DC Cosmology/Cosmic Entities

## The Hands

**The Hands** are a race of Super Celestials who originate from the Overvoid, outside the greater Multiverse. The Hands are a race of creators responsible for creating and monitoring Multiverses. The Hand Perpetua was the creator of the Original DC Multiverse, who sent rogue in order to avoid

In the very beginning of existence, there was only The Source and from it, the positive Anti-Crisis Energy. It was throughout the void of the Greater Omniverse that The Source sent "The Hands", a group of super-celestial beings using the Anti-Crisis Energy to birth Multiverses. With the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass on and allow their energies to return to The Source. However the rogue among them refused her fate and wanted a vicious reality meant to live forever in a self-renewing loop of crisis and rebirth. The name of that rogue super-celestial was Perpetua.

## Background

### Affiliation

The Source (formerly), The Batman Who Laughs (formerly)

### Relatives

Alpheus (first son)Mar Novu (second son)Mobius (third son)The Hands (siblings)

## Credits

### Creators

Scott Snyder · James Tynion IV · Jim Cheung · Jorge Jiménez

### First Appearance

Justice League #8 (November, 2018)

In the very beginning of existence, there was only The Source and from it, the positive Anti-Crisis Energy were born and pulled together by an unseen hand. It was throughout the void of the Greater Omniverse that The Source sent "The Hands", a group of super-celestial beings using the Anti-Crisis Energy to birth Multiverses. With the creation of their Multiverse, each member of the Hands would pass on and allow their energies to return to The Source. However the rogue among them refused her fate and wanted a vicious reality meant to live forever in a self-renewing loop of crisis and rebirth. The name of that rogue super-celestial was **Perpetua**.

20 Billion Years Ago

She created the first iteration of the Multiverse using the negative Crisis Energies and created her three sons Mar Novu, Alpheus and Mobius, as its first inhabitants. Once created, Perpetua explained to them that her Multiverse comprises of three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter- dark matter, positive matter and antimatter, and created them to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the dark matter realm beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Mar Novu was assigned to the positive matter realm, where he would guard the many universes that rose out of the dark from cosmic crises. Mobius was assigned to the antimatter realm where he would prevent the light of creation to breach the Greater Omniverse. Curious, Mar Novu asked Perpetua what her purpose in this Multiverse was, as her role as creator had already been fulfilled. She told him that she would remain to make sure that all of her children lived.

#### 15 Billion Years Ago

Perpetua called upon Mar Novu to show him her greatest creation. Perpetua had searched the endless worlds of the Multiverse looking for the perfect creation, but could not find it. Disappointed in what saw, Perpetua bound the Martians with the Humans, creating the Apex Predator; perfect killing machines that would live and fight until the end of time. Upon seeing what his mother had created, Mar Novu told her that he found a cosmic judgement coming for them because of her actions and that she was well aware of that and wished to fight back. Perpetua then tried to share her point of view in vain, leading her to order her Apexes to attack Novu, forcing him to flee. Two hundred years later, Mar Novu told his brothers what he had seen and they agreed that her superiors, the Judges of the Source needed to be alerted of her doings. They were interrupted by Perpetua who witnessed their betrayals and sent her Apex Predators to attack her sons. As the battle raged on, the Judges sent out the Cosmic Raptor to stop Perpetua's plan. Unable to defeat the Cosmic Raptor, Perpetua, her Apex Predators and the totality of her power were taken to the Source Wall and imprisoned in it. The Judges recreated Perpetua's Multiverse, allowing the Multiverse to evolve without intrusion. Perpetua was trapped and forced to watch it all.

Perpetua witnessed the tampering of the Maltusian Krona preventing her Multiverse to set in a stable form. She was forced to watch her Multiverse grow more and more unstable. She knew its final fate: it would die, and she would die with it. She needed to free herself and restore her Multiverse to what it was before. As the only thing that would break her prison was an action that would crack the very foundation of reality, a Crisis. Perpetua began to whisper in the mind of her son, the Anti-Monitor, instigating him to cause the first Crisis. After the Anti-Monitor's defeat, a crack formed on the Source Wall and so, Perpetua whispered out through the Multiverse, into the ears of those powerful enough to cause Crises over the years.

Source Wall Breaking

After the invasion of the Dark Multiverse by her last scion, Barbatos and the Batman Who Laughs, the Source Wall was finally broken and Perpetua was freed from her prison, the Totality which landed on Earth-0 after the wall breaking. Her corporeal form was restored by Lex Luthor with almost six parts of her dark powers unlocked.

Year of the Villain

At some point, she awoke and remade Lex Luthor into an Apex Predator as her second in command after the latter faked his own death.

Justice/Doom War

While the Justice League divided into two them, one for the Totality's shards which were across time and the other for recruiting Mobius, Perpetua and Lex were heading to the Promethean Galaxy with the intent to recruit her son Mobius. Meanwhile, Hypertime was within the grasp of Perpetua, allowing the Legion of Doom, who were in different timelines, to affect them as they see fit without erasing their present. Arrived in the Promethean Galaxy, she was confronted by Mobius and his brothers alongside the Justice League. During the fight, the three brothers merged together to form the Ultra-Monitor, strong enough to fight their mother. At the end of the battle, Starman and his analog from the past and future were going to open a portal to bring the rest of the Justice League who gathered the shards of the Totality across the past and the future. However, due to the fact that the psychic energy shifted toward doom and Hawkgirl's vendetta against Lex Luthor who previously absorbed J'onn J'onzz within himself, the portal closed before the rest of the league could join the battle and Perpetua was restored to all her might. She then granted the Anti-Life Equation to Mobius who betrayed his brothers. Perpetua then crush Starman on her fist and and exclaimed that she have the entire Multiverse to remade.

