Glorith

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Glorith of Baldur is a fictional villain from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics published by DC Comics. A pretty blonde woman with varying degrees of magical power from the nonexistent to the godlike, she is a D-list villain that was promoted to godlike status during the continuity confusion following Crisis on Infinite Earths and the erasure of Superboy.

The original Glorith of Baldur was a nonpowered henchwoman of the Time Trapper who was sent back in time from the period that the Time Trapper ruled to the 30th century in order to destroy the Legion. Her career was remarkably short-lived, as the Time Trapper grew weary of her attitude and killed her with a hourglass that aged her in reverse until she vanished into nothingness.

This was not the end of Glorith as she was soon retconned to being alive again with the Time Trapper's death at the hands of Mon-El and thus subsequent nonexistence. Glorith was the wife of Mordru the Merciless, who was then Emperor of the Universe. She was a potent sorceress in her own right and intended to rewrite the past to steal command of the universe from him.

Glorith continued to meddle in Legion history, attempting to seduce Mon-El and trying to set herself up a deity. She created one history in which she was the Time Trapper, but her continual rewriting of timelines caused the original Time Trapper to reappear, and eventually resulted in the destruction of the whole of Legion continuity in Zero Hour.

Glorith did not appear in the rebooted Legion comics, although the character of Lori Morning bore some resemblance to her.