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#76 - Parademon
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When Toronto was inundated with a flood of Darkseids flying marauders, one such Parademon was captured by a team of Checkmate agents and dragged back to the Secret Sixs House of Secrets, where torture commenced. However, before real answers could be gleaned, Cheshire betrayed the Secret Six, and the Parademon suddenly found himself, no longer in communication with his phalanx, swept up in the escape. Eventually, at the urging of Ragdoll, KRay became a key fixture in the Sixs new membership. Ever a sucker for some good torture, he also greatly enjoys flying - he's even had a role in helping Roz'etta learn to use her shapeshifted wings effectively! Just don't ask him what his superhero moniker is - it's a little... blue.

K'Ray has really endeared himself to me, at the very least. He's a sweet but also ultraviolent brute, a strange compare-and-contrast that I greatly enjoy. His head literally overheats when he thinks too much, which often makes his conversations quite simplistic, though his origins are far from it. After all, it's been revealed that Darkseid's parademon army are all normal humans who have been cribbed from other worlds in the Bleed, brutalized, retrained by Granny Goodness and prepared for battle. There's a world out there somewhere that is missing it's K'Ray... or whatever his name might have actually been. He even seems to have some connections to variations of heroes and villains from our world, including Count Vertigo.

The Parademon is the only member of the Secret Six without an axe to grind, which makes him some of that much-needed glue to hold the group together. Ever the companion of the "clown" (Ragdoll), the "oaf" (K'Ray) provides a jovial sense of both excitement and pure happiness to any jobs involving the Six. I'd love to see him dragged along on future missions more often, just to provide some much-needed levity with his childlike behavior. Hell, just the few interactions between King Shark and Parademon, where they butted heads in an almost literal sense of the word, were delightful.

Very recently (this week, actually), Spirit hosted an event at the Flash Museum to allow the orphans who have been brought to Z'onn Z'orr as refugees to get to know one another. Advertised in the first addition of the Z'onn Z'orr Junior Gazette, dozens of children showed up - as did K'Ray. He spied a maze on the back, and that led him to read the rest of the issue. The Junior Gazette was "so much better written" than the adult one - "it makes more sense." So the Parademon read a child's news pamphlet and, realizing he must be an orphan, too, since he doesn't know his parents, the Parademon showed up. It ended up being one of the sweetest little scenes in the campaign.

God, I just love this guy. All and all, I can't wait to see how K'Ray's story progresses. He's really had some very sweet moments with characters like Roz'etta, Spirit, and Minerva. And I think he would fit like a glove with just about everyone else. A far cry from the militant monsters that normal fill the sky in the name of Darkseid, the only broken, discarded Parademon of a force of millions, freed from his connections to the armada of Apokolips, may be one of the nicest guys in Z'onn Z'orr, and a valuable ally as the war for Earth ramps up.

We're back to Honorable Mentions - and a Round 10 draftee is dropping here!