Slept Through the Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

''As I lay dreaming of you"''|'''[[Tom Waits]]''', "The Earth Died Screaming"}}

 

 

Our heroic protagonist, [[Unfazed Everyman|Joe Average]], is a very [[Heavy Sleeper]]. His friends joke he could sleep through an atomic bomb blast. In fact, he just did.

* Several episodes of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', most notably Burgess Meredith in "Time Enough At Last."

* The title character of the short-lived ''[[Cleopatra 2525]]'', where the title character is a stripper who wakes up in the year 2525 to discover that machines known as the "Baily" have taken over the surface. Surface humans live in villages with an early medieval level of technology and worship the Bailies. The free humans and mutants live in miles-deep shafts in the earth and must contend with general lawlessness, slave trading, crimelords, the risk of falling, and Terminator-like infiltration robots called Betrayers.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' protagonist Dave Lister is sentenced to eighteen months in stasis for breaching quarantine regs. He wakes up three million years later to discover the ship's crew has been wiped out.

* This is the starting premise of ''[[Andromeda]]''; Captain Dylan Hunt of the Systems Commonwealth is frozen in time for several centuries, and comes out of it to find that the Long Night has come and the Commonwealth has fallen.

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