List of Miracleman characters

The following is a list of characters from the comic book series Miracleman.

The first of the Miracleman Family, created by Doctor Gargunza in 1954 as a Cold War weapons project based on the orphan Mike Moran. Believed killed in 1963, he returns in 1982 and three years later undertakes a benevolent takeover of Earth with his allies, turning the planet into a utopia.

The second of the Miracleman Family, based on the orphan Dicky Dauntless. He is killed by the British government in 1963, but resurrected by Miracleman in 2003.

The third of the Miracleman Family, based on the orphan Johnny Bates. He escapes destruction in 1963 and spends the next 19 years as the most powerful creature on Earth, becoming corrupted and attempting to kill Miracleman on his return in 1982. After three years trapped inside Bates, Kid Miracleman breaks lose again in 1985 and lays waste to London before being stopped by Miracleman and his allies.

An unsanctioned experiment undertaken by Gargunza, based on the orphan Avril Lear. She escapes Gargunza's attentions, changes her identity and lays low until Qys agents visit Earth. She then allies with Miracleman and becomes his lover as they create a golden age on Earth.

Young Nastyman was originally created by Mick Anglo in 1954 as a recurring villain in the pages of Young Marvelman, debuting in #57 and reappearing intermittently. In these stories his origin was as Pontag of Victo; the Terence Rebbeck identity and backstory was devised by Alan Moore for the revival.

Like Mike Moran, Dicky Dauntless and Jonathan Bates, Terence Rebbeck was the orphan of RAF personnel and was kidnapped by Doctor Gargunza. Unlike them, his abduction was unknown to Spookshow and he was instead kept at a private laboratory by Gargunza along with Avril Lear and Pluto. There a superhuman clone was created of him, which Gargunza programmed as the villain Young Nastyman. Young Nastyman was used in dreams as an archenemy of the Miracleman Family, believing himself to be an alien youth named Pontag given a magical elixir by a hermit called Nastyman that turned him into a supervillain. However, Gargunza enjoyed vicariously living the life of a supervillain and - without the oversight of Sir Dennis Archer - his perversions were reflected in Rebbeck being the protagonist of ever-more violent and sexual scenarios. As his creator rapidly worked through his fetishes the continuity of the dreams broke down, causing Young Nastyman to wake up in the real world. Unable to tell it from the consequence-free simulations he promptly went on a violent rampage. To prevent Archer finding out the truth, Gargunza sent Miraclewoman after him. However, she instead found the Project Zarathustra bunker and learned her true nature. Wanting freedom she tracked Young Nastyman to Iceland and tried to tell him what she had learnt in the hope that he would join her. Far beyond reason, he attacked her and the pair fought until Young Nastyman was incinerated in a volcano; as he died both of his bodies appeared and were destroyed.

Following Operation Dragonslayer, the grotesquely fused skeleton of Rebbeck and Young Nastyman was found by Spookshow and recovered. They were misidentified however as the remains of Young Miracleman, and stored in the Zarathustra bunker. Following the facility's heavy damage by Miracleman they were left for an uncaring pair of cleaners, who dropped them, causing the double-skull to break off in a final indignity for the hapless Rebbeck.