Daniel Haller

### Other Aliases

Avatar, Ego-Spawn, Psi-Lord, Prodigy, Hyperstorm, Danny Haller, Tattletale, Doctor Fate

### Relatives

J'onn J'onzz  (Father)
 Gabrielle Haller  (Mother)

### Affiliation

Daydreamers, Formerly Justice League, Justice Society of America, Teen Titans, Titans, Power Pack, Doom Patrol

## Characteristics

### Eyes

**Irises:**
* Brown

## Origin

### First Appearance

Doom Patrol #26
 (September, 1989)

**Daniel Charles Haller**, also known by his alias **Powerhouse**, is the son of Martian Manhunter and Gabrielle Haller. A powerful reality warper, he was one of the most powerful beings in the universe even at a young age. Daniel was long-time believed to be a metahuman, when in reality his own powers had caused him to subconsciously alter his anatomy to make it seem like he had an Metagene.

## History

When Daniel was a baby, his biological father gave him to the Haller family. Mr. Haller and Mrs. Haller happily adopted Daniel, and while their daughter, Amy Haller, originally believed it to be a dream she too accepted Daniel into the family. Growing up Daniel was never told of the adoption and believed that the Hallers were his biological family.

Daniel grew up in the country with the Hallers. Mr. Haller was an astronomer and would often take Daniel into the forest to star gaze. On one of these trips Daniel told Mr. Haller that the stars talked to him to which Mr. Haller replied that the stars spoke to him too, however while Mr. Haller meant it metaphorically Daniel meant it literally.

This was one of the first signs of Daniel's biological father's actions coming to haunt him. Daniel's biological father gave Daniel up after psychically defeated a mutant known as Amahl Farouk or the Shadow King. However, the Shadow King's consciousness still lingered and found Daniel, attaching himself like a parasite within the latter's mind. To exact revenge on Daniel's father, the Shadow King used Daniel's own power to make itself stronger, planning on seizing complete control of Daniel's body to achieve this.

The Shadow King began to manipulate Daniel's memories and his perception of the world. He disguised himself as a beagle named King which would follow Daniel around as a kid, however only Daniel could see King. Farouk also disguised himself as one of Daniel's childhood nightmares, The Angry Boy. A character from a book that Mr. Haller may have read to him called The World's Angriest Boy in the World. It is unsure if Mr. Haller actually read the book or if this is another memory trick from the Shadow King.

Over time the psychological damage from having the Shadow King manipulate his memories took its toll on Daniel's mental health. He became violent punching a peer at prom, he committed petty crimes, and was often publicly intoxicated. Around this time, Daniel's mutant abilities also began to grow in power, shattering the windows of a police vehicle during one such incident. Sometime after this, he is diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The diagnosis of schizophrenia was the most logical for Daniel, not knowing about his mutant heritage. He often heard voices (people's thoughts) and saw things that weren't there (visions caused by Farouk). A psychiatrists prescribed Daniel medicine which would help with schizophrenic symptoms and inadvertently dampened his abilities. Although Daniel believed he could move things with his mind (something that he could achieve) he wrote this off as a delusion and a symptom of schizophrenia thus he never explored his powers.

## Powers and Abilities

Daniel possess vast telepathic powers, tremendous telekinetic powers, the ability to fire enormously powerful energy blasts, and the ability to rearrange the molecular structure of matter and energy. His powers are so great that he has been able to create pocket universes, and his abilities have been described as equal to the Celestials. It was originally believed that Daniel's powers came from him being a metahuman, and he was considered an Omega-level metahuman; once stated to be even beyond Omega classification. In reality, Daniel's meta status came as a result of his vast powers subconsciously altering his anatomy to a cellular level out of his desire to be special.

