Nelson Deavor

**Nelson Deavor**, also known as the **Screenslaver**, is a supervillain and member of the Unforgivables who uses his goggles, as well as monitors and screens, to hypnotize people’s minds. In actuality he is the son of DevTech CEO Avon Deavor (the original, brainwashed Screenslaver) and the older brother of Winston and Evelyn, who was presumed dead years ago. As the second Screenslaver, he serves as Xerek Newton’s second-in-command, as well as his tech expert. His motivation is to use the chaos Xerek causes to destroy DevTech and kill his family. After the failure of Operation Black Mirror, Deavor is frozen by Frozone and arrested, being sent to the Stockade and remaining there fifteen years into the future. Nelson is Buddy Pine/Incrediboy's archenemy.

## Biography

Nelson Deavor is Avon’s oldest son. Born at an unlucky time for his father (right when he was trying to get DevTech off the ground), Nelson grew up feeling neglected and unappreciated by his father, partly due to his various attempts to help his father being brushed off. Nelson became bitter and angry, and Xerek grew advantage of this. Wanting to bring back the Screenslaver and needing a technological genius for Operation Black Mirror, Xerek convinced Nelson to join the Unforgivables. Nelson agreed and faked his death before assuming the identity of the Screenslaver permanently. He became Xerek’s de facto right hand man, handling many of his lower-level operations while also working to advance Operation Black Mirror. He also built much of the Unforgivables’ technology, including various zero-point energy devices modified from Double Dutch’s equipment. His ultimate goal is not to rule the world or even the city, but instead to destroy DevTech and ruin his father’s legacy.

After attracting the Supers’ attention by blowing up various DevTech facilities (a cover up for having secretly smuggled the equipment within out beforehand), Screenslaver is apprehended and unmasked as a Pizza Planet delivery driver. However, the delivery driver is merely a patsy brainwashed by Nelson so he can continue operation unbothered about the Supers chasing him. He is also responsible for blowing off Dr. John Gilgen’s hands and causing him to fall into a massive hole in the ground that would later lead to his rise as the Underminer. Screenslaver later learns that the Metroville Police Department holds some of his prior incarnation’s technology in their confiscated evidence vault, and he attempts to steal it so that the heroes aren’t able to reverse-engineer it to counter Operation Black Mirror. He is intercepted by Incrediboy, who despite being hypnotized, manages to take a pair of goggles from him. Upon the activation of Operation Black Mirror, Nelson reveals his true identity to his father and siblings, who he’d had kidnapped. Nelson quickly loses his patience with Avon and reveals his past as the Screenslaver before beating him brutally. However, he is interrupted by the sudden arrival of the Incredibles, who he attempts to brainwash using his goggles. He is instead frozen into a block of ice by Frozone, where he remains until he is pulled, unconscious, out of the rubble after the destruction of the television tower.

Nelson is arrested and sent to the floating National Supers Agency prison known as the Stockade. When the supervillain the Hoarder begins to make his presence known and takes over the Stockade to use as his base, the villains locked in the prison become part of his collection. The prison sinks into the bay after a bomb planted by Xerek goes off. All of the villains, including Nelson, are consequently freed and engage in a massive hero-on-villain battle. During the fight, Screenslaver manages to hypnotize Fironic and Blitzerman and pits them against their fellow heroes. He also brainwashes Elastigirl and pits her against Incrediboy, but Gazerbeam blasts his goggles off with a laser beam, allowing Incrediboy to punch him out. Along with all of the other villains associated with the Unforgivables, Nelson is arrested and charged with racketeering and various other crimes.

Fifteen years into the future, Nelson is mentioned to still be in prison.