Imperiex

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Imperiex in Superman: Our Worlds at War: Secret Files and Origins v1 #1.

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

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Biography

Imperiex

Before arriving to Earth, Imperiex obliterated countless other planets. Kalanor, Karna, and Daxam are three known planets destroyed in his cataclysmic campaign. Whole galaxies were also targeted for demolition as Imperiex Prime sought to fulfill his destructive destiny, obliterating one universe so that a new one would be born. After destroying Karna, Imperiex arrived at Almerac, the home of Maxima, and not only destroyed Almerac but "hollowed" the entire galaxy. After this, the survivors of the dead worlds, Brainiac 13's Warworld, Apokolips, and Earth formed a coalition, with Darkseid as its commander, to fight against Imperiex Prime and his probes. Finally arriving at the Milky Way Galaxy, Imperiex began sending in numerous probes. On Earth, several of Imperiex's machine-colony "Hollowers" destroyed Topeka, Kansas as well as seven other places when they began to dig into Earth to ready it for Imperiex's final demolition. (JLA: Our Worlds at War v1 #1)

President Lex Luthor rallied the super-heroes of Earth, the U.S. military, and other countries, such as Pokolistan, together. Furthermore, Luthor had decided that Superman alone did not have enough power to lead a strike force, arranging for Doomsday to be released from captivity and brainwashed to see all Imperiex probes as Superman. They fought the probes and managed to destroy several until Imperiex Prime himself was finally drawn to them. Doomsday was outmatched and vaporized, only his skeleton remaining, but Superman survived.[2] Thanks to the sacrifice of Strange Visitor and General Sam Lane, Earth's forces managed to crack Imperiex's armor, intending that Darkseid would subsequently use Boom Tubes to transfer Imperiex's energy back to the galaxies he had destroyed. However, Brainiac-13 appeared on the battleground with Warworld, absorbing the Imperiex energies and vowing to use them to rule everything. (Superman v2 #173)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He did not consider himself evil but rather a force of nature. Imperiex intended to end what he perceived as the pain of a corrupt universe by hollowing it and bringing about a new universe. It was his hope that the next universe that formed from his efforts was free of corruption and rightly built.

According to Waverider, Imperiex was classified as an omni-temporal threat.

Powers and abilities

It was stated that he was a being made of pure energy with his power taken from the destruction of entire galaxies.

One tool at his disposal were a series of probes built in his own image known as Imperiex Probes. These constructs were composed of machine colonies that gave birth to smaller better machines as they evolved. Each crèche continued to operate and mate endlessly leading to volumetric expansion at an exponential rate. These probes were created by Imperiex Prime from himself and if one were destroyed than the energy released returned back to his vessel whereupon it was fed back into him. This allowed him than to restart the process again making the construct allowing him an unlimited supply of such soldiers.

His vessel was the size of Jupiter and its fuel cells consisted of white dwarf stars.

Notes

  • Imperiex was created by Jeph Loeb and Ian Churchill where he made his first appearance in Superman v2 #153 (February, 2000).

Alternate Versions

  • In Justice League: Gods and Monsters v1 #6 (2015), that alternate version of Doctor Psycho used his Forevertech formula mixed with samples taken from Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to evolve himself into a new powerful entity called Imperiex.

In other media

Television

  • In Legion of Super Heroes animated series, the character made his appearance in the second season as one of the main antagonists where he was voiced by Phil Morris.
  • In Legends of Tomorrow, the character was mentioned in the episode "Marooned" where Captain Rip Hunter attempted to bluff a group of Time Pirates and claimed that Ray Palmer had fought in the Imperiex onslaught.

Appearances

  • Superman v2: (2000)
  • JLA: Our Worlds at War v1:

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