The power to enter an intensively dormant state.
Also Called
- Deep Sleep
- Self-Induced Unconsciousness
- Suspended Animation
Capabilities
The user can enter hibernation, a state of inactivity and metabolic depression/suppression characterized by low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate. User may be able to slow the metabolism to the point of effective death.
The purpose of hibernation include conserving energy, safety reasons, healing, etc.
Associations
- Feign Death
- Healing Coma
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Oxygen Independence
- Self-Sustenance
- Sleep Manipulation
Known Users
- Bleu (Breath of Fire)
- Cthulhu (Cthulhu Mythos)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Hellboy)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Spider-Man (Marvel)
- Ventus (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep)
- Snorlax (Pokemon)
- Lorophage Demons (Angel & Faith)
- Vul Isen (Star Wars)
- Jackie Estacado (The Darkness)
- Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty)
- Chiropteran Queens (Blood+)
- Carbuncles (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles)
- Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
- Anyone with Ena (Nagi no Asu); via gorging and fasting
- Cadis Etrama Di Raizel (Noblesse)
- The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers)
- Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Apocalypse (Marvel)
- Puma Man (Puma Man)
- Cthulhu (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Necalli (Street Fighter)
- Racnoss (Doctor Who)
- Silurians (Doctor Who)
Gallery
Naraku (InuYasha) can enter a deep hibernation.
The Snorlax sleeping.
As one of the current queens of the chiropteran race, Saya Otonashi (Blood+) periodically enters thirty-year hibernation cycles.
Lorophage demons (Angel & Faith) enter hibernation for decades at a time until "the stars of the Old One's that birthed them align."
Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) was frozen in an iceberg for 100 years.
The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers) spends much of its time hibernating, only awakening every twenty-three years for twenty-three days of spring.
Necalli (Street Fighter) hibernates for centuries at a time, only awakening during the "Hour of Battle" every few hundred years.
Cthulhu (Cthulhu Mythos)
Cthulhu (Valkyrie Crusade)