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Blue Marvel
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Real Name
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Adam Brashear
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First Appearance
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Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel #1 (November, 2008)
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Creators
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Kevin Grevioux, Mat Broome
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Team Affiliations
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Aliases
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Adam Kadmon, The Blue Bomber of Battle, Magnificent Master of Might, The Man of Marvel
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Base of Operations
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New York City
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Powers
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Superhuman strength, Superhuman speed, Flight, Invulnerability, Energy manipulation, Molecular manipulation, Force field generation
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Skills and Abilities
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Genius IQ, Skilled fighter
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Paraphenalia
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Blue Marvel (Adam Bernard Brashear) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He's also the member of the Ultimates & the Avengers.
History[]
Early Life[]
Adam in his earlier Blue Marvel costume.
Adam Brashear was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. From an early age it was realized that Adam was a child prodigy. Adam was a former fullback at Cornell University who graduated magna cum laude. Adam had Ph.D.s. in electrical engineering and theoretical physics.
Korean War[]
Adam was a veteran of the Korean War, a member of the US Marine Corps with two Silver Stars. While in the Marine Corps Adam met Conner Sims, the friend he would later know as Anti Man.
Project: Perseus[]
Adam later became the project lead on a scientific attempt to harness Anti Matter through the creation of a "Negative Reactor which created a bridge between the Negative Zone and the positive matter universe itself.
This reactor would then allow for an almost unlimited source of clean energy by allowing devices to tap the energy generated by a stable event horizon balanced between these positive and negative universes. Due to the unexpected explosion of the reactor, both Adam and Connor were subjected to mutagenic radiation generated by the then unstable event horizon. While Sims' body disassembled into energy, Brashear became a stable antimatter reactor and developed a set of superhuman abilities.
Blue Marvel[]
In 1962 Adam received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy on the day the President asked him to retire; it had been discovered by the public that he is an African American. As the Blue Marvel, Adam wore a full-face helmet, but when it was damaged in a battle, Adam's identity was revealed. A massive controversy ensued as the America of 1962 was too racist to accept a black superman. The President reluctantly decided to ask Adam to step back. Torn between myriad considerations, the Blue Marvel conceded. At some point, Adam studied a mysterious being called the Infinaut who made various attempts to manifest on Earth.
Adam came back for one final mission and defeated the herald of an alien armada bent on enslaving the Earth. After that fight, Adam left the Medal of Freedom in the Blue Area of the Moon, where he first met Uatu the Watcher. Adam's conversation with the Watcher was interrupted by the late arrival of the alien armada and Adam defeated them. The United States Government used this final mission to fake his death. The government later set up S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Marlene Frazier as Adam's monitor under the cover name Candace. Marlene eventually became Adam's lover, his wife and the mother of their three children. Adam later became a tenured professor of physics at the University of Maryland.
Powers and Abilities[]
Anti-Matter Energy Absorption seems to be the main source of Blue Marvel's power. This source of power is the energy released from anti-matter which derives from the inter-dimensional universe called the Negative Zone.
Powers[]
- Anti-Matter Energy Absorption Physiology: Theoretically, it seems to be the main source of Blue Marvel's power. This source of power is the energy released from anti-matter which derives from the dimension called the Negative Zone. Anti-matter is the same as normal matter except that the sub-atomic particles are the opposite charge. Therefore, anti-matter and normal matter cannot coexist without exploding. CERN was the first to synthesize particles of anti-matter on Earth in 1995, keeping them in a magnetically charged vacuum to keep it from coming in contact with normal matter. Nuclear fission releases energy with 1.5% efficiency; anti-matter releases energy with 100% efficiency. One gram of anti-matter contains the same energy as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. One droplet could power New York City for a full day. Adam Brashear is the first human anti-matter generator and reactor. The experiment he gained his powers from renders his form unaffected from anti-matter. Blue Marvel was considered to be an Alpha Level Threat by Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Tony Stark.
