Captain Atom
Origins - Nathaniel Christopher Adam was a United States Air Force officer during the Vietnam War era. Adam was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to death in 1968. As an alternative to execution, he was invited to participate in a military experiment with little chance of survival, in exchange for a presidential pardon. The experiment involved testing the hull of a crashed alien ship's durability by exploding a super nuclear bomb under it. Adam survived as the metal melted into his body and the excess energy threw him forward in time nearly twenty years. Captain Atom eventually joined the Justice League and serving as the leader of the organizations European branch the JLE. After the JLE disbanded, Captain Atom founded a more radical version of the Justice League, Extreme Justice, working without government sanctions. For a short time Atom was a villain named the Kryptonite Man after he saved Superman from a kryptonite meteor by smashing into and being exposed to the radiation from the exploding chunk of Superman's former home world. After his skin is pierced by an unknown assailant, Atom is held in a comatose like state by the Atomic Knights so his state wouldn't go critical. Nathaniel is later fitted with an updated Monarch (a villain that a copy of himself taken from the time stream once wore in an attempt at world domination.) suit and seems to still be mentally unstable. After grabbing heroes from many different Earth realities, Monarch gathers all of the other 51 versions of Captain Atom and kills them all. After killing them he is able to absorb their power so he becomes 51 times more powerful than he was before. During a battle with Superboy-Prime and Monitor Solomon (who is revealed to be the unknown assailant who originally pierced Atom's skin) the Monarch suit is also breached. A chain reaction explosion sends Captain Atom into a magical realm. After leaving he was returned to the JLA watchtower where he was attacked by the Justice League and told he would have to pay for his crimes as Monarch. Having no memory of his past villainous ways, he returned to Sorcerer's World where he was able to atone for his past crimes. Here, instead of destroying a world he saves manages to save it. After being transported back to his world, Captain Atom is resolved of his past crimes and returns to his heroic ways. Captain Atom is the original blueprint Alan Moore used to create Dr. Manhattan for his comic series The Watchmen.
Powers and Abilities - Captain Atom's metallic shell, or "skin", is composed of a portion of the alien being known as Silver Shield, and is called Dilustel. Nathaniel is able to coat himself with the metal, either partially or totally. Atom's Dilustel coating renders him invulnerable to some if not all forms of arcane magic. Atom's symbiosis with the metal is such that even partially armored, he is able to access the Quantum Field. Due to being tied to the quantum field he is able to absorb and manipulate infinite amounts of energy, for an infinite amount of purposes the amount of which he can do is, limited solely by his will power and imagination. He truly reinforces this fact when he realized that the Quantum Field is completely under his control and he can do anything he wishes. With this realization he tests his powers, and by simply thinking of it, and he is able to instantly create a replica of our Earth from nothing, complete with life. His power was such that he was able to easily create his own replicas of Superman, Flash, Firestorm and even his own Spectre. His power is such, that he went even further, and by simply thinking of it, he was able to instantaneously create an entire universe out of nothing, and just as easily destroyed an entire universe, but he has never used this level of power again as a result of him mentally limiting himself. Captain Atom's energy absorption power is second to none in the DCU, as he is able to absorb any form of energy and store it in his person. Captain Atom can fire and control energy of any form. He commonly manipulates his energy into force field bubbles, or explosive 'bombs', but the most common form is a simple blast. This energy can be used for flight at faster than light speeds. As Captain Atom his strength was such that he was able to go toe to toe with beings such as Superman and hold his own. Has no need for food, water or air. Captain Atom through concentration, can travel ahead in time. The process is exhausting and the period he can interact in the future appears to be limited to a few minutes before he returns to the present.
Weaknesses and Limitations - If Atom absorbs too much energy at once, he is sent hurling through time. Depending on the type of energy absorbed, he either goes forward or backward in time.
Origins - Nathaniel Christopher Adam was a United States Air Force officer during the Vietnam War era. Adam was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to death in 1968. As an alternative to execution, he was invited to participate in a military experiment with little chance of survival, in exchange for a presidential pardon. The experiment involved testing the hull of a crashed alien ship's durability by exploding a super nuclear bomb under it. Adam survived as the metal melted into his body and the excess energy threw him forward in time nearly twenty years. Captain Atom eventually joined the Justice League and serving as the leader of the organizations European branch the JLE. After the JLE disbanded, Captain Atom founded a more radical version of the Justice League, Extreme Justice, working without government sanctions. For a short time Atom was a villain named the Kryptonite Man after he saved Superman from a kryptonite meteor by smashing into and being exposed to the radiation from the exploding chunk of Superman's former home world. After his skin is pierced by an unknown assailant, Atom is held in a comatose like state by the Atomic Knights so his state wouldn't go critical. Nathaniel is later fitted with an updated Monarch (a villain that a copy of himself taken from the time stream once wore in an attempt at world domination.) suit and seems to still be mentally unstable. After grabbing heroes from many different Earth realities, Monarch gathers all of the other 51 versions of Captain Atom and kills them all. After killing them he is able to absorb their power so he becomes 51 times more powerful than he was before. During a battle with Superboy-Prime and Monitor Solomon (who is revealed to be the unknown assailant who originally pierced Atom's skin) the Monarch suit is also breached. A chain reaction explosion sends Captain Atom into a magical realm. After leaving he was returned to the JLA watchtower where he was attacked by the Justice League and told he would have to pay for his crimes as Monarch. Having no memory of his past villainous ways, he returned to Sorcerer's World where he was able to atone for his past crimes. Here, instead of destroying a world he saves manages to save it. After being transported back to his world, Captain Atom is resolved of his past crimes and returns to his heroic ways. Captain Atom is the original blueprint Alan Moore used to create Dr. Manhattan for his comic series The Watchmen.
Powers and Abilities - Captain Atom's metallic shell, or "skin", is composed of a portion of the alien being known as Silver Shield, and is called Dilustel. Nathaniel is able to coat himself with the metal, either partially or totally. Atom's Dilustel coating renders him invulnerable to some if not all forms of arcane magic. Atom's symbiosis with the metal is such that even partially armored, he is able to access the Quantum Field. Due to being tied to the quantum field he is able to absorb and manipulate infinite amounts of energy, for an infinite amount of purposes the amount of which he can do is, limited solely by his will power and imagination. He truly reinforces this fact when he realized that the Quantum Field is completely under his control and he can do anything he wishes. With this realization he tests his powers, and by simply thinking of it, and he is able to instantly create a replica of our Earth from nothing, complete with life. His power was such that he was able to easily create his own replicas of Superman, Flash, Firestorm and even his own Spectre. His power is such, that he went even further, and by simply thinking of it, he was able to instantaneously create an entire universe out of nothing, and just as easily destroyed an entire universe, but he has never used this level of power again as a result of him mentally limiting himself. Captain Atom's energy absorption power is second to none in the DCU, as he is able to absorb any form of energy and store it in his person. Captain Atom can fire and control energy of any form. He commonly manipulates his energy into force field bubbles, or explosive 'bombs', but the most common form is a simple blast. This energy can be used for flight at faster than light speeds. As Captain Atom his strength was such that he was able to go toe to toe with beings such as Superman and hold his own. Has no need for food, water or air. Captain Atom through concentration, can travel ahead in time. The process is exhausting and the period he can interact in the future appears to be limited to a few minutes before he returns to the present.
Weaknesses and Limitations - If Atom absorbs too much energy at once, he is sent hurling through time. Depending on the type of energy absorbed, he either goes forward or backward in time.
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