Monitors (comics)
| The Monitors | |
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Five of the Monitors.
Art by Ariel Olivetti |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | DCU: Brave New World (August 2006) |
| Created by |
Marv Wolfman George Pérez |
| Characteristics | |
| Inherent abilities | Not well-defined, but if comparable to The Monitor: Vast cosmic powers; Energy and matter manipulation, Incalculable strength and durability Reality warping. |
The Monitors are a group of fictional comic book characters, who appear in books published by DC Comics.
They are based on The Monitor, a character created by comic book writer Marv Wolfman and comic artist George Pérez as one of the main characters of DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series. They are a group that watches all aspects of the Multiverse, past and present. Most importantly, they seek to prevent crossovers between the universes, as was common before "The Crisis." The Monitors first appeared in Brave New World.
They are in some respects similar to the Watchers of the Marvel Universe, though they take a more active role as opposed to simply observing.
One of the Monitors appears in shadow on the cover of the DCU: Brave New World Special; the first few pages show the Monitors' satellite appearing over New Earth. In the final pages of the comic, five Monitors are revealed, one of whom calls the group "the Monitors." One of the five is noticeably different from the others; although his back is turned, he resembles the Anti-Monitor. This Monitor is later shown in Supergirl to only dress like the Anti-Monitor. In Ion #9, the Monitors are shown to be a society of many different Monitors. There are 52 in total, one from each of the new universes. In Countdown to Final Crisis #48, when a large group of Monitors gather together, it is shown that each of them is physically different from the others in at least a small way. The most extreme example, apart from the one dressed like the Anti-Monitor, is one who appears to be a humanoid giraffe, suggesting he is the Monitor of a modern equivalent of Captain Carrot's Earth-26.
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