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Years and years of Sunday strips, now in the [[Public Domain]] in the US, can be found in [http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/ The Comic Strips Library].

A Live-Adaptation was made in 1984, titled ''[[~~Nemo (Film)|~~Nemo]]'' or ''Dream One'', and a feature-length [[Animated Adaptation]], ''[[~~Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland (Anime)|~~Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland]]'', was produced in the late Eighties.

A Live-Adaptation was made in 1984, titled ''[[Nemo]]'' or ''Dream One'', and a feature-length [[Animated Adaptation]], ''[[Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland]]'', was produced in the late Eighties.

The music video to the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' song "Runnin' Down A Dream'' is an homage to the strips, as is the [[Genesis (~~Music~~)|Genesis]] song "Scenes From A Night's Dream".

The music video to the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' song "Runnin' Down A Dream'' is an homage to the strips, as is the [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] song "Scenes From A Night's Dream".

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=== ''Little Nemo'' provides examples of the following tropes: ===

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* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: There was one installment of the comic strip where Nemo wakes up, thinking his dream has ended, and to his suprise sees Flip in bed next to him, meaning he's still dreaming.

* [[Black Bead Eyes]]

* [[Captured By Cannibals]]: During the Candy Island story arch this happens to Nemo and Flip.

* [[Captured by Cannibals]]: During the Candy Island story arch this happens to Nemo and Flip.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]

* [[Christmas Episode]]: There was one just about every year.

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* [[The Edwardian Era]]

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Nemo either falling out of bed or being woken up at the end of each comic.

* [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Princesses]]

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]

* [[Frame Break]]: Among its many fourth-wall gags.

* [[Floorboard Failure]]: In Little Nemo in Slumberland, Nemo and Flip are served a new kind of breakfast food that gives them a [[Balloon Belly]]. The chairs start to collapse underneath their weight, and then the floors, leading to the entire house being demolished.

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** "I want to stop and rest a bit, I'm fagged out from running!"

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Flip does one in the comic, starting out as the main antagonist by waking Nemo up from his dream to eventually becoming Nemo's friend. Though he was never really "evil" per se, but more of a nuisance. Much later in the comic, he [[Face Heel Turn|went back to being a nuisance again.]] Being a nuisance was only the beginning for Flip. His vindictiveness was what caused the real damage. Whenever the people of Slumberland took measures to keep him from ruining their events by being a major nuisance, he retaliated, often ending up wreaking havoc on parts of Slumberland (or having his uncle melt them). At one point, he has his uncle melt down the whole city. Oddly enough, this same tendency is what also what starts his [[Heel Face Turn]] as he saves the group after they're captured by pirates.

* [[I Hit You You Hit the Ground]]: The (possible) [[Trope Makers]].

* [[I Hit You, You Hit the Ground]]: The (possible) [[Trope Makers]].

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The natives of Candy Island try to eat Nemo and his friends.

* [[The Imp]]: The Imp (yeah, that is his name too).

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* [[Puppy Love]]: Nemo and the Princess, in-universe.

* [[Recurring Dreams]]: The entire comic. Suffice to say, if your dreams keep continuing every night as an ongoing story arc, it's time to see a shrink.

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: The Professor mainly debuted this way because he was first introduced in a popular ''Little Nemo'' stage show based on the comics, which also makes him a [[Canon Immigrant]].

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: The Professor mainly debuted this way because he was first introduced in a popular ''Little Nemo'' stage show based on the comics, which also makes him a [[Canon Immigrant]].

* [[Save the Villain]]: When Flip was still the antagonist Nemo did save him a few times, most notably when King Morpheus' firing squad was about ready to execute Flip, and Nemo ran in front of him to stop it. Of course Flip was less than grateful, because in the next installment he convinces his Uncle Dawn to bring forth the sun and ruin the King's Thanksgiving dinner by waking everyone up.

* [[Scenery Porn]]