Quick Blight (DC) Respect Thread

Blight is one of the strongest foes of the Justice League Dark and I felt like making a quick respect thread for him.

Blight is the conceptual form of mankind's shadow, naturally existing in the collective unconcious of mankind. He is every vile thought and shameful act. He is a conceptual form of being that manifests as a mental and physical form, the physical form being a human he possessed. Terror, desperation and madness also empower Blight suggesting that these are also a part of him. His physical body was able to hold up against Constantine and Nightmare Nurse's Blackmare Forms which had "almost nuclear power" although it is impossible to kill Blight conventionally, as any dark thought to kill him would itself be him. So long as man holds a single dark thought, Blight can not be killed. His mental body which he can project onto the physical plane appears as a shadowy serpent. This can change size and in one instance appeared planetary sized consistent with it being stated that he was covering the Earth. He is also noted as appearing in all of humanity's psyche at once, and appears as a small shadowy snake. This form can turn into a dragon which breathes fire and in the mental plane appeared as a hydra whose heads fittingly regenerated into 2 more.

Blight passively emanates an energy that blocked out planetary psychic senses and which weakened the metaphysical light of humanity and their magic. Blight's presence passively causes corruption, magnifying peoples' sins and their dark behaviors and tendencies (this causes him to grow stronger over time) and can cause those sins to manifest in the physical world as little demons. Blight can consume people into the collective unconcious with only those with many psychic defenses keeping from having their soul consumed and turned into a demon. His raw power was enough to cause an eternal eclipse, which is casually in the low planetary range. However his strongest power is his absorption, as he quickly threatened to absorb not only all negative thoughts used against him but threatened to quickly absorb the entire material plane, all of physical existence into his metaphysical being, unitied the physical and metaphysical realms. He was confirmed to be a threat to likely by using the vast dormant psychic power of humanity in the collective unconcious.

Blight was only beaten briefly by Pandora using the light of humanity and later by being sealed back into the collective unconcious by the embodied spirit of redemption. This brings up a point I want to debunk. Some people are claiming Blight is relative or even superior to the Presence as he claimed the Presence was scared of him and could not destroy him. Now I don't know why villain statements are automatically treated as evidence nowadays given their tendency to have an exaggerated sense of self, but this is blatantly not true. The Presence blatantly allows Blight's existence for the sake of the greater good. The Phantom Stranger says The Presence could drive out Blight and all evil out from the world with a word but simply allows it and most damningly Blight is eventually defeated by being sealed away by the embodied spirit of redemption, the will of The Presence given form. The Presence's character is that he wants to create something with free will and so he keeps from interfering even if it causes his creation to sometimes do evil.



Summary:
+At least Town level physical strength with his avatar (Held back briefly the two Blackmare Forms of Constantine and Nightmare Nurse)
+At least low planetary power (caused an eternal eclipse), much higher via manipulating the uncouncious of humanity
+Conceptual existence, can battle on the physical and mental planes with mental projections (Shadowy Serpent) and physical possession
+Will exist so long as man has a single dark thought
+At least hypersonic speed (Scales above DC Street Tiers), full extent unknown
+Passively nullifies psychic senses and magic
+Corruption (presence magnifies darkness in beings)
+Summoning (Can summon the sins of people as demons)
+Can consume people into the collective uncouncious
+Grows stronger over time
+Skilled manipulator
+Thoughts to kill him only become part of him
+Infinite Absorption (Was going to absorb the material plane), likely higher (was a threat to creation)
-Being sealed back into the collective uncouncious by a light based force.