Gog (DC)
Gog is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Kingdom Come
Gog
Over the next twenty years, William founded a religion based on Superman. He believed that the hero was divine, created the Kansas disaster to test society, and chose William to be his sole messenger. However, Superman met with him again to refute these beliefs. He explained that the Kansas disaster was not a product of his godly will, but rather a consequence of his of retirement and his abandonment of humanity. Furthermore, William survived because he was lucky, not because Superman chose him for being special. These revelations shattered William's faith, causing him to set fire to his church and rant in the street. The Phantom Stranger found him then, and delivered a scroll created by the Quintessence. The scroll gave William visions and knowledge of every event that led to the Kansas disaster, as well as superhuman powers. (New Year's Evil: Gog v1 #1)
In the Name of Gog
After a brief talk with Amazing Man, Gog then goes to a nearby village of sickly inhabitants due to being compelled to 'make things good again'. After curing them, Gog told the JSA his origins, and subsequently healed Damage's facial scarring. Gog then sends Sand to a blissful, dream-filled sleep for twenty-four hours, cures Starman of his schizophrenia, gives Doctor Mid-Nite his sight back, and sends Power Girl 'home'. Hearing fighting in a nearby village, Gog discovered the village was under attack by a rogue militia and transformed the soldiers into trees. During the conflict, Lance, one of the JSA's new recruits, was hit by a rocket launcher blast and killed. Gog brought Lance back to life, replacing his ruined arm with gold armor, and renamed him 'Magog'. (Justice Society of America v3 #18) Later, Gog's intentions to move on to the Middle East and punish the warmongers there in the same fashion as the militia members caused the Justice Society to split in half, with Hawkman, Magog, Damage, Wildcat (Tom Bronson), Amazing Man, Judomaster, and Citizen Steel taking Gog's side. (Justice Society of America v3 #19)
The rest of the JSA arrived, having learned from Sandman that Gog was rooting himself into the Earth, and if he remains for one more day, the Earth will die if he ever leaves, leaving them with the one option of killing Gog and separating his head from the Earth. Hawkman and the rest of the Society following Gog attempted to protect him, until they see him attempt to transform Jay Garrick into lightning. All of Gog's followers turned against him and Gog punished the Society by taking away his 'gifts' to an extreme degree. Even Magog eventually turns on him, for which Gog's blessing on him is also undone. (Justice Society of America v3 #21)
Thy Kingdom Come
Heir To The Kingdom
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Gog was depicted as a towering, armored figure clad in ornate, angular golden armor with green highlights, a horned helm, and a massive staff in his hand. His form combined elements of divinity and menace, emphasizing both his godlike empowerment and his role as a bringer of destruction. His staff, almost as tall as himself, glowed with crackling energy and served as the source of his time-warping abilities. (Justice League of America v3 #16)
Powers and abilities
Gog was a god from the Third World, Urgrund, the world that once encompassed the two halves, New Genesis and Apokolips, of the Fourth World. As such he possesses a huge and boundless amount of cosmic powers. However, he chooses to use them in a reactive rather than proactive way, merely granting "wishes" to "make people around him happy". Theoretically able to reshape reality at will, he confines himself to granting people their innermost desires, often without bothering to consult with them first, which can lead to mishaps: for example, he restores Doctor Mid-Nite's vision to normal, but this leaves Mid-Nite deprived of the enhanced vision he had grown used to when performing more delicate operations in the field; he took away Sand's nightmarish visions, depriving Sand of his key resource when conducting investigations. This Gog also displays a childlike and narrow-minded personality, looking at the world with glee and awe, but he clearly understands what he is doing. He performs these miracles so that Earth's people will worship him in return for his gifts, and punished those who reject him— e.g., by turning enemy soldiers into trees, arguing that he wasn't technically killing them. When the JSA attacks him, he removes his blessings on all of them, even those who are still loyal to him at the time, purely out of spite, and even nearly transforms the Flash into lightning before Superman manages to deflect the blast.
Notes
- Gog was created Mark Waid and Jerry Ordway where he made his first appearance in New Year's Evil: Gog v1 #1 (February, 1998).
- The character was inspired by Gog from Abrahamic beliefs.
Appearances
- New Year's Evil: Gog v1: (1998)
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