The Shadow (Supreme Comics)



"You guys have a lot of nicknames for me. I’ve heard The Devil, the Grim Reaper, Hand of God, but there was one that I think is my favorites... The Shadow..."

- Dan, finding his alias

Summary
Dan Prince, aka The Shadow, is the older brother of Heartstone and another main character of Supreme Comics. Dan is a Deviant, a section of the human population that are born with superhuman abilities. Apart from inheriting his parents’ abilities, Dan’s Deviant power is a ghostlike physiology that most notably gave him grey skin and red eyes. When his mother died and father disappeared, Dan coped in a much different way than his siblings. Dan took to going out at night and hunting criminals, usually ending in him killing most of them. Dan began to consider this his job, eventually taking on the alias of The Shadow. The Shadow would eventually train Angela before facing off against The Analyzer, the two almost being defeated before Primus arrived and took the two under his wing. During the Alliance Saga, Dan assembled the initial group of Justice Sentinels in an attempt to rescue his sister after she was captured by The Watchmen, and afterwards became co-leader of the team alongside Angela. Dan would eventually become a mentor to the next generation of street level heroes, even having a pseudo-sidekick in the form of Hannah Jennings, aka The Huntress.

However, Dan’s life began to fall apart in the Genesis Saga, when the love of his life, Valeria Michelle, aka Blitz, was killed by the Genesis Gage wielding Lord Devastator. He then had to deal with his sister’s transformation into Darkstone immediately afterwards. In a mirror to Angela at the beginning of the series, Dan was sent into a deep depression that only became worse with the advent of Armageddon. When Drasna snapped her fingers and sent out the Godwave, Dan was part of the 1% that survived, but the rest of his family was part of the 99% that was erased. For the next seven years, Dan was inconsolable, almost completely isolating himself from the other survivors until the time of Photon’s final raid against the Demons. Dan was given the power of the Archangels like the other survivors and went to war with the Demons, personally defeating and killing Reaper. After Photon killed Drasna, he became The Genesis and reset all of existence to the way it was before Armageddon, bringing Dan’s family back. But Photon decided to give Dan a gift and resurrected Valeria. Dan confessed his love to Valeria and the two married, Dan retiring from his vigilantism and appointing Hannah as his successor, dubbing her Shadow II.

Appearance and Personality
Dan is a well-built man with grey skin, red eyes and blackish-grey hair that billows like smoke. 
 * -|Pre-Genesis Saga/Post-Armageddon=Prior to the Genesis Saga, Dan was a very serious person, as he was forced into a role of taking care of the family when he was only twelve. As Dan went on with his vigilantism, he started to become somewhat sadistic, taunting criminals before killing them, sometimes leaving one alive after killing all of their allies and tormenting them afterwards. However, Dan was extremely protective and caring towards his family and protégés, especially to his little sister Angela.
 * -|Genesis Saga - Armageddon=At this point, Dan simply didn’t care about anything. Almost everyone he ever loved was gone, and Adam couldn’t find any reason to care about life. The only semblance of caring he showed is when he went to kill the Demons with the rest of Armageddon’s survivors, but that was only because of the slight glimmer of hope that they could fix existence after Drasna was defeated.

Personal Statistics
Alignment: Neutral Good

Name: Daniel Vincent Prince, Dan Prince, The Shadow

Origin: Supreme Comics

Gender: Male

Age: 28 (Post-Reboot), 65 (physically; Pre-Reboot), 58 (chronologically; Pre-Reboot), 43 (Merged Canon)

Classification: Deviant, former Vigilante

Date of Birth: October 23rd, 1994

Zodiac/Horoscope: Scorpio

Birthplace: Zürich, Switzerland

Weight: 182 lbs

Height: 6’4”

Likes: Training, Teaching, Shooting

Dislikes: Criminals

Eye Color: Red

Hair Color: Blackish-grey

Hobbies: Shooting, Cooking

Values: Criminals such as mobsters, murderers, rapists, etc. can be killed for the greater good, family matters the most above all

Marital Status: Married

Status: Indeterminate (As he does have a ghostlike physiology, it’s not really clear if he’s alive, dead or undead)

Affiliation: Blitz

Previous Affiliation: The Justice Sentinels

Themes: Disturbed - The Vengeful One

Combat Statistics
Tier: 9-B | 8-C | At least 8-A | At least 8-A, likely Low 7-C. 2-B with the Heart of Darkness | Low 2-C | At least 1-A

