From the Notebook DC Crossover Idea: Doctor Fate

Here’s another idea I wanted to get down after a very busy day. It’s another DC Comics crossover that I don’t think I’ll ever try to work out.

This one is about Doctor Fate. The sorcerer supreme of DC. The Lord of Order. The guy with the fancy gold helmet.

Doctor Fate’s status as a Lord of Order could prove an interesting thing to play with considering the show’s themes of harmony, not to mention Discord. Doctor Fate’s magic would work best with a unicorn, as they’re better for channeling the power, but could be used by anypony.

The way Doctor Fate works varies across decades and threads of continuity, but I was going off the way it worked in the Young Justice cartoon, that being that Nabu is the Lord of Order who resides in the Helmet of Fate, and uses the wearer as a host body.

But here’s the other thing in my head, that Celestia and Luna know Fate, might even consider him “father.” Probably more in a creator sense than traditional parentage. I imagine somepony finding an invisible tower, the Tower of Fate, which had been lost, and deep within is the helmet, sitting and waiting, and which is retrieved by a solemn pair of sisters, knowing exactly how powerful it is, and what it represents.

Who would wear the helmet? Twilight? Perhaps an AU with Sunset? I don’t know. One could potentially have Starswirl as a previous host. One of the background jokes in the Reflections arc of the comics showed Starswirl’s workspace, and in there was the “Helmet of Neigh-bu.”