Zatanna Zatara

**Zatanna Zatara** is a magician, stage performer and sorceress and former lover of John Constantine. Years later, Zatanna was recruited by John to join the Legends and help him exorcise escaped souls back to Hell, causing them to reignite the spark in their relationship. She joined the Justice League after the Thanagarian invasion. She was an old friend of Batman.

## History

The daughter of the famous stage magician and escape artist Zatara, Zatanna joined him on tour as his assistant when she was a teenager, and also became good friends (as well as possessing a crush) with his student "John Smith", who was actually Bruce Wayne during his training to become a crime fighter.

After her father's death, Zatanna became a talented stage magician in her own right. For the finale of a show in Gotham City, she made the contents of the Gotham Mint disappear, to show up magic debunker Montague Kane. Unfortunately for her, Kane had not only seen through her trick, but was a thief, and stole the money while framing her for the crime. She was freed from custody and assisted in bringing Kane to justice by Batman, whom she recognized as her friend from long ago. When the adventure was concluded, Zatanna disappeared in a puff of smoke; leaving behind a note written on a handbill from her show wherein she acknowledged that she remembered him as John Smith. She expressed her sadness at the course his life had taken and told him not to forget to write.

Some time later, she developed or discovered genuine magical powers, which she used to aid the Justice League, and occasionally sprinkled in with her normal stage tricks. It also became apparent that at some point, she found out Batman's real name as Bruce Wayne. After Wonder Woman was turned into a pig by Circe, Batman approached Zatanna for help, and she assisted him in tracking Circe down and reversing the spell. She was moved by Batman's song and was happy with his gratitude at her help.

During Darkseid's last invasion of Earth, Zatanna was one of many League Members called to help fight the invading Apokoliptian forces, and afterwards to pursue and capture the remaining members of the Legion of Doom.

Many years later, an elderly Bruce Wayne included her among a small group of women whom he remembered as special to him.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Magic**: Zatanna is a Homo Magi, a human born with the affinity to manipulate magic. Her unique genetic structure allows her to use the magic she was born with as well as learned magic. As a tribute to her father, and as a focus for her spells, she casts spells by speaking backwards or "Logomancy". For example, saying "pots" would cause the target of the spell to stop in their tracks. She's feared and famed as one of most powerful magic users on the planet and mortal plane.
	+ **Elemental Control**: Zatanna can manipulate magical elements such as:
		- **Pyrokinesis**: Generate heat and manipulate magical fire.
		- **Cryokinesis**: Generate cold and manipulate magical ice crystals.
		- **Electrokinesis**: Generate electricity and manipulate magical lightning.
		- **Hydrokinesis**: Generate and manipulate magical water.
		- **Geokinesis**: Generate and manipulate magical rocks.
		- **Aerokinesis**: Generate and manipulate magical wind.
		- **Photokinesis**: Generate and manipulate magic lights.
		- **Umbrakinesis**: Generate and manipulate magic shadows.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Zatanna can move/obtain objects at a distance with her spells.
	+ **Telepathy**: Zatanna can also read minds, view and erase memories of others with or without the person's consent.
	+ **Teleportation**: She can send herself and/or anyone to anyplace she/they wish to visit without any space/time restrictions.
	+ **Dimensional Travel**: Zatanna can travels through dimensions through portals she opened with magic.
	+ **Reality Alteration**: She can manipulate reality at will to inflicts confusions and mental trauma on her target.
	+ **Antipathy**: Zatanna can reverse physical trauma so all damage that comes to her will hit her target instead.
	+ **Deflection**: Zatanna can return energy projections sent to her back to their source without loss of momentum or power.
	+ **Chronokinesis**: Zatanna can move time forwards or backwards or even stops time in demand.
	+ **Weather Manipulation**: Zatanna can control and affects the weather in a certain area.
	+ **Eldritch Blast**: Zatanna can blast enemies with mystical energy.
	+ **Energy Construct Creation**: Zatanna can use her magical energies to create inanimate objects such as traps or devices to suit her needs.
	+ **Energy Transference**: Zatanna once forced a "nightmare" demon into the dreams of hundreds of people to split him apart then locked him away in her hat.
	+ **Flight**: Zatanna can fly or levitate however she says that this requires a lot of energy and concentration and therefore she chooses not to fly if possible.
	+ **Force Field**: Zatanna can create magical shields to withstand bullets, blasts, blows and explosions. The greater the size or density of the shield the more effort it takes Zatanna to hold.
	+ **Healing**: Zatanna can heal herself or whoever she choses from most injuries.
	+ **Phasing**: Zatanna can make herself into her "phantom form" and become intangible.
	+ **Size Alteration**: Zatanna can increase or decrease her size or the size of others to any conceivable size.
	+ **Transformation**: Zatanna can turn anything into anything else, essentially. For instance, she has turned bullets into paper airplanes as well changing her clothes instantly. Most often she changes violent objects into harmless things.

### Abilities

* **Prestidigitation**: Zatanna is a greatly skilled magician and an expert illusionist, therefore performing extraordinary (real)tricks and incredible illusions on stage is super simple to her.
* **Hypnosis**: Zatanna can hypnotize anyone and command them to do anything she pleases.
* **Meditation**: Through meditation, Zatanna can astral project.
* **Astral Projection**: Zatanna's consciousness can leave her physical body and travel to other planes of existence.
* **Occultism**: As a chronicler of magic she possesses an extensive understanding of occult lore due to her mystic background.
* **Multilingualism**: Able to speak English and many other languages and her signature "Backwards Speech".

### Weaknesses

* **Mnemonic Incantation**: Zatanna casts her spells by saying the words of her incantations backwards. Mnemonic incantation is the most complicated of the mystic arts. She must be able to speak or read backwards in order for her to focus her spells.
* **Vulnerability to Magic**: Powerful enchantments against beings of magic, like gods, are able to restrict her as well, preventing her from accessing enchanted places or dispel the adverse charm. Harmful magical realms such as Hell can also hinder how often she can speak her spells and can cause her great physical damage

## Trivia

* In her first animated appearance, in *The Batman*, she was portrayed as an ordinary magician, though she did say "Arba Dakarba" ("Abra Kadabra" backwards) during her show in Gotham. During her appearances in *Justice League Unlimited*, she displayed her powerful magic.