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses, Immortality (Types 1; upon reaching the age of 25, 3, and possibly 7), Regeneration (Mid-High), Flight, Surface Scaling (Has walked up walls and stood on the ceiling), Aura (His presence caused the lights to dim and for the shadows in a room to intensify; also grants Status Effect Inducement that allows him to force hallucinations on people, Paralysis Inducement, Fear Manipulation and Types 2 and 3 Madness Manipulation), Intangibility, Invisibility, Duplication (Can create several clones of himself), Afterimage Creation, Possession, Dream Manipulation (While possessing a gang member, he forced him to have horrific dreams that left him catatonic), Power Nullification (Can deactivate someone’s powers while he possesses them), Poison Manipulation and Disease Manipulation (After being possessed by Dan, the victim is left sick and diseased for months), Healing (Inherited from his mother), Non-Physical Interaction (Could interact with Angela prior to her gaining a physical form), Durability Negation, Absorption, Statistics Amplification (Can become vastly stronger by absorbing darkness), Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2), Master Martial Artist, Stealth Mastery (Regularly sneaks up on Blitz and Heartstone as a running joke. Can bypass the Watchmen’s security), Weapon Mastery, Extrasensory Perception (Can sense spirits), Animal Manipulation (limited; can calm and take control of “creatures of the darkness,” such as owls, bats, wolves, and more), Pressure Points, Perception Manipulation (Can change the perception of others and make them see him as a monster or demon), Magic (limited; can use a spell to summon the power of the Heart of Darkness), Teleportation, Smoke Manipulation, Camouflage, Resistance to Biological Manipulation (Deviants have nigh-perfect DNA, and it cannot be tampered with in any way apart from a specific mutation), Poison Manipulation and Disease Manipulation (The physiology of a Deviant prevents them from getting sick or being poisoned) and Probability Manipulation (Continued to get closer to Darkstone’s fortress, despite her making it 0% possible for that to happen). The Heart of Darkness grants him: Creation, Pocket Reality Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (The Heart of Darkness contains several universes and allows its wielder to manipulate them and create more), Light Manipulation and Darkness Manipulation (The universes in the HoD are completely devoid of light, and the artifact allows the wielder to absorb, dim or amplify light and darkness), Energy Projection (Vaporized several Gods with an energy beam), Illusion Creation, All other powers granted by the Heart of Darkness (Summoning, Necromancy, Weather Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Sealing, Morality Manipulation, Type 3 Corruption, Void Manipulation), but was only shown using the ones listed separately | All previous abilities amplified to an unfathomably higher degree, Holy Manipulation, Immortality (Types 5 and 10; exists beyond reality, dimensionality, life and death), Regeneration (True-Godly), Chain Manipulation (Materialized chains to restrain Reaper), Reality Warping, Energy Manipulation, Shapeshifting, Elemental Manipulation, Telepathy, Mind Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation (Made portions of Darkmount Fortress explode just by waving his hand), Transmutation, Matter Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Life and Death Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Nothingness Manipulation, Telekinesis, Nigh-Omniscience, Abstract Existence (Type 1; exists only as an abstraction), Conceptual Manipulation (Types 1 and 3; transcends existence in every aspect and holds dominion over every single concept and force that has, does, and ever will exist within or beyond existence), Self-Sustenance (Type 3), Dimensional Travel, Large Size (Type 10), Body Control, Astral Projection, Antimatter Manipulation, Non-Corporeal, Subjective Reality (Can manipulate the boundary between reality and unreality), Transduality (Type 4), Portal Creation, Attack Negation (Dissipated a fireball from Reaper), Information Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Acausality (Type 5), Danmaku, Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, All powers displayed by Darkstone and The Genesis Gage (It was explicitly stated that anything Darkstone and the Gage could do, the Angels could do and do it better), Resistance to all powers previously listed (The Demons have almost identical powersets to the Angels, and as an Archangel, Dan is infinitely beyond normal Demons), as well as all powers displayed by Darkstone and The Genesis Gage

