Cycling back to superheroes, and idly including Ziggy Stardust in the list of previous heroes in a setting, running with this idea again as well as the Bowieverse running with something similar...
Many have speculated on the identity of the trickster hero Ziggy Stardust. Some claim he was lost British astronaut Major Tom, transformed by some cosmic power when he found life on Mars. No-one knows for sure, as the musician and master of disguise vanished after two of the five years he often spoke about.
Aladdin Sane looked very much like him, but claimed to be a different person entirely and evidenced different powers as a finder of lost things. In time he, too, vanished.
Some say that The Thin White Duke was another recipient of the same power, the “emotionless superman” using it to build a criminal empire before his ultimate defeat by Glass Spider.
Stardust’s legacy was taken up by heroes like the Scary Monsters, Tin Machine, Spaceboy and Earthling. And some say he returned as the wise but unpredictable Blackstar, last seen trying to save the prisoners of a cult in the villa of Orman...
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