Marcel Miller/Doom-Knight

### Alias:

Miller, King Doom-Knight, War Bringer, Harbinger of Doom, Supreme Ruler of Xeianus

### Abilities:

Super Strength, Heightened Speed, Flight, Telekinesis, Agility, Skilled Fighter, Invulnerability, Adv. Self-Healing, Force Field Generation, Energy Manipulation, Energy Generation, Mind Compulsion [Hypnosis.]

### Occupation:

Former College Student, Sole Ruler of the Realm

### Classification:

Anti-Hero, Villain, Vigilante, Meta-Human

**NAME:** Marcel Miller/Doom-Knight

**KNOWN ALIAS:** Miller, King Doom-Knight, War Bringer, Harbinger of Doom, Supreme Ruler of Xeianus

**OCCUPATION:** Former College Student, Sole Ruler of the Realm

**CLASSIFICATION:** Anti-Hero, Villain, Vigilante, Meta-Human

**ABILITIES:** Super Strength, Heightened Speed, Flight, Telekinesis, Agility, Skilled Fighter, Invulnerability, Adv. Self-Healing, Force Field Generation, Energy Manipulation, Energy Generation, Mind Compulsion [Hypnosis.]

**KNOWN RELATIVES:** UNKNOWN

**GROUP AFFILIATION:** NONE

**EDUCATION:** College Undergraduate

## **Summary:**

In many cases, you have people who say that if they could do what you do they would be more functional or do things differently. In this case, Marcel Miller is one of these cases. Marcel came from an upper-middle-class family, had decent grades, and often only having himself hindering him early on. Marcel was brilliant and had a unique way of doing things and solving problems, being potentially genius-level intellect. Marcel quickly found himself falling in with the wrong crowd. Michael and Marcel were old childhood friends that lost touch with one another. After Michael stopped a crime involving his old childhood friend they started to reconnect. Marcel having community service started to turn his life around volunteering at a small lab trying to save his grades after school. With his science professor seeing just how brilliant he truly is offering him a paid position working on an energy collider. The collider during a test would malfunction with him getting affected. When he woke up he accidentally killed everyone in his path. Following his loss of control, he wakes up developing various abilities. Marcel becomes eager to use his abilities using them for personal gain at first. As his powers grew he started becoming more unpredictable with the accident affecting his mind. Marcel became a villain and becoming one of the most formidable enemies in the Outsider. Marcel has been known to be powerful enough to pose a challenge to Superum, The Outsider, and many other heavy hitters in the OutCast Comics landscape. Marcel uses telekinesis to lift extremely heavy objects and propel himself into the sky. At times Marcel is arrogant, and out for his self–interest. His abilities being used for personal gain is a testament to his downfall once he gains his special abilities. Marcel can mind control people making them able to do anything he desires but his influence doesn’t affect people who have extremely strong will such as Michael, Ian, and other extremely powerful characters.

## **History:**

Marcel Miller and Michael Daversa were star-crossed friends, fated to turn into enemies. Both of their mothers being close friends for years prior to them being born Michael and Marcel had a relatively close friendship with him being almost like an older brother in a way. That changed after Marcel and his mother moved away to another city with his father being offered a better job opportunity. Marcel and Michael would go on to not see one another for years losing contact until Marcel appeared in Michael’s loft. Marcel coming from the big city has more of a flamboyant and popular aspect to him that got him thrusted into the Staten Island High Spotlight. Marcel being 2 years older than Michael and a sophomore in college the senior year of Michael’s high school years tries hard to be more like that older sibling style friend being very opinionated. This is something that doesn’t go over well leading to a spat between the two very early on in their friendship something that becomes a reoccurring issue turning their friendship into a bitter rivalry.

In his secret origins, it is revealed that Marcel grew up under an abusive and domineering father with his job taking a massive promotion that allowed him a great position in his job. Under the immense pressure Marcus Miller turned to alcoholism and became almost unrecognizable as a person. He became a bigtime Lawyer for questionable clients, the biggest being Armand Lane and with guilt and pressure rising he became violent and abusive. With life going from picture perfect to broken masked by the money and financial success. Marcel’s father died soon after his 10th birthday after he threatened to hurt Marcel’s mother and Marcel coming to her aid; pushed him over the railing of their balcony. Marcel’s mother covered it up and omitted her son declaring it an accidental death. Marcel despite loving his father and respecting him as a person he does feel that his mother needed protecting by any means necessary and despite his personal feelings he needed to be stopped in that moment. With the death of a bigtime lawyer from Westview City, Marcel and his family inherit money and assets that change the life of him and his mother. This shapes his view of justice pushing him down the path of being Doom-Knight. For years, Marcel became a character with the nicest clothes and latest gadgets being bold and commanding attention when he walks into a room.

