Basic Trope: Someone wakes up to find out that they've turned into something else in their sleep.
- Straight: Tobias wakes up one morning to find that he has turned into a kangaroo.
- Exaggerated:
- Tobias regularly finds himself turning into different things every time he wakes up in the morning.
- Tobias is turned into something that's very clearly much larger or smaller than he is, but doesn't even realize what happens until later.
- The transformation is painful enough that Tobias should've understandably been woken up by it, but he still doesn't.
- Downplayed:
- Tobias doesn't turn into a kangaroo in his sleep, but does become one soon after waking up.
- Tobias only wakes up with kangaroo ears rather than becoming a whole kangaroo.
- Justified:
- Tobias was cursed.
- Tobias can shapeshift, but hasn't quite figured out how the ability works and is prone to Involuntary Shapeshifting.
- …Especially when he hasn't had his morning coffee.
- Inverted: Tobias is turned into a kangaroo, but after he wakes up the next morning he finds that the transformation wore off overnight.
- Subverted: Tobias wakes up to find that he has turned into a kangaroo, but it's All Just a Dream.
- Double Subverted: But after actually waking up, he realizes he's a raccoon.
- Parodied:
- Tobias is turned into E. coli bacteria in his sleep. He sees nothing out of the ordinary, despite the fact that everything around him should logically be much larger now, and by the time he finally gets to see his reflection after spending a very long time trying to find the bathroom, he's completely shocked anyway.
- Tobias wakes up one morning and does something slightly unusual for him. Everyone acts like he transformed into a kangaroo.
- Zig-Zagged: Tobias repeatedly changes forms while waking up.
- Averted: Nobody transforms in their sleep.
- Enforced: "We should have a transformation cause that doesn't necessarily involve showing the transformation, since that'd be too expensive."
- Lampshaded: "Ah, great, I'm a kangaroo."
- Invoked: A witch curses Tobias to turn into a kangaroo by the next morning.
- Exploited: Tobias uses his kangaroo-related abilities to jump In a Single Bound.
- Defied: Tobias avoids falling asleep to prevent himself from turning into anything.
- Discussed: "How did you turn into a kangaroo?!" "I don't know, Just Woke Up That Way."
- Conversed: "You think he'd notice he was turned into a kangaroo."
- Implied: A character that Was Once a Man mentions having transformed in their sleep.
- Deconstructed: Tobias starts losing sleep in fear of becoming something else when he wakes up, which causes him to develop health problems.
- Reconstructed: Tobias gains control of his shapeshifting abilities to prevent this.
- Played for Laughs: Tobias wakes up to find himself as a kangaroo, and reacts with "Oh, no, not again!"
- Played for Drama: Tobias wonders What Have I Become? and starts to Go Mad from the Revelation.
- Played for Horror: Tobias is turned into an Eldritch Abomination in his sleep while struggling to regain his humanity.
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