Post by Captain America on May 3, 2010 2:34:38 GMT -6
The Basics
- Real Name: Hank Henshaw
- Alias / Codename:Cyborg Superman
- Gender: Male
- Age: Mid 30
- Affiliation:Villain
- Canon / Original: Canon
- Face Claim [if original]: (which celebrity are you using for your original character's appearance?)
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- Brilliant
- Insane
- Revengeful
Hank Henshaw is a brilliant man. A well known scientist at one time, until his fatal accident. This accident that he chose to believe was at Superman's fault this then left the man with a bitter taste of revenge has he swore to make the man of steel pay for the death of his friends.
[/blockquote]Extraordinary Features
Powers & AbilitiesWeaknesses
- Due to the fact that parts of the Cyborg are cloned from Superman's DNA, he has many of the Man of Steel's powers. He has exhibited heat vision (and other kinds of vision), super strength, super speed, invulnerability, and flight. It is assumed that if he created biological lungs for himself he could duplicate Superman's freeze breath, but he has not done so at this time. As with machines though, Cyborg Superman can modify his Superman parts beyond their original limits and weaknesses. He has already removed his Kryptonite weakness and his understanding of biology seems so complete that he can create more living Kryptonian parts from machinery. Cyborg Superman is also immortal, being able to live no matter what happens to his physical body.
- Currently, Cyborg Superman possess several Green Lantern Rings and a number of Qwardian Power Rings. These weapons are not just for show either. He doesn't use them much, usually relying on his Superman powers, but he can when necessary. Other weapons at his disposal include willhunters, nanites which he uses to enslave a person's mind and make them loyal to the Manhunters, as well as hundreds of Manhunter robots which he has upgraded and started mass producing and obey his every command.
- He can posses machines and anything even remotely electronically mechanical and is able to control them completely with an ability he calls "technomorphing". Unlike most technopaths, he doesn't just command them, he incorporates them into himself and any nearby technology becomes an extension of himself. He can take any machine and, once it's a part of him, he can transform it into anything his mind can imagine, and thanks to his time spent traveling across the universe, he can imagine a lot. And, even before becoming a living energy signal, Hank Henshaw was a genius, so this only adds to what he can come up with. The Cyborg is not limited by the uses or parts in the original machine, which makes this ability all the more dangerous.
- Artificial Intelligence: Every ring has a connection to the Main Battery on Qward, which taps into Parallax. It acts as an "on-board computer," telling the wearer what they need to know. It can either respond out loud, or silently directly to the wearer's mind. The AI contains a large database of information that may be crucial to a "Sinestro's" success. The ring also translates nearly every language to and from the wearer, which is why the Corps can communicate with each other. When the bearer of a Sinestro Corps ring dies, the ring will seek out a suitable replacement for their sector, someone capable of instilling great fear.
- Communicator: The ring can act as a personal communicator between Sinestro Corps members.
- Energy absorptions:The user can absorb and store most forms of energy.
- Translator of languages: The ring can translate languages so that the user can understand.
- Energy Beams, Bubbles, Force-Fields, and Blasts: The rings can also project beams, form protective bubbles and force fields, and fire destructive blasts. The power ring can contain immense amount of forces.
- Energy Constructs: The rings can construct anything the wearer can imagine from hard-light energy, as long as they are willing to make it. The more determined the wearer is, the more complex and intricate these things can be. The constructs can even be so complex as to form working machines, computers, and even people.
- Flight: The ring allows the wearer to fly in atmosphere or in space, and can achieve light-speed, moving from planet to planet in a matter of hours.
- Mirages: The Ring can create mirages/illusions. This would often be used to create images of monters or other horrific creatures or tableus.
- Phasing: The ring allows the user to go through walls.
- Probing: The ring can probe the Lantern's or another person's mind, allowing him to uncover memories or the person's thoughts, often to use them against to instill great fear.
- Recharging: The rings need to be recharged by means of a Power Battery. Other large sources of power may be used to recharge a power ring, however effectiveness may vary. The internal power source of a Manhunter Android is, in effect, the same as a power battery, and can be used to recharge a power ring. As a member of the Sinestro Corps recharges their ring, they generally quote the Sinestro Corps oath:
- When using his ring if one is able to catch him off guard or cause him to have to make super quickly thinking they are more likly to throw him off judgment causing him to miss create his objects.
- (only physical weaknesses)
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- Current Residence: (where will you be living in the Grey Divide?)
