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History
You know what they say, slinger... When sparks fly, you die...
- — Electro
- — Electro
Early Years
Maxwell "Max" Dillon was born in Endicott, New York around late 1979 wherein his father was a struggling accountant, having too many difficulties on keeping and maintaining his job. Because of this, Max and his family constantly found themselves moving from borough to borough throughout New York which also caused Max into to becoming a secluded child, seeing how it was hard for him making new friends due his family constantly moving. Max's father eventually abandoned the family, Maxwell’s mother began to become overprotected over him as he grew into adulthood. Wanting to find some independence within his life, Maxwell wanted to go to college after senior high school, but his mother would disagree with Max’s choice, suggesting that he should get a job as a lineman instead, since he was so skilled at it due to his father teaching him. At the age of twenty, his mother died and Maxwell pursued his goals and later became one of the most notable and well experienced linemen ever known, dedicating his honor to his parents.
Through years of having to finding the most perfect job for him, Max went through life ignored and overlooked. He also never stood up for himself, holding in a lot of anger. Eventually, e got a job at the top-notch organization, Hammer Industries as an electrical engineer and designed the power grid for their new power plant. However, he got no credit for any of his work. However, despite of this, his co-worker, fiancée and long-time sweetheart, Norma Lynn, never gave up on him, serving as Max's continuous motivation, much to his delight and glee having the love of his life persistently supporting him and loving him for what he was.
However, their loving relationship didn't last that very long, after Norma eventually leaves him when he decided to pursue his career as a lineman instead, rather than taking on the responsibilities as a caring husband especially during the times when they were together. Developing a personality that was both selfish and arrogant, others had trouble requesting Maxwell's services or favors without him demanding something in return.
Rise of Electro
One day during work, another fellow lineman got in trouble after having to unplug a series of cables inside one of the laboratories. As a result, Dillon tried to save him, but at the cost of his own life. tried to get a co-worker to cut the power so he could fix it, but the co-worker was unfortunately killed after he failed to cut off the strong power, leading to his own demise through electrocution. This forced Max to plug the live cable and was zapped by the electricity, seemingly killing him. Neither did Max nor anyone else at the building knew, this was all part of a secret, special experimentation conducted by the company's own founder and president, Justin Hammer, who morbidly watches from the other side through a one-sided mirror as the experiment have gone successful.
In the process he gained super powers when he was struck by lightning while in contact with power lines still connected to their spool. Finding himself waking up in a hospital, he was surprised and was too confused to remember what exactly happened to him during the accident. Having himself surrounded by the federal agency after, Max tried to recall all the events that occurred the night before he was there, only to release a powerful electrical surge, murdering several people in the process. Donning a black hoodie that he manages to find inside the room, he escaped the hospital and made his way back to his abandoned childhood home, back in Endicott. After this incident, Maxwell had dreams to use his powers to fulfill his selfish needs and goals and decided to take a new career as a costumed, professional criminal.
Due to this latest discovery, Max next pursued on not only discovering this new found set of powers, but also trying to increase them as well. At the same time, Max also started pursuing his new life into committing criminal actions, which were governed by his selfish love of money. Adopting the name of a so-called super-villain by the moniker of Electro, the deranged and morally-ambiguous Dillon sought to use his newfound power for personal gain.
In his earliest years as a criminal and a super-villain, Electro's first and most frequent nemesis was the wisecracking, web-slinging super hero in the streets of New York, known as Spider-Man. In their every battle and every fight that they've done to each other during their every encounter, Spider-Man manages to defeat him, sometimes even almost losing his life in the process in order to prevent Electro's schemes from ever happening. Electro was sent prison after his first defeat, only to find himself later escaping and becoming an eventual major threat for another hero, besides the slinger, who was still his main adversary throughout the years.
