Doctor Manhattan

## Background

**Doctor Jonathan ¨Jon¨ Osterman** was born to a watchmaker in 1929 and planned to follow in his father's footsteps, but after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, his father urged him to pursue a career in nuclear physics, declaring his profession outdated. Osterman attended Princeton University and graduated with a Ph.D. in atomic physics, and in 1959 he was moved to Gila Flats, where he met his future lover Janey Slater.

In August 1959, Jon planned to return Janey's repaired watch and realized he had forgotten it in his lab coat, which was left inside one of the test chambers for the intrinsic field experiments. While he was inside the test chamber, the door closed and automatically locked itself. Jon spent his last moments as a human in fear, as he was torn apart and vaporized until nothing remained. In the next few months, Jon's consciousness began to progressively attempt to retake material form, until finally on November 22, Jon regained full material form, taking the appearance of a tall, hairless, naked, blue-skinned man. He is later involved in Ozymandias' plot to commit genocide, and Manhattan lets Adrian go after realizing that he has indeed achieved world peace. He speaks with Adrian for the last time before departing his universe.

Afterwards, he observes Barry Allen attempting to undo the Flashpoint timeline, and interfered by erasing 10 years from the timeline, effectively creating the New 52 universe, and also prevented the JSA from existing. Eventually, Veidt and the second Rorschach attempt to re-establish contact with him as their world had returned back to its chaotic state. Veidt successfully summons Manhattan, who reveals that he came to Prime Earth because he saw a vision where he sees an enraged Superman punch him and saw nothing afterwards, believing Superman kills him or he ends everything. However, Superman tells Jon that maybe he can't see the future because he might have to give everything up to save his world and he can choose it. Inspired by his words, Jon decides to undo his alterations.

