Christopher Priest: Difference between revisions

* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: Marvel's Sentry is basically Triumph, minus all the flaws and conflicts that make Triumph interesting. This was apparently an improvement,as Sentry was a much, MUCH more popular character than Triumph.

* [[Angry Black Man]]: Almost all of his works go to great lengths to avoid this, and it's frequently subverted, averted, and deconstructed. In the case of [[Quantum and Woody|Quantum]], it's averted, subverted, double-subverted, deconstructed, and then just generally beaten to death and fed to a goat.

* [[Bash Brothers]]: Power Man and Iron Fist. To a lesser extent, Triumph and Ray or Quantum and Woody.

** Panther's Dora Milage are Bash Sisters.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Malice. Tempest (the one from Ray, not the one from Quantum And Woody). Malice. Titania (spoiler: actually Copycat). Malice. Fang. Malice. Have we mentioned Malice yet?

* [[First Person Peripheral Narrator]]: Everett K. Ross is the narrator for most of the ''[[Black Panther]]'' works, which have superhero Black Panther as the main character.

** [[The Hero]]: Martian Manhunter

** [[The Lancer]]: Triumph

* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Subverted masterfully to create the Panther villain White Wolf.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: [[[[Quantum and Woody]] "We're not a couple!"

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Triumph takes one so severe that it breaks his back. Kasper Cole takes on from Killmonger.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Henry Peter Gyrich is the Government, Mister!

** There is a man... with a typewriter.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Queen Divine Justice tries, and fails, to get out of her role as a member of the Dora Milaje.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Ray is responsible for his own father's becoming a superhero and passing his powers on to his son. There's another, more complicated one involving Gaelon as well.

* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Galleon to Ray... because she's his girlfriend from the future, come back in time to make sure he doesn't turn into an evil jerk.

** In [[The Ray]], the Call knows where you live, and will lie to you about who you are, who your parents are, and which parents (fake or otherwise) are dead or alive. Also, there is another Call who not only knows where you live, but will threaten and/or murder your loved ones until you answer it. And that Call is [[The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House|coming from inside the house]].

** In [[Quantum and Woody]], the Call will force you to live within 12 hours of the person who annoys you most in the world, or else you die.

** There IS a letter that never gets written in Ray. It's given to him by Gaelon in the future, then he delivers it to her in the present, then she delivers it to him in the future, etc. It's even explicitly stated that it's in his handwriting.

** Triumph's relationship to time and paradoxes is just an unholy mess altogether, and it only got worse after Priest stopped writing him. Eventually, somebody wrote a story that pretty much said "Time and Triumph don't get along, and his continuity is pretty much fluid because of it." Weirdly, they bothered to do this about ten years after he stopped appearing in anything.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: [[Power Man And Iron Fist]], [[Captain America]] & [[The Falcon (Comic Book)|The Falcon]], [[Quantum and Woody]], Quantum and the other Woody, Ray and Triumph, Deadpool and Constrictor... Priest likes this trope.

* [[What Might Have Been]]: Priest's never-realized run on a mainstream Justice League title might have been fantastic... his Martian Manhunter is often regarded as one of the best takes on the character, and pretty much everyone agrees that he did great things in his limited opportunities with Batman, Aquaman, etc.

* [[Wretched Hive]]: Little Mogadishu, from [[The Crew]].

** Ray visits one in outerspace. Lobo's in the bar. Cue [[Let's You and Him Fight]].

** Ray's whole character is basically this, as he was locked in his apartment for the first eighteen years of his life, and just about everything he knows about the world he learned from watching TV.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Black Panther and most his enemies ''LOVE'' these. Vandal Savage in his DC work is as good as anybody. Triumph (from Justice League Task Force), ''thinks'' he's good at these, and he's right... sometimes.

* [[What Might Have Been]]: Christopher Priest was in the running to helm the JLA relaunch before it went to [[Grant Morrison]].

** This can be extended to Priest's whole career... had he burned one fewer bridge, or stayed in the industry one more year, or had one more artist that "got" him, he might be talked about in the same breath as Morrison, Moore, etc... instead, he's "that black guy who wrote Panther".

* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: Neron likes to pull this. It ALMOST works on Triumph.

 

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