MILITIA
Real Name: Mace Gardner
Class: Human technology-user
Occupation: Vigilante
Group Affiliation: Quorum
Known Relatives: Guy Gardner (brother), Peggy Louise Gardner (mother), Rolly Gardner (father, deceased)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: (as Mace Gardner) Guy gardner #12 (September
1993),
(as Militia) Guy Gardner #16 (January 1994)
History:
(Guy Gardner:
Warrior #17 (fb), 19 (fb)) - The paraplegic Mace seemingly committed suicide,
and his father died shortly thereafter. In reality he’d agreed to become a
test subject for Quorum, who faked his death and outfitted him with exo-armor
that let him move again.
(Guy Gardner: Warrior #17) - The Quorum spent hundreds of
millions of dollars to recreate Mace as the cyborg Militia, and tasked him with
carrying out their vision of vigilante justice. Militia destroyed many criminals
that the Quorum knew superheroes would never kill, but he was single-minded in
his hate of his brother, and wanted an excuse to kill Guy Gardner. Militia was
given the job of assassinating Guy after the hero’d seemingly taken a life,
but the real culprit was an alien duplicate. Militia confronted Guy in Baltimore
and furiously attacked him, refusing to even consider that Guy was innocent. He
spouted bravado about going hunting and being the reaper man, but Militia’s
equipment cut out during the fight, and when the battle ended up on the highway
Militia was hit by a truck. As the truck carried Militia off into the night he
promised to finish what he started with Guy.
Comments: Created by Chuck Dixon & Joe Staton.
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