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The Four
First Appearance: Planetary #6
The Four were created by Warren Ellis & Planetary
Overview
Much like Planetary, The Four explore, document, and collect the strangeness and secrets of the world. However, instead of using the technology they find in order to benefit the world, they keep it for themselves and protect it with absolute ruthlessness. In the words of their resident hotshot William Leather, they are "on the human adventure...and you can't all come along."
Their headquarters in New York is reminiscent of the Baxter Building, full of their treasures, weapons and technology. Their influence and power is so great, they covertly influence major world governments and have managed to kill many emerging super-beings on the planet in order to circumvent any threats to their power. Planetary has been spared, presumably because their leader, Randall Dowling, finds their actions amusing.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!HistoryThe Four were part of a secretive U.S. government attempt to land on the moon in 1961. However, their rocket intersected The Bleed, and they returned transformed into superhumans. Using their involvement in private corporations and covert government projects, they began to create their own conspiracy of world domination. Along with the mystery of the Fourth Man's identity, the unrevealed nature of the Four and their true motives is a major subplot running through the series.
In Planetary #25, John Stone revealed the origin and goals of the Four.
Dowling had succeeded in contacting a parallel Earth with his earlier launches into space. He described this Earth as being ancient and populated entirely by unique superhumans (a pastiche of various Jack Kirby creations including Apokolips and The Inhumans.) This world, while being immensely powerful and technologically advanced, was also deeply paranoid. Seeing the potential for the Wildstorm Earth to become a threat, with the emergence of various superhumans and their tentative encounters with the Bleed, they were willing to make a deal with Dowling.
Dowling and his three crewmates gained access to the technology that would rebuild them into superhumans. In exchange, they would return to their home reality where they would suppress any advances that could allow humanity to defend themselves (this also had the effect of suppressing anything that would improve people's lives). They had 50 years in which to bring their world to heel, after which the inhabitants of this parallel world would invade and destroy the Wildstorm Earth. The Four would be spared from this invasion and free to travel the multiverse, vastly empowered with their superhuman abilities and the technologies they had stolen over the years.
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The Four were created by Warren Ellis & Planetary
Overview
Much like Planetary, The Four explore, document, and collect the strangeness and secrets of the world. However, instead of using the technology they find in order to benefit the world, they keep it for themselves and protect it with absolute ruthlessness. In the words of their resident hotshot William Leather, they are "on the human adventure...and you can't all come along."
Their headquarters in New York is reminiscent of the Baxter Building, full of their treasures, weapons and technology. Their influence and power is so great, they covertly influence major world governments and have managed to kill many emerging super-beings on the planet in order to circumvent any threats to their power. Planetary has been spared, presumably because their leader, Randall Dowling, finds their actions amusing.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!HistoryThe Four were part of a secretive U.S. government attempt to land on the moon in 1961. However, their rocket intersected The Bleed, and they returned transformed into superhumans. Using their involvement in private corporations and covert government projects, they began to create their own conspiracy of world domination. Along with the mystery of the Fourth Man's identity, the unrevealed nature of the Four and their true motives is a major subplot running through the series.
In Planetary #25, John Stone revealed the origin and goals of the Four.
Dowling had succeeded in contacting a parallel Earth with his earlier launches into space. He described this Earth as being ancient and populated entirely by unique superhumans (a pastiche of various Jack Kirby creations including Apokolips and The Inhumans.) This world, while being immensely powerful and technologically advanced, was also deeply paranoid. Seeing the potential for the Wildstorm Earth to become a threat, with the emergence of various superhumans and their tentative encounters with the Bleed, they were willing to make a deal with Dowling.
Dowling and his three crewmates gained access to the technology that would rebuild them into superhumans. In exchange, they would return to their home reality where they would suppress any advances that could allow humanity to defend themselves (this also had the effect of suppressing anything that would improve people's lives). They had 50 years in which to bring their world to heel, after which the inhabitants of this parallel world would invade and destroy the Wildstorm Earth. The Four would be spared from this invasion and free to travel the multiverse, vastly empowered with their superhuman abilities and the technologies they had stolen over the years.
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