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Zatanna Zatara is one of the main protagonists of the 2017 animated film Justice League Dark and an overarching protagonist of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. She's the Mistress of Magic and the close acquaintance of John Constantine.
She was voiced by Camilla Luddington, who also played Lara Croft in the Survivor reboot trilogy of the Tomb Raider franchise.
History[]
Early life[]
At some point in her past, she dated John Constantine but for an unknown reason, presumably his irresponsible nature and addictive personality, which regardless ended their relationship.
Magic Threat[]
After a show she was performing, she met by Batman on the whereabouts of John Constantine when he's temporarily possessed by Deadman who tells her the situation. After this, she decides to take them to the House of Mystery where Constantine may be.
Soon, they're attacked by a magical whirlwind summoned by an unknown sorcerer. The trio narrowly manage to get inside John's house in time where they're joined by Black Orchid, the spiritual embodiment of the House. The group gathers to share information, and after a quick discussion and some argument between John and Zatanna, form a team to investigate the cause and reason for these supernatural occurrences.
The heroes visits a friend of Constantine and Zatanna's named Ritchie Simpson, but outside the house they find shroud spirits of Death waiting to collect Ritchie's soul upon his upcoming demise. The team is granted entry by Simpson, who is suffering from a magical cancer and resentful of Constantine for abandoning him to his fate, but loans them the Keshanti Key. Constantine and Zatanna look through one of the unwitting rampager's memories for the cause of his frenzy, and discover that he was possessed by an unknown entity wearing a strange ring. At the hospital, Batman, Deadman, Constantine, and Zatanna narrowly manage to escape from a living feces beast conjured to consume the man, and Zatanna proceeds to destroy the monster.
Returning to Ritchie's home to identify the ring from the man's memory, the team finds him about to die, with Blood nearby. Batman revives Ritchie with an adrenaline shot to the chest, but he quickly falls into a coma. After being brought to the House of Mystery for interrogation, Blood tells the team that he didn't attempt to hurt Ritchie, but was looking for a way into the House of Mystery to find the Dreamstone. He reveals that in his old time, the era of King Arthur, the stone was created by a sinister magician naming himself Destiny, who sought to conquer the land. Blood fought Destiny and managed to cleave the stone in two, banishing the sorcerer, but was himself mortally wounded. Merlin, anticipating that Destiny was only temporarily defeated, fused Blood with his demonic servant Etrigan to battle the evil magician once the Dreamstone would resurface. Ritchie awakens and names Felix Faust as his assailant before falling back asleep.
The group locate Faust's observatory with help from Swamp Thing. When they infiltrate Faust's lair, the wizard battles the team, but is ultimately defeated by Zatanna; however, Faust is found to have no involvement in hurting Ritchie. Ritchie awakens and is revealed to have the other piece of the Dreamstone, which he has been using it to keep his cancer in remission; he apparently destroys Black Orchid, but then is seemingly killed when the Dreamstone brings Destiny back to life. Destiny declares himself a god, destroys the House and departs to sink the United States into chaos; Zatanna saves the group, but passes out from the exertion. The recovered Zatanna disables the possessed League.
After the battle with Destiny, Zatanna agrees to join the Justice League, and offers Constantine a position as well. Constantine initially declines claiming Batman wouldn't approve of him, but Zatanna claims it was his idea. The two return to the now-rebuilt House of Mystery, taking a first tentative step to restoring their fractured relationship.
Darkseid's Final Scheme[]
Zatanna and John Constantine are together in bed in their room on the Watchtower; when he is still asleep, she casts a spell on him. He awakens curious, but she managed to deflect his suspicion by merely saying another truth, which is she loves him and he reciprocates; Constantine wants another round, but they are interrupted by a station-wide announcement from Batman, demanding everyone gather in the ship bay.
Zatanna is among the chosen Justice League members that are a part of an invasion against Apokolips, however, Darkseid's new creations, Paradooms - Parademons with Doomsday's DNA - intercept their ships. Zatanna is dragged away by several Paradooms; she begs for help, but Constantine inexplicably escapes back to Earth via a portal, while Zatanna is ripped to pieces.
Constantine spends the next 2 years excessively drinking to bury his grief and guilt over Zatanna's death. Superman and Raven locate him in London, and he is begrudgingly recruited into their counterattack against Darkseid; while Raven criticised his apparent cowardice, he confesses that he himself doesn't understand why he ran, since he had faced living nightmares before without retreating.
Nearing the final battle, Constantine was among a team that raided Apokolips, and he managed to free Wonder Woman from her brainwashing, and then Cyborg, which emancipated the other mind-controlled heroes that had been turned into cyborgs. Damian Wayne breaks Darkseid's hold of his father, Batman, due to persistent pleas and visual similarity to Bruce's own childhood trauma; Batman attacked Darkseid, who in retaliation fires his Omega Beams at him, yet the attack is intercepted by Damian.
Due to Damian's death, Raven experiences such powerful despair that her imprisoned father, Trigon, breaks free from his astral bonds; she tells Constantine to kill her to stop Trigon's release, but instead the sorcerer allows the escape. Constantine offers his body as a vessel to Trigon so that together they can destroy Darkseid, but Trigon chooses to possess Superman, then uses his new body to break Constantine's neck.
Constantine awakens, realising he is in Heaven due to meeting Zatanna; he wonders how he got into Paradise, which she explains that she pulled some strings. Zatana apologises to Constantine, which confuses him until he understands that 2 years ago, she cast a compulsion spell on him prior the Apokolips assault because of a contingency plan made by Batman in case the assault failed. Constantine forgives her, while noting he is happy that he gets to spend eternity with her. Zatanna, however, mournfully but purposely reveals that their time will have to wait because destiny still needs him alive.
