Fatal Five
| Fatal Five | |
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Cover art for Legion of Super-Heroes #120, featuring four of the Fatal Five with Brainiac 5 and Gates.
Art by Phil Jimenez. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Adventure Comics #352 (January, 1967) |
| Created by | Jim Shooter |
| In-story information | |
| Member(s) |
Founders: Emerald Empress Mano The Persuader Tharok Validus Substitutes: Flare Caress Mentalla Mordecai |
The Fatal Five are fictional characters, a supervillain team of the 30th century in the DC Comics universe. They were created by Jim Shooter and first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (1967) as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Originally a gang of super-criminals assembled by the Legion of Super-Heroes to help them destroy the Sun-Eater threatening Earth, the Emerald Empress, Mano, The Persuader, and Validus, led by Tharok, subsequently clashed with the Legion many times.
A later incarnation consisted of the Emerald Empress, Persuader, Flare, a Rimborian with the power of fire, Caress, who had a deadly acidic touch and Mentalla, a Legion reject who was secretly working against the Five trying to secure a spot in the Legion.
The first storyline in Legionnaires (1993) had the SW6 Legion face a Fatal Five comprising Tharok, Mano, the Persuader, a new Emerald Empress and a monstrous being called Mordecai.
Following the Zero Hour Legion reboot, the original Fatal Five was reintroduced in Legion of Superheroes #78 (1996), again assembled to help fight the Sun-Eater (although it was later revealed that the Sun-Eater didn't exist). Notably, in this incarnation, the analogue of Emerald Empress is simply called "Empress" and is more a skilled melee combatant than a magic user, since this continuity's Emerald Eye is a sentient being with a will unto itself and a role in other developing storylines.
In the Teen Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes crossover, Persuader used his "atomic axe" to bring Fatal Five teams from other dimensions, forming the Fatal Five-Hundred before the two teams are able to use the Cosmic Treadmill to banish the alternate Fatal Fives back to their original universes.
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