Burn Man

* Liam in his mask
* Liam before the Burn Man
* Burn Man
* Jake Gyllenhaal

## Physical description

### Species

Altered Human. Abnormal - Sometimes Superhuman - Maneuver - Sometimes Cyborg Hybrid

## Appearances

### Debut

Season One Episode 4: Nephila, Midas, Medusa

Real Name: Dr. Liam Stephenson

> "Fire! Fire and water don't mix well. They counteract. ***Fire only flows through the ones who don't burn***, opposed to how water does for those who don't crease!"
>
> Liam

## **Base of Operations**

* G.I.L.T.
* Safehouse

## **Relationships**

* Liam Stephenson's Militia
* Burn Man's Inferiors
* Lucas Carter - Best Friend
* Benjamin White - Patient
* Doctor Fred Miller - Friend from work
* Matt Jones - Best Friend
* Minara - Half Sister (Different Dads)
* Ben Stephenson - Son

## **Status**

* Identity: Private
* Citizenship: American
* Relationship Status: Single
* Occupation: Robotics
* Education: PhD in Biochemistry and Electronics Engineering

## **Characteristics**

* Gender: Male
* Race: Australian
* Birthday: August 23, 1973
* Age: 44 in 2017
* Height: 6'0"
* Weight: 185 lbs
* Build: Skinny Fat, but with a Muscular Cut as well
* Eyes: Green
* Hair: Black
* Facial Hair:

## **Origin**

* Backstory: ... The Dark Burn Cure is a cold drug built by Minara to help with Liam's burning issue. The effects of the drug became a secret addiction and would temporarily take away the affected user with heat abilities; or in this case, take away Liam's abilities to generate heat for a fire aura. Liam had someone take his DNA and study it to make more for him, where he often injected himself when the effects wore off, which he would notice when he could feel his original powers come back. As a result he gained the abilities from the Dark Burn Cure, kept his abilities that wasn't taken away and gained obsidian glass bones, becoming a force of nature; a focal point of power and madness given form, blind to all but his lust for power, passion and desires that can be sacrificed in a particular short period of time. As once he wasn't able to beat anyone on Joey's team except Joey, he can now face off against most of them.
* Species:
	+ Altered Human
		- Abnormal - Sometimes Superhuman - Maneuver - Sometimes Cyborg Hybrid
* Place of Birth: Muncie, Indiana
* Personality: Liam is very impatient, with no sense of humor, being near fearless, scheming, paranoid, and egotistical as he would never beg for his life, also being not afraid to challenge anyone, no matter how powerful they are. Before becoming Burn Man, he possessed a cunning, cold, megalomaniacal, ruthless and power-hungry mastermind, but as a cover up and as the CEO of G.I.L.T., he seemed more civilized. He has a desire and greed for seldom power or wealth, acting like a sociopath although psychologically he's not. He is also borderline and perhaps even has an obsession, jealousy and resentment towards Joey's powers, or how he uses them; something Liam feels could be used for greater purposes, and could be the next step to human evolution due to Joey's healing capabilities. He even goes as far as employing heat to combat Joey, who he has grown to despise. Being Burn Man in secret, he is feared by most everyone in the city and was one of the most powerful crime bosses, even above the Octet, which left him to be an owner of several reputable businesses across Dallas, Grand Prairie, Arlington, Irving, Fort Worth, Waco, and Hughsworth. As Burn Man, Liam's intimidation goes as far as people calling him Jason, a reference to the Friday the 13th movie character due to the hockey mask. His methods of torture could possibly kill others, which he only uses to get answers as he thinks that the only way to operate is through fear, establishing order to the criminal underworld's chaos with either fear or blackmail with his charisma. Because his victims usually get away, he is also apparently considered a myth among the citizens of Dallas County. He is a ruthless leader to his Inferiors, doing whatever it takes to keep a high public opinion of G.I.L.T. and is a cunning tactician who has a calculated mind, and has an extreme dislike for his plans being disrupted or executed in a way that is not the way he planned as he also fights with ferocity and a low amount of fear, but he tempers that with sheer cunning as a ruthless amiable businessman. That low amount of fear is when he knows to retreat, outweighing the arrogance he doesn't have. Serious, furious, and frustrated, he will do anything to get what he wants, and selfish but loyal and rational to his closest friends who become Blade Digger and The Unseen Fist. Gaining their alliance, Liam can gain loyalty from several individuals, being very manipulative and a persuasive speaker with addition to his power, skill, and intelligence, also being good at winning the minds of others.
	+ Liam is just a bully of Joey's
* Reasons: Liam's motives as a villain are unique - he believes he is using science for the good of humanity, as well as ending the chaos of humanity with fear and order. This is also something civilization wants and would agree with, but it's Liam's methods that make him a villain. His impatience gets the best of him. In addition to the typical villain, Liam does want wealth and power.

