Ryan Roberts

Ryan Roberts was the original Superhero during the Glory Days but passed the mantle onto his son, Ross, when he retired.

## Ryan Roberts

### Relatives

Led-Am (biological father) † , Bel-Am (biological mother) † , Quincy Roberts (adoptive father) † , Tina Roberts (adoptive mother) † , Sarah Svensen-Roberts (wife), Ross Roberts (son), Raymond Roberts (grandson), Bat-El (cousin), Eev-El (cousin-in-law), Brut-El (cousin), Fi-El (cousin)

### Affiliation

Superhero Society of America (formerly), The Satellite (formerly)

### Occupation

Superhero (retired), Photographer (retired), Father, Grandfather

## Appearance

### **Physical Description**

Despite his aging, Ryan is still in excellent physical condition and he still has a great complexion with light skin. His hair is short and such a dark brown that it almost looks black and has grey streaks in it. His eyes are a beautiful sapphire blue and he wears lead-lined glasses even though his vision is more than fine.

### **Clothing**

Since his retirement, Ryan has taken to wearing plaid shirts under a brown coat with khakis and boat shoes.

### **Pre-Retirement Hero Costume**

Before his retirement, Ryan would don a pair of blue jeans with a long-sleeved blue shirt that bares the crest of the House of Am. This is paired with a red cape, the removal of his glasses, and the addition of red boots.

## Personality

Ryan was lucky to have been raised by Quincy and Tina Roberts in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. They raised him to be kind to everyone and to help in any way he could. They raised him so that he didn't feel as though he were the last son of Xenon. They made sure he didn't feel alone.

He upholds the values of truth, justice, and hope and fights for the good of the people of the world.

## History

### **Origins**

Almost 73 years ago, the planet of Xenon was in crisis. The planet was dying and it's people soon to follow. Many parents had the idea to send their children out into the wider universe to save their lives, knowning they'd never see their babies ever again. One of these parents were Led-Am and Bel-Am, the parents of Ron-Am.

They launched him in a pod in hopes that he'd land on some other world with a better future than the fate of their Homeworld. Ron-Am's pod landed on Earth, in a small town just outside of Denver, called Littleton, Colorado, where his pod was found by Quincy and Tina Roberts. They adopted him, naming him Ryan, and raised him as though he was their own child. But soon, his powers would begin to show and it would be impossible to hide his past from him.

Quincy would bring him out to the shed where he'd kept Ryan's spaceship for almost 15 years. Qunicy told Ryan how they'd found him in the spaceship how there'd been a meteor shower that day. The town had been lucky the none of the meteors.

Ryan had no idea how to react to being told that he was an alien. He didn't know what to think about how his parents had been hiding the truth about what species he was. He'd find himself in the back alleys of Denver, lost and alone, worse off than he would've been if he'd just went back to the house.

Only a couple hours later, Ryan would be found by his older cousin, Bat-El. Bat-El took him in and began teaching Ryan about Xenon, about their language and culture, and training him in how to use his powers. Ryan began to feel connected to his heritage through the help of Bat-El but that connected feeling would end when Bat-El attempted to convince Ryan to help him conquer Earth. To help him claim this world as a prize for the fallen Xenonians. Ryan didn't want to be a conquerer, that wasn't who he was! It wasn't going to be who he'd become.

Ryan turned on Bat-El and attempted to fight him head on but he lost, horribly. Bat-El nearly killed him! Ryan was left to shamble his way back to his parents in Littleton. He needed more time, more training, more strength before he could take on his cousin once again. He began working on mastery over his powers and working on his fighting skills, too. He vowed that next time he came face-to-face with his insane cousin, he'd been ready.

Nothing interesting happened for a couple years after. Ryan grew up, he moved away, he got a job as a photographer for a newspaper company, called The Satellite, in Denver. Denver was nice for a while until the crime rate started spiking and criminal began using alien weaponary, supplied by his cousin no doubt. So he knew he'd have to do something about it.

A visit to his father led to him receiving his signature costume from his father, who was a taylor. Donning the costume, Ryan began fighting off the criminals and their alien weaponary. This eventually brought him face-to-face with Bat-El once again.

## Skills and Abilities

### Xenonian Physiology

Ryan is an alien from the planet Xenon. This presents him with powers beyond that of any human. Because of his Xenonian DNA, Ryan possesses a weakness to a radiatctive stone from his home planet called **Xenonite** and is also weakened by White Sunlight. However, since his cells collect and process yellow sunlight, Ryan is capable of rettaining all of his powers outside of zones with comparitively weakened gravity and yellow sunlight.

#### Invulnerability

Xenonian skin is incredibly tough. Bullets are stopped dead in their tracks, missiles don't even scratch him, and even nuclear warheads aren't enough to make Ryan flinch. There is nothing on Earth that may present a way to harm him.

#### Infrared Vision

Xenonians possess special ocular adaptations that give them the ability to view light in the Infrared spectrum. This ability allows him to see heat signatures.

#### X-Ray Vision

Xenonians possess a special optical organ within their eyes that produce an effect within their eyes that allow them to see within the X-Ray Light Spectrum.

#### Laser Vision

Xenonians possess quite a few extra optical organs than humans. One of these optical organs, referred to as the *opticus ignis* by the first man allowed to fully examine a Xenonian, is capable of converting a solar charge into a concentrated beam of heat. These lasers that they produce appear in various colours and the lasers Ryan produces are yellow.

#### Super Vision

Due to the evolutionary necessity, Xenonians evolved extremely powerful eye sight in order to see on a homeworld with a White Sun. Since their vision is so many times better than a human's, Xenonians are capable of seeing clearly for hundreds of miles. They can even see the smallest of details.

#### Freeze Breath

Xenonians possess an extra, smaller organ within their lungs that holds a gaseous super-coolent. When they release the super-coolent gas alongside their breath, it causes anythinf caught within the range to be flashfrozen.

#### Super Senses

Due to the differing atmospheres between Xenon and Earth, Xenonians comparitivily possess senses a great deal more powerful than that of any human. Superhero, himself, once recalled that he was able to hear a pin dropping in Fiji from Jupiter's moon, Io.

### Flight

Compared to the gravity of Xenon, the gravity of Earth is a joke. Earth's gravitational pull is hardly capable of containing him after a jump; therefore, due to Earth's significantly weaker gravitational pull, and a mix of his speed & strength, Ryan is able to attain flight on Earth and other planets with similar gravitational pulls.

### Superhuman Speed

Superhero is capable of moving at speeds of 98% of the speed of light due to Earth's joke of a gravitational pull.

### Superhuman Strength

Due to Earth's significantly weaker gravity, Superhero is extremely strong. On Earth, Ryan is capable of lifting weight no human could ever dream of lifting. He can pick up buildings like they weigh no more than a single lego piece, he can throw mountains like their small stones, he can even casually carry islands and continents. Many suspect that Superhero would be capable of throwing an entire planet at someone if he needed to.

## Equipment

Due to his inherant strength and powers, Ryan is unneeding on any equipment to help him in hero work.