They're threats that even the superheroes of the DC Universe are literally powerless against: artificial intelligence and deepfakes. Absolute Power #1 — the first in a four-issue crossover event series written by Mark Waid and drawn by Dan Mora — sees Suicide Squad founder Amanda Waller steal the metahuman powers of every hero and villain on planet Earth in the wake of 2022's Dark Crisis and 2023's Beast World events, which granted an unchecked Waller power to override the U.S.
Absolute Power begins with Waller, Failsafe, and Brainiac Queen — a triumvirate of villains colloquially referred to as the Trinity of Evil — branding superheroes"a legitimate threat to world order" as Waller issues"a plan of action that will eliminate their threat once and for all." "'Superheroes' are anything but. They create more trouble than they avert," Waller says."They have absolute power, and they answer to no one." But Waller's disinformation campaign to discredit superheroes is just phase one, and as it turns out, the purpose of the global hack was to draw the superheroes into the open.
In phase two, Waller activates Task Force VII: the power-stealing Amazos. The Justice League's robot counterparts are Last Son , Depth Charge , Paradise Lost , Velocity , Jadestone , Global Guardian , and Failsafe , who originally planned to upload alternate versions of Zur from across the multiverse into the bodies .