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The thing though is that for his early good intentions, de Lorne’s “enemy” wasn’t Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for the plague that rode along in fleas and was transferred via bite. ĭe Lorme’s idea with the gear was that it would be protective in nature, much like the armor worn by knights into battle. The design for the complete look is credited to the French physician, Charles de Lorme in the early 1600s, who designed it out of harsh necessity: the bubonic plague. It’s no wonder that they have a high position in our collective feelings of “ick.” Historically, if a Plague Doctor showed up, things were really, really bad.Īny exploration of Plague Doctors has to begin with their iconic costume. While not the most popular collective-unconscious-creepy-zeitgeist nightmare uniform out there (that’s still clowns), Plague Doctors are at the edges of our collective nightmares, ready to take that top spot if something happens with the clowns. The cosplay is a perennial favorite (and will probably come back into vogue even more now…) at comic cons, characters copying their costumes show up in comics, such as Hawkman, the “Merrymaker” character in Batman, Spider-Man Marvel: 1602, a brief appearance in Hellblazer the novel and film version of Dan Brown’s Inferno, a mask can be spotted in the live-action version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Belle’s mom died of the plague) in Assassin’s Creed II, The Legend of Zelda, and many others, such as cameos in Adventure Time, My Little Pony, Disenchantment and My Hero Academia. If you’ve marinated in pop culture, you’ve seen them around. Points for mentioning miasma! (c) DC Comics Ankle-length heavy black coats, boots, thick gloves, a hat with a wide brim and that mask – glass lenses hiding the eyes, and that long beak-like projection that certainly distorted and muffled the doctor’s voice to change it into some non-human sounding murmur.įrom DC Comics’ Hellblazer #254 and #255.
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Plague doctors show up frequently in pop culture, and why not? Their costumes are downright nightmare fuel. But how is the Doctor supposed to help anyone when he’s hated and feared for his unique immunity to the disease? It’s mind versus body as Carter Hall relives his most tragic past life in a last stand to fight off Sky Tyrant’s control over his body for good! The issue, written by Robert Vendetti, with art by Marcio Takara and Fernando Pasarin, would have/one day will introduce a new, hitherto unknown incarnation of the constantly-reincarnating Hawkman: the Plague Doctor.Ĭloaked in black and wearing the eerie mask of a hawk, the mysterious Plague Doctor roams 17th century Europe in an attempt to ease the suffering of those who fall victim to the Black Death. Here we are in April of 2020, and – had the comic book industry continued running as usual, DC Comics would’ve released Hawkman #23 earlier this month, on April 8th. Plague Doctors, huh? Want a weird coincidence?