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The Mindscape is an alien dimension that is connected to the minds of all living entities in our dimension. It is infested with horrible demons and monsters, many of which seek to prey on the minds of innocent humans. The Sleepwalkers are a race of beings charged with defending the minds of humanity, fighting the demons of the Mindscape and capturing them before they can do any harm. One of these Sleepwalkers became trapped in the mind of human college student Rick Sheridan by his enemy, the demonic Cobweb. The Sleepwalker's attempts to escape wound up getting him fused with Rick's consciousness, producing a bizarre side effect that allowed the Sleepwalker to manifest in the human world whenever Rick was asleep. Simply calling himself by his race's name due to his actual personal name being impossible for humans to pronounce, Sleepwalker took to battling crime in New York City while Rick slept, fighting criminals and supervillains the way he had the monsters of the Mindscape. This was not always easy, particularly since many people were horrified by Sleepwalker's appearance, Rick's life took a downward spiral as he struggled to cope with Sleepwalker's presence in his life, and Sleepwalker himself was plagued with survivor's guilt and loneliness.

* [[Cruel to Be Kind]]: One of Sleepwalker's lesser powers was his ability to detect [[Demonic Possession]] in humans. These humans were an exception to the rule tha Sleepy couldn't use his warp vision on living beings, since zapping them would actually break the demon's hold over them and ''free'' the human in the process. Unfortunately, most of the time other humans who saw Sleepwalker do this didn't know the humans were possessed and thought he was hurting them. This led to more than one misunderstanding.

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Subverted by 8-Ball, who was a legitimate engineer before his employers fired him, and Mr. FX, who was kidnapping people to use as props in his otherwise legitimate special effects displays.

* [[Dream Land]]: The Mindscape, Sleepwalker's home dimension.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: When he reappears in ''Heroes For Hire'', we learn that 8-Ball supports his sick grandmother with the proceeds from his robberies.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[People Puppets]]: Cobweb's minions frequently enslaved peoples' minds and used their bodies to carry out their master's evil plans.

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Rick refused to synchronized with Sleepwalker at first which would have given him the ability to let Sleepwalker come out at any time instead of just when he's sleeping. So when he did gave it a try when danger comes knocking, it didn't turn out correctly and he got mixed up in the [[Biological Mashup]] above.