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While Sleepwalker has remained a C-list backgrounder since the series was cancelled in 1994, he nonetheless has a small cult following, including noted creator [[Robert Kirkman]].
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* [[Affably Evil]]: 8-Ball is an all-around nice guy with a wicked sense of humor. When Sleepwalker first encounters him, he's unfazed by the alien's bizarre appearance and tries to smooth-talk his way out of a fight. When Sleepwalker fights back after one of his henchmen attacks, 8-Ball kindly explains the concepts of money and power to Sleepwalker...right before he tries to murder the alien by dropping a bank vault on him.
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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Sleepwalker learned to speak English from being trapped in Rick's mind.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Despite his attempts to help them, Sleepwalker was hated and feared by most humans because of his bizarre appearance.
* [[Anti
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Sleepwalker and Cobweb. Spider-Man and the Green Goblin. Batman and the Joker. Superman and Lex Luthor. You get the idea.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The appropriately named Psyko.
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* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Sleepwalker has the opportunity to return home several times during the course of the series. Unfortunately, whether it's because he has to stay behind and rescue endangered humans or rescue [[Spider-Man]] from another plane of existence, Sleepy always had to forgo his chance of returning to the Mindscape.
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: The special type of artificial light Sleepwalker became addicted to for several issues might as well have been alcohol or heroin, since the alien used it to try and cope with his loneliness and frustration at being hated by everyone he tried to help.
* [[Foe
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Sleepwalker and Rick end up exchanging bodies for several issues and each one is forced to live the other's life. Sleepwalker ironically has more success with women in Rick's body than Rick himself does.
* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Alyssa Conover has a collection of stuffed animals on her bedroom wall. Sleepwalker is confused by them, and wonders if they're religious idols that she worships.
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* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Psyko very nearly leads Sleepwalker to murder Spectra while he's suffering from Psyko's madness, an act that would have driven him permanently insane.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The guy's name is Psyko.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: When Jeremy Roscoe became fused with N'ogskak and was turned into Psyko, he began running amuck and spreading mass insanity across New York. Sleepwalker intervened to stop him, and had just about managed to subdue him when Spectra suddenly attacked him when Sleepwalker used his warp beams on a human bystander. The human was actually [[Demonic Possession|possessed by a demon]], but Spectra didn't know that and attacked Sleepwalker anyway. While Sleepy was forced to fight Spectra, Psyko took the opportunity to escape and return to tormenting the innocent people of New York. Sleepwalker even [[Lampshades]] the results of Spectra's intervention after she captures him. Fortunately, Spectra makes up for her mistake when she helps Sleepwalker finally bring Psyko to justice.
* [[Nineties Anti Hero]]: Averted, as Sleepwalker was much more law-abiding and upright than the likes of Cable or Deadpool.
* [[Noodle People]]: A literal case with people hit by the warp beams. They typically get better, although the mental trauma they can suffer doesn't go away so easy. Even then, the mental trauma is typically averted when the humans who get warped are [[People Puppets]], since the demons controlling them take the brunt of the blast and are banished back to their home dimension.
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* [[Villains Never Lie]]: Brutally subverted by Cobweb. The lies he feeds Rick are an essential part of his master plan.
* [[We Are As Mayflies]]: Sleepwalker implies that his race is extremely long-lived, as Cobweb has been stalking the Mindscape since before recorded time and Sleepwalker has fought him on multiple occasions.
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* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Sleepwalker himself obviously didn't suffer from this, but it did lead to [[Spider-Man]] and [[Ghost Rider]] appearing in Sleepwalker's series.
* [[Word of God]]: The letters page was used to answer a number of questions readers had about Sleepwalker and the Mindscape.
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