Within the Young Justice: Phantoms, we get the return of the YJ version of longtime DC magical chara

Within the Young Justice: Phantoms, we get the return of the YJ version of longtime DC magical character Madame Xanadu. Previously, they appeared way back in the first season of the show, where she conducts a fake seance for Kent Nelson (the original Dr Fate), who after pointing out her hoaxes sadly tells her that its a shame she resorted to special effects when she had the potential to be a great magician……Cut to a decade later, and Xanadu returns, and it appears she’s now more in-line with her comics incarnation. Rather than being a fraud from New Orleans, she is revealed to be Nimue Inwudu, the Nimue from Arthurian lore, who apparently at some point prior to meeting Kent got amnesia, settled in Louisiana and continued her occupation as a fortuneteller and seer (albeit without access to her magical abilities).At some point after her appearance in season one, Xanadu had apparently regarded her memories and powers… But apparently keeps the accent (which she drops at one point while talking to Zee, implying it’s an affectation), presumably a showmanship thing.…It should be noted that this is entirely a retcon, as previously Greg Weisman stated that she was born in the early 1990s, which I guess makes her amnesia thing happened in the 2000s?Notably she hasn’t aged in the past decade unlike the rest of the cast, which considering she’s usually a minimum of 1000 years old (the current version in the comics is a Fey from Arthurian Britain or a descendant of Atlantean refugees that settled in the British Isles, which is vaguely in the post-Roman period, the Matt Wagner version of Madame Xanadu, which the New 52 and YJ version draws from, is actually older than the first human settlers of what would become the British Isles so… potentially 10,000s of years old?) isn’t that surprising. She also mentions in the episode having a memory that spans multiple lifetimes, which also gives credence of YJ!Xanadu being the Arthurian immortal version rather than the Romany version that preceded her.As is a common thing with this show and its habit of hinted at and partially referenced events (such as how Diana debuted as Wonder Woman back during the Second World War at the age of 16, but was mistake for an adult due to her height and due to an old timey reporter only seeing her at a distance), we probably won’t get any information as to HOW Xanadu ended up loosing her memory and powers… But it’s a story I’m genuinely interested in?Like even within her own books her powers have fluctuated somewhat (in the aforementioned Matt Wagner series she lost her immortality for several centuries when she attempted to imprison Merlin, lest he get up to evil mischief in a new kingdom, and relied on youth potions until Death of the Endless gave her her original endless lifespan back), but I am actually kinda more interested in YJ’s deal sort of more than the actual main plot how?Did someone mindwipe her to “take her off the board” for an extended period? Under what circumstances dues an immortal magician just… forget their identity and skills, but evidently remembers enough to successfully fake it? I mean, Greg Weisman showed in Gargoyles that he’s into Arthurian lore and such, maybe we’ll get more information at a later date? *shrug* Maybe if there’s a time travel season they could just keep bumping into Xanadu at various points in history, and she has a different accent each time (she adopted the Xanadu name because she lived there when she was Kublai Khan back in the day, around the time Marco Polo showed up, for example). -- source link

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