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Rip Van Winkle
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Someone is settling down for a nice nap. When he wakes up, it may take a while to realize it's several years or several decades later. He sees the effects of his absence. Anything he did wrong can no longer be fixed. Those who loved him, if still alive, are miserable, and everything has changed. The Future Is Shocking and Fish out of Temporal Water tropes may ensue. A combination of Yet Another Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Plot sans Christmas elements, often with some 20 Minutes into the Future mixed in. This is Older Than Feudalism. The story it's named after is an old American folktale, which itself is derived from an earlier Dutch folktale, having variants stretching back to the third century CE. Compare the King in the Mountain and Human Popsicle. Compare Cold Sleep, Cold Future and Asleep for Days. See also Year Outside, Hour Inside, where the victim doesn't sleep away the years but spends them in an enchanted place. When the character is conscious during this it's The Slow Path. An extreme version of this trope is Slept Through the Apocalypse, where the world has ended while the protagonist slept. If you want to add humor when that person wakes up, use Rip Van Tinkle. When someone is deceived into believing this trope it's Faked Rip Van Winkle. Also compare the Heavy Sleeper. |
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In a Chinese legend, a lumberjack in a forest stumbles upon a group of Immortals playing checkers. Fascinated by the play, he stops to watch it, and when the Immortals finish, the lumberjack realizes the handle of his ax has decayed of age. This legend is referenced in Medieval Japanese The Pillow Book. | |
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This happens to the main character, their sibling, and adopted parent in Bleach: The Third Phantom. Luckily, the protaganist takes it better than the others, or else things would've really gone to hell. | |
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Senior Year has 17-year-old Stephanie Conway suffer a cheerleading accident in 2002 that lands her in a coma by the time she peaked in high school. Twenty years later, she wakes up and decides to finish her senior year. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has Link wake up after a century-long slumber. He was put in such a state because he was in front of death's doors when Calamity Ganon ravaged Hyrule and the corrupted Guardians attempted to kill him. He wakes up fully recovered, but without his memories. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise, episode "Twilight." Captain Archer wakes up many years in the future, after the destruction of Earth, to learn that he contracted an alien disease causing a form of anterograde amnesia: every six months, he wakes up with no memories since he contracted the disease. It all ends with a Reset Button as they use Techno Babble to retroactively cure the disease, returning us to the plot arc. It's really just an excuse to run an Alternate Universe plot about the Enterprise's mission failing. | |
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In The Sleeper Awakes, a man previously in a coma for centuries happens to awaken to find himself now not only in a bleak, dystopian future, but also the richest man in the world due to the compound interest on his bank accounts which had been compiling for so long. | |
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The Space Odyssey Series: The last and final volume, 3001: The Final Odyssey, finds Frank Poole — previously killed by HAL in the first book — discovered by a space-tug after floating about the Kuiper Belt for a millennium; the absolute zero temperature of deep space having preserved his body, which the ultra-advanced society of 3001 is able to heal and bring back to life. | |
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The Simpsons features a guy who fell into a coma in the '70s. | |
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Parodied on The Kids in the Hall, where they had a sketch where a man fell asleep for 20 minutes and woke up to a world largely the same, except for everyone, including the man, acting as if years had gone by. And "the Elongulator," which is not described any further. | |
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WandaVision has Monica Rambeau waking up from a nap in a hospital room, and discovering five years have passed. During that period, she was outright non-existant, being among half the population of the universe that was wiped out by Thanos (something that happened as she dozed off), and thus revived when the Avengers reversed that decimation - the reason why she was in the hospital, her mother Maria, even died three years prior. | |
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Buck Rogers: Buck Rogers was a mining engineer who mustered out of the air service at the end of The Great War. He was surveying the lower levels of an abandoned mine near Pittsburgh when the roof collapsed and a strange gas seeping out of the rocks put him into suspended animation. He awakens and emerges from the mine in 2429 AD, in the midst of another war. | |
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A Looney Tunes cartoon (The Old Grey Hare) featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd has the latter sleeping for over sixty years to reach the unimaginably distant year 2000, where he and a geriatric Bugs still battled each other amidst pop culture references whose meanings have long vanished into history for the modern viewer. | |
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Roswell, New Mexico: Rosa is revived in the second season, nearly a decade after her death, and struggles with her relationship with her younger sister Liz who is now older than her. | |
