Mageddon is a semisentient doomsday weapon manufactured by the Old Gods of Urgrund. It looks like an enormous squid and it can amplify the worst and most hostile treats of a planet's population, triggering world wars. To speed up its mission, Mageddon can select beings in the doomed planet to act as "remote senders". These people manifest a big ectoplasmic eyeball around their upper body to report to the central Mageddon unit. If attacked, these senders can shoot enormous blasts of energy. Though the Old Gods finally fell prey to their creation, Mageddon was trapped in a gravity singularity in space-time. Billionst of years later, Mageddon escaped and moved to Earth. The planet only survived when Superman traveled to the heart of Mageddon and absorbed the anti-sunlight that empowered it. Mageddon manipulates the reptilian instincts of homo sapiens to bring the lifeforms of Earth to the brink of destruction. They riot, murder, rape, and kill for no reason. Mageddon than unleashes a phenomenal supernova destroying the entire solar system. The planet only survived when Superman traveled to the heart of Mageddon and absorbed the anti-sunlight that empowered it.
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A destroyer of galaxies, the cosmic conqueror Imperiex created a notorious reputation - instilling fear even into Mongul, a conqueror himself. When Imperiex destroyed Warworld, Mongul sought the aid of one of his greatest, most powerful adversaries: Superman!
Together, Superman and Mongul traveled into the far reaches of space, and eventually engaged Imperiex in combat...or so they thought. The entity they battled was what would become known as a "probe", a foot soldier for the true Imperiex. Soon afterwards, Imperiex sent a mass of probes to assault the earth, triggering a major war. Imperiex's invasion of the planet proved to be one of the worst assaults the earth has faced so far. Several cities and villages around the world were decimated. Several major metahumans lost their lives, or were lost during the onslaught. Among the most notable included Aquaman, Maxima, Massacre, the legendary Frank Rock (who gained fame as the courageous Sgt. Rock of World War II), Guy Gardner, and the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta. Ultimately, it took the combined efforts of Superman and one of his deadliest foes, Darkseid, in order to defeat Imperiex.
While the extraterrestrial terror was beaten, the after-effects of its assault remain far-reaching. The city of Topeka was nearly destroyed, and Paradise Island had to be reconstructed. Heroes such as Guy Gardner a.k.a. Warrior, Aquaman, and Frank Rock - all thought to have been killed in the conflict, have only recently resurfaced. And President Lex Luthor, who so far has had a scandal-free term, narrowly avoided a big controversy when it was revealed that he could have had prior knowledge of the invasion; and acted to save more lives.
For Superman, the effects of the war were truly great. The Man of Steel found himself questioning his campaign to fight for truth, justice, and the American way. His father-in-law Major Samuel Lane (who served in President Luthor's Cabinet as the Secretary of Defense) was murdered by Imperiex probes. His death was very painful for daughter Lois Lane, causing her to briefly question her faith in Superman's ability... and even his loyalty to her, as her husband. For a short while Superman adopted a black background to replace the gold in his classic "S" insignia as a way to commemorate those who died during the Imperiex invasion.
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The only people I think would be smart enough and resourceful enough to find a weakness would be Doom and Mr. Fantastic. Although Doom would probably be trying to build a extradimensional portal machine to save his own sorry ass.
Imperiex is a task. Surfer, Sentry, Hulk, Thor, Hyperion, F. Richards, Apocalypse, other heavy hitters combined would have to engage him after the weakness was found. Catch there is that if his powers are energy based, Surfer would sense his weakness immediately with his cosmic awareness, or a character like Karnak of the Inhumans that can find the weakness in anything, though he may not have the means to exploit and take advantage of it.
As for Mageddon, all it would take is a teleporter like Gateway and Cloak to defeat it while Professor X uses Cerebro to counteract it's hatemonger mental effects on humans. Gateway teleports Cloak to the heart of Mageddon and Cloak encompasses Mageddon's power source into the Darkness Dimension, shutting it down. Or Surfer and other energy manipulaters (Thor's hammer Mjolnir) could shut it down.
Good argument. However, Mageddon has powerful forcefields to counteract teleportation. People like Raven couldn't teleport in because of the technology.
Scratch Surfer and insert Magneto, Polaris, Molecule Man (Owen Reece) or Dr. Strange for the energy signature reading. Karnak could still find it himself since that's his primary ability (finding the weaknesses in people and things).
Are Mageddon's force fields energy based? Regardless, a character that can travel extradimensionally could get past it. Cloak can travel in and out of the Darkness Dimension and traverse great distances in seemingly short periods of time, then reemerge in Marvel Universes' dimension of reality. He could reemerge into reality within Mageddon's core and and either encompass it in darkness himself, or he could bring Thor and Dagger along with him so that Thor could use Mjolnir to short circuit him.
Imperiex is going to be a beast though without Surfer, but Molecule Man (Owen Reece) is actually on par and could substitute the lost firepower. He has half the power of a cosmic cube due to an "accident".
Very True. However, the Marvel Earth has only twenty minutes before Mageddon detonates. I doubt that they can conference with each other, come up with a plan, and somehow manage to find their way into Mageddon's Heart in such a time span.
"Very True. However, the Marvel Earth has only twenty minutes before Mageddon detonates. I doubt that they can conference with each other, come up with a plan, and somehow manage to find their way into Mageddon's Heart in such a time span."
Not in twenty minutes.
Once Mageddon sets off the alarms of the Avengers, F4, and Professor X, they'd need about 15 minutes to formulate the plan, and then all they need to do is have a time travelling character travel back 2-5 minutes before Mageddon arrives and inform Reed or Xavier of what's going to happen and what their plan was, then they enact it by contacting Thor, Cloak and Dagger telepathically and giving them the particulars.
Time travel doesn't work for some reason. Hour Man tried it several times but he said that Mageddon was controlling the "bends of time." If the master of time and space says Mageddon won't allow time travel then time travel won't work.
Superman didn't defeat Mageddon alone. It required nearly every human being on Earth to defeat Mageddon. The JLA managed to turn the entire human race into superpeople. DC Earth also had help from the 853rd century, a interdimension god speedster, Metron and finally an Entire army of Angels.
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