![]() ![]() He was seen terrorizing the city, and tearing out the hearts of innocents, in churches, to feed on their emotional energies and life force when they were feeling the most compassion. Along with Abbatoir, KGBeast, Blockbuster, King Snake, Magpie, the Trigger Twins, and the Ventriloquist, he had received a Black Lantern Ring. Blackfire's army turned on him and killed him.ĭeacon Blackfire was one of the many villains raised from the dead in Gotham City to join the new Black Lantern Corps as zombies during Blackest Night event. Batman refused, and instead savagely beat Blackfire, in front of his army. After a brutal search through the sewers with Robin, Batman confronted Blackfire, who demanded that Batman kill him, making him a martyr. Batman eventually broke his conditioning, but its after-effects made it difficult for him to capture Blackfire. Blackfire captured and brainwashed Batman, temporarily making the Caped Crusader a member of Blackfire's cult. Blackfire used this army to begin a violent war on crime, which escalated into him taking over the entire city, resulting in it being isolated from the rest of the country. This appearance goes for both his comic runs in the New Earth and Prime Earth (Post-Infinite Crisis and Post-New-52) timelines. He formed an army in the sewers beneath Gotham City, largely composed of the homeless and derelict. Blackfire was one of the villains that didnt join the Brotherhood of Evil. Comic book iterations of Deacon Blackfire portray him as an average-sized man with alabaster white hair tied back length into a ponytail, dressed in a priest’s cassock and collar. Blackfire craved power and destruction, and orchestrated his movements toward these goals. He had discovered the secret to eternal youth, bathing in buckets and buckets of human blood. Deacon Blackfire was a conman and cult leader who was over 100 years old at the time of his death, despite appearing much younger. ![]()
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