Magog

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Real Name

Magog

Affiliation

Justice Batallion

Status

Alignment

Neutral

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Hair

White

Unusual Features

Magog's left arm appears to be prosthetic, and his right eye is scarred.

Origin

Universe

Earth-22

Created by

Alex Ross, Mark Waid

First appearance

Kingdom Come #1
(May, 1996)

HistoryEdit

Magog was among the new and violent generation of superheroes in the later half of the twentieth century. He was controversially responsible for killing the Joker, who was arrested for the murders of Lois Lane and dozens of other staff members of the Daily Planet. Magog surrendered to the authorities and Superman for his murder. When put on trial, he was subsequently acquitted with a mass public majority for accepting his actions as the public at that time had grown weary of supervillains and preferring to having them killed off from terrorizing the public. Magog's acquittal was met with shock from Superman over how the public became to embrace the anti-hero and his violent methods which led to Superman's retirement from the public eye. Subsequently Magog's actions influenced a dramatic change in heroism among the new generation of self-proclaimed heroes to follow his violent approach to eliminating crime and villainy.

Ultimately, Magog's actions turned against him as he was indirectly responsible for causing a nuclear holocaust in Kansas, and forcing many older superheroes, including Superman, to regulate the metahuman community. Magog, traumatized by his experience, turned himself to Superman's Justice League in order to redeem himself. Magog was later among the superhumans who survived the United Nations bombing; in which prior to that he was avoiding the fight that escalated between Superman and Captain Marvel while attempting to save as many lives as possible, and present to witnessed Superman's renewed hope for humankind. Thereafter, Magog later retired to Paradise Island.^[1]

Within twenty years in the future, Magog was among the many to attended Bruce Wayne's funeral.^[2]

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

• Superhuman Strength

• Invulnerability
  

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Battle armor

Weapons

An energy staff

NotesEdit

• Magog is named after a Biblical character from the Book of Genesis, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Book of Revelation as well as names that appear in a variety of subsequent legends. In addition to taking his name from the Old Testament, Magog represents the Golden calf, that is, a false idol.
• Magog represents the violent, modern-style heroes who come into conflict with the classic, moralistic heroes of the past. His character design was based on superhero design trends of the time, principally the Marvel Comics anti-hero character Cable, and Cable's creator Rob Liefeld himself.^[3]
  

TriviaEdit

• In the novelization of Kingdom Come, Magog matured enough to become a Dean of Students in Paradise Island.

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LinksEdit

• Magog (Earth-22) at Wikipedia.org

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Footnotes

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