Gog (DC)
Gog is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Kingdom Come
Gog
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)
Thy Kingdom Come
Heir To The Kingdom
Overview
Personality and attributes
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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