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The High
Real Name: John Cumberland
First Appearance: StormWatch Vol 1 #46
Affiliatoin: none
Former Affiliation: The Big Three, The Changers

Vital Stats
Species: Human/SPB
Height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Date of Birth: unknown
Birthplace: a parallel Earth
Known Family: none


Powers/Abilities
The High is a Superman-like character and possess powers very similar. He has super human strength, is invincible, can fly has superhuman speed, enhanced sight and has plasma vision. He is possibly immortal due to the fact he hasn't aged in 70 years and was able to regenerate after being turned to liquid albeit for some years. He can also survive in space and doesn't need food or drink.


SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio
The High came from an alternate reality. He was mostly active during the 1930s. He was an ally and friend to Jenny Sparks and a member of the Big Three along with Mr. Majestic and Maximum Man, but became frustrated and left the crime-fighting occupation long before the others did. He was an utter idealist, the ultimate Boy Scout, but after years detached from society (including a decade spent seated atop a throne of stone in the Rocky Mountains, contemplating his plan) he was left with a somewhat naive apprehension of others, their motives and ability shrinking in the face of his noble plan. He was overly trusting of his cohorts, quick to mistrust anyone who stepped in their way, and eager to force the world to change and be done with it - and he ultimately learned, as Jenny Sparks said, that people only want change on their own terms. His emblem was five arrows in a circle, much like the symbol for recycling - he wore this on his costume's belt and on a t-shirt he wore when out of costume.

Change or Die
The High created The Changers, with the main goal of chainging the world. Knowing that Stormwatch would try to stop them, his teammate Blind chose to attack Jenny Sparks and to torture Malcolm King (a.k.a. Strafe, a former member of Stormwatch) in order to obtain some information, without the knowledge of the other Changers and much to the outrage of John Cumberland (The High). Sparks narrowly escaped. Both teams fought and the battle came to its climax in the Changers headquarters. During this confrontation, it was revealed that both Blind and Wish had their own, private and horrific agenda. Most of the Changers died thanks to a Hammerstryke Deep Sanction Missile (a payload and tailored acid bomb) ordered by Henry Bendix. However, High survived and, furious, went to attack Stormwatch's base, Skywatch. The Stormdoor (Skywatch's force field) was activated, and High apparently died in the collision.

Number of the Beast
It would later be revealed that the High was still alive, despite his body being nearly completely pulverized into jelly. He is being used as the base material to produce superhuman clones, all of which have so far repeated the phrases "Change or Die" and "Reap What you Sow" over and over.
His mind was placed in a VR world along with a group of 666 other heroes. However one of those heroes happened to be Eidolon. He was not fooled by the simulation, but was unable to convince any of the others, but now the two freed the themselves and the other heroes his body now fully restored.

World's End
Having survived World's End, and as a penance The High, having sheds every bit of his hubris, helped the remaining survivors by escorting them to Finland one of the fewest havens on Earth. He confesses to a little girl that he feels alone and guilty, but finally gains purpose and self-fulfillment by pushing himself hard to help as many people as he can.The High later made his way to his old home in the Rocky Mountains, where for his own reasons he has rendered himself temporarily human.


Notes
  • The High is an analogue of Superman

Appearances:
  • Gen 13 World's End #21,
  • Number of the Beast #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8
  • Planteray #6
  • StormWatch Vol 1 #46, #48, #49, #50
  • StormWatch PHD #15, #19, #21, #22, #24
  • Wildcats Vol 4 WorldStorm #1
  • WildStorm Revelations #3, #6

Categories:

List of StormWatch Vol 1 CharactersList of Number of the Beast CharactersList of StormWatch PHD Characters



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