Blackest Night Casualties: The Hall of Fallen Heroes
(12 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)With characters dropping fast I thought these casualties in the War of Light deserved a place of recognition for their premature (though not necessarily final we hope) fates. Welcome to the Hall of the Fallen. I’ll amend and bump the gallery as more heroes are taken from us in subsequent chapters of Blackest Night.
Over the decades that DC has been publishing comics, many heroes have been killed off only to return to life. At first many thought Blackest Night was happening because death wasn’t happy about all the resurrections, but now Nekron claims that the heroes to returned to life only because he allowed it. And unfortunately for our heroes, it seems what Nekron gives, he can take away… He’s already transformed Wonder Woman, Conner Kent, Animal Man, Kid Flash, Green Arrow, Donna Troy, Ice and Superman into Black Lanterns and told Flash and Green Lantern to drop dead too – but they haven’t succumbed… yet.
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The following fallen heroes died during Blackest Night and either have or are likely to show up as Black Lanterns.
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Although the heroes aren’t the only ones being targeted, their casualty list is a lot longer than the list of villains who have been killed to join the ranks of the Black Lanterns…
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Now the final fate of these characters will likely be up in the air until the conclusion of Blackest Night. As I see it there are 3 possible outcomes… #1 The dead stay dead and all Black Lanterns end up with their “connection severed.” #2 The Black Lanterns are all somehow reunited with their souls and return to life. #3 Some combination of 1 and 2 with some characters rejoining continuity and others going willingly (or unwillingly as the case may be) back to their graves. THOUGHTS?
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09/25/2009 at 1:29 pm
poor Tempest
11/30/2009 at 6:54 am
Nice way to sum up the cost. Thanks.
11/30/2009 at 4:31 pm
But no matter who dies, it is balanced by the prominence of Mera. I love Mera. Purely sentimental reasons, too — when I was a little my parents took me to Sea World (in Ohio). It was the summer the DC Superheroes WaterSki show….Burned into my memory because 1) it was so cool to see these characters in real life and 2) I was “kidnapped” by the villains for part of the show.
Of course, the absense of prominent superheroines meant that some lower tier characters got lots of time — Mera was one of them.
11/30/2009 at 5:17 pm
so what’s the deal with Batman in this issue?
11/30/2009 at 5:24 pm
My interpretation of what is happening with Black Lantern Bruce Wayne is somehow his personal connection (“emotional tether registered”) to the resurrected heroes was somehow necessary to their turning? It seemed like the combined light of the various colors of the spectrum was what Nekron needed to do fuel Black Lantern Bruce Wayne for the mass turning. Anyone have a more detailed comic book physics explanation or theory?
11/30/2009 at 8:25 pm
I haven’t read the issue yet, but I’m loving the mini series! Too bad about the heroes dying and becoming black lanterns.
12/01/2009 at 12:09 am
Hope I didn’t ruin anything by posting – I waited 5 days, but once I started seeing the images popping up at Comicvine and noticed updates on wiki pages, I decided to cover it.
I wasn’t surprised at Wonder Woman going Black Lantern, but was surprised how it happened. I expected it since she was revealed as part of the Blackest Night series 4 action figures lineup, but thought Genocide would take her heart in Blackest Night: Wonder Woman which is still to come. I wonder if that will be set BEFORE Nekron turned the resurectees?
12/01/2009 at 6:11 am
Here’s the prevailing theory on “Bruce Wayne” at least at my shop – the body that Superman was carrying in Final Crisis #6 was that of “a” Bruce Wayne, just not the main DC Universe one. Since the point of Darkseid’s Omega Sanction was to make the victim keep living successively worse lives, each one of those lives would eventually end up in death, resulting in a corpse. And since matter cannot be created nor destroyed, just converted – when our Bruce got blasted, it pulled one of those corpses out of another timeline to replace him. Or something like that.
12/01/2009 at 4:07 pm
Darkholme, I appreciate you sharing that theory. It’s as good as any I heard and I can now rest comfortably
fanboi, I think there’ll be more from Wonder Woman than just a Black Lantern transformation before her Blackest Night action figure is released…
12/01/2009 at 6:33 pm
I’m not sure if I have an idea about the ending results with the dead and the Black lanterns and the dead “Bruce Wayne” either, but I’m convinced that wasn’t Bruce. He didn’t speak, just regurgitated the rings and then went back to sleep. I’m thinking that he was made to look like Batman, but definitely wasn’t the Batman that we all know. I think there’s a reason that he’s not being used when he should be one of the first characters to rise.
12/02/2009 at 4:59 pm
I would love to see Donna Troy gone permanently. I know we gay boys are supposed to love her, but she became an irrelevant mess after 1986. He was a great character who deserves to be left alone.
12/26/2009 at 10:36 pm
maybe update this, kyle raynor isn’t dead…
12/26/2009 at 10:57 pm
Thanks for the reminder. I meant to update the description after Green Lantern Corps #43 where Guy becomes a Red Lantern and Kyle comes back but I’ve been busy with the Holidays and setting up the new additions at QueerSUPE. Kyle DID die so he stays on the list, but there is now a full description of his resurrection as well.