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J'onn J'onzz[]

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Jack O'Lantern[]

Jack the Ripper[]

Jackal[]

Jackhammer[]

Jaclyn[]

Jade[]

Jacob Ashe[]

Jakeem Thunder[]

Java[]

Java is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Java is the Neanderthal servant of Simon Stagg. He was first discovered by fortune hunter Rex Mason and revived by the scientific wizardry of Stagg Enterprises. Java was present the day that Mason discovered the Orb of Ra inside the pyramid of Ahk-Ton in Egypt. The Orb was responsible for transforming Rex Mason into the metamorphae known as Metamorpho the Element Man after Java knocked out Rex Mason in the presence of it.^[1]

For years, Java lusted after Simon's daughter Sapphire Stagg, but was unable to win her heart because she was in love with Metamorpho. This bred a bitter rivalry between the two; one that persisted for many years. Java even risked his life once to save Sapphire from a melting skyscraper, and was transformed into a petrified fossil for his actions. Stagg's scientific prowess saved his life and returned him to normal.^[2]

During a time when Metamorpho was believed to be dead, Sapphire relented to Java's persistent advances and married him. Java became the father figure to Sapphire and Rex's mutant son, Joey. Java was not an inherently evil individual, but his moral base had been compromised due to his constant exposure to the unscrupulous Simon Stagg. He was also extremely selfish when it came to his wants and desires. When Rex abducted Joey from Stagg Mansion, Java flew into a rage and was determined to kill him. Even Simon's command over him could not quell Java's emotions. Frustrated by the Neanderthal's rare act of defiance, Simon Stagg shot him in the head, seemingly killing him.^[3]

Java did not remain dead for long however. The means behind his resurrection are unknown, but he was seen once again several years later attending the funeral of Metamorpho (who at the time was believed to be dead).^[4]

During the "Brightest Day" storyline, Java was with Simon Stagg at his Canadian estate at the time when Metamorpho persuaded him to help him and the Outsiders get back into the United States. Later that night, Java pays Metamorpho a visit while he was sleeping. For some reason, Java still had the Orb of Ra in his possession. Java uses the orb to knock Metamorpho around until Metamorpho becomes unconscious.^[5] Java then takes Metamorpho's body down to Simon Stagg's lab where he plans to merge him with Chemo. It doesn't go well as Java calls in Simon Stagg's servant Freight Train to help stop it. Freight Train manages to use an electrical wire which causes Chemo to vomit out Metamorpho.^[6] Simon Stagg later placed Java's mind into the body of a Shaggy Man which was defeated by Freight Train.^[7]

In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Java's history with Simon Stagg and Rex Mason remains the same.^[8]

Java was present when Simon Stagg had opened a portal to the Dark Multiverse and is trying to close it with Metamorpho who was transmuted to Nth Metal.^[9] He is present when Mister Terrific, Plastic Man, Metamorpho, and Phantom Girl return from the Dark Multiverse.^[10]

Java was revealed to have been operating as the villain Doctor Dread and has formed a counterpart of the Terrifics called the Dreadfuls. They were defeated by the Terrifics.^[11]

Java in other media[]

Java makes appearance in the two-part Justice League episode "Metamorphosis", voiced by Richard Moll. Like the comics, Java serves as Stagg's assistant. After an unsuccessful presentation of his new "Metamorpho" project, Stagg ordered Java to transport valuable mutagen samples by train. He was told not to let the briefcase out of his sight, but one of the attendants checked it into the luggage compartment, citing regulations. One of the vials broke, damaging the carriage and causing it to derail until the train was stopped by Green Lantern. Stagg reprimanded Java for this failure, as it drew unwarranted attention to his operations. True enough, Stagg hadn't finished when Rex Mason inquired about Java's presence on the train. This and the fact that Mason was seeing Stagg's daughter Sapphire led him to test out the Metamorpho project on Mason. The morning after, Java accompanied Stagg to Mason's hospital room. After learning what had happened, Rex went mad, but Java could not stop him. He was knocked out with a bed pan. Following Mason's trail, Stagg was eager to get pictures of everything. He used it to pit Mason against his old friend John Stewart. After reviewing the success of his designs in battle, he sat back to consider the military applications, but Mason caught on to him and easily dispatched Java. Down but not out, Java reached for a canister of liquid nitrogen and froze him. Java oversaw Stagg's attempts to refine the Metamorpho mutagen when Metamorpho barged into the lab. This time, Mason went straight for the nitrogen. He knocked Java into a cabinet. In Mason's fight with Stagg, a giant synthetic creature was released, which destroyed half the laboratory. Java was able to get out before Green Lantern and Batman investigated the place.

