleeps, wake up very fast in the intro because he's so excited he get to go hunting [[{{Mook}} laggarts]]. The one who's oversleeps is his friend, who's normally the one waking Sieg up. Sieg's childhood friend, Marica, pops in after that, and surprises that her friend can wake up on his own.
* ''Madou Monogatari: Hanamaru Daiyouchienji'' begins with Arle being woken up by her mother and sent off to kindergarten.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'', The Kid wakes up to find his whole world turned into a rock in the sky...
* The InteractiveFiction game ''Punk Points'' started with the main character's mother waking them up from a caught-in-your-underwear nightmare for their "very first day of high school."
* The title character in ''Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal'' was woken up by his little brother.
* ''The Clique: Diss and Make Up'' starts with your character being woken for their first day at "Octavian Country Day School."
* ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel'' begins with Aoto oversleeping and getting yelled at by his boss.
* The first game of the ''{{VideoGame/Awakening}}'' series begins with protagonist Sophia waking up from a century of enchanted sleep. As she's suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia, her first order of business is to find out who she is (she doesn't even remember her own name) and why everyone keeps calling her 'Princess.'
* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' starts with Tiz asleep in Caldisla Inn, being woken by the innkeeper. [[spoiler: Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 also start in the same way.]]
* ''VideoGame/SpyroShadowLegacy'' starts this way, with Spyro waking up on the last day of his vacation to Dragon Shores.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' begins with Ark being woken up by Elle and talking about the strange dreams he's been having before getting out of bed.
* When we get introduced to Channing of ''VideoGame/{{Lunarosse}}'', he's sleeping in on his first day of work.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'' begins with you waking up at the Academy, being informed that you've overslept and is running late for your graduation ceremony. Earlier beta had you wake up on your ship after suffering some kind of crash.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' games ''Reverse of Arcadia'' and ''Over the Nexus'' begin with the player character awakening in their quarters.
* ''VideoGame/MizzurnaFalls'' starts with [[PlayerCharacter Matthew]] being woken up by the ringing of his phone.
* ''VideoGame/PeblitoRockAndRoll'' kicks off with Peblito waking up in his bed, having overslept.
* ''VideoGame/RaccooVenture'': At the start of the game, the PlayerCharacter is sleeping on some stones when the powers that be wake him up to start his journey in protecting the artifacts from the Tattooed Tatus.
* ''VideoGame/OceansHeart'': The game begins with Tilia waking up late and having to rush out to do a task for her dad. The reason she woke up late is apparently because she was up all night helping Hazel gather mushrooms. Hazel makes up for it somewhat by giving Tilia back her sword that she had left at Hazel's place.
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* ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerDonuts'': [[TheProtagonist John]]'s first scene in the movie is being woken up from sleep by his alarm clock, which he pushes off the drawer. Then his mom calls him, to which he responds that he's up.

* The TropeNamer is one of the opening lines in the initial translation of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', where Crono's mom wakes him up to go to the Millennial Fair. Later, Crono has a [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone bizarre dream]] where the exact scenario plays out with Marle instead of momma. And when you finish the game normally, the trope is again replayed, but this time with a soldier waking him up.

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' starts off with Hat Kid getting startled awake by her radio, and by startled, we mean she ''launches'' herself out of bed.
* In ''VideoGame/ShounenKinindenTsumuji'' the story starts with Tsumuji's mother waking him up to get meat for her to cook.

** Actually, you can hear her firing the gun earlier and if you check it after Laharl's awake, it's out of ammo. Which just goes to show even further how zonked out Laharl was.

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** Although ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' doesn't ''technically'' start with this, since the first couple minutes are a ColdOpen, the story proper begins with Chrom and Lissa waking up the Avatar in the middle of a field. [[spoiler: It's repeated, with an extra line of dialogue, if the player decides to sacrifice the Avatar in order to destroy Grima.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', after the Prologue (which was a dream), the Avatar is awakened from their slumber by their {{ninja maid}}s Flora and Felicia.

* The City Elf storyline of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' involves the player character being woken up by their cousin Shianni for their wedding day.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** The first day of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' begins with the main character waking up in the morning.
** Stahn Aileron, the main character of ''VideoGame/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)
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' begins with Lloyd being awakened from sleeping while [[StandingInTheHall standing up and carrying buckets]].
** ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' opens the game waking up from a daydream he has... ''while practicing swordplay''. Ouch.

*** This happens again later when Sora, Donald, and Goofy wake up after sleeping for a year after the events of ''Chain of Memories''.
** Similar to the ''Kingdom Hearts II'' example above, ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'' starts with Roxas waking up in his room in The Castle That Never Was.

** Taken UpToEleven in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', where Link has been sleeping for ''one hundred years.''
* At the beginning of the first ''VideoGame/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 "main" story of the sequel begins with Felix waking up after being knocked out by a tidal wave.

