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{{quote|''"It's far too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning."''|'''[[Discworld|Nanny Ogg]]''', ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]''}}
 
{{quote|"''The morning is '''evil.'''''"|'''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|Avatar Korra]]'''}}
 
Some characters get up in the morning smiling, [[Wakeup Makeup|their hair perfectly in place]], ready to face their [[Morning Routine]] with a song and the help of [[Disney Creatures of the Farce|cute animal critters]].
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In [[Anime]] and [[Manga]], it seems to often be implied that characters are this way because they have low blood pressure. In the west, these characters are more prone to [[Must Have Caffeine|desperately need coffee in the mornings]] instead. Of course, coffee isn't exactly known to lower blood pressure, so both can go hand in hand.
 
If you [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save Thethe World]], you will most likely be like this. Crime-fighting always beats out sleep, for some reason. Sometimes these characters are also [[Heavy Sleeper|Heavy Sleepers]] in general, but not always. They may also have a tendency to [[Ring Ring CRUNCH|kill roosters and smash alarm clocks]]. Then again [[Slept Through the Apocalypse|some days you really don't want to wake up early]].
 
Can be [[Truth in Television]], as [[Most Tropers Are Young Nerds|many a troper]] could probably tell you.
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* Yuki from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', to the point that he often gets up and sleepwalks in the morning. His karate-trained reflexes are still in effect however, and he'll often swing punches at his rival in his sleep without being fully aware of it.
* Nayuki from ''[[Kanon]]'' is this, as well as a [[Heavy Sleeper]]. She says that she got her spot on the track team because she often has to run to school in the morning.
* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', while the characters are on vacation at Chiyo-chan's summer home, Osaka wakes up and announces that she's going to wake Yukari up by banging on a frying pan. However, she's not yet fully awake herself, and the implement that she retrieves from the kitchen is a large knife, much to the shock of the other characters.
** Yukari herself is not a morning person, often needing her mother or Nyamo to wake her up for work.
* Ayaka Kisaragi from ''[[Phantom Quest Corp]]''.
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* Usagi in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
** Chieri from ''[[The Cherry Project]]'', who is similar to Usagi and also written by [[Naoko Takeuchi]].
* Naru from ''[[Ghost Hunt (Manga)|Ghost Hunt]]'' is not good when he wakes up. Then again, it's his fault for sleeping in a van (vol. 1) and {{spoiler|being possessed by a spirit, to which Lin forces him to sleep with a series of spells and charms in vol. 8 to 9. Needless to say, he was ''not'' in a good mood when he woke up. Lin and Masako witnessed it first hand and they'll never be the same again...}}
* Roger from ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' has this problem, credited both to his character and to his late-night "negotiating". Other characters have repeatedly complained about his tendency to wake up past noon. Thankfully, Dorothy's there to play a little "Run Down" on the piano...
* If Kyon's sister from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' doesn't wake him up every morning with glomps, he'd most probably be late for school.
* Misato Katsuragi from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has this problem, even if she has not been drinking the evening before. Well, that and the fact she's incredibly lazy when it comes to household chores.
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That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,<br />
And dines on the following day. }}
* Bertie in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' is like this, complete with [[Must Have Caffeine]]. In his [[Establishing Character Moment]], he describes being rudely woken up "in the small hours"--at ''half-past eleven.'' If you insist on waking him before noon, ''don't'' try talking to him until he's had his [[Spot of Tea]] and a bit of breakfast--[[Berserk Button|he's pretty patient after that, but not before]].
{{quote| ''If I ever breakfasted at half past eight I should walk on the Embankment, trying to end it all in a watery grave.''}}
** Also from the ranks of [[PGP. WodehouseG. (Creator)Wodehouse|Wodehouse]], there's Mike from the ''Psmith'' series:
{{quote| ''Mike was a stout supporter of the view that sleep in large quantities is good for one. He belonged to the school of thought which holds that a man becomes plain and pasty if deprived of his full spell in bed. He aimed at the peach-bloom complexion.''}}
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* It's been established that [[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]] isn't coherent until he's had his coffee.
* Rachel in ''[[Friends]]'' is one of these.
** She even [[Kick the Dog|shouts at the Singing Guy]]!
* Charlie in ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' rarely wakes up before early afternoon.
* Susan Ivanova in ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' has problems waking up when it's still dark outside -- and she works on a space station.
** This is [[J. Michael Straczynski]] [[Write What You Know|writing what he knows]], as he tells on the commentary track to "Signs and Portents"; he doesn't morning at all well either.
* The short-lived sitcom ''Pearl'' gave us this gem between Rhea Perlman and [[Malcolm McDowell]]:
{{quote| '''Professor:''' Questions about ethics can be answered with one simple thing: a mirror. [...] After the fact, can you wake up the next morning, look into the mirror, and like what you see?<br />
'''Pearl:''' At ''what time'' in the morning? [...] 'Cos I've never seen anything in the mirror before 8 o'clock that didn't belong in a horror movie... }}
* ''[[Father Ted]]'' generally will not start his working day until at least 11 am and frequently later. Consequently, being woken at 5am with an airhorn during Lent comes as something of a shock.
* In [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]] the reason that Lister gave for not finishing college was that there were lectures at two o'clock in the afternoon 'Come on, who's awake then? You can still taste the toothpaste'
* Penny in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. She has a "Don’t knock on my door before eleven o’clock or I punch you in the throat" rule.
 
