Shadowpact
The Shadowpact are a team that feature in DC Comics.
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The Shadowpact were a team of superhero mystics that operated on Earth. It was said that numerous times across history groups of mystics gathered under the name Shadowpact where they championed lost causes and were destroyed in the process. (Day of Vengeance v1 #5)
Some time afterward, the Shadowpact helps Robin in rounding up meta-humans in Blüdhaven, right before the city is destroyed. During the adventure, they are again aided by another magic-based hero, the Warlock's Daughter. (Robin v2 #145)
The Shadowpact members join other magic users in trying to rebuild the Rock of Eternity after it shatters over Gotham City. Under the guidance of the Phantom Stranger, the gathered heroes split into three groups: one led by Zatanna to gather and reassemble all the pieces of the Rock and its contents; one to act as bait for the Seven Deadly Sins; and one, composed of the Phantom Stranger and the Shadowpact, to actually trap the Sins. The plan works well, with Zatanna’s team making relatively short work of the retrieval and reconstruction. After capturing Greed, Nightshade is attacked and abducted by Felix Faust and the Demons Three, who deliver her to Alexander Luthor Jr., who incorporates her into his multiverse power battery. With the Rock of Eternity restored, Zatanna tells Captain Marvel that he will have to remain inside it to make sure the wild magic it holds remains contained. While the Rock is being restored, Nabu, the last Lord of Order, confronts the Spectre. He goads the Spectre to the point where the Spectre kills him. This act has two results. First, it forces the Presence to notice what the Spectre has been doing and place him in a new host, Crispus Allen. Second, it signals the end of the Ninth Age of Magic and the Dawn of the Tenth. Making it to the Rock, Nabu has time before he dies to explain to the heroes what has happened to the Spectre, and to charge Detective Chimp with choosing a new Doctor Fate. Finding that the Helm of Fate does not fit him, Detective Chimp gives it to Captain Marvel to throw from the Rock and let it fall to Earth, letting fate itself choose the new Doctor Fate. (Day of Vengeance: Infinite Crisis Special v1 #1)
Madame Xanadu called upon the Shadowpact to notify them that Mary Marvel had acquired the powers of Black Adam with these seemingly having corrupted her. She began to unleash her magic against the world where she caused poachers to be turned into animals or plants and aged convicted murderers in prison to death. This was deemed as a threat to the mystical balance and was not justice with the Shadowpact deciding to intervene. (Countdown v1 #28) However, instead, Mary Marvel attacked them at the Oblivion Bar during the intervention where she was aided by the Jean Loring Eclipso. (Countdown v1 #27)
The team was now operating out of the back of the Oblivion Bar. In the first arc, a villain group known as the Pentacle whose members mirror the Shadowpact is introduced. The Pentacle, led by the sorceress Strega, forms a nearly impenetrable shield of solid blood over Riverrock, Wyoming and systematically begins to kill the townspeople as a means to summon Strega's master, the Lord of Light. The Shadowpact enter the town with the help of the Phantom Stranger. The Shadowpact is captured, but Detective Chimp escapes and frees the team, which overpowers the Pentacle and breaks Strega's spell.
In their next storyline the members of the Shadowpact have found themselves targeted by a whole host of villains including Blue Moon, Wild Huntsman, and The Congregation. They are all following the orders of Doctor Gotham, a new villain who has spent millenia underground, and has now set his sights on getting rid of the Shadowpact. Strega has also been revealed to be his ally, and he was responsible for the previous threats that the Shadowpact thwarted. During this arc Enchantress and Ragman are both turned into hellhounds by the Wild Hunstman and Nightshade, Blue Devil, and Ragman are all blinded by The Congregation. Despite these injuries the Shadowpact manage to force The Congregation to retreat. With help from Madame Xanadu they manage to cure their blinded teammates, and despite all their recent troubles the Shadowpact now find themselves in a stronger position in the magical order; Enchantress gained the possession of the Herne-Ramsgate Cauldron from Nightwitch which gives the Shadowpact access to information on every magical creature in the DC Universe, while Detective Chimp and Nightmaster have studied tactical and superhero strategies in order to mold the Shadowpact into the best team possible. A part of this was writing the "Three Universal Laws of Superheroics", a tip of the hat to Issac Asimov, as recited by Detective Chimp.
Overview
According to the wizard Shazam, the name 'Shadowpact' had been used repetitively throughout history by groups of mystics who championed lost causes. (Day of Vengeance v1 #5)
Members
- Adept :
- Civet I :
- Fairy Queen :
- Mister Meteor :
- Mrs. Prescott :
- Apalala :
- Brazen Man :
- Magus Eximius :
- Miss Poltergeist :
- Revenant :
- Sardonyxx :
- Blue Devil :
- Detective Chimp :
- Enchantress :
- Nightmaster :
- Nightshade :
- Ragman :
- Warlock's Daughter :
- Zauriel :
Notes
- The Shadowpact was created by Bill Willingham and Justiniano where they made their first appearance in Day of Vengeance v1 #1 (June, 2005).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Day of Vengeance v1: (2005)
- Day of Vengeance: Infinite Crisis Special v1:
- Shadowpact v1:
- Countdown v1:
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