The merged Eradicator joined the Outsiders, and occasionally teamed up with Superman. It was seemingly killed in an attempt to shield Superman from a lethal blast of Kryptonite-based fuel, fully recharging the Man of Steel's powers in the process.įollowing Superman's return, the Eradicator's apparently dead body was examined at S.T.A.R. While it's humanoid body was being healed, robots from the Fortress revealed to the Eradicator it's true origins. This was the second encounter between the two, as the Cyborg had nearly killed the Eradicator in a battle during the obliteration of Coast City.
As a humanoid, the Eradicator joined forces with Superman to fight the Cyborg and stop him from destroying Metropolis. In point of fact, it had deluded itself into believing it was Superman himself. The Eradicator returned again in Action Comics #687 (June 1993), part of the Reign of the Supermen story arc, as "the Last Son of Krypton." It created a body for itself based on Superman's, and even briefly believed itself to be a Kryptonian. It tried to turn the Sun into a red dwarf (the type of star that Krypton once orbited), but Superman stopped it with help from Professor Hamilton.
The Eradicator returned in Superman: The Man of Steel #1 as an energy being. Superman nearly killed Draaga, and when he tried to kill Jonathan and Martha Kent, he broke the programming, fought the Eradicator, and threw it into the Sun. In the Day of the Krypton Man arc, the Eradicator altered Superman's psyche, turning him into the ideal Kryptonian and alienating his closest friends. When Superman completed it, he commanded the Eradicator to shut down, and it complied. He encountered a projection of Kem-L and learned that only the House of El can control the Eradicator, but he first had to undergo a rite of passage. Professor Emil Hamilton, who had previously examined the Eradicator, restored Superman's memory, and Superman then went into the Phantom Zone to stop the device. The Eradicator tried to transform Earth into a new Krypton, and erased Superman's memory of the device when he tried to interfere. When Superman recovered the Eradicator, he learned that one of his ancestors, Kem-L, created it to prevent aliens from influencing Kryptonian culture. Superman threw the device into Antarctica, where it altered the ice to create the Fortress of Solitude, and possessed two scientists to create a portal to the Phantom Zone, where it drew Kryptonian artifacts to the Fortress. When the Cleric gave the Eradicator to Superman for safekeeping, the old alien passed away.īack on Earth, the Eradicator caused a number of bizarre events, including altering Jimmy Olsen into a malleable form, causing him extreme pain in the process. He noticed that the device changed to protect Krypton's sole survivor, and they used it to heal their wounds, both physical and spiritual. The Cleric wished to prevent this from happening, and the Eradicator transported them to his asteroid. With the device, the two exchanged memories, and the Cleric had a vision of Superman's death at the hands of Mongul. The Cleric kept the Eradicator for 200,000 years, until he encountered Superman on Warworld. Unfortunately, his followers died shortly after leaving Kryptonians have a genetic link to their planet, and will die if they leave it. One of the surviving aliens, the Cleric, took the Eradicator and a group of followers and left Krypton. When a small group of these aliens arrived on the planet Krypton, a militaristic faction, led by Kem-L, killed them and corrupted one of their devices to preserve his ideal of Kryptonian culture this device would eradicate alien influences, and hence Kem-L called it the "Eradicator." In the distant past, a dying alien race created a number of devices to preserve their culture and sent them into space where they would encounter other civilizations and link their colonies. Eradicator has vast energy manipulation abilities, ranging from being able to absorb, convert and release various forms of energy as powerful blasts from his hands or eyes.Īlthough he has enhanced senses, the Eradicator once had to wear a special visor designed to cut down visible light, since his eyes were particularly sensitive to it. Being a program from Krypton, the Eradicator possesses extensive knowledge of Krypton, is extremely intelligent, as well as the ability to compute and process information at incredible speed.īut what distinguishes the Eradicator from other Kryptonians is his ability to manipulate energy. He also possesses ultra acute senses but to a limited degree. Being that, the Eradicator possesses similar powers to that of Superman, such as incredible strength, speed, invulnerability, heat vision and flight. The Eradicator's body was created from the genetic template of Superman's, when Superman died at the hands of Doomsday, making him Kryptonian.
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