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** And since it's always at the beginning of the game, it overlaps with [[Good Morning, Crono]].
** Though apart from the games' openings Link tends to qualify as [[The Sleepless]].
* Rin Tohsaka from ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]''. She's not quite as bad as the other examples but tends to be decidedly grumpy in the mornings... Actually, it clashes with her perfect schoolgirl image so badly that even after knowing her for awhile, people are outright shocked to see her dragging about in the morning, completely at a loss for words and unsure if what they've just seen was real.
** [[Weirdness Censor|And then they forget about it.]]
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Rockman EXE]]'' / ''[[MegamanMega Man Battle Network]]'' is that it's nearly impossible to wake up Netto/Lan Hikari on time. On one occasion in the anime he woke up, assumed he overslept, then got all the way to school before realizing it was Sunday.
* In ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Animal Parade,'' the Wizard is not a fan of mornings. Until a certain quest event, you can only meet him around or past ''2 AM.'' He also loves [[Must Have Caffeine|coffee.]]
* Grumpty-type villagers in the original ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' sleep in until around 10 in the morning, most days. In all games, they'll also gripe about it being early in the morning until around noon.
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== Web Comics ==
* Since Dechs "Shadehawk" Rashart -- a.k.a. ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' -- habitually "works nights", he takes this to extremes. Forget mornings -- waking him up before sundown has this kind of effect.
* There's a ''[[Casey and Andy (Webcomic)|Casey and Andy]]'' strip where Andy has made coffee -- despite not drinking coffee himself. The question of "why" is answered when Satan enters -- in the form of a seven-feet tall, winged, clawed, fanged, bright-red and particularly grumpy-looking demon. One gulp of coffee later, she reverts to her [[Evil Is Sexy|familiar form]], brightly remarking "Morning, all!". "Yeah," comments Andy, "It's best if she gets her coffee right away."
** See it [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=537 here].
* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'': [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000722.html "Morning people suck ass."]
* K from ''[[Blip]]''. "I am Monday's bitch."
* Eric Remington, as seen in [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/100 this strip] of ''[[Loserz]]''.
* Arthur in ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'', as seen (amongst other places) [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1765.htm here]. Also Morguase, in order to contrast with her son Gawaine, who rather famously ''[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0518.htm is]''.
* Sarah of ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', as seen [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-08-20 here] and on the next page.
* White from [[Grey Is (Webcomic)...|Grey Is]], he likes to sleep in and if you wanna wake him up early you'd better [[Must Have Caffeine|have coffee]]
* [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4271 Baby Blue] in ''[[Sinfest]]''. Then, she is disgruntled for additional reasons.
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'': Dexter's parents are like this [[Must Have Caffeine|before they have their coffee]]. The coffee is a magical elixir that turns them into the parents we see the rest of the time.
* Jane and Trent Lane from ''[[Daria]]'' are both like this, and according to Daria, so is Quinn.
 
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