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Although Molecular Master defeated most of the Legionnaires, he was not prepared to deal with the Legion's latest recruit ERG-1, who would soon adopt the more memorable handle of Wildfire.
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RED JUSTICE VS. THE TIME STOPPER ANDROID
The Time Trapper later constructed a matter-manipulating android assassin called Molecular Master and dispatched him to kill the Legion of Super-Heroes and steal the Miracle Machine from their headquarters.
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However, Superman was swept beyond the End of Time by the tail of a comet and relived his entire life up until the moment of his departure through time, which Superman could only attribute to the theory of time as a recursive loop that winds in on itself perpetually. Superman developed an almost suicidal deathwish in an era farther into the future than he had ever traveled before, very nearly accomplishing the Trapper's goal of shattering Superman's willpower in revenge for his past defeats by the Legion he had been a part of as Superboy. Superman traveled through the timestream over jumps of millennia, nearly being overtaken by the sorrow at every last reminder of his former existence having left him by and outliving everyone and everything that ever held meaning to him. Having extricated himself from this predicament thanks to the machinations of Pulsar Stargrave, the Time Trapper struck at the mature Superman during the Man of Steel's voyage through the timestream to 100,000 years into the future, raising the Iron Curtain of Time against the past and forcing Superman to move only forwards through time. The Legionnaires held up their side of the bargain to the letter, but never willing to make a concession to a criminal, they neglected to mention that they had erected a force-field about the Trapper's space-craft, preventing him from escaping and leaving him stranded on a barren world. Having been forced into an impasse with the Legion, the Time Trapper decided to bargain: He would use the prodigious powers over time at his disposal to age the Legionnaires back to their original selves, and the Legion would be obligated to build the Trapper a functional space-craft with which to blast off-world. The Trapper killed Glorith, and Superboy and Brainy found a way to circumvent the Iron Curtain of Time to travel back to the 30th century. However, the plan went awry as the baby Legionnaires were uncontrollable. The Trapper sent Glorith to de-age the Legionnaires into infants through sorcerous means, excepting Superboy and Brainiac 5, whom the Trapper stranded in a far-flung future era by raising back the Iron Curtain of Time. The Time Trapper, back in his citadel at the End of Time, was attended to by slaves and a henchwoman named Glorith of Baaldur. Fortunately, one discharge of the Concentrator was sufficient to deflect the stellar onslaught. When the Time Trapper returned from the Clubhouse empty-handed and furious, he directed a barrage of darkstars at the planet where the Legion was at.
RED JUSTICE VS. THE TIME STOPPER CRACK
Lightning Lad guessed at the true nature of the situation and pretended to crack to mislead the Trapper, using the advantage that gave the rest of the Legion to build the real Concentrator impromptu. To that end, the Trapper impersonated the Commissioner of the Science Police and subjected the Legionnaires to grueling psychological torture to extract the location of the Concentrator from one of them, under the pretense of conducting the trials to test the Legionnaires' worthiness to be on the team and to be privy to top secret defense information of the United Planets. The Time Trapper first appeared as a warlord from the far future who prevented the Legion of Super-Heroes from traveling into their future with an "Iron Curtain of Time." This was a prelude to the Time Trapper's true ambition, which was to steal a super-weapon that could draw upon every energy source in the known universe, called the Concentrator, from the Legion Clubhouse.