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The Seven Soldiers
Zatanna
Zatanna Zatara
After the events of Identity Crisis came to light and an incident in which she was indirectly responsible for the deaths of several of her friends and the release of a mysterious shape-shifting demon, Zatanna has lost all confidence in herself. But after meeting a mysterious young girl who asks to be her apprentice, Zatanna begins to travel down a path to learn the secrets of her father's legacy and regain her resolve. However, she soon discovers that her new apprentice is not entirely what she seems...
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Shining Knight
Shining Knight/Ystin
- Breakout Character: A different version of Sir Ystin also appeared in Paul Cornell's Demon Knights.
- No Periods, Period: Averted as Sheeda Queen Glorianna discovers Justin's sex by smelling "the blood of the womb."
Klarion
Klarion
In the underground Puritan village of Limbo Town, lives the young Witch-Boy Klarion. After the discovery of a Sheeda rider, the elders of the village announced the sealing of the only gate to the upper "High Market", much to the frustration of Klarion who dreamed of seeing the outside world. Upon seeing the elders turning into a vile monster, Klarion escapes and eventually makes his way to the surface world of New York City. Being approached by a mysterious man named Melmoth to join a gang of childish thugs to steal a giant drill, one Klarion eventually discovers is to be used to enslave Limbo Town...
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Manhattan Guardian
Manhattan Guardian/Jake Jordan
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
- Breakout Character: Frankenstein appeared in both Final Crisis and Blackest Night, got his own Flashpoint mini-series and had his own title for a while after the reboot.
- Monster Mash: During Gotham City Monsters, Frankenstein ends up recruiting Killer Croc, Orca, Andrew Bennett, Lady Clay and Red Phantom (with Batwoman joining later) in order to stop Melmoth's plans for the Multiverse.
- Warrior Poet: Frankenstein can lengthily quote Milton or The Bible even - or especially - in the middle of combat.
Bulleteer
Bulleteer/Alix Harrower
Alix Harrower is an average woman, married to a Mad Scientist husband, Lance. Lance is attempting to create a new metallic superskin to become a superhero so he could live out his fantasy life with his wife or hook up with a superchick he met online. Unfortunately he Jumped at the Call, covering himself with his superskin, accidentally does the same to his wife, and dies in the process. Alix, who survives by a mere fluke, manages to stumble into the life of a C-list superhero while trying to deal with the husband's death and infidelity. All the while, she only really wants to be normal...
- Blessed with Suck: Alix didn't want to be a superhero, her husband did. She was perfectly happy with a normal life, and after she received her powers she had to quit her job as a special needs teacher, then discovered her husband's second life and in a fit of despair tried to commit suicide by running until she hit something strong enough to kill her.
- Canon Discontinuity: Morrison's Bulleteer made a number of cameos in other stories after hers ended. The catch? She quit superheroing in the last issue of her series. It's most egregious when she appears in an incarnation of the Justice League seen in the series 52...a series co-written by Morrison themself!
- Cool Helmet: Wears a shiny pointed helmet that matches her metallic skin.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The panel where Lance's smartware begins to spread to Alix and the look on her face.
- Mortality Phobia: Alix Harrower got her powers from an accident brought on by her husband's extreme obsession with his own mortality. Unable to cope with the thought of going grey or developing wrinkles, Lance Harrower tried to infuse his skin with a metal coating, but instead suffocated when the coating completely enveloped him. Alix herself became coated in the stuff after he grabbed her for help. Ironically, Lance ended up dying. The implication is Lance died because he took off his wedding ring, which meant the metal coated his entire body and kept constricting until he couldn't breathe. Alix survived because she had her ring on, which left a small gap on her finger so the metal didn't totally cover her.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her first issue shows her both in and out of lingerie.
- Prophecy Twist: In Morrison's series, "The spear that was never thrown". It turns out to refer to Aurakles's descendants. One of them is Alix Harrower/Bulleteer, who delivers the final blow to Gloriana Tenebrae when she accidentally rams her with a car while struggling with Sally Sonic for control of the vehicle.
