Stolen Pixels #203: While You Were Sleeping

[gelles]

"Good Morning, Disaster" quote]

And there's our trope name.

 

[karhell]

In my opinion, the best example of "wake up to disaster" is still Soul Reaver: you wake up hundreds of years after having been executed, just to find out the world is completely in ruins and your clan has been wiped off the map.

In fact, now that the question arises, there are really loads of games that get away with that kind of trick...

 

[LeeshaJoy]

Does the "Wake up, your dad's left the Vault and my dad thinks you're involved somehow" moment in Fallout 3 count? There's a lot of game before that, but it's all technically part of the character creation process rather than the game proper...

 

[Haseri]

This pretty much covers the trope in question. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodMorningCrono]

 

[Irridium]

In Fallout 3 you wake up by being born.

If that counts.

 

[psychic psycho]

That's hilarious. I've never noticed that even though I've played all the games listed. So Shamus is playing Alpha Protocol? I hope there will be more comics on it; as I've played through the game a couple of times.

 

[PoweD]

kind of same thing happens in HL2 where you were too tired and was sleeping on a train when gman had to wake you up with his awesome voice

I dont think so. It always appeared to me that gman pulls you out of his off dimensioanl prison and drops you into the train. Maybe you were sleeping in there but thats why one of the other train riders says "i didnt see you getting on the train" or something.

it still counts as you aren't really awake and are sleeping in his dimensional prison but it still ends up being a "mystery" of waking up at the starting point

kind of same thing happens in HL2 where you were too tired and was sleeping on a train when gman had to wake you up with his awesome voice

Or it can be related to the end of Half-Life 1 where Gordon and G-Man talks on a train, only that in the HL2 beginning Freeman was "transferred" to that train that goes to city 17. You can think it actually happened since the others didn't see him get on. I don't think it takes 20 years to take a train to City 17.

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It still count as a sleep and waking up,since you are not in a awake state between HL1 and HL2

 

[DTWolfwood]

lolz hired after waking from a coma!

Wishes it was that ez to find a job if and when im unemployed

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

It's actually Peragus, not Pegasus for the KOTOR 2 mining facility.

Just thought I'd point that out.

Also does Link waking up to find his Uncle heading out to fight the entire castle and then having to fight the entire castle in Link to the Past count?

 

[mexicola]

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - you wake up after just being turned into a vampire, your sire is dead and you know nothing about the vampire society. Que the terrorist attack and a friendly vampire tutor and off you go.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

The Darkness where you wake up in the Back of a car after being knocked out, and are in the middle of a car chase. Also the new Alone in the Dark game.

 

[Hippobatman]

Almost every god damned Zelda game.

Well. Some of them, anyway.

 

[Woodrow87]

Portal and Bioshock 2, I guess should be on here.

 

[andypants]

Jade Coccoon.

 

[DJ Lord Destructocon]

Can't forget about Golden Sun. Wake up and the town is being attacked by a volcano or meteors or something at least that does a shitload of destruction.

 

[zombie711]

in sonic adventure 2 shadow wakes up in a goverment building fights a giant robot and dicides to blow up earth

 

[shirin238]

Oblivion: you tag along with Captain Picard who is about to be assassinated

 

[craddoke]

Well I guess The Nameless One Counts, waking up on a mortuary slab to discover that you may not in fact be a corpse seems to fit the bill.

Yes, Planescape:Torment is the answer to every question.

 

[SlyderEST]

I'm pretty sure that in Will Rock you had an intro and then you jumped right into the fray. I think the only thing you remembered was sleeping with your girlfriend or something. Then you killed Zeus or something. Went to Olympus so probably.