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| “ | The world shall belong to my children! | „ |
| ~ The mutated super-heroine, Terra, speaking under Hamidon's control. |
Hamidon is the leader of the villainous race known as Devouring Earth, plant and element-based monsters found roaming the world. Hamidon wishes to destroy civilization to return the world to a "pure state" and his Devouring Earth act as monstrous eco-terrorists, crushing human society, often by starting with it's most wasteful elements.
Origin[]
Dr. Hamidon Pasalima, pre-transformation.
Hamidon was originally human. He worked as a biological engineer and had major ecological concerns. Little is known about the finer points of Hamidon's life, but his research turned as radical as his concerns for the environment and he created a plague which mutated biological organisms, starting with bringing plants to life as human-like bipeds but also mutating humans into various seemingly elemental forms. Hamidon himself was patient zero for the finished version of his plague and he has evolved into a godlike entity similar in many ways to an amoeba - magnified to terrifying proportions. Referenced as a super-organism, Hamidon is no longer a singular being but rather a massive network of collected beings that plans on devouring everything it comes across - Hamidon may be the ultimate source for the Devouring Earth and if so is using them to further it's ultimate goal of expanding and absorbing the world into itself.
Hamidon Raid[]
Hamidon is the most powerful of all villains in the City Of Heroes videogame franchise, so powerful in-fact that the monster provides one of the biggest "raid" style events in the game - known affectionately as a "Hami Raid", it showcases the colossal might of the entity as it takes a large number of top-rate heroes (and villains) to work together to even stand a chance against it. In return, players are granted powerful boosts for defeating Hamidon.
Hamidon has three types of lesser components of himself - Mitochondria; The Mitochondria Antibodies, the Mitochondria Electrolytes and the Mending Mitochondria. The Mitochondria are color-coded - Antibodies are yellow, Electrolytes are blue and Minding Mitochondria are green. Each of the Mitochondria are capable of doing major damage to attackers, and will the moment they are attacked, unless the raiders do so in the right manner. Antibodies (yellow) will counter everyone at a distance - making the only way to hurt them, to do so in melee range, Electrolytes (blue) are ready for anything that attacks them up close, so one must attack them at range, and the Mending Mitochondria (green) will attack at both melee and range, unless they are under a hold - status ailment. Because of the method required to take down each, a Hamidon Raid requires no less than three teams of players, each usually sorted by how they attack. As Hamidon's nucleus is maintained by the Mitochondria, in order to hurt Hamidon himself, the raiders need to take down all the Mitochondria to get to the Hamidon's core and fight him themselves. Once destroyed, smaller Hamidon Buds appear beneath the core - as Hamidon begins to regrow.
Even once completely destroyed, Hamidon will reform, but not for some time. As Hamidon can regenerate rom even a single cell, it is presumed Hamidon's reformation after the raid is the result of one of the Devouring Earth walking into Hamidon's nests and giving up it's own spores to reconstitute Hamidon - resulting in the Devour Earth's death, but with Hamidon reforming from the cells in it's body that had lead to the mutation.