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Biography: It's Liverpool, England, 1929, and before he was even born, Constantine Brooks was damned. Mary Ann Brooks (Mary Ann Quinn + Vanessa Brooks) was a - let's be classy and say - lady of the night living in a brothel. She was about to give birth to the child of a client, and the brothel's headmistress called a doctor to help with the delivery. But what arrived was no doctor; it was a vampire, Deacon Necro (Deacon Frost + Nick Necro), who tricked the brothel's residents into leaving him alone with Vanessa. He proceeded to drain every last drop of blood from her body while she gave birth.

But something happened to the baby when Deacon attacked Mary Ann. His enzymes passed over from her and into her child. What resulted was a dhampir, a human/vampire hybrid with all the powers of a vampire and none of the weaknesses. Before Deacon could kill the baby, the headmistress entered the room to see what was going on. By the time she did, Deacon was nowhere to be found, Vanessa had been exsanguinated, and her baby lay alone and crying. She picked him up in her arms and gently calmed him down. It was there that she gave him the name Constantine, in the hopes it would lead him to a better destiny than the one his mother had.

Growing up, Constantine developed a fascination with magic and the supernatural. He found a book that would make him a powerful magician, but he didn't know about the cost. The spell was cast, and the brothel and everyone in it burned down, leaving Constantine to fend for himself in Liverpool's streets.

He'd do this by conning people and picking their pockets. This went on for years until his latest mark, who turned out to be a vampire, tracked him down alongside his buddies for revenge. Constantine would be rescued by veteran vampire hunter Jamal Delacroix (Jamal Afari + Veronica Delacroix). Jamal recognized Constantine's origins and took him under his wing, teaching him all he knew about vampires and the best ways to slay them.

As they trained and hunted together, Jamal became more than a mentor to Constantine; he was the father he never had. Which made it all the more tragic when Jamal was converted into one of the very monsters he swore to eradicate by the king of all vampires himself, Dracula. Brooks was left with no choice but to kill the only father he ever knew. Now he'd have to fight this war alone. Deciding that the old ways wouldn't cut it anymore, he went back to his first love: magic.

Brooks spent decades travelling Europe learning everything he could about the mystic arts. But he wasn't going to stop until he learned from the very best: Django Zatara (Django Maximoff + Giovanni Zatara). After finding out that Django had moved to the United States, Constantine followed him and insisted that he make him his student. At first, Django tried to act like he had no idea who he was or what he was talking about. But then Constantine called in a favor he owed him, and Django was left with little choice. He would train Constantine in the ways of magic alongside his daughter, Wanda Zatara (Scarlet Witch + Zatanna Zatara).

Over time, Constantine and Wanda developed a brother-and-sister-style relationship. Even Django started to lighten up around him. Once again, Constantine had found a family. And once again he lost it. When he got Django killed. Horribly. In front of Wanda. For basically nothing. Yeah, they were done after that.

Having had enough dead families on his plate for one lifetime, Constantine decided to get back into the vampire-killing business. And business was good. Soon, it wasn't just vampires, but every nasty little bugger that went bump in the night knew better than to mess with him. The superhero community also grew wary of Constantine since he never shook off his con man nature, always coming up with plans to make other people bail him out on his debts.

As time went on, Constantine gained many names. Daywalker. Hellblazer. Vampire Slayer. World's Greatest Con Man. All of these are true as well as so much more. Trying to go up against Constantine Brooks is like trying to ice skate uphill. And you have to be out your damn mind to underestimate just what he's willing to do to get the job done.

Powers & Abilities: As a dhampir, Blade has all the classic vampire powers with absolutely none of the weaknesses like garlic or sunlight. These powers include superhuman strength, speed, senses, and shapeshifting. He can live far longer than a regular human and can heal from serious wounds in a matter of hours, though he can't regrow missing limbs.

His vampire slayer training has also made him a master of various martial arts. It also taught him to keep several tools of the trade with him at all times. Like the bulletproof Kevlar armor he wears under his coat. As for actual weapons, he has what you'd expect, like stakes. He's also got some regular weapons like knives or machine guns. He also has a lot, and I mean, a lot of unorthodox weapons. He has a shotgun that shoots hellfire that destroys a person's soul; a glaive, which is basically an arachknarang that kills people; flashbang grenades that release UV radiation; twin katanas made from titanium; an odachi made from adamantium; and swords he got from Atlantis that can cut through enchantments.

But his deadliest, and grossest, weapon is his Breathing Gun. It's a gun. That breathes. Specifically in the presence of the supernatural. It fires bullets that are alive and will chase down their target to hit them. And once they do, the wound can never be healed, and the bullet will slowly devour them from the inside out.

And on top of all that is his mastery over magic. Brooks spent the better part of a century learning everything he could about sorcery from some of the greatest spellcasters in all of Europe. And yet, he rarely uses any of the spells he's learned unless he really has to. Same with all his weapons. Before he fights with anything else, he uses arguably the most powerful weapon in his arsenal, his cunning.

Constantine had decades to master the art of deception to the point that pretty much everyone who knows him knows that if he's asking you for help, you're gonna get screwed over whether you agree or not. There are actual Lords of Hell who call Constantine the devil in every deal he's in.

He does have one weakness though: a vampiric thirst for blood. Every day, Constantine has to placate his urges through artificial blood. If his literal and metaphorical bloodlust becomes too much for him, he'll enter a berserker state, increasing his strength while decreasing his sanity.

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Name: Kyle Alexander

Biography: Hal Rider (Hal Jordan + Richard Rider), the greatest Green Nova (Green Lantern + Nova) to have ever lived. The man with more willpower than any Corps member before him. But nobody's will is unbreakable, and there came a day, dear reader, when Hal's will broke.

The mechanical Super-Soldier (Superman + Captain America) imposter known as Cyborg Super-Soldier (Cyborg Superman + Commie Smasher) destroyed Hal's hometown of Coast City as part of his deranged plan to "eliminate America's real enemies" (hint: Coast City is in California). The total annihilation of Hal's home absolutely destroyed his spirit. He tried to cope, admittedly not in the most healthy way, by using his helmet to create a facsimile of Coast City, including its people. Including his father, who died long before Coast City did.

It was during this mental breakdown that Hal received a message from the Universemind (Guardians of the Universe + Worldmind), who had caught wind of his misuse of power and were kicking him out of the Green Nova Corps for it. Hal couldn't believe it; he gave the best years of his life to the Corps. And now they were throwing him out for-for what? Being sad? That his life was destroyed? No. Hal was not going to let the Maldarians (Malthusians + Oadarians) get away with this. It's high time someone taught them what it feels like to lose everything.

Hal took off like a human rocket straight for Oadar (Oa + Xandar). The Universemind could sense his dark intentions and sent the best officers the Corps had to offer to stop him. This, if anything, only helped Hal, as he proceeded to drain the green energy out of his former comrades' helmets, leaving them to die in the void of outer space. Finally, Hal arrived on Oadar, ready to absorb the Central Power Battery itself. In their desperation, the Universemind called in one of their retired agents to save them, the first Green Nova to call Earth their home.

There have been plenty of Green Novas watching over Space Sector 2814, and one of them went by the name Alex Alexander (Alex DeWitt + Jesse Alexander). Alex had a long and distinguished career as a Green Nova. But when he met his future wife, all of his attention was on Earth. And after she gave birth to their son, Alex realized that his family was more important and thus retired from the Green Nova Corps. But when he got a message from the Universemind to save the Corps, he jumped at the call. 

There he stood as the Green Nova Corps' last line of defense against their former star recruit. It was a battle he could not win, and with his final breath, he asked the Universemind to give his helmet to his son. It was a promise that the Universemind had no idea how they could keep, as once Alex was dead, there was nothing to stop Hal from stepping inside the Central Power Battery and taking every last drop of power it had; the resulting explosion ended both the Universemind and the Green Nova Corps. It also signaled the end of Hal Rider. From out of the wreckage of the Green Nova Central Power Battery stood the single greatest threat to the entire universe, Dwellax (Parallax + Dweller-in-Darkness). Dwellax took off to parts unknown, leaving Oadar, the very heart of the universe itself, dead.

Or so he thought. Before the Universemind was destroyed, one of their members had a backup plan. She created a clone of her old body to send her mind into in case something happened to the supercomputer her race inhabited. It was a precaution that more than paid off; Gantora (Ganthet + Adora) was back in her Maltusian body. She had long forgotten what it felt like to have one. Her old senses nearly overwhelmed her, and she expressed sadness that she'd be the only Maltusian who would ever get to experience this again. But she'd worry about those things another time; right now, she had a promise to keep. 

Kyle Alexander was just your normal kid. He went to school, dated girls, and dreamed of being a professional comic book artist. Really, the most abnormal thing about Kyle was his father. Kyle's dad was an embarrassment to him. He was a sad, pathetic alcoholic who was too inebriated to do his job as a janitor at Kyle's high school. This made it really hard to believe his father every time he told stories about his Green Nova days. To Kyle, Alex Alexander was just a delusional drunk who had to make things up to feel better about himself.

One night, Alex didn't come home, so Kyle set out to find him. He was ready to search every bar and liquor store in the state if he had to. He didn't need to search for long, as just then, Gantora had arrived before Kyle. She told him that his father died bravely trying to save the Green Nova Corps, but sadly it wasn't enough. Now it was her duty to pass his helmet onto his son. And it was now his duty to keep the Green Nova mantle alive. Kyle couldn't believe what he was hearing. He could barely even process it. But when Gantora disappeared in a flash of white light, Kyle got on his skateboard and tried to chase after her, demanding answers. But at that moment, he tripped and hit his head.

When he woke up in a hospital bed, he saw Gantora right next to him. She told Kyle that she would train him on how to use his Green Nova powers. After several days of training, Kyle seemed to have gotten the hang of this Green Nova thing. Only for Gantora to tell him that his training had only just begun, because if he wanted to have any chance of stopping Dwellax, he'd need to master the entire Nova Spectrum (Nova Force + Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum) and become something unlike the universe had ever seen before.

To help him with this, Gantora hired the G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.S (Modern Guardians of the Galaxy + L.E.G.I.O.N). Saint Groot (Saint Walker + Groot) and Rock-Starr (Rocket Raccoon + Dex-Starr) would teach him how to harness the power of hope and rage, respectively. Hope was relatively easy for Kyle. After all, hope and willpower tend to go hand in hand. Rage was more difficult. To teach Kyle to embrace his rage, Rock-Starr staged a hostage situation to make him learn that sometimes anger is the only sensible reaction. Kyle really !@#$%^& hated Rock-Starr for that, but it got the job done. Three emotions down, four to go.

For the orange light, Gantora and the G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.S were forced to take Kyle to Lar'E (Larfleeze + J'son), Adam Star's (Adam Strange + Star-Lord) estranged father, former emperor of the Spartann (Spartax + Rann) empire, and the only Orange Nova in existence. The reason being that the Orange Light of the Nova Spectrum represents Avarice, bottomless greed.

Naturally, Lar'E refused to teach Kyle how to tap into the Orange Light until Dwellax himself appeared, looking to eliminate any threat to him. Kyle immediately tapped into his rage and attacked him, but even with Gantora, the G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.S, and Lar'E helping him, none of them stood a chance against Dwellax. With no choice, Lar'E told Kyle to tap into his orange power battery to gain the power of an Orange Nova. After he did, Kyle now had enough power to turn the tide, forcing Dwellax to retreat. However, he made sure to tell them that next time, he'll be more powerful than all the Nova Corps put together. Kyle's rage that his father's killer got away managed to snap him out of the greed-induced madness of the Orange Light.

From there, the team, including Lar'E, set out to meet the only Yellow Lantern in the universe, Hal Rider's archnemesis Annihilestro (Sinestro + Annihilus). Similar to Lar'E, Annihilestro refused to help until Kyle told him that he wasn't going to simply defeat Dwellax. He wanted to kill him for what he did to his father. Now, Annihilestro had tried to kill Hal and the entire Green Nova Corps for years. Well, the former ended up doing the latter's job for him and is only getting more powerful the longer they stand around. So if he really wants Hal to die too, then he'd help him. And as much as Annihilestro hated to admit it, he knew Kyle was right. He taught him to embrace his fear...by trying to kill him. Much like with anger, sometimes fear is the appropriate response.

Up next is Indigo, the color of Compassion. Fun fact: the Indigo Corps consists of people who totally lacked compassion and were thus forced to feel it all the time from their helmets. The Corps leader, Tiroque (Titus + Iroque), a former Green Nova turned traitor, was happy to train Kyle. Through her, Kyle learned to have compassion for all things, even his enemies.

Finally, there was the violet light of love. The Violet Novas, otherwise known as the Star Sapphires, had their own Hal Rider in the form of his ex-wife Rita Ferris (Namorita + Carol Ferris). Love would be the hardest emotion for Kyle to master. It wasn't until he forgave himself for dismissing his father, after all he sacrificed for him, that he was able to tap into the Violet Light. In the end, the one Kyle needed to learn to love was himself.

At last, Kyle had completed his mission and mastered all seven lights. They merged into one, turning Kyle into the first White Nova in the universe, the color of life itself. Ironic, considering the universe was about to die.

Dwellax had taken the timebending technology of the chronal conqueror Savang (Vandal Savage + Kang) and was now going to use it to destroy the universe and remake it in his image. And the only person who could possibly stop him was Kyle. The two duked it out where it all began, on the ruins of the planet Oadar. During their battle, Kyle made a shocking discovery: Dwellax wasn't Hal. Instead, it was the physical manifestation of all fear in the universe that had possessed Hal during his moment of weakness. It was he who killed Kyle's father, he who destroyed the Green Nova Corps, and he who wanted to end the universe so that he could supercharge himself off the fear everyone would feel in their dying moments. Hal was nothing more than a pawn.

Until Kyle, with his new White Nova Powers, managed to reach into Hal and help him take back control. But this was, sadly, only temporary, and in order to stop Dwellax and save the universe, Hal knew what he had to do. He apologized to Kyle for killing his father before hurtling himself towards the nearest star. Dwellax tried to stop him, to fight him from the inside, but Hal wasn't going to give him that chance. Not ever again. And as soon as Hal dove beneath the churning hot plasma, Dwellax emerged in his true form. And something else emerged with him.

Hal Rider had Dwellax contained in an inescapable bubble. Once again, he had been possessed, this time by the Spectral Tribunal (Spectre + Living Tribunal), who had taken Hal as a host so that he could enact God's judgement and make Hal atone for the sins he committed. After that, Dwellax and the Spectral Tribunal both disappeared, leaving Kyle all alone.

With the power of life itself at his fingertips, Kyle decided to revive the Green Nova Corps, quite literally. Everybody killed by Dwellax's hands was back from the dead. But Alex was nowhere to be found. No one could find him; not even the Universemind could tell him where he was.

But Kyle wouldn't give up. He'd never give up until he found him. Because like his father before him, he was a Green Nova. And if there's anything a Green Nova would always have, it's will.

Power & Abilities: As the first White Nova the universe has ever seen, Kyle Alexander has access to all the powers of the seven Nova Corps. 

The Green Novas have flight and energy absorption, same with all other Nova Corps. What makes them stand out is their energy constructs, which are only limited by their willpower and imagination.

Blue Novas can supercharge Green Nova helmets, including Kyle's own. He can also resist and repel brainwashing and heal wounds.

Red replaces Kyle's blood with searing-hot napalm that he can project from his mouth and melt anything with.

Orange doesn't just absorb energy. It can absorb the souls of Kyle's victims and force them to fight for him.

Yellow instills and manipulates an opponent's fear, making Kyle stronger the more scared you are of him.

Indigo fully manipulates a person's emotions and can open portals to anywhere in the universe.

Finally, the Violet Light of Love can be used to trap people in crystal and take control of their minds.

All seven colors come together to make something greater than the sum of their parts: the White Light of Life. As a White Nova, Kyle draws power from life itself, allowing him to resurrect the dead and stand up to some of the most powerful beings in all of reality, such as Dwellax or the Spectral Tribunal.

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Name: Galan Dox

Biography: Before our universe was born, another universe was dying. At the end of the Sixth Cosmos, all of reality began to coalesce into a singular point. The resulting radiation ate away at all living things, granting everyone a swift, undignified demise. The Big Crunch had arrived and with it the death of all things. 

The planet Taalu (Taa + Colu), the most advanced in all of creation, refused to let its story end here. They would deploy their best scientist to find some way to prevent their extinction. Sadly, all results came back the same. Their deaths, like everybody else's, were inevitable. But one Taaluan wouldn't sit around waiting to die. If death was inevitable, then he was going to go out on his terms. So he invited his closest friends to join him for one final blaze of glory, heading straight into the very heart of the Big Crunch itself. His name was Galan Dox.

Galan and his crew were hurtling towards the Big Crunch at blazing speed. But the closer they got to it, the more intense the radiation had become. One by one, Galan's crewmates died, and his resolve shook with each death. Finally, he was the last man standing, and the idea of death totally horrified him. In a last-ditch attempt to live, Galan connected to the ship's operating system, turning himself into an artificial intelligence. And while his body succumbed to the effects of radiation poisoning, his mind survived.