Sinister Seven
Electro, at one of his strongest states, clashing Spider-Man
At first Electro was reluctant to be involved within any team or partnership after discovering his powers. But after facing two defeats in the hands of two new heroes’, Electro found himself reconsidering his methods when taking the Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus’s offer on forming a group known as the Sinister Seven and having each villain gain their chance of having their own revenge against the web-slinger. Later on, the villainous team would disband on-and-off after numerous several times of failing to defeat Spider-Man, especially during the apparent death of Norman during the events of the later event known as the Ultimate War, causing for Otto to re-branding the team's name as as the Sinister Six, later on, with Otto replacing Norman as the team's de-facto leader.
The Ultimate War
At some point later in time, Max was again detained at Andry Correctional Facility for some time after he was apprehended after a confrontation with Spider-Man and the Defenders, before being freed by Doctor Octopus and subsequently joining him and the other freed inmates to reform the Sinister Seven once again. As a second chance of opportunity into restarting his life of crime once more, he immediately granted Osborn and Octavius' offer of getting the band back together, along with the great upcoming rise of the Movement Alliance.
He and his fellow escaped inmates re-approached the Tinkerer in providing them equipment, where Drago had received his own wings, since Toomes also had his own new pair. Upon teaming up as the Sinister Seven once again, the members questioned Osborn his true intentions and purpose on reforming the villainous alliance. Osborn smirked in response, then told his "disciples" that the entire reason of bringing back the team together was not necessarily because of the web-slinger, but because they were recruited into a much larger alliance known as the Movement, an alliance formed by several criminal & terrorist organizations, notably led by the Red Skull's organization Hydra and Mister Sinister's Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy.
Electro and the rest of the Seven became one of the deadliest, one of the strongest, and one of the most frightening forces to have ever joined the Movement Alliance, however, their horror and terror inflicted upon the city of New York didn't last that very long. After the heartbreaking and honorable sacrifice of the redeemed Blackie Drago at the hands of Norman Osborn for betraying the Sinister Seven by helping Spider-Man prevent New York from detonating and crumbling into the ground, little did the Seven knew, their powerful rule across the city would come to an end.
Of course, Norman eventually finds out about the impending disbandment of the team, leading to his mysterious disappearance and apparent death in the end of the war, although the rest of the Seven, even Octavius, never even had any clue what was going to happen. During the final hours of the Ultimate War, the each and every members of the Seven started vanishing one by one as they were all defeated and were apprehended, including Electro himself, who ultimately loses, trying to defend himself against Spider-Man, along with the combined efforts of the X-Man Storm and Thor himself the God of Thunder. Upon his defeat, Max and the rest of the apprehended members put under the custody of the authorities as they have him imprisoned in the newly-established, high-secured prison for the super-powered individuals, known as the Raft.
Return to Mayhem
During his tormenting imprisonment in the Raft, all Max could have ever thought was getting himself out of the facility, where he would promise himself get his vow done once he finally gets out of there, his vow on taking his revenge on Osborn for abandoning him and the rest of his own teammates to rot under the authorities' watch, and have his revenge on Spider-Man as well, for being successful into defeating him once again. Later on during the Civil War, Electro was convinced to be a momentary enforcer of Iron Man's superpowered Registration faction by Norman Osborn, who was collaborating with S.H.I.E.L.D. after faking an amnesia, through intimidation and a (false) promise for a chance to kill Spider-Man, and possibly a pardon for helping them against the heroes and villains of the Anti-Registration movement.
Electro agreed, in which his participation even gave him to chance to almost kill his nemesis and his allies in the Anti-Registration, failing to realize that his sadism, his willingness to kill on sight which was prohibited, and mayhem across the city was ironically diminishing chances of him getting pardoned. Despite being held under the agency's custody once more as they sent him to the Raft for an indefinite amount of time, Electro would eventually holler in reassurance as he learned the return of Osborn once he was publicly announced to be the succeeding director of S.H.I.E.L.D., rebranding it as H.A.M.M.E.R. in the following months. Unfortunately, by the time Osborn attained his power and authority over the country's forces, Electro bellowed in rage after receiving his former ally's bitter betrayal. Instead of keeping his promise, Electro remained imprisoned in the Raft for years even when he witnessed Osborn's eventual downfall, much to his resentful satisfaction.
