Ben Lockwood

"Well, history is extreme, truth is extreme.The classroom isn't a safe place where everyone gets to hear a fairy tale version of the facts. And if students can't handle perspectives that are different than their own, then I don't know. Maybe they don't belong here."

- Ben Lockwood on his new rhetoric

Professor Ben Lockwood, also known as Agent Liberty, is a former history professor at National City University. After his life was torn apart by consequences of alien attacks, he began working with Mercy and Otis Graves as the leader of the Children of Liberty, serving to exterminate all extraterrestrials and establish humans as the superior race on Earth. Ben is also the son of the late Peter Lockwood, the husband of Lydia Lockwood and the father of George Lockwood.

Biography
Ben Lockwood was a history professor at National City University, living with his wife Lydia, his son George, and his father Peter. He had helped his father out at his steel factory for some time, even negotiating with Lena Luthor for help with the factory.

At dinner with his family, the news showed Supergirl trying to snap the city out of Myriad, but Peter didn't approve of Supergirl and the Alien Amnesty Act, hating so much of aliens that he wouldn't accept material from them. Ben tried to convince him otherwise, but his father wouldn't have it. However, after their argument, a fight at the Nth Metal Factory across the street included a fight between Peter's workers and two aliens at the factory, one of whom ended up accidentally shooting Ben in the chest. Supergirl arrived at the scene to break up the situation and Agent Alex Danvers helped deal with Ben's stab wounds. Later, Ben also had bad luck when Lena denied any help for his father.

His life got worse after the Daxamite invasion as his home was destroyed in a fight between a Daxamite and Martian Manhunter. As a result, he began being more prejudice to his alien students, which cost him his job. He began giving flyers on how aliens were taking away everything from humans until the Worldkillers attempt to terraform Earth. He went to save his father from the steel factory but to his horror his father didn't want to be saved and could only watch as his factory crushed him in the end. He spoke at his father's funeral afterwards and was surprised to see that Lena had came to pay her respects. She wanted to help him and his family during their time of need but he refused stating that she chose the aliens over the humans and they are to blame for everything that was happening. She told him that if he chose this path of blaming people for everything that was happening to him, no good would come from it, but he refused to listen.

He soon met his friends outside his father's ruined steel factory and together they set fire to the Nth Metal factory as revenge for putting their factory out of business. During the fire a person came out gasping for air. At first he wanted to help him as he thought he was human, but was actually an alien disguised as a human. Recognizing him as the same alien that shot him once and refusing to consider aliens as people he beat him to death with a pipe. He began recruiting others to his organization dedicated to ridding the earth of aliens where he was contacted by a person named Mercy Graves. She told him that she and her brother Otis knew about his organization that they were hunting down aliens and the alien that he killed. At first he thought they were going to arrest him, but they actually wanted to recruit him for their plans against the aliens. They gave him equipment that would be useful to him. To test him they told him he had to kidnap and kill an alien named Fiona Byrne who was beginning a group that would protect aliens from humans.

After the plan to expose the president in her alien form worked he stood behind Fiona ready to kill her. Before he did he told her that he never sought conflict with aliens but they left him with no choice. When she asked who he was he merely responded he was an agent of liberty and stabbed her in the back. He soon watched on TV as Supergirl stopped a fight between two human groups ones that supported aliens being on Earth and others that didn't. While watching he knew she would be a problem for them but Mercy revealed she had Kryptonite that could be used against her. He told her to be careful with it as they couldn't kill Supergirl yet as she would then become a symbol of hope, but she told him it was just insurance. He soon went to his followers giving a speech that they would take back Earth from the aliens and went back to Otis and Mercy to see what their next move is. After returning from his followers he saw Otis and Mercy were going to kill the D.E.O agent that freed them. Although willing to kill aliens he refused to kill his own human kind. Although Mercy said it was necessary so they could tie up loose ends and that Jensen was a nobody. He convinced her otherwise though as he not only released Mercy and her brother, but could also bring them back into the D.E.O.

Personality
As a civilian= Ben Lockwood was once a mild-mannered man, whose views eventually turned to anti-alien sentiment due to multiple alien-related incidents that has befallen the Lockwood family. As Agent Liberty= "Because we can come together and we can tear out this alien disease that threatens to poison our world, we can invite them to return to the planets that they came from and we can restore health and vitality and security to this country. And I, as your Agent of Liberty, will stand with you as we dare to put Earth first!"

- Agent Liberty

As Agent Liberty, Lockwood is a human patriot and nationalist, who seeks to empower his fellow human beings, regardless of ethnicity or faith, to unite against their ungodly extraterrestrial immigrants. Lockwood has witnessed many tragedies befalling, not only his family, but also many human beings due to extraterrestrial activities. This is further fueled by the media disapproval to help these human beings or even L-Corp to help them in their times of crisis, causing many human beings to be let go without jobs and homes.

With the United States Government turning on its human civilians in favor of extraterrestrial amnesty, Lockwood decided to help humanity by exposing extraterrestrials of the threats they really are.

Abilities

 * High-level intellect/Skilled tactician/Leader: Ben is a capable leader, coupled with good communication skills. Mercy Graves has compared his rhetoric skills to Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini. Ben was able to recruit many individuals into the Children of Liberty by feeding on the increasingly tense atmosphere following numerous alien battles. Before being recruited by the Graves siblings, Ben and his friends were able to keep their hate crimes against alien immigrants secret from the police and D.E.O..

Equipment

 * Agent Liberty suit: Ben possesses a suit that protects his identity and himself from threats.
 * Dagger: The suit has a dagger hidden in its arm, this is displayed when it is used to kill Fiona.

Behind the scenes

 * In the main DC Comics continuity, Ben Lockwood was the first Agent Liberty, an ex-CIA operative turned Superhero, who worked for the Sons of Liberty organization. Unlike the show's adaptation, he was more heroic, disgusted with the violent methods of intelligence, but he still shares a number of similarities: his looks, elements of his suit, the fact that the suit was provided for him by the interested organization, and said organization opposing Superman, eventually targeting politicians, which made Agent Liberty breakaway with the group. Later on he investigated an influx of Kryptonians on Earth, similarly to how the three attacks from Krypton motivated Ben Lockwood in the TV show to start his anti-alien actions. He was murdered by the new Superwoman, a mutated Lucy Lane, during his investigation.