Ezekiel WrightThe Revenant

The mystical showman vigilante known as The Revenant is a master of illusions, able to distract and halt villains from continuing their criminal exploits.

Biography

Biography

The ghostly Revenant swoops in and disables any and all assailants in the vicinity with theatrical magic, standing for justice. 

 

A Magician’s Apprentice

In the early 1930s, the African-American Ezekiel Wright becomes a magician’s apprentice, and works alongside Alice Starr, an actress who assists in the performances. Ezekiel becomes quite good at theatrical magic, and endeavoring to make it as a magician, he asks his teacher, Mr. Porter, to do a few tricks before his scheduled performance. The racist Porter shut him down, claiming that Broadway wouldn’t want a Black magician and reminded him that he’d be in violation of his contract if he performed for others like him in Harlem. Ezekiel found solace in his fellow magicians who were not like Porter, and he often gathered with him in their favorite speakeasy. Though there was one of them that didn’t like that a Black man was friends with Alice and spoke to a cop buddy of his who attempted to arrest him. Cuffing him, the cop turns his back but Ezekiel easily escapes them, and uses the skills he had sharpened to distract the cop and make a run for it. In escaping, he realizes that he could never return to his job, but that doesn’t stop him from taking a stand. He cloaks himself in anonymity and patrols the streets standing for justice.

 

Magician’s Tools

Learning theatrical magic from Mr. Porter, a stage magician, Ezekiel becomes an expert escape artist who can perform cognitive illusions and psychological misdirection with ease. He wears his teacher’s costume, a white three-piece suit with a hooded cape and eye mask to disguise his identity. Ezekiel wields magician’s tools such as a fog machine small enough to hide underneath his costume, can project his image to fool others, and somehow catch bullets in his teeth. He is also a capable hand-to-hand combatant with an effective right hook. Outside of vigilantism, Ezekiel is pretty handy in the kitchen, and can make a delicious duck aspic.

 

Close Connections and Enemy Misdirection

The Daily Bugle considers the costumed vigilante, the Revenant, a monster, but when it comes to monsters, the Revenant, a Black man in the 1930s, is all too familiar with them. After his former colleague Alice Starr is murdered, he joins forces with her boyfriend and the cat thief Dennis Piper, AKA the Operative, and the high-flying Sarah Starr, AKA Aviatrix, to track down the murderer who killed Sarah’s sister. Ezekiel comes to admire Sarah and has a romantic relationship with her. 

Rupert Kingsley, AKA the Surgeon, joins the band of crime fighters as he has his own score to settle with the murderer, none other than The General—a man who makes a deal with Nox, the demonic fear lord who seeks strength and a return to power on the Earthly plane. They face off with the dark duo and seemingly defeat them with the help of an archeologist, Professor Lewis Green, AKA Achilles, who was sent by the General to retrieve a magical amulet—an amulet which he unearths and uses the powers for himself. Achilles saves Ezekiel and the others from Nox, which leads to his death.

 

A Magical Mystery Tour

After the Revenant heard of his former colleague’s murder, the Broadway starlet Alice Starr, he tracked down her lover, Dennis Piper. Dennis led a double life as a burglar of the rich to hold them accountable for their decadency and misdeeds, and became known as the Operative, though his identity remains a secret, that is until Revenant makes the connection. When the Revenant caught up with him, he saved him and Alice’s sister Sarah from a police execution. Eventually, they all agreed to team up and catch the real killer. 

Going on the lam, they followed a trail of clues and discovered that Alice’s killer is Dennis’ own father, the man known as The General. They then met the Surgeon, a man disfigured by the General, who joined them to bring justice for his injustices against society. Meanwhile, the General succeeded in restoring the demonic Nox to physical form and the demented duo planned to sacrifice a group of kidnapped children, including the young son of Charles Lindbergh, America’s pilot hero. They also make the tragic discovery that the Surgeon’s hometown was massacred by the General, solidifying his rage and the team’s endeavor to take him down. 

During their search for the missing children, and after a successful take down of the General’s goons, they get a location for where he may be hiding. At the end of the scuffle, Ezekiel flirted with Sarah and she returned the sentiments. At the general’s hideout, the heroes suffered an attack by a transformed General, a werewolf of sorts who destroyed Sarah’s wings. Luckily, the Surgeon and Achilles intervened and injected a neural anesthetic into his spine, disabling him. Though Nox in her humanoid female form sicks her offspring onto them, a horde of wolves who were sired by Cerberus. Achilles used the amulet to blow them back with a burst of energy and the team escaped. The team returned to the hideout to find it empty and the children’s prison abandoned. Shattered by the defeat, the vigilantes parted ways. Dennis visited Sarah’s doorstep to express his feelings for her, only to find that Ezekiel was already there and their relationship had commenced.

Ezekiel and Sarah vanished to repair her wings. The team eventually reunited to save the kids and found them along with the General and Nox aboard a dirigible airship. Ezekiel distracted the General, now in his human form, and punched him, allowing the Surgeon to stick him with a neural anesthetic. But it was too late, he transformed only to face his son, Dennis, who, receiving a sword from Achilles, beheaded his father. Facing a horde of wolves, Ezekiel yelled for everyone to duck and at that moment Sarah arrived and shot a spray of bullets at the wolves, taking them down. Achilles used all the energy from the amulet against Nox which seemingly destroyed her. Ezekiel didn’t believe that any man was meant to wield that kind of power. While the team saved the children and felt accomplished, Nox disappeared into the night.

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