Real Name: Kaine Morgan

Current Alias: Dynamo

Other Aliases: Energizer (by Yang); Battery Lad (by Ruby)

Species: Metahuman

Appearance: Kaine is a light-skinned male standing at around 6'4" weighing 103 lbs with orange hair and eyes. He typically dresses in a black and orange jacket with black pants and a grey undershirt.

Bio: Kaine Anthony Morgan is the son of Andrew Kaiser, a chief geneticist, and Eveline Stewart, a business entrepreneur. From the time he was born, it was evident that Kaine was a child prodigy. He could speak full sentences at 2 years old, and he had a photographic memory the likes of which had never been seen before. Despite this, Kaine preferred to live a simple life with his parents and sister, not wanting to be burdened by others' expectations of him. One day, however, Kaine's life would be turned upside down; as his family was involved in a devastating car crash, of which Kaine was seemingly the only survivor.

With the rest of his family presumed dead, Kaine was placed into foster care; unfortunately, the guardians he had been assigned were less than ideal. His foster father was a violent abuser and his foster mother was a chronic alcoholic. After an incident resulting in his foster father's death, Kaine had been placed into several more foster units, each one worse than the last. The abuse Kaine suffered severely affected his ability to trust people, so when he was assigned to a new family, he was skeptical of their intentions. However, through time and patience, his caretakers were able to get him to open up and heal his wounds.

Kaine would grow up to become an exceptional young man; he was an ace student, and he displayed an immense capacity for kindness towards others. He had even made friends with some of his colleagues. However, as fate would have it, his life was soon changed after an incident with an energy generator exposed him and his friends to mutagenic cosmic radiation. Discovering that he had the ability to control energy, Kaine immediately decided to use his powers for the good of others. Unfortunately, some of his friends did not share this notion, and simply wanted to live normal lives. Their minds were changed after watching news footage that showed Kaine saving a child from a burning building, and they decided to form their own superhero team, Team Meta.

As a member of Team Meta, Dynamo is a valuable asset due to his use of his human and superhuman abilities, and even though he still has a lot to learn, he is on his way to becoming a powerful hero.

Personality

At first glance, Kaine is your typical teenage boy. He can snarky and obnoxious, often saying or doing things to annoy people (namely Weiss); he tries to get in good with his peers, and has raging hormones, showing considerable interest in many of the girls around him (especially other superheroes). As a result of his gifted mind and high intellect, he is seen by many as a geek (something he is not ashamed of), as he has a great love for comics and video games. He is also a huge fan of superheroes such as Spider-man and the X-men. Kaine also can be quite mischievous, partaking in a prank war with Jaune against Yang and Ruby.

As Dynamo, he generally displays a cocky, confident demeanor and has a habit of cracking jokes and mocking his enemies, usually as a form of distraction. This doesn't mean that he doesn't know when to be serious; he also tends to fraternize with civilians and likes to exchange banter with Captain Church.

As a result of his upbringing by two model citizens, Dynamo is a very compassionate person, genuinely caring about others' safety and lives as well as the general well-being of Vale. He has a strong sense of responsibility, his dedication to his duty outweighing his respect for authority, as he had resumed heroics even while grounded and chose not to give up the hero lifestyle despite their wishes. Dynamo is a highly sincere and honest individual, a trait that has drawn many women to him, even ones as aloof as Weiss.

Dynamo's positive demeanor serves as a mask for his more vulnerable side. Due to abuse he suffered as a child, Dynamo is prone to fits of depression and anxiety. He is heavily dependent on others for support and often feels as if people only like him when he gives them a reason to. This makes Dynamo afraid to open up to people and let them see the real him, so he puts up a facade in order to cover up his insecurities. Underneath all the jokes and bravado is a scared, traumatized individual who just wants to be accepted and loved. This is part of what drives him as a hero, the desire to see people live their lives happily and keep others from being victimized like he was.

He is quite brave as well, overcoming whatever mental or emotional obstacle that stalls him from helping others and does not shrink from death, courage not found in typical teenagers. He also has a very strong will, resisting the temptation of killing opponents and enemies that have committed heinous crimes or done him wrong.

Dynamo is also very friendly, getting along quite well with people he knows and those he doesn't.

Despite his generally positive behavior, Dynamo is capable of feeling grief, as he was devastated when Abby had been killed, and when he thought Jaune was dead. He is also capable of great rage, demonstrated in his encounter with Mr. Fear, whom he nearly beat to death for making him break down.

Though receiving much satisfaction and gratification from his endeavors, Dynamo is often weary of being a teenage hero, as it regularly causes issues in his civilian life, being a constant source of worry for his parents and straining his relationships with Velvet and Tanya.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Metahuman physiology: After being hit by a wave of cosmic radiation, Kaine's DNA and cellular structure were altered and supercharged, awakening his metagene. As a metahuman, Dynamo's entire physiology has been sufficiently enhanced and augmented, granting him extraordinary powers. He has been classified as a level 10 metahuman; using Marvel power classifications, he has stated himself to be a potential Omega level/Beyond Omega Level superhuman. Given the nature of his powers, and with enough practice, Dynamo could potentially control energy on a quantum level, allowing him to warp the very fabric of reality, making Dynamo potentially one of the most powerful beings to exist.

