Michael "Mike" MoranMiracleman

With one magic word, the orphan Mike Moran becomes Miracleman, a legend in the 1960s and a god for the Age of Miracles.

From Man to Miracle

Michael “Mike” Moran’s father flies with the R.A.F. in World War II and upon his death, Mike becomes an orphan. Soon, a Qys spaceship crash lands in Wiltshire, England in 1948, and it changes Mike’s life forever.  

A secret branch of Airforce Intelligence known as The Spookshow uses him and two other orphans as test subjects in an experiment termed Project Zarathustra. The program is led by Dr. Emil Gargunza, who uses technology from the Qys spaceship. All it takes is to speak their individual keywords, and the orphans become the Miracleman Family, Mike as Miracleman, and his fellow orphans Dicky Dauntless, AKA Young Miracleman, and Johnny Bates, AKA Kid Miracleman. Gargunza controls Mike and the others through a dream-state where they share fantastic adventures as superhumans for eight years, while his responses and reactions are tested by Zarathustra’s mastermind, Professor Gargunza. 

In 1963, The Spookshow deems them too dangerous to live and terminates Project Zarathustra by destroying their Miracleman Family with an atomic bomb, though are only partly successful. Young Miracleman is killed but Kid Miracleman escapes and lives on as a superhuman, though his power corrupts him. Unknown to all, Mike Moran awakes months later, burned, broken and without memories of having been Miracleman. He manages to piece his life back together, becoming a freelance journalist and marrying professional illustrator Elizabeth “Liz” Sullivan. She worries about him as he experiences strange recurring dreams for years, and little do they both know that they are memories of his past life. 

While covering a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant in 1982, he remembers his magic word “Kimota” and in saying it, Miracleman returns as do his memories. He shares the memories of his life with his wife and while Liz laughs at the absurdity of his stories at the start, she eventually comes to accept her husband’s strange past.

Keyword Kimota

Mike can exchange his place in space and time with a superpowered cellular replicate, Miracleman. The body occupying infra-space has no consciousness and does not age. Though the two bodies are separate, all thoughts and memories are shared through the use of an infra-spacial trigger device, activated by the “magic” word, Kimota.

Miracleman can fly and is nearly invulnerable, including being bulletproof. He possesses tremendous strength and superhuman speed. He can use a thunderclap to disable opponents.

Family Drama

While responsible for creating the Miracleman Family and giving them their powers, Gargunza is a manipulative, selfish foe that seeks to use them for his own gain. He studies Miracleman and the others while they’re in a dream-like stasis and in the decades following their escape into the real world. Gargunza returns later and conspires to possess Winter, Miracleman’s daughter, but MM kills him before he can get the chance. 

Miracleman is close to his Miracleman Family, fellow orphans-turned-superhumans Kid Miracleman and Young Miracleman, until he loses them both in an atomic explosion. He loses his memories as Miracleman, and Mike remains on his own for a time, becoming a freelance reporter. 

Kid Miracleman also survives the blast and grows to middle age. Reunited almost two decades later, the pair don’t see eye to eye and go head-to-head in a couple battles, one of which leads to Kid Miracleman’s death. Young Miracleman is later restored to life and seeing how Miracleman remade the world in his image, ends up taking the role of his opposition.

Found Family

Though starting out as a teenager, Mike Moran grows to be a middle-aged, freelance reporter who is less assured than his alter-ego Miracleman. While the pair share memories, their personalities are distinctly different, where Miracleman is more confident and heroic. 

Mike eventually marries Liz Sullivan, and years later when his alter-ego returns, Liz attempts to understand him for a time. She also becomes pregnant by Miracleman prior to them both realizing that Moran and Miracleman have separate bodies, and they end up having a superhuman daughter, named Winter, as a result. Though Liz leaves them both as she cannot relate to their superhuman nature. Mike also struggles to balance his life as the lesser half of a god and gives up his life to Miracleman.

When fellow orphan-turned-superhuman Avril Lear, AKA Miraclewoman, appears in Miracleman’s life following his daughter’s birth, he falls in love with her and her eager intellect. Both are soon introduced to the Qys and Warpsmiths’ races and they work together to shape humankind’s future. 

