Martian Manhunter (season 1)

Season 1 of ***Martian Manhunter*** premiered on July 1 and ended on August 4, 2025.

The season is followed by Season 2.

This season introduces Ma'alefa'ak and The Question into my DCU.

## Cast

### Main characters

TBA as Calvin Swanwick/J'onn J'onzz/John Jones/Martian Manhunter

**Recurring characters**

TBA as Vic Sage/The Question

TBA as Oscar Smith

TBA as Captain Harding

TBA as Adam Johnson

TBA as M'ree M'orzz

TBA as A'monn A'mokk

TBA as Jemm

TBA as Zum

**Guest characters**

TBA as M'yri'ah J'onz

TBA as K'yhm J'onzz

TBA as M'yrnn J'onzz

TBA as Sha'sheen J'onzz

TBA as S'yraa S'mitt

TBA as J'emm J'axx

TBA as J'ann M'orzz

Antagonists

TBA as Ma'alefa'ak

TBA as the White Martians

TBA as Darkseid

TBA as the Parademons

S1 ep 1 "Family"

On planet Ma'aleca'andra, Green Martians M'yrnn and Sha'sheen fall in love, get married, and give birth to 2 children both boys they named their children J'onn J'onzz and Ma'alefa'ak. When he was a teenager, M'yrnn trained J'onn and Ma'alefa'ak to become police officers known as Manhunters. When the twins grow up, they become Manhunters and protect. J'onn eventually falls in love with another green martian named M'yri'ah and they get married and give birth to a daughter named K'hym. When K'hym becomes a teenager, White Martians joined by Darkseid and his Parademons massacre everyone on the planet and kills his family, his parents, and his brother. J'onn narrowly escapes and goes to earth.

S1 ep 2 "Flames"

In the present, after the events of World's Finest, Calvin Swanwick meets with his friend Oscar Smith and Oscar tells him what happened while he was gone, he tells Swanwick "Superman and Batman teamed up!" Oscar then asks Swanwick what he was doing though he tells Oscar "I can't tell you because you won't believe me or you will tell people". An explosion suddenly goes off and Swanwick is weakened by the flames burning, and he attempts to save Oscar. He barely is able to save him, though he does and sees someone with a weapon which caused the explosion, he then passes out. Hours later, he wakes up in a Hospital and attempts to get out though is forced back to sleep with a shot. He later wakes up again and they tell him that he missed a visit from Oscar. The next day, he is allowed to get out of the Hospital, and he begins searching for the man who caused the explosion. Swanwick's boss Harding gets ready to meet with Swanwick. Meanwhile, Swanwick finds the guy with the weapon who attacked them previously, he fights him though is defeated and the evil man escapes.

S1 ep 3 "The Martian"

Private Investigator Vic Sage aka The Question investigates a building that Swanwick and the evil man fought. He sees that there is a tiny blue blood splat which came from Swanwick punching the evil man, Vic with a tiny bottle is able to get the blue blood splat and he investigates it and comes to an conclusion that what ever it is it's not from Earth. Swanwick meets with Harding, and Harding tells Swanwick that new recruit Adam Johnson needs help fighting a villain. Swanwick meets with Adam and they eventually find the man who turns out to be the same man who attacked Swanwick and Oscar previously. They fight him and Swandwick transforms into the Martian Manhunter and fights the man though he defeats Adam and escapes Martian Manhunter but shows himself to Martian Manhunter and he is shocked though defeated.

S1 ep 4 "The past haunts me"

Adam wakes up and wakes up a knocked out Swanwick. Vic investigates and finds out a man caught in the battles and that man is Swanwick. Oscar meets with Swanwick and he says "If you swear to not tell anyone I will tell you what I was up to" and Oscar agrees. Swanwick explains He found a spy alien known as a White Martian and chased him down trying to defeat him and the White Martian taunted him and escaped his grasp multiple times. They continue to fight and eventually as the alien superhero J'onn J'onzz aka Martian Manhunter defeated the White Martian though after he surrendered and left J'onn got in a booby-trap and it exploded wounding J'onn and knocking him out for a few weeks. He later was attacked by a assassin with a bazooka. After attempting to defeat him, the assassin revealed himself as J'onn's alien brother Ma'alefa'ak, and defeated him. Meanwhile, some how another version of Swanwick starts chaos in a building chocking someone to death and brutally injuring other people who luckily survive.

