Electric Man

"You think I fear you, foul beast? I am ELECTRIC MAN!"~ Electric Man to Jilarji in Super Battle Bros: Showdown.Electric Man, real name Xalvador Galvani is a Mutant who constantly has electricity coursing through his body. Like a living battery, he feeds on energy to survive, having adapted to a new biology & lifestyle as a result of his mutations. Despite being one of the most powerful Mutants on planet Earth, he is a minor character in the Terrachaoverse series.
Tier: Low 6-B
== Appearance ==
Electric Man wears a dark blue coat, pants that vary from blue to black, black gloves, black boots, & a shiny, featureless chrome mask. He also has a somewhat muscular physique. His skin shows copious amounts of scars from the lightning that struck him during his mutation, so he makes an effort not to show his skin. Under the mask he has glowing blue eyes.
== History ==
=== Shocking Origins ===
Xalvador Galvani was once a humble electrician who in his spare time studied electricity & how it can be used by living organisms (like electric eels). Little is known about his past, but in April 1986 he was contracted to go overseas & work at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine. However, his temporary stay would make a permanent impact on him. When the power plant had a nuclear meltdown, releasing a massive amount of harmful radiation, Xalvador was struck by lightning over a dozen times, & combining the electricity with the radiation caused a mutation to occur in his body. Suddenly, Xalvador was transformed into a being that did not need food, water, or air to survive, he only needed to feed on energy for sustenance. While Xalvador noticed that this horrific accident affected other beings during this event, he would have to leave them be to fend for himself & adapt to his new biology. Having realized his studies have led him to this point, Xalvador had given himself a new name & became known as the Electric Man.
=== Conducting New Relations ===
Over the decades, Electric Man's power grew stronger & stronger. Sometime in the late summer of 2015, he discovered that there were more strange beings out there like him. He went back to Chernobyl, passing through undetected as a current of electricity, & discovered that the power plant that mutated him was actually built unknowingly over an entrance into an underground world. Electric Man went in, sensing power he hadn't sensed before, & he came across the Monster World, a place where supernatural beings may thrive without humanity ruining their way of life. Electric Man almost felt at home. This is also where he met Jack Jarren, a pumpkin-faced Mutant who was also affected by the power plant. Jack would direct Electric Man back to the surface world, where he heard talks of a man with unimaginable power over electricity & radiation. Electric Man was curious & would end up meeting Almighty Tallest Daniel Ledda himself. Dan was impressed by Electric Man's power & knowledge of electrophysics. The year after, Electric Man would also meet another one of Dan's kind, a Kaiser named Joshua Bunch, & Electric Man would teach him how to harness electricity as a weapon. Afterwards, Dan found a place in a nearby town for Electric Man to live in, an abandoned building that was next to a power grid. By his authority as Almighty Tallest, Dan ensured the building would be remade into Electric Man's new home, to which the Mutant was very satisfied with.
Electric Man wouldn't show his face until much later on October 12th, 2018, where he attended the 38th Super Battle Bros. Tournament at the Fall Residence. He was new to the idea of a combative tournament of supernatural beings from across the Multiverse fighting for whatever reason & wanted to try it out. He fought & won against his two opponents GMOD Man & Sword Jake, the latter of whom provided much challenge to Electric Man for his elemental manipulation.
Electric Man was spared during the End of the World on December 7th, but his memories of it were wiped upon the planet's restoration.
Electric Man returned to Super Battle Bros. on February 3rd, 2019, attending the 42nd Tournament at the Ledda Residence, where he fought against the undead monster Jilarji. Jilarji was Electric Man's strongest enemy yet, so much so that he needed to find some distance to hide & formulate a plan to defeat him, passing by Stupid Handy Mandy & Mike Gamey Gee along the way to warn them of their monstrous opponent. Mandy & Mike did their best but could not best the beast, but Electric Man returned just in time to give them the chance to escape while he confronted Jilarji himself. Regaining his confidence, Electric Man would eventually defeat Jilarji, but with much difficulty, as he was quite tired when seen later upstairs in the living room. Electric Man was watching the news on TV & Dan pointed out that he himself was present on-screen. Electric Man remarked how that news channel was lucky to have caught a supernatural creature on camera, but because this tournament was to be published in a very small corner of the world (that being Dan's YouTube channel), Dan pointed out to Electric Man that they were also on camera. Electric Man slowly turned his head & finally noticed the Omnipresent Camera, forgetting it was there, & shut it off with an E.M.P.
=== Preventing a War ===
On April 26th, 2022, Electric Man was dispatched alongside Jack, Hazard Man, & Birdman on behalf of the Monirken Empire & the Justice Avengers to protect the Chernobyl Power Plant from being used in the Russian/Ukranian Conflict happening at the time. These four were seen as the most powerful Mutants on planet Earth, all of whom got their powers from this place, so this was all familiar territory for them. The only difference now being that a war was going on between two nations, & these four would put an end to it. Getting caught in the crossfire, Electric Man & his fellow Mutants were unfazed by the Humans' weaponry as they stood their ground & protected the Monster World from being discovered by the Humans. Both the Russians & the Ukranians ceased fire when they realized nothing in their entire arsenal could hurt these mysterious beings, & the Mutants let the Ukranians take one photo of them before leaving. It is unknown if Electric Man or the other Mutants took any lives during this event.