Hank Henshaw, a brilliant scientist at the time, and three of his friends were returning from space when they encountered a freak radiation storm. The radiation affected the machinery of the vessel and the shuttle crash landed somewhere far away from its intended target. When the four explorers had freed themselves from the wreckage, Hank discovered that his friends Steve and Jim had been horribly transformed. Steve had become living radiation and Jim's body had been destroyed and reformed out of debris from the ship and the surrounding area. Hank's wife Terri seemed to be fine, but Hank himself could feel radiation sickness beginning to eat away at him.
The group went to Metropolis in search of a LexCorp facility that they could use to fix their mutations but ran into Superman and were subsequently involved in a time consuming fight. Things were worked out but by then the radiation's affects on Hank had begun to show. His flesh was falling off his bones and he was obviously close to death. Terri also started exhibiting symptoms, beginning to fade from existence. Hank tried his hardest to work on a cure for her but he was going fast. While he worked, Steve flew into the sun and Jim killed himself. Hank came up with a plan to fix Terri, but died before he could use it. Thankfully, Superman was still there and he was able to save Terri before she completely disappeared.
Some time later, Hank returned in a new form. When his physical body had died, his consciousness had been turned to energy and sent into the machine on which he had been working. Somehow he had gained control over the machinery and was able to form it into a robotic body he could use as transport. His first thoughts once reconstituted were of his wife Terri who had been institutionalized after the traumatic events which he had witnessed. Henshaw found Terri but after appearing as a robot and leaving suddenly when security came, Terri was left even more disturbed than before. When Henshaw heard how his visit had made Terri feel, he decided it would be best for him to leave Earth and continue his hunt for knowledge on his own.
Henshaw found his way to Superman's birthing matrix and made it his new body so he could travel space again, absorbing the knowledge of the universe in the process. Superman found him and tried to stop him, but Hank flew away.
Cyborg Superman's origin has been retold a number of times with slight changes each time (often showing Superman doing things he hadn't originally done) , but usually with the Cyborg himself narrating. Since Cyborg Superman is obviously insane and hates Superman, some things are clearly false, but with other changes, like the cause of the radiation storm and what happened with Terri, it's hard to tell if these re-tellings are just the result of a crazy man telling his story or official retcons. For that reason, any changes in the origin are in the following paragraph.
When the Cyborg met Mongul , it is revealed that for some reason Henshaw believes that Superman was responsible for his loss of humanity and that he had banished Hank from
Earth. When the Cyborg battled Blue Superman at the Source Wall , he explained that Superman had caused the deaths of his friends because he was jealous and afraid of their abilities. While attacking Earth as a part of the Sinestro Corps , the Cyborg said that Superman had indirectly caused the radiation storm when he threw Eradicator into the sun. He also said that Terri had been near death when he went to see her as a machine and that he was trying to save her life but she jumped out of a window when she saw him and, as a result, Superman tried to kill him.
After wandering the Universe and eventually losing his sanity, Cyborg Superman would ultimately return to earth and after spending several weeks convincing the world of his legitimacy as the “real” Superman by saving the president from terrorists and throwing Doomsday into space (secretly implanting a device in him that would allow Hank to always know his location in the process). After an Alien spacecraft (Commanded by Mongul who worked for Cyborg Superman) suddenly appeared over Coast City and was approached by the Eradicator to discover it’s intent, Hank would then commit an act that would have severe consequences on the DCU for decades afterwards (such as Zero-Hour and it‘s consequences), fueled by many psychotic motivations like his desire to remake coast city into his image, to forever discredit Superman, and to erase the memory of his wife Terri who was from Coast city, Hank destroyed the Eradicator, Coast city, and all of it’s seven million inhabitants. He would later attempt to do the same thing to Metropolis but a squad consisting of Superboy, Supergirl, Steel, a rebuilt Eradicator , and a reborn Superman would eventually arrive to stop him. The battle would reach it’s climax as Hank, Superman, and the Eradicator fought in the reactor of the Hank’s remade Coast city or “Engine City”, the kryptonite radiation in the room where they fought was so fierce it was capable of killing non-Kryptonians, Hank would destroy the Eradicator once more, but as his blast went through the him the Eradicator changed the radiation into yellow sunlight and directed it towards Superman giving him the power to at last defeat Henshaw and obliterate him.
