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Spartan (bio)
 WildC.A.T.s era Hadrian 7 |
 WildC.A.T.s era Hadrian 8 |
 Wildcats era |
 Wildcats Version 3.0 era |
 WorldStorm era |
 World's End era |
 Future Spartan |
Real Name: Hadrian
Alias: Jack Marlowe
First Appearance: WildC.A.T.s #1
Affiliation: Wildcats, HALO Inc.
Vital Stats:
Species: Kherubim Spartan Guard Android
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 240 lbs
Birthplace: Khera, originally, but some later models of Spartan were constructed on Earth.
Date of Birth: Unknown
Known Family: none
Powers/Abilities:
Originally, Spartan's android body was superhuman strong, capable of flight (though it was explained that flying took up so much energy from his power reserves that he didn't do it often) and energy-projection. Should it be destroyed, Spartan's memories would load into a backup body. His computer-like mind allowed him to choose the best strategy in all circumstances.
Every single upgrade improved these abilities as well as giving him several new abilities. The body on Khera gave him enhanced senses that allowed him to scan entire cities for specific humans. The upgrades Emp gave him to battle Kenyan's forces dramatically increased his durability and strength. He was now capable of lifting large armored vehicles and capable of withstanding artillery fire and the punches from the superhumanly strong Caitlin Fairchild.
When he merged with Void, these powers increased dramatically again. His strength and durability were now comparable to Mister Majestic's. More importantly, he gained Void's ability to teleport, allowing him to teleport himself and/or others over large distances. He was easily capable of reaching objects in orbit around the Earth and pinpointing multiple persons and teleporting them away without being present at the time. However, he had been shown to stalemate Mister Majestic in a strength match even before the upgrade. He also had a crossover with Apollo where he knocked him out in 4 punches before his first upgrade.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio:
Yohn Kohl
Thousands of years ago, a war raged between the alien races the Kherubim (also known as Kherans) and the Daemonites. One battle took two ships to Earth's Solar system. Both ships crashed on Earth, but the surviving Kherans and Daemonites continued their battle, inspiring humanity to various tales of gods, angels, demons and monsters. One of the high-ranking Kherans was lord Yohn Kohl, a hero whose likeness was used in the production of the Spartan Guards.Over the millennia, the Kherans and the Daemonites moved their war away from the public eye and went underground. Many of the Kherans and Daemonites mated with humans and produced hybrid offspring.
John Colt
In the 1930s, Yohn Kohl called himself John Colt and became a renowned adventurer and hero. He was asked to join Team One, a group of superheroes and gifted military men. During their disastrous first mission, Yohn Kohl convinced teammate Lord Majestros (Majestic) to kill him to stop the Daemonites from launching a nuclear warhead. Majestros obliged, but was Lord Emp later able to transfer Colt's personality to a prototype Spartan.
Colt's body was left for dead, but regenerated and later became the dictator Kaizen Gamorra.
It is noteworthy that Colt mentioned having a daughter named Emma but nothing more was ever revealed about her after his 'death'.
Lord Emp also hired a human scientist named Dr. Able to design Spartan's artificial intelligence. Able modeled the A.I. after his late son-in-law's. Emp wanted to combine the bravery and military tactics of Yon Khol with a natural empathy for human beings.
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams
When Emp assembled the Covert Action Team, also known as WildC.A.T.s, in the 1990's to fight the Daemonites, Spartan was chosen to lead them. At first, he seemed to be devoid of any emotion, but over time, he started to develop feelings for his teammate Voodoo. During a mission to stop the Daemonite Lords from reactivating their old spaceship, the Kheran spaceship was found instead. The ship was about to explode though, so the WildC.A.T.s boarded the ship to fly it out of the Earth's atmosphere. The ship exploded and the WildC.A.T.s were presumed dead except for Spartan, whose body had been severely damaged before. Stormwatch, the U.N. superhuman team, repaired Spartan and he joined the team for a short while, but sacrificed himself in a mission.
Meanwhile, the WildC.A.T.s hadn't died, but in fact activated the ship's hyperdrive that took them back to Khera. On Khera, they discovered that the war had ended millennia ago and that the Kherubim had won. Emp had taken Spartan's backup disc along and installed it in a Spartan Guard on Khera. This body was far more advanced due to the superior Kheran technology. Spartan was appointed as Emp's bodyguard, but used his free time to check on his friends. He discovered a plot to assassinate Zealot, but was damaged before he could reveal it. The other WildC.A.T.s found his body and repaired him. Together, they managed to foil the assassination, but recent events had shown them the dark underbelly of Kheran society including their treatment of the defeated Daemonites and they returned to Earth, disgusted with the Kherubim.
