Second most powerful = John Constantine. He’s originally from Vertigo Comics series aimed at adults so his stories have always been able to go to darker places (& he gets to smoke). His character design was based on Sting originally. He dated a shark-man recently.
Also worth noting that Alan Moore claims to have met him twice. (I'd say he was originally a DC character, as that was where Swamp Thing was when he first appeared in that book.)
Yeah, but that confuses the point of what his strongest association is, and what the tone is of his origin
Yeah, I know you know comics, hahaha. I should have worded that differently.
Kind of like retroactively vertigo
Most powerful = Doctor Fate. He’s a hat. No literally. A mystical force, Nabu The Lord of Order, inhabits this helmet and if you put it on your head you get all of the mystical powers but he (the hat) also controls you.
Outstanding. Thank you for such a detailed and cool history lesson
We love to be asked! Or at least, I do!
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Is Nabu running around solo these days? Because I'm about to go work up a Head Detective crossover to pitch to Damon Wayans
I have never ever heard of this hat. The other two I recognised.
The hat is sometimes a she.
It’s a hat so it’s pretty flexible on the gender question. But the whole most powerful thing it’s pretty clear on
Yep.
And to be clear, I consider its genderfluidity a good thing.
Yes! Possessed hats deserve self determination too.
sting? lol
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The original working class warlock. Alan Moore co-created him
Recently watched a bunch of the animated DC movies with him in it (along with the Keanu Reeves live-action one) - shockingly an animated film from 2020(!) credited Alan Moore as one of his co-creators, and I have no idea how that happened (especially since he hadn't been credited in the other films)
City of Demons? "originally made to be sequel to the live-action series Constantine and a part of the Arrowverse franchise, but writer J. M. DeMatteis stated that the direction of this series was changed and that it was set in the DC Animated Movie Universe" Matt Ryan played him in all of those :)
i was in a bar restroom with a friend who knew the movie was in dev. they were telling me all about the character. they run through the backstory and ask me, ok, whos the worst actor they could have picked? and from a stall we didn't even know was occupied: 'Tom Cruise!' i think about this often
Rofl. Love this. You speaking of the old Constantine movie?
yeah, beautiful moment. the Keanu punchline was completely wrecked
