Morgaine le Fey (DC Comics)

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Morgaine le Fey

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Demon (Vol.1) #1
Created by	Jack Kirby
In story information
Alter ego	Morgaine le Fey
Abilities	Mastery of black magic Immortality

Morgaine Le Fey is fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. Based on the Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend. The character is a major opponent of The Demon Etrigan, and has also shown up as one of Wonder Woman's foes. Another Morgan le Fay variant was the primary antagonist in the 1983 DC limited series entitled Camelot 3000.

1 Fictional character biography
2 Powers and abilities
3 Other media
- 3.1 DC Animated Universe
4 External links

[edit] Fictional character biography

Morgaine Le Fey is the ancient and diabolical sorceress of Arthurian legends. Her history is slightly different from the legends but she is a sorceress gifted in the arts of black magic. She uses her gifts without restraint and is quite willing to destroy the universe in order to gain more power. In the waning days of Camelot, Merlin transformed his demon familiar Etrigan into a man, Jason Blood, who lost his memory of his Demon identity. By the 20th Century, Morgaine Le Fey adversary, Merlin has arisen anew and tricks Morgaine, causing her to lose her youth and beauty which she had preserved using her magics. She wishes to replenish her youth with Merlin's secrets. She forces Jason Blood to become the Demon again and to lead her to Merlin's tomb. The Demon eventually strives to keep Morgaine Le Fey from restoring her youth with the powers of Merlin.

In Batman Family #17, the Huntress’ use of the Justice League transporter frees Morgaine Le Fey (who captures the Philosopher’s Stone). le Fey seeks a baby with latent demon powers in the maternity ward where Man-Bat’s wife is giving birth. Several women give birth to demon-babies as a result. The Demon also appears, and together he and Man-Bat defeat Le Fey. This story took place in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity.

Morgaine later attempts to steal Wonder Woman's eternal youth, not realizing that Wonder Woman has already given it up. Her spell backfires and she disintegrates into dust. She returns to battle the Demon on many occasions, and has also become a foe to Wonder Woman. In pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, her daughter Morgana also battled Wonder Woman.

Morgaine returns in the new Trinity series, teaming up with a mysterious man called Enigma.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Morgaine Le Fey is a sorceress skilled in the use of black magic. She has cast spells that are able to control even the strongest of supernatural beings. She was able to transport Wonder Woman to another dimension (The Nether Plane) and fight her for her Amazonian fighting skills. By using a device she was able to magically view individuals from miles away.

She is immortal although she claimed to have lost this ability. As shown in the Wonder Woman comic, she must "steal" immortality from other immortals in order to maintain her youth. After Merlin robs her of her youth and beauty she wears a golden armour to shield her withered and ancient body. Morgaine also possesses a machine capable of binding beings and stealing their immortal life forces.

[edit] Other media

[edit] DC Animated Universe

Morgaine Le Fey on Justice League

In the Justice League animated series, Morgaine Le Fey appears in the episode "A Knight of Shadows", in which she tries to steal the Philosopher's Stone and use it to convert London into a massive castle with her son Mordred as the ruler by partially brainwashing the Martian Manhunter and having him steal the stone for her in exchange for restoring Mars to life. She was also seen exhibiting her abilities both as a sorceress and as a life-drainer, at both of which she is extremely proficient.

In Justice League Unlimited, she reappears in the episode "Kid Stuff", where she leads Mordred to an amulet with vast magical abilities, so vast, in fact, they exceeded those of Morgaine. Betrayed by Mordred, who banished her and all the adults on Earth to a parallel dimension, she brokered a deal with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, to have the spell broken so she could return to Earth. She had them changed into children so they could fight Mordred. When they tricked him into becoming an adult so he'd be banished, where Morgaine told him that he used up his powers. When the spell was broken, Morgaine changed the heroes back to their proper ages and then proceeded to take care of her son, who was old and weak, having broken the eternal youth spell.

Morgaine Le Fey was voiced by Olivia d'Abo.