" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

Two captured British citizens, Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot, were tried and found guilty of inciting Indian raids and executed causing a diplomatic nightmare between the United States and England.

Beyond the logistical nightmare of returning home so many corpses, it was felt that repatriation would conflict with the feeling of brotherhood that had developed between all serving ranks.

The gas puts her in a deep sleep, during which she has a nightmare in which she is killed and a vendetta erupts between Batman and her father, Commissioner Gordon.

Gabriel also discovers connections between the case and a horrific recurring nightmare which has plagued him all of his life.

However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police officers, a bizarre hitchhiker ( Shannon Elizabeth ), bad diner food, and an unfortunate run-in with a cement mixer, getting from point A to point B proves to be just short of a nightmare.

" Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ", he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crime fighting.

Jaeger plays messenger between a disapproving tribe of his own people and a clan of warlike lion-women as they strive to make peace while stuck in the nightmare territory of their shared enemy, the Finder-verse version of Disneyland.

In Miller's Dark Knight Universe the connection between Wayne and Grayson is changed from the usual image of Batman and Robin as an idealized father-son relationship into an Oedipal nightmare.

Even so, what has begun as an ecumenical dream could end up an administrative nightmare given the differences in culture, structure and resourcing between the two Churches.

Samples from the song appear in scrambled " nightmare " form during the ent ' racte, and is also scene change music between the songs " The Winner Takes It All " and " Take a Chance on Me.

A man convicted of murder, Adam Grant ( Weaver ), tries to convince those about to execute him that the world all around them is just his recurring nightmare.

Windsor-Smith also provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in Astonishing Tales # 3 -# 5 ( December 1970-April 1971 ) and # 10 ( February 1972 ), three further issues of The Avengers (# 98-100, April – June 1972 )-about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing " all those bloody characters that I didn't give tuppence about ", Iron Man # 42 ( June 1972 ), and Marvel Premiere # 3-4 ( July – September 1972 ), which featured Doctor Strange, both of which were apparently re-scripted by Stan Lee after being drawn to Lee ’ s original scripts.

Chris, who is initially relieved that her suffering is over, quickly becomes angry when he learns that those who commit suicide are sent to Hell ; this is not the result of any judgement made against them, but that it is their nature to create " nightmare " afterlife worlds based on their pain.

Though such nightmares occur within many people, those with nightmare disorder experience them with a greater frequency.

When telepathically scanning a nightmare Shadowcat was having, Rachel Summers surmised that the nightmare was originating from Illyana and that the two of them have similar thought patterns, causing a psychic rapport like those of twins.

His coach, the man who holds the key to those dreams, takes control of Cody is a way that could not only destroy his dreams but turns his life into a living nightmare.

UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé has said that the world is likely to witness ‘ our worst nightmare ’ if funding for HIV / AIDS medicines falls short of sustaining those already on anti-retroviral medicines.

Events in episodes like " Married ," with Arnold's nightmare of married life climaxing with a heartfelt attempt by the dream Helga to express her love, also implies he has as much trouble as Helga has coming to terms with how deep his feelings are.

They may have trouble falling back to sleep for fear they will experience another nightmare.

A person experiencing nightmare disorder would have trouble going through everyday tasks ; the anxiety and lack of sleep caused by the fearful dreams would hinder the individual from completing everyday jobs efficiently and correctly.

ælfadl " nightmare ," ælfsogoða " hiccup ," afflictions apparently thought to be caused by elves.

' I knew this to be a nightmare fantasy wholly without substance in the real world ... One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife.

Dix was profoundly affected by the sights of the war, and would later describe a recurring nightmare in which he crawled through destroyed houses.

Further, attribution studies, which have shown certain plays in the canon were written by two or three hands, are a ' nightmare ' for Oxfordians, implying a ' jumble sale scenario ' for his literary remains long after his death.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier ( shown in the television episode " The Best of Both Worlds ").

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

A world in which the American myth and the American nightmare go unchallenged by question or by contradiction is not a world as safe or as peaceable as human reason, prudence and realism can make it ".

* The Bicycle Doctor, a laughing, malevolent clown disguised as a doctor who destroys the protagonist's beloved bicycle after feigning attempts to repair it in a nightmare experienced by Pee-Wee Herman in the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

First described in the 1996 book Trauma and Dreams by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett, this contemporary dream interpretation involves the dreamer coming up with an alternate, mastery outcome to the nightmare, mentally rehearsing that outcome awake, and then reminding themselves at bedtime that they wish this alternate outcome should the nightmare recur.

Second, and most commonly, guidance is not provided on how to change the disturbing content of the dream ; the specific instruction developed by Joseph Neidhardt is “ change the nightmare anyway you wish ” ( Neidhardt et al., 1992 ).

Simultaneously in the Krell laboratory, Morbius is awakened from a nightmare by Altaira's scream ; at that same instant, the creature vanishes.

One critic argues that it is Kafka ’ s influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel: “ Like Kafka ’ s heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of him raising the number of missions he has to fly .”

In her nightmare, Alice is being chased by Pete in his dog sled across an Arctic environment.

The nightmare, and therefore the threatened punishment, of the protagonist Winston Smith is to be attacked by rats.

The house is eventually struck by a military rocket, bringing the nightmare to an end with the woman awakening in her bed.

The Corinthian is a nightmare created by Dream, who destroys him in the same collection for going rogue and failing to fulfill his original design.

The story opens with Captain Haddock having a nightmare of being visited by Bianca Castafiore, who demands that he take his medicine ( actually a bottle of Loch Lomond whisky ).

In John Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, the character of Major Bennett Marco ( played by Frank Sinatra ) suffers from a nightmare set in Spring Lake.

The penultimate episode of the series depicts a Mysteron assault on Cloudbase with the use of armed spacecraft, which is ultimately revealed to be a nightmare dreamt by one of the Angel pilots.

More recent films that have explicitly explored parallel universes are: the 2000 film The Family Man, the 2001 cult movie Donnie Darko, which deals with what it terms a " tangent universe " that erupts from our own universe ; Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ) has the eponymous heroes cross over into a parallel universe ruled by humanoids who evolved from dinosaurs ; The One ( 2001 ) starring Jet Li, in which there is a complex system of realities in which Jet Li's character is a police officer in one universe and a serial killer in another, who travels to other universes to destroy versions of himself, so that he can take their energy ; and FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions ( 2004 ), the main character runs away from a totalitarian nightmare, and he enters into a cyber-afterlife alternative reality.

" Peyrot does not respond, but he weeps ; Mouche holds his " transfigured " head and, according to Gallico, " knew that they were the tears of a man ... who, emerging from the long nightmare, would be made forever whole by love.