Habib Ben Hassan

The Doctor
Habib ben Hassan as the Doctor. Art by Gene Ha.
Publication information
Publisher	Wildstorm
First appearance	The Authority: Revolution #9 (June 2005)
Created by	Ed Brubaker Dustin Nguyen
In-story information
Alter ego	Habib Ben Hassan
Team affiliations	The Authority
Notable aliases	The Green Man
Abilities	Vast magical abilities that amount to reality warping granted by the Earth.

The Doctor is the name of several fictional characters in the Wildstorm Universe.

The Doctors are a lineage of humans who have been chosen by the Earth itself to serve as the Earth's shaman and protector since the dawn of humanity. They are granted magical abilities. Each Doctor inherits the position the second his predecessor dies. When a Doctor dies, his soul joins the Garden of Ancestral Memory, a spiritual realm where the current Doctor can commune with his predecessors.

The first of the modern day Doctors, an African-American, was a member of a group called the Changers, who were led by the idealistic superhero the High. The group's plan was to change the world by removing the structure of society itself, eliminating all crime and war in the process. The Doctor's part in the group's plan was to initiate a program of public education about the world's natural resources, such as plants and magic.Stormwatch attacked the group's base with a tailored acid bomb that killed the Doctor and his companions. This Doctor was seen several times afterwards in the Garden of Ancestral Memory and advised Thornedike whenever needed.

In 1966, a heart surgeon became the Doctor. After acquiring his powers, the Doctor slaughtered the entire population of three countries (in alphabetical order) and fell asleep after drinking every bottle of Dom Pérignon in existence at the time. The Doctor was defeated when every active superhero on Earth joined forces to defeat him. The Doctor was stripped of his powers and imprisoned in a pocket dimension 20 million years in the past.

However, the renegade Doctor communicated with the Earth in the present day from his prison and convinced the planet that humanity was killing it, causing mass devastation to places such as New York City and the Vatican. Jeroen Thornedike, the then-current Doctor, was forced to give his powers back to his predecessor for an hour in order to fix the damage to the Earth.

After regaining his powers, the renegade Doctor was brought into the present where he fought the Authority. During the fight, he travelled into the past and retroactively molested the Engineer as a teenager. As he was about to win the fight, the Doctor developed fifteen extra senses, including empathy with every living creature on the planet, which overwhelmed him. Apollo and the Engineer then used the distraction from the enhanced sensory input to behead the Doctor.