Perpetua came to Earth 19, noticing that this world has doom in its core but its people still chose justice thus, she destroyed this universe for this. She then returned to the Promethean Galaxy explaining her plan to Lex and Mobius and remade every human who believes in doom into Apex Predators. She was alerted by Lex that Hawkgirl was trying to flee with her newfound abilities, she was able to see her and turn off Hawkgirl's ship making it crash somewhere else. At some point after the return of the Legion of Doom, she turned Brainiac into her throne and the other members as conduits of power for Lex now wielding the The Seven Forces of the Universe. Later, she came to Earth 44 and throw it toward her sons who were recently freed from their brother Mobius thanks to John Stewart's intervention but they managed to flee before the impact thanks to Alpheus' sacrifice. Much later, Perpetua came to Earth-0 to confront the Justice League who had defeated Lex Luthor and gathered Hawkgirl, John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. During the confrontation, J'onn managed to reach out the minds of all the people of the planet, trying to convince them to break free of Perpetua's lies which shifted the psychic balance toawrd justice, strings of energy started to wrap up Perpetua. However, just as the victory was near for the league, the balance shifted for doom again, breaking free of her bonds, Perpetua explained that she allowed the psychic connection J'onn had with Earth's people to happen because she wanted them to see their people rejecting them since she was the creator of the Multiverse and also explained that she left a piece of the Totality across time for Vandal Savage who will recruit the Luthors to found a way to unlock her powers as she planned. She then obliterated the Justice League however without her knowing, the league were saved by the Quintessence.

Hell Arisen

After the fall of the Justice League at Perpetua's hands, the Multiverse was at her and Lex Luthor mercy. When the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3 came to Perpetua, requesting more power, Perpetua's response was to turn their people into Apex Predator and killing Johnny Quick after his disagreement to join her. After the meeting Perpetua had with the Crime Syndicate, she send Lex Luthor to Earth-0 in order to eradicate the dark energy incursion caused by the The Batman Who Laughs. Much later Lex came to Perpetua with the defeated Batman Who Laughs. However, The Batman Who Laughs used his superior knowledge to convince Perpetua to choose him over Lex as her second in charge. Perpetua then stripped Lex Luthor of his powers and she then send him back to Earth but not before Lex learns that the glorious vision of the future he has had was an hoax made by Perpetua in order to manipulate him.

Dark Nights: Death Metal

Perpetua was confronted by the Justice League at an unspecified date. She wielded all the Crisis Energy as the league were harnessing Doctor Manhattan's energy, consisting of all the Anti-Crisis Energy. As their battle raged, Perpetua taunted Diana, telling her that if she won using the positive energies, every history including those forgotten due to Crisis would matter, many people would be dead. Scared by this truth, Diana hesitated long enough for Perpetua to regoup call on The Batman Who Laughs. The fight ended on a massive blow that burned the sun and has exhausted both energies.

The Batman Who Laughs helped her to regain strength using the Dark Multiverse, whose three worlds of unending Crises made it a hub of the negative energies that would keep powering Perpetua through multiple antennas around the Multiverse. Having gained enough power to destroy the rest of the Multiverse, Perpetua took over reality and proceeded to reshape it as how she wanted, while rewarding Laughs with Earth-0, reshaping the world for him. She destroyed Earth-22 as well as most of the universes that doesn't match her dark ideology, reducing the Multiverse from fifty two universe to only eight. Later, Perpetua came to The Batman Who Laughs, telling him that only six universe remains. Untrusting him, she also warns him about if he usurp her, her kind, the Hands would come, seeing what's been done in the Multiverse and they will destroy it all. Perpetua would later destroy the House of Heroes and would sent her Dark Multiverse's minions on the Justice Incarnate and the Green Lantern Corps who were trying to destroy all the antennas in order to cut her off from her source of power. Thanks to Owlman who had trapped each tower with a detonator, they managed to destroy every tower and leave the areas despite this, Perpetua was still powerful enough to destroy the remaining universes though her unlimited source of power was cut. After the rise of the The Batman Who Laughs, now known as the Darkest Knight, who tricked the Trinity in order to redirect all remaining Crisis Energy from three worlds of never ending Crisis to him instead of Wally West, Perpetua battled the Darkest Knight head-on, with all of the remnants of reality collapsing in the chaos around their duel. Despite being cut off from their primary power sources thanks to the machinations of the remaining heroes, both powerful beings continued to war against each other. Growing exhausted and weaker as the remaining Crisis Energy was redirected to the Darkest Knight, Perpetua offers a partnership with the him, arguing that it's only her that keeps her kind from coming to the Multiverse and wiping it out. But the Darkest Knight is hoping for just such an outcome in order destroy them himself. With Perpetua all but spent, the Darkest Knight reveals his last trick, using his powers, the Darkest Knight pulls together the remaining parts of the Source Wall that had once contained her. Despite her pleas, the Darkest Knight seals her within the remnants of the wall and destroys them, ultimately ending Perpetua's life.

## Monitor Celestials

Alpheus was the first son of Perpetua in the Sixth Dimension alongside his brothers; Mar Novu and Mobius. Perpetua had been sent from the greater Omniverse to build a new Multiverse, and the three brothers were its first inhabitants. Perpetua explained to the three children that her Multiverse comprised three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter: dark matter, rich with potential; positive matter, firm and constant; and anti-matter, all-destroying and corrosive. The three had been created to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the **World Forge** in the dark matter realm beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Alpheus was tasked with creating universes from the emotions, fears and hopes, of every living being of the multiverse. The most stable universes rose to the Orrery of Worlds and Alpheus will dispatch his dragon, **Barbatos**, to destroy the unstable ones and return their energies to the forge.

## Credits

### Creators

Dan DiDio · Justin Jordan · Kenneth Rocafort

### First Appearance

Sideways #1 (April, 2020)

**Alpheus** was the first son of Perpetua in the Sixth Dimension alongside his brothers; Mar Novu and Mobius. Perpetua had been sent from the greater Omniverse to build a new Multiverse, and the three brothers were its first inhabitants. Perpetua explained to the three children that her Multiverse comprised three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter: dark matter, rich with potential; positive matter, firm and constant; and anti-matter, all-destroying and corrosive. The three had been created to monitor these realms. She assigned Alpheus to the **World Forge** in the dark matter realm beneath creation where he would build the myriad universes of creation. Alpheus was tasked with creating universes from the emotions, fears and hopes, of every living being of the multiverse. The most stable universes rose to the Orrery of Worlds and Alpheus will dispatch his dragon, **Barbatos**, to destroy the unstable ones and return their energies to the forge.

