What we do know is that he looks damn good for his age! During this period, he and Talia al Ghul fell in love, got married later retconned as drugging and date rape by Talia , and had a child — Damian. Unlike the majority, though, the Head of the Demon died at the hands of his own daughters. In Death and the Maidens, Talia and Nyssa join forces with some brainwashing by Nyssa to attempt to take down both Superman and their father.
Nyssa stabs her father through the heart, killing him, but his master plan worked. In order to distract Batman in the meantime, he also steals the corpses of Thomas and Martha Wayne, knowing that Bruce will ignore all else in his attempts to get them back. Rose Graceling-Moore has been writing about film, TV and comics since , when she began writing for a local print magazine in Vancouver, BC. Since then, Rose has written for Horror Honeys, Moviepilot and Quirkbooks as well as Screenrant, increasingly focusing on comic books and live-action comic adaptations, as well as diversity and representation on screen.
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This longevity has made him into a master combatant and leader of the League of Assassins. This is the highest rated episode of season 3 and the was highest rated episode of the whole series until the season 5 finale. Marc Guggenheim gave the Olicity scene a 9 out of When asked why it wasn't a 10 he said "no sex". When Ray Palmer is describing the shrinking concept, and the exosuit to Felicity, he mentions the original acronym was O.
C, but that he is partial to A. The latter is a reference to his superhero alter ego, The Atom. The former, OMAC, was originally the name of a futuristic comic hero. It was short for One Man Army Corp.
But more recently the name of an army of cybernetic soldiers. All in all, Ra's grasp on the world is vaster than one would think. Ra's parents are as mysterious as his original name or age. They simply were not revealed nor seemed to be an integral part of his plans, whatever those may be. That is until Ra's actual father revealed himself! Turns out, it was a DC villain named Sensei who appears to be an old Karate master and trainer for the League of Assassins.
The Sensei and Ra's are estranged, with the latter not knowing the former's true identity. Oddly enough, the Sensei seems to have achieved the same longevity as Ra's since he also managed to make it into the modern era along with his clueless son.
Sadly, upon having a reunion with his son, Sensei stabbed Ra's. Speaking of wives Ra's first wife, Sora, was killed by a prince he saved using the Lazarus Pit. He did have another chance at building a family and it's a weird one, to say the least. Ra's met a woman named Melisande The two of them fell in love during the hippie music festival and conceived a child, Talia al Ghul. Now, we don't know about you, but what the heck would Ra's be doing at Woodstock?
Most likely, he was once a hippie or, at the very least, wanted to hear some psychedelic music. No matter the angle, it's unreal and puzzling. A leader of a worldwide Illuminati-like organization being a tree-hugger at his leisure Come to think of it, that might have influenced his goals The League of Assassins or The Demon sounds like an evil ninja organization and all, but Ra's plans for the world sort of don't match with the theme. He's best described as a radical eco-bandit who disdains what the human beings are doing to the Earth.
In that regard, Ra's wants to rid the world of the destructive human beings, usually the evil ones like criminals, murderers, warlords, etc. That noble intention doesn't help make his motivations clear or understandable. As usual, Ra's didn't die and soon resumed his activities. While restoring one of his Lazarus Pits, Ra's was visited by Batman and Talia, who were trying to find and stop the international terrorist known as Qayin.
Because of his past with the terrorist, Ra's made an alliance with Batman in order to stop Qayin once and for all. Their combined efforts allowed them to put an end to Qayin's reign of terror, but their alliance came to an end when Talia forced Batman to leave after an apparent miscarriage. Whatever plans Ra's had were put on hold, allowing everyone to grieve for their loss.
Main articles: Batman: Contagion and Batman: Legacy. Ra's returns to prominence and comes dangerously close to realizing his dream of worldwide genocide when his organization unleashes a deadly virus known as Ebola Gulf A a. A cure is eventually located by Batman and his allies, though the mastermind behind the outbreak is not discovered. Learning that the Demon's Head still lives, Batman and his team circled the globe, preventing further outbreaks of the virus.
