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Relatives
Angela Revere (niece)
Characteristics
Status
If it takes another decade of planning, I will see you destroyed... your spirit broken. I'll make you wish you were dead... but it will be a long time before I let you die. A very long time.
- -- Chronos
History
A petty criminal all his life, David Clinton realized he was being arrested because he didn't take the time to plan his crimes properly. Admiring the clockwork precision with which everything in prison was run, he decided he would make time work for him rather than against him. Fascinated with timepieces and deft with his hands, and possessing an inventive mind, he spent the remainder of his prison sentence laboring in the prison workshop, learning all he could about clocks and their mechanisms. Finally released, Clinton designed a costume and embarked on a new criminal career as the time thief called Chronos. His crimes brought him into repeated conflicts with Ray Palmer, the super-hero known as the
Atom.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Normal human with a genius level intelligence and skills as a master inventor.Average athlete and hand-to-hand combatant
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Wide array of time inspired weapons, including exploding hourglasses, a wrist-watch that projects razor-sharp hands, a device that can slow time in localized areas and a sun-dial shaped flying platform. Clinton also carried a miniature hourglass filled with "compressed particles of time".
Transportation
Trivia
- Chronos was a featured villain in a two-part episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled "The Once and Future Thing, Part I: Weird Western Tales" and "The Once and Future Thing, Part II: Time, Warped" where he was voiced by actor Peter MacNicol. In the episode, Clinton was a small time physics professor from Gotham City, who developed the technology to travel in time. He developed time traveling technology and incorporated it into a 'Chronosuit' which he used to collect rare relics from the past.
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Footnotes
Atom Villain(s)
This character is or was primarily an enemy of the Atom, the mighty mite. He may also have been an enemy of of the second Atom. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Atom Villains category."
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