Sleepwalker (Marvel)
Sleepwalker is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Sleepwalker
In the Mindscape, a world where strange creatures live that borders on the minds of all intelligent life, there is a team of beings that protect the sleeping minds of humans. For if they were not protected, dangerous beings would enter the minds of sleeping humans. One of the beings that protects the human minds, what humans call 'Sleepwalker', was tricked by his enemy, Cobweb, into entering the mind of Rick Sheridan. After confronting Sleepwalker in many of his dreams, Rick tore off Sleepwalker's Imaginator. This caused Sleepwalker and Rick to bond together. Now, whenever Rick Sheridan goes to sleep, Sleepwalker materializes into reality. (Sleepwalker v1 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Sleepwalker was a towering humanoid alien male who stood at an imposing height of seven feet and zero inches and weighed three hundred and thirty-one pounds, presenting an unnerving and powerful extraterrestrial silhouette. His entire visible epidermis was a deep green coloration, completely devoid of any body hair, which contrasted sharply with his intensely glowing, solid red eyes that lacked visible pupils or irises. He possessed an athletic, remarkably dense, and muscular build featuring elongated limbs and a hardened facial structure that remained stoic and alien to onlookers. (Sleepwalker v1 #1) According to Rick Sheridan, the Sleepwalker's voice sounded like Vincent Price. (Fantastic Four v1 #644) Eschewing traditional terrestrial clothing, modern fabrics, or skin-tight superhero spandex, his wardrobe consisted of a flowing, stylized purple robe and matching hooded cloak that partially shrouded his green features. The tattered, mystical-looking garment draped over his broad shoulders, leaving his large green hands exposed, while his feet were clad in dark, functional boots that lacked any advanced tactical padding or commercial insignia. (Sleepwalker v1 #1)
Rick Sheridan was a college student at Metropolitan University. One night, he dreamed that a bizarre, green-skinned being appeared while he was playing basketball. When he fell asleep again, the entity reappeared and interrupted his dream with his girlfriend Alyssa. Rick fought it and wrestled away an amulet the being wore, making it vanish. Rick's triumph did not last, as when he turned on his TV he found that it had appeared in the real world. Rick worked out that the dream creature could only manifest while he slept, so he tried to stay awake as long as possible. However, when thugs robbed a store he was in, they knocked him out, releasing the Sleepwalker. (Sleepwalker v1 #1)
After observing how humans frequently keep dogs as companions, Sleepwalker created Dogwalker as his own companion in the Mindscape to better understand human nature. (Lockjaw v1 #4) The dog seemingly had the same Warp Gaze ability as Sleepwalker as they were capable of firing a red beam from their eyes that could destroy Nightmare Creations. (Lockjaw v1 #3)
Powers and abilities
Sleepwalker was born a native member of the unpronounceable alien race known as the Sleepwalkers, which natively meant he possessed a long-lived alien physiology completely adapted to survive within the Mindscape dimension and border realms. He was a highly exceptional entity who served as an elite Mindscape guardian, granting him vast superhuman strength capable of lifting heavy vehicular machinery, alongside enhanced durability, reflexes, and endless physical stamina. His primary offensive capability was the Warp Gaze, a specialized and logic-defying reality-warping vision that allowed him to project concussive mental energy beams directly from his eyes to reshape, bend, and distort the molecular structure of physical, inanimate matter at will. Sleepwalker also possessed the capability of flotation-like flight by manipulating local air currents, alongside an advanced sensory vision that enabled him to perceive various energy trails and track invisible or extra-dimensional entities. While his Mindscape training made him a premier defender, his unique dimensional bonding introduced a critical operational weakness: he was entirely dependent on Rick Sheridan's sleep cycle to exist on Earth, meaning he would instantaneously vanish from the physical world the exact microsecond Rick woke up. (Sleepwalker v1 #1)
He came to learn the language of whatever his host spoke. If Sleepwalker had been trapped in the mind of someone who spoke another language, like French or German, he would have begun using that language when he first appeared in the human world. (Sleepwalker v1 #1)
As an alien resident of the Mindscape, Sleepwalker has exceptional visual abilities, being able to see over a much farther distance than an average human and sense energy trails. Due to his bond with Rick Sheridan, Sleepwalker shares a mental link with him and must periodically return to his mind to survive. He can also enhance psychic abilities and possesses a limited resistance to them. (Fantastic Four v1 #645)
He also has an ability called the Warp Gaze, a vision- based power which allows him to manipulate the matter it falls upon. As a law enforcer of the Mindscape, he has sworn not to use it any living entity, because it can cause extreme pain to the organism as well as showing them their worst nightmares. (Sleepwalker v1 #1)
Sleepwalker discovers that he can harness the power of the Infinity Gems without having to use them directly. (Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker v1 #4) He could willfully tap into the infinite and ill-defined powerbase of the Infinity Circuit, which interconnects each cosmic gemstone that forms the backbone of the bulwark, upholding its universal firmament without needing to withhold any of them to access their power. His travels from the various realms within showed him which jewels empower what element of the circuit and how best to utilize them himself. (Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker v1 #3)
One item used by his people were the Imaginators that was a badge-like device worn by sleepwalkers used to teleport around their home plane, the Mindscape. (Sleepwalker v1 #3)
Notes
- Sleepwalker was created by Bob Budiansky and Bret Blevins where he made his first appearance in Sleepwalker v1 #1 (June, 1991).
Alternate Versions
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Appearances
- Sleepwalker v1: (1991)
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