This Hyperion was created by Mephisto and programmed by the Power Elite in cooperation with Agent Coulson. Coulson designed him to be a member of the Squadron Supreme of America, a superhero team sponsored by the U.S. government, while secretly using him to further Mephisto's schemes and his own. In his personal time, this artificial being, going by the name Mark, works as an American history teacher at Buscema High School in Kensington, Maryland. Hyperion and his team are introduced to General Ross to serve as America's response to the now-unaligned Avengers. The Squadron Supreme is tested against Namor and his Defenders of the Deep, countering several attacks on Roxxon's facilities in American waters.
After General Ross's death, Hyperion is seen being conditioned, forced to repeat phrases about coming from a distant world, being raised by farmers, possessing the strength of an Eternal, holding small-town values, and fighting for America. Coulson also programs him into a relationship with his teammate Power Princess, conditioning her from loving Hyperion to lusting for him. When Doctor Spectrum, their teammate and de facto commander, sees what Coulson is doing, he becomes angry and demands it be shut down, but Coulson utters a trigger phrase and brings him under control, revealing he has done the same to Ledger as he has to Hyperion and the others. While Mark is teaching at school, a group of Frost Giants invade Washington during Malekith's War of the Realms. As Hyperion, he meets up with the rest of the Squadron, klls several Frost Giants, and routes the remaining invaders to the Canadian frontier at Lake Erie. Coulson then dispatches the team to Ohio.
When the Phoenix Force returns to Earth, it stages a contest to determine its next host, and Hyperion is summoned to the White Hot Room. The Phoenix empowers the assembled champions and pits them against each other in trials by combat. Hyperion's first opponent is Shang-Chi. But as he begins attuning to the Phoenix's power boost, his enhanced senses expand to infinity, allowing him to sense life across the cosmos. Overwhelmed by the realization that expanding his mind would make him more open-minded, Hyperion yields. Coulson, using the Pandemonium Cube provided by Mephisto, warps reality and creates Earth-21798. (Heroes Reborn) In this reality, the Avengers never existed, and the Squadron Supreme are the world's premiere superhero team. From this point forward, everything that happens to Hyperion is the false life he lives within that distorted reality.
In Earth-21798, Hyperion is the sole known survivor of an alien world consumed by Galactus, arriving on Earth in a spaceship. His ship lands in the United States, and he becomes a devoted patriot to America. As a diplomatic gesture, he is sent as a teenager to train with the Shi'ar Empire's Imperial Guard and develops a close bond with the team. He considers their leader Gladiator a mentor and falls in love with Oracle. After preventing Deathbird from seizing the Shi'ar throne, Hyperion and the Imperial Guard investigate Deathbird's keep inside a bubble dimension. They learn too late that Deathbird has been experimenting with a Brood hive, and the Brood begin infecting the Imperial Guard. Hyperion escapes but is forced to seal the Imperial Guard away inside the bubble dimension. Returning to Earth, he becomes the leader of the Squadron Supreme of America, the world's greatest superhero team.
When not being a hero, he is a 9th-grade American history teacher in Kensington, Maryland. When facing threats to America, he either kills them or exiles them to the Negative Zone. Among those he exiles are the Hulk after his first rampage, Doctor Doom, and his former Brood-infected Imperial Guard teammates. On one occasion, the Squadron Supreme battles Canada's Alpha Flight, and Hyperion is unexpectedly klled by Alpha Flight's leader Weapon X, whose adamantium claws have been enhanced with magic. He returns to life through unknown means and gets his revenge two years later by luring Alpha Flight into a trap, brutally beating Weapon X, blasting him with his optic beam, and then having Doctor Spectrum send Weapon X to the distant Black Galaxy to die slowly. When Nighthawk attempts to pass legislation requiring superheroes to register with the government, it leads to a civil war between him and Hyperion. To fight Hyperion, Nighthawk steals the Eye of Agamotto from the Squadron Supreme's armory and rebonds with the Venom symbiote.
Hyperion believes Nighthawk is fighting him not only over the Registration Act but out of spite due to a love triangle between them and Power Princess. After a battle that devastates Connecticut, Hyperion overpowers Nighthawk and forces the symbiote off him by exposing him to the Sun. Doctor Doom escapes the Negative Zone and empowers himself with the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, becoming Dr. Juggernaut, and attacks the White House. Hyperion fights him and manages to defeat him, then sends Doom back to the Negative Zone. However, this allows all the other villains he had exiled to escape, forcing Hyperion to hunt them down one by one to send them back. His final foe is the Hulk, who rants about the world not being right. Feeling he has no choice, Hyperion klls the Hulk with his optic beam. Nighthawk and Hyperion eventually reconcile just in time to face a new threat: a team calling itself the Avengers has emerged, planning to restore reality to its proper place.
The Squadron Supreme tracks the Avengers to Africa, where they discover that the mythical nation of Wakanda actually exists and that the Avengers are hiding there. When Wakanda's cloaking field is disabled, the Avengers confront the Squadron Supreme. Hyperion fights Thor but struggles against the thunder god because Wakanda's vibranium deposits weaken him. This weakness to vibranium is a specific artifact of this false reality – it exists only within the distorted Earth-21798 and is not present in Earth-616. In short, Hyperion has no such vulnerability. Despite the weakness, Hyperion eventually knocks out Thor but injures both his hands in the process. He then aids Nighthawk against Blade the Vampire Hunter. While Hyperion and Nighthawk hold off Black Panther, Hyperion is knocked out by Captain America due to the vibranium composition in his shield. Reality is finally restored by Blade and his team of Avengers. In response, Mephisto punishes Coulson by trapping him inside the Pandemonium Cube.
Without Coulson, the Squadron Supreme falls apart. When reality returns to normal, Hyperion now possesses all the memories of both his artificial creation and the distorted adventures he lived through in Earth-21798. The memories of these two separate, contradictory false lives have flooded his mind, leaving him completely confused about what is real and what is a lie. Hoping no one will think to look for him, he flies off to Russia. Later, he is seen in the Ural Mountains of Western Russia with Red Widow. He has gone to her for help in freeing himself from what Coulson, the Power Elite, and Mephisto did to him. While hooked up inside her machine, Red Widow uses Red Room brainwashing techniques to break down and undo the conditioning that was done to him.
Just then, the remnants of the Squadron Supreme come for him. Doctor Spectrum moves to arrest Red Widow for what she is doing to his teammate, but Power Princess klls Doctor Spectrum and takes his Power Prism for herself. Hyperion can do nothing but listen as Power Princess and Blur learn that Red Widow was only trying to help him, and to his horror, Power Princess allows Red Widow's work to continue, seemingly for her own ends. Hyperion suffers an existential crisis, believing that either himself or reality itself is a lie. He flies toward Earth at nearly the speed of light, But at that very moment, Vision opens a portal to the devastated Earth-901. In that ruined world, Hyperion is given a new purpose: he will become its hero. And so Hyperion, a created puppet, a ghost filled with false memories, turns back from the brink of suicide and transforms into a true hero.
Eventually, he returns in the Avengers' darkest hour. Myrrdin, a new variant of Kang, is about to destroy the multiverse with a weapon called the Grail. The Avengers are making their last stand on Battleworld, a planet overrun with zombies. Hyperion arrives when the fight seems unwinnable. The irony? When Hyperion made his debut, Grandmaster created Sinister Hyperion on Earth-616 based on the Earth-712 version to play against Kang. Recently, he fought alongside the Avengers against Kang himself.
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