Major Disaster
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Publication history
Major Disaster first appeared in Green Lantern (volume 2) #43, and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane.[2]
Fictional character biography
Paul Booker is a low-level crook who accidentally discovers the secret identities of Green Lantern and the Flash after finding Thomas Kalmaku's casebook.[3] He then becomes a criminal using devices that can create natural disasters and protect him from them. Despite having his memories erased, Major Disaster continues to battle Green Lantern and allies with Epoch.[4]
Major Disaster later learns that he has gained his devices' power innately, but is slowly dying due to their effects. He joins the Injustice League, eventually reforms, and becomes a founding member of Justice League Antarctica.
After returning to crime, Major Disaster makes a deal with Neron to gain enhanced powers in exchange for his soul. Furthermore, he joins the Suicide Squad and a substitute Justice League consisting of Nightwing, Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, Jason Blood, and Faith while the main group are believed dead.[5]
In Infinite Crisis, Major Disaster is killed by Superboy-Prime.[6] He is later resurrected as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night and attempts to seek revenge before Prime kills him using a black ring.[7]
In The New 52, Major Disaster is resurrected and returns to being a villain.[8] Furthermore, his daughter Penny, a wielder of the H-Dial who is also known as Minor Disaster, is introduced.[9]
Powers and abilities
Major Disaster possesses the ability to manipulate probability and cause natural disasters. He initially derives his powers from special devices before gaining them innately.
In other media
- Major Disaster makes non-speaking cameo appearances in Justice League Unlimited as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society before being killed by Darkseid.
- Major Disaster appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by James Arnold Taylor.[10]
- Major Disaster appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.[11]
References
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- ↑ Karate Kid #12-15 (February - August 1978)
- ↑ JLA #80 (June 2003)
- ↑ Infinite Crisis #7 (June 2006)
- ↑ Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #4-5 (January - February 2010)
- ↑ Superman/Wonder Woman #13 (January 2015)
- ↑ Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #52 (December 2018)
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