Java appears in The Flash episode "Fastest Man Alive", portrayed by Michasha Armstrong. This version is an African-American who is the head of security for Stagg Enterprises. Danton Black paid him off so that he can attack Simon Stagg at a university gathering that was honoring him. Later on, Danton Black tried to get Java to grant him access to Simon Stagg's house. Java refused and punched Danton when he threatened him. In retaliation, Danton multiplies and beats Java to death.

Javelin[]

First appearance	Green Lantern #173 (February 1984)
Created by	Dennis O'Neil Mike Sekowsky Dick Giordano
Abilities	Uses gimmicked javelins and other gadgetry
Aliases	Unknown

The Javelin is a fictional DC Comics supervillain.^[12]

The Javelin is a former German Olympic athlete who turned to a life of crime, using his uncanny abilities with a javelin-based weapons arsenal. The Javelin fought Green Lantern and was defeated before agreeing to serve with the Suicide Squad in exchange for the purging of his criminal record. His last Squad mission was a battle with Circe as part of the War of the Gods crossover event. It takes place in issue #58.

In the pages of Checkmate, the Javelin is recruited by the Mirror Master in an attempt to frame Amanda Waller. He teams up with several other villains, such as Plastique and the duo Punch and Jewelee. They invade a Myanmar military facility in order to neutralize what seems to be a superhuman power source. The Javelin is killed by a runaway jeep while trying to protect a distraught, newly widowed Jewelee.^[13]

Javelin in other media[]

• The Javelin makes several brief, non-speaking appearances in the Justice League Unlimited animated series. This version is a member of the Secret Society.
• The Javelin appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series episode "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!", as part of a montage of known Green Lantern foes.
• A variation of the Javelin named Malcolm Byrd appeared in the live-action series Arrow episode "The Demon", portrayed by Yanik Ethier. This version is French arms dealer who wants to buy chemical synthetic from the rogue scientist Nyambi Somto. ARGUS and John Diggle send Curtis Holt, by giving him Somto identity to infiltrate. Curtis gives him a synthetic, while Byrd places it into a biochemical bomb. Curtis gives the signal to ARGUS and they proceed to arrest Byrd and his men. He also had some dealings with criminal organisation named The Ninth Circle.
• Gunter Braun / The Javelin appeared in the live-action DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad, portrayed by Flula Borg. He is recruited into the eponymous group to destroy a Corto Maltese prison called Jötunheim, but is shot and mortally wounded during a skirmish with the local military. As he dies, he bequeaths his javelin to teammate Harley Quinn, who later uses it to kill several Corto Maltesean soldiers and Starro the Conqueror.

Jefferson Jackson[]

Further reading Jefferson Jackson at the Grand Comics Database

Jefferson Jackson is a supporting character of Ronnie Raymond (a.k.a. Firestorm) who makes his debut in Firestorm (vol. 2) #1 (June 1982). Jackson is a former student of Bradley High School in Manhattan, New York. During his tenure at Bradley High, Jackson became a member of the school's championship basketball team, where he met Ronnie. The two became close friends, and Jackson frequently aided Ronnie during the numerous episodes wherein the latter would find himself embroiled in conflicts with school jerk Cliff Carmichael. Jackson dated a young woman named Stella, and the two frequently double-dated with Ronnie and his girlfriend, Doreen Day.

