History Main / HeavySleeper

* Laharl from ''{{Disgaea}}'' is implied to be a heavy sleeper. When he wakes up from his two year "nap" at the beginning of the game (after Etna tries bludgeoning him with a variety of weapons), he doesn't seem too fazed about it, and one of his nameless henchmen mention that it's pretty typical for him. Furthermore, he comments that he was only expecting to be asleep for ''ten days''. [[spoiler: But it turns out that the reason he slept for two years was he was poisoned.]]

* {{Jesus}}, who [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4:37-41 was asleep in the stern of a fishing boat during a ''furious squall'']]. As the storm raged on, the waves threatened to capsize the boat, and His panicked disciples (experienced sailors themselves) woke Him up. Jesus proceeded to tell the storm to be quiet, ''and it listened''.

* XMenEvolution has Kurt, who not only spends almost an episode asleep when he gets the flu, but also ''teleports'' in his sleep every time he sneezes. This leads to him and Kitty popping up all over town in their pajamas. When he finally wakes up, he thinks it was AllJustADream... at least until Kitty starts whaling on him with a pillow.

* GastonLagaffe, who's also TheSlacker.

* Sakura Kinomoto from CardCaptorSakura doesn't start as one, but begins to sleep more and fall asleep everywhere [[spoiler: as she starts transforming the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards, which drains her of energy a L O T.]] Similarly, [[spoiler: Yukito/Yue]] takes his up as [[spoiler: his limited life energy starts running out; it's only fixed when Touya gives him his own psychic energy so he won't fade away (And then ''he'' starts sleeping in more...).]]

** We later see that Luffy's brother, Ace, is also a HeavySleeper. He once feel asleep while in the middle of eating a feast. The others around him thought he had been poisoned by the food, until he snapped back awake a moment later. After confirming he was just sleeping, and unharmed, he dropped off again mid-conversation.

* From film: Bob in ''WhatAboutBob'' sleeps through Leo asking him to wake up, then yelling, then shaking him, then imitating a rooster. Then his small alarm clock goes off and he peacefully awakes.

* One of the earliest examples was, RipVanWinkle, who slept for ''twenty years''.

* We ''never'' see Shari awake in ''WaysideSchool''.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''[[WhoCensoredRogerRabbit Who Plugged Roger Rabbit?]]''. Eddie tussles with a heavy in an art museum, while a lazy security guard snoozes on a nearby fold-out chair, not budging an inch when the two combatants slam each other into the well mere feet from him. [[spoiler: turns out the security guard was faking it, and in fact becomes a key witness that helps Eddie both justify himself to the police and eventually crack the case.]]
* {{Oblomov}}.

* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''LuckyStar'' habitually wakes up at noon.

* One of the earliest examples would ''RipVanWinkle'' who slept for ''twenty years''.

* It's even a trait in ''TheSims3''. Sims with it can sleep through nearly anything: radios,
fires, burglaries, crying babies....

* A minor female vendor [=NPC=] in ''{{Solatorobo}}'' spends the entirety of the game dreaming of money and [[TalkingInYourSleep talking about it in her sleep]]. She even manages to sleep through a kaiju attack and the final large scale battle at the climax of the game.
* It's even a trait in TheSims3. Sims with it can sleep through nearly anything: radios, fires, burglaries, crying babies....

* Nayuki in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''. The VisualNovel explains the psychological reasons behind her behavior: [[spoiler: her unhappy memories of Yuuichi rejecting her confession of love to him, all those years ago.]]. This leads to some amusing [[NonSequiturThud non-thudding non-sequiturs]] delivered in her barely-ambulatory state.

* In the {{HappyTreeFriends}} episode "Easy For You To Sleigh" Lifty and Shifty have entered Flippy's house and attempt to rob him while he's asleep in a chair, one of them accidentally turns on the tv and a bugle horn plays on the program, they break a few things, and bang some cymbals he never even stirs, they then proceed to steal his stuff and tie him up, only after stealing his plate of cookies and knocking a crumb on the floor does he wake up.

