Gazerbeam

Simon J. Paladino, also known as Gazerbeam, is a minor character in The Incredibles. He only briefly appears in the film alive, with his disappearance and death setting events into motion.

## Naming Info Details

### The Super Name

**GAZERBEAM:** Wore An-Navy-Blue Bodysuit with The Known Visor like Frozone's which That Had "GB" of His Entire Logo as Ever On It.

## Biography

### *The Incredibles*

Gazerbeam was a member of a superhero team called the Phantasmics, but conflicts with Everseer lead him to leave the team and he soon joined the Thrilling Three as their new leader upon the death of Dynaguy, which he also later left. He appeared alive at the wedding of Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible. **Before of All Supers Ban, He's seen shaking hands with Winston's father indicating they had been close friends along with a fellow Super, Fironic. His parents also had two phones to contact Gazerbeam and Fironic should trouble arise.** During the superhero ban, Gazerbeam was an activist for superhuman rights, wanting the ban on supers to be revoked. However, this may have allowed for easy tracking when Syndrome's organization was looking for supers to lure to Nomanisan Island. 15 years later, he would be one of the most recent victims of the Omnidroid, with Bob having noticed his disappearance becoming a story in the newspaper. **Gazerbeam's death is off-screen, however, it is shown that he was killed by Syndrome's Omnidroid V.5 as a test subject in a mass genocide initiated by Syndrome. He was able to get to a cave just before his death, where his final act before dying was to use his powers to carve "KRONOS" on the cave wall in which he was hiding in the hopes that someone would discover it and put an end to Syndrome's evil schemes. His final act was crucial in aiding the Incredibles in their mission to stop Syndrome.** When Bob narrowly escaped an explosive device deployed by Syndrome, he found Gazerbeam's skeleton in a hidden cave and looking from his view carved into the walls, the password to Syndrome's computers: KRONOS. Bob then hid behind Gazerbeam's corpse to fake his death when Syndrome sent a probe to make sure of his demise. The probe scanned Gazerbeam's corpse and falsely reported to Syndrome that Mr. Incredible was terminated. Gazerbeam was avenged when Syndrome finally met his death.

## Personality

Gazerbeam was generally known for a rather dull personality, generally speaking in a monotonous tone. He struggled with personal relationships as he notably didn't have much of a sense of humor, and was worried about accidentally shooting someone with his lasers if he focused on them too much. **He was smart and elusive as he had survived the Omnidroid long enough to discover Syndrome's plan, being to eliminate a large number of supers in order to finally defeat Mr. Incredible.**

## Powers and Abilities

* **Optical Lasers**: Gazerbeam's superpowers consist of eye beams that shoot if he focuses intensely enough on a target.
	+ **Solid Eye Beams:** Gazerbeam's superpowers consist of eye beams that he controls with his visor, similar to the Marvel superhero Cyclops.
* **Superhuman Endurance:** As shown on his NSA file, he possessed high levels of endurance.
* **Intelligence:** His NSA file also shows that he was smarter than the average person.

Gazerbeam had the power of laser vision, but described having difficulties with it as staring too intensely could accidentally trigger his powers. This made it hard for him to form relationships, as people thought he was being rude or uninterested. He controlled and intensified the blasts through vision intensity focus lenses in a containment helmet.

## Weaknesses

**Reflective Surfaces**: His laser beams could bounce off reflective surfaces like mirrors, which could put himself and others in danger.

## Trivia

* Gazerbeam takes inspiration from the Marvel superhero Cyclops, who strongly resembles him.
	+ They both fire beams of energy from their eyes as their primary superpower.
	+ They both wear a visor on their eyes to keep their otherwise uncontrollable power from harming others, as well as control and stabilize said powers.
	+ Both served as leaders of their respective teams, with Cyclops serving as a leader to the X-Men.
* "Paladino" is the Italian translation for "paladin", a person who defends people and protects innocents, like supers do.
* In a deleted scene from Incredibles 2, it was revealed:
	+ He was convinced to become a hero by Mr. Incredible, Frozone, and Gamma Jack, who also brought him to Edna to get his suit.
	+ The name Gazerbeam was Mr. Incredible's idea, as Simon wished to go be called Viewpoint, but the others told him the name sounded terrible.
	+ He was critically injured during his battle with the Omnidroid after falling off a cliff, yet he managed to make his way into the cave and died from his injuries after carving the password on the cave's wall. It is likely that Syndrome made no attempt to look for his body, similarly to how he presumed Mr. Incredible was dead after his gauntlet probe reported no life readings back to him.
* Simon J. Paladino's name appears on a grave in *Toy Story of Terror!*