List of Miracleman characters

Miracleman The first of the Miracleman Family, created by Doctor Gargunza in 1954 as a Cold War weapons project based on the orphan Mike Moran. Believed killed in 1963, he returns in 1982 and three years later undertakes a benevolent takeover of Earth with his allies, turning the planet into a utopia. Young Miracleman The second of the Miracleman Family, based on the orphan Dicky Dauntless. He is killed by the British government in 1963, but resurrected by Miracleman in 2003. Kid Miracleman The third of the Miracleman Family, based on the orphan Johnny Bates. He escapes destruction in 1963 and spends the next 19 years as the most powerful creature on Earth, becoming corrupted and attempting to kill Miracleman on his return in 1982. After three years trapped inside Bates, Kid Miracleman breaks lose again in 1985 and lays waste to London before being stopped by Miracleman and his allies. Miraclewoman An unsanctioned experiment undertaken by Gargunza, based on the orphan Avril Lear. She escapes Gargunza's attentions, changes her identity and lays low until Qys agents visit Earth. She then allies with Miracleman and becomes his lover as they create a golden age on Earth. Young Nastyman Publication history Young Nastyman was originally created by Mick Anglo in 1954 as a recurring villain in the pages of Young Marvelman, debuting in #57 and reappearing intermittently. In these stories his origin was as Pontag of Victo; the Terence Rebbeck identity and backstory was devised by Alan Moore for the revival. Fictional character biography Like Mike Moran, Dicky Dauntless and Jonathan Bates, Terence Rebbeck was the orphan of RAF personnel and was kidnapped by Doctor Gargunza. Unlike them, his abduction was unknown to Spookshow and he was instead kept at a private laboratory by Gargunza along with Avril Lear and Pluto. There a superhuman clone was created of him, which Gargunza programmed as the villain Young Nastyman. As a planned member of Challenger Force (a proposed super-team made up of Warrior characters) he appeared on the cover of Warrior #4 before debuting in the Marvelman strip in #10, dated April/May 1983. Following his guest appearance in the Marvelman strip, a story written by Skinn (under the pseudonym Edgar Henry) and drawn by Ian Gibson was included in the Marvelman Special in 1984, framed as one of the para-reality simulations. This story, "Big Ben versus King Arthur", had been made some years before. "The Man with No Time for Crime" then appeared in Warrior in standalone strips in Warrior again written by Skinn (this time under his own name) and drawn by Will Simpson. The Big Ben section of the Marvelman Special was omitted from both Eclipse and Marvel's reprint programmes. Fictional character biography The product of the second iteration of Project Zarathustra, Big Ben was created in 1968, using an unknown subject. While the project resulted in enhanced strength and flight capability without Gargunza's input the result was nowhere near as powerful as the Miracleman Family; due to their crucially poor understanding of the para-reality programming, it drove Big Ben to insanity. Despite these shortcomings, Big Ben was at least controllable and was retained by Spookshow as part of Sir Dennis Archer's hope to recoup some of the project's funding. Big Ben's programming convinced him he was a member of the Bulldog Brigade, a patriotic British superteam that featured the likes of Jack Ketch and Owlwoman. In the para-reality simulations he also allied with Doc Thunderbolt, and fought the likes of Menace!, the Crimson Finger, the Sponge, Dr. Panic and his Phantom Robot and Phineas Fiske, the creature with the cobalt brain. When Miracleman and Cream locate the Project Zarathustra bunker, Archer used Big Ben as a last line of defence, telling him the former was actually a Communist supervillain called Major Molotov. Miracleman is perplexed by the resulting confrontation, instantly recognising his opponent is neither a physical threat or in his right mind, though he eventually bats Big Ben aside out of irritation. Despite his injuries, Big Ben is able to stagger into the bunker and witness the truth of his creation. Big Ben is later recovered by Spookshow, believing that the evidence of his creation was merely a ploy by Molotov and that he was able to fight a successful delaying action, oblivious that he is being returned to an asylum rather than collected by his grateful team-mates. Big Ben is initially undetected by the Qys as he does not appear to use infra-space, but his mental condition is initially too severe for recovery. However, after Miracleman comes to power he works with the Qys to dovetail Big Ben's perceptions with reality until he is able to return to society. He decides to take on the identity of British Bulldog and joins the other superhumans at Olympus, and becomes a respected hero. Winter The first of Miracleman's children, Winter was conceived with Liz on the night of his rebirth. Even while in the womb she exhibits advanced levels of power, being able to keep her mother calm even when she is taken by Gargunza close to birth, and looking straight at the scientist during a scan of her pregnant mother. On later meeting a revived Gargunza she implies that even then she would have been powerful enough to prevent him from taking over her body. Miracleman is able to deliver her successfully on October 29, 1982, though she stuns both her parents by saying "ma-ma" mere moments later. Winter then takes control of Liz's moods as she rapidly develops. She implants her desired name in her mother's