Alexander Paine

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**Alexander Paine** is a fictional character and main antagonist in the first season of the *A.T.O.M. – Alpha Teens on Machines* series.

He is an evil crime boss who seeks to take over Landmark City. His main subordinates are Spydah and Flesh.

## Personality

Paine is shown to be ruthless, cruel, and short tempered. But he is also shown to be a bit caring, especially towards his daughter Samantha. He is also a bit overprotective of her, much to her chagrin. Paine is also known to be quite artistic on the piano.

Paine and Sebastian Manning worked together as covert ops agents. However, Sebastian found out Paine was a double agent and tried to stop him. But a bomb went off which supposedly killed Sebastian and scared Paine's body. Paine was sentenced to life in prison for possibly killing him. In the first season, Axel Manning hated Paine for (he first assumed) betraying and killing his father, but in the end, Paine revealed that he didn't kill him. However, at the same time, Paine hated Axel for ruining his plans to take over Landmark City.

Spydah and Flesh are Paine's henchmen whom he mostly gets mad at for their failure and stupidity. While Spydah and Flesh carry out most of his plans, Paine is not above hiring others to aid in said plans. He sometimes replaces Spydah and Flesh if they fail him or if he thinks that they are obsolete compared to whoever he hires. Paine uses his power on his minions capriciously, usually if they say or do something unintelligent or counterproductive.

## Appearance

Paine has black hair with red highlights and red eyes; he usually wears black pants and jacket, and a red T-shirt. He actually looks oddly quite similar to Axel.

## Biography

### A.T.O.M. – Season I

Not much is known about Alexander Paine long before the events of the show. He had his daughter, Samantha Paine (who would become Magness). Paine was also a former covert ops spy for the government, and worked closely with Axel Manning's father, Sebastian Manning. But one night, Sebastian discovered that Paine was a double agent who sought world domination. He came to confront Paine, but a bomb went off. Paine's body was badly scared and Sebastian Manning was labeled dead as a result. Paine was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sebastian Manning.

He served ten years at Talon Penitentiary, Landmark City's triple-maximum security prison, before Spydah helped break him out. Paine wants to take over Landmark City from its underworld. However, the only one standing in his way is Axel Manning. After a second fight with him, Paine was expose to nerve gas that damaged his nervous system, giving him the power to transfer his pain to others through touch. Controlling a group of convicts from Talon, including Spydah and Flesh, Paine seeks to cause chaos and disorder in Landmark City, giving him an opportunity to take it over.

Throughout the first season, Axel hated Paine for betraying and (he first assumed) killing his father. He and Axel fought many times during the first season. After the Alpha Teens destroyed his base, Paine wanted to get rid of Axel once and for all. In what seemed like what was going to be their final battle, Paine revealed to Axel that he did not detonate the bomb that presumably killed his father. Paine was eventually defeated and sent back to jail.

### A.T.O.M. – Season II

In the second season, Paine was sent a picture and was frightened. He asked for bodyguards and as a result, Axel and his Team were hired to protect Paine. However, Dragon kidnapped Paine. Later, Axel rescued Paine who gave him picture of Sebastian and an unknown man. Paine said if Axel finds the man in the picture, he'll find the truth about his father.

## Abilities

Ever since he was exposed to nerve gas, Paine gained the power to transfer his pain to another through touch. This is called the "Touch of Pain". He is also an expert martial artist as he seems to be able to hold his own against a fight with Lioness.

Paine is an accomplished pianist and seems to be well educated. His personalized equipment includes the **Jet Burner** and the **Street Shredder**.

## Gallery

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