Champions of Angor - Current Status

Current Status

The team later appeared in Keith Giffen's post-Crisis Justice League International. In #2 Wandjina, Bluejay and the Sorceress came to Earth in order to destroy all nuclear weapons. Apparently they are the only survivors of a nuclear disaster that wiped out Angor. Wandjina sacrifices himself to prevent a meltdown in a Bialyan reactor, and the others give themselves up to the Russian authorities. Wandjina's corpse would later be reanimated as a weapon by Queen Bee of Bialya. The citizens didn't quite understand the fate of Wandjina and came to revere him as a hero.

Justice League Europe #15 (June 1990) began a story in which the Sorceress and Bluejay escaped from prison. Bluejay went to the League for help, while the Sorceress returned to Angor.

A flashback revealed that the nuclear disaster was caused by a group of villains called the Extremists. The Extremists captured the Sorceress and made her take them to Earth, where they again attempted to seize control of the world's nuclear weapons. It was eventually revealed that (with one exception) these were robot duplicates of the Extremists, created for an amusement park. The owner of the amusement park was sent to Earth and switched them off. The remaining villain, Dreamslayer, was defeated by the Sorceress. Bluejay and the Silver Sorceress joined the Justice League Europe.

Justice League Quarterly #3 (1990) featured Mitch Wacky (the amusement park owner) travelling back in time to prevent the Extremists from destroying Angor. This story introduced more members of the team (now called the Justifiers), including:

• The Bowman - A womanizing archer, with a tendency to go for "black widow types". Pastiche of Hawkeye. First appeared in one panel of the "Extremist Vector" storyline in Justice League Europe #15-18. Subsequent appearances include "When You Wish..." in Justice League Quarterly #3, the "With a Vengeance!" storyline in Superman/Batman #20-24, and in the new Lord Havok and the Extremists series.
• Tin Man - An armored hero with a heart condition. Pastiche of Iron Man.
• T.A. - A heroine with metal wings. Presumably a pastiche of the Wasp.
• Bug - A pastiche of Spider-Man that appears as a hero in Justice League Quarterly #3 and as a villain in "With a Vengeance!"

There was also an unnamed version of Goliath, as well as of non-Avengers Marvel Comics characters, including Wolverine and Cyclops.

Later appearances of the Angorian characters downplayed their origins and the Marvel pastiche elements.

In solicits for 2008's Final Crisis event, a team called the Justifiers has been mentioned as playing a part. Unrelated to the Champions of Angor, they are heroes who have been controlled by the Anti-Life Equation, and now "justify" Darkseid's rule of the Earth.