What are the origins of Martian Manhunter?
Like several other characters in the DCU (Superman and Lobo, I’m looking at you two), Martian Manhunter has his powers as a result of being the last of his species. J’onn Jonnz was a scientist and a scholar on Mars, and had a wife and daughter. Then a cataclysm occurred–Hronmeer’s Curse, which is the source of the Martian weakness to fire. A psychic and fiery holocaust wiped out the entire Martian species–J’onn was only spared by a freak accident. A human scientist named James Erdell had built a time (and space as it turns out) machine that he did not completely understand; at the last second, J’onn was pulled one thousand years into the future and hundreds of thousands of miles away from his home, to Earth. One look at the Martian he had summoned gave Erdell a fatal heart attack, leaving J’onn J’onnz utterly alone on Earth; he could not get back to the place and time he had come from, and all his people had been dead for an aeon. He proceeded to use his natural abilities to imperson