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Joe "Not Sure" Bauers in Idiocracy is cryogenically frozen, supposedly only for a year … but no one defrosts him for 500 years. When he wakes up he's shocked to discover that the world is now overpopulated with pathologically stupid people. Ditto for fellow test subjects Rita and Upgrayedd. | |
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Forest Kingdom: This happened to the supporting character Wulf Saxon in the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series' book 6 (The Bones Of Haven), who got trapped inside a booby-trapped magical portrait for 23 years while attempting to rob a sorcerer. No time passes for him, but by the time he's set free, his family are all dead or penniless, his friends have become callous and hostile, and the city he'd once hoped to reform has become a Wretched Hive far worse than he remembers. | |
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One Garfield strip has Garfield dreaming about becoming "Rip van Garfield", who had a catnap that lasted 50 years. | |
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Richie Rich dreamed one time that he somehow slept into his old age and now appeared on Jackie Jokers' version of "Here Is Your Life" with all his friends, family members, and even adversaries being much older. | |
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The Dog House Diaries uses this trope to highlight some of the most unbelievable events of the 21st century's first decade in this comic. | |
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In Ever17, Takeshi spends 17 years in cryo-stasis, and upon waking up, discovers that he has 16-year-old children. The story of Rip van Winkle himself is discussed in some of the routes. | |
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Sholan Alliance: Thanks to spending 1500 years in an alien stasis cube, Rezac and Zashou get to experience a mix of this trope and Cold Sleep, Cold Future. | |
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Invoked by some train robbers in The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Rip Van Winkle Caper". The robbers' intent was to remain in gas-induced suspended animation until their theft of gold bullion had been forgotten. Unfortunately, this also left enough time for humanity to discover a means of manufacturing gold, meaning that their stolen fortune is effectively worthless (although in the end they all expire before learning of this fact). | |
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One of the earliest narrative films ever made, Rip Van Winkle, is a 4 1/2-minute film dramatizing the Trope Namer's visit with some strange spirits, followed by his 20-year nap and revival in the woods. | |
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Red Dwarf enforces one upon main protagonist Lister, as while he has been rendered a Human Popsicle as a punishment, a deadly gas strikes the ship, killing all the humans, so the computer keeps him on ice until it can get rid of the gas completely. Which takes 3000 years. | |
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Inverted in an episode of The Angry Beavers. The two beavers spend the entire episode trying to stay up all night, only to realize their clock is broken. When they go outside, decades have passed and they can see a futuristic city on the horizon. Played straight in the Sequel Episode "Up All Night 2: Up All Day - The Reckoning", where the beavers struggle to get to sleep after "stupidly staying up for a bazillion years". When they finally manage it, they end up sleeping for the same amount of time as they spent awake last time, only this time, not only have they become old and grey, but sheep have become the dominant species as well. |
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Captain America ends up referencing this trope when he confirms that Peter Parker is back in his body after the whole Superior Spider Man mess. The Human Torch tells Peter this, referencing the time he was dead. | |
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In Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, Princess Sakura wakes up for the first time after losing her feathers... about a day ago. She will spend the entire series between now and the Tokyo arc effectively sleepwalking. | |
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Justified in Captain America: The First Avenger, where Steve Rogers gets frozen in the arctic in the 1940s and is woken up again in modern times. Needless to say, he's a bit surprised when he puts it together (because Steve had been at the baseball game S.H.I.E.L.D. put on the radio to put him at ease). | |
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A medieval legend told in various versions tells of a monk who comes to doubt God because he cannot wrap his mind around the Biblical verse "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." (2nd Peter 3:8) (or alternatively "For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past", Psalms 90:4). Deep in thought, he wanders into a forest and forgets of the time (depending on the version, he may fall asleep while sitting down for a rest, or be entranced by a beautiful songbird). At evening, he hurries back to the monastery, only to discover that during his stay in the forest, three hundred years have passed. He realizes that God has done this to demonstrate His power, and dies soon after. The best-known modern adaptation of this legend is the ballad "The Monk of Heisterbach" by Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter. | |