* In ''VideoGame/HeartOfDarkness'', 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...

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** Both the original trilogy and the Reclaimer Saga begin with the Master Chief waking up from [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] in order to defend the CoolSpaceship he's aboard, first in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' and then in ''VideoGame/Halo4''. Heck, the "defending the ship from invaders" part really isn't too different from the Master Chief's everyday life either.
** ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST''[='s=] SupportingProtagonist enters the story by being rudely woken up by Romeo. Right afterwards, he's in a DropPod hurtling towards Earth. Don't worry, he's an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper; falling from orbit in a metal coffin is just a regular day at work for him.

* ''Manga/TheDisappearanceOfNagatoYukiChan'': The first scene involves Ryōko waking a sleeping Yuki in a painful fashion.
* ''Manga/TwentyOneEmon'': Episode 1 begins with 21 Emon waking up. He's told multiple times to wake up before he finally falls out of his bed and wakes up.
* ''Anime/JewelpetMagicalChange'': After the prologue with the 7 years old Airi, we meet her 14 years old self waking up to her alarm clock.

* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', the story's second half begins after a TimeSkip when Shinji wakes up from a coma and Rei informs him that everything has gone to Hell in his absence.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Shinji and Asuka's time-travel adventures begin when they wake up and realize that they’ve gone back to the past.
* Likewise ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime''. Some of the time-travellers take it more calmly than others.
* ''Fanfic/{{Warp}}'' begins with Victoria Dallon waking up on her bed in his old room, [[PeggySue four years in the past]].
* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfZeldaBookOfTheTraitor'': Chapter 2, the chronological start to the heroes' adventure, starts with [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] waking up from a nightmare.
* ''Fanfic/KirbyOfTheStarsTheAfterStory'': After the prologue, the story opens with Kirby being woken up by Fumu and Bun.

* ''Fanfic/SecondBloom'' starts when Sakura gets out of bed.

* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'''s second story arc starts out with Dev-Em being awoken by his girlfriend.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' SelfInsertFic ''Fanfic/AStepOntoChronos'' starts when the main character's alarm clock sounds.

* ''Fanfic/FuneralForAFlash'' opens with Wally West being awakened from sleep by someone knocking on his door.

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' starts off with Hat Kid getting startled awake by her radio, and by startled, I mean she ''launches'' herself out of bed.

** Seeing as ''VideoGame/AnotherEden'' shares a lot of themes and even a writer from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', this is also a running gag in this game. Aldo is awoken in almost the exact same manner by his sister Feinne, and is awoken by his other comrades as he progresses through the main story.

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' starts off with Hat Kid getting startled awake by her radio, and by startled, I mean she ''launches'' herself out of bed.

* Owen wakes up from a weird dream in the first scene of ''Webcomic/Project0.''
* ''Legendary'''s [[http://legendary.comicgenesis.com/d/20060710.html opening]] is very similar.

* In ''Webcomic/TheDemonArchives'', at the beginning of Chapter 1, Tenzin gets woken up early by his AI assistant for an urgent mission.
* At the start of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' Act III, Jade is properly introduced while sleeping as part of an EstablishingCharacterMoment, so the narrator and the reader have to wait for her to wake up for a few pages. Luckily, she's written some notes [[BreakingTheFourthWall for the reader]] in advance, e.g. a chastisement of the reader for attempting to name her "[[RunningGag Farmstink Buttlass]]".

** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' are more of a "Good Evening". In the former, one of your party members will greet you when you return to the dorm. In the latter, your cousin [[TheCutie Nanako]] will greet you every night when you get home in a borderline TastesLikeDiabetes fashion. [[spoiler:You'll still miss it when it's gone.]] Both games also play the trope straight, as they both start with the main character having a dream while taking the train to their home of the moment (the MC of ''3'' dreams of meeting Pharos and then wakes up just before the Dark Hour; the MC of ''4'' visits the Velvet Room in his dream and wakes up just in time for his uncle to pick him up).

* Happens quite a few times throughout the ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'':

* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': Shinji and Asuka’s PeggySue adventures begin when they wake up and realize that they’ve gone back to the past.

This is an easy way to get the character into their MorningRoutine, 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]].

* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' also begins with a "prophetic dream" really a few moments of the dreamer's next day at school.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'''s first chapter begins with [[PlayerCharacter Kris]] getting woken up by Toriel to go to school.

* ''VideoGame/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.

** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' starts in the same way.

** In fact, in ''Fallout 3'' you wake up for the first time EVER, as you are born.

* The [[InteractiveFiction Text Adventure Game]] ''VideoGame/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' starts with you as Arthur Dent, waking up in his home with a serious hangover.

* The [[InteractiveFiction Text Adventure Game]] ''VideoGame/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' starts with you as Arthur Dent, waking up in