Supernova (DC Comics)
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Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | 52 #8 |
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Abilities | Possesses advanced technology allowing:
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Supernova is an identity used by three characters in the DC Comics Universe, all related to the Carter bloodline. The first appearance of this character was in the weekly DC Comics series 52 where the mystery of his true identity and purpose was one of the recurring themes of the series.[1]
Publication history
52
The character of Supernova first appears during the eighth issue of the weekly comic series 52. His costume and name are similar in design—albeit with a different color scheme—to the costume of Nova, an "imaginary story" version of Superman who lost his Kryptonian powers and became a Batman-like crimefighter in a two-part story.[2] This version of the character also reappeared as one of several alternate versions of Superman.[3] In Superman/Batman Annual #2, a temporarily powerless Superman wears a costume with a similar design to the Nova suit, but calls himself Supernova.
During Week 15, as Booster Gold gets bad promotion and publicity, Supernova seems to be getting the new good promotion and publicity that Booster Gold was once having.[4]
This was an intentional design choice on the parts of the writers to feed into the mystery that was set up in his first appearance – Who is Supernova?. As the series progressed, the narrative and characters within the narrative presented a number of choices for the real identity of Supernova.
During Week 19, Supernova met with
The character
The Supernova suit is then employed by Daniel Carter, Booster Gold and Rip Hunter's ancestor in the present. Echoing Booster's origins, Daniel is a former high school football superstar, who has permanently injured his knee, ending his career.
Booster Gold
Following on from those events, the character is next seen in the relaunched
Jonar is shown working with other characters such as the
Parallel to those events, Daniel is left at home, where he meets Rose Levin, his future wife, who is a blogger/journalist hoping to make her fortune selling articles and photos of Booster Gold.[10] At first, Rose not only finds him uneducated, uncultured and basically repellent, which serves only to entice Daniel's attraction further, but is flabbergasted by the idea that she and Daniel will inevitably marry and become the future direct ancestors of Booster. Eventually, Daniel and Rose do get together in a rocky, argumentative, yet committed relationship. Rip Hunter comes to Daniel and Rose and convinces them to assist him in stopping an attempt to erase Booster Gold from history. Along the way, Hunter made a replica of the Supernova power suit for Daniel.[10][11] After witnessing the unsympathetic and harsh reprimands Rip gives Booster for his leave of absence, he and Rose agree with Booster to disband the Time Masters, and try to return to their former lives.[12]
Daniel's resolution begins to wane, and he soon returns to his time-travelling career, albeit for a different kind of selfish reason: hoping to impress Rose, he time travels during the Dominator's invasion of Earth, searching for a family heirloom Rose lost escaping from Paris. During his searches, he meets a Starro-probe, and thinking it harmless, tries to contain it in a mayonnaise jar, from which it escapes, taking control of Rip Hunter and the timestream. Booster recruits him again to undo the damage.[13]
During the Blackest Night event, Ted Kord, reanimated as a Black Lantern, targets Daniel and Rose in order to lure out Booster.[14] The Black Lantern Ted Kord would eventually be defeated by the combined efforts of Booster Gold, Skeets, Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), and Daniel himself as Supernova.[15]
Powers and abilities
Supernova uses the
After the original suit is stolen by Jonar and subsequently damaged, Rip Hunter presents Daniel with a new suit to help him save Booster Gold from the Time Stealers.[10] Aside from being darker in color, with the white elements turned into black ones, is still unknown how and if it's more advanced than the former white model.
References
- ISBN 978-0-345-50108-0.
- ^ World's Finest Comics #178 (September 1968) and #180 (November 1968)
- ^ Infinite Crisis #5
- ^ 52 Week Fifteen
- ^ 52 Week Nineteen
- ^ 52 Week Twenty-Two
- Booster Gold #1,000,000
- ^ a b 52 Pick-Up: Booster Gold #1
- ^ 52 Pick-Up: Booster Gold #4
- ^ a b c 52 Pick-Up: Booster Gold #6
- ^ 52 Pick-Up: Booster Gold #10
- ^ 52 Pick-Up: Booster Gold One Million
- ^ Booster Gold (vol. 2) #13 (2008)
- ^ Booster Gold (vol. 2) #26
- ^ Booster Gold (vol. 2) #27
- ^ 52: Week Thirty-Seven
- ^ 52: Week Eight
- ^ 52: Week Fifteen
- ^ 52: Week Twenty-Two
- ^ 52: Week Fifty-Two