Maxwell Lord

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Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. '''Maxwell Lord IV''' was the son of '''Albert Lord''' and '''Maxine Lord''' with his father being an entrepreneur and a self-made man who started '''Chemtech Pharmaceuticals''' with him become incredibly wealthy as a result. However, a scandal emerged when the company's weight loss pills were found to cause cancer with the event striking Albert Lord greatly with him as CEO later being found dead. After that point, the Lord family went upon hard times and his mother was said to had disappeared from the public eye. His mother was furious at her husband's soft nature leading to his demise and she taught her son Max Lord to become more ruthless in the future. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)
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He eventually rose to become a royalty ranking member of Checkmate where he operated as its Black King whilst also being the co-head of the Cadmus Project and Executive Commissioner of the OMAC Initiative. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)
  
 
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His power was said to only make people do what they normally would do with him simply giving them the push to act upon that thought. As such, he said he gave permission for such people to take that action and it was not a mandated command. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)
  
 
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Revision as of 12:07, 4 January 2017

Maxwell Lord in Justice League: Generation Lost v1 #5.

Maxwell Lord is a male comic character that features in DC Comics.

Contents

Biography

Origin

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Maxwell Lord IV was the son of Albert Lord and Maxine Lord with his father being an entrepreneur and a self-made man who started Chemtech Pharmaceuticals with him become incredibly wealthy as a result. However, a scandal emerged when the company's weight loss pills were found to cause cancer with the event striking Albert Lord greatly with him as CEO later being found dead. After that point, the Lord family went upon hard times and his mother was said to had disappeared from the public eye. His mother was furious at her husband's soft nature leading to his demise and she taught her son Max Lord to become more ruthless in the future. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)

He eventually rose to become a royalty ranking member of Checkmate where he operated as its Black King whilst also being the co-head of the Cadmus Project and Executive Commissioner of the OMAC Initiative. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

His power was said to only make people do what they normally would do with him simply giving them the push to act upon that thought. As such, he said he gave permission for such people to take that action and it was not a mandated command. (Justice League Vol 3 #11)

Notes

  • Maxwell Lord was created by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire where he made his first appearance in Justice League v2 #1 (May, 1987).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In Justice League Unlimited, Maxwell Lord appeared in the DC Animated Universe episode "Ultimatum" where he was voiced by actor Tim Matheson. He was shown as an ordinary human with no special abilities who served as the manager of the Ultimen that were an independent superhero team. Unknown to the Ultimen, they were actually genetically engineered clones created by Project Cadmus as part of an ongoing effort to protect Earth against the Justice League.
  • In Supergirl, Maxwell Lord appeared as a semi-antagonist in the live-action series where he was portrayed by actor Peter Facinelli. He was the son of scientists that were killed due to safety conditions causing him to distrust government agencies. Maxwell later became the founder of Lord Technologies that was a company which operated at National City.

Appearances

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  • Justice League: Generation Lost:

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