Mortimer Moloch

Mortimer Moloch is a wanted mercenary who joined the League of Super Critics to search for Ross Mandell and his own twin brother, Randolph.

Mortimer's Mission
In 150,084 CMT, Mortimer's twin brother Randolph disappeared (because Randolph had joined the Dong Squad), so Mortimer decided to search for him. Through "inquiries, bribes, and deposits in the right places", Mortimer discovered that Randolph had been last seen with the criminal fugitive Ross Mandell, who was wanted by Earth authorities for assault and theft against a man named Doug Walker. Mortimer figured that Randolph had been abducted by Mandell, so he tracked Mandell's previous victim Walker to his home on Earth and visited him in the hope that he could provide more information about Mandell's motives and whereabouts.

Arrival on Earth
Mortimer knocked on the door of Walker's house and pushed past Linkara into their back yard, where he met Walker, Dr. Bedge, Paul Latza, and Seran Dol-Abi. Mortimer drew his sword and threatened to cut their hands off unless they revealed everything they knew about Ross Mandell at once, so Linkara knocked Mortimer's hat off with his magic gun and demanded that Mortimer state his business first. Mortimer complied, telling the Critics about his quest to find his brother, and declared that he would join them on their own search for Mandell. The ACE drones that guarded Seran's starfighter malfunctioned and refused to let any of them pass, so Seran destroyed them. Mortimer collected their fallen weapons and handed them to Bedge and Latza as he climbed aboard the ship. Once Mortimer and the Critics had strapped themselves in, the starfighter took off and launched into the sky.

Coincidentally, Toa Komerak of the Platinum Lantern Corps was patrolling Earth space when he saw the Critics' ship leave the upper atmosphere. Komerak scanned the ship and found that it had not been cleared to fly in Earth space, so he generated an air bubble around it, tore the cockpit window off, and ordered them to surrender and be taken to the high courts of their homeworld or remain in the ship and suffocate. Komerak verified the Critics' identities with his PDA and found that there were also arrest warrants out for Moloch and Walker, so he decided to take them all to Supermax 282 for immediate trial by a higher authority: the Galactic Government.

Supermax 282
Mortimer and his comrades were delivered to the space prison, where their weapons were confiscated and their clothes replaced with jumpsuits as though they were already prisoners. The Supermax 282 staff then led the Critics towards a courtroom where their case could be examined, but the staff found that the judge was "absent", so their sentencing was postponed. However, Mortimer practically sentenced them himself by giving the warden, Lemongrab, the middle finger as he walked past. This gesture infuriated Lemongrab so much that he immediately sentenced them all to a million years of imprisonment with no trial for seven years. The Critics were all escorted to prison cells; Mortimer and Seran were placed into the same cell together near the others.

20 minutes later, the prisoners were freed from their cells to collect lunch in the mess hall. Mortimer finished his first serving and went to collect another, but Koranis cut in front of him in the lunch queue, which enraged Mortimer and prompted him to challenge the Glatorian. This proved to be a mistake, as Koranis knocked Mortimer to the floor with a single headbutt. After lunch, Mortimer returned to his cell and his cellmate, Seran, informed him that they would soon meet with another inmate named Heavy, who would conspire with them to escape.

The following day, Mortimer met with the Critics, Heavy and three new allies: Spanha, JC Denton, and Agent 47, in a disused supply closet to discuss how to escape Supermax 282. Heavy then revealed his plan in detail: they would all remain in the closet until the guards were occupied with escorting the other prisoners back to their cells. Then, they would sneak into the kitchen behind the mess hall and hide in trashcans to be loaded onto a ship and removed from the prison. Mortimer and the others agreed and prepared themselves.

The plan proceeded as intended until Koranis, who had also chosen that moment to escape with a similar plan, made additional noise that alerted the guards to their presence inside the kitchen. The guards burst in and all hell broke loose. Mortimer tried to tap into his magical abilities to help his fellow prisoners, including Dr. Pavel (who had been behind them all along), to defeat the guards, with an unknown degree of success. In the commotion, Koranis knocked over a fridge that revealed the corridor that led to the prison's hangar bay, which the prisoners began to flee into. A guard punched Mortimer into the exit and he was knocked unconscious, but JC picked him up and carried him into the hangar bay.

The refuse collection ship that the prisoners planned to sneak onto arrived as expected, so the semi-conscious Mortimer was loaded onto it and snuggled against the trashbags. The Critics, JC, Spanha, and Pavel also made it to the ship, but Koranis commandeered it and flew it out into space before anyone else could climb aboard. In fact, Koranis had not intended to take any other prisoners at all, so when Seran alerted him to their presence, Koranis disconnected the prisoners' container from the ship and left it to float adrift in space. Fortunately, Doug was able to contact a friend, Malcolm, who travelled to their coordinates and brought them aboard his ship with a tractor beam. Soon afterwards, Malcolm discovered that Bring the Pain Barry was holding 90s Kid prisoner on Kråvenhold, so Mortimer awoke and declared that he would fight Barry and any other challenger that stood in the way of their collective freedom. Everyone agreed that 90s Kid needed to be rescued, so Malcolm flew his ship to the source of the transmission on Kråvenhold.

The Search for 90s Kid
Mortimer emerged from Malcolm's ship and expressed his disappointment that there were no obvious ruins to loot or monsters to battle on Kråvenhold, but his opinion changed when a gryphon swooped down from the sky, grabbed him by the shoulders with its talons, and carried him to the nearest town. The Critics chased the gryphon into the town and found it eating a piece of orange fabric from Mortimer's prison jumpsuit on the roof of a barn, so Dr. Bedge reasoned that Mortimer was probably inside. While the Critics fought Bring the Pain Barry, Mortimer appeared on the roof of the barn and tried to fight off the gryphon because it started pecking at him. He eventually fell off the roof next to the Critics and took a moment to reflect on his humiliation. The Critics wondered what to do next now that Barry had been defeated, so Mortimer assumed that they would head their separate ways, but restated that he would not rest until he had found his missing brother. Mortimer decided to stay behind on Kråvenhold with JC while the Critics left to take 90s Kid home.