* **Mentifery**: As one of the most powerful metahumans known, Daniel has the ability to warp reality with his imagination and thoughts. For example, if he imagines that the bones in someone's arm are made of cookies, this will become true. By imagining that his body is "*more sturdy than the strongest steel,*" he can drastically increase his bodily defense. He can instantly heal any wounds inflicted onto him by imagining them already healed. Even more, using his power, Daniel can create elements and substances from his mind, e.g. creating lava, water, or even a gigantic stone platform and steel pillars to use for attack and defense against foes and manipulate them as he sees fit, and he could also restructure the battlefield to his liking, like imagining a big crevice. Daniel can also create real weapons around himself, ranging from machine guns to missiles, in order to attack his opponent. He can also erase people from reality altogether. He is also capable of making bullets unable to harm him, allowing him to stand in front of a group of soldiers firing at him at point-blank range, as well as bring several bullets fired at him and Sydney to his hand, catching them with ease. Daniel once used his god-like powers to create a reality for himself and even being able to casually create an "omniverse" in a shoe box. Daniel's powers possibly have been used subconsciously to cause some of what he imagined or believed to become real enough to affect and interact with the physical world. Mentifery is both the purest expression and mighty form of reality warping, allowing him to achieve any desired change directly, both rational and irrational, unhindered by the need for any template, material, or proxy to work.
* **Molecular Manipulation**: Daniel possesses the ability to mentally control, transform, and manipulate the molecules of all matter and energy. Through concentration, he projects a psionic-manipulative energy, the precise nature of which is unknown, that alters the arrangement of molecules according to any visualized pattern. He can animate inanimate materials by causing constant mass movement of molecules: for example, he can make a brick building walk. He can rearrange molecules so radically, he can use his power to reconfigure all forms of matter and them into different substances and forms (such as, for example, turning air into glass), and can change matter into energy and back again. He can create force fields and energy blasts, and also open up wormholes through hyperspace and traverse them, thus travelling faster than light. The maximum area he can affect at a single time is not yet known. In the past, however, he has enclosed the entire island of Manhattan in a plexiglass barrier, lifted a 150 billion ton mountain under his own power alone, converted a two-square mile parcel of land into an ornate palace, and affected the entire planet Earth. Once he effects a change in the arrangement of molecules in a quantity of matter, it remains in its new configuration until he consciously changes it back. Even if rendered unconscious, the transformed substances remain. Once he even turned the assault of hostile Celestials into harmless flowers.
* **Chronokinesis**: Daniel, while accessing the Astral Plane, was able to stop time when he and Syd were shot at by Walter. As he, Syd, and the Summerland mutants returned to their bodies, Daniel was able to position himself between the oncoming bullets and Syd while the bullets were still in mid-air. He was also able to contact future Sydney with the assistance of an isolation chamber built by Cary. Daniel was able to time-travel to the past to meet his past self.
* **Psionic Powers**: Daniel has demonstrated a wide variety of psionic powers. Even as a kid, he at least displayed a remarkable resistance to a psionic Celestial assault
* **Telekinesis**: Daniel possesses immeasurably potent telekinetic powers. With it, he is able move, levitate, control, and manipulate people, and multiple inanimate objects with mere thought via his hands or eyes alone. He can use this to various effects. He is able to fly, create small bright green-colored telekinetic shields and barriers, unleash incredibly powerful blasts of bright green telekinetic force and, freely control and manipulate several objects from a huge distance. Since his abilities are mind-based, it means that if he's unable to concentrate or form a thought, he's unable to use his powers. This also means that most of his powers are controlled by his emotions and feelings and can often get out of hand if he gets angry enough, causing nearby objects to telekinetically combust (similar to the ability of **molecular combustion**) or random destructive telekinetic bursts to happen, even sending things flying depending on how passionate he's feeling.
	+ **Bio-Blasts**: Ability to fire enormously powerful energy blasts which he generates from his body's extrasensory potential. These were able to temporarily destroy the demon lord Mephisto within its own realm.
