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Wonder Man

Real Name: Simon Williams

Height: 6' 2"

Weight: 380 lb.

Eyes: Red, formerly blue.

Hair: Gray, formerly black.

Occupation: Former industrialist, Now stuntman, actor, and adventurer

Identity: Publicly known

Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with a criminal record.

Former Aliases: None

Current Aliases: Man of Wonders, The Tinsel Town Avenger, and Wondy

Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Sanford (father, deceased), Martha (mother), Eric (brother, alias The Grim Reaper)

Group affiliation: Former ally of the original Masters of Evil, Former member Legion of the Unliving, former member of the Avengers West Coast, former member Force Works. Current ally and reserve member of the Avengers.

Base of operations: Avengers Mansion, New York

Strength Level: Wonder Man possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift (press) 95 tons under optimal conditions. When extremely focused, upset or angry, Wonder Man's strength enables him to lift well over 95 tons putting him in the 100-ton strength level range.

Unusual Features: Wonder Man's eyes no longer have visible pupils or irises. His entire eyeball is permeated with microscopic shifting spots of ionic energy, which make them glow a bright red.

Since his resurrection by the Scarlet Witch, Wonder Man's body becomes enveloped in ionic energy whenever he uses his powers in battle causing him to look like a being composed entirely of shifting red and dark purple glowing energy.

Known Superhuman Powers Wonder Man possesses superhuman strength, speed, durability, reflexes and stamina. The tissue and bone of his entire body have been augmented in strength and to a certain extent supplanted by an unknown substance during the ionic process that gave him his powers. Despite Wonder Man's statements that he is composed of ionic energy, he is in fact composed of organic matter that is permeated with ionic energy.

Wonder Man's stamina enables him to exert himself at peak levels for up to an hour and a half before fatigue poisons build up in his blood, causing him to tire. Wonder Man's skin and tissue is hard enough to resist temperature extremes from the cold vacuum of space to the extreme temperatures generated at ground zero of a nuclear bomb without any harm.

Wonder Man can run at superhuman speeds above 55 miles per hour. It is theorized that Wonder Man could potentially run at 500 miles per hour in a strait line for 30 minutes before tiring.

Wonder Man has been shown to be able to leap many feet into the air and cover large distances using this method. It is estimated that Wonder Man could leap about three miles per leap.

Wonder Man no longer requires food, water or oxygen since the energy that gives him life is far more efficient and self-sustaining than the biochemical processes that sustain normal, ordinary human life.

Wonder Man can fly by tapping releasing the by-products of the ionic energy interactions within his body unidirectionaly through his skin. The process resembled the workings of a noiseless nuclear powered jet engine. It is unknown the top speed at which Wonder Man can fly, but he can apparently reach escape velocity with ease and journey into outer space under his own power.

Wonder Man can halt the flow of ionic energy to his eyes through an act of deep concentration and make them revert to normal for brief periods of time. If Wonder Man does this for an extended period of time, he will suffer a headache from the strain of stopping the flow of ionic energy to and from his eyeballs.

Wonder Man's vision extends slightly into the infrared section of the visible spectrum allowing him to see in absolute dark without aid from any light source.

While it appears Wonder Man transforms from a normal human being into being composed purely of ionic energy, this is not the case. Wonder Man's physical body is merely covered by ionic energy at that point. It is unknown if this outer covering of ionic energy adds more protection to his already near-invulnerable form or if it is just a by-product of his resurrection by the Scarlet Witch.

Wonder Man also taps his ionic energies to enhance the speed of any of his physical action, giving him a practical reaction time hundreds of times faster than an ordinary human being's.

Despite these his various powers, Wonder Man can still be hurt or rendered unconscious by a sufficiently powerful force. Wonder Man still possesses nerve endings that allow him to feel pain to a certain degree. Because of the ionic energy in his body, Wonder Man no longer physically ages and is functionally immortal.
Paraphernalia: Wonder Man once employed various jet packs that he wore on a harness beneath his costume that positioned them behind his back in order for him to fly. These jet engines, designed by Anthony Stark, enabled Wonder Man to fly for up to five hours before re-fueling. Wonder Man could attain maximum altitudes of up to two hundred miles and a maximum speed of 120 miles per hour (provided he was not carrying any cargo). Wonder Man could lift aloft Four Hundred pounds before he exceeded the design limits of the jet engines. Wonder Man could exceed the design limits by a maximum factor of 1000 before causing total systems failure.

Later, Anthony Stark designed two jet packs that would be placed on either side of Wonder Man's waist with a belt and tap into his body heat =cellular ionic energies as fuel. It is assumed that these packs had the same limitations as the previous ones he wore on his back, except there would be no need for re-fueling the packs after five hours.
History: Simon Williams was the younger of two sons of Sanford Williams, an industrialist, whom had founded a highly successful munitions factory called Williams Innovations. When his older brother Eric declined his fathers offer to join the family firm, Simon, the more studious, less athletic of the two, readily accepted.
   
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