Kal-Ul (Earth-Three)

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Ultraman

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Real Name

Kal-Ul

Current Alias

Ultraman

Identity

Public

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Crime Syndicate of America on Earth-Three; former ally of Alexei Luthor of Earth-Two and Lex Luthor of Earth-One; former ally of Per Degaton; known enemy of extra-dimensional heroic groups including the Justice Society of America of Earth-Two and Justice League of America of Earth-One as he was known to them

Relatives

Jur-Ul (father, deceased)

Universe

Earth-Three

Base Of Operations

Eyrie of Evil on a mountain outside Metropolis on Earth-Three (as shown in Justice League #29)

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 4"

Weight

225 lbs (102.05 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Black

First appearance

Last appearance

Justice League of America #29

Crisis on Infinite Earths #1

History

Ultraman was born into the partially "reversed" universe of Earth-Three whereby the colonial British colonies successfully broke away from the Empire of United States in the 1700s and President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by actor Abraham Lincoln as stated in the Crime Syndicate of AmeriCa first appearance. ^[1]

Similar to the story of Superman, the son of Jur-Ul was sent from the planet Krypton to Earth-Three where he first encountered Kryptonite in outer space which began to change him into a superpower house of vast powers and abilities. Upon his arrival on Earth-Three, the boy grew up developing new powers everytime he encountered Kryptonite. Upon reaching adulthood, he renamed himself Ultraman and began a life of conquerance and destruction. It would be during his conquering that he encountered four other superpowered beings who would all loosely gather together in various schemes to overtake their world and become the Crime Syndicate of America.

It would be after largely conquering most of their world that Ultraman developed a new type of supervision that allowed him to see into Earth-One dimension. Seeking an open battle to test their powers after defeating the military forces of their native Earth-Three, the Crime Syndicate challenged the combined forces of the Earth-One Justice League and Earth-Two Justice Society. Not able to withstand the combined mights of two Earths greatest superbeings, the Crime Syndicate was defeated and imprisoned in an extradimensional bubble created by the Earth-One Green Lantern. Over a period of time, the Crime Syndicate members escaped.

It would be on one of these periods between ruling and imprisonment that Ultraman was recruited by the extra-dimensional Alexei Luthor of Earth-Two and Lex Luthor of Earth-One who sought to destroy their native Earths and rule Earth-Three as their new base of operations in their attempt to completely defeat their respective Supermen. Ultraman directly fought and defeated both Kal-L and the Earth-One Superman who were brought to Earth-Three by Alexander Luthor, Sr. as his body was directly powered by the very source that depowered both Supermen. Seeing that the Supermen could not directly take on Ultraman and defeat him, Alexander Luthor, Sr. directly entered the fight after donning superpowered armor. Tricking Ultraman into thinking himself unable to directly fight the infinitely powered Ultraman, Luthor was able to get close enough to Ultraman to dephase Ultraman into an intangible state and allow Kal-L and the Earth-One Superman to recover from Ultraman's Kryptonite powered attack.

After being defeated by Luthor, Ultraman was once again inmprisoned. But Ultraman and the Crime Syndicate were able to routinely escape as shown when the Ultra Humanite and his new time-traveling band of the Secret Society. (Justice League of America (Vol 1) #207-209) Ultraman and the others would battle against Luthor, Sr. and other heroes on many occasions who would routinely defeat Ultraman and the other members of the Crime Syndicate.

This basic stalement of almost endless escape and imprisonment would continue until the antimatter wave attack of the Anti-Monitor came to Earth-Three during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Unable to stop the antimatter wave that was destroying Earth-Three, Ultraman and the other members of the Crime Syndicate teamed up with Luthor, Sr. in an attempt to stop the attack. Seeing that his inifnite powers were unable to stop the wave, Ultraman decided to attack the wave head on after stating to the helpless Power Ring that 'I do what I always do...I'll fight to the end.'

He along with everyone else native to their dimension died in the attack and were completely erased from all history with the reset of the single surviving universe, except for Kal-L and Alexander Luthor, Jr. who remembered Ultraman and his world.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Truly infinite power levels of Flight, Invulnerability, Strength and Speed (faster than light) which were all based on his body's ability to absord, process and store Kryptonite radiation in some way to allow him to do these feats. ^[2] He would lose all of his powers if he did not stay in the presence of Kyrptonite in a short period of time.

The Earth-Three Ultraman's physical abilities included Heat Vision, Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, X-Ray Vision, Super Breath, Super Ventriloquism, Super Hypnotism. All of these powers were infinitely powered as well, as Ultraman was able to directly defeat Superman (both Earth-One and Earth-Two incarnations) in hand to hand combat.

As long as the Earth-Three Ultraman was charged with Krptonite, he doesn't need to eat, breathe, or sleep. He is also impervious to extreme heat and cold. Able to survive indefinitely in a vacuum that has Kryptonite radiation in that sun system.

The only true limitations to his power levels were kryptonite depletion and powerful magics. Psionics could also effect Ultraman as he was emotionally reckless but was focused enough to engage in direct attacks that would allow him to battle successfully against far more intelligent opponents such as Owlman and Luthor, Sr. as his latent superconcentration would overcome most enemies who used mind control techniques on him, same as did magic forms that did not immediately immobolize him whereby he would move out of their range of effectiveness.

Abilities

Comparible to Superman, but emotionally unstable.

Ultraman of Earth-Three defeating infinite power Earth-One Superman -- again

Strength level

Directly comparible to the infinitely powerful Earth-One Superman whose strength level is able to move planets from one solar system to another barehanded.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• Despite being similar in structure to the Pre-Crisis Earth-Three reality, the current anti-matter based Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa on the new "Earth 2" have no stated knowledge of their Pre-Crisis matching counterparts.
• This version of Ultraman reappears after the Crisis a few times as a recreation. He is first recreated in Animal Man #24 (June 1990) and most recently in the Infinite Crisis series, but both times was clearly indicated to be a recreation (aka clone) of the original being who was killed in the first Crisis.
• It is unknown what similarities the new Earth-3 Ultraman has to this incarnation. But from the current picture it seems that the new Earth-3 Ultraman ages (shown with a receding hairline) and may be closer to Kal-L than the Earth-One Superman.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Kal-Ul (Earth-Three) on the forums
• Appearances of Kal-Ul (Earth-Three) (Chronological)
• Appearances of Kal-Ul (Earth-Three) (Alphabetical)
• Character Gallery: Kal-Ul (Earth-Three)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Kal-Ul (Earth-Three)
• Quotations by Kal-Ul (Earth-Three)

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• at Wikipedia.org
  
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