After discovering that Perpetua's prolonged existence defied her natural function, Mar Novu gathered his brothers to oppose their mother. They met up in the Promethean Galaxy, where they attempted to contact the Judges of the Source in order to alert them of Perpetua's crimes. Perpetua's forces attacked the brothers, but an envoy of the Source, in the form of a Raptor, imprisoned Pepetua inside a wall made of her own legions; sealing the multiverse away from the greater Omniverse. The three brothers then reformed on their respective dimensions.

In billions of years after Perpetua's imprisonment in the Source Wall and the restart of the Multiverse, the World Forger was killed by his dragon Barbatos; creating the **Dark Multiverse** from the corrupted World Forge by allowing the malformed and unstable worlds to exist beyond their time. After Barbatos' defeat, Alpheus was reformed in the Sixth Dimension. Following the destruction of the Source wall and the liberation of Perpetua, Alpheus started to create countless universes in attempt to create a perfect multiverse of justice to replace the current one in order to save the people of the current multiverse who have a place in his new multiverse from being destroyed by the Judges of the Source.

Powers

**Monitor Physiology**: As a Monitor Celestial, hailing from the Sixth Dimension, Alpheus possesses powers beyond imagination itself, being one of the most powerful beings in his entire Multiverse. As the Monitor or dark matter, Alpheus only harness the energies of the World Forge but can merge with his brothers to form the even more powerful Ultra-Monitor.

* **Crisis Anvil:** When a Crisis occurs, a Crisis Anvil appears before Alpheus which he strikes with his hammer to descend a new Multiverse to replace the former one. The life energies of every living being of the former Multiverse who have a place to the new Multiverse will be transferred.
* **Reality Creation**: the forger of worlds, Alpheus can create form from ideas and hammer them into existence. Every strike from The World Forger's hammer can bring a new universe into reality.
	+ **Reality Alteration**: The World Forger writes the rules for each reality he makes. In the Sixth Dimension, Alpheus created a future version of the current Multiverse with its own version of the Justice League, Life Entity and even Hypertime.
* **Cosmic Awareness**: As one of the three cosmic entities responsible for the nurturing of his Multiverse, the World Forger possesses vast knowledge about the different realities and dimensions that make up existence.
* **Immortality**: The World Forger is even older then the Multiverse, considering it was he who created it. This puts him at the age of at least 20 billion years old, without showing any signs of physical regression.
* **Resurrection**: Each time the World Forger is miraculously killed, he just re-forms in the Sixth Dimension.
* **Metamorphosis**: The World Forger can manipulate his physical shape at will, taking on the form of an elderly Superman.
* **Size Alteration**: As well as changing his shape, the World Forger can also change his size. In his natural form he towers above the members of the Justice League, standing at around twice their height. However he was able to shrink himself down in order to take the shape of Superman.
* **Precognition**: World Forger is able to see indefinitely into the future, allowing him to be constantly aware of what the future holds.
* **Superhuman Strength**: The World Forger possesses an incalculable strength level, able to stop the full might of one of Superman's punches with his pinky finger.
* **Superhuman Durability**: The World Forger could withstand many punch from Superman with ease and the force amplified by several suns of Superman's punch only stunned him temporally.
* **Telepathy**: The World Forger is an incredibly strong telepath, able to easily overwhelm the psychic abilities of Martian Manhunter, shutting the Martian's telepathic powers completely.
* **Psychic Link**: The World Forger is able to maintain a psychic link between multiple minds with no struggle.
* **Teleportation**: The World Forger can teleport himself and others vast distances with no issue, such as teleporting the entire Justice League from the safety of Earth to Apokolips, which lies in an alternate dimension. He can even teleport the Justice League and himself into the Monitor Sphere, the edge of things.
* **Photokinesis**: The World Forge can create holograms from his hands and the strike of his hammer are hard enough to spark creation.
* **Energy Absorption**: The World Forger can absorb life force.
* **Dimensional Superstructure**: Alpheus wields the Dimensional Superstructure which governs all thing imaginable and unimaginable and is part of the Seven of the Universe.

Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation**: As a Monitor, Alpheus's powers will wane greatly on a lower plane of existence but has still enough might to shatter the reality.
* **Power Loss**: Alpheus needs his hammer to forge things into existence, and if weakened to the point he cannot strike his hammer hard enough to spark creation, Alpheus cannot create, either, unless he finds an alternative.

## Credits

### Creators

Dan DiDio · Justin Jordan · Kenneth Rocafort

### First Appearance

Sideways #1 (April, 2020)

**Mar Novu**, also known as the **Over-Monitor** or simply the **Monitor**, was created by a Super Celestial named Perpetua in the Sixth Dimension alongside his brothers Mobius and Alpheus. Perpetua had been sent from the greater Omniverse to build a new Multiverse, and the three brothers were its first inhabitants. Perpetua explained to the three children that her Multiverse comprised of three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter- dark matter, rich with potential; positive matter, firm and constant; and anti-matter, all-destroying and corrosive. The three had been created to monitor these realms. Mar Novu was tasked with monitoring the positive matter realm, where he would guard the many universes that rose out of the dark from cosmic crises. Curious, Novu asked his mother what her purpose in this new Multiverse was, as her role as creator had already been fulfilled. She told her son that she would remain to make sure that all of her children lived and the Multiverse would keep going.

After discovering that Perpetua's prolonged existence defied her natural function, Mar Novu gathered his brothers to oppose their mother. They met up in the Promethean Galaxy, where they attempted to contact the Judges of the Source in order to alert them of Perpetua's crimes. Perpetua's forces attacked the brothers, but an envoy from the Source, **a Cosmic Raptor**, arrived and imprisoned Pepetua inside a wall made of her own legions. The brothers were then reformed in their respective realms.

Five billion years later the Monitor was perplexed by a mysterious planet in the prime universe that had not been created by any of the three brothers or the denizens of the Sphere of the Gods, this planet was called Earth.

