Thaddeus Sivana Jr
18 years ago - Thaddeus Sivana Jr & his sister Georgia Sivana are both created, clones of Thaddeus Sivana.
4 years ago - 14-year-old Thaddeus Jr tries to ruin Freddie Freeman's life for helping Billy Batson defeat his father, Doctor Sivana. Freddie outthinks him.
2 years ago - 16-year-old Thaddeus Jr & Georgia Sivana are empowered along with their older brother Magnificus Sivana by Thaddeus Sivana's artificial Rock of Eternity they fight Billy Batson, Freddie Freeman & Mary Bromfield until they are all tricked into saying Sivana and depowered.
Sivana Jr & Georgia Sivana are both obscure characters with very few appearances under their belts. It's really just their connection to Sivana, who was such a huge part of the mythology of Captain Marvel that he's practically a co-star, that gives them any lasting impression on comics at all. We're going to include them more because it gives us events to flesh out the stories of Mary & Freddy.
Thaddeus Sivana Jr's Comic HistorySeveral years after the introduction of Captain Marvel and Doctor Sivana, when the themes and ideas of the series were already deeply entrenched, it was basically just coasting on the rampant popularity of the character, so they could feel free to introduce new ideas without a lot of friction. It was already established that Beautia, Sivana's daughter and Captain Marvel's adult sort-of girlfriend and her himbo brother Magnificus were both raised on Venus, so when the writers decided to essentially make spin off Sivana's to appear with Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel, it was a simple matter of just walking the new characters into frame.. Sivana Jr. appeared for the first time in 1946, in issue #52 of Captain Marvel Adventures, helping his dad attack Doctor Sivana, and then breaking out into Captain Marvel Jr. 35#. He became a recurring Captain Marvel Jr villain, appearing regularly in the series and in several other books across the era.
When the Captain Marvel characters transitioned into the DC anthologies of the 70's, he appeared in a few issues, but after that he only ever cropped up in series that were deliberately referencing the past, like 52 and Multiversity. |
Our Thaddeus Jr StoryWe could have left the Sivana children out of our timeline pretty easily, and in fact ARE leaving out Beautia, because she never really had an adversarial role against the Marvels and we really don't need an adult girlfriend for Billy Batson, thank you very much. We're really just grabbing Sivana Jr. and Georgia to provide one-time challenges for an unpowered Freddy Freeman & Mary Bloomfield. We've altered their backstories a little; These two characters differ from their older brother in that they're basically carbon copies of the elder Sivana, so we just made them clones.
Really, the main reason we want to have these three in the timeline was so that we could create something similar to the events of Grant Morrison's Multiversity: Thunderworld one-shot, where Sivana manages to build an artifical rock of eternity and empower his children. Magnificus becomes a sort of "Captain Sivana", and the Marvels have to trick them into saying their magic words to lose their powers. It's a really cool little story, and fits really well into our timeline. |