Max Maranoa

The Dangerous Ones (along with Cooper Colonel, Tyler Carter, Conner Dusk and Daniel Pierce)
Crab Cake
Savage
Pet Face
Hallucination
Head Start
Girl Magnet
Passenger 57

### **Status**

Alive

**Maximilian Johnathan "Max" Marano** is a former actor who, upon being exposed to the energy of the Reality Stone via the explosion of the Plex Industries' Radio Collider, obtained cosmic powers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Artificially Enhanced Physiology**: After the Plex Industries' Radio Collider explosion, this become the main source of Max's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to cosmic radiation from a cosmic star system. His biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and his bio-cellular matrix, "red" cosmic energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when red cosmic radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.

* **Superhuman Strength**: Max's strength is augmented by red cosmic radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of his musculature. His strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables him to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
* **Nigh-Invulnerability**: Due to the interaction of his dense molecular structure and red supercharged bio-electric aura, Max is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, his extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Max is shown to heal at incredible rates when exposed to the solar radiation of a yellow sun. He was able to quickly recover from the stress of battling the World Engine once exposed to sunlight, and later a wound on his face inflicted by cosmic energy healed upon exposure to the sun. After being hit by a megaton nuke, Max barely survived the explosion, having become greatly weakened into a desiccated corpse-like state, though he was able to recover moments after being exposed to the sun. He can also regrow any broken limbs.
	+ **Self-Sustenance**: Max doesn't need to eat or sleep so long as he has enough so energy (but is still capable of doing so), and doesn't require oxygen to breathe.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Max is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to his perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time. Max was even fast enough to keep up with Matthew Greyson on foot, though he is still slower.
	+ **Inter-dimensional Travel**: Max was fast enough to jump into the timestream and travel throughout it, with the aid of the cosmic radiation inside of his blood.
	+ **Molecular Acceleration**: Max can vibrate his molecular structure at various levels to achieve various effects.
* **Superhuman Reflexes**: Max possesses reflexes far greater than any normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion. His mind is able to process information at such speeds that he can perceive femtoseconds and attoseconds.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Max is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on his body converting cosmic radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink and sleep.
* **Flight**: Max is able to manipulate gravitational particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction. He capable of flying at above supersonic and hypersonic speeds.
* **Superhuman Vision**: Max's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus. This umbrella ability includes the following:
	+ **Heat Vision**: Max is capable of firing beams of highly intense lasers from his eyes that's often referred to as heat vision. The full limit of his heat vision isn't known, but it is known that Max can generate temperatures far above 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit, as his heat vision was able to equal Future's optic beams, creating a huge explosion which temporarily incapacitated both opponents.
		- **Disintegration**: Max's last resort power that he'd discovered through his heat vision, was the ability to immediately expel all of his stored solar energy in one gigantic burst of explosive force. This Solar Flare utilizes all the stored energy within his cells at once, allowing for an all out heat beam attack. He cannot use it more at 1,000% yet however, as it drains him of all his powers until he can recharge his cells with cosmic energy.
	+ **Infrared Vision**: Max can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
	+ **Microscopic Vision**: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
	+ **Telescopic Vision**: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
	+ **X-Ray Vision**: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Max can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. He can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects. Max's enemies have attempted to use lead to hide things from his vision, mistakenly believing that anything with that material is somehow invisible to him. On the contrary, lead's opaqueness to his X-ray vision makes the material easy to spot with a wide-angle scan and allows Max to narrow his search to those opaque objects.
* **Density Manipulation**:
	+ **Intangibility**: Max's control over his density, weight and mass give him the ability to phase through solid objects. As he does so, an aura of red light envelopes the part of his body that is phased through matter. When phasing, Vision can increase his density to destroy the object he phases through from the inside. With this ability, Max can walk through walls, fly right through the gigantic Add-Man, rip apart numerous Centurions, and even phase his fingers through a space ship.