The 2005 Hell Detective movie is based on DC's Hellblazer series of comics (which was later renamed Konstantin in the rebooted Universe 52), the film's story continues DC Comics' usual dark style, the characters in it are often good and evil, which is also one of the reasons why individuals particularly like this series, today for you to sort out the backstory of the legendary character "Midnight Daddy".
For some well-known reasons, the film actually made a lot of changes in the backstory and character modeling, the overall more gothic style, but also strengthened the rendering of the religious atmosphere, and the comic is a mixture of religion, magic, and folklore. More loyal to the manga is the later TV series version, but the filming is really not good, only one season was cut.
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Papa Midnight rarely mentions his past, and acquaintances know that he was born in the 18th century in the Caribbean, with a twin sister, Luna, whose ancestors were black slaves who were trafficked to the Americas by the Spaniards. In that era, the living environment of black people can be imagined, but because their mothers know a little witchcraft, "Midnight" and his sister usually learned a little, plus the mind is more flexible, and the black people in that area are still quite good.
After midnight's mother passed away, the siblings decided to leave Jamaica for the newly independent United States. They came to New York to settle down, from witchcraft to firearms, as long as it was a lucrative thing, the brothers and sisters sold everything. Gradually, the two became more and more famous, and even some white people would patronize them, buying some aphrodisiac potions or lucky rabbit feet and other gadgets from them.
On this day, a black slave nicknamed "Coffee" came to "Midnight" and asked him to prepare a voodoo powder for himself to protect himself from the bullets fired by muskets. "Midnight" was curious about what he wanted the powder to do, and "Coffee" told him that he and some of his black slave brothers were secretly plotting a riot to kill all the slave owners in New York and completely overthrow white rule in the city.
"Midnight" realized that this would set off a bloody storm, although he did not like the rule of whites, but he did not want those innocent people to die tragically, not to mention that the riots of blacks would inevitably cause a fierce counterattack from whites, and it was easy for him to gain a foothold in this country, and he did not want to lose his current stable life. So "Midnight" made a decision, pretending to agree to "coffee" request, and mixed him with fake voodoo powder, hoping that the black slave who led the rebellion would be killed, and the whole thing would be a hundred.
This riot was indeed as expected in "midnight", and was easily suppressed by white slave owners, killing dozens of black slaves. But he did not expect that "coffee" actually survived, and a few days later he broke into the home of "Midnight" with a group of black slaves, and the brothers and sisters were beaten to death by them, and what was even more frightening was that they also coerced "Midnight" to cut off his sister's head with his own hands. "Coffee" finally spared the mentally broken man, and before leaving, he cursed "Midnight", "As long as the white man rules this land for a day, he will live forever in the pain of killing his relatives." ”
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After that, "Midnight" began to become a naive, he always kept his sister Luna's skull, and he would talk to the skull when he had nothing to do, and everyone around him thought that he had fallen into madness. It wasn't long before "Coffee" died of a gunshot wound, leaving behind a son in his 10s, Fortune, who unexpectedly adopted the enemy's child and taught him some witchcraft from time to time.
One day, "Lucky" accidentally discovers that "Midnight" is actually using the skull to communicate with some mysterious force, and also discovers that he is planning another black riot, but "Midnight" does not seem to want the riot to succeed. Geng Zhi's "Lucky" confessed his discovery to "Midnight" and questioned him why he had launched a doomed riot to waste the lives of black people, and then "Midnight" laughed and told "Lucky" the truth.
It turned out that "Midnight" had always supported the black liberation movement, but he knew very well that rioting in one region alone could not really achieve its goal, that only the negroes of all the North American colonies could unite to achieve it, and that it would require bloodshed, a great deal of black blood. The previous black slave revolt of the "coffee" organization failed because "midnight" interfered with it, and he believed that only the continuous bloodshed of black compatriots could be exchanged for the awakening of the black slaves in the whole country. This time he used his skull to contact a Caribbean god," the trickster god Anansi, and he could use Annecy's influence to incite more slaves to rebel, and the more slaves participated, the more tragic the failed uprising would be, and the other slaves would be awakened.
Annecy, the god of deception
Lucky, who learned the truth, was extremely angry, he could not understand the good intentions of "Midnight", only knew that his father died because of him, and there would be more black people to die in vain, he decided to expose this conspiracy to everyone. Realizing that "Lucky" will sabotage his plans, Midnight uses his skull to pray to Annecy to kill Him, but instead of answering his prayers, Annecy sets Midnight's body on fire and envelops him in a raging fire (worthy of being a deceitful god).
"Lucky" takes a group of black slaves to "Midnight"'s residence, only to find that he has been burned unconscious, and since the curse left by "coffee" is still in effect, "Midnight" endures great pain but is not allowed to die (the curse of the person who will die has a strong effect). "Lucky" moved his compassion and used the voodoo knowledge he had learned to heal "Midnight"'s body, but in This part of New York they could not stay any longer, "Lucky" had to take him to the outback and live in Louisiana.
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Since then, "Midnight's" whereabouts have been uncertain, only to know that he has always been obsessed with studying the skull, and his sister Luna's soul has long since left, so the skull has also lost its effect. "Midnight" also managed to obtain more "sister" skulls from "other sources" (he liked to recognize the owners of these skulls as his sister), and because the immortal body gave him a lot of time to study the occult, "Midnight" became a fairly powerful wizard.
The skull should be a powerful magic weapon used to imprison the soul of the original owner, and "Midnight" uses this to make these souls gather intelligence for themselves, sometimes even from hell.
By the 1980s, Midnight had returned to New York, where a bar called "Midnight Daddy" had opened. With his ability, he quickly mastered all the gray industries in the area, and it was also at that time that "Midnight Daddy" met the fledgling Constantine.
At that time, "Scumbag Kang" wanted to buy the magical rifle "The Ace of Winchesters" that could completely destroy the demon, but when the middleman interfered with the price at both ends, "Scumbag Kang" was confused, and simply stole the rifle from The Midnight Daddy and took a lot of valuable things (or how to call it a scumbag).
The two have since formed a bond, and have maintained a semi-competitive and semi-cooperative relationship in the days that followed. The background of Midnight Daddy is slightly changed in the film, saying that he once stood with Constantine to fight the demons of hell, but "Daddy" was tired of the endless war and signed an agreement with the demons to remain neutral from then on.
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