Majestic

MAJESTIC

Real Name: Majestros

Class: Parallel Earth (Earth-50) extraterrestrial (Kherubim)

Occupation: Superhero, former warlord

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Kenesha (Savant, daughter), Majestrate (son, deceased)

Aliases: Mister Majestic

Base of Operations: Metropolis, formerly Rushmore Sanctuary, South Dakota, Earth-50

First Appearance: WildC.A.T.S. I (Wildstorm) #11 (June, 1994)

Powers: As a Kherubim Majestic was virtually immortal and possessed vast superhuman strength, durability, and the powers of flight, energy vision, enhanced vision, and super-breathe. He had limited powers of telepathy and telekinesis. Majestic was vulnerable to the remains of the Creation Engine.

History: (Mr. Majestic #4 (fb), Zealot (Wildstorm) #1) - <3,000 years ago> Majestros was drafted into the Kherubim / Daemonite war, and alongside his son Magistrate and several other Kherubim he boarded a spacecraft where their bodies were placed in suspended animation while their essence, or souls, were kept in stasis crystals. After a Daemonite attack the Kherubim ship was about to crash land on Earth. Promethos begged Zealot to free him from captivity so he’d have a chance to survive. She reminded him that he was in the brig for mutiny, but he pleaded that he didn’t deserve to die and played on their past relationship. Majestic told her to ignore him, and went to find her sister Savant, but Zealot reluctantly freed him. The ship crashed on Earth, badly damaging the craft. Majestros revived, but found that his son died in the crash. He kept his son’s stasis crystal in hopes of one day finding a way to revive him.

(Mr. Majestic #1) - The U.S. government asked Mr. Majestic to intercede in the ongoing tensions in Vietnam, and he decided to fly around the solar system to think it over and clear his head. Majestic encountered a tentacled Tyrellian Orb, a tentacled alien probe, and managed to disable it. Majestic flew the probe back to his Rushmore Sanctuary built into Mt. Rushmore and used his Kherubim quantum computer to analyze it. The Orb was mapping the solar system and relaying the information to a destructive entity that Majestic remembered as a legendary boogeyman he’d heard stories about as a child on Khera. He brought his data to Desmond, a child prodigy cyborg employed at the Pentagon, and they gathered a group of fringe cosmologists and physicists together to figure out how to save the world. Majestic confided in Desmond that he was having a crisis of faith, saying some things were too big, cosmically speaking, to meddle with, and he feared he was playing God. Desmond said the preservation of the human race was a fine justification for interfering in the cosmic order. Majestic decided humanity was noble, if flawed, and worth preserving. It took months, but by August, 1974 Majestic had forged Kherubim kinetic field gauntlets and assembled stabilizing satellites to move Earth’s moon’s orbit by a tenth of a degree as a test run for hiding Earth’s solar system in plain sight. During the U.S. bicentennial Majestic moved Mercury until it became a satellite of Jupiter. Over the next few years Majestic used his heat vision to change Jupiter’s elemental composition and removed Saturn’s rings. He bemoaned that he’d only been off-world a few times in the past few years and missed exploring the universe. He called Desmond who kept him abrest of the last few years of politics, including the Iranian Revolution and Ronald Reagan running for President. Majestic created rings around Mars and added Halley’s Comet to the planets of the Milky Way. Under cover of a solar eclipse Majestic moved Earth into Jupiter’s orbit. His final task was to covert Sol into a binary sun using ancient Kherubim rituals which gave him a moment of cosmic awareness that briefly connected his mind to the entire universe. Majestic was just in time to confront the System-Eater, an entity that moved through the universe consuming every solar system its’ probes discovered. The System-Eater didn’t recognize the Milky Way after Majestic’s work, and part of it sensed that someone had dared to judge it and challenge the natural order, but it nevertheless moved on. Majestic was relieved and exhilarated, and began the long process of restoring the Milky Way to its’ natural order.

(WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams (Image) #12, 13) - Zealot sent her “sister” Savant an emergency distress signal. Tapestry and her lover Soma had captured the WildC.A.T.S looking to alter their past and make Lord Emp loyal to her and sent the Triad after Zealot and her allies Miranda Tai and the Huntsman. Cordelia contacted Soldier, saying she needed his help and ordering him to forget his old grudges against Zealot. Cordelia said she was going to contact Majestic to help them save the WildC.A.T.S. The Triad pursued Zealot, Miranda and Huntsman, with H.A.R.M. launching missiles that scorched whole city blocks in Brooklyn. Attica was concerned about the attention they were attracting and suggested moving in for the kill in close quarters. Tapestry continued to reweave the histories and souls of the WildC.A.T.S making them into her loyal servants. Voodoo’s Raksha demanded to be fed, so Lord Emp called his assistants Jules and Stansfield to meet them and act as a sacrifice. Voodoo rebelled against hurting her friends, fighting the Raksha on the psychic plane. Huntsman was prepared to make a final stand against the Triad, asking Zealot to guard Miranda. Zealot’s wounds she’d suffered from the Raksha grew infected and she felt herself becoming possessed., but fought off the demonic control. Huntsman fought bravely, but was seemingly incinerated by Slag, who was always pleased to inflict pain. Miranda had a violent reaction to Huntsman’s seeming passing and Zealot went into battle against the Triad, but was surprised to find Huntsman unharmed. Zealot tapped into her magical abilities, casting a spell that turned slag back into a human being. Huntsman was impressed, but Zealot told him she’d just damned her soul. Savant, Majestic and Soldier arrived in time to take out the rest of the Triad, but Savant was distraught that they’d arrived after Zealot had been forced to cast a spell. Grifter arrived on the scene to offer his support as they prepared to confront Tapestry. Tapestry was watching them through a scrying spell and gloated that Zealot’s soul would forever belong to her. Jules and Stansfield, trusting Voodoo implicitly, lent their lifeforce to her to help her exorcise the Raksha. Zealot and company battled against the WildC.A.T.S and Alabaster Wu, who were now all loyal creations of Tapestry. Zealot and Tapestry engaged in a sorceress’ duel, but were quickly stalemated. Miranda Tai took a shard of an Orb of Power from Savants bag, swinging the battle in Zealot’s favor. The battle left Tapestry injured, and Soma fled with her, telling Zealot he’d kill her for harming his mistress. Savant told everyone that the magic Zealot used was learned from Tapestry herself, who’d always wanted to craft Zealot in her old image. She claimed the power was bound to corrupt Zealot, and she had to die. Majestic said that as a Kherubim lord he agreed and had the authority to pass sentence on Zealot. Zealot agreed that she would eventually be unable to control her magical powers, and wished she could purge herself of them. Voodoo came to her aid, helping her purge Tapestry’s magic, and in the process returning the WildC.A.T.S to normal. Emp agreed to give Alabaster Wu the Brooklyn dockyards so that he could resettle his people and save lives.

(WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams (Image) #17) - Majestic foiled a bank robbery and was happyhe no longer had to hide from the world and could return to his old life as a superhero.

(Mr. Majestic #2) - Desmond detected a number of chronal anomalies, and Mr. Majestic responded to a raid perpetrated by 8th Century Vikings on a British waterfront. Majestic brought them to a local jail, but when a police officer asked what he was supposed to do with them Majestic admitted he didn’t. know. A man named Delroy was assigned as a liason between Desmond, Majestic and the rest of the U.S. government and was befuddled when Desmond tried to explain the disruptions to the timestream. Delroy said he was supposed to keep a close eye on them, but chronal anomalies made his head hurt, so he asked them to get back to them when they’d sorted it all out. More anomalies cropped up, with the bubonic plague spreading through France, Mongol hordes attacking China and the Enola Gay appearing over Japan. Majestic prevented Hiroshima from being bombed a second time, having lived through it the first time and hoping no tragedy like that would ever happen again. The Red Sea parted and Majestic was surprised, believing the events of the Bible to be myth. He asked Desmond about it, but he had more pressing things on his mind than theology. Desmond constructed a hypercube to map the time distortions, hoping to find a pattern. He realized the disruptions would reach critical mass at which point the entire timestream would unravel. He tried to contact Dr. Martin Kingsley, the world’s leading expert in theories about temporal anomalies, but learned he’d committed suicide a year ago. He’d learned that his daughter Kata was a living time anomaly, and predicted that her existence threatened the entire timestream, but couldn’t bring himself to live with that reality. Desmond met with MIT, Caltech and a displaced Albert Einstein, and they used Kingsley’s notes to build a stasis generator that could take someone out of time. Majestic visited Kata at the San Sierra Orphanage and used the generator to put himself and Kata outside the timestream. She said she never wanted to hurt anyone and Majestic said that nothing that happened was her fault. He told her to remember the happiest day in her life before using the generator again, removing her from the timestream completely. Majestic told Desmond he was extremely uncomfortable with how they’d resolved the situation, but Desmond said they had no choice. Majestic hoped Kata was somewhere happy, and she was, in a temporal loop of a day she spent with her father playing on a swing and talking.

