![]() ![]() Hunter combined suspendium with Blue Beetle's scarab and Skeets' damaged, discarded shell into a trap to contain Mr. Hunter then revealed to Booster Gold and Booster's ancestor Daniel Carter that the Multiverse was restored as 52 individual universes as a result of Alex Luthor's actions after he escaped his "heaven" dimension. Mind had evolved into a nigh-omnipotent hyperfly feeding on universes. Mind and his attempt to destroy the multiple Universes. Hunter was one of the witnesses to the birth of the new Multiverse and was instrumental in defeating Mr. In one of his most notable adventures, he took members of the modern day Justice Society back in time to fight the villainous Per Degaton. Returning to the present by unknown means, Hunter began protecting earth's heroes from time-traveling villains. Hunter was eventually stranded in the prehistoric past. "Rip Hunter" is, in fact, an alias, and his real father is the time-traveler Booster Gold, a fact that not even Booster knows.Īs the inventor of time travel technology in the Post-Crisis universe, Hunter aided heroes Booster Gold and Animal Man in their own time-traveling adventures before taking on the vast Illuminati conspiracy. Fearing that someone might try to travel back in time and kill him as a child, he hid his true name, birthplace, and other details from the public. He needs a dinosaur.Rip Hunter spent his entire adult life preparing for enemies a time traveler would face. From there, he becomes a fantastic narrative tool, and a reason for us to pepper interesting time adventures across the timeline, from the distant future when he defends the universe and all creation from being unmade, to the late Cretaceous where he rescues his sidekick, Karen the Velociraptor. If we have to decide, he could simply be the lone person in history to develop the technology (or perhaps to have perfected the hypertime tech developed by Querl Dox, the only other character to have successfully cracked time travel). We shouldn't know where he came from or how he gained his knowledge. ![]() ![]() a small vehicle with a massive interior of floors upon floors. To that end, we absolutely think that the time sphere needs to be a spatial anomaly. This makes Rip timeless, and the more we lean into that Doctor Who allegory, the better. The reason Booster Gold is able to travel back from his home time. He can be the reason Alan Scott stays in hiding after he returns to the timeline. We need someone to be able to move around the timeline freely, The ONLY character who understands exactly what it means to stay locked within the one ACTUAL timeline without losing his place forever. It also tried to make Rip into Booster's son. It was here that they leaned into the idea that Booster was a paradox, and that Rip was part of what solved that Paradox. you didn't really see Rip again in a role of any significance until he became a mentor to Booster Gold in the 52 series, and then in Booster's new time-travel centric series. The Linear Men were essentially narrative dead weight. Of course, time travel adventures still HAPPENED. He spent years as one of the Linear Men, a group of characters that existed at the end of time monitoring time, leeping exactly the sort of stories Rip used to star in from happening. Of course, you could also argue that Jules Verne was telling stories with the formula long before comics ever existed.įor quite a few years, Rip wasn't really able to see much action thanks to the intractably dense nature of DC's multiverse. It's a pretty well-trod formula to have a surrogate family of characters going on fantastic adventures together you probably immediately recognize it as a rough sketch of the fantastic four, but there are other comics like the Challengers of the Unknown that did it even earlier. ![]() He was originally an inventor that used his Time Sphere to adventure across history along with his friend, his girlfriend and his girlfriend's kid brother. Rip Hunter is a character that's been around for a very long time. ![]()
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