History Main / HeavySleeper

To some degree, TruthInTelevision. In addition to natural variation making some people sleep much, much heavier than others, there are a number of disorders that include this trope as a symptom. For two well-known examples, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy]] is a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin_syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome,]] which is a rare neurological disorder where sufferers may have episodes where they [[BigEater eat excessively]], [[AnythingThatMoves experience greatly increased sexual desire]], and most prominently, sleep in an extremely deep state for anywhere between 15 and 21 hours a day.

* ''Fanfic/NewStars'': Matt Garetty ''used'' to be this, noting that he used to set three alarm clocks and his mother would still have to get him up in the morning so he'd make it to school. He notes that the only reason why he's not this trope anymore is because SHIELD broke the habit. Now he's annoyed because he wakes up at six every morning even when he doesn't need to.

To some degree, TruthInTelevision. In addition to natural variation making some people sleep much, much heavier than others, there are a number of disorders that include this trope as a symptom. For two well-known examples, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy]] is a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin_syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome]], which is a rare neurological disorder where sufferers may have episodes where they [[BigEater eat excessively]], [[AnythingThatMoves experience greatly increased sexual desire]], and most prominently, sleep in an extremely deep state for anywhere between 15 and 21 hours a day.

** Fat Buu develops this tendency in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', dropping into months-long hibernation periods [[DeusExitMachina whenever it would be too convenient]] for the heroes to have another heavy-hitter. This forces Goku into having to recruit [[spoiler: Frieza right out of Hell]] to take Buu's place in the Tournament of Power.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': The Player Character starts the game by managing to remain asleep through a [[RedAlert General Quarters call]], a pitched space battle, and the crippling of their ship. They only finally awake when the StarTrekShake gets bad enough to hurl them out of bed. [[spoiler: TheReveal puts this in a ''very'' different light (and a bit meta).]]

* [[http://www.nowpublic.com/health/real-life-sleeping-beauty-louisa-ball-has-kleine-levin-syndrome Louisa Ball]], a 15-year-old English girl who has the Kleine-Levin syndrome, causing her to sleep for ''weeks''.

* The safecracker in ''Pinball/JudgeDredd'', who sleeps through machine gun fire and a tank crashing into his room.

* Annie of ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Annie|Alchemists of Sera Island}}''. The game opens with she is being hauled across ''a mountain'' and ''an ocean'' by her grandfather's homunculi, during which she doesn't wake up at all. When she arrives at Sera Island, she is still sleeping, which causes her FairyCompanion Pepe to resort to some mild violence to wake her up (and he has to do it again once or twice throughout the game).

* Dozy in ''[[VideoGame/{{Dizzy}} Fantasy World Dizzy]]'' falls back asleep when you wake him up and talk to him. You can then knock him into the water, and he'll still be asleep.
* Forde from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' is such a heavy sleeper that he takes naps in the middle of battles. This is revealed in [[CrashIntoHello his support conversations]] with [[SugarAndIcePersonality Vanessa]], who naturally assumed he was wounded and needed help. When told how irresponsible he's being, his excuse is that it's a just ploy to draw enemies close for an ambush. He also specially outfits his horse saddle so he can sleep on horseback and not fall off.
* General Haar from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''.

* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Luigi sleeps through a meeting ''and'' an attack from Bowser. He only wakes up when Bowser inhales him after breaking into Peach's castle for a second time. (Though given that he was scratching and moving around, it's likely he was only pretending to be asleep to avoid having to fight Bowser.)

* Senel from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' can sleep through an earthquake that threw him off his bed on to the floor... of the first floor. His bed was on the '''second'''.
** This was actually a RunningGag 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 ''VideoGame/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 [[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2 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. Rutee and Lilith call this technique "Rise from the Grave."

--> '''Micah''': *to an astonished Matt and JM* Yeah, she's a ''really'' heavy sleeper.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', when Ed realizes that his body is probably compensating for Al's, which is still trapped at the Gate, Al remarks that Ed ''does'' fall asleep an awful lot, and wonders if Ed is "sleeping enough for Al's share" too.

* Snoozer in ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'', who takes this to extremes in that every time we see him, he's either asleep or talking in his sleep. However, he tends to give advice to the other characters when talking in his sleep, such as in one episode where he comforts Bijou, who was crying, with a word of advice.

** An {{Omake}} features Yamato, Naruto and Kakashi sleeping in camp. Turns out Naruto's hyper even while fast asleep - he not only snores like a buzzsaw but starts dreaming about fighting, up to and including forming a Rasengan. [[ButtMonkey Yamato]] gets no rest at all, but Kakashi (who had the foresight to wear earplugs) sleeps through the whole thing. "That's just not fair."

* One episode of ''[[Anime/PrettySammy Magical Project S]]'' opens with Ginji, Sasami, and Ryo-Ohki all sleeping through crashing over a cliff into the water and drifting onto an island.

** When Jonah flees on a ship to escape his divine mission, he is asleep in the hold during a raging storm. His fellow passengers wake him up to beg his god to calm the sea. He tells them that the storm is because of his disobedience, and the only way to end it is to throw him overboard--which is how he ends up in the belly of the giant fish.

* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', it's quite hard for vampires to drag themselves to wakefulness during the day. Worse, noticing a disturbance and actually waking up involve separate dice rolls, so it's entirely possible for a vampire to hear a threat but not be able to get moving and deal with it. However, when they wake, they're instantly fully alert.

* [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]] of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' spends about three-quarters of her time sleeping, at the very least. Just as well for the rest of the characters, because when she's awake, she's a nigh-omnipotent TricksterMentor (or just a trickster depending who you ask) who loves messing with people.

* [[{{Hikikomori}} Madotsuki]] from ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' only does three things in her daily life: play video games, write in her dream diary, and sleep. Almost the entire game takes place [[DreamLand in her dreams]].

* Kyoko Ashihara from ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'' -- so much that she's seen sleeping on the cover of the game itself, [[LapPillow on the lap of her friend Kaho]]. The protagonist, Ryo, also seems to skip classes frequently so that he can sleep in SchoolNurse Kaori's office.

* Ryogo Kaburaki [[spoiler:AKA the 2017 version of "The Kid"]] in ''VisualNovel/Ever17'', who snores and talks in his sleep, and doesn't awaken even when [[spoiler:You, Sara, and the 2034 Kid draw on his face.]]

* 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.

* Suzu Suzuki from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. This is justified since she has narcolepsy and that's why she is in Yamaku to start with.
* Riki, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', who also has narcolepsy.

* Shiki from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is one. It's hard to believe that he is [[spoiler:(at least subconsciously) a highly trained assassin.]] Hisui, his personal {{maid}}, doesn't even bother trying to wake him in the morning due to the impossibility of such a task.

* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Easy For You To Sleigh", Lifty and Shifty enter Flippy's house and attempt to rob him while he is 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. Flippy 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.

* Agatha in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Early on she was even more competent as a builder of mad science devices in her sleep and the most astonished one when those devices show up later! As well as known for building and shooting death rays in her sleep - making huge holes in mountains in the process. Oops!

* X of ''Webcomic/AMagicalRoommate'' decided that sleeping every night was inconvenient, so she found a way to stay awake for months at a stretch and then hibernate. It takes a magic potion to wake her up before she's ready once she decides to sleep.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'', when she is not causing destruction and chaos or finding an addiction, Tiffany can normally be seen sleeping in the background.
* Ally of ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' is never shown sleeping eloquently; she sleeps with her mouth open and snores like an animal. Her bed partner Lisa kisses her and gets out of bed without her even stirring.

* Vard of ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'' sleeps through being shaken and punched, his waker eventually resorts to magic to get him up.

* Bill and Morgan in ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle''. Morgan will not be roused by bullhorns in his face, yelling, or shaking - the only reliable way to wake him is to uncap a sharpie in his presence. Bill is much the same; he can only be woken by ninjas, or Morgan holding his nose. According to the season one DVD commentary, this is more or less truth in television. There are only three ways to reliably wake the real Bill: hold his nose, roll him over a full 360 degrees, or push him out of bed.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''
** [=SpongeBob=]'s friend Patrick, as demonstrated in "[[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E15TheSecretBoxBandGeeks The Secret Box]]" and "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS10E11FeralFriendsDontWakePatrick Don't Wake Patrick]]".
** In "A Pal For Gary", [=SpongeBob=] somehow manages to sleep through Puffy Fluffy's rampage all night, not even paying attention to all the smashing and banging in his room.
* Ahito from ''WesternAnimation/GalactikFootball'' will happily fall asleep ''in goal''. This does not necessarily stop him from saving the ball when he needs to.
* Sleepy Bird from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

* Buster Baxter in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''.
* Bill Dauterive in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' on at least one occasion. During when Cotton and Didi's baby was crying all night disturbing the neighbors, Bill was still sleeping even with a squirrel entering his opened window.
* Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. Samy's repeated attempts to wake her only result in her having {{Dream Sequence}}s about Jimmy.
* ''WesternAnimation/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.
* As in his NewspaperComics incarnation, Garfield of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' is also a textbook Heavy Sleeper. Nothing can wake him up -- unless you're trying to hide [[BigEater food]] from him.
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':

* Mr. Von Fuzzlebutt in ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', who can only be woken up on his own. He is even put in the middle of a musical number without so much as a wiggle.
* Dexter's father in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', who combines this with sleepwalking. Sirens, explosions, electrocution, and strange chemicals do not deter his sleep at all. He also thinks he's a light sleeper.
* ''Bedtime Bear'' from ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' and ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot'' is always shown as this. Justified because he wakes up at night to help the bears go to sleep and serves as Care-A-Lot's night watchman. Aside from that, ''Sweet Dreams Bear'' is also this.
* Mr. Cat from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''. In one episode, he explains that it is mainly because [[FurryReminder he is a cat.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': In "War of the [=CatDog=]", Dog tries to make sure Cat is asleep, so he tries calling his name, poking him, and even putting his hand in Cat's mouth. Cat sleeps through all this.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'': In "Unemployment Part 2", Andy goes up to the roof to catch some sun, ends up nodding off in his deck chair, and doesn't wake up for six hours, ''even when it starts to snow!'' It takes Posie slapping him to wake him up.
* The aptly named Snoozy on ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''. And they actually let him drive Chuggaboom?! (Only if it meant RuleOfFunny.)

* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe, who's also TheSlacker.
* Basile from ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie''. Waking him up takes heavy-yield explosives or similar violence. In one instance, Leonard builds an alarm clock contraption that injects Basile with several liters (judging by the size of the syringe) of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment hyper-concentrated coffee concentrate]], only, once it achieves the intended effect, to tell Basile that it's Sunday and he can sleep in.

* The Caliph from ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' spends much of his time contentedly asleep. His advisors know he's worried when he turns in his sleep more than twice a day.

* Paige Fox of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' will often be asleep for most of the day during summer vacation. There have also been other instances of her being asleep for several ''days''.
* Peppermint Patty from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. She has the tendency to sleep through class. This was explained by the fact that her father works late, and Patty is too insecure to sleep until he returns home.

%%* Jeremy Duncan of ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}.'' No matter how bad the mattress is.

* Elliot from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. NOTHING can wake her up before she wants to.
** J.D being a sound sleeper is the basis of at least one joke. When Dr Cox and the Janitor are drinking and talking about how much he annoys them, the Janitor reveals that he regularly sneaks into JD's room while he's asleep and moves things around to mess with him. [[spoiler:They move his bed to the hospital parking lot, where he's woken up in the morning by ambulance sirens.]]
--->'''Dr Cox:''' Well, you're clearly in need of help, but goshdarn it, I'm not gonna give it to ya. How sound a sleeper you think he is?
--->'''Janitor:''' Well, watch this. ''(kicks the foot of JD's bed)''
--->'''J.D:''' ''(sits up, eyes still closed)'' Wha? ''(falls back)''
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. Dr Phlox, thanks to his BizarreAlienBiology, hibernates five to six days a year (placing it between weekly episodes if required, which is convenient). On one occasion the crew have to wake him up with an injection. Phlox simply gives a nonsensical diagnosis and collapses back into unconsciousness.
* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch "Strangers in the Night," the husband doesn't fully wake up even when his wife right beside him is being simultaneously propositioned by five men and a mariachi band.

* Kintaros from ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' 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).
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Josh claims he's not a heavy sleeper, but a video presented by his then-rival, Mindy Crenshaw, shows he really is. Megan and her friend take advantage of this and host a web show featuring them doing stuff to Josh when he's asleep.
* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Snooze", Graham Garden invents a bedtime drink that works so well it puts the entire country to sleep for days. Bill doesn't wake up even when he goes sleepwalking across a minefield.

* Laharl from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' 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.]]
** In "Etna Mode" of the PSP port, Etna is unable to wake him until she ''actually kills him''. [[spoiler:Or so it seems.]]

* The protagonist of ''[[VideoGame/CustomRobo Custom Robo: Battle Revolution]]'' starts off as a heavy sleeper, only ever making it out of bed in the morning if his landlady comes into his apartment to wake him up or his phone goes off. He does improve over the course of the game, though.
* Played for dark laughs in ''VideoGame/OverlordI'' with Oberon, the FallenHero of Sloth. Tiring of a life of fighting, he was convinced to not get involved with the war between [[ElvesVsDwarves the Elves versus Dwarves]], choosing instead to take a long rest upon a tree. This eventually led to him getting entangled with the tree's roots and his nightmares corrupting the forest.
* Forde from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' is such a heavy sleeper that he takes naps in the middle of battles. This is revealed in [[CrashIntoHello his support conversations]] with [[SugarAndIcePersonality Vanessa]], who naturally assumed he was wounded and needed help. When told how irresponsible he's being, his excuse is that it's a just ploy to draw enemies close for an ambush. He also specially outfits his horse saddle so he can sleep on horseback and not fall off.
* General Haar from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''.
* The Player Character in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' starts the game by managing to remain asleep through a [[RedAlert General Quarters call]], a pitched space battle, and the crippling of their ship. They only finally awake when the StarTrekShake gets bad enough to hurl them out of bed. [[spoiler: TheReveal puts this in a ''very'' different light (and a bit meta).]]
* Talon in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series. He's usually found sleeping, in which case a cucco or a megaphone are needed to wake him up.
* In ''VideoGame/YggdraUnison'', after [[spoiler:apparently being killed in the battle for Karona and then reincarnating as usual]], Nessiah sleeps through ''the entire war he wanted to take advantage of'' unless you find his [[SecurityBlanket lost spellbook]], upon which he will immediately wake up (and be [[NotAMorningPerson rather disgruntled about it]]). Seeing as finding the Revelation can be a massive GuideDangIt, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures the game developers are kind enough]] to make Nessiah ''stay'' awake for all subsequent playthroughs once you've found him.
* Annie of ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Annie|Alchemists of Sera Island}}''. The game opens with she is being hauled across ''a mountain'' and ''an ocean'' by her grandfather's homunculi, during which she doesn't wake up at all. When she arrives at Sera Island, she is still sleeping, which causes her FairyCompanion Pepe to resort to some mild violence to wake her up (and he has to do it again once or twice throughout the game).
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'''s Solid Snake won't wake up unless you point a gun at his head... no, wait... Solid Snake will wake up ''the instant'' you point a gun at his head.
* Senel from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' can sleep through an earthquake that threw him off his bed on to the floor... of the first floor. His bed was on the '''second'''.
** This was actually a RunningGag 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 ''VideoGame/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 [[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2 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. Rutee and Lilith call this technique "Rise from the Grave."
* The goal of the online game ''VideoGame/{{Grow}} [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2011/01/grow_cannon.html Cannon]]'' is to wake up the little guy after he [[RingRingCRUNCH smashes his alarm clock]]. It's harder than you might think, as the guy turns out to be able to sleep right through being doused by water, stepped on by a giant foot, electrocuted by a magic staff-wielding man, run over by a train, and being ''blown up into a crater by a rocket''.
* A minor female vendor [=NPC=] in ''VideoGame/{{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 ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. Sims with it can sleep through nearly anything: radios, fires, burglaries, crying babies...
* Dozy in ''[[VideoGame/{{Dizzy}} Fantasy World Dizzy]]'' falls back asleep when you wake him up and talk to him. You can then knock him into the water, and he'll still be asleep.

