Fictional character biography
For many years, Solovar is the leader of Gorilla City, a hidden city inhabited by intelligent gorillas. Renowned for his wisdom and psychic powers, he is virtually unchallenged, except by the villainous Gorilla Grodd and his servant Monsieur Mallah. [1] [2] Under Solovar's guidance, Gorilla City is a technological utopia.
In the JLApe: Gorilla Warfare! storyline, Solovar decides his people can no longer use their science to hide from the human world. Believing that the world's ecological and political problems cannot be solved by ignoring them, he opens Gorilla City's borders to the world and asks for membership in the United Nations. During his second visit to the United States, Solovar is assassinated by the Simian Scarlet, a group of rebels from Gorilla City. [3]
Following his death, Solovar is briefly succeeded as king by his nephew Ulgo, who declares war on humanity and attacks the United Nations and the Justice League with a weapon that transforms them into gorillas. [3] After the Justice League stops Ulgo, he is succeeded by Nnamdi, Solovar's son. [4]
During the Blackest Night event, Barry Allen races to Gorilla City to seek aid from Solovar, not knowing of his death. Finding the city ravaged, Barry assumes that Grodd has attacked, only to discover that Solovar has been resurrected as a Black Lantern. Barry destroys Solovar by dragging his body through the air at super-speed, reducing him to dust. [5]
In The New 52 reboot, Solovar is the founder and first ruler of Gorilla City, regarded as the Forefather of his species. He, his followers, and his family have existed since the apex of the Maya civilization, which was destroyed in a Speed Force storm. A bolt of Speed Force energy struck Solovar and a few other apes within the vicinity, creating the first few in a new generation of superintelligent gorillas who would come to found Gorilla City. [6]
Powers and abilities
Solovar possesses physical and mental abilities akin to those of Gorilla Grodd, stemming from the same meteorite that evolved them and the rest of their brethren. [7] Though not as significantly developed as his evil counterpart, Solovar is a gifted mentalist in his own right. He is an able political activist, being king of his own highly advanced civilization and an accomplished diplomat with savvy knowledge of world affairs. Solovar, like all apes of Gorilla City, boasts an accomplished intellect. He was a contributing pioneer to the development of his nation's advanced science and technology, and knows all its workarounds. He also has the augmented physical abilities of all Super Apes of his homeland.
In Blackest Night, Solovar is reanimated by a Black Power Ring and given the standard abilities of a Black Lantern, such as accelerated regeneration, emotional reading and consumption by removing the hearts of the living, simulation of old powers from his previous life and the typical functions allotted by a Power Ring. [5]
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