A female superhero and a member of the Justice League.
Description[]
Appearance & Personality[]
Zatanna is shown as a fairly tall adult woman with long black hair. This version of her always wears the costume of a stage magician (and partly the glamorous assistant) but her top hat is bigger than usual and has a flat brim. She is mature and dependable as a person.
Powers[]
Her power is the ability to perform magic which she often does with the wave of her wand while pronouncing the words of a spell backwards and is accompanied by bright lights and twinkling stars. Examples of her magic are: projecting a bubble around herself and others for protection or around an opponent to reflect their magic back on them, binding someone with chains, making zombies evaporate, quenching fiery breath with water, removing evil spells from vehicles, and returning demons back into her hat. She does not always have to resort to such elaborate spells because her wand can be used as a weapon to shoot bolts of magical energy.
Zatanna's spells are often in the style of the tricks and illusions of stage magic and she makes use of its props too. For instance, she can pull out a line of knotted silks to ensnare a foe or turn playing cards and linking rings into deadly sharp weapons to throw. A deck of charmed cards can be flicked at a wraith to destroy it.
Under cover of a large silk, she can disappear and later reappear from under it after it has floated elsewhere. She can do more than pull rabbits from her hat (they are not very useful anyway) as the hat is said to be a "mystic portal to other dimensions." Perhaps because of this, a plant-like monster can be conjured from it to assist in battle.
During combat she can be very acrobatic, particularly when she is not wearing her hat.
Weaknesses[]
As well as physical vulnerability, her main weaknesses are either being gagged, which will nullify her strongest magic, or becoming bound up, which will stop her from waving her wand, and these do happen on occasions.
Relationships[]
Zatanna is sometimes seen to operate with Constantine as though they are a team, and she appears to be familiar with Brother Night and Ember as enemies, but nothing is known of her personal relationships. She has a magic stage act and, as she is seen in a casino on one occasion, the show may be in Las Vegas. Also, as she performs under her name of Zatanna, she cannot have a secret identity.
Appearances[]
- 7. Zombie King
- 13. Trick or Threat
- 14. Speed Demon
- 15. Hat Trick
- 29. Mxy's Mix-Up
- 33. Best Day Ever
- 37. The Ringer (cameo)
- 46. Party Animal
- Short 7. Quality Time (cameo)
Links[]
- Zatanna at Wikipedia.
Notes[]
- In the comics, Zatanna is said to belong to the homo magi, a separate magic-practising branch of the human race.
- Her hairstyle varies. Sometimes it is parted and swept to the right and at other times it is combed forward in a fringe.
- Her coat should have tails but only her ten-year-old self has them.