Sleep
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| Copy Ability | |
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| Sleep | |
| In Games | Kirby's Dreamland, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Super Star, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Kirby Air Ride, Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Super Smash Bros. Brawl (As Trophy) Kirby Super Star Ultra |
| Type | It is 1-use, though it activates automatically |
| Appearance | A green (or purple) sleeping cap with white dots. |
| Properties | None |
| Other Powers | Restores health with Copy Scroll in Kirby: Squeak Squad. |
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| Regular Enemies | Noddy, Red Dygclops |
| Mini-bosses | None |
| Helper | None (since this ability will not allow the player to discard it at will at all) |
—Sleep's Flavour Text, Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
Sleep is usually the most useless of all copy abilities. When Kirby eats a lethargic Noddy, he instantly falls asleep and can't do anything until he wakes up. This takes approximately 5 seconds, depending on the game. Despite appearing in Kirby Super Star, Sleep has no Helper since the player is unable to willingly drop the ability. Save for the reasoning behind it, this is the case with the other one use abilities in the game.
Sleep isn't always completely useless though. In Kirby Air Ride, the victim ailed with the ability is able to "pass" to to another racer by crashing into them, leaving them with the debilitating ability instead. Also if the player obtains the Sleep Copy Scroll in Kirby Squeak Squad, Kirby will slowly regain health as he sleeps.
In most games, Sleep Kirby appears at the game over screen. If the player chooses to continue, Sleep Kirby will be hastily chased off screen and the game continues from the beginning of the level.
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[edit] Features
| Move Name | Controls | Description | Element |
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| Doze Off | None | Kirby falls asleep for about five seconds, leaving him completely defenseless. When he wakes up this power disappears. In Squeak Squad with a Copy Scroll sleep will slowly regenerate health. In Air Ride sleep can be passed from character to character by colliding with them. | None |
[edit] In the Anime
Sleep appears in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! in episode 16, Flower Power. King Dedede tricks Kirby into Inhaling a Noddy and Kirby falls asleep. In the anime, Sleep Kirby is rather different than in games. First it doesn't give Kirby a hat, and second it was supposed to make Kirby sleep for 100 years. He would only wake up if he smelled the scent of legendary Pukey Flower.
[edit] In Super Smash Bros.
- The Pose Kirby has while sleeping is the same one he does when using this ability.
- Jigglypuff's green costume in Brawl has Kirby's sleep hat. Jigglypuff is known for sleeping in Smash Bros. so this makes sense.
- Sleep Kirby also appears as one of the many collectible Trophies in Brawl.
- One of Kirby's idle poses in Brawl involves him falling asleep for a brief second, then waking himself up.
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[edit] Trivia
- Sleep is one of the very few copy abilities that can be inhaled to obtain it's ability in Milky Way Wishes. Although a Trophy pedestal for Sleep is seen in other sub games, it is not used as a Deluxe Copy Ability.
- The gaining health part of Sleep Kirby in Squeak Squad may be a reference to the Pokemon games, where the move Rest restores health but also leaves the user vunerable.
