Monitor (comics)
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The Monitor was a character created by George Perez for DC Comics's Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series.
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Powers
The Monitor's powers were never defined, but he was nearly immortal and absolutely ageless, having been born from the very ground of Oa's moon near the dawn of time.
History
Thirteen billions years ago, the Multiverse was born; an infinite number of parallel universes existed side by side, separated only by minuscule vibrational differences. One of these universes was composed entirely of antimatter, and around the world of Qward orbited a single moon. On this moon, a hideous mockery of life was born from its very soil, the Anti-Monitor.
Almost in response, the moon of Oa birthed a counterpart, the Monitor. As the evil Anti-Monitor conquered his universe, the Monitor watched him, and when the Anti-Monitor sensed his presence, they began battling across the dimensional barrier in a war that lasted one million years.
A simultaneous attack rendered them both unconscious, and they lay unmoving for more than nine billion years, until the Monitor felt his evil counterpart awaken. He found the sole survivor of another universe, Pariah, and used him to follow the Anti-Monitor's path of destruction in his newly-created spaceship. As the Anti-Monitor consumed worlds with his destructive antimatter, the Monitor grew weaker. He scoured every universe for heroes to fight the Anti-Monitor, but even though countless universes were threatened, he took the time to save an orphaned girl, the only survivor of a shipwreck, and raised her on his ship. That girl, Lyla, became Harbinger, who tracked down the heroes and villains the Monitor needed to fight his foe.
When Harbinger returned, one of her incarnations had been attacked by a shadow demon, and that corruption caused her to attack and kill the Monitor. He had foreseen the attack, and used his machines to pull Earth-One and Earth-Two into a netherverse, saving them from the Anti-Monitor's unstoppable antimatter wall.
Harbinger followed the Monitor's legacy, using her power to draw Earth-Four, Earth-S, and Earth-X into the Netherverse, and the heroes eventually defeated the Anti-Monitor at the dawn of time (rebooting the multiverse as a single universe, an amalgam of the five surviving Earths), and then in his own antimatter universe, saving the reborn universe from his predations.