The Earl of Millennium

The Millennium Earl(千年伯爵,)Also known as "the Earl of Millennium" is the story's main antagonist.

Background
Some time in the past he formed an alliance with the Noah family, who call him "Duke Millennium". Hoshino says she based the Earl of Millennium off a legendary alchemist/preacher (most likely the Count of St Germain or Nicolas Flamel, though in many ways he also reminiscent of Dorian Gray, possibly referenced in "Dorian Grey man" and thus "D.Gray-Man", as adapted in the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) whose tale even claims he still may be alive somewhere.

Earl tricks people with dead relatives and friends into creating Akumas. He is a sorcerer from long ago, and he plans to lead the world to its death.In the anime he is shown to have a split personally;The first is his normal cheerful, friendly, and happy attitude, almost like a friendly old uncle. With the Noah, he's a member of the family, and is particularly playful and affectionate towards Road. His other personality is one of sheer, sadistic malice, capable of happily playing with people's lives.He also seems to invariably uses polite Japanese.

At on point before the series started, The 14th Noah refused to obey the Earl's wicked plans the two had a fight which resulted in the Earl's barely won victory. The 14th and his older brother Mana Walker were on the run from him for a long time however, the Earl eventually killed the 14th. When Mana died, the Earl tricked his his adopted son, Allen Walker, into turing him into an Akuma. Much to the Earl's surprise however, Allen had innocense and it activated to kill Mana's Akuma. The Earl just left as this happened instead of killing Allen which the Earl still questions himself about.

Appearance
The Earl resembles a grotesque caricature of a Victorian gentleman. His skin tone is a sickly gray.A rotund figure in cape and top hat, with an enormous grin that remains fixed even when he is speaking and even eating, and his eyes permanently hidden behind a pair of pince-nez spectacles. In the manga, almost every one of his lines of dialog ends with a heart. He wears a different hat in each encounter, each with a different decoration.In a gag comic in Volume 2 of the manga, he is shown taking off his hat, and having another set of ears.

Synopsis
The Earl plays a rather small role in the series usually sending others to do his dirty work while he creates Akuma. However, when he does appear, usually something big happens.

Intro arc
The Earl appears in the shadows as he starts making checking up on Akuma he created as Allen puts an end to them.

Ghost of Mater arc
As a Black Order scientist's son, John, started to hound the Earl for a while, the Earl turned John's friend into a Akuma powered by the mother's soul. He had John brought to him so he could scare him into stop annoying him or kill him with the Akuma.

However, Allen appeared and as the two exchange ideals, the Earl remembered Allen was someone he had made a Akuma for as he summoned several Akuma to take him out. Allen then works with Lenalee Lee (anime only) to defeat his Akuma which Allen defeats them all with his Cross Greave but the Earl escapes and curses how he didn't kill Allen when he was younger. He reminds Allen that everyone is willing to make Akuma deals with him so his army will never wither.

Edo arc
During the Black Order's attack on Edo, the Earl played a small part as he watched the battle until Lenalee showed a possiblity of having the "Heart". With this, the Earl casually floats down to her "innocence crystal sheild" and prepares to kill her. However, Allen returns and battles the Earl and surprises him by showing his improved Anti-Akuma Weapon the Crown Clown. This however only makes the Earl sacastically question why Allen is being so similar to him as they are both clowns now. Despite the similarity, the Earl pulls out his sword, battles Allen for a second and casually leaves.

Noah's Arc arc
The Earl ran into Cross Marian again as he tries to destory the old Noah's arc and much to his surprise, he is stopped by a familiar piano song.

Invasion of HQ arc
As the Earl arrives to find his Akuma Egg gone he also foud that the 14th returned to save the exorsists which causes the Earl to experience great anger to find that his old enemy had return and he couldn't create Akuma for the time being.

Later, the Earl appeared at a ball hosted by Cyril Kamelot but this time he was in a human form. Tyki even was surprised to discover that the Earl is actually a human (The Earl's human face is obscured so the reader/watcher cannot see him). While at the party, the Earl keeps asking himself why he didn't kill Allen when he had the chance. Despite this, the Earl leaves to buy some flowers from a little girl.

Powers
His main form of combat involves his umbrella,Lero. He has also shown the ability to create massive explosions of dark energy and is able to control Noah's Ark and has created a new one, intending to discard the old one when it falls into the possession of the Black Order. The Earl is also able to summon a large black sword that is the opposite of Allen's Crown Clown sword.

Trivia

 * His Seiyu,Junpei Takiguchi has done many other voices from many anime such as;Mister Daring(Astro boy),Uranai Baba(Dragon Ball), Admiral Nelson(One Piece),Doctor Kozumi(Cyborg 009).To name a few.


 * The only time the Earl has ever showed anger was when he learned the 14th had sided with the innocence and saved the Exorsists in Noah's arc


 * A common theory amoung fans is that The Earl is actually Dorian Gray, the immortal who sealed his mortality into a protrait and the man the series is named after.