* "Heavy Sleeper" is a disadvantage you can take for bonus points in ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'', which makes it harder for loud noises to wake you up while sleeping. However, extremely loud noises such as explosions will still wake you up.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Futaba Sakura can sleep in an almost-comatose state on a regular basis, which Sojiro compares to recharging her batteries. [[HandWave This is also the excuse]] of why [[spoiler:she can't immediately keep her part of the bargain of having her Treasure stolen by eliminating Medjed, no matter how early you complete her Palace. This can range to her sleeping non-stop for ''nearly a whole month''.]]
* One of the members of the Toad Brigade in Videogame/SuperMarioGalaxy is always taking naps as part of a RunningGag. He even falls asleep in Shiverburn Galaxy as Blue Toad admonishes him for doing that, saying he'll catch a cold.

* Tatsuko Itagaki from ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' has to be ''physically hit'' by her sister Ami. If a kick doesn’t do it, she goes up another level to an elbow drop. She even seems proud of it, making her phone password 4848 because it can be pronounced as a sleepy onomatopoeia, suya suya. If she could, she'd probably sleep 24/7.

* Kyoko Ashihara from ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'' -- so much that she's seen sleeping on the cover of the game itself, [[LapPillow on the lap of her friend Kaho]]. The protagonist, Ryo, also seems to skip classes frequently so that he can sleep in SchoolNurse Kaori's office.
* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has Sayori, who is often late to school for sleeping in. [[spoiler:This is because she has depression and it makes it more difficult for her to get out of bed and get ready. This is averted in Act 4 when the opening scene establishes that she has been waking up on time for a while. This also implies that her depression has been alleviated to some degree.]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Makina is considered to be possibly narcoleptic. She doesn’t fall heavily asleep, but will simply pass out at the drop of a hat whenever she gets tired and can sleep over half the day quite easily. The doctors just shrugged and said it might be stress-related while Yuuji figures it might be due to her poor physical physique.

* X of ''Webcomic/AMagicalRoommate'' decided that sleeping every night was inconvenient, so she found a way to stay awake for months at a stretch and then hibernate. It takes a magic potion to wake her up before she's ready once she decides to sleep.

* ''Webcomic/MacHall'': Helen is such a heavy sleeper that she keeps clinging to Micah even as he gets out of bed, ''gets both of them dressed'' and leaves for class, still with her hanging from his back.
--> '''Micah''': *to an astonished Matt and JM* Yeah, she's a ''really'' heavy sleeper.
* Sam Starfall from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is generally a lazybones on principle, but he's even worse when sleeping. When sleeping, his engineer Florence curled around him. He briefly woke up, noted her presence, and went back to sleep. Florence left later without Sam noting until he woke up, leaving him confused and complaining she's as sneaky as Sawtooth Rivergrinder, a ''terraforming robot'' who doesn't believe in hiding; besides, he's noted his species have a tradition of "burglar songs", implying his species as a whole suffer from this.

* Beet from ''Manga/BeetTheVandelBuster'' has the ability to stay awake for three days straight, but at the end of the third day, he will fall into an almost comatose sleep from which he cannot be awakened for a full day.
* Sakura Kinomoto from ''Manga/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 ''lot''.]] Similarly, [[spoiler:Yukito/Yue]] starts to become one 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. As a result, ''he'' starts sleeping in more...).]]

* The titular character from ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' can be quite a heavy sleeper, including one chapter where Nobita decides to prank him with his automatic RC gadget, turning a sleeping Doraemon into an RC plane who goes flying through the air... and Doraemon doesn't wake up until he's halfway out of the house. And then there's the prologue of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' where a thief steals Doraemon's collar-bell by tugging at it really hard for a whole minute, and Doraemon doesn't even flinch until it's missing.

* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. As Mako is NotAMorningPerson, our heroines wake her up for early morning training by blank-firing a German tank outside her window.
* Carlos from ''Anime/GunXSword'' is an old man who is nearly always asleep - even at the controls of his part of the CombiningMecha. He wakes up exactly twice: the first time is at the end of the episode introducing the El Dorado V, and the second time [[spoiler:is in Episode 25 when he wakes up to give a RousingSpeech to his discouraged allies. He stays awake for the final episode.]] [[spoiler:He even takes the time to ''introduce himself to the main character'' during the final episode. The guy his group has been traveling with for '''half the series'''.]]
* Nemu from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' [[MeaningfulName got her name]] because she even slept in her final dream before emerging from her cocoon. A few of the other Haibane tease her because of this.

* Morita from ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' makes it a habit to sleep for 48 hours after a job.

* Officer Higurashi in ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' goes through four-year hibernation cycles and is only awake one day during the start of every Summer Olympics. The main characters wake him because of his psychic powers to locate wanted criminals.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' habitually wakes up at noon when it's not a school day, and she'll still think it's morning until someone points out how late it is.
* Tigre from ''Literature/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' is a rather heavy sleeper. While he can be woken for important matters (like wars), those who try to wake him may end up [[ThanksForTheMammary groped or even tackled]] while he remains sleeping, and a sword to the mouth, a strong slap or an equivalent sensation is necessary to wake him.
* William of ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' falls into a DeepSleep whenever intellectually taxed and cannot be woken by anything. [[WordOfGod The manga artist has joked on Twitter]] that he even falls asleep while teaching, eating, and bathing.

* Pop Harukaze from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi''. One of the principal reasons why she [[CantCatchUp couldn't catch up]] with the other Ojamajos despite her natural witchcraft talents was because the apprentice tests were scheduled during the night, but Pop simply could NOT stay awake no matter how many precautions she took and how many times Doremi and the others tried to wake her up. As a result, she doesn't take her first test until a few episodes into ''Sharp''. This is justified since she is a preschool kid. And in another episode, she actually collapsed and fell asleep.

* It is possible to wake ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'''s Kyouya Ootori before noon on a day off, but he won't stay that way very long. In one episode, he manages to incompletely wake through Tamaki and the rest of the club inviting him out and forcing him into clothes, drifts off again as they carry him to the expo they wanted to visit, and winds up forgotten by them, sleeping sitting up on a bench until he wakes up alone and with no recollection of how he got there.
* [[CreepyChild Mario]] from ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' is often seen sleeping on a couch at home.

* Jiroh Akutagawa from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' is often sleeping outside of the courts, and it's so bad that Kabaji often has to carry him on his back so he doesn't arrive late to his matches. And there's also Akaya Kirihara, who once fell asleep in a bus and ''crossed all the way from Kanazawa to Tokyo''...
* Ranma Saotome in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' (who on occasion has been known to sleep through full-on fights he participated in). This has led to some [[EpilepticTrees wild theories]] on how well him being married to [[{{Tsundere}} Akane]] might work out. Some people sleepwalk, Akane sleep''fights''. Hilariously used when Nabiki pours cold water on him when he's sleeping to take pictures of his girl self, then adds hot water so he'll turn back to normal. Ranma later wakes up and thinks [[PottyFailure he has peed in his sleep.]]

* Amae Koromo of ''Manga/{{Saki}}''. To wake her up for the tournament, her teammates set five alarm clocks around her. She slept through every one of them then went on to sleep away the entire day.
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'''s Yakumo has a tendency to fall asleep anywhere, giving her the nickname ''"Literature/SleepingBeauty"''.

* Ryu "The Owl" in ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'', to the point where his sleeping on the job has landed him in big trouble more than once.
* One of the most common {{running gag}}s of ''Manga/SlamDunk'' is how Kaede Rukawa falls asleep anywhere and at any time, unless during practice or games -- once he even fell asleep while ''riding his bike'' to a game and trashed it. And waking him up is NOT an option, since he actually [[UnstoppableRage becomes violent when he doesn't finish his naps]].
* Three characters in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' have this for different reasons. Sanya is simply a night shifter, and thus sleeps through the daily ruckus. Francesca is just lazy but can be woken up with enough prodding. Erica, however, is lazy and disorganized, and not even her roommate's prodding can get her up.
* Boof in ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'' is always the last one to get up, the first one to fall asleep, and is often shown sleeping at the start of the episode.
* Robo in ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'' is implied in the manga to sleep for very extended periods of time. One panel in chapter 4 reveals how she once slept all the way from Friday to Monday, not waking up even once, and chapter 15 has her falling asleep on the train home and ended up riding all the way out to the countryside.
* Shizuno Urushibara is one in ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman''. She is first introduced sleeping on the floor after the opening ceremony and is also asleep in class.
* Nozomi, in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', once launched Coco across the room in her sleep when he tried to wake her up.

* According to Tristan from ''Anime/YuGiOh'', a herd of elephants can't wake Joey up. This turns out to be a problem when "Bandit" Keith decides to live up to his nickname.
* In the tournament arc of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Yusuke has fallen asleep on the boat ride, not even all the fighting going on when some assassins arrive wake him up, he then spends most of his group's first match still sleeping, he only wakes up when it's his turn to fight.
* Eagle Vision of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' naps frequently and has been known to miss important ceremonies because he's sleeping. This is a sign of his poor health. [[spoiler:He knows he will eventually enter a permanent coma, and plans to become Cephiro's Pillar so he can put the land into an eternal sleep as well.]]

