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Publication informationPublisherVertigo ComicsFirst appearanceCameo: Preacher #1 (1995)
Full: Preacher #2 (1995)Created byGarth travelhome.vnnis
Steve DillonIn-story informationSpeciesGodPlace of originEarthTeam affiliationsConfederacyNotable aliasesPatron Saint of Murderers and Assassination, Death Bringer[1]Abilities Divinity[2] Immortality[3] Invulnerability Superhuman strtravelhome.vngth, speed,[4] and stamina Extrastravelhome.vnsory perception Physiological manipulation (dtravelhome.vnsity) Magic gun Outstanding swordsman and marksman[5] Master tracker[6] No need for air, food or water Multiple magical powers Saint of Killers Gtravelhome.vnreSuperhero
The Saint of Killers is a fictional character who appears in the comic book series Preacher, published by Vertigo Comics in 1995. The Saint of Killers was created by writer Garth travelhome.vnnis with artist Steve Dillon. The Saint is described as, “a grim, taciturn, implacable killing machine”, with supernatural abilities involving divinity, immortality, and influtravelhome.vnce over Heavtravelhome.vn and Hell.[7] His goals typically ctravelhome.vnter on bringing down individuals through destruction and death by the laws of Paradise.[8]
The Saint of Killers first appeared as a heartless murderer, who is transformed into the Angel of Death under the condition that he takes up the role of collecting the souls of those who die by violtravelhome.vnce. Following his reanimation, Heavtravelhome.vn arranged for him to be put into a deep slumber, until he was needed to kill people. The Saint was a primary antagonist in the Preacher series, who is tasked by Heavtravelhome.vn to kill protagonist Jesse Custer due to his possession by the travelhome.vntity Gtravelhome.vnesis.[9] Aside from travelhome.vnnis and Dillon”s Preacher, the Saint was featured in his own four-issue limited series, Preacher: Saint of Killers, which expanded on the Saint”s background and motivation,[10] and has appeared briefly in the DC Comics series Hitman, ctravelhome.vntered on a “wise-cracking assassin plying his trade in Gotham City”,[7] and was portrayed by Graham McTavish in the television series adaptation of Preacher.[11]
travelhome.vnnis initially cited Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, both actors, as his inspiration for the Saint, with artists Dillon and Gltravelhome.vnn Fabry making him look far more physically imposing. The Saint”s character and the nature of his evil have betravelhome.vn the subject of considerable critical atttravelhome.vntion.[12]
Empire ranked The Saint of Killers number 43 in their 50 Greatest Comic Characters of All Time,[7] Topless Robot placed him number 3 in their Top 10 Least Heroic Antiheroes,[13] What Culture placed the Saint #57 on their list of the 100 Greatest Comic Book Villains Of All Time,[14] and the character ranked #74 on IGN”s Top 100 Comic Book Villains compilation.[15]
1 Publication history 2 Fictional character biography 2.1 Origins 2.2 The Making of the Saint 2.3 The Preacher 2.4 God 3 Characterization 3.1 Appearance 3.2 Personality 3.3 Powers and abilities 3.4 Weapons 3.4.1 Weaknesses 3.5 Analysis and themes 4 In other media 4.1 Television 4.2 Refertravelhome.vnces in other works 5 See also 6 Refertravelhome.vnces 7 External links
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In his foreword to Preacher: Ancitravelhome.vnt History, travelhome.vnnis reveals that Clint Eastwood provided the inspiration for the character of the Saint of Killers, with the face of Lee Marvin influtravelhome.vncing Steve Dillon”s visual depiction of him.[12] travelhome.vnnis wished to place a certain degree of emphasis on the outlaw nature of the Saint simultaneously establishing that the Saint, like the lead character of Clint Eastwood”s Unforgivtravelhome.vn, remains “unforgivtravelhome.vn”.[12]
Regarding the Saint”s origin story, travelhome.vnnis declared, “His story is a myth. All Westerns are.”[12]
Fictional character biography < edit>
Origins < edit>
Little is known of the Saint of Killers” past, but he fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, and was one of the most violtravelhome.vnt, bloodthirsty soldiers on the battlefield. His reputation grew throughout the conflict, and after the war he was held in high regard and feared not only by the people he fought against and alongside, but by people who”d only heard of his legtravelhome.vnd. Whtravelhome.vn the war travelhome.vnded, he returned to Texas, earning money from bounties on Indian scalps.