Mister Miracle
Mister Miracle/Shilo Norman
Shilo Norman, one-time apprentice to the New God Scott Free, is doing pretty good for himself; he has achieved great fame as a master escape artist, just like his mentor. When attempting his greatest stunt yet, escaping a miniature black hole, he encounters the mysterious Metron in the event horizon, who desires to test him. Suddenly he finds himself in an alternate version of his own life, dealing with the problems of his fame while encountering people strangely similar to Kirby's New Gods... particularly one Mr. Dark Side... This series is frequently considered a Stealth Pilot for Final Crisis.
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Villains
Gloriana Tenebrae
Gloriana Tenebrae
- Big Bad: Drives the main conflict during Morrison's run, as the Sheeda cause mischief on Earth under her direction.
- Bald of Evil: No hair, only horns that shift into tentacles.
- Butter Face: Has a well-toned body, but instead of hair she's got tentacles. And not in a Gorgeous Gorgon fashion, either.
- Depraved Bisexual: Gloriana's retinue includes both male and female slaves.
- Faerie Court: Gloriana Tenebrae ruled over the fairy-like Sheeda for centuries. Following her death, one of her husband's bastard great-grandchildren took over before he got bored and left. It's unclear who currently rules.
- Fairy Tale Motifs: Gloriana is the Wicked Stepmother Evil Queen, who wishes to kill Misty before she can claim the throne.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Gloriana Tenebrae, The Queen of Terror, is right up there among Morrison's biggest monsters, and very scary indeed. (Not that her husband was much better...)
- Weak to Magic: Gloriana Tenebrae is vulnerable to the magic of Caliburn.
- Wicked Stepmother: Wants to consume the heart of her step-daughter Misty Kilgore.
Melmoth
Melmoth
- And I Must Scream: After Frankenstein kills him at the end of Gotham City Monsters, Red Phantom traps his soul inside a mirror so he can't revive himself.
- Arch-Enemy: Seen as this by Frankenstein.
- Bald of Evil: No hair on his head and utterly evil.
- Beard of Evil: Aside from Misty (who is half-human), he's the only Sheeda with visible hair. Even then, he's still bald.
- Dirty Old Man: When he invades Limbo Town, Melmoth wastes no time telling the women that he plans to make them concubines.
- The Heavy: He's a major antagonist in both Klarion's and Frankenstein's arcs, but his villainy is fairly minor in comparison to his wife's plans.
- Maniac Monkeys: Uses a horde of Martian Mandrills as minions during Gotham City Monsters.
- Slasher Smile: He's constantly beaming with malicious delight.
Nebula Man
Nebula Man/Neh-Buh-Loh
Originally a major threat during the series' original run, Nebula Man would return as the Sheeda's chief enforcer.
- Brain Theft: Neh-Buh-Loh was charged with killing Misty Kilgore and bringing her brain back to Queen Gloriana. Unable to do it, he instead brought stole the brain of a telepath and offered that to Gloriana instead.
- Celestial Body: In Morrison's series it's explained that he was originally a miniature universe named Qwewq.
- The Dragon: For Gloriana Tenebrae.
- Horned Humanoid: He comes with some impressive horns.
- Time Abyss: The Nebula Man is three billion years old
Zachary Zor
Zachary Zor/The Eight Time Tailor
- Bad People Abuse Animals: He makes his big entrance while biting the head off a dove.
- Beard of Evil: It's magnificent and you know you want one!
- Fate Worse than Death: The Terrible Time Tailor, an alias of Zor, imposes one on the members of the Newsboy Army.
- Satanic Archetype: Pretty blatantly meant to be a take on Lucifer. He was part of some cosmic collective that exists outside of reality, but rebelled and became a villain to humanity. The (magnificent) beard and magician theme also tie into modern-day interpretations of the Devil.
- Take That!: Zachary Zor might be this to Alan Moore. He takes Zatanna and turns her into a similar, but Darker and Edgier character with a different name and consistently talks about his beard. It should also be noted that Alan Moore wrote the story that killed Zatanna's father.Zor: It's a magnificent beard and you know you want one!
