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There are some parallels with [[Ontological Mystery]], although typically the characters know how ''they'' got there. [[Super-Trope]] to [[Slept Through the Apocalypse]].

 

== Game examples ==

* ''[[Space Quest]] I'' In the very beginning, Roger Wilco awakens in his closet from the sounds of gun fire and commotion as the ship he is on is taken over by the enemy Sariens. By the time he exits the closet, the crew is already dead, the self-destruction sequence is already engaged, and he has to find his way to the escape pod while avoiding the invaders who are still looking for any living souls who they might have missed.

* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Shatterpoint]]'' has ''the Clone Wars and the Republic at large'' be late to the "party" known as [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Summertime_War the Summertime Wars]. Basically, conflict between offworlders and natives led to a war that starts when the winter snows melt and end when the autumn rains began. Each year. For thirty years as of the start of the book. The natives only support the Republic because the offworlders are supported by the Separatists. Mace Windu, the narrator, notes that his young native companions do not speak of [[Retirony|what they will do " after the war]]". Because it's all they've ever known. {{spoiler|Which makes it kind of heartbreaking when Nick admits his feelings about what he wanted to do with Chalk ''if'' the war ever ended, while holding her corpse.}}

* ''[[With Strings Attached]]'': The four are sent to C'hou, specifically the continent of Baravada, when its entire (dysfunctional anarchistic dystopian/utopian) way of life is dying out. There are hints of a much more orderly past to the planet, especially the magnificent [[Ghost City]] of Ehndris and the implied behavior of the [[Jerkass Gods]] some centuries in the past.

 

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