Seth

SETH

Real Name: Seth Angus Billy Cletus Bubba Jamie Clement Cowie

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Government assassin

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Angus (uncle), Billy (uncle), Bubba (uncle), Clement (uncle), Cletus (uncle), Cletus (great-uncle), Jamie (uncle), unnamed mother (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Washington, DC, Earth-50

First Appearance: The Authority I #22 (March, 2001)

Powers: Seth possessed 1,204 superhuman abilities, including radiation feces vision, freeze vision, shame vision, telepathy, razor breathe, rainbow breathe and vast superhuman strength, speed, durability and flight.

History: (The Authority I #22) - Seth lived in the backwoods, and was named after his uncles, any one of whom could have been his biological father. The G7 nations spent billions of dollars to transform him into a superhuman troubleshooter, assassinating super-powered threats to the establishment. The G7 nations had had enough of the Authority throwing their weight around, and sent Seth to take care of them. He ran through the Authority, and the Midnighter managed to save Jenny Quantum, using the Carrier to open a door and bring her to safety. He teleported aboard an airbase and rammed a jet into Seth, exploding the Carrier, which crashed to Earth. Seth was unharmed, and there was no sign of the Midnighter. The G7 had hand-picked a replacement Authority, and after taking over the Carrier they announced to the world that they were in charge. Seth was rewarded for his work, becoming Bush's bodyguard.

(The Authority I #27-29) - Seth watched the elaborate punishments the G7 came up with for the authority with glee. He got in his handler's ear and told him he should be worried that the Midnighter's body was never found, since he was the world's most dangerous man. Seth started bugging President Bush about picking a running mate for 2004, saying he had some big, big ideas. Midnighter had survived, and Seth was called aboard the Carrier to finish him off, but couldn't stop him from killing most of the G7 Authority. Seth ripped out Midnighter's heart and took Jenny Quantum hostage. Apollo opened a door to the Arctic circle, and dragged Seth through, but despite a pitched battle he was defeated. With the Machine's death the false memories she implanted in Swift and Engineer stopped working, and Swift was at a G7 meeting, and overheard how to deactivate Seth. Jack's Hawksmoor's brain damage was undone, and the trio returned to the Carrier. The Surgeon's death allowed the Doctors to undue the damage, and the Doctor's predecessor said his pantheon needed him. Seth tore through the Authority again, and they couldn't speak his deactivation phrase because he froze their larynxes. Jenny Quantum spoke her first worlds, "Welcome to the Oval Office, President Gore," and Seth was depowered. The Doctor turned him into seven chickens and sent him back to his backwoods uncles.

Comments: Created by Mark Millar & Frank Quitely.