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The setup for The Freak Brothers is that the titular stoners got so high after attending Woodstock that they passed out for 50 years and woke up in the 2020s. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Long before the game's events, a previous princess named Zelda (separate from the one encountered in the preceding game) had a cruel brother who mistreated the citizens of Hyrule with the help of an evil wizard. When Zelda refused to tell her brother what she knew about the location of the Triforce, the wizard tried to kill her with a spell that instead killed him and put Zelda in a deep slumber. The remorseful brother placed his sister in a castle tower in the hope that she would one day be woken up. The plot of the game involves Link finding the Triforce of Courage to do so. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has Link wake up after a century-long slumber. He was put in such a state because he was in front of death's doors when Calamity Ganon ravaged Hyrule and the corrupted Guardians attempted to kill him. He wakes up fully recovered, but without his memories. |
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Parodied in the sketch comedy The State: A man is in a coma for "one hundred and nineteen...almost two hours." However, the world at large seems to have changed as if he'd been in a coma for decades. | |
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The Flintstones: In "Rip Van Flintstone", Fred dreams that he's been asleep for twenty years, "like in that Rip Van Winklestone story", and finds that Barney has become an oil tycoon and that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are married. | |
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Bloom County 2015 begins with Opus waking up from a 25-year nap. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Future Imperfect", Riker falls unconscious after exploring a cave that was flooded with toxic gas and waking up to discover that at that moment he had contracted a strange alien disease that apparently wiped all his memories between the time he fell unconscious and the 16 years since. However, at the end it turned out to be an elaborate holographic illusion created by a lonely alien who had captured Riker and was impersonating his fictional future son. Star Trek: Voyager: In "Living Witness", a backup copy of the Doctor stored in a piece of the ship that had ended up in an alien museum was reactivated and discovered that 700 years had passed since Voyager left the planet. From his point of view, he was on Voyager just yesterday. In "Timeless", the Doctor is reactivated 15 years in the series' future and discovers that he, Harry and Chakotay are the only three members of the crew still alive. Star Trek: Enterprise, episode "Twilight." Captain Archer wakes up many years in the future, after the destruction of Earth, to learn that he contracted an alien disease causing a form of anterograde amnesia: every six months, he wakes up with no memories since he contracted the disease. It all ends with a Reset Button as they use Techno Babble to retroactively cure the disease, returning us to the plot arc. It's really just an excuse to run an Alternate Universe plot about the Enterprise's mission failing. |
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The Gargoyles episode "Future Tense" did this to Goliath. Fortunately, it was All Just a Dream. Also, the protagonists spent centuries as stone statues in the backstory before Xanatos breaks their curse. |
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: Long before the game's events, a previous princess named Zelda (separate from the one encountered in the preceding game) had a cruel brother who mistreated the citizens of Hyrule with the help of an evil wizard. When Zelda refused to tell her brother what she knew about the location of the Triforce, the wizard tried to kill her with a spell that instead killed him and put Zelda in a deep slumber. The remorseful brother placed his sister in a castle tower in the hope that she would one day be woken up. The plot of the game involves Link finding the Triforce of Courage to do so. | |
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In the Pokey the Penguin strip Rip Van Pokey, Pokey gets a 20-minute power nap to find out he is no longer welcome in the Arctic Circle. | |
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Shantae: A New Genie: Thanks to the voice, Harmony was forced into one of these. The amount of time was not stated, but the voice states he put her to sleep as a child and she is now in her early twenties. | |
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The premise of The Munsters Today, as told in the opening theme song, was "We went to sleep some twenty years ago / And woke up with a brand new show!" | |
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Sleeping Beauty: Due to a curse, the title princess falls asleep. She wakes up 100 years later. Much has changed since then, including the fashions - the prince notes how outdated her dress looks. | |
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Pretty much Captain Marvel's whole cast. He, his family, and many of his enemies took long naps as an explanation of how they transfered from the Golden Age to the Modern Era. | |
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Bug Fables: Leif the moth is rescued from a spider's web in Snakemouth Den by Vi and Kabbu. After the trio deliver Snakemouth's artifact to Queen Elizant II of the Ant Kingdom, Leif reveals that he had gotten trapped in the web back when the queen was Elizant I decades earlier. He's a bit shocked at both the technological developments that have happened and at the tenser political environment of modern Bugaria (namely, the Ant Kingdom no longer being on friendly terms with the Wasp or Termite Kingdoms). Worse for him personally, he seems to have outlived his wife Muse. It turns out the "Leif" introduced in the present is not the original Leif, who died in that web all those years ago, but a cordyceps fungus modified by Roach scientists that escaped their hidden lab and took on the memories and personality of the original Leif by entering the latter's body. | |
