Battalion is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 in the DC Comics

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 universe. He first appeared in Team Titans #2 (November 1992).

Fictional character biography

Alexander Lyons aka Battalion, dubbed the "Drill Sargent from Hell", is a member of the Team Titans, an alternate version of the Teen Titans from ten years in the future, where Lord Chaos reigns. In this future Battalion had been a concert pianist. When he continued to perform after Lord Chaos banned all music, Battalion was punished by being forced to watch while Chaos slaughtered his wife Essie and their children.

With the rest of the Team Titans, Battalion travels to the past to murder Donna Troy

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 before she can give birth to Lord Chaos. The two Titan teams are able to stop the threat of Lord Chaos and spare Donna Troy's life. However, the change to the timeline leaves Battalion and the Team Titans stranded in their past.

Battalion and the Team Titans, with no place to go, end up staying at a farm owned by Donna Troy. They attempt to find counterparts of their friends in this timeline, and Battalion is pleased to find Deathwing an alternate form of the current day hero Nightwing

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. They partner up for 'busting heads'. Unfortunately, Battalion also discovers that his dead wife Essie is alive as well, but engaged to another man. Battalion becomes obsessed with this version of Essie, and even becomes her stalker for a time. During one incident, he saves the lives of Essie and her fiance, after briefly considering letting the man die. This allows him to finally put his feelings behind him.

He is one of the honor guard for Superman's funeral; included are Mirage and Redwing.

Battalion is briefly contacted by the former Titans member Kole

Kole

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, whose timeline had been erased by the Crisis on Infinite Earths

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. She just as mysteriously disappears once more after briefly aiding the Titans.

Battalion began to pursue a relationship with Donna Troy just prior to the event known as Zero Hour

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. During Zero Hour it is revealed the villain Extant had created the Team Titans to be his own super-powered army. Most of the Titans are forced to battle the other heroes, but are contained. Further time collapses erases Battalion and the Team Titans from history, all except three of Battalion's charges, Mirage

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, Deathwing, and Terra

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.

Powers and abilities

Battalion is a mutant with enhanced speed, strength and duability. His mutation also gave him a somewhat leonine appearance, with hair that grew into a lion-like mane.

Other versions

• Teen Titans Go #48 features a version of Battalion (who resembles Cyborg) as a member of the Teen Titans in another reality.

• An Elseworlds version used to be a priest on the peaceful planet Ion. When his people were ravaged by Lord Chaos he took up guns to protect them.