Doctor (Wildstorm)
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For other use of the term within comics, see Doctor (comics).
The Doctor is a name of several fictional characters in the Wildstorm universe. There is always only one Doctor at any given time, who is the latest in a long line of shamans protecting the entire planet. Each doctor is as powerful as the sum of all preceding Doctors, each of whom was also as wise and powerful as the sum of all preceding Doctors, hence, each new Doctor is more powerful than his immediate predecessor. The Doctor's vast magical abilities can do almost anything, as long as he can conceive and believe in his abilities in poetic terms, although more powerful feats can take their toll both on the Doctor and the planet's ecosystem.
When a Doctor dies, their spirit goes to the Garden of Ancestral Memory, where they can be visited by the current Doctor, and advise him.
The Doctors are listed in the chronological order they became Doctors, not in the order they appeared in the Wildstorm universe.
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[edit] First Doctor
The first Doctor appeared in Change or Die graphic novel and is an African-American. He was a member of a group lead by former superhero, The High. The group also included the first Engineer. The group’s goals were to change the world by removing the structure of society itself. Ideally, there would be no more laws, authoritarian structures crime or war. The Doctor drugged all of London with the hallucinogen DMT. His place in The High's plan was to initiate a program of public education about the natural resources of the world, such as plants and magic, to show people a whole new world just sideways of the current one. Stormwatch attacked the group’s base to stop them and the Doctor was killed by a Hammerstrike Deep Sanction Missile, a bio-war payload and tailored acid bomb.
The Doctor is seen afterwards as part of the collective Doctors in the Garden of Ancestral Memory.
[edit] Jeroen Thornedike
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Jeroen Thornedike, a Dutch heroin addict, destined to become the next Doctor and a member of The Authority.
Jeroen was "a multimedia millionaire by twelve, a dot-com billionaire by twenty, and staring into space in a psychiatric home by the age of twenty-one". He eventually gave away all his money and tried to have an ordinary life until the original Doctor died and Jeroen inherited his abilities. Jeroen refused to accept the responsibility and instead spent his days shooting heroin and playing Sonic the Hedgehog.
Jeroen was first contacted to join The Authority by Sparks and Swift, but refused to join and teleported them away. After contacting him a second time, Sparks shot herself in the head, forcing Jeroen to use his powers to revive her. He joined the Authority soon afterwards.
During the "Earth Inferno" storyline Jeroen married a rock star and overdosed on heroin while on his honeymoon, falling comatose at the same time as a series of natural disasters struck Earth. After recovering from the overdose, to prevent the cataclysm he agreed to temporarily relinquish his powers to a previous Doctor, the Renegade Doctor (below).
In the "Transfer of Power" storyline, Jeroen was replaced by The Surgeon, a French alchemist who was given control over the Doctor's powers, and carried the Doctor in the form of a doll in his pocket. The Surgeon was never accepted by the collective consciousness of the previous Doctors, because he brought in contractors to bulldoze ancient shrines and religious figureheads and build monuments to corporate characters as a means of instilling corporate characters as a new religion. Jeroen recovered his powers once Midnighter killed The Surgeon.
Thornedike died in The Authority: Revolution from a drug overdose given to him by Rose Tattoo on orders from Henry Bendix, who then captured his soul to point him to the next Doctor, Habib Ben Hassan. He was later freed by Jenny Quantum.
[edit] Renegade Doctor
In the Earth Inferno and Other Stories graphic novel, a pioneering heart surgeon became The Doctor in 1966. 18 months later, in the summer of 1967, he had murdered three entire countries in alphabetical order. He was stopped by the combined force of every superhuman in the planet, where he was stripped of his powers, kicked out the Garden of Ancestral Memory and incarcerated in a privately-owned temporal prison 20 million years in the past. From this place, he was still able to influence the planet and convinced it that humanity was killing it. When the present Doctor, Jeroen Thornedike, fell into a drug-induced coma, his powers reverted back to the Renegade Doctor, who used his powers to destroy various large cities including New York City and the Vatican. When Thornedike recovered, the Earth still listened to the Renegade Doctor and not to him. To prevent the Earth from reversing its magnetic poles, the Renegade Doctor needed Thornedike to transfer his powers back to him for an hour. Brought to the present, he was granted his wish and a fight against The Authority ensued, until the Doctor's 15 new extra senses kicked in including having empathy with every creature in existence, overwhelmed him. Apollo then incinerated his body and the Engineer kicked off his head.
[edit] Habib Ben Hassan
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Habib bin Hassan was a young Palestinian suicide bomber, destined to become the new Doctor after Thornedike. Within the first 24 hours of inheriting his new powers after Thornedike's death, Habib engineered a peace in the Middle East that actually had a chance of surviving. However, Henry Bendix had captured him before any more work could be done. Bendix imprisoned Habib in a cell on his carrier where he was cut off from his powers. He was secretly freed by Jenny Quantum and joined in the battle with Bendix, Rose Tattoo and Bendix's alien followers. During the fight, Habib turned Rose Tattoo to the side of the angels, making her the Spirit of Life instead of the Spirit of Murder.
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