Electro

Maxwell "Max" Dillon is a former electrical engineer at Oscorp who gained the ability to manipulate electricity after falling into a batch of electric eels, turning Dillon into a living electric generator. Adopting the alias of Electro, he clashed with Spider-Man one of his former idols, until he was overloaded with energy and killed. However, Electro found himself dragged through the Multiverse due to Doctor Strange's failed spell, where he had clashed with that universe's Spider-Man. Having been captured, Electro was convinced, along with the other multiverse travelers, to allow Spider-Man to try and cure them. However, Electro was convinced by Green Goblin to keep his powers, stealing an Arc Reactor to enhance his power. Electro joined Green Goblin in a battle against the three Spider-Men, until he was finally defeated and cured by Doctor Octopus, before reconciling with his native Spider-Man, and being sent back to his universe.

## Contents

* Biography
* Early Life
* Becoming Electro
* Spider-Man Multiversal Crisis
* Brought to Another Universe
* Battle at Happy Hogan's Apartment
* Battle at Liberty Island
* Making Amends with Parker
* Personality
* Powers and Abilities
* Former Powers
* Abilities
* Equipment
* Weapons
* Former Equipment
* Vehicles
* Facilities
* Prisons
* Relationships
* Allies
* Enemies
* Trivia
* Behind the Scenes
* References
* External Links

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Becoming Electro

Max Dillon was an electrical engineer working at Oscorp and lived a very lonely, unfulfilling life. He knew Curt Connors as a brilliant scientists at Oscorp who turned himself into Lizard and planned to turn everyone in New York City into lizards, but Spider-Man managed to defeat him. One day, while fixing electric cables at work, he was electrocuted, sending him falling into a tank of genetically engineered electric eels, who repeatedly bit him. The attack granted him electric powers while also repairing his gap teeth, balding hairline, and impaired vision. Seeing this as his chance to be someone, he took the name Electro and became an enemy of Spider-Man, whom he used to worship and whose identity he figured out. In their final battle at Oscorp's main power grid, Spider-Man overcharged Electro with energy, causing him to explode.

### Spider-Man Multiversal Crisis

#### Brought to Another Universe

In 2024 of another universe, Doctor Strange tried to cast a Runes of Kof-Kol to make everyone forget his Peter Parker was Spider-Man. However, when the spell failed, it brought people who were aware of any Peter Parker as Spider-Man from those universes to theirs. As time was scrambled, people who were originally dead in their universes were brought alive to this one, one of those being Electro.

Not knowing that he wasn't in his universe, Electro had arrived around high-tension power lines strung between giant transmission towers in a forest around New York City. Later at night, this universe's Spider-Man was present in the forest when Electro was moving through the trees, catching Spider-Man's attention, but he couldn't find Electro. He hovered above the power lines behind Spider-Man and started drawing energy from them, realizing there was a difference in the power in this universe compared to his own. Electro manifested in his blue spectral form as he was charging up, and Spider-Man asked Electro if was from another universe, but Electro didn't reply. Spider-Man attempted to use magic webs from his Web-Shooters to capture Electro but the webs went through his body.

Electro jolted awake and noticed Spider-Man, blasting yellow bolt after bolt at the retreating web-slinger. He suddenly appeared before Spider-Man and blasted him, causing Spider-Man to tumble to the ground. Electro charged at him by shooting another bolt when Sandman appeared as a wall of sand protecting Spider-Man, taking the brunt of the shock. Sandman helped Spider-Man fight Electro by surrounding him with sand while Spider-Man destroyed the utility poles that were feeding him energy, returning him to his normal appearance, albeit slightly different, due to the difference in energy between his universe and the new one.

