Ben Barton

**Ben Barton**, aka **Dragonfly**, is a high-school student in New York City who was stung by a Deviant Dragonfly from Genetico Labs. He is in a constant battle against Stingy Jack and other enemies (such as King Cobra).

## Powers

* **Superhuman Strength:** Dragonfly possesses the proportionate strength of a dragonfly, granting him superhuman strength. He is capable of lifting 10 tons or more when under extreme stress. Dragonfly's strength extends into his powerful leg muscles which allows him to leap heights and distances far beyond human capability.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Dragonfly is able to exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair his performance.
* **Superhuman Durability:** The composition of the Dragonfly's skeleton, inter-connected tissues, and nervous system had all been enhanced. His bodily tissues are somewhat more durable and resistant to impact or trauma than an ordinary human, although he is certainly not invulnerable. While his body is tougher than an ordinary human, he can still be injured in ways comparable to an ordinary human. He is seemingly killed when impaled in the back by Stingy Jack’s Flying Broomstick. He was able to catch a bullet at close range in his hand, although the act was very painful.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** If injured, his body is capable of regenerating faster than an ordinary human being is capable of.
* **Superhuman Agility:** Dragonfly is extraordinarily limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength.
* **Danger-Sense:** Dragonfly possesses an extrasensory "danger" sense which warns him of potential immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinesthetics, which enable him to evade most any injuries, unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes. The precise nature of this sense is unknown. It appears to be a simultaneous clairvoyant response to a wide variety of phenomena (everything from falling safes to speeding bullets to thrown punches), which has given several hundredths of a second warning, which is sufficient time for his reflexes to allow him to avoid injury. The sense also can create a general response on the order of several minutes: he can not discern the nature of the threat by the sensation. He can, however, discern the severity of the danger by the strength of his response to it.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Dragonfly's reflexes are faster than an average human by about a factor of 40 (he his often able to dodge bullets only inches from hitting him). His practical reaction time is at least a dozen times that of a normal human. In combination with his danger-sense, the speed of his reflexes allowed him to dodge almost any attack, even bullets only inches away from his face.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Dragonfly is capable of running and moving at speeds that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Dragonfly has shown to be fast enough to catch up to an accelerating car while on foot, but preferred to travel by his mechanical wings.
* **Superhuman Equilibrium:** Dragonfly possesses the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seems able to adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object, no matter how small or narrow. He had developed a unique fighting style that made full use of his agility, strength, and equilibrium.
* **Wall-Crawling:** Dragonfly possesses the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-atomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers. This overcomes the outer electron shell's normal behavior of mutual repulsion with other outer electron shells and permits the tremendous potential for electron attraction to prevail. The mentally controlled sub-atomic particle responsible for this has yet to be identified. This ability to affect the attraction between surfaces is so far limited to Dragonfly's body (especially concentrated in his hands and feet) and another object, with an upper limit of several tons per finger. Limits to this ability seem to be psychosomatic, and the full nature of this ability has yet to be established.
* **Flight:** Dragonfly is capable of flight using the mechanical wings that he built in his garage.
* **Camouflage:** Dragonfly is capable of hiding his body temporarily using a form of vibration that causes light to bounce around his body.