Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz

**Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz** was the twin brother and archnemesis of J'onn J'onzz. He was killed by Lucy Lane.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Ma'alefa'ak was the architect of an extinction-level event, which has since become known as H'ronmeer's Curse (or H'ronmeer's Plague). A plague of fire, this curse attacked Martians via their telepathic abilities. Whenever a Martian attempted to use their psionic gifts or commune with the Great Mind, they would fall victim to the Curse and ultimately burn to death. With the exception of Ma'alefa'ak's brother, J'onn and himself, nearly all Green Martians on the planet died as a result of Ma'alefa'ak's handiwork. For centuries, Ma'alefa'ak continued to live in the ruins of Mars, unaware that his brother had survived the plague, and had been transported through space and time to the planet Earth.

#### Vengeance on Brother

When he learned that his brother is on Earth, Ma'alefa'ak uses a ship to hunt down his brother to finish the extinction of Martians which he fails which he later is recruited by Dru-Zod.

#### The Reign of Darkseid

During the Reign of Darkseid, Malefic as well as everyone on Earth-0 except for seven specific heroes became affected by the Anti-Life Equation, only to be freed two weeks later after the Justice League stopped Darkseid. Like his brother, due to his green martian physiology, Ma'alef'ak can fight the equation.

#### Incarceration

According to J'onn, Malefic was arrested and sent to a martian jail. About a year later, Lex Luthor broke him out and the two formed an alliance against the Superfriends.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Green Martian physiology:** Like all Green Martians, Malefic possesses several incredible powers.
	+ **Shapeshifting:** Malefic is able to change his form at will, even on a cellular level, completely altering his physical appearance, allowing him to transform or mimic other people or animals and other creatures, regardless of the size or mass difference relative to Malefic's true form.
	+ **Invisibility**: Martians can cause the biopolymers in their bodies to lose their ability to reflect light, making the Martians invisible to normal light and human sight.
	+ **Superhuman strength:** Malefic easily surpassed Supergirl with his own super strength
	+ **Superhuman durability:** Malefic easily endured Supergirl's punches
	+ **Density-shifting/Intangibility:** As a Green Martian, Malefic is able to move through solid objects (such as walls and doors).
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Martians can process thoughts, move, and react at incredible speed, being able to cover vast distances in little or no time, catch bullets in mid flight, run on water and create afterimages as they run.
	+ **Accelerated Healing factor:** Martians have powerful regenerative powers that enable them to regenerate their entire body from a severed limb, they can furtherly enhance their regenerative powers by drawing mass from nearby sources**.**
	+ **Flight:** Malefic can hove through the air

### Abilities

* **Skilled hand-to-hand combatant**: Malefic is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
* **Expert of deception/Manipulator**: As his shape-shifting powers replicate the physical form and voice of a person, Malefic must instead rely on natural acting.
* **Bilingual:** As a native Martian, Malefic speaks his mother tongue fluently in addition to English.

### Weaknesses

* **Kryptonian minds:** Kryptonians are immune to J'onn's mind reading abilities.

## Appearances

### Man Of Steel

#### Season 2

* A world without Superman
* Phantom Zone
* Return Of Superman (mentioned)
* Shrapnel Bomb (mentioned)
* General Zod (mentioned)
* Martian Scum
* Luthor
* Two sides of the same species
* Domination
* New Krypton

#### Season 3

* Last Daughter of Krypton (mentioned)
* Superfriends Forever (mentioned)

#### Season 5

* Rise of Superman
* Not-Happy Thanksgiving
* Fight between Supers
* Dawn of Rebirth