Spider-Man explained to him that he was responsible for them being there, then used his gauntlet to send Electro and Sandman to the holding cells in the New York Sanctum, but not before being provided with some nearby clothes due to having nothing on when he got his body back. While imprisoned, Electro saw Lizard was also in one of the holding cells and Doctor Octopus asked him if he knew Lizard. Electro told everyone Lizard's identity and background. He was later forced to join the other villains after Spider-Man freed them in a bid to save them from their intended fate.

#### Battle at Happy Hogan's Apartment

Peter Parker transported Dillon and the other villains to Happy Hogan's apartment, to use as a base from which to devise cures for each of them. Parker's solution to Dillon's condition was to build an energy siphon based on Tony Stark's Arc Reactor technology, which would absorb Dillon's electrical powers and keep him in his normal, physical human state instead of turning back into electricity, but Dillon was drawn to the energy given off by the Arc Reactor. Dillon came to enjoy this new universe, believing he could be more there than he was back home, and with prodding by Green Goblin, decided he did not want to lose his powers and escaped, stealing the Arc Reactor in order to enhance his powers.

#### Battle at Liberty Island

Peter Parker, along with two other Spider-Men from alternate universes, lured the villains to a final battle at the Statue of Liberty. During the fight, Dillon's enhanced powers allowed him to battle all three Spider-Men at once. "Doctor Octopus" showed up and grabbed the 3 Spider-Men. Dillon ignored him, stating that he could do this alone. However, his tentacle grabbed the Arc Reactor from Dillon, showing that he never actually changed. Octavius inserted the cure into him and Dillon turned normal.

#### Making Amends with Parker

Once returned to normal, he let go of his hostility towards his Spider-Man, acknowledging that he has helped a lot of people, and lamenting that all he wanted was to be noticed, having to dig his way from the bottom to have a sustainable job. Before Doctor Strange finished casting a spell that erased everyone in that universe's knowledge of Spider-Man's identity, Dillon, Connors, and their Spider-Man were sent back to their universe.

## Personality

Max Dillon cherishes the spotlight. Before he became Electro, Dillon is a self-described "nobody" in society: awkward, timid, and deeply introverted. Beneath this shy exterior, Dillon is naturally a kind person. After gaining his electrical powers and became Electro, Dillon became an egotistical, cocky, and arrogant individual who takes great pride in his powers with the desire to play god as well, as it made him feel noticed. Also, Dillon can be gullible as Octavius tricked him into thinking he was still Doctor Octopus, which led him to losing his powers. Despite his flaws, Dillon does show sympathy to individuals that understand what he went through as he shows it to Sandman when he discovers that he also got his powers from falling into an experiment just like he did and agreed to be careful where you fall.

When he lost the Arc Reactor and his powers to Doctor Octopus, Dillon reverted back to his old self, initially accepting that he'll spend the rest of his life as a nobody. That changed when the Spider-Man native to his reality returned to offer uplifting advice.

## Powers and Abilities

### Former Powers

* **Electricity Manipulation**: Electro possessed the ability to generate bodily electrostatic energy which he could release or harness, after being electrocuted by genetically-modified Oscorp electrical eels. Electro could channel all of his body's electrical energy, and focus into any part to give out immensely powerful energy projections.
	+ **Electrical Absorption**: Electro could absorb an external electrical power source to recharge his body's energy reserves. Electro could absorb electrical energy that's around him.
	+ **Flight**: Electro's body was transmuted into pure electrical energy, rendering him virtually weightless and granting him the ability to fly.
	+ **Lightning Bolt Projection**: Electro could wield electrical energy to form powerful lightning bolts that can damage targets from afar and close range. He could also limit the intensity of his electric blasts, such as when he used his powers to simply turn on the television in Happy Hogan's apartment without touching it.
	+ **Teleportation**: Electro could break down his body into electricity and teleport himself anywhere before reforming himself.
	+ **Electroreception**: By sending an electrical current, Electro could perceive what it hit.
	+ **Electrical Detection**: Electro's electrical powers granted him certain sensory and manipulative abilities. Electro could override systems and make electrically-powered devices obey his mental commands.
	+ **Charging**: Electro's electrical powers allowed him to absorb electrical energy from nearby power sources enhancing his pure electrical energy to greater heights.
	+ **Electrical Telekinesis**: Electro could use his bio-electricity to move objects, such as when he pulled an Arc Reactor to his grip or when he lifted Otto Octavius and launched him out the window.
	+ **Electricity Immunity**: Electro's body was transmuted into pure electrical energy rendering him immune to damage from electrical devices and equipment.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect**: Dillon is a genius in his universe, knowing all about electrical energy and devices. But he is ultimately weak minded when he believes Spider-Man betrayed him and recklessly let Green Goblin manipulate him when all the Spider-Men tried to do was help him.
* **Expert Engineer**: Dillon is an expert electrical engineer in his universe, and was able to use the Arc Reactor to his liking, despite never having the tech before.
* **Expert Marksman**: Dillon while possessing his electrical powers used to hit what he was aiming, if he missed it was because the target left.