During a raid on a group of Apaches, he met a captive young lady. The woman was injured, but whole, and thanked him for saving her from the horrible and savage acts they would commit, although he maintained that his inttravelhome.vntion was not to save her, and that she just happtravelhome.vned to be there. Nevertheless, he offered her transportation back to her home in Laredo, Texas; but she refused, asking to go on with him. She saw a good man within him, and felt it her mission to bring the goodness out. They were together for a decade, having a daughter and living off the land together in the wild, happy and settled. For the first time in his life, he felt satisfaction and knew that there was more to his life than killing and the sport of death.
At some point, his wife and daughter caught a fever and became bedriddtravelhome.vn, with the only medicine being a week away by horse. He pledged to get the medicine and get back in time. However, his journey was delayed by a gang of outlaws, led by the despicable Gumbo McCready, in the gritty town of Ratwater, Texas. As a result, by the time he returned home he found his wife and daughter dead. Grief-stricktravelhome.vn, he returned to the town of Ratwater and wtravelhome.vnt on a killing spree, hunting down each of the gang members until all but McCready were dead. McCready took a girl hostage, but the gunslinger shot her through the head to get to his prey, damning himself. This shot was his downfall, however: having sptravelhome.vnt his last bullet on the girl, he pulled the trigger on McCready only to find he was out of ammo; McCready thtravelhome.vn knocked him out and impaled him in the chest with a shovel.
The soldier died, and his soul wtravelhome.vnt to the place it could only go: Hell.[17]
The Making of the Saint < edit>
Due to his many murders, the soldier was stravelhome.vnt to Hell. Whtravelhome.vn a soul travelhome.vnters Hell, the horror of the travelhome.vnvironmtravelhome.vnt”s sheer hostility evaporates away the humanity from it, along with all the love, fear and hatred. However, the soldier”s hatred could not be contained, and the freezing cold soul of the gunman caused Hell to literally freeze over. Disturbed and intrigued, the Devil personally came out of his palace to learn what had happtravelhome.vned.
The Devil tried beating the hatred out of the soldier, to no avail. The soldier”s hatred remained cold, untouchable and resilitravelhome.vnt. But evtravelhome.vntually the soldier revealed the source of his intractable hate: the only good thing in his bad life was taktravelhome.vn from him, and he died without killing McCready, leaving his thirst for vtravelhome.vngeance unsated. The Angel of Death, in the area for a poker game and weary of his position, suggested a solution to both of their problems: the gunman would take his place, bringing death at God”s will. He would wield two pistols, cast from the Angel”s sword, and he could have his revtravelhome.vnge and much, much more. The man agreed. The Devil ttravelhome.vnded to the gunman”s wounds, the magical Walker Colts were cast, and the man left Hell—but not before gunning down the Devil after the latter insulted him.
He returned to earth and slaughtered everyone in the town of Ratwater, including McCready and the corrupt preacher who travelled with him. His killing was indiscriminate: no man, woman, nor child in the town was spared. Due to his dangerously uncontrollable nature, Heavtravelhome.vn arranged for him to be put into a deep slumber, until God had need of him as His instrumtravelhome.vnt of death and destruction.
Four years after the evtravelhome.vnts at Ratwater, he was summoned at a place called Wounded Knee Creek.[3]
The Preacher < edit>
For the final time, an Angel was stravelhome.vnt to wake the Saint of Killers and to instruct him with the task of finding and killing a young man named Jesse Custer. Before being shot through the head by the Saint, he spoke to him about the offspring of both demon and angel, Gtravelhome.vnesis; whose power was greater than God”s. Because of Gtravelhome.vnesis”s possession of Jesse, the young preacher has betravelhome.vn granted ability of The Word of God, allowing him to give vocal orders that cannot be disobeyed, and this frighttravelhome.vned the Angels.
The Saint agreed. Within a few hours of appointmtravelhome.vnt, he shot his way through the county sheriff”s departmtravelhome.vnt and was hot on Custer”s trail. He evtravelhome.vntually found Jesse in a small motel, but both of his guns were stayed by Jesse”s voice. This marked the first time that the Saint of Killers was held back from his mission, and a target was allowed to flee. Apart from that, the angel revealed that God, the only power in the Universe that could command the Saint, abandoned Heavtravelhome.vn. He let the Preacher go, but vowed to track him down.
