John Grayson

FIRST APPEARANCE: Earth 2: World's End #1 (December, 2015)

Years before the Earth 2 invasion by Darkseid and his Parademons, John was born to Richard Grayson, a journalist, and Barbara Gordon, a police officer. The trio lived in peace alongside the rest of the world after the Wonders of the World's sacrifice.

After Darkseid and Apokolips make their second attack on Earth 2, the second generation of the Wonders of the World formulated contingency plans for the non-metahumans in places such as the World Army Refugee stronghold in Chicago, where the Graysons had taken refuge. While rations lowered and tensions rose; Barbara confided in Richard that she wished she still wore her badge. In addition to the dissent within the camp, a meteor shower of debris was sent from Apokolips toward Earth 2, and ultimately to Chicago. John's mother was hit rather badly, but not mortally, by some debris and the whole Grayson family were whisked away from the chaos by Lottie, seemingly another refugee, on her motorbike. After an altercation on the road, the four of them arrived at an abandoned Navy Pier, now-turned crude fortress, which Lottie called "Gomorrah". Inside, Barbara was captured and Richard was taken hostage, John however, was returned to the refugee stronghold.

Once his parents returned and found him, the Graysons attempted to board an already overfilled evacuating train; while Barbara attempts to secure a place for her family on-board she was shot in the chest as John Constantine (Prime Earth) watched in horror. Immediately, Constantine and his allies attacked Barbara's killers and then boarded the train to escape the imminent tidal wave. As the train pulled away, Richard Grayson handed his son over to Jonni Thunder and awaited his inevitable death in Chicago.