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| Real Name: Joseph Blackfire | ||||||||
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| Place Of Birth: USA | ||||||||
| First Appearance: Batman: The Cult Vol.1 1 | ||||||||
| Died: Batman: The Cult Vol.1 4 | ||||||||
| Resurrected: Blackest Night Batman 1 | ||||||||
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| Group Affiliation: Black Lantern Corps | ||||||||
| Base Of Operations: Gotham City | ||||||||
| Grudges: All sentient life | ||||||||
| Creators: Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson | ||||||||
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| Deacon Blackfire is an incredibly charismatic leader and has a cult to do his bidding. | |||||||
| Black Power Ring: The Black Lantern Rings are capable of wielding the black energy outside of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum. When Black power rings choose wearers, they present themselves to the deceased without a charge. The rings (which constantly ask for "flesh") are recharged by killing living beings and removing their hearts; each heart restores .01 percent power to every ring in the Corps. Black Lanterns are also able to read the emotions of the living as a coloured aura that correlates to the emotional spectrum (red for rage, violet for love, etc.). Black Lantern Rings will regenerate a corpse each time it is damaged, they can create constructs, but this ability is rarely used and they allow flight. | |||||||
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| Deacon Joseph Blackfire is a religious leader who has been believed to have already lived a century long. He is a Native American shaman who was entombed alive for killing a tribal chief and committing heresy. Blackfire's body was found sometime later (days) by the Dutchmen. | ||||
| Years afterward, Blackfire formed a group of followers. He amassed an army consisting of Gotham City's homeless and including a few people reported missing. Using the city sewers as their home and base of operations, in a bid to rid Gotham City of the pervasive criminal elements that were robbing the city of it’s humanity. | ||||
| Blackfire became increasingly powerful, but also his world view narrowed and Gotham City became virtually cut off. In a final confrontation with Batman his will was broken and his own cult turned on him, and he was killed in the melee. He was resurrected by a Black Lantern Power ring. | ||||
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