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There is Racial Memory that fits some versions of super long lived characters. It may give some ideas even if not quite apropriate itself.
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Okay, so that describes an earlier version of the Vertigo Universe. But still, one should perhaps be careful of absolutes when dealing with comic book canon. Quote:
Morrison also seemed to be writing him as having some kind of weather control ability - probably magic, I guess. Oh, and Indomitable and Unfazeable (he's seen it all before), and Trained by a Master and Weapons Master (52,000 years is plenty of time to learn everything about combat).
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The larger question, of how much I want to incorporate Vertigo, is an interesting one. Sandman is not only my favorite comic book, but probably my favorite work of art in any media. But it's fit with the mainstream DCU was always tenuous and a little shaky. Quote:
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As for Indomitable and Unfazeable, he has a very high will already, and I seem to remember him losing his temper fairly easily on several occasions (although maybe he just has Bad Temper), and Luthor had some success influencing him in the Secret Society, IIRC. I've also just picked up some Demon Knights tpbs, in which he's a team-member. I'm not confident that he's going to be done justice, and I've been ignoring the new 52 (except where it suits me), but if I end up liking it, it may lead to some revisions.
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Sandman -- "Brief Lives", chapter 3. Destruction's attempts to ensure his privacy proceed to reduce the numbers a little.
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To be honest, my DC Comics Lore is barely above default, especially these days; those were just a couple of bits that I remembered off hand. I imagine that Savage has been around, in a lot of different titles, by different writers, that his image is very blurred these days. Still, anyone whose response to "You'll pay for this!" can be "I already did; it cost me sixty barge loads of silver in the days of Thutmose" has to be statted as fairly cool.
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Yes, that appears to be essential Vandal Savage reading and I haven't read it. Maybe they have it at my local library.
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Hero: Dr. Mid-Nite
Aliases: Charles McNider, MD. Affiliations: JSA, All-Star Squadron 1941: Gifted surgeon Daniel McNider is operating on a gunshot victim--the star witness in a case against noted gangster "Killer" Maroni. But before Dr. McNider could save the man's life, one of Maroni's thugs threw a grenade into the operating theater. McNider was the only person to survive the explosion, but he was blinded by pieces of broken glass. Believing his career in medicine was over, he turned to writing, determined to write an expose' that would bring down the Maroni's. He was working on this late one night when an owl crashed through his window. Shocked by the sound, he ripped the bandages from his eyes. To his further astonishment, he could see in the dark room! But when he turned the light on he was blind again. The explosion had activated his meta-gene. Dr. Midnight can see perfectly in the dark, but is blind in the light. Once he realized this he set aside learning the other skills he would need to go to battle against the criminals who ruined his life. Additionally, he invented two devices to take full advantage of his power--a pair of googles that block enough light to let him see normally in the light (but which are too obvious for his secret identity) and "black-out bombs" which create a cloud of inky-black smoke through which only he can see. Although he couldn't continue to practice medicine without revealing his secret, Dr. Mid-Nite has offered his services as a Surgeon extraordinaire to the super-human community, performing life-saving operations in pitch black rooms. Dr. Mid-Nite was one of the original members of the JSA, he was the last to returned from the fight with Parralax (1997) and so is significantly younger than Wildcat and Jay Garrick. Dr. Mid-Nite brings his pet owl, Charlie, with him to fight crime. Although the bird is rarely more then a distraction or misdirection, he has sometimes turned the tides during a fight. (In the 40's and 50's his owl was named Hootie. No, really.) Quote:
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I sense a retcon in there somewhere, as I remember him active with the JSA in the '80s around the formation of Infinity, Inc. He also had a short-lived protege/successor in the similarly-powered Dr. Midnight (Dr. Beth Chapel) (who later died fighting Eclipso in the '90s after Infinity disbanded).
According to his Wikipedia entry, he was aged to death by Extant (nee Monarch/Hawk/Hank Hall) during Zero Hour, and reanimated as a Black Lantern in the more recent Darkest Night. Apparently, there is another Dr. Mid-Nite running around, Dr. Pieter Cross, who is in the pre-Flashpoint JSA. Cross is the one with the owl named Charlie, it looks.
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I also like the balance this brings to the JSA: 3 heroes transported from the past (Flash, Sentinal, Mid-Nite, Wild Cat), 3 legacy heroes (Sandman, Starman, and Star-Spangled Kid), and 1 odd-duck-that-doesn't-fit-anywhere-else-but-might-be-considered-a-legacy-character (Powergirl). Another major change to continuity I'm planning is with Sanderson Hawkins--my version's not going to have any powers, he's just a former sidekick who took over the job so he'll make do with the original Sandman's gadgets.
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