VICTORY THE ELECTROMAGNETIC MAN(of Earth-17122)
VICTORY THE ELECTROMAGNETIC MAN
(of Earth-17122)
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-17122)
human
Occupation: Champion of the Grandmaster
Group Membership: Squadron Sinister
Affiliations: Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Squadron Sinister
Enemies: The Avengers
(Voyager/Valerie Vector, others)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Gruesome" (insult from Voyager)
Base of Operations: Rome, Italy
First Appearance: Avengers VI#676 (March, 2018)
Powers/Abilities: Victory the Electromagnetic
Man generated an Energo-Field that allowed him to manipulate reality
itself.
Height: 6'2" (by approximation)
Weight: 180 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Unrevealed (see comments)
Hair: Brown
History: (Avengers VI#676 (fb)) - During a
competition between Earth-17122's Grandmaster and Kang the Conqueror,
Grandmaster chose Victory the Electromagnetic Man from his Squadron
Sinister to battle Kang's champion, Voyager of the heroic Avengers.
When the other Avengers triumphed over their Squadron Sinister
counterparts, Kang bade Grandmaster to look at the Visi-Screen, which
showed Victory and Voyager's battle in Rome. Upon meeting Voyager,
Victory boasted that while Voyager's powers were formidable, they were
no match for his Energo-Field. Voyager then proclaimed that they would
see about that and began generating a teleportational field. Victory
charged at Voyager and Voyager quickly noticed that his Energo-Field
reacted with her teleportational powers. Warning Victory to wait,
Voyager yelled that the fields were reaching critical mass and a
massive energy explosion soon occurred, completely disintegrating
Victory and seemingly Voyager as well, who was actually transported
outside reality, their supposed deaths witnessed from afar by Grandmaster, Kang and the Avengers' Black Panther and Yellowjacket. Noting that the two champions were disintegrated, the
Grandmaster suggested to Kang that they call that round of their game a
draw.
(Avengers VI#676 - BTS) - His memories altered by
Earth-616's Voyager, the Avengers' Hercules recalled the Earth-17122
death of Victory the Electromagnetic Man and the seeming death of
Voyager, unaware that he was recalling a completely different reality's
events.
Comments: Created by Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim
Zub and Pepe Larraz.
Earth-17122 is the false reality adapted by Earth-616's Voyager, who told events as lie and altered the memories of Earth-616's Avengers to believe that the Earth-17122 events occurred on Earth-616.
Victory's eye color was impossible to determine, as
he was never seen with his mask off.
Earth-17122's Squadron Sinister were never actually
seen so it was unrevealed which characters were members of this group.
Given how much of Earth-17122 mirrored Earth-616 (with the exception of
Voyager being a founding member of the Avengers), it seems likely that
Earth-17122's Squadron Sinister's roster mirrored that of the
Grandmaster's Earth-616 Squadron Sinister circa Avengers I#70.
Like the other Squadron Sinister
members, Victory is a homage to a Justice League member, in this case
Triumph. Apart from a markedly similar costume, Triumph was also
co-created by Mark Waid, and is a retcon character. While (in 616)
Victory is a false memory posing as a retconned original Squadron
member, Triumph was a retconned original JLA member who was wiped from
the memories of his teammates (and from existence itself) by a temporal
rift. - Loki
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Victory the Electromagnetic Man has no known connections to:
Founded by Ant-Man, Wasp, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Voyager, Earth-17122's became a force of heroism, battling the likes of Loki and a Space Phantom early in the career. After many of the founders decided to take leave from the team, Voyager and Captain America remained on the Avengers alongside new recruits Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. When the android Vision was invited to join the Avengers, Voyager noticed Vision tearing up at the offer and the Avengers (at that point including Black Panther and the former Ant-Man, now calling himself Yellowjacket) were later drawn into a competition between the Grandmaster and Kang the Conqueror, in which they were forced to battle the Grandmaster's Squadron Sinister. During these battles, Voyager was forced to battle Victory the Electromagnetic Man and as their fight began, the two superhumans' powers reacted with each other and a massive energy explosion claimed the life of Victory and shunted Voyager outside reality. Assuming Voyager to be dead, the Avengers continued on, later recruiting other heroes.
