Gazerbeam

## **History**

### **Simon. J Paladino: 1963 - 1981**

Simon was the only son and youngest child born to affluent parents. His father was a lawyer and it inspired him to become one himself. His parents were kind but busy and vaguely frightened by his powers. They urged him to try and conceal his laser vision as much as possible. He grew up in the countryside of New York state.

Growing up he was really skinny and small and not good at sports. He got pushed around and bullied a lot in school as a result and didn’t have many friends. This was not helped by his refusal to look people in the eyes because of his fear of harming them with his laser vision.

That summer he turned eighteen, he shot up in height seemingly overnight and came back for his senior year in high school suddenly tall and muscular and handsome with a deep baritone he hadn’t had before and he got lots of attention, especially from girls, which was very confusing for him

### **Gazerbeam: 1981 - 1994**

He pushed himself to the max in law school. He barely slept or ate when the bar exam came around and unfortunately he kept these habits for his life when he focused on a case or was tracking down a criminal.

Simon moved to Malibu to pursue his new job as a recently passed lawyer, but was picked up by the NSA shortly after when it became apparent that he was a super. It took a while for him to learn to focus and control his powers. His helmet helped a lot.

He was focused and calm during scenes of violence, which impressed the NSA. He still tended to alienate people with his lack of eye contact and inability to understand humor but he eventually made some good friends. Notably Simon was friends with Mr Incredible, Dynaguy, Fironic, and Frozone

He was very grateful for these friendships, as they were the closest bonds he’d ever formed since childhood and he was privately very insecure about his inability to make friends sometimes when things got desperate in a battle, Simon would get overly focused on stopping the villain and saving people to the point where he would disregard his own physical safety and ignore any injuries he got seriously he was very stubborn and very bad at self care

Notably once time in the aftermath of a fight he’d had with Mr Incredible, he’d twisted his ankle and was having trouble walking but he ignored it in favor of helping the civilians, even though they and Bob insisted that he get medical attention. Finally Bob got fed up with him and, ignoring his protests, picked Simon up and threw him over his shoulder and carried him away to a doctor. Simon was deeply embarrassed by this and didn’t speak to Bob for a week, but he was better about getting medical help after that.

Gazerbeam was originally a solo hero, but was asked to replace Everseer as the leader of The Phantasmics. As Everseer replaced him as leader of the Thrilling Three after Dynaguy was place in a coma, Gazerbeam. He was only seen alive as one of the guests at the wedding of Mr. Incredible and Elastic Woman, sitting at the frontmost bench of the chapel in his superhero outfit.

### **Simon J. Paladino: 1994 - 2013**

After being forced into hiding after the ban on super heroics, Gazerbeam married Apogee and had a son but soon good divorced because they had different ideals about how to fight for superhero rights. Gazerbeam used his civilian identity to launch a campaign to get the ban on Supers repealed. Frozone commented that he "had trouble adjusting to civilian life," much like Mr. Incredible had.

At some point prior to the main events of the film, Gazerbeam was reported missing in the Metroville Tribune. According to the newspaper, he was last seen outside his apartment on Traction Avenue ten days prior to the date of the article. His past advocacy of Superhero rights—which had lead some citizens to believe that he had actually been a superhero—would have made him a likely target (especially to Surge).

### **Gazerbeam: 2013 - 2014**

Gazerbeam was one of several retired supers who were targeted by Syndrome for Operation Kronos. He was recruited to battle an Omnidroid on Nomanisan Island as part of the droid's battle education. He destroyed the Omnidroid v.X4, then was bested by its successor, the Omnidroid 5. Before his demise, however, Gazerbeam managed to find out the password to the main computer—"KRONOS"—and carve it into the cave wall near where he died.

