Morgan Edge

Morgan Edge (1984) is a media mogul and personality who owns the **Galaxy Communications** company, a competitor to Lexcorp. After he took bought the Daily Planet and took over Intergang, he became a dangerous foe to Superman. On June 13th, 2020, he was arrested by the Metropolis Police Department.

In January 2022, Edge escaped prison and regained his powers from the Metahuman serum. He was later stopped by Superman and the newly discovered hero, The Flash and sent to the maximum sentence.

## Biography

When he was 18, he went to MIT and then he met Lex Luthor and the two became business friends. In 2001, he and Lex became competitors.

In May 2020, Edge moved to Metropolis and the first thing he did was buy the Daily Planet to which he fires a bunch of people including Perry White. Later, it was revealed he is a member and later leader of Intergang.

A month later, intergang scientists develop a prototype metahuman serum to which Edge injects it in his system thus granting him superhuman abilities.

On June 13th, 2020, Edge was arrested by the Metropolis Police Department and taken to Stryker's Island Penitentiary.

5 months later, Morgan hires assassin Robert DuBois to kill Superman but only fails with his jail sentence extended.

In January 2022, Edge escaped prison and regained his powers from the Metahuman serum. He was later stopped by Superman and the newly discovered hero, The Flash and sent to the maximum sentence.

## Powers and Abilities

### Former Powers

* Meta-human physiology: After being injected with a prototype metahuman serum, Morgan Edge is granted with various superhuman abilities this altered his DNA and supercharged his cells, augmenting his physiology access his new abilities. After taking a power synthesizer, he lost connection to these abilities
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:** Morgan's metabolism was tremendously enhanced by the serum, allowing accelerated healing abilities and burning calories at a superhuman rate.
	+ **Invulnerability:** Edge was essentially invulnerable to all Earthly weapons, with bullets simply ricocheting whenever they came into contact with his skin.
	+ **Superhuman speed****:** Edge possessed the ability to move at hyper-sonic speeds, both through flight and on foot.
	+ Superhuman strength: Edge's strength was enhanced enough to easily kill a normal human if he were to attack them directly.

### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect/Great business acumen/Master tactician/Leader:** Morgan is an incredibly intelligent person with his intellect matching Lex's. While having no known degrees, he is an immensely well-read and equally multi-skilled in individual. Ever calculating and methodical, he is a near flawless planner, able to assess and account for the numerous variables and from this effectively manipulate the situation to unfold as he sees fit.
* **Expert marksman:** As the leader of Intergang, Morgan has an excellent aim.
* **Skilled hand to hand combat:** Morgan Edge has been shown to have some degree of hand to hand combat.

### Weakness

* Power synthesizer: After Morgan was hit with the synthesizer, his powers began to fade away.

## Appearances

### Man Of Steel

#### Season 1

* Lois and Clark
* Family Matters
* Metallo
* For the Man Who Has Everything
* Man Of Power
* The rise of Intergang

#### Season 2

* Bloodsport
* General Zod (Mentioned)
* Domination (Mentioned)

#### Season 3

* The Fastest Race of all times
* Till We Collapse (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* Edge buying the Daily Planet is a reference to the Pre-crisis comics

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Morgan Edge is a media mogul who owns Galaxy Communications, often placing him as an antagonist of Superman, though an ally of Clark Kent.