Abra Kadabra (character)
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Abra Kadabra (Citizen Abra) is a
Abra Kadabra has made several animated appearances and appeared in two episodes of the live-action Arrowverse series, The Flash, portrayed by David Dastmalchian.
Publication history
Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino,[2] the character made his first appearance in The Flash #128 (May 1962).[3]
Fictional character biography
Citizen Abra is from the 64th century, at a time when science has made stage magic obsolete. He desires a career as a performing magician, so he goes back in time to find an audience to entertain, stealing a time machine and inventing a device to paralyze the guards, and soon clashes with the Flash (Barry Allen).[4] He has a hypnotic device that makes people clap regardless of their thoughts, which he uses to force applause from audiences even when they do not applaud his magic tricks. He finds his magic is being overlooked, so decides to involve himself in important events. When the Flash tries to stop a crime he is committing, he makes the Flash clap, enabling him to escape. He is able to send the Flash into space after challenging him to a fight at the theatre, but the Flash is able to change the course of the planetoid he is on so he is sent back to Earth, and finds Kadabra took his left-behind costume, meaning he can follow the impulses, and Kadabra is jailed. But he hypnotizes the Governor using a ray from a device made out of pots and pans, to let him out, and starts staging a puppet show where the Flash is defeated by a puppet called Captain Cream-Puff. When the Flash passes a poster advertising Kadabra, he is turned into a puppet and used in the performance. But the Scarlet Speedster is able to restore himself slightly using the organic matter in his brain, which was not transformed, and then reverse Kadabra's ray so he is restored completely. He again defeats Kadabra.[5]
In one of his many confrontations with the Flash, Abra Kadabra's technology is damaged and his body becomes insubstantial and wraith-like.
In Infinite Crisis, Abra Kadabra became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains.[11]
In "
Salvation Run
Abra Kadabra is one of the exiled villains featured in
He was a member of the Rogues who joined Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains;[15] however, the rest of the Rogues left the Society.[16]
He was last seen in The Flash: Rebirth off-panel, being attacked by Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash. In the final issue of the miniseries, Kadabra is seen to have survived Zoom's attack and says Zoom should have made sure he was dead.[17]
DC Rebirth
Abra Kadabra makes his Post-
Abra Kadabra creates younger puppet duplicates of the Titans and has them fight the Titans. When the puppet Lilith finds
He then attempts to force Wally into a position where Wally will run himself into the Speed Force, believing that Wally will be unable to return without Linda as his 'lightning rod',[21] but Wally is able to return by using the Titans as his own lightning rod after talking with a representation of his memories of Linda in the Speed Force, which assures him that he can still win Linda back. With Abra Kadabra defeated and sending him into the time stream, Lilith notes that she cannot understand Abra Kadabra's madness, but picked up a key word in his thoughts as "Manhattan".[22]
Powers, abilities, and equipment
Abra Kadabra is a powerful
Other versions
New Rogues
The
Flashpoint
In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Abra Kadabra is a television presenter and member of the Secret Seven. He sends a message about Shade, the Changing Man believing that Shade was a dangerous lunatic and then reveals the identities of the Secret Seven members.[24]
In other media
Television
- Abra Kadabra makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Flash and Substance".
- Abra Kadabra appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
- Abra Kadabra appears in Young Justice, voiced again by Jeff Bennett.
- Abra Kadabra appears in Central City in retaliation for his family being erased from existence following the events of "Crisis on Infinite Earths". While the Flash talks him down and sympathizes with him as he also lost a loved one during the Crisis, they are attacked by a monster, later called "Fuerza". After it absorbs the bomb's anti-matter energy, Kadabra tries to save the Flash, but is killed by Fuerza.
Video games
Abra Kadabra appears in DC Universe Online's "The Lightning Strikes" DLC, voiced by Christopher Loveless.
References
- ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6.
- ^ Dorling Kindersley, p. 8
- ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.
- ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
- ^ The Flash #133 (December 1962)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #23 (February 1989)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #67 (September 1992)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #68 (September 1992)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #142 (October 1998)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #158 (March 2000)
- ^ Infinite Crisis #2 (January 2006)
- ^ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #11 (June 2007)
- ^ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 (August 2007)
- ^ Salvation Run #1 (January 2008)
- ^ Justice League of America (vol. 2) #21 (July 2008)
- ^ Rogues' Revenge #1 (September 2008)
- ^ The Flash: Rebirth #6 (April 2010)
- ^ Titans (vol. 3) #1 (2016)
- ^ Titans (vol. 3) #2 (2016)
- ^ Titans (vol. 3) #3 (2016)
- ^ Titans (vol. 3) #5 (2016)
- ^ Titans (vol. 3) #6 (2016)
- ^ Underworld Unleashed #1 (November 1995)
- ^ Flashpoint: Secret Seven #2 (July 2011)
- ^ Beedle, Tim (March 6, 2017). "EXCLUSIVE: Abra Kadabra is Coming to The Flash". DC Comics. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
External links
- Alan Kistler's Profile On: THE FLASH - A detailed analysis of the history of the Flash by comic book historian Alan Kistler. Covers information all the way from Jay Garrick to Barry Allen to today, as well as discussions on the various villains and Rogues who fought the Flash. Various art scans.