* Shiki from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is one. Its hard to believe that he is [[spoiler:(at least subconsciously) a highly trained assassin.]] Hisui doesn't even bother trying to wake him in the morning due the impossibility of such task.
* Nayuki in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''. The VisualNovel explains the psychological reasons behind her behavior: [[spoiler: her unhappy memories of Yuuichi rejecting her confession of love to him, all those years ago.]]. This leads to some amusing [[NonSequiturThud non-thudding non-sequiturs]] delivered in her barely-ambulatory state.
** This aspect of her character is used for both of her forms in ''EternalFighterZero''. She has a "sleepy" form that parodies the DrunkenBoxing fighting style, and an "awake" form that unleashes her huge alarm clock collection for her Final Memory attack.
*** Speaking of KeyVisualArts, Riki of VisualNovel/LittleBusters does have narcolepsy.

* Suzu Suzuki from ''KatawaShoujo''. This is justified, since she has narcolepsy.
* Riki, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', who also has narcolepsy.

* Kintaros from ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}'' is practically narcoleptic, sometimes falling asleep in mid-conversation and being nigh on impossible to wake. The only thing to consistently rouse him is any word that sounds remotely like "nakeru" (to cry).

* ''Film/''{{Meatballs}}'': Marty used to sleep so soundly that one of the running gags of the movie was to move him and his bed into strange places.

** This was actually a running gag in the Character Quests, where the party members would take turns trying to wake him up. At one point, Will resorted to ''kicking him in the head'' and he still didn't stir.
* In TalesOfDestiny, [[TheHero Stahn Aileron]] is a notoriously heavy sleeper, to the point his sister Lilith developed a ''special attack'' just to wake him up. After he married Rutee, they had a son named Kyle (protagonist of the second game) who inherited this from his father. Rutee obtained her sister-in-law's technique for "waking up the boys": making a racket with pots and pans... right next to their heads.

** However, he fianlly woke up for a short time in one episode to confront Bijou, who was crying.

* OlderThanFeudalism: Kumbhakarna of ''Literature/Ramayana'' is such a famous Heavy Sleeper that in India, heavy sleepers can often be referred to as the Kumbhakarna. A slip of the tongue botched up a wish for the position of the gods and he instead ended up wishing for eternal sleep, which was then changed to allow him to sleep up to six months in a year. But it goes FromBadToWorse. If at any time he was woken up during his sleep, then he would be doomed to die. Being a giant, it took the stamping and goading ''over 1000 elephants'' across his body, the goading of hundreds of soldiers, the beating of thousands of musical instruments normally to be used ''in the middle of a war'' to get him to wake up.

* One of the earliest examples would ''RipVanWinkle'' who slept for ''twenty years'', making this trope OlderThanRadio!

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* Kumbhakarna of the Ramayana, OlderThanDirt, is ''such'' this trope that in India, heavy sleepers can often be referred to as the Kumbhakarna. A slip of the tongue botched up a wish for the position of the gods and he instead ended up wishing for eternal sleep, which was then changed to allow him to sleep up to six months in a year. But it goes FromBadToWorse. If at any time he was woken up during his sleep, then he would be doomed to die. Being a giant, it took the stamping and goading ''over 1000 elephants'' across his body, the goading of hundreds of soldiers, the beating of thousands of musical instruments normally to be used ''in the middle of a war'' to get him to wake up.
* {{Jesus}}, who [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4:37-41 was asleep in the stern of a fishing boat during a ''furious squall'']]. As the storm raged on, the waves threatened to capsize the boat, and His panicked disciples (experienced sailors themselves) woke Him up. Jesus proceeded to tell the storm to be quiet, ''and it listened''.
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* Nayuki in ''{{Kanon}}''. The VisualNovel explains the psychological reasons behind her behavior: [[spoiler: her unhappy memories of Yuuichi rejecting her confession of love to him, all those years ago.]]. This leads to some amusing [[NonSequiturThud non-thudding non-sequiturs]] delivered in her barely-ambulatory state.