## **Powers and Abilities**

* Unlimited Fire Absorption
	+ He can absorb a seemingly infinite amount of fire into his body. He can absorb fire around him to give himself a temporary power boost.
* Overtime, Burn Man burns hotter, but his range gets smaller as he has to build up his heat. Burn Man's powers rely on burning his own energy as fuel. He is also able to absorb ambient energy from his environment such as sunlight and electricity and store it within his cells, metabolizing the energy and even creating high density muons. He is later able to use the ambient collected energy to super-charge his body. When using a superpower, it temporarily increases his might (the damage of his superpowers and power based combos) for 6 seconds. However, this boost in might comes at a cost, as it also increases the cost of energy and stamina Liam has to use these abilities, making it harder for him to use. Therefore, his fire is very powerful, but limited in how long he can use it.
	+ Heat Generation
		- Can accumulate the energy in his hands to burn, melt or traverse solid metals, such as steel doors, ceilings or walls. Together, with his fire, Burn Man can release the heat he accumulates by discharging flames from his body.
* Fire Creation
	+ Fire Stream Beam Projection
		- Can create a potent flamethrower-like beam blast composed of flame, concentrated fire, and an exotic form of energy, all consisting of a heatless blast of concussive force that can disintegrate objects within the ray's diameter. These beams are powerful enough to disperse the electromagnetic energy of Immortal Menace and force him to defend himself. It is possible that the muons from Liam's energy will ionize molecules as they go through flesh, occasionally leading to genetic mutations that may be harmful.[1] It would attempt to cut off superpowered beings from their powers once Liam has adapted to their genetics to suppress their dna. This simply turns off and shuts down the target's powers rather than removing them, but it is still effective even if the targets aren't within range. This can't affect those who don't have powers to begin with. If they are superhuman, they will not be affected because having superhuman strength is equivalent to simply being stronger than another. The same goes for speed, agility, and any other physical capabilities.
	+ Flame Aura
		- Can engulf himself in focused flames, healing himself with his ability to absorb an unlimited amount of fire.
* Can generate an energy field formed by microwaves and infrared waves combined as heatwaves. This force field works differently than just burning nearby projectiles, but also withstanding them, showing ripples on the pyrokinetic barrier.
* Thermal Resistance, surviving extreme temperatures
	+ Heat Resistance
	+ Cold Resistance
	+ Fire Immunity
	+ Fire Resistance
	+ Heat Immunity. Maybe lava. Lava may be too much for him.
	+ Bullets will also go through him and he will never feel them if they're regular bullets that have no special abilities besides heat, electricity and regular bullets because regular bullets are hot too.
* Life Force / Energy Absorption
	+ Liam has the ability to drain the life force of other humans to sustain his own. When touching someone, typically their head while they're kneeled down, the victim tends to have their eyes rolled back as they're being "absorbed". This ability allows Liam to reach into the minds of others, and similar to the belief that one can see things before death, the victim can apparently see or feel their worst nightmares. The victim is left with eyes full of burst capillaries, lungs torn from screams, damaged bones, and of course, a bloody nose.
	+ Passively and defensively, it even makes him nearly invulnerable to all exterior attacks, as he just absorbs the energy attack or kinetic energy attack.
		- Energy Resistance
* Energy Transfer
	+ Can transfer energy to others
	+ Infuse objects with personal energy
* Energy Conversion
* Can channel energy to release powerful, concussive, transparent vorpal wind shockwave discharges.
* Healing
	+ An accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate most (if not all) damaged or destroyed areas of his anatomy with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. The rate of regeneration is proportional to the damage caused, and he is capable of healing from deep slashes and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes. This process is automatic and Liam seems to have no control over it. His healing factor, however, does not seem to stop Liam from feeling the pain of his wounds nor the pain of his body regenerating itself. His natural healing also affords him the virtual immunity to poisons, viruses, diseases, and most drugs. However, he is able to use the energy he drains from others to enhances his healing powers to higher levels.
