Green Lantern (John Stewart)
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I literally just googled him today.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Nommo_(New_Earth)
Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Mist
Random Youtube guy with an... interesting voice. Had to listen to it at .75 speed, but it seems complete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmc0-aygpI
Dr. Mist reminds me of... Infidel from Astro City but heroic.
He also appeared in justice league dark.
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"The Doctor" is quite the crowded archetype, but what interesting to me about this character is that he's the "Leader Guy". You rarely see the "Doctor" as the team leader and it seems like he started the global guardians.
EDIT:
ALSO, he's ageless AND immortal... that opens up an entire BOX of that type of Ally, Enemy, and peer. It could be pretty long list, without actually resorting to having to make up your own
new villains to face him.
FINALLY, I'm a BIG FAN of "SHE" as in "SHE who must not be named" the classic films and it occurs to me that THIS is that same story.
So from there? He's just a redesign and a black label book away from being in the "In" crowd.
Last edited by Midnight_v; 11-23-2019 at 04:09 PM.
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
If I remember correctly from info I read about Dr. Mist online, he's capable of absorbing and using other magic users' magic.
Black Panther - Champion of Bast
Vixen - Champion of Anansi
Yeah he says as much, but that was in the same Nu52 book as him being an operative of Felix Faust, But... you know back to what I mentioned about battalion, its a good spot to in being able to cherry pick
a rarely used characters best moments.
Besides... energy absorption/Power copying is one of the "Stock" black guy powers so you know. Why not. I guess.
I've decided he's immortal and the Look where he has hair was much better, the Global Guardians look. Never really read that much, but there's a thread on the forums about it right now.
I like that in the Nu52 he's NOT leading a team but he's certainly got the chops for such a role.
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that he's 'famous' for creating various magical gems & items throughout history, and wouldn't mind a soft retcon that he has some connection to Sargon's 'Ruby of Life' or Vixen's 'Tantu Totem.' It would just be funky for him to be a different sort of 'magical background guy' than the Phantom Stranger, not mysteriously showing up to offer cryptic advice, so much as arranging for some non-powered person with an appropriately heroic spirit to stumble upon some mystical gewgaw (that he might have planted there for someone to find *decades ago* in case this very situation ever occured!) that empowers them to handle said threat.
Throwing Victor into space - something virtually every DC hero has already done - won't fix his problems. There was never anything conceptually wrong with focusing on cyberization in his stories the issue is most writers didn't do it in an interesting way. Ghost in the Shell, Deus Ex and Metal Gear just to name a few examples explored what it meant to be a cyborg in an interesting way.
Also, just crying "wish fulfillment" is not a good indicator of how to fix the character's problems. That is shallow and narrow-minded view of superheroes and if that is your first and only priority your character will fail.
Ok, Agent z.... I'm all ears to hear your solution to Victors problems. I might have missed it, theres a lot of pages here.
Heck there is a page between here and the "Victor" talk, we were on about Dr. mist. So its a bit vague what you're addressing, and "Nu-uh" isn't really moving the conversation forward though its cool that there's continued interest here.
What do you think the correct answer actually IS then, Agent Z?
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
I pretty much gave a solution in my post but apparently I need to elaborate.
Focus on his differences from other superheroes. Give him a defined niche to explore. Maintain his supporting cast. Move beyond his "Am human or not" phase but explore what it means to be a cyborg with more nuance with all the pros and cons this come with.
Hope that is satisfactory.
Ahh yes, yes, yes. Gotcha. I don't disagree with any of that.
I noted earlier that "Genos" isn't held to the same standard so maybe there a bit much emphasis on wish fulfillment, due to his looks. I get you now. Yea. Its hard for me at least to pick up a book where the main is
constantly sulking but moreso stuck with "sulking about my condition" as the general undertone.
Thanks for spelling out what you meant.
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.