Talk:Time Trapper

Time Trapper backstory notes
In Adventures of Superman#444, Superman states that the Time Trapper was created when time began with the Big Bang. Has this been referenced elsewhere?

The character of the Time Trapper bears a pronounced resemblance to the protagonist of an Edmond Hamilton short story, �In the World�s Dusk,� which appeared in the science fiction magazine Weird Tales in 1936. �In the World�s Dusk� is about Galos Gann, the last living human being, a withered figure, cloaked entirely in robes, who sits brooding in a towering hall in the desert wastelands of the Earth in the distant future. Gann uses his super-scientific knowledge to try to revive the human race, only to be thwarted at every turn: he returns the dead to life, only to find that they cannot propagate, and pulls men and women from the distant past to act as breeding stock, a process that drives them hopelessly insane. One of his resurrected subjects describes Gann�s struggle against entropy:

The dead man said hollowly, �You strive against the inevitable like a child breaking his hands against a door of marble. It is the law of the universe that everything which exists must come some day to an end. Planets wither and die and fall back into their parent suns, and suns strike one against the other and are transformed into nebulae, and the nebulae last not but in turn condense into other suns and worlds that in their own turn must die.

�How shall you hope amid this universal law of death to keep the race of man forever living? We have lived a fair life for many million million years, we have struggled and won and lost, have laughed in the sunlight and dreamed under the stars, have played our part in the mighty drama of eternity. Now it is time we pass to our appointed end.�

Edmond Hamilton was one of the principal writers of the Legion stories of the mid-sixties, including the issues in which the Time Trapper originally appeared (Adventure Comics #317, #318, and #321). It is unclear if the character was consciously inspired by his earlier story, but the parallels are striking. Although many of the revelations about the Trapper�s true nature were written years later, long after Hamilton�s death, they only serve to emphasize the similarities, especially the ultimate revelation that he was originally a hero: Galos Gann, like Rokk Krinn, commits acts that could be considered villainous, but that are in service to a higher good.

�In the World�s Dusk� was reprinted in The Best of Edmond Hamilton (Nelson Doubleday, 1977), a compilation of Hamilton�s short fiction edited by his widow, the late Leigh Brackett. http://web.archive.org/web/20001117180200/www.intelcities.com/Hobby_Lane/argent/bibliog.htm

01:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)Enda80 01:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)Enda80


 * "All things have ended here, even those that never began. Dreams have crumbled to dust, and lives faded out of memory. In all the universe, it seems there only remaining energy   enough to swirl the fragments of the past and abandon hope of the future...  They called this the End of Time and pray it will not come in their lifetimes.  They have called him by a 1000 names. He is Night, Death, Apocalypse, Eternity, Entropy, Time.  To all that live, all that moves, all that hope that tomorrow will dawn, he is the enemy.  This is his kingdom and its day has come." (LSH #50 (1988) pg 1-2 repeated 42-43)--BruceGrubb (talk) 15:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * A rationale has since been added. --GentlemanGhost (talk) 22:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Time Master/Time Trapper
The description of the Wonder Woman story makes it sound as if the reader knows that the Time Master & the Time Trapper are one and the same from the get-go. 70.88.213.74 (talk) 18:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Super Friends
This reference should be moved to "Other Versions" catagory as the Super Friends aren't and have never been part of the regular DC Universe. 70.88.213.74 (talk) 18:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought there was a brief Superfriends comic series that was part of continuity. Nutiketaiel (talk) 18:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Part of overall Pre-Crisis DC continuity but not part of Earth-1 continuity.--BruceGrubb (talk) 15:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)