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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fnork de sporg" data-source="post: 1520641" data-attributes="member: 4713">In the issue of DC Secret Origins featuring featuring the JSA hitler gains the Spear of Destiny and uses it to summon unkillable valkerie warriors that assasinate the president, as well as make his super bomber planes fly incredibly fast so they could reach DC in minutes. In this post-crisis version there is no "mind control field" and the heroes are actively opposing the nazis, though at the time it was set america had not yet entered the war, nor japan. At no point is it explained or touched upon as to why the spear the pierced christ's side would summon female warriors from norse myth, bu there you go.     In another version of the spear's legend that I heard the spear predates christ and its shaft is made from the staff of Moses. At the crusifixion it is used by a mortal agent of god to kill jesus, not out of hatred or pity but because Jesus was technically immortal and no other weapon could kill him. And if he did not die by human hands the Redemption would not succeed. The Wandering Jew, in the versions where he's not Cain, is said in this probably modern version of the tale, took the burden of Jesus's immortality upon him self for the same reason, and will return it when jesus returns from the afterlife. Eventually the spear was put to rest inside one of the columns in St Peters to insure that it would never be used again.</blockquote>