Centennia

Centennia
Character Information
Born	1900
Species	Half-human
Gender	Female
Residence	New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)
Occupation	Superhero
Parents	Father, mother
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Sausage-Fest!
Copyright	Paul Hoppe (?)
Index	List of appearances

Centennia was a major superhero of Reality Z-25 31-H, considered among the most powerful. Competent and unflappable, she derived her super-strenght, flight, and apparent immortality from her half-alien heritage, and was considered New York City's greatest protectors against supervillainous threats. She occasionally fought with the Odds, though she was not consistently a member of the team.

Description

Physical appearance

Centennia was a tall, elegant white woman with golden hair. Owing to her age, she dressed in fashions reminiscent of her youth in the 1920s, though never to the point of seeming anachronistic. She also had a superhero outfit which included golden bracelets and a green cape, although she “felt a bit silly in it”, and only wore it for practicality (it was much more durable than her civilian clothes). (COMIC: Sausage-Fest!)

Personality

Centennia was calm and business-like in the face of danger, largely because very few things could be actual threats to her safety. Nevertheless, she felt bored and listless in the absence of supervillains to fight or mysteries to solve. (COMIC: Sausage-Fest!)

Powers & abilities

Centennia displayed a form of invulnerability, the ability to fly under her own power, and inhuman strength. She was also immortal, not having visiby aged since the 1920s. The combination of her strength and invulnerability allowed her to barrel through walls to gain entry to a building if necessary.

She was capable of being charming and seductive for the sake of extracting information covertly, despite almost never smiling in her own time. She was also an expert at rope-skipping. Centennia seemed to have some kind of Fourth Wall Awareness, as she sometimes winked at “no one” when she made a joke that only she or someone familiar with her recent adventures could have been able to get. (COMIC: Sausage-Fest!)

Biography

Origins

Centennia was conceived in the Autumn of 1899 by a single woman and a mysterious gentleman she met at a society ball, who was actually an extraterrestrial explorer investigating humanity, who wanted to experience human love before he left Earth. Though the two knew each other for just one night, Centennia's mother became pregnant with the hybrid child, something she was very pleased with. (COMIC: A Night to Remember)

Defeating Nefario

Centennia uses intimidation techniques while on Nefario's trail. (COMIC: Sausage-Fest!)

In Summer of 2012, having defended New York City for a hundred years, a bored Centennia agreed to investigate the systematic theft of kosher sausages in the City for lack of a more interesting case. After due investigation, she discovered that this was in fact a supervillain plot, with the evil magician Nefario having created a Sausage Golem he intended to animate to wreak havoc. Centennia destroyed the golem before he could finish the spell, however, and arrested Nefario and his henchmen. She then met up with the friend who'd informed her of the sausage-thefts, though she refused his offer of getting a hot dog. (COMIC: Sausage-Fest!)

With Captain Perfect

Centennia at the premiere of a Captain Perfect biopic. (COMIC: Interview With A Superhero)

At some point, Centennia had an affair with fellow paragon and superhero, Captain Perfect. After intimate images of them in bed together were leaked, there was a scandal, although one from which both's reputations were able to recover in time. Centennia was one of the figures depicted in a biopic of the Captain, leading to the real Centennia attending the premiere alongside the Captain. (COMIC: Interview With A Superhero) A different superheroic Captain, Captain Evening, attempted to reach her around the same time to get her to accompany the Odds on a mission to England to halt Insecto's attempted invasion of a town, but he didn't manage to get in touch with her. (COMIC: Battle of Britain)

Fighting the Cosmic Solution

At the conclusion of the battle with the Cosmic Solution, Centennia congratulates Jenkins for saving the day. (COMIC: Journey Out Of Misery)

When the Odds answered Robot Madison's call to help deal with the Cosmic Solution robot threatening New York City, Centennia came with them, being treated as one of the team by the Big Bad Wolf when he announced their arrival to the other superheroes already present on the scene. Taking stock of the situation, Captain Evening immediately ordered Centennia and Merv the Griffin to help some of the heroes already present with keeping the robot contained while they formulated a better plan, without trying to destroy it, as it absorbed the energy from any impacts and used it to become larger.

Even she, with or without the other heroes' help, proved unable to hold it down for long, and she was hurled to the ground when the robot wrestled itself free of the heroes pile-on, but the Captain had managed to sneak behind the robot and connect him to the device built by Hank Richards to drain its power and thereby shrink it. This victory proved short-lived as the Protectors, a third set of superheroes, arrived on the scene and pummeled the robot again, allowing it to grow even larger than before and tear into the heroes with renewed vigour, with Centennia narrowly avoiding being crushed by one of its now car-sized fists.

In the end, the robot left Earth of its own accord when it was called off by another agent of the Cosmic Order, who repealed the Cosmic Order's condemnation of humanity after Jenkins sincerely argued that the world was “worth saving” (albeit in a rather unexpected fashion). After witnessing the two cosmic beings' departure back into space, a bruised Centennia congratulated Jenkins. (COMIC: Journey Out Of Misery)

Recurring elements of The Cosmic Beholder

The Odds The Blue Knight • Captain Evening • Centennia • Armstrong Fatbuckle • Merv the Griffin • Jenny Everywhere • Jenny Nowhere • Jung-La The Terrific Two & associates Kelly • Jenkins • Professor Madison • Robot Madison • Rodney Rabbit • The Mutant Villains Armagedda • Bureau of Singularity • Captain Perfect • Doctor Brain • The Devil • Hexia • Insecto • Jesse Brain • New Protectors (Kate Kerrigan) Other characters Alicia • Babs • The Big Bad Wolf • Glow Girl • The Human Tree • Mysto the Space-Wizard • Red Riding Hood • Terry Tornado Items Doctor Brain's Portal • Fortress of Evening • Magic Sword of the Legion of Light • Odd Mobile • Professor Madison's device • Skycicle