Indian mythology · rakshasa · sleep, doomed loyalty
Ravana's colossal brother, tricked by the gods into sleeping six months at a stretch. Woken for the war, he told Ravana plainly that he was wrong, then fought and died for him anyway, because he was his brother.
Kumbhakarna has fallen telling his brother he was wrong; Indrajit has fallen to Lakshmana. Ravana himself takes the field, and Rama, aiming at last for the heart rather than the ten heads that regrow, ends the war. Mandodari laments a husband greater than his own choice; Vibhishana lights the pyre.