| abstract | - The Red
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- The Red is a force which connects and pervades all animal life in the universe. It is intended to be the force from which a number of animal-powered heroes get their abilities. Those who can tap into The Red are:
* Animal Man (Buddy Baker)
* Maxine Baker
* Vixen (Mari McCabe)
* B'Wana Beast (Mike Maxwell)
* Tefé Holland (Flesh Elemental)
* Freedom Beast (Dominic Mndawe)
* Beast Boy (Garfield Logan)
* Horsewoman
* Tabu, an African woman whose power comes from the different masks she uses to hide her disfigured face.
* Tristess, a shaman woman who befriends Animal Man. It is primarily Buddy Baker, and later his daughter Maxine, who interact with The Red. Initially, Grant Morrison introduced the concept via yellow aliens, who are guardians of something they call the template. They explain that, through the years, they have allowed certain individuals to access that template. This meant that the Tantu Totem used by Vixen was their creation, as were the helmet and elixir that were found by B'Wana Beast. It is not until a man named James Highwater comes into Buddy's life, and they go on a vision quest in Arizona that the template is described as an all-pervasive force called the morphogenetic field. The field is described as a "mesh of countless smaller fields; each one a blueprint which guides the formation of atoms into molecules, molecules into cells, cells into tissues, organs, systems!" Understanding this, Buddy learns that he can access animal powers even from animals he is nowhere near, so long as he accesses the field. Notably, one of Buddy and James' hallucinations in Arizona is the appearance of a vast red sea surrounding the mesa. Tom Veitch's run on the Animal Man book took the idea in a new direction, removing the yellow aliens from Buddy's origins, and replacing them with a group of shamans known as the Animal Masters. During this story arc, Buddy's connection with the field begins behaving erratically, killing many of the creatures from whom he borrows abilities. A physicist and engineer named Travis Cody helps Buddy test his powers using a device called the m-field meter. Around this time, Maxine begins developing her own abilities. The leader of the Animal Masters, Stone, calls on Buddy and the other people who are connected to the field to join him in fighting an evil entity known as Antagon. He explains that the Animal Masters have existed for centuries, using the field to create animals. Unfortunately, Antagon appeared as the field's opposite, and they were forced to fight it. Ten million years in the past, Antagon was nearly defeated, but it escaped, only to return in the present. Eventually, Stone and the other animal masters sacrifice themselves so that Buddy, Vixen, and Tristess can tap into the morphogenetic field, and defeat Antagon by creating an entirely new universe for it. Finally, in Jamie Delano's run on the book, the morphogenetic field was named The Red. In the first issue of Delano's run, Buddy is run over by a truck and killed. In the following issue, Buddy is depicted traversing a vast and surreal landscape of redness and gore. Despite realizing that he is dead, Buddy uses The Red to get back to his own body. Unfortunately, his body is already dead, and he can't use it to return to his family. Eventually, he realizes that he can use The Red to send his consciousness from body to body, just as he found his way to his corpse. He begins by residing in a mite in his wife's hair, and follows the food chain until he winds up in the body of a triceratops brought into existence by his own daughter's connection to The Red. Buddy then determines that he can use The Red to recreate his own body, but without a blueprint for his body he ends up creating a chimera that seems to be comprised of every animal in existence. He nearly resigns himself to this new body, but when his corpse's fingers are discovered, he eats them and uses them as a map for creating his old body. This lasts for a while, but eventually his connection to The Red becomes such that his physical form morphs as he takes on different powers. In addition to her connection to The Green, Tefé Holland was born as a flesh elemental, with connections to The Red, due to the fact that she is a human-plant hybrid. As the Flesh Elemental for Earth, Tefé had control over not only her own body but the bodies of all other animal life on the planet, allowing her to alter them in any way she saw fit, such as turning them into living hydrogen balloons.
