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Martian Manhunter
Centuries ago on the planet Ma'aleca'andra, the Green Martians known as M'yrnn and Sha'sheen gave birth to twin sons.
The bearing of twins was uncommon among the Martian culture, and as such, the first of the twins was named J'onn J'onzz, whose name means "Light to the Light."
J'onn's brother however, was born a mutant, bereft of a Martian's innate ability to communicate telepathically.
He was named Ma'alefa'ak, whose named means "Darkness in the Heart."
As an adult, J'onn became a Manhunter (police officer) and married a Martian woman named M'yri'ah.
The two established a modest home for themselves beneath the windswept Martian plains and gave birth to a daughter named K'hym.
Years passed, and J'onn's brother Ma'alefa'ak grew to despise everything about Martian culture.
In an ambitious endeavor to commit full-scale genocide against his own people, he engineered a contagious virus known as H'ronmeer's Curse.
The virus reacted to telepathic energy, and carried from one Martian to the next whenever they elected to use their psionic powers.
The plague responded to a Martian's innate fear of fire, causing them psychosomatic stress so intense, that their bodies and minds would literally burst into flame.
J'onn desperately tried to keep his wife and daughter from using their mental gifts, but they were unable and so, contracted the plague.
K'hym was the first to experience the symptoms, and M'yri'ah followed soon after.
J'onn was anguished as he watched his family burning to death before his very eyes.
The trauma of the event shattered his psyche, and nearly drove him mad.
Meanwhile on the planet Earth, a would-be scientist named Dr. Saul Erdel developed a transmitter machine based upon ancient Martian technology.
Seeking to make contact with extraterrestrial life, he aimed his device towards the vicinity of Mars and activated it.
The transmitter beam streaked across both space and time, striking the Martian Manhunter at a point in time several centuries before Erdel would even be born.
The beam brought J'onn back to Erdel's natural time era, where he collapsed on the ground outside of the doctor's Colorado laboratory.
Erdel brought the distraught Martian inside and attempted to nurse him back to health.
The anguish of J'onn's mental state created a psychic bond between the two, and Erdel became aware of the events that took place on Mars.
In an effort to heal J'onn's mind, Erdel used the mental link to fabricate a new history for the Martian.
He created a back-story inspired by the writings of famous science fiction novelists such as Ray Bradbury and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Eventually, J'onn's sanity was restored, and he was prepared to function in this strange, new world.
Erdel put the idea into his head that he should become a great champion, and thus J'onn adopted the heroic guise of the Martian Manhunter.
When J'onn shapeshifts into a human-like form, Erdel is shocked and suffers from a heart attack that kills him.
Erdel asks J'onn for forgiveness for making him a prisoner of Earth.
He is able to use his powers to fit in, adopting a human-like appearance and calling himself "John Jones."
He joins the police force, secretly using his alien powers to help the inhabitants of his new planet.
After he had given up his John Jones persona, J'onn became Marco Xavier in order to infiltrate the international crime cartel known as VULTURE.
Early on, the Manhunter from Mars adopted a more characteristically superheroic modus operandi, openly fighting crime in a green-skinned form.
It was later revealed that Mars was dead when J'onn was taken, killed by a mental plague deliberately started by his brother Ma'alefa'ak.
He took the identity of the Bronze Wraith, and fought crime with the Justice Experience.
The Martian Manhunter's history is intimately linked with that of the Justice League of America; he is a founding member of the team.
JLI
During the Justice League International years, J'onn is shown to be obsessed with Chocos, partially due to Captain Marvel's influence.
J'onzz reveals that his familiar appearance is not his true Martian form but a "compromise" between his true form and a human appearance - explaining that his real form is private and that, even on Mars, his "public" appearance was the familiar version.
In addition to serving in the League under his own identity, he also joins (under duress) as "Bloodwynd."
JLA
The Martian Manhunter is the most recognized hero in the Southern Hemisphere, and he maintains a number of different secret identities, many of them outside the United States.