Powers

**Monitor Physiology**: As a Monitor Celestial, Mar Novu possesses powers beyond imagination itself, being one of the most powerful beings in the entire Multiverse. As the Monitor of positive matter, Mar Novu can only harness the energies of the positive matter Multiverse but can merge with his brothers to form the even more powerful the Ultra-Monitor.

* **Cosmic Awareness**: As one of the three cosmic entities responsible for the nurturing of the Multiverse, Mar Novu possesses vast knowledge about the different realities and dimensions that make up existence.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Mar Novu can peer beyond the void to watch the neighboring Multiverses from the Monitor Sphere.
* **Immortality**: Mar Novu was one of the first three beings in the entire Multiverse, created over twenty billion years ago. In this time the Monitor has not aged a single day physically or mentally.
* **Resurrection**: Each time the Monitor is miraculously killed, he just re-forms in the Sixth Dimension.
* **Precognition**: In the Sixth Dimension, Mar Novu can peer into the fourth dimension, the dimension of time, to wacth the future.
* **Size Alteration**: The Monitor can manipulate his physical size. There is no currently no known limit to how much he can grow. He has shown himself capable of growing from the height of an ordinary man to the size of several planets.
* **Teleportation**: Mar Novu can teleport himself to vast distances with no issue, such as the Antimatter Universe and even the Monitor Sphere, the very edge of things.
* **Energy Projection**: Mar Novu can fire energy blast from his hands.
* **Dimensional Superstructure** Mar Novu wields the Dimensional Superstructure which governs all thing imaginable and unimaginable and is part of the Seven Forces of the Universe.
* **Reality Alteration**: As a monitor, Mar Novu has a degree of control over the physical reality around him though his power over reality isn't absolute and is diminished outside of the Sixth Dimension.

Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation**: As a Monitor, Mar Novu's powers will diminish greatly on a lower plane of existence but remains strong enough to shatter the reality

## Credits

### Creators

Dan DiDio · Justin Jordan · Kenneth Rocafort

### First Appearance

Sideways #1 (April, 2020)

**Mobius**, universally known as the **Anti-Monitor,** was a powerful and ancient being who and the third son created by Perpetua in the Sixth Dimension. Perpetua had been sent from the greater Omniverse to build a new Multiverse, and the three brothers were its first inhabitants. Perpetua explained to the three children that her Multiverse comprised three main realms made out of the three basic forms of matter: dark matter, rich with potential; positive matter, firm and constant; and anti-matter, all-destroying and corrosive. The three had been created to monitor these realms. Mobius was made to be Novu's opposite and tasked with making sure the light of creation did not breach the greater Omniverse.

After discovering that Perpetua's prolonged existence defied her natural function, Mar Novu gathered his brothers to oppose their mother. They met up in the Promethean Galaxy, where they contacted the Judges of the Source, who sent an envoy in the form of a Raptor. The Cosmic Raptor imprisoned Pepetua inside a wall made of her own legions; sealing the Multiverse away from the greater Omniverse. The three brothers were then reformed on their respective dimensions. However, due to the wall making his domain obsolete, Mobius grew to hate his brother for their rebellion and vowed to kill Mar Novu, even if it took billions of years.

Reborn

As the multiverse was being remade, Krona went back into time during this exact moment. His actions resulted in the Multiverse splintering off intro an infinite number of universes and Mobius took new form in the Multiverse. Perpetua started poisoning his mind by whispering to him, even while trapped in the Source Wall, so she could free herself. As she planned, the Anti-Monitor went on a rampage to destroy the Multiverse before eventually being stopped, in a crisis that was called ***Crisis on Infinite Earths***. His actions caused the various universes to merge into a single universe, while the crisis itself had caused a crack in the Source wall to develop.

After the Flashpoint, he was reborn again on the planet Qward, Mobius was a seeker of knowledge and scientific genius who built a device known as the Mobius Chair in order to learn the secret that gave birth to the creation of his universe. Mobius was also ruthless in pursuit of his goals and was a killer who murdered many people. Mobius' thirst for the knowledge of his universe's creation would be his downfall, as such knowledge was forbidden, thus when he laid his eyes upon it—the Anti-Life Equation—he was forever cursed by it, and transformed into the "Anti-Monitor", the living embodiment of the Anti-Life Equation. He lashed out in pain and became a destroyer of universes.

Some time after that, he met a New God, known as Metron, to whom he willingly gave his universe-traveling Mobius Chair. Millennia later, the Anti-Monitor visited a parallel universe's Krypton, where the malignant Jor-Il set into motion events that drew his ire for their entire race. He destroyed the planet, leaving nothing alive. However, Jor-Il was able to send his only son, Kal-Il, away from Krypton towards the planet Earth before his demise. In sending his son away, Jor-Il hoped to lay the seeds for revenge against the Anti-Monitor.

In the future, the Anti-Monitor defeats Kal-Il and his allies in the Crime Syndicate, destroying everything on Earth as he did on Krypton. The Syndicate abandons Earth and tries to travel between universes to find one they can subjugate, but become stuck between universes. Only Alfred Pennyworth, going by the alias of the Outsider, and Atomica, manage to escape their prison when the Justice League forces Darkseid through a Boom-Tube.

Some time after Anti-Monitor destroyed Earth 3, he encountered Grail, the powerful daughter of the malevolent Dark God Darkseid, who informed him that he could free himself from the Anti-Life Equation by killing Darkseid, during which time reality would fracture and the line between gods and men would blur, which would allow him to separate himself from the Equation. They became allies, and she helped him prepare for his coming war against Darkseid.

When the rest of the Syndicate invaded the parallel Earth, the true nature of the entity who destroyed their world is revealed. They initially claimed that they destroyed their homeworld when its citizens rose up against the them, forcing the Syndicate to destroy the planet. This was revealed to be a lie, and it's shown that their world was destroyed by an alien entity that none of them could stop: none other than the Anti-Monitor. They had arrived to Prime Earth in an effort to hide from him.