Jefferson Jackson in other media[]

Jefferson "Jax" Jackson appears in several live action Arrowverse series, portrayed by Franz Drameh. Making his debut in season 2 of The Flash, Jax is a high school football star who got injured when S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator exploded, and was forced to become a mechanic instead of playing college football. He was selected as a potential candidate to replace the deceased Ronnie Raymond as the other half of the superhero Firestorm due to having been affected by the explosion in a manner similar to Raymond and Martin Stein. Although reluctant to cooperate, Jax later accepts the role and teams up with the Flash to defeat Henry Hewitt. Jax later appears in the TV series Legends of Tomorrow as one of its principal characters before leaving the titular team in the third season after Stein is killed during the events of "Crisis on Earth-X". Drameh also reprised his role in the web series Vixen.^[14]

Jinny Hex[]

First appearance	Batman Giant #4 (December 2018)
Created by	Brian Michael Bendis and Nick Derrington
Abilities	Uses guns and inherited some of her grandfather's divine powers
Aliases	Virginia Hex

Virginia "Jinny" Hex is a fictional DC Comics superheroine. She is the granddaughter of Jonah Hex and a member of Young Justice. She first appeared in Batman Giant #4 (December 2018).

Jinx[]

Johnny Thunder[]

Joker[]

John Henry[]

First appearance	DC: The New Frontier #3 (May 2004)
Created by	Darwyn Cooke
Abilities	Uses sledgehammers
Aliases	John Wilson

John Wilson, also known as John Henry, is a fictional DC Comics superhero.

John Henry was a veteran of the Korean War. After the conflict, Wilson discharged and took work in a local machine shop and settled down in Knoxville, Tennessee with his wife Lucille and baby daughter Loretta. On the night of March 17, 1955, John and his family were attacked by the local Ku Klux Klan. He was lynched and his family was burned to death. After the Klan left, John survived his lynching. Devastated by the death of his family, John followed the Klan members. John then forged two iron sledgehammers and became the vigilante known as John Henry. For three months, John plagued the Klan and had killed two Klansmen in his crusade. John Henry's reputation attracted the news media and remained a hot staple on the public, including the Martian J'onn J'onzz, who considered him an actual American hero.

Tragically, John was wounded by the Klan and stumbled into a backyard. He was discovered by a young white girl, who outed him out despite John's pleading for help. Once caught he was burned alive.

However, his death didn't go unmentioned and his endeavors was highlighted in the television news show The Big Picture, which its host extolled Wilson's stance against racism and criticized the American government for ignoring the serious issue. J'onn J'onzz saw this and was very dismayed of Wilson's death, which contributed his demoralizing faith for humanity.

Following the defeat of The Centre, a young John Henry Irons sat reading near John Wilson's gravestone.

John Henry in other media[]

John Henry appeared in the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier.

M'yrnn J'onzz[]

M'yrnn J'onzz is the father of the twin brothers J'onn J'onzz/the Martian Manhunter and Ma'alefa'ak. His first appearance was in Martian Manhunter (vol. 2) #3 (August 2001).^[15]

M'yrnn J'onzz in other media[]

M'yrnn J'onzz is a recurring character in The CW's Supergirl, portrayed by Carl Lumbly.^[16] First appearing in season three episode, "Far From the Tree", J'onn's father M'yrnn was revealed to be alive and captured by the White Martians for centuries. He is coerced by them to reveal the location of Staff of Kolar, the psychic weapon believed to be a key to end a war. M'gann M'orzz, with her benevolent resistance army of White Martians, contacts J'onn J'onzz about his imprisonment. He, Supergirl and M'gann release him. J'onn takes him and the Staff on Earth so that he could be safe from them. Over the course of the season, M'rynn adjusts to the new life in National City, but is revealed to have a form of dementia, in which he slowly forgets his family and at one point causing a telepathic breakdown in DEO. M'rynn also makes a telepathic ritual with his son to show him a memories and a history of their kind so that J'onn could inherit from him. When Reign begins terraforming Earth, J'onn and M'rynn go to the point of earthquake. M'rynn shows him the last memory fragment before he merges with the Earth to stop the terraforming. During the fourth season, J'onn quits the D.E.O to try and follow in his father's footsteps by helping other aliens and to establish the peace on Earth in non-violent way. His activities however are put in temptation during an anti-alien hate propaganda and because he killed a former comrade-turned-enemy Manchester Black who sought to solve the problems in violent way. During the events of "All About Eve", J'onn establishes a memory link of his father to seek his advice. Admitting everything to his father what he did, M'yrnn tells him that J'onn cannot be entirely like him, but that his son can find own way to establish the peace and fight for it. J'onn takes the Staff of H'ronmeer to lay it on Mars. At the end of "American Dreamer", once at the desert of T'ozz, J'onn activates the staff and M'rynn appears as a spirit based in the sand, telling him to go home and join his family.

