Basic Trope: The lead protagonist is in his/her pajamas for (at least most of) the story.
- Straight: Alice receives a Call to Adventure so urgent it denies her a chance to get appropriately dressed prior to partaking in her latest adventure, forcing her to walk around in her pajames and bare feet.
- Exaggerated: Alice partakes in every single adventure of hers in her pajamas and bare feet.
- Downplayed:
- While in her pajamas and bare feet, Alice relentlessly chases a mouse around her house until she catches and kills him with a mousetrap.
- Alice dons normal clothes over her pajamas and bare feet to ready herself for adventure in a timely manner.
- Justified:
- Alice's latest Call to Adventure comes in the middle of the night, and Alice simply doesn't bother to put any regular clothes or shoes on before heading out to battle Emperor Evulz once again.
- Alice figures she can move about more freely and feel the ground for unique seismic readings if she walks around in her pajamas and bare feet, so once she receives another Call to Adventure, she simply doesn't bother with donning any regular clothes or shoes before heading out to battle Emperor Evulz once again.
- The Call to Adventure came to Alice after a Sleep Walking incident, and she's obviously nowhere near a wardrobe. Or perhaps one of Evulz' mooks tried to snatch her out of bed, and it clearly didn't go so well.
- Inverted:
- Alice never wears any pajamas, even when she's sleeping.
- Emperor Evulz is the one wearing pajamas.
- Subverted: Alice begins her latest adventure in her pajamas and bare feet, but before long, she also transforms into a massive dragon, causing her pajamas to completely tear off her body.
- Double-Subverted: Once Emperor Evulz sees the new dragon Alice approaching his castle, he shoots her with a potion-dart, causing her to transform back into a human as her pajamas also reform.
- Parodied: Alice purposefully dons pajamas with text flaunting her heroic status and power on them as she also keeps herself barefooted, and she even openly announces her presence and identity to everyone she sees and everywhere she goes.
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz commits evil acts during the dead of night to make Alice more likely to be walking around in her pajamas and bare feet so she'll be easier to kill upon being attacked by Emperor Evilz's countless mooks.
- Defied: Alice sleeps in her regular clothes to avoid the possibility of walking around in her pajamas and bare feet once she receives a Call to Adventure during the middle of the night.
- Implied: Despite not ever having met Alice before, Bob still hears about her partaking in her adventures while in her pajamas and bare feet on some occasions.
- Exploited:
- Emperor Evulz uses Alice's lack of protective body armor to his advantage as he stabs Alice through the heart with a sword and kills her.
- Emperor Evulz takes advantage of Alice's lack of footwear and glues her bare feet to the ground, leaving her stuck and unable to move.
- Zigzagged: Alice partakes in her adventures in her pajamas and bare feet from time to time, but she still wears regular clothes and shoes during some of her other adventures.
- Averted: Alice always wears regular clothes and shoes during her heroic adventures.
- Lampshaded: "Have you ever noticed how some heroines in our world tend to go on their adventures in their pajamas and bare feet?"
- Discussed: "The reason why some heroines tend to walk around in their pajamas and bare feet is because it allows them to move around more freely and also feel the ground for unusual seismic readings with their soles."
- Conversed: "Even though some heroines around here enjoy walking around in their pajamas and bare feet, at least they still also enjoy saving and protecting us from all manner of evil at all times of day."
- Enforced: Studio executives insist on Alice walking around in her pajamas and bare feet to help shake up her series' current status quo.
- Deconstructed: As Alice sets out on her latest adventure in her pajamas and bare feet, she soon finds herself getting lethally stabbed with swords right and left and getting countless tacks, splinters, and broken glass shards stuck in her soles.
- Reconstructed: But at the exact same time, being in her pajamas and bare feet allows Alice to move around more freely and dodge her enemies' attacks, instead causing them to get killed by her rather quickly.
- Played for Laughs:
- Everyone who sees Alice walking around in her pajamas and bare feet laughs at and makes fun of her nonstop.
- Possibly relating to the above, Alice is always angry and disgruntled about how she never even has time to take a shower, brush her teeth, do her hair, her makeup, and change into something more suitable.
- Played for Drama: Alice's pajamas and bare feet show everyone around her that she means business despite being up during the middle of the night and that her latest Call to Adventure denied her time to don regular clothes and shoes.
- Played for Horror: Alice wears pajamas resembling an x-ray image, causing everyone who sees her to freak out and believe she's a reanimated skeleton despite her still sporting a clearly visible and living head, hair, hands, and bare feet.
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