Abra Kadabra (character)

Did You Know?

• An unnamed man wielding one of Abra Kadabra's wands called Mr. Magic appears in 'Gotham Underground' and Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge as a member of the New Rogues.
• An alternate timeline version of Abra Kadabra appears in the Flashpoint tie-in Flashpoint: Secret Seven as a television presenter and member of the eponymous team.

Fictional character biography

Citizen Abra is from the 64th century, a time when science has made stage magic obsolete. Desiring a career as a performing magician, he steals a time machine and invents a device to paralyze guards, then travels to the past to find an audience. He clashes with the Flash (Barry Allen), using a hypnotic device that forces people to clap regardless of their thoughts. Despite this, his magic is overlooked, so he involves himself in important events. When the Flash tries to stop a crime, Kadabra forces him to clap and escapes. He later sends the Flash into space, but the Flash returns and defeats him. Kadabra hypnotizes a governor to escape jail and stages a puppet show where the Flash is turned into a puppet, but the Flash reverses the ray and defeats him again. In later confrontations, Kadabra's technology is damaged, leaving him insubstantial and wraith-like. After being restored, he is captured by bounty hunter Peregrine and returned to his century for a death sentence, but the Flash saves him. During the Underworld Unleashed storyline, he forgoes his technological implements and tricks five Rogues into selling their souls to Neron so he can gain genuine magical powers. He later kidnaps Linda Park, girlfriend of Wally West, during their wedding and erases her from history, but is defeated with help from Walter West. In Infinite Crisis, he becomes a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains.

In other media

Abra Kadabra makes a non-speaking cameo in the Justice League Unlimited episode 'Flash and Substance'. He appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice, both voiced by Jeff Bennett. In the live-action Arrowverse series The Flash, he is portrayed by David Dastmalchian as a cyborg named Phillipe whose powers come from nanotechnology. In his self-titled episode, he is pursued by Gypsy for crimes on Earth-19 and arrives on Earth-1 to steal components for a time machine. He is defeated by the Flash, Kid Flash, Vibe, and Gypsy, and taunts the Flash by withholding knowledge of Savitar's identity. In 'Central City Strong', he returns to build an anti-matter bomb to destroy Central City after his family was erased in 'Crisis on Infinite Earths'. The Flash talks him down, but they are attacked by a monster called Fuerza, which absorbs the bomb's energy. Kadabra tries to save the Flash but is killed by Fuerza. He also appears in the DC Universe Online DLC 'The Lightning Strikes', voiced by Christopher Loveless, and as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure. He appears in the novel The Flash: The Tornado Twins.