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// last updated: 05/06/2011 1:27 AM EST
//Basic Information
Played By: Themascura
Codename: Martian Manhunter
Full Name: J'onn J'onzz
Nickname: Martian Manhunter, John Jones, Greeny
Gender: Male
//Description
Species: Green Martian
Height: 6’7’’
Weight: 300lb
Age: Unknown-- Thought to be very old.
Apparent Age: Mid to late thirties.
Appearance
The Martian is known for his very unique appearance, ranging from his signature 'Beetle brow', a protruding forehead and eyebrow-ridge to his red, pupil-less eyes (which sometimes glow.) In his typical state (and in his original form) he is completely hairless.
In his true form, the Martian has neither a nose nor ears, but in the form he wears around humans and others, he has a Grecian nose with an upturned tip. His mouth is wide, thin, and remarkably normal considering. He has a square jaw, with high and wide cheekbones. His skin is a shade approaching lime green, but perhaps just a little darker.
Physique: Muscular, somewhere between Superman and Batman in size.
Proportion of legs to body: Long
Description of hands: Broad, green, and neatly manicured. They would perhaps be callused, if he thought to let his skin fall into such patterns.
Style of walk/run/gait: Either a straight-forward stride, hands at his side, or a literal glide, feet off of the floor.
Shape of body as they walk: Shoulders back, head up, arms at his side.
Usual style of clothing: J'onn's costume doesn't consist of a lot, and is actually himself, shape-shifted. (Technically speaking, he's naked.) Those pieces consist of a red cross-shaped harness on his chest and blue brief-like bottoms, connected by a red belt with a yellow belt buckle. He also 'wears' a big, blue floor-length cape with a high collar and blue knee-length boots to match.
//Abilities: Meta and Natural
Shape-shifting and Density Alteration: J’onn has the ability to change his shape at will, although this ability seems limited to roughly the equal of his matter (for instance, he might be able to become taller, but he would be thinner.) His Density Alteration on the other hand, seems more or less limitless. He can become has hard as a diamond (As witnessed in the JLA episode A Knight of Shadows) or intangible, enabling him to slip through walls and roofs.
Telepathy: J’onn has the ability to read the thoughts of others. This ability can be resisted by the strong willed (like Batman), and attempts to force through that resistance can cause great harm to the subject. J’onn seems to avoid anything other than ‘surface reading’ (reading the scattered thoughts people have on a daily basis) unless he has a reason to do otherwise. He also seems adverse to force-reading someone who is resisting him, and thus hurting them. He can, however, use these abilities to memorize certain skills.
Super-strength: J’onn is also super strong, on comparable levels with Superman.
Other: Faster than average reflexes, and the ability to fly. He is incredibly intelligent, skilled and trained both in medicine and in his home world technology, probably as a result of his special-forces training in his previous life. He also has much better night vision than a human, a trait that might be enhanced by his telepathy.
//Weaknesses
Fire: J’onn is pyrophobic, to a certain degree, and his powers (Density-alteration, ect. ect.) do not seem to protect him from the flames. Flame hurts him like it would any other human, and seems to disrupt his concentration.
Social: J’onn is socially awkward, and as such can accidentally frighten people who might otherwise be cooperative, and might miss certain nuances of the human behavior someone with more skill could pick up easily.
Other: J’onn is not immune to physical damage. Bullets, arrows, and other objects hurt him like they would a human if he does not have the chance to employ one of his abilities.
Magic: J'onn does not appear to have any built-in immunities toward magic, and thus is just as vulnerable as the majority of his companions to it.
//Background
J’onn started life as a member of a race that would later come to be known on earth as “the green Martians.” His life was mostly unremarkable. He was a special-forces officer or the equivalent on his planet, with a wife and a daughter. One day, the mostly peaceful existence of the Green Martians was shattered by the arrival of a war-like space faring race that, like the Green Martians, would later come to be known as the ‘White Martians’.
What happened first is lost to time. Perhaps the Green Martians attempted to be friendly with the invaders. Perhaps they weren’t given a choice. Whatever happened, the White Martians found a way to mimic or steal the shape-shifting abilities of the Green Martians, and launched whole-sale war on the native species.
The Green Martians, including J’onns own wife and daughter, were decimated. J’onn, and the handful of other survivors, in a last ditch attempt to save their race and other races from the scourge of the White Martian race, led a desperate charge into the heart of the enemy base. Using a special nerve gas, the fighters managed to send mass of the enemy into a coma-like state. Their charge had a gruesome price, however.
Of the millions of Green Martians, J’onn alone survived.
With no friends, and no family left, J’onn set himself to the only task he had left. He settled down to watch his former enemy, trying to make sure they would never be awoken. His hopes would be dashed, however, with the arrival of mankind on Mars. J’onn had lapsed into a short hibernation, in order to store energy and pass the long decades. During this hibernation, the first astronauts landed on his home planet.
One of the astronauts stumbled (literally) down a massive pit hidden under years of dust. He survived his fall, only to land at the entrance of the enemy stronghold. Intruiged by the massive door before him, the astronaut pushed the portal open, and released an ancient scourge upon the universe.
The White Martians began their assault by killing their discoverer and taking his shape, and infiltrating earth in his place. J’onn awoke, perhaps hours later, to find that he was already too late. So he gathered himself and the reserves of the nerve-gas that had stopped the White Martians before, and came to earth hoping to help the human race.
The human race, at least part of it, wouldn’t welcome his help however. He lost control of his ship somewhere in space, crash landing and briefly injuring himself. The government found him, and promptly imprisoned him, using machines to block his telepathy as much as possible.
Meanwhile, the White Martians worked and schemed, eventually convincing Earth’s governments to shut down their defenses. With that done, they launched their attack. Most of the Superheroes at Earth found themselves at a loss for how to deal with the dangerous, skilled forces of the White Martians. Alone, they began to flounder. J’onn continued to try to reach anyone who could, or would, listen, breaking through the telepathic shields in hazy bursts.
Eventually, someone listened.
Superman heard, and finally understood, and promptly broke into the government facility. With Batman not far behind, the two liberated J’onn from his prison. With his help, the two and a handful of other heroes created a special force, much like the one that had helped J’onn end the White Martian threat on his own planet, attacked the enemy together.
With the help of his new friends, J’onn managed to defeat the White Martians once again. This time, however, he wasn’t left alone. Every one of his new friends survived, leaving him with something approaching a new family. Together they built a new task force of super heroes, a… league. Only Batman opted out of their creation, but somehow he seemed to be just as much a part of the family as the others.
Ever since J’onn has put his energy toward getting to know his new planet, and learning all he can about its inhabitants, determined to keep them safe. His second chance would not be wasted.
Married or in a relationship: M’yri’ah ( Deceased )
Children: K’hym ( Deceased )
//Criminal Record
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//Achievements
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