Category:Sheeda

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Table of contents

1 What are the Sheeda?

2 Where have we seen them before?

3 Weaknesses

4 Origins

5 Members

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What are the Sheeda?

Some point out the apparent similarity between the words "Sheeda" and "Sidhe (http://celticsociety.freeservers.com/sidhe.html)", the Celtic name for the frightening, otherworldly "Fair Folk" who later became reimagined as the decidedly less chilling "fairies." This is especially compelling given the association between the Sidhe/Sheeda and The Wild Huntsman.

Others point out that, among other elements possibly borrowed from gnostic fantasist Phillip Pullman (http://www.philip-pullman.com/), the Sheeda (at least as portrayed in Seven Soldiers 0) bear a striking resemblance to the Gallivespians -- the tiny, lethal wasp-spies in the His Dark Materials (http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=36) trilogy.

The Sheeda come from a "place" that they call Summer's End.

The Sheeda are allied with Neh-Buh-Loh and the Terrible Time Tailor and opposed by the Seven Unknown Men.

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Where have we seen them before?

We've seen that word before in JLA:Classified. Sheeda. Nebuloh uses it to describe the fairies
that brainwash the Ultramarines.... -- [Chad]

Yes, the little creatures on the Ultramarine's neck were called "Spine Riders of the Sheeda" and that
is a deliberate link to Seven Soldiers, as was Neh-Buh-Loh's statement that he came to hunt
"the Seven." -- [Cameron Stewart]

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Weaknesses

Speculation: The Sheeda may have an inherent weakness towards those groups that number Seven: seven members of the Justice Leauge were able to defeat their opening gambit in JLA:Classified #3.

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Origins

The Sheeda are the last descendants of the human race who have traveled back in time from One Billion Years in the future. They sortie back in time to raid previous centuries of their naturally resources and cultural achievements, since the world of the far future has become stagnant, decadent and depleted. They use highly advance technology to achieve feats that seem magical to their victims.

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