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Dangerous Drowsiness
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Some symptoms are always dire in Fictionland. Things like a cough, a headache, a nosebleed, feeling cold, being unable to feel one's legs, losing one's hair, and... being tired. In this trope, when a character feels tired, it's never just Sleep Deprivation or a minor illness like a cold. Nope, it's a very serious condition. At best, it's something that's very drastic but ultimately survivable, such as appendicitis. At worst, it means their days are numbered. In sci-fi and fantasy works, it might mean something otherworldly such as alien mind control or Demonic Possession. Seeing as many conditions do make you tired, especially infections since your body is using energy to fight the bug, this trope isn't just "sick character feels tired". In order for it to be this trope: It has to be serious. Diseases less serious than the flu do not qualify for this trope. It has to be either the first sign (or one of the first signs) that things are amiss, or a sign that the condition is serious. In the first case, the character might start off just a little sleepy and the characters brush it off as sleep deprivation before the other symptoms come on. In the second case, the character might already be established as sick, but if they start to become lethargic, that's seen as them taking a turn for the worse or being more likely to die. There might also be a danger that if the character falls asleep, they will die, so the other characters try to keep them awake. This trope can be a source of Paranoia Fuel, as tiredness is such a common symptom, and it's also easy to imagine. Contrast Victorian Novel Disease, for when a woman has a terminal disease but she's just as active (and pretty) as ever. Can overlap with O.O.C. Is Serious Business if the character is normally energetic and Fell Asleep Driving if they're driving as well. Not to be confused with Never Sleep Again and Slain in Their Sleep, for when people are killed in their sleep by outside forces. Can lead to Passed in Their Sleep. If the person is already dead and is mistaken for sleeping, that's Please Wake Up. |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Fight or Flight?", when Hoshi's pet slug Sluggo doesn't move much, this causes her and Phlox to suspect that it's dying. In one episode, Trip and Archer are in a Thirsty Desert and Trip becomes very sleepy. Archer thinks this is a sign he has heatstroke and needs to stay awake lest he go into a coma. |
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House: In "Fidelity", a woman is admitted with symptoms of African Sleeping Sickness, with the wrinkle that neither she nor her husband has been to Africa. Her symptoms get worse, resulting in a coma. | |
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The Simpsons: The main plot of "Dog of Death" is that Santa's Little Helper has a "twisted stomach" and will die if not given surgery. The first sign that he's unwell is when he walks into the living room with a droopy appearance and flops down. | |
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In the animated series version of Milly, Molly: The episode "Grandpa's Oak Tree" has Grandpa Peg being slow to wake up. Dr. Smiley says that Grandpa is "wearing out" and "may never live to see another winter" and sure enough, he dies in the episode. In "Goodbye, Alf", the farmer is immediately worried when he sees his horse Pepper lying down despite it being the middle of the day, and sure enough, she's somehow caught a serious illness. Alf's grandma makes her better though. |
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"I'm tired" serves as Annie's dying words in Imitation of Life (1959). | |
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Madeline: In the adaptation of the first book, Madeline doesn't ice skate with the other girls. Miss Clavel asks her why and she replies that she's tired. Initially, Clavel thinks that Madeline just stayed up late pillow fighting, but it turns out to be appendicitis. This is different from the book, in which the appendicitis came on suddenly. | |
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In Return of the Jedi, when Yoda is on his deathbed, he's very lethargic and talks about wanting to sleep. | |
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Homestuck: At the start, Jade keeps falling asleep often at the worst of occasions and though everyone thinks she's narcoleptic, it turns out to be Vriska's doing. Vriska's thing is that she has Mind Control powers, but since Vriska and Jade are two separate species, all she can do to Jade is force her to go to sleep. The reason why Vriska keeps interfering with her like this is to manipulate events on the end of Jade and her friends so that Vriska would have a huge powerful antagonist to fight against and defeat on her end (in a somewhat complicated Stable Time Loop - Vriska knows that, no matter what, that antagonist will exist, so she inserts herself into the story as the one being responsible for its existence). | |
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So I'm a Spider, So What?: Kumoko gets half of her body bitten off while battling a swarm of monstrous apes. As her HP starts dropping, she feels drowsy and is tempted to fall asleep, but fights it off because she knows that if she does, she'll die. | |
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Averted in Melody when Becca yawns early in the story. It’s not from any illness at all, but from being kept up at night by an annoying dripping faucet. If the protagonist offers to fix it for her, this kicks off her romantic path. | |
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I'm Standing on a Million Lives: The party split up to complete their last objective for their current mission: to explore a certain percentage of the map. Expecting it to be easy, they each take leisurely strolls in opposite directions, until a sudden freak blizzard strikes. Not only does this make it extremely difficult to keep uncovering the map, but the cold temperatures start making them slowly freeze to death. Each of them tries their best to keep moving and stay awake, knowing that if they fall asleep that not only will they die, but they won't be able to Auto-Revive while their body is frozen. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who episode "Protect And Survive," Ace and Hex find themselves in an alternate history where the Cold War ended in a nuclear apocalypse, and barely have enough time to seek shelter with the elderly Marsdens before the nearby RAF base is nuked. It soon becomes clear that they've suffered a Fallout Shelter Fail and all of them have absorbed a lethal dose of radiation: consequently, when Albert and Peggy Marsden's initial symptoms (a Headache of Doom and Blood from the Mouth) escalate to crippling fatigue and longer periods of sleep, it's a good indication that they don't have long to live. Sure enough, the next scene features Ace and Hex hauling Albert's corpse out of the shelter. However, it turns out that all four of them are trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, and the Marsdens are alive again — and forced to go through the apocalypse all over again, on each occasion dying in their sleep due to radiation exposure. | |
