Onimar Synn

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Onimar Synn in The Unexpected v1 #6.

Onimar Synn is a male extraterrestrial supervillain that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

One of the Seven Devils in JSA v1 #24.

Onimar Synn was a mysterious being that was tied to the planet Thanagar and tied to its people. He was referred as being an Inhumi which was an eater of souls and said to possibly be one of the Seven Devils who had plagued the world since the dawn of their history. (JSA v1 #23)

After the Tormock war, the Thanagarians were in the process of rebuilding their world when the Sineater Onimar Synn emerged where he slaughtered the ruling high council and enslaved the people of Thanagar. He came to turn the dead into his dreaded Dark Wingmen servants to enforce his rule as he sought to consume everyone on the planet before directing his hunger to other worlds. Despite his power, a small resistance of indigene Thanagarians and Downsiders banded together to oppose his rule. These rebels came to believe an ancient prophecy that spoke of Sr’i Carter who was said to emerge to defeat Synn and redeem Thanagar. (JSA v1 #23)

Rebirth

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. For years, Synn had attempted to destroy the Thanagarian Empire but ultimately decided to take it over and ruled the throne. The subjects of the empire came to consider him their leader and he resided in the cosmically hidden world of Thanagar Prime. Onimar had consumed all Nth Metal that was part of his being and also formed an alliance with Starro the Star Conqueror. Around this time, he had learnt of the threat posed to all existence by Barbatos. Initially, he considered destroying Earth to prevent the end of all reality but instead had the Phoenix Cannon constructed with it being designed to pull Earth from the depths of the Dark Multiverse to save all creation. (Dark Knights: Metal v1 #4)

By this point, Synn was dying with no souls capable of sustaining him but he sought the mysterious metal within Firebrand's Conflict Engine and dispatched the Bad Samaritan to acquire it for him. The figure died in the attempt but created a new form of metal that had the potential of sustaining Onimar who became desperate to acquire it. (The Unexpected v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Synn noted that the vast majority of history’s grand villains never thought of themselves as evil. He, however, noted that he was perverse and a sadist by nature with him reflecting on this over the period of a thousand years. (JSA v1 #24)

Powers and abilities

From his hands, mouths could emerge whereby he could consume the soul of a person leaving a dead husk behind. (JSA v1 #23)

Due to his ties to Nth Metal, his knowledge meant he could manipulate it to control the four fundamental forces of the universe. These were the aspects of the universe under the Grand Unified Theory namely gravity, electromagnetism, the strong forces and the weak forces. With his powers, he could manipulate a wide range of objects on an atomic level. This included severing the bonds of atoms holding Sandy Hawkins body together or negating Jay Garrick’s frictionless aura and even manipulating gravity thus causing Black Adam to be sent into orbit. (JSA v1 #24)

He was tended to by his priests known as the Necrophists who could turn those consumed by their master into undead servants. (JSA v1 #23)

Notes

• Onimar Synn was created by David S. Goyer, Geoff Johns and Stephen Sadowski where he made his first appearance in JSA v1 #23 (June, 2001).

Appearances

• JSA v1:
• Dark Knights: Metal v1:
• The Unexpected v1:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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