Blok (DC)
Blok is a male comic superhero that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Blok
Believing a false narrative that the Legion of Super-Heroes was actively executing the systematic destruction of his homeworld, Blok joined forces with a vengeful faction of displaced warriors called the League of Super-Assassins. Seeking immediate retribution for their lost civilizations, Blok and his teammates launched a sudden, catastrophic strike against the United Planets, successfully invading Earth and completely reducing the active Legion Headquarters building to smoking ruins. During the brutal ambush, Blok directly engaged several elite young heroes in close-quarters combat, establishing his initial presence as an imposing, misguided juggernaut before eventually discovering the truth and abandoning his criminal allegiances to honorably serve alongside the very heroes he had tried to destroy. (Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #253)
Dawnstar, Wildfire, Mon-El, Ultra Boy, Chameleon Boy, Timber Wolf, Phantom Girl, Shadow Lass and White Witch set course for Orando, but were being followed by Terrus and Zymyr. Zymyr opened a spacewarp that warped in most of the Legion of Super-Villains to ambush the Legionnaires. On Earth Cosmic Boy agreed to keep watch on the planet while Element Lad assembled the rest of thew Legion to fly a ship to Orando. Cosmic Boy was worried about Element Lad devoting all their resources to Orando, but trusted his judgment. He was thankful when Night Girl sent a video message offering the help of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. Projecta and Karate Kid were chained in a cell next to Light Lass, and Lightning Lord visited her to again plead with her to join him, saying she’d join his Legion in a passage to a new world where they would rule. She made it clear she’d rather die, and he called her a traitor to her own blood, grabbing her and shocking her before walking off disgusted, saying he no longer had a sister. Dream Girl woke in her crashed ship on Orando, finding Star Boy and Shrinking Violet still unconscious. She recognized Projecta’s castle from her vision where a Legionnaire was die, and she was ambushed by Hunter and Silver Slasher. Dawnstar and her teammates were in danger of being overwhelmed by the Legion of Super-Villains until element Lad and his reinforcements arrived. Nemesis Kid, Cosmic King, Neutrax and Ron-Karr placed the polymer screen around Orando, and hooked it up to their stolen powerspheres. They planned to warp Orando away to another world where there was no Legion of super-Heroes. Nemesis Kid had always been drawn to the powerful, and couldn’t wait to arrive in a new world where he’d be the supreme power, planning on declaring himself the emperor of a universe. Zymyr was prepared to warp the planet, but Nemesis Kid wanted to give his Legion a little more time battling the Legion of Super-Heroes to see if they could kill any of them before they left. The Legionnaires were winning, so Nemesis Kid gave the order to warp away the Legion of Super-Villains, inadvertently taking some of the Legionnaires with them, and warped Orando to a space between dimensions. (Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #3)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Blok
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Blok was a massive, hulking extraterrestrial being with a towering, exceptionally broad physical frame that separated him from ordinary organic humanoids. His entire body was composed of a dense, living organic rock substance native to his home planet, displaying a jagged, stony texture that provided natural physical reinforcement. His face lacked standard human features, characterized by solid, glowing white eyes that lacked visible pupils or irises, and he possessed a completely hairless, rocky cranium. For his initial tactical assault on Earth, he bypassed traditional superhero attire or colorful cloth tracking uniforms in favor of minimal, practical combat gear. He wore basic, rugged dark briefs or shorts secured at his waist, leaving his massive, rock-plated upper torso, stone limbs, and heavy hands entirely exposed to maximize his raw physical presence during combat. (Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #253)
Powers and abilities
Blok possessed immense physical power and unparalleled defensive resilience derived directly from his unique Dryadian rock physiology. His primary attribute was superhuman strength on a massive scale, allowing him to easily grapple with powerful futuristic heroes, shatter reinforced structures, and physically dominate close-quarters skirmishes inside a collapsing facility. His rock-based biological composition acted as an unyielding, natural layer of body armor, rendering him completely immune to standard blunt-force impacts, physical weaponry, and high-energy attacks that would prove fatal to flesh-and-blood combatants. Additionally, his massive hands and solid, heavy stone limbs functioned as devastating natural striking tools, giving him the baseline physical power required to crush fortifications and dismantle high-tech security grids with pure, unaugmented physical force. (Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #253)
Blok possessed an extraordinary level of superhuman physical capability and unique extra-terrestrial traits derived entirely from his dense, rock-like cellular physiology. He exhibited a baseline level of immense superhuman strength that allowed him to effortlessly trade blunt-force blows with the universe's most powerful entities, smash through fortified metallic structures, and pulverize solid concrete barriers with ease. This dense molecular makeup provided him with absolute physical durability, rendering his stony skin virtually impervious to high-caliber energy blasts, extreme thermal temperatures, and intense kinetic impacts that would easily vaporize an ordinary mortal. Furthermore, his unique alien biology possessed a specialized form of energetic adaptability, allowing him to consciously absorb various forms of hostile ambient energy and project it outward or dynamically increase his own physical mass and density mid-combat to make himself completely immovable against incoming physical assaults. (Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #253)
Notes
- Blok was created by Gerry Conway and Joe Staton where he made his first appearance in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #253 (July, 1979).
- Jesse Murray of Syfy placed Blok as the 33rd greatest Legion member of all time, describing him as 'once a misguided bad guy who saw the light'.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes v1: (1979)
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