Electric Man would visit the Ledda Residence on Christmas later that year, where he hung out with Jack & Sans. They were all given a surprise visit by Pepsi Man, who quickly dashed in the house to give the three a can of Bepis each, then darting away into the distance. However, Electric Man's can was not filled with soda, & was instead a lamp that looked like a Pepsi can. Calling it "electric blue flavor", Electric Man linked the lamp's cord to himself & drank the electricity that poured out from it in a flashy display. After Sans explained the significance of the anime keychains on the Christmas tree to Jack, Electric Man looked at the tree & found the secret pickle ornament, which shouted "I'M PICKLE RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!"
== Personality ==
Electric Man is someone who doesn't always like bringing attention to himself & is a man of few words. Because of his mutations, he views the rest of humanity much differently than he did before, & believes himself far above them. He realizes how important electricity is to mankind, but he does not hesitate to absorb as much power as he can in order to feed his hunger, even if it cuts off someone's internet connection. Electric Man is also fearless, laughing in the face of danger, & this can be seen when he fought the monstrous Jilarji. 
== Powers & Abilities ==
=== Physical Abilities ===
Megahuman Strength: Electric Man is regarded as one of the strongest Mutants on Earth, comparable to Jack Jarren, Birdman, & Hazard Man. He was able to contend evenly with Jilarji, who could've easily defeated Stupid Handy Mandy & Mike Gamey Gee had Electric Man not interfered. He is strong enough to destroy a small country.
Megahuman Speed: Electric Man can move & react at massively hypersonic speeds, being as fast as lightning itself, which has been measured to be 975,867.4 miles per hour. He can also time the exact moment when a lightning bolt will strike from the sky, & saw Jilarji's fire breath as slow when compared to his electrokinesis.
Invulnerability: Electric Man's durability coincides with his strength, & because of his altered physiology, it's hard for him to actually feel pain. He is tough enough to withstand the destruction of a small country.
=== Special Powers ===
Power Sensing: Like many supernatural beings of the Terrachaoverse, Electric Man can sense the power levels/signatures of other supernatural entities. He attuned his senses to the point where he can pinpoint the exact locations of differing types of energy, a technique that was vital to learn when his power was growing.
Electrokinesis: As the name suggests, Electric Man can wield the element of electricity with excellent proficiency.
* Bio-Electric Nature: Xalvador's mutations were special among his Mutant brethren in that his entire body has energy constantly coursing through it. With electricity running through his veins, he is literally like a living battery in that he no longer needs food, water, or air to survive, only energy. This is exhibited when Pepsi Man gave him a Pepsi lamp instead of the soda, to which he literally drank the electricity that poured from it.
* Energy Manipulation: He can absorb energy-based attacks & electrokinetic attacks do no harm to him whatsoever, they would just empower him.
* E.M.P: He can release an electromagnetic pulse, sending harmful waves of electricity to harm his opponents or shut down technology. He can release these pulses in small dosages from his hands, or amp them up & release larger pulses from the core of his body.
* Electric Blast: He can fire a beam of pure energy by cupping his hands together & releasing it outward. This beam is equal, if not stronger than Jilarji's fire breath.
* Electroport: While not shown on-screen as of yet, Electric Man can transport himself to another place by converting his entire body into energy & channeling himself through a given route as a current of electricity. 
Weather Manipulation: Because he is a living conductor, Electric Man can sometimes affect the weather, which makes him especially dangerous.
* Thunderstorm: He can summon lightning seemingly on a whim, like when a crackle of thunder could be heard right as he introduced himself.
== Equipment ==
Conductor Cords: Electric Man's weapon of choice is a twin pair of blue whips that conduct electricity; these are weapons that he constructed himself. He can attack within extended melee range with these whips, & they can halt even a brutish beast like Jilarji with just one strike.
== Weaknesses ==
Because his body is constantly surging with electricity, if Electric Man's entire body was completely sapped of his energy, he will starve & weaken. Also, he cannot use his electroport ability if he has nothing to conduct to/travel through.
== Trivia ==
* Electric Man is a descendant of the Italian physicist from the 18th century named Luigi Galvani, who was exemplary for his work in bioelectromagnetics. Galvani's name became the basis for the word galvanism, which is electricity produced through chemical actions & is how dead tissue can be "reanimated".
* His nickname comes from a joke from Family Guy where Peter Griffin figures out how to harness static electricity & shock people for the fun of it, calling himself Electric Man. 
* His favorite type of music is aggrotech.
* Electric Man was originally first meant to be revealed in a short video that was both filmed & edited in 2015, but the video no longer exists. However, a single screencap of it exists in a non-canon update video from August that year. Despite that the R4NDOMN355 episode he debuted in is no longer public, that remains as his official debut, so he is a 2016 character.
== Filmography ==
# R4ND0MN355: Electrifying Enigma*
# Super Battle Bros: Showdown 
# Almighty Tallest Danny’s 4/26/22 Update (feat. HAL 9000) (photograph)
# The Gift of Gifts
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