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* DependingOnTheWriter: Most of the books work on the assumption "nightmare" and "thing you fear" are synonymous, and the heroes win (short term) by overcoming this fear. The ''Batman'' tie-in has Batman saying he confronts his fears all the time, only for Insomnia to gloat that nightmares ''aren't'' the same thing as fears; his nightmare is a surreal monster only conceptually related to things he actually fears. The ''Wonder Woman'' tie-in has Diana explain to Justice League Dark that you don't defeat your fears by fighting them but by accepting them as part of you.
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* SummoningArtifact: The Good People of Gotham use a clock infused with energies from the Fifth Dimension to summon beings from the same. Said beings don't have to heed the summons, but they're bored enough to answer.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Good People of Gotham are a trio of people that summon eldritch beings to grant their wishes for something to help them aid Gotham; power, wealth and knowledge. Power becomes a monstrous mockup of Commissioner Gordon as Batman and begins killing indiscriminately, though they are happy with the results. Wealth, however, gets the woman who asked for it choking on the diamonds she's vomiting up without end.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Good People of Gotham are a trio of people that summon eldritch beings from the Fifth Dimension to grant their wishes for something to help them aid Gotham; power, Gotham.
** A woman wishes for wealth andknowledge. Power becomes a monstrous mockup of Commissioner Gordon as Batman and begins killing indiscriminately, though they are happy with the results. Wealth, however, gets the woman who asked for it coughs up diamonds endlessly, choking on them as they tear up her insides.
** A man that idolized Gordon in his time as Batman wishes for power and becomes an organic version of PoweredArmor, growing more powerful over time as he becomes more unhinged and rationalizing people to kill.
** A woman who wished for knowledge is made as fragile as glass, as from thediamonds she's vomiting up without end.Pentapriests' perspective, the fragility of life is the greatest truth any mortal being like her will know. Gordon also gets this, which is foreshadowing a connection to this woman.
** A woman wishes for wealth and
** A man that idolized Gordon in his time as Batman wishes for power and becomes an organic version of PoweredArmor, growing more powerful over time as he becomes more unhinged and rationalizing people to kill.
** A woman who wished for knowledge is made as fragile as glass, as from the
* TheEndOrIsIt: The Detective Comics tie-in ends with everyone waking up from the nightmare, but the clock that was used to summon the Pentapriests is shown being bought from a pawn shop.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In retrospect all the nightmares are deliberately themed around dreamers being confronted with their worst fears about themselves, which usually involves the heroes being turned into monsters. [[spoiler:This is because Insomnia wants monster versions of heroes to let loose on the world and show them that heroes only bring horror.]]
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** All the nightmares made by Insomnia aredeliberately themed around dreamers being confronted with their worst fears about themselves, which usually involves the heroes being turned into monsters. [[spoiler:This is because Insomnia wants monster versions of heroes to let loose on the world and show them that heroes only bring horror.]]]]
** Gordon gets swept up in the wish granting of the Pentapriests and becomes as fragile as glass. This is because he has a personal connection with the person whose wish caused this, [[spoiler:Barbara Gordon]].
** All the nightmares made by Insomnia are
** Gordon gets swept up in the wish granting of the Pentapriests and becomes as fragile as glass. This is because he has a personal connection with the person whose wish caused this, [[spoiler:Barbara Gordon]].
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* PostVictoryCollapse: After the battle ends, Batman passes out into a coma. They presume it's exhaustion from the exertion Deadman put his body through. They don't know when he'll wake up.
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* TragicVillain: Insomnia is ultimately a man gone insane from grief.
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* YankTheDogsChain: After Insomnia is forced into the afterlife, it [[KarmaHoudini seems like he got reunited with his family in heaven]]. It's quickly shown that he is now in hell to be tormented by monstrous mockeries of his family for eternity.
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* FailureToSaveMurder: Insomnia was once a normal citizen of Gotham who had complete faith in the Justice League, but tragically lost his entire family in [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal their conflict with the Dark Knights]]. Driven mad by only having nightmares of that moment everytime he slept, he's driven to destroy the Justice League with their own nightmares, further using the Nightmare Stone to bring their nightmares to life and make everyone see them as harbingers of horror like he does.
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* FailureToSaveMurder: Insomnia was once a normal citizen of Gotham who had complete faith in the Justice League, but tragically lost his entire family in [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal their conflict with the Dark Knights]]. Driven mad by only having nightmares of that moment everytime he slept, he's driven he want to destroy the Justice League with their own nightmares, further using the Nightmare Stone to bring their nightmares to life and make everyone see them as harbingers of horror like he does.
