![]() Eventually the shadows grabbed Hope, as they believed that if Hope was gone then Richard would finally release them in his grief. When Hope found out that the Shadows had been committing crimes she was furious at Richard stating that he had broken his promise to her. The shadows began to instigate chaos and commit crimes on the Earthly plane, leading Richard to harbor even more doubts as he believed he could be subconsciously committing these crimes. These shadows within Shade began to sense these self-doubts, and using the weakness within Richard's soul they began to break free of his control. Shade was plagued by self-doubt as he believed that he would find a way to mess up his relationship. Returning to a normal life, Richard's relationship with Hope began to get serious. Shade then returned to his girlfriend Hope in Opal City, content with his adventure. Afterwards, he murdered his great-grandson, seeing him as a disgrace to the family lineage. The Shade defeated the gods and sent them back to an other-worldly dimension. Dudley intended to release two captured Egyptian deities in London, hoping the terror attack would spark business in his illegal operations, and wanted to make sure the Shade would stay out of the way. Returning to London, Shade discovered that his other great-grandson Dudley Caldecott was the one who placed the bounty. However, this lead was a dead end and Darnell succumbed to his cancer. Visiting the vampire girl he saved back 1854, who was now a immortal superhero in Barcelona named La Sangre, the Shade approached the girl for a sample of his blood he knew she had preserved. Darnell was dying of cancer but did not place the bounty, instead he requested a sample of the Shade's blood to elongate his life. Egyptian Gods unleashed in Londonįinding out that one of his relatives had placed the bounty, Swift visited his great-grandson Darnell Caldecott in Australia for answers. Shade eventually took a break from being a hero or a villain and instead tried to settle down in a normal life with his girlfriend Hope O'Dare.Īfter O'Dare suggested that Swift get back into the saddle and have an adventure, the Shade learned he had a bounty on his head, which Deathstroke among others intended to collect. ![]() He survived all the way into the 21st Century, battling new-age superheroes such as Starman and the Flash, and then beginning anew. Shade rescued him and gave the man a slight glimpse into his shadowy past. While in London, that was the last time Swift saw his wife Elizabeth that he had left when he became the Shade before her death in 1904 Īgain finding one of his relatives in 1944, as World War II raged on, Shade made contact with his great-grandson Darnell Caldecott after the American-British patriot was captured by Nazi operatives. ![]() The Shade combated the demon to save his grandson and returned the man to his home in London without ever revealing his true identity. However, in 1901, while relaxing and smoking opium in Paris, the Shade accidentally bumped into his grandson Albert Caldecott who was trying to escape his lover who became possessed with a demon. Remaining secret to the family and descendants he would spawn, the Shade was an immortal criminal and a thief for almost two centuries. Saving the baby girl from a worse condition, the vampire poison affected Shade in a way that made him lose even more of his humanity, becoming more of a inhuman shadow creature than anything else. After killing every single one of them, Shade found the infant child of one of the slaughtered crew members had been bitten and attempted to suck out the vampire's poison like a snake bite. Īfter getting his powers, Shade maintained a sense of mortality for almost 20 years before succumbing to the darkness in 1854 when the Africa-bound ship he was on was invaded by vampire pirates. However, this ritual, instead of killing Swift, caused him to absorb a mysterious and magical shadow power, turning him into "the Shade" and escaping his captor. After Swift delivered, Culp double-crossed him, saying that he had a dream that he had to kill Swift in a sacrificial ritual using the lion. One day, a man named Simon Culp approached him, hoping that Richard could locate and sell him a live lion. Before becoming the Shade in 1838, Richard worked as a vendor of exotic goods. Richard was a good father and a close friend of Charles Dickens. He married his wife Elizabeth and the couple had two sons Sam and John. The Shade was born in London the early- 19th Century.
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