Rhea Jones[]

Rhea Jones is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Rhea Jones was the daughter of an Air Force official. After tagging along with her father to a government base in the Arctic, an explosion involving a powerful radioactive electromagnet killed her father and granted her electromagnetic abilities. Rather than stick around and be dissected and experimented on by the army, she ran away and joined the circus. After a few years, Rhea was recruited by Arani Caulder to join her new Doom Patrol.^[17]

After being recruited by Arani Caulder, aka Celsius, Rhea was now one of three new recruits into the Doom Patrol, along with Scott Fischer and Wayne Hawkins aka Karma. Celsius gave her the codename Lodestone. Her demonstrated abilities allowed her to fly, give herself Earth reinforced superstrength, create limited force fields, and attract or repel metallic objects like bullets.

Following the Invasion! storyline, Rhea and Scott were struck by a disease created by the Dominators. Her powers went wild, and then she lapsed into a coma, but ultimately she lived while Scott died.

At the start of Grant Morrison's surrealistic run of the Doom Patrol, Rhea was put into a coma that would last until halfway into the series. While in the hospital, she was kidnapped by the butterfly collector known as Red Jack, who claimed to be God, Jack the Ripper, and many others. He sought to make Rhea his bride. The new Doom Patrol followed Jack into his house, which our world is a room in. As he battled the Doom Patrol, Rhea awoke from her coma and stabbed Jack in the back, then immediately became comatose again.

Brought back to the Doom Patrol's new mountainside headquarters, Niles Caulder, the Chief, did experiments on Rhea showing that her coma wasn't normal. She was instead going through a form of metamorphosis, and her human form is the chrysalis.

Rhea awoke from her coma in issue #36 during "The Orthodoxy/Geomancer War". It was revealed that she was The Pupa, a weapon sought by the aliens Orthodoxy and Geomancers. Rhea's original body shattered, and out emerged a magnetic butterfly, explaining why she was sought out by Red Jack. After awaking, her facial features disappeared and her eyes were now on her chest and back. Her ears had also become two twinkling lights. She no longer wears clothes and seems to think nothing of it.

Rhea was actually what some call a Lodestone, a being in tune with the Earth's electromagnetic waves, its nerve system. They are the Earth's expression in flesh. The Ultraquist Geomancers kidnapped Rhea, and Rebis in the process, before she was able to fully bond with the Earth.

After ending the conflict between the Orthodoxy and the Geomancers (with help from Rebis and Robotman), Rhea pointed out a bright star in the sky, and left to go visit it. Promising to visit, she has not been seen since.^[17] Her only subsequent appearance to date has a brief flashback to her early days with Arani Desai and Valentina Vostok when the two returned during Blackest Night.^[18]

Rhea Jones in other media[]

• Rhea Jones makes a cameo appearance in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Last Patrol". She was seen on a poster associated with the freak show at the carnival where Negative Man is working.
• Rhea Jones makes an appearance in the "Doom Patrol" episode "Doom Patrol Patrol", portrayed by Lesa Wilson as a young woman and an uncredited actress as an old lady. This version was a member of the original Doom Patrol until they disbanded after their defeat by the hands of Mr. Nobody.

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