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Where did Randall Flagg get all his magic powers from?

posted 3 years ago by TheMan18 (13018)
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Also, how universal are his magic powers overall?

In the movie, he can apparently turn into some kind of bird/crow, transform several objects in his hands, turn a knife into a banana magically when a woman tries to stab him, create an illusion that some place in a field with buildings can magically turn into castles and palaces etc.

I wonder how he is capable of achieving all this.

For one, how did he turn that knife into a flipping banana, lol?

And if he had to, can he do some really creepy magical stuff like maybe ghosts in a haunted house horror movie or stuff Al Pacino's character did in "The Devil's Advocate" etc?

[–] UnicornPrincess (7) 3 years ago

This is one thing I don't really understand either. In the book he sort of "feels" his powers coming on and starts randomly levitating, which makes me think he knows what's going to happen with the flu before things really take off. But I don't understand who he is or where he came from...and apparently, neither does he, lol. That's one thing I really wish SK had expanded on. Everyone else in the book is characterized so well, and we get so much backstory on them, and I wish we'd gotten the same amount of detail on the main villain.

But...side note. Can we just agree that Flagg is GORGEOUS in the miniseries???

[–] oatsoy (72) 3 years ago

Maybe you should get yourself a banana

[–] UnicornPrincess (7) 3 years ago

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[–] twhite (48) 2 years ago

Before I really got into reading Stephen King books I had read "the stand", and always thought that flagg was the antichrist. There are many allusions in the book to this. He is called "legion" many times. After reading most of Stephen King's works Flagg is recurrent in a few other of his novels. He is the evil magician/wizard in "the eyes of the dragon" and manifests himself as various villains in other king works. I think he's King's representation of the devil or just "evil" incarnate.

[–] Gary O. (1009) 2 years ago

I think he's King's representation of the devil or just "evil" incarnate.

The book states that he was not the devil, but a close associate of Satan.

[–] Drooch (5333) 2 years ago

The lack of backstory is what makes Flagg so iconic. The mystery is haunting.