As the ship now, Galan witnessed the spot where all matter in the universe was being sucked into. To his surprise, it seemed like a giant hand enclosing all of infinity into its fist. And Galan was heading straight for it. He flew into the hand alongside literally everything else just as it closed. Galan Dox had become the sole survivor of his entire universe. And now? Now there was nothing.

Until he heard a voice.

That voice belonged to the Sixth Cosmos, the embodiment of the entire multiverse, which was now long gone. And now, it was time for a new one. However, before the next multiverse could be born, it would have to fuse with the final survivor of the old universe and be born anew. Galan would live on in a new multiverse as something else, something more powerful than he could possibly imagine. With no other real choice, Galan Dox and the Sixth Cosmos became one. The hand opened, unleashing a new Big Bang. And at the center of that Big Bang was a mechanical creature that would gestate for billions of years before becoming known as one of the most feared beings ever to exist, Galactiac.

When Galactiac awoke, he gained instantaneous knowledge of his true nature. The most important aspect being that he now needed to consume planets to keep himself operational. At first, he satiated his need for power by destroying uninhabited planets. But every time he refilled his power cells, they seemed to drain faster and faster, to the point that he felt like he had to resort to eating whatever planet he could find, whether they had life or not.

Now, when I say Galactiac eats planets, I don't mean that literally. Instead, he uses several machines to convert the planet into energy that he absorbs. He also uses one of these machines to shrink down and bottle the greatest city these planets had so that he could bring it onto his ship. It was his method of preserving the species he'd destroy with each feeding. He'd also do this on cities whose planets were doomed to destruction with or without him, like when he took the city of Kandor from Krypton.

On and on this pattern would continue for countless eons, to the point that Galactiac no longer felt guilt when he destroyed a planet with life on it. But things would change when a beacon from the planet Mars drew his attention. Just when he was about to convert the red planet, one of its residents did something no one else ever did before: bargain. The puny Skrulltian (Skrull + Martian) offered to be his herald, finding planets for him so that he wouldn't have to do it himself. In exchange, Galactiac would allow the Skrulltian race to survive. The Planet Devourer was initially dismissive, but he had grown tired of searching on his own and did acknowledge that this would be an effective way to spare his energy reserves. And thus, the deal was made, and the universe would be introduced to the first-ever herald of Galactiac, the Silver Hunter (Martian Manhunter + Silver Surfer).

The Silver Hunter dutifully served Galactiac for centuries, offering him planets for Galactiac to feed on regardless of whether they were populated or not. But the last meal Silver Hunter would ever serve was the planet Earth, where he regained his nobility and battled Galactiac for the sake of the planet. And while his power couldn't compare to his master, it was enough for the Terrific Tetrad (Fantastic Four + The Terrifics) to sneak aboard his ship and steal his greatest weapon, the Ultimate Nullifier.

For the first time ever, Galactiac was forced to back down. He was furious at his herald for his betrayal and punished him by trapping him on Earth. Years would pass; he'd get new heralds, eat new planets, but all in all, very little would change. Until the human Alexander von Luthor (Lex Luthor + Doctor Doom) stole his powers so that he would use them to dominate the universe. It took the combined efforts of the Silver Hunter, the Terrific Tetrad, and the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League) to stop Luthor and give Galactiac his powers back. As a show of gratitude, the World Collector not only freed the Silver Hunter from his imprisonment, but he also vowed to spare the Earth from his hunger forever.

And while that's great for them, the rest of the universe isn't so lucky. So to all non-humans reading this, if the new herald of Galactiac, whoever they may be, comes to announce his arrival, don't try to fight. Don't try to pray. Just get off the planet as fast as you can because your home, your life, the very ground you walk on, is now nothing more than his next meal.

Powers & Abilities: In the previous entry, I discussed how the Power Cosmic allowed the Silver Hunter to accomplish anything. In many ways, Galactiac is the Power Cosmic, and the Hunter's own capabilities pale in comparison. Trying to list all the powers he has would take all day. So instead, I'm just going to focus on the highlights.

He can grow up to an enormous size, to the point that he could literally eclipse entire galaxies.

He's not even a physical being with a soul anymore. He's entirely composed of the Power Cosmic. His might is so incomprehensible that every species that looks at Galactiac sees something else entirely.

Galactiac has absolute control over technology, both the ones he makes and everything else. With just a thought, all machines bend to his will. His most deadly device of all is the Ultimate Nullifier. All you have to do is think of your opponent while pressing the trigger, and they're gone.

And if anything actually can threaten him, he can rip open holes in space and hide inside a pocket dimension.

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Name: Nor'rin J'onzz

Biography: Over the ten millennia that passed since Captain Mar-Vel (The Wizard + Mar-Vell) brought the Skrulltians (Skrulls + Martians) to Mars, this race of shapeshifting psychics split into two distinct cultures: the peaceful and philosophical Green Skrulltians and the savage and warlike White Skrulltians. The two groups warred for millennia until the day one Skrulltian would betray their own side for the other.

Enter Ju'uggerna'aut J'onzz (Juggernaut + Malefic), a Green Skrulltian born with a rare genetic mutation that rendered him incapable of telepathic communication. Completely cut off from the Skrulltian hive mind, Ju'uggerna'aut was looked at as a freak. His own people hated him, and he despised them in return, so much so that he approached their arch-enemies with a plan to wipe them all out. He would unleash a scourge that would destroy all life on Mars. And the only thing the White Skrulltians needed to do was hide out on Earth until the scourge was over. His only request was that they take him with him.

Now, you're probably wondering, "What could Ju'uggerna'aut possibly have created that could kill all life on Mars?" The answer? A beacon. A beacon for one of the oldest, most powerful beings ever to exist, Galactiac (Galactus + Brainiac), the Collector of Worlds. Galactiac was known and feared throughout the universe for going from planet to planet, shrinking and stealing their greatest city, and destroying the rest. And now, it would seem, it was Mars' turn. Galactiac had just sealed Mars' greatest city when one of its residents spoke to him. And it's here that we finally meet our protagonist, Ju'uggerna'aut J'onzz's good twin, Nor'rin J'onzz.

Nor'rin was a "Hunter," basically the Skrulltian equivalent of a police detective. When he wasn't using his incredible power to enforce the law and keep the peace, he was enjoying a happy life with his wife, Sh'alla'bal (M'yri'ah + Shalla-Bal). Then Galactiac arrived, and while the rest of the Skrulltians futilely tried to flee, Nor'rin knew what he had to do. He approached the cosmic titan and struck a deal: Galactiac would spare Mars and the Skrulltians, and in exchange, Nor'rin would become his herald, searching out planets for him so that he wouldn't have to do it himself. Galactiac agreed and bestowed Nor'rin with a portion of his incredible Power Cosmic. This made Nor'rin J'onzz essentially a god, but it came at the cost of his memories. It was Galactiac's way of ensuring his new herald's conscience wouldn't get in the way of a good meal. Nor'rin J'onzz was no more; now stood a silvery Skrulltian riding atop a flying board, now stood the Silver Hunter.

The Silver Hunter offered his master both Mars and then Earth as a meal. But the Devourer of Planets refused both times, saying that he had made a promise to spare all Skrulltians. The two retreated from our solar system, and the people of Mars thought that was the last time they'd ever appear in it again. They were wrong.

Centuries later, the Silver Hunter arrived on Earth, now completely Skrulltian-free and perfect for Galactiac. He announced to the people of Earth the coming of his master and their imminent destruction. Well, Earth's heroes weren't going to take that without a fight. Specifically, the universe's most fantastic family, the Terrific Tetrad (Fantastic Four + The Terrifics), wasn't going to take that without a fight. They hit the Hunter with everything they got, but they were barely like gnats to him. Until Morph hit him with enough force to launch him to the other side of Manhattan, but it was too late; Galactiac had arrived. New York would be added to his collection, and he would feed on the rest of Earth.

Meanwhile, the Silver Hunter landed in the apartment of Morph's girlfriend, Alicia Stagg (Sapphire Stagg + Alicia Masters). Alicia could sense the nobility and loneliness buried deep beneath the Hunter, and it was thanks to her that he reawakened his memories and his compassion. The Silver Hunter could no longer stand to see another world be destroyed. He turned on Galactiac, vowing to protect the Earth with everything he had. And though it wasn't enough to stop Galactiac, he did create a suitable distraction for Uatron (Uatu + Metron), a New Eternal (New God + Eternal) with a vested interest on Earth, to approach the Terrific Tetrad.

He told the team that Galactiac had a weapon onboard his ship with enough power to destroy the universe, the Ultimate Nullifier. With it, they could stop Galactiac and save the Earth. Uatron teleported the team into Galactiac's solar system-sized ship, the Taalu (Taa + Colu) II. The team managed to find the Ultimate Nullifier and were taken back to Earth. Mr. Terrific (Mr. Fantastic + Mr. Terrific) threatened Galactiac with it, promising to return it if he spared Earth and left it alone. Galactiac agreed and left, but not before punishing his herald by trapping him on Earth with a force field.

Nor'rin tried to make the best of his situation. He joined the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League), started a life as police detective Norville Jones, and saw all the beauty Earth had to offer. But all of it did little to bring him happiness. What he truly desired was to return to Mars. It pained him to know that he was so close to home yet was forever trapped away from it.

Morph provided a simple solution for him: leave his board behind before crossing the forcefield and then make a new one. After doing exactly that, Nor'rin was free. Free to explore the infinite cosmos however he wished. Free to finally return home. Only to find there wasn't a home for him anymore.

Almost the entirety of the Green Skrulltian race, his friends, his family, had been killed off, leaving only the white one. Not that you could really call them the "winners" of this conflict, as they were now enslaved to the only Green Skrulltian left on Mars, Ju'uggerna'aut J'onzz.

Ju'uggerna'aut explained to his brother that he was the reason why Galactiac came to Mars. While he and the White Skrulltians hid on Earth, he stumbled upon the Temple of Cyttoro (Cyttorak + Despero) and found the Flaming Gem of Cyttoro (Gem of Cyttorak + Flames of Py'tar) that granted him unlimited strength, total invulnerability, and a helmet that makes him immune to telepathic attacks. In other words, he was a Skrulltian's worst nightmare, a living juggernaut. And after taking control of the White Skrulltians and returning to Mars, he led the attack that resulted in the total destruction of the Green Skrulltian race. And even though he was now king of Mars, he still had one regret: not being able to kill Nor'rin with his bare hands. And now, fate had finally gifted him the opportunity.

It was a fierce battle, but in the end, not even a living juggernaut could contend with the Power Cosmic. Nor'rin had considered killing his brother for all he had done, but after so long being deprived of the value he had for life, he wasn't going to turn his back on it now. Instead, he trapped Ju'uggerna'aut on Earth with a similar force field that once held him. He was confident that Earth's heroes would be more than capable of handling him.

It pained him deeply to know that his people were forever gone, but he knew he had to let go. So instead, the Silver Hunter would once again travel the universe, not as a herald of destruction, but a savior from it, a cosmic wanderer making sure that what happened to the Green Skrulltians would never happen to another planet again. 

This included Earth, where the Silver Hunter would return many times over during moments of great crisis. He'd even form another hero team alongside Doctor Strangefate (Doctor Strange + Doctor Fate), Aqua-Mariner (Aquaman + Namor), and Doom (Hulk + Doom), creating a new Defense Society (Defenders + Justice Society). 

And throughout it all, he never let go of what made him the Silver Hunter to begin with: his value towards life in all its forms. With the whole universe as his home and infinite starways to surf through, Nor'rin J'onzz patrols it all to do what he had always done and always wanted to do: make sure that everybody gets to live in peace.

Powers & Abilities: All Skrulltians are born with two innate abilities: shapeshifting and telepathy. They can twist and mold their bodies however they want, even taking the form of other people. But their telepathy is far more powerful and far more dangerous. Not only can they read thoughts, but they can also probe them for information, establish a mental link between themselves and others, cast illusions, inflict mental pain, control minds, or straight up just shut them down. Their telepathy is so powerful it lets them know if someone else is nearby even when they're not consciously using it. And while Nor'rin doesn't use most of these techniques with his telepathy, that's purely because of how aggressive and invasive they are. He can do all of them and will if he must.

But all of that is a mere blip compared to the Power Cosmic. Similar to the Flaming Gem of Cyttoro, the Power Cosmic gives Silver Hunter unmatched strength. But it also gives him unmatched speed, intangibility, energy projection, telekinesis, resistance to psychic attacks, cosmic senses, element manipulation, energy and matter manipulation, regeneration from a single atom, and the ability to recreate his board whenever he wants. The board is the Silver Hunter's main mode of flight and, contrary to popular belief, is not the source of his powers. Yeah, it's safe to say that so long as the Silver Hunter has the Power Cosmic, he can accomplish anything. And the only one who can take the Power Cosmic from him is the being that gave it to him in the first place.

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Name: Rock Star

Biography: The alien planet H'lfworld (Halfworld + H'lven) is probably the last place you'd expect a superhero to come from. For one thing, the whole planet was an intergalactic mental care facility run by robots. The robots decided that it was in the patients' best interests for each of them to have their own therapy pet. They obtained these pets by abducting animals from Earth and, thinking it'd be quicker and easier than just training them, performed invasive surgeries on them to give them human-like intelligence and anatomy. 

One of these animals was a blue kitten living all alone on the streets before being taken to H'lfworld. After his intelligence was increased and he was forcibly anthropomorphized through a grafted metal exoskeleton, this now bipedal cat with fingers was sent to live with and care for an old war vet. It wasn't bad, really. The cat and the old lady got along famously, spending their days listening to Earth music. It was through one of these songs that the vet gave our feline protagonist their name, Rock Star.

The old lady wasn't the only friend Rock Star made. There was also Jack'x the rabbit (Blackjack O'Hare + Doctor Ub'x), Squee Earl the...yeah (Ch'p + Wal Rus), and his lady friend Minnie the otter (M'nn'e + Lylla). Together, they shared an inseparable bond and enjoyed many happy, peaceful days on H'lfworld.

That all ended when a nearby star went nova, releasing radiation that scrambled the programming of H'lfworld's robot overseers, going from watching over their patients to just murdering everybody. Rock Star watched all his friends die horribly, every single one. Finally, Rock Star was the only biological inhabitant left on H'lfworld. So the robots decided that they weren't just gonna kill him. No, they threw him into a sack, beat him to a bloody pulp, then threw the sack into a river.

To his surprise. Rock Star wasn't sad or scared over what happened. No, he was angry. Really, really angry. More angry than he ever imagined being before. It was the kind of anger that wouldn't be sated until he made each and every one of those robotic motherflarkers pay. The kind of anger strong enough to attract a Red Nova helmet.

You're probably aware of the Green Nova (Green Lantern + Nova) Corps and how they harness their power through their will. What you may not know is that there are actually seven Nova Corps, one for each color of the rainbow, each powered by a different emotion. We'll get to all of them at a later date; right now, the only Corps that matters is the Red Nova Corps, fueled by pure rage.

The Red Nova helmet hurtled towards Rock Star at blazing speeds. It burned through the sack before placing itself on the cat's head, healing his wounds and driving him to absolute madness. Rock Star emerged from the river as a Red Nova with no thoughts in his head other than absolute hate. And even after destroying every robot in H'lfworld, the hate didn't fade. Rock Star just kept razing H'lfworld to the ground until he was visited by the leader of the Red Nova Corps, the sole survivor of Space Sector 666, Atrocitorr the Butcher (Atrocitus + Gorr).

Atrocitorr was impressed by the depths of Rock Star's hatred and happily welcomed him to the Red Nova Corps, giving him his new name Rock-Starr. On every mission Atrocitorr gave him, Rock-Starr had repeatedly proven himself to be his most successful and sadistic recruit. It wasn't long before Atrocitorr made him his second-in-command and rewarded him with his most dangerous mission yet, to eliminate someone who posed a threat to the entire Corps.

Rock-Starr arrived on Astoniax (Astonia + Planet X) and attacked a local village in the hopes of drawing out this threat to the Red Novas. He would appear soon enough and calmly introduce himself to Rock-Starr as Saint Groot (Saint Walker + Groot), the first Blue Nova. Rock-Starr wasted no time; he lunged at Saint Groot, ready to turn him into mulch. But Saint Groot merely raised one hand and showed Rock-Starr visions of all his friends alive and happy again. This was the power of the blue light of hope, to cancel out rage by showing the greatest hopes of those afflicted. And just like that, Rock-Starr was separated from his Red Nova helmet, and his mental faculties had returned.

However, he wasn't as grateful for this as you'd think. Rock-Starr grabbed his helmet and yelled at Saint Groot for showing him a false hope that he could never have and that he was perfectly happy as a Red Nova. Saint Groot pointed out that being a happy Red Nova is literally impossible before motioning to all the destruction he caused in the name of the Corps leader. Rock-Starr felt a pang of guilt for what he had done but insisted that being a mindless berserker was still preferable to being alone. Sympathizing with the cat creature, Saint Groot offered to accompany Rock-Starr until he didn't feel alone anymore. Initially surprised by the offer, Rock-Starr accepted, and he and Saint Groot would tour the universe together as a pair of bounty hunters.