The Avengers roster included (from left to right): Captain America,
Voyager, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Hawkeye. Other members not
pictured include: Black Panther, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Vision and Wasp.
--Marvel Legacy I#1 (statue of the Avengers' founders)
(Avengers VI#676, 681, 684, 687,
Black Panther (of
Earth-17122)
Black Panther was a member of Earth-17122's Avengers and was drawn into the game between Grandmaster and Kang the Conqueror, where he witnessed the death of Victory the Electromagnetic Man and the seeming death of his teammate, Voyager.
Black Panther presumably possessed the same enhanced physical attributes that his Earth-616 counterpart possessed.
Earth-17122's Grandmaster was a cosmic being who formed the Squadron Sinister to oppose Kang's champions, the Avengers, in a game between the two villains. Recruiting Victory the Electromagnetic Man into his Squadron Sinister, the Grandmaster sent him against the Avengers' Voyager but when the two seemingly died fighting one another, Grandmaster suggested to Kang that they call that round of the game a draw.
The Grandmaster presumably possessed the same cosmic powers akin to an Elder of the Universe that his Earth-616 counterpart had.
The Kang that was active on Earth-17122 was a temporal divergent counterpart of the original Earth-6311 Kang. This Kang competed in a game with Earth-17122's Grandmaster and chose Earth-17122's Avengers as his champions while the Grandmaster chose his own Squadron Sinister. After the Avengers took down most of the Squadron Sinister, Grandmaster warned Kang of the consequences should Kang's Avengers lose but Kang quickly bade the Grandmaster to look upon the Visi-Screen, which displayed the battle between Victory the Electromagnetic Man and the Avengers' Voyager. When Victory and Voyager were seemingly disintegrated when their powers went critical mass, Kang appeared angry that no clear victor was present.
--Avengers VI#676 (fb)
Squadron
Sinister (of Earth-17122)
Earth-17122's Squadron Sinister were champions of the Grandmaster
and included among their number Victory the Electromagnetic Man. During
a competition between Grandmaster and Kang the Conqueror, many of the
Squadron Sinister were defeated by Kang's champions, the heroic
Avengers.
--Avengers VI#676 (fb) - BTS
Earth-17122's Yellowjacket was a founding member of the Avengers in
his original guise as the heroic Ant-Man. After defeating Loki, Ant-Man
remained with the Avengers, soon taking on the costumed identity of
Giant-Man to battle an alien Space Phantom. After taking a leave of
absence from the Avengers while new members Hawkeye, Quicksilver and
Scarlet Witch joined, he returned to the Avengers as Yellowjacket and
was drawn into a cosmic game between Kang the Conqueror and the
Grandmaster. Following the Avengers' defeat of many of the
Grandmaster's Squadron Sinister, Yellowjacket witnessed the death of
Victory the Electromagnetic Man and the seeming death of his teammate
Voyager.
Yellowjacket had the ability to alter his size, much like his Earth-616 counterpart.
--Avengers VI#676 (fb) (#681 (fb), 687 (fb),
images: (without ads)
Avengers VI#676, p4, pan3 (Victory the Electromagnetic Man, main image)
Avengers VI#676, p5, pan1 (Victory, headshot)
Avengers VI#676, p5, pan2 (Victory, charging at Voyager)
Avengers VI#676, p3, pan4 (Avengers)
Avengers VI#676, p5, pan5 (Black Panther, Grandmaster, Yellowjacket)
Avengers VI#676, p4, pan2 (Kang)
Appearances:
Avengers VI#676 (March, 2018) - Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub (writers),
Pepe Larraz (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
First Posted: 11/07/2018
Last updated: 11/09/2018
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