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* '''Played for Horror''':Horror''': Alice has a SuperPoweredEvilSide that breaks free whenever she falls asleep. Cue the NeverSleepAgain plot.
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'''Basic Trope''': Using magic or superpowers in one's sleep.
* '''Straight''': Alice can turn into a dog, and one night she wakes up as a dog, having turned into one in her sleep.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice [[SuperpowerLottery has twenty powers]] and uses all of them in her sleep.
** Every character with powers uses them in their sleep.
** Alice's powers ''require'' her to be asleep.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice grows dog ears in her sleep.
* '''Justified''': We can move and talk in our sleep, so it's not that big a stretch that Alice could shape-shift in her sleep.
* '''Inverted''': Alice has laser vision and it's only not working when she's asleep.
* '''Subverted''': We see a dog who looks like Alice in dog form waking up, but it turns out to be a real dog.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Who also had powers and teleported in his sleep.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''':
* '''Averted''':
** Alice does not have powers.
** Alice does not use her powers in her sleep.
** [[TheSleepless Alice doesn't need to sleep]].
* '''Enforced''': "We need more comedy centring on Alice's powers".
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice, you're sleep-morphing again!"
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''': "What if I turn into a dog in my sleep or something?"
* '''Conversed''': "So, that character can turn into a dog? I wonder if she ever does it in her sleep?"
* '''Implied''': Alice can turn into a dog and a dog that looks like Alice in dog form is seen in her bed.
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''':
** Alice is a young girl who can create water. When she uses this power in her sleep at a sleepover, her friends think she's [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wet the bed]].
** Alice is levitating in her sleep. Bob suggests waking her, but Carol says, "No-- never wake a sleep-levitator!".
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels incredibly guilty]] after accidentally landing Bob in the hospital after using her [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]] in her sleep.
* '''Played for Horror''':
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