On Earth, the WildC.A.T.s followed their former member Grifter to the island of Gamorra, where Spartan met Kaizen Gamorra. Kaizen turned out to be the body of Yohn Kohl, who had regenerated, but had become completely corrupt. He had captured the real Kaizen Gamorra and taken his place. Kaizen's presence awoke Kohl's memories in Spartan and the two battled. Mister Majestic appeared and destroyed Kaizen, this time for good. Spartan then took the name John Colt again. Soon, this body was destroyed though and a Spartan backup guard reactivated, this time without the John Colt personality dominating.
Wildcats
Months later, the WildC.A.T.s would disband following the apparent death of their teammate Zealot. Emp decided to 'ascend', a Kheran ritual where one discards their mortal shell and becomes one with the universe. Before he could do so, he first had to take of unfinished business though. He upgraded Spartan's body, greatly increasing its strength and durability. Their plan was to stop Kenyan, a man Emp once had given immortality, but who turned out to be a psychopath. Grifter and the French arms merchant Noir joined the team which was unofficially referred to as the Wildcats. Emp had hoped that Kenyan would kill him as the released energy during an ascension would have killed Kenyan as well, but Kenyan committed suicide instead. Spartan then offered to kill Emp's body, so that his mind could ascend. Emp ascended, but Spartan's invulnerable body withstood the released energy. Back home, Spartan discovered that Emp had left him the Halo Corporation. Realizing that the superhero lifestyle wasn't an efficient means to meet Emp's wishes for a better world, Spartan took the identity of Jack Marlowe and decided to use the Halo Corporation to improve the world. He eventually accepted that he and Voodoo were no longer meant for each other, and gave Maul, who loved her, his blessings.
During this period, a superhuman serial killer called Samuel Smith had been crossing the United States and killing every woman named Marlowe that he managed to track down and seduce. He targeted Voodoo, serious injuring her throat and cutting off both her legs with his eyebeams. Smith also temporarily blinded Maul when the latter tried to defend Priscilla. Furious, Jack set a trap for the killer, who was finally killed by Grifter, although his death didn't give Marlowe any kind of pleasure or satisfaction.
Wildcats 3.0
Marlowe began to use Kherubim technology to produce high-tech equipment far beyond human technology. Grifter, Noir, and Void joined the Halo Corporation. Void, especially, turned out to be a great asset to Halo because her ability to teleport allowed her access to Otherspace, a realm of limitless energy. Noir discovered that the matter in Otherspace could be used to create batteries that would last forever. He attempted to kill Void and reprogrammed Ladytron, another former Wildcat, to do his bidding. Marlowe saved Void by merging with her, greatly increasing his own powers as well as gaining the ability to teleport. He easily defeated the reprogrammed Ladytron and transported Noir to Otherspace, where he would die without a protective suit.
Marlowe then used Noir's plans and began producing batteries that would last forever. This was just a first step in his plan to better the world and he soon bought other companies, including an accounting firm where an Edwin Dolby worked. Dolby, a highly intelligent man, was fascinated by Marlowe's plans for the future and soon became his right-hand man. Meanwhile, Grifter performed black ops missions for Marlowe, such as liberating child laborers.
The discovery that Halo batteries could fuel a car so that it would never need any other fuel resulted in the production of Halo Cars. These cars that didn't depend on gasoline shocked the world and many politicians and businessmen started to see Marlowe as a threat. An assassin was sent to Halo, but was easily defeated by Marlowe, who wasn't impressed by the threats.
After Grifter learned the whereabouts of Zealot, who had been captured and imprisoned by her former followers, he led a mission to rescue her. Although Marlowe said he could not help the effort due to fear of harming the integrity of his corporation, he did use his abilities to manipulate the battle from behind the scenes so Grifter would be successful.
In the series The Intimates, Jack Marlowe turned out to be one of the sponsors of the Seminary, a school for young superheroes.
