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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'', this is the secret objective of one of the quests given. The protagonist is not told that there is a sleeper, or that horrible things will happen if she wake him up.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Ur-Example: Kumbakarna, from the ancient Indian epic ''[[Ramayana]]''. He was a giant demon prince who was cursed by the god Indra to sleep for six months of each year, and was cursed with death if he was woken during that sleep. His brother, the demon-king Ravana, woke him so he could help turn the tide of a decisive battle. It was working for a while, but then guess what happened.
* In Steven Erickson's ''Malazan'' series, the whole world is a sleeping goddess, Burn, whom it would be A REALLY bad idea to wake.
* This is a discussed trope in ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]''. Alice and another character (the White Knight?) talk about the Red King sleeping under a tree. The Knight supposes that he's dreaming their world. I'll let someone with a more recent memory of the book add it as an example, since I'm not sure I have the details correct.
* In ''Jinx High'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]], There's a Dangerous Sleeper under Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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== [[Music]] ==
* ''Tarsk Tavern'' has the song "Sleeper", based on the [[
== [[Mythology]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the instance Sunken Temple, where the final boss is asleep and his underlings are fighting to keep you from waking him up. He was originally a guardian, his dreams protecting the world from an evil God - who managed to corrupt him and twist his dreams into nightmares.
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' has the Wind Fish who is dreaming the entire island that the game takes place on, all the dungeon bosses try to stop you from waking it up and try to warn you about what you're doing. Ultimately, it turns out that {{spoiler|both Link and the Wind Fish are sharing the same dream}}.
* The [[Milkman Conspiracy]] segment of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' revolves largely about the [[Driving Question]] of "Who is the Milkman?" and various forces preventing Raz from waking him up.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Unlimited Adventures|UA Newsletter]]'' has a series of articles by Alex D. Karaczun, supposedly about creating a setting and a plot, but the articles seem to mostly be an excuse to showcase Alex's invented setting about the sleeping god "Primion", whose dream is the entire setting of Rothon, and it's unclear if waking him up would cause a [[Dream Apocalypse]] or make Rothon a real place. (The articles: [http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/uanews/nlhtm07/write.htm Part I], [http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/uanews/nlhtm08/write.htm Part II], [http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/uanews/nlhtm09/write.htm Part III].)
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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