a failure, resorting to selling stolen League items to supervillains just to pay his rent. Because of this, he came under the influence of an evil imp from the Fifth Dimension named Lkz, similar to the one possessed by Golden Age Justice Society member Johnny Thunder. Triumph mind-controlled his former Justice League Task Force teammates Gypsy and the Ray, striking at the newly reformed JLA. He believed he was using Lkz to fake a disaster that would overwhelm the current JLA so much that "his" team could step in, while Lkz simply intended to destroy the world. The combined forces of the JSA and JLA were required to stop the rampaging Thunderbolt and subdue Triumph, culminating in Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt merging with Lkz to become a new purple Thunderbolt (now summoned by the phrase "So Cool"). Throughout his attack, Triumph expressed disgruntlement with the League's alleged elitism, accusing the League of ignoring his team after the "headliners" came back, and claiming (in JLA #30) that Aquaman (who had been teammates with Gypsy in the "Detroit" League) had not cared about Gypsy and happily ignored her and "the old days" "once he made the dream". To Triumph's ultimate shock, Superman told him that he had been "a fine Leaguer" and would have been "welcomed any time" if only he had simply asked. At the end of this story arc, the then-hostless Spectre-Force transformed Triumph into an ice statue and prepared to smash him with a hammer, but was stopped by a compassionate plea by the angel Zauriel. His frozen form was stored in the Justice League Watchtower, marked "Founding Member of the J.L.A." as a memorial. Grant Morrison, the writer of this story, later had Prometheus destroy the Watchtower, but forgot to remove Triumph; he was confirmed dead a few years later. Later mentions Several years after Triumph's death, it was revealed that he had unknowingly sired a son named Jonathan. During a college protest against the construction of a nuclear reactor, the deranged teenager manifested superhuman abilities similar to those of his father. After going on a rampage and killing 19 people (including his girlfriend Christie), Jonathan was confronted by Supergirl and Raven of the Teen Titans. The two used Raven's abilities to enter Jonathan's mind, where they learned that he had been driven insane by fractured visions of Triumph's removal from history and subsequent return, as well as the