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Karras was a Tamaranean prince and military officer.

The son of Tharras and Salja, the king and queen of the Southern States of Tamaran, he was a high-ranking noble.

In a bid for unity on the war-torn planet, Myand'r and Tharras decided their children should marry to form a strong pact between the Southern States and Tamarus. Karras knew it was his duty to marry Koriand'r (Starfire), though he was loath to do so, as he loved his lieutenant Taryia instead. Koriand'r also had another lover, Dick Grayson. The two eventually married, though mostly out of convenience. Taryia was understanding of their plight, and couldn't bring herself to hate her, although she had wanted to. Dick was less understanding.

Despite their marriage, Starfire eventually moved back to Earth, which Karras understood. He went back to Taryia, and got her pregnant, though he did not live long enough to see the child be born. He worked with his wife one final time, in an effort to save Tamaran from his sister Xyannis and her lover Zorgan Allestra, two terrorists who threatened the planet with bombs. Karras, Xyannis and Zorgan did not survive the final showdown.

Powers

  • Tamaranean Physiology: Tamareans are a race of humanoid aliens with orange skin and emerald eyes with no pupils. They also possess red hair that, while flying, emits a visible glow that makes them appear like they are on fire.
    • Solar/Ultraviolet Metabolization: Tamaraneans can absorb and process stellar radiation, which provides them with incredible strength and vitality.[1]
      • Flight: The absorption of stellar energy also enables Tamaraneans to defy gravity and fly without the need of artificial enhancements.[2]
        • Interstellar Travel: Some of the stronger Tamaraneans are able to traverse the cosmos at light speed so long as they have copious amounts of extra-stellar energy to subside on.[3]
      • Superhuman Durability: Tamaraneans are incredibly robust to all known forms of injury and abrasion. Being able to survive in the cold vacuous expanse of deep space, resist the intense surface heat of stars and traversal within reach of a Black Hole's event horizon with little irritation.[4][5]
      • Superhuman Stamina
      • Superhuman Speed
      • Superhuman Strength: Tamareans possess higher levels of physical strength compared to humans.
      • Tactile Linguistic Assimilation: All Tamaraneans possess the ability to psychophysically learn another species or ethnicity's vocabulary with little more than a simple touch or passing graze. The most effective means of doing so is usually through lip to lip oral contact with another recipient of the desired community.[citation needed]


  • Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

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