The Core

The Core is the centre of the earth. She's also a supervillain. Let me explain. The Core was once a superhero with telepathic abilities known as "The Crux". She started out doing regular street superheroics - stopping robbers, saving the innocent etc, but as her powers became more powerful, she had larger ambitions. She had set her sights on one of the more powerful supervillains - Soulbind. It is unknown exactly what happened during her confrontation with Soulbind, but the outcome is regarded as part of the series of unfortunate events that led up to the First Crisis Event of 1985. Soulbind must have bound The Crux's soul to the core of the earth. Her "soul" or whatever became part of the core - she was awake and alive, living as the core of the earth. She still is. She had appeared to have died to everyone else - her body had become a corpse. But the immortal pain and hatred that The Crux must have developed had completely changed her. She still had access to her telepathy, and began terrorising the world. Perhaps she's taking her anger out on us. The first example of this was when she mind controlled Astronoman, and Astronoman had appeared to become a villain for a time being. The truth was revealed though, as another Phantom Article appeared, detailing the truth about Astronoman's turn and what really happened to The Crux. The Crux had become The Core, and is now one of the most feared supervillains in the world (get it?). Core activity has been decreasing, though. Some think that she's given up the supervillain game and that recent observations have been the work of a poser with similar powers. Me? I think she's building up to something big. After all, how can you expect her to calm down with all the extra weight she's carrying?

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