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Basic Trope: Secrets and important information divulged unconsciously through a sleeping character.

  • Straight: Emperor Evulz' spy Dracone finds out about a secret plan by listening to Alice when she takes a quick snooze during a mission.
  • Exaggerated: Dracone finds out about the secret plan, the hidden base, the heroes' knowledge about Emperor Evulz' plots, and all of the heroes' weaknesses by listening to Alice talk in her sleep.
  • Downplayed: Alice's sleeptalking doesn't let much slip, but it's enough to give Dracone important information combined with what he already knows.
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: Dracone hears a lot of useless stuff when Alice talks in her sleep.
  • Subverted: Dracone finds out about the secret plan by listening to Alice when she takes a snooze...but it turns out Alice is a little loopy from sleeping draught and what she let slip was an old plan.
  • Double Subverted: When Dracone comes back later in the week, she divulges the real plan.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice doesn't talk in her sleep.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Best way to get information from someone...wait till they fall asleep."
  • Invoked: Dracone slips Alice a mixture of sleeping draught and Truth Serum.
  • Exploited: Dracone hides in Alice's room before she goes to bed so he can listen to her.
  • Defied: Alice gags herself every night before she goes to sleep.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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