Silent Majority (comics)

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character_name = Silent Majority
publisher = DC Comics
debut = "Batman and the Outsiders Annual" #1(1984)
creators = Mike W. Barr (script)
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alliances = Force of July
Freedom's Ring
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powers = Ability to produce identical replicas of himself

Silent Majority is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in "Batman and the Outsiders Annual" #1 (1984), as a member of the government-sponsored superhero team the Force of July.

Fictional character biography

Silent Majority's name and background were never revealed, least of all by the taciturn hero. As a member of the government-sponsored superhero team the Force of July, Majority fights against elements perceived as "subversive". This brings them, at first, in conflict with the the original Outsiders, though the teams later become unwilling allies.

Silent Majority appears in the "Outsiders Special"(1987). Investigating a mysterious new Prime Minister in the country of Markovia, a small group of Outsiders and Infinity Inc. members follow a lead to Force of July's HQ, the California coast estate of Abraham Lincoln Carlyle. Majority defeats Nuklon in battle while his teammates subdue the other heros. The story continues in the corresponding Infinity Inc. special.

Deaths

Majority and the Force of July return in "Suicide Squad" #27, in the Janus Directive storyline. Kobra, an international terrorist, manipulates the Squad, resulting in a battle to bring in the Force as traitors. Mayflower and Sparkler are killed. Silent Majority later joins up with the very people who killed his friends in order to save a large portion of the Earth's population from being murdered by Kobra's space-based weapon. Majority rushes the control panel for the weapon, manned by Valland. Majority multiples, but Valland kills all of him. "Suicide Squad " 30.

A revamped Force of July, now called "Freedom's Ring", returns in the series "Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven" by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray & Dan Jurgens, with Silent Majority among the group. If he somehow survived, or if it is a new hero with similar powers remains unknown, as he is killed by the Nuclear Legion before anything could be revealed.

Powers and abilities

Silent Majority can create identical duplicates of himself, which can be controlled by the original Majority. Each duplicate has the strength and stamina of an ordinary human.