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[[File:Deadman_400x600_3578.jpg|frame|[[Take That|This is how you people spend life?!]]]]
 
 
So yeah. Lemme tell you a bit about myself. The name's Boston Brand, aka [[Meaningful Name|Deadman.]] Before I was killed I used to be a circus trapeze artist who performed under that name and used the nice costume you see before you. I admit I wasn't the most pleasant guy under the big top (I was co-owner and would ''you'' put up with drunken lion tamers and embezzling employees?) and my girlfriend didn't care for my macabre style for my act, but life was good, until it ended. During one of my performances, I was assassinated by someone in the crowd with a hook for a hand. The bullet shattered my back, but it was the fall that killed me. Despite all this, my spirit was given the ability to possess any living being by Rama Kushna, a powerful Hindu goddess, so I could find whoever killed me and earn some justice in this world.
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Been through a few other things over the years. Rama Kushna had me battle a sorceress over the lives of some deceased costumed heroes. At the same time I paid my dear brother a personal visit, only for him to die while I was hanging around doing the same act I used to do before I was killed. Then I helped run this city where supervillains could live and behave themselves, only it got invaded and destroyed and they were set loose again.
 
However then something people call the [[Blackest Night]] appeared and suddenly everyone was coming back to life, sorta. This included my own body. Turns out everyone had been possessed by black rings and were made to serve some master of death. At the end of it a bunch of [[Green Lantern|rainbow coloured ringslingers]] managed to defeat this guy, but not before some white rings went and resurrected a [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|bunch]] of [[Martian Manhunter|other]] heroes properly. Somehow this included me. They were calling it the [[Brightest Day]], a whole new start. Me, I had the last white ring on my finger, and no idea what I was supposed to do apart from [[Drop the Hammer|destroy my own grave.]] Turned out, the ring had its own ideas, and ended up dragging me around the universe, setting things up so it could take down this master of death's final attack. In the little time I ''wasn't'' doing that, I [[Brightest Day/Funny|ate some cheeseburgers]]. Hell, I even got myself a girlfriend. But once entity-thing was done with that - wham, dead again, and [[Status Quo Is God|still no rest]] for yours truly.
 
Oh well, at least I also got to star on TV in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''.
 
=== {{tropelist|I represent these tropes ===}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: I'm a type II; I'm no superman but I'm still a heroic guy
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Thanks to that Entity during [[Brightest Day]] but afterwards I was dead again
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