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* BittersweetEnding: Insomnia is stopped, [[LaserGuidedKarma and sent to a hell where nightmare versions of his family torment him]], but his plan to make the world fear superheroes succeeded. Amanda Waller confers with The Light that Insomnia's actions shifted public opinion in their favor, and they managed to acquire the Nightmare Stone along with the Helmet of Hate to give to a mysterious agent for their cause, creating Doctor Hate.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Spoofed in Harley's tie-in. In her dream, Brainiac mind controls Ivy to get to her. While she's off fighting him, he has two policemen take care of her. When Harley returns to their home, she finds a bowl of salad in the fridge with Ivy's ID tag on it.
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* PowerHigh: The Good Citizen of Gotham that wished for power enough to save it is turned into a grotesque organic version of Gordon's Batman armor. His power increases over time, and he revels in it as he kills indiscriminately rationalizing that his targets must have done something bad.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In retrospect all the nightmares are deliberately themed around dreamers being confronted with their worst fears about themselves, which usually involves the heroes being turned into monsters. [[spoiler:This is because Insomnia wants monster versions of heroes to let loose on the world and show them that heroes only bring horror.]]
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* FailureToSaveMurder: Insomnia was once a normal citizen of Gotham who had complete faith in the Justice League, but tragically lost his entire family in [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal their conflict with the Dark Knights]]. Driven mad by only having nightmares of that moment everytime he slept, he's driven to destroy the Justice League with their own nightmares, further using the Nightmare Stone to bring their nightmares to life and make everyone see them as harbingers of horror like he does.
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* UnwittingPawn: Deadman learned from Insomnia's memories about the Nightmare Stone and how to use it to stop him. This was intended by him so that Boston would bring the Nightmare Stone directly to him and he could seize control of it [[ThanatosGambit through the sacrifice of his suicide.]]
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* NoSell: The people of Atlantis are the only ones immune to the wave that's put everyone else on Earth to sleep. Mera and Arthur find out that this is due to their physiology having natural inner ear insulation. They manage to discover and replicate this at Supercorp to wake up Superman and plan to distribute to everyone else.
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* TakeThat: The Arsenal back-up in ''Batman'' #2 features Roy Harper being attacked by monstrous versions of himself all wearing variants of the outfits he wore in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'', including the trucker cap loathed by the fandom. Roy can be heard muttering how much he ''hates'' that costume.
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* ParadoxPerson: Flash's tie-in involves him losing his mind trying to save Wally from being terminally injured by Gorilla Grodd and being thwarted by a monster in the Speed Force. After being made monstrous himsekf by the turbulence in the Force this monster causes, he learns that it's actually all his temporal duplicates from his repeat trips melded into a mass of bodies driven insane to keep running forever to finally save Wally.
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* ParadoxPerson: Flash's tie-in involves him losing his mind trying to save Wally from being terminally injured by Gorilla Grodd and being thwarted by a monster in the Speed Force. After being made monstrous himsekf himself by the turbulence in the Force this monster causes, he learns that it's actually all his temporal duplicates from his repeat trips melded into a mass of bodies driven insane to keep running forever to finally save Wally.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Literally, Insomnia was once a normal man who couldn't sleep due to horrific nightmares that had something to do with the Justice League. After losing his sanity from this and his subsequent hatred, the Lazarus Rains empowered him to put the world to sleep, trap everyone in nightmares, and seek the power to destroy them once and for all while "revealing" to everyone how he sees them.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Hal, the infamously fearless Green Lantern, laughs in the face of his nightmares, including a recreation of Parallax, and sends them running in terror.
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* ParadoxPerson: Flash's tie-in involves him losing his mind trying to save Wally from being terminally injured by Gorilla Grodd and being thwarted by a monster in the Speed Force. After being made monstrous himsekf by the turbulence in the Force this monster causes, he learns that it's actually all his temporal duplicates from his repeat trips melded into a mass of bodies driven insane to keep running forever to finally save Wally.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Good People of Gotham are a trio of people that summon eldritch beings to grant their wishes for something to help them aid Gotham; power, wealth and knowledge. Power becomes a monstrous mockup of Commissioner Gordon as Batman and begins killing indiscriminately, though they are happy with the results. Wealth, however, gets the woman who asked for it choking on the diamonds she's vomiting up without end.