During their journey, Rock-Starr would tinker with his Red Nova helmet and power battery to try to access its power without losing his mind. Fun fact about Red Novas: rather than creating constructs, the helmets let them fire searing-hot plasma from their mouths that can burn through anything. This plasma burns even in the vacuum of space and also serves as their blood. With a little work, Rock-Starr learned to recreate this plasma without the helmet and instead fire it out of his many, many, many guns.

Eventually, Rock-Starr and Saint Groot ran into a bunch of other outlaws, Adam Star (Adam Strange + Star-Lord), Gamorion (Gamora + Orion), and Stratax (Strata + Drax), and together they formed the G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.S (Current Guardians of the Galaxy + L.E.G.I.O.N). After countless adventures together, Rock-Starr finally felt like he had a family again. He allowed his old helmet to return to Atrocitorr, literally letting go of the rage that held him down.

But don't think for a second that he's become as cute and cuddly as he seems. He may look like an adorable housecat, but Rock-Starr is still the baddest motherflarker in the whole universe.

Powers & Abilities: As a cat, Rock-Starr has many of the same abilities as a cat. He can hear higher-pitched sounds that are inaudible to humans, sees far better in the dark than we can, and his nose is 14 times stronger than a human nose. And of course there are his claws and his fangs. Remember, cats may be cute, but they're still predators.

All these things are still true even after his surgery, where he developed human-like anatomy and intelligence. Except that last part is a lie since Rock-Starr is way smarter than most members of most sentient species. It's with that intelligence that Rock-Starr was not only able to build the G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.S ship, the Milano, but also duplicate a Red Nova's abilities without the need for a Red Nova helmet.

Of course he built a space suit and jetpack for, well, flying around and surviving in space. He also created an on-hand teleporter and force field. But his real bread and butter are his literal tons of sci-fi guns. I'm talking pistols, shotguns, rifles, miniguns, laser guns, plasma guns, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, guns that shoot electricity, guns that shoot sonic waves, bombs, automatic turrets, and a rampart arms phasic cannon that could kill Thanoseid (Thanos + Darkseid)! All of which are powered by the same Red Nova plasma that can burn through anything, even in outer space.

If you're wondering where he keeps all this stuff, that would be the space satellite he keeps around to stash all his weapons whenever he needs them.

Edit: Because this apparently needs clarification, no, Rock-Starr is in no way related to a raccoon. He's a cat. I know cats aren't blue, but you should take that up with DC.

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Name: Hank Palmer

Biography: Born and raised in Ivy Town, Connecticut, Hank Palmer had always been a genius prodigy. By the time he was three years old, doctors said he was smarter than both his parents put together. So it was no surprise that when he attended Ivy University, he earned degrees in physics, biochemistry, and entomology while his classmates were still undergrads. During his college days, he met and started a relationship with Karen Van Dyne (Bumblebee + Wasp), future heiress to the Van Dyne fortune who had attended to study engineering. But despite all his good fortune, what Hank really wanted was a chance to prove himself, to leave his impact on the world.

That chance would come one fateful night when Hank saw a meteorite crash near the university. Hank brought it to his lab and discovered that it was actually a fragment of a white dwarf star. This star fragment contained a never-before-seen particle that could manipulate an object's size and weight. Using magnetic fields, Hank placed the newly dubbed Palmer Particles in two separate serums, one to shrink and one to grow back to normal size.

Hank tested the shrinking serum on himself and got trapped in an anthill. After narrowly managing to avoid the ants pursuing him, Hank grew back to normal size and decided not to use the serum ever again.

That is, until he and Karen got trapped in a cave while going on a spelunking date. With no other way out, Hank used the shrinking serum in front of Karen to crawl through the cracks in the rock so he could escape and get help. Once he and Karen were out, she insisted that the two use the Palmer Particles to become superheroes. Hank had his doubts but decided to go along with it, thinking that this could be how he made his impact on the world. Inspired by his time in the anthill, Hank built a helmet that would let him control ants while Karen made a suit that would sprout wings when shrunken and shoot energy blasts. Together, they became the crime-fighting duo Ant and Hornet.

Ant and Hornet would go on to have a highly prolific superhero career, helping found the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League). And eventually, Hank figured out how to use the Palmer Particle to grow to enormous heights rather than just back to his standard six feet. From that day on, he'd be Giant. He'd also marry Hornet, getting to be with the woman of his dreams for as long as they both shall live. But despite all of his achievements, Ant still felt insignificant. Still desperate to make his impact and stand out among all other heroes.

That's when he got a secret message from Arachknight (Batman + Spider-Man). He proposed that the two of them and Iron Beetle (Iron Man + Blue Beetle) build a top-secret satellite that would keep an eye on the world's superhuman population and protect humanity should they ever go rogue. Ant thought this was the opportunity he was looking for: a way to keep the world safe in case something happened to the League or if they faced a threat they couldn't handle. Hank agreed, as did Iron Beetle, and the three of them got to work building the ultimate superhuman surveillance system: Ultra-Eye (Ultron + Brother-Eye).

For more information on that, please look up the Ultra-Eye page. Just know that it went...very poorly. So poorly, in fact, that all involved in its creation were immediately fired from the League, Hank included. And as if it couldn't get any worse for the guy, Karen filed for divorce. Things were already getting strained due to Hank's insecurities clouding his judgement, but building a death satellite to murder all their friends ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back. Hank had officially lost everything.

Over the next few months, Hank retired from hero work and focused solely on his university career. Despite saying otherwise, part of him hoped for the Avengers League and Karen to take him back. But those hopes were dashed when he saw that not only did the League bring Arachknight back, despite the whole thing being his idea, but Hornet was now in a relationship with another hero, Nephilim (Goliath + Herald). This was the moment Hank decided he was going to end it all.

He visited the Amazon rainforest; it was on his bucket list for a long time, and he wanted to see it before he took his own life. After taking in the jungle's beauty, Hank used the Palmer Particle to try to shrink himself out of existence. He shrank so much that he saw atoms the size of planets and shrunk himself further still. But rather than entering oblivion, Hank found himself in the Microverse, a subatomic dimension that serves as the bedrock for our entire reality.

Specifically, he landed in the world of K'orlaidh (K'ai + Morlaidh), inhabited by the Katians (Katarthans + K'aitians). And he arrived just in time to save them. The people were ruled by the cruel dictator Deraesis (Deraegis + Visis), who captured Hank and forced him to fight to the death in the coliseum for his amusement. After escaping, he joined the kingdom's resistance movement led by K'orlaidh's princess, Laella (Laethwen + Jarella). After Deraesis was overthrown, Laella became empress and married Hank, making him emperor of K'orlaidh. It took a lot of hardship and happened in a way he never could've expected, but Hank did manage to leave his mark on the world. Well, a world.

But what about the Ant, you're probably wondering. Well, have no fear, dear reader, for while Hank Palmer's story may have ended, the Ant's is far from over.

Before he left for the Amazon, Hank found that his suit had been stolen. With the help of the newly created Outsiders for Hire (Outsiders + Heroes for Hire), Hank realized the thief was one of his own students, Ryan Lang (Ryan Choi + Scott Lang). Hank couldn't believe it; he had known about Ryan's past as a thief, but he had served his time and was on track to take his place at the university. What's more, he had a daughter to take care of. Why would he throw all that away to go back to stealing? As it turns out, Ryan's daughter, Jean (Jean Loring + Cassie Lang), was why he had to steal again.

Jean had been kidnapped by the demented CEO of Cross Industries, David Cross (Chronos + Yellowjacket), to be used as blackmail so that Ryan would steal the suit and give it to him. With that suit, David hoped to reverse-engineer the Palmer Particle and sell it to the highest bidder. Once Scott and the OFH realized this, they worked with Ryan to save his daughter and teach Cross a lesson he wouldn't forget. When all was said and done, Hank allowed Ryan to keep the Ant suit, telling him he wouldn't be needing it anymore.

And ever since then, Ryan wore the mantle proudly, becoming someone his daughter can't help but admire. So you can rest easy knowing that while Hank enjoys his happily ever after, the Mighty Mite will still be there proving that heroes really do come in all shapes and sizes.

Powers & Abilities: Let's start things off by talking about Hank's intelligence, the thing that made all of Hank's powers possible. Everything he uses, he built himself. He's so smart, in fact, that Destiny (Eternity + Kismet), the embodiment of the universe itself, decreed Hank Palmer to be Earth's Scientist Supreme - something he will let you know. It's this genius that allowed Hank to harness the power of the Palmer Particle in the first place.

The Palmer Particle allows anyone who uses it to change their size. Now, the obvious application is to make yourself bigger and stronger. And Hank does do that, especially during the days he switched from Ant to Giant.

But trust me, it's when Hank uses the Palmer Particle to shrink himself that things get interesting. There's really no limit to how small Hank can be. Small enough that he can manipulate and rearrange the atomic bonds of atoms themselves. He does this by jumping onto beams of light to travel at, well, lightspeed. Doing this causes the atomic structures and thus the object those structures belong to to fall apart. He can also just grab molecules and bring them back with him at full size, cooking up a nuclear blast in the palm of his hand.

But the Palmer Particle does more than change Hank's size. With it, Hank can jettison his own mass to another dimension and bring it back even while shrunk. This means that Hank can control his own weight and density, allowing him to punch and jump with his full human strength at small size or channel all his mass into his fists to punch harder than he possibly could.

To do this, Hank initially put the white dwarf star in his belt and used it to control his mass through ultraviolet light. But now, after using Palmer Particles for so long, Hank doesn't need the white dwarf star anymore and now uses the belt to store his gear like a laser gun. This is because his regular use of the Palmer Particle has given him full control over it. He can shrink and grow at will, fire Palmer Particles from his hands to control the size of objects or other people, and is completely immune to outside attempts to change his size.

And last but not least, the ants. They are where Hank got his first hero identity after all. Through his cybernetic helmet, Hank can communicate and control ants to make them do his bidding. That might sound unimpressive at first, but did you know that at any given moment, there are about 2.5 million ants under your feet? That means no matter where Ant goes, he'll always have an army with him.

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Name: Arthur Banner

Biography: With that Infinity Spear (Infinity Sword + Spear of Destiny), Doctor Darkseid (Doctor Doom + Darkseid) will rule the universe!

That was the thought racing through Steel Man's (Superman + Iron Man) head right before he destroyed it. But the spear wasn't gone, dear readers. No, it had merely been broken into many, many fractals scattered all over Justice City (Hall of Justice + Superhero City). And if Steel Man wanted to stop Doctor Darkseid and his Legion of Lethality (Legion of Doom + Lethal Legion) from getting their hands on them, then he would have to gather together, from the cosmic reaches of the universe, the most powerful forces of good to have ever heroed up.

Falconman (Falcon + Batman) - Aided by his avian assistant Red Robin (Redwing + Robin), this vigilante swoops down on criminals like the bird of prey who shares his name.

Wonder Wolverine (Wonder Woman + Wolverine) - Blessed by the gods of Olympus, this mutant marvel dared to leave behind her paradise home of Themyscanada (Themyscira + Canada) to temper mankind's aggression and her own.

The X-Twins (Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver + The Wonder Twins) - Born on the planet X-or, Qan (Quicksilver + Zan), Wayna (Scarlet Witch + Jayna), and their cyber-simian compatriot G.L.E.E.K (H.E.R.B.I.E + Gleek) arrived on Earth to learn what it means to be true heroes.

And last but not least, from the underwater city of Poseidonis, Arthur Banner! When completely submerged in water, this hero transforms into the strongest being to have ever existed, the Aqua-Hulk!

Together, they form the ultimate protectors of truth, justice, and peace for all mankind, the Super Friendly Squad (Super Friends + Super Hero Squad)!

Right now, you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with the New Amalgam Universe. How can such contradictory characters and lore possibly coexist with what we've built so far? Well, that's the thing: it doesn't, because it exists in an entirely separate universe. One made by the same mad god all surviving Amalgams will have to contend with if they ever wish to know peace.

You see, long ago, there was the Access, a chosen guardian tasked with preventing the Marvel and DC universes from merging together. In one of his adventures, Access battled an evil version of himself who had teamed up with Darkseid. Access foiled Darkseid's scheme by fusing with his evil counterpart, resulting in a new Access that had the combined powers of both but with the good one firmly in charge.

But what if things happened the other way around and it was the evil Access that came up with the idea of fusing first? That's a question that would be answered in the Dark Multiverse, where evil triumphed over good and the alternate Access fully absorbed our Access into himself. With him gone, Darkseid's plan to conquer both universes by merging them into one under his complete control went off without a hitch, right up until the more powerful evil Access betrayed him and left him and the newly created Amalgamverse to fall to ruin, as all realms in the Dark Multiverse are wont to do.

After that, he traveled from universe to universe, absorbing their Accesses into himself and bringing the universes they were sworn to protect into chaos. Until he had absorbed enough to escape the confines of the Dark Multiverse and enter our own. Now calling himself All Access, he wishes to create new Amalgam universes powerful enough to conquer both the DC and Marvel multiverses at once. Hence the Amalgam Universe we've been following up until now.

And as you may have realized by now, the universe of the Super Friendly Squad is one of these doomed Dark Universes set for destruction. But have no fear, dear readers, for their memory will live on. One day, as Arthur Banner and G.L.E.E.K. remained behind at the Super Friendly Squad's base while the rest of the team dealt with Doctor Darkseid for the final fractal, everything began to shake. Not just the ground, but literally everything. The time of the SFS's universe had come, and everything was falling to pieces.

That's when a mysterious ship appeared before them, telling them to get in. Panicked, Arthur and G.L.E.E.K. obeyed, entering the ship right before it took off, leaving their city, their planet, and eventually their whole universe behind. 

Arthur asked what happened, and he was told everything I've just told you, as well as that this ship was filled with refugees from now-dead universes chasing after All Access so that they could find a new world to call home and hopefully stop him. The passengers aboard included Rogue Wonder (Rogue + Wonder Woman), Thorion (Thor + Orion), Lobezno (Wolverine + Lobo), Kryptonite Man (Lex Luthor + Iron Man), Vandal Doom (Doctor Doom + Vandal Savage), Pagan (Raven + Wiccan), Iron Bat (Iron Man + Batman), and many, many more.

Will they be enough to defeat All Access once and for all? Will Aqua-Hulk be able to avenge his friends and save the New Amalgam Universe and countless more? Stay tuned to find out!

Powers & Abilities: As a resident of the undersea city of Poseidonis, Arthur Banner can breathe underwater indefinitely and communicate with sea life. And that's it.

At least, that's it as far as his natural abilities go. After an experiment involving gamma radiation went wrong, Arthur now transforms into the Aqua-Hulk whenever he's submerged in water. This makes him stronger than anyone, even Steel Man. The downside is that the Aqua-Hulk is an entirely separate personality from Arthur Banner. And that personality is a careless, childish moron who, during the few times he can actually help, the other members of the Super Friendly Squad have to make sure doesn't wreck everything.

Sounds like a raw deal, right? But wait, it gets worse. Because Arthur comes from Poseidonis, he needs water to survive. And sure, we all do, but if he goes one hour without being completely submerged in it, he'll die. Meaning he has to transform into the Aqua-Hulk, replacing his mind and personality with that of an immature idiot, constantly throughout the day and before he goes to sleep. 

Talk about an underdog. I'm rooting for you, Arthur, but I really think you should just sit this out and leave All Access to your new buddies. This looks like a job for them.

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Name: En Sabah Adam

Biography: 5000 years ago, in the desert nation of Akkandahq (Akkaba + Kandaq), a tribe was discussing how to kill a baby. Why? Because its gray skin, pointed ears, and blue lines over its face and lips had convinced the tribe that it wasn't a baby. It was a monster that would kill them all if it was not destroyed. In the end, they decided to take it out to the desert and leave it to die under the burning sun.

What the tribe didn't count on was a roving band of thieves coming across the infant. And while the rest of them were just as horrified as the tribe members, their leader, Sabaal (Baal + Sabbac), didn't see a monster. No, he saw a conqueror. He recognized the power within the child and knew that it was the beginning of a new race of superior men. As such, he took the infant in as his son and named him En Sabah Adam, The First Man.

Adam's adopted father taught him his philosophy of survival of the fittest. With that driving him, he grew stronger and smarter than all the other thieves. He would prove himself worthy of life. But no matter how worthy he was, it wasn't enough when the forces of Akkandahq's dictator, Rama-Bac (Rama-Tut + Ibac), killed his father and enslaved him. 

While enslaved, Adam was put to work building Rama-Bac's monuments to himself in between regular sessions of torture. The only respite from all of this was with his new wife, Nephruta (Nephri + Shiruta), and her nephew Avan (Aman + Evan Sabahnur). Together, they got Adam to rethink his father's philosophy, making him kinder and more compassionate.

