Television
- The original Sleeper story appeared in the animated television series, The Marvel Super Heroes in the "Captain America" subseries as in the installments titled, "The Sleeper Shall Awake", "Where Walks the Sleeper", "The Final Sleep."
- A Sleeper robot appeared in the X-Men episode "Old Soldiers", where it was defeated by Wolverine and Captain America.
- Robots of a similar design to the Sleepers appeared in the "Six Forgotten Warriors" saga of the Spider-Man TV series. They were created by the Red Skull to protect his "doomsday weapon". They were initially defeated by the Six Warriors, Kingpin and the Insidious Six, but were later reactivated by Electro to attack the United Nations. They were defeated once again by the Six Warriors.
- The Sleeper appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Winter Soldier." This version has a HYDRA stamp instead of a Nazi stamp. A Sleeper attacks the Hydro-Base in order to spring Red Skull from the Hydro Base's prison. While Captain America and Nick Fury were looking for Winter Soldier, they find him fighting a Sleeper. Captain America and Nick Fury bring the mountain down on Sleeper as Captain America tricks it off a cliff. Winter Soldier later told Captain America and Nick Fury that in the event that Red Skull's campaign as Dell Rusk fails, the Sleepers would activate. 5 Sleepers in Washington DC have been activated and end up attacking Washington DC upon combining into one Mega-Sleeper with a Nova Cannon in its chest. The Avengers fought the Mega-Sleeper until Captain America and Winter Soldier arrive to target the CPU in its head. Captain America and Winter Soldier find Red Skull in the CPU part of the Mega-Sleeper where Red Skull plans to brainwash them to serve him. Winter Soldier then breaks free as the fight within the Mega-Sleeper damages it. The Avengers managed to cause the Mega-Sleeper to collapse into the clearing.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)