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== Anime and Manga ==
* Inverted by Osaka in ''[[
* Despite getting 4-5 hours of sleep a night tops, [[Fate/stay
* On ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', when Heero wakes up captured by OZ, he manages to somehow do so without triggering the slightest increase in his pulse or brainwaves, which keeps his captors from noticing he's woken up at all.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': It's unclear if Kenshin's this trope or just a very light sleeper, but when he's on watch he rests sitting up, with his sword in his lap and his forehead resting on the hilt. Once, he heard someone sneaking up on him, started a draw with his thumb...when it turns out to be Kaoru, he drops the sword back down in relief and cuts said thumb.
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== Literature ==
* [[Conan the Barbarian]] exhibits these on several occasions in the original stories by [[Robert E. Howard]] - or, to be more precise, every single time he wakes up on page.
{{quote| ''Conan woke from a sound sleep as quickly and instantly as a cat. And like a cat he was on his feet with his sword out before the man who had touched him could so much as draw back.''}}
* In ''[[Doc Savage]]'' novels, Doc could do this. Justified, in that he had been specifically trained in the ability by an aged Ubangi tribesman.
* [[Tortall Universe|Aly]] tends to leap up with knives in hand when woken up unexpectedly.
** Sounds like the [[Worst Whatever Ever|worst one-night stand ever]].
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld
** And in ''[[Discworld
* In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s Speaker for the Dead, [[Tyke Bomb|Ender]] takes a few seconds to become fully alert when someone wakes him up. And remembers how, back in Battle School, he would be fully alert upon being awoken. This may be [[Justified Trope|justified]], or at least mitigated, by the fact that Battle School was military training, and Ender was raised there for a significant portion of his childhood.
* Bud Not Buddy. Book' title character brags about them.
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* In [[Stephen King|Stephen King's]] 'Salem's Lot, one of the side-characters experiences this trope when a vampire invades his house. It's played a little better than most by explaining that he developed the skill when he served as a soldier in Vietnam and lost it when he came back to the States. In such a high state of panic, it comes back to him and wakes him up almost immediately. Not that it helps much against the hungry vamp....
* Flinx, of the ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series, possesses this trait. He doesn't know if it comes from his [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|abnormal genetic heritage]] or his early life as a [[Street Urchin|petty thief]] on the streets of the planet Moth, but it comes in handy a few times. He also needs only a few hours of sleep each day and can adjust his circadian rhythm more or less at will.
* [[The Jeeves|Jeeves]] from ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
* From the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, the Aiel Wise Ones, and after receiving training, Egwene. This thoroughly annoys Suian, who cannot figure out how Egwene can don and doff sleep like a robe.
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* In one episode of [[Myth Busters]], we learn that Jamie is a very light sleeper. We don't learn if it goes all the way to [[Instant Waking Skills]], because Adam is too impatient to let Jamie get fully asleep.
* Sayid from [[Lost]] demonstrates [[Instant Waking Skills]] when in a doctor's office - upon waking up from drug-induced unconsciousness, he immediately reaches out and begins to strangle the doctor, Jack. It takes him a few seconds to realize where he is and what he's doing. Justified, being a military man who had originally been knocked out in the middle of a fight.
* Pierce is shown to have this in ''[[
{{quote| '''Jeff:''' Discrimination lawsuit!<br />
'''Pierce:''' Preposterous!. }}
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== Video Games ==
* The 'wake' command in ''[[Achaea]]'' takes a randomised but annoyingly long amount of time to go through, unless the player levels up in 'Survival' enough to get 'Metawake', which gives [[Instant Waking Skills]]. Characters will also wake instantly if attacked while asleep. ("The pain jerks you awake!")
* In the 3D [[Super Mario Bros.]] games, Mario will go to sleep if the controls are left alone for long enough, but will instantly wake up and resume his usual running and jumping around as soon as you push something.
* Wander from [[Shadow of the Colossus]]; just press a button upon resuming your game and he'll be on his feet and back to business as usual.
** [[Ico]], on the other hand, has to take a few seconds stretching and yawning when you reload a saved game, and Yorda takes a few seconds to rouse herself as well. And it's adorable.
* Snake from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'' will wake up instantly if the player points a gun at him.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' leaves anything which recovers from unconsciousness (whether from sleeping or pain) stunned for a few turns and needing to use one turn to get up.
* In [[The Sims]], Sims with a low Active stat will take roughly A WHOLE (in-game) HOUR to get out of bed, while those with a high Active stat will jump straight out.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* [[Looking for Group|Cale]] gets woken up to alarms caused by a surprise night attack on the gnome city he's in, and is instantly in the middle of the fight, killing everyone in reach....so fast [[Fan Service|he doesn't even have time to put his clothes on.]]
* ''[[
* In ''[[
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