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"Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who is an interpretation of the original story, which used the twenty-year nap to illustrate that the Revolutionary War (which happened while he slept) really didn't change anything at all, and he was basically living in the same world. It's a bit hidden in the song, but certain lyrics like "And the marching on the left/ Is now the marching on the right/ And the beards have all grown longer overnight" make it a definite reference. | |
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In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, the main character Laharl planned to take a ten day nap... and slept for 2 years. He would have slept longer, but his 'loyal' vassal Etna woke him up. Also between that time, his father died. | |
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Crowley from Good Omens slept through most of the 19th century. To be fair, he is a demon. | |
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The plot of Futurama is kickstarted when pizza delivery boy Fry accidentally freezes himself during New Year’s Eve of 1999 and wakes up a thousand years later. | |
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In Portal 2, Chell gets caught in cryogenic stasis for an indefinite amount of time (the "hotel room" she was in started out intact, and afterwards was severely decayed) at the start of the game. | |
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Happens to Shinji Ikari in the third Rebuild of Evangelion movie, who has the misfortune of spending fourteen years — more or less as long as he'd even been alive before — as a Human Popsicle, with the double whammy of finding out that he accidentally annihilated the Biosphere in a futile attempt to save his love interest. The Earth is a post-apocalyptic Wasteland, and many people are 14 years older and hate his guts for the aforementioned catastrophe, including his former Parental Substitute who gives him the no-son-of-mine treatment and puts an Explosive Leash on him. Also, his former friend/comrade/flatmate tells him in no uncertain terms that she despises him, shattering a wall of security glass to do so. | |
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In the finale of the original Ctrl+Alt+Del storyline, this is what happens to Ethan after hitting the reset button on his time machine to save the future: he gets stuck inside a temporal limbo where time doesn't exist, and is only able to escape when a time portal experiment is conducted eighty years in the future. In the interim his best friend died and his wife remarried. On the bright side, Lijlah is still friendly with him, his creation Zeke is an advocate for AI rights, and he has eight decades worth of games to catch up on. | |
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In The Dead Zone Johnny Smith falls into a coma in October 1970, and wakes up in May 1975. He's shocked to learn that during this time Nixon had to resign, the Vietnam War was won by the Communists, and on the personal front, his girlfriend got married and had a son. He even compares himself to Rip van Winkle. | |
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From Saturday Night Live, Aidy Bryant plays 13-year-old Melanie, who goes to slumber parties only to fall for her friend's father each time. It's slowly built up on when she mentions that her father is "like 72 years old", and she had to take a Vicodin after hurting her back once, but then Vanessa Bayer as her mum arrives to deliver the Wham Line. | |
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In Tangled In Time instead of dying, Ganondorf was comatose for decades with his body being taken care of by the Twinrova before he wakes up. | |
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Twisted Wonderland: An infant Silver was placed into a hundred-year sleep by fairies to keep him safe from wars. When he woke up still an infant, he was discovered and eventually adopted by Lilia. Do note that Silver is based on Princess Aurora from the Disney adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The plot of "Shell Games" is kicked off by Tony, a turtle whose shell is now Patrick's rock house, waking up after a 30 years "oversleep". | |
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A common theme in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction is taking advantage of the fact that this effectively happened to Luna as a result of her being Sealed Evil in a Can for a thousand years. One that doesn't use Luna is The Bridge, where it is Princess Cadance that is an unknowing example given it is heavily implied Princess Amore of the Crystal Empire a millennia ago was her mother. King Caesar spirited her away as a baby to escape from King Sombra after Sombra killed Amore. We next see them 1,000 years later with Caesar giving her away to a kindly young couple. | |
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Sassette in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf was actually a real female Smurf who was trapped in a Crystal Prison for a century since she was a little Smurfling and awakened by Nat, Snappy, and Slouchy with no knowledge of how she became trapped in there in the first place. In "Little Sister Smurf Lost", though, she does find out that an evil wraith named Avengelica put her into the crystal, since Sassette expressed a desire to get even with the male Smurfs who at that time were mistreating her, and thus her hatred for them resurfaces as she exacts her revenge against them, particularly against her older brother Hefty. | |
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The Talmud contains the story of the ancient Rabbi and scholar Honi ha-M'agel, who slept for 70 years, and awakened to find his teachings misinterpreted and all of his friends dead. The texts probably dates from the early 3rd century AD. | |
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One of the articles featured in Marvel Year-In-Review '92 was titled "Marvel 2099: What You Won't Be Seeing". Among the joke spinoffs presented is "Squirrel Girl 2099": | |
