Real
Name: Alexander "Alex" Power
Occupation: Student Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Other Aliases: formerly Gee, Destroyer (VI), Powerpak,
and Powerhouse (II)
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: James (father), Margaret (mother), Jack (brother), Julie,
Katie (sisters), Roy Craig (grandfather) Group Affiliation: Power Pack,
(formerly) News Warriors Base of Operations: Bainbridge Island, Washington
First Appearance: (as Gee) Power Pack #1, (as Destroyer) Power Pack #27,
(as Powerpak) New Warriors Vol.1 #47, (as Powerhouse) New Warriors Vol.1 #64,
(as Zero G) Power Pack: Peer Pressure #1
History: Alex Power is the oldest child of Dr. Jame
Power, a physicist who was working for the United States
government on a means of producing large quantities of energies
cheaply through combining matter and anti-matter. (The subatomic
particles composing anti-matter have opposite charges to
those of the equivalent particles of matter itself. When
matter contacts anti-matter, both are converted entirely
into vast quantities of energies.)
An alien Kymellian named Aelfyre Whitemane (nicknamed "Whitey")
learned of Power's discovery and intended to stop it. White
mane knew that a device such as Power's would, despite Power's
good intentions, trigger a chain reaction that would destroy
the Earth. Moreover, he knew that Power's device was sought
by alien Z'nrx, nicknamed "Snarks," who intended
to use it to conquer inhabitedworlds.
Snarks captured Dr. Power and his wife Margaret, intending
to force him to reveal the secret of his device, Whitemane
saved the Powers' children, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie,
from being captured, but he himself was fatally wounded
in the process. Dying, Whitemane transferred a different
one of his superhuman powers into each of the four Power
children, and asked them to use their new abilities to save
their world.
Alex received the power to control gravity, and called
himself Gee after the common scientific abbreviation for
gravitational force ("G"). The four children called
themselves the Power Pack. Power Pack thwarted the Snarks,
rescued their parents, and destroyed Dr. Power's dangerous
matter/anti-matter converter, thereby saving the Earth from
destruction. The four children have since continued to have
adventures as Power Pack.
After many years, Alex believed it was too dangerous for
Power Pack to be operating as super heroes, especially for
the younger members Jack and Katie, and so he absorbed the
powers of his siblings into himself as Powerhouse when he
was contacted by the young hero team New Warriors. As Powerhouse,
Alex shared many adventures with the Warriors, but ultimately
returned the powers to his siblings. Retaining the gravity-control
power, Alex renamed himself Zero-G and has returned to adventuring
with his brother and sisters.
As Zero-G, Alex has control over gravity. This control
is primarily centered on himself, but can extent to items
or people he is in contact with. He usually uses this power
to negate gravity's effects, but must rely on his siblings
to provide momentum in order to fly. As Destroyer, Alex
had Katie's energy absorption power. As Mass Master, Alex
had Jack's density power. As Powerhouse, Alex had all of
his siblings' powers.
Like his siblings, Alex possesses a costume of unstable
molecules. When activated, these costumes are called from
an extra-dimensional realm "Elsewhere" to replace
their normal clothing.
Height: 5 ft. 1 in.
Weight: 93 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair:
Blond
Strength Level: Gee has the normal human strength
of a boy of his age, height, and build, who engages in a
normal amount of exercise for his age (mostly playing).
By utilizing his anti-gravity power, Gee can lift (press)
far more massive objects than he would otherwise be able
to lift.
Known Superhuman Powers: Gee can negate the force
of gravity on himself and on other living beings and objects
through anti-gravitons. (Gravitons are subatomic particles
which carry the force of gravitational attraction. Anti-gravitons
are subatomic particles that are the counterparts to gravitons,
but have an opposite charge.) In order to reduce the pull
of gravity on an object or a living being other than himself,
Gee must be in physical contact with object or being. When
Gee uses his power small black rectangular marks often appear
on his forearms and lower legs (or, if those portions of
his body covered by clothing, on the parts of the parts
of his clothing covering his forearms and lower leg) and
sometimes on part of whatever object he is touching and
using his power on. The limits of the amount of mass on
which Gee can successfully use his power are not yet known.
However, he has succeeded in negating the force of gravity
on his father's matter/anti-matter converter, an enormous
object weighing many tons, enough to carry it many stories
above the Earth's surface.
Gee can control the extent to which he reduces the pull
of gravity enough so that he can hover above the Earth's
surface at the height he desires, and not simply keep on
during upward into outer space. Apparently Gee can also
increase the pull of gravity on himself through generating
gravitons. In his first clash with the Snarks, Gee thus
successfully resisted the pull of a Snarl tractor beam that
had a force equivalent to six times Earth's gravity. However,
as yet Gee has seldom used this power to increase the pull
of gravity, and it is unclear whether he can use this power
to increase the force of gravity on living beings and objects
he touches.
Presumably as Gee grows older the extent of his powers
and his mastery of them will increase. In addition, the
members of the Power Pack can heal themselves by sharing
their life forces with one another.
Paraphernalia: Gee often wears artificial wings
under his arms which enable him to glide on wind currents
when he uses his anti-gravity power on himself.
Gee wears a special costume made of unstable molecules
created by the Kymellian smartship Friday. The costume can
be invisible and intangible, but will materialize on Gee
when he wills it to do so.
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