Jonah

"When I was laying here, my biggest fear wasn't dying. It was that I might die without ever having looked into her eyes."

- Jonah

Jonah is a mysterious man that assembled the members of PRIDE granting them resources in order to make them fulfill his own agenda. As part of their deal, Jonah was repeatedly revived by PRIDE's annual rituals. He is the biological father of Karolina Dean, and both share the same power of light generation.

Gibborim
"Is he the Being?" "Yes. He is."

- Frank Dean and Leslie Dean

Jonah was born tens of hundreds of years ago. He came to David Ellerh confirming things that he had been thinking during years, leading Elerh to write the Book of Gibborim and form the Church of Gibborim in Los Angeles.

Assembling the PRIDE
"You all eagerly accepted Jonah's gifts. You reaped their enormous benefits over the years. You knew he'd ask for something in return."

- Leslie Dean to the PRIDE

Needing to form a reliable group to periodically revive him so he could achieve his own plans, Jonah went to the Los Angeles Penitentiary and met with inmate Geoffrey Wilder. Jonah offered Wilder to purchase a land he owned in the south of Los Angeles, claiming that it was highly valuable. When Wilder suggested that they struck a partnership instead of a simple transaction, Jonah refused as Wilder was imprisoned and thus unavailable for rich business. Catherine Henderson, Wilder's legal counsel, offered to have Wilder released within a month, prompting Jonah to carefully consider the option. Wilder was eventually released just like Henderson had announced.

Jonah later met with the now married Geoffrey and Catherine and led them to an old basement located in the rich neighborhood of Brentwood. Jonah told Geoffrey and Catherine that he would give them the land located above for them to build their home on. In parallel, Jonah also allocated many resources to other people: Robert and Tina Minoru; Victor and Janet Stein; Dale and Stacey Yorkes, Gene and Alice Hernandez. All those people gathered by Jonah, and the companies they had started, formed the PRIDE, led by Church of Gibborim leader Leslie Dean. Periodically, using Dematerialization Boxes, the PRIDE perpetrated secret rituals which revived Jonah once he had returned to a decrepit condition forcing him to stay in bed in a secret room of the Church of Gibborim Executive Offices.

Assassination of Amy Minoru
"He said he was going to just talk to her, find out what she knew, scare her enough to keep quiet."

- Leslie Dean

Upon learning that Amy Minoru had hacked into Wizard's servers, Jonah feared that she might have discovered the video tape displaying her parents and other members of PRIDE performing the Rite of Blood in order to revive him. Therefore, Jonah headed for the Minoru Mansion, pretending to Leslie Dean that he would simply talk with Minoru to assess what she knew. However, once he arrived in Minoru's room, he forced her to ingest a lethal dose of medicines, making his murder look like a suicide.

Personality
Jonah is a man shrouded in mystery and proves himself to be an extremely powerful individual, giving orders to the PRIDE members and controlling them for many years. The deal that he made with the members of PRIDE allows him to continue to gain longevity from the sacrifices, and so he uses his manipulations to keep PRIDE members in check and control their behaviour to suit his goals. He does not show any compassion for PRIDE members, or for their children.

Powers

 * Immortality: Through the use of the Dematerialization Box and the sacrifice of healthy victims by PRIDE, Jonah is effectively immortal and has eternal youth.
 * Light Generation: At will, Jonah's skin emits an aura of bright, moving light.
 * Light Beam Emission: Jonah is able to project beams of light that can stun and injure his enemies, as well as push back blasts from enemies with similar powers. This ability seems to drain his lifeforce.

Family

 * Karolina Dean - Daughter

Allies

 * Church of Gibborim
 * David Ellerh †
 * Frank Dean - Informant
 * Victor Stein

Enemies

 * Geoffrey Wilder
 * Catherine Wilder
 * PRIDE
 * Leslie Dean - Former Lover
 * Tina Minoru
 * Robert Minoru
 * Dale Yorkes
 * Stacey Yorkes
 * Janet Stein
 * Gene Hernandez †
 * Alice Hernandez †
 * Runaways
 * Alex Wilder
 * Nico Minoru
 * Gert Yorkes
 * Chase Stein
 * Molly Hernandez
 * Amy Minoru † - Victim

Trivia
To be added

Behind the Scenes

 * Julian McMahon's first quote in the role: "I feel fantastic", is a pun on his appearance in the  films.
 * Ric Sarabia was credited as "Decrepit Figure" in the Runaways episode Reunion and "Mysterious Man" in the Runaways episodes Rewind, Destiny, Fifteen and Kingdom.