Good Morning, Crono: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''I know how you like to sleep in, so I guess this letter will be your alarm clock. Did I guess right?''|'''Zelda''', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''}}

 

 

Very often begins with a dialog box on an otherwise empty black screen, which fades in to reveal the hero in bed after the person speaking has yelled at him to wake up a few times.

* ''[[X 1999]]'' also begins with a "prophetic dream"?really a few moments of the dreamer's next day at school.

* ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'' starts with a dream the main character has immediately before hatching from her cocoon, and spends most of the first few episodes having the world of haibane explained to her, as she has no memory of who she is or where she's from.

* ''[[Project A-ko]]'' starts with just this trope. Moreover, because she has superpowers, she does a lot of collateral damage rushing to school.

* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' opens with Ahiru having a nightmare and tumbling out of her bed.

* The borderline [[Kid Hero]] of ''[[Last Exile]]'', Claus is introduced to us under this guideline. He's a hell of a pilot but it takes multiple strikes on a battered sheet of steel/iron to get him awake so he can [[Jumped At the Call|inadvertently change modern warfare as Prester knows it]].

* The ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime begins this way, with Ash oversleeping and being late to get a Pokemon from Professor Oak, although missing the first three is how he ended up with Pikachu.

* ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]'' begins with [[Decoy Protagonist|Akari]] hitting the snooze button and going back to bed, until Kyoko abuses the doorbell, jarring her out of bed and making her realize she's going to be [[Late for School]]

 

== Film ==

* It happens in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]'' (sort of, as {{spoiler|he "awakes" in a dream world}}), ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' (kind of gets two. {{spoiler|When the second part of the game begins, with Link now an adult, he is woken up in the Temple of Light.}}), ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' (the first we see of Link is his nightmare and subsequently getting woken up by a bird and falling out of bed), ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap|The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' (t starts off with a 1 minute cut-scene, after which Link goes to sleep, and then is woken up the next morning with a yell).

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' both begin with Link having fallen asleep while listening to Niko telling a story.

* At the beginning of the first ''[[Golden Sun]]'' game, Isaac's mother awakens him... in the midst of a huge thunderstorm... in the middle of the night... to inform that a massive boulder is about to fall on the town.

** The "main" story of the sequel begins with Felix waking up after being knocked out by a tidal wave. I guess the writers really had something against the normal laws of sleep.

* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' does this in the first game as well as having it as the opening of many of the chapters across the series.

* In a dark twist, ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'''s protagonist, The Nameless One, starts the game by waking up [[Waking Up At the Morgue|on a mortuary slab]] with [[Identity Amnesia|no memory of who he is]] or [[Ontological Mystery|how he got there]]. His wake-up call comes from a floating, [[Deadpan Snarker|wise-cracking]] skull. His day doesn't improve from there, though it does (if you can believe it) get more interesting.

** It's treated more conventionally in Mother3 when Claus wakes Lucas up by yelling at him to come and play.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' begins with Squall regaining consciousness in the Balamb Garden infirmary after a fight with [[The Rival|Seifer]].

* Subverted in ''[[Commander Keen]]: Keen Dreams'', where (in the backstory) the protagonist is woken up by a bunch of enemies, which he quickly dispatches.

* In ''[[The Journeyman Project]]'', Agent 5 is awoken from a [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|psychic dream that only he has]] to find he is late for work. In the [[Updated Rerelease]] ''Pegasus Prime'', <s>Crono's mom</s>a fellow agent calls him on his eyepiece to inform him as such, and to see the doctor about all those ominous dreams he keeps having.

* And odd variant in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'': the game effectively starts with the player waking up old mentor and expert Professor Oak and then telling him the time.

** It's presumably you having a dream, one of those sorts when you start to wake up.

* The original ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' subverts this; the game starts with Ryu being awakened by his grandmother... because their village is ''on fire''.

* Arguably appears in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. While the game technically starts with a scene of {{spoiler|the Normandy being destroyed}}, the main gameplay starts with Shepard waking up {{spoiler|in a Cerberus lab that's under attack}}.

* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' begins with the player being brought out of suspended animation.

** To some extent, [[Portal 2]] starts in the same way.

== Webcomics ==

 

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', Durkon's segment in "[[Prequel|Origins of PCs]]" starts out with the high priest of Thor waking him up.