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| title1= Junter
| image1= Junter in Meet the Undead.png
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| species= [[Lich]]
| gender= Male
| residence= [[Universe (Necroomies)|Unnamed universe]]
| occupation= Lawyer<br>Mage<br>[[Lich Emperor]]
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| first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Undead (short story)|Meet the Undead]]''
| also_seen_in= [[Junter/Appearances|'''''See list''''']]
| copyright= [[Jonathan Reich]]
| index= [[:Category:Featuring Junter|'''''See category''''']]
}}In [[Universe (Necroomies)|one universe]], '''Junter''' was a [[Lich]] [[Lich Emperor|Emperor]]. An expert magic-user, Junter had plans of world domination that were mostly hindered by his own idiosyncrasies and inability to stick to a task. Having no personal fortune, he lived in human lodgings, with his main henchman, the [[Vampire]] [[Ibdis]], doubling as his roommate.

== Description ==
=== Physical appearance ===
Junter appeared as a thin young man with grayish skin and curly brown hair that went down to his waist. He had more rounded features than [[Ibdis]], with rounded rather than pointed ears, and his face was sewn back together, with two large, diagonal seams bisecting it. As [[Lich Emperor]], he wore a simple black robe with a brown belt whose buckle was carved to resemble a [[Junterling]], as well as a pointy silver crown in-set with a large red gem. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Undead (short story)|Meet the Undead]]'')

=== Personality ===
Junter was presumptuous and self-centred, though rarely pompous or commanding. He was prone to sudden explosions of cheer and excitement, often in excess of what was warranted by his meager successes. Beneath this buffoonish exterior, however, he had a complicated past and remained scarred by his years' worth of erased memories from his younger days. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'') Although he was primarily motivated by a desire to take over the world, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[MechaGiantJunterling (comic story)|MechaGiantJunterling]]'') he was, on a personal scale, less amoral and dangerous than [[Ibdis]], opposing Ibdis's lethal feeding on humans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playa’ (comic story)|Playa’]]'')

=== Powers & abilities ===
Junter was a highly capable spellcaster, capable of such feats as placing an entire apartment under [[Rune of Wanting]]. He had a flock of minions called [[Junterling]]s, flaming will-o'-the-wisps that were psychic projections of his own essence (usually reflecting his mood) but still able to act independently. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
[[File:Junter overthrows Old Emperor.png|thumb|left|Junter overthrows his [[Old Lich Emperor (Meet the Undead)|predecessor]] as [[Lich Emperor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Undead (short story)|Meet the Undead]]'')]]Junter studied magic at a “wizard academy” where he became embroiled in complex drama. Eventually, an unknown party erased his memories of these years of study, though not his magical knowledge itself, from his mind. When later rediscovering the truth about these events, Junter recognised the individual who he was now discovering was responsible for his missing memories. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')

Prior to becoming a [[Lich]], Junter spent some time working as a lawyer, but wasn't very good at it. On one occasion, he tried to argue that a client had not actually dealt the purported victim a beating but merely “brief extreme hugs at specific places”, leading to the irate judge telling him to “get out of [their] court-room”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[MechaGiantJunterling (comic story)|MechaGiantJunterling]]'') At a later point, Junter, already a Lich, gained the title of [[Lich Emperor]] after poisoning the [[old Lich Emperor (Meet the Undead)|old Lich Emperor]] by putting mentos in his soda. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Undead (short story)|Meet the Undead]]'')

=== Attempts to take over the world ===
[[File:Junter in MechaGiantJunterling.png|thumb|right|Junter drops the [[Crystal Skull]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[MechaGiantJunterling (comic story)|MechaGiantJunterling]]'')]]Junter made multiple attempts to take over the world, all of which failed. They included two attacks on [[Tokyo]] with giant [[Junterling]]s (a mechanical one the second time around), an ill-fated attempt to “harness the power of the [[Crystal Skull]]” which ended when he dropped the Skull and shattered it, sending an assassin back in time to kill [[George Washington|the first President of the United States]], and multiple attempts to capture [[Pikachu]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[MechaGiantJunterling (comic story)|MechaGiantJunterling]]'')

=== Rooming with Ibdis ===
[[File:Junter in Playa’.png|thumb|left|Junter realises what Ibdis is doing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playa’ (comic story)|Playa’]]'')]]At some point, Junter became roommates with the [[vampire]] [[Ibdis]] in an apartment in an ordinary human neighbourhood. He once returned home to find a tie on the doorknob; he was momentarily confused, as Ibdis didn't tend to go in for relationships of this sort, until he realised what was happening and burst in to find Ibdis ''feeding'' on [[Woman (Playa’)|a woman]] he had brought home. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Playa’ (comic story)|Playa’]]'')

After ruminating on his past failures at taking over the world, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[MechaGiantJunterling (comic story)|MechaGiantJunterling]]'') Junter launched a new scheme, kidnapping [[Pope Francis|the Pope]] and bringing him back to the apartment in secret. However, this only served to attract the attention of [[O.O.P.|a party of adventurers]] come to rescue the Pope, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Adventurers and Heroes (comic story)|Adventurers and Heroes]]'') calling themselves O.O.P. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Look At His Dead Eyes (comic story)|Look At His Dead Eyes]]'') As their first plan, O.O.P. decided tried to infiltrate the apartment by sending in [[Bob (Adventurers and Heroes)|Bob]] (a sentient yellow helium balloon and [[rogue]]) disguised as a Junterling. The disguise was weak, however, and Junter saw right through it, as did a flock of three Junterlings hovering around him at the time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pseudo Junterling (comic story)|Pseudo Junterling]]'') Their next plan was to have [[Ginger (Adventurers and Heroes)|Ginger]], their [[ranger]], snipe Junter from a distance, but Gigner failed despite getting a clear shot due to being, by his own admission, “a really bad sniper”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Eyes of the Hawk (comic story)|Eyes of the Hawk]]'')

