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Infinite Crisis[edit]
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Infinite Crisis
Lord shoots Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. Art by
Phil Jimenez.
The 2005 80-page one-shot
Countdown to Infinite Crisis reveals that Lord is no longer a cyborg and is apparently a criminal mastermind who spent years running the JLI while gathering sensitive information about the world's superheroes, whom he considered a threat to the planet. At the same time, he sabotaged JLI efforts in order to render the superhero team as ineffectual as possible. At the end of the prologue special issue, he shoots and kills one-time JLI member,
Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, when the hero discovers Lord's secret and refuses his offer to join him.
During this time,
Alexander Luthor, Jr., the god-like son of
Lex Luthor from an alternate Earth, gives Lord control over Batman's
Brother Eye, a satellite system Batman created to monitor all superhuman contact after the masked detective had grown paranoid following the discovery in
Identity Crisis that the JLA had altered his memories years earlier when he objected to a similar resolution regarding
Doctor Light. Lord uses Brother Eye to create an army of
OMACs (humans infected with a nano-virus that transformed them into cyborgs) programmed to hunt down and kill all superhumans.[
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Lord is killed by
Wonder Woman. Art by
Phil Jimenez.
Lord also uses his powers to influence
Superman's mind, causing him to brutally beat
Batman in the belief that he is
Brainiac. Lord subsequently sends Superman to attack
Wonder Woman after making him believe that she is his old enemy
Doomsday trying to find Lois Lane to kill her. Lord justifies the resulting destruction as proof of his argument about the dangers of superhumans, pointing out the devastation that Wonder Woman and Superman could cause if they fought in a crowded area, and arguing that the fact that Superman can be brought under another's control is evidence that they cannot be relied upon. In the midst of her battle with Superman, Diana realizes that even if she defeats him, he would still remain under Lord's absolute mental control. She creates a diversion lasting long enough for her to race back to Lord's location and demand that he tell her how to free Superman from his control. Bound by her lasso of truth, Lord replies, "Kill me." Wonder Woman then snaps his neck (
The OMAC Project, 2005). In response, Brother Eye broadcasts the footage of Wonder Woman killing Lord all over the world, destroying her reputation and her friendship with Batman and Superman who reject her despite the fact that she saved their lives.
[7] However, as the crisis unfolds, the three eventually reconcile as Diana helps Superman talk down
his other self and prevents Batman from shooting
Alexander Luthor, Jr., accepting that Diana did what she had to do and acknowledging that, for all their differences, they all still want justice.