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Amazing-Man
Amazing-Man
Alter Ego: John Aman
First Appearance: Amazing-Man Comics #5 (September, 1939)
The Protagonist Title, John Aman was an orphan raised by a pack of Tibetan Monks calling themselves the Council of Seven who train him into a superhuman being of superstrength, and capable of transforming himself into green mist. He faces his Arch-Enemy The Great Question who wants to control him for his evil agenda. He also gain allies like Zona Henderson and her kid brother Tommy, who would become his sidekick named Amazing-Kid.- Adaptational Jerkass: In the comic series dubbed "The Protectors" by Malibu Comics, he is hostile and aggressive to murderous degree that he prone to Ax-Crazy behavior. Justified since The Great Question was mentally dominating him through the use of Psychic Powers while John's mind was trying to fight back, which been almost had him Driven To Insanity.
- Arch-Enemy: The Great Question, Aman's former mentor who wants to control John for his own evil agenda. As such, the two would clash every chance they get.
- The Ace: Other than possessing Super-Strength, able to turn himself into green mist, and other abilities he is also an Omniglot as well as an expert pilot. Even owning his own plane to travel with, though it often gets destroyed alot.
- The Ageless: In John Aman: The Amazing-Man comic series by Galiant Comics, he doesn't age at all due to time being vastly different in the mountains he was raised in by some strange alien technology. He manage to stay young until modern times where the stories takes place.
- Action Hero: Often uses violence to solve his issues, especially through interrogation where he threaten great harm onto the bad guy for information.
- Anti-Hero: Downplayed, but he was in in issues 7-8 where he for some unknown reason decided to blow up Berlin with an Evil Grin (which was populated by Nazis but still), which he was punished by the monks by purging him of his evil which puts him back on the right path again.
- Is this in The Protectors universe AKA Genesis, if it weren't for the fact he was simply under the influence of The Great Question's powers the whole time he would've been close to a Token Evil Teammate.
- Ax-Crazy: In the Protectors comic series, where he's a straight up berserker who willing to murder his enemies and even attack his teammates when he's really off the deep-end. Justified, because The Great Question is trying to takeover his mind during the whole series.
- Almighty Janitor: Just like Superman, he works as a reporter with Zona Henderson who's basically his Lois Lane.
- The Berserker: In The Protectors series anyway, he's a traumatized man but he's prone to violent behavior which also has him attack his own allies at times too.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Suffered this at the hands of the Great Question in #6, where he was kidnapped by a band of thugs holding a girl ransom for a million dollars. So the Question hijacked Amazing-Man's mind, turning him evil, and has him kill the leader to take control of the hostage situation. Amazing-Man later snapped out of this and went back to being a hero.
- Brains Evil, Brawn Good: He relies on his strength (and cunning too), while The Great Question relies on his Evil Genius brain to defeat him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In John Aman: The Amazing-Man series, we get to see what his life was like before he met the monks. He was raised in the middle of nowhere by his loving parents, until a strange yet devasting circumstances his house went on fire and his parents were killed. This left him an orphan, until he got adopted by the Tibetan monks who bring him to their home.
- Omniglot: Was taught by the monks every language known to man.
- Weak Sauce Weakness: Apparently attacking him from behind renders him useless, which is what the villains often do to subdue him.
Zona Henderson
Zona Henderson
First Appearance: Amazing-Man Comics #11 (April, 1939)
A friend and ally of Amazing-Man, she helps him in his many adventures ever since he rescued her from a band of killers from the swamps. She is also the older sibling of her kid brother Tommy, who would become the Amazing-Kid and sidekick of Amazing-Man.- Adaptational Name Change: In the Galiant Comics continuity, she's renamed Zoe Henderson instead of Zona.
- Action Girl: Can pull her own punches and saves Amazing-Man from danger too, when she's not the one being Damsel in Distress.
- Damsel out of Distress: Often gets kidnapped by the bad guys, especially by The Great Question, and used as a hostage or bait to capture and destroy Amazing-Man. However, she's still intelligent enough to outwit her captors and even fight back. She also the one who helps Amazing-Man break out of trouble too.
- Expy: Possibly one to Lois Lane.
Antagonists
The Great Question
The Great Question
Alter Ego: Unknown
First Appearance: Amazing-Man Comics #5 (September, 1939)
The Big Bad of the series as well as being Amazing-Man's Arch-Enemy. He was one of the members of the Council of Seven, a group of Tibetan monks who raised John Aman when he was an orphan. However, through his hunger for power and greed he decided that he should take control of John Aman's mind for his own evil purposes. Over the course of the series, Amazing-Man became immune to his powers, and so The Great Question decided to work alongside other insidious villains such as Adolf Hitler in hopes of achieving world domination.- Arch-Enemy: To Amazing-Man, being an Evil Mentor to him in the past, now he seeks to take full control of him so that he could have him perform acts of evil for his own agenda.
