Captain Evening
Captain Evening was a major superhero of Reality Z-25 31-H and the leader of the Odds, a team of superbeings. At one point in its history, the team included a shifter claiming to be Jenny Everywhere, but who was in actuality Jenny Nowhere. There existed other Captains Evening in other universes.
Description
Physical appearance
Captain Evening was a muscular white man with a square jaw. He was never seen without his black helmet with an opaque visor, which left only the lower half of his face visible, and whose forehead was adorned with a picture of the Moon. In full superhero regalia, Evening also wore a black form-fitting outfit, lighter-coloured gloves and boots, and a cape. (COMIC: Tales To Behold)
Personality
Captain Evening broadly acted like the epitome of the noble hero. However, he was criticised (even by his own enemies) for his tendency to stand around making grand moralising monologue instead of actually helping with the matter at hand, even if he usually eventually fixed the problem. (COMIC: Tales To Behold)
Powers & abilities
Captain Evening was skilled at physical fighting and at flying his Skycicle. He also allegedly had actual superpowers, although he used them very rarely. (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)
Biography
In Reality Z-21 31-H
Origins
Captain Evening had a mother. He claimed to have been given superpowers by “people from the future”, kickstarting his superhero career, although he used Professor Madison's gadget as often as these fairly nebulous powers in his superhero career. (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)
Meeting "Jenny Everywhere"
Long after his enmity with the mad scientist Doctor Brain was well-established, Captain Evening was patrolling the skies of his home city at night when his attention was attracted by chaos seemingly coming from an abandoned building. It turned out to have been used by Doctor Brain as the location of an interdimensional portal, from which Doctor Brain had summoned a monstrosity which he couldn't defeat. Evening managed to prevent the entity from crossing over from its home dimension by removing the Portal's power source, which was none other than a woman, who introduced herself as Jenny. (COMIC: Tales To Behold)
He brought Jenny to his home, where she took a shower and then claimed that she was Jenny Everywhere. As they were getting to know each other, however, they were summoned to the Captain's belltower by the arrival of a Griffin called Merv, who'd crashed into the bell mid-flight. It turned out that Merv had been magically summoned by Doctor Brain and his witch daughter some weeks back, and magically cursed to remain in this world until he could kill Captain Evening — only for the two villains to neglect to tell the Griffin how Captain Evening might be found or what he looked like.
Honourable to a fault, the Captain confessed his identity to the Griffin, but Jenny saved his life by temporarily shifting him to a parallel universes populated with zombies while giving Merv the zombie Captain Evening to “kill”, thus fulfilling his magical compulsion. She then brought a very confused Captain Evening back. Grateful, Merv vowed to remain in this world even now that he was free, so as to help Jenny and the Captain get revenge on the Brains. (COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells)
After Professor Madison visited, she granted the Captain the use of a new device she'd built which allowed one to detect the opening of transdimensional portals. Rushing to the site where one had been detected, the Captain and friends did not run into Doctor Brain, but rather into a battle between a group of strippers helped by a living skeleton on one side, and the Legion of Light and the demon Red Vicious on the other. Though the strippers already had things mostly under control, the Captain helped finish to tie the villains up, and lectured them on their bigoted, self-righteous ways. He then took the disassembled Armstrong Fatbuckle back to his base where he and his friends helped put him back together, after which he offered him the chance to join the team (an offer Armstrong gladly accepted). (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)
With the Odds
The unlikely grouping of the Captain, Jenny, Armstrong and Merv the Griffin became known as the superhero team of “the Odds”. Within a few weeks of its formation, the Odds were summoned by the New York Chief of Police, who was desperate to solve the mystery of the “reverse robberies” which had been popping up all across the city. The Odds agreed to help and discovered that the culprit was Armagedda, who was hiding out in the sewers and had plans to bring down human civilisations. The Captain ordered an ill-advised charge on Armagedda and a henchmen; he, Merv and Armstrong were easily captured, but Armstrong managed to distract Armagedda while the still-free Jenny worked out a way to exploit Armagedda's weakness to magic (after Armstrong tricked her into taking human form, Jenny shifted her to another universe using the Magic Sword of the Legion of Light). (COMIC: Redistribution)
Intent on growing the team further, Evening visited Glow Girl on the set of a movie she was filming, though she was uninterested in joining the Odds, being happy with her new career and having therefore left superheroics behind. However, she did agree to lend a hand should her rather unique, but infrequently useful, superpowers ever prove themselves necessary to a crisis at hand. (COMIC: Glow Girl!) Shortly after, back at the Fortress, the team were taking showers; Jenny asked for the Captain's help when Armstrong Fatbuckle walked in on her. It turned out, however, that she didn't want him to scold Armstrong about the honest mistake itself, but rather, needed his advice because she had attempted to shift in her surprise, only to find that she couldn't. The Captain helped her to the guess that it was the effort of banishing Armagedda that had temporarily sapped her powers, and that they would soon return. (COMIC: Shower Intermission)
Zombie Captain Evening
In one universe where “everyone was a zombie”, Captain Evening was no exception, looking like a dull-witted, undead version of his Reality Z-25 31-H self. In this latter reality, when faced with Merv the Griffin, who was magically compelled to “kill Captain Evening”, “Jenny Everywhere” quickly switched out her Captain Evening for the zombie one. Merv hit him with what would have been a fatal blow, satisfying the magical compulsion and therefore freeing him. She then brought the real Captain Evening back. Notably, the zombie Captain Evening then just wandered off and was not actually returned to his homeworld. (COMIC: For Whom The Toll Bells)
Still having heroic instincts like the living version of the Captain in spite of everything, the zombie Captain thus proceeded to try to fight crime and be generally heroic in the living New York City. After he stopped an armed robbery in the East Village, he was reported upon by the Hero Hour TV program, who described him as a “strange doppelganger” of the one who was to them the “real” Captain Evening. (COMIC: Interview With A Superhero)
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