Persuader
2956 - Nyeun Chun Ti is born in deep space.
2966 - 10-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti is taken in by a crew of space-pirates.
2978 - 22-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti becomes an enforcer & killer-for-hire.
2983 - 27-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti's adopted mother attempts to sacrifice him to the King of Tears. He kills her and steals the Atomic Axe from the Paths Beyond, becoming Persuader.
2995 - 39-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti is released by Rokk Krinn to join Tharok's team to help stop a rogue Sun-Eater. They are able to escape, becoming the Fatal Five
2997 - 41-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti & the Fatal Five attempt to assault Legion headquarters. They are defeated by Val Armorr single-handedly & imprisoned.
3003 - 47-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti & the Fatal Five escape from prison and begin rebuilding their criminal empire.
3006 - 50-year-old Nyeun Chun Ti & the Fatal Five wage all-out war with the reunited Legion, and are eventually defeated.
The world of the Legion of Superheroes has perhaps born the brunt of DC's penchant for continuity shenanigans more than any other part of it's history, so when you add to that the tendancy to completely rethink villains with most of their appearances, it actually becomes almost impossible to nail down any sense of the Fatal Five having any consistent story at all. Still, they are suprisingly prolifict concepts in DC, appearing in modern times (somehow) almost with the same regularity they appear in the 30th century.
The real fun here is that each of these five characters represents a pretty solid villain in their own right, so we're going to expand on them all just a little bit, and in doing so will get a nice spectrum of treats to throw up against our team of future teen heroes.
The real fun here is that each of these five characters represents a pretty solid villain in their own right, so we're going to expand on them all just a little bit, and in doing so will get a nice spectrum of treats to throw up against our team of future teen heroes.
Persuader's StoryPersuader appeared for the first time along with the rest of the Fatal Five in issue #352 0f Adventure Comics in 1967, an invention of (notably 16-year-old) Jim Shooter. There's an archetype at play here; the big scary guy with the 'magical' axe had also happened over in Marvel as Executioner, a Thor villain (Who also worked with a green-costumed Enchantress) He's a big part of what makes the Fatal Five so physically distinct. He's also the character that has transitioned over to the modern timeline the most, with several modern day characters weilding the Atomic Axe.
Within the context of Nyeun Chun Ti's story, the Atomic Axe didn't seem to have a specific origin, although as time went on it would be used for some really insane story beats, even slicing reality open so that multiple versions of the Fatal Five could work together. The modern characters would each recieve the same Axe as some sort of future artifact, which is a concept that makes my head hurt. So for our Persuader, he's going to just be a 30th century character, an strongarm enforcer and killer-for-higher. His Axe isn't going to be reality-breaking, but it is going to be far beyond even the capability of 30th century technology, which we're achieving by having it be a stolen artifact from the extra-dimentional home of the notably Lovecraftian horror, the King of Tears. |