POWERS: he can manipulate any kind of metal telepathically and sense the presence of metal near him,
Enhanced strength,
Enhanced agility,
Partial tissue regeneration.
He has major issues with precision, struggles with small actions with metal and usually fails in not destroying small objects when manipulating them,
His powers do NOT rely on magnetism ,
He needs to clearly see or feel a metal body to manipulate it
BACKSTORY:
He was born premature, his parents agreed for Vought to save him by giving him compound V. In exchange they let him be shipped off to a lab where, from age 14 to 18 he got tested on to perfect the formula of compound V.
When he reached 18 years old only him and another boy had survived, his name was Lucas. He had the power to make people to hallucinate, but because of his pacifist morals he refused to use his powers and because of that he had become a problem for the lab.
One day with the promise of becoming a superhero as great as soldier boy he got presented with a test to pass: killing another supe.
Later that night they threw Lucas and Robert in a nearby forest, Lucas didn't come out alive. He could have easily won over Robert but he still refused to use his powers.
He spent around 20 years in a B class team called "American darlings" under the name Metallo, there he was considered the laughing stock of the group and after years of not seeing his efforts appreciated he left the supe career for good.
Over the years he settled down as a civilian, got married and had a daughter.
But when his daughter was only 3 years old and his wife was expecting another child, his urge to not let his powers go to waste got the best and he injected her with stolen compound V.
Unfortunately it didn't go well, she became visually impaired in one eye, developed a heart murmur and cognitive problems, he was forced to flee in the night.
Vought hired him back, at first as a personal assistant for various supes and finally they decided to create him a brand new identity and market him as a brand new supe.
He got paired with Cole, superhero name Slingshot. His only power is perfect aim, making him an eternal sidekick at almost 30 years old.
"There weren't any witnesses to Jesus' resurrection. None. At. All.
Despite Jesus foretelling that he would rise on the third day after his death, not one of his disciples showed up to witness it. Not. A. One.
And when the women visited the empty tomb, expecting it to contain a corpse, and reported back to the Eleven Amigos, here's their response:
"But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense." (Luke 24:11)"
-- Robert Conner
None of the characters in the bible actually behave as if any of this is real.
If Beyoncé announced that she was going into a hospital and three days later she'd emerge with a new nose, they would need police and crowd control to manage the fans and paparazzi camped outside to be the first to see it.
Not even Jesus' entourage, who'd been touring around with him seeing all these miracles, knowing the Truth™, and even being told what was going to happen and when, were there waiting for him. And when it did happen and they were told about it afterwards, the reaction wasn't "oh yeah, I remember something about that," it was "lol, nah."
"To no one's surprise, modern Christian apologists, armed with stacks of diplomas from Bible colleges, have ginned up books and blogs by the hundreds to validate the conflicting, nonsensical New Testament stories.
The very fact that Bible stories require a small army of trained apologists to Jesusplain the contradictions is prima facie evidence the stories are fabrications."
Christianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part Five)
he ancient world was a world in submission, the masses to the ruling class, youths to adults, women to men, soldiers to their commanders, slaves to their masters, and households to the whims and caprice of the paterfamilias.
Christianity’s Critics: The Romans Meet Jesus (Part Three)
The theological divorce between Jews and Christians has translated into real- world horror on numerous occasions but never more so than in Germany in the 1930’s in the setting of die Endlösung der Judenfrage, the “The Final Solu-tion to the Jewish Question.
As there is no clear distinction between religion and magic in the first century, there is correspondingly no clear difference between prayers and spells. Imposition of such a difference is a modern one which does violence to the evidence.
I’ve been getting into a very interesting topic and point of research which states that Jesus was in fact viewed as a magician or a sorcerer by people in his time. This is based on a discussion of not only the root meanings of Ancient Greek words in the New Testament but also other texts from the same period of time in which it was written such the Magical Greek Papyri. I have also been amazed at how much scholarly work had been done around this topic, the majority of it will of course never see the light of day. And of course just the thought alone that Jesus was actually a very powerful magician will cause many to “raise their swords” in defense of a dogma and a god that in theory needs no on to come to “his” rescue.
The book I’ve been reading is called Jesus the Sorcerer and my next few posts will be based on it. It has an extensive bibliography which I won’t list here.
