The people are unhappy with his rule, particularly scientist Matthew Ryder, an expert on temporal studies, who is convinced he can use his technology to travel back in time and prevent the maniacal ruler from ever coming to power.

During a time travel experiment, Matthew is transformed into a being called "Waverider", and begins searching the timestream for the hero who becomes Monarch.

When hostile aliens encounter Monarch and Captain Atom in the past (sometime between 230 and 65 million years ago), they attempt to enlist both (with each figure having no knowledge of the other involved) to assist them in creating a wormhole.

[4] Extant then removes Waverider's timetravel device and joins forces with renegade Green Lantern Hal Jordan, now known as Parallax, to alter time as they saw fit.

Several armies of heroes band together to stop his plans before they began in the 30th century, and alter history so that his followers never come to exist in the future.

Parallax warps several metahumans from various time periods together for the ultimate assault, and Extant hits the Atom with a chronal blast, de-aging him into a teenager.

[5] In it, Extant picks a fight with the original Justice Society as a means of tricking the Linear Men into saving the life of an innocent bystander who was destined to die.

Fortunately for the citizens of time, Impulse arrives and is barely able to defeat Extant and prevent the Linear Men from saving the doomed scientist.

Although Extant succeeds in his goal with the aid of Metron's stolen Mobius Chair, Doctor Fate learns from the imprisoned Mordru that when Hourman dismantled the Worlogog, he retained a small fragment of it, thus creating an infinitesimal flaw that the JSA can exploit.

Instead, he is teleported by Hourman and Metron, at Atom Smasher's behest, into the seat of an airplane whose crash Kobra caused earlier in the timestream.

Atom Smasher's mother originally died on the plane that, but he replaces her with a weakened Extant, saving her life and murdering the super villain in the process.

The black power rings also try to reanimate his brother Don, but are denied as he is at peace in death and unable to be resurrected.

After a short battle, Hank rams his hand into Holly's chest, ripping her heart out, and using it to charge his ring.

[11] While stopping an army of powerful teenaged super villains in Gotham City, Hank and Dawn are invited by Zinda Blake to join the Birds of Prey.

However, he failed to catch the boomerang and instead it was caught by Boston Brand, who ended up dying in the process and used his final act to move his white power ring to Holland and bring back Swamp Thing to cleanse the Green of Nekron's influence.

As Monarch he possesses the same powers that he had as Hawk, along with a suit of highly durable armor that is crafted using advanced technology.

Whilst he is able to perceive Holly's aura as red for rage, he sees Dawn's as a pure white that his ring cannot identify.

Hank Hall as Hawk appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.