More Monarch
Yeah, I'm back with another post about Monarch. But it's important. Plus, I got so caught up with the history of Monarch yesterday that I couldn't go into some of my theories about the character. So here goes...
I was reading a few of those weekly Countdown columns you see on websites like Newsarama earlier today. I found myself coming away unimpressed. They need to check their facts (Grayle Gardner? Puh-leeze). But the thing I noticed is that they all made the assumption that Monarch is a villain.
This isn't necessarily untrue, of course. Monarch may very well turn out to be a villain. He does act quite ominously, after all. But consider this: Monarch is a character assumed to be a villain who is sending his Forerunner through the Multiverse to collect people from various worlds to fight for him in a coming war.
In 1985 a character called the Monitor was widely assumed to be a villain. He sent his Harbinger through the Multiverse to collect people from various worlds to fight for him in a coming war.
So I think it's a mistake to assume that this Monarch is a villain just because the first one was. Just like it's a mistake to assume that the new Monitors are virtuous just because the original one was...
posted by Diamondrock @ 5:19 AM
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4 Comments:
This theory pleases me. Also, the last time that I saw Monarch, he was in "Ion", and he helped Kyle and a couple of kids get out of the bleed and back from the Tangent Universe. He and Kyle weren't fighting, and seemed to be getting along quite amicably.
I'm holding out hope for this theory. Captain Atom is a great hero and doesn't deserve to be turned into a second-rate villain.
I wasn't even aware people thought he was a villain. I'd be disappointed if they made Captain Atom a villain, doesn't seem to fit with what he was doing in Ion (as sallyp just said above).
Somebody's going to have to fight Sinestro's army and it's not the Corp that's getting dope slapped.
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