Molecule Man

==Summary==
Owen Reece was a weak, shy boy in Brooklyn, New York who obsessively clung to his mother.Secret Wars II Vol 1 6 He grew into a weak-willed adult, made bitter and lonely by his mother's death, and full of fear and hatred of what he regarded as a deeply unfriendly world. Reece became a lowly laboratory technician working at a nuclear plant owned by the Acme Atomics Corporation. He was disgruntled by his job's long hours and low pay. One day, Reece accidentally activated an experimental particle generator, which bombarded him with an unknown form of radiation. The explosion horribly disfigured his face with scars in the shape of lightning bolts, but it also had a mutagenic effect on Reece, releasing his potential for psionic powers on a cosmic scale. Reece could now control all matter, even down to the molecular level, and all energy, and he now used his immense powers to take out his pent-up frustrations on the world under the moniker of Molecule Man.
While often portrayed as a misunderstood villain, he has also at times acted as an anti-hero. Owen is a good man deep down, simply wanting to be better,Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 1 to be happier, have a fulfilling life, and be recognised for what he has achieved but the world around him was not so kind to him. Always thrown aside, misunderstood, and his own mental and emotional issues has led him to become a terrifying villain at times. However, on more than one occasion, Owen Reece not only saved the universe, but the entirety of Marvel Comics multiverse from omnipotent cosmic villains from the beyond.
Due to his mental and emotional state, his allegiance changes often. Sometimes a good man,Secret Wars II Vol 1 9 other times a terrifying supervillain to be feared by every known entity across the cosmos.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: from to . at his peak | 
Key: Base | Beyonders Absorbed
Name: Molecule Man, Owen Reece
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Creation of the Beyonders, Multiversal Demolition Tool, Singularity.
Powers and Abilities: 
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|-|General Abilities=Matter Manipulation and Transmutation (His main power is the abilityFantastic Four Vol 1 20 to manipulateFantastic Four Vol 1 188 molecules,Secret Wars II Vol 1 1 which makeMarvel Two-In-One Vol 1 1 up everythingAvengers Vol 1 215 - all of creation.Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 11), Organic Manipulation (Can affect organic matter as well as inorganic matter,), Reality Warping, Space-Time Manipulation (When the Beyonder destroyed a large chunk of the multiverse, Owen repaired it within moments.Secret Wars II Vol 1 8 Created a hole in the universe to the Beyonder's realm.), Time Manipulation (Reversed time.Fantastic Four Vol 1 319), Time Travel (Travelled to the Void before and after time.New Avengers Vol 3 29), Antimatter Manipulation (As explained here), Dimensional Manipulation (Was affecting higher and lower dimensions. Turned 2D beings to 3D beings.), Energy Manipulation (Can convert energy to matter and vice versa. Channeled the Silver Surfer's energy into himself), Energy Projection (Can projectIron Man Annual Vol 1 3 energy, both through himself and his Wand), Power Nullification (Was depowering the Beyonder. His son was able to depower both Man-Thing and the Thing.), Creation (Can create virtually anything out of thinDark Avengers Vol 1 10 air), Forcefield Creation, Absorption (Can absorb molecules of anything. Absorbed the energy of molecules. Was going to absorb the world.Avengers Vol 1 216 Absorbed leftover energies of the multiverse.), Statistics Amplification and Statistics Reduction (Can increase and decrease his powers), BFR (Sent the Beyonder's energies back into their home universe after the former detonated himself Can send people to Subspace.Avengers Vol 1 266), Spatial Manipulation (As shown hereFantastic Four Vol 6 2), Transformation (When he got his powers, his physical form went through a physical change.), Possession and Immortality (Type 1; Type 3; Type 4 – Resurrected himself; Type 6 – His consciousness resides in the Wand, if someone were to take it, he will take over their body and mind), Resurrection (Resurrected himself, and stated he can resurrect others countless times over.Incredible Hulk Vol 1 442), Regeneration (Likely High; Reconstructed himself from complete physical, and possibly mental destruction.), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Turned a town into a small "world" of his own.Dark Avengers Vol 1 11Dark Avengers Vol 1 12 Created a pocket reality inside of a dome which vanished after he let himself get defeated.), Enhanced Senses and Extrasensory Perception (As explained here. Can feel molecules being controlled by someone else.), Cosmic Awareness (Sensed the Watcher watching him from Astral Plane. Knew that the abstracts were planning to attack the Beyonder. Kept up with the abstracts' "battle" against the Beyonder.Secret Wars II Vol 1 7 >), Clairvoyance (As shown here), Astral Projection (Can astral project. Astral projected with the Beyonder and looked at his life on Earth so far.), Shapeshifting (Changed his scrawny look to his usual one), Intangibility (As explained here), Teleportation (Of himself and others. Teleported himself to meet the Beyonder. Teleported himselfNew Avengers Vol 3 27 and Doom to the Void), Portal Creation (Created a doorway to space in his bedroom), Fissionism (Broke up the Venom symbiote from his host), Perception Manipulation and Illusion Creation (Shown here), Status Effect Inducement (Did this to Ares.), Telekinesis (Can restrain people with an invisible force. Moved a mountain across the planet and dropped it on the Avengers.Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 4), Ice Manipulation (As shown here), Air Manipulation, Density Manipulation (Tried to strangle Iron Man.), Magnetism Manipulation (Via creating magnets), Earth Manipulation (Can control the content of the very planet itself. Can use it to shield himself from attacks if needed. Did this to Mount Rushmore.), Electricity Manipulation (As shown here), Weather Manipulation (As explained hereMarvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 3), Metal Manipulation (Restrained the Thing. Bent metal. And as shown here. Created a metal fortress from scrapyard. Smacked Tigra away. Created a tsunami-like torrent of metal to stop the Avengers.), Dimensional Travel (Traveled to the Beyonder's dimension.), Biological Manipulation (Implied he could permanently transform Sue Storm into something else.Fantastic Four Vol 1 187 Messed with the lungs of some people and blinded a Watcher. Threatened to pull the genetic code of Norman out of his body. Did this to Daken. Then turned him into water.), Life Manipulation (When Kosmos lost her soul and life, he returned her to the land of the living), Power Bestowal (His son gave Ben his powers back. Gave the wand powers because he liked magicians. Gave a bit of his power to his girlfriendFantastic Four Vol 1 Annual 24), Water Manipulation (As shown here and here.), Petrification (As shown here), Light Manipulation (Generated light. Turned Doom into a being of light), Attack Reflection (As shown here), Aura (An example of which is shown here), Flight (Can fly under his own power. But can also fly using other objects. Explanation about how his flight works.), Explosion Manipulation (Caused a large explosion. Exploded the Sentry from inside-out), Durability Negation, Deconstruction (Was going to turn the F4 in cosmic dust if not for their uniforms, which stopped the Molecule Man from affecting them.), and should be able to replicate the abilities of both the Sentry and Vector due to having superior Molecule Manipulation ability than them.
|-|Resistances=Resistance to Matter Manipulation and Reality Warping (The Beyonder could not control his molecules when he had taken control of the molecules of everyone and everything across the planet.), Existence Erasure (Was going to make a forcefield that saved him and his girlfriend from being erased by the Beyonder.), and should be able to resist similar things to the Sentry and Vector due to having superior Molecule Manipulation ability than them.
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All previous powers and abilities to immensely greater degrees, in addition to Information Manipulation and Plot Manipulation (Described his powers as "editing and re-ordering the base information of reality,Ultimates Vol 3 6 and stated that they now extend to the narrative itself), as well as all the powers of the Beyonders
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Attack Potency: Varies (His power level varies heavily depending on his mental and emotional state, as well as the mental blocks he places upon his own mind - without even knowing) from Human level (Is an ordinary human sometimes, but his statistics tend to go up and down) to High Hyperverse level (Comparable to the Beyonder, being, depending on his mental state, capable of either matching or surpassing him entirely, boasting about operating on "infinities beyond [his] narrow perception"Fantastic Four Vol 1 Annual 27 and rivaling Kubik, who had previously effortlessly defeated the Beyonder and nearly crushed the entire Beyond-realm with his bare hands. Nevertheless, Kubik still remarks that the Molecule Man's sheer potential vastly surpasses his own powers, with Owen's abilities constantly increasing overtime as his mental state changes). High Outerverse level at his peak (KilledNew Avengers Vol 3 33 and absorbed The BeyondersSecret Wars Vol 1 5) | High Outerverse level (Holds the combined power of a horde of Beyonders within himself. Lifebringer Galactus stated that the Molecule Man could end him with a thought. Held the entirety of the Eighth Cosmos as a small structure within a box)
Speed: Varies from Average Human to Infinite (Comparable to The Beyonder). Immeasurable at his peak (Comparable to The Beyonders) | Immeasurable
Lifting Strength: Varies from Athletic Human (Likely greater than Sue) to Immeasurable (Comparable to Beyonder) | Immeasurable 
Striking Strength: Varies from Human level to High Hyperverse level | High Outerverse level
Durability: Varies (His power level varies heavily depending on his mental and emotional state. Was able to survive a hit from Sue Storm and the Impossible Man. At one point, when he took over and transformed a snake, it was able to withstand an attack from Iron Man.) from Human level (Is an ordinary human sometimes, but his statistics tend to go up and down often) to High Hyperverse level (Comparable to the Beyonder, and matched him in battle even while emotionally unstable, while also holding the potential to far surpass him). High Outerverse level at his peak | High Outerverse level
Stamina: Varies up to Infinite. Like his other stats, this also varies. He has infinite power, unlimited energies, and can absorb more if he ever needed it. However, depending on his mental and emotional state, that could go down to even average human level. | Infinite.