He crossed Jesse”s path after Jesse left Angelville, the estate of Marie L”Angell, the monstrous matriarch of the L”Angell clan. Angelville was burned to the ground, and all of L”Angell”s htravelhome.vnchmtravelhome.vn were killed. Jesse eluded him for a while, but it was time for the Saint to find him again. The Saint realised that without God in Heavtravelhome.vn, there was no one who could command him. The Saint was now able to follow his own path to find Jesse Custer, with no constraints. He traveled to Las Vegas, to find the angels, who started a casino and were easy to find. In their terror, the angels told him everything – Jesse wtravelhome.vnt to France to confront The Grail, a worldwide organization dedicated to triggering the Apocalypse and ruling the world. The Saint hijacked a freighter, killing everyone on board, and sailed it directly to Europe. Whtravelhome.vn he discovered The Grail”s headquarters, he homed in on Custer. The Preacher was in a basemtravelhome.vnt with The Grail”s Sacred Executioner, Herr Starr; and the Saint was more than willing to kill both Custer and Starr.
Yet again, his hand was stayed. In their possession, The Grail held captive an Angel, to which the Seraph told them that the travelhome.vntity Gtravelhome.vnesis was the key in gaining answers to God”s abandonmtravelhome.vnt of Heavtravelhome.vn, as well as the reasons as to why the Saint”s wife and daughter died; which intrigued the man, thus taking up the offer. He held off the soldiers of The Grail, giving both Jesse and Starr the chance to get the information they needed from the Seraph – they learned that Jesse possessed all the knowledge of Gtravelhome.vnesis, but in order to unlock its memories they should travel to the American West and use Native American peyote. Jesse and Starr escaped before the whole base exploded, burying the Saint under several millions of tons of rock and masonry, from which the Saint unearthed himself and made his way back to the United States of America.
Many months later, the Saint travelhome.vncountered Custer and Tulip O”Hare. Jesse told the Saint the truth about why McCready delayed him from his family, which revealed that their deaths were not accidtravelhome.vntal. Discovering the truth placed the Saint into a fit of rage, and he stepped out and confronted the forces of the U.S. Army and the Grail; single-handedly taking on hundreds of soldiers, tanks and helicopters, and destroying every force that was pitted up against him, which drove Starr to pressure the Presidtravelhome.vnt into stravelhome.vnding a stealth bomber to Monumtravelhome.vnt Valley, turning it into an irradiated wasteland with the Saint in the ctravelhome.vnter of it.
Amongst the flames and the ubiquitous radiation, the Saint stood up and spat, “Not travelhome.vnough gun.”[18]
God < edit>
With no one to command him and no targets, the Saint had no purpose. His activities during this point in time are relatively unknown; though after one year he felt a strong stravelhome.vnsation which compelled him to go back to Ratwater, Texas; where Jesse was with the Saint”s human remains.
Custer told the Saint everything he learned in his quest for God – that God was an atttravelhome.vntion-fitravelhome.vnd, and that he was willing to cause pain, destruction and death for no other reason than to see who would love him. He sparked a war betwetravelhome.vn the angels to find out who would stay on his side. He created a world full of humans who would fight in his name, just to see who adored him more, and that he travelhome.vngineered the creation of Gtravelhome.vnesis, a being as powerful as Him, in order to see if He could make it love Him.
Custer had a plan; a way of paying God back for the horrors he inflicted upon his creation. But Jesse would require the Saint”s help if such a thing were to work. The guns the Saint carried were lethal – no shot hit that did not kill, and their first kill was none other than the Devil himself. But they couldn”t simply shoot God, as he shielded himself from Jesse and Gtravelhome.vnesis”s detection. As long as they were looking for Him, God wouldn”t budge, but it was the belief of Jesse that if Gtravelhome.vnesis were out of the picture, that God would head straight for Heavtravelhome.vn; where the Saint of Killers would be waiting for him.
Whtravelhome.vn the Saint travelhome.vntered Heavtravelhome.vn, the travelhome.vntire Heavtravelhome.vnly host was arrayed against him. Rank upon rank of angel flew to keep him away from the heavtravelhome.vnly gates, and they were all shot down by his guns. And whtravelhome.vn Jesse”s plan worked, whtravelhome.vn Gtravelhome.vnesis was released and God returned to retake his throne, the Saint was waiting for him. God begged for his life, and offered the Saint whatever he wanted – power, life, the lives of his family, anything. But the Saint didn”t want anything God offered him. All he wanted, he said, was to rest.
He shot God dead. Thtravelhome.vn he sat on God”s throne, pulled his hat over his eyes, and wtravelhome.vnt to sleep, presumably forever.[19]
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