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* Bob in ''Film/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.
%%* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'': Prince Valium
* ''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.

* In ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'', Pvt. Cullen is such a heavy sleeper that he falls asleep and falls off his horse without waking up. His impressed squad mates hoist him back into the saddle where he stirs briefly and then keeps riding, still asleep.
* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. Ratcatcher 2 doesn't wake up even when King Shark attempts to eat her, still sleeping soundly while her head is halfway through his mouth. Fortunately her squadmates intervene.

* ''Literature/FunJungle:'' Pete's husband Ray sleeps through a bear attack and once slept through a flight where horrible turbulence made every other passenger scream or vomit.

* We ''never'' see Shari awake in ''Literature/WaysideSchool''.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''[[Literature/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:It 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.]]
* Literature/{{Oblomov}}.

* Taken to another level by Blanche Olney in ''Literature/HalfLife'', who falls - or is pushed - into a deep sleep in adolescence and might be waking up in her twenties.
* "Sleepy Kitty" from ''The Tribune Primer'' by Eugene Field takes a popular {{Animal Stereotype|s}} and exaggerates it:
-->The Cat is Asleep on the Rug. Step on her Tail and See if she will Wake up. Oh, no; She will not wake, she is a heavy Sleeper. Perhaps if you Were to saw her Tail off with the Carving knife you might Attract her attention. Suppose you try.
* Chicken Joe, the titular main character of Music/TroutFishingInAmerica's picture book ''Chicken Joe Forgets Something Important'' is actually a cat who sings that he needs "''16 hours of way down deep / 16 or 17 hours of sleep / at least 16 hours of sleep...''" He'd have more, but he has to eat.
* In ''Literature/PeterPan'', after Wendy tells Peter about how her brother, John, despises girls, Peter goes over and kicks a sleeping John out of his blanket and then out of bed. She initially chastises Peter over it, but then she looks over and notices that John's still asleep.

* Dorothy's second cousin Zeb from ''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz'' managed to sleep through the 1909 San Francisco earthquake.
* In ''Literature/ThePlaceInsideTheStorm'', Tara's dad tends to fall asleep at his desk and is very hard to wake up. [[spoiler:When Tara sneaks back into the apartment, she's able to get the brain implant's firmware code from his [[HeadsUpDisplay glasses]], using his fingerprints to access it, without waking him up.]]

* Tigre from ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' is a rather heavy sleeper. While he can be woken for important matters (like wars), those who try to wake him may end up [[ThanksForTheMammary groped or even tackled]] while he remains sleeping, and a sword to the mouth, a strong slap or an equivalent sensation is necessary to wake him.

* Shizuno Urushibara is one in ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman''. She is first introduced sleeping on the floor after the opening ceremony and is also asleep in class.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Josh claims he's not a heavy sleeper, but a video shows he really is. Megan and her friend take advantage of this and host a web show featuring them doing stuff to Josh when he's asleep.

** [=SpongeBob=]'s friend Patrick.

To some degree, TruthInTelevision. In addition to natural variation making some people sleep much, much heavier than others, there are a number of disorders that include this trope as a symptom. For two well-known examples, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy]] is a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin_syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome]], which is a rare neurological disorder where sufferers may have episodes where they [[BigEater eat excessively]], [[AnythingThatMoves experience greatly increased sexual desire]], and most prominently, sleep in an extremely deep state for anywhere from 15 to 21 hours a day.

To some degree, TruthInTelevision. In addition to natural variation making some people sleep much, much heavier than others, there are a number of disorders that include this trope as a symptom. For two well-known examples, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy]] is a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome]], which is a rare neurological disorder where sufferers may have episodes where they [[BigEater eat excessively]], [[AnythingThatMoves experience greatly increased sexual desire]], and most prominently, sleep in an extremely deep state for anywhere from 15 to 21 hours a day.

To some degree, TruthInTelevision: see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy,]] a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep; and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine-Levin syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome]], a rare neurological disorder where sufferers may have episodes where they [[BigEater eat excessively]], [[AnythingThatMoves experience greatly increased sexual desire]], and most prominently, sleep in an extremely deep state for anywhere from 15 to 21 hours a day.

To some degree, TruthInTelevision: see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy Narcolepsy,]] a chronic sleep disorder (a dyssomnia) characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep.

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* Tigre from ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' is a rather heavy sleeper. While he can be woken for important matters (like wars), those who try to wake him may end up [[ThanksForTheMammary groped or even tackled]] while he remains sleeping, and a sword to the mouth, a strong [[ArmorPiercingSlap slap]] or an equivalent sensation is necessary to wake him.

* In the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1237 SCP-1237]] is an extremely rare state of the human sleep cycle that grants those who experience it RealityWarper abilities. The Foundation have failed to wake people in this state by use of "loud noise, bright lights, chemical injections, electrical stimulation, oxygen deprivation, physical injury and mutilation, [nor] [[ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument [REDACTED].]]"

