Them Other Canadian Heroes ...

[Legerd]

Here's a question. Does DC have any Canadian heroes? To me is always seems like they ignore us completely. While Marvel has characters like AF, Wolverine and Deadpool.

Yeah, but they're all minor characters you don't see any more.

http://victoria.tc.ca/Recreation/Comics/CanNoCan.html

[Powersurge]

Howdy folks!

Here is a character concept that I've kicked around for awhile now. Needless to say perhaps, its not fully developed (why would it be?), but I thought some of you might get a kick out of it. It was my answer to "the Mighty Thor" comic character, with the potential to give the reader tons of Norse-Teutonic culture, history, and religion and a positive cultural role model -- as opposed to the typical trash Teutonic-decended people allows to (falsely) represent our culture and heritage -- without being so "bold" as to portray/reduce an actual god within the limited confines of mortal comprehension on a regular basis.

Anyway, the characters "superhero" name is Drighten, an Old English word meaning "warlord". The Old Norse form was Drottin, and in both tongues the word also meant "king, ruler". The man who would become Drighten was a well-to-do Professor of English Literature and/or Philology and/or Teutonic Mythology, whom, like many another person of English descent could trace his bloodline back to Alfred the Great and thence back to the preeminent God of Teutonic Kingship, Woden (ON. Odhinn).

The qualities that defined the man would be keen intelligence and insight, noteworthy athletic achievements, popular, modestly confident, easy-going, and charismatic ... maybe even "refined".

Anyway, things changed for this man when he ran afoul of a White Identity group. Several days after publically showing this groups ideology for the ill-informed and naive fraud such ideologies are, he was kidnapped, beaten, and at last hung by the neck by this group. However, rather than dying he was returned to life, now fully awakened to his ancestral memories, remembering the lives of each of his ancestors almost as though it had been his own.

These ancestors include the likes of Alfred the Great, Penda of Mercia, Widukind of Saxony, and Herman the Cherusci (aka Arminius), along with a host of lesser known and more contemporary folk. These memories afford him a vast array of talents, most noteable of which is a wealth of fighting experience and expertise, including mystic disciplines such as berserkerism and the aegishjalm (ie. helm of terror), and extending into modern weaponary (up to the end of WW II).

The memories also include a host of cultural and religious knoweldge, only poorly remembered today. Amongst this knowledge is a keen understanding of "rune-galder" (see the 18 Rune-Songs in the Havamal of the Icelandic Poetic Edda), by which he can make people invulnerable for short durations, or heal them, or paralyze them, or inspire them, or see into the their soul, or burst locks and fetters asunder, or gain limited control over the weather.

Beyond the various talents and disciplines accompanying his memories is the knowledge that for centuries, since about the 4th century BCE the pups of the dread fiend Fenriswulf have been slipping through Iron Wood (a magical barrier that seperates the "realms of existence") and into Middle Earth, were they have assumed the forms of men and used their powers of illusion, shapeshifting, and trickery to breed hatred and dissent amongst men. Such men as Alexander the Macedonian, Caesar, Charlemagne, Olaf Tryggvason, and Adolph Hilter, not to mention a sizeable collection of popes and bishops and ordained saints, were amongst the most noteable of these pups.

Now, with the signs of Ragnarok growing ever more present in the world of men, the gods have chosen a hero. The Drighten. Born from the same ordeal as the God of Holy Terror Himself and oathbound to track down the various pups of the Fenriswulf, whatever their forms, and slay them with extreme prejudice ... and to thereby turn back the tide of wantoness and destruction.

His first mission will lead him through the culturally confused punks that wrought "his" end and to the religious head an international White Identity group.

In the spirit of the ancient lays and soul-concepts, I've toyed with the idea of making a "kinfylgja" or "valkyrie" (a female guardian spirit) be the repository of his memories and ancestral powers. She might also be his lover in Heaven, and well remembered as such in the memories his ancestors as well.

It might even be that the Drighten is, like, the archetypal hero ... perhaps the first hero to enter Valhalla ... and thus is somehow fundamentally different from the professor whose life he took over. Its the entire "Once and Future" phenom. Perhaps he longs to get back to Heaven to be reunited with his Heavenly bride ... though htat might give him too much of a "Crowish", ie. Brandon Lee, quality??

[shaman]

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