Harrison King (Pre-Crisis)

King For A Day

**Nicknames**

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The charming and powerful **Harrison King** is a villain through and through. After activating his metagene during a helicopter crash, Harrison used his newfound telepathy to force his father to sign over both the family fortune and King Enterprises to Harrison. Once the deal passed, Harrison forced his father to kill his mother and then himself. With billions of dollars at his disposal, Harrison set his sights on world dominance with his money and telepathy.

His first order of business was an attempt to expand into Washington. He opened several King Enterprise Towers in the broader Seattle-Roseland-Emerald Falls metroplex. He began harvesting the Lazarus Pit underneath Backport in Emerald Falls and the dimensional gateway underneath Amity Park in Roseland. This plan was thwarted by The Outsiders and Harrison was swiftly defeated by the team's power and tactical brilliance.

Harrison was recently incarcerated at Roseland State Penitentiary on multiple life sentences. Here, however, Annalise Gibbs approaches Harrison and offer him a chance to work off these life sentences. She would also reduce the sentences to time served if he continuously survived. An offer anyone would be stupid to say no to. Harrison became the first recruit of Task Force X located in Belle Reve, Louisiana.

## **Attributes**

### **Powers**

**Deviant Metagene**: Harrison is a fascinating metahuman. He activated his genes later in life but did not receive a superhuman boost to his physiology but instead gained powerful telepathic abilities. After Annalise Gibbs had his biology and genes tested as part of her recruitment program for Task Force X, she learned Harrison had a more unique biology than normal metahumans. His body reacted negatively to his metagene activation as the situation he was in should not have given him telepathy but instead, a destructive ability as a result of the helicopter crash. Dr. Sebastian Wolfe - who discovered the metagene as well as being the leading expert on metahumans - theorized that metahumans would mutate further as all species do. Dr. Wolfe told Annalise that Harrison might be the first recorded metahuman to gain abilities unrelated to the accident that caused the activation. He dubbed him a "Deviant Metahuman" as a result.

* **Telepathy**: Harrison is a wickedly powerful telepath who can control a person or a person's mind. He has shown to be able to manipulate memories, extract information, make a person brain-dead, render people unconscious, and even command people to do things that they otherwise would not be willing to do on their own. His psychic reach is more than five miles as he took control of all the minds within King Enterprises (albeit painfully) and a crowd of people to endorse him as Governor of Washington.

### **Abilities**

* **Criminal Mastermind**: Harrison is extremely gifted tactical and planner. He has shown a lot of intelligence when it comes to illegal business activities and manipulating people to get what he wants. This is with and without his abilities. Harrison was able to convince the city of Roseland, Seattle, and Emerald Falls into allowing him to have multiple towers that were above the cities height limit, create fake accountant books to showcase fake numbers to potential shareholders, and even get illegal projects to be greenlit by city council to begin drilling and later, harvesting the Lazarus Pit underneath Backport.

## **Notes**

Harrison King, and by Extension, Europa exist outside of mainstream DC Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the DC Multiverse.

## **References**

1. ↑ I Was On A Mountain
2. ↑ IWOAM Epliogue: ...And Then There Was X