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Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 (2025)

written by Tom King art by Belen Ortega & Alejandro Sanchez

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𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪: 𝔻𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕗 𝕎𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟 #𝟙 ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨!

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Kell Mossa the Pariah, the Great Darkness, and the Ghost Zone

I already gave a short history for Pariah/Pariah Dark, but I’ve decided some things and I may as well embellish a bit and organize his story the same way I’m doing everyone else’s.

Kell Mossa was a brilliant scientist who wanted to see the Big Bang for himself, ignoring warnings from his colleagues, and inadvertently bringing his universe to Anti-Monitor’s attention. Monitor, Anti-Monitor’s “good” twin brother, decided to punish Kell for his hubris; Monitor told Kell that he’d awoken Anti-Monitor from essentially stasis and that Anti-Monitor’s path of destruction was Kell’s fault. All of these universes destroyed because Kell woke Anti-Monitor, because he couldn’t leave well enough alone.

While this is true in cannon, I’ve decided that, for my story, the twin’s roles are more similar to Ink!Sans and Error!Sans (you cannot escape the Undertale!) where Monitor watches over the infinite multiverse created by their elder brother, World Forger, and Anti-Monitor destroys universes that are deemed either useless, redundant, or potentially harmful to the rest of the multiverse, for World Forger to recycle into new universes. Anti-Monitor was inadvertently drawn to Kell’s universe because of his experiment, landing it in the “potentially harmful” category when it wasn’t supposed to be, so Monitor let Anti-Monitor destroy it. Since Kell was the cause of the disturbance, Monitor punished him with the (slightly inaccurate) knowledge that the destruction of Kell’s universe and several others was entirely Kell’s fault. After thoroughly traumatizing the poor scientist, Monitor finished rubbing Kell’s nose in his mistake, renamed him Pariah, and cursed him to basically be the plaything for the Great Darkness. The Great Darkness rather sadistically decided to make Pariah think he was safe to live a normal life in a random universe, only to be drawn to disasters (of varying levels), compelled to give warnings that would never be headed (to maintain timeline integrity), and forced to watch tragedy after tragedy that he alone ever survived. Not aware of his connection to the Great Darkness, Pariah continued to blame himself for the tragedies, thinking they followed him rather than the other way around, until one tragedy ended up stranding him in the remains of a destroyed universe.

In canon, Flash finds him and sends him to the “paradise world” called  Earth-Flash.1, but in my story Pariah managed to get caught in the backlash of the Fenton’s initial failed ghost portal experiment and sucked into a pocket dimension connecting the Fountain of Life to Purgatory/Limbo. This was unprecedented, so the Great Darkness hid the incident from Monitor/Anti-Monitor so they wouldn’t destroy this universe or the pocket dimension, letting the drama play out. The pocket dimension was quickly flooded with waters from the Fountain of Life, corrupted by the lack of contact with the Fountain’s source but not quite as corrupted as the water of a Lazarus Pit. Pariah absorbed a lot of it, and since the stuff is meant for higher beings, it tends to have some “side effects” on mortals, even mortals connected to gods. For Pariah, it gave him immense power and warped his mind; if he was destined to cause tragedies, then he may as well be proactive about it.

Proclaiming himself the Ghost King, and the pocket dimension the Ghost Zone, Pariah stole souls from Limbo/Purgatory as they waited to be sorted into various afterlives and tried to turn them into an army to invade the physical plane of Earth, he didn’t really care which one. Unfortunately for Pariah, the stolen souls were driven by emotion and, when exposed to the “ectoplasm” of the Ghost Zone, became nigh uncontrollable, like herding cats, but time flowed differently in the Ghost Zone so he had plenty of time...

Until the Drs Fenton opened a new ghost portal and synced their timescales. Now on a deadline, Pariah sped up his timetable and started looking for Ghostly Generals he could trust. Fright Knight was one of them, and I’ll have to find some others, but the latest was Aztar, the Vengeance of God on Earth and the spirit powering the hero Spectre. Having replaced Eclipso as God’s Wrath a long time ago, Aztar needed a human host to interact with the physical realm and the host acted as a sort of leash on Aztar’s darker tendencies; while the last host, Jim Corrigan, was in the process of transferring Aztar to the next host, Crispus Allen, Pariah interrupted the ritual and convinced Aztar to join him. Pariah offered Aztar unfettered access to the physical plane, without the need of a host to hold him back, and Aztar decided he was indeed tired of being shackled to some goodie-two-shoes human and accepted Pariah’s offer to become one of his generals. Jim Corrigan died as Aztar left his body and Cris Allen was left unpowered and freaking out that he’d lost a divine spirit.

By the time Cris (a Gotham Detective) informed Batman of this development, Danny Phantom had begun organizing a rebellion against Pariah, which mostly consisted of Phantom’s various Rogues Gallery who didn’t want to fall in line with the self-proclaimed King of the Ghost Zone. Batman, along with Cris and several members of the Justice League and Justice League Dark, managed to get themselves into the Ghost Zone and joined Danny’s resistance, leading to the eventual defeat of Pariah the Ghost King.

Little did they know, despite his trauma and warped perspective, Pariah was still a scientist at heart and had discovered his connection to the Great Darkness, using his new ghost powers and a clever machine to turn the connection back on the Darkness. With his initial plan of a ghost army ruined, Pariah harnessed the power of the Great Darkness to create a new army under his direct control, now calling himself Pariah Dark. The Darkness could have fought back and stopped this at any time but found Pariah’s audacity fascinating and, frankly, hilarious, letting the drama unfold.

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Superman in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5

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The newly revealed main cover for Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths (2022) #6. Art by Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sanchez. Out in November!

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Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis (One-Shot) [Textless] (Card Stock Variant) (2022)

Art by: Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn

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Incorrect Quotes- DC Comics edition #1

Pariah, looking up: So I just saw another Earth get swallowed up by Anti-Matter. (half-hearted laugh)

Harbinger: Why are you looking up?

Pariah: I need to cry, but my foundation was forty-eight dollars!