Switchblade

* Switchblade
* Dreams & Knightmares
* Foxworth Enterprises
* Heroes and Villains

**Switchblade** is a fictional character in the *Graffiti* series, created by David Ragin and Cortez Andre.

One of the main antagonists of the series, Switchblade is a superhuman with the ability to gain different abilities from the superhumans that he kills. Born **Eljanan Brown** in the 1980s, Switchblade killed his brother, step-father and mother at a young age before setting out to kill other superhumans. His lust for strength and power eventually led to him meeting Dylan Johnson and Melrose Hawthorne.

In film, Switchblade is portrayed by Cortez Andre, and has appeared in all three *Graffiti* films to date, *Graffiti: Dreams & Knightmares* (2013), *Graffiti: Welcome to Foxworth Enterprises* (2015), and *Graffiti: Heroes and Villains* (2017).

## **Background**

While the majority of Switchblade's past remains a mystery, it is known that he had a complicated relationship with his mother and never knew his father. His mother's boyfriend did not care for him, and he was constantly bullied by his older brother, Emirio. One day, tired of dealing with the abuse, he finally decided to fight back against Emirio, but he was thrown aback by seeing his brother emit sparks from his hands. Fearful, he pushed his brother into the wall, accidentally making his brother electrocute himself with his own hands (though he remembers this differently). His step-father would see this and try to attack him with a switchblade knife, but would accidentally fall onto his own blade, killing him. Standing over the bodies of her boyfriend and first born drove her mad, and she attempted to shoot and kill her youngest. Understanding that he needed to defend himself, he threw the knife at his mother, but a blast of electricity would travel through the blade and strike his mother in the chest, immediately killing her before the blade struck her. He would then go on the run, donning the alias "Switchblade", after the tool that he felt killed his family.

Switchblade would then gain a bloodlust and hunger for violence after this traumatizing event. He soon discovered that he also had the ability of Emirio; that he could shoot electricity from his hands. He found another person with powers and attacked him, and upon killing him, found that he had gained their ability of super strength. Understanding that his abilities reached far beyond that of his brother, he decided to go on a massive killing spree, including murdering Kira Maxwell, and would track down superhumans and collect their abilities, as well as strengthen his own. His path for superhuman supremacy and lust for power would lead him to Natasha Jones, and eventually to his nemesis, Dylan Johnson.

## **Powers and Abilities**

* **Power Absorption:** Switchblade's main superhuman ability is that he can absorb a significant portion of powers and abilities from any superhuman that he kills, or injures to the point of near death. Upon absorbing the power, he retains the power permanently, and gains the knowledge of how the power works from the victim. He can also improve and strengthen the powers as he sees fit. He can also seemingly use multiple abilities at once with seemingly no consequences or fatigue. It is currently unknown how many powers he currently has, nor if there is a limit on how many powers he can possess.
	+ **Electricity Manipulation:** Upon accidentally killing his older brother Emirio, Switchblade gained his ability to create and manipulate various forms of electricity. Initially believing this to be his original power, he most prominently uses this power as his choice of combat. His lightning initially glowed a yellow color, but now glows red, implying that his lightning has either grown more powerful, or that he can change its color at will.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Upon killing an unknown superhuman, Switchblade has strength beyond peak human level. He is able to lift heavy objects such as cars, trucks, and buses. Her strength limit has yet to be shown.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** Upon critically injuring Frost Hamperson (leaving him near-death), Switchblade can move and react faster than the average human being, though his peak speed has yet to be shown. He has been shown to be fast enough to the point where when he vibrates his body while preparing to land a blow on someone, it makes multiple after images. He is also able to combine his speed with his strength.
	+ **Intuitive Aptitude:** Upon killing John Duncan, Switchblade gained the ability to instantly learn and understand the complexity and exactness of any object he touches. Through John, Switchblade also gain an extensive knowledge of most technology and computers, including the understanding of hacking and bypassing firewalls and security processes.
	+ **Flight:** Upon killing an unknown superhuman, Switchblade gained the ability to fly. While his limits are unknown, Switchblade has shown that he is able to fly high and fast enough to destroy a plane.
	+ **Various other abilities not yet seen:** Josh revealed to Dylan that Switchblade has killed a large amount of superhumans, and as a result, has numerous abilities to his disposal that have not yet been displayed.

* **Power Detection:** A secondary ability Switchblade possesses is the power to sense the presence of supernatural powers within others. With every superhuman that Switchblade kills, his vision and ability to see superhuman energy becomes stronger, to the point that he can see across states, and can even detect superhumans that are unaware of their superhuman status.

* **Psychic Immunity:** Switchblade is immune to any/all psychic phenomena, regardless of its nature and origin (natural, supernatural, magical, technological, etc.). His mind cannot be controlled, damaged, read, influenced, emulated, altered, detected or otherwise communicated with unwillingly. This was shown when Melrose was unable to track him following the Destruction of Millennium City.

* **Enhanced Durability:** As a superhuman, Switchblade's body has the natural ability to sustain numerous blows of external assault, though his inner body can take damage if struck hard enough.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Weakness Absorption:** Despite his powers being absorbed from other opponents, Switchblade's abilities will still have every single limitation that the abilities would possibly possess.

* **Power Awareness:** Switchblade must know the power of the individual he kills to properly utilize it as part of his arsenal. This is usually reflected when he slaughters individuals on a mass scale and is unable to obtain their abilities. Because of this, Switchblade usually engages superhumans in singular combat.

* **Superhuman Weapons:** Switchblade can be killed and pierced by anything superhuman, such as Evangeline's claws or Melrose's psionic energy.

## **Gallery**

### **Outside the *Graffiti* series**

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