However, following two incidents (in which John Jones separates from the Martian Manhunter), he decides to focus on his original human identity and retire the others.
Later, the Martian Manhunter attempts to conquer his fear of fire and makes a deal with a flame-wielding villainess named Scorch, who wants J'onzz' telepathic help in dealing with her own mental issues.
20,000 years before, an extremely dangerous race of beings called "the Burning" caused large fires to help themselves reproduce asexually.
In order to prevent the Burning from destroying much of the universe, the Guardians of the Universe split the species into the Green Martians and the White Martians, changed their reproductive behavior, and instilled in them a fear of fire.
When the Martian Manhunter confronts his fear of fire, he reverts into one of the ancient creatures and changes his name to Fernus.
His genetic memory identifies threats such as Vandal Savage, who killed one of the Burning on ancient Earth.
This same genetic memory also makes Fernus hate the Green Lantern, due to his association with the Oans.
Fernus increases the strength of the powers he inherits from J'onn: For example, he can phase other beings rather than just himself, and he has access to pyrokinesis.
He can breathe fire of such intensity that it harms Scorch, who had previously been thought immune to damage from fire.
Fernus' tremendous strength also allows him to dominate the Justice League in combat even without his Martian telepathic powers.
He can also heal himself from almost total destruction within seconds.
The Justice League eventually defeats Fernus by re-enlisting Plastic Man, who is immune to Fernus' psychic powers and has superior shape-changing abilities.
It is implied that Batman recruited Plastic Man to the Justice League as a balance in case the Martian Manhunter ever got out of control.
After destroying Fernus, J'onn grieves for Scorch, who had fallen into coma, and with whom he had fallen in love.
J'onn later tells Superman that his aversion to fire has changed: he is now invulnerable to flames unless they are "flames of passion" or of some other "psychic significance."
Although J'onzz is initially thought killed in the explosion of the Justice League Watchtower, Justice League member Manitou Dawn receives a telepathic vision of J'onzz assuring her that he "will reveal himself in time," but needs her help to keep an eye on a mysterious, newly-powerful telepath - the mind-controlling villain Key - whose abilities he had always managed to dampen before.
J'onzz resurfaces during Infinite Crisis, unconscious and connected to Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s vibrational tower, along with Lady Quark, the Ray, Black Adam, Power Girl, Nightshade, and Breach.
Wonder Girl, Superboy, and Nightwing free J'onzz and the others from Alexander's tower.
Oracle asks J'onzz to telepathically coordinate the heroes' response to the Society's global jailbreak.
He joins the assembled heroes in the defense of Metropolis from the combined might of the world's supervillains and in the battle against Superboy-Prime.
In the following months, J'Onn masqueraded as U.S. Secretary of State Kakalios in an attempt to bring down Checkmate.
He was successful in eliminating it as a U.S. government-controlled agency.
However, it soon reorganized under the United Nations.
One of the most dramatic changes in J'onn's life occurred a short time later.
While operating under the guise of William Dyer, he discovered that several Green Martians had crash-landed on Earth, and were being held by high-ranking members of the Defense Department.
One of the Martians, Roh'kar, broke free of his confinement and made contact with the Martian Manhunter.
The union was bittersweet, however, as a brainwashed assassin ended Roh'kar's life with a weapon designed to target Martians.
J'onn found five of Roh'kar's colleagues and rescued them from the bowels of a government think tank.
He established a safe house for them and pledged to do everything in his power to keep them safe from government scrutiny.
When Checkmate decided to capture a number of super-villains and exile them on a "prison planet" in an event known as Salvation Run, J'onn volunteered to disguise himself as Blockbuster and infiltrate the planet to keep an eye on things, making periodic reports to Batman.
Catwoman finds out his true identity and, to save her own skin, outs him to the other villains, who torture him.
