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* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Shinji wakes up in the hospital after his first fight in an Eva and says, "An Unfamiliar Ceiling?"

* ''[[Naruto]]'': At the end of Part I, Naruto wakes up in the Leaf Village's hospital and learns that he and his team failed to stop Sasuke from defecting to Orochimaru.

 

* ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' starts out with the four waking up on another planet. There are other instances as well:

** Ringo is thrown off a garage roof in New Zork and wakes up in the Plaza Hotel, where he'd slammed into a bed there and been in a healing sleep for several hours. That's when he first finds out that bad shocks cause him to teleport to safety.

* ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]'', does waking in some [[Brain In a Jar|device keep one alive]] count? Just ask {{spoiler| [[Girls Aloud| Kim and Nicola]] along with [[Spice Girls| Melanie C]]}} on how's that working out for them.

** In the [[Sequel]], ''[http://fav.me/ddaajka After Case Report]'', Melanie goes into further details about what happens, which to the surprise of the narrator.

 

* ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'' has two examples.

** After receiving a [[Tap on the Head]], [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] wakes up inside a coffin, just in time for an attempt at [[Murder by Cremation]].

* An author wakes up after a car accident to find he has been rescued by his No. 1 Fan and installed in her remote cabin - a situation that isn't as fortunate as it first appears - in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Misery]]''.

 

* In ''Burned'' by [[Ellen Hopkins]], towards the end of the book, the main character Pattyn and her boyfriend Ethan (whose unborn baby she is carrying) are fleeing from a police officer on an icy road. The car ends up going off the road and crashing and Pattyn is knocked out cold. She wakes up in the hospital some time later only to be informed that both Ethan and their child have been killed.

* Paolini relies on this trope a lot in ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]'', using it instead of actual scene transitions in many instances. Examples include: Eragon fainting after finding a wounded Garrow and waking up in the care of the village healer, Eragon fainting of exhaustion after using magic against an Urgal, Eragon fainting again after using too much magic against Urgals, Eragon blacking out when attacked by the Ra'zac, Eragon blacking out again while Murtagh rescues him from said Ra'zac, and Eragon getting knocked out in an Urgal ambush which allows him to be captured.

* Seems to happen to Katniss more and more frequently as ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' series progresses, particularly as ''Mockingjay'' is basically one long [[Heroic BSOD]].

 

* In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfvNYZcqqM opening credits of the first episode] of ''[[The Prisoner]]'', the title character was knocked out via [[Instant Sedation|sleeping gas]]. When he woke up, he was in The Village (no, not [[M. Night Shyamalan]]'s version).

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town''. Two people try to drive home drunk. When they wake up the next morning, they're in a completely deserted town.

* There are at least three episodes of ''[[Psych]]'' where Shawn is struck in the head and wakes up somewhere else. Lassiter's apartment, tied up in a chair, and strapped in a bed respectively.

* In the episode "Strong Arm of the Law" of ''[[American Gothic]]'', a drunken thug is given something that knocks him out, only to wake up and find himeself inside a coffin, laying next to the body of the man he killed; the coffin is in the process of being buried.

* Like in the comic, the beginning of the series ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' has an injured Rick waking up in the hospital, only to find that while he was sleeping, the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] has started and humanity has been almost completely wiped out.

* Happened on ''[[Monk]]'', with Monk being attacked in San Francisco and waking up (with amnesia) in a tiny town in Wyoming.

* In ''[[Noah's Arc]]'', this happens with Ricky following passing out due to an infection, waking up in a hospital.

 

* [[Steely Dan]]'s "Do It Again" has a verse that vaguely implies this; even if the fellow wasn't necessarily unconscious upon arriving, he definitely finds his presence unexpected and a bit unnerving:

 

* ''[[Alan Wake]]'': {{spoiler|The protagonist wakes up in a crashed car after diving into the lake to save his wife}}

* Happens a lot in [[Silent Hill]], with characters waking up near or in the titular town. If they're already there, it often happens again when coming across an important bit of information, after defeating a boss, and when the Otherworld takes over yet again.