History Main / NotAMorningPerson

* Rose from StreetFighter is this. Low blood pressure...

%%** Chieri from ''TheCherryProject'', who is similar to Usagi and also written by Creator/NaokoTakeuchi.

* If Kyon's sister from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' doesn't wake him up every morning with glomps, he'd most probably be late for school.

* It's justisfied with Ryuuji's mother in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' because she works as a late night bar hostess.

** In the opening page of the first post-series comic, [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2017-01.html "Baby Steps"]], although the latter is implied to be due to her [[BabiesEverAfter pregnancy]]. Bonus points for Sabrina [[RingRingCRUNCH whacking her alarm clock]] hard enough to knock over her ''Franchise/Transformers'' figure collection.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "The Mane Event" opens with the girls getting up in the morning. Bubbles and Buttercup slowly emerge -- grumpy, groggy, hair in disrepair. Blossom emerges, glowing beautifully, rocking her ponytail back and forth.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', Inklings are naturally fun-loving creatures who party way too hard so many times they can't wake up early many mornings. During the Great Turf Wars, this came to bite them, because they couldn't wake up early enough to defend themselves from the enemy.

* Jane and Trent Lane from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' are both like this, and according to Daria, so is Quinn.

* ''Pondus''' had a strip where the main character's wife has to resort to drastic measures to wake her near-comatose husband up in the morning so he won't be late for work; using duct tape to rip off a stretch of chest hair. THAT got him up in a hurry.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22459297 Together]]'', where Laurel is so out of it when she wakes that she forgets she ''was dead yesterday''; and is confused when her presence is met with shock.

* The protagonist of the short film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw ALARM]]. At the end, he takes this UpToEleven by [[spoiler:shooting his alarm clock and implicitly ''destroying it'']].

* Mako from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' uses any chance she has to sleep, and nothing short of a cannon salvo will wake her up at 6:00AM. That's literally--the other girls drive their tank to her doorstep and fire off the main gun to wake her up.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In the words of DeceptiveDisciple [[FourEyesZeroSoul Kabuto]], Sasuke "can be a bit cranky when he wakes up." [[spoiler: Sasuke then proceeds to blow up half the base.]]

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Carol Danvers, who responds to wake up calls with mumbled profanity and has to be tricked out of bed - specifically, by Jean-Paul claiming that he's got pictures of a shirtless Rhodey. Even afterwards, she's reduced to monosyllables and grumpy BuffySpeak.

* Bertie in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' is like this, complete with MustHaveCaffeine. In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he describes being rudely woken up "in the small hours"--at ''half-past eleven.'' If you insist on waking him before noon, ''don't'' try talking to him until he's had his tea and a bit of breakfast--[[BerserkButton he's pretty patient after that, but not before]].

* ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' (a novella of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): It turns out Lift is one - when Wyndle tries to wake her up because of an emergency, it takes her a good while to remember where she is, what she's been doing there and why she's asked Wyndle to wake her up.

* Grumpy-type villagers in the original ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' sleep in until around 10 in the morning, most days. In all games, they'll also gripe about it being early in the morning until around noon. ''New Leaf'' introduces [[CoolBigSister Uchi-type]] villagers, who don't get up until 11:00 AM--and if you enter their house around that time, there's a good chance they'll still be asleep...

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Grace is a [[ClintSquint squinting]], [[MessyHair bed-headed]] mess after waking up, and even after [[MustHaveCaffeine having her first coffee]] and [[MorningRoutine a shower]] she continues yawning until she's had her second - she even [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-5-page-6/ sleeps in a "Not a Morning Person" t-shirt]]. Misha is also very much [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-9-page-33/ Not a Morning Cat]].

* The protagonist of the short film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw ALARM]]. At the end, he takes this UpToEleven by [[spoiler: shooting his alarm clock and implicitly ''destroying it'']].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "The Mane Event" opens with the girls getting up in the morning. Bubbles and Buttercup slowly emerge--grumpy, groggy, hair in disrepair. Blossom emerges, glowing beautifully, rocking her ponytail back and forth.

