Stalker (DC)
Stalker is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Stalker was a nameless youth who was thrown out of his home as a child and grew up on the streets of Geranth, even fighting dogs for his food. One day he asked the local Baroness to serve her as a warrior in her castle, but after one year he was nothing more than a slave in her court. He fled, abandoned all hope, and as a young man, offered a prayer at the temple of D'grth, the god of warriors. D'grth answered his prayers, offering power and skill of a great warrior in trade for his soul. He took the name Stalker from D'grth and did not believe he would need his soul when he was dead. D'grth took his soul and left him alive, void of a soul. (Stalker v1 #1)
He pursued him into Hell and freed an army of the damned to battle the warrior god. D'grth claimed he did not have the power to reverse the trade. D'grth claimed to be an elder god who lived on the souls and prayers of those who believed in him. Stalker's soul would remain D'grth's as long as there was one person alive who worshiped him.
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Long ago, a young warrior king named Stalker killed his more barbaric foes in the name of his God. His wife Lyll'ane was dying with their unborn child. he pray to his God to save their lives, but received no answer over many days. An unscrupulous man had entered Stalker's home and was able to get Stalker to forsake his God and trade his soul for his wife to survive the plague. Lyll'ane survived the plague to only die during childbirth. Stalker, now angry and grieving found the man holed up in a pub. The man told Stalker that he promised his wife would survive the plague not the rigors of childbirth. He was now immortal and sated his never ending pain through the centuries by killing. He was a knight during the Renaissance Age and was a soldier during World War I and World War II. He settled on being a hit man in modern times. All through the centuries he was awaiting for his unholy bargain to arrive. He eventually tracked the demon to a bar, (he finally found this out later on through the centuries) awaiting to claim what was owed to him and discover was his debt was from the demon. The demon reveals himself to be Lucifer. He gives Stalker one last mission and his soul will be returned. Stalker must kill a woman and he finds she is pregnant while tracking her. Stalker chooses to save the woman and the unborn child. The woman gives birth and Lucifer and a group of recruited demons transport to his location to take the child's soul. Stalker sprays Lucifer and his group with bullets. He escapes and when he is at a safe distance he opens three portals. He cuts open his palms and sprays the blood over the portals. He and the child jump through the middle portal while the other two are meant to throw Lucifer off his track. Lucifer locates Stalker and the newborn within a church with a priest. Lucifer knocks Stalker into a wall. The priest trades the newborn for his life and his neck is swiftly broken and his neck twisted backwards. Lucifer tells Stalker his immortality will stay intact while the trade made centuries ago was for a male soul down is bloodline not his soul. Stalker, feeling betrayed, pushes Lucifer through the newly created portal. Lucifer drops the child and Stalker and Lucifer are separated within the portal. Stalker awakens in another world and the baby is found by a fireman within the burning church.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Stalker was created by Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko where he made his first appearance in Stalker v1 #1 (June/July, 1975).
- In an interview, Levitz recalled, "Carmine had literally had stuck his head in and said, 'Joe, I need two more sword and sorcery books. One's coming out in January, you're two months late on it, and one's out in February, you're only one month late on it'. 'I may be getting the months wrong but I think that's about what it was'. He walks out and I say, 'I could write one, you know. I like sword and sorcery, I can try that, Joe'. And Joe said, 'All right, come in with something tomorrow'. I went home and I channeled my best Michael Moorcock and came up with Stalker. He handed it to Ditko, who needed work. And I'm just… amazed."
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Batman Beyond, an alternate version of the Stalker appeared in the setting of the DC Animated Universe.
Appearances
- Stalker v1: (1975)
- Sword of Sorcery v2:
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