Blight (Forever Evil)

Evil-doer
Full Name	Blight
Alias	Evil
Origin	DC
Occupation	Cosmic entity (embodiment of humanity's collective evils)
Powers / Skills	Nigh-omnipotence
Hobby	None
Goals	Continually feed on humanity's evil to grow stronger.
Crimes	No information
Type of Villain	Rogue cosmic entity / collective thought-form

Blight is on of several beings claiming to be the embodiment of all evil in the DC universe (though it is actually only the collective evil of humanity, while an impressive feat this ranks it far below cosmic entities such as Great Darkness, which embody the evil of absolutely all things within the fictional narrative of DC mainstream multiverse). While not the main antagonist, it is nevertheless a major threat in the Forever Evil series.

History

Blight's human form

While Blight's appearance has been a recent one, in truth it has been present since the dawn of humanity. The Blight is made up of billions of malicious thoughts all converging into one great mass. Blight's rise to power was facilitated by the Crime Syndicate's arrival into DC's prime universe. When the Crime Society incapacitated the Justice League and allowed all the super-villains free reign over the Earth, people became desperate and turned to crime. It was this sudden change in the status quo that allowed Blight to reach its full power. Blight possesses a human named Chris Esperanza, gaining a physical form with which to fight the few surviving superheroes who oppose it.

Powers

Blight is a virtually omnipotent entity that is born of the collective evils of humanity, this grants it the ability to manifest the "Seven Deadly Sins" and influence humanity in many horrific ways, the entity was shown to grow powerful enough to be a threat to beings such as the Phantom Stranger.

Blight's power-level is sufficient to make it a threat to the collective heroes and villains of DC's Earth, the number of which at minimum is a few thousand individuals whose powers range from base-line humans to immense, near-godlike figures such as Superman, these exceptionally powerful type of villains are "Crisis Event" antagonists and are designed to be among the most powerful threats DC heroes and villains can face, short of supremely cataclysmic entities such as the Great Darkness or Perpetua.

Trivia

• Blight is similar to the Smallville version of Darkseid. Both are depicted as black smoke that manifested from evil and both possess a human host (Blight possesses Chris, while Darkseid possesses Lionel Luthor).
• Blight is similar to the Jungian idea of a Collective Shadow, which is believed by philosophers to embody a society's collective evils which said society must confront or risk falling further into social ills such as crime, tyranny, war or anarchy.