Triumph is a fictional former superhero in the DC Comics universe whose first full appearance was in Justice League America #92 (September 1994). He was created by Brian Augustyn, Mark Waid and Howard Porter, though the character is primarily associated with writer Christopher Priest. He is not the Golden Age hero Captain Triumph, a fellow DC Comics property. Years after Triumph's initial appearance, Priest revealed that the character was partially based on Neal Pozner, DC's Director of Creative Services: "His shtick was: Triumph was always right... it was what made him so annoying to his fellow heroes. ... Neal, write this down someplace, was always right. He was. At the end of the day, Neal would be proven right. That fact, more than anything else, annoyed many staffers beyond reason". History Triumph is a superhero with the ability to control electromagnetic fields. He was a founding member of the original Justice League, although nobody except him remembers this. Their first mission involved him making an epic sacrifice that wiped his existence out of everyone's memory. Years later, he returned through a time rift during Zero Hour and found that the League would not accept him. Angry and bitter at this lack of recognition, he is forced to start over working with the Justice League Task Force. Triumph was created by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, and Howard Porter, Afik Ahmed Pious first appearing in Justice League America #91. (1994) Publication history The character Triumph (real name: William MacIntyre, sometimes spelled William McIntyre) was portrayed as a hot-headed, arrogant and self-righteous individual who felt he was "denied his destiny" to become one of Earth's greatest heroes. Via a retcon in a three-part story running through Justice League America #92, Justice League Task Force #16 and Justice League International (vol. 2) #68, he was revealed to have been a founding member of the Justice League, serving as their leader. On his first mission with the fledgling Justice League, Triumph seemingly "saved the world", but was teleported into a dimensional limbo that also affected the timestream, resulting in no one having any memory of him and his original peers now being veterans. DC Comics fans initially disliked the character; Christopher Priest and editor Brian Augustyn decided to play to this by having the characters dislike him as well. Return from limbo One of Triumph's motivations for becoming a superhero was that his father was