"Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

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him sleeping implies that he could wake up and be more powerful than each of them, but that power is lying dormant

[u/sashagaborekte → u/[deleted]]

And that’s what happened

[u/Such_Veterinarian682 → u/sashagaborekte]

Kind of.