Originally Posted by
Sutekh
While I've been a huge fan of pure 'magician' characters like Dr. Fate, Arion of Atlantis, the Enchantress, White Witch, etc. I've also got a special love for magic-origin characters with more consistent power sets, like Nightshade or Vixen, Sargon the Sorcerer and Etrigan, Blue Devil or Deadman, Black Orchid or Witchfire. Someone who can't just waggle their fingers and do *anything,* but generally has a specific sort of 'super-power' that derives from a magical origin, without necessarily having sort of random and inconsistently-written 'spellcasting' as a power (which, all-too-often, seems to be able to do one thing casually under one writer, and not be able to do it again at all under others, so that it's kind of like reading about an entirely new character every time they appear).