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{{trope}}
Something ''bad'' happens. A character gets into a car accident, or they get attacked by an assailant, or some other situation that results in them receiving a [[Tap
Cue a time skip. The character awakens in a daze some time later, usually hours, but sometimes days or even weeks. And they come to only to find that somehow they were transported someplace else whilst they were unconscious - can be just about any place imaginable, but often it is a hospital, a prison, or a kidnapper's lair.
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== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
** 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.
** A similar thing happens when he is scared out of Ehndris and wakes up in the room in the abandoned inn in Ta'akan where the four had spent the previous night. Some 400+ miles away from Ehndris.
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== Film ==
* ''[[
** After receiving a [[Tap
** After being rendered unconscious by [[Instant Sedation|sleep gas]], he wakes up in an underground pipe and must face an electrified tunnel integrity checker.
*** [[Bond Villain Stupidity|Why the two goons didn't bother to shoot him before dumping him in the pipe]] ([[Sarcasm Mode|surely the maintenance-bot will kill him before he wakes up and has a chance to defend himself, why waste a precious bullet or two]]) is a mystery for the ages.
** In ''[[
* This is part of Buffalo Bill's MO in ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]''. After spending weeks stalking a victim, he lures them into his van, knocks them out, handcuffs them, examines their skin, changes them into a jumpsuit and puts them in the well in his basement.
* ''[[Suspect Zero (Film)|Suspect Zero]]'': This happens to the protagonist, FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, after the [[Serial Killer]] {{spoiler|[[Serial Killer Killer|killer]]}} O'Ryan ambushes and drugs him at a county fair. He wakes up some time later bound on the floor of the killer's apartment, where a smiling O'Ryan casually threatens to torture him to death.
* This is basically the entire plot premise of ''[[The Hangover]]'', including the cast literally waking up in Las Vegas with no memories of the previous night's debauchery.
* Taken to an extreme length in ''[[
* The Korean film ''Marrying the Mafia'' opens with one of these. The protagonist wakes up in bed with a [[Mafia Princess]], with neither of them knowing how they got there. The girl's family assumes they had sex. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. At the end, it's revealed how they got there: {{spoiler|the girl's family put them there as a ploy to make her marry a man they approved of}}.
* 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]]''.
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== Literature ==
* 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
* Seems to happen to Katniss more and more frequently as ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' series progresses, particularly as ''Mockingjay'' is basically one long [[Heroic BSOD]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' episode "Infiltrated", Olivia Benson (working undercover as Persephone James) is involved in a fight between police and the ecologist's group she is working with. She is hit by a police officer and knocked out cold, and awakens some time later to find herself handcuffed to a hospital gurney and a police officer informs her that she has been arrested.
* 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.
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* 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.
* In the original ''[[Half Life]]'', Gordon is ambushed by hostile marines and wakes up in a trash compactor.
* Happens three times in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', once in a doctor's office at the start of the game, and twice at the start of the first and third DLC. It would be funny, considering the trope title, but the Courier never wakes up anywhere near Vegas itself.
** Before the Cass romance was cut for time, the Courier and her were going to wake up in Vegas and find out they got drunkenly married the night before.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
* Has happened at least once to ''[[Max Payne (
* In ''Skyward Sword'', Link is knocked out by a volcanic blast as he tries to land in the Eldin Volcanic region. He wakes up with no items and only three filled hearts, in a jail cell.
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