That all changed one day, when Adam and his family were once again tortured by Rama-Bac's men, and Shiruta at last succumbed to her wounds and died. That night, Adam and Avan tried to escape, but Adam's wounds were still too severe, and the guards were quickly approaching. Adam urged his nephew to leave him behind, but he refused. Avan wrapped Adam's arm over his shoulders and tried to help him walk, but he just lacked the strength. The guards quickly caught up to him, ready to end them where they stood.

At that moment, Adam's true power revealed itself. He suddenly grew to tremendous size and killed their pursuers as easily as he would topple an ant hill. Once they were dealt with, he and Avan ran away to the underground caves, hoping to hide.

Instead, they stumbled upon the Rock of Eternity, home of the ancient alien wizard Mar-Vel (Shazam + Mar-Vell). Mar-Vel witnessed Avan's attempt to save his uncle and wanted to help him free his people. However, he had grown old and wasn't as powerful as he used to be. He needed a champion to fight in his stead, and he had found it in the boy. He told Avan that all he had to do was say his name, and he would have the power of the gods themselves. And that he would also be able to share that power with whomever he considered family.

Uncle and nephew left the Rock of Eternity, discussing what they had witnessed and how to use the powers they were given to help Akkandaq. Avan wanted to liberate the people and, if possible, resolve things peacefully. Adam, however, craved only vengeance. And he was now more than ever convinced that the survival-of-the-fittest mindset his father taught him was correct. After all, Shiruta died because she wasn't fit enough to survive. And he and Avan would've been killed for sure if Adam hadn't been a "metamutant" (metahuman + mutant) as the wizard called him.

Avan refused to hear this and told his uncle that though he'd share the wizard's power with him, he would take it back if he had to. Adam understood. And as Avan turned around and looked up at the night sky, they both yelled, "Mar-Vel!" and the bolt of lightning struck them both. Just as Adam snapped Avan's neck.

With the full might of Mar-Vel now at his disposal, Adam had no problem slaughtering all of Rama-Bac's forces and taking his kingdom for himself. And while the tyrant had managed to escape his grasp, all that mattered was that he was gone. And if he did return, he knew that he'd always be more powerful. Powerful enough to inflict his Darwinian philosophy on the entire country, ironically continuing the same cruelty and brutality that led to his wife's death in the first place.

Mar-Vel realized this, and he was repulsed. He confronted Adam directly, and though he knew he could not take the power from him, he could ensure he'd never use it on another living being ever again. And so he cast a spell that sent the first metamutant to the farthest star in the night sky.

And all of this would be told from Mar-Vel to his new champion, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers + Billy Batson), 5,000 years later. And the reason why is that one year ago, on the day the wizard gave Billie her powers, he sensed that Adam would soon return. And now that time has come.

Captain Marvel assured the wizard that she could handle it. After all, she had a whole year to get acquainted with her powers, and all Adam did for the past 5 millennia was fly through space. She knew exactly what to expect. Or so she thought.

On Adam's journey, he came across a massive spaceship and, upon entering it, found that it belonged to the Celestial Hands (the Celestials + the Hands), godlike cosmic beings older than the multiverse itself. Their self-appointed duty was to lead the lesser races of our universe into their ultimate evolved form; in a way, they were kindred spirits to Adam. As such, they tasked him with shaping humanity into the perfect species they were hoping for and gave him their technology to do so. This, combined with Adam's metamutant genetics and mystically endowed god-powers, meant that he could do basically anything.

When he and Captain Marvel fought, it became clear to her that she was in over her head. The only way to stop him, the only way to save everyone, was to kill him. By using the magic lightning against him, Billie transformed Adam back to the way he was, making him age 5,000 years in a single moment. But even this wouldn't end him.

Adam awoke good as new in the regeneration chambers of his ship. He expected mankind to have grown stronger in his absence and left behind a single drop of blood to regrow from if they'd actually managed to defeat him. It became apparent that if he was going to take over the world, he couldn't do it alone. He needed an army, and he scoured the Earth looking for the perfect recruits. 

Eventually, he found it in Earth's growing metamutant population. In particular, he viewed the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol) as the perfect source for his new Horsemen. He approached the then disfigured Lawrence Worthington III (Angel + Negative Man), who had just lost his wings and had been horribly burnt in an accident, and offered to give him his wings back. He did this by merging Larry with a being from another dimension named Arch Bovo (Archangel + Keeg Bovo), whom he brainwashed into being fanatically loyal to him, turning Larry into Adam's Horseman of Death, the Negative Angel.

Negative Angel proceeded to transform three other X-Patrol members into Adam's slaves. He remade Hellhound (Wolverine + Etrigan) into the Horseman of War, Amazon (Storm + Nubia) into the Horseman of Famine, and Blackjack (Gambit + Double Down) into the Horseman of Pestilence. Thankfully, against all odds, the X-Patrol managed to rescue their friends and beat back Adam.

From then on, Adam would be a regular thorn in the side of the X-Patrol, the Marvel Family, and pretty much every superhero team you could think of. That is, until one man came back from the past with the expressed purpose of ending Adam once and for all: Booster Cable (Cable + Booster Gold). 

Booster Cable claimed that in the future he came from, Adam had conquered the world, and he came back to stop him. And while it was easy to tell that Booster Cable was full of crap, if there was even a 1% chance that he was telling the truth, then Adam couldn't allow his rule to end before it even started. He kidnapped Booster Cable and infected him with a techno-organic virus, hoping to turn him into a lifeless metal statue. Instead, it made Booster Cable more powerful than he'd ever been. Powerful enough to end Adam right then and there.

Adam was fully prepared to face oblivion, but then Booster Cable just disappeared. He was completely confused, so he appeared in Booster Cable's room to ask why he had spared him. He was the stronger one, so he had every right to kill him then and there. Booster went on to explain that in his time, Adam wasn't the brutal conqueror of Earth; instead, he was the benevolent ruler of his home country, Akkandahq. He was really only supposed to stay evil for a few months at most before giving up his goals. Adam refused to believe it, but Booster suggested he go back home and see for himself.

So he did. Adam returned to the nation of his birth only to find that shockingly little had changed. Once again, the people were enslaved by a despot. Only this time, a rebellion stood against him, led by their own godly metamutant, Genisis (Genesis + Isis). Adam was shocked to see how much Genisis reminded him of his wife, and so, he agreed to help her. And while Akkandahq's ruler may have had his army equipped to deal with metamutants, they've obviously never dealt with someone like Adam before.

He pronounced himself Akkandahq's new ruler and, with Genisis serving as counsel, he turned the country into a paradise. And the people grew from fearing their terrifying leader to loving and worshipping him and his new bride like gods. 

Sabaal would probably be ashamed to see what his son had become. But that was the last thing on Adam's mind. From now on, Akkandahq would not have a conqueror; it would have a protector. The people would no longer know war, famine, pestilence, or slavery, only peace. But don't think for a second that he's gone soft. There is nothing he won't do for his country, so if the world or anybody else ever decides that Akkahndaq is a problem, know that they will face the full might of The First Man himself.

Powers & Abilities: After stealing the wizard's power from Avan, Adam can now call upon the powers of six different Egyptian and African gods by shouting the word "Mar-Vel." Those powers include:

The Courage of Mehen - The snake god who dares to assist Ra on his nightly journey across the underworld lends his courage, however unwillingly, to Adam, granting him unshakable willpower and a body and mind that can withstand any blow.

Strength of Amun - The king of the Egyptian gods gives Adam immeasurable strength, enough to, even on his worst days, take on entire teams of superheroes like they're nothing.

Wisdom of Ra-Horakhty - What do you get when you merge two godly kings together? A being who constantly lends his wisdom to the First Metamutant, letting him in on whatever he needs to defeat his enemies, effectively making him clairvoyant.

Power of Villenangi - The First Appearer and supreme creator in Zulu Mythology. The power that allowed him to create everything allows Adam to call upon the living lightning whenever he says Mar-Vel's name. He can also channel and release this lightning throughout his body and absorb all energy near him to make himself stronger.

Speed of Eshu - Messenger of the Gods in the Yoruba religion, Adam channels his speed to move and react far faster than any human. It's also what lets him fly.

Stamina of Lubanga - Last but not least is the Bantu God of Health. Thanks to him, Adam has unlimited stamina no matter what situation he's in. He doesn't get tired, he can never grow old, and things like food, sleep, or even oxygen are meaningless to him.

Of course, this isn't the end of his power, not even close. It might have come at the cost of a career in supermodeling, but Adam has one of the most busted powers in metamutant history: complete and total control of his individual molecules. And since DNA is made of molecules and metamutants get their power from their DNA, he can give himself any superpower you can imagine.

And yet even this wasn't enough for him, at least not according to the Celestial Hands, who gave Adam a good portion of their technology to help him on their mission. I've already discussed how they gave him a ship with a regeneration chamber that can bring him back from even a drop of blood. But the best piece of tech they gave him by far was the Death Seed. The power of a Death Seed rivals that of the Phoenix Force itself, and it gives Adam powers he couldn't even imagine before, like telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to control technology. He uses that last one to build android armies of himself, something he'd come to rely on after his attempts at creating his Horsemen failed.

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Name: Ernst Eisenhardt

Biography: Being a young Jewish boy growing up in Germany during the 1930s, Ernst Eisenhardt was all too aware of man's inhumanity to man. And that inhumanity was never more apparent than when he and his family moved to Poland to get away from the Nazis, only for them to invade, separate young Ernst from his parents, and send him to Auschwitz.

I won't insult the memory of those who've actually been to such an awful place by trying to describe it to you. Nothing I could say could ever compare to such horrors. 

What I will say is that Ernst survived by becoming a Sonderkommando, basically a slave. His job was to clean the furnaces after they were used to...you get the idea. Despite it all, three good things did happen to Ernst there.

1. He was reunited with his childhood sweetheart Sindella (Sindella + Magda).
2. His metamutant (metahuman + mutant) powers activated, giving him total control over magnetism.
3. The other Sonderkommandos revolted.

All these things came together to give Ernst the means to escape Auschwitz with Sindella by his side. He lifted the gates and the two of them ran as fast as possible while the Nazis were distracted dealing with the revolt. The two fled Europe until they settled down in Russia.

The two married and had very happy, very long lives together. For Ernst, it was because his metamutant abilities also included enhanced longevity. And for Sindella, it was because she was a Homo Magi, a subspecies of powerful magic users, though neither of them knew that. What they did know was that it was in their best interest to keep their abilities a secret. They were all too familiar with how cruel people can be to others who are different.

So for decades they'd move across and around the country, until finally settling in at Vinnytsia, Ukraine, after the birth of their daughter. Those first few years were as idyllic as they could be, with Ernst taking the job of a steelworker.

That all changed when his fellow steelworker was nearly crushed to death, and Ernst had to use his powers to save his life. His boss saw the whole thing and informed the KGB that one of his workers was a metamutant. By the time he got home, the authorities were there, burning his house to the ground with his daughter in it. He tried to save her, but they attacked him and beat him as his daughter burned and screamed. And then the screaming stopped.

Spurned by her death, Ernst used his powers to slaughter the officers who attacked his family, every single one. By the time it was over, Ernst was standing in a pool of their blood. Then he turned around and saw Sindella, and she was horrified. Before he could say anything, she turned and ran from him as far as she could.

After that, Ernst left the country and started a new life as a scientist in France. He worked as a researcher studying ways to increase people's intelligence. He did this by experimenting on a gorilla called Monsieur Mind (Monsieur Mallah + Mastermind), increasing his intelligence until he was as smart, and in many ways smarter, than an average human. Assisting him was Professor Niles Xavier (Professor X + The Chief). And while Ernst has grown deeply soured on humanity after all he's been through, he still regards Niles as a close friend.

The two would often debate over humanity's ability to coexist with metamutants. Niles argued that it was possible, but Ernst viewed it differently. At first, neither of them knew that the other was a metamutant. That is, until the day remnants of KOBRA (HYDRA + Kobra Cult) stormed into their lab to take Monsieur Mind. Ernst and Niles would reveal their powers for the first time in years to save their friend. Monsieur Mind himself would join the battle when he realized his enhanced intelligence also granted him illusion powers.

During the battle, some important equipment was struck, and a huge explosion rocked everyone inside the room. Mind was mostly uninjured; Niles lost the use of his legs, but Ernst suffered the most damage by far, with him just barely clinging to life. Mind would take what remained of Ernst and run away, leaving Niles helpless. It would be the last time he'd see either of them for years.

Mind took Ernst to another lab that was working on preserving a human brain. With the whole building evacuated after the explosion, Monsieur Mind had no trouble removing Ernst's brain and putting it into the container that the other scientists had created. Inside the device, Ernst could see, hear, and speak. But most importantly, he could still use his metamutant powers. It was here, trapped inside this metal shell and stripped of his human visage, that Ernst truly realized how impossible coexistence was. If metamutants were to live, then humanity must either bow before them or be destroyed. A new age for metamutants was dawning, and Ernst would be the harbinger of that new age, the Master of Magnetism, Magnemax.

The world would be made aware of Magnemax's existence when he and his Brotherhood (Brotherhood of Evil + Brotherhood of Mutants), consisting of himself, his now-lover Monsieur Mind, his children Mercury (Flash + Quicksilver) and the White Witch (Scarlet Witch + Zatanna), and shapeshifting seductress Madame Mystique (Madame Rouge + Mystique), tried to take over the world's nuclear arsenal and threatened humanity into making metamutants their new masters. Of course, they were stopped by Xavier's own mutant team, the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol), a pattern that would continue for many, many years.

After countless failures and his own kids turning against him, Magnemax saw little choice but to give up on his plans to conquer the world and instead strongarm the UN into giving him the small, uninhabited island of Genosha as a metamutant sanctuary. From here on, humans and metamutants would exist in two separate worlds, neither species acknowledging the other's existence ever again. That was Magnemax's dream anyway, but like many of the brain's dreams, it ended in horrific failure.

Buried deep under Genosha's surface was a deactivated Warden (Sentinel + Manhunter), a giant robot created by the Universemind (Guardians of the Universe + Worldmind) that served as a precursor to the Green Nova Corps (Green Lantern Corps + Nova Corps) before they went rogue. Somebody activated it and sent it to rampage across the island. Before it was stopped, it had reduced a population of over sixteen and a half million metamutants to fewer than 800. It was, without exaggeration, the single greatest terrorist attack in history.

As Magnemax lay in the broken husk of his dream to save his race, suddenly everything changed. Now he was a king. The king of a world where metamutants ruled, and mankind struggled. He had his children back; he had his body back! And once he regained his memories of what the world should be, he realized what caused it. The White Witch snapped under the crushing weight of her own tragedies and completely changed the world into the one Ernst had always dreamed of. 

And he was going to fight for that dream no matter what. Even Mercury, once again standing against him, could not convince him to change the world back to the way it was. And, in a moment of intense desperation, he killed Pietro. His own son was now dead at his hands, and his daughter saw the whole thing. At that moment, Wanda suffered another breakdown, denouncing Magnemax, saying that he wasn't her father but a monster who destroyed his children in the pursuit of an evil dream that would never and could never be real. And in an intense flash of white, Magnemax was back on Genosha; back to being surrounded by the corpses of his fellow metamutants.

But Magnemax is nothing if not a survivor. And sometimes to survive, you have to change. So, in an act nobody saw coming, Magnemax would stand for both metamutants and humans by joining the X-Patrol! He'd given up everything in his pursuit of metamutant supremacy, and what had it gotten him? It was clear that the world he fought for, the world his daughter literally made for him, was always destined to fall apart. It was time to fight for a new world.

Only time will tell whether or not Niles' dream is any more achievable than Ernst's. But what I can say for sure is that if you're a metamutant in trouble, you can always count on the most powerful brain in the universe to have your back. By any means necessary.

Powers & Abilities: When you look at a brain, naturally you think of intelligence. That is no different with Magnemax, who's easily one of the smartest beings on the planet. He is an expert in genetic engineering and mutation as well as mechanical engineering. This incredible brain is protected by a special helmet that completely protects him from psychic attacks and any attempts to read his mind.

But we don't care about that. Let's get to the magnet stuff.

Now, given that his epithet is " The Magnet of Magnetism," you probably think that all he can do is move some metal around. And yeah, he does do that, but his powers, like magnetism itself, go so much deeper. The blood in your body has iron in it. The air has traces of lead and mercury. Whole mountains are lined with metallic ore. The Earth itself is surrounded by a literal magnetic field. And the fact that Magnemax knows all this and more makes him one of the most powerful metamutants to have ever lived.

He can use his magnetism to fly his metal body around as well as generate his own magnetic field to protect him from damage. He can fire blasts of electromagnetic energy and control and absorb other energies by manipulating the protons and electrons of the atoms composing them.

I know this is a lot to take in, but electromagnetism is so much more than just metal. It's light, it's radio waves, it's gamma rays, it's X-rays, it is gravity itself! And all of it bows to Magnemax's whim.

