Kanjar Ro - Fictional Character Biography

Fictional Character Biography

Kanjar Ro is the dictator of the planet Dhor in the Antares star system. Dhor is constantly at war with three other Antarean worlds: Alstair ruled by the plantlike Queen Hyathis, Mosteel ruled by the metal skinned Kromm, and Llarr ruled by the lizard like emperor Sayyar. In his first appearance he enslaved the Justice League with his Gamma Gong, and used them to battle the other three monarchs by threatening to leave all humanity in a paralyzed state, who would only be released if all three monarchs spoke Kanjar Ro's name at the same time. The League was able to defeat all three monarchs, and also defeated him, despite him taking away the monarch's voices with his energi-rod, the League had recorded their voices so humanity was freed, before imprisoning all four monarchs on a small planet which Green Lantern created a power ring barrier around.

Ro escaped after the four villains made a crack in the barrier using their thought waves, but left them, and subsequently made several attempts to conquer Rann, prompting the League's team-ups with Adam Strange. He first tried to use radiation from Rann's Triple-Star to become three times as powerful as Superman and nearly defeated the JLA, but Adam defeated him with his Dhorite Energi-rod, like Superman is weakened by Kryptonite, Kanjar was apparently vulnerable to Dhorite, and was imprisoned in a prison with bars of Dhorite. For some reason the yellow radiation he released means Adam cannot stay on Rann for more than a year. While the people of the planet Rann were distracted, Kanjar Ro unleashed his latest plot of revenge against the Justice League of America: Sending out his Aura form out to his lab, Kanjar Ro used a device to draw the Auras of the Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Atom, and Aquaman to trick the other members of the Justice League into various traps which Kanjar Ro devised for them while he stole Earth. However when the aural fakes displayed that they did not have the same weaknesses or personalities as the real JLA members, the members they'd been teamed up with realized the hoax and defeated the impostors. They learnt from Kanjor Ro's aura, upset at being left behind, his plan. They found the camouflaged Earth and transported it back, then Ro was re-imprisoned.

While on the planet Rann, Adam Strange checked on Kanjar Ro and realized what the foe is up too. Transporting his own Aura to Earth, Strange met with the real Justice League and informed them of Ro's plot. The Justice League then tracked Kanjar Ro's aural duplicate on Earth and used their combined might to stop him. With the aural Kanjar Ro defeated, the Justice League and Adam Strange imprisoned the aural Kanjar Ro within the same cell as his physical form. One of these attempts eventually proved successful, at the same time one of his previous rival monarchs conquered Thanagar. This prompted the first Rann-Thanagar War.

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths Kanjar Ro was introduced in Hawkworld as a plotting bureaucrat in the Thanagarian Ministry of Alien Affairs. This was originally intended to take place prior to JLA #3, but it was later revealed it was occurring in the present. Ro's pre-Crisis background still exists, however, as his Gamma Gong is kept in the Justice League Watchtower's trophy room.