Global Guardian (Prime Earth)

Global Guardian is an Amazo android created by Failsafe and used by the Bureau of Sovereignty to steal Martian Manhunter's powers.

History

Failsafe created Global Guardian and the other members of Task Force VII to store the consciousnesses of the Batmen of Zur-En-Arrh of the Multiverse.^[1][2] Failsafe was foiled by the Batman Family and destroyed beyond repair before the Amazos could be activated.^[3] However, the Bureau of Sovereignty raided Failsafe's base in Blackgate Penitentiary and seized all the robotic shells. When their scientists could not repair them, Amanda Waller forced the captured Time Commander to reverse their timelines and restore them.^[4] The androids were each implanted with a duplicate of the Time Commander's Hourglass, which caused their personal timelines to automatically reverse and rapidly "heal" them from any damage. This made them effectively invincible and immune to any weaknesses of the heroes they drained.^[5]

When other captured weapons such as the Justice Buster suit proved inadequate to the task of capturing superheroes; Waller ordered Task Force VII, into the field.^[6] The Bureau of Sovereignty flooded the media with A.I. generated footage of superheroes seemingly rampaging and slaughtering civilians, creating a nationwide wave of anti-metahuman hatred and several violent attacks on superheroes by angry mobs. To counter the narrative the superheroes went out in force to rescue people, gathering into groups for protection; however, this was just what Waller had intended. Global Guardian ambushed Martian Manhunter and a band of other heroes in London, stole their powers and overpowered them.^[7] He arrested the depowered metahumans and delivered them to the Metahuman Detention Centre on Gamorra Island, but Blue Beetle and Booster Gold got away.

Global Guardian was part of the Bureau's attack on the Fortress of Solitude to capture the remaining heroes. He was stealthily teleported in by Dreamer while the Brainiac Queen and the brainwashed Jon Kent attacked the main entrance. Global Guardian stole the Titans' powers when they began to fight off Jon Kent. Zealot sliced him in half but he rapidly repaired himself. Global Guardian sought out and attacked Batman, who he considered his "grandfather", but Batman was able to temporarily shut him down using ultrasonics built into his suit. Aquaman and Wonder Woman threw him through a portal to get rid of him.^[8]

Global Guardian was then sent to arrest superheroes outside the United States of America. He attacked Eurocorps, the official United Nations-backed Global Guardians and the renegade team of the same name. This amounted to an effective declaration of war on the entire world by the increasingly insane Waller.^[9]

Waller and Failsafe noticed that Task Force VII were operating at slightly less than peak efficiency, and so Failsafe ran a remote diagnostic on all of them. He realised that they had absorbed some of the heroes' personalities and rebooted them to restore their baseline programming.^[10] This caused Global Guardian to freeze and fall out of the sky mid-battle. While he was down, Intercorps teleported the three teams to their space station so they could join forces to oppose him, but he tracked them down and systematically depowered Earth's last remaining Metahumans.^[9]

Waller recalled all her forces, including Task Force VII, to Gamorra Island to repel a full assault from the depowered heroes. The androids formed the second line of defence after the Bureau agents. The heroes used a device built by Time Commander and Green Arrow to deactivate their "chrono-healing" ability and reverse their timelines to just before they stole all metahuman powers. The stolen powers generally returned to their original owners, although in some cases people swapped powers, or powers were granted to random people around the world. Without their powers or ability to regenerate, Task Force VII were quickly destroyed by the heroes.^[11]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Android Body
  • Chrono-Healing: Each member of Task Force VII is fitted with a duplicate of Time Commander's Hourglass. This causes their timeline to automatically reverse and repair them if they suffer any damage, making them effectively invincible.^[5] Global Guardian rapidly repaired himself after being sliced in half by Zealot.^[8]
  • Power Absorption: Global Guardian stole powers from an eclectic group of heroes including Martian Manhunter, Fire, Ice and Elongated Man.^[7] He later also stole powers from heroes taking refuge at the Fortress of Solitude,^[8] Eurocorps, Intercorps and the Global Guardians.^[9] As a result of the wide range of metahuman powers he absorbed, Global Guardian may have been the most powerful sentient being on Earth at the time. The only being which may have had greater power was his teammate Paradise Lost.
    • Cryokinesis^[7]
    • Enhanced Vision: Global Guardian stole Doctor Mid-Nite's ability to see in total darkness.^[10]
    • Flight^[7]
    • Invisibility^[7]
    • Pyrokinesis^[7]
      • Thermal-Blast^[7]
    • Superhuman Speed^[9]
    • Superhuman Strength^[8]
    • Telepathy^[9]

Trivia

• Global Guardian debuted in battle against former members of the Justice League International, rivals of the similarly named team the Global Guardians.

Related

• 11 Appearances of Global Guardian (Prime Earth)
• 12 Images featuring Global Guardian (Prime Earth)
• Quotations by or about Global Guardian (Prime Earth)
• Character Gallery: Global Guardian (Prime Earth)

Footnotes

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