When the villains escape the planet, teleporting back to Earth, they leave J'onn in his cage to die.
He is "rescued" by Libra and the new Secret Society of Super-Villains who open a Boom Tube between the planet and Earth.
Libra brings him back to Earth with the express purpose of killing him, doing so with his spear tipped scale staff, for the Human Flame to show the Society members that he can give them their hearts desire--Human Flame having wanted J'onn dead for foiling a crime of his years ago.
In his final moments J'onn broadcast a telepathic message to fellow heroes Batman, Superman, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Gypsy, and Black Canary prompting them to say his name and, hours after his death had been discovered, simultaneously record part of his life story in their sleep.
His remains were interred in a pyramid removed from Egypt and placed back in it's original location on Mars in a ceremony attended by many heroes.
He was eulogized by Superman.
During the events of the Blackest Night, the dead rose across the universe and J'onn was one of them.
After his resurrection and admission to the Black Lantern Corps, he went to confront Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, who were talking over Batman's grave being robbed.
He approaches them saying that they should be dead and begins to fight the two, and is soon joined by Black Lanterns Elongated Man, Sue Dibny, Firestorm, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl.
When the Atom arrives, Barry and Hal create a fire tornado to destroy J'onn.
This fails to stop him, and the heroes are cornered until Indigo-1 and another Indigo Lantern arrive to drive them off.
At the end of the Blackest Night, J'onn is revived by the Entity along with other heroes and a few villains.
When Superman asks if J'onn is truly alive, J'onn responds, "It appears so."
J'onn is a very prominent member, finding a water source on Mars and seen talking with the daughter of Doctor Erdel.
J'onn was seen last tucking her into bed in a retirement home, in the form of her father.
J'onn then visited the doctor's laboratory, but plant life around him starts to die every time he gets near.
He later went to see M'gann M'orzz in Australia during her mediation search, but found her beaten and tied up.
While tending to her, he is contacted by the Entity, who instructs him to burn down the newly-formed forest.
When J'onn's asks M'gann who did this to her, M'gann says she was attacked by a female green Martian.
J'onn presumes the forest he is to burn down is in Star City, but is questioned by Green Arrow.
He attempts to burn down the forest before being telepathically attacked by the Entity.
The Entity reveals to him that the newly-formed forest he is to burn down is on Mars.
After J'onn lashed out the Star City's forest, he starts to return home.
When J'onn enters his home, he is confronted by a female green Martian named D'Kay D'Razz, who is the one responsible for M'gann's attack. D'kay explains her origins and wants to be his mate.
J'onn refuses, learning she is a psychopath, when D'kay angrily lashes out to attack and enters his mind.
J'onn tries to resist influence from D'kay's mind, but her control over his mind tempts him with visions of a fantasy world where all the Martians and J'onn's family are resurrected by the Entity.
While re-united with his lost family, J'onn discovers that they are false and realizes that they are a ruse and the death corpse is carved of Martian symbols of love and hate from D'kay's influence.
J'onn arrives vengeful and wrings D'kay's neck in disgust. J'onn defeats D'kay by forcing her into the sun, but is saved from the same fate by the White Lantern Entity, who informs him that his mission has been accomplished, and returns his life to him.
The Entity then told J'onn to choose between Mars and Earth. J'onn chose Earth and returned only to be absorbed into the Earth by the Entity and Deadman as "part of the plan."
When the "Dark Avatar," made his presence known, Martian Manhunter is revealed to be one of the four Elementals, the others being Aquaman, Firestorm, Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
He becomes the element of Earth to protect the Star City forest from the "Dark Avatar," which appears to be the Black Lantern version of Swamp Thing.
The Elementals are then fused with the body of Alec Holland in order for him to be transformed by the Entity into the new Swamp Thing and battle against the Dark Avatar.
After the Dark Avatar is defeated, Swamp Thing brought Martian Manhunter and the other Elementals back to normal.