mind, swiftly exhausts her supply of breast milk, moves onto solids in a matter of weeks and even develops teeth. When Liz takes a few days to visit her sister in Yarmouth, Winter makes the full scope of her developing intelligence clear to Miracleman. While powerful and kind, Winter has at this point already evolved much further than the adult superhumans and opts to leave Earth to visit Qys. When she returns at the end of 1988 her father has turned Earth into a utopia, something the super-intelligent child is barely impressed by, describing it as a redecoration. Miracleman also begins donating his sperm to anyone who wants superhuman offspring of their own; while Earth soon has many of the advanced babies Winter is still revered as the first. A storybook based on her adventures called ''Winter's Tale'' is hugely popular and her birthday becomes Wintersday, an annual festival where children can choose to do anything they want. She continues to visit Earth, including meeting the revived Gargunza in 1993 and being present for the resurrection of Young Miracleman in 2003. Huey Moon Publication history The concept of Firedrakes was another devised by Moore early in the development of the Warrior universe, and a character bearing that name was planned as a member of Challenger Force. As such the name is referred to as an ally of Marvelman and 'Warpsmith' in "The Yesterday Gambit" story from Warrior #4, set three years into the fictional universe's future. Fictional character biography A firedrake from Earth. Firedrakes are genetic mutants that create fire early in many species' development; once the civilisation is established the genes usually become recessive, though occasionally throwbacks continue. As these throwbacks can be capable of turning stars supernova they are monitored by the Qys and Warpsmiths; a sweep of Earth in 1948 was the reason for the Qys ship's visit to Earth in 1948, leading to its crash and recovery by Spookshow. Moon is located in 1983 by Miracleman; due to his abilities he has been rejected by society and lives in a Philadelphia junkyard. After some initial hesitation he allies with the group. He can cause anything in his vision to immediately catch fire, and is fireproof himself. Moon is then present when the group confronts Kid Miracleman in London, and is able to use his abilities to make various objects explode to keep the enemy off-balance until Miracleman and Aza Chorn are able to deal with him. Following the superhumans' ascension, Huey takes on the task of providing energy for the world, using his powers to tap into geothermal power sources while also overseeing wind farms, solar energy satellites and other renewable energy sources. He subsequently remains at Olympus, and uses his abilities to trigger a huge pyrotechnic display at the 1993 London carnival. He is also present at the rebirth of Young Miracleman. Mist Birthed by Rachel Cohn using Miracleman's sperm, Mist is a superpowered baby. Like Winter while she is pleasant her high intelligence and confident persona can make interacting with her unnerving, especially as Mist's abilities are in great contrast to her stepbrother Glenn. Her abilities allow her to realise her stepfather Jack is leaving Rachel for his mistress in Japan, something she tactlessly tells her mother. Following the 1993 London Carnival, Mist and her fellow superpowered children set off with Winter on a sojourn into space, and she is unable to see why this upsets her mother. Several years later she allows herself to be aged to the appearance of a teenager, and is witness to the return of Young Miracleman. ==Humans==

Liz Moran Publication history Moore's original proposal placed Liz and Mike's first meeting was in 1962, shortly after his recovery and when she was working as a temporary typist in the same Fleet Street newspaper where he was a staff writer; their marriage was dated to March 1965, taking place at a registry office. At this stage in development her maiden name was O'Rourke. Artist Garry Leach modelled her appearance on actress Audrey Hepburn. Fictional character biography Born Elizabeth Sullivan, He was a frequent recurring villain in both Marvelman and Marvelman Family, and was presented largely as a stock mad scientist. In the original material he also had a nephew called Young Gargunza who largely fulfilled a similar role in the pages of Young Marvelman. it has yet to be revealed that either fictional or non-fictional versions of Young Gargunza exist within the revival's universe. During the early planning for the mooted planned Warrior combined universe, Gargunza was also going to be revealed as the creator of the Fate computer seen in V for Vendetta, but this development was dropped before either story addressed the issue. Fictional character biography Emil Gargunza was born in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1910. A few years later his family fled to Rio during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution. His father died in 1919 and, in order to support his mother, Gargunza began to work for a local gang-leader called Aurelio who adopted him as a mascot. However Gargunza's high IQ meant he was soon more important to the gang than Aurelio. When the latter attempted to molest Gargunza the gang restrained their former leader, and Aurelio was forced to watch Gargunza rape his woman before the 14-year old beat him to death with a baseball bat. Over the next four years he earned enough from the underworld to ensure the comfort of his mother and in 1928 travelled to Europe. There he met Martin Heidegger and then Adolf Hitler. His