Constantine heals from his broken neck, and comes back to life with significant annoyance. A visual from Earth shows Superman the death of Lois Lane, with the loss of his wife giving him the willpower to excise Trigon from his body, after which he engages in combat with Darkseid. Due to her love, Raven was able to reach her true powers that returned her vitality and allowed her to restore the person of her affection, Damian. Constantine and Raven conjure a new body for Trigon, who takes over from Superman to fight Darkseid.
The surviving heroes on Apokolips are granted a boom tube back to Earth; Constantine, due to his lack of knowledge about technology, tries to tell Cyborg to download his consciousness into a "mother cube" so he won't remain fused to the castle structure, but Cyborg corrects that it can't be done, thus Constantine gives his gratitude and admiration for his sacrifice. Raven is the last to leave, and has a sentimental goodbye to her father, Trigon, who in turn expresses thanks for the gift of fighting another dark god, after which she leaves. Cyborg activates a series of boom tubes that transport every Paradoom back to Apokolips, then manifests a planetary boom tube that drags Darkseid clutched by a gleeful Trigon, the Paradooms, and Apokolips itself into oblivion.
Since Earth lost 31% of its molten core, the stability of its orbit was ruined, therefore will boil or freeze huge regions of the world before it could be fixed, but not even a short-term solution is clear yet. Understanding that the purpose Zatanna had given him still needed one more task before being done, so Constantine convinces the Flash to initiate a new Flashpoint; the Flash doesn't want to do it due to a promise he made to his late wife, Iris, however, Constantine argues that there is no other way to overcome the death and destruction and further losses, thus Flash acquiesced. The Flash runs into the horizon, commencing the Flashpoint that will restore the Earth, but also rewrite everyone's lives and experiences, making all forget about the final Darkseid War. As the universe is recreated, it is possible that Zatanna will return to life, albeit possibly with a different background, relationship developments, and overall personality.
Aftermath[]
The Wrath of God, the Spectre, decides to punish Constantine for his involvement in causing yet another reality-cracking Flashpoint, which shaped a universe that was safe from Darkseid, but another more permanent cataclysm was on the way. The image of Zatanna is one of Constantine's most cherished people who are created, killed, or mutated into demons that attack him, over and over as to make his suffering unbearable and endless.
Potential Revival[]
Due to the Anti-Monitors unleashing antimatter waves, the multiverse was erased, however, surviving heroes and villains were able to use the Miracle Machine to create a new singular reality known as the monoverse, in which everyone still alive and dead may be reborn.
Powers[]
- Magic: Zatanna is one of the most powerful magic users within the film's universe. This is evidenced by the extra precautions that Felix Faust prepared in case she attempts to invade his home, stating that she is the only real threat among her team. Zatanna casts her spells by saying her intent backwards. For instance, if she wants to levitate, she would say "Etativel" and her intentions will come to life. The mechanics of her powers grant her immense capabilities, as she needs only to say something backwards to make something happen.
- Energy Projection: Zatanna has the ability to project streams of immensely powerful magical energy that explode upon contact with its targets.
- Disappearing: Zatanna has displayed the ability to make three full-grown elephants disappear.
- Explosion Inducement: Zatanna has displayed this ability twice. She caused an uprooted tree that was headed the Batmobile's way to explode as well as a monster made of human excrement.
- Illusion Manipulation: She's able to temporarily nullify the illusions that kept Felix Faust's castle hidden from wandering eyes.
- Spell Breaking: Zatanna is able to dispel the moving platform that Constantine conjured.
- Conjuration: At full power, Zatanna was able to conjure a massive greatsword out of thin air and flung it in Felix Faust's direction. From deconstructing this sword, she was able to conjure multitudes of smaller blades.
- Shield Generation: Zatanna is able to conjure shields that were able to withstand both Felix Faust's and Destiny's magic, though she was exhausted from the latter attempt.
- Portal Creation: Zatanna was able to conjure a portal that transported her right when Batman was about to be overwhelmed by the enthralled Justice League members.
- Enchantment: Zatanna has the power to command the Lasso of Truth to ensnare Wonder Woman while also stopping Superman mid-flight before he could get to Batman.
- Mind control: Zatanna is able to hypnotise someone, yet without them becoming consciously aware of it during or after; the spell is so strong that it can overrule a person's own judgement, yet make it appear as if it was under their own volition - although, other skilled magic users may notice a slight hint of feeling off, but not enough to realise the hypnosis.
Abilities[]
- Prestidigitation: Zatanna is an accomplished stage magician.
- Occult Arts: Zatanna's knowledge of magic is not simply confined to the stage, as she is well-versed in the art of sorcery, though she chooses not to use it as she feels that it would be too much power for her to handle.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat: Zatanna was able to land a kick to Felix Faust while he was caught off guard.
Equipment[]
- Wand: Zatanna owns an intricately designed black wand that she uses to channel magic she has stored if in case she loses the ability to speak. However, the stored magic is considerably limited.
- Top Hat: She can use her hat as a conduit to conjure animals or individuals.
Weaknesses[]
- Gagging: If Zatanna was rendered unable to speak, Zatanna is rendered powerless.
- Over-exhaustion: When Zatanna performs immense feats of magic, it takes a lot of energy on her part. She will need to rest in order to restore her energy reserves after using a lot of magic.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Zatanna is nicknamed "Z" by her Deadman and Constantine.
- According to Zatanna herself, she has a small garden, which gives her piece of mind.
- If severely provoked, Zatanna will lose self-control and attempt violent retaliation.
- Bruce Wayne/Batman had an established friendship with Zatanna; it was possible that part of his odyssey of training, he was her fellow student, as they were instructed in escape artistry and misdirection by her father, Giovanni Zatara - similar to the relationship in the DC Animated Universe.