Afterwards, J'onn helps Melissa Erdel and removes the piece of machinery from her head that made her lose her mind.
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The bearing of twins was uncommon among the Martian culture, and as such, the first of the twins was named J'onn J'onzz, whose name means "Light to the Light."
J'onn's brother however, was born a mutant, bereft of a Martian's innate ability to communicate telepathically.
He was named Ma'alefa'ak, whose named means "Darkness in the Heart."
As an adult, J'onn became a Manhunter (police officer) and married a Martian woman named M'yri'ah.
The two established a modest home for themselves beneath the windswept Martian plains and gave birth to a daughter named K'hym.
Years passed, and J'onn's brother Ma'alefa'ak grew to despise everything about Martian culture.
In an ambitious endeavor to commit full-scale genocide against his own people, he engineered a contagious virus known as H'ronmeer's Curse.
The virus reacted to telepathic energy, and carried from one Martian to the next whenever they elected to use their psionic powers.
The plague responded to a Martian's innate fear of fire, causing them psychosomatic stress so intense, that their bodies and minds would literally burst into flame.
J'onn desperately tried to keep his wife and daughter from using their mental gifts, but they were unable and so, contracted the plague.
K'hym was the first to experience the symptoms, and M'yri'ah followed soon after.
J'onn was anguished as he watched his family burning to death before his very eyes.
The trauma of the event shattered his psyche, and nearly drove him mad.
Meanwhile on the planet Earth, a would-be scientist named Dr. Saul Erdel developed a transmitter machine based upon ancient Martian technology.
Seeking to make contact with extraterrestrial life, he aimed his device towards the vicinity of Mars and activated it.
The transmitter beam streaked across both space and time, striking the Martian Manhunter at a point in time several centuries before Erdel would even be born.
The beam brought J'onn back to Erdel's natural time era, where he collapsed on the ground outside of the doctor's Colorado laboratory.
Erdel brought the distraught Martian inside and attempted to nurse him back to health.
The anguish of J'onn's mental state created a psychic bond between the two, and Erdel became aware of the events that took place on Mars.
In an effort to heal J'onn's mind, Erdel used the mental link to fabricate a new history for the Martian.
He created a back-story inspired by the writings of famous science fiction novelists such as Ray Bradbury and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Eventually, J'onn's sanity was restored, and he was prepared to function in this strange, new world.
Erdel put the idea into his head that he should become a great champion, and thus J'onn adopted the heroic guise of the Martian Manhunter.
When J'onn shapeshifts into a human-like form, Erdel is shocked and suffers from a heart attack that kills him.
Erdel asks J'onn for forgiveness for making him a prisoner of Earth.
He is able to use his powers to fit in, adopting a human-like appearance and calling himself "John Jones."
He joins the police force, secretly using his alien powers to help the inhabitants of his new planet.
After he had given up his John Jones persona, J'onn became Marco Xavier in order to infiltrate the international crime cartel known as VULTURE.
Early on, the Manhunter from Mars adopted a more characteristically superheroic modus operandi, openly fighting crime in a green-skinned form.
It was later revealed that Mars was dead when J'onn was taken, killed by a mental plague deliberately started by his brother Ma'alefa'ak.
He took the identity of the Bronze Wraith, and fought crime with the Justice Experience.
The Martian Manhunter's history is intimately linked with that of the Justice League of America; he is a founding member of the team.
JLI
During the Justice League International years, J'onn is shown to be obsessed with Chocos, partially due to Captain Marvel's influence.
J'onzz reveals that his familiar appearance is not his true Martian form but a "compromise" between his true form and a human appearance - explaining that his real form is private and that, even on Mars, his "public" appearance was the familiar version.
In addition to serving in the League under his own identity, he also joins (under duress) as "Bloodwynd."
JLA
The Martian Manhunter is the most recognized hero in the Southern Hemisphere, and he maintains a number of different secret identities, many of them outside the United States.