* Mental health can have a bearing on this trope. For those whose cluster of symptoms includes depression, this is more likely than not to be Truth in Television. To the extent that depressed people have a daily cycle of moods - a "diurnal variation", in psych-speak - it's the mornings that tend to be harder. Dementia patients, on the other hand, are more likely to invert this trope: the "sunset effect".

** The aristocracy in general is not very good with getting up early. That's why matinee shows are in the afternoon.

* There is some research that suggests that people's day rhythm is slanted towards late nights and late mornings when they're young, then moves towards earlier sleep cycles as they get older. This might explain why parents stereotypically have so much trouble getting their kids to go to bed in a timely fashion and then have to drag them out of bed in the morning - children and teenagers are this trope by biological hardwiring. Older people in turn are stereotyped as going to bed very early in the evening. In the U.S. there have been serious proposals to start school days later (hey, teenagers need their beauty sleep!), but it rarely gets off the ground since most parents still have to be at work bright and early.

* Mako from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' uses any chance she has to sleep, and nothing short of a cannon salvo will wake her up at 6:00AM.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', it is tiny bit of information contained in one of the Extra chapters published with the 2nd Fanbook, after the manga ended; [[spoiler:Tanjiro informs that Zenitsu at first had to adjust himself to the early morning routine of the Kamado family after he moved into their home at the end, since Inosuke has always been a mountain boy he didn't have the same morning issue]].

* In ''Fanfic/BirthdayBreakfast'', the twins from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' get up in the morning and yawn, stumble, and have "tired eyes".

* Bertie in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' is like this, complete with MustHaveCaffeine. In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he describes being rudely woken up "in the small hours"--at ''half-past eleven.'' If you insist on waking him before noon, ''don't'' try talking to him until he's had his SpotOfTea and a bit of breakfast--[[BerserkButton he's pretty patient after that, but not before]].

* Stand-up comedians perform late at night and working comics can have to wait until the wee hours of the morning to get stage time. And after sets, comics are so pumped up with adrenaline that they then spend hours staying up and talking to each other until they've calmed down enough to go to sleep. The ''BlueCollarComedy Tour'' specifically mentioned this when leading up to their encore acts.

* There is some research that suggests that people's day rhythm is slanted towards late nights and late mornings when they're young, then moves towards earlier sleep cycles as they get older. This might explain why parents stereotypically have so much trouble getting their kids to go to bed in a timely fashion and then have to drag them out of bed in the morning - children and teenagers are this trope by biological hardwiring. In the U.S. there have been serious proposals to start school days later (hey, teenagers need their beauty sleep!), but it rarely gets off the ground since most parents still have to be at work bright and early.

* It's been theorised that people who sit in front of a computer screen at night have their sleeping schedule disrupted by the screen's glare. Naturally this affects video gamers and many people who work out of the office at home. And people stuck in a perpetual cycle of [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing online catalogues of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction]]. Computer people have a long tradition of being night owls, mainly for practical reasons. This dates back to the era of shared computers, as {{Playful Hacker}}s didn't have to fight with as many people for computer time during the day. Programmers find they can work in long stretches at night without interruption. In the early internet era, the network was also less congested at night, and many torrenters favor the night time for large downloads for the same reason. When internet access was charged by the hour, it was often cheaper during off-peak hours at night. Many tech companies and IT departments schedule upgrades and maintenance during the overnight hours to minimize disruption to regular users. There's a reason computer professionals [[MustHaveCaffeine tend to drink a lot of coffee]]. It's also no accident that tech companies often have flexible hours.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4271 Baby Blue]]. Then, she is disgruntled for additional reasons.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1511 Monique curses the morning.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1512 Slick tosses his alarm clock out the window.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1513 Squigley rises from his drunk binge.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Princess Luna, the princess of the moon who spends her nights watching over the dreams of everyone in Equestia and protecting them from nightmares, is understandably not a morning person. Every morning, Princess Celestia makes her a beautiful breakfast -- and every morning, Luna ignores it, grabs a random thing from the decorative fruit bowl, and stumbles off to bed.

* ''Series/{{Hunter}}'':
Hunter's informant Sporty James is a night owl. When Hunter's partner, Sgt. [=McCall=] has asked him to meet her at a bar in the morning, he's not happy: