![]() Not to be confused with either Beautiful Dreamer of The Forever People or Dream Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Dreamer aka Betty Clawman was another member of the New Guardians a young aboriginal girl who gained the ability to enter the Dreamtime, where she exists as a disembodied cosmic force capable of influencing people’s dreams, and according to the backmatter to Doomsday Clock #6, she has been confronting world leaders in their sleep, though the Australian government denies this. Finally, Super-Shayk is a character who made their only appearance in 52 #12. ![]() Sirocco was a speedster introduced in Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco’s Superman storyline Camelot Falls, as part of a future team of heroes and villains assembled by Lex Luthor. There have been several villains in the DC Universe known as Manticore, most of whom served as members of the anti-Suicide Squad team known as The Jihad, though there was a heroic incarnation who served on the Global Guardians in the mid-2000s. ![]() RELATED: Doomsday Clock’s Marionette & Mime Are DC’s Most Fascinating Characters Right Now He has appeared in a few comics here and there but mostly in small cameos with no real defining appearance to speak of. Finally, Toshio Eto aka Samurai isn’t a character with a rich history in comics but was actually introduced as a member of the Super Friends, as one of several original characters introduced to make the team less white and American. As with several other members of various teams in the metahuman arms race, Takeo was a member of the short-lived New Guardians team from the late-eighties. Ram, aka Takeo Yakata was one of a select number of humans chosen by the Guardians of the Universe to be evolutionary advanced, and he became a living computer. ![]() RELATED: Doomsday Clock: A Minor Villain’s Retcon Shines New Light on the Supermen Theory Naiad, aka Mai Miyazaki was a character introduced during John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake’s run on Firestorm, something that seems to be a key touchstone for Doomsday Clock, and she was the water elemental introduced alongside Swamp Thing, Firestorm and Red Tornado, who served as the elementals for Earth, Fire and Air. Goraiko was a member of the Ultramarine Corps, an international alternative to the JLA which was born out of General Wade Eiling’s attempts to replace the team, only for them to rebel and open the roster up to all nations on their floating city of Superbia. Yasunari’s teammates Hammersuit Zero X joined him as member of the new team, but don’t have backstories to speak of outside of Grant Morrison’s notes for Final Crisis. He was a founding member of Big Science Action, Japan’s answer to the Justice League of America and likely the inspiration for the new team’s name. A child of survivors of the nuclear bomb attack on Nagasaki, Isuma dedicated his life to the research and eradication of cancer, which had taken his grandparents and nearly claimed the life of mother as well. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon in 1982’s DC Comics Presents #46 as a member of the Global Guardians. The leader of Big Monster Action is Rising Sun, aka Isuma Yasunari, who was created by E. RELATED: Doomsday Clock Assembles The Bad Guys Into ‘The League Of Villainy’ Big Monster Action - Japan The latest installment of Doomsday Clock goes into the super-teams of the world in a bit more depth, revealing three more international groups and their members, as well as an in-depth look at the one nation serving as a safe haven for metahumans ostracized by the Supermen Theory. Last issue, we were introduced to the super-teams of the metahuman arms race, which was ignited by The Supermen Theory the idea that the majority of America’s superhumans are actually government agents created by the US instead of aliens, magicians and people at the receiving end of some sort of scientific accident.
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