However, following two incidents (in which John Jones separates from the Martian Manhunter), he decides to focus on his original human identity and retire the others.
Later, the Martian Manhunter attempts to conquer his fear of fire and makes a deal with a flame-wielding villainess named Scorch, who wants J'onzz' telepathic help in dealing with her own mental issues.
20,000 years before, an extremely dangerous race of beings called "the Burning" caused large fires to help themselves reproduce asexually.
In order to prevent the Burning from destroying much of the universe, the Guardians of the Universe split the species into the Green Martians and the White Martians, changed their reproductive behavior, and instilled in them a fear of fire.
When the Martian Manhunter confronts his fear of fire, he reverts into one of the ancient creatures and changes his name to Fernus.
His genetic memory identifies threats such as Vandal Savage, who killed one of the Burning on ancient Earth.
This same genetic memory also makes Fernus hate the Green Lantern, due to his association with the Oans.
Fernus increases the strength of the powers he inherits from J'onn: For example, he can phase other beings rather than just himself, and he has access to pyrokinesis.
He can breathe fire of such intensity that it harms Scorch, who had previously been thought immune to damage from fire.
Fernus' tremendous strength also allows him to dominate the Justice League in combat even without his Martian telepathic powers.
He can also heal himself from almost total destruction within seconds.
The Justice League eventually defeats Fernus by re-enlisting Plastic Man, who is immune to Fernus' psychic powers and has superior shape-changing abilities.
It is implied that Batman recruited Plastic Man to the Justice League as a balance in case the Martian Manhunter ever got out of control.
After destroying Fernus, J'onn grieves for Scorch, who had fallen into coma, and with whom he had fallen in love.
J'onn later tells Superman that his aversion to fire has changed: he is now invulnerable to flames unless they are "flames of passion" or of some other "psychic significance."
Although J'onzz is initially thought killed in the explosion of the Justice League Watchtower, Justice League member Manitou Dawn receives a telepathic vision of J'onzz assuring her that he "will reveal himself in time," but needs her help to keep an eye on a mysterious, newly-powerful telepath - the mind-controlling villain Key - whose abilities he had always managed to dampen before.
J'onzz resurfaces during Infinite Crisis, unconscious and connected to Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s vibrational tower, along with Lady Quark, the Ray, Black Adam, Power Girl, Nightshade, and Breach.
Wonder Girl, Superboy, and Nightwing free J'onzz and the others from Alexander's tower.
Oracle asks J'onzz to telepathically coordinate the heroes' response to the Society's global jailbreak.
He joins the assembled heroes in the defense of Metropolis from the combined might of the world's supervillains and in the battle against Superboy-Prime.
In the following months, J'Onn masqueraded as U.S. Secretary of State Kakalios in an attempt to bring down Checkmate.
He was successful in eliminating it as a U.S. government-controlled agency.
However, it soon reorganized under the United Nations.
One of the most dramatic changes in J'onn's life occurred a short time later.
While operating under the guise of William Dyer, he discovered that several Green Martians had crash-landed on Earth, and were being held by high-ranking members of the Defense Department.
One of the Martians, Roh'kar, broke free of his confinement and made contact with the Martian Manhunter.
The union was bittersweet, however, as a brainwashed assassin ended Roh'kar's life with a weapon designed to target Martians.
J'onn found five of Roh'kar's colleagues and rescued them from the bowels of a government think tank.
He established a safe house for them and pledged to do everything in his power to keep them safe from government scrutiny.
When Checkmate decided to capture a number of super-villains and exile them on a "prison planet" in an event known as Salvation Run, J'onn volunteered to disguise himself as Blockbuster and infiltrate the planet to keep an eye on things, making periodic reports to Batman.
Catwoman finds out his true identity and, to save her own skin, outs him to the other villains, who torture him.
When the villains escape the planet, teleporting back to Earth, they leave J'onn in his cage to die.