Attack Potency: Wall level (Could casually send doors flying off the hinges and knock walls out with a kick. Stopped a car just by putting his foot out in front of it) | Building level+ (Was stated to be as strong as a lightning strike) | At least Multi-City Block level+ (Easily one-shot several peak human Watchmen soldiers, who should have similar durability to Turboblaze, who survived a skyscraper’s destruction) | At least Multi-City Block level+, likely Small Town level (Far stronger than before. Slightly superior to The Sleeper, who was stated to be almost twice as strong as he was in the Alliance Saga. Can easily defeat adult Deviants, who are naturally as strong as a peak human such as the Watchmen soldiers). Multiverse level with the Heart of Darkness (The Heart of Darkness contains several universes inside it, and it was used by Dan to vaporize several Gods at once. One of the creatures inside the Heart burnt Thor’s hand once) | Universe level+ (Has absorbed a universe from the Heart of Darkness and the Yggdrasil realm of Svartalfheim, although his power slowly drains after absorbing these things) | At least Outerverse level (Became an Archangel, which scales infinitely above every single normal angel and demon combined, and every individual angel/demon is far beyond The Forces of God, to the point that the difference in power between a beyond-dimensional being and a negative infinite-dimensional being is infinitely lesser than the gap in power between the angels and The Forces of God. The Forces of God are infinitely beyond beings on the same level as The Garden, such as Willpower Incarnate Heartstone and the Omniversal Caretakers, who see Darkstone as a small infant. Killed Reaper, who is on par with Archangels)

Speed: At least Supersonic+ (Can dodge fire from several AK-47s) | At least Supersonic+ (Faster than before) | Massively Hypersonic+, possibly Relativistic (Can blitz peak humans, who are typically capable of dodging and reacting to lightning) | Immeasurable (Comparable to, but overall slower than, Godhood Saga Hearstone) | Infinite (Consumed all the space within a universe, which is infinite) | Irrelevant (Can keep pace with Archangel-level beings)

Lifting Strength: Superhuman | At least Superhuman | Class 1 (Stronger than the absolute peak of human performance) | At least Class 1 | Immeasurable | Irrelevant

Striking Strength: Wall Class | Building Class+ | At least Multi-City Block Class+ | At least Multi-City Block Class+, likely Small Town Class | Universal+ | At least Outerversal

Durability: Wall level (Can trade blows with those comparable to himself) | Building level+ | At least Multi-City Block level+ (Far more durable than peak human level beings who can survive this. Regeneration makes him especially hard to kill) | At least Multi-City Block level+, likely Small Town level | Universe level+ | At least Outerverse level (Traded blows with Reaper)

Stamina: Extremely high (Due to his ghostlike physiology and regeneration, Dan can keep fighting for extremely long periods of time. Even when he was fourteen, Dan would frequently pull all-nighters where he would fight against several humans and Deviants. Also, Dan does not need to breathe or eat, but he does need sleep)

Range: Standard melee range, extended melee range with his sword, hundreds of meters with firearms, Universal+ via absorption | Irrelevant

Standard Equipment: A katana sword, a crowbar, pairs of various pistols, such as the Glock pistol, IMI desert eagle, Beretta M9, AMT AutoMag II and more

Intelligence: Average normally, Extraordinary Genius in terms of combat skill (Dan is a master combatant on par with the likes of Lord Devastator, who is six billion years old and has trained in combat for about 5,625,000,000 years and has a cybernetic memory that allows him to perfectly remember and find new ways to ascend his skill. He has also trained several other master combatants, including but not limited to: Black Syryn, Blood Knight, Supernova, Scorch and Parker) | Nigh-Omniscient (Comparable in knowledge to the likes of Gabriel, who knew the date of Armageddon while Orion didn’t)

Weaknesses: Fire and electrical based attacks can displace his body and leave him stuck in smoke form for extended periods of time. As an archangel, he has no notable weaknesses.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Key: Pre-Primus Training | Post-Primus Training | Alliance Saga | Current | Universes Absorbed | Archangel

Note:

• Any time the word “infinite” is used in Supreme Comics and is not referring to the level of transcendence the numerical dimensions have above each other (I.E. the fourth dimension being infinitely above the third dimension), it means an infinite amount, with every single one of those infinities having infinite more spawning off of them, then infinite more spawning off of them, so on and so on, ad infinitum.

• Whenever Dan absorbs a universe, his power will slowly drain until he loses all of his power and reverts back to his base form.

Others
Notable Victories:

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches:

Trivia
- Dan is one of the few characters to remain relatively unchanged by the reboot, the only major difference being a different romantic partner.