Dwarfstar
12 years ago (dream realm memory) - Slybert Rundie kills Ray Palmer after he invents his shrinking tech belt, stealing the belt and becoming Dwarfstar. He joins the Crime Syndicate.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
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Dwarfstar's StoryThere is actually a Atom counterpart on the Crime Syndicate. She's called Atomica, and was introduced in the New 52 Justice League. She started out as a recruit for the League, and was incredibly likeable, only to later be revealed as the Earth 3 Atom counterpart. She's actually really cool, but not specifically because of the rug pull reveal. Once they did that, she really lost all her charm and the utility of the character was gone. She was cooler without it. Still, that's really the character you have to go with if you're going to do a Crime Syndicate...
Meanwhile, during the 2006 All-New Atom series starring Ryan Choi, a new villain was introduced. Dwarfstar was a guy who got his hands on his own shrinking belt... and had a knife. That was literally it. He's absurd, but this was a deliberately absurd series. You could see that this comically shallow concept was DELIBERATELY shallow. Unfortunately the rest of DC didn't really have space for this sort of playful worldbuilding, and he spent a brief while being treated as a new nemesis for the Atom, even killing Ryan Choi the second his series was cancelled, which is just a shame on a number of levels. If we're going to do a Crime Syndicate version of the Atom, Dwarfstar is actually a way more fun choice. The entire idea that his whole qualification is just 'has a knife' is unironically fantastic, and the Crime Syndicate is exactly the place where this sort of whimsically 'evil' character thrives. |
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