To the dismay of the Syndicate, following the death of Power Ring by Sinestro, his Power Ring sent reverberations throughout the Multiverse, something Kal-Il worried may alert the Anti-Monitor to the Syndicate's location. But before he could do anything about it, the Injustice League came into conflict with the Syndicate, resulting in the deaths of Deathstorm, Atomica and Johnny Quick, as well as the incarcerations of Ultraman and Superwoman. (Owlman, however, eluded the Injustice League and was believed to be in hiding.)

When the Justice League, having reconvenes after being freed from Firestorm, discussed how best to approach whatever entity destroyed the Crime Syndicate's world, whom they supposedly believed to be Darkseid—a fact which they do not yet know to be very wrong—Cyborg suggests they find the Ring of Volthoom: he reasons that if the ring is similar in nature to that of a Green Lantern Ring, it would have a combat log detailing Harold Jordan and the Syndicate's clashes with the Anti-Monitor. The trouble, though, would be finding the ring's location.

The League does eventually find the ring, but not before the Doom Patrol does. The ring has found a new host in Jessica Cruz, and creates a green fire large enough to be seen across the Multiverse, fulfilling the Syndicate's fears. Niles Caulder, intent on stopping the Power Ring by killer her, is in turn murdered by Lex Luthor, who's plan of merely subduing her succeeds. Batman appears and, relieving Jessica her fears, they effectively shut down the ring. The Ring attempts to warn Batman of the Anti-Monitor, but it is shut down before it can explain the true nature of the destructive entity.

Darkseid War

Mobius' old acquaintance, Metron, came across with him while he was preparing his invasion of Earth. He tried to convince Mobius that his actions will lead to the demise of all reality, that he must abandon his plans of destruction, but Mobius rebuffed his claims, claiming that he needed to do it in order to start a war with Darkseid and end the era of the New Gods.

After his ally opened the doorway between the universes, the Anti-Monitor finally arrived at the Earth where he would ultimately confront Darkseid. After summoning an army of shadows and, cloaked the sun, he effortlessly defeats the Amazon trying to stop him, is was about to destroy his enemies when Metron arrives to teleport them away, but he nonetheless decided to focus on the upcoming war, requesting Grail to bring her father to him.

After a long wait, Darkseid and his forces of Apokolips finally arrive, and the war of the Dark God against the Anti-God has finally begun. The battle rages-on until a desperate Darkseid summons the embodiment of Death to aid him, unto which Mobius uses his power to merge it with the nearby being of speed to transform it into his own weapon. Together with the power of the Anti-Life Equation, Mobius delivers a fatal blow to Darkseid, ultimately killing the Dark God.

After killing Darkseid, the Anti-Monitor places himself into a cocoon of energy and separates from the Anti-Life Equation, returning to his original form as "Mobius", the way he was before he was turned into the "Anti-Monitor" by the Anti-Life Equation.

Mobius emerging from his cocoon in his original form, still possessing vast power and an army of shadow demons, and in order to get his Mobius Chair back from Batman, engages both the Justice League and Crime Syndicate in battle in Gotham City. Mobius kills several Green Lanterns during the battle, vaporizing them with powerful blasts of antimatter. Ultraman assaults Mobius with a vengeance, but Mobius gets the upper hand and kills Ultraman, vaporizing him with a concentrated blast of antimatter on his chest. Lex Luthor, who had been transformed into the God of Apokolips and had gained Darkseid's powers, steps into the fight with an army of parademons at his side, ready to engage Mobius.

Mobius and Lex Luthor engage each other in battle, Lex seemingly having the upper hand. However, Mobius counters with a burst of super speed and grapples him, holding fast his throat and slowly killing him with his anti-matter energy. Suddenly, his former ally Grail arrives via Boom Tube with a super-powered Steve Trevor: Grail had transformed him with the Anti-Life Equation. Trevor proceeds to fire an immensely powerful blast of Anti-Life energy at Mobius, killing him instantly.

Justice/Doom War

Mobius was resurrected once again, this time in his original form, where and when he witnessed events occurring in the Multiverse that included his mother Perpetua being freed from her imprisonment. At some point, Mobius returned in the Antimatter Universe where he killed many Qwardians and wrote a message destined to his brothers saying "do not follow me". Later, he saved Aquaman during the Drowned Earth's event and recruited the Aquaman to aid him in stopping Perpetua and knew that a piece of the Totality resided in the past. Thus, he dispatched Arthur Curry there to aid his Justice League allies.

At this point, Mobius was sought out by his brothers and the Justice League in stopping his mother who similarly sought to recruit him. During the fight, Mobius merged with his kin in forming the Ultra-Monitor after being empowered by Starman's Totality and fought against Perpetua. At first, they managed to match their mother's power, but her allies managed to achieve their objective, thus restoring the Totality of her might. With it, she moved the Multiverse towards doom and infected Mobius with Anti-Life, allowing him to bring his brothers down and thus, his full form restored, he joined Perpetua's side as he'd really wanted all this time.

After the rise of her mother, Mobius saw the destruction of Earth-19 by Perpetua's hand. Later, she plans to assign Mobius to the World Forge where he will create universes meant to be destroyed by the Apex Predator army led by Lex Luthor, as a never-ending cycle of war where doom will triumph over justice eternally. Later, Mobius was sent to kill Hawkgirl by Perpetua.

Powers

**Monitor Physiology**: Hailing from the Sixth Dimension, Mobius has powers beyond imagination itself after being bound to the Anti-Life Equation, he had enough might to consume entire universes and was feared even by his brothers. As an the Monitor of anti-matter, Mobius only harness the energies of the Anti-Matter Universe but can merge with his brothers to form the even more powerful Ultra-Monitor.

* **Bio-Fusion**: Mobius can absorb living beings within himself. this power is not limited to beings lower than him in the cosmic hierachy, as Mobius was able to absorb both Mar Novu and Alpheus; wielding tremendous power until he was separated from them.
* **Energy Absorption**: Mobius could absorb and consume the power of living beings, planets and entire universes.
* **Anti-Matter Blast**: Mobius can fire beams of concentrated anti-matter energy from his hands.
	+ **Disintegration**: Mobius can disintegrate others with Antimatter.
* **Darkness Manipulation**: Mobius could use the Anti-Life Equation to manipulate the shadows cast by humanoid beings to give them life and use them as loyal servants to aid him in battle.
* **Mind Control**: With the Anti-Life, Mobius can control the mind of others and it is powerful enough to overwhelm his brothers' will.
* **Immortality**: Mobius lived over twenty billion years and shown no sign of regression.
* **Resurrection**: Like his brothers, Mobius can reform in the Sixth Dimension when killed and respawn into the main reality in many ways.
* **Dimensional Superstructure**: Mobius wields the Dimensional Superstructure, which governs all things imaginable and unimaginable; giving him his powers and is part of the Seven Forces of the Universe.

Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation**: As a Monitor, Mobius's powers will wane greatly on a lower plane of existence but remains strong enough to consume universes.
* **Power Loss**: Mobius can lose the powers he acquired if he is hit by considerable forces, separating him from the beings he absorbed

## Barbatos

**Barbatos** also known as the **Bat-God** was a being created by the World Forger to consume the universes which fall back decayed. He claims to be the bat that Bruce Wayne saw through the window the night he became Batman

## Credits

### Creators

Dan DiDio · Justin Jordan · Kenneth Rocafort

### First Appearance

Sideways #1 (April, 2020)

Origin

In the earliest days of existence, before the Multiverse became reality, a spark of potential created matter and anti-matter. After that, two siblings tasked with monitoring creation came to be. Along with them, though, came a third being known as the World Forger. Unlike the others, it was set to watch over creations that would exist in the future. The World Forger made its home in the Forge of Worlds, a hidden place inside the sea of possibility that would later be renamed the Dark Multiverse. For eons, he created universes based on the hopes and fears of every living thing. While the most stable universes became part of the main Multiverse, The Forger would dispatch its dragon to destroy the unstable worlds so their energy could return to the Forge and be used anew. The name of that dragon was **Barbatos**. Eventually, Barbatos' lust for destruction led him to kill his master and steadily corrupt the Forge of Worlds. Because he was no longer doing his job, the unstable worlds persisted beyond their time and became part of the Dark Multiverse.

### Dark Nights: Metal

Eventually Barbatos set his sights on destroying the regular Multiverse. He was able to come to Earth at one point, and when he did, the Tribe of Judas worshipped him as a god. However, he was repelled from the regular matter Multiverse during the Final Crisis. At one point of time, Barbatos chained Mandrakk who was banished in the Dark Multiverse by Superman during the Final Crisis. Batman was sent back in time to the dawn of man by Darkseid with the Hyper-Adapter, he was noticed by Barbatos, who saw the similarities in the emblem that they used. Barbatos decided that he would turn Batman into a portal that would allow him access to the regular matter Multiverse in order to control it, with Hath-Set as his first conduit. Barbatos, at one point of time, was hurt by Hawkman's mace. Some time later, he managed to capture Hawkman in one of his many incarnations, and named him his dragon, mutating him into becoming defender of the Forge of Worlds.

Many centuries in the future, Barbatos' followers started to secretly prepare Batman to become the doorway for Barbatos to enter Prime Earth from the Dark Multiverse. His agents, by now known as the Court of Owls, planned to infect his body with each of the five heavy metals from the Dark Multiverse. In the meantime, Barbatos began looking for allies for his cause through the different dark matter realities. His search led him to one of the worst versions of Batman to ever exist: The Batman Who Laughs. Baiting him with the promise of destroying worlds beyond his own, this Batman became his second-in-command and assembled other evil Batmen to support them, forming the Dark Knights. At point, the deity Perpetua had promised things Barbatos to draw him up into the light.

Eventually, Batman learned of the Owls' plan, and tried to go back in time and stop Barbatos once and for all. However, Batman fell into a trap and was exposed to the final metal. Batman was transformed into the doorway which allowed Barbatos and his Dark Knights to enter from the Dark Multiverse. At this point Barbatos had his subjects kill the Court of Owls before personally draining Superman and Wonder Woman of their life force.

Barbatos reveals the "truth" to Bruce

In the Dark Multiverse, Barbatos put Batman under the illusion of being an elderly man reading a story about his adventures from his time as Batman to his granddaughter, Janet. However, Bruce noticed that his memories and the story didn't match, and this allowed him to break free from the illusion. Barbatos then confronted Bruce and revealed to him that the only reason Batman had become a great hero is because he willed it, that he had shaped Bruce to became Batman and that he is nothing without him. Barbatos informed Bruce that the Dark Multiverse had created thousands of worlds built by his fears and he picked the darkest among them to be sent into the Prime Earth, and that they were winning. Faced with these revelations, Bruce begged in horror not to see or know anything more, surrendering to Barbatos. Hearing this, Barbatos sent Bruce back to the illusion and Bruce continued to read the story.

While the Dark Knights ravage the world and sabotage the efforts of Earth 0's defenders against them, Barbatos watches the madness unfold from the summit of Challenger's Mountain. To stay appraised of his plan's progress, he would typically talk to the Batman Who Laughs for information. The next time Barbatos actually makes a move is when Batman Who Laughs calls him to aid in stopping Cyborg, who manages to access the full power of his Mother Box, becoming an unforeseen obstacle. When the captured heroes escape with Cyborg's help, Barbatos becomes concerned that Cyborg's power-up could present a real problem, but the Batman Who Laughs is sure that he will not cause any real problems.

Later, Barbatos returns to Gotham and waits until the Earth gets close to fully sinking into the Dark Multiverse. When the Batman Who Laughs gives him the signal, he begins to roar out his Anti-Music. His cry penetrates the dimensional barrier separating the positive and dark matter realities, summoning his dark army to overtake Earth.

Clashing their metals together (Diana's bracelets and Kendra's mace), the two heroines succeed in helping Green Lantern, Mr. Terrific, Aquaman and Deathstroke fight back against the Dark Knights, Terrific convinces Plastic Man to awaken, turning the tide of battle. Reaching the Dark Forge, Kendra manages to break Carter out of Barbatos' corruption (reigniting the Forge in the process), Diana reaches Batman and Superman (donned in Tenth Metal, the prime constitute of the World Forge), and Barbatos is confronted by Flash and Cyborg, who have gathered reinforcements from other realities (including the "53rd Earth").

