Spawn did not utilize his powers however, other than listening to the Gazer, until he was impaled on the pole of a large sign by the dark god Urizen (named after the tyrannical creator-figure in the personal mythology of Romantic poet/artist William Blake). They inflicted on him the pains of the Gazer (the planet's name), and when he returned, Spawn became "aware" of the world. It was explained to him that the Purgatory did not care for the war of Heaven and Hell, but were growing increasingly agitated by the destruction it brought about.
While these powers are not directly described, they appear to give Spawn control over all the elements and other aspects of the natural world. They endowed him with a host of new abilities that would enable him to overcome the worst both Heaven and Hell had to offer. Salvation arrived in the form of a mound of festering garbage - The Heap, an emissary of the Purgatory, a power equal to Heaven and Hell that Spawn had never encountered before. Attacks from both Heaven and Hell were coming faster and faster, and Spawn was on the verge of losing himself to the violence and the evil. Spawn struggled to find a way to free himself from Hell's control and recapture his humanity. He tells Spawn that his costume feeds on souls, and after Spawn made peace with his state, he re-bonded with his suit and, in a vicious battle, drove Jean out of Rat City. He suggests that, after the metamorphosis of his suit, it feeds off blood like a Vampire, but after his first battle with John Sansker, aka Jean Sans-Coeur, "Heartless John" (a vampire and true reason behind the messes that Spawn finds himself in) and after he stripped himself of his suit, he argues with the Clown about the latter. When Spawn wakes up he finds himself in a mess of several killed persons. A creature, seeming to have kind of the same appearance as Spawn, hunts down other beings and consumes them. The costume shifted into a blade and cut off Redeemer's hand during their second encounter.Īfter his encounter with the Redeemer, Spawn encounters the Freak, and during the "Bloodfeud" storyline, nightmares began to torture the former military assassin, consisting of a first-person point of view.
This version of his suit could shapeshift to a much further extent. Moments later his costume (which at this point was nothing more than a pile of rags) went crazy almost killing Bootsie and others around him, then suddentley went lifeless for hours.Then in an explosion of necroplasm trasformed into Black and White with his right leg and left arm now being very heavily armored. After arranging a deal with the being known as Malebolgia, Simmons agrees to become a Hellspawn in exchange for being allowed to see his wife Wanda Blake one last time.Īfter escaping Heaven and fighting a small sect of the KKK he made his way across the states back to New York where he had his first encounter with the second Redeemer who procceded to kidnap a friend and defeat Spawn with ease. Simmons was sent to Hell because of his life as an assassin. Simmons was murdered during a mission in Botswana for the USSG's Operation Knightstrike by fellow mercenary Bruce Stinson (aka Chapel) at the order of Director Wynn. Jason Wynn (the director of the CIA) and Simmons began to butt heads more often and Simmons planned to resign. Security Group, an elite task force with jurisdiction in all domestic and foreign situations. In the CIA, Simmons was recruited by Director Jason Wynn into a special top-secret covert ops division known as the U.S. He later joined the United States Secret Service, which led to his transfer to the Central Intelligence Agency. Simmons was a very gifted officer of the United States Marine Corps, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In the HBO cartoon and MK11 as a guest character, he is voiced by Keith David who also voiced Goliath in Gargoyles, and the cat in Coraline.Īlbert "Al" Francis Simmons was born in Detroit, Michigan as the second of three brothers (Marc, Al and Richard) to Esther and Bernard Simmons.
The Spawn series is reputed to have helped in popularize the anti-hero as a main character in comic-books since the comics came out in a period of time when darker heroes started to emerge and gained much more publicity in comic books. His most famous arch-enemy is the Violator. He became a costumed warrior fighting against the forces of Hell and Heaven in order to protect the human world from the apocalyptic wars they were planning.
Originally a human named Al Simmons, Spawn was cursed into the life of a Hellspawn (akin to a reverent) after his deal to see his wife Wanda Blake one last time. Spawn (real name: Albert Francis "Al" Simmons) is the titular main protagonist and anti-hero of the long-running comic book series of the same name. It never was! The costume didn't make me Spawn, because. It wasn't the symbiote that gave me powers, that made me who I am.
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