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Name: Wanda Zatara

Biography: Once upon a time, a mysterious woman stumbled into a small village in the Eastern European country of Mokovia (Markovia + Sokovia). Cold, starving, and exhausted, she had been walking through the woods for days to get away from her monstrous ex-husband. And when she inevitably collapsed, it was before the resident magician, Django Zatara (Django Maximoff + Giovanni Zatara). He took her in, and as he nursed her back to health, she revealed her name, Sindella Eisenhardt (Sindella + Magda Eisenhardt). While she recovered, the two fell more and more in love until the day Django asked her to marry him. The fact that she was pregnant with her ex-husband's children did nothing to dissuade him. The two would wed and then move to the United States to start a new life. 

Sounds quite nice, like a fairy tale, right? Unfortunately, very few people get to live happily ever after.

On the day Sindella was to give birth to twins, something terrible happened with each delivery. After the first birth, the birth of their son, they were tricked into believing the child had died when really, the doctor had stolen him under the cover of darkness to secretly give to another couple whose child had died from his drunken incompetence. And after the second birth, the birth of their daughter, the mother did die, only living long enough to see her daughter's face. Django was devastated, but he needed to keep himself together at least long enough to hold his daughter and give her her name, Wanda.

Django would go on to be the most famous magician in the country, with Wanda working as his assistant. He taught her everything he knew about stage magic, and she was all set to be a professional magician in her own right. But then came the man who changed - some would say ruined - everything, Constantine Brooks (John Constantine + Blade).

Brooks appeared before Django wanting to study magic. This wasn't a surprise to Wanda; after all, plenty of people came by to learn magic from her father, even the billionaire heir of Wayne Enterprises, Peter Wayne (Batman + Spider-Man). What was a surprise was Constantine's explanation that he didn't come here for escape tricks or smoke-and-mirrors. He came to learn real magic.

At first, Django tried to play dumb, but after Constantine whispered something into his ear, something Wanda couldn't make out, he relented and told his daughter the truth. He wasn't just a stage magician; he was a superhero who saved the world with real magic. Naturally, Wanda wanted to learn real magic too, and Django had little choice but to take both her and Constantine as his students.

Wanda struggled with magic while Constantine excelled in it. This wasn't surprising, as he already had a wealth of experience in the mystic arts. But despite that, Wanda never held any resentment towards the man. In fact, she started to see him like family. That all changed when a great encroaching darkness threatened reality and only a handful of mystical heroes existed to stop it. Constantine suggested that, rather than joining in the battle themselves, they perform a ritual that would let them see it from a distance and lend their powers to the heroes.

Unfortunately, the darkness noticed the ritual, and it really pissed it off. So much so that it burned Django to death right in front of them. And as if to add salt to the wound, not only did the heroes fighting this thing manage to save all of existence, they did it without a single casualty. So Django basically died for nothing because of Constantine's bad idea.

With her father dead and Constantine understandably not wanted anywhere near her, Wanda was on her own. She carried on her and her father's magic act by herself, and it was a smash hit. But rumors began to spread. Some of Django's most devoted fans came up with a conspiracy theory that Wanda murdered her father for both the life insurance and so that she could headline the shows herself rather than just be an assistant. For many people, this rumor was absolute truth, and one day, an angry mob formed outside Wanda's house demanding answers for what happened to Django. 

Panicked and confused, Wanda accidentally summoned a wave of fire from her hands. To the crowd, this was confirmation that Wanda killed her dad. They rushed at her only to be stopped by the timely arrival of a floating brain in a jar wearing a cape named Magnimax (Magneto + Brain). After scaring off the angry mob, he turned around and invited Wanda to join his Brotherhood (Brotherhood of Evil + Brotherhood of Mutants). He was convinced that she was a metamutant and that her power actually came from an X-gene rather than magic. Wanda didn't know if that was true. All she knew was that from now on, everybody would look at her like she was a witch. So she might as well embrace it and become the White Witch.

But Wanda wasn't really a bad guy and had considered quitting the Brotherhood multiple times. But what convinced her to stay was Magnimax privately making a shocking revelation to her: that her mother, Sindella, was his ex-wife and that the children she carried weren't Django's but his. This meant that he was Wanda's biological father. Wanda had already lost one father; she couldn't stand to lose another. And so, the White Witch stayed even when the one member of the Brotherhood she cared most about, Mercury (Flash + Quicksilver), quit the Brotherhood to form the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League).

But Mercury wasn't about to give up and let her stay somewhere where she wasn't happy. But if he couldn't convince her, then maybe the first superhero ever could. So he returned to White Witch and brought along Super-Soldier (Superman + Captain America) with him. It was there that White Witch revealed the reason why she was staying: that Magnimax was her father and she didn't want to lose another member of her family. But then Super-Soldier had an idea. Using his X-ray and microscopic vision, he discovered that Mercury and White Witch shared half their DNA. In other words, they were siblings. Now Wanda found herself having to choose between her father and her brother, Magnimax and Mercury. And between the two, the choice couldn't be more obvious. Wanda quit the Brotherhood and joined the Avengers League.

Super-Soldier had also made another discovery. While Wanda and Pietro shared half their DNA, the X-gene wasn't one of them. Mercury was a metamutant, but the White Witch was something else entirely, something that Super-Soldier had never seen before. But someone else had. That someone was Madame Harkness (Madame Xanadu + Agatha Harkness), an ancient and powerful witch who approached Wanda and explained to the young woman that she, like her, wasn't Homo Sapien or Homo Superior but Homo Magi, making her naturally attuned to magic.

What's more, she had a natural affinity for the oldest and strongest form of magic of all, Chaos Magic. This was why Wanda always had such trouble controlling her powers. Madame Harkness took Wanda in as her student. It was from her that Wanda learned to better concentrate on her spells by speaking what she wanted to happen backwards. After that, White Witch's power and potential skyrocketed.

And her life, in general, also went up. She restarted her magic show, fell in love with and married her teammate Red Vision (Red Tornado + Vision), and even managed to patch things up with Constantine. But as I said before, not everyone gets to have a happily ever after. And the White Witch's was taken from her when Mercury sacrificed his life, saving everybody during the Secret War on Infinite Earths (Secret War + Crisis on Infinite Earths).

Things went from bad to worse as her husband was later destroyed by Arachknight's contingency plans falling into the hands of Emo zhi Shou (Ra's al Ghul + Mandarin). He expressly asked not to be rebuilt if he should die, but instead be buried like a human. But the US government wouldn't honor his request, taking his remains so that they could rebuild him as a mindless weapon.

These personal tragedies happening one after another caused her to snap, driving her to completely rewrite all of reality so that she could have the life she felt was stolen from her. One where she was with her husband, and they had two beautiful children together. One where everyone she ever cared about got everything they ever wanted. This included Magnimax, who now found himself the new ruler of a world where metamutants were the dominant species while humans were second-class citizens with barely, if any, rights.

The heroes eventually regained their memories and fought to restore the world the way it was. This included Mercury. The original Mercury. Pietro Allen. He knew that doing this would mean his death, but he didn't care. And when he and Magnimax fought over which world deserved the right to exist, the father ended up killing the son. This absolutely destroyed Wanda, who then turned the world back to normal with only the heroes remembering what had happened. The only difference now was that the White Witch was nowhere to be found.

This, however, would not be the end of Wanda's story. But from here, we take a break from Wanda Zatara to talk about Zachary Kaplan (Zachary Zatara + Wiccan), a teenage boy who idolized the White Witch both as a magician and as a superhero and took up stage magic to try to emulate her.

One day, while practicing alone in his parents' house, he heard a knock on the door and saw that it was a strange old lady he had never met before. This was Madame Harkness, and she came to tell Zachary that, like the White Witch, he too was Homo Magi, a real sorcerer, one with more potential than she had ever seen before. And that it was his destiny to find the White Witch.

To help him with this, he assembled a new team of heroes called the Young Avengers League (Young Avengers + Young Justice), made up of superpowered teenagers like him. One of these members was the new Mercury, Tommy West (Wally West + Speed). And while Zachary, now going by Magician, was happy to have him, Tommy seemed confused. Magician didn't get it until he was alone with Mercury and he took off his mask, revealing they had the same exact face!

Both boys were completely confused until Zachary got an idea. Using his magic powers, he learned the truth of their origin. The kids Wanda created in the alternate timeline didn't just disappear; they were retro-reincarnated, their souls sent back in time and to different families to be reborn. The reason Mercury and Magician look like they could be twins was that they are twins!

Eventually, the Young Avengers League, the old Avengers League, and the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol) all located Wanda in Latvaznia (Latveria + Kaznia), completely amnesiac and about to marry Alexander von Luthor (Lex Luthor + Doctor Doom). And if that weren't bad enough, their "wedding" was actually a ritual for Luthor to take all of Wanda's god-like power for himself.

As Alexander von Luthor made light work of the rest of the heroes, Mercury and Magician reached out to Wanda and reminded her who she was and who they were. With her memory restored, Wanda was able to take her power back. The White Witch had returned. And as Luthor lay defeated, Magnimax apologized for how he treated her while the Avengers League offered to take her back.

It's hard to tell what will happen to Wanda now. But with her sons by her side, maybe this witch can have her happily ever after after all.

Powers & Abilities: I'm just going to cut to the chase and tell you that Wanda's control over Chaos Magic makes her so powerful, the only real limit to what she can or can't do is her imagination. I suppose you could disrupt her focus by making her unable to speak backwards, but again, this is just a concentration exercise. All she needs to cast her spells is her own thoughts.

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Name: Harleen Barrison

Biography: Growing up in a middle-class home in Brooklyn, New York, Harleen Barrison suffered horrible abuse at the hands of her mother, abuse she coped with through sex, drugs, and rock & roll. But mostly drugs. Drugs she both took and sold. And after saving enough money, she moved out of her Brooklyn home and attended college in Gotham City. There she worked to earn her degree in psychology, trying to solve her mental issues by being her own psychiatrist. And while this didn't work, it did land her a job at Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, where she was tasked with rehabilitating their most infamous patient, the Grinning Goblin (Joker + Green Goblin).

Throughout their sessions, Harleen realized that the Goblin wasn't the homicidal monster the public saw him as. He was merely a troubled man beaten down by a cruel, unforgiving society who just needed someone to give him the love and support he never had, and that Arachknight (Batman + Spider-Man) was the real monster for constantly attacking him. All things anyone who knew the Grinning Goblin could tell were complete bullshit, including the Goblin himself. But he had no qualms giving Harleen this idea so that he could manipulate her into helping him escape.

When she did, she said that she wanted to join him in his life of crime. He responded by telling her that she'd have to prove herself first. So the two went to the Ace Chemical plant, where Grinning Goblin told Harleen to jump into the vat of the same chemicals that brought him to life. Initially, he expected her to say no. Afterwards, he'd just kill her and move on. But Harleen surprised even him by jumping into the vat without hesitation. The Goblin stared down for a few seconds and, assuming she had died, shrugged his shoulders and was about to walk away until a massive scream louder than anything he had ever heard caused all the chemicals to explode out of the vat and shatter every window in the building. He looked down at the now-empty vat and saw someone entirely different from the one who had jumped into it. She had chalk-white skin, a black diamond mark on her left eye, and a body she once thought she could only dream of. In a way, Grinning Goblin's plan worked as intended. Harleen Barrison was dead. Long live Shrieking Harley.

For years, Shrieking Harley dutifully assisted Grinning Goblin as he spread chaos, terrorized the people of Gotham City, and went out of his way to ruin Arachknight's day. And despite all the physical, verbal, and emotional abuse he heaped on her, despite everybody from cops to citizens to heroes and even other villains telling her to dump the Goblin immediately, it seemed like nothing would convince her to leave behind her "Puddin'". Until the day Mr. G made a new friend.

A behavioral psychologist by the name of Cassandra Briar stopped by Arkham Asylum with a supposed solution to violent insanity. She created a computer chip that would be installed inside a person's brain, cutting them off from all violent emotions and desires and rendering them more docile and harmless. And she installed these chips in both Grinning Goblin and Slash (Carnage + Zsasz). And while we could certainly debate the ethics of such a chip and its intended use, what's not debatable is that it was a miserable failure. It seemed to have worked at first, but Slash's symbiote merely shorted out the chip as soon as she installed it, and Zsasz only pretended it worked until he and Grinning Goblin were in the same room.

After shorting out his chip, the two disordered minds worked together to spread maximum carnage. But first, GG wanted to invite Shrieking Harley to the party, saying she had a new party trick that would keep the heroes off their backs.

That "trick" is what she calls her Dark Empathy. By reaching into a person's mind, she can drive them to act out every twisted thought and heinous desire they've buried down deep inside them. And this power is strong enough to spread around the entire city. There was so much chaos and bloodshed that Arachknight had to call in the entire Arachknight family and Poison (Venom + Bane) to contain it.

Shrieking Harley was having fun at first, especially when they broke into a secret lab experimenting on animals, and she adopted three mutant hyenas as her pets. She named them Yakko (Bud + Carrion), Wakko (Lou + Demogoblin), and Dot (George + Doppelganger). But Slash seriously gave her the creeps. She put up with him since Mr. G seemed to like him, but then he tried to attack her precious babies. She nailed him with one of her sonic attacks, but it wasn't enough to keep him from running her through with his symbiote. 

All Harley could do was watch as Slash proceeded to butcher her babies. She begged the Grinning Goblin to help, but all he did was watch before walking away with his arm on Cletus' shoulders. The man she devoted her life to had just left her to die. And just when she realized he never cared about her, everything went black.

Harley woke up in the secret lab of her best friend, Poison Pam Cassidy (Poison Ivy + Black Tom Cassidy), who nursed her back to health while suppressing the urge to say I told you so. She informed Harley that Arachknight and his friends managed to stop Grinning Goblin and Slash, though she really didn't care at that point.

It took some time, but eventually Harley managed to pick up the pieces of herself. She decided to cut the Grinning Goblin out of her life entirely, gave herself a new outfit instead of the one he picked for her, and went from supervillain to anti-hero. Starting a much, much healthier relationship with Pam definitely helped. Over time, even the Arachknight family that she constantly antagonized recognized her reformation and unofficially welcomed her as one of them. She even got her babies back through cloning.

In a way, Harleen was right. Some people really do just need love and support to be their best selves. And though it took a long time for her to find it, she can finally become something greater than all the trauma and abuse she suffered through. She may be a little nutty, but you'd have to be crazy not to love the fantabulous Shrieking Harley.

Powers & Abilities: Shrieking Harley's powers came about from a combination of chemicals and her own metamutant (metahuman + mutant) nature. The chemicals from the vat she jumped into gave her superhuman strength, durability, and agility, while her X-gene gave her sonic powers. She can release a supersonic scream from her mouth or channel sound waves into her fist before firing them out as energy blasts.

The Grinning Goblin may have been the epitome of an abusive partner, but it's not like he never gave Harley anything. The Goblin gifted Shrieking Harley a massive assortment of weapons and gizmos. From him, she received a novelty pop cork gun with explosive rounds and confetti bullets for ensnaring people. Various prank gifts like an extending boxing glove, an electrical joy buzzer that actually electrocutes you, and dynamite. He even taught her how to make his signature Goblin Toxin, a gaseous chemical weapon that forces anyone who breathes it to laugh until they die from asphyxiation. And while he also gave her a mallet as a melee weapon, she has since replaced it with a regular baseball bat.

Next came her secondary mutation, which gave her her Dark Empathy in the first place. And after Poison Pam Cassidy fixed her up, she gave her a healing factor that lets her recover from wounds and cuts almost instantly.

That's not to say that all of Harley's skills were given to her. While she may have fallen for Grinning Goblin's manipulations, she's still a licensed psychotherapist and regularly uses psychoanalysis to make her enemies defeat themselves for her.

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Name: Ororo Nubia

Biography: By now, you should be familiar with the origin of Thunder Woman (Thor + Wonder Woman), about how Odin sculpted an infant from clay and brought it to life after banishing Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons of Themyscira for their betrayal. What you didn't know is that there was another. Made from dark clay, she had hair as white as snow and skin the same color as the earth. After he finished creating both his daughters, Odin brought them to his first daughter's crib and put them to rest. He then returned to his Odinsleep to replenish his powers.

Meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, the war god Ares was furious at Odin for sending his daughters into Limbo. He demanded that his father Zeus attack Asgard and force Odin to return them. Zeus refused, telling Ares that between Hippolyta's treachery and the murder of her own daughter, the Amazons had no one to blame but themselves for their exile. Ares would not let this stand. He knew he couldn't overpower Odin on his own, but he could still make him feel the pain of having his daughters taken from him.

After taking his uncle Hades' helmet of invisibility, Ares infiltrated Asgard, snuck into Odin's palace, and stood before the sleeping twins. He brought with him an enchanted jar to put the babies in that would seal any sound they made. He lifted the first twin out of the crib. But as he did, she woke up and began crying. Immediately, Ares could hear the guards approaching. In his panic, he put the baby in the jar, sealed it shut, and escaped through the window.

