The Time Trapper is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Universe who often fought the Legion of Super-Heroes. The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The Green Goblin, a supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man. ... The DC Universe (DCU) is the fictional shared setting where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. ... The Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of comic book superheroes in the future. ...

Character biography

The Time Trapper was originally as a strange robed warlord from the far future from the Legion of Super-Heroes time, he created a strange "Iron Curtain of Time" that prevented the Legion from going into the future. He apparently commanded a vast number of slaves and had a beautiful female sidekick named Glorith that he eventually murdered. Glorith of Baldur is a villain from the Legion of Superheroes comics. ...

Later, it was revealed that the Time Trapper was a member of the fascist but well intentioned race of Controllers. The Time Trapper was defeated by the Legion and it was believed that his menace ended when the villain Darkseid removed almost all of his power during the Great Darkness Saga. The Controllers are a fictional extraterrestrial race existing in the DC Universe. ... Darkseid is a DC Comics supervillain created by Jack Kirby, originally as part of The Fourth World series of comic books in the early 1970s. ... The Great Darkness Saga was a 5-issue storyline that ran from issues #290-294 (August-December 1982) and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Legion epics of all time (with the Earthwar saga and the 5-issue Legion of Super-Villain War being two others). ...

Later retcons made the Time Trapper not a Controller at all but of a wildly changing series of origins that some comic fans have speculated is the result of time being fluid. These origins include him being the Legionaire Cosmic Boy, Glorith, Lori Morning, and the living embodiment of Entropy in the Universe. The story climaxed with the Time Trapper indirectly leading to the death of Superboy as the young man died to protect his dimension. It was a valiant but somewhat worthless sacrifice as his planet was destroyed shortly afterward by three Phantom Zone criminals. Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn of the planet Braal) is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... The Phantom Zone is a fictional dimension in the Superman comic books used predominantly before the DC Comics shared universe retcon with Crisis on Infinite Earths in the 1980s. ...

Arguably, his greatest story was the creation of the Pocket Universe that was saved from the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This was a preserved planet where Superboy could have most of his past preserved so that he could go on to be a founding member of the Legion. Ironically, it lacked Supergirl (it was intended to preseve Legion continuity) and thus didn't help much with the 'patching.' Pocket universes are a type of very small parallel universe sometimes found in science fiction and fantasy. ... Cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. ... Superboy is the name of two fictional characters published by DC Comics. ...

The Time Trapper was then 'murdered' by the Legion members Duo Damsel, Brainiac 5, and Mon-El who formed a conspiracy to destroy him against Legion regulations. This caused a chain reaction throughout time and resulted in the sorceror Mordru dominating the universe for a time. It also lead to some of the worst continuity blunders and stories in the Legion of Super-Heroes as the writers continually tried to write themselves out of the hole they'd dug themselves in. This page discusses the pre-Zero Hour version of the character. ... Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a fictional character who exists in the future of the DC Comics universe. ... Lar Gand, known also variously as Mon-El, Valor, Val-Yor (in the Teen Titans animated series) or MOnel, is a fictional character in DC Comics universe who is affiliated with the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superboy, and later Superman. ... The Lords of Chaos and Lords of Order are complementary groups of supernatural entities with godlike powers that appear in DC Comics, most notably as part of the back-story of Doctor Fate. ...

The Time Trapper was apparently killed by Parallax during Zero Hour, but was apparently reconstructed with the universe at the climax of that story. Keeping a promise he had made to the prior Cosmic Boy, he did not intervene to ensure the origin of the Legion, but after one formed he briefly bedevilled the new universe's version of the Legion , with memories of all his prior incarnations. Cover to Green Lantern #50. ... Zero Hour was a weekly limited series and crossover event published by DC Comics in the summer of 1994. ...