Additionally, it is discovered that Ra's has allied himself with Bane, the man who once crippled and nearly killed Batman. Ra's considers Bane a potential heir to his empire, despite his daughter Talia's distaste for the brutish criminal. Eventually, a way to eliminate the Clench virus is deduced from an ancient "Wheel of Plagues" artifact whose knowledge has aided Ra's in the creation of the disease. But the immortal madman again eludes his foes.
Ra's discovers Batman's notes on the weaknesses of the other members of the Justice League of America developed in the event of a villain gaining control of the JLA's bodies and using them against humanity and uses them to try to destroy the group. Though defeated, Ra's does cause the temporary exit of Batman from the JLA, which occurs because of the mistrust of his teammates due to his contingency plans.
Though some of the League's members resent the plans, they agree that the plans were created for the right reasons. Batman does not realize Ra's is using his traps until it is too late, as he is busy searching for the corpses of his parents, which Ra's removes to distract him. Talia, disillusioned with her father and his plans, leaves him to run LexCorp for former U. Ra's blames Batman for his failed relationship with Talia, and stages a plot where he tries to separate Batman from his heir, Dick Grayson Nightwing shortly before Wayne officially adopted his now fully grown ward as his son.
The plan fails, and Wayne and Grayson go ahead with the adoption. Ra's would also be involved with Bruce's second adopted son, Jason. After the boy's death at the hands of the Joker, Talia discovered that somehow Jason was alive and Ra's was willing to take the boy to his side to learn about his death "ruse".
However, Jason's mind was broken and years of taking care of him caused Ra's to want to get rid of him. Talia used one of Ra's Lazarus Pit to heal Jason's mind and body, unleashing the wrath of Ra's upon them both. Ra's has a romantic fling with Black Canary.
Black Canary is injured and healed in the Lazarus Pit, which also restores her Canary Cry that she lost years earlier. Main article: Batman: Death and the Maidens. Nyssa, furious at her father for abandoning her in a concentration camp, begins plotting to destroy him. Nyssa befriends Talia and then kidnaps and brainwashes her. Nyssa plots to destroy all hope and optimism in the world by assassinating Superman with Kryptonite bullets she steals from the Batcave.
While Batman stops Nyssa from killing Superman, he is unable to stop her from mortally injuring her father. A dying Ra's reveals that this is all part of his greater plan to ensure that his daughters, both initially dissatisfied with his plans, will realize that he is correct in his perceptions about the world and what needs to be done to it, and that they would come to accept their destinies as his heirs.
Talia disavows her love for Bruce Wayne, and both sisters declare Batman their enemy. However, it is too late for Ra's, as Nyssa stabs her father through the heart, seemingly killing him for good.
To ensure Ra's will not return, Batman oversees the body's cremation. Talia is prompted to read the history of Ra's al Ghul to her son Damian by a mysterious figure from Ra's past: the White Ghost. However, mother and son manage to escape before the plan is completed.
After the escape, Batman confronts the White Ghost; he fights Batman, but accidentally ends up falling into a Lazarus pit. Talia al Ghul takes her son Damian Wayne to the Australian outback where he is tutored in the secret history of his grandfather, Ra's al Ghul. Talia is unaware that a former servant of Ra's, an albino named White Ghost, plans to use Damian as a shell for the soul of Ra's to return to Earth. Realizing that this process would kill Damian, Talia saves her son from his fate at the last minute.
However the essence of Ra's is still able to return to our plane of existence as a living corpse, still needing Damian to stabilize his form.
After he manages to get a renewed body, Ra's al Ghul, moves his base of operations to Gotham City where it is revealed that a remnant of his son Dusan's consciousness still remains within him. This arrogance attributes to the brazen move to Gotham and a subsequent ninja attack on Batman, which indirectly leads to the discovery of a map of all the known Lazarus Pit locations across the globe.
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