History ComicBook / Druid1995

* ISeeDeadPeople: Baby Icon claims she can see ghosts. She can - and after Druid [[TookALevelInBadass revives his powers]] in the first issue, he can see them too.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Two of Baby Icon's companion ghosts, Andy and Jim, are finally visible to readers in the last issue. In line with previous hints, they're clearly drawn as Creator/AndyWarhol and [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]]. A third, unseen, ghost is implied to be Oscar Wilde.

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* WeightLossHorror: The second movement of Ludgate's initial druidic transformation sets him aflame, as if he was trapped within a wicker man. When the flames subside the previously paunchy Dr. Ludgate is gaunt and lean, on his knees in the centre of a puddle of melted human fat. As with the other phases of the ritual, it's just as traumatic as it sounds.

* BilingualBonus: Redeyes is fascinated by [[HollywoodVoodoo Voodoo]] and claims that she's the loa Erzulie-Ge-Rouge - a name which translates as "Red-Eyed Erzulie".

* FlawedPrototype: Ludgate may be an UnreliableNarrator, but when he looks back on his visit to the Ancient One, he believes that he was empowered solely to test the magics that would later be granted to another westerner, Doctor Strange.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Baby Icon's companion ghosts, Andy and Jim, are finally visible to readers in the last issue. They're clearly drawn as Creator/AndyWarhol and [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]].

* PortentOfDoom: In issue #2, [[spoiler:Ludgate sees the Washer Woman at the Ford, the Irish spirit better known as the [[OurBansheesAreLouder Banshee]], washing blood out of his clothes. He's well aware that she's a portent of unavoidable death]].

* WeightLossHorror: The second movement of Ludgate's initial transformation sets him aflame, as if he was within a wicker man. When the flames subside the previously paunchy Dr. Ludgate is gaunt and lean, on his knees in the centre of a puddle of melted human fat. As with the other phases of the ritual, it's just as traumatic as it sounds.

* GeneticMemory: At the start of his career, Ludgate sought out the Ancient One to learn the true history of druidic magic, but the Ancient One revealed that Ludgate's bloodline went back to those original druids, and the power that was unlocked had been within him all along.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: At the start of the first issue, Scurve, one of Druid's crew of followers and hangers-on, calls up Daimon Hellstrom by borrowing one of Druid's books of magic. When Doctor Druid tries to intervene and protect him, Hellstrom delivers a brutal CurbStompBattle and then incinerates Scurve. Everything that follows is prompted by Scurve's death and Druid's realisation that he's fallen so low and needs to rebuild his power.

Ludgate's now on a path that's not going to lead anywhere good. Even if he ''could'' turn back now, he may not be willing to. And the consequences for those around him may not be pleasant.

Druid's now on a path that's not going to lead anywhere good. Even if he ''could'' turn back now, he may not be willing to. And the consequences for those around him may not be pleasant.

* {{Geas}}: As a true druid, Ludgate is now bound by some sort of geas. If he breaks it, he'll lose his power and doom will follow. Unfortunately, he's the ''last'' druid, and he doesn't know what his geas is - his own powers can't see it, and druids would normally rely on their fellows to warn them. [[spoiler:Ludgate's geas is to love witches. Hellstrom, who seems to be well aware of this, sent Nekra to [[LoveInterestTraitor seduce him]] and bring about his downfall]].

Since that introduction Druid's been an Avenger and a Defender, but has generally been portrayed as a tarnished hero with feet of clay. He used his powers to manipulate the other Avengers and was, in turn, manipulated by one of their enemies. And his time in the Secret Defenders ended with Druid fighting against his own teammates after he was possessed and transformed by a demonic foe. The last issue of that ''ComicBook/SecretDefenders'' series revealed that he'd actually faked his death, unknown to his comrades, which is where ''Druid'' picks up the story.