Refusing to lose, Barbatos reveals his last resort; using the combined power of the positive energy of his prisoner Over-Monitor, the Anti-Monitor's brain's negative energy, and the Batman Who Laughs' dark energy, he plans to leave nothing but darkness. However, an unexpected team-up of Batman and the Joker halts this plan, the Justice League defeat the remaining Dark Knights, and Hawkgirl subdues Barbatos. After Over-Monitor explains that all living things have trace amounts of Tenth Metal, the League proceed to use this power to pull Earth out of the Dark Multiverse (it also results in the Source Wall shattering). After the Justice League lifts their Earth out of the Dark Multiverse, Barbatos is left tied down at the bottom of the Dark Multiverse, locked in chains made from Tenth Metal by the Over-Monitor. There, he would be forced to watch the Forge of Worlds burn bright again, creating new worlds.

After Perpetua came into ascendance, her reclaimed power could be sensed across all across the Multiverse with even the captive Barbatos sensing it from within the Dark Multiverse.

### Dark Nights: Death Metal

During Perpetua's invasion of the multiverse Barbatos was moved under Castle Bat, albiet still chained.

While Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman enacts their plan to travel back to the times of the three great crises in order to stop Perpetua they encounter the Bat God who taunts them. He claims that every crisis is an example of how they've failed again and again rather than how they succeeded, and that a crisis was the result of things reaching the tiping point. The trinity doesn't listen and Superman knocks him out with a punch.

## The Monitor Race

In the beginning, there was the Superintelligence referred to as the "Overvoid". From the Overvoid came Perpetua and from Perpetua came the first Multiverse and Perpetua's three sons. During the first multiverse there were two beings named "Monitor", the Monitor (Mar Novu) and the Anti-Monitor (Mobius), who were both eventually killed during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths. After the creation of the new multiverse, a new race of 52 different Monitors is seen to be active trying to protect the multiverse from corruption as a community. Each monitor is assigned to its own world, and they all vary at least slightly in appearance. This Monitor race was born from the death of Mar Novu, resulting in the creation of the World of Nil. The Monitors were powerful vampiric beings, the living and continuously evolving manifestations of the Monitor's thoughts, influenced by the various nature of the Multiverse, even after his death.

Although the Monitors were originally very close in a appearance and behave, though some were specifically female while the bulk were male gendered, they have begun to change drastically. They were developing individual personalities and choosing through mutual best interest rather than a greater singular mental focus. As their universes evolved and delevoped their own idiosyncracies the Monitors also changed to reflect them, and in turn become more and more individual and acting in mannerisms that would be considered individual greed of their particular reality and at times of their own individual person which resulted in the attack and removal of Solomon from their collective assembly.

## Biographical Information

### Alias

Superjudge, The Multiversal Monitor, Judge of All Worlds, Super-God, The Dark Monitor Niczhuotan (briefly)

## Background

### Affiliation

Earth 0, Primary Multiverse, Justice Incarnate

## Credits

### Creators

Paul Dini · Sean McKeever · Keith Giffen · Jamal Igle

### First Appearance

Countdown to Final Crisis #21 (December, 2007)

### Nix Uotan

**Nix Uotan** was the son of the Monitor **Dax Novu**, one of the original 52 monitors of their race, and was one of the most dedicated and successful of the Monitors. Presiding over **Earth-51**, Nix Uotan groomed his charged universe to a state of near-perfection and ensured that his universe operated smoothly. However, disaster fell upon his world not once but twice as a result of sabotage.

When Ray Palmer of New Earth arrived seeking sanctuary, Nix welcomed him and hid his presence from the other Monitors. For a time things continued as normal, and Palmer's presence proved to hold little effect on the events of his world. However, The Challengers of the Beyond's search for Ray Palmer led them through the Multiverse, and finally to Earth-51. With them came **Monarch**, who decided to make Earth-51 the first stop in his conquest of the Multiverse. In the aftermath, Nix's Earth became the site for a showdown between the Monitors and Monarch's armies. In the end, ith the exception of one single plant, the entire universe was destroyed when Monarch's containment suit ruptured and unleashed his energies.

Uotan was later given charge of another Earth, but it quickly was infected by the Morticoccus Virus infected hero **Karate Kid**. Civilization on that world was destroyed, and most of the human population were turned into Cronenbergian animal hybrids.

After seeing the discord between the Monitors in their war against Monarch, it started to become clear to Nix that the Monitors are incapable of regulating themselves. Recognizing that the Monitors have become more or less individuals now, and thus increasingly dangerous to the stability of other individual realities, the Nix Uotan put together a team to monitor the Monitors. The Monitor Guardian team consisted of the New Earth heroes Ray Palmer, Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Forager of New Genesis.

Believing his actions have placed the Orrery of Worlds in danger, The Monitors place Nix Uotan on trial. Though he tries to plead his case, with aid from his lover Weeja Dell and others, the court found Uotan guilty and gave him the only sentence possible: exile. As they carried out the sentence he called out to Weeja, and suddenly awoke to find himself in an apartment. Nix was sentenced to life as a Human on Earth, stripped of both his powers and his immortality.

**Life As a Human**

Nix had no recollection of his former life. He had an apartment, bills to pay, and a job at the local Coffee-shop. He was quickly fired for talking to customers his odd behavior, often rambling about about alternate worlds, peculiar drawings of strange heroes, and obsession with trying to remember a partiular word. At this time the forces of **Darkseid** unleased the Anti-Life Equation on Earth, enslaving the population and detaining those those who weren't affected. Nix was captured, after it became apparent that the Equation didn't work on him, and transported to a holding pen for those few who were immune. While in holding, he was confronted by two individuals, a man in a wheel-chair and an older homeless man, who asked him about his past. The homeless man claimed Nix had gathered them there with the power inside him. He began questioning him about a word that would describe and release his true self. Nix began to remember Weeja's name and who he was (a **Monitor**), and just as the guards returned, his power were restored. The man in the wheel-chair and the homeless man are revealed to be the New Gods **Metron** and **Highfather**.

