Rama Khan
Rama Khan is a male comic character that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Rama Khan
It was during the Obsidian Age that it was claimed that Rama Khan came before Gamemnae and shared a vision for heroes drawn from across the lands to come together to defend the planet. He proposed that they gather others such as themselves to form the League of Ancients where he came to lead the group. (JLA v1 #70) It took him years to find them all where he trained each of them to turn them into an army to fight the coming threat in the future. (JLA v1 #72)
By the 21st century, a successor carried the title of Rama Khan and became an elemental defender of Jarhanpur. When he kidnapped a boy and separated him from his mother because the child was his spiritual successor, the Rama Khan found himself in conflict with the Justice League. He broke Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, resulting in reality unraveling as the nature of existence began to be defined by belief rather than truth. (JLA v1 #63) Although Jarhanpur's nature as living land protected it from this chaos, the League, resolved to stop this before the world became defined by the beliefs of every individual person on the planet, confronted Rama Khan once again, during which Wonder Woman accepted why the Lasso had broken; when she'd confirmed that Rama Khan was telling the truth about the need for a successor to his position, her denial of this truth had caused the lasso to break and cause a subsequent breakdown of the rules of truth. With this self-discovery, Jarhanpur helped Wonder Woman to repair the Lasso, restoring reality and undoing the initial damage, the land rejecting Rama Khan as he was now focused more on preserving his position than the wishes of the land to the Justice League to rescue its people. (JLA v1 #64)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Rama Khan's abilities are largely based on his birthplace, Jarhanpur. With the aid of magic, Rama Khan can turn a handful of its soil into fire, granite, or wine. Khan is also super strong, immortal, and a skilled magician.
Notes
- Rama Khan was created by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke where he made his first appearance in JLA v1 #62 (March, 2002).
In other media
Television
- In Supergirl, Rama Khan appeared in the live-action television series set in the Arrowverse where he was portrayed by actor Mitch Pileggi. This version had a far different backstory as he was actually an alien from Krypton's sister world of Jarnphur that was destroyed long ago. In that time, five survivors managed to escape the cataclysm where their ship crashed on Earth where the event caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs. Afterwards, the world came to be populated by humanity with Rama Khan despising the race for damaging their homeworld. He and his comrades came to be the secret leaders of an ancient conspiracy known as Leviathan that influence and controlled the world. Many natural disasters that afflicted the planet such as the biblical flood, the Destruction of Pompeii, the 526 Antioch earthquake, the Yellow River Flood, and the 1970 Bhola cyclone were all the result of Rama Khan. In 2019, Rama Khan and Margot Morrison tried to get the Medallion of Acrata back from Lena Luthor, but they failed. He later invaded the Fortress of Solitude after the Medallion, but he was defeated by Supergirl and Lena. The planets were coming into alignment for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, since the Pompeii catastrophe, so Rama Khan and Gamemnae decided that they should remake the event and activate a volcano in National City, 10,000 times more powerful than Pompeii. Rama Khan used the Staff of the Shadow World and Acrata to activate the volcano, but he was stopped by Supergirl and Martian Manhunter. Khan then lost his title of 'Guardian of Earth' to Gamemnae.
Appearances
- JLA v1: (2002)
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