- Alternatively, Zor could represent the readers themselves, as we often see events from his visual perspective (and we, like him, are always on the outside looking in) and one of the Seven Unknown Men comments on how he bet Zor didn't think he could bleed. This could apply to the READER not knowing he could bleed in a comic.
- Unless, of course, he's Warren Ellis - he certainly talks like him.
Sally Sonic
Sally Sonic/Sara Smart
- Alliterative Name: Both her real name and alias.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Sally Sonic became magically trapped in the form of a teenager for decades, causing her to suffer abuse and degradation at the hands of a failed superhero who had a grudge against her late father. She uses this as an excuse for seducing married men, culminating in her encouraging mentally unbalanced scientist Lance Harrower to perform dangerous experiments on himself to try and gain superpowers, thinking that if he became a superhero, he and Sally could be together. These experiments ultimately killed Lance and turned his wife Alix into the Bulleteer. When Bulleteer finally confronts Sally about the carnage her selfishness has caused, Sally tries to kill her, all the while insisting that Lance's obsessions were Bulleteer's fault because she failed to please him. Bulleteer finally has enough of Sally's excuses and beats her with an engine block, saying that she doesn't care what kind of shit Sally went through, she had no right to mess with Lance's life or hers.
- Intentional Heartbreaker: The former Kid Hero Sally Sonic was seduced by Vitaman, an older superhero who learned that she was the daughter of the judge who had put him and his brother away. In order to avenge himself, he got Sally hooked on drugs and turned her into a criminal. Later, after getting free of him, Sally got revenge on all men by seducing married men and utterly ruining their lives before dumping them, which is how she became the archnemesis of Bulleteer, whose husband was her final victim, who died when he tried to give himself superpowers in the deluded belief that it would get Sally back.
- Karmic Death: As Alix tried to get the unconscious Sally to a hospital after defeating her, the latter awoke and attacked her, causing an accident in which Alix was the only survivor. Basically, Sally died in a way that was completely her own doing.
- Psycho Serum: Vitaman slipped her one that made her permanently evil.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her costume is purple and she's certainly strong enough to give Alix a beating.
- Serial Homewrecker: The former Golden Age heroine Sally Sonic has become a pathological homewrecker as a result of being stuck in a permanently teenaged body, deliberately seeking out married men and sleeping with them specifically to ruin their marriages. For added villainy, after she finds out that her latest target, Lance Harrower, died in an accident, forcing his widow Alix to rent out her house in order to pay the bills, she moves in under her civilian identity, ingratiating herself with the unsuspecting Alix so that she can eventually kill her.
- Shadow Archetype: To Alix. Both women were exploited by men they mistakenly trusted and Cursed with Awesome, but Sally Sonic eventually broke from her various misadventures and became as bad as the villains she set out to stop, while Bulleteer never wanted to be a superhero and manages to avoid being corrupted.
Boss Dark Side
Boss Dark Side/Darkseid
A crime boss who torments Mister Miracle. He is the human avatar of Darkseid, the New God who rules Apokolips. More info can be found here.
- Greater-Scope Villain: While he's not directly involved in the main conflict, Boss Dark Side did spur the Sheeda into conquering the present day so that he may take over Earth when they're at their weakest.
- Humanoid Abomination: When Shilo Norman gains god-vision, he sees that Boss Dark Side is merely a meat-puppet. Darkseid's true form manifests as a multi-coloured aura with glowing eyes.
- Scary Black Man: In a series where most of the cast appear to be of African descent, Boss Dark Side stands out as a hulking, smirking force of pure malice.
Leviathan
Leviathan
A malicious entity that inhabits the bodies of 250 children. It inhabits the tunnel that leads from Limbo Town to the surface world.
- The Bus Came Back: Leviathan would cameo in Final Crisis and serve as Talia Al Ghul's army in Batman: Incorporated.
- Hive Mind: 250 children who all think in unison.
- Villain Team-Up: Originally Leviathan acted independently of the Sheeda and any other Seven Soldiers villains, but it would eventually end up in the employment of both Darkseid and Talia.