Having revealed himself, Metron attempts to have Nix monitor and coordinate the efforts of the heroes across the globe, having freed him in order for Nix to operate as a Multiversal Monitor. It is revealed that Darkseid quest to reshape reality, the sabotage of Nix's world and his subsequent exile, were part of the machinations of Dax Novu, who had surcumb to his vampiric nature and become **Mandrakk**: the Dark Montior

Mandrakk eventually rises after the Multiverse had fallen to Darkseid, Nix steps forward to challenge Mandrakk. He had gathered his forces to face off against him; **Captain Carrot** and his allies from **Earth 35**, the **Angels of the Pax Dei**, the **Supermen of the Multiverse**, the **Green Lantern Corps**, he **Forever People** of the **5th World**, and Superman of New Earth as his right hand. Nix was able to defeat his father Mandrakk, and then returned to the world of the Monitors.

Once there he gave a report to his fellows, explaining how the heroes of the Orrery had helped to repair it, as well as the fate of the New Gods. Nix Uotan was re-instated by his fellows, though he turned down their rewards, stating that he beleived they should no longer interfere with the Orrery. Nix had planned to defeat of the vampiric nature of the Monitor race which was starting to overcome them, made evident by the Monitors Dax Novu and Rox Ogama aiding the master plans of Darkseid to reformat the universe. Nix sees that the Multiverse needs to be free of the interference of the Monitors, and he initiates the destruction of the race save himself. Sacrificing the entire Monitor race, and their powers over the Bleed, ensured that the 52 Multiverse would continue on healthily despite the destructive effects of **Final Crisis**. Nix shared his last moments as a Monitor with his love Weeja Dell at the fading Bleed as it collapsed in on itself and all within.

Nix then woke up, back in his apartment in Earth 0 with the TV playing, as a young male human being again. However this time Nix retained his memories, now the sole link remaining between the Monitor and the Multiverse, and he continues to defend the Multiverse against unimaginable threats, alongside Mister Stubbs, as the **Superjudge** and going on to help form **Justice Incarnate**.

Powers

**Monitor Physiology**: As a Monitor, Nix Uotan is a godlike super-being that possesses immense power and ability. Because of his incredible might, he is multiversally known as the **Super-God**.

* **Transformation**: Nix Uotan can take the form of a normal-looking young adult when and willingly recall back his true Monitor form.
* **Invulnerability**: His body is completely impervious to any harm, taking the blows of some of the Orrery's most powerful beings without any harm. Only the combined power of all the Multiverse's Flashes could knock him out.
* **Energy Projection**: Nix Uotan's energy field rivals the power of a type O star.
	+ **Red Sun Vision**: The Monitor can channel Red Sun radiation from "a hundred stars" that are capable of depowering Supermen and pierce super powered skin.
* **Cosmic Awareness**: The Monitor can feel the presence of unnatural disturbances anywhere in the Multiverse.
* **Reality Alteration**
* **Dimensional Travel**
* **Accelerated Healing**
* **Size Alteration**

* **Tactical Analysis**: The Superjudge is always ahead of everyone else, capable of conceiving great strategies and schemes in short periods of time in order to turn his enemies' victories inside out. He purposely let The Gentry to corrupt him in order to open the doors of the Multiverse and assemble the greatest heroes of 50 worlds to repel them. A plan that proved successful.
* **Indomitable Will**: Despite being the only Monitor standing, Nix Uotan vowed to singlehandedly protect all of creation and will go to any length to do so, willing to sacrifice himself if needed.

Weapons

**Transmatter Cube**: Nix Uotan possesses the key to open the doors of the Multiverse which takes the form of a Rubik's Cube that is capable of channeling his cosmic energy for several purposes.

Transportation

**Ultima Thule**: A Monitor vehicle used by his race to explore the universes.

## Fuginauts

There exists a race of cosmic beings called the Fuginauts who are tasked with preventing intrusions from other Universes, and especially from the Dark Multiverse into the primary one. The Fuginauts are large humanoids, though a few sport some differences like extra pairs of arms. They are cosmic entities, that hold power over time and space. Among them is the entity known as **Tempus Fuginaut**, who is the protector of Prime Earth's universal boundaries. According to Tempus, the Fuginauts are contemporaries of the Monitors, an equally powerful race, however the Fuginauts are beings that take a more active role in preserving realities and ensure that they do not interfere with one another.

## Credits

### Creators

Dan DiDio · Justin Jordan · Kenneth Rocafort

### **Tempus Fuginaut**

Tempus was tasked to be the protectior of the Prime Earth's universal boundaries, where-as he must preserve the boundaries between dimensions, ensuring that dimensional fractures remain nonexistent under his care; typically this entails fighting off creatures from the Dark called the Inverses. After the invasion of the main Earth by Barbatos and his Knights, a young boy named **Derek James** began developing interdimensional powers and used the become a live streamer as the dimension-hopping hero **Sideways.** would-be Tempus sensed the disturbances that Derek was causing and originally planned to kill Derek as to prevent further damage to the dimensional boundaries.

However, Tempus proved to be more than a simple drone, deciding to enlist and train Derek in the use of his new powers to become a protector of the universial boundaries. He would also spare refugees from the Dark Multiverse whom Sideways had befriended and helped cross over to Prime Earth. He however admitted that he would have to convince the Order of Fuginauts to ensure their safety.

Sometime after his interactions with Derek James, it is revealed in **Tales from the Dark Multiverse** that Tempus has a new mission; searching through the Dark Multiverse with the hope of finding beings that are worthy of aiding him in defeating the coming threat in whatever "crisis" that may be brewing.

Powers

**Fuginaut Physiology**

* **Cosmic Awareness**
* **Dimensional Travel**: As a Fuginaut, Tempus can travel instantaneously through dimensions.
* **Dimensional Space Manipulation**: Tempus can seal tears between the Universes, or between different points of a Universe, thus preventing them from reopening.
* **Immortality**
* **Astral Projection**

Weapons

**Fuginaut's Scepter**: This scepter has the ability to nullify dimensional rifts in its vicinity, the range of the effect extending to several hundred meters around the scepter. The Scapter is also Tempus' primary weapon in combat, able to discharge powerful blasts of energy through it.