		- Poison Resistance
* Enhanced Lung Capacity or Oxygen Independence
* Enhanced Senses
	+ Enhanced Sight, able to use enhanced night vision due to containing twice the average number of retina in his eyes. This also allows to see in the infra-red as well as visible spectrum.
	+ Enhanced Smell, possessing a capacity of sniffing nearby predators and prey as well as making estimation of the time the prey or predator was around, such as finding a target who is a floor above him in a multi-story building and knowing exactly where the target is hiding.
	+ Air Senses (Can feel and sense things happening through air)
	+ Can sense energy
* In Aura Matter Manipulation
	+ His body is surrounded by an invisible aura. Only his body and anything within his aura, such as his clothing or armor, can be transformed into the three states of matter. As he transforms into mist, he liquefies his armor, transforming it into a liquid along with himself. However, his armor quickly turns to the gaseous state, so it is never observed becoming liquid. After achieving this, he is able to fly. He is also able to transform his entire body and armor back into solid form, though he won't be able to fly, unless in a gaseous state. In his gaseous state, he cannot attack and possibly cannot be killed or injured, but in his solid state, he is subject to the same rules as a human.
* Immortality
* Superhuman Strength, allowing him to withstand high levels of physical pressure. His strength is also boosted to enhanced levels, allowing him to briefly lift over 800 lbs. His strength is enough to counter Minara's Serum for Joey by putting him unconscious.
* Superhuman Speed
* Superhuman Stamina
* Superhuman Durability, as his body is capable of withstanding powerful impact forces and blunt trauma, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by superhumanly strong opponents, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no discomfort. His skin is rendered highly resistant to injury, and neither bullets nor Joey have been able to pierce it. Still, keeping a compact construct of his nerves he can feel the impact, but no pain and is not damaged by explosions, fire, or high falls.
* Enhanced Reflexes and Agility, as his reflexes are three times as swift as a normal person.
	+ Absorbing the life force of enemies increases his reflexes exponentially.
* Paralyzation Pheromones
* Hypnosis Resistance
* A skilled combatant with expertise in being a swordsman and unarmed combat that is capable of using most weapons proficiently, possessing extreme skills in martial arts and combat prowess as a warrior. *Burn Man possesses some knowledge of hand-to-hand combat. He usually uses brute force in his fights, but if he wants to, he can apply some kicking and punching techniques that resemble a martial artist*, also being trained in various forms of armed and unarmed combat such as the Japanese Martial Arts of Jujutsu/Aikijujutsu, Karate Do, Bujutsu, Kendo, Kenjutsu, Laijutsu, Tantojutsu (Knife-Fighting), Ninjutsu and Fencing; but overall, Liam is an adept swordsman of the highest caliber and is best at Kendo, Kenjutsu and the like. He is able to manoeuvre the battlefield with relative ease, has a heightened perception and is able to perform various complicated attack patterns. So skilled; he can strike faster enough to crush bone and rend flesh with nothing more than mere wood. Also sporting enhanced sword skill even without a blade, meshing fencing with his kenpo. With enough tempered strength and ability that he can rend steel with his bare hands, he is clad in his titanium-chainmail-steel armor mesh, which metaphorically allows Liam to rip his opponents to pieces with his bare hands, actually managing to cut them with just punches, but not rip them in half.
* Indomitable Will
* Gifted Intelligence, being extremely smart and intelligent; extremely skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and being highly skilled in the management of criminal organizations.
* Adept Businessman
* Expert Marksman, being able to throw and hurl projectile weapons such as knives, with precision.
* Leadership
* Complete Mastermind
* Great tactician and tactical analysis
* High Strategist
* Minara's Serum for Liam

## **Side Effects**

* When he 1st gets his powers, his face burns for a long time until he gets used to it. Then it just hurts sometimes. Eventually this nearly killed him, being the reason why Minara and Makeshift used Washington's DNA to heal him, giving Liam more and newer abilities.
* Minara's Serum for Liam

## **Weaknesses**

* Fatigue
* Anything that can cool him down.
* His powers manifest in painful bursts as his hands and arms start to glow red, taking on the appearance of burning embers as his veins darken and pulsate.
* Bio-electricity, giving a genetic alteration and revert, temporarily rendering him completely powerless.