## Equipment

### Former Equipment

* **Arc Reactor**: Before Peter Parker could fully extract the electricity from his body, Electro stole the Arc Reactor from the Stark Industries Fabricator. Enticed with the power it gave him, he integrated the power source into a harness, allowing him to continue drawing his strength from it and become more powerful than he was in his native universe. However, it and his powers would be taken from him by Otto Octavius.

### Vehicles

* **F.E.A.S.T. Truck**: Dillon was transported to Happy Hogan's condominium from the New York Sanctum in the truck.

## Facilities

### Prisons

* **New York Sanctum**: After being defeated by Spider-Man and Sandman, Dillon was transported to the Sanctum's prison, where he was contained until Spider-Man freed him to cure the multiversal visitors.

## Relationships

	+ Curt Connors/Lizard - Former Colleague
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Idol and Former Attempted Victim
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Former Enemy
* Flint Marko/Sandman - Former Enemy
* Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus - Former Enemy and Curer
* Ned Leeds - Temporary Enemy
* Michelle Jones - Temporary Enemy
* Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
* Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange - Former Enemy
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Temporary Enemy
* May Parker †
* Damage Control
* The Daily Bugle
	+ J. Jonah Jameson
	+ Betty Brant

## Trivia

* In the comics, Max Dillon was a lineman who was struck by lightning, giving him the powers of electrical manipulation. Corrupted by greed, he became the criminal known as Electro.
* In *The Amazing Spider-Man 2*, Max Dillon adopts the name of "Electro" after a New Yorker insults him by calling him an "Electro Dummy" while fighting against Spider-Man at Times Square.

## Behind the Scenes

* Electro in the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues the live-action incarnation of the character from Marc Webb's *The Amazing Spider-Man* duology from Sony Pictures Studios, who was also portrayed by Jamie Foxx.
* After obtaining the Arc Reactor, Electro was given a new design, foregoing his previous blue design from *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* in favor of one that references his classic comic book appearance, instead of being based on the Full Power version from Ultimate comic book universe appearance.
	+ Foxx stated that Electro not being blue was one of the aspects that drew him to reprise his role when Amy Pascal approached him to return, along with the possibility of working with Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina.
* Donny Carrington was a stunt double for Jamie Foxx in the role of Electro.
* Nev Smith was a stand-in for Jamie Foxx in the role of Electro.
* Jermaine Rivers was a photo double for Jamie Foxx in the role of Electro.

## References

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1. ↑ Jump up to:1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 *Spider-Man: No Way Home*
2. ↑ Spider-Man No Way Home - Itw Willem Dafoe (Official Video)
3. ↑ ‘Spider-Man 3’ Jolt: Jamie Foxx Returning as Electro (Exclusive)
4. ↑ SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME - Villains Panel

## External Links

* Electro on Marvel Database
* Maxwell Dillon (Earth-120703) on Marvel Database
* Electro on Wikipedia