When Miracleman remakes the world in his image with Miraclewoman’s help, he offers humans the opportunity to enhance themselves with powers akin to his own, and creates a program where women can rear a deity, resulting in 5,000 superhuman children sired by Miracleman.

Making Miracles

Mike received a call from the President of Sunburst Cybernetics, Mr. Jonathan Bates, his old friend and former Miracleman Family member, Kid Miracleman. Mike and Liz met Bates for lunch at his headquarters and caught up. Bates described what happened to him that day in 1963, how he survived the blast and woke up in the hospital afterward without his powers, and how he went from rags to riches. Though Mike saw through the facade and called Bates out on it. Bates called him paranoid and using his mental powers entered Mike’s mind, but Mike resisted and shoved him off a balcony high up in the Sunburst Cybernetics skyscraper. Bates then revealed his true self, a corrupted version of Kid Miracleman. He attacked Liz, which ultimately led to a confrontation between Miracleman and KM, though the latter proved formidable. 

After taking down the threat of Kid Miracleman, Moran and Liz started investigating his powers as Miracleman. She surmised that the pair had different bodies, speaking to their physical differences and their notable age difference. Moran thought Miracleman was cleverer than he was as well. Liz also informed Moran that she had become pregnant but it was Miracleman’s child, not his. Moran/Miracleman continued to uncover the truth about his past thanks to help from Evelyn Cream, an assassin hired by the Spookshow to kill MM but instead betrayed his employers in hopes to share in the knowledge of how MM came to be superhuman. Cream suggested that they investigate the bunker where the Miracleman experiments were performed. When they got there, the experimental superhuman Big Ben stood in their way, but MM fought and defeated him. Upon entering the bunker, MM and Cream found what remained of the lab, skeletons of dead superhumans and digital recorders, such as videotapes. They found that creating Miraclemen was in response to the creation of the atomic bomb with the intention to make it obsolete.

With a baby on the way, Liz expressed concern to Moran that he’s not invincible like Miracleman and Moran refused to talk about it. Miracleman returned to Liz and in comforting her, they made love. Afterward, Miracleman went out for a while and upon his return, his home was upended and Liz was gone. He called Evelyn Cream for help. They came to find out that Dr. Emil Gargunza had kidnapped her with the intention of imprinting his intelligence upon the baby and stealing their superhuman body. Miracleman and Cream arrived to rescue Liz but Gargunza used a posthypnotic keyword of his own to override MM's trigger mechanism, transforming him back to Moran temporarily for an hour. They were soon interrupted by the arrival of Gargunza’s first experiment, Miracledog, which with a keyword transformed from a small terrier into a giant alien-like beast of a dog. Gargunza sicced it upon Moran and Cream, and though it killed Cream and went after Moran, taking two of his fingers, Moran recalled Gargunza’s keyword for it and in saying it, the dog reverted to its original, harmless size. Saying his own keyword, Miracleman returned and killed all those who aided Gargunza, including Gargunza by taking him up into the planet’s orbit and throwing him at another planet.

Miracleman returned to Liz, who was in labor, and helped her give birth to their child. Their daughter Winter was born, clearly with superhuman abilities as she spoke shortly after entering the world and showed unusual physical strength for a newborn.

Around this time, the Qys returned to Earth seeking to exterminate those created from their misappropriated technology. Miracleman faced their representatives, who knocked him out cold, but in reading his mind, the Qys rep found that Miracleman had a daughter, changing everything. Miracleman and the Qys rep soon joined Liz and Miraclewoman, who had saved Liz from an attacking Qys. Miracleman recognized her from decades prior but recalled that she had died in a fight against Terrence Rebbeck, AKA Young Nastyman. Miraclewoman then shared her tale, how they previously met through Gargunza’s experimentation and how she came to be in his house. The Qys rep soon called a summit between their race and their primal enemies, the Warpsmiths, to discuss how to proceed with the Miraclemen issue. They recognized that Winter was a new form of “intelligent life” and saw the Earth as an Intelligent-class World with a right by their laws to exist. The Warpsmiths presented concern over Qys influence on Earth but Miraclewoman suggested that the two races copulate to help solve their issues, and they considered using Earth as a neutral ground for their courtship. Before they departed for home, Miracleman found Miraclewoman’s eager intellect attractive. They subsequently returned to Earth with the intention of reporting to the Qys with two Warpsmiths’ representatives to observe Earth for their race, Aza Chorn and Phon Mooda. The Warpsmith observation post was concealed behind Earth’s moon.