Jon's actions resulted in the JSA and Legion of Super-Heroes coming to Superman's rescue while also stopping the metahuman battle. Lois meanwhile is able to expose the truth of Firestorm's explosion because of Veidt. He then travels back to his world, to 1992, where Veidt's plan had been exposed and had led to a nuclear holocaust. He then travels back in time to stop the missiles, making all nuclear weapons on Earth disappear before taking away Mime and Marionette's son, realizing that he himself was the reason why he couldn't figure out the child's future completely. He raises him as his own and names him "Clark" in honor of Superman, and tells him to find Daniel and Laurie Dreiberg, transferring what remains of his powers to Clark so he would become a true hero for their Earth before he himself ceased to exist.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Connective Energy:** Due to being exposed to Connective Energy, Osterman's "intrinsic field" was removed due to an accident that sent his atoms flying, leaving him with barely enough control over his DNA structure. Over time, he was able to re-evaluate his physiology and become Doctor Manhattan, a quantum being of nearly unlimited power.
	+ **Nigh-Omnipotence:** Jon's "intrinsic field" was removed due to an accident that sent his atoms flying, leaving him with barely enough control over his DNA structure. Over time, he was able to re-evaluate his physiology and become Doctor Manhattan, a quantum being of nearly unlimited power. Mister Mxyzptlk, a near-omnipotent being in his own right, has stated that Manhattan's power far exceeds his own.
		- **Nigh-Omniscience:** Jon perceives time in a non-linear fashion. This means that he sees the past, present, and the future simultaneously. Likewise, he can grant others with this "atemporal" vision. While originally limited to only his perception of time, Jon later learned to view the timelines of others, as well as possible timelines that never happened. He was able to see the entire timeline of the metaverse when reconstructing the changes he made to it. However, this power can be blocked by tachyons, restricting him to only the present as the only facet of time that he can see and actively experience, blocking his atemporal vision from probing far enough to perceive the future.
			* **Cosmic Awareness:** Jon possesses an understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale, and has the ability to oversee other universes as he wishes.
			* **Precognition:** Due to his ability to see the past, present, and future simultaneously, Jon is able to look into the future of his own timeline, or any timeline he wishes.
			* **Retrocognition:** Due to his ability to see the past, present, and future simultaneously, Jon can see past timelines that were erased or altered.
			* **Time-Travel:** Due to his ability to view the timestream from a third person perspective, Jon is capable of traveling throughout the timeline at will. He can also pull others through time along with him. By altering the outcomes of certain events while travelling throughout time, Jon can create new timelines that splinter reality in both past and future.
		- **Nigh-Omnipresence:** After fracturing his timeline into infinite alternate realities, Jon learned that he exists as one entity across all universes throughout the past, present, and future. This allowed him to live in all of these universes simultaneously, until he eventually collapsed all of the timelines into one.
		- **Bio-Fission:** Jon is able to split and replicate himself. He is capable of dividing his quantum consciousness among other separate physical forms resembling his physical appearance.
			* **Bio-Fusion:** Likewise with his Bio-Fission ability, Jon can bring his sentient copies back into his body without any adverse side effects.
		- **Dimensional Travel:** Jonathan is able to travel to other realities at will. He was capable of travelling from his universe to Prime Earth.
		- **Electrokinesis:** Jon can manipulate electrical energy at will, even electricity that is magical in nature. He was able to cause the Shazam Family's lightning to backfire against them.
		- **Elemental Control:** Jon is capable of manipulating elements at will. He was capable of creating an oxygen aura around Laurie Juspeczyk when he brought her to Mars. He was also able to instantly create water. Jon's footsteps have also been shown to create plant life and cause flowers to blossom.
		- **Enhanced Intellect:** Jon's mind is far more enhanced than that of a normal human. He has perceived events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all.
		- **Enhanced Senses:** Jon's senses are far more acute than any normal human. He has been able to sense the heartbeat of a child inside of an unnoticeably pregnant woman.
			* **Enhanced Hearing:**
			* **Enhanced Vision:** Jon states he is able to read atoms.
		- **Energy Construct Creation:** Jon can create and manipulate various energies in a manner that creates matter from virtually nothing. It is unknown whether some of the creations he made were the manipulation of matter, molecules, or entirely quantum energy constructs.
		- **Energy Projection:** Jon is able to manipulate multiple forms of energy with precision. His control over energy is so great that he was able to pull all of the energy out of Guy Gardner's Green Lantern Ring and manipulate it, although he stated he found it difficult to affect. Jon was also stated to be made up of Connective Energy, a form of positive cosmic energy used by Super-Celestials to birth multiverses, opposite in nature to negative Crisis energy. Jon radiates this energy from his body, as well as from the objects he telekinetically levitates. Ozymandias stated that if it was synthesized, it would be able to solve all of the world's energy problems. Jon's energy is also powerful enough to create life, as displayed when he used his energy to accelerate evolution on an uninhabited planet.
		- **Flight:** Manhattan is not restrained by basic physical laws and can levitate and fly at will.
		- **Force Field:** Jon is capable of projecting powerful force-fields.
		- **Immortality:** After his transformation, Jon never appears to age physically and mentally. He stated that his appearance was based on his perception of himself, and since his perception of himself does not change, his appearance does not change or age.
		- **Intangibility:** Bullets and blows travel through Jon; as such, he can allow all objects to pass through him without so much as a reaction. He can extend this ability to other people and objects. His intangibility coincides with his ability to phase through matter, allowing him to pass through solid substances without any considerable difficulty or loss of control. His intangibility has no specific emphasized drawbacks.
			* **Phasing:** Jon is capable of phasing his body through solid matter.
		- **Invulnerability:** Jon possesses incredible durability and is practically invulnerable to any physical harm. His durability has allowed him to walk across the sun unharmed.
		- **Magic:** When attacked by Etrigan and Zatanna, Jon analyzed their magical energies and quickly learned to replicate their spells, creating a powerful magic sigil that projected a massive energy blast.
			* **Eldritch Blast:**
		- **Molecular Reconstruction:** Jon was able to restructure himself after the removal of his intrinsic field. Manhattan is not limited to using this reconstruction power only on himself. He has taken apart most inanimate objects and even taken apart human beings as well as reconstructing Martian sand into large glass structures. He was also able to instantly transform water into milk.
			* **Disintegration:** Jon is capable of using his power to completely disintegrate human beings.
			* **Molecular Acceleration:** Jon is able to use his power to accelerate the speed of molecules, causing massive explosions at will.
			* **Regeneration:** Jon can regenerate his entire body from total disintegration (down to the sub-atomic level), endlessly, as long as his consciousness survives. He was also able to instantly recover from a snapped neck.
			* **Size Alteration:** Jon is able to grow or shrink incredibly fast without a seeming limit. He displayed great abilities and focus while at these sizes without a loss of control in any fashion.
		- **Photokinesis:** Jon can shift the color frequencies of the light around him in order to hide his true appearance and make himself appear as he wishes others to see him.
		- **Power Distribution:** Jon was capable of transferring his power to Clark Dreiberg. He was also able to imbue a portion of his power into the Mobius Chair.
		- **Radiation Production:** Jon's body emits some level of ultraviolet radiation.
			* **Thermokinesis:** When Jon restructured his body, he produced great amounts of heat from his body's ultraviolet radiation. It was great enough to give nearby people sunburns.
		- **Reality Alteration:** Jon can create new universes with even the most casual act, as well as destroy them. He was able to merge multiple timelines that he had created into one. After the events of Flashpoint, when Barry Allen attempted to revert his universe back to normal, Jon interfered with this process by erasing ten years from that would-be, reverted universe, creating Prime Earth as a side-effect. He was later able to undo all of the alterations he had made to Prime Earth, reverting back to the way it was before he interfered. Jon was also able to keep the Flashpoint timeline in existence after it was supposed to be erased, as well as erase this universe himself later.
		- **Self-Sustenance:** Jon doesn't require food, sleep, or oxygen to survive.
		- **Superhuman Strength:** While in microscopic size, superhuman heights or in a seemingly normal form, he displayed great physical strength such as hurling tanks, lifting planetary structures, and heaving delicate technological equipment about.
		- **Telekinesis:** Jon is capable of manipulating the movement of objects with his mind. He could also use this ability to cause a person's head to forcefully explode.
		- **Telepathy:** Jon is able to telepathically invade the minds of others, as displayed when he forcibly showed Ronnie Raymond a vision of the past.
		- **Teleportation:** By warping space around him, Jon can teleport himself and others at will. Jon had teleported huge and small objects, people and animals alike.

* **Architecture:**
* **Genius Level Intellect:**
* **Science:**
	+ **Nuclear Physics:**
	+ **Quantum Mechanics:**

## Weaknesses

* Veidt correctly assumed tachyons; a large burst of them can slow his ability to see the future to a moderate extent, but still, his telekinetic powers were unaffected (Note: tachyons exist only in theoretical physics).
* Although it was not seen in practice, Dr. Manhattan surmised that an EM pulse would cause such "static" that obscures the future, hinting at another possible weakness.
* **Mental Disorder:** Without being able to truly feel or embrace things in a virgin perception, Doctor Manhattan had begun to lose his sight of humanity and his sense of humor. He grew bored of the Earth and its inhabitants multiple times. He finally chose to leave Earth after he stated he understood humanity again; signifying his final departure from humanity. His inability to understand emotions lead to him creating utter chaos on Prime Earth, all just for the sake of sating his curiosity about that reality.