Agent Liberty

Agent Liberty

Lesserwell-documentedNorth American comic-book traditionArrowverse television superhero fictionMetropolis (fictional city, USA)National City (Arrowverse, USA)United States (DC Comics setting)
Origin

In DC Comics continuity Benjamin 'Benjy' Lockwood is a former CIA operative who, disgusted with agency methods, joined the paramilitary Sons of Liberty and was given equipment to adopt the Agent Liberty persona (first appearance: Superman vol. 2 #60, October 1991). In comics Lockwood initially opposes the federal government and Superman, later refuses an assassination order (target: Pete Ross) and betrays the Sons of Liberty by sending information to Clark Kent. After discovering Charles Holcraft's role he burns the costume and vows to abandon the identity; subsequently he was unwillingly reactivated when brainwashed by Brainiac's cult, later rescued (Agent Liberty and other kidnapped metahumans rescued by Huntress and Vixen), briefly served on a presidential security detail, and was ultimately killed by Superwoman with his body disposed in Metropolis Harbor. In other continuities there are gendered and unnamed incarnations (a female Agent Liberty on President Martin Suarez's security team and a male in a Dawn of DC splinter group), and in the DC Rebirth era the identity is rebooted as a D.E.O. operative. In the Arrowverse television series Supergirl (season 4) Benjamin 'Ben' Lockwood (portrayed by Sam Witwer) is a fired college history professor radicalized into founding the Children of Liberty after being equipped by associates of Lex Luthor (Mercy and Otis Graves).

Appearance

Comic-book Benjamin Lockwood wears a high-tech battle suit furnished by the Sons of Liberty that includes a jetpack for flight, retractable gauntlet blades, and a capacity to generate an energy force-field capable of deflecting bullets; the suit is described as armed with weapons and grants defensive and offensive capabilities. The television Supergirl portrayal emphasizes Lockwood as a college professor turned ideological leader who is given equipment by Mercy and Otis Graves to become a self-proclaimed 'Agent of Liberty'; specific costume details in that TV depiction are not detailed in the provided sources.

Abilities

Agent Liberty's capabilities are human and technology-based. Benjamin Lockwood is described as highly skilled in military tactics, hand-to-hand combat, and marksmanship. His high-tech suit provides technological augmentation: an energy force-field able to deflect bullets, retractable gauntlet blades, a jetpack enabling flight, and onboard weaponry; he can also call upon Sons of Liberty resources (such as attack helicopters) for support. Behaviorally, the persona functions as a paramilitary leader, organizer, and ideological agitator, able to found and lead groups (Children of Liberty in television) and to operate within or adjacent to official security structures (presidential detail, D.E.O. operative in reboot).

Weaknesses & Wards

Weaknesses

  • condition
    Human vulnerability (non-supernatural)
  • condition
    Susceptibility to brainwashing/coercion (documented revivals under Brainiac's cult)
  • other
    Loss or destruction of equipment (e.g., burning of costume led to abandonment of identity)
  • other
    Opposition by superheroes and law enforcement (narrative means of defeat)

Wards

None recorded.

Further in the Grimoire

Ageleus / Agelaus

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Agemon

Agemon is attested in the supplied sources only as a proper name: a genealogical listing identifying him as a son of Eudaemus in a Wikidata fragment, and as a letter-string appearing (likely via OCR or typographic artifact) in a declassified CIA document. There is no evidence in the provided material that Agemon is a supernatural being or part of a folkloric tradition.

Agenor (son of Pleuron)

Agenor, son of Pleuron, is a minor mortal figure attested in Greek mythographic genealogies as a prince of Aetolia. He is listed as a child of King Pleuron and Xanthippe and as brother to Stratonice, Sterope, and Laophonte; no independent myths, deeds, or iconography for this Agenor are recorded in the supplied sources.

Agenor of Argos

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Agenor of Troy

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Agenoria

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Agents of Atlas

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Ages of Man (Roman tradition)

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Agetor

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Aggi and Ebbi (lexical occurrences)

Aggi and Ebbi are not attested as folkloric beings in the supplied sources; they appear only as isolated word-forms in an Italian poetic excerpt and as capitalized letter-strings in a puzzle/solution transcript. No mythic identity, powers, or rituals are documented for these tokens in the provided materials.

Aghasura

Aghasura is an asura from the Vaishnava/Hindu narrative tradition (notably the Srimad‑Bhāgavatam) who, at the command of Kamsa, assumed the form of a vast serpent to ambush Kṛṣṇa and the cowherd boys in Vṛndāvana. The episode demonstrates Kṛṣṇa’s protective, divine power as he enters and destroys the demon from within.

Aghrirat

Aghrirat is a named Turanian noble and peacemaker in the Shahnameh and Iranian mythic tradition, presented as a son of Pashang and brother of Afrasiab and Garsivaz. He is notable for his kind and gentle character and for attempting, largely unsuccessfully, to end the hostilities between Iran and Turan.

Community Record

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