- "All together, they're an unstoppable force we call PlanetWatch. More than capable of containing any otherworldly threat."
- ―Lex Luthor[src]
PlanetWatch was a corporate special unit founded by Lex Luthor to act as a planetary defense force against extraterrestrial threats and serve as a replacement for Superman following his attempted assassination.
History[]
With the idea of combating Superman, Lex Luthor began to conceptualize the "PlanetWatch" as an unstoppable task force under LuthorCorp composed of Raptors. Luthor recruited former special agent Angela Spica to his group, who had the will to sacrifice her own humanity to bring it down from within, so they infused her with nanites into her blood, which allowed her body to transform according to her imagination, nicknamed her the Engineer.
While exploring Superman's old battle sites, Luthor acquired a lock of the Kryptnian's hair, using it to create a clone he named "Ultraman", and despite possessing an exceptionally low IQ, Ultraman proved to be powerful. Luthor studied Superman's combat patterns and equipped Ultraman's mask with a camera that transmitted live images of Superman, allowing Ultraman to counter his every move by following pre-programmed commands given by Luthor's monitoring equipment.
Luthor met with the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon to introduce PlanetWatch and its members, urging the possibility of hiring them to confront Superman due to the hero's actions in Boravia, arguing that PlanetWatch should be authorized to interrogate Superman. However, Secretary of Defense General Stephen Mori rejected the proposal, stating that there was no conclusive evidence of malicious intent by the Kryptonian. Following Lex Luthor's arrest at Belle Reve Correctional Center, PlanetWatch was disbanded.[1]
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Lex Luthor[]
- Name: Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor
- Species: Human
- Activity: 2025
- Description: Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor is a brilliant and corrupt billionaire, former CEO of LuthorCorp and founder of PlanetWatch, with a sworn enmity with Superman. Seeking to defeat Superman at all costs, Luthor forged an alliance with the tyrannical dictator of Boravia, Vasil Ghurkos, allied himself with Angela Spica, and created an imperfect clone of Superman, Ultraman, from a lock of his hair to form PlanetWatch, along with his Raptors. Luthor infiltrated the Fortress of Solitude, where he obtained a message from Superman's parents, discovering a compromising part of the message he spread, revealing that Superman's parents had sent him there to conquer the planet, causing problems for the hero. Luthor eventually opened a space rift that would split Metropolis which Superman stopped, and after the Daily Planet revealed his dealings with Boravia, Luthor was imprisoned at the Belle Reve Correctional Center.
Ultraman[]
- Name: Ultraman
- Species: Kryptonian Clone
- Activity: 2025
- Description: Ultraman is imperfect clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor from a hair of the Kryptonian, intended to be the primary replacement of the hero following his assassination, as part of PlanetWatch. Concealing his identity with a full-body suit, Ultraman secretly operated as the villainous Hammer of Boravia, who managed to defeat Superman. When Luthor was authorized to capture and kill Superman, he engaged him in a brutal duel across Metropolis, before Superman ended up throwing him into a black hole.
Engineer[]
- Name: Angela Spica
- Species: Metahuman
- Activity: 2025
- Description: Angela Spica, also known as the Engineer, is a metahuman is with powers derived from the nanotechnology, known as nanites, infused into her bloodstream. Spica allied with Lex Luthor to assassinate Superman and helped him gather evidence to justify his murder by leaking compromising information at the Fortress of Solitude. Spica and her allies managed to obtain an arrest warrant against Superman in a Pocket Universe, but he escaped and set out to stop the black hole opened by LuthorCorp, Spica and Ultraman confronted him, although she was ultimately defeated by Superman.
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Trivia[]
- In the comics, PlanetWatch resembles the Wildstorm Universe's StormWatch, a United Nations-sponsored team of superheroes that served as the Earth's defense force against alien incursions. Following its decimation, some of its members—particularly within the subdivision StormWatch Black—eventually formed the Authority.
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