Talk:Knights of Pendragon

Knights of Pendragon III

According to the sidebar info on John Freeman's site, he did a Knights of Pendragon III project that was never published...? --Mrph 19:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Partial rewrite, chopped bits

I've done the stuff I have the sources to do and tried to tidy up. One thing is that the team stuff is hard to pin down, hence I've not done a team infobox. In Vol. 1 (the preachy one with the ugly art) they're a non-team for the most part; in Vol. 2 (The Uncanny X-Knights) they're suddenly a branded, ToyBiz friendly team of superfriends. So where exactly the team The Knights of Pendragon debuts and who exactly is on the team for most of the time can't really be defined without OR - with the slight disclaimer that I only scanned the issues re-reading them due to both titles being totally awful in totally different ways.

As such I've clipped the characters section, which was as follows: -

The team, a mix of everyday people and superheroes, consisted mostly of new characters, with the exception of Union Jack. Each member was the modern day version of an Arthurian knight, and was possessed by the same ancient spirit that had possessed that knight. The Green Knight gave each of them powers, including heightened senses and fighting skill, the ability to speak with animals, and the ability to shoot blasts of "Pendragon fire".
The full roster was:
Albion (Peter Hunter): A history teacher who has had the power of Albion since World War I. He has battled the Bane throughout the years. He currently equates to Merlin, although the spirit that originally possessed him was that of Herne the Hunter. The leader of the group, he represents the Green Knight's aspects of intellect and wisdom.
Adam Crown: A young man whose Pendragon power was awoken by the team breaking up, he reunited the team and led it in battle against the Bane's forces. He possessed the spirit of King Arthur.
Ben Gallagher: A writer with an obsession concerning the Holy Grail, Gallagher equated to Percival. He embodies the Green Knight's spiritual and sensitive aspects.
Francesca Lexley Grace: An agent of the Bane reformed by Adam, she became a Pendragon, possessed by the spirit of Morgause.
Breeze James: A reporter hired by the malevolent technomagical company Mys-Tech to learn about the Pendragons, she became the new Guenevere after Kate McClellan left the team.
Kate McClellan: A reporter who was investigating a series of "eco-terrorist" attacks which turned out to be the work of the Green Man, she became the equivalent of Guinevere. Her son, Cam, was also a Pendragon, briefly possessing the spirit of Merlin, before Hunter reclaimed it.
Sir Gawain: A robot from an Arthurian theme park, possessed by the spirit of Gawain, which had left its intended host.
Union Jack (Joseph Chapman): The third hero to call himself Union Jack (the first was a World War I period character created by Roy Thomas, the second was his son), he equated to Lancelot.
Not all Pendragons were members of the team. Captain Britain was briefly Lancelot, and his police contact Inspector Dai Thomas was possessed by the spirit of Gawain before the robot. It was also suggested that Iron Man and Black Panther were unawakened Pendragons, having the spirits of Bedevere and Robin Hood respectively. It is not known if the Black Knight's current title of Pendragon is connected to the team.

This is choppy and laced with OR. It jumps between the two volumes without clarity and uses terms like "full roster" that are basically incompatible with the series itself, which also tended to really jump around as to who had what spirit at any point (I'm not sure I've read a comic where quite so much of the letters page is given over to explaining the plot of previous issues). I was tempted to overhaul it but I'm not entirely sure it's worth the effort because of the two different "rosters" the titles employed - the first one a loose assemblage of people given the power of the Pendragon, the second a standard super-team. A better solution IMHO would be to link to bios of each member and leave the fictional plot history to do the rest of the lifting.

The article is still a bit primary source heavy as the letters page is really just an extension of the comic itself but I can find very, very little discussion of the series either on or off-line beyond the briefest of overviews. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 14:39, 2 May 2023 (UTC)