Personality Powers and Abilities As a Green Martian, J'onn is an incredibly powerful being, on par with Superman and the Guardians of the Universe. Superman and Martian Manhunter have had a complex relationship due to the nature of the DC Comics. Martian Manhunter's history can be separated into two distinct eras pre-Crisis and post-Crisis. And thus J'onn has been ever since. D'kay explains her origins and wants to be his mate. It introduced a lot of J'onn's villains and solo career in a mix of hard-boiled detective stuff and wild, spacefaring sci-fi stories. And slowly, a few humans living on Mars, over the centuries, even acquired some Martian traits. However, it soon reorganized under the United Nations. While watching television with Double Stuff, Jonn hears news reports of pieces of ancient artifacts being stolen in the Metropolis Museum and goes to investigate the following day. Daryl Wessel All rights reserved. This evil statue expelled a deadly cloud. Martian Manhunter possesses powers and abilities common to all Martians but has shown to be the most powerful of his race, largely due to be from his training as a Manhunter of Mars, and also his years as hero of Earth. Alongside the new story elements we mentioned being added to his origin, this era also added to J'onn's relationship with the League, making him the heart and soul of the team (and its primary source for Oreos, which J'onn became obsessed with after being offered some by then-teammate SHAZAM!). Under J'onn's leadership the League would go through some of it's best years. He still kept many secret identities across the globe, maintaining a carefully built system that he used to learn all about his fellow Earthlings. J'onn then showed him a tour of his desecrated and deserted homeland, but informed that he had discovered a water deposit deep underground and that with it he might be able to reignite life on Mars. He only used his strength and psychic abilities as the Wraith, careful not to reveal his extensive Martian shape shifting abilities. So he became Mars, and the humans who lived there consumed him, for his DNA was linked with everything that grew. Aside from shapeshifting (which cannot be maintained for long without pain), he displayed no powers. A reoccurring gag started where the otherwise stoic and focused Jonn would become addicted and obsessed with the cookie as a comical contrast with his otherwise serious personality. [4], Shortly after the end of the Kryptonian invasion, General Swanwick had drones try to track down Superman's whereabouts, determined to find his address. As we said, Martian Manhunter was one of the founding members of the Justice League in 1960's Brave and the Bold #28 (opens in new tab), written by Gardner Fox, who came up with the idea of putting some of DC's top heroes together as the Justice League, a modern update of the publisher's Golden Age team the Justice Society of America. Despite his relatively low pop-culture profile, Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz has had a massive impact on the legacy of the Justice League, and the DC Universe overall. In Pre-Crisis, when a group of evil Martians led by. Martian Manhunter's paranoia is upgraded in the New 52. The black power ring was controlling his corpse and using all that he knew in life against his former friends, trying to elicit emotional reactions from which the Black Lantern Corps could use to power their central battery. Martian Manhunter appears in the series as a member of the Justice League International. But Martian Manhunter has been with the team since its founding and predates even Barry Allen in the DC Universe as one of the first superheroes of the Silver Age. The Manhunter then encouraged Lois to move past her grief and "come back to the living". [22], When J'onn enters his home, he is confronted by a female green Martian named D'Kay D'Razz, who is the one responsible for M'gann's attack. Some time later, the existence of the Martian Manhunter was accidentally revealed. He can also heal himself from almost total destruction within seconds. At some point, J'onn J'onzz traveled from Mars to Earth, and took up a human appearance and identity, naming himself "Calvin Swanwick". The new roster included the likes of Booster Gold, Guy Gardner, Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle, Ice, Fire, Mister Miracle and more. J'onn replies: "With my luck, she'll probably be evil.". It was later revealed that the Martian Manhunter had been invited to join the League at some point. Left to wander the desolate planet's surface for years, J'onn was brought to Earth by chance via a teleportation machine malfunction. Despite his cold exterior, J'onn is one of the kindest and most noble heroes operating on earth. The virus reacted to telepathic energy and carried from one Martian to the next whenever they elected to use their psionic powers. After J'onn lashed out the Star City's forest, he starts to return home. Zack Snyder worked with Scanline VFX to perfect J'onn's head. That night, after his body is discovered, Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Gypsy, and Black Canary simultaneously recall part of his life story in their sleep. And of course, an entirely different generation of fans knows J'onn J'onzz (if not his rarely used by the show codename Martian Manhunter) from the Justice League (opens in new tab) and Justice League Unlimited (opens in new tab) animated series, where he was the League's de facto strategist and sometimes leader, voiced memorably by Carl Lumbly. Martian Manhunter Explained: The Hero Hiding in Plain Sight in the