WorldStorm
Spartan is still the master of the HALO Corporation, itself worth approximately $3 trillion, with his personal fortune estimated at $500 billion. Interestingly, he is referred to as Hadrian, rather than Jack Marlowe (however the only character who refers to him as such is Voodoo). Spartan has admitted to being interested by the idea of adult superheroes, who work without the need for showy battles or obvious victories, and has also begun to change the world commercially, with HALO pioneering both the 3-d telephone, and the personal Spartan robot bodyguard.
World's End
After the new Void appeared, Spartan lost all of the powers he had. All that was left were the abilities provided by his Spartan model body. Before Armageddon hit, Spartan summoned all the Wildcats to Los Angeles and shielded a portion of the city from the blast of The Reapers going nuclear. The Wildcats were able to download him into a new body afterwards but Spartan felt frustrated and lost due to the current state of the world.
After a cadre of clones of The High destroyed Earth, turning the planet in a big radioactive Wasteland, Spartan begins traveling with the WildCATs to help the surviving humans. HALO Corporation, the most advanced technology firm before the End of the World, is now scavenged by the survivors for the still useful inventions, as the HALO Batteries able to power up the few remaining technological items.
After leading the Wildcats on a couple of more missions, Spartan decided that he was no longer fit to lead. He nominated Voodoo to take his place as leader.
Alternate Versions:
- Alternative 838: In this gender-switched reality, a female Spartan was recruited by the Midnighter to fight the Renegade Doctor and was killed.
- Majestic Vol. 3: In 2005, Mister Majestic visited a future where the world including Jack Marlowe had been taken over by Daemonites. This future turned out to be in 2006. Majestic defeated Marlowe and freed him from the Daemonite-possession. In return, Marlowe used the last of his Void-powers to send back Majestic and prevent this future from ever occurring.
- Wildstorm Spotlight #1-"The Big Chill": In another future, Majestic would encounter Spartan at the end of the universe. Spartan, had been called many names, including Metavac, by then and through countless upgrades had become a godlike entity. He revealed to Majestic that at the exact heat death of the universe, the universe would become a superconductor for any thought. Spartan absorbed Majestic and the resulting entity had a thought at the end: "Let there be light", creating a new universe. This plotline is reminiscent of the Isaac Asimov story "The Last Question." Another version of this future was shown in The Establishment series, and had a human time-traveller attempting to take over Spartan and create a new universe where he would rule. The British superhero team The Establishment tried to stop this. Three members of The Establishment, known as The Golden, revealed that Spartan had foreseen the time traveller's interference and sent a part of him back in time. This part, known as Metavac, gave the Golden their superhuman powers and tasked them with protecting him in the future. In the end, the Golden failed to protect Spartan, but criminal Charlie Arrows used his powers to connect to Metavac and have the "Let there be light"-thought, assuring the existence of a new universe.
- World War 3: In an amalgamated Marvel Comics/WildStorm Universe, Spartan is a member of the Avengers.
Appearances:
- The Authority Vol 5 World's End #1
- Avengers Vol 2 #13
- Backlash #8, #20
- Captain America Vol 2 #13
- Captain Atom Armageddon #1
- CyberForce Vol 2 #2, #3
- DC/WildStorm: Dreamwar #1, #2, #6
- Deathmate Prologue, Yellow
- Fantastic Four Vol 2 #13
- Fire From Heaven #1, #2
- Gen 13 Vol 2 Ongoing Series #11
- Gen 13 Bootleg #9
- Intimates #11, #12
- Iron Man Vol 2 #13
- Mars Attacks Image #3, #4
- Shattered Image #2, #3
- Spartan: Warrior Spirit #1, #2, #3, #4
- Spawn/WildC.A.T.s #1, #2, #3, #4
- StormWatch Vol 1 #21, #22, #23, #23 ½, #24, #25, #26, #27, #36
- Union Vol 2 #4
- Wetworks Vol 1 #4, #5, #8, #17
- WildC.A.T.s #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #22, #23, #25, #26, #27, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34
- Wildcats Vol 4 WorldStorm #1
- Wildcats Vol 5: World's End #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17,
- WildC.A.T.s Adventures #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10
- Wildcats: Armageddon #1
- WildC.A.T.s: Spartan vs. Helspont Special Edition #1
- WildC.A.T.s Special #1
- WildC.A.T.s Trilogy #1, #2, #3
- WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: Modern Age
- Wild Times: WildC.A.T.s #0
- WildStorm! #1, #2, #3
- WildStorm Revelations #6
- WildStorm Rising #1, #2
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