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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Sleepwalker is a strange subversion. He spends almost all his time in the physical world fighting crime, but he never really suffers HeroicFatigue. He's not a human and doesn't have a human's motivations, and protecting the innocent is pretty much his race's [[PlanetOfHats collective hat.]] What truly makes him miserable is being stuck in Rick's mind not being able to do anything. He explains to Rick that, unless he can actually do some good in the physical world like he does in the Mindscape, he feels like his life doesn't have any meaning.

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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Sleepwalker is a strange subversion. He spends almost all his time in the physical world fighting crime, but he never really suffers HeroicFatigue. He's not a human and doesn't have a human's motivations, and protecting the innocent is pretty much his race's [[PlanetOfHats collective hat.]] hat]]. What truly makes him miserable is being stuck in Rick's mind not being able to do anything. He explains to Rick that, unless he can actually do some good in the physical world like he does in the Mindscape, he feels like his life doesn't have any meaning.



* HeroicFatigue: Inverted, as Sleepwalker's race doesn't have the same mentality that humanity does. He never suffers from burnout or exhaustion in being a superhero, since it's the closest he can get to [[PlanetOfHats his race's collective hat.]] What makes him miserable is ''not'' being able to go out and fight evil, telling Rick that he feels like his life doesn't have any meaning otherwise.

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* HeroicFatigue: Inverted, as Sleepwalker's race doesn't have the same mentality that humanity does. He never suffers from burnout or exhaustion in being a superhero, since it's the closest he can get to [[PlanetOfHats his race's collective hat.]] hat]]. What makes him miserable is ''not'' being able to go out and fight evil, telling Rick that he feels like his life doesn't have any meaning otherwise. otherwise.


















Carl Wilkinson was a Manhattan crime lord and businessman, an enemy of Kingpin, Spider-Man and Sleepwalker.

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Carl Wilkinson was a Manhattan crime lord and businessman, an enemy of Kingpin, Spider-Man and Sleepwalker.









Colonel of Office of Insufficient Evidence. The Office of Insufficent Evidence is a branch of the federal government that's sent in to investigate incidents for which there isn't enough evidence to pursue a given suspect.

* KnightTemplar: He's fanatically obsessed with catching and killing Sleepwalker. He has no problem ordering his men to drag civilians out of their beds in the middle of the night and [[MindRape mind raping them]] to try and find Sleepwalker. He and his men don't care about all the property damage they cause in the process.
* MeaningfulName: A fairly obvious reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', the Thought Police don't care at all about the civil rights of the people they claim to protect or the damage they cause to anyone's person or property.
* MindRape: Colonel Smith has the Thought Police subject everyone in Rick's neighborhood to a painful mental scan in order to find whoever's holding Sleepwalker.
* MissionControl: When the Thought Police plan to use Reed Richards' oscillo-jackets to track Sleepwalker, Colonel Smith plans to go with them. Reed insists on going in his place, and Colonel Smith is forced to be this trope with Ben Grimm.
* StateSec: The Thought Police have all sorts of high-tech gear that's better suited to a military unit than a police force. These include PoweredArmor and laser rifles, tanks with metal nets that can catch flying targets, glass bubbles that can reflect and block energy attacks and goggles that act as a ClingyMacGuffin and prevent the wearer from releasing any energies building up inside them.

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Colonel of Office of Insufficient Evidence. The Office of Insufficent Evidence is a branch of the federal government that's sent in to investigate incidents for which there isn't enough evidence to pursue a given suspect. \n\n* KnightTemplar: He's fanatically obsessed with catching and killing Sleepwalker. He has no problem ordering his men to drag civilians out of their beds in the middle of the night and [[MindRape mind raping them]] to try and find Sleepwalker. He and his men don't care about all the property damage they cause in the process. \n* MeaningfulName: A fairly obvious reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', the Thought Police don't care at all about the civil rights of the people they claim to protect or the damage they cause to anyone's person or property. \n* MindRape: Colonel Smith has the Thought Police subject everyone in Rick's neighborhood to a painful mental scan in order to find whoever's holding Sleepwalker. \n* MissionControl: When the Thought Police plan to use Reed Richards' oscillo-jackets to track Sleepwalker, Colonel Smith plans to go with them. Reed insists on going in his place, and Colonel Smith is forced to be this trope with Ben Grimm. \n* StateSec: The Thought Police have all sorts of high-tech gear that's better suited to a military unit than a police force. These include PoweredArmor and laser rifles, tanks with metal nets that can catch flying targets, glass bubbles that can reflect and block energy attacks and goggles that act as a ClingyMacGuffin and prevent the wearer from releasing any energies building up inside them.


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* KnightTemplar: He's fanatically obsessed with catching and killing Sleepwalker. He has no problem ordering his men to drag civilians out of their beds in the middle of the night and [[MindRape mind raping them]] to try and find Sleepwalker. He and his men don't care about all the property damage they cause in the process.
* MeaningfulName: A fairly obvious reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', the Thought Police don't care at all about the civil rights of the people they claim to protect or the damage they cause to anyone's person or property.
* MindRape: Colonel Smith has the Thought Police subject everyone in Rick's neighborhood to a painful mental scan in order to find whoever's holding .
* MissionControl: When the Thought Police plan to use Reed Richards' oscillo-jackets to track Sleepwalker, Colonel Smith plans to go with them. Reed insists on going in his place, and Colonel Smith is forced to be this trope with Ben Grimm.
* StateSec: The Thought Police have all sorts of high-tech gear that's better suited to a military unit than a police force. These include PoweredArmor and laser rifles, tanks with metal nets that can catch flying targets, glass bubbles that can reflect and block energy attacks and goggles that act as a ClingyMacGuffin and prevent the wearer from releasing any energies building up inside them.

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* BizarreAlienBiology: Sleepwalker technically doesn't have any superpowers. His EyeBeams, superhuman strength and endurance and his using psychic energy as sustenance are all natural features of his race.

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Sleepwalker technically doesn't have any superpowers. His EyeBeams, superhuman strength and endurance and his using psychic energy as sustenance are all natural features of his race.race.
** He also doesn't need to eat, as Sleepwalkers are nourished simply by absorbing mental energy. When he's pulled back into Rick's mind, he returns to the mental plane and replenishes his strength.


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* GuardianEntity: Like the rest of his race, Sleepwalker exists to protect the beings of our dimension. The only difference is that now he protects people's physical bodies instead of their minds.


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* NoSell: Lullaby's hypnotic singing could put anyone who heard it into a sleeplike trance that would make them obey her. Sleepwalker is completely immune to it, since his race never sleeps.


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* ShapingYourAttacks: Sleepwalker's warp beams allow him to physically reshape matter and alter its physical characteristics somewhat. He uses it for everything from binding criminals with the pavement to forcing open a locked door to changing the direction of a blast of water.

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