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Of course, one could assume that Evil doesn't strike ''every'' night. But it sure seems that way. Also, if it ''is'' shown as a constant issue of exhaustion, it will usually be school or work that suffers, as opposed to their night-time adventures. If this is averted it's a case of [[Plot-Powered Stamina]].

 

* Many a [[Magical Girl]] does this; curiously the matter of sleep is only an personality issue. One may be a [[Heavy Sleeper]] or always [[Late for School]]; but that's more about them and less about fighting monsters in the middle of the night. Her companions sleep as little as she does, and don't seem to have any problems.

** The matter of sleep was actually addressed in the third episode of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s first season, with [[Mentor Mascot|Yuuno]] telling Nanoha to take a break since she's exhausting herself. Naturally, that led to her missing a [[Mineral MacGuffin|Jewel Seed]] [[My Greatest Failure|that proceeded to damage her town]]. Also, in the second season, the Wolkenritter go out searching for Linker Cores at night, because they spend their days with Hayate, who is not supposed to know about their nightly trips. Justified by them being artificial constructs who might not need sleep at all.

*** And then there's Teana, who puts herself through a rigorous training regimen (in addition to her regular training which in and of itself is very demanding) resulting in only sleeping four hours a night. At the end of it she's so exhausted her body needs 30+ hours of sleep to recover.

** Played with in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. Though [[Gotta Catch Em All|catching magical and mischievous cards]] shouldn't be particularly exhausting (considering she catches 52 of them over the course of roughly 15 months; it's not even a weekly occurrence), transforming them is quite draining to her limited magic. (As well as using the [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Time and Return Cards]], [[Worf Effect|which even knock]] ''[[Badass|Syaoran]]'' [[Worf Effect|for a loop]]!) Because of this, Sakura tends to doze off during class, or immediately after said transformation. She will also occasionally fall asleep in class for the purpose of having a prophetic dream ([[Captain Obvious|which tends to require the dreamer to be asleep at the time]]).

*** {{spoiler|Yukito/Yue}} plays this trope far more dramatically.

*** That's because Yoshimori usually goes all out, exerting his energy while Tokine thinks things through and only does what she must. Yoshi-mori outright exhausts himself.

* The girls get hit on both ends in ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]''. When they have to fight at night they're look exhausted the next day, and they're show having to take a supplementary class. On one occaison they actually have to leave the professor to fight monsters while they take their school finals.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Everyone on ''[[24]]'', it seems, mandated by the format of the show. Jack Bauer only gets to sleep between seasons. This may be more justified than other examples as it is only one long day, usually with a few year's gaps between. With caffeine and andrenaline, most people can function on one missed night of sleep and everyone aside from Jack has opportunities to stop and catch their breath at some point. Jack usually shows the toll by the end of the day.

** In a Danish parody, Jack spends the first 12 episodes sleeping. The dramatic highlight comes along in episode 13, were he is finally awakened by the mailman's arrival, only to receive a huge telephone bill.

 

 

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' some sort of an "Ancient [[Hidden Elf Village|Skifandrian]] Technique" allows that. Hardly ever taught to outsiders. And the Baron taught it to Gil.

* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' only sleeps [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602213248/http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_28/ 2 minutes a night], allowing him to fight crime during the day and night.

* Mr. Raibert from ''[[Freefall]]'' is habitually overworked, as one of the few ''competent'' bosses in Ecosystems Unlimited, which means his participation in most troubleshooting that requires decision or authorization on high level, when his corporation branch does the bulk of job on terraforming a planet and they are at the point when consequences of their early jury-rigging began to really catch up with them. And since [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2900/fc02850.htm the assistants don't keep up] with his pace, the problem keeps perpetuating itself.

{{quote|[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2400/fc02330.htm In a perfect world, I'd be given enough time to wrap up one emergency before the next one starts.]}}

 

== Web Original ==

* A [[Deconstruction|genuine problem]] for ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'', of course.

 

 

* On ''[[Gargoyles]],'' villain [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Demona]] is a gargoyle who magically [[Blessed with Suck|turns into]] [[Cursed with Awesome|a human]] during the day, which means she loses the [[Taken for Granite|stone sleep]] that most gargoyles use to recharge. And rather than rest, she uses her human form to run a vast corporation. [[Word of God]] says that the magic spell compensates somewhat while she manages to get the odd couple of hours of rest in, and no, this isn't helping her general lack of mental stability.

** Elisa comes pretty close to this at times. True, she works the night shift, but during the Avalon Voyage, she seems to be pulling day shifts as well as staying with the gargoyles at night. This is also true when Elisa is suddenly (though temporarily) shifted to the day shift.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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