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Squadron Supreme's Hyperion
Vol 1 5
Squadron Supreme's Hyperion
Vol 1 10
History
There's only one way this will end, boy... Either your pitiful adoptive world dies, or our future does! Your choice!
- — The Scoundrel
- — The Scoundrel
Early Years
General Zhib-Ran, often called by the Eternal Council as his infamous title known as the Scoundrel, is a former Eternal military general of the dying Eternal colony Ikaris Prime and an archenemy and rival to his brother, Ike-Ran, the father of Zor-Ran, who grew up to be the superhero, Hyperion.
Exiled to the unstable wormhole known as the Gates of Grim by the Eternal Council and due to the shared concerned of his people for his schemes and acts of treason, Zhib-Ran survived the destruction of their own homeworld, something that he and his faithful crew had always been aiming to prevent until their imprisonment, and swore revenge against his brother through his son, Zhib-Ran's nephew, after discovering the revelation that the child had survived his supposedly inescapable fate during the planet's destruction.
Arrival on Earth
However, the heroic Hyperion's responsibility on Earth, as a lone planetary guardian has come into challenged when the last Eternal war criminal and long lost uncle of Marcus, Zhib-Ran and his militia forces had finally arrived on Earth in the intent to terraform it into the previous world of Eternals, the same world they once have lived in. Explaining his background to his long lost nephew with his attempt to manipulate him to join their side, Zhib-Ran and his companions were able to escape the impending destruction of their planet and spent the next three decades years traveling to the outposts of the planet's ancient empire before becoming aware of where Marcus and the Uni-Mind had been sent by the latter's parents.
Though initially unwilling to expose himself to the yellow sun of Earth, the Scoundrel is shown to be able to master his newly-gained powers, in only a matter of minutes, the same powers Marcus spent years in unlocking from the exposure. Zhib-Ran reveals to Clark Kent how he and his team were able to acquire a "world engine" device, scouted unsuccessfully for the surviving Eternal colonies, and traveled to Earth. He then reveals his plan to terraform the planet with the world engine and use the Uni-Mind (that Ike-Ran placed within Milton's individual cells as a baby) to repopulate the world with genetically-engineered Eternals, which would definitely kill all of Earth's indigenous life in the process.
The Battle of Cosmoplis
Hyperion flies and charges towards his own uncle, ultimately batting him for the consequential fate of the Earth.
The Scoundrel finally releases the world engine on Metropolis and over the Indian Ocean to begin terraformation, but Marcus destroys the device while the United States Military use a series of their once-classified aircraft carriers called the Helicarriers, as an airstrike device in counteracting against the Scoundrel's fleets, forming a heroic alliance that destroyed the enormous main Eternal vessel and apparently obliterated most of the Scoundrel's fleet (with the exception of the Scoundrel, Hyperion, and a few Eternal survivors handed over custody), foiling half of the Scoundrel's destructive plans. Enraged at the ultimate defeat of the remainder of his colony and the death of his wife and second-and-command, Zhib-Ran engages Hyperion in an even, catastrophic fight throughout Cosmopolis, unintentionally causing thousands of casualties, causing for Marcus to battle him briefly in space before driving him straight into the Earth's atmosphere.
A Snappy Decision
Zhib-Ran's advantages, combat experience and training, were eventually outmatched by Hyperion's superior adeptness to his powers and higher solar energy supply. Eventually, Hyperion gets the upper hand and subdues the Scoundrel in combat, but the Scoundrel's world engine was revealed to be still functioning albeit on the fact that the Eternal vessel was already destroyed, and had kept on running as long as Zhib-Ran's heartbeat keeps on fluttering, meaning that the terraforming would never, ever stop as long as the Scoundrel would be still alive, forcing Hyperion to reluctantly snap Zhib-Ran's neck in order to save the entire planet from being decimated and re-created, forcibly killing his own uncle in the finale, just so he could save all of the Earth's population, much to Hyperion's own dismay.
Haunting Legacy
Despite the defeat and death of Zhib-Ran, his wouldn't have stop on haunting all the deepest parts of Marcus' nightmares, wherein a hallucination of Marcus' fallen uncle would taunt him that even though he was able to save his planet from ultimate destruction, none of it would ever change the fact that he had turned Marcus into a killer, along with the fact that Marcus had gained a serious case of PTSD because of this, since he was forced to put an end into his own uncle, despite his point that he didn't deserve to die no matter how genocidal or deadly he was, no one else did whose deaths during his havoc on Cosmopolis who he had held responsible for.
During his long while absence as the once-heroic Hyperion, has also made him question his purpose and reason on why he decided to become a heroic protector of Earth, conflicted by his realization that he was being too irresponsible and even letting his reckless powers couldn't be uncontrolled by others, not even by himself. Along with it, Ran's preserved corpse was taken by the scientific genius and infamous businessman Emil Burbank and put him in suspended animation inside his secret laboratory, due to reasons yet to be revealed.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Eternal Physiology: The Scoundrel's unique physiology is common among the Eternals. His body collects cosmic radiation and operates in a process similar to nuclear fusion, specifically processing and gaining nourishment from solar photon particles. As a result, he possesses various superhuman attributes.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Flight
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Enhanced Vision
- Enhanced Hearing
- Solar Energy Manipulation
- Cosmic Energy Manipulation
- Atomic Vision
- Regenerative Healing Factor
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Abilities
- Master Leader
- Master Combatant
- Military Protocol
- Hyper-Intelligence
- Scientific Genius
- Intimidation
- Marksmanship
- Indomitable Will
- Investigation
Strength level
Class 250+
Weaknesses
- Solar Energy Depletion
- Magic
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
The Scoundrel wearing his menacing and domineering Warsuit, the Armor of Zeal
- Eternal Warsuit
- Armor of Zeal
- Space Suit
- The Terraformer
- Uni-Mind Reactor
- Genetically-Altered Celestial Seeds
- Life Seeds
- Death Seeds
- Mind-Probing Machine
Transportation:
- Flight
Weapons:
- Various conventional alien firearms
- Plasma rifles
- Plasma rifles
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Squadron Supreme's Hyperion Vol 1 5
Trivia
- The Scoundrel was created as an analogue/pastiche of DC Comics' General Zod.
See Also
- Appearances of Zhib-Ran (Earth-61712)
- Character Gallery: Zhib-Ran (Earth-61712)
- Quotations by Zhib-Ran (Earth-61712)
Discover and Discuss
- Search News for: The Scoundrel · Zhib-Ran · Zhib-Ran (Earth-61712)
Links and References
- None.