intelligence saw him gain a post in the Nazis' genetic research programme in 1934, but in 1941 he defected to the Allies. As he brought information on the V-2 rocket, RAF intelligence welcomed him with open arms, assigning him to Spookshow under Sir Dennis Archer. In 1947 his mother died; perceiving mortality for the first time he resolved to never die. The following year a Qys scout ship crashed in Wiltshire and was recovered by Spookshow. The aliens' body-swapping technology gave Gargunza the means to achieve his dream of immortality, which he gleaned information on while devising the Miracleman Family for Spookshow - being inspired to base them around superheroes after finding an issue of Captain Marvel Adventures. Gargunza thus devised Miracleman, Young Miracleman and Kid Miracleman for the government - while also diverting funds to his own secret laboratory where he worked on Miraclewoman, Young Nastyman and Miracledog. However first Young Nastyman and then Miraclewoman escaped his control, and in 1961 Gargunza absconded to South America with Miracledog before he could be discovered. During his research Gargunza discovered he was too old for a clone body of himself to be made, and that implanting his mind in a grown superhuman would likely lead to their adult personality engulfing his. Instead he planned to take over the body of a superhuman's offspring. After his plan to breed Miracleman and Miraclewoman was undone he settled on assigning agents to watch the Morans, and when Liz became pregnant had her abducted and brought to Paraguay. Miracleman and Evelyn Cream arrived to recover her but Gargunza had implanted an overriding post-hypnotic keyword in his progeny after an incident where the group nearly awoke in 1961. As such he was able to revert Miracleman to Mike Moran for an hour, and set Miracledog on them. However, while Cream was killed Moran was able to survive, and after the hour returned as Miracleman. The superhuman massacred his guards before lifting Gargunza into Earth's atmosphere. After kissing his creator Miracleman threw Gargunza back towards Earth, with the scientist burning up until only his pelvis remains. Despite his crimes, Gargunza is remembered in Miracleman's new world for his role in creating the superhumans, with an Andy Warhol silkscreen of Gargunza hanging in Olympus. The Qys Mors makes numerous attempts to resurrect Gargunza but repeatedly finds that he attempts to escape, and that any attempt to alter his evil side drastically lowers his intelligence. Both Miracleman and Miraclewoman refuse to visit the various revived Gargunza clones built by Mors, possibly out of fear he may have equipped them with further fail-safes. Sir Dennis Archer A hereditary peer who is the controller of Spookshow and thus Project Zarathustra. As such he oversees Gargunza's work on the Miracleman Family, though the scientist is contemptuous of both Archer's personality and intellect. As such Gargunza is able to funnel Spookshow funds into a secret project for years and escape to Paraguay with much of his research in 1963 before Archer found out. Realising the Miracleman Family will be too hard to control without Gargunza, he greenlights Operation Dragonslayer, which seemingly destroys the trio. In 1968 Archer tried to put the research to use on creating a new superhuman weapon. However, due to the incomplete records of the process the result - Big Ben - was neither as powerful as the Miracleman Family or as well conditioned, ending up insane. Project Zarathustra is then mothballed. In 1982 Archer is still high up in Spookshow, and word reaches him of the survival of Miracleman and Kid Miracleman when the pair fight in London. As such he hires the assassin Evelyn Cream to find and kill Miracleman's human form. While Cream finds Moran he instead decides to form an alliance with Miracleman, and despite Archer's defensive measures the pair are able to get inside the Project Zarathustra bunker. Archer offers his resignation in the aftermath of the fiasco, and is warned off further investigation by Cream. After Kid Miracleman again returns and lays waste to London in 1985, the body of Archer is found in a Surrey train station toilet - having hung himself. While his recent death means Mors can recover his soul and bring him back to life in an android body, Miracleman vetoes resurrecting Archer. Evelyn Cream A skilled and highly intelligent contract killer, educated at Rugby and Sandhurst. He enjoys a successful career and acquires a host of accoutrements, including sapphire teeth. He is hired by Dennis Archer to track down Miracleman's human counterpart and kill him. Cream does this with cool efficiency, calmly suffocating a witness to Miracleman's return and trapping Moran in a lift. However Cream decides to ultimately turn against Archer and instead form a mutually beneficial alliance with Miracleman. He helps Miracleman locate the Project Zarathustra bunker and access the truth of his past, and subsequently warns Archer off harassing the Morans. While Cream outwardly claims to be interested in the financial and political gains his association with Miracleman can bring, he privately worries he has instead fallen under the superhuman's thrall, and begins suffering portentous nightmares. After Liz is kidnapped, Miracleman calls upon Cream for aid. Using his skills, Cream is able to identify Gargunza as the culprit and the pair set off to Paraguay to mount a rescue. However, after they arrive Gargunza uses a post-hypnotic command to forcibly revert Miracleman to Moran, and sets Miracledog to hunt the pair. Cream is soon