Kingdom Come
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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Kingdom Come</default></title>
<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>
<label>Status</label><format><label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox>Kingdom Come is an explosive supervillain.
Personality
Kingdom Come is a villain of few words. As per Nursery, he likes his bible verses and awarded her brownie points by being able to cite them. She also described him as a consummate professional, very gentle and very efficient.<ref name="I1">“Kingdom Come likes his bible verses, I earned some considerable brownie points by knowing the names and numbers to go with most of them. Benefit of bible school until I was eighteen. He’s a consummate professional. Very gentle, very efficient.”
“Expensive?” Velvet asked.
“Not too bad, I don’t think. I don’t know what he was paid, but if it’s close to my own wage, it shouldn’t be horrendous. He’s very selective about the jobs he’ll accept. - Excerpt from Interlude 1 II</ref>
He has high moral standards on what jobs he accepts.
He attended church daily.<ref name="II7.9">He didn’t share much. Not location, not what he’s doing now that the community center is done. I saw him four times at one place where villains meet, and he turned down five jobs in that span of time. He’s picky about picking jobs that don’t weigh on his sense of morality
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No. I had the impression it was outside of Gimel, but not Earth N. He attended church daily. - Excerpt from Torch 7.9</ref>
Relationships
Was in a group with Lord of Loss, Blindside, Snag, and Nursery.
Appearance
He wears a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants, and he stands so the hood hides his face.<ref name="II1.3e1"/> He dyes his hair red.<ref>The man with the dyed red hair was someone I’d met before, if only briefly. He was the smoker, and he’d slept sitting up in the armchair.
“Kingdom Come,” I said. - Excerpt from Torch 7.5</ref>
Abilities and Powers
Kingdom come is a Breaker,<ref name="II1.4e1">I really hoped that K.C. was the mass-master I’d seen in the crowd. If they weren’t, then there were six of them in total. Six and the crowd that the exploding parahuman had control of. - excerpt from Daybreak 1.4 </ref> able to vibrate and self-explode, showering those nearby with gore. More than should be contained in a human body. This explosion has enough force behind it to crack nearby windows.<ref name="II1.3e1">He wore a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants, and he stood so the hood hid his face. His arms were at his side, vibrating. Head, arms, body and legs all moved like he had a paint shaker wedged up his ass, moving more violently by the second.
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The man in the crowd exploded, showering the crowd with chunks of bone, flesh, and a mist of blood. More than should have been contained in a human body. Some of the windows in the bus had cracked, and my forcefield was down. - excerpt from Daybreak 1.3</ref>
He then gains control over anyone covered in the body’s material. He can control all the group simultaneously.<ref>The people over the square of grass, around the fountain, on the sidewalks and the streets surrounding the explosion all stood, calm.
Streaked with blood, they looked around, every single head turning left, then turning right. All in unison. - excerpt from Daybreak 1.3</ref><ref name="II1.4e1"/> Controlled subjects do not speak with their original voice, rather KC communicates through them, possibly with his or a mixture of his and the subjects voices.<ref name="II1.5 e1">I saw the people Kingdom Come had controlled had settled in, most finding seats in the folding chairs that had been set up throughout the room. Some stood around the side or sat with their backs to the wall. Others stood at the windows, watching outside.
The majority of the crowd was at rest. The ones who weren’t had guns drawn. The police officers were among them.
The officer with the sad mustache was at the front of the room, face streaked with blood. He was talking, and I couldn’t see who he was talking to.
I listened to the conversation, two people talking against a faint background of a chorus of hums and music box sounds.
“You want me to negotiate with terrorists,” a woman said.
“We want you to do what is best for your community,” the police officer said, in a very different voice than he’d used earlier. - Excerpt from Daybreak 1.5</ref>
Apparently he reforms his body by separating it from the last unreleased victim. It can be partially prevented by restraining him.<ref name="ii7.9bleed"/>
If his minions die, he can survive, but suffers some unspecified personality damage,<ref name="ii7.9bleed"/> a common problem with breakers.<ref name="R1">Many breakers can go permanent breaker. [...] But it's still bad times for those who go that route, because they're forced to or because they prefer life in the breaker state to their ordinary life. Breakers have a closer connection to their passenger than any [other] cape, and in the course of diving deeper into their breaker state and not, for lack of a better phrasing, surfacing for air, they begin to lose themselves and the shard gets more of a say. This is, very obviously, not a good thing. We see this sort of mentality in Khepri, and we can assume something like it in Night Hag.
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The breaker document includes some examples (the Atropos breaker, the consequences for death breakers in general) of ways the passenger might seep in or that life might suddenly get harder, when one lapses fully into a breaker state. - Wildbow on Breakers on Reddit</ref>
History
Background
Full history is unknown but likely had a religious background and a natural trigger.
Early-Ward
Infiltrated the protest before the Norfair Community Center Attack and then exploded.<ref name="II1.3e1"/> Used his power to remove people from harms way.
Tried to get the remaining police to convince the the Norfair Neighborhood Heroes to surrender.
Later reformed himself and was seen at the Lodge.
Post-Fallen fall
Was part of the sub-team that sabotaged the Norwalk portal.<ref>Torch 7.5</ref>
He was used as messenger and enforcer.
As a punishment saboteurs binded him with wire to his latest victim and left him to starve in remote hideout. KC choose to bleed out the body with wire wounds instead of waiting for his death from starvation.<ref name="ii7.9bleed">“They left the body like this, punishing me because I wasn’t being fast enough. I couldn’t bear to sit here and feel a body starve to death, can’t disconnect my power from victims like this. They won’t let me. I pulled until the wires did enough damage. If I’d just waited twenty minutes…”
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“I feel like I lose a little piece of me every time one of these bodies gets discarded.”
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“They got me. I’m a way of passing messages between dimensions, and a tool, a weapon.” - Excerpt from Torch 7.9</ref> In this regretful state he was found by the Breakthrough and people of Lord of Loss. While being treated by Marquis and Cryptid he confessed that Cheit and impeding war is a distraction, and his employers target parahumans instead.<ref name="ii7.9cheit">“The war is a distraction. It pulls us away from the city and away from things that matter. They’re after all the groupings of capes. The big teams, the places capes rally. They want Goddess, and they’re going to go after her when they’re strong enough.”
“Who are they?” I asked. “Is it the same people who attacked the portal? Earth Cheit?”
“Can’t hear.”
“Cheit!” I raised my voice.
“Not Cheit. That’s- distraction. Ah.” - Excerpt from Torch 7.9</ref>
Trivia
- Kingdom Come takes his name from Matthew 6:10; which the King James Bible gives as "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." The religious connotation to explosive power traces back to Robert Oppenheimer mistranslating the thirty-second verse of the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita AKA "Song of the Lord" as "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" it is more properly "Death am I, and my present task. Destruction.".
- The DC Comic series Kingdom Come, written and illustrated by Mark Miller and Alex Ross respectively, also makes use of Christian religious symbolism while featuring explosive calamities.
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