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* In aptly named Locked Room arc of [[Psychic Detective Yakumo]], {{spoiler|when Takaoka-sensei (in the original novels & Ritsu version) / Yuuichi (in the Suzuka version) ''thinks'' he killed Yuri after hitting her a little too hard, he hides her body in the basement. Turns out she wasn't dead after all. Until she died trying to get ''out'' of the room.}}

 

* ''[[Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons]]'': In chapter 11, {{spoiler|Blackjack after being hauled out of a slaver camp half dead and emotionally worn out from making a Sadistic Choice passes out in a mine-cart... Only to wake up in a room next to a strange stallion named Prist who then explains that she was found unconscious and alone in the rain, a week prior, she has no idea how she got miles away from the slaver camp or what happened to her friends along the way.}}

 

* ''[[Dark City]]''

* ''[[Memento]]''

* In the 2006 film ''Unknown'', the entire cast wakes up with amnesia and locked in a warehouse.

* Occurs in both ''[[The Hangover]]'' and its sequel.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Animorphs]]'' In 'The Familiar', Jake wakes up in a room, his bedroom, only it's a futuristic bedroom, and he's ten years older, with no idea what happened in between.

* The young adult series that begins with ''[[The Maze Runner]]'' begins essentially this way.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' Classic episodes ''[[wikipedia:Stopover in a Quiet Town|Stopover in a Quiet Town]]" and "[[wikipedia:Five Characters in Search of an Exit|Five Characters In Search Of An Exit]]".

* ''[[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries]]'' has "Sole Survivor", where Joe Hardy wakes up in a hospital room with no clue where he is or how he got there, only to find out that he's not only been in a coma for a year, but that his father and brother are dead. Of course, {{spoiler|Frank and Fenton are very much alive, and the whole thing is a [[Mind Screw]] to get Joe to reveal information on a defection attempt.}}

 

== [[New Media]] ==

* Happens to Shelton and Eddie in ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'' story ''Nietzsche's Soldiers''.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* A fairly common way to begin a theatre-style [[LARP|Live Action Role Playing Game]].

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'': Tezzeret gets this treatment at the beginning of ''[[Magic: The Gathering/Test of Metal|Test of Metal]]'' when he finds himself [[Naked on Arrival]] in an empty cave with his etherium arm ripped off.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Cave Story]]''

* ''[[The Neverhood]]''. Very literally applied, as {{spoiler|Klayman was created only a few minutes prior to the game's beginning and still asleep when the player takes control}}.

* ''[[Zork]]'' is "you are in front of a small white house." with no reason as to how you got there. The explanation for the starting locations for later Infocom games makes a lot more sense. Except perhaps for Beyond Zork.

* ''[[The white chamber]]'' has the main character wake up inside of a coffin on a spacestation with no memory of why she's there or why the space station is completely empty and covered in blood, rust, and limbs.

* Every goddamn Room Escape game ever made; see Flash games, below.

* Azada

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Furrocious]]'' starts with the main character waking up in a a gray room with a large door.

* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' likes this trope. ''[[Jail Break]]'' fits the definition perfectly, and ''[[Homestuck]]'' begins in a similar manner (three times).

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

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