General Immortus

General Immortus
Background information
First episode	"Homecoming - Part 2"
Voice	Xander Berkeley
Character information
Other names	The Forever Soldier
Species	Immortal Human
Affiliations	Brotherhood of Evil
Goal	World domination (failed)
Residence	The Brotherhood's secret base underneath the Eiffel Tower, Paris
Allies	The Brain Madame Rouge Monsieur Mallah
Powers and abilities	Immortality (Agelessness) Expert military strategist High-level intellect Unsurpassed combat experience
Weapons	Numerous high-tech weapons, cavalry sabre

'Strike while your enemy is at his weakest, when he is mired in self-doubt, and your victory will be assured.' … Sun Tzu was one of my best students.

―General Immortus

General Immortus is the leading tactical expert of the Brotherhood of Evil. He is a major antagonist in Season 5.

Character history

Little is known of the life and career of General Immortus before he joined the Brotherhood, but he has been commanding troops in various battles, nations and dynasties going back to Pharaonic Egypt, the Roman Empire, the imperial China, the European Middle Ages and the feudal era in Japan. He even revealed that he was Sun Tzu's mentor as he referred him as one of his brightest students, indicating his relationships to many historical figures. According to Mento of the Doom Patrol, Immortus is a master tactician as a result of his millennia of combat experience in virtually every major world conflict. Judging by his uniform and his human troopers' outfits, it is conceivable that the last military power Immortus had served was the German Nazi party in World War II.

In Teen Titans Go! comics issue #51 - Metamorphosis, he was involved with the human experiment of the Markov royal siblings, Terra and Geo-Force's geokinesis power.

At some point of time Immortus joined the Brotherhood of Evil, contributing his vast resources he had accumulated throughout the millenia, including his own private army of thugs and robots. As a military master strategist, he and the Brain were gradually able to work out the standard modus operandi of their principal enemy in modern times, the Doom Patrol. In the end, they managed to capture and disable their enemies, but Mento had a messenger probe programmed to find to ex-member Beast Boy, who led his new team, the Teen Titans, on the search for his former surrogate family. Eventually, the combined teams defeated the Brotherhood's latest scheme involving a black hole generator.

General Immortus subsequently participated in the Brain's plan to eliminate young superheroes around the world. When the time to strike had come, he personally led the capture of the heroine Argent. During the final battle against the assembled Titans in the Brotherhood's headquarters, however, Immortus and his army were washed away by Aqualad and Tramm, and as the first of the Brotherhood leaders he was flash-frozen as the Titans' victory trophy.

Video games

In the 2006 GBA video game Teen Titans 2, he is the first boss, operating a flying tank and guarding Cyborg. Defeating him unlocks Cyborg as a playable character. He is fought again as the second boss piloting a tank with powerful weapons in four rounds. In the first round, Immortus is invincible (despite having a health bar) and Cyborg has to push him to the fragile ground, making him fall. In the second and third rounds, Cyborg has to make it to the end of the level while avoiding Immortus. In the final round, Cyborg is able to damage him and has to get him to shoot at the ceiling in order to hurt him. He is fought yet again as the fifth boss, where he uses an aerial vehicle and is fought by Starfire.

Powers and abilities

General Immortus, the forever soldier. He knows the strategy of every battle in history because he was there to see it.

―Mento

General Immortus' primary power is immortality. While the full extent of it is unknown, it is hinted by Immortus himself that he has achieved full immortality, enabling him to survive even fatal amounts of damage, provided they do not result in total destruction of his body.

Physically, Immortus possesses no extraordinary abilities due to the debilitating effects of his ancient age. On the other hand, he has accumulated millennia worth of military knowledge and strategy, making him a dangerous opponent on the battlefield. In addition, he has also collected a great deal of monetary wealth, which he uses to finance and maintain a veritable army of human and robot troopers. He may have some skill with a sword, since he occasionally uses a cavalry sabre.

He also possess skills of influencing people. He exploited Private H.I.V.E.'s past history of failure and the destruction of his academy to serve as his right hand man.

He have a great charisma as he is able to put several famous historical figures, namely Sun Tzu under his tutelage. He has a good relationship with them, as he praises the Chinese military tactician as one of his best students. It should be noted that none of them are seemingly suspicious of his true evil nature. Although, it could be that he is a noble person once before descending into villainy.

Appearances

Season 5

• "Homecoming - Part 2"
• "Trust" (Mentioned)
• "For Real" (Mentioned)
• "Kole"
• "Hide and Seek" (Mentioned)
• "Lightspeed" (Mentioned)
• "Calling All Titans!"
• "Titans Together"
• "Things Change" (Mentioned)

Teen Titans Go!

• "Arena"
• "Enemy of My Enemy"
• "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" (Flashback)
• "Graduation Day" (Flashback)
• "Metamorphosis" (Flashback)

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Trivia

• In the DC mainstream comic series, Immortus gained his immortality (or at least, agelessness) through a potion which was the result of an accidental chemical compound. He has since been dying and reappearing in the comics time and again.