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- I wander the world searching for others to help.
- — Phantom Stranger src
The Phantom Stranger is a mysterious mystic who has walked the Earth for centuries.
History
Judas Iscariot killed himself, filled with regret after betraying his closest friend, Jesus of Nazareth, for thirty silver pieces. Rather than the Heaven or Hell he expected, he had found himself in a strange chamber, faced with the Council of Wizards. Though he felt he deserved his fate, he begged forgiveness, not knowing how dire his punishment would be. There were two others alongside him, and the wizards called them all the Trinity of Sin: The world's most egregious sinners. The wizards gave his punishment first, charging him with avarice, and forever branding the thirty pieces of silver that he had earned into his skin—though he knew that greed was not his greatest crime; it was the betrayal. He awoke in the field of blood, alive. This place was significant to the crime he committed. As he called out with confusion at his apparent resurrection, a Voice boomed down, urging him to put on the robe that lay nearby and complete his punishment. When he put on the robe, he realized that it was the robe of his betrayed friend and it held a transformative power. From the moment he put it on, he would forever be a "Phantom Stranger". He realized that with each act he did in the service of the Voice, he would be one step closer to redemption. Until the voice came again, he would have to wander and remain nothing more than a stranger.[2]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Divine Empowerment
- Immortality[2]
- Flight[3]
- Magic[3]
- Intangibility[2]
- Divination[2]
- Astral Projection[4]
- Force Field[5]
- Chronokinesis: Phantom Stranger can pause time, allowing him to do his duty without disrupting others.[6]
- Eldritch Blast: Phantom Stranger is capable of expending large amounts of blue ethereal energies which are destructive enough to tear through buildings and even topple the Spectre.[6]
- Suggestion: Phantom Stranger forced a room full of police officers to fall asleep with a verbal command.[6]
- Ectokinesis: When confronting the original Philip Stark, Phantom Stranger removed and dissolved Stark's soul, sending the remnants to drift throughout Creation.[7]
- Possession: To adopt the life of Philip Stark, Phantom Stranger possessed and merged with Stark's body.[7]
- Emotion Manipulation: Phantom Stranger was able to remove Philip Stark's love for his family from his spirit, purify it, and take those feelings into himself.[7]
- Invisibility
- Teleportation
- Telepathy
- Size Alteration: Phantom Stranger grows to incredible heights when he is exerting himself.[8][6]
- Transformation: Phantom Stranger can change people from one state to another. He's changed the Spectre to stone and reverts damage he's done to buildings back to normal.[6]
- Reality Alteration
Abilities
Weaknesses
Notes
- Phantom Stranger was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, first appearing in The Phantom Stranger Vol 1. However, in the rebooted Prime Earth continuity his first appearance as part of the DC Universe is in Dan DiDio and Brent Anderson's New 52 Phantom Stranger series.
- This character or object is an adaptation of Judas Iscariot, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
Trivia
- Phantom Stranger is considered the strongest of the "Archmage" classification, magic users who are either sorcerers who transcended enchanted objects and have become enchanted themselves or are higher beings that fell to a plane of existence.[9]
Related
- 97 Appearances of Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)
- 56 Images featuring Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)
- 15 Quotations by or about Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ Trinity of Sin: The Phantom Stranger: Futures End #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Phantom Stranger (Volume 4) #0
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Trinity of Sin: Pandora #7
- ↑ The Phantom Stranger (Volume 4) #2
- ↑ The Phantom Stranger (Volume 4) #3
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Phantom Stranger (Volume 4) #5
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Phantom Stranger (Volume 4) #8
- ↑ Trinity of Sin: The Phantom Stranger #17
- ↑ DC Nation: Magic Masters
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