Brother Night (DC)
Brother Night s a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Eldon Peck was a male human who came to be born in the 20th century on Earth. (Zatanna v2 #3) In the late 1960's, he operated as a fake Hippie mystic until he discovered darker ways that were powered by the trafficking in human souls. (Zatanna v2 #1)
Forty years ago, he was responsible for the killing of 13 children whose bodies were dumped in a grave at Mt. Diablo with this being an offering to the Lords of Hell. (Zatanna v2 #3)
Sometime ago, he came to learn of an incident in Hell that would shake the power balance of the realm of the damned. Brother Night kept watch of events where he looked to offer his power to the victor. In the midst of the fighting, he witnessed the soul of Zatara being consigned to oblivion by his daughter Zatanna in order to spare him damnation in Hell. However, Brother Night intervened and saved Zatara's spirit but bond it to himself to serve him. (Zatanna v2 #3)
Gathering a group of followers, he conducted a mass murder as part of an effort in expanding his criminal empire to include the human world. This was done so by striking key players of the San Francisco underworld (Zatanna v2 #1) He then dispatched the demon Fuseli Lord of Nightmares to eliminate her. Meanwhile, he approached Detective Dale Colton at the San Francisco Police Department to give him a warning to not impede Brother Night's plans in taking over the city's mystical and mundane criminal underworld. (Zatanna v2 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
After being reborn by dark magic, he came to take the name of Brother Night where he gained a fearsome reputation in the criminal underworld. (Zatanna v2 #1)
He was referred to as a power-mad maniac and a narcissist. (Zatanna v2 #3)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Peck was a fake mystic until he came to learn real dark magic with this being powered by the trafficking of human souls. (Zatanna v2 #1) He would later sacrifice human children as offerings to the Lords of Hell where he was given their power to become their agent on the mortal plane of Earth. (Zatanna v2 #3)
For this, he gained considerable magical power and his life came to be extended in the process. (Zatanna v2 #1) He had said that little escaped his notice in events occurring in the realms of the damned. (Zatanna v2 #3)
He came to lead a number of mystical figures in the criminal underworld with these including:
- Romalthi : the Shaper whose touch transformed its victims into whatever the mask was depicting. (Zatanna v2 #1)
- Ember : an unborn dragon gestating in the body of a human girl. (Zatanna v2 #1)
- Teddy : a young boy who carried a box that contained all manner of insects that he could unleash on his enemies. (Zatanna v2 #1)
It was said that he ran the mystic underworld in San Francisco for 40 years. (Zatanna v2 #1)
Notes
- Brother Night was created by Paul Dini and Stéphane Roux where he made his first appearance in Zatanna v2 #1 (July, 2010).
- Writer Paul Dini commented on the character in an interview on Newsrama:
- "Stephane and I created this new character we like a lot called Brother Night, who is going to be a recurring villain in the series. And he is sort of like a cult leader, like a religious cult leader who, in our minds, rose to prominence in the ‘60s. He gathered a lot of followers during the hippie days and slaughtered those followers in order to gain years on his life. He’s got a very weird look because he’s not exactly old, but he’s been trafficking in souls for years and it’s made him into this ghoulish figure who still has the charisma of a gang leader and someone who is kind of a self-styled polling man.
- And Brother Night has set his sights to be the big man as far as the mystical underworld and the human underworld go. Sort of a magic-enhanced lord of crime. The first arc deals with him and the various allies he calls into service. Zatanna finds out about it and puts herself directly in his path and says, “Nope, you’re not doing this.” And that starts a gang war between the human world and the magic world, with the San Francisco Police force caught in the middle of it all."
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Justice League Action, Brother Night appeared as a villain in the animated television series episode "Zombie King" where he was voiced by actor Dan Donohue. He later appeared in "Speed Demon" where he was the one giving magical powers to various supervillains such as Harley Quinn.
Appearances
- Zatanna v2: (2010)
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