Hank would later send his consciousness to the device he had placed on Doomsday long ago and after Doomsday at last landed on Apokolips Hank would remake himself using Apkoliptian technology, effortlessly assimilating the New God technology into his being. With Doomsday at his side he layed waste to Apokolips’s defenses even using Doomsday to defeat Darksied himself, but his plans of conquest were foiled by Superman who delayed Hank’s triumph long enough for Darkseid to recover and defeat him with the Omega Effect. Darksied would ultimately undo Hank’s imprisonment within the effect after being angered by Superman and sent Hank to plague him once more.
Hank would later hunt down Superman at the behest of an intergalactic tribunal who mistakenly believed Superman guilty of destroying his home planet of Krypton. After capturing Superman, Supergirl, Steel, Superboy and the Eradicator he would later be captured by alien tribunal himself after they learned of his many crimes and of Superman’s innocence, they ultimately decided to cast him into a Black hole and after eventually escaping that he was attacked by Hal Jordan as Parallax. Their battle would take them to the brink of the Source Wall, a wall made of fallen gods, containing unfathomable power, and serving as the barrier between the various 52 universes and the Bleed (the highly radioactive space between universes). Parallax would ultimately destroy the Cyborg’s body and disperse his consciousness into the wall. Henshaw would survive however by commandeering a piece of the source wall itself and after a brief confrontation with Superman Blue he would eventually travel beyond the Wall and into the Bleed (eventually learning of 51 parallel universes that existed beyond his own) before eventually somehow making contact with the Manhunters and becoming their Grandmaster.
Hank later began upgrading the Manhunters with Kryptonian technology and spent a lot of time and effort battling and capturing various members of the Green Lantern Corps, and performing experiments on them to see if Sentient life could be controlled, remarking that life brought nothing but suffering and to be given any meaning it must either be controlled or destroyed “By eliminating organic life I eliminate the suffering that goes with it”. During a rescue expedition led by Hal Jordan to free their compatriots, he and Arisia would commandeer one of Henshaw’s Highmasters, a device which could (and did) amplify the power of their rings 100 times over and used it to defeat Henshaw whose remains would later be collected for interrogation by the Guardians of the universe. After the opening raid on Oa in the early stages of the Sinestro corps war he and Superboy-prime would be freed from their imprisonment and join forces with the Anti-Monitor and his Sinestro Corps. It is here we discover that Hank Henshaw's one wish is to die and the Anti-Monitor promised to grant Hank's wish of death once their goal is reached.
Henshaw was positioned to watch over the construction of the new Warworld . As the Sinestro Corps approached Earth, their primary target, Sinestro ordered Hank to deal with the Justice League and control the Anti-Monitor's landing zone personally. He attacked the Justice League, along with his army of Manhunters, and they appeared to be victorious before Superman arrived and battled his cyborg counterpart. Using the power of the Sinestro Corp rings , Henshaw was able to gain a temporary victory over Superman back but was over-powered when Supergirl and Powergirl arrived to aid their cousin. Henshaw is later thrown into Superman-Prime who was in the middle of a battle with the rest of Earth's heroes. After landing on top of Prime, Henshaw states "He almost did it." Henshaw returned to the battle while Superman and the others fought with Prime and continued to fight Green Lanterns and the heroes of Earth. He noted the Green Lanterns had been given the authority to use lethal force and requested they use it, while litting Hawkman' s wings on fire with heat vision but the fire was quickly put out by John Stewart . Henshaw was caught in the explosion when Warworld exploded. He survived and was rescued by his Manhunters.
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- Name: Mox
- Experience: Long
- Characters: Captain America, Owlman, Red X, Titan
- Custom Title:Sinestro Corps. Super-man
[color=Yellow]Sinestro Corps.[/color] [color=Red]Super-Man[/color]
- Other Notes: Comicvine, And Dr. Strange.
- Sample Role-Play Post:
His cape danced around his frame as zero gravity allowed it to so gracefully. His eye's slowly opened allowing him to peek over the massive blue planet known as earth.
With his arms crossed over his chest he took a small breath, not that he needed it due to his cyborg nature, but it was still a natural thing to him. Something that gave him a slight embracing thought about death. "I have not forgotten about why you did to me Superman" His voice was stern and deep as he spoke a loud. "My time away as only allowed me grow in a massive force, one that will sweep across your planet destroying everything" As Hank said this what seemed like a thousand teal bright eye's lite up behind him. It was the force known as the manhunters.