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* [[Dumb Is Good]] - From Nicole's perspective, the story starts off with a student who goes clinically brain dead whenever he sleeps. He's able to wake up normally in perfect health afterwards, and even claims to have had vivid dreams. The story (and the main characters) treat her desire to study this incredible phenomenon from a scientific or medical perspective as entirely unreasonable and some kind of control freak [[Straw Vulcan|character]] [[Measuring the Marigolds|flaw]]. They even joke about how she's a nut job who wants Alex to be "labotomized" [sic]. Of course the audience knows that Alex is going off to a magical fantasy land every night, and consequences from his heart stopping for six hours are just taken care of by magic or something. But there's absolutely no reason for Nicole to believe that at that part of the story, and it's just bizarre to imply that a well-adjusted med student would be like "Oh, hmm, he goes brain dead every night but wakes up fine. I am not curious as to why this could be at all!" and drop it. (Also, aren't they just a LITTLE concerned about what happens to Alex's body while he's busy hanging around with elves?) Especially frustrating when literally three pages after laughing her down Dan is shown poring over scientific journals in the library looking for case studies similar to Alex's and some solid facts.
* [[Dumb Is Good]] - From Nicole's perspective, the story starts off with a student who goes clinically brain dead whenever he sleeps. He's able to wake up normally in perfect health afterwards, and even claims to have had vivid dreams. The story (and the main characters) treat her desire to study this incredible phenomenon from a scientific or medical perspective as entirely unreasonable and some kind of control freak [[Straw Vulcan|character]] [[Measuring the Marigolds|flaw]]. They even joke about how she's a nut job who wants Alex to be "labotomized" [sic]. Of course the audience knows that Alex is going off to a magical fantasy land every night, and consequences from his heart stopping for six hours are just taken care of by magic or something. But there's absolutely no reason for Nicole to believe that at that part of the story, and it's just bizarre to imply that a well-adjusted med student would be like "Oh, hmm, he goes brain dead every night but wakes up fine. I am not curious as to why this could be at all!" and drop it. (Also, aren't they just a LITTLE concerned about what happens to Alex's body while he's busy hanging around with elves?) Especially frustrating when literally three pages after laughing her down Dan is shown poring over scientific journals in the library looking for case studies similar to Alex's and some solid facts.
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] [[Empathic Weapon]] - Alex's sword.
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] [[Empathic Weapon]] - Alex's sword.
* [[Everythings Better With Princesses]] - Nastajia, the elfin princess-turned-queen.
* [[Everything's Better With Princesses]] - Nastajia, the elfin princess-turned-queen.
* [[Evil Chancellor]] - Nicodemus, draconic ruler of all Dreamland, used to be one of these.
* [[Evil Chancellor]] - Nicodemus, draconic ruler of all Dreamland, used to be one of these.
** While he comes off as a [[Well Intentioned Extremist]] in the Arthur flashback, he evidently has been keeping things from Arthur before his betrayal - before reading Merlin's letter, he hadn't told him something as important as ''how'' fragile the peace between Dreamland and Nightmare Realm really is.
** While he comes off as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] in the Arthur flashback, he evidently has been keeping things from Arthur before his betrayal - before reading Merlin's letter, he hadn't told him something as important as ''how'' fragile the peace between Dreamland and Nightmare Realm really is.
* [[Evil Gloating]]
* [[Evil Gloating]]
* [[False Friend]]
* [[False Friend]]
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** Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] since [[Fan Wank|it's implied that nearly everyone visits Dreamland as a child, allowing the myriad creatures to enter cultures worldwide.]]
** Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] since [[Fan Wank|it's implied that nearly everyone visits Dreamland as a child, allowing the myriad creatures to enter cultures worldwide.]]
* [[First Kiss]]
* [[First Kiss]]
* [[Five Man Band]]
* [[Five-Man Band]]
** [[The Hero]] - Alex
** [[The Hero]] - Alex
** [[The Lancer]] - Nastajia
** [[The Lancer]] - Nastajia
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* [[Gentle Giant]] - Paddington
* [[Gentle Giant]] - Paddington
* [[Good Old Ways]]
* [[Good Old Ways]]
* [[Green Eyed Monster]]
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[High Heel Face Turn]] - {{spoiler|Felicity}}
* [[High Heel Face Turn]] - {{spoiler|Felicity}}
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* [[Humans Are Special]] - Before Nicodemus came into power, only a human adult (always a prominent figure from human history) could rule Dreamland.
* [[Humans Are Special]] - Before Nicodemus came into power, only a human adult (always a prominent figure from human history) could rule Dreamland.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Alex, in spades.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Alex, in spades.
* [[Its Personal]]
* [[It's Personal]]
* [[It Was a Gift]]
