Chester Ballinger (Earth-30)

Other Aliases:

* No Eyes At All
* Blue (formerly)

 I turned myself into a monster thus, a monster **the world will have**.
—**The Radioactive Man**[src]
Brilliant but brash, **Chester Ballinger** is the villain known as **The Radioactive Man**. Dying from a rare blood disease, the scientist began to experiment with gamma radiation and its various applications. Believing it to be the cure, Chester would synthesize a serum to cure himself based on the concept of gamma mutation, hoping that it would grant him a healing factor. Instead, the results were more monstrous as he awoke the next morning with all of his skin melted away and him being a sentient, irradiated skeleton who hungered for more radiation. Losing his mind in the body horror process, Chester became The Radioactive Man as a result.

His first outing consisted of fighting Tarantula as he gave off gamma radiation from the spider that ate him. While he was swiftly defeated, Chester would begin to learn how to properly use his abilities. Here, he would begin to terrorize the town of Primm in secret, testing his abilities on the unsuspecting populace through Machiavellian schemes. At some point, SHIELD picked up on what he was doing and sent him to the supervillain prison in Washington, D.C. known as The Vault. It was here that he was one of the members who savagely beat Tarantula inside The Vault during the superhuman war.

More recently, Chester would be approached by Kang, The Conqueror, Calypso, and Alucard after managing to escape The Vault and roaming the Maine wilderness. She offered him a chance to join the supervillain team, Hollow. With nothing else going for him and seeing this as an opportunity to kill Tarantula, he agreed.

## History

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## Attributes

### Powers

**Gamma Mutate:** As one of the earliest gamma mutates in existence, Chester's biology is a complete and utter mystery. How or why, he gained powers is a statical wonder because that much radiation **should** have killed him. When creating the serum, Chester accidentally measured the amount of gamma radiation wrong, and this caused an inverse reaction. While it cured his rare blood disease, it turned him into a literal monster. Bernard Smith - the resident gamma expert - theorized that there was something in Chester's DNA that resulted in him becoming able to mass absorb radiation on the scale that created him which led to Alexis May adding onto the theory that Chester may have been a mutant. However, Bernard - after becoming The Hulk - believes that a certain subset of humanity has specific genetic traits that allow for them to gain superhuman abilities from gamma radiation and coined the term gamma mutate as a result, claiming that Chester is an early, crude example of them.

* **Superhuman Physiology:** Chester has a heightened superhuman physiology, while nowhere near the likes of Hulk or Tarantula, he is sufficient enough to have caused problems for Tarantula at the beginning of his career. His strength is incredible, often being compared to that of Jinx's but as he is a skeleton, his durability isn't so great but good enough to take hits from Tarantula. His reflexes are surprisingly good as - again - he's a skeleton and this has surprised everyone that has faced him as they assume because of his skeleton nature, he would have *no* reflexes.

* **Gamma Manipulation:** Chester's crowning ability is his ability to absorb and manipulate gamma radiation en masse. He has shown the ability to throw balls of gamma energy and fire streams of pure gamma radiation but there is an upper limit of his gamma absorption ability. While on the surface, anybody with his abilities would have more than enough power to take over the world three times over. Thus, enters the problem of Chester. He is - for lack of a better term - an idiot. He isn't creative with his abilities and thus, doesn't fully grasp what it is that he has. He can set the atmosphere on fire or give cancer to an entire city en masse but doesn't think of it or rather, doesn't really connect the dots to get to that point. The most he has done with his ability was when he terrorized Primm and he used it to irradiate cemeteries to attempt to raise the dead.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Scientist:** Chester was and still is an extremely gifted scientist that has done wonders for Dynamics Industries. He was smart enough to create a pseudo-cure for his rare blood disease but this obviously backfired as he became The Radioactive Man as a result. However, it was his intelligence that led to Kang wanting him on her supervillain team.

### Weaknesses

* **Gamma Overload:** There is an upper limit to how much gamma Chester can absorb, and this was showcased to the extreme with his first fight with Shay as he attempted to absorb radiation inside of a nuclear power plant but essentially burnt himself out. This resulted in him becoming depowered for three days, but his powers returned, and he was able to flee Vegas and go to Primm.

## Notes

* Chester Ballinger (Earth-30), and by extension, Donuts exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.

## See Also

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