While Mr. Incredible was on Nomanisan Island trying to hide from Syndrome, he ended up in the cavern, where he encountered Gazerbeam's skeleton by chance, the sight he initially recoiled at. Approaching cautiously at the skeletal remains and wiping some dust off from the helmet, he found out that they were what remained of the missing superhero. He then traced the track of blast from Gazerbeam's visor to find the message carved on the cavern walls. Mr. Incredible was able to avoid being detected and killed by hiding behind Gazerbeam's bones.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Superhuman Physiology (Superhero):**

* **Ambient Energy Manipulation (Absorption & Conversion):** Gazerbeam's powers come from ambient energies (such as solar radiation, photons, and cosmic rays) absorbed and metabolized by his body into concussive blasts that are released from his eyes. Gazerbeams' mind has a particular psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures that have taken the place of his eyes. Because his mind's psionic field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membrane of his eyelids is sufficient to block the emission of energy. The extra dimensional supply of energy for Gazerbeam's eye-blast is practically infinite. Thus, so long as Gazerbeam's psionic field is active (which is constant), there is the potential to emit energy.
	+ **Optic Blats:** Gazerbeam possesses the superhuman ability to project a powerful beam of concussive, ruby-colored force from his eyes. The width of Gazerbeam's eye-blasts seems to be focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. As Gazerbam focuses, the size of the aperture changes and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and beam's relative power. but at a stronger level with total control over them. How far his control extent was is currently unknown; all that was seen was that he could open his eyes without involuntary discharge, and control its blast radius or force output. The height of Gazerbeam's eye-blast is controlled by him. His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of 4 feet has a force of about two pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across at a distance of fifty feet, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam four feet across which, at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. The maximum angular measurement of Gazerbeam's eye-blast is equivalent to a wide-angle 35 millimeter camera lens field of view (90 degrees measured diagonally, or the angle subtended by holding a magazine's pages spread open, upright at 9.5 inches from your eyes). The minimum angular measurement is equivalent to the angle that the thickness of a pencil would subtend at 4 feet (3.5 degrees, about a quarter of an inch viewed at 4 feet). The beam's effective range is about 2,000 feet, at which point a 1-inch beam has spread out to 10 feet square, and then has a pressure of .38 pounds per square inch. Gazerbeam's maximum force is sufficient to tip over a filled 5,000 gallon tank at a distance of 20 feet, or puncture a 1-inch carbon-steel plate at a distance of 2 feet. The maximum force of Gazerbeam's optic blasts are unknown, but a commonly given description is that he can "punch holes through mountains", and he has been shown to rupture a half-inch thick carbon steel plate. During a particular battle, Simon says that he hit Don (a.k.a. the Anchor Man) with enough power to split a small planet in half, though he may have been indulging in hyperbole. His beams can cut through Titanium, a previously indestructible metal. In has also been implied that Gazerbeam only utilizes a fraction of the energies at his disposal. When Doctor Sunlight measured Gazerbeam's power while he was powering Spark, he found the energy output was well over 2 gigawatts, larger than a large nuclear reactor. Gazerbeam once fought Bulldozer using a beam blast to stop him, refusing to let Bulldozer take Doctor Sunlight. While it peels off some of the Bulldozer's skin.
		- **Transitional Phasing Beams:** Gazerbeam has the capacity to will his optic blasts to twist and curve in any given direction without need of a solid surface to bounce his eye beams off of. Gazerbeam has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to cause his optic blasts to ricochet and/or reflect off those objects in a trajectory to his liking. This is commonly called a "banked shot" when applied to this talent.
		- **Spatial Perception (Geometry Intuition):** Gazerbeam possesses an uncanny sense of trigonometry, in this sense used to describe his observation of objects around himself and the angles found between surfaces of these objects. Gazerbeam has been observed causing beams to reflect from over a dozen surfaces in the course of one blast, and still hit his intended target accurately. It is his sense of spatial awareness enhanced to superhuman levels that allows him to perform these feats as well.
		- **Energy Resistance:** Gazerbeam is resistant to the effects of his own powers. This is linked to him being capable of withstanding Plasmabug's ability with no ill effects due to their similar powers.