A Living Energy
Electro reveals his final form as he takes off his containment suit
However, the effects of isolation from the outside world didn't stop Electro's condition of worsening insanity day after day, that was until early 2022, when he secretly came in contact with Miles Warren, the mad mind scientist responsible for the creation of mutated clones such as Scarlet Spider, who invited him in his proclaimed vendetta against both Osborn and Spider-Man, which immediately piqued Dillon's interest as the mystery man assured him his freedom and his wish to become more powerful by becoming "pure energy" as he would often dream whilst in solitary confinement. Through the political connections of his allied scientist, Electro was finally freed through discreet means by the mid-2020s, faking his death and starting a new identity as Ivan Blunt when he became a secret accomplice of Warren. Working alongside other criminals for the mad scientist's agenda, Electro demonstrated his amplified self revealing how Warren had meticulously modified him on a genetic level to convert his entire body into living conductor of electricity. However, with such powerful charge rendering his body to be unstable overtime, Warren had built Dillon a miniature containment suit as the energy was too much for the latter or his surroundings could handle, therefore making him a living time bomb the moment he takes off the containment suit.
When Spider-Man had finally teamed up with his closest allies, including the Defenders in finding the culprit, eventually leading them to discovering Warren, who was responsible for enhancing Electro and some other rogues gallery as part of his campaign against Oscorp and Osborn among his other affiliates for ruining the lives of many. Battling the web-slinger and his heroic allies one last time, Electro got the upper hand incapacitating the vigilantes and authorities when he carelessly took off his damaged suit, deluded into thinking he was unstoppable and that Warren had always been keeping him from reaching his true power as some sort of test that he deduced at that moment.
In their final confrontation, Electro's unsurmountable power as an embodiment of electricity was overwhelming, albeit such state had also proven to be his unfortunate weakness. After observing how his situational ally Hydro-Man and their enemy Molten Man, who were battling each other, had unintentionally bumped into an occupied Electro, Jessica Jones was reminded of his sensitivity of being short-circuited, weakening him enough to keep him from travelling across electricity, but was painfully immobilized by the electric rays constantly blasted by the menace. An angered Luke Cage tackled Electro away from Jones, which in turn, had driven the villain to carry him as they clashed across the city until they've reached the nearest port at the New York Harbor. Realizing what his heroic wife had tried to remind him, Cage immediately dragged himself and the superficially-unstable Electro into the deep and murky waters. The hero tried to knock out Dillon in hopes to deactivating his powers onto being unconscious, but it was too late for the tottering electric conductor. His prolonged exposure onto water along with his unstoppable overcharging had driven him to be volatile, and in a matter of seconds, Electro detonated at the middle of the harbor. Thanks to Cage's nigh-invulnerability, he barely survived his deadly struggle with the ultimate living energy, and was able to reunite with his fellow heroes.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Electrostatic Energy 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. Electro can employ his electrostatic energy in a number of ways:
- Lighting Bolt Projection
- Electromagnetic Propulsion via Electrical Lines and Bridges
- Electrical Detection
- Electrocution
- Recharging
- Electrical Conversion into Enhanced Physical Attributions
- Metal Ionization
- Disruption of Wall-Crawling Abilities
- Localized Electromagnetic Storms
- Electromagnetic Manipulation
- Flight
- Immunity to Electricity
- Charging
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Abilities
- Expert Lineman
- Skilled Engineer
- Expert Tactician
- Skilled Marksman
Strength level
Class 15+
Weaknesses
- Short Circuit Sensitivity
- Exposure to Water
- Exposure to Water
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Containment Suit (formerly; damaged)
Transportation:
- Electrical Transportation
Weapons: None known.
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: Ultimate War Vol 1 8
Trivia
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See Also
- Appearances of Maxwell Dillon (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Maxwell Dillon (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Maxwell Dillon (Earth-61615)
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