Anti-Monitor

From Multiversal Omnipedia

The Anti-Monitor was an ancient, evil being that arose billions of years ago on a moon of the planet Qward, in the Anti-Matter Universe. The Anti-Monitor came into existence simultaneously with his matter counterpart, the Monitor. Unlike the Monitor, the Anti-Monitor needed to surround himself in a sort of containment suit to survive- without it, his body would destroy itself. He conquered much of his anti-universe, using his Thunderer troops, the best of which he transformed into Shadow Demons. The Anti-Monitor eventually became aware of his "brother," and the two fought a million-year war. It ended with both combatants striking each other at the same time, rendering both unconscious.

Millennia later, a scientist named Kell Mossa, from the parallel Earth known as "Earth-Omega," attempted to see the origin of the universe. In doing this, he connected the matter and anti-matter universes, giving both Monitors enough energy to escape their hibernation. The Anti-Monitor then proceeded to send a wave of anti-matter into Earth-Omega's universe, destroying it utterly, with Mossa- now the Pariah- the only survivor.

Learning that his power grew with each universe destroyed by anti-matter, while his brother's weakened, the Anti-Monitor began to destroy the multiverse, one universe at a time. This became known as the Crisis on Infinite Earths. By the late 20th century, only a handful of worlds remained. The Monitor organized some of the superbeings of these worlds into several forces, which he dispatched to protect Earth-1 and Earth-2 in several time periods from the Shadow Demons. However, during this, he also captured the Psycho-Pirate, the Flash, and the Red Tornado for his use.

The Anti-Monitor also managed to take control of the Monitor's aide, Harbinger, and used her to kill his brother. The Monitor planned for this, though, and the energies of his death helped form a netherverse, where Earth-1 and Earth-2 were placed, safe from destruction. Anti-Monitor sent the transformed Red Tornado to attack the imperfectly transferred, overlapping Earths, but the elemental was defeated.

With these worlds lost to him, the Anti-Monitor determined to destroy the remaining three Earths (Earth-4, Earth-X, and Earth-S), and amplified the powers of the Psycho-Pirate so that he could inspire paranoia, fear, and blind rage (respectively) in the entire populace of the worlds. He also destroyed his late brother's satellite base. Thanks to Harbinger, however, the three remaining universes were also pulled into the netherverse.

Relentless in his goals, the Anti-Monitor used a machine to begin reducing the vibrational differences between the five universes, causing them to slowly merge. When they all occupied the same space at the same time, they would destroy one another. A strike force of superheroes, led by Pariah and Alexander Luthor, last survivor of Earth-3, invaded the Anti-Matter Universe and attacked the Anti-Monitor's fortress. The device was destroyed, but Supergirl was slain battling its creator. He, too, was damaged badly, and was forced to retreat and form a new suit for his body.

To finally annihilate the last universes, the Anti-Monitor built an anti-matter cannon, which was destroyed by the Flash (with the help of a very unwilling Psycho-Pirate). Enraged, and fed up with his constant defeats, he absorbed the energy of his entire universe and began travelling backwards, to the Dawn of Time. He was pursued there by nearly every superhero remaining, where they discovered that he planned to subvert Creation itself, making it so only his reality ever existed. He was opposed by the Spectre, who disrupted his attempt enough that, instead, the former multiverse became a single universe, constructed from the five remaining worlds.

Back in the present day, the heroes made one final stand against the Anti-Monitor and his Shadow Demons. The villain was destroyed after a desperate battle, thanks primarily to the new Doctor Light, Darkseid, Alexander Luthor, Superman of Earth-2, and Superboy of Earth-Prime.

Post-Crisis

The Anti-Monitor's goal was to break down the barriers between time periods, compressing all of the universe to a single point of time. He would then use the anti-matter cannon to obliterate that compressed universe, making the Anti-Matter Universe all that exists. Other than that point, events mostly occurred as they had pre-Crisis. Since the Anti-Matter Universe survived the Crisis and was not an alternate timeline per se, it's unlikely (but not impossible) that the Anti-Monitor still exists somewhere in hypertime.

Alternate Timelines

In a post-Crisis alternate timeline created when Cobalt Blue killed the second Flash before he destroyed the anti-matter cannon, and the Anti-Monitor was victorious. As the only survivor of the original timeline and final embodiment of all positive matter, the third Flash, Wally West, was the target of the Anti-Monitor's wrath. He escaped into the timestream, and after several failed attempts, he managed to save the second Flash and repair the damage that had been done to history.