Pandora's Box (DC)



Pandora's Box is a golden skull with 3 ruby eyes that possesses vast, deadly and corruptive powers. It serves as a central plot device in DC comics' New 52 storyline, "Trinity War" and ultimately a villainous tool utilized in the story's climax by The Outsider to open a portal to Earth-3 and allow the Crime Syndicate to enter mainstream DC universe.

Even before the dramatic revelation of the box's true power it had severely negative effects on the heroes of Earth Prime, causing many of them to seemingly go insane and corrupt - though their corruption was also "aided" by the manipulations of The Outsider.

For a long time Pandora's Box was believed to be a mystical relic with deadly magic but The Outsider revealed that it was actually alien technology - despite this it's most notable corruption seemed to have been against Shazam, who is a mystic-based hero.