The power to enter an intensively dormant state. Sub-power of Metabolism Manipulation. Opposite to Accelerated Metabolism.
Also Called[]
- Aestivation
- Deep Sleep
- Dormancy
- Hibernator Physiology
- Self-Induced Unconsciousness
- Self-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. High level users may be able to set the duration and/or what will end hibernation.
The purposes of hibernation include conserving energy, safety reasons, healing, etc.
Applications[]
- Coma Inducement (Self-Only)
- Sleep Inducement (Self-Only)
- Sleep Empowerment
- Suspended Animation Inducement
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Alien Physiology
- Animal Imitation
- Feign Death
- Healing Coma
- Immortal Sleep
- Metabolism Manipulation
- Oxygen Independence
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Self-Sustenance
- Sleep Manipulation
- Superior Human Physiology
Limitations[]
- User is extremely vulnerable to attack while under hibernation.
- May require certain environmental factors such as cold temperatures to activate.
- User can still be woken up by Awakening or Insomnia Inducement.
- May not have a defined duration.
Known Users[]
- Annie Leonhart (Attack on Titan)
- Hydromander (Ben 10: Reboot)
- Former Maruhage Empire members (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
- Sandy (Brawl Stars)
- Bleu (Breath of Fire)
- Valerie Bateson (Breath of Fire II); in her dragon form
- Cthulhu (Cthulhu Mythos)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)
- Hive (Destiny)
- Silver (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland)
- Racnoss (Doctor Who)
- Silurians (Doctor Who)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Hellboy)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- The Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni)
- Goddess of Dawn (Invaders of the Rokujyoma)
- Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency)
- Rock Humans & Rock Animals (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VIII: Jojolion)
- Yotsuyu Yagiyama
- Aishou Dainenjiyama
- Aphex Brothers
- Tamaki Damo
- Dolomite
- Urban Guerilla
- Doremifasolati Do
- Poor Tom
- Wu Tomoki
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Obladi Oblada
- Ventus (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep)
- Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
- Sentimonsters (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir); for many years or forever.
- Feast Sentimonster
- Standstill Users (Onegai Teacher)
- Snorlax (Pokémon)
- Lorophage Demons (Angel & Faith)
- Vul Isen (Star Wars)
- Jackie Estacado (The Darkness)
- Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty)
- Chiropteran Queens (Blood+)
- Lunarians (Final Fantasy IV)
- 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)
- It (Stephen King's It) - Every 27-30 years
- Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Masters/Taskmaster (Marvel Comics)
- Puma Man (Puma Man)
- SCP-076-2 - "Able" (SCP Foundation)
- Necalli (Street Fighter)
- Practitioners of the Hercules Method (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode)
- The Shadow (Supernatural)
- Nitros (Toriko)
- Cthulhu (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Eugene Tooms (X-Files)
- Various characters (Moomin)
- Mathayus/Scorpion King (The Mummy Returns)
Gallery[]
Lorophage demons (Angel & Faith) enter hibernation for decades at a time until "the stars of the Old One's that birthed them align."
As one of the current queens of the chiropteran race, Saya Otonashi (Blood+) periodically enters thirty-year hibernation cycles.
After so many failed attempts to conquer the Hair Kingdom, the sadistic forces of the Maruhage Empire (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo) decided to enter a cryogenic sleep...
The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers) spends much of its time hibernating, only awakening every twenty-three years for twenty-three days of spring.
Rock Humans (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part 8: JoJolion) hibernate for months at a time by turning into stone.
Dormant Sentimonster (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir) became dormant for 172 years after falling into a lava on Tibet, and was woken up after Mayura touches him.
Necalli (Street Fighter) hibernates for centuries at a time, only awakening during the "Hour of Battle" every few hundred years.
Eugene Tooms (X-Files) is a nearly immortal mutant who can enter a fifty-year hibernation after feeding on sufficient human livers.
The Scorpion King (The Mummy Returns), after completing his task, was separated from his human body and given a new body, that was between both human and scorpion and placed in hibernation as a curse by Anubis to remain in stasis until the year of the scorpion, once every five thousand years.