# Technocrat (character)

Technocrat is a superhero in the DC Comics and a former member of the Outsiders. His first appearance was in Outsiders Alpha (vol. 2) #1 (November 1993), written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Paul Pelletier.
Baron nicknamed "TC" was portrayed by Christopher Ammanuel starting in the third season of the live action Arrowverse series Black Lightning.

## Fictional character biography
### Markovia

An inventor and business magnate, Geoffrey Barron came to Markovia to sell his battle armor, the Technocrat 2000. Barron was accompanied by his bodyguard Charlie Wylde.
During their stay in Markovia, the Outsiders are framed for the murder of Queen Ilona. Barron and Wylde flee into the woods, where they encounter Sebastian Faust and a bear. The bear mortally wounds Wylde, with Faust fusing the two to save him. The Outsiders fight Prince Roderick and his vampire troops.
Geoffry Barron wound up having to put on the Technocrat 2000 suit to defend himself. Barron and Wylde joined the Outsiders in their attempt to clear their names. Barron offered the team his home in Switzerland as a safe haven. Unbeknownst to Barron, his ex-wife Marissa paid the assassin known as Sanction to assassinate him. It turns out Sanction is known to Wylde and Barron as Ryer, an associate of the CIA. As Barron understands it, Ryer was punished by the CIA for blatantly advertising a drug-dealing side venture. Ryer himself believes that Barron abandoned him in Angola. Sanction's first defeat comes when Katana disrupts his systems with her sword.
At one point, Technocrat assists in defending the planet Nekrome from Eclipso. This ends with his armor being upgraded with alien technology.

### Gotham

The Outsiders barely made it back to Gotham City before clearing their names. Shortly after their homecoming, Sanction kills both Marissa Barron and Halo. The trauma of this death forces the Aurakle inside of Halo to inhabit Marissa's body. After this, Barron found it difficult to separate his feelings for his wife from Halo's physical body. Barron began to fall in love with the Aurakle, but Halo had her own designs on their teammate, Faust.
When the Outsiders split into two teams for a time, Technocrat joined the team with Geo-Force and Katana to distance himself from Halo. At one point Geo-Force tried unsuccessfully to arrange a date between Barron and Katana. The two halves of the team eventually rejoined and Technocrat remained with them through the end of their recorded adventures. During this time, Felix Faust devolves Wylde into a normal bear, after which he is moved to a zoo where Looker can regularly see him.

### Infinite Crisis

Technocrat is one of the many heroes to answer the call to defend Metropolis from an assembled army of supervillains intent on destroying it. Technocrat is seen hovering in a single panel behind Looker just before Breach explodes. He appeared in Outsiders (vol. 4) #38 battling Black Lightning and his team of Outsiders on behalf of Geo-Force.

## Powers and abilities

Technocrat had no metahuman abilities, he was a genius level cyberneticist and polymath. He wore a high tech powered exoskeleton of his own design, which could be equipped with a variety of weapons and modular add-ons and upgrades.

## In other media

Baron / Technocrat appears in Black Lightning, portrayed by Christopher Ammanuel. This version, also known as "T.C.", is a technopathic metahuman who was previously kept in a stasis pod by the A.S.A. after he was exposed to the drug "Green Light" years prior to the series. After being freed from his pod, T.C. moves to an old radio station, where he meets and befriends Peter Gambi. After learning the latter provides technical assistance to Black Lightning and his family, T.C. assists them in various missions against the A.S.A., Markovian forces, and Tobias Whale throughout the series before Gambi passes on his duties to T.C.