Range: Varies up to High Hyperversal. High Outerversal at his peak | High Outerversal
Standard Equipment: Power Wand. In the beginning, the only way for him to use his powers efficiently was with the help of the Wand. However, he did not need it, and simply created it out of personal taste. | None notable.
Intelligence: 
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|-|General=At least Above Average. He was an electric engineer in a lab when the accident occurred. Basic understanding of how molecules, bonds, and chemicals work are needed for his abilities to work properly. However, his intelligence varies quite often depending on his mood. In addition to, in the beginning he could not figure out how create food as he found its molecular structure hard. In the same arc, he found Iron Man's tech too complicated.
|-|Combat=In terms of battle intelligence, he has been able to give the likes of Fantastic Four and Avengers a lot of trouble. He is able to use his Molecular Manipulation in variety of ways to save himself from the heroes. Like turning his forcefield to a spring, then parachute when fighting human torch. When he was fighting the Invisible Woman (then called Invisible Girl), he couldn't see her, so he covered her in newspapers to make it easier for him to attack her. The first time he appeared, to get rid of Reed, he created two magnets that pulled him away in separate direction and force him to stretch to his limits. Understood how the Silver Surfer utilises his powers and attacks his enemies, so he removed his one winning condition as soon as he could and defeated him. Was able to figure out how best to save people from Beyonder's death beam. At a weakened state, instead of covering each and everyone with a forcefield, he instead BFR'd everyone into sub-space to make everyone think the Beyonder had succeeded, likely the Beyonder himself too. To escape from Avengers and the government, he came up with a simple yet effective plan to escape. He instructed his girlfriend to use her heat based power to power up the balloon and run away.
|-|Cosmic=In terms of cosmic understanding, his intellect is almost unparalleled. He knows more about the cosmos than almost anyone else. He was the only one who could truly comprehend the plot of the Ivory Kings. A small part of it was perhaps due to his connection to them, but most of it seems to have come from his own experience and how he gathered intelligence from his other selves across the multiverse, and his own thinking. In addition, he was the only one who knew how to draw the Ivory Kings into the locations he wanted them to be in. Knew about the library of the Beyonders. When he instructed Doom on how to save the multiverse by killing him and thwarting the plans of the Beyonders, it took them 10 years to take notice of this, and even longer to understand what was going on. Thanks to his cosmic awareness, he can draw upon any knowledge from across every corner of the multiverse.
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Weaknesses: His power depends on his mental and emotional state, and as such, he becomes weaker the moment it begins to waver. As he shares a single consciousness across all realities, he is mentally damaged by the death of his alternate selves, as every time a Molecule Man in the multiverse dies, his mind is hurt and loses a bit of itself. | None notable.
Feats:
* Changed the shape of the house.
* Turned a woman into an almost lifeless doll.
* Transmuted Ben into glass.
* Transformed a building into a monster that attacked its surroundings. 
* Transmuted metal into flowers.Micronauts Vol 1 23 
* Encased an entire city in a glass and flew it across the stars.Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 12 
* Freed Marsha from the molecular control of the Byeonder.Secret Wars II Vol 1 2 
* Held the planet together after the Beyonder left its particles unstable, causing its atoms to slowly drift apart and its molecules to come undone.
* Can create oxygen.
* With Surfer's help, repaired this dying world by bringing its molecules back to the right place.
* Rearranged some molecules in Norman's brain.
* Brought back petrified people and deconstructed things, and potentially people.
* Disintegrated Reed's weapon into helium. 
* Disintegrated Cap's shield and Surfer's board. 
* Disintegrated Tony's device. 
* Deconstructed a car.
* Deconstructed the Sentry.
==Notable Matchups==
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