Basic Trope: A character dreams that they are awesome.
- Straight: Mary dreams that she is a superhero, saving the day and getting all the guys to fawn over her.
- Exaggerated: Mary dreams that she is the supreme being of the multiverse.
- Downplayed: Mary dreams that she is a popular kid.
- Justified: Many kids would wish to be popular and powerful.
- Inverted: Mary is a superhero, who dreams she is homeless with no access to baths, and people constantly scorning her.
- Subverted: Mary dreams she is popular and powerful, then her teeth start falling out as her power seeps away and menacing voices taunt her.
- Double Subverted: In the dream, she takes back her powers, regenerates her teeth, and fights off the darkness that is attacking her.
- Parodied: She dreams that she is a powerful popular girl, and then wakes up, remembering the fact that she has been sleeping in a trench for millennia, then its revealed "she" is actually Godzilla, who is confused at what he just dreamed about.
- Zig-Zagged: Mary dreams she is popular and powerful, then her teeth start falling out as her power seeps away and menacing voices taunt her. In the dream, she takes back her powers, regenerates her teeth, and fights off the darkness that is attacking her.
- Averted: Her dreams are either prophetic, or just weird.
- Enforced: "We need to show Mary's hopes for the future, and her envy of Wondergirl."
- Lampshaded: "That was a good dream."
- Invoked: Mary learned lucid dreaming to give herself these kind of dreams.
- Exploited: Villains read her dreams to figure out what she desires most.
- Defied: Her brother wakes her up before she can dream.
- Discussed: "Are you going to be dreaming about being a superhero again?"
- Conversed: "I wish my dreams could be more like Mary's from my favorite show, you know, happy, not portents of destruction."
- Implied: Mary is smiling in her sleep.
- Deconstructed: Mary starts dreaming of being a popular hero, then dreams that she has just grabbed a popular hero power up in mario, then is dreaming that she is a turtle walking between pipes, then dreams that she is a turtle in a swamp and is running from people who want to make her into soup, then she is in a soup kitchen..."
- Reconstructed: In the midst of this, she realizes she is dreaming, and takes control. She changes it to how she wants it to be."
- Played for Laughs: Her dreams cause her to do dumb stuff, like attempt to websling from building to building, or jump off a building in the superman pose to fly, and the other heroes must stop her.
- Played for Drama: She dreams of being omnipotent, then she wakes up and realizes that in her dream, she made herself actually omnipotent, and must learn to control her infinite power.
- Played for Horror: She is actually in a Lotus-Eater Machine designed by the villains so they could do dangerous experiments on her without her noticing.
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