overtaken, beheaded and partially eaten by the creature. After Miracleman subsequently rebuilds the world his ally Mors is able to recover Cream's soul and place it in a new artificial body. The reborn Cream subsequently becomes overseer of The city, a settlement created to deprogram veterans of the intelligence community to adapt to a world where their paranoia and subterfuge is no longer required. Jason Oakey Fearful of nuclear war, the nine-year old Jason keeps a stash of resources (including a spud gun, custard creams, Rothmans cigarettes, issues of Health and Efficiency and oven foil to make an anti-radiation suit) in a tree in Epping Forest. He is teased at school by one Gary Watts, who calls him "Annie Oakley". Checking his supplies he meets Miracleman. While Jason is initially sceptical of Miracleman's sexuality and power, a demonstration soon convinces him and the boy asks Miracleman to protect them from any nuclear war, with Miracleman promising to do his best before leaving. Jason subsequently becomes friends with Garry and two other friends called Dave and Sharon, frequently joining them on trips to West End London market stalls. However, while he had planned to do so in August 1985 he and his sister Stephanie were instead sent to stay with their Aunt Millie in Hawking-on-Sea. This unwittingly saved his life from Kid Miracleman; Sharon and Dave were killed but never identified, while Garry was impaled on a church weather vane, a visual that featured prominently in Stanley Kubrick's documentary Veneer. After Miracleman's rise to power he told no-one of their meeting, worried it would be misinterpreted as an attempt to make himself look important. He eventually tells a woman from Nepal he finds through Miraclewoman's match-making service, shortly after losing his virginity to her. Jason later visits the London carnival, where he and his partner trade t-shirts of the Miracleman family with others. Trish A nurse at St. Crispin's Hospital in London. She takes care of the catatonic Johnny Bates, following the first battle between Miracleman and Kid Miracleman in 1983. Trish is kind and encouraging to the boy and continues to look after him after Bates reawakens. She is unknowingly subjected to numerous demeaning sexual remarks by Kid Miracleman during his mental torment of Bates. While Trish tries to coax Johnny into speaking of his mental problems and continues to support him she is unable to prevent the boy from being bullied, something that leads to the return of Kid Miracleman. After butchering the tormentors, he considers sparing Trish due to the kindness she showed him; however, he ultimately decides this would "make them think" he had gone soft, and punches the top of her head through a wall. ==Aliens==

Qys Imperium A huge galactic empire, existing for thousands of years and one of the lead powers in Intelligent Space. The source of their strength is a complete mastery of body-swapping technology; the Qys maintain a gigantic number of alternate bodies in Underspace, which they can switch between with change-words. There were originally four Black Warpsmiths but at some point they were reduced to three. They create Warpsmiths in various classes - white Warpsmiths are warriors, grey Warpsmiths are diplomats, red Warpsmiths monitor stars and blue Warpsmiths are artisans. She is later absolved, largely because the whole encounter has been manipulated by the Black Warpsmiths. Kana Blur The sole survivor of a cluster destroyed by the Whisper, he is placed in Aza Chorn's cluster as a replacement for Tenda Dril. After Aza Chorn is killed by Kid Miracleman on Earth in 1985, Kana Blur takes his place alongside Phon Mooda as one of the Warpsmith representatives on Earth. There he plays a key role in remoulding human society and subsequently splits his time between Olympus and the observation post. Like the rest of Miracleman's allies he is present at the reawakening of Young Miracleman. An alien race from the Gulf World Confederacy who can instantly transport matter, the Warpsmiths ally with Earth alongside the Qys Imperium. Aza Chorn and Phon Mooda are sent to be their representatives in relations with Earth; after the former is killed battling Kid Miracleman his place is taken by Kana Blur. ==Others==

Miracledog Along with Lear and Rebbeck, Gargunza's secret laboratory also included a heavily modified dog. Darkly named Miracledog by its creator, this creature was taller than a man and an unthinking, bestial predator, with claws that were sharp enough to decapitate Evelyn Cream without him even realising and teeth strong enough to pulverise a handgun. Its change-form was a small, spoilt dog he called Pluto. Due to the animal being unable to speak its own change-word Gargunza modified it so it could change forms aurally, using the word "Steppenwolf". When Archer was close to discovering Gargunza had siphoned funds to the secret project he absconded to Paraguay, taking Pluto with him. As such when Gargunza resurfaced in 1982 the scientist unleashed Miracledog on Mike Moran and Evelyn Cream when they came to Paraguay looking for the captured Liz. In the resulting hunt the monster killed Cream; however Moran was able to remember the animal's change-word and revert it to Pluto. He killed the stunned dog with a rock, trapping its change-form in Underspace. After Miracleman and his allies take control Earth they recovers Miracledog's change-form and engineer it to have a more benign personality. Joining them at Olympus, it flies around the world performing heroic feats (and occasionally defecating on those below). ==References==