## **Equipment**

* Walther P99 Pistol
* Cybernetic Sawed-off Shotgun
* Advanced Technological Hockey Mask
	+ Lenses
		- Can see structural weaknesses
		- Infrared Vision: Infrared scanners in the mask allow the wearer to detect heat sources, permitting night vision and the ability to see invisible persons (unless they do not give off or can somehow mask their heat signature).
		- Sensor Systems: Optical scanners in the helmet allow the mask's eyepieces to be used as high-powered telescopes, and parabolic ear amplifiers fitted inside the mask allow the wearer to detect extremely faint sounds and unusual frequencies within the audible range for humans.
		- Can scan, target and identify people, as well as have missile identifications, make calls, show a navigational (GPS) support and also has radio capabilities. All of this information is shown through a Heads-Up display (HUD), which projects Google Glass-like visuals information over natural visuals.
* First Armor
	+ Belt has several technology devices
* A black and orange malleable and adaptable form fitting generic reactive composite high tech armored battle suit without depleted uranium mesh, having nearly-impenetrable armor protection, where the sections that are hit will explode outwards, absorbing most of impacts, negating a projectiles penetration force and giving him further protection from high impacts like superhuman blows. It is also made of stainless steel, titanium, chain mail and separate nanofibers from the electrically conducted nanofibers that power the military body armor prototype featuring weapons and gadgets of an advanced nature. Cybernetics outfitted for the purpose of compensating for a lack of superhuman prowess. Armor composition integrates lightweight carbon composite titanium steel affording impressive protection. The front has the thickest armor and is meant to face the danger, while the back is vulnerable, but still tough. Underneath the external portions are layers of bullet proof fiber. At times, the armor can allow Liam to tank damage at an increase of 15% and be unstoppable for about 6 seconds, letting him temporarily shrug off the impact of attacks and counterattack quicker, but still take damage.
	+ Offensively, the armor is also composed of a metal that disrupts accelerated healing, so when Liam strikes his opponents, allowing him to "rip his opponents to pieces with his bare hands" metaphorically because he can cut his opponents with just punches.
	+ A wrist mounted arm cannon on his right arm that isn't heavy in weight, but not lightweight either. It's not powerful, but it isn't weak either. It is connected to malleable wire which connects to the right side of his armored fuel tank that also holds a good amount of his specialized ammo, accessible through a trigger switch on his other wrist that changes the ammo variation fired from his wrist mounted cannon.
		- High Heated Flamethrower
			* Contains an inside mega subatomic ionic anti-particle antimatter accelerating heating core, having a 30mm jet duct fan in, both, front and behind the core.
				+ Can be overloaded to full power. It charges every 0.065 second for 6 seconds for a full potential power-up, giving a heavier attack in incineration (ie. instant damage), allowing 35% more fire damage.
		- Arm Cannon Shotgun
			* Stunning Concussive Incendiary Seismic Shock 9mm Rounds. The 9mm rounds burst like a shotgun and pushes enemies away, but when shot, the projectile bursts into ion fusion flames that look like burning ash or burning cards or fiery flakes, and creates an invisible, yet green hallucinogenic gas has some of the Dark Burn Cure elements inside so it also looks like the green gas has purple stars or sparkles or dust or glitter that clings to the target. Because of the incendiary being heat or fire, and the dark burn cure being cold, they cancel out in temperature, so it doesn't freeze and it doesn't burn. Overall, the shotgun blast causes ears to ring; the hallucinogenic gas makes vision appear dizzy and weakens senses; and the Dark Burn Cure weakens defenses, corrupts immune systems, shocks or stings and impairs physical traits by 38%; and it's all used together or at the same time and it lasts for 10 seconds max. It is non-lethal; just enough to give someone a mild headache from the overtime damages, but a bloody nose from the blast is guaranteed. This is often used in close ranged battles or when surprised.
