The Champions of Angor, also known as the Assemblers or the Justifiers, were an extra-terrestrial superhero team from the planet Angor.
History
The team first came into contact with the Justice League of America when their planet Angor was attacked by a spacefaring robot, which they defeated and attempted to track back to its source. Meanwhile, a similar robot attacked the Justice League on Earth, which they defeated and also tried to track. When the two teams met, each assumed the other was the enemy they had been looking for, and they fought. At that time, the heroes of Angor were Wandjina, Silver Sorceress, Blue Jay and Jack B. Quick.[1]
Post-Crisis
In a dimension separate from that of the Earth,[2] the Assemblers,[3] also known as the Justifiers, were a superhero team whose continued success against the villains of their world lulled them into complacency to the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The heroes became figureheads,[4] and were granted honorary military ranks.[5]
Caught up in their celebrity lifestyle, the heroes were blindsided when a united group of their foes known as the Extremists took control of the planet's nuclear arsenal, holding the world hostage and demanding that its people submit to them or be destroyed. Well aware of what their foes were capable of, the heroes took their threat seriously, and used a combination of magic and science to send a delegation—Wandjina, the Silver Sorceress, and Blue Jay—to seek aid on Earth. Instead, they came into conflict with the Justice League of America and found that the Earth also suffered from nuclear proliferation. They returned to their own world, where, in their absence, the Extremists made good on their threat, committing widespread genocide via nuclear holocaust and kiling most of their fellow heroes.[6]
The returned heroes worked to save the survivors; Wandjina called down rains in an attempt to heal the planet while the Silver Sorceress attended to the radiation-sickened people—including her teammate Captain Speed, whose hyper-metabolism accelerated his death. Their efforts were unsuccessful, however, and eventually the remaining population died out, leaving only the three off-world heroes[7] and the Bowman, the latter of whom was held captive by android duplicates of the Extremists and eventually tortured to death.[8]
With little recourse, these remaining heroes sought refuge in another dimension. Wandjina, Blue Jay, and Silver Sorceress arrived on Earth and attempted to destroy all of its nuclear weapons in the hopes of preventing the devastation that destroyed Angor from affecting Earth as well.[7] Eventually Wandjina sacrificed himself to prevent a meltdown in a Bialyan nuclear reactor, and Silver Sorceress and Blue Jay gave themselves up to Russian authorities.[9]
JLE and the Extremists
Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress eventually escaped from prison. Blue Jay went to the Justice League for help, and Silver Sorceress returned to Angor. There, she discovered a group of overly realistic amusement park robot duplicates, who believed themselves to be the actual Extremists, captured her and forced her to take them to Earth, where they intended to take control of all the world's nuclear weapons.[2] After conflict with Justice League Europe, the team discovered the Extremists were robots, and their creator, Mitch Wacky, was brought to Earth to shut them off. It was revealed that the original Dreamslayer, not being human, had survived the nuclear holocaust on Angor, and was working with the robot Extremists. He was defeated by Silver Sorceress. Afterwards, Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress joined the JLE.[10][11][3]
Notes
- The team were conceived as a pastiche of characters from Marvel Comics Avengers, whose battle cry is "Avengers Assemble!"
- The team also referred to themselves as the Justifiers at some point in the past during Mitch Wacky's time travel back into Angor's past.[12]
Trivia
- The name "Champions of Angor" originated in the DC Heroes Roleplaying Game's 1990 Justice League Sourcebook.
See Also
- 7 Appearances of Champions of Angor (New Earth)
- 7 Images that include Champions of Angor (New Earth)
- Team Gallery: Champions of Angor (New Earth)
Links and References
Footnotes
- ↑ Justice League of America #87
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Justice League Europe #15
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Justice League Europe #19
- ↑ Who's Who in the DC Universe #12
- ↑ Justice League Europe #21
- ↑ Justice League Europe #16
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Justice League #2
- ↑ Justice League Sourcebook
- ↑ Justice League #3
- ↑ Justice League Europe #17
- ↑ Justice League Europe #18
- ↑ Justice League Quarterly #3