The Righteous Djinn is a character in the Wild Cards

Wild Cards

Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...

 series of fictional books edited by George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...

. The Righteous Djinn is an Ace, a person infected with the Wild Card virus who retain the look of a human but have gained super human powers. The Righteous Djinn appears as a character in the book Inside Straight. He is only a minor character only appearing three times in the book and he never has his own point of view. He viewed as a very dangerous adversary since he can absorb the powers of other Aces. He is known to have killed Sharron Cream (Israel's top Ace) and is believed to have killed several Syrian Aces. He has immense strength and can become a 30 foot giant. He serves as a body guard to the Caliph of the Modern Caliph. He is killed by a group of American Aces (Lohengrin, Rustbelt, Drummer Boy, Bubbles, John Fortune/Sekhmet) at the end of Inside Straight.