Monitors
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History
Beginnings
The Monitors are a multiversal race charged with the protection of the Multiverse. During the first multiverse, there were only two, the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, who oversaw the multiverse and the anti-matter universe respectively. Both were killed during the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The 52
After the creation of the 52 in the new multiverse, a new race of 52 different Monitors is seen to be active trying to protect the multiverse from corruption as a community. [1] Each monitor is assigned to its own world, and they all vary at least slightly in appearance. A version of the Anti-Monitor is also seen to be active helping the Sinestro Corps on Qward. Although they are seen again [2], the Monitors play their next biggest roles in Countdown.
Countdown
Controversy emerges for the Monitors when two with radically opposing viewpoints argue about how the multiverse should be maintained, the chief concern being the presence of "Multiversal Anomalies" (people who have hopped from world to world). Monitor Solomon of Earth-8 believes such disturbances should be immediately eradicated, and goes as far as to hunt down and kill Duela Dent. Despite his violence and zeal, he manages to convert almost all of the Monitors to his way of thinking. However, New Earth's monitor, Bob, believes a much more peaceful approach should be taken, and establishes the Challengers of the Unknown, a group made of anomalies to help him track down Ray Palmer who he believes is the only man capable of averting the upcoming Great Disaster.
The violent actions of the majority of the Monitors, including the genocide of the Forerunners, attracted the ire of Monarch, who believed them to be tyrants. Using the Bleed as his headquarters, he gathered an Army from all over the multiverse to challenge and destroy them, almost suceeding, culminating in the destruction of Earth-51. Monarch's whereabouts are currently unknown, all of the Monitors survived the Monarch War, except for Bob who was specifically killed by Solomon as Solomon attempted to directly absorb Bob and amass Bob's power for himself.[3]
Although the Monitors were originally very close (some were specifically female while the bulk were male gendered), they have been changed drastically developing individual personalities and choosing through mutual best interest rather than a resulting singular mental/intellectual focus as shown when their base individual realities were drastically changed by Mister Mind during the end portion of the interdimensional 52 event. Thus the Monitors have also , they also changed to reflect them, and have since been becoming more and more individual and acting in mannerisms that would be considered individual greed of their particular reality and at times of their own indivdiual person which resulted in the attack and removal of Solomon from their collective assembly.
Recognizing that the Monitors are more or less now completely individuals and thus increasingly dangerous to the stability of other individual realities, the Monitor of the destroyed Earth-51 Nix Uotan has recently put together a team to monitor the Monitors [4]. The Monitor Guardian team consists of Ray Palmer, Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Forager.
Final Crisis
The Monitors were eliminated as a superpowered species as part of Nix Uotan's plan to safeguard the 52 individual realities from the Monitors' own vampiric nature as well as the plan instigated by Darkseid to reformat the universe to his own designs. Nix was reborn as nonpowered human teenager on Earth-0 with some rememberance of his existence as a Monitor.
It is unspecified if any other Monitors survived Nix's plan and now live on New Earth or any other of the 52 realities.
Presently, only the Anti-Monitor remains a superpowered representative of this set of beings though technically is not part of their race.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Not well-defined, but if comparable to The Monitor:
Energy Manipulation
Matter Manipulation
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Durability
Flight
Teleportation
Interdimensional Teleportation
Psionics
Reality Manipulation
Dimensional Manipulation
Cosmic Awareness
Immortality
Abilities
Genius-Level Intellect: an infinite knowledge about the secrets of the multiverse.
Average Strength level
Unknown.
Weaknesses
None known.
Habitat
Habitat: individual habitats as well as collective space station in the Bleed
Gravity: Gravity of this race is unknown.
Atmosphere: Atmosphere of this race is unknown.
Population: 49 of the original 52 as Nix Uotan and Solomon are both banished from the collective, and Bob was killed by Solomon.
- This note does not include the current primary known Anti-Monitor who like these Monitors may now also be reflective of multiple antimatter realities that have been shown to exist. At present, there is only one revealed Anti-Monitor.
Miscellaneous
Type of Government: Democratic
Level of Technology: Advanced
Cultural Traits: Cultural traits unknown.
Representatives: Monitor (deceased), Anti-Monitor, Monitor Bob (deceased), Monitor Solomon, Monitor Nix Uotan, Zillo Valla, Weeja Dell, Mandrakk (deceased)
Notes
- No special notes.
Trivia
- No trivia.
Recommended Reading
Related Articles
See Also
- Discuss Monitors on the forums
- Full list of Monitors
- Appearances of Monitors
- Race Gallery: Monitors
- Catalogued images related to Monitors
Links and References
- ↑ DCU: Brave New World
- ↑ in comics like Supergirl and Ion
- ↑ Countdown to Infinite Crisis #17
- ↑ as shown in Countdown #1