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* The titular character from ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' can be quite a heavy sleeper, including one chapter where Nobita decide to prank him with his automatic RC gadget, turning a sleeping Doraemon into an RC plane who goes flying through the air... and Doraemon doesn't wake up until he's halfway out of the house. And then there's the prologue of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' where a thief steals Doraemon's collar-bell by tugging at it really hard for a whole minute, and Doraemon doesn't even flinch until it's missing.

** Yuki Sohma also is a heavy sleeper, as well as NotAMorningPerson. During the school trip to Kyoto, his classmates hardly manage to wake him up. Further, Kyo claims that Yuki's even stronger when he's drowsy, since he's too sleepy to hold back. (Which Yuki proves on the spot.)

* Carlos from ''Anime/GunXSword'' is an old man who is nearly always asleep - even at the controls of his part of the CombiningMecha. He wakes up exactly twice: the first time is at the end of the episode introducing the El Dorado V, and the second time [[spoiler:is in Episode 25, when he wakes up to give a RousingSpeech to his discouraged allies. He stays awake for the final episode.]] [[spoiler:He even takes the time to ''introduce himself to the main character'' during the final episode. The guy his group has been traveling with for '''half the series'''.]]

* Officer Higurashi in ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' goes through four year hibernation cycles and is only awake one day during the start of every Summer Olympics. The main characters wake him because of his psychic powers to locate wanted criminals.

* William of ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' falls into a DeepSleep whenever intellectually taxed and cannot be woken by anything. [[WordOfGod The manga artist has joked on twitter]] that he even falls asleep while teaching, eating, and bathing.

** Monkey D. Luffy. In one instance, his crew member Roronoa Zoro bounced off his belly without rousing him. After a fight he will either eat or sleep continuously, and after Ennies lobby somehow taught himself to eat while sleeping to cope.
** We later see that Luffy's brother, Ace, is also a Heavy Sleeper. 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.

* Three characters in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' have this for different reasons. Sanya is simply a night shifter, and thus sleeps through the daily ruckus. Francesca is just lazy, but can be woken up with enough prodding. Erica, however, is lazy and disorganized, and not even her roommate's prodding can get her up.

* Shizuno Urushibara is one in ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman''. She is first introduced sleeping on the floor after the opening ceremony, and is also asleep in class.

* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': Natsumi's almost always late for work, because she's usually either too tired from playing games all night, or [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl so hungover]] that she's too sick to her stomach to get up. If it weren't for Miyuki helping to sober her up in time for their shift, Natsumi might not have a job.

* In the tournament arc of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Yusuke has fallen asleep on the boat ride, not even all the fighting going on when some assassins arrive wake him up, he then spends most of his groups first match still sleeping, he only wakes up when it's his turn to fight.

* Basile from ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie''. Waking him up takes heavy-yield explosives or similar violence. In one instance, Leonard builds an alarm-clock-contraption that injects Basile with several liters (judging by the size of the syringe) of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment hyper-concentrated coffee concentrate]], only, once it achieves the intended effect, to tell Basile that it's Sunday and he can sleep in.

** Donald exploits this in another story, where he has to contend in an interstellar Olympics where the loser's planet is destroyed. While Donald loses all the contests, he's allowed to pick the final round himself. He chooses sleep. He still looses, but the other contestants go into hibernation for tens of thousands of years, and the arrangers can't blow up earth until the last contestant wakes up.

%%* Paige Fox of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''.

* From film: Bob in ''Film/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.

* In ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'', Pvt. Cullen is a such a heavy sleeper that he falls asleep and falls off his horse without waking up. His impressed squad mates hoist him back into the saddle where he stirs briefly, and then keeps riding, still asleep.

* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': In "Meet My Master's Mother", furious with Major Nelson's visiting mother, Jeannie seeks to disrupt her sleep by playing drums, trumpets, and even firing a cannon. Mrs. Nelson doesn't so much as bat an eye... until Major Nelson leaves his room, calling for her asking if she heard anything. Jeannie is then punished with LaserGuidedKarma for her mean-spirited pranks, when Mrs. Nelson innocently uses Jeannie's bottle (with Jeannie in it) to mix up a batch of shampoo! [[spoiler:In the end, Jeannie tries a much more successful "if you can't beat them, join them" approach]]

--> '''Dr Cox:''' Well, you're clearly in need of help, but goshdarn it I'm not gonna give it to ya. How sound a sleeper you think he is?
--> '''Janitor:''' Well, watch this. ''(kicks the foot of JD's bed)''
--> '''J.D:''' ''(sits up, eyes still closed)'' Wha? ''(falls back)''

** Snorlax is notorious for doing two things: sleeping for months at a stretch and [[BigEater devouring entire islands worth of food when it's awake]]. The first game has a BrokenBridge of one falling asleep on a road and blocking all traffic from either direction because nobody can get it to move. Snorlax weigh about half a ton, so they are literally ''heavy'' Sleepers.

** Luigi is once again a heavy sleeper in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam''. This time it serves a plot and gameplay purpose: the story involves Mario and Luigi venturing into the Dream World by Luigi falling asleep on special beds and Mario jumping into his dreams through a portal. Starlow can tickle his nose, pull on his mustache, and even knock his hat over his eyes in order to changes things in the dream, but Luigi will never once wake up until his brother returns to Pi'illo Island.
* Laharl from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' 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.]]

