Electro (Max Dillion)

*I'm gonna kill the light, so everyone in this city is gonna know how it feels to live in my world. A world without power. A world without mercy. A world without Spider-Man. And everyone will be able to see me for who I truly am.""And who are you?""Don't you know? I'm Electro.*”
―Electro and Doctor Kafka[src]
**Maxwell "Max" Dillon** is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Green Goblin) of the 2014 superhero film *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* and the secondary antagonist of the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home.

He was an electrical engineer formerly employed at Oscorp Industries. He was seen as a "nobody" before being saved and acknowledged by Spider-Man, who he became obsessed with. After having to stay behind at work on his birthday, Max had to fix a broken power line. He climbed all of the way up to the line and balanced on a railing. He was able to successfully plug the line back in, fixing the circuit.

However, before he could get down, Max was shocked with electricity, making him fall down in to a tank of genetically-modified electric eels. He was attacked by the eels, before finally breaking the entire tank. Following this accident, Max was made of pure electrical energy, was given a suit by Harry Osborn, and dubbed himself **Electro**. He was later killed in a explosion by Gwen Stacy during his final battle with Spider-Man.

However, Electro was resurrected and 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.

## Powers

“*I can feel it in the walls. I can feel it in my veins. No matter what you do Doc you can't contain it. Its a force of nature... like me.*”
―Electro[src]
### Powers

* **Electrostatic Generation**: Electro possesses the ability to bodily generate electrostatic energy which he can release or harness for a number of effects. He is powered by the micro-fine rhythmic muscle contractions that normally regulate body temperature. His body can generate electricity at a rate of about 10,000 volts per minute, up to his maximum storage capacity of 10,000,000 volts. At that point, his body automatically stops producing electricity. As he expends his electrostatic energy, his body automatically begins to recharge the stores. Electro can mentally control the amount of electricity he discharges, anywhere from a single volt to his full 10,000,000 volt charge at once. At ten to thirty feet, his maximum charge is more than enough to kill a man. Electro can also use his body as a transformer, touching an outside power source (such as a generator) and channeling it through his body for use. The amount of electricity he can transform above his body's maximum storage capacity is unknown
	+ **Lighting Bolt Projection**: The simplest manifestation is the emission of a lightning bolt with a electric arc from his fingertips, which can propagate through air or other conducting mediums. This discharge, whose total voltage can be regulated within certain limits, travels at the speed of lightning, about 150,000 feet per second. The course of the electrostatic bolt, like lightning, does not always follow a straight line since it may be influenced by conducting substances like metal or other electrical fields. If his target is not grounded, his electrostatic bolt will have little effect. The maximum effective range of his bolts is about 100 feet.
	+ **Electromagnetic Propulsion**: Electro can propel himself along the accompanying magnetic lines of force in objects that have great electrical potential, such as high-tension electrical lines. He generates light, eddying electrical fields around his legs, which develops an intense, opposing magnetic field that can support him above the electric cable's magnetic field. By creating imbalances in his field, he can ride along on magnetic ripples at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, the maximum speed at which he can still breathe unaided. He can sometimes create electrostatic bridges to traverse upon, although the expenditure of energy is enormous. To a limited degree, he can also mimic Spider-Man's wall-crawling ability, using his electromagnetic field to become attracted to the fields of iron bars in buildings.
	+ **Electrical Detection**: Electro's electrical powers also grant him certain sensory and manipulative abilities. By "feeling" the course of electricity through the circuitry of any electrically-powered device, Electro can override the system and make the device obey his mental commands. Electro can disconnect alarm systems, control computers in a limited way, or overload any electrically controlled system that is insufficiently shielded.
	+ **Electrocution**: The electric flux of Electro's skin is such that when his electric charge is at a maximum, a person touching him is in danger of being electrocuted.
	+ **Electrical Conversion into Enhanced Physical Attributions**: The electricity coursing through his altered body augments his strength, speed, and recuperative powers.
		- **Enhanced Endurance & Stamina**: He have shown that he can take attacks from Spider-Man and extreme force from impacts to hard surfaces with no affect to himself. He was able to get up to keep fighting Spider-Man for a long period of time.
	+ **Electricity Immunity** : Electro's body is immune to the effects of its electricity and that of other sources as well. Hence, Electro cannot be electrocuted no matter how great the voltage.
	+ **Electrical Absorption**: By absorbing an external electrical power source to recharge his body's energy reserves, he could expend electrical energy indefinitely without diminishing his personal reserves.
	+ **Charging**: Electro can charge himself up to reach high maximum voltage. Here he can grow in height to an enormous humanoid looking creature made up of nothing but electricity.