Monitors (DC)
The Monitors are a powerful group of beings from DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The Monitors were a race of powerful multiversal beings that were charged with the task of the protection of the Multiverse. Their existence was traced to the first Multiverse where only two such beings existed that were known as the Monitor of the Positive Matter Universe and the Anti-Monitor who was formed from the Anti-Matter Universe. Both these beings were involved in a multiversal war that became known as the Crisis of the Infinite Earth's where both were killed.
52
Despite their death, Alexander Luthor worked to restore the original Multiverse through the use of a tower he had constructed. However, this was destroyed which activated a seed programming that created a Monitor for each of the 52 Earth's that were born in that time. As a result, a new race of 52 different Monitors were formed and worked to protect the Multiverse from corruption by working as a unified community. Each member was assigned their own world and only differed slightly in appearance.
In the Earth-48 reality, the Monitors were responsible for cultivating the existence of the Forerunners. This reality consisted of the Nine Houses that populated the worlds of the Sol system that warred with one another as part of a combat treaty on a devastated Earth. The survivors of these skirmishes later interbred and led to the emergence of a new hybrid race called the Forerunners. Initially, the Nine Houses intended to eliminate the Forerunners but were stopped by the Monitors who took them under their care and intended to use them as their agents. Unknown to the Forerunners, their genetic makeup prevent any member of their race from harming a Monitor though they willingly provided their best to serve their masters in their goals of policing the Multiverse.
Countdown
Ultimately, the existence of the Monitors ended during the events of the Final Crisis when Superman used the Miracle Machine. This act restored the Multiverse to a state before the interference of Darkseid. During their final moments, Nix Uotan condemned his fellow Monitors and claimed that the Multiverse deserved to be free from their interference. Afterwards, the Monitors simply faded from existence though Nix Uotan returned to his Human form. (Final Crisis #7)
Background
Once the 52 universes were formed, each of the Monitors created were all identical in appearance. However, it was believed that the events following their creation led to each evolving as well as acquiring increasingly divergent identities, physicality and disposition.
As a collective group, the Monitors had a vast range of resources available at their disposal. This ranged from individual agents of destruction such as the Dark Angel or Viza'Aziv who were dispatched to eliminate anonamlies in the Multiverse. Their greatest weapon was the capacity to control the hordes of Shadow Demons which they were able to use to obliterate an entire reality if such a need arose.
Membership
Notes
- According to Grant Morrison, each of the Monitors are named after the writer gods from different cultures. Uotan is named after Odin, Ogama on Ogma from Celtic gods, Hermuz after Hermes of the Greek pantheon and Tahoteh on Thoth of the Egyptian gods whilst Novu was after Nabu from Babylonian myth. The female names of Weeja Dell and Zillo Valla were inspired from Shalla-Bal from Stan Lee's Silver Surfer.[1]
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