* [[It Was a Gift]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]
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* [[King in The Mountain]]
* [[King in The Mountain]]
* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]
* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]
* [[Likea Son to Me]]
* [[Like a Son to Me]]
* [[Loveable Rogue]] - Felicity
* [[Loveable Rogue]] - Felicity
* [[Made a Slave]]
* [[Made a Slave]]
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* [[The Nose Knows]]
* [[The Nose Knows]]
* [[Not a Game]]
* [[Not a Game]]
* [[Not Now Kiddo]]
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]
* [[Odd Shaped Panel]]
* [[Odd Shaped Panel]]
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]
* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]
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* [[Shining City]]
* [[Shining City]]
* [[Shown Their Work]] - The author knows his dreams.
* [[Shown Their Work]] - The author knows his dreams.
* [[Sibling Yin Yang]] - Alexander and Dan
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] - Alexander and Dan
* [[Sky Pirate]] - Pirates from the Nightmare Realm get around in a flying wooden ship.
* [[Sky Pirate]] - Pirates from the Nightmare Realm get around in a flying wooden ship.
* [[Some Call Me Tim]]
* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]
* [[Street Urchin]]
* [[Street Urchin]]
* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Parents]]
* [[Tell Me About My Father|Tell Me About My Parents]]
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Nicodemus completely loses his composure when the Sword of Kings tells him to his face that {{spoiler|Arthur is long dead and Alex is his successor, as well as the fact that Alex is not a first born of his generation, finding a loophole in one of Dreamland's rules and undermining the dragon's claim to the throne.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Nicodemus completely loses his composure when the Sword of Kings tells him to his face that {{spoiler|Arthur is long dead and Alex is his successor, as well as the fact that Alex is not a first born of his generation, finding a loophole in one of Dreamland's rules and undermining the dragon's claim to the throne.}}
* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: In the flashback to Arthur's time, both {{spoiler|Arthur and Nicodemus seem like this. Arthur just wants to show his enemies the peace in Dreamland to demonstrate they can make their own utopia, however, he knows all to well this could cause a war with the Nightmare Realm, but he at least demonstrates an attack of conscience, being forced to make a choice between potentially seeing Camelot fall and potentially causing a war in Dreamland. His eventual decision to go through with the plan comes with a heavy [[I Did What I Had to Do]] vibe. Nicodemus is firmly stuck on making sure the latter does not happen at any cost, ultimately [[Foregone Conclusion|betraying Arthur]]. While neither are fully in the right, Arthur is a lot more sympathetic, being idealistic and actually considering his options while Nicodemus is fully convinced that Arthur's plan will not work anyway as he thinks [[Humans Are Bastards]] by nature.}}
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In the flashback to Arthur's time, both {{spoiler|Arthur and Nicodemus seem like this. Arthur just wants to show his enemies the peace in Dreamland to demonstrate they can make their own utopia, however, he knows all to well this could cause a war with the Nightmare Realm, but he at least demonstrates an attack of conscience, being forced to make a choice between potentially seeing Camelot fall and potentially causing a war in Dreamland. His eventual decision to go through with the plan comes with a heavy [[I Did What I Had to Do]] vibe. Nicodemus is firmly stuck on making sure the latter does not happen at any cost, ultimately [[Foregone Conclusion|betraying Arthur]]. While neither are fully in the right, Arthur is a lot more sympathetic, being idealistic and actually considering his options while Nicodemus is fully convinced that Arthur's plan will not work anyway as he thinks [[Humans Are Bastards]] by nature.}}
* [[We Will Meet Again]]
* [[We Will Meet Again]]
* [[What Is Evil]]
* [[What Is Evil?]]
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]
* [[You Are Not Alone]]
* [[You Are Not Alone]]

Revision as of 12:16, 8 January 2014

The Dreamland Chronicles is an entirely computer-generated, three-dimensional webcomic with over one thousand pages and counting. The Dreamland Chronicles is almost entirely suitable for all ages, with no outstanding adult themes.

As a child, Alexander had adventures every night in Dreamland with his mythically-inclined friends, flying across Dreamland. One 'day' in Dreamland, Alex found an ancient temple housing a magic sword, which practically leaps into his hand. A talking dragon assaults the young boy, and he wakes up with a strange sword necklace.

College-bound Alexander, dreamless since that fateful night, thinks that he was just having normal dreams until he suddenly returned to Dreamland one night; he had fallen asleep with the sword necklace his mother sent him. Returning to find his friends now adults, he finds Dreamland in dire need of a hero, ruled by the tyrannical dragon who had been guarding that sword years ago...

Less clichéd than it sounds.

It's also being developed as a full length animated film, hopefully coming soon to a cinema near you.

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