Technetium

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Superhuman Physiology:** Robert was born super-abled. Since her mother had been exposed to dangerous doses of Compound V during her pregnancy with him. Resulting in him gaining superpowers such as enhanced intelligence.

* **Superhuman Intelligence:** Robert has intelligence that is significantly above the standard genius-level intellect; possessing exceptional intellectual capabilities, mental capacity and concentration, mental calculations, memorization, perception, deduction, analyzation, cognition and competence, wit and ingenuity, prowess and knowledge, calculations, reading skills, learning capacity, thought process, intuition, and awareness, inventive capabilities, creativity, originality, etc., typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. With an intelligence classified as super-genius, he easily is one of the smartest people on Earth. Furthermore, this extends to his remarkable ingenuity dealing with difficult situations such as foes and deathtraps where he is capable of using his available tools, like his suit, in unorthodox and effective ways, for example when he built the first Titanio Armor in captivity. He has also been able to hack technology from the Plutonians, a race centuries more advanced than humans. He is an excellent engineer and mechanic capable of fixing almost any, if not all machinery.

### **Abilities**

**Business Intuition:** Robert is extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up several multi-million dollar companies from virtually nothing. He is known for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as his impeccable business ethics. He also strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses, and in one case, immediately fired an employee who made profitable (but illegal) sales to Professor Wrath. He states that if he wanted to, he could give away his entire fortune and build it up again within a week. Robert most notably turned his father's munitions firm into a multi-national corporation that covered virtually all contemporary scientific industry when barely in his early twenties.

**Tactical Genius:** He is a brilliant tactician capable of quickly formulating battle strategies and new plans if the situation changes, like being able to elaborate different complex plans in order to defeat different enemies in difficult situations, and be victorious. Even going as far as to simultaneously put Richard Redd in check on five different boards playing chess, a game he didn't learn until later in his life, leaving Richard Redd totally astonished.

**Omnilingualism:** Apart from English, Robert can speak different languages fluently, including Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, French, Russian, and Korean. He also might know multiple Middle Eastern languages, at one point noting that Urdu wasn't his strong suit in particular.

**Combat Prowess:** Vernon was trained in unarmed combat by Soldier Boy, Tarantuala, and Black Panther making him a quite physically formidable combatant on his own when the situation demands it. He has managed to fight Hammer Industries guards, defeat five Skrull soldiers in single-handed combat, Stark Industries security guards, numerous Voldi gladiators, handle his own against Madame Hydra, and bare-handedly confront several ninjas. Robert knows how to handle firearms, mainly the ones he has produced.

### **Equipment**

**Model 10;**