He is "rescued" by Libra and the new Secret Society of Super-Villains who open a Boom Tube between the planet and Earth.
Libra brings him back to Earth with the express purpose of killing him, doing so with his spear tipped scale staff, for the Human Flame to show the Society members that he can give them their hearts desire--Human Flame having wanted J'onn dead for foiling a crime of his years ago.
In his final moments J'onn broadcast a telepathic message to fellow heroes Batman, Superman, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Gypsy, and Black Canary prompting them to say his name and, hours after his death had been discovered, simultaneously record part of his life story in their sleep.
His remains were interred in a pyramid removed from Egypt and placed back in it's original location on Mars in a ceremony attended by many heroes.
He was eulogized by Superman.
During the events of the Blackest Night, the dead rose across the universe and J'onn was one of them.
After his resurrection and admission to the Black Lantern Corps, he went to confront Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, who were talking over Batman's grave being robbed.
He approaches them saying that they should be dead and begins to fight the two, and is soon joined by Black Lanterns Elongated Man, Sue Dibny, Firestorm, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl.
When the Atom arrives, Barry and Hal create a fire tornado to destroy J'onn.
This fails to stop him, and the heroes are cornered until Indigo-1 and another Indigo Lantern arrive to drive them off.
At the end of the Blackest Night, J'onn is revived by the Entity along with other heroes and a few villains.
When Superman asks if J'onn is truly alive, J'onn responds, "It appears so."
J'onn is a very prominent member, finding a water source on Mars and seen talking with the daughter of Doctor Erdel.
J'onn was seen last tucking her into bed in a retirement home, in the form of her father.
J'onn then visited the doctor's laboratory, but plant life around him starts to die every time he gets near.
He later went to see M'gann M'orzz in Australia during her mediation search, but found her beaten and tied up.
While tending to her, he is contacted by the Entity, who instructs him to burn down the newly-formed forest.
When J'onn's asks M'gann who did this to her, M'gann says she was attacked by a female green Martian.
J'onn presumes the forest he is to burn down is in Star City, but is questioned by Green Arrow.
He attempts to burn down the forest before being telepathically attacked by the Entity.
The Entity reveals to him that the newly-formed forest he is to burn down is on Mars.
After J'onn lashed out the Star City's forest, he starts to return home.
When J'onn enters his home, he is confronted by a female green Martian named D'Kay D'Razz, who is the one responsible for M'gann's attack. D'kay explains her origins and wants to be his mate.
J'onn refuses, learning she is a psychopath, when D'kay angrily lashes out to attack and enters his mind.
J'onn tries to resist influence from D'kay's mind, but her control over his mind tempts him with visions of a fantasy world where all the Martians and J'onn's family are resurrected by the Entity.
While re-united with his lost family, J'onn discovers that they are false and realizes that they are a ruse and the death corpse is carved of Martian symbols of love and hate from D'kay's influence.
J'onn arrives vengeful and wrings D'kay's neck in disgust. J'onn defeats D'kay by forcing her into the sun, but is saved from the same fate by the White Lantern Entity, who informs him that his mission has been accomplished, and returns his life to him.
The Entity then told J'onn to choose between Mars and Earth. J'onn chose Earth and returned only to be absorbed into the Earth by the Entity and Deadman as "part of the plan."
When the "Dark Avatar," made his presence known, Martian Manhunter is revealed to be one of the four Elementals, the others being Aquaman, Firestorm, Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
He becomes the element of Earth to protect the Star City forest from the "Dark Avatar," which appears to be the Black Lantern version of Swamp Thing.
The Elementals are then fused with the body of Alec Holland in order for him to be transformed by the Entity into the new Swamp Thing and battle against the Dark Avatar.
After the Dark Avatar is defeated, Swamp Thing brought Martian Manhunter and the other Elementals back to normal.
Afterwards, J'onn helps Melissa Erdel and removes the piece of machinery from her head that made her lose her mind.
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