Who Is The Monitor? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

The Monitor is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Mar Novu, with over 206 comic issue appearances. A cosmic being in charge of maintaining the multiverse in balance. He was a main character in Crisis on Infinite Earths. After the original crisis, he was split into 52 individual Monitors. Recently, he has merged into one Monitor once more.

Who is The Monitor?

Origin Billions of years ago on the planet Oa in the center of the universe, a scientist named Krona dedicated his life to probing the mystery of the origin of the universe. Despite the warnings and protests of all his fellow scientists - who cited legendary warnings foretelling the end of the universe should its secrets be discovered - Krona forged ahead with his work until, after thousands of years, the immortal was able to pierce through the time barrier to see creation's very beginning. At that instant, a cosmic bolt of energy destroyed Krona's time spanning device. Krona survived, but his probing had disastrous results. The feedback from the destruction of the device created a myriad of parallel universes, all but one of them mirroring the universe of Krona. These infinite universes, known as the Multiverse , were, except for variations stemming from the growth of civilization in each one, identical to the original. Had this been the only result of Krona's experiment, the multiverse could have rested easy. However, at the same instant another universe came into being - the Anti-matter Universe.

Key facts

The Monitor is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "Beware the Wrath of... Brother Blood!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 206 recorded issue appearances, The Monitor ranks among the most featured characters in comics.