- Alpha Human Physiology / Transcendent Mortal/Human Physiology / Transcendent Superior Human Physiology
- Energy Enhanced Supernatural Condition
- Supernatural Body
- Superhuman Strength: Blue Marvel possesses vast superhuman strength. He has been observed moving a meteor the size of Arkansas and routinely lifting and flying an aircraft carrier a considerable distance with ease. The uppermost limits of Blue Marvel's strength is unknown, but it is in the same ballpark as Hulk, Sentry and Thor. Blue Marvel possesses vast levels of superhuman strength, capable of lifting excess 100 tons. He was seen as capable of effortlessly lifting the 1960 era's American warship Enterprise which weighs over 93,000 tons. The Blue Marvel is capable of greater feats of strength as when he effortlessly moved a meteor "easily the size of Arkansas." The Watcher states that Adam is capable of splitting the Moon into two with a blow, which indicates that he can be easily considered as planet destroyer. He was able to directly engage Iron Man, Ares, Wonder Man, and Ms. Marvel in combat at the same time and casually overpower them. He is strong enough to push the Sentry to the limits of his strength and knock him into Earth's orbit with a single punch. He even managed to ultimately defeat in physical combat the powerful King Hyperion, who had slaughtered numerous other incarnations of Blue Marvel as well as heroes of multiple worlds (including Hercules, and Thor of his own Earth, as well as the Sentries, Hulks, Thors, and Eternals of other worlds). When he and the Ultimates confronted their Earth-1610 counterparts he was able to defeat their Hulk with just one punch.
- Superhuman speed: Blue Marvel is capable of moving vastly faster than any normal human being, & he is able to move fast enough to keep up with the Sentry who can move at lightspeed.
- Superhuman stamina
- Superhuman reflexes
- Superhuman endurance
- Superhuman senses
- Superhuman durability
- Enhanced Mental Perception / Hyper-Cosmic Awareness: Blue Marvel possesses the ability to sense & comprehend things on levels that far exceed human capabilities. He can perceive different sensory spectra beyond the regular norm. Superior Spider-Man once likened him to being his own Electron Microscope, enabling him to see into Spectrum's damaged energy form in order to repair what Proxima had done. Later he would expand his consciousness further through one of his inventions to find out about the imprisonment of conceptual existence.
- Superhuman Physique
- Supernatural Body
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Blue Marvel possesses nigh-invulnerability and durability, being capable of withstanding tremendous impact forces, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining injury. He has withstood a nuclear detonation without any apparent physical trauma and is capable of surviving in the vacuum of space unaided. Because his character hasn’t been expanded on much he could very well have similar invincibility to that of Superman or Thor. The Blue Marvel has survived a hydrogen bomb (with the explosion of 10 megatons [10 million tons] of TNT) blowing up in his hands unfazed. He was capable of withstanding blows from a large collection of superhumans made up of Ms. Marvel, Ares, Iron Man, Wonder Man, and Sentry unharmed. Blue Marvel can also breathe and survive in space. He can also survive in a nuclear explosion without being harmed.
- Vacuum Adaptation
- Self-Sustenance: Blue Marvel is self-sustaining, meaning that he doesn't need food or water or oxygen which allows him to go underwater or into deep-space for long periods of time with no issue.
- Anti-Matter Manipulation: Blue Marvel can absorb and generate vast amounts of anti-matter energy for various effects.
- Personal Anti-Energy / Anti-Energy Physiology
- Concussive Force Bolts: Blue Marvel can release anti-matter energy from his hands as bolts of concussive force.
- Stun Bolts: Blue Marvel can project low-energy of anti-matter bolts that render human beings unconscious.
- Energy Pulse: Blue Marvel can release all of his body's anti-matter energy as a massive omnidirectional pulse of devastating power.
- Forcefield: Blue Marvel can use his energy to create durable forcefields, as seen in his battle with King Hyperion.
- Anti-matter absorption and projection
- Antimatter Attacks
- Optic Blasts
- Antiparticle Manipulation
- Antimatter Combat
- Antimatter Shield Construction
- Antimatter Stabilization
- Flight: Blue Marvel flies by manipulation of gravitons, manipulation of magnetic fields, control of his absolute molecular movement, and utilizing his superhuman speed. Blue Marvel can easily attain escape velocity (or escape speed, which is about 34 times the speed of sound) and fly far beyond supersonic speeds, but it is not known if he can achieve speeds beyond the speed of light.