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Early in the fourth season of Farscape, Crichton is forced to stay aboard Elack, an extremely elderly Leviathan living out the remaining weeks of his life in the Sacred Space. As Pilots share the lifespans of the Leviathans they've been bonded to, Elack's Pilot has also grown old and spends a lot of her time nodding off; initially a simple case of Senior Sleep-Cycle, as Elack draws closer to death, she begins lapsing deeper and deeper into unconsciousness until it's almost impossible to wake her. In the end, she and Elack are able to marshal enough strength to perform a Heroic Sacrifice and save the main characters. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Babel", O'Brien feels tired. He thinks he's just worn out from all the chores he's been doing, but it turns out that he's coming down with a virus called the "aphasia virus", which spreads to the rest of the crew and would have killed them if not for the work of Dr. Bashir and others. | |
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In the Arthur episode "So Long, Spanky", the eponymous budgie is seen looking droopy. He dies in the next scene. | |
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In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Prometheus says: "I'm tired now, so tired. It will be good to rest." He then proceeds to die in the arms of his daughter. Bonus points because the aforementioned daughter had just revived him, but he made her let him die. | |
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In the Rugrats prequel fanfic The Joys and Sorrows of Young Charles Finster, the chapter "The Appendix" has Charles feeling tired. He initially thinks he's just worn out from the exercises his father Marvin is having him do, but then he gets a severe stomachache and his condition is revealed to be appendicitis. | |
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In Phase IV of Zenith, Dr Michael Peyne is cursed with an accelerating case of Merlin Sickness by the victorious Lloigor, and though he initially feels energized by his newfound youth, his Apocalyptic Log soon mentions how tired he's started to feel as he re-enters his childhood. Eventually reduced to scrawling badly-spelled notes in a barely-legible scrawl, a very young Peyne admits that he's too tired to write anymore and needs to lie down. When Ruby finally arrives to say goodbye, he's little more than a baby sleeping under his adult-sized shirt, and soon succumbs to Death by De-aging. | |
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In The Secret World mission "Contagion," Julia Smith appears to have finally relaxed long enough to have a lie-down, understandable given that the Smiths have been on high alert for the last few days. However, it very quickly turns out that Julia's actually been exposed to the Filth at some point since the disaster in the Carpathians began, and the little sleep she's having is more akin to a feverish coma; in the event that she survives the initial infection, she'll end up transformed into another one of the Filthy Swarm wandering the Carpathian caverns. Thankfully, Emma Smith is reportedly able to save her. | |
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Backdraft: Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey says, "I feel so tired" as his last words. | |
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In the days following the nuclear attack on Sheffield in Threads, Ruth's grandmother — already badly affected by the shock — begins sleeping through mealtimes, and though Mr and Mrs Beckett believe that rest will do her some good, it's obvious that she's ailing. The very next scene with Becketts features her body being hauled out of the fallout shelter by her grieving relatives. | |
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Up: In the beginning, Ellie is too weary to climb the hill for her and Carl's picnic. The next scene has her in the hospital, and in the scene after that, she's dead. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: Sayori's difficulty waking up in the morning is initially played as just a cute quirk, but it's subtle foreshadowing that she has a health issue. One that is not exactly physical and much, much worse than anyone else realised. | |
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In the Mog book "Goodbye Mog", Mog is "dead tired" on the first page, takes a nap, and dies in her sleep. She does get an Unexplained Recovery in the next book, though. | |
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Used in an episode Drawn Together where the pumpkin carriage crashes (Mulan was driving), mortally wounding some of the Disney Princesses. Princess Clara begs Sleeping Beauty to keep her eyes open, only for her to respond with "But... I'm so... tired." | |
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Books of the Raksura: Flower's constant fatigue in The Serpent Sea is one sign that she's near death from old age. | |
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The Smurfs (1981): In "Squeaky", after Smurfette's mouse Squeaky saves her from a fire, he's seen with a sleepy expression. The next morning, he's dead. | |
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Telepath Tactics, Harynx's death message has mentions of feeling tired, overlapping with I'm Cold... So Cold.... | |
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In Charlotte's Web, the eponymous spider becomes listless towards the end, claiming to be too tired to sing Wilbur to sleep. At the very end of the book, she dies. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In the episode "The Battle", Picard feels tired and he has a headache. It turns out that both symptoms are the result of mind control by some Ferengi, the leader of which wants revenge on Picard for killing his son in a battle years ago (his son had attacked Picard's ship without provocation). "The Arsenal of Freedom": After attempting to evade an automated hovering weapons system, Doctor Crusher and Captain Picard both lose their balance over a subterranean opening, and fall into a cavern. Captain Picard only sustains moderate injuries, but Doctor Crusher breaks her leg and cannot move. Furthermore, she keeps drifting in and out of consciousness from the shock, where Picard attempts to keep her awake by keeping her talking. |
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