Upon returning to Liz, he tried to explain what happened and the inner workings of interstellar politics, but Liz cried out of frustration. She had had enough with all the superhuman activity, especially that her husband and her daughter were superhuman. She came to believe that her daughter was controlling her feelings with her mind, and needed time alone. She left for her sister’s house and expressed her love for him and their daughter. Winter, still an infant, then spoke to her father in complete sentences for the first time, insisting they discuss her mother. Miracleman was shocked to find his daughter, barely six weeks old, surpassed both her mother and himself in intellect. When Liz returned, she, too, realized she was not as advanced as them and decided to leave them permanently. Winter, who realized she couldn’t learn what she needed from her father, set out to learn from the Qys.

Miracleman returned to the Warpsmith secret headquarters to be with Miraclewoman and a new recruit, the Firedrake Huey Moon, who could control fire. They, with the Warpsmiths, would become known as a Pantheon and they planned humankind’s future. As Miracleman adjusted to his new life, Mike struggled. He climbed the mountains of Glencoe in Scotland and created a makeshift grave with a note listing his name, birth and death years, and said his keyword one last time, giving up his life. Respecting his choice of suicide, Miracleman did not speak his word of transformation again. Miracleman soon carved a new home of solitude in the deepest point of the Marianas Trench, and named it “Silence.”

By 1985, Kid Miracleman came out of his trance and attacked London, killing thousands in a gruesome holocaust, forcing Miracleman and his Pantheon to reveal themselves to humankind in the ensuing battle. The Warpsmith Aza Chorn helped Miracleman travel through time to gain the energy needed to defeat KM, and in the next battle they found success, ending Kid Miracleman, though they lost Chorn in the fight. With 40,000 dead and no cause to delay their plans, Miracleman enacted sweeping global changes. From London’s ashes arose his towering pyramid, Olympus, and a new world—one free of war, of famine, of poverty—known as The Golden Age. Miraclewoman saw all things as gods and suggested a Eugenics Program that would ship frozen sperm to women who desired to rear a deity. 

As such, for forty years, Miracleman helped father 5,000 children. Miracleman’s allies in this world-changing effort included his consort, Miraclewoman, British Bulldog, formerly the mad Big Ben, Firedrake, Kana Blur and Phon Mooda, Warpsmiths—envoys from the Gulf Worlds, and Mors from the Qys race. Mors helped MM resurrect Young Miracleman using live cells that they found in his original body in Underspace.

When YM was brought to life, MM was there to greet him and help him acclimate. He explained YM’s true origin and how he came to be in this new world in a new cloned body from his original that was stored in stasis in Underspace. YM had a little bit of trouble accepting the newness of the world that MM built but rejoined society. He started engaging in public appearances where he was met with welcome and applause. When MM approached Dicky one evening, he informed him that he knew how he truly felt about him thanks to Miraclewoman, and kissed him. Appalled, Dicky punched him through the wall and found his advances disgusting. Rejecting him, he flew off and left Olympus.

While Miracleman was monitoring the world through broadcast channels, Dicky took over them all and called him into a public meeting for a chance to talk. When Miracleman arrived, Dicky was with an enhanced human, Meta-Maid, who claimed to be a big fan and was filming their meeting to protect themselves from any retaliation. Dicky wanted to know what Miracleman’s plans were with him, who reviewed the options that included to remain human, to die as a mercy killing, or to re-enter the Gargunza fiction, living his life out in an imaginary past. Though Dicky could not abide by any of these options as they resulted in diminished freedom or his life being taken away. He presented an alternative, that he be Miracleman’s adversary, someone to oppose him and the world he created with no checks and balances.