* **Telepathy**: Daniel has vast telepathic powers, which grant him numerous different abilities. He is able to detect, manipulate, and enter the minds, thoughts and memories of others, as well as transmit his own thoughts and memories on unlimited radius. However, he had trouble controlling it at first, causing him to hear thoughts at random and being led to believe they were part of his insanity. His notable abilities include:
	+ **Astral Manipulation:** Daniel has the power to project his consciousness and that of others outside the physical form. Through astral projection, Daniel can intangibly observe the physical plane, or he can travel to and interact with the Astral Plane. Through the use of isolation chamber built by Cary, he was able to experience visions of where the Shadow King's body was, as well as experience other possible alternate realities of himself. Even without the apparatus, he was able trap an insanity creature created by the Catalyst in the Astral Plane to prevent it from rampaging, before changing their relative sizes to the point that it fit in a glass jar.
	+ **Telepathic Illusion**: Ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
	+ **Telepathic Cloak**: Can mask his presence from being detected by others. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.
	+ **Mind Link**: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
	+ **Telepathic Camouflage**: Ability to mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (Changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more detailed disguising.).
	+ **Mind Control**: Ability to control the minds of others just by trying.
	+ **Mind Possession**: Ability to possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as his own.
	+ **Mind Alteration**: Ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
	+ **Mental Amnesia**: Ability to cause loss of particular memories, and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.
	+ **Psionic Shield**: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of others' minds.
	+ **Psionic Blasts**: Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the astral realm, he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects.
	+ **Mental Detection**: Can sense the presence of other superhuman mutants within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
	+ **Mind Transferral**: Able to transfer both his mind and powers into other host bodies should his own physical body be somehow killed.
* **Precognitive Dreams**: Precognitive abilities, which manifest themselves in his dreams, enabling him to envision possible future events. Although there are countless possible futures, Daniel foresees the most probable future path, and therefore his predictions usually come true. Daniel seemingly cannot foresee events more than roughly a few days in the future. Daniel's precognitive power developed to the point at which he could see images of future events when conscious.
* **Dream-Self Projection**: Ability to place himself in a trance-like state while remaining fully conscious. While he is in this trance, he can project an intangible, ghost like image of himself to another location, through which he can see and hear what goes on at the location. What Daniel has called the “dreams” he has while in this state are not truly dreams, but his conscious awareness of the environment into which he has projected his “dream-self.”
* **Fundamental Forces Manipulation:** Daniel has displayed the ability to manipulate the four fundamental forces of the universe on a potentially a cosmic scale. This ability allows him to rearrange matter to create other configurations and can even transmute elements and manipulate space-time to a degree by using gravity to distort them.
* **Energy Constructs:** The ability to create anything he sees in his mind. Daniel uses this ability to make anything he can imagine and manipulate it as he sees fit. Daniel can channel this energy offensively to create weapons or blasts of energy or defensively to create force fields to protect those he loves.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Even as a kid, he has displayed a remarkable resistance to damage. Even though he was knocked unconscious, he managed to survive a direct Celestial assault with minimal damage.
* **Duplication:** After being irradiated by a meteor, Daniel briefly showed the power to duplicate.
* **Gestalt Merge:** Daniel was able to merge with other beings, such as his sister, into a double conscious being.
* **Flight:** Daniel is able to fly under his own power, his top speed is unknown.
* **Teleportation:** Daniel is able to teleport anywhere in the known Multiverse.

Furthermore, Maxwell use this energy to warp reality through his thoughts and bring anything he imagines into reality. Using this, he can turn a person's bones into cookies, make his body stronger than iron, stretch people painfully into liquid shapes or even manipulate weather. He can also create various elements and substances from his mind, e.g. creating lava, water, ice, or even creating a gigantic stone platform and steel pillars to use for offense and defense against foes and manipulate them as he sees fit. He can restructure the landscape to his liking, such as imagining a big crevice. Maxwell can also materialize real weapons around himself, ranging from machine guns to missiles, in order to attack his opponent and can even summon a meteorite to earth.