(Mr. Majestic #3) - Mr. Majestic and Ladytron decided to catch up, meeting at the Mars Bar, which catered to superhumans. Ladytron complained about the direction of the new WildC.A.T.S., calling them posers and said she was enjoying her life with the Church of Gort. She said she’d developed a respect for life, which made Majestic happy to hear until she clarified that she meant only artificial life and not human life. The church taught that the corpus mechanica and the binary evolution was the great leap forward in the history of life. She took Majestic to an all-night theatre showing old action movies, determined to make him lighten up. Majestic asked when technology became artifical intelligence, and she replied that the subject was still subject to intense debate. She almost got into a fight with a man who threw his cell phone, calling him a chip abuser. Majestic was happy Ladytron now saw more to life than maiming and killing, but during admission he admitted he didn’t like mindlessly violent movies, saying they were bad for children. Ladytron said she grew up with violent movies, but she was pretty sure she was screwed-up because of her father’s abuse and neglect. Ladtron talked up the art of violent cinema and said there had to be a violent finale in the third act to keep the audience interested. Majestic considered that trite, but their conversation was interrupted by B.O.B., a radical offshoot of the Church of Gort that wanted Ladytron dead because they considered her an abomination since she was still part human. The fight turned against B.O.B. so they grabbed a movie-goer as hostage, demanding Ladytron surrender herself to them. She refused and put a gun up to the movie projector, threatening to shoot it. B.O.B. backed off, released their hostage and retreated, but assured Ladytron they’d meet again. Mr. Majestic agreed with Ladytron that their night out was eventful, but he didn’t seem eager to do it again.

(Mr. Majestic #4) - After centuries of planning Mr. Majestic pierced Otherspace, a realm whose existence couldn’t be proven and where reality was a variable. He pluched pre-dimensional star-stuff from a sleeping star and gave it to Desmond to analyze. Desmond was thrilled with pushing the boundaries of science, and Mr. Majestic told him the story of how he’d lost his son Magistrate when he’d arrived on Earth. Majestic built an artificial body and hoped to revive his son by combining the stasis crystal that held his son’s essence with the star-stuff. Desmond set up a machine to bombard the artificial body with energy, and before long Magistrtae was reborn. Majestic held his son tight, allowing himself to feel emotions more strongly than he had in centuries. Majestic educated his son so he could assimilate on Earth, and the boy took the superhero identity of Junior Majestic to enter the family business. Together they took down the supervillain Warknox-Prime, and Junior Majestic became a hit with the media and children. Majestic was a humble man, but his pride in his son wouldn’t allow him to see the press coverage as unseemly. A singularity appeared in Australia, and the Majestics went to investigate. They found a man who’d been turned into a living black hole, and were almost sucked in before attaining escape velocity. Desmond came to the tragic, yet inescapable conclusion that when Majestic took the star-stuff from Otherspace he upset the cosmic balance and caused the singularity. Junior knew he had to sacrifice himself to save the world, and although Majestic pleaded with him, he was convinced when his son reminded him they were heroes and did what was right no matter the cost. Junior flew into the singularity, reuniting his essence with Otherspace and causing the singularity to subside. Majestic held the artificial frame that was once his son and wept.

(The Authority I #13, 16, 21) - The Authority became worldwide celebrities, and Majestic was invited to one of their after-hours parties aboard the Carrier.

(Adventures of Superman #624, Superman II #201) - The timestorm in Metropolis caused by B-Tech future technology pulled Majestic to Earth from the Wildstorm Universe. He saved a number of people from the storm, including Lois Lane, who noted his similarities to Superman. She took him to the Superman Family, and Steel showed him a Charged-Vacuum Emboitment he hoped would punch a hole in time and space that would give the storm somewhere to go to. Majestic didn't have faith in the plan, and Eradicator didn't trust the stranger and used the Phantom Zone projector to confine Majestic. Steel sent the Superman Family to the heart of the storm with the C.V.E., but the storm only worsened, and in desperation Lois freed Majestic. He was angered at being wrongly imprisoned and his rage increased when Rampage from S.T.A.R. Labs attacked him. He defeated her, and followed the Superman Family in order to destroy the C.V.E. After the timestorm reached a pitch the B-Tech disappeared and Metropolis was restored to normal. Majestic explained that the storm was a natural phenomenon and times' way of fixing itself, sending the B-Tech back into the future. Majestic told Lois he'd try to find a way home, but until he did he'd be a force for good on Earth.

Comments: Created by Brandon Choi & Jim Lee.

Majestic was originally published by Wildstorm Comics, which DC acquired the rights to in January, 1999.

Majestic was created as a Superman analog for the Wildstorm Universe.

Majestic's appearance in WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams (Image) #12, 13 was reprinted in Absolute WildC.A.T.S, WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams (Image) #17 was reprinted in James Robinson’s Complete WildC.A.T.S. WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams (Image) #12, Zealot (Wildstorm) #1 was republished by DC Comics in a digital format.