Aliases : Retro
Base of Operations : The Crooked House
Tag : prometheus
Important Plots : The Vampires Cometh
Journal(s) : jla_villains, prometheanplans
Status : Played

Powers and Abilities : Prometheus has no powers, only his great intelligence and wide variety of weapons. He is equipped with a helmet that allows him to instantly understand and execute the fighting styles of the greatest martial artists on the planet, as well as a powerful tonfa and a variety of countermeasures for some of the universe's mightiest heroes. He is further armed with the Cosmic Key, an artifact which allows him to travel to and from his 'Ghost Zone.' But it is his ability to find and exploit his foes' vulnerabilities that makes Prometheus so feared, even by enemies whose power far exceeds his own.

History : A nihilistic criminal who was raised by a pair of sociopathic yet loving killer hippies, Prometheus swore revenge on the system of justice and discarded his identity when his parents were fatally shot in a standoff with the police. Traveling the world for years, Prometheus became a master warrior, eventually obtaining an ancient artifact, the Cosmic Key. In his very first mission he almost wiped out the entire JLA, and he's only gotten more deadly with the passage of time. Recently he's allied with master strategist Hush, the two villains uniting towards their shared goal of seeing the Batman utterly destroyed. He's since allied himself with Circe as well, pledging his aid in her latest plot to destroy Wonder Woman in exchange for a mystical scroll that seems to have some sway over vampires...

Other Sources :

• Prometheus at the DC Database Project
• Prometheus at Wikipedia

Divergences : Significant divergences. mostly from Gotham Knights #53 onward. Never allied with Hush during No Man's Land. Never faced the Birds of Prey. Never captured by the Society. Still fought Lady Shiva. Was never controlled by Starro. Chad Graham was never taken up as a disciple; Prometheus was still placed in a telepathic coma by the Martian Manhunter and trapped for seven months.

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