One of the major things that happen when this character is introduced is that Michael gets more insight into his biological mother. Like any child that is adopted he yearns to learn more about his parents wanting to know more about his family leading into the situation leading into Michael living with his aunt and uncle. With Marcel coming into the storyline Michael is offered a chance to get to know who his mother was and more about her as a person. This allows Michael to connect with her through older images and starts the question as to what happened to his biological parents and the mystery surrounding why Michael was adopted in the first place. With Marcel revealing that he and his mother lost contact with him soon after they moved away, Michael is left with many unanswered questions.

Marcel’s life finally was finally starting to turn around and things were starting to finally go well. With him and Christina starting to date Michael isn’t fully supportive of their relationship. This starts to create tension between Michael and Christina. With tensions starting to rise between Marcel and Michael due to his secrets and disappearing, it bleeds over into Marcel’s relationship with Christina. Michael and Christina reach a boiling point as she unloads all of the sacrifices she has been forced to make due to Michael’s dual identity. Sarah trying to pull damage control on her cousin’s rocky relationship proposes the two go on a double date. Despite the intensions of helping her cousin and no emotional attraction between Michael and Sarah, the date starts to raise some feelings to the surface adding on awkward tension between Michael and Sarah, in addition to Marcel, Michael and Christina. The awkward double date is interrupted by a meta-human alliance that was formed by former criminals Michael put away during his early high school days hell bent on revenge. With Sarah knocked unconscious Michael saves them and reveals his identity in the process. Despite the ending of their romantic relationship Marcel and Christina end up friends and get the closure that was needed in the end with the secret being revealed.

With Marcel learning the truth he eventually gets into the fold of the inner circle. As time progresses the newfound issues rise as Marcel being extremely critical of many aspects of Michael’s being The Outsider. Feeling that the cops and public figures are standing against him because he refuses to confront them the way he feels should be done. Marcel also disapproves of the not killing of certain meta-human criminals feeling some of them are beyond the point of rehabilitation. His hardline stance starts to create a divide between him and Michael, and even Christina after a certain point.

Marcel gains his abilities during a class trip out to A-Corp with a device said to peek into other dimensions. What was never mentioned is how they were pulling off this feat using an alien artifacts they were opening a rift into another dimension and manipulating space and reality. The device was a modified version of the devices used by the invaders and Dark Gods to traverse the different locations of multiverse. With the scientist not fully understanding what they were working with there was a malfunction. With little to no time to change into the blue hooded leather jacket Michael rushed into action with Marcel trying to do his best to help aid his friend. Being caught in the energy field, Marcel was blasted with the energy and his life changed forever. After gaining his abilities Marcel starts to use his abilities for fun in a harmless manor, even pushing his friend to lighten up and be less self-loathing when it comes to being different from other people eager to enjoy his new found abilities. Treating his abilities like a gift rather than a curse, Michael worried about his lack of control and his over confident personality. As a result, he decided to try to train Marcel to use his abilities. Meanwhile, On the darker half of things, Marcel started using his abilities to do whatever he wanted growing more and more dissonant. Over confident Marcel, started to have his real feelings for Michael bubble to the surface as he started to turn against his former friend feeling he had outgrown him and his ideologies and that Michael’s way of doing things only complicated his life when it could be way simpler.

Marcel gets access to the D-Zone device and transports Michael into the hellish prison exiling him. While Michael remained fighting for his life in the desolate prison dimension, Marcel went on to take over the entire country running it with an iron fist being seemingly unstoppable. One of the first things he did was stop the stalemates of policies in congress and forced them to work with him to better the lives of the people. He also forced the sectors of the government to answer to him and intern work in the interest of the people rather than the big corporations and their own self-interests. Making himself nearly into a dictatorship he was now the highest level of government overseeing the executive, judicial, and congressional and forcing them to answer to him. With time passing, the people started getting accustomed and started favoring majority of the changes done by Marcel. Anyone that spoke out or challenged his regime was imprisoned seeing their greatest desires due to an alien chemical that kept them in a coma. The ones that weren’t captured were outmatched and unable to stop Marcel.  Marcel’s forces managed to dominate the will of the country, while Ian Akers and his underground team tried to fight back and gather a way to stop Doom Knight. Marcel secretly, keeping majority of public opinion on his side was still abusing his power and acting at times in his own self-interest.

Michael managed to get out of the D-Zone and quickly learned that Marcel managed to over-throw the government in the one month that he was locked away. The Outsider and Doom Knight faceoff in an arduous fight; defeating his regime; forcing Michael to use the full capabilities with his Para GX state to overcome him. Despite the defeat Marcel points out that he has lost in the end. People have tasted true leadership and will remain loyal to him just because he has done what Michael never could; actually invoke change. Despite his tactics, Michael as a vigilante fought to only put things back to where they were prior rather than actually helping the people. For this reason he calls Michael a half measure and unwilling to make the difficult decisions to protect the people. Michael argues that his changes came at the expense of their freedom and willingness to walk into a better future. Marcel rebuttals that the world will destroy itself with that freedom and he will be the destroyer he was always sent to be in the end. Marcel disappears with his most dedicated loyalists and disappears into another country where he takes it over and enacts his will being hidden away from the rest of the world in a pocket dimension. Marcel promises Michael that he will return to reclaim the peace he secured all in due time. Michael says and he will be waiting and will always be there to stop him.

