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Last Updated on Sunday, February 08, 2004

Personal Data:

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Real Name:

 Dr. David Connor
Status: Deceased

Versions of the JLA:

 none

Known Aliases:

 none

Nicknames:

 none

Occupation:

 Reluctant Hero

Other Group Affiliations:

 Team Superman- Active
The Outsiders - Inactive (Former member)

First Appearance:

 Superman #90

Base of Operations:

 Mobile

Age:

 Mid-thirties

Height:

 6' 3"

Weight:

 225 lbs.

Eyes:

 Red

Hair:

 Black

Known Relatives:

 wife, son

Known Allies:

 Superman, Steel II, Superboy, Supergirl, The Outsiders

Known Enemies:

 Imperiex

Powers and Abilities:

 The Eradicator possesses superhuman strength and the ability to fly. He can also fire deadly bolts from his eyes.

Background:
Once an artifact of an extant alien race survived by a nameless alien Cleric, the Eradicator was reprogrammed on ancient Krypton by the scientist Kem-L, an ancestor of Superman who empowered it to cleanse Krypton of all alien influences. In the reaches of deep space, Superman later encountered the Cleric, who had departed Krypton with the Eradicator long before that planet's cataclysmic destruction. In Superman's possession, the Eradicator erected the Fortress of Solitude and, for a brief time, altered the Man of Steel into an "ideal" Kryptonian. The Eradicator's programming reconfigured even further when the psychic wave patterns it shared with the House of El allowed the Eradicator to assume Kal-El's form after the Man of Steel's "death" at the hands of Doomsday. Following Superman's return to life, the still-evolving Eradicator melded its techno-consciousness to the soul of the dying Dr. David Connor, who now balances his own human consciousness with the latent directives of the Kryptonian killing machine.

CHARACTER DETAILS

APPEARING IN:

The Superman titles.
CREATED BY:

?
FIRST APPEARANCE:

ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #2 (1989)

PERSONAL DETAILS

CODENAME:

The Eradicator
ALTER EGO:

Once believed itself to be David Conner.
OCCUPATION:

Defender of the Kryptonian way of life.

MARITAL STATUS:

As David Conner - married
KNOWN RELATIVES:

As David Conner - children and a wife.
GROUP AFFILIATION:

Former member of the Outsiders.

BASE OF OPERATIONS:

Mobile
HAIR:

White.

 EYES:

White

BIOGRAPHY/PROFILE

The Eradicator began life as an inanimate machine, one of the All brought to Krypton by the Cleric. Kem-L confiscated the device and radically altered its programming. The thoughts and goals of Kem-L imprinted on the Eradicator transforming it into a weapon that would protect and preserve the way of Kryptonian life. It possessed vast capabilities including unlimited information storage, sensory systems that could sense half way across the galaxy and the ability to restructure matter at will. Deeming the device too powerful to be left on Krypton the Cleric took it with him to Warworld.

Eventually the Eradicator was passed onto Kal-El the last surviving Kryptonian and descendant of Kem-L. He used the Eradicator to teleport him to Earth across a vast interstellar distance. However the Eradicator proved unstable as it started mutating the DNA of Jimmy Olsen and emitting intermittent bursts of power. Thinking the Eradicator dangerous Superman hid it out of the way in the Antarctic. Out of sight the Eradicator build a massive Fortress in trying to fulfill it program of preserving the Kryptonian way of life. It intended to turn Earth into a new Krypton, but was defeated by Superman who hurled it into the Sun. The Eradicator absorbed solar energy and increased in power a thousand fold. Now taking a humanoid form it attempted to turn Earth into a new Krypton again before being dissipated by Superman and Emil Hamilton.

The dormant essence of the Eradicator was awakened by the death of Superman and reformed its body with material from his tomb. It took the body to the Fortress of Solitude where it used advanced Kryptonian science akin to the Birthing Matrix to return Kal-El to life so that he could use him as a solar energy converter. During this period the Eradicator imprinted the memories and goals of Superman and started masquerading as one of the four supermen that appeared after the death of the real Superman. When Superman returned to battle the Cyborg the Eradicator blocked Kryptonite radiation that was killing him and altered it polarity restoring Superman to full power but in the process it rendered itself inert.

The body of the inert Eradicator was studied by STAR labs where it imprinted the memories of David Conner a scientist who died shortly afterwards. For a time the Eradicator believed that it was David Conner who had somehow swapped minds with the Eradicator and joined the team of the Outsiders. The various memories that the Eradicator had imprinted over the centuries began to conflict with each other. The Eradicator took his conflicts to a virtual world within the Phantom Zone where an image of the Cleric revealed his true origin as one of the All. There he was attacked by a separate software entity created by Kem-L the two battled and the new entity absorbed all of the Kryptonian programming from the Eradicator briefly escaping to our world. Freed of his destructive programming the Eradicator served with the Superman Rescue Squad.

Recently the main Eradicator program buried in the Fortress of Solitude has reawakened. It tried to restart its program of transforming Earth, but was temporally halted by Superman. The humanoid Eradicator (still patterned after David Conner) came under mental assault by the parent program. The humanoid Eradicator joined Superman in fighting the attack of Brainiac 13 on Metropolis. During the course of the battle he sensed the intention of the other Eradicator to join with the Brainiac Virus. In order to stop him Eradicator/Conner merged with the Eradicator/program and with the last efforts of his free will he pulled both Eradicators into inter-galactic space.

ABILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

The powers and abilities of the Eradicator before it reformed itself into a solid humanoid body were based around the manipulation of energy and the environment. It's influence even extended to altering solar spectrum to match that of a red dwarf. It also displayed the ability to reshape objects and materials into any form (including high technology) possible.

After Superman's death it took on a human form but it's powers were vastly reduced. The Eradicator can fly, is super strong and can fire powerful energy blasts. It could also be conjectured that it has other abilities left over from it's time as an All.