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Aquarian
REAL
NAME: Wundarr KNOWN ALIASES: Herald of the New Age IDENTITY: The fact that he is an alien is not
widely known OCCUPATION: Prophet LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of Dakkam, illegal alien
on Earth PLACE OF BIRTH: Dekkam, second planet in the
R Aquarii system (Earth designation) MARITAL STATUS: Single KNOWN RELATIVES: Hektu (father, deceased),
Soja (mother, deceased) GROUP AFFILIATION: None BASE OF OPERATIONS: None FIRST APPEARANCE: (as Wundarr) Fear #17, (as
Aquarian) Marvel Two-in-One #58
HISTORY: Wundarr was born on the planet
Dakkam to the extremely humanoid-looking alien race native
to the world. As an infant, Wundarr was placed inside a rocket
and sent into space when his father incorrectly predicted
a planet wide destruction. Sending the interstellar voyage
in suspended animation, Wundarr eventually came within the
gravitational influence of Earth and was bombarded by cosmic
rays in Earth's outer atmosphere. This radiation endowed him
with certain superhuman physical powers. Crash-landing on
Earth, Wundarr grew to maturity within the ship, having been
released from suspended animation by the crash. Eventually
he was set free by the Man-Thing. Due to his lack of experience
and education, Wundarr acted mentally and emotionally retarded.
For a brief time he was placed in the custody of the Thing,
but Namorita "adopted" him shortly thereafter. Government
agents learned of his superhuman abilities and illegal alien
status and brought him to the government energy research facility,
Project: Pegasus, for study.
Wundarr's mild energy-dampening powers were used to probe
the power object called the Cosmic Cube. In an accidental
power overload, Wundarr's mind and body were overwhelmed by
the Cube's energies. Consequently, Wundarr's energy-dampening
abilities were greatly heightened but his mind was shut down,
as it was not yet able to cope with the influx of new power.
In communion with the sentience of the Cosmic Cube, Wundarr
gained great knowledge and a sense of purpose. Emerging from
his coma, he renamed himself the Aquarian and set forth to
use his new powers to bring peace and enlightenment to the
world. He since helped the sentient life form in the Cosmic
Cube metamorphose into its next state of being.
HEIGHT: 5 ft. 10 in. WEIGHT 165 lbs. EYES: Brown HAIR: Brown
STRENGTH LEVEL: The Aquarian possesses superhuman
strength enabling him to lift (press) approximately 1 ton
under optimal conditions. Before his power changed due to
exposure to the Cosmic Cube, he could absorb energy to increase
his physical strength to about 15 times its normal level,
thus enabling him to lift (press) 15 tons.
KNOWN SUPERHUMAN POWERS: The Aquarian possesses
certain superhuman physical and energy-manipulating powers
due to magnetic changes wrought in his cellular structure
by radiation.
Prior to his exposure to the Cosmic Cube, the Aquarian's
body absorbed various energies from the environment and transformed
them into kinetic energy with which to augment his body's
strength and endurance. The Aquarian could not only use his
augmented strength to lift things, but also to propel himself
through the air by jumping. The Aquarian could cover several
miles in a single bound. The energy absorption process continued
involuntarily and if the Aquarian had not expended it in some
physical activity before it reached the threshold of his body's
capacity to retain energy, the energy would explosively discharge
in a sphere of concussive force. (Reed Richards designed him
a containment suit, which enabled his body to expel small,
non-concussive amounts of energy so it would not build up.)
After the Cosmic Cube experiment, the Aquarian's former energy-dampening
ability was transformed into something different and more
powerful. The Aquarian's body is now surrounded by a field
of entropy ("null-force"), which, at equilibrium,
radiates to a distance of five feet from any point on his
body. With concentration, the Aquarian can contact the null-field
to about five inches in thickness, or expand it to a maximum
distance of approximately 500 feet. He can never shut the
field down completely.
The null-field neutralizes most energies within the electromagnetic
spectrum over a certain as yet unmeasured intensity. This
includes light, electricity, magnetism, high-frequency energies,
sound, and even gravity.
The Aquarian's entropic field also neutralizes kinetic energy.
His body's null-field is of opposite polarity to that of the
fields of normal atomic matter. Hence his field nullifies
kinetic energy in direct ratio to the inertia (resistance
of object in motion to changes of motion) of the moving object.
Only objects with kinetic energy below a certain as yet unmeasured
value are permitted trough his field without any cancellation
of inertia. The net effect of any object of greater inertia
entering his null-field is that it loses its kinetic energy.
Hence, a speeding bullet, a thrown knife, or a hurled punch
is unable to strike him.
Because this kinetic energy-canceling property affects him
as well as other objects in his field, the Aquarian cannot
move faster than his null-field will allow. Therefore, his
ability to leap is useless. However, since he can negate gravity's
influence on him, he can walk on air.
The kinetic and electromagnetic energies possessed by most
other superhumanly powered beings also canceled within his
field. Hence, those who possess superhuman physical strength
would be unable to exercise it within his field, and those
with energy-manipulating powers would also be unable to use
them. The field does not take these innate capacities away;
it simply prevents their use in his presence.