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* EnsembleDarkHorse: The guy has a very shaky backstory susceptible to {{Retcon}}s and {{Continuity Snarl}}s, has only held two titles in almost seven decades of comics and spends 90% of the time OutOfFocus, yet he is still massively beloved by Justice League fans due to his stoic but polite personality, his [[SuperpowerLottery insane powerset]] and having appeared in some of the most beloved Justice League runs as a main character (Namely, ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', ''JusticeLeagueEurope'' and ''ComicBook/JLA1997''), and the Ostrander comic is a big CultClassic. His removal from the team brought by ComicBook/TheNew52 was almost universally criticised.

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* EnsembleDarkHorse: The guy has a very shaky backstory susceptible to {{Retcon}}s and {{Continuity Snarl}}s, has only held two titles in almost seven decades of comics and spends 90% of the time OutOfFocus, yet he is still massively beloved by Justice League fans due to his stoic but polite personality, his [[SuperpowerLottery insane powerset]] and having appeared in some of the most beloved Justice League runs as a main character (Namely, ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', ''JusticeLeagueEurope'' ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueEurope'' and ''ComicBook/JLA1997''), and the Ostrander comic is a big CultClassic. His removal from the team brought by ComicBook/TheNew52 was almost universally criticised.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: The guy has a very shaky backstory susceptible to {{Retcon}}s and {{Continuity Snarl}}s, has only held two titles in almost seven decades of comics and spends 90% of the time OutOfFocus, yet he is still massively beloved by Justice League fans due to his stoic but polite personality, his [[SuperpowerLottery insane powerset]] and having appeared in some of the most beloved Justice League runs as a main character (Namely, ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', ''JusticeLeagueEurope'' and ''ComicBook/JLA1997''), and the Ostrander comic is a big CultClassic. His removal from the team brought by ComicBook/TheNew52 was almost universally criticised.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, ''Jemm: Son Of Saturn'' was created because the writer wanted to do a story about J'onn and couldn't get editorial permission. ComicBook/PostCrisis, it was established that Jemm's race is a bioengineered offshoot of J'onn's race (and, unlike the Martians, they're still thriving).

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* SpiritualSuccessor: In UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, ''Jemm: Son Of Saturn'' was created because the writer wanted to do a story about J'onn and couldn't get editorial permission. ComicBook/PostCrisis, it was established that Jemm's race is a bioengineered offshoot of J'onn's race (and, unlike the Martians, they're still thriving).

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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** White Martians to Pole Dwellers; arguably Malefic to Blanx.
** In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, ''Jemm: Son Of Saturn'' was created because the writer wanted to do a story about J'onn and couldn't get editorial permission. ComicBook/PostCrisis, it was established that Jemm's race is a bioengineered offshoot of J'onn's race (and, unlike the Martians, they're still thriving).

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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** White Martians to Pole Dwellers; arguably Malefic to Blanx.
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SpiritualSuccessor: In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, ''Jemm: Son Of Saturn'' was created because the writer wanted to do a story about J'onn and couldn't get editorial permission. ComicBook/PostCrisis, it was established that Jemm's race is a bioengineered offshoot of J'onn's race (and, unlike the Martians, they're still thriving).
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* UncannyValley: J'onn's almost-but-not-quite human shape sometimes disconcerts people. (And this was the form he created to avoid scaring people!)

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* UncannyValley: UnintentionalUncannyValley: J'onn's almost-but-not-quite human shape sometimes disconcerts people. (And this was the form he created to avoid scaring people!)
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** White Martians to Pole Dwellers; arguably Malefic to Blanx.
** In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, ''Jemm: Son Of Saturn'' was created because the writer wanted to do a story about J'onn and couldn't get editorial permission. ComicBook/PostCrisis, it was established that Jemm's race is a bioengineered offshoot of J'onn's race (and, unlike the Martians, they're still thriving).

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* Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz--or [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malefic]]--is J'onn's own [[CainAndAbel twin brother]], who had his natural psychic powers stripped by his own people due to abusing his telepathic powers, using them to cruelly MindRape J'onzz's wife. [[DisproportionateRetribution Out of petty spite]], Malefic engineered a [[GenocideFromTheInside fatal psychic plague among his people]], causing whatever Martian that used their psychic powers to horribly burn and die as a result and singlehandedly destroying almost his entire race as a result. Pursuing his brother J'onn to Earth in a single-minded crusade to end his brother's life and complete his genocide, Malefic tried various times to destroy his brother and all those close to him, murdering the partner of his human identity, Karen Smith, and trying to mentally drive his own brother to suicide through a remnant of himself before his final death.

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* ** ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'': Ma'alefa'ak J'onzz--or J'onzz, aka [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malefic]]--is Malefic]], J'onn's own [[CainAndAbel twin brother]], who had his natural psychic powers stripped by his own people due to abusing his telepathic powers, using them to cruelly MindRape J'onzz's wife. [[DisproportionateRetribution Out of petty spite]], Malefic engineered a [[GenocideFromTheInside fatal psychic plague among his people]], causing whatever Martian that used their psychic powers to horribly burn and die as a result and singlehandedly destroying almost his entire race as a result. Pursuing his brother J'onn to Earth in a single-minded crusade to end his brother's life and complete his genocide, Malefic tried various times to destroy his brother and all those close to him, murdering the partner of his human identity, Karen Smith, and trying to mentally drive his own brother to suicide through a remnant of himself before his final death.

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