Odin was livid. He'd sent his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, to scour the nine realms for them. Ares spent that entire time wearing Hades' helm of invisibility, so they were unable to call him. After weeks of searching, Odin was forced to call off his search. When he did, Ares was hiding out in the middle of a Kenyan desert. He took the baby he kidnapped out of the jar, her throat sore from endless crying, and he left her in the middle of the burning desert to be killed by the elements or whatever animals lived there. Instead, she was taken in by a woman from a nearby village and given the name Ororo Nubia.

As she grew up, Ororo began to tap into her god powers and used them to protect her village. When there was a drought, she summoned the rain. When animals attacked her home, she'd create blizzards to scare them off. And when the heat was a little too much to handle, she'd call upon a gentle breeze to keep them cool. By the time she'd grown, everyone in the village was worshipping her as a goddess. The fact that she hadn't seemed to have aged a day after adulthood certainly helped give the impression. Though ironically, Ororo herself would question her godhood, constantly wondering what she was and where she came from.

She'd get an answer from Professor Niles Xavier (Professor X + The Chief), who at the time was putting together an international team of metamutant (metahuman + mutant) superheroes to save the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol) from being devoured by a living island. He heard stories about a weather goddess living in a small village in Africa and assumed she must've been a metamutant as well. Ororo agreed to help the Professor, and after she and her new teammates saved the X-Patrol, she decided to join them, realizing there was so much of the world she had never seen and so many more people she could be helping. And after reading up on a few legends from different cultures, she picked her codename, Amazon, after the most powerful group of women that ever lived.

Amazon would go on to be an absolutely invaluable member of the X-Patrol, going on many, many adventures. One of them led them to Asgard, where, for the first time in centuries, Ororo was reunited with her father. Odin told her everything about her true origin, and after using his magic to peer into her memories, he realized who took her.

Both Odin and Amazon arrived on Mount Olympus and revealed what Ares had done so long ago. Odin demanded that Ares face justice for what he had done to his family. Zeus didn't take kindly to another pantheon coming to his palace unannounced and telling him what to do, and told Odin that he would do no such thing. Odin seemed on the verge of a full-blown meltdown, but then Amazon defused the situation by proposing a contest. She and Ares would face each other in one-on-one combat, and whoever lost would be banished from their home. Ares accepted, and despite being the god of combat and brutality, Amazon kicked his ass, avenging both herself and Odin.

After defeating Ares, she then turned to Odin and Zeus and asked them to revoke the rules of her and Ares' contest. Amazon did not forgive Ares for all he had done to her, but she recognized that the god of war was a grieving father lashing out, just like Odin. While both godly kings were touched by her compassion, in the end a deal's a deal. Not only that, but Ares still showed no remorse for kidnapping her and leaving her to die, so their sympathy could only go so far.

After returning to Asgard, Odin suggested that Amazon stay permanently, making her an official goddess and future queen. But Ororo already had a home with the X-Patrol; she was a goddess in her village, and a queen through her marriage to Black Vixen (Black Panther + Vixen). While she was happy finally having the answer she was searching for, there was no question she belonged on Earth. 

Amazon had always been someone who felt responsible for everything, who needed to use her incredible power for everyone's sake. Sometimes it's admirable, sometimes it's self-destructive. But no matter what, she will bear any weight required to protect her friends. You do not want to push your luck against the Goddess of Storms.

Powers & Abilities: In terms of powers, Amazon and Thunder Woman are very familiar and very different at the same time. Both of them have extremely long lives, to the point that it'll take hundreds, if not thousands, of years for them to actually get old. And they both possess superhuman strength, durability, stamina, and agility. It's just that Thoranna has way, way, way more of it.

But what Ororo lacks in physical might, she makes up for plenty with her control over weather. With just a single thought, she can make the weather do whatever she wants. She can create wind vortices strong enough to lift her off the ground, summon lightning from the sky or from her hands, blast winds so cold they can freeze you solid, or cause massive tidal waves. And her powers are strong enough to cover an entire planet, any planet she's on so long as it has an atmosphere, and precise enough that she regularly makes it rain in her home village even while all the way in New York.

And after reuniting with Odin and giving Ares the punishment he deserves, her father insisted on giving her a present: the Staff of Understanding. Admittedly, calling it a staff is a bit misleading. It's a shapeshifting weapon that can take the form of either a spear or a bladed lasso with unlimited range. It also has the power to manifest its wielder's intentions. Most people would be wary of such a weapon if it were in the possession of a normal person. But in the hands of someone as compassionate as Amazon, there's nothing to worry about.

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Name: Reed Thawne

Biography: Born in the 25th century, Reed Thawne, like many kids of his time, idolized the heroes of the 21st. Specifically, he admired Pietro Allen, the original Mercury (Barry Allen + Quicksilver). His story of going from metamutant (metahuman + mutant) terrorist to hometown champion to sacrificing his life to save the multiverse inspired him. As someone who was constantly bullied, both at school and his own home, he felt he and Pietro were kindred spirits. Like him, Reed dreamed of being more than what everyone expected from him, of being someone who would save the world. And while he may not have Pietro's speed, he had something just as good: his incredible mind.

A mind that led to him being scooped up by a government think tank right after earning his doctorate. At first, it seemed like a dream come true to Reed, a chance to work with the greatest minds on Earth to make the world a better place. But it quickly became apparent that the government only wanted Reed to make weapons, nothing that would actually help people. 

While he was stewing in his frustration, Reed came across a time capsule that contained Mercury's costume. He brought it back to his lab to study it and found that it contained trace elements of the Speed Force, an alternate dimension that works like a battery for all speedsters. After countless sleepless hours of research, Reed harnessed these trace elements and tried to use them to tap into the Speed Force himself. Instead, he accidentally created his own Speed Force, a Negative Speed Force. One that gave him the same powers as Mercury plus a little extra. Not exactly what he was going for, but he wasn't gonna complain about it.

The first thing that came to Reed's mind was how Mercury could use his speed to travel through time. After constructing a "cosmic treadmill," Reed went into the future to see what marvels awaited him there. And what he saw horrified him.

Poverty. Famine. Destruction. It was a world in ruins, a world we were heading towards if we didn't do something. Reed returned to his time to tell his employers exactly that. That if there was any chance for humanity to continue, they needed to change course. They ignored him, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Reed snapped and slaughtered all of them with his speed. It was there he decided that if he couldn't save the world, he might as well destroy it and replace it with something better. 

Reed built a machine that would trigger a series of natural disasters that would wipe out the majority of humanity. He himself would travel to the future after the cataclysm was over and lead the survivors into a glorious utopia. Nobody could stop him except for the one person he least expected.

While experimenting with his powers, a young Pietro Allen, who hadn't quit the Brotherhood (Brotherhood of Evil + Brotherhood of Mutants) yet, accidentally travelled to the 25th century and ran into (pun not intended) his biggest fan. At first, he was willing to play along with Reed's hero fantasies until he found out what he was planning.

Reed tried to appeal to Pietro, to tell him that this was the only way to save the world. All Mercury heard were the ravings of a madman hellbent on genocide. And while Pietro may not have been able to stop Reed from activating the machine, he was able to destroy it before it did any serious damage. 

As Reed was taken away in power-dampening handcuffs, all he could think about was how his idol doomed humanity. Any admiration he had for Mercury turned into a burning hatred. Over time, Reed was able to escape his imprisonment and travel to Pietro's time. He knew that he and the Negative Speed Force wouldn't exist if he killed Mercury before his time. So instead, he'd make his life as miserable as possible. And he'd do it while operating under the identity of Pietro's greatest nemesis, one whose true name had been lost to time, Professor Zoom.

Zoom would go back in time to when Pietro was a kid and basically bullied the shit out of him. Push him down some stairs, steal his homework, let his dog out so it'd get run over. Every friend Pietro would make, Reed would retcon out of existence. But the crown jewel of his pettiness was when he brutally murdered Pietro's mother and framed his father for it.

After ruining his childhood, Professor Zoom took it upon himself to then ruin Mercury's death. He travelled to the future, years after Mercury died saving everyone during the Secret War on Infinite Earths (Secret War + Crisis on Infinite Earths), and essentially pulled him out of the Speed Force, bringing him back to life, all to deny Pietro the glory of a heroic sacrifice.

The first Mercury eventually realized this. And when he finally tracked Zoom down, he revealed everything he had done to Pietro ever since he was a kid and that he was going to go even further by murdering Pietro's wife, Betty West (Betty Brant + Iris West). On the day of their wedding, no less.

Mercury wouldn't let this stand, and after chasing Professor Zoom all over the timeline, Pietro ended Zoom's rampage by snapping his neck. It was a complete accident, but Mercury would be lying if he said he'd shed tears for him. And thus concluded the story of the worst man Mercury ever fought.

Or so he'd thought.

Just like how Pietro entered the Speed Force when he died, Zoom woke up in the Negative Speed Force. But unlike Mercury, who needed outside help to escape, Reed could leave whenever he wanted. The Negative Speed Force didn't just make him fast; it made him immortal. It didn't matter what anyone did to him anymore because he would always come back. Reed now had an eternity to torture Pietro. He'd always be faster. Always be smarter. And time is always on his side.

Powers & Abilities: If I were to describe the key difference between the Speed Force and the Negative Speed Force, it's that the Speed Force gives Mercury power over speed, but the Negative Speed Force gives Professor Zoom power over time. He, of course, shares Mercury's superspeed, allowing him to move so fast he hits with the power of a white dwarf star, or vibrate his molecules so fast he can phase through solid objects, or create vibrations so powerful they could destroy the universe. He also has a Negative Speed Force Aura that protects him from most damage.

Of course, this means Professor Zoom can also travel through time. But time travel isn't just a power; it's his specialty. And it's all thanks to the Negative Speed Force, allowing him to go in and out of any era he wants even after he dies. This works even if somebody tries to kill him before he got his powers. The present version of Thawne would still exist as if nothing happened. This makes Professor Zoom a universal constant, a living paradox. Not even time itself can kill him; he can just steal your youth and add your time to his own, aging you 80 years in an instant while he'll stay the same forever.

All of this gets compounded by his sheer intelligence. He was one of, if not the most brilliant person in the 25th century, putting him on par with the likes of Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic + Mr. Terrific) and Alexander von Luthor (Lex Luthor + Doctor Doom).

The only thing really holding him back is his sheer obsession with Pietro Allen. And believe me when I say that, as bad as a petty Thawne is, an ambitious one would be so much worse.

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Name: Danny Brand

Biography: As a young child, Danny always thought his dad, Wendell Brand (Wendell Rand + Gary Brand), was merely the billionaire CEO of the Brand Corporation. He had no idea that he was raised in the mystical hidden city of K'un-Parbat (K'un-Lun + Nanda Parbat), which is only accessible in our dimension once every ten years. That changed the day Danny's father took a trip back to K'un-Parbat, bringing his son, his wife Heather (Heather Rand + Barbara Brand), and his business partner Harold Matson (Harold Meachum + The Hook) along with him. 

The four of them took a treacherous passage through the freezing Himalayan mountains. Wendell insisted that they were getting closer to K'un-Parbat. What he didn't count on was Harold wanting to take the business for himself. He waited for the right opportunity, and when it arrived, he pushed Wendell over a mountain ledge to his death. He then turned to Heather and Danny, approaching them with a knife in hand.

Heather and Danny ran for their lives before spotting a long suspension bridge. They attempted to get away from Harold by crossing the bridge, but the killer merely cut the ropes, causing the bridge to collapse and sending mother and son falling to their deaths.

But someone saw the whole thing occur and wouldn't let this injustice stand. That someone was Shou-Kushna (Shou-Lao + Rama Kushna), the dragon goddess of K'un-Parbat. Shou-Kushna brought Danny back to life and had the monks of K'un-Parbat welcome him as one of them. Danny was now able to grow up and live a full life in K'un-Parbat. However, should he leave its borders, he would be dead once more, turning into a spirit cursed to wander the Earth indefinitely.

Despite knowing this, Danny could not let go of his desire for revenge. Harold Matson was still out there, and he needed to pay for what he'd done to his family. So he trained for twenty years under Rip Kung, the Thundermaster (Judomaster +  Lei Kung, the Thunderer), until he was ready to fight Shou-Kushna herself. Upon her defeat, Shou-Kushna blessed Danny with her chi, turning him into the sworn protector of K'un-Parbat, the Iron Fist.

However, Danny did not care about guarding K'un-Parbat but about avenging his family. Stripped of the mantle and cast out for his selfishness, Danny was turned into a ghost as soon as he stepped outside of K'un-Parbat, just as the monks had warned him. Still, not even death itself would stop him.

He returned to New York City, completely invisible and untouchable to everyone around him. He searched and searched until he found the Brand Corporation's main building. His father's main building, where Harold Matson was probably having the time of his life in the office of the man he'd killed.

Except he wasn't. Not only did Harold lose his legs and his hand to frostbite, but he was chronically paranoid and terrified of the idea of one of the Brand family coming back for revenge. Danny didn't need to take his vengeance; life had already done that for him. So he spared Harold and wandered the city. He could never return to K'un-Parbat and his whole reason for leaving in the first place was gone. What was he to do now?

That's when he looked down and saw the superhero Powerline (Luke Cage + Black Lightning) fighting a gang of thugs all by himself. Deciding to help, Danny possessed one of the thugs. The two heroes introduced themselves as they fought. Since Danny was technically not the Iron Fist because he lost the name after abandoning K'un-Parbat, he instead told Powerline to call him Ghost Fist.

This was the beginning of a long and powerful friendship between Powerline and Ghost Fist. They'd even start their own business together, the Outsiders for Hire (Outsiders + Heroes for Hire), going to all the places and doing all the things the other heroes couldn't for a price.

And a hero was exactly what Ghost Fist was. Initially terrified at the idea of losing everything, Danny had found his calling. So much so that when Danny returned to K'un-Parbat to save it from disaster, he turned down their offer to take back the Iron Fist title. Ghost Fist is who he was and who he was always meant to be. And so long as he's still tied to the living world, he will always be there to protect it with a fist of iron and the heart of a dragon.

Powers & Abilities: As a ghost, Danny can do everything you expect ghosts to do. He can walk through walls, disappear, and fly, that sort of thing. There's just one downside: he can't turn these powers off. So to interact with the mortal world, Ghost Fist needs to possess someone. Doing so causes the mark of Shou-Kushna to appear on the person's chest, the only way to tell that Ghost Fist is possessing them.

After passing the trial of Shou-Kushna, Danny wields the power of the Iron Fist, which gives him full control over his chi or life energy. You might think it's paradoxical that someone dead can harness life energy, but chi comes directly from the soul, and that's exactly what Ghost Fist is. Danny only needs to possess someone so he can actually hit somebody with it. 

Danny controls not only his own chi but also that of Shou-Kushna herself. He typically channels it into, you guessed it, his fists, giving him the striking power of a hydrogen bomb. However, punching hard is far from the only thing he can do with it. For example, he can use chi to hypnotize people, heal his wounds (or, I guess, the guy he's possessing's wounds), or absorb chi or other types of energy to add more fuel to his own chi reserves. He can even call upon all of Shou-Kushna's chi at once, either directing it at his foes in the form of a massive chi dragon or absorbing it directly to reach a higher level of power.

Of course, Danny never would've gotten the Iron Fist if he couldn't have beaten Shou-Kushna. Which he did by becoming one of the greatest masters of Kung Fu the world has ever seen, specializing in pressure point attacks. Combining this with the strength of the Iron Fist means that very few people can last long against Ghost Fist.

I assume they'd all murder each other over whether or not Zutara should've happened. I really want to know what you think, though, so give me some ideas.

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Name: Barbara Stacy

Biography: All her life, Gwen Gordon had found herself surrounded by amazing people. Her father, George Gordon (George Stacy + James Gordon), was a captain in the Gotham City Police Department. Her brother, Miles Gordon (Jackal + James Gordon Jr), was a genius, albeit a very standoffish one. And her two best friends, Peter Wayne (Batman + Spider-Man) and Tommy Osborn (Harry Osborn + Hush), were both part of the two richest families in Gotham. Being surrounded by such people made her want to stand out too. So she dove headfirst into anything that caught her interest, whether that be computer science, martial arts, or playing the drums. 

But after entering high school, her friend group started to drift apart. Peter became flaky and would constantly ditch them with little more than a lame excuse to justify it. As for Tommy, he was becoming increasingly erratic and argumentative, seemingly cracking under the constant pressure his father Norman (Green Goblin + Joker) put him under. All this came to a head when Tommy nearly died from a drug overdose. Gwen demanded that Peter stay this time, and he agreed.

He apologized for always bailing on her and Tommy. He didn't tell her the reason why - that he was secretly Arachknight - but he insisted that it was for a good reason and that he would be there for them whenever he could. Gwen understood this and accepted Peter's apology. In time, not only were they able to rebuild their old friendship, but they'd become even closer as they both realized the depths of their feelings for one another.

It wasn't long before Peter Wayne and Gwen Gordon became boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the envious Tommy's dismay. He bemoaned their relationship to his father, who couldn't care less about his relationship woes. However, this revelation intrigued him as it gave him and his monstrous alter ego, the Grinning Goblin, a truly heinous idea.

