Global Peace Agency
The Global Peace Agency is an agency that features in DC.
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History
Origin
The Global Peace Agency
Its origins were traced to an extraterrestrial species of psych-historians called the Visionaries. Their dedications in preserving civilizations through indirect scientific means. One of the Visionaries named Professor Z distressingly discovered that Earth was on the brink of self-destruction by its own human civilization that would bring forth the calamity known as the Great Disaster. He urged the Visionaries' Council of Science to intervene on Earth's behalf. The Council supported Z's research and formed the Global Peace Agency. Disguised as humans, the members of the Global Peace Agency operated on Earth and became a benevolent, though powerful, law enforcement organization. (Cancelled Comic Cavalcade v1 #2)
They initiated Project OMAC where they selected Buddy Blank as their agent in keeping the world peace. (OMAC v1 #1)
The company known as Psuedo-People Inc were engaged in suspicious activities that the G.P.A. intended to investigate. (OMAC v1 #1)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
After the Final Crisis, they started gathering particularly dangerous technology, such as the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill, Professor Alpheus Hyatt's Time Pool, and the Miracle Machine. All of these were deposited in Electric City, an alien plane of reality that only intersects tangentially and in special occasions with the core DC Universe. They viewed this as removing the seeds of future Crises, and in this endeavor they recruited Nemesis Tom Tresser and Cameron Chase.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Checkmate came to be described as being a Global Peace Agency. (OMAC v4 #2)
Overview
Peace agents from the Global Peace Agency covered their faces with a cosmetic spray making each member anonymous and thus representative of any nation. (OMAC v1 #1)
The Agency was said to represent all the nations of the world. They believed that any form of violence either large or small would destroy them all. (OMAC v1 #1)
Members
- Myron Forest :
- Buddy Blank :
Notes
- The Global Peace Agency were created by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer where they made their first appearance in OMAC v1 #1 (October, 1974).
- During the Final Crisis series, writer Ivan Brandon wrote the Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape series where the Global Peace Agency featured in the story arc. On the series, Brandon commented that:
- Honestly, I can't even confirm that they're who you think they are. All I can say is that to their way of thinking, the world can't be trusted to keep itself out of trouble. They're looking to ensure we don't ever see another Crisis. By any means necessary.
- The GPA want very specific and very different things from every person we'll meet in the book. What's wanted from each person is in many cases as creepy as how they're going to go about getting it.
- The GPA are their own hierarchy. No one outside of Electric City is aware of them until it's too late.
Alternate Versions
- In The New 52: Futures End v1 #21 (2014), an alternate version of the Global Peace Agency was shown to had formed on the Prime Earth reality in the possible future timeline. After the second Apokolips War, a large number of refugees from Earth-2 were displaced on the regular Earth. The result of encountering these refugees was paranoia and fear from regular citizens with the Global Peace Agency being formed. They claimed that they wanted to shepherd the other Earth individual but created Earth Cards that allowed for the identification of Earth-2 individuals as part of an observation and control campaign. Oliver Queen would come to see the G.P.A as a corrupt organization and sought to use his financial resources to help the Earth-2 refugees by banning the Earth Cards from Seattle and employing the other Earth individuals. Queen's considerable resources were not able to stop the G.P.A.s actions though his Earth-2 counterpart Red Arrow made Green Arrow aware of the Agency using Deathstroke as a secret operative to hunt down as well as capture the other Earth's superheroes.
- In Batman Beyond v5 #7 (2015), a version of the Global Peace Agency were shown in an alternate version of the Batman Beyond setting that had been ravaged by Brother Eye. After Brother Eye's defeat, the GPA were the only group allowed access to Borg gear.
- In Bug! The Adventures of Forager v1 #5 (2017), the Global Peace Agency was shown to exist in an alternate future reality. They were shown as allies of Brother Eye and O.M.A.C. until that heroes defeat at the hands of Dr. Skuba.
In other media
Television
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series, the Agency made an appearance in the episode "When OMAC Attacks!" where their leaders were voiced by Dee Bradley Baker and Keone Young. They were shown as a secretive organization whose members wore red masks and blue capes as well as wore suits. Members of the Agency sought to protect the world from threats and created the One Man Army Corps (O.M.A.C.) along with the Brother Eye satellite to empower its agents. Among their operatives was a bumbling janitor by the name of Buddy Blank who when needed was transformed into O.M.A.C. with no memory of his superhero identity once transformed. They summoned Batman and transformed Buddy into O.M.A.C. in order to dispatch them to stop the threat of Marshal Kafka. Batman informed them of the villain Equinox who they had no intelligence on but they were more concerned about the disruption to the Brother Eye satellite.
Appearances
- OMAC:
- Bug! The Adventures of Forager v1:
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