Dominus (DC)

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Dominus in Superman v2 #139.

Dominus is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.

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Biography

Tuoni was an alien priest from a distant world who was one of the five custodians of his planet's faith. In this time, he fell in love with one of his peers which was the priestess Ahti. However, she came to ascend past him and assumed the mantle of Kismet, the Illuminator of All Realities leading to Touni coming to resent and be jealous of her. This led to him studying forbidden infernal magic as he sought to challenge his former lover and steal her power. During the attempt, Kismet's divine power managed to reflect the assault and it incinerated his body but the Illuminator decided to show mercy to him. This resulted in Touni's shattered but still living body being shunted into the Phantom Zone. Whilst in that dimension, he encountered a holographic projection of the Kryptonian Kem-L with the pair in communion with one another. Kem-L decided to help Touni by using ancient arcane science on Krypton to rebuild the fallen priest's body into a psionic and cosmic phantasm that came to be known as Dominus. In his new form, Dominus managed to escape the Phantom Zone through the Fortress of Solitude whereupon he attacked Earth as part of his attempt to find Kismet and once again seek to steal her great cosmic power.

By this point, Dominus was engaged in behind the scene activity as part of his conflict with Kismet which threatened all of reality. Even the Linear Men were unable to track or combat Dominus who remained a mystery to them despite their use of chronal technology at the Vanishing Point. (Action Comics v1 #748)

This resulted in the villain being opposed by Superman with the former priest swearing his revenge against the Man of Steel.

Dominus then used telepathy in order to enter Superman's mind and preyed on his greatest weakness namely his fear of failing the people of Earth. Thus, he used mind control to convince Superman to take over the planet whereupon he created an army of Superman Robots to turn the Earth into a totalitarian state under his control that was policed constantly. Upon taking control, Dominus then used his reality alteration abilities to take the place of Superman whilst displacing the Man of Steel into one of the Superman Robots. With the Superman Robots under his control, he dispatched them to find and capture Kismet for him. Superman was freed when he used the Torquasm Vo warrior discipline technique to control his perception of reality allowing him to engage in a mental battle with Dominus leading to the villains eventual banishment back to the Phantom Zone. (Superman: King of the World v1 #1)

In an effort to create a perfect world, Dominus then came to manipulate the timestream whereby he intended to merge the different timelines to form a new reality. To ensure this came to pass, he began to corrupt various individuals to serve as his servants. Among them were the Linear Men along with a number of other individuals who were mind controlled to serve Dominus. During this time, an older version of Booster Gold proceeded to gather key individuals from different eras to form a superhero team to stop the storm that was wiping out reality. He was killed but passed on this responsibility along with Skeets to Kamandi who went to gather this team of heroes set to stop Dominus. (Generations Shattered v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Dominus was said to be a spiteful and boastful creature driven by hatred and greed. (Action Comics v1 #748)

It was noted that Dominus was more dangerous when he operated behind the scenes. (Action Comics v1 #748)

Powers and abilities

Dominus uses his "Continuum Control" to alter reality, and "Control" to make people unaware that the change occurred. He can actually create more than one simultaneous reality, each one attacking a specific character's mental attributes. Dominus' realities were also inspired by other times in Superman's publishing history (1940s, 1960s and 1970s) and the "The Superman of 2965-2966" story involving Muto.

With his power, time, space and matter were under his control. (Action Comics v1 #748)

The use of his powers resulted in increased chronal activity that could be registered by time travellers. However, he was able to generate a subsensory entropic field to hide his location from them. (Action Comics v1 #748)

Dominus could assume the identity of other people in order to trick their loved ones. (Action Comics v1 #748)

Through a touch, he could probe the mind of another person and make their entire encounter with Dominus that they simply brushed away as being a strange dream. (Action Comics v1 #748)

With his powers, he could teleport away seamlessly and could slip out of reality undetected. (Action Comics v1 #748)

He was said to be the complete master of his own realm. (Action Comics v1 #748)

Notes

  • Dominus was created by Stuart Immonen where he made his first appearance in Action Comics v1 #747 (August, 1998).
  • In DC Treasury Special, the Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor once took on the identity of a red-armored villain named Dominus as part of an elaborate plot against Superman.

Appearances

  • Action Comics v1: (1998)
  • Generations Shattered v1: (2021)

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