Deciding to fight back, Junter set up a magical booby trap for [[Creed]] the [[Paladin]] in the form of a sword meant to fly up and dice him if he entered the corridor. However, as Ibdis was quick to point out, Junter had forgot to actually enchant the sword to do so, meaning the “booby trap” amounted to it just lying around uselessly. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Back To The Drawing Board (comic story)|Back To The Drawing Board]]'') When Creed shouted from the street at Junter, daring to come down and face the adventurers head-on, Junter punctured their confidence by pointing out their lack of ethnic and gender diversity to them, something which they had not previously noticed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[You Disgust Me! (comic story)|You Disgust Me!]]'') Thus, Junter managed to get O.O.P. to drop the case, only to walk back in to find the Pope gone. Ibdis awkwardly tried to claim that he had used his “holy powers” to escape, though in actual fact Ibdis had merely left the door open. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Lack of Pope (comic story)|Lack of Pope]]'')

As (un)life returned to normal, Junter tried to use his and Ibdis's guillotine for something, but forgot how to operate it yet again, forcing him to ask Ibdis, interrupting his reading of ''[[101 Ways to Belittle]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Simple Logic (comic story)|Simple Logic]]'') He also tried to prank Ibdis by pretending to be an intruder on the phone, with little success. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Do You Like Horror Movies? (comic story)|Do You Like Horror Movies?]]'') 

The two then discovered that [[unspeakable horror|an “unspeakable horror”]] had taken over their bathroom following the transformation of the toilet bowl into an interdimensional portal. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Evil Bathroom (comic story)|Evil Bathroom]]'', ''[[Eldritch A-bowl-mination (comic story)|Eldritch A-bowl-mination]]'') At first, he tried to deal with the unspeakable horror by decorating it so as to try and make it into an inconspicuous element of the bathroom decor, but Ibdis was unimpressed, demanding a more permanent solution. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cthulhu Toilet (comic story)|Cthulhu Toilet]]'')

=== Selling the apartment ===
[[File:Junter announces he wants to sell apartment.png|thumb|right|150px|After placing a [[Rune of Wanting]] over the front door, Junter announces to [[Ibdis]] that he intends to sell the apartment. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')]]After Junter failed to take care of the [[unspeakable horror]] that had taken over their bathroom, he and Ibdis decided to sell the apartment to a gullible buyer who would overlook the creature's presence, something Junter achieved by placing a [[Rune of Wanting]] over the threshold. However, with [[Mr Norman]] proving an instant sale and moving in immediately, the two were left without a place to spend the time, forced to remain in the streets. This bad luck was compounded by a sudden storm and the unexplained arrival of a pack of prowling hyenas. Nevertheless, the two managed to sleep through the night, only for Ibdis to be caught off-guard by the sunlight and catch fire, something which had never happened to him before. However, he quickly heals. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')

=== Visiting Kokotomo Island ===
[[File:Junter in A Letter From beyond.png|thumb|left|250px|Junter finds out the truth about his past. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')]]With Junter having found an interdimensional letter inviting the bearer to [[Kokotomo Island]] while fighting the [[unspeakable horror]], the two soon headed to the Island in the magical white seaplane. Ibdis spent the trip criticising Junter for his rashness, while Junter himself was uneasy being in such close proximity to large numbers of superheroes. After they arrived, Ibdis had to stop Junter from attacking [[Gin]], and generally making a fool of himself among the many odd, interdimensional visitors to the island. 

[[Mr Montibar]] soon found the two, and sent Junter off to live out his fantasy: reliving his youth at the Wizard Academy where he studied magic so that he could discover the truth about the erased years of his past. He ended up uncovering the culprit for his erased memories, whose identity surprised and angered him, as well as a further secret which stunned him and which he said “explained everything”. Eventually, he met up with Ibdis again and they took the plane back home, with Montibar looking on, amused that neither of the two powerful undead beings had realised he was himself a [[Vampire|vampiric]] entity. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Letter From Beyond (comic story)|A Letter From Beyond]]'')

=== Apartment-hunting ===
[[File:Junter and Ibdis in Gargoyles and Daisies.png|thumb|right|Junter and [[Ibdis]] arrive at their new home. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gargoyles and Daisies (comic story)|Gargoyles and Daisies]]'')]] Returning from their trip, Junter and [[Ibdis]] began looking for a new apartment. While Ibdis visited the [[Addams Mansion]] and [[Vampira]], Junter met with [[Frankenstein's Monster#Herman Munster|Herman Munster]]. He politely complimented Munster's facial scars which resembled his own, though he was inwardly thrown by the fact that he and his [[vampire]] wife [[Lily Munster|Lily]] had somehow produced a [[werewolf]] child in the form of [[Eddie Munster|Eddie]]. Ultimately, none of these options proved viable. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Real Estate-Related Pun (comic story)|Real Estate-Related Pun]]'')

Staying at a dingy motel, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Social Skills (comic story)|Social Skills]]'') they wasted some time editing recordings of their apartment-hunt into a montage. Eventually, Junter found a new home in a building allegedly filled with “quirky and interesting neighbours”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Social Skills (comic story)|Social Skills]]'') They indeed eventually moved there; the first impression given off by the building was a curious one, as it was adorned with stone [[gargoyle]]s but one of them was holding a batch of flowers. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gargoyles and Daisies (comic story)|Gargoyles and Daisies]]'')

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