Editing DC Comics (section)

===Martian Manhunter===
J'onn J'onzz is a green [[Mars|Martian]]. He was essentially created as a Superman-but-not; DC was worried about devaluing their most popular characters through overexposure at the time. He even has a long-lost female cousin called Miss Martian to mirror Supergirl. Originally transported to Earth by a scientist in a freak accident, the shock of seeing him causes the scientist to die from a heart attack. Stranded, J'onn assumes the identity of "John Jones" and decides to fight crime as both a superhero and a mundane detective; initially this was a temporary thing until Martian civilization could effect a rescue, but stories written after probes proved Mars was dead depict him as the last of his kind so he can engage in some shared brooding with Supes. Tying into this, J'onn often struggles to fit in with human society and tends to be one of the more cerebral members of the Justice League. Martian Manhunter, unlike Superman, managed to keep his absurd and poorly-defined slate of powers even after the Silver Age: shapeshifting, flight, intangibility, telepathy, telekinesis, regeneration of the "from a single cell" variety, and more. And despite all of that, he's still vulnerable to fire somehow. Well, fire and Oreos, though whether the latter is an actual addiction or an attempt to give an overpowered chracter some foibles varies with the writer.