				+ Auto Loads 3 rounds in 6 seconds.
				+ With opponents weakened, Liam can deal 38% more damage.
		- Lightning
			* The arm cannon utilizes a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator in order to use lightning attacks. When fired, a discharge is left with the shotgun shell, leaving a bolt of electricity attached to the back of the shell and the inside of the cannon, before it dissipates. This is typically unseen by anyone, similar to ground lightning, and occurs before the shotgun round spreads or scatters. He can even aim it at the sky and shoot to summon discharge-ready lightning from clouds, similar to ground lightning.
	+ 6 Buttons on his left arm that have unknown, but underestimated passive functions to the suit. They are neither offensive or defensive, but helpful in a way. Functions that are thought to be useless and weak by others, yet they are actually helpful to Liam.
		- 4 Red Buttons
			* Button 1 (Closest to the thumb)
				+ Electric Glove
					- Palm of the suit is interwoven with microcircuit-conducting filaments capable of high-frequency electrical discharges that give Shock Damage of 300%, capable of stunning an adult man.
			* Button 2 (Closest to the pinky of the left hand)
				+ Signal Jammer/Disruptor
					- Jams all signals. No calls. No data in his vicinity.
			* Button 3 (Closest to the chest)
				+ Heating and Cooling
					- Restores 30% of his health over 3 seconds. Heat empowers him at a low percent, increasing his natural powers by 30% for 6 seconds. This is due to the fact that Liam can heal from heat and cold, but can only be empowered by heat.
			* Button 4 (Closest the left arm's tricep or elbow)
				+ Camouflage
					- Possesses light bending technology for camouflage. This makes the glowing orange lines in the suit become rainbow color before going camouflage.
		- The Lone Red Button
			* Camouflage Nullification and Body Temperature Rise
				+ Sprays a cloud of yellow mist with special properties and nullifies camouflage in an area, allowing him to locate enemies he couldn't see before since the camouflage no longer works at the moment.
				+ As an effect to organics, it increases the body heat or body temperature of others, which allows Liam to locate enemies by feeling their increased heat signature with his natural abilities.
		- Purple Button
			* Nitrogen "Armor Corrosion" Fog
				+ After activated, the suit releases and sprays a cloud of nitrogen as a baby blue mist, surrounding him with cold smoke like a smoke grenade that releases cold temperature fog. It renders him unseen for the moment. Unlike others who use smoke grenades to flank the enemy or retreat, Liam arrogantly waits for the smoke to clear up, standing in the same spot, knowing or thinking that he now has an advantage because the mist is released with special properties that contains powerful toxins and chemicals with ions and microorganisms that can incapacitate (disable powers) enemies in various ways once the gas enters the body of others and devour metals, weapons and armor, quickly disposing metallics, not including cyborgs because cybernetics are usually plastic and if they're metal, it's because it's organic like Kaliyah Campbell, which still won't have an effect, because it's organic. The smoke sprays out like a spaceship when it disassembles its parts. Eventually, the corrosion causes armor, weapons, metals, metallics or cybernetics to waste away to nothing. This is usually used when Liam has to fight off multiple hostiles who are heavily armored.
					- This may not work on police vests and others with kevlar since the kevlar is covered.
* Behind his back and underneath his "fuel tank of ammo", Liam carries a crystallized wavy knife he obtained as a souvenir during a trip to an island with snow-capped mountains and buddhist temples, though farther down near the jungles and beach, there would be no snow.

## **Appearance**

* In Combat
* Daily Basis

## **Notes**

* Graduates at age 42 with his 2nd PhD. His first at 30. Liam starts his business company right after. He's 44 in 2017. Meaning his company has been around for 17 years. G.I.L.T. started in the year 2000.
* After he gets all the metal taken off of him, he visits his friends to form a team. He keeps the metal face and puts it on whenever he feels he should.
* Owns a company with scientists called G.I.L.T that study biology, chemistry, and robotics.