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| “ | It can't rain all the time. | „ |
| ~ Eric |
Summary
Eric Draven was a former heavy metal guitarist in the band Hangman's Joke. He was engaged to Shelly Webster, with their wedding scheduled for Halloween night. On the night before the holiday, known as Devil's Night, a gang led by T-Bird murdered both Shelley and Eric. Eric is resurrected by the crow one year later in order to exact revenge.
Eric was played by Brandon Lee in the first film and by Mark Dacascos in the TV series. He is based on the character Eric in the graphic novel of the same name.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B, higher with explosives
Name: Eric Draven, Crow, Ghost, Killer of Killers, The Avenger
Origin: The Crow (1994 film)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Supernatural Vigilante
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Self-Sustenance (Type 2 & 3)
- Pain Suppression
- Martial Arts
- Acrobatics
- Enhanced Senses
- Visual Linking
- Nigh-Invulnerability (Immune to Decay)
- Regeneration (Mid)
- Internal Bodily Cleansing
- Immortality (Type 3, 4, 7 & 8; reliant on The Crow)
- Summoning
- Stealth Mastery
- Tactile Empathy and Telepathy
- Psychometry
- Pain Transferal via Psionic Inundation
- Weapon Mastery, including:
- Gun Proficiency
- Sword Proficiency
- Knife Proficiency
- Throwing Weapon Proficiency
- Fire and Explosives
- Disease Immunity
- Poison Immunity
- Decay Immunity
Attack Potency: Wall level (Broke open the front gate and glass of a door), higher with explosives (Killed T-Bird by tieing him to the driver's seat of a car, strapping explosives and letting the car drive off the pier, where it exploded up in midair)
Speed: At least Peak Human (Fast enough to jump across rooftops, caught throwing knives with his bare hands), likely Subsonic (Often seemed like vanishes into thin air when not directly looked at). Supersonic attack speed with guns
Lifting Strength: At least Class 1 (Threw a grown man several meters, removed a church spire)
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: At least Wall level (Can fall off the top of a building and not get hurt, unharmed by an explosion), likely Unknown (Cannot be harmed by conventional means), his immortality makes him hard to kill
Stamina: Unknown; his supernatural endurance allows him to overcome any adversary, even those that are otherwise untouchable
Range: Standard melee range, extended melee range with melee weapons, several meters with knives, hundreds of meters with guns, far higher via The Crow (his powers stems from its magic and shares his vision with it)
Standard Equipment: Guitar
- Optional Equipment: Mossberg 500 Cruiser, Smith & Wesson Model 629, Taurus PT92, knives, katana, lighter, gasoline, explosives, church spire
- Can Create/Summon: The Crow
Intelligence: Gifted; Eric was once a talented musician in his past life. He's extremely proficient with handguns and swords
Standard Tactics: Eric is bloodlusted towards his targets.
Weaknesses:
- He loses his power if the crow is harmed or killed.
- In addition, he loses his invincibility when he considers his mission completed. (can be remedied by his guide Crow)
- Swung from the windows ledge and healed his hands.
- Possessed the ability to see images from his or her loved one's memory when touching things he or she touched before.
- Tanked a gun shot and regenerated from it.
- Regenerated his hand from a gun shot.
- Purged the morphine in Darla Mohr's body simply by touching her.
- Tanked numerous gun fired head on.
- Solo'd all of Top Dollar's criminals.
- Transferred 30 hours of pain onto Top Dollar.
Note: This profile covers only one of The Crow Avatars. There are several other Avatars that share the same powers and abilities as Eric.
Explanations
- As a reborn, Eric does not need to eat or sleep and is incapable of feeling physical pain. His supernatural strength and endurance allows him to overcome any adversary, even those that are otherwise untouchable.
- He is also able to see through the eyes of the crow. Eric is superhumanly agile with cat-like reflexes and heightened senses, including cat-like night vision and Crow-like focus.
- He is nearly invulnerable to harm due to his ability to quickly regenerate and cannot be harmed by conventional means if sustained in the act of fulfilling his vengeance. He is immune to sickness and decay, and is unaffected by cider. Eric seems to have the power to heal others to some extent; one example is when he purged the morphine in Darla Mohr's body simply by touching her. Eric's powers are tied to the crow avatar that watches over him while he enacts his vengeance; his powers subside if the crow avatar is destroyed.
- There seems to be a limit to his healing ability, however. In the original comic, Eric slit his own wrists in a fit of despair. The wounds he inflicted upon himself would not heal so he wrapped his arms in electrical tape.
- Eric has tactile telepathy and empathy, able to feel the emotions and see the memories of others by touching them. He can also absorb and store these memories and emotions to transfer into others, usually as a form of torture; this is shown when he virtually kills Top Dollar in the first film by making him feel thirty hours of Shelly's pain.
- Able to read off of objects and people by making physical contact with them. Peering into an affected items past in order to suss through relevant information from the visions provided to them by the psychic imprint left behind upon said item of interest.
- It's only limited to the TV series, but Eric has the ability to change his face from his normal form and his face-paint form. The change only occurs when someone pushes him into a rage. The movie surprisingly has a variation of it, where upon wounding the crow and Eric losing his healing ability his face changes back to his normal form after the entirety of the movie spent wearing the face-paint.
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