Maximilian Lord (ME-3)

'"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." - Charles de Montesquieu'

Author's Note
See Also: Off My Mind: Crisis on Two Earths of Earth-53

"You're psychotic."

"A three syllable word for any idea too big for little minds."

Initially I planned on making Counter Earth-53 contain a literal evil Knight Owl, but I felt that was way too lazy, but I liked the idea of an evil Owlman figure, which Osterman started off as and remains heavily based on, but as time went on I realized that was lazy too, especially considering what I needed an evil Knight Owl to do to the good one. The point of Earth-53 in general is to show how godlike heroes are, and Knight Owl exists to show how a human can ascend to godhood in a matter of speaking: literally Knight Owl stands to show how humans are better than gods. One of the driving quotes behind that conception was "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." - Charles de Montesquieu. As much of an outsider that Knight Owl is, he stands to protect people and does not consider himself wholly better or worse than people. Thus Alexander Victor Osterman, informed by my perspective on characters such as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Lex Luthor, Reed Richards/Maker, Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhatten, and Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom, became Prometheus, the man who fancies himself a god, or at the very least far and above any mere human.

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