Imperiex
Imperiex is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
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)
Superman battled and destroyed a number of Probes in Zaire. Imperiex said that trying to defeat him was futile, since his destiny to create a new Big Bang was part of the natural order. Imperiex' command ship destroyed by the JSA so he could no longer manufacture probes, so he launched an all-out attack with his remaining Probes on the Alien Alliance space arks and Washington, D.C. The space ark was defended by Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Hippolyta, who sacrificed her life to fight them off. The Probes in Washington were destroyed when Major Sam Lane sacrificed his life to detonate the nuclear engine of his tank. (Action Comics v1 #781)
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. (Adventures of Superman v1 #594) 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)
In a desperate gambit, Superman dove into the heart of the sun, thus gaining a massive power boost that enhanced his strength significantly. Rapidly realizing that Warworld could not be destroyed without releasing Imperiex and triggering another Big Bang, Superman and the Martian Manhunter formed a brief telepathic link to explain their new plan. With Darkseid's powers weakened, he used Tempest as a magical focus for his abilities, which in turn was empowered by the faith and strength of the Amazons, focusing the energy through Steel's new Entropy Aegis armor which was created from a burned-out Imperiex probe. With Lex Luthor activating a temporal displacement weapon, Superman subsequently pushed Warworld through a temporal Boom Tube, sending both Imperiex's and Brainiac's consciousness back fourteen billion years to the Big Bang, destroying both villains through a combined effort. In his final moments, Imperiex realized, in an ironic twist, that the imperfection he had detected in the universe was himself. (Action Comics v1 #782)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Imperiex
It was noted that Imperiex was among the foes that Superman had fought in the past. (Action Comics v1 #978)
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.
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. According to Waverider, Imperiex was classified as an omni-temporal threat.
Imperiex has the power of the big bang, the entropy power, inside himself which gives him many powerful abilities such as energy absorption and manipulation, probe creation, powerful energy blasts that can one-shot beings such as Doomsday, and once he absorbed enough power, he can destroy and restart universes.
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 the character appeared in the comic tie-in to the animated film. This version was created by Doctor Psycho who 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 Injustice 2 v1 #19 (2018), an alternate version of Imperiex appeared in the reality based on the Injustice reality.
In other media
Television
- In Legion of Super Heroes, Imperiex featured in the setting of the animated television series during its second season as one of the main antagonists where he was voiced by actor Phil Morris. This version originates from Apokolips in the 41st century, possesses cybernetic enhancements, and was originally a gladiator before becoming a universal conqueror, with the artificial intelligence K3NT creating a clone of Superman named Kell-El to oppose him. After Kell-El travels to the 31st century to gain the titular Legion of Super-Heroes's help, Imperiex follows him through time and allies with the Fatal Five, the Legion of Super-Villains, and the Dominators to battle them. Eventually, he manipulates Brainiac 5 into succumbing to the original Brainiac's influence, only to be betrayed and killed by him.
- In Legends of Tomorrow, the character was mentioned in the setting of the live-action televisions series set in the Arrowverse in the episode "Marooned". 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)
- Action Comics v1:
- JLA: Our Worlds at War v1:
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