- Spatial Flight: He has been seen flying into space unaided under his own power.
- Matter Manipulation: Adam can also manipulate material bonds as well as he can control and manipulate anti-material and energy. Able to do so from the molecular to particle levels as he was capable of producing new particles to repair the damages to Spectrum's light form.
- Energy Manipulation: Blue Marvel was able to re-arrange the photons in Spectrum (Monica Rambeau)'s body to stop the anti-photons from destroying her body and made her stronger and more powerful, strong enough to take down a tiny shadow of Shuma-Gorath.
- Energy generation: Blue Marvel has the ability to generate and control negative matter energy based on antimatter. This is a very powerful energy source, one gram of antimatter is equal to an atomic bomb and blue marvel can expel millions of tons of antimatter with relative ease. He can manipulate this energy for various effects, including creating energy constructs.
- Energy absorption and projection
- Personal Energy
- Energy Arts
- Personal Energy Manipulation
- Light manipulation and creation
- Bioluminescence: Brashear/Blue Marvel has exhibited the ability to emit light from his body.
- Transmutation
- Particle Manipulation
- Matterlock Manipulation; via the Negative Zone
- Dimensional Aura
- Energy Manipulation: Blue Marvel was able to re-arrange the photons in Spectrum (Monica Rambeau)'s body to stop the anti-photons from destroying her body and made her stronger and more powerful, strong enough to take down a tiny shadow of Shuma-Gorath.
- Molecular Manipulation: Blue Marvel evidently is able to affect matter at a molecular level with a great degree of precision and control, as he did when he not only healed Monica Rambeau, but further boosted her electromagnetic abilities. It is not known if this ability is limited to electromagnetic particles only, or if the Blue Marvel is able to affect all matter, allowing him to alter an object's molecular composition or transmute elements.
- Advanced Longevity: Blue Marvel ages much slower and lives much longer than normal human beings.
- Superpowered Physiology
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Physics Combat
- Absolute Attacks
- Energy Enhanced Supernatural Condition
- Alpha Human Physiology / Transcendent Mortal/Human Physiology / Transcendent Superior Human Physiology
Abilities[]
- Trained combatant: He has been trained by the US Marines in armed and unarmed combat.
- Trained military and hand-to-hand combatant
- War Hero
- Super-Genius Intelligence: Adam Brashear is a genius in the field of theoretical physics and has made extraordinary strides in the study of antimatter. According to Reed Richards, Adam's intellect matches that of Doctor Doom.
- Highly proficient engineer and physicist
- Scientist
- Athlete: Brashear is also a highly talented football player though he is out of practice.
Physical Strength[]
Class 100+, Adam is capable of lifting far in excess of 100 tons easily. He is stated to be in the same league as the Sentry, Hulk, and Thor. Namor also stated that the only other beings who have hit him as hard as Blue Marvel were Hulk and Thor.
Weaknesses[]
- Neutronium: Blue Marvel appears to be only weak against this substance from the Neutral Zone.
- Magic:
- High-Energy Radiation
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
- Blue Marvel's Suit
- Anti-Neutronium Armor
- Blue Marvel's staff & helmet
Facility[]
- Kadesh
According to Brashear he is a stable "antimatter reactor", but from his broader explanation what he appears to do is channel exotic particles generated by a stable event horizon caused by the interaction of opposing positive matter and negative matter (Negative Zone) universes. Because Brashear has retained his abilities all this time, it would seem that either the specific generative reaction, that granted him his powers continues at an unseen or subatomic level in the facility where he first gained his abilities, or exotic particles generated by the experiment somehow became quantum entangled with Brashear.
Brashear holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He maintains a massive undersea headquarters in the Marianas Trench at a location known only to Namor the Sub-Mariner. Brashear normally wears gauntlets on both arms that channel and augment his vast powers. Blue Marvel is able to create portals from technology that he invented that far exceeds any technology currently on earth. Blue Marvel's main weakness is Neutronium, a substance from the Exo-Space