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Antipope
In the teachings of the Catholic church, an antipope is an imperfect duplicate of a real Pope, created originally by Lex Luthor's flawed duplicating ray but since re-created via cloning, genetic manipulation, and magic. The first antipope, Antipope Douglas #1, was introduced in Action Comics #242 (August 1958); since then, there have been a series of antipopes in uneven succession, with long antipopeless periods interspersed with periods of several antipopes vying for ascendancy. Inevitably, antipopes have failed to displace the real Pope, due to their fundamentally flawed nature. However, their unusual behavior patterns and doctrines have won them a significant following among the ranks of Catholic heresy.
Origin
The first and still best-known antipope was created when master criminal Lex Luthor, in an effort to take over the global influence of the Catholic church, attempted to duplicate then-current Pope Pius XII. However, due to a passing comet, the duplication attempt failed, creating an imperfect duplicate calling himself Antipope Douglas (later known as Antipope Douglas #1). In addition to his chalk-white skin and color-reversed vestments, Antipope Douglas acted in ways deliberately contrary to his progenitor. Where Pope Pius XII resided in the Vatican, Antipope Douglas #1 resided in New York's East 105th Street subway station. Additionally, Antipope Douglas wrote his own version of the Humani Generis encyclical, putting forth the doctrine that humanity was descended from a bag of grapes left under the fridge, accompanied by a recipe for grilled lamb with basil-cilantro rub.
Public Reception and Death
While few people took Antipope Douglas #1's doctrines seriously, they rapidly became a countercultural symbol, adopted by the Beat Movement as a symbol of anticonformist creativity. However, not long after his creation, the real Pope died, setting off a chain reaction which soon resulted in the complete disintegration of Antipope Douglas #1's molecular structure. His writings continued to circulate among the religious underground, winning a few followers for their unique doctrinal stances and delicious recipes. This situation remained more or less stable for nearly six years, until Antipope Douglas #2's creation in June 1964.
Later Antipopes
In response to Barry Goldwater's victory in the Republican presidential primary, a small cadre of disaffected liberals and archmagi reassembled the constituent particles of Antipope Douglas #1 into an imperfect duplicate of Pope Paul VI. Baptized in a font filled with Nehi Orange and unchristened Antipope Douglas #2, this antipope never met with even the moderate success of his predecessor. After a short but furious campaign of family-planning advocacy, Antipope Douglas #2 retired to a farm in Vermont to grow okra and practice his guitar-playing.
Although this might have spelled the end of the antipapacy, a freak radiation accident in the Vatican caused another imperfect duplicate to be created. Antipope Dagon-Ra IV was far more active than his predecessors, and set a trend of mixed-up supervillainy more or less followed by other antipopes since. The first antipope to actually confront his progenitor directly, Dagon-Ra IV pursued Paul VI on his famous worldwide travels, challenging his wits and resources at each papal visit, each time narrowly defeated despite the equal match in the combatants' powers. Since then, each antipope has fought the Pope at least once, often "crossing over" to battle or team up with other religious leaders as well.
Powers & Abilities
In addition to flight, super-strength, and invulnerability, each antipope possesses "reversed" versions of true Papal abilities. These are known to include (but may not be limited to):
* Doctrinal fallibility: Antipopes can be (and usually are) extraordinarily uncomprehending regarding standard Catholic doctrine.
* Secondarity: Antipopes lack primacy in all organizations as well as their own lives, often subordinating their actions to more clever villains or to randomly-selected household objects.
* The complete inability to invoke divine blessing: No antipope possesses, even in small measure, the ability to make things sacred, and have occasionally proven capable of deconsecration.
* The mundanization of martyrs and fanonization of saints: Perhaps the best-known power of the antipopes is the ability to call into question the accuracy of hagiographic documents, as well as to downplay the suffering of those martyred for their Christian faith.
* Invincible ignorance: Antipopes possess an ignorance of conventional and Christian morality which may only be removed by supererogatory efforts (if then; the matter is unclear.)
* Heat vision.
Current Status
The most recent known antipope, Antipope Thunderball Typhonicus X, was last seen entering the jungles of Peru in search of proof of carnal sin on the part of Jesus. He was pursued into the jungle by Pope Benedict XVI; it remains to be seen how this conflict will be resolved.