He became so enraged that he burned down a temple dedicated to said god, getting killed by Apollo in retaliation. The second one is Phlegyas note Phlegyas was a Greek king whose daughter was raped by Apollo.He ferries the souls of the recently deceased sinners across the river Acheron to Hell. The first one is Charon, the classic archetype.He tries to extort the heroes for an additional fee to take them out of the Underworld, but is thwarted when the Nac Mac Feegle threaten to stay. One is encountered in Wintersmith who happens to have the same accent as a certain recurring character.In Wonder Woman: Odyssey Charon remains at the banks of the river, even while the realm of Hades is overflowing and crumbling in the wake of Hades' disappearance.In Wonder Woman (1987) getting passage on Charon's boat is the safest and surest way to reach the part of the underworld that is actually Hades and Elysium and Tartarus can only be reached by passing through Hades and past Elysium.Wonder Woman features Charon himself across several versions.In one issue of Superboy (1994), during the period when Brainiac-13 had turned Metropolis into a literal City of Tomorrow, Superboy discovers the Absurdly Spacious Sewers are traversed by a guy who found a rubber raft and a stick with an outboard motor on the end, and decided to become an archetype.As she steps off of his boat, he asks for payment, Promethea finding a pentacle-coin in her pocket, Charon claiming that it represents her earthly awareness, something she will not need on her journey. On the way to the first Sephirot, she enlists the help of Charon the Ferrymen from Classical Mythology (confusing him for an allegorical character from a 16th century engraving she ran into earlier since they both come from the same "old man" archetype), who agrees to take her to the Nancy Nox, a houseboat from an old story her ancestor wrote. In Promethea, Sophia Bangs ascends onto the higher levels of the Immateria in order to find her predecessor, Barbara, to finish the business she had with her. In the graphic novel Heck, which takes place in Dante's version of Hell, both Charon and Phlegyas make appearances.This is lampshaded when Shaky calls him "our own personal Charon for our own personal Styx. Crossed: Skip in Wish You Were Here, whose boat is used on the sorties from the human refuge of Cava to the mainland for scavenging trips.In the original The Books of Magic miniseries, the Trenchcoat Brigade (the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, Doctor Occult and Mister E) serve as ferrymen for Tim Hunter, showing him DC's Post-Crisis magical universe, its many worlds, its history, and its future.In the series All-Star Superman, Lex Luthor has his niece Nasthalthia, who acts as a ferryman by rowing Clark Kent to safety.Kal Cutter is the first person ever to notice the symbolism. His eyes are purple with white skulls for pupils.
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