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Anyone whose description is "Normal Job By Day, Crimefighter by Night!"
 
So we'll see them doing stuff during day and night -- constantly. Don't they ever ''[[The Sleepless|sleep]]?'' The actual physical consequences are rarely taken seriously. There may be an episode or two with a teacher or employer being annoyed that the [[Triple Shifter]] is dozing off; rarely anything else happens. Night is naturally the time for saving the world when you [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]].
 
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]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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*** 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.
** As the [[Sailor Moon]] English [[Expository Theme Song]] tells us, the titular heroine is "Fighting evil by moonlight, [[[[Ear Worm]] winning love by daylight..." Even before becoming a warrior of love, she was having problems getting to school on time, but somehow being Sailor Moon doesn't compound it at all.
** Played with in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|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.
*** In a completely mundane instance, Sakura was shown to be dozing off in class all week long. Syaoran and Tomoyo thought she was [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World|transforming cards behind their backs]]. She was actually {{spoiler|rushing to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|knit Syaoran a scarf]] before the winter festival, knowing how much he hates the cold}}.
** ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' actually showed the end result of an action such as this - Love, Miki and Buki actually got themselves ''hospitalized'' because they pushed themselves between dance practice, school and being Pretty Cure.
* Lelouch/Zero from ''[[Code Geass]]''. In one episode, after schoolgirl/terrorist Kallen is publicly embarrassed due to nodding off in class, Rivalz suggests she take lessons from Lelouch, who's the undisputed master of sleeping through class without getting caught, napping through about half the school day on average. He still manages to pull a straight-B report card and somehow maintain his [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]] public persona while secretly working to overthrow the government nights and weekends.
* Sousuke of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', due to the combined stresses of completing schoolwork and typing up reports for his superiors (not having slept for four days in the process) collapses with a fever in an episode of Fumoffu.
** In the second novel, he falls asleep in class with his eyes open after having spent the night dealing with a [[Humongous Mecha]] rampaging through Tokyo.
** The plot of TSR is centered around the fact that Sousuke can't keep up his [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]] routine as his presence is needed to pilot his organization's only [[Super Robot Genre]].
** In the later novels, his sleeping habits are shown a bit more... and they're very unhealthy. Apparently, he got into the habit of always sleeping under the bed, with his eyes open, and is always [[Crazy Survivalist|holding a weapon of some sort]]. During the time when he sleeps, he also has [[Bad Dreams|nightmares]] of his mother dying, and actually counts himself lucky when he gets six whole whopping hours of sleep that day (after wandering around until he passed out from fatigue). It definitely doesn't bode well for his life expectancy.
* [[Kekkaishi]]'s Yoshimori is constantly falling asleep in class, since he's in school during the day and hunts Ayakashi during the night. His 'breakfast' is often coffee-flavored milk.
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** In other continuities, no one bats an eye [pun unintended] because he occasionally makes a brief but memorable evening appearance as [[Eccentric Millionaire|Millionaire Playboy]] Bruce Wayne, carousing the night away with beautiful women on his arms. So he's assumed to be sleeping all day thereafter, as a [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]].
** After the battle seen early on in ''The Dark Knight'', Bruce Wayne is seen sleeping at the table during a board meeting at Wayne Enterprises the next day.
** On the other hand, Terry, Bruce's successor as Batman in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', is regularly shown struggling to [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World|balance the demands of his daytime life with his responsibilities as Batman]], and frequently his daytime life suffers as a result: he falls asleep in class and has poor grades, and both his mother and his girlfriend are often on his case about his apparent lack of reliability.
** Batman's first apprentice, Nightwing, is allowed to be a little more human, and when he's forced to go without sleep, he suffers for it.
** In one episode of ''[[Justice League]]'', Batman hasn't slept for three nights straight...as they fight the [[Villain of the Week]] whose power is being able to attack you in your sleep. At the end of the episode, after he and [[Martian Manhunter|J'onn]] save everyone, he's seen slumped over in a chair in the Watchtower's infirmary, snoring.
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** 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.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Although she often complains about it, and it seems that most of her bad-guy-fighting is done in the evenings rather than smack in the middle of the night. It's assumed by many that "getting by with very little sleep" is a minor Slayer ability except, of course, when the plot requires her to have a prophetic dream. Her friends actually do have problems matching her schedule, they mostly seem to go to bed once the club closes.
** "I have at least three lives right now, none of which mesh. It's like oil and water and... [[Buffy -Speak|a third unmeshable thing]]."
* [[Dexter]] Morgan seems to ignore this problem entirely, with no apparent problems. By day, he's a skilled forensic scientist, and have never been shown to doze off at work. In the afternoons and evenings, he spends time with his girlfriend/wife and her kids, or go bowling with the guys from work. At night, he stalks people he suspects of being murderers, and once he is sure, abducts them, kills them, and cuts them into little pieces he can dump in the sea. Sleep? Optional.
** It is actually lampshaded in a couple of episodes of the second season, when Dexter is considering turning himself in (which would almost certainly ensure that he spends the rest of his life in prison), he comments "It might be fun to start sleeping again." Towards the end of the arc, however, with the difficulties resolved, he just shrugs it off as he prepares for another triple-shift day. "I can't believe I was going to give up all of this for SLEEP..."
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* In ''[[An American Tail]] 2: Fievel Goes West'', Fievel doesn't get any chance to sleep in the two and half days between the time he falls off the train to the end of the movie.
* Became a point of contention between Bruce and Terry in ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]].'' The original [[Batman]] doesn't seem to understand that Terry still needs to sleep, go to school, do homework, help his mother, ''and'' maintain his social life while fighting crime.
* On ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|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.
 
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