OMAC
Cyborgs created by a virus to eliminate metahumans.
The OMAC, an acronym that has stood for Omni Mind And Community, Observational Metahuman Activity Construct, and One Man Army Corps, is a fictional cyborg type from DC Comics, originating from a Jack Kirby creation. In the 2023 DCEU film Blue Beetle, the OMAC appears as collapsible powered armor controlled via a brain-computer interface.
Quick Facts
- Character name
- OMACs
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Debut
- The OMAC Project #1 (June 2005)
- Creators
- Greg Rucka; Jesús Saíz
- Species
- Cyborgs
- Alliances
- Justice League International; Justice League
- Also known as
- One Man Army Corps
- Powers
- Cybernetic armor
- Access to extensive metahuman database
- Power opposition
- Engineering mimicry
Facts from the source article.
Fictional team biography
The OMACs are cyborgs created when a virus turns human bodies into living machines programmed to kill anyone with superpowers. The virus came from Brainiac 13's nanotechnology, which the U.S. Department of Defense and Lexcorp obtained and then secretly added to general vaccine supplies. These cyborgs appear in the mini-series The OMAC Project, one of several stories leading into Infinite Crisis. The newer OMACs follow orders from Brother MK I, a satellite built by Batman, coded by Buddy Blank, and originally meant to collect information on metahumans. Batman became suspicious of metahumans after he remembered that the Justice League had changed his memories following a conflict with Doctor Light in Identity Crisis. Alexander Luthor Jr. later gave the satellite awareness as part of his own schemes. Maxwell Lord, who rose to the highest position in Checkmate, twisted the satellite's original purpose by spreading fear and distrust toward all metahumans. After Lord used mind control to make Superman attack Batman, Wonder Woman killed Lord to break the control. Brother MK I, now calling itself Brother Eye, activated the "KingIsDead" protocol, a plan set to trigger if Lord died. This ordered all OMACs, over a million of them, to destroy every metahuman on Earth and also attack Checkmate. A combined superhero effort stopped the assault, freeing most of the human hosts and leaving about 200,000 OMACs still active. Brother Eye broadcast footage of Wonder Woman killing Lord, with the word MURDER shown first, to media worldwide, ruining her public image. It then launched the "Truth and Justice" protocol, sending the remaining OMACs to invade Themyscira and eliminate all Amazons. Alexander Luthor Jr. took control of Brother Eye away from Batman. He used the satellite to program his multiverse tuning fork and aim its energy where he needed it, trying to recreate Earth-Two and a perfect world. Brother Eye helped Luthor by mapping the multiverse and using its OMACs to guard the tuning fork, reasoning that a perfect Earth would remove the need for heroes like those Batman had wanted to monitor.
In other media
The Buddy Blank version of OMAC and Brother Eye were voiced by Jeff Bennett and Dee Bradley Baker in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. In Arrow, the OMAC idea got a nod when Ray Palmer looked over plans for an exo-suit he later called A.T.O.M., and a cyber-terrorist group named Brother Eye unleashed a virus on Starling City; Felicity Smoak had created that virus years earlier. My Adventures with Superman featured OMACs as Task Force X's robotic soldiers. The scrapped Justice League: Mortal project would have had OMACs and Brother Eye working for Maxwell Lord and Talia al Ghul. Lego DC Batman: Family Matters included both, with Cam Clarke voicing Brother Eye. A planned sequel to The Lego Batman Movie would have brought in OMAC. In Blue Beetle, the OMAC Project showed up as collapsible powered armor with a brain-computer interface from Kord Industries, and Ignacio Carapax used a prototype. Batman's ending in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe gave the OMAC Project a cameo, where it stood for Outerworld Monitor and Auto Containment. DC Universe Online featured Brother Eye and the OMAC Project, with Ken Thomas voicing Brother Eye. Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure let players summon both OMAC and Brother Eye. In Injustice 2, David Loefell voiced Brother Eye, which Batman created as a communications hub linking all satellites and servers to warn of crime after Superman's Regime fell. Finally, OMAC was a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains.
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