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MyFinalEdits (Spin-off Series)
2022-05-30 11:55:57

Since SMB2 and SS are part of wider franchises, and only those games take place in dreams, they would still qualify. A full game in a franchise that has so many games counts as a single episode for said franchise, similar to how a single movie that is part of a series of movies (usually from a franchise, but also for a multi-franchise crossover like the MCU).

If, however, an entire franchise takes place inside a dream, you may be looking for Dream Land or All Just a Dream (depending on whether or not the world inside the dream is real by itself).

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2022-05-30 15:22:25

Drafter here. Yeah, I'd say individual works in a wider franchise count, but an entire story that takes place in a dream doesn't, episode tropes are about breaks from the norm.

Actually, I'm not sure if I'd count SMB 2, isn't the dream part a twist at the end or something? I don't think it's outright advertised as being a dream, which is a major part of the trope (that is, that the audience knows they're watching a character's dream).

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