## **Physical Description:**

**Height:** 6’1”

**Weight:** 207 LBS

**Eyes:** Brown (White/Glowing Blue)

**Hair:** N/A [Black Dreads Occasionally]

**Gender:** Male

**Distinguishing Features:** Facial Hair [Goatee]

## **ABILITIES:**

* **Super Strength**
* **Heightened Speed**
* **Flight**
* **Telekinesis**
* **Agility**
* **Skilled Fighter**
* **Invulnerability**
* **Adv. Self-Healing**
* **Force Field Generation**
* **Energy Manipulation**
* **Energy Generation**
* **Mind Compulsion [Hypnosis.]**

## **PERSONALITY**

Marcel is the typical ‘bad boy’ that is accustomed to getting what he wants with little regard for the consequences of his actions. He is perceived as a go-getter and resilient character, pushing Michael into the direction of using his abilities to his advantage and to suit his desires. He naturally craves the spot of leadership wanting to take the reins. Marcel could be described as a character that loved to be in control and enjoys being someone standing in his direction, oftentimes standing in his own way. Seemingly fearless, and typically very sure of himself he doesn’t waiver believing in every cause he starts down the direction of with full conviction whole-heartedly. Marcel is a character that has no issues killing and willing to sacrifice a life to obtain what he desires. Marcel in his first arch compares himself to Michael often taking issue and feeling that he isn’t effective as a hero and lacks the vision to truly make any real and long-lasting impact. Marcel typically can come off as vain and volatile with an explosive personality. Originally before gaining his abilities, Marcel Miller is a kind, person that may be a little rough around the edges but still had the best of intentions. As time progresses and his confidence in his capabilities grows he starts to get drunk with power, feeling that he is beyond regulation, becoming arrogant, self-centered and a megalomaniac, driven to dominate the will of others and control elements around him as much as possible. The character is in many ways a commentary to the idea that the road to hell was paved with good intentions and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Marcel does tend to have a soft spot for some allowing people to see him as more than a megalomaniac, seeing something unique in certain people and isn’t completely misaligned. His views on people are that they need to not be guided in the right direction but that they have to have a gun to their head to keep them on the path you want them to stay on. Marcel does conquer part of the world and maintains a functioning society that in many ways is superior to current societies. In many ways; Marcel’s tactics beg the question of whether or not he is truly the villain, taking away people’s freedoms to ultimately make the world a better place. Under his rule, Marcel kept certain moral lines that he never crossed or waivered because of who he is as a person. Publicly, seeing that he could use his image to rally people to his cause and keep them on his side, he hid certain hypocritical tendencies keeping them out of the public eye. Marcel’s IQ is 182 being a character that is “a smooth talker”. Marcel is bold, fearless, and is no stranger to being friends with seedy characters using them as a means to an end. Marcel Miller isn’t easily able to be mind-controlled and due to his immense power can fight mentally against characters that can control people or possess people like The Darkness, or even the Dark Gods due to his being strong willpower.

### **LOVE INTEREST**

Marcel Miller is not a character that is a stranger to love interests, with various women that he has been romantically and sexually involved with. Marcel is a natural-born charismatic and strong character that came even before his mind-compulsion abilities. Marcel is the typical ‘bad boy’ that girls naturally are drawn to even before his abilities. Similar to the character's style he is naturally bold and adventurous. The women he is involved with are multi-faceted, allowing him to gain something other than the relationship at hand. Marcel typically doesn’t tie himself down to one particular character or seem like he is focused on things such as love, typically fixated more on power and absolute conquest. Marcel typically gets bored romantically at a faster rate needing someone captivating to hold his attention long-term. Marcel loves the thrill of the chase when it comes to women and the pursuit of getting them more than the character enjoys a longer-term relationship.

## **PHYSICAL APPEARANCE**

Physically, Marcel Miller is 6' 1", broad-shouldered and muscular-toned build with a bald head and a dark goatee. His physique is well-built, and he has a sturdy appearance with light brown eyes with a light tan skin tone. Marcel depending on the comic/storyline has long dreadlocks or is bald with a dark goatee. Prior to gaining his abilities, when he is dressed casually, the outfits Marcel wore were more colorful and brighter sometimes more flamboyant. After gaining his abilities, he begins wearing clothing that is a darker purple, green, black, and royal blues. It is believed that the blue hood that Doom-Knight wears with his attire is a reference to Michael Daversa AKA The Outsider using the blue hood almost to say that he is a better version of Michael’s Outsider. It mirrors his criticisms of his former friend telling him that he isn’t operating to his full potential and that he is a half measure compared to what he would do given the same abilities. Marcel is over-confident and at times vain, it shows in the way the character dresses and presents himself physically. Marcel despite having the ability to compel people to do things against their will still is no stranger to using seduction to obtain the things he wants. Marcel has a reputation for being quite dubious, is known for always being on the prowl for women that he can charm.