If no one is doing Martian Manhunter I have an idea for him:
Thousands of years ago the Martians were a powerful race however their world was gripped in civil war between the two Martian races, the white Martians and the green Martians. Both sides had developed their own kind of super weapons which were Martians genetically engineered to possess various super powers, these weapons were known as manhunters.
In the final days of the war the white Martians developed a bomb that worked by opening a wormhole into an anti-matter universe, it would draw out anti-matter which when contacting regular matter would cause a massive explosion. The bomb was meant to be sent to damage the green Martians current central base (an space station orbiting Mars) so the white martians could then go and steal information on the location of other rebel bases so they might use the new weapon to destroy them, however a manhunter, J’onn J’onzz discovered the traitor and managed to find out about the anti-matter bomb when the traitor thought it too late for him to stop it, J’onn flew out and managed to reach the bomb while in mid launch, however instead of stopping it he accidently caused it to malfunction so it started falling to Mars but in mid fall it activated, drawing in too much anti-matter and produced a much larger explosion than previously programmed which reduced Mars to a baron waste land, decimating both sides. When the bomb detonated it caused a tear in space that formed a wormhole similar to the one that led to the anti-matter universe except this one went through time and space, transporting J’onn to modern day Earth.
When he awoke he soon realised something was wrong, based on the moon in the sky he guessed he must be on the nearby planet Earth except he found himself near modern human city which had technology way beyond what humans should be capable of. J’onn took on a human disguise with his shape shifting and entered the city, he guessed he was in the future due to the level of technology so he tried to see if there was evidence of contact with modern Martians, what he discovered was that Mars was a wasteland, he realised the bomb he tried to stop not only went off, it must of taken in more anti-matter than programmed and decimated his world since it would theoretically take that kind of explosion for an anti-matter bomb to open a wormhole.
To realise he was responsible for the end of his race horrified J’onn. This revelation led to J’onn to decide to commit suicide. To do so he decided to fly into space so he’d run out of air while drifting in space (though as a manhunter this would take hours), this was meant as a torturous end that he deserved. While leaving he noticed there was a fire going on in the city, not willing to let innocents die J’onn decided to save the humans. He found the fire, brought all humans in the fire to safety and he put the fire out, when asked who he was he used his telepathy to find the English word for what he was, a manhunter, the media later called him “some kind of Martian manhunter”. Realising the good he could do with his power he decided to try help humanity as a form of repentance for what he did, to live on Earth he took on a human identity, John Jones.
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