For other uses of Ghost, see Ghost (disambiguation).

Ghosts, also called spirits, are souls of deceased humans that did not move on to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory usually because some personal, unfinished business and are stuck. Under some circumstances, even souls that moved on can return as ghosts, either temporarily or permanently.

History

In 2014, with the Rising Darkness approaching, several ghosts like Lannis Cadogan, Misaki Ross, Philip Carlberg and Marcello Panneti started to rise from the grave, but were defeated by John Constantine and his team.^[1][2][3]

Years later, the Legends went to solve an anachronism in 1954 Memphis; Tennessee, which was the ghost of Elvis Presley's brother, accidentally invoked by his brother's Death Totem. The totem still resurrected several ghosts from the cemetery of that city, but they were banned by Elvis using the totem.^[4]

Types

• Coblynau: Coblynau are spirits of dead miners that inhabit mines (such as one outside Heddwich in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania), knocking on the walls to warn the miners of danger. Traditionally they were good-natured, though could be controlled to do evil.^[1]
• Banshees: Banshees are female spirits of vengeance from Scottish lore. Their status as spirits of deceased people is debatable.^[5]
• Dybbuks: Dybbuks are a type of malevolent spirits from Jewish mythology.^[6]
• Spectres: Spectres are a rare type of spirits that are in tone with the energies of the multiverse (even if it has been destroyed), and the Speed Force, allowing them to travel dimensions at will and appear alive. Spectres also possess powers to manipulate energy, matter, and antimatter to defend the multiverse or recreate a universe, should it be destroyed. Due to the sheer amount of power they possess, Spectres can be considered one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse. So far only two Spectres have been known; Jim Corrigan and Oliver Queen. However, the latter's status as a ghost is unclear, as he was still able to die, implying that Spectres can manifest a physical living form even if their original body has been destroyed; as that was the case for Oliver, since the antimatter wave destroyed his original body on the Waverider, alongside the original multiverse.^[7]

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Astral projection: Ghosts are not in their natural form, they are a projection of their soul.^[8]
• Invisibility: They cannot be visibly perceived by other human beings.^[8]
• Superhuman strength: Ghosts are significantly stronger than humans, easily overpowering them.^[1]
• Intangibility: Ghosts are able to move through matter such as dirt and rocks without interference.^[1]
• Superhuman speed: Ghosts can move at superhuman speed.^[1]
• Invulnerability: Ghosts are essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons - due to being astral pojections, all such weapons simply pass through them without harm, although occasionally they temporarily dispel their manifestation.^[2]
• Teleportation: They can transport from place to place, seemingly in no time at all.^[2]
• Life-force absorption: Ghosts can siphon the life-force from people and kill them through physical contact.^[2]
• Possession: Ghosts can possess human bodies and objects.^[3]
• Flight: Ghosts are able to hover above the ground.^[4]
• Size alteration: When Axl became a ghost, it was able to increase in size.^[4]
• Enhanced agility: Dybbuks are able to make the dolls they possess jump at heights normally impossible for such objects.^[6]

Known ghosts

Amberly Axl Lannis Cadogan (coblynau) Philip Carlberg Caroline Jim Corrigan Aleister Crowley Clarke Devereaux Grim Reaper Hank Heywood Liv Aberdine's grandmother Mike the Spike (dybbuk) Natalie Logue Marcello Panneti (formerly human) M'yrnn J'onzz Jesse Presley Misaki Ross Waynetta

Appearances

Constantine

• "Non Est Asylum"
• "The Darkness Beneath"
• "Danse Vaudou"
• "Rage of Caliban"
• "Waiting for the Man"

Supergirl

Season 1

• "Manhunter"
• "Worlds Finest"

Season 4

• "American Dreamer"

Season 5

• "Tremors"

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 3 "Return of the Mack" (mentioned) "Amazing Grace" Season 4 "Hell No, Dolly!" "Legends of To-Meow-Meow" "Lucha De Apuestas" "Terms of Service" "Hey, World!" Season 5 "Slay Anything" (mentioned) "A Head of Her Time" Season 6 "Ground Control to Sara Lance" (mentioned) "The Satanist's Apprentice" "Bad Blood" Season 7 "Lowest Common Demoninator" (mentioned)

The Flash

Season 6

• "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
• "Death of the Speed Force" (mentioned)
• "The Exorcism of Nash Wells"

Season 8

• "Phantoms" (mentioned)
• "Death Rises" (mentioned)

Arrow

Season 8

• "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"

Comics

The Flash TV Special

• "The Quick and the Dead" (mentioned)

References