The Trinity of Sin Revealed

[shadowpsykie]

Okay so, in the DC New 52 FCBD (Free Comic Book day for the uninitiated) Issue, it was revealed who the Trinity of Sin are.



One was Pandora, the other, as assumed, was the Phantom Stranger, and the third, probably comes to a surprise, ends up to be a person who appears to be The Question aka Vic/Charlie Sage.

(Sorry for the Quality, but i took it with my camera phone….)




What I found interesting was the reveal of the Phantom Stranger’s Identity.

As far as I remember, there have only ever been hints as to who he used to be. But in the FCBD issue, it seems like it is pretty much revealed who he was.




Hmmm Forgive me as HE would… interesting…




You’re greed has darkened the World forever… those are Silver Pieces that the Wizard (i am assuming) is playing with.







The Silver Pieces are what form his necklace, thing.

I think if it is not clear, it is pretty heavily implied that the Phantom Stranger is Judas Iscariot, the man who in Judeo-Christian teachings betrayed Jesus for Thirty Pieces of Silver. The fact that they say his greed “Darkened the world” and the items used to bind him are pieces of silver. As well as the “Forgive me as HE would Line” (since Jesus Preached Forgiveness). Judas was actually one of the implied identities for the Phantom Stranger, and i think this has been one of the biggest “hints” we have ever been given as to his identity. Interesting :D

Now the other Reveal, the Third member of the Trinity of Sin is revealed as I said above, to be the Question.




The Anti-Establishment, the No Face, and the Question Mark Puff of Smoke seem to indicate that this is the newest incarnation of the Question. Im interested to see how this plays out… It’s a different take, and it can be interesting….

The Third member of the Trinity is Pandora, and she is revealed to be…







Yeah as most people suspected, she is THE Pandora. As in Pandora’s Box.


What i find interesting is that the mythical Pandora is a Pre-Judeo-Christian Character, Judas Iscariot is a Judeo-Christian Figure. So, since these two sinners have been pulled from percievably different ages, its possible that the Question pulled her was pulled from a more modern era. Meaning that the Likely hood that he is still Victor Sage seems all the more likely. The Rock of Eternity stands outside of time and space so it is conceivable that these Gods, Ancients, or Wizards have been able to pull the three “greatest” sinners from all of time to the Rock from their respective time Periods. So there You have it. Pandora, Judas Iscariot, and Victor Sage, are the Trinity of Sin. Im actually very interested to see where they will go with this… Color me intrigued DC.

Comments

[simiansyndicate]

Y'know, I wanted Vic Sage back. He was my Question.

This...this ain't him. Like much of the DCnU, I'm seeing things that either irritate me, offend me, or make me not give a single damn. This one has a touch of the first, and a heaping buttload of the third.

*sigh*

Back to watching JLU...

[shadowpsykie]

This definitely had the potential to be horrendous... But so far, at least to me, it's intriguing, and I am very much interested to see where it goes. So far the wizards' view on "evil"seems... Lacking

[q99]

-Y'know, I wanted Vic Sage back. He was my Question.

This...this ain't him. Like much of the DCnU, I'm seeing things that either irritate me, offend me, or make me not give a single damn. This one has a touch of the first, and a heaping buttload of the third.-

That's one of the things- when someone is attached to a character, they're attached to that character, not the name or what have you.

[jaybee3]

"That's one of the things- when someone is attached to a character, they're attached to that character, not the name or what have you."

That in a nutshull is my issue with the whole of the DCnU. I was attached to these characters, to their histories, to their travails, to their personalities. The new DC - exemplified with Earth-2 (Jay, Alan, Al) and what was done to Starfire, Billy Batson or even Superman (or as I call him Peter Parker Mk.2) has kept the character's names but they seem very different not just in having their origin/backstory rebooted but the characters themselves. They might as well be new characters - ones I have no attachment too. That's probably why I can't bring myself to care about the rebooted ones.

[shadowpsykie]

I don't know.... The origins are not so radically different. Most of them seem relatively the same. Some of the details might be different. But for they most part I don't see what is so dramatically different, other than they are younger and as such some events didn't happen. I don't like all of the changes (cass, steph, obsidian, helena,) but for the most part I don't see anything that had disgusted me (side from issue one of catwoman) or stretch me as totally and completely different

[q99]

Yea. There are some that are the same- Kyle Rayner, Etrigan, etc..

But most? I don't know these chars.

[philippos42]

Yeah, it's bizarre that they think what we want are other characters that are only ersatz substitutes for those we love. Like having your family replaced by puppets that only vaguely look like them.