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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 on the Head|blow to the head that knocks them out cold]].

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.

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, a kidnapper's lair, or [[Trapped in Another World|another world altogether]].

More often than not the character will receive tragic or otherwise unwelcome news upon regaining consciousness, [[Rule of Drama|for the sake of drama]]. A [[Water Wakeup]] is optional but earns points for good villainous form.

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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.

== Fan Works ==

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* 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]]''.

== Literature ==

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* 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 ==

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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).

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In the land of milk and honey

You must put them on the table }}

== Video Games ==

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* Has happened at least once to ''[[Max Payne (series)|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.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609055558/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter004/ib023.html Roan asks where they are as soon as he regains consciousness.]

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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