S1 ep 5 "The worst of the 2 brothers"

Vic meets with Swanwick and shows him footage of him killing people and Swanwick swears he did not do that though he is arrested. He is then put in jail and wonders how that happened and then realizes it was Ma'alefa'ak who transformed into him to frame him. Ma'alefa'ak then goes into hiding. Oscar, Adam, and Harding attempt to get him out of prison putting facts together with the help of a still locked up Swanwick. They eventually get enough facts to get him out of jail. Meanwhile, Ma'alefa'ak is found by a suspicious Vic. Vic questions him about things though he leaves. Vic then attempts to put pieces together and remembers that Swanwick told him it was not him, the tiny blue blood splatter, and scientists saying that aliens supposedly are slowly going to earth and some called "Martians" can shape-shift into anyone and everyone. He realizes that he framed Swanwick but he does not know why. He then visits Ma'alefa'ak.

S1 ep 6 "Departing"

He then tells Ma'alefa'ak his evidence though he does not have any footage or enough proof to prove this. Ma'alefa'ak then starts thinking of a plan to defeat J'onn once and for all. Swanwick introduces Oscar to Adam and they quickly become good friends. In the middle of the night, Swanwick is visited by S'yraa S'mitt a peaceful Yellow Martian who warns him of danger and he has to protect the good martians from the bad martians or they will die, and he must reclaim his territory and fight on Mars. The next day, he tells them what happened and he is surprised when they believe him. He then tells Harding that he has to go somewhere for a while and he hesitantly agrees to allow him to go to this place, Swanwick as J'onn J'onzz aka the Martian Manhunter departs Earth and goes to Mars, in a mid-credit scene, Ma'alefa'ak also secretly goes to Mars.

S1 ep 7 "The compete for the throne begins"

J'onn is welcomed by the Chief Scientist at Mars which is M'ree M'orzz. She shows him around and she tells him what is going on she says "The compete to be the king of Mars has begun". He asks her if he can join and she says yes. Later, the competitors get ready to compete and they are assigned who to kill. Very many quickly are killed and in many they kill each other and both die of their wounds. Ma'alefa'ak is assigned to kill a Red Martian named J'emm J'axx and in a battle he is able to do the job. J'onn is assigned to kill a Green Martian named J'ann M'orzz who turns out to be M'ree's younger sister he refuses though when she gets into battle a tough and violent fight begins and in a brutal battle he uses ways M'yrnn trained him how to use and uses those to kill J'ann. He then meets with the other 4 survivors which include Ma'alefa'ak, Jemm, A'monn A'mokk, and Zum. Later, Ma'alefa'ak swears to kill J'onn.

S1 ep 8 "Till we part"

After healing, the survivors once again go into battle Jemm is one of the strongest must kill both A'monn and Zum he is able to kill Zum but is killed by A'monn. J'onn and Ma'alefa'ak are about to go into battle when A'monn arrives and fights Ma'alefa'ak though Ma'alefa'ak kills him as J'onn escapes to heal. Later, when J'onn finishes killing him he thinks of a plan to trap Ma'alefa'ak in a trap but he does not come. Though J'onn is able to dodge Ma'alefa'ak's trap and fights him in a brutal battle. They fight hard but J'onn pushes back not wanting to kill his brother, though Ma'alefa'ak taunts him for that and eventually throws him to the ground. J'onn asks him why does he want to kill him and he says "Because you left me to die during the invasion so many years ago"! J'onn replies with "I thought you was dead". He then replies with "You will pay!" They fight once again and uses more ways M'yrnn taught him and is able to knock him out. He is then becomes the king of Mars but declines saying "My home is Earth not Mars" and then he departs and goes to Earth.