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Origin
Origin
Born on the planet Krypton, Dev-Em survived his home world's destruction after being exiled into the Phantom Zone.
History
On Krypton, Dev-Em was a criminal who was arrested for murder and perversion. He was taken to Fort Rozz for trial, where he was to be sentenced to exile in the Phantom Zone. Before the jailers could activate the Phantom Zone Projector however, a revolt broke out and Fort Rozz erupted into chaos. During the riot, the Phantom Zone Projector exploded and the entire prison, with Dev-Em inside, was transported to the Phantom Zone. For reasons unknown, Fort Rozz maintained a corporeal form inside the zone, while everything outside of it continued to exist in an unsubstantial ghostlike state.
Dev-Em eventually met exiled Kryptonian military commander General Zod and became one of Zod's followers. When Zod and his lieutenants discovered a means of escaping the Zone, Dev-Em elected to stay behind. Zod went to Earth where he battled with the son of his jailer Jor-El - Superman. He sent Superman into the Phantom Zone where he subsequently confronted Dev-Em.
In the
Phantom Zone, Kryptonians do not possess any super-powers, so Dev-Em was able to physically battle Superman, and nearly succeeded in killing him but for the intervention of a sympathetic Phantom Zoner named Mon-El. Mon-El charged Dev-Em, cracking his skull against the side of a wall in Fort Rozz and Dev-Em was knocked unconscious.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
All powers and weaknesses are approximated based upon the characteristics of a standard Kryptonian existing in an environment under a yellow sun.
- Kryptonian Physiology: Dev-Em's cellular structure is more dense, resilient and biologically more effective than human tissue. Strangely enough, he does not seem to possess superhuman strength levels despite his enhanced cellular ability without constant exposure to yellow solar energy. Without such charging, his strength seems on par for a human of his height and weight who engages in regular physical activity.
- Solar Energy Absorption: Technically, this is the main source of Dev-Em's powers. Because his powers are largely due to exposure to Earth's yellow sun, his abilities have been affected by extreme absorptions of solar power, whether voluntary or involuntary.
- Superhuman Strength: While the exact magnitude of Dev-Em's strength is unknown, it is generally accepted that his strength easily surpasses the capacity to lift 100 tons, but how much more is not known exactly.
- Invulnerability: Dev-Em's body is invulnerable to most forms of physical attack. With the exception of certain extenuating circumstances, Non can theoretically withstand the concussive force of a low-yield nuclear warhead without any undue stress.
- Superhuman Stamina: Non has the ability to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an undetermined period of time. However, Dev-Em's base physical structure still requires nourishment and he needs to process food stuffs on a regular basis to maintain his stamina.
- Flight: Dev-Em possesses the ability to defy the forces of gravity and fly at speeds in excess to the speed of sound. The mechanism by which he flies is unknown, but some suggestions include the use of a field of energy which allows unconscious manipulation of gravity or diffraction/reflection of gravity due to unidentified Kryptonian organs affected by a yellow sun. Alternately, this power could be explained as a psionic manipulation of a personal anti-gravitational aura, which is also caused by his Kryptonian cells and exposure to a yellow sun.
- Superhuman Speed: Non possesses the ability to move at an accelerated rate of speed. This includes running at speeds that are beyond supersonic, but he prefers flying as that is usually less strenuous and more versatile.
- Enhanced Senses: The acuity of Dev-Em's five senses are many times greater than that of the standard Earth human.
- Telescopic Vision: Dev-Em possesses the ability to see things at a great distance and alter his perception so that he can perceive selected areas within his field of vision at a closer distance.
- X-Ray Vision: Dev-Em possesses the ability to see through any material substance except for lead. He can see things behind a wall as if the wall were not there, or can "peel back" layer after layer of matter in his mind.
- Microscopic Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level (normal optical microscopes can only see objects down to the size of chromosomes).
- Electro-magnetic Spectrum Vision: Dev-Em can perceive patterns within the electromagnetic spectrum. He can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection through radar or satellite monitoring methods.
- Infrared Vision: In combination with his other extraordinary vision-based powers, Non can also see into the infrared spectrum.
- Heat Vision: Through a conscious act of will, Dev-Em has the ability to fire beams of intense thermal energy at a target simply by looking at it. Visually, the power is typically depicted as two beams of red light firing from his eyes.
- Superhuman Hearing: The ability to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. The only Earth creature who can detect sounds at the frequency he can is a blue whale (0.01-200,000 Hz). He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source/frequency. He can identify a person by their heartbeat, or pick out a single voice in an entire city.
- Super-Breath: Dev-Em possesses the ability to create hurricane force winds by blowing, and to chill his breath in order to freeze a target (this latter ability has also been called "freeze breath" and "arctic breath"). Dev-Em can also breathe in large amounts of air, an ability used when dealing with and disposing things like clouds of poison gas.
Strength level
Potentially Superhuman (100+ ton range)
Weaknesses
Magic: Dev-Em is vulnerable to magical and psionic effects. Although he is no more detrimentally affected by such effects than a normal human would be, this is a significantly exploitable weakness in comparison to his incredible physical resilience.
Kryptonite: Since the destruction of Krypton, its remains (rendered radioactive by the explosion) have been spreading throughout the universe as Kryptonite, a crystalline substance whose specific radiation is lethal to Kryptonians native to this reality. Historically, Kryptonite exists in variant forms which can affect Non in a number of different ways (See main article for more details concerning the different varieties of Kryptonite).
Lead: Dev-Em cannot see through lead with any of his vision powers.
Solar Energy: Dev-Em will eventually weaken without replenishing his energy reserves with normal (yellow) sun radiation. He is not replenished by red sunlight, and its radiation can be used to weaken him.
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Weapons
Large battle knife
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