While Gwen and Peter were out on a date, the Grinning Goblin swooped in and kidnapped her. He took her to the Gotham City bridge and dangled her over the water hundreds of feet below her. As soon as the Grinning Goblin caught sight of Arachknight, he dropped her. But the Caped Crusader was able to save her just in the nick of time.

As soon as they were back on the bridge, Gwen tried to run for it, to get as far away from the two superpowered beings and their battle as she could. But the Grinning Goblin had other plans. He sent his glider after her as she ran, running her through with its blade attachment. Gwen felt pain unlike any she had ever felt before. Then, she didn't feel anything at all. Finally, everything went black.

Gwen woke up in a hospital bed, her father standing beside her. He looked exhausted, like he'd been crying for a long time. Arachknight had managed to save her life, but the Goblin's Glider severed her spine. She'd never be able to walk again.

During Norman Osborn's funeral, Gwen told Peter and Tommy that her dad was taking her out of Gotham City. Miles was over eighteen, so he got to stay, but George was taking her to New York City, and that was that.

Peter feels like this is his fault. So he goes off on a ten-year-long journey to train himself and become the hero Gotham deserves. When he returned, he was shocked to see that Arachknight was already back, committing crimes rather than stopping them. But the surprises just kept on coming when he reunited with Gwen, who was not only back from New York, but was walking! Gwen explained that she participated in a new experimental surgery to walk again, and it worked! Now she was back in Gotham, and she wanted to be together again.

Peter was happy, of course, but he still had that fake Arachknight to deal with. He followed his impostor to a warehouse only to find it was an ambush. Not only was the fake Arachknight there, but so was Norman Osborn, back from the dead, and Tommy wearing a Grinning Goblin costume. Tommy paid Miles to create a clone of Peter and Norman as part of his plan for revenge, and now all three of them were going to kill him.

But the Norman clone ended up turning against Tommy, saying he saw the monster he turned him into and he needed to stop. The original Arachknight and Grinning Goblin worked together to defeat the counterparts. And in the end, Norman gave his life to save Peter's. The sight of it not only zapped Tommy of the will to continue fighting, but it also made the fake Arachknight collapse to the floor. When he got up, he appeared confused, asking what was going on. Except his voice sounded nothing like Peter's. That's when he removed the mask and revealed that "he" was really Gwen Gordon. But not really.

The Arachknight impostor began to remember who she truly was. Peter's DNA was so mutated from the spider bite that Miles couldn't figure out how to clone it. Instead, he created a clone of his sister Gwen and infused her with Arachknight's powers. He and Tommy then brainwashed her, fitted her in a padded suit with web-shooters, and sent her off to ruin Arachknight's good name. Which left only one question: where's the real Gwen Gordon?

Turns out, she was waiting for Peter at his mansion, just back from New York and still in a wheelchair. You could imagine her surprise when Peter walked in with another Gwen. That's when he told her his secret identity and what Tommy had been up to.

Once the original Gwen was up to speed, she offered to help Arachknight, not out in the field, but through her computer. After the incident, she put all of her time into studying computers and now can hack into anything, a very useful ally for him to have.

As for the clone Gwen, she decided she needed to have a life of her own. So she dyed her hair red, moved back to New York, and changed her name to her mother's, Barbara Stacy. Yes, Gwen's been surrounded by amazing people her whole life, and now both versions of her got to be one of those amazing people. One as Oracle, heroic hacker extraordinaire. And one as Manhattan's own Webbed Wonder, the spectacular Spider-Girl.

Powers & Abilities: As a clone of Gwen mixed with Arachknight's DNA, Spider-Girl has the same proportionate speed, strength, and agility of a spider that Peter Wayne possesses. She can also stick to any surface and climb up walls and has her own spider-sense, basically a tingle in the back of her head that lets her know something bad is going to happen. 

As a going-away present, Peter gave her her own web-shooters and a utility belt, with everything a spider-themed hero should have, such as arachknarangs, an emergency grappling gun, and smoke pellets.

And while she might not be as skilled as Arachknight or as smart as her original self, she's still a master martial artist and accomplished hacker.

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Name: Barbara Stacy

Biography: All her life, Gwen Gordon had found herself surrounded by amazing people. Her father, George Gordon (George Stacy + James Gordon), was a captain in the Gotham City Police Department. Her brother, Miles Gordon (Jackal + James Gordon Jr), was a genius, albeit a very standoffish one. And her two best friends, Peter Wayne (Batman + Spider-Man) and Tommy Osborn (Harry Osborn + Hush), were both part of the two richest families in Gotham. Being surrounded by such people made her want to stand out too. So she dove headfirst into anything that caught her interest, whether that be computer science, martial arts, or playing the drums. 

But after entering high school, her friend group started to drift apart. Peter became flaky and would constantly ditch them with little more than a lame excuse to justify it. As for Tommy, he was becoming increasingly erratic and argumentative, seemingly cracking under the constant pressure his father Norman (Green Goblin + Joker) put him under. All this came to a head when Tommy nearly died from a drug overdose. Gwen demanded that Peter stay this time, and he agreed.

He apologized for always bailing on her and Tommy. He didn't tell her the reason why - that he was secretly Arachknight - but he insisted that it was for a good reason and that he would be there for them whenever he could. Gwen understood this and accepted Peter's apology. In time, not only were they able to rebuild their old friendship, but they'd become even closer as they both realized the depths of their feelings for one another.

It wasn't long before Peter Wayne and Gwen Gordon became boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the envious Tommy's dismay. He bemoaned their relationship to his father, who couldn't care less about his relationship woes. However, this revelation intrigued him as it gave him and his monstrous alter ego, the Grinning Goblin, a truly heinous idea.

While Gwen and Peter were out on a date, the Grinning Goblin swooped in and kidnapped her. He took her to the Gotham City bridge and dangled her over the water hundreds of feet below her. As soon as the Grinning Goblin caught sight of Arachknight, he dropped her. But the Caped Crusader was able to save her just in the nick of time.

As soon as they were back on the bridge, Gwen tried to run for it, to get as far away from the two superpowered beings and their battle as she could. But the Grinning Goblin had other plans. He sent his glider after her as she ran, running her through with its blade attachment. Gwen felt pain unlike any she had ever felt before. Then, she didn't feel anything at all. Finally, everything went black.

Gwen woke up in a hospital bed, her father standing beside her. He looked exhausted, like he'd been crying for a long time. Arachknight had managed to save her life, but the Goblin's Glider severed her spine. She'd never be able to walk again.

During Norman Osborn's funeral, Gwen told Peter and Tommy that her dad was taking her out of Gotham City. Miles was over eighteen, so he got to stay, but George was taking her to New York City, and that was that.

Peter feels like this is his fault. So he goes off on a ten-year-long journey to train himself and become the hero Gotham deserves. When he returned, he was shocked to find Arachknight already back, committing crimes rather than stopping them. But the surprises just kept on coming when he reunited with Gwen, who was not only back from New York, but was walking! Gwen explained that she participated in a new experimental surgery to walk again, and it worked! Now she was back in Gotham, and she wanted to be together again.

Peter was happy, of course, but he still had that fake Arachknight to deal with. He followed his impostor to a warehouse only to find it was an ambush. Not only was the fake Arachknight there, but so was Norman Osborn, back from the dead, and Tommy wearing a Grinning Goblin costume. Tommy paid Miles to create a clone of Peter and Norman as part of his plan for revenge, and now all three of them were going to kill him.

But the Norman clone ended up turning against Tommy, saying he saw the monster he turned him into and he needed to stop. The original Arachknight and Grinning Goblin worked together to defeat the counterparts. And in the end, Norman gave his life to save Peter's. The sight of it not only zapped Tommy of the will to continue fighting, but it also made the fake Arachknight collapse to the floor. When he got up, he appeared confused, asking what was going on. Except his voice sounded nothing like Peter's. That's when he removed the mask and revealed that "he" was really Gwen Gordon. But not really.

The Arachknight impostor began to remember who she truly was. Peter's DNA was so mutated from the spider bite that Miles couldn't figure out how to clone it. Instead, he created a clone of his sister Gwen and infused her with Arachknight's powers. He and Tommy then brainwashed her, fitted her in a padded suit with web-shooters, and sent her off to ruin Arachknight's good name. Which left only one question: where's the real Gwen Gordon?

Turns out, she was waiting for Peter at his mansion, just back from New York and still in a wheelchair. You could imagine her surprise when Peter walked in with another Gwen. That's when he told her his secret identity and what Tommy had been up to.

Once the original Gwen was up to speed, she offered to help Arachknight, not out in the field, but through her computer. After the incident, she put all of her time into studying computers and now can hack into anything, a very useful ally for him to have.

As for the clone Gwen, she decided she needed to have a life of her own. So she dyed her hair red, moved back to New York, and changed her name to her mother's, Barbara Stacy. Yes, Gwen's been surrounded by amazing people her whole life, and now both versions of her got to be one of those amazing people. One as Oracle, heroic hacker extraordinaire. And one as Manhattan's own Webbed Wonder, the amazing Arachniwoman.

Powers & Abilities: As a clone of Gwen mixed with Arachknight's DNA, Arachniwoman has the same proportionate speed, strength, and agility of a spider that Peter Wayne possesses. She can also stick to any surface and climb up walls and has her own spider-sense, basically a tingle in the back of her head that lets her know something bad is going to happen. 

As a going-away present, Peter gave her her own web-shooters and a utility belt, with everything an Arachni-hero should have, such as arachknarangs, an emergency grappling gun, and smoke pellets.

And while she might not be as skilled as Arachknight or as smart as her original self, she's still a master martial artist and accomplished hacker.

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Name: Jason Buchanan "Bucky" Todd

Biography: After losing his parents at just 10 years old, Bucky was forced to live on the cruel streets of Gotham City. He would survive by stealing tires off of cars and selling them, something he became very good at over the next five years. That is, until the day he got busted trying to pop the Arachmobile's (Batmobile + Spider-Mobile) wheels by Arachknight (Batman + Spider-Man) himself. Bucky fully expected to get his ass kicked, but Arachknight could see that he was just a kid all on his own trying to survive. He adopted Bucky as his second son after Matt Grayson (Nightwing + Daredevil), who had just graduated from being Arachknight's sidekick Kid Arachnid and moved out of Gotham to be his own hero. And after six months of training, Bucky Todd became the new Kid Arachnid.

However, Bucky was very different from Matt. He was reckless, impulsive, and had serious anger issues. All of these traits came together to get Bucky into trouble more often than not. They would get him in trouble for the final time when he decided to go after the Grinning Goblin (Joker + Green Goblin) on his own to find out what he was planning.

He tracked the Grinning Goblin to a warehouse where he saw he had somehow acquired a rocket. Before he could deactivate it, he was ambushed by the Grinning Goblin. The Goblin beat Bucky within an inch of his life with a crowbar. But just before he could finish the job, the alarms he set up detected Arachknight approaching.

Arachknight, who had been following Bucky, tracked him down to that same warehouse but didn't make it there in time before Grinning Goblin launched the rocket. He entered the warehouse, where the Goblin told him that if he wanted to stop the rocket from blowing up a random part of Gotham City, he would need to activate the self-destruct sequence on the computer terminal running it. After a tense fight where he had to hit Grinning Goblin hard and fast to get to the terminal, Arachknight let out a sigh of relief when the missile exploded high over the city, saving everyone. A sigh of relief interrupted by Grinning Goblin's mad laughter, who proceeded to ask Arachknight the same question you've been wondering this whole time: Where's Kid Arachnid?

That's right, Grinning Goblin tied Bucky to the missile right before he launched it, being sure to tell the sidekick that if the missile blew up before it hit anything, then he'll know that it was Arachknight who did it. Bucky didn't believe that this was going to happen the way Grinning Goblin wanted it to. He was fully convinced that Arachknight would save everyone, just like he always does. But, well, you know how that went.

Bucky was laid to rest at Wayne Manor's private burial grounds. The entire Arachknight family came to pay their respects. The funeral was closed casket, as they were unable to find his left arm. Unbeknownst to them, somebody else was watching.

Grinning Goblin may have been Arachknight's more personal and hated enemy for reasons beyond what you've just read, but he was far from his most dangerous. That honor goes to an ancient warlord with a ninja army and delusional ideas on how to save the world, Emo zhi Shou (Ra's al Ghul + Mandarin). For centuries, the Hand of the Demon had plotted to drive humanity to the edge of extinction so that he could build a new, better society on the ashes of what once was. Naturally, once Arachknight became aware of this, he made sure to stop Emo every time he tried.

Despite this, Emo zhi Shou greatly respected Arachknight, seeing him as the only worthy successor to his empire, the League of Hands (League of Assassins + The Hand). So when he heard about Bucky's untimely death, he felt genuinely sad for him and wanted to make him feel better the only way he knew how: by sending his daughter Maria (Mary Jane Watson + Talia al Ghul) to dig up Bucky's corpse and bringing him to his secret lair. There, they dipped him into the Lazarus Pit, a pool of naturally occurring chemicals that Emo used to extend his lifespan and even bring the dead back to life. And after just a few seconds, Bucky was back. However, he wasn't exactly Bucky anymore.

In an unprecedented event, the Lazarus Pit seems to have restored one's body but not their mind. Bucky had returned, but he was now basically a wild animal. The League of Hands managed to restrain him and put him in a cell. 

Eventually, he calmed down enough for Emo to hold a conversation with him. Bucky had absolutely no idea who he was. And with seemingly no way to restore his mind, Emo zhi Shou decided to induct Bucky into the League of Hands. And after Emo gave him a mechanical arm to replace his missing one, Bucky's previous martial arts training under Arachknight caused him to excel above all the others in no time. It wasn't long before he became Emo zhi Shou's second most trusted lieutenant behind his own daughter. And with this new position came a new identity, the Red Soldier.

The Red Soldier was fanatically loyal to Emo, pulling off countless assassinations at his behest. One day, Emo ordered him to sneak into the Web and steal all the data Arachknight had on the world's superhero population. Red Soldier had no idea how he knew the Web's security defenses so well or how to access the Arachcomputer, but he didn't question it. He obeyed Emo's orders and returned to him with all of the weaknesses of Earth's heroes.

With this information, Emo launched a series of attacks on the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League). Arachknight recognized the attacks as his own contingency plans and quickly whipped up counters for them to save his teammates. He was also able to trace the plot directly to Emo zhi Shou, who was currently leading an assault on a top-secret A.S.I.D.E (A.R.G.U.S + S.H.I.E.L.D) base. This led to an all-out war between the Avengers League and the League of Hands, as well as Arachknight's first run-in with the Red Soldier.

Arachknight didn't recognize his son's face as it was obscured by a red helmet. He dismissed him, seeing Emo zhi Shou as the biggest threat and leaving Super-Soldier (Superman + Captain America) to deal with him. But Red Soldier was prepared for this, stabbing Super-Soldier while his guard was down with a kryptonite knife. And after disarming him of his shield, the Sentinel of Steel was in for a real fight.

As Super-Soldier defended himself against Bucky, Arachknight confronted Emo zhi Shou. Emo revealed that this assault on the Avengers League was all a distraction so that he could raid this A.S.I.D.E base for the thing it was guarding, a Mother Cube (Mother Box + Cosmic Cube), a piece of New Eternal (New Gods + Eternals) technology that's basically the godly equivalent of an iPhone. This particular Mother Cube was so powerful that it could grant wishes. With it, Emo would no longer have to work in the shadows to save the Earth; he could simply wish for the world he desired instead.

Arachknight wasn't going to let that happen. He managed to steal the Mother Cube before Emo zhi Shou could grab it. And once he did, even though he didn't intend to, the Mother Cube granted his wish to bring Bucky back.

As he did, Bucky went from nearly piercing Super-Soldier's heart to clutching his head in absolute agony as, for the second time, his life flashed before his eyes. Super-Soldier tried to reach out to him, only for Bucky to throw a smoke bomb and disappear in an instant.

One year later, the Red Soldier resurfaced, this time in Gotham City. He was eliminating the local gang leaders and putting himself in charge. When he and Arachknight confronted each other again, he told him that his way of protecting people wasn't working. That crime can't be defeated; it has to be controlled. Before he escaped, he left a hint of his true identity to Arachknight. A hint that the World's Greatest Detective had no problem following to the truth.

Their next encounter would be in an abandoned building, where the Red Soldier fully revealed himself as Bucky to Arachknight. Bucky assured his former mentor that he didn't hold any animosity toward him for the rocket exploding. He knew he was tricked, and even if he weren't, he would've done what he had to do to save more lives. What he couldn't understand was why the Grinning Goblin still lived.

He then revealed the Goblin, heavily beaten, tied to a chair, and surrounded by explosives. Bucky truly thought that if Arachknight couldn't save him from the Goblin, then he'd at least avenge him. Arachknight told him that he wanted to, that there hadn't been a day in over two decades where he hadn't fantasized about killing the madman in every horrific way imaginable. But if he crossed that line, he couldn't trust himself not to cross it again.

