- "You don't know who I am. I'm just a friend from another star. Here you are, holding hands with a god. Look at you quivering, like a little boy, shivering. Why aren't you wondering why I am, all the wonderful things I am? You and I could belong to each other."
- ―Superian[src]
Superian is the world's first and most famous superhero.
Biography[]
Background[]
Superian arrived on Earth during the Tunguska event in 1908. The world's first and greatest superhero, Superian had been battling The Terror for decades by the 1990s, almost since he first arrived on Earth. Superian was seemingly responsible for killing The Terror in 1998. Due to the site of their last battle becoming a crater, Superian never bothered to confirm if he truly killed the villains as he got tired of fighting him and went to not believe the conspiracy theories about The Terror still being alive, pointing out that they found all of his teeth in the impact crater.
Return of the Terror[]
Superian continues to respond to the conspiracy theories that the Terror is still alive, and rebuffs in televison interviews by calling the theorists stupid. In later events, an innocent man becomes oversized due to machinery by The Terror.
Superian arrives at the scene, but refuses to allow the government to missile the Very Large Man or VLM, whom thanks to radio signals, could be heading straight for the city, on the basis that he is a civilian and warns them if they fight the VLM they fight him. Superian attempts to write notes for the VLM to see, giving him instructions. Superian is later confronted by Arthur Everest on the basis The Terror is alive. Superion is sympathetic, but refuses to believe it.
Dr. Karamazov discovered that big bismuth is the weakness of Superian in 1988. When exposed to the element, Superian gets loopy and dizzy, losing his sanity and acting confused. This ultimately renders him unconscious and threatens his life. Superian resides at Arthur’s apartment after being exposed to big bismuth. Superian being comatose proves to be a great advantage for the Terror, who decides to use the VLM as a bomb. Arthur goes to face the VLM but Superian is inspired by the media who begin calling out for Superian to go take him in himself. The resulting explosion from the VLM puts Superian temporarily down, but he later freezes and captures the Terror when he is about to kill Arthur.
Losing his fame[]
After his secret got out, Superian's approval rating started to decrease as people realized he wasn't perfect. As he continued to watch how the news slandered him for having no right to tell them what to do due to him no being human, Superian then laser beams into space in anger.
Realizing that he needed some reasoning, Superian took Arthur to the Guatemalan Jungle to seek his help about the situation. He told Arthur that he needed to make the people of Earth see that he cared about them. Unfortunately, when Arthur told him that he could earn the people's trust back with a grand gesture, he misinterpreted and went to carve an effigy of himself on the Devil's Tower, which lead to even more backlash.
Due to the controversy, Superian attended and interview with Grahan to try and clear the air on his situation. When questioned about his depiction of humanity, Superian briefly snapped at his interviewer and quickly panicked by asking if they could cut that later. He then said that he was still all-powerful and he was still there for humanity despite the Terror incident.
Becoming antagonistic[]
Superian later assisted to a public tour around AEGIS branch in civilian clothes, there he though he was being recognized but was disappointed to find out that the people were actually excited to see Bronze Star. Continuing his tour, Superian followed the new hero Joan of Arc after realizing she was actually Miss Lint, he questioned Lint about her new job as a hero while he had a small breakdown after his recent problems.
Realizing that one of the journalists that was berating him on television was on the AEGIS branch, he went after him and abducted him and took him to the Guatemalan Jungle, ignoring his shivers and screams while they were flying there.
After this, Superian went to visit Arthur again at his apartment for advice on what to do, as if Arthur were his therapist. Arthur demanded that Superian bourgh the journalist back from Guatemala after finding out what Superian did to him, and Superian does so but on the way he terrifies the man into staying quiet about the ordeal. He brings him back to Arthur who shoos Superian out of the house.
Eventually, Superian tried to reflect on the moon about his recent actions and decided to attempt to reverse the Earth's spin, turning back time and preventing himself from making his past mistakes. As Superian was about to attempt this dangerous action, a spaceship arrives to arrest him.
Powers and abilities[]
Superian has super strength and can fly. He has eye lasers capable of burning and causing coffee to become pumpkin spice flavored. He is capable of freezing people with his breath. Also due to his alien physiology, while very old (at least 110 years just from how long he has been on earth) and possibly immortal he appears to be only in his 30s. He has really good eyesight, and can zoom in to any place he sees. A would-be category 8 superhero, he also has the ability of super hearing, as evidenced by the fact that he could hear Arthur from anywhere in the world.
Behind the scenes[]
Superian is played by Brendan Hines in the Amazon Video original series.