- Ambition Is Evil: His goal is to use Amazing-Man for his own evil purposes, trying to tell large sums of money through weapons dealings to taking hostages, to even desiring to Take Over the World with the Nazi party.
- Arms Dealer: Becomes this where he steals a bunch of governmental weapons to sell to warring countries or or start his own War for Fun and Profit.
- A God Am I: In The Protectors by Malibu Comics, where he starts gaining powers from the portals he opens and claims he'll ascend even higher than God himself.
- Ambiguously Human: In the Gallant Comics, he looks less human and has a rather humanoid appearance. His skin is more greenish and has claws from what it seems, with his eyes being completely red.
- Big Bad: Of the whole series, being Amazing-Man's Archenemy after all.
- He serves as this once again in the Malibu Comics series "The Protectors, where he orchestrated events which would lead him into gaining complete power and godhood.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: In #22 he teams up with Adolf Hitler himself in their goals of trying to invade England, and Take Over the World.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Inflicted this onto Amazing-Man in #6 once he learns of the plans the kidnappers had in mind.
- Bad Boss: From being a Jerkass to his subordinates to downright have them killed for failure or knowing too much. He once ordered a whole ship full of his own goons to be blown up just to keep them hush hush when they got caught by Amazing-Man.
- The Chessmaster: In The Protectors at least, where he manipulates events and individuals from behind the scenes while playing everyone like a fiddle in order to become a god. He nearly succeeds had he not suffered Hoist By Hisown Petard.
- Also this in the Gallant Comics continuity as well as being The Man Behind the Man to Horace Gooper, a villain from an entirely different comic series.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Runs an unnamed Nebulous Evil Organisation filled with other criminals and killers in his ranks. Even own whole islands for whatever organized crimes he has, from being an Arms Dealer to creating Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- Dirty Coward: He does get his hands dirty but when it comes to physical combat, the Question usually just teleports his way out of a scenario when things gets too much for him. Especially when facing Amazing-Man, whom he tried to brainwash or outright kill on several occasions
- Eviler than Thou: Perform this to the leader of the kidnappers in #6 where he hijacks Aman's mind and have him brutally kill the leader and his other goon just to usurp control over his operation.
- Evil Genius: Is both an Evil Sorcerer Diabolical Mastermind and can be a Mad Scientist and Master of Disguise too, he creates weapons and mind control devices along with using black magic to create flames capable of mass destruction. He at one pointed created a whole species of monsters for his Evil Plan to rob banks and kidnapping police officers.
- Evil Sorcerer: A practitioner in black magic, using teleportation and use magic to create the "Purple Flame" to assassinate multitude of political figures and scientists.
- Evil Mentor: Was a mentor to Amazing-Man in the past in all continuities.
- Evil Plan: Depending on the issue, but it's usually to control or kill Amazing-Man, Greed or Take Over the World.
- In the Protectors series, his evil plan is to orchestrate terrorist attacks so that the titular team can be formed because three of them holds items he needs to perform a spell involving opening portals to other worlds within The Multiverse. Because the more portals he opens, it could grant him powers of a god.
- Faux Affably Evil: In the Galiant Comics series at least, whilst the original series he's a more downplayed example where as he's regularly a smug Jerkass and doesn't show much affability to anyone.
- Greed: Though its usually because money equals more support for his evil organization, some of his plots involves this when it isn't involved killing Amazing-Man and his friends.
- Godhood Seeker: In the Protectors series, he seeks to open dimensional gateways to other worlds because the more he opens the more power he gains from them which is why he intentionally formed the titular team in the first place. He gets killed because of this and ends up destroying the whole verse too.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Is this in the Gallant Comics reboot, being The Man Behind the Man to all of Cadmus' actions and setting up the events of the comic from behind the scenes.
- Hero Killer: In the Protectors series he orders the death of Nightmask and later kills The Eye, a powerful wizard who tried stopping The Question from his evil goal.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Does this in #6 to the leader of a gang of kidnappers. See Eviler than Thou above.
- Humongous Mecha: Pulls out a giant robot he controls to battle Amazing-Man in #21.
- Mad Scientist: Created a variety of gadgets and weaponry, he even created a whole species of monsters! See Evil Genius above for more details.
- It's All About Me: Being a sociopathic criminal mastermind, he's an egotist doesn't care for anyone but himself and his own goals. Everyone else is expendable, and is a Dirty Coward willing to abandon anyone, including his own creations, to die if it means he will live on. He's also a Jerkass and Bad Boss mix with as being very arrogant and confident in his abilities.
- Becomes moreso in the Protectors series, where he'll let the world die if it means he could get more power for himself.
