- Then I've murdered an innocent child. I'll get over it.
- — Doctor Sivana src
Doctor Thaddeus Sivana is a gifted scientific genius and one of the wealthiest men in Fawcett City. He was the arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel.
History
Since he was a very young boy, Sivana was remarkably brilliant for his age in which he once built a mind-controller device that he used on his school classmates after being inspired from a visit at the New York World's Fair in 1939.[1]
As an adult, he owned Sivana Industries. However, his unethical business practices made him, as he observed, the man the media "loves to hate." Sivana was caught in an extramarital affair which led to his wife, Venus, divorcing him and left with their children, Beautia and Magnificus.[2]
Enemy of Captain Marvel
At some point, Sivana developed a sort of rivalry with Lex Luthor due to their many shared similarities and despised the man. According to Luthor, Sivana used many shell-companies to buy over 80,000 shares of LexCorp in order to execute a hostile takeover his business, which he used as leverage when Sivana came to him looking for Luthor's aid in helping him deal with the then new hero of Fawcett City, Captain Marvel. After their exchange, Sivana deployed his new weapon against the Captain, SPEC, a highly trained tracker who soon deduced Captain Marvel's true identity as Billy Batson and organized his men to murder the boy. Instead, however, Billy's best friend, Scott Cooper was killed instead. Enraged, Captain Marvel destroyed the first floor of the Sivana Industries HQ and nearly killed Sivana by choking him, before ultimately leaving him be as he didn't have the heart to kill.[3]
Sivana was responsible for financing an archeological expedition to Abu Simbel, Egypt led by C.C. and Marilyn Batson in finding valuable treasures. The expedition turned awry when the Batsons were murdered by Sivana's enforcer, Theo Adam. Sivana tried to cover up the crimes by attempting to bomb the WHIZ Radio building and silencing a witness, Saied Kadesh, to Adam's murders. However, Sivana's plans were thwarted by the superhero Captain Marvel. When Sivana vent his rage on Adam, his enforcer came into possession of the Scarab Necklace of Shazam—which was taken from the Batson expedition and added in Sivana's collection—and transformed into Black Adam. The Sivana Building was destroyed in a fire caused by Teth-Adam's transformation and Sivana was presumed dead while his business empire collapsed from public knowledge of the Batson murders.[4]
Sivana resurfaced and became a mad scientist and an enemy of Captain Marvel, making his way in-and-out from prisons a regularity. As his own life was ruined and combined with Captain Marvel's prestige in the media this created a deadly hatred of the hero in Sivana's mind. Sivana first came into contact with the Venusian worm, Mister Mind, and forged an alliance with the worm, but ultimately became a pawn in Mister Mind's plans of an attempted alien invasion by the Venusian worms.[5]
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Sivana was one of the many mad scientists abducted on Oolong Island by Chang Tzu to develop new weapons for Intergang. He and the scientists were responsible for creating the Four Horsemen of Apokolips that attacked the Black Marvel Family, and briefly capturing Black Adam. After the events of World War III, Sivana returned to his family's home and encountered Rip Hunter, who accidentally revealed to Sivana about the restored Multiverse.
Final Crisis
Sivana was later apprehended by the American government and banished to the planet Salvation. There he teamed up with the other criminal scientists led by Lex Luthor in constructing a make-shift portal back to Earth.[6] Afterwards Sivana joined Libra's Society and became a part of its inner circle.
During the Final Crisis, Sivana worked with Lex Luthor in betraying Libra, after being made to watch one of his own daughters succumb to the Anti-Life Equation.[7] Sivana helped in creating a device which shut down Libra's Justifiers helmets, allowing Luthor to attack and apparently kill Libra. Sivana and Luthor later helped in the resistance against Darkseid and saving all of reality by contributing their intellectual skills to construct the Miracle Machine.[8]
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Powers and Abilities
Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect
- Business Management: Sivana is a shrewd businessman who rose Sivana Industries to the fourth largest business conglomerate in the world.[9]
- Political Science
- Science
- Gadgetry
Paraphernalia
Transportation
- Omnibot
Related
- 84 Appearances of Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (New Earth)
- 24 Images featuring Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (New Earth)
- 11 Quotations by or about Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Thaddeus Sivana, Sr. (New Earth)
Footnotes
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Secret Society of Super-Villains member |
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