History ComicBook / JusticeNewUniverse

-->'''Tensen:''' ''[hand raised, ready to unleash a lethal blast of energy]'' If you have ''truly'' forseen Armageddon, I can make sure you're not here for it, if you wish.

--> ''[everything goes white as UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} [[ComicBook/ThePitt is annihilated]]]''

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The series did an impressive one of these about halfway through its run. In Issue 15 (cleverly titled "Everything You Know Is Wrong", a ShoutOut to Creator/TheFiresignTheatre), the readers -- and the main character -- find out that he isn't an Interdimensional holy warrior but in fact a DEA agent who had an entire false life mentally implanted into him by a drug lord. He then becomes a borderline psychotic loner, who still can suffer flashbacks to his fake life if drugged up enough.
* PsychicPowers: Tensen could tell whether other paranormals were good or evil by reading their auras.

* WhamEpisode: Issue #15, "Rude Awakening", in which Tensen and guest-star ComicBook/{{Nightmask}} unravel the truth of Tensen's past and Darquill's power.

And so was John Tensen himself, a DEA agent who'd been investigating an organised crime family when he vanished shortly after the White Event. Darquill, the crime boss he was after, had acquired some level of RealityWarping power from the White Event. Seemingly, Tensen only survived their initial meeting because his own powers had also manifested - but his memories and appearance were still reshaped to fit Darquill's fantasy world.

Freed from the delusions, Tensen became a vigilante who policed how other paranormals used their powers - soon referred to by the police as "the Justice Killer", but eventually recruited by the [=NSA=].

* CatchAndReturn:
** Seraph can use his scythe to absorb and redirect some energy attacks - including Justice's sword blasts.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Seraph loses his footing while fighting Tensen atop the Coney Island Wonder Wheel.

* CatchAndReturn: Seraph can use his scythe to absorb and redirect some energy attacks - including Justice's sword blasts.

Once the New Universe was connected to the Marvel Universe, versions of Tensen also appeared in series such as ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}''.

%% * CanonImmigrant: Peter David evidently liked using Justice so much he brought him through to Marvel's later ''2099'' range via time-travel.

* CatchAndReturn: Seraph can use his scythe to absorb and redirect Tensen's sword blasts.

* FakingTheDead: Justice does it in his ''Untold Tales'' issue.

* CanonImmigrant: Peter David evidently liked using Justice so much he brought him through to Marvel's later ''2099'' range via time-travel.

* DetectEvil: Having an absolute certainty as to who was wrong made Tensen into a WellIntentionedExtremist serial killer. The ''newuniversal'' incarnation takes this a step further; because he detects ''everyone's'' evil thoughts, all the time, he is completely insane, and firmly convinced he is in {{Hell}}.

* DetectEvil: Having an absolute certainty as to who was wrong made Tensen into a WellIntentionedExtremist serial killer. The ''newuniversal'' incarnation takes this a step further; because he detects ''everyone's'' evil thoughts, all the time, he is completely insane, and firmly convinced he is in Hell.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The series did an impressive one of these about halfway through its run. [[spoiler: In Issue 15 (cleverly titled Everything You Know Is Wrong) the readers -- and the main character -- find out that he isn't an Interdimensional holy warrior but in fact a DEA agent who had an entire false life mentally implanted into him by a drug lord. He then becomes a borderline psychotic loner, who still can suffer flashbacks to his fake life if drugged up enough.]]

* WhamLine: In issue #18, Tensen confronts Glen Baker, who can see 48 hours into the future but used his powers to enrich himself rather than help others. When threatened by Justice, he doesn't care. He's seen something awful coming for both of them - he thinks it's World War III - and he knows he's going to die.

--> ''[everything goes white as [[ComicBook/ThePitt Pittsburgh is annihilated]]]''

* WhamEpisode: Issue #15, "Rude Awakening", in which Tensen and guest-star ComicBook/{{Nightmask}} unravel the truth of Tensen's past and Darquill's power.

SwordShieldContrast: Tensen has the ability to project two forms of energy. From his left hand hand comes a personal force field which he calls his "shield" and from his right hand a deadly blast of energy, his "sword." He can read people's auras as to whether they are "good" or "evil" and uses his "sword" to punish the evil.

John Tensen has the ability to project two forms of energy. From his left hand hand comes a personal force field which he calls his "shield" and from his right hand a deadly blast of energy, his "sword." He can read people's auras as to whether they are "good" or "evil" and uses his "sword" to punish the evil.

Tensen is a Justice Warrior in the service of Spring. Exiled from the dimension known as the far side, he faces his homeland's enemies in the strange land of America.

* RealityWarper: Downplayed, but Daedalus Darquill has some level of this. His power creates another world where he can shape reality - and changes within it remain when people or object return to the real world.

More recently, Creator/AlEwing's run on ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2015'' introduced an AlternateUniverse version of Justice, Jim Tensen, into Earth-616, the 'main' Marvel universe.

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