Wonder Man

Origin

Simon Williams grew up as a bit of a nerd, liking books, chess and jazz music. His father would beat him and his brother Eric if they got worse than straight A's. Eric drifted into crime, but Simon instead inherited the family business. He made some poor decisions since he was inexperienced and embezzled some money to invest in his brother's business (which turned out to be illegal activities with the criminal Maggia). Simon blamed Tony Stark and Stark Industries for his downfall. Before being sentenced, Baron Heinrich Zemo paid his bail in return for Simon helping the Masters of Evil. Zemo gave him some ionic rays which gave Simon super strength and invulnerability. However, Zemo tricked Simon so that he would be loyal, telling him that without a weekly antidote the rays would kill Simon. He was to infiltrate the Avengers to destroy the team from within. Simon followed through with the plan to a point, but when he realized that the Avengers were going to be killed he switched sides, and seemingly died just after saving the Avengers from the Masters of Evil.

It turned out that Simon really went into a deep ionic coma while his body was evolving and was revived by his brother, now the villain known as the Grim Reaper. (Before he was buried his brain patterns were copied and used to program the android, the Vision.) As a result of being unconscious for so long, Simon had a phobia of dying for a while. Despite some awkwardness in the beginning, Simon and the Vision became close and began to think of each other as a brother. Wonder Man became active in the Avengers and became good friends with the Beast. Later he joined the West Coast Avengers. After that team disbanded, he became part of its next incarnation, Force Works, but was killed on their first mission.

Simon was still alive in an energy form and was drawn to the Scarlet Witch with her magical summons. Finally he was able to regain a physical form.

Seeing this as another chance in life, Simon wanted to right any wrongs he committed in the past. He began to divide his time between the Avengers and a non-profit organization he established called the Second Chances Foundation.

Civil War

Simon was one of the first to register after the announcement of the Super Human Registration Act. Not only did he help capture renegade vigilantes and criminals, he was also instrumental as the public face for the SHRA, helping to create televised messages to educate the public and yet-unregistered super humans about the specifics of the Registration Act. After embezzling money from his own charity he was coerced to do even more work for S.H.I.E.L.D., possibly as a way to seek pardon. He is one of the first established heroes assigned to lead the Fifty State Initiative training program for inexperienced hero recruits along with Ms. Marvel, with whom he is rumored to be having an intimate relationship. He was also pronounced a member of the reformed Mighty Avengers.

Dark Reign

After the Secret Invasion, Simon was retired from being a hero by Norman Osborn. He is then imprisoned as a member of the new Lethal Legion.

Powers

Through Baron Zemo's treatments, Simon became a being of ionic energy and in turn gained the following super-human powers:

• Strength: Wonder Man excess the 100 ton range, his strength is now comparable to Thor's.

• Invulnerability: Wonder Man's skin and tissue has been rated a 9 on the Mohs scale of Hardness (normal human tissue equals a 1 and diamond equals 10).
• Superhuman Endurance: He can exert himself at peak levels for up to an hour without tiring and no longer needs food, water, or air to survive.
• Enhanced Agility
• Instantaneous Reflexes

• Super-human Speed: Though at first using a rocket propulsion belt to fly, he later learned to fly using his own ionic propulsion. Since then he has learned much more about himself and his powers, including feats such as, changing his body's dimensions and firing energy blasts from his eyes.

Wonder Man also doesn't age.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 6'2

Weight: 380lbs

Hair: Gray (dyed black)

Eyes: Red with spots of shifting energy. No irises are visible.

Alternative Realities

Earth-Cybermancer’s

Wonder Man had being turned into a Cyborg still possessing all his previous powers and a metallic body with virtual skin to appear more human. Do to his new body he could control his powers in new forms. When his world nexus being was killed, his world collapse and all the inhabits who tried to run to the 616 realities were erase as well; Ultron, Cybermancer and himself.

Earth-9511

In this reality the Avengers went on a mission against Ultron. In the last minute Hulk betrayed them and Tigra tried attacking him only for him to rip her apart. Seeing this Wonder Man jumped and battled the Hulk, when Hulk manage to crack his skin Wonder Man knew he had minutes to live and took the Hulk to the air and blew in a massive mushroom cloud explosion that killed them both.

Earth-21993

Wonder Man was one the many heroes that was killed when Magneto took over the White House and try to manipulated one the Sentinels however it had a nuclear bomb killing most the Avengers, X-Men, Human Liberation Front and the Savage Land Mutates.

Earth-691

Wonder Man became Hollywood. For more information see his entry.