Hawkman

## Powers & Abilities

* **Decelerated Aging:** As Carter Hall, Hawkman's lifespan, along with Hawkwoman's, has been greatly extended. It is shown in a possible future that both Hawks' lives might extend into the 40th century.
* **Mace Manipulation:** Hawkman recently acquired the ability to manipulate his signature mace telekinetically.
* **Blessing:** Carter Hall was a priest in a past life, and still possesses the ability to bless mundane objects. For example, by muttering a prayer in front of a building's sprinkler system, he was once able to convert the water into Holy Water in order to destroy a vampire. [*citation needed*]
* **Divine Empowerment:** Hawkman was granted the ability to breathe underwater, by the god Poseidon.
* **Reincarnation:** The Nth metal knife which murdered Hawkman in his original incarnation as Khufu had an unusual effect upon his soul and that of his lover Chay-Ara (Hawkgirl). The pair are locked in a seemingly endless cycle of death and rebirth throughout the centuries. While not a superhuman power per se, this propensity for reincarnation has allowed Hawkman to cheat death and return to active duty in his current incarnation.
* **Reincarnated Knowledge:** Due to his many lives and vast amount of experience, Hall is a brilliant tactician, fierce warrior and strong leader. At the same time, however, he is extremely intelligent (considered a leader in his field of history and archaeology) and expresses a deeply romantic side in relation to his beloved soul-mate. Often, Carter finds it difficult to balance between the "barbarian" of his past lives and the "gentleman" of his current incarnation. He also has an extremely innovative approach to science and technology.
	+ **Archaeology:** Carter is considered the greatest archaeologist in the Egyptian field.
		- **Historiography:**
	+ **Science:**
		- In the summer of 1942, Hawkman invented a method to store complete meals in tiny capsules. The meals then expanded to full size, when a special solution was applied. This technology was used by the Justice Society on a famine-relief mission to Europe, during WWII.
		- In the late 1940s, Hawkman invented a bubble-shaped antigravity flying vehicle. Little if any use was made of this vehicle afterward, and it was not commercialized or mass-produced.
		- Early in his career, Hawkman encountered and defeated another inventor working with antigravity technology, and confiscated one of his gravity-inducing weapons, for future study.
	+ **Tactical Analysis:**
	+ **Investigation:** Considered by Batman to be possibly the greatest detective in human history, he single-handedly unraveled the mystery of the Dark Multiverse's origin.
	+ **Multilingualism** **and** **Animal Empathy**: Carter knows thousands of languages, existing or extinct. Along with speaking several human languages (including German and Spanish), Hawkman has learned the language of the intelligent hawks of Hawk Valley. After working with these hawks for several years, he grew familiar with the language of the beasts, and could talk to wolves, bears, and deer.
	+ **Weaponry:** Due to his multiple incarnations and having memories of all of his past lives, Khufu/Hall has become proficient in many types of weaponry. As a result, he is an expert with a wide array of archaic weapons from his past lives, including battle axes, maces, swords, spears and shields. As Nighthawk, he was a marksman with a pistol. In addition, Carter Hall is sometimes depicted handling futuristic technology. He has used a Thanagarian ship called "The Brontadon", and during the Rann-Thanagar War used Rannian hard-light armor. Hawkman is even depicted using technologically advanced laser weaponry in a possible future.
		- **Firearms:** Carter keeps all the skills of his previous incarnation and as such is very efficient with firearms due to his tenure as Nighthawk.
	+ **Leadership:**
* **Expert Combatant:** Aside from being a part of the Justice Society of America, Hall was also a liaison, chairman and member of the Justice League of America. Due to Hall being affiliated with the League, he underwent combat training with them, from the very start.
* **Multilingualism:** Hawkman knows English, Greek, and Thanagarian, among others.

## Equipment

* **Nth Metal Belt & Boots:** Hawkman flies by way of an anti-gravity Belt & boots constructed from Nth Metal its abilities are controlled mentally.
	+ **Nth Metal Enhancement:** The metal is psycho-reactive, responding to its bearer's thoughts and in its base form has a number of electromagnetic/gravitational properties. Among these is the ability to generate a heat aura, sufficient to keep a man alive under Arctic conditions.
		- **Enhanced Strength:** Carter's strength level is increased by the Nth metal. Carter is capable of ripping a car door of its hinges with little effort.
		- **Enhanced Durability:** Hawkman is able to withstand blows from superhuman opponents.
		- **Enhanced Vision:** Hawkman can observe objects at great distances or at speeds faster than can be perceived by the normal eye.
		- **Accelerated Healing:**
		- **Self-Sustenance:**
* **Artificial Feathered Wings:** His wings, which are laced with Nth metal, allow him to control navigation and guidance during flight, though they can be "flapped" through use of shoulder motions. He can reach an airspeed of 225 miles per hour, if not better.
* **Archaic Weaponry:** Hawkman has access to an entire arsenal of medieval weaponry.
* **Antigravity Flying Vehicle**: He invented a flying machine, but made little if any use of it afterward.
* **Soarship:** A technological marvel fabricated from the scientific crafting of various worlds. Procured by Carter whilst on a jaunt through the microverse and owned by prior incarnations of his.

## Weaknesses

* **Curse:** Every time he is born again he must wander the earth till he meets again with his eternal soul mate. But as soon as they form a deep bond, they are destined to be murdered again and it continues.