ANTI-MONITOR

PERSONAL DATA Aliases: Monitor II Base of Operation: Anti-Matter Universe Height: Variable Weight: Variable Eyes: Yellow Hair: None First Appearance: Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 (May 1985)

  One of the greatest evils that creation has ever seen, the Anti-Monitor was the murderer of infinite beings of infinite universes (or, in the re-created DC Universe, infinite timelines). Billions of years ago, the Oan scientist Krona's forbidden experiments unleashed entropy in the Universe. One of the consequences was the creation of an Anti-Matter Universe. At the exact same time, two powerful twin creatures were born in the two universes. On the moon of Oa, the Monitor came into existence, and on the moon of Oa's Anti-Matter counterpart, Qward, the Anti-Monitor was born. The two Monitors were aware of each other from the beginning, and battled a war for a million years, but since they were of equal power, neither could win. A simultaneous barrage from both participants rendered both unconscious for the next nine million years, until the Anti-Monitor was wakened by a chain reaction caused by Pariah. He took control of Qward and created the Thunderers as his own private army. By destroying and absorbing the energies of countless worlds and timelines, the Anti-Monitor grew stronger. Finally, the main universe was the only obstacle that remained. The Monitor, however, had recruited an army of super-powered beings, mainly the heroes of Earth, to oppose the evil. The war went on for months, timelines merged and were destroyed, and many heroes perished in the battles. An all-out battle at the dawn of time, plus the combined forces of Earth's heroes, the Spectre and Darkseid, finally defeated the greatest villain of all time.