- The Red is the currency used by both the Delkish Empire, and the Anasic Empire (often represented by the Red Letter - Я - in the Delklands, and - αЯ - on Anasia's Isle). In the Delklands, the Red is broken up into bills of 1 Я, 2 Я, 4 Я, 8 Я, 16 Я, 24 Я, 48 Я, and 96 Я. These bills are not all red. The 1 Я bill is dark purple, with the face of Jenes the Just printed on it. The 2 Я bill is a much lighter lavender, with dark red lines framing the face of the Mother of Messoloriha. The 4 Я bill is dark red, with light lavender lines framing the face of King Xermos. The 8 Я bill (the least-used), is much the same, but about twice as large, and twice as cumbersome, and printed only a fourth as much. The 16 Я bill (also known as "Crisp Crimson," "Ol' Crisp," and as "Billow's Bill") is bright red, with lighter red lines framing the profile of Billow the Slave. Below him reads "Monus ovdos Sinos," (old Lobott: "Monument of our Sins"), which warns that money corrupts. The 24, 48, and 96 Я bills look much the same, sans the words, and with different faces in profile. On the 24 Я bill there is Haslenn Hasset's profile; on the 48 Я bill there is the face of Erzael. On the 96 Я there is a golden skull, a horn on its right, and a stump on its left, all aflame. Haslenn's words read "To the Wall," Erzael's "These we hold for Eternity," and Hockson's read "Beware of Greed." The Anasic also use the Red, using so-called "Red Coins" with values of 1-αЯ, 8-αЯ, 24-αЯ, and 88-αЯ. The 1-αЯ can be further divided up into "Blue Coins" with values of 1-Б, 8-Б, 24,-Б, and 88-Б. The 8-αЯ, also known as "the aro" is the most-commonly used coin in the Anasic Empire. The aro's heads side depicts the profile of the Mother on Earth, with coins minted up to five Mothers in the past still considered valid by the Anasic Empire, though in practice, any coin minted at any point would be considered valid. The aro's tails side depicts the Great Mine Fire which began the Faith of Anasia, with the words "Diol Fear, Nașvir" (Anasic: "From the Fire, Born Were We") written along its edges. It, like most Anasic coins, is made of copper (due mostly in part to the gigantic abundance of copper beneath Anasia's City). The Delkish also use Blue Coins (under the name "Cobalt Coins," or "Cobalt Carvings") with values of 1 Б, 2 Б, 4 Б, 8 Б, 16 Б, 24 Б, and 48 Б. These were adopted soon after the First Great War, when relations between the Delkish Empire, and Anasic Empire were very warm. To mirror the Anasi-Anasi, Billow's Tower began issuing coins with the profiles of the Fathers on Earth; Erzael's face is on the heads side of the 1 Б coin, called "the Coin o' Eternity." Eternity's tails side has the Delkish Seal on it; nine broken chains, with the words "Free for Eternity," carved beneath them. Unlike every other Delkish coin, Eternity has nine sides, rathern than a single edge. For the brief period that Crahia was independent from the Delkish Empire, it continued using a form of the Red, called the Lavender (often represented by the Lavender Letter - ⅃ - and - q - for its "Crahish Coins," officially "Chrysanthemum Coins"). This came in the exact bills, and coins as the Red, and the Red was still officially recognized (Crahia was far too poor to print a Lavender for all the Reds they would have to get rid of, though by the time of Ristt Blot's death, the Red was almost halfway out of circulation). Lavenders have the face of Ristt on the 1 ⅃, his brother Messink Blot on the 2 ⅃, Stayeen on the 4 ⅃, and no 8 ⅃. They are also purple.
- Season(s) First seen Last seen Appeared in Mentioned in Species Also known as Status Age Date of birth Death Origin Allegiance Family The Red (Dothraki: Jin Virzeth) is a stallion belonging to Khal Drogo.
- The Red, otherwise known as the Outer Dark, is the force of evil that is led by the Crimson King. The people of the Red are allied together to destroy the Beams and the Dark Tower causing an end to reality and the return of the Prim. They fight against their counterpart the White whom the original member was Arthur Eld . Many members of the Red have allied themselves with the Crimson King becoming Warriors of the Scarlet Eye.
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