Basic Trope: A character is tired from lack of sleep.
- Straight: Alice is kept awake at night due to a construction site next door, and is sluggish and grumpy the next day.
- Exaggerated: Alice tries to keep going despite having not slept in days.
- Downplayed:
- Justified:
- Alice has a Mean Boss, who would've punished her if she'd caught up on sleep and showed up late to work.
- Alice is a single mother, meaning she has no choice but to be awake during the day even though she hasn't slept enough.
- Alice is the only person qualified to solve the main problem, sleep deprivation or no.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Alice appears tired, and Bob thinks she stayed up too late, but it turns out that she's sick.
- Double Subverted:
- However, her disease is also causing her to lose sleep.
- Alice actually isn't sick; she's just a hypochondriac who mistook her sleepiness as a symptom of illness.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: Alice seems tired but it's left unclear if she's sleep deprived, sick, or hungover.
- Averted: Alice is not kept awake.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:Bob: "Did you pull an all-nighter?"Alice: "Not all night; I got to bed by three."Bob: "Three!?"
- Invoked: Bob deliberately keeps Alice up.
- Exploited: The villain gets into a fight with Alice, knowing that if she's weary from lack of sleep, he has a chance.
- Defied: Alice makes sure to catch up on sleep, even if it means being late for work.
- Discussed: "When they were still building that building, it kept me up all night!"
- Conversed: "Remember the episode where Alice was kept up all night?"
- Implied: Alice has a sleepy expression and keeps closing her eyes.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: Alice keeps making silly mistakes from lack of sleep.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is tired after a sleepless night, but Bob mistakes her lethargy for an emotional breakdown.
- Alice is kept awake from the fear of a serious threat.
- Played for Horror: Emperor Evulz tortures Alice by keeping her awake all night.
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