Shade the Changing Man: Difference between revisions

** Not to mention the fact that Shade's reality altering powers are presented as an allegory for the authorial act of creation.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Troy Grenzer and the supermarket gunman in the sheepskin jacket. Shade also has a short bout of it during his deal with the Devil.

'''Shade:''' He's not interested in souls. And he's not really the Devil. And he's not as bad as you think. Quite easygoing, really. }}

* [[Back From the Dead]] - Shade at least once, but the distinction somewhat blurs after he begins making trips to the Land of the Dead regularly.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]] - played straight with some characters, subverted by other characters who are just trying to seem more interesting than their actual background would suggest, and inverted by others who come across perfectly stable in spite of having every reason to go mad.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: The Passionchild, an androgynous pretty boy who incited emotion to the psychotic degree in everyone around him, but never expressed anything. He didn't even speak until Shade cracked into his inner world, and found nothing.

* [[Enemy Within]]: For Shade (thanks to the [[Green Rocks|power of madness]]) Hades became an [[Enemy Without]] and an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] in the same story arc. He also seemed to become less threatening and more helpful, so perhaps it's for the best that he vanished the scene before [[Badass Decay|Spikeification]] set in.

* [[Executive Meddling]] - First when DC demanded the comic continue past Milligan's intended conclusion at the end of the Angels story arc. Again when the comic was canceled during the Roots of Madness story arc.

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: The second and third issue give us a Sphinx with JFK's head that asks people this question and eats them when they're unable to answer. The JFK-Sphinx's madness is fueled by a Kennedy admirer-turned conspiracy theorist. In the end, he's forced to ask the question, {{spoiler|and says we're all responsible, for letting the President's death overshadow his life}}, but the real truth is {{spoiler|confronting the manifestation of his obsession allows him to come to terms with the death of his young daughter, which he can only blame on life's unfairness}}.

* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: In the final issues, after [[The DCU|DC]] had decided to cancel, Lenny is describing Shade to her father.

''(both look out of panel)'' }}