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Looking Backward: Julian West is put into a hypnotic trance in Boston 1887, then by a mishap he only awakens in the year 2000, with society changed beyond recognition in the meantime. | |
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South Park did this in an early episode where the boys discover a man frozen in the ice of a cave. He'd been trapped there for 2-3 years, but everybody treats him like a defrosted caveman. When he tries to return home to his wife, he discovers she's remarried (after a few weeks) and has a pair of (somehow) nearly teenage children with her new husband. | |
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Pac-Man: The cartoon's ep #42, "Pac-Van-Winkle." | |
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At the end of Part I of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Byleth falls into a deep chasm during the Empire's attack on Garreg Mach and while their allies do try to look for them, they Never Found the Body until Byleth washes up not far downstream from Garreg Mach five years later, where they learn that the war has been fought to a standstill in their absence. The fact that they were sleeping so long while recovering from their injuries greatly surprises most of their allies, except for Seteth and Flayn. Children of the Goddess are also shown to be able to put themselves in a stasis for years at a time to recover from severe injuries, during which time they do not age. This is why Flayn, aka Saint Cethleann, still seems to be almost a child despite having fought and been severely injured in the War of Heroes over a thousand years ago. That Byleth is able to do this as well plays up their Ambiguously Human nature by implying that they're dragon enough to access this power, something Seteth certainly seems to believe when they reunite at the beginning of Silver Snow. | |
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The four ninja siblings in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! went into a meditative hibernation to hide from pursuing samurai, but overslept and woke up in the modern era. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a controlled example where Asuna willingly went to sleep for one hundred years to help strengthen the base of the Magical World. Since she's a Heavy Sleeper, she overslept by thirty years, and woke up to discover that her Vitriolic Best Bud Ayaka had died the year she was supposed to wake up (having kept herself alive through sheer willpower in hopes of seeing her one last time). Asuna didn't take that revelation well. | |
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In the backstory to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Miriam fell into an enchanted sleep right before she was supposed to be sacrificed in a ritual to cause Hell on Earth, only to wake up ten years later. One decade is a short turnaround for this trope, but the Industrial Revolution is in full swing during that interval, and Miriam is surprised and fascinated by things like primitive photography. | |
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In "How Things Smurf" from The Smurfette Village series, Hefty and Toughette are trapped in a Crystal Prison for half a millennium and wake up to find themselves in the modern world circa 2005 with their fellow Smurfs Brainy and Brainette now elderly. | |
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In Dr. STONE, all of humanity has been Taken for Granite, and the ones that wake up find out they've been unconscious for around 3700 years, with most evidence of modern society wiped away by time and nature. Only a few of them had remained conscious during this state, such as Senku, who spent the time counting the exact amount of seconds he's been petrified. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Living Witness", a backup copy of the Doctor stored in a piece of the ship that had ended up in an alien museum was reactivated and discovered that 700 years had passed since Voyager left the planet. From his point of view, he was on Voyager just yesterday. In "Timeless", the Doctor is reactivated 15 years in the series' future and discovers that he, Harry and Chakotay are the only three members of the crew still alive. |
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The novel Son of Rosemary brings the heroine of Rosemary's Baby up-to-date by having her awaken from a twenty-plus year sleep, just as her demonic son's plotting to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie technically qualifies. She wasn't asleep, but she was trapped in her bottle for 2,000 years before Nelson found it, and she clearly had no contact with the outside (as proven by the fact that she couldn't speak English until he wished for her to be able to). | |
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Captain America. Believed to have died in WW2, he was in fact kept alive as a Human Popsicle in an iceberg in the Arctic. His super-soldier serum kept him from freezing to death for decades before being found and rescued in the Modern Era (originally 1964) by The Avengers. Captain America ends up referencing this trope when he confirms that Peter Parker is back in his body after the whole Superior Spider Man mess. The Human Torch tells Peter this, referencing the time he was dead. One interesting aspect of this is that Cap's service in World War II is one of the few comic stories not subjected to Comic-Book Time, as all they have to do is extend the time he was frozen. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Future Imperfect", Riker falls unconscious after exploring a cave that was flooded with toxic gas and waking up to discover that at that moment he had contracted a strange alien disease that apparently wiped all his memories between the time he fell unconscious and the 16 years since. However, at the end it turned out to be an elaborate holographic illusion created by a lonely alien who had captured Riker and was impersonating his fictional future son. | |
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