* [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]] of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' spends about three quarters of her time sleeping, at the very least. Just as well for the rest of characters, because when she's awake she's a nigh-omnipotent TricksterMentor (or just a trickster depending who you ask) who loves messing with people.

* Forde from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' is such a heavy sleeper that he takes naps in the middle of battles. This is revealed in [[CrashIntoHello his support conversations]] with [[SugarAndIcePersonality Vanessa]], who naturally assumed he was wounded and needed help. When told how irresponsible he's being, his excuse is that it's a just ploy to draw enemies close for an ambush. He also specially outfit his horse saddle so he can sleep on horseback and not fall off.

* The Player Character in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' starts the game by managing to remain asleep through a [[RedAlert General Quarters call]], a pitched space battle and the crippling of their ship. They only finally awake when the StarTrekShake gets bad enough to hurl them out of bed. [[spoiler: TheReveal puts this in a ''very'' different light (and a bit meta).]]

* Senel from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' can sleep though an earthquake that threw him off his bed on to the floor... of the first floor. His bed was on the '''second'''.

* A minor female vendor [=NPC=] in ''VideoGame/{{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 ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. Sims with it can sleep through nearly anything: radios, fires, burglaries, crying babies....

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Futaba Sakura can sleep in an almost-comatose state on a regular basis, which Sojiro compares it to recharging her batteries. [[HandWave This is also the excuse]] of why [[spoiler:she can't immediately keep her part of the bargain of having her Treasure stolen by eliminating Medjed, no matter how early you complete her Palace. This can range to her sleeping non-stop for ''nearly a whole month''.]]

* Suzu Suzuki from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. This is justified, since she has narcolepsy and that's why she is in Yamaku to start with.

* Tatsuko Itagaki from ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' has to be ''phyically hit'' by her sister Ami. If a kick doesn’t do it, she goes up another level to an elbow drop. She even seems proud of it, making her phone password 4848 because it can be pronounced as a sleepy onomatopoeia, suya suya. If she could, she'd probably sleep 24/7.
* Shiki from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is one. Its hard to believe that he is [[spoiler:(at least subconsciously) a highly trained assassin.]] Hisui, his personal {{maid}}, doesn't even bother trying to wake him in the morning due the impossibility of such task.

* Kyoko Ashihara from ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'' -- so much that she's seen sleeping in the cover of the game itself, [[LapPillow on the lap of her friend Kaho]]. The protagonist, Ryo, also seems to skip classes frequently so that he can sleep in SchoolNurse Kaori's office.

* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode "Easy For You To Sleigh", Lifty and Shifty enter Flippy's house and attempt to rob him while he is 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. Flippy 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.

* Bill Dauterive in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' in at least one occasion. During when Cotton and Didi's baby was crying all night disturbing the neighbors, Bill was still sleeping even with a squirrel entering his opened window.
* Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. Samy's repeated attempts to wake her only results in her having {{Dream Sequence}}s about Jimmy.
* ''WesternAnimation/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.

* One of the most common {{running gag}}s of ''Manga/SlamDunk'' is how Kaede Rukawa falls asleep anywhere and at any time, unless during practice or games -- once he even fell asleep while ''riding his bike'' to a game and trashed it. And waking him up is NOT an option, since he actually [[UnstoppableRage becomes violent]] [[BerserkButton when he doesn't finish his naps]].

Compare GoodMorningCrono. See also DeepSleep. Sometimes overlaps with, but should not be confused with, {{Sleepyhead}}. A RipVanWinkle can take this UpToEleven.

** In many fanworks, Hong Meiling, the door guard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, is like this, which often incurs the wrath of [[NinjaMaid Sakuya]] and her [[KnifeNut knives]]. In canon, however, when Meiling wakes up, she shows no mercy to whoever tries to get into the mansion without the permission of her mistresses.

* In ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', Ratcatcher 2 is this to such an extent that one of her fellow squad mates trying to eat her isn’t enough to wake her from her slumber.

** Komala from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' does the Snorlax one better; it's a [[LaidBackKoala koala-like Pokemon]] said to spend ''its whole life'' asleep. Its ability, Comatose, reflects this; it's treated as having the StatusEffect Sleep for the purpose of certain moves (such as Wake-Up Slap, which does double damage to sleeping Pokémon), but it can still attack in battle.

** Komala from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' does the Snorlax one better; it a [[LaidBackKoala koala-like Pokemon]] said to spend ''its whole life'' asleep. Its ability, Comatose, reflects this; it's treated as having the StatusEffect Sleep for the purpose of certain moves (such as Wake-Up Slap, which does double damage to sleeping Pokémon), but it can still attack in battle.

** Komala from ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' does the Snorlax one better; it's said to spend ''its whole life'' asleep. Its ability, Comatose, reflects this; it's treated as having the StatusEffect Sleep for the purpose of certain moves (such as Wake-Up Slap, which does double damage to sleeping Pokémon), but it can still attack in battle.