Hordr Root
Hordr_Root is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Hordr_Root was a being born from a human in the modern age where the man suffered from a genetic disease that confined confined him to a wheelchair. This man by adulthood came to be a hacker and ranked as one on the best on Earth. With his skill, he was able to learn that his biological father was none other than the immortal Vandal Savage. Savage though was disgusted at the idea that he who was deemed the pinnacle of humanity could father something so flawed. He wanted nothing to do with his child and threatened to kill him if he ever contacted him again. The child though decided to his skills in technology to craft a software approximation of his own mind and housed it in a cadaver enhanced with nanotechnology. The creation of this construct was for the man to find a means of escaping the confines of his own body and prove his worth to Vandal Savage. Despite being a simulation of his mind, the man insisted the A.I. was not him. The intelligence though refused to accept this and killed its creator stating that there could only be him. Taking the name HORDR, the A.I. used his talents to prove his worth to Vandal Savage who considered the machine as his son. (Superman v3 #47)
Jimmy barely survived HORDR's attack and Condesa took him to safety whilst Superman took on his sand duplicate clone. Superman baited the duplicate into using a solar flare, intending to use the explosion to recharge himself and leave the clone vulnerable. It only partially worked as Superman did not regain his powers but the sand clone was turned to glass allowing the Man of Steel to shatter him. Clark returned to the hideout to find Condesa had turned all the electronics against Yurei, trapping her in a metallic prison. Yurei realized her part in the plot was over thus revealing that despite his victory, Clark Kent would not be safe as HORDR_ROOT would hunt him down with or without her. Taking Jimmy Olsen, he had the human's body dressed in the guise of Hordr_Root whilst his mind took control of him. Later, Clark and Haemosu put on the scheduled brawl but this time HORDR_ROOT and his group of robots and Quarmers crashed into the Thousand One House. However, unlike their past encounters, this time it turned out to be a trap that Clark had made for HORDR_ROOT. Alongside his minions, they attacked Superman where his ally Mayari created a bubble around the arena that traps them all inside and blocks all communication and signals. HORDR was thus trapped this time and could not transfer his mind to another node. (Superman v3 #47)
Avenging Apolaki, the gods fight came to fight against HORDR's robots. This was until Superman grabbed HORDR and looked to end the fight by breaking his foes neck. Clark dropped HORDR not wanting to commit murder with the villain who laughed at the hero's actions stating that now none of his friends and family would be safe. It was then that Condesa used a special hard drive to trap HORDR thus ending the threat posed by him. Clark at that point recognized the HORDR node's real voice and unmasked the person revealing it to be Jimmy Olsen. Kent then realized he had nearly killed his best friend and cradled him as he fell unconscious. Clark then took the hard drive to Mr. Terrific Michael Holt and asked him to keep it safe away from any RF signals that could enable HORDR to escape. Later on though, Holt's labs came under attack from Vandal Savage himself who looked to free his son. (Superman v3 #47)
Overview
Personality and attributes
According to HORDR, the future of the world belonged to those who controlled information. (Superman v3 #42)
Superman though said that behind the fancy technology that HORDR was just a power hungry criminal looking to extort people to get what he wanted. (Superman v3 #42)
HORDR_ROOT was known to threaten to reveal personal information on his enemies out into the world. This risked loved ones being harmed by enemies and other such threats. (Superman v3 #42)
It was said that one did not find HORDR_ROOT but rather he found them. He was compared to being the Internet in that he was everywhere. (Superman v3 #47)
HORDR looked to destroy his node bodies in order to prevent his origins and the identity of his father being revealed. (Superman v3 #47)
Powers and abilities
Hordr_Root was in reality the simulated intelligence and personality of his creator. The mind was placed within a cadaver enhanced by nanotechnology and was part of an experiment to see whether his creator could escape the confines of his flawed body. (Superman v3 #47)
Hordr_Root was said to be capable of jumping from one body to another over the same RF signals used by the Internet. Those nodes he possessed operated as his body and contained some lingering trace of his memories if he left them. As a result, HORDR_ROOT made it a practice of destroying nodes he had discarded as he did not want any of his secrets to be revealed by them. (Superman v3 #47)
He came to establish an organization consisting of people controlled by him with these being part of his HORDR_HORDE. Information to the group was not only their business but also their obsession. Hordr_Root was known to sometimes conduct extensive interviews of notable candidates in order to invite them into the Horde. When facing combat, HORDR_SECURITY was deployed that consisted of various robots sent to deal with threats. The Horde were known to operate from advanced data centers known as the HORDR_PLEX. (Superman v3 #42)
Notes
- Hordr_Root was created by Gene Luen Yang and John Romita, Jr. where he made his first appearance in Superman v3 #42 (September, 2015).
Appearances
- Superman v3: (2015)
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