Hyperion (comics)
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Hyperion is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the Squadron Supreme. There are actually three different Marvel incarnations of Hyperion, one of whom was a supervillain. All incarnations are essentially based on the DC Comics character Superman.
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Squadron Sinister
Hyperion first appeared in The Avengers #70 (November 1969) as a member of the Squadron Sinister, a group of supervillains assembled by the alien Grandmaster to fight the Avengers. This Hyperion was an alien from a subatomic parallel universe pulled from his world by the Grandmaster for his own purposes, though later comics suggested that the Grandmaster simply created this Hyperion from whole cloth.
This Hyperion was created by Roy Thomas as part of an homage to the Justice League.
He later fell in love with the heroine Thundra. For his final fate, see the next section.
Squadron Supreme
In Avengers #85-86 (March-April 1971), Thomas created the Squadron Supreme, a parallel world group of heroes, even more broadly based on the Justice League. This group had its own version of Hyperion, with a human secret identity of Mark Milton. He was thought to be an alien for years, but in the comic series Quasar it was revealed he was the sole surviving member of his Earth's race of Eternals.
Hyperion was nominally the group's leader, and was a driving force behing the Utopia Project which the Squadron implemented in the wake of their world being devastated by the Overmind.
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During this period, Hyperion was trapped in limbo by an enemy, and the villainous Hyperion replaced him, forming a romance with Power Princess. When the heroic Hyperion escaped, he fought the villain to the death of the latter. The hero was blinded and had to wear special glasses to simulate sight until his sight was eventually restored.
At last note, Hyperion and a reformed Squadron were fighting to free their world from a global dictatorship which had taken it over while the team was stranded in the main Marvel Universe.
Supreme Power
In August 2003, Supreme Power began to chronicle a rebooted version of the Squadron Supreme. In this version, Hyperion is an alien sent to earth as a baby and raised in secret by agents of the United States government. As a young man, he revealed himself to humanity as a hero, but remained a government operative.
Exiles
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In Exiles, Hyperion was a member of Weapon X (a team like the Exiles). But instead of doing what the Tallus says, he tries to take over Earth. Hyperion later decides not to take over his reality's Earth and waits, instead, to move to the next. In the next reality Hyperion is in the middle of taking over Earth when the Exiles appear. The Tallus says the mission is to kill off six members of the Exiles or of Weapon X. In the end Hyperion is killed by Gambit in a sacrifice attempt and to complete the mission. In Exiles Timebreakers (#61-#65), Hyperion returns.