- Maker of Monsters: In #2 in Stars and Stripes, he created a bunch of monsters to help him rob banks and have them kidnapped and lock up police officers. Sadly for them, he have them all drown to death as an attempt to kill Amazing-Man and the hostages he freed.
- The Man Behind the Man:
- Serves as this to Mr.Monday for the first six issues of The Protectors, being the true leader behind the Steel Army and their numerous terrorist attacks just to have the title team to be formed.
- Also this in the Gallant Comics series, as he is the true mastermind the events of Gallant Comics's John Aman: Amazing Man and boss for Horace Grooper and the shenanigans in his evil corporation as well as the kidnapping of Zoe Henderson all to lure in Amazing-Man.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Almost always wears a white hood with eyeholes with a question mark on the forehead which he wears to mask his face. Later issues he change his appearance to simply wearing a bandana eye mask when working with the Nazis.
- Near-Villain Victory: In The Protectors, he nearly succeeded in gaining godhood but ends up dying from getting too much power from the portals he's opening.
- Omnicidal Maniac: When he gets the items he needs to perform a spell to become a god in Malibu's Protectors series, he winds up causing The End of the World as We Know It. Safe to say, he did not give a shit, perfectly saying the world can die but will live on.
- The Sociopath: He's a power-hungry Diabolical Mastermind willing to massacre whole cities just to achieve world domination, being manipulative, has a blatant disregard for life even ones he created, a horrible excuse of a bad, thinks very highly of himself, and being an overall jackass to anyone around him who takes sadistic delight in his crimes and shows willingness to harm even children.
Adolf Hitler
The leader of the Nazi party seeking to conquer the world, he and the Great Question team up to invade England and destroy Amazing-Man.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With The Great Question in #22 of the original comic, the two plan to Take Over the World as well as invading England but first needs to get rid of Amazing-Man for good.
- Greater-Scope Villain: While only appearing in one issue, he's the closest we get to one especially in the latter half of the series since the Nazis became a much more prominent foe for Amazing-Man and co. with even the Great Question himself teaming up with him in his goals for world conquest.
- Take Over the World: As per usual for the Fuhrer.
- Villain Team-Up: With The Great Question.
Uhlin Crater
The Starter Villain Amazing-Man faces in #5 who's responsible for the train crashes and sabotages.
- Greed: His motivations on why he was sabotaging the trains in the first place.
- Starter Villain: The main antagonist of #5 which is really the first issue of the series.
Dr. Mord
The main villain of the final issue of Amazing-Man, #26, a Mad Scientist who specializes in using mind control devices to control a pair of vultures he uses to kill three miners to inherit the gold they found so he could become rich if not Take Over the World.
- Big Bad: of issue 26, the last issue in Amazing-Man Comics.
- Bad Boss: Threaten to kill his two minions through his vultures if they failed him.
- Greed: Killed three miners just to steal a bunch of gold they found in a mine.
- Mad Scientist: A mad scientist who controls ferocious vultures for murder, and of course plans to Take Over the World with these vultures.
- Take Over the World: His plan once he gets the gold, he plans to takeover America if not the world with his vultures.
Cadmus
Cadmus
Alter Ego: Horace Gooper
First Appearance: John Aman: Amazing-Man #1 (May, 2021)
The CEO of Grooper Industries, he is a megalomaniac and a genetic Arms Dealer in leagues with The Great Question in the Gallant Comics reboot of Amazing-Man. He has the scientist create a species of plant men which he later transform himself into, and kidnaps Zoe Henderson all to lure in Amazing-Man for the Great Question. He is base off the character of the same name who was created by the late Jack Kirby, and appeared in Alarming Tales.
- Adaptational Villainy: Horace Grooper from the Alarming Tales comic was at best an Affably Evil Mad Scientist who doesn't cause too much damage besides attempting to sell his creation as living bio-weapons. This Horace however was a Faux Affably Evil megalomaniac as well as being murderous and sadistic.
- Adaptational Badass: The original Horace Gooper was a simple Mad Scientist who doesn't do anything extrodinary beyond making a species of Super Soldiers but in the John Aman: Amazing Man series he mutates himself into a Plant Monster and was capable subduing a bunch of heroes. He's also a full on Corrupt Corporate Executive who owns his own company and wealth which the original lacked.
- Arms Dealer: Stated to be a genetic weapons dealer who sells weapons to the black market for the highest bidder.
- Big Bad: For the time being, he served as this while The Great Question serves as the Greater-Scope Villain and The Man Behind the Man to Grooper. As its Grooper who kickstarts the plot of the series by kidnapping Zoe Henderson to lure in Amazing-Man.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: An Arms Dealer and murderous megalomaniac to boot.