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* EldritchAbomination: The ''Detective Comics'' tie-in has a group calling themselves The Good People of Gotham summon three beings called Pentapriests from the Fifth Dimension, who are most definitely ''not'' imps. They only come because they're bored from immortality and seek amusement, and if the proposition from the summoners doesn't interest them they may stick around anyway to alter everything until they are entertained.
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* EldritchAbomination: The ''Detective Comics'' tie-in has a group calling themselves The Good People of Gotham summon three beings called Pentapriests from the Fifth Dimension, who are most definitely ''not'' imps. They look like flesh draped and sewn over a doll head on top of a grotesque mockery of a body. They only come heed the summons because they're bored from immortality and seek amusement, and if the proposition from the summoners doesn't interest them they may stick around anyway to alter everything anything else until they are become entertained.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Along all the chaos of everyone in the world suddenly falling asleep, and the risk of starvation if they stay asleep indefinitely, the long everyone remains asleep the further their minds are separated from their bodies until they can never be awoken again.
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* EldritchAbomination: The ''Detective Comics'' tie-in has a group calling themselves The Good People of Gotham summon three beings called Pentapriests from the Fifth Dimension, who are most definitely ''not'' imps. They only come because they're bored from immortality and seek amusement, and if the proposition from the summoners doesn't interest them they may stick around anyway to alter everything until they are entertained.
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* ForcedSleep: Insomnia put ''the entire world'' to sleep. Only a handful of certain people managed to stay awake, some because they don't sleep or, like Zatanna, the quickly kept themselves awake.
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* ForcedSleep: Insomnia put ''the entire world'' to sleep. Only a handful of certain people managed to stay awake, some because they don't sleep or, like Zatanna, the they quickly kept themselves awake.
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* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: The event heavily involves exploring the nightmares of the characters of each tie-in issue, exploring what they fear the most.
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* AGodAmI: Insomnia believes himself to be a god. Deadman, having reviewed his memories and saw he was just another victim of the Lazarus Rain, tells him he's just a guy.
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* {{Macguffin}}: Dr. Destiny discovered the Nightmare Stone, [[EvenEvilHasStandards which even he feared to use]] and hid it within the dreams of a superhero. Insomnia has put everyone in the world to sleep and is tormenting the dreams of heroes to find it.
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* {{Pun}}: [[PunBasedTitle The title]] is a pun on "Night Terrors" while Insomnia has minions known as the Sleepless Knights.
* PsychologicalProjection: Zatanna ends up having to work with Robotman, which she is uncomfortable with because she saw Mento shortly before her father died and the crazed look in his eyes disturbed her. Robotman telling her that the Doom Patrol is his family that he's trying to look out for causes her to realize that her feelings toward him aren't fair.
* PsychologicalProjection: Zatanna ends up having to work with Robotman, which she is uncomfortable with because she saw Mento shortly before her father died and the crazed look in his eyes disturbed her. Robotman telling her that the Doom Patrol is his family that he's trying to look out for causes her to realize that her feelings toward him aren't fair.
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* CrisisCrossover: DC's Summer 2023 event. This is also their second major event of 2023 (following on from ''Lazarus Planet'').
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* IronicHell: In the ''Poison Ivy'' tie-in, this is twist. [[spoiler: Pam's worst nightmare is ironically Harley's happiest dream life.]]
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* BlackComedy: Naturally, Joker's tie-in runs off this, especially after [[spoiler: he decides to go corporate and begins working for Wayne Enterprises as an office drone.]]
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* IronicHell: In the ''Poison Ivy'' tie-in, this is twist. [[spoiler: Pam's worst nightmare is ironically Harley's happiest dream life.]]
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* AntagonistInMourning: [[spoiler: Joker in his tie-in. He doesn't take the loss of his arch-nemesis well. At all.]]
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Knight Terrors is a 2023 DC Comics Event, over the course of July and August.
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''Knight Terrors'' is a 2023
The body of an old Justice League villain at the Hall of Justice leads our heroes and villains into a realm of nightmares and the only one who can save the world is Deadman!
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* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[spoiler:Doctor Destiny]] is killed at the beginning of the event in his dreams by the new villian Insomnia.
* UndignifiedDeath: In the Joker tie-in, [[spoiler:Batman]] slips on top of a building, leading to them sliding off the building to their death.
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Knight Terrors is a 2023 DC Comics Event, over the course of July and August.
