Ultimate Sleepwalker/Awesome
- When Sleepwalker and Rick reverse their fusion and return to the Mindscape for the first time, they are caught up in a battle with Cobweb. Cobweb taunts Sleepwalker with the illusions of his dead and dying kinsmen, driving the alien hero into a murderous rage that leaves him wide open to Cobweb's counterattacks. It's then that Rick realizes the truth of what Cobweb is doing:
That's when Sleepwalker sees through the truth of Cobweb's illusions and rallies to finally defeat him.
- When the Silent Ones, the lords of Sleepwalker's race, are ready to execute him for his crimes, Sleepy's human host Rick Sheridan intervenes and refuses to let it happen:
Rick: You want to beat him? Break the cycle! That’s the way to do it! |
The Silent Ones: You are advised to stand aside, human. |
- Sleepwalker's battles with Psyko always push the alien hero to his very limits, turning into bloodbaths from which Sleepy usually emerges more dead than alive. Not only does Psyko very nearly destroy Sleepwalker in body, but also in mind, as his Hannibal Lectures play on Sleepwalker's despair and guilt...until Sleepwalker throws them back in his face:
Psyko: Look around you, brother! Do you not see what the end result is of our conflicts? Do you not see the reflection of your sins? Do you not see the cycle that entwines us, now and forever? |
- And then there's Sleepwalker's My Name Is Inigo Montoya speech as he confronts the truth behind Cobweb's machinations and forces himself to remember just who he is and what his responsibilities are. Then he takes on Cobweb, fighting with a renewed vigor until Cobweb is banished once and for all.