Superior was one of Earth's many superheroes prior to 1986, hailing from a alien world destroyed by a being known as the Annihilator. Gaining fantastic powers under Earth's yellow sun, Superior defended his adopted world from threats such as Abraxas and the Annihilator itself. Like all other superheroes, he disappeared in 1986 after Earth's super-villains united to defeat them, removing all traces of magic and wonder from Earth and ruling in secret, with heroes such as Superior remembered only in the likes of comic books and films. Decades later, Simon Pooni, a once-promising young athlete afflicted with multiple sclerosis who idolized Superior, found himself met by an angel named Ormon, who gifted him the body and power of his childhood hero for a week. Simon prevented numerous disasters