Bucky wouldn't give him a choice. He pointed a gun at the Grinning Goblin's head and told Arachknight that he was going to blow the Goblin's brains out unless he killed him. He dared him to kill his son all over again to save his murderer. Arachknight instead disarmed Bucky, causing the Grinning Goblin to laugh hysterically. The psychopath decided to cap off the night's events by setting off the explosives to kill them all. Arachknight's immediate reaction was to grab Bucky and try to get them both out of there, but it was too late. 

All three survived, of course, but Bucky was nowhere to be found. He wouldn't return until another crisis threatened all of Gotham. And despite their differences, the two of them worked together to save the city and finally bury the hatchet. 

The Red Soldier was back to being a hero again, albeit a very conflicted one. Heaven only knows if he and Arachknight will ever truly see eye to eye. But all Arachknight cares about is that his son had finally come home.

Powers & Abilities: Being trained by both Arachknight and Emo zhi Shou, it goes without saying that Bucky is a master at stealth, martial arts, acrobatics, and whatever else any self-respecting ninja needs to know. He also supplements his skills with various tools like his armored helmet and his mechanical arm, which is not only super-sturdy, but is ten times as strong as a regular arm.

Despite that, he relies far more on weapons than natural skills. Mainly, he uses guns, and all his guns come equipped with palm print sensors so nobody can use them but him. He also carries a combat knife, a taser, arachknarangs, and a grappling gun.

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Name: Tommy West

Biography: Somebody once said that you should never meet your heroes. Well, if Tommy could find the person who first said that (and believe me, he could), he'd tell them to shove it. Meeting Mercury was the best thing to have ever happened to him. And his only regret was having to say goodbye.

Growing up in Keystone City, Tommy never had the most stable home life. His parents would often yell at each other until the day came when they divorced. Because of this, Tommy would often act out, with his antics only getting more destructive once he activated his metamutant (metahuman + mutant) powers. After "accidentally" blowing up his school (don't worry, no one was harmed), Tommy was sentenced to what was basically super-juvie. If that didn't sound unpleasant enough, it turns out that this place was rounding up troubled superpowered kids so that they could experiment on them, turning them into living weapons. Tommy was left there for months until the day he was rescued by his personal idol, Mercury (Barry Allen + Quicksilver).

After he and all the other kids were freed, Tommy was sent to live with his aunt, Betty West (Betty Brant + Iris West), in Central City. There he had another run-in (pun not intended) with Mercury, who knew about his problems and wanted to help him. He offered to train him how to use his powers more effectively and more constructively. Tommy knew he was asking him to be his sidekick and jumped at the chance. After that, Central City had two protectors, Mercury and his new partner, Kid Speed.

Mercury was more than just a mentor to Tommy. Working with him, he felt like he had something he hadn't had in years: a father. And when his aunt Iris revealed she was engaged to her boyfriend Pietro, and Pietro told Tommy he was Mercury, it was like a dream come true.

Unfortunately, every dream has to end eventually. And that end came in the form of the Secret War on Infinite Earths (Secret War + Crisis on Infinite Earths). To save all of existence, Mercury had to make the ultimate sacrifice. It was up to Tommy now to continue his legacy and become the new Mercury.

Tommy had a long and prolific career in his mentor's shoes. He'd return to Keystone City, where he became the protector of both it and Central City. He'd also reunite with and marry his high school sweetheart, Linda Molinari (Linda Park + Coat of Arms). But despite all his achievements, Tommy could never escape his imposter syndrome, the feeling that there'd only ever be one person worthy of wearing this suit. Then one day, that person returned.

Pietro Allen was back from the dead. Tommy was ready to hand the mantle back to him, but Pietro wanted him to do one thing first: race him. The two ran so fast, they threatened to tear apart the multiverse. At first, it looked like Pietro would win, but the original Mercury could tell that his protege was still holding back. So he told him to let it all out, to give it everything he got. And once he did, Tommy was the winner.

Tommy gave it his all and finally proved to himself worthy of the Mercury legacy. Both mentor and mentee would carry the mantle from now on, but everyone knows that it's Tommy West who is the one true fastest man alive.

Powers & Abilities: Just like Pietro, Tommy has an innate connection to the Speed Force, an extradimensional energy field where all speedsters draw their powers from. And Tommy can do more with it than Pietro ever could.

Obviously, his connection to the Speed Force makes him super speedy, not just his body but his mind too, able to switch his perception to see the world as basically in slow motion if not fully paused. Like giving him a "Speed Force Aura" that makes him and anyone he touches immune to friction, hence why he doesn't light himself on fire every time he runs. The Speed Force Aura also acts as a sort of force field, making him extremely durable but not invincible. Tommy can even use the Speed Force to steal speed from others, taking their kinetic energy and adding it to his own while they are stopped dead in their tracks.

Whenever Tommy runs, he leaves behind a trail of lightning as a side effect of channeling the Speed Force. Tommy can manipulate his lightning, channeling it into his fists to strengthen his punches or firing it at his enemies. Speaking of punches, Mercury's signature attack is the Infinite Mass Punch. When travelling at just under the speed of light, the mass of Mercury's fist grows to an infinite degree, allowing him to strike with the power of a white dwarf star. Not technically infinite, but still, that's a hell of a punch.

Tommy also has absolute control over each and every one of his individual molecules. By vibrating them at specific frequencies, he can make himself intangible. He can also manipulate the molecular vibrations of other objects, though this usually just results in them exploding, hence why he got sent to super-juvie.

And lastly, he can enter the Speed Force itself, allowing him to travel through time or enter other dimensions. However, it is easy to get lost in the Speed Force, hence why it's important to have a close emotional connection, like Tommy's wife Linda, to serve as a sort of lightning rod keeping him grounded. Yep, the key to mastering time and space comes from the power of love. Who says comic books are corny?

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Name: Michael Summers

Biography: It is the 25th century, and humanity is on its last legs. Crushed under the heel of a tyrannical god who has destroyed everything that dared to oppose him. It is an age of desolation, an age of subjugation, an Age of Adam (Black Adam + Apocalypse). But one man managed to build the means to our salvation: a time machine! With it, he will return to the past and undo the future that is Adam.

At least, that's what he said when he got here. The truth is the 25th century is fine unless you're one Michael Summers. 

Michael was an average kid with a really, really below-average dad who abandoned his family on Michael's 4th birthday just to throw his life away gambling. The only reason he came crawling back was that his debts finally caught up to him. At this point, Michael was a rising college football star with a stellar record. His father begged Michael to throw some games so that he could make money betting against his team. Seeing how much trouble his father was in, Michael acquiesced and figured if he was gonna lose, he might as well make some money too. He was later caught, expelled, and arrested for gambling.

By the time Michael was released, he was both a college dropout and a convicted felon. So his career prospects weren't great. The best job he could get was as a night-shift security guard at the local space museum. There, he came across an exhibit on 21st-century superheroes and was inspired to become a hero himself. Not to uphold truth and justice or whatever, don't be silly. He just saw it as the quickest way to become rich and famous.

Michael stole the pieces of his new costume from the exhibit, along with various gadgets, weapons, and a security droid named Skoots (Skeets + Doop) whom he reprogrammed into his sidekick. It also goes without saying that he acquired his time machine in the same manner rather than building it himself. There, he set the coordinates to the Heroic Age with unlimited knowledge of future events and a bullshit backstory about trying to save us all.

Michael made himself known to the world when he prevented the assassination of the current US president. After catching the assassin, he gave a long speech about his origin story, his life of struggle under Adam's rule, and how he came to our present to save the world. Many people watching were smart enough to know that it was all bullshit, but not the president.

When he asked Michael for his name so he could commend him, he planned to introduce himself as "Cable," hoping to present himself as the link between the past and the future. Instead, he flubbed up and accidentally introduced himself to the president as "Booster," his old nickname from his football days, before correcting himself. As a result, the president was proud to introduce America to its newest hero, Booster Cable!

Yeah, to the superhero community, it was about as bad a first impression as one could make. The X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol) certainly thought so, and they made that very clear to Booster Cable when he showed up at Niles Xavier's (The Chief + Professor X) Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Booster Cable told them that he was actually the descendant of the team's leader, Psy-Clops (Cyclops + Mento) and his wife Elastix (Elasti-Woman + Madelyne Pryor). This is, as you might've come to expect by now, bullshit. 

Booster Cable thought that joining one of the big-time superhero teams would help his image. And because he didn't think he'd get accepted to the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League) right away, he instead tried his luck with the X-Patrol. From what he read about them, they'd take just about anyone who was metamutant (metahuman + mutant) adjacent, so pretending to be their leader's great-great-great-whatever-grandson would be a surefire way to get in.

Psy-Clops figured out all of this when he read Booster Cable's mind and immediately loathed him. He was going to tell him to get out of his sight, but the Professor convinced him to let him stay. He reasoned that having the man who had just saved the president on the team would boost not only their reputation but also metamutants in general. So, begrudgingly, Psy-Clops welcomed him into the group.

It was a decision he and the rest of the X-Patrol would regret more and more as time went by. Even though Booster Cable constantly tried to present himself as a hardened, stoic badass, he would never pass on an opportunity to pose for the camera, offer autographs, or argue with Psy-Clops whenever he didn't put him on the front lines. Each day, it was becoming clearer and clearer to everybody who knew Booster Cable, which was nowhere near as many as he'd hoped, that he wasn't a hero; he was a charlatan wannabe celebrity who had no business being in this century, let alone saving anyone.

There was, however, one person who took Booster Cable seriously, the metaphorical boogeyman of his fraudulent backstory, Adam. Adam kidnapped Booster Cable, deciding that if there was so much as a grain of truth to his story, then he needed to kill him to ensure his rule over Earth. And he would do it in one of the most grisly ways imaginable, a techno-organic virus of Adam's design that would slowly turn its host into metal, killing them once they were fully converted.

Strapped to an operating table as the virus transformed the left side of his body, with no suit, no weapons, and no means to call for help, all Booster Cable could do now was think. Think about how he was an idiot for thinking he wouldn't be just as much a loser in the present as he was in the future. Think about how all his desperate attempts at fame amounted to nothing, and he was going to be killed because of the very lie he told to try and sound cool.

Just when he accepted his death, his metamutant powers kicked in. He developed telekinetic powers that were so strong that not only did he escape his restraints, not only did he stop the virus from progressing any further, but now he was powerful enough to do what he claimed he came here to do and defeat Adam! 

But before he could deliver the final blow, time seemed to have just stopped all around him. Just when Booster couldn't be more confused, a portal opened up behind him and out stepped Rip M. Hunter (Rip Hunter + Mobius M. Mobius) of the Time Authority (Time Masters + Time Variance Authority). Rip explained to Michael that Booster Cable could never accomplish something as huge as taking down Adam. In fact, he couldn't accomplish pretty much anything. Because if history remembers Booster Cable as an actually competent hero, then various time-travelling villains would make him their first target. For his own sake and the good of the timestream, Booster Cable had to stay a nobody. 

So when Rip returned to the future and turned time back to normal, Booster spared Adam. Adam was confused; why would an enemy who had sworn to destroy him not take that chance? Booster Cable couldn't tell him the truth, so he decided to tell him a truth. The only reason Booster Cable chose Adam was that he was actually due to reform soon, abandoning his plans to be dictator of the world to be a benevolent ruler of his home country, Akkahndaq (Akkaba + Kahndaq) instead. Adam naturally didn't believe him, but after reading his mind, he found that he was being honest. Curious, he decided to visit his old home. And out of honor to the man who had defeated him, he allowed him to return to the X-Mansion without further difficulty. 

When Michael did return, he didn't expect the X-Patrol to notice he was gone. Primarily because they were distracted by Elastix giving birth to her and Psy-Clops' child. Sure enough, people had no idea he was kidnapped. Skoots was the only one worried about him, and when he asked what happened to him, Michael told him he went out for some air and was trying out a new look.

What he didn't expect was for everyone on the team to look so dejected. When Michael asked what happened, he was told that the baby boy Elastix gave birth to was falling apart, almost like he was melting. A man from the future came and told them that because Elastix was a clone of Phoenix (Jean Grey + Raven), her child was molecularly unstable. No cure exists today, but it would in the future. The only way for Psy-Clops and Elastix to save their son's life was to give him to the man, even though this meant that they would never see him again.

Michael may not have been smart, but he was certainly no idiot. He ran to his room and called out Rip, knowing he could hear him and demanding he show himself. Rip complied and knew that Booster wanted to see the baby, so he brought him to the future. 

The two appeared in a suburban neighborhood that gave Booster Cable a strange sense of deja vu. That deja vu became a lot stronger when he looked down the road and saw his house with another Rip M. Hunter handing over a baby to his mother. Booster demanded to know what was going on, and that's when Rip revealed his true origin story to him.

Turns out, the Age of Adam wasn't as made up as Michael originally thought. In the original timeline, the first metamutant managed to kill or enslave all other superhumans and forced his Darwinist philosophy on the entire world. There, the strong thrived while the weak lived in squalor. One of those weaklings was Ellen Summers (Ellen Carter + Rachel Summers), whom Rip was secretly married to behind the backs of the rest of the Time Authority.

Rip couldn't stand to see the woman he loved suffer so much. So he scoured the multiverse looking for ways to prevent Adam's reign. And in the majority of the universes where he was stopped, it was by the child of Steven Summers and Raven Grey. But because that child was very unlikely to exist for a variety of reasons, Rip decided to meddle with history. 

First, he stole a spark from the Phoenix Force and used it to revive Brother Sinister's (Brother Blood + Mister Sinister) clone of Raven, saving her from being disposed of and convincing Brother Sinister to go forward with his plan of sending a spy to infiltrate the X-Patrol. From there, he skipped forward after she and Steven fell in love, got married, and had a child together, only to see that that child inherited his mother's molecular instability. And without another Phoenix spark he could use, he was forced to spend years creating a cure for his condition. A cure he would use after he brought him to the future. Because every time he let him stay with his parents, he was murdered by one of their enemies. He had to leave him with someone he trusted to raise him right. And that someone was Ellen Summers, now living a different life and married to someone else. But the real shock was seeing his enemy, Adam, serving as a benevolent and stalwart protector of his home country and leaving the rest of the world alone. All the hoops Rip jumped through led to a better future for everyone, including his enemy. And it only would've been possible because of a paradoxical infant named Michael Summers.

It was a lot for Michael to take in. He asked Rip to take him back to the X-Mansion. Michael returned to his old room and was left alone with his thoughts.

Starting from that day onward, something changed in Michael. He toned down his showboating, followed orders with minimal to no complaint, and even seemed to be avoiding the media when before he used to push everyone aside just to make sure he got to be on camera. Many other superheroes took notice and were starting to grow impressed with this new Booster Cable. Eventually, he was even offered membership to the Avengers League, something he'd been dying to happen when he got here, only to turn it down. Instead, he agreed to lead Psy-clops' new secret black ops division, Doom-Force (The Doomed + X-Force), taking out metamutantkind's worst enemies in the dark so that the X-Patrol could fight for humanity in the light. It was a life Booster Cable could not tell anyone, and he was fine with that.

While he will never have the fame he originally craved, simply the knowledge that he and what he did mattered was enough to convince Michael to be a hero. A genuine hero. It helped that he would return to the 25th century now and then to tell his mom what he'd been up to. To say she was proud of him was an understatement. Booster Cable may not go down in the history books as someone worthwhile, but those who truly know him would tell you that he is the greatest hero you've never heard of.

Powers & Abilities: Michael stole a lot of stuff from that exhibit, starting with his best friend and sidekick, Skoots. Skoots is a little flying robot that comes pre-equipped with all the knowledge Booster might need, including every news headline for the next 400 years. It was how Booster Cable was able to save the president and how he's always "conveniently" right at the spot of a major disaster before it happens.

He also stole a flight ring from the Legion of Guardians (Legion of Superheroes + Guardians of the Galaxy 3000), granting him, well, flight. He also took a forcefield belt that, when activated, protects him from pretty much anything, even mind control, and gauntlets that fire energy blasts and run off the same power source. The weirdest thing he stole would probably be a beacon that forces animals to obey his commands. But the most notable things in his possession are his tons and tons of weird sci-fi guns. And, of course, his time machine.

Many of these things would be integrated into Booster Cable's body thanks to the techno-organic virus Adam infected him with. Now, he can adjust his forcefield to be as big as he wants or wrap it around his foes to hold them in place or crush them into nothingness. The T.O. Virus also gives him enhanced strength, speed, and durability, along with a cybernetic arm and a cybernetic eye that shoots energy blasts that used to come from Booster Cable's gauntlets. And after absorbing his time machine, he not only can travel through time freely to wherever or whenever he wants, but he can also manipulate it, stopping it dead in its tracks. He can even team up with alternate versions of himself from his past or future.

Booster Cable keeps the virus in check with his telekinesis, which is stronger than both his parents put together. It's powerful enough to move planets and extinguish stars, while also being precise enough to affect strands of DNA. And, much like his mother, he can use his telekinesis on himself to grow to incredible sizes.

He's also an extremely powerful telepath, allowing him to not only read minds, but also control them, and he can do this to everyone on the entire planet.