Dynamo has displayed the following powers:

Bio-Energy Manipulation: Dynamo is a type of metahuman called a biodynamic; this means that he can generate and harness his own biological energy for any purpose he sees fit. The mitochondrial cells of a normal human body convert energy from foodstuffs into a form of energy usable by the body. This energy is stored through converting molecules of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) in the cells into adenosine triphosphate (ATP); the energy is released when necessary by breaking a chemical bond in the ATP molecules, converting them back to ADP. Dynamo's body seems to produce energy through the same or a similar method, and he can use it to fire concussive blasts, waves, or to add to his physical power. Often at times, Dynamo's eyes or hands will glow when he uses his powers.

Over time, Kaine's powers have evolved, becoming more powerful and versatile in their uses. Whereas originally he could only control the energies produced by his own body, Kaine can now control remote sources of energy, meaning the energy doesn't have to be near or from him in order for him to control it. He has also learned to harness ambient energies in his environment. For example, he can absorb or channel the solar energy from the sun or the natural energy of planets. He can even manipulate spatial energies such as zero-point energy. Kaine seems to have no limits in the types of energy he can harness, only being limited in use by his imagination.

Bio-Channeling: Dynamo possesses the ability to channel the biological energy his body produces, by which he takes the energy and uses it for a variety of purposes:

-Variable Energy Blasts: Dynamo can generate light, heat, sound, explosive force, electricity, and other forms of energy in the form of powerful blasts. He can also project radiation along the electromagnetic spectrum. He can generate these blasts from his eyes, hands, or mouth.

-Energy Absorption and Conservation: The law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred from one form to another. Kaine can basically perform a tactile version of this, controlling the laws of how energy is transferred in and out of him and converted to different forms. He can project his own bio-energetic aura outward to draw in the energy from his environment and store it within his body. Dynamo's body will then metabolize the absorbed energy into a usable form which can then be projected in the form of concussive blasts or omnidirectional waves. He can also use his aura to reach out and manipulate energies at their source. The upper limits to how much energy Kaine can store in his body is unknown, having once absorbed energy from a nuclear explosion. As of yet, there is no limit to the types of energy Dynamo can absorb; he has been shown absorbing kinetic, light, sound, psychic, and even more esoteric energies like magic and chi.

-Energy Conversion: Also known as transduction, Dynamo can convert absorbed energies into other forms. This allows Dynamo to blindside any energy or elemental manipulator by turning their own energy into something different. Having done so once by converting a blast of magnetic energy into psionic energy, and again when faced with a powerful pyrokinetic where he absorbed the heat from the surrounding area and converted it to ice.

After joining Atlas, and undergoing training as part of Ironwood's MTF squad, Kaine learned that he could directly convert his body's own potential energy, that is, energy with the potential to become something else, often through an acting force. This means that, instead of having to directly absorb energy and change it to another form, he can now take inherent, potential dynamic forces of his body and transform them into a new type. Kaine can use this method of internal transduction to create new powers like heat, light, gravity, magnetism, and even nuclear energy.

Physical Augmentation: Dynamo can also internalize absorbed energies and use them to enhance his physical and mental abilities. For example, he can use electrical energy to increase his strength and speed. One instance shows Dynamo using kinetic energy to accelerate his brain's processing speed in order to disable a supercomputer. Another shows him using gravitational energy to increase his strength and durability and make himself immovable.

-Regenerative Healing Factor: On average, Dynamo's body can heal at a rate superior to ordinary humans, and it can be further increased by absorbing energy and/or manipulating his molecules. The limits to this regeneration are unknown, as Dynamo has been shown to heal from grievous wounds in a matter of seconds when fully charged and once even regrew his severed arm during a fight against Omega.

-Superhuman Strength: Due to his energy reserves fortifying his cells, Dynamo possesses extraordinary levels of strength, being able to go toe-to-toe with various powerhouses. Dynamo's strength is dependent on how much energy he has stored in his body; the more energy he absorbs, the stronger he is.

-Superhuman Speed: Dynamo's speed can reach incredibly high levels the more energy he absorbs, allowing him to outrun even the fastest athletes. Depending on the type of energy he is channeling, Dynamo's speed can exceed that of sound, light, or even time itself. For example, after absorbing an enormous amount of light, kinetic, and electrical energy from Photon, Velocity and Volt, Dynamo's speed became so great that he was able to enter into another timestream and move between milliseconds.

-Superhuman Durability/Near-Invulnerability: Kaine's skin and bone tissue are incredibly dense due to heavy fortification by his internal energies, giving him an extraordinary level of durability. Though it is not considered high enough for him to be bulletproof, Dynamo's durability is nothing to scoff at. Dynamo has been shown to be capable of taking hits from enemies such as Ironhide, Visceral, his own clone, and Omega with minimal injury, and has even survived a point-blank missile explosion, though the latter was aided by a force-field. Dynamo's durability can be further enhanced by absorbing energy; in fact, he has displayed the ability to absorb most of the energy from any attack directed at him, making him almost completely invulnerable.

-Superhuman Stamina: Dynamo has an incredible amount of stamina, higher than even the most physically fit human. This is directly proportionate to how much energy he has stored; this means that as long as he absorbs energy from a source, he can continue to function without being impeded by fatigue toxins. With a high enough energy storage, he can fight for hours against an opponent without tiring.

-Self-sustenance: Dynamo's powers reduce the need for sleep, food, drinking, body evacuations, and oxygen.

-Superhuman senses: Due to the vast amounts of energy generated by his body, Dynamo's senses are enhanced to superhuman levels as a side effect. His sight, hearing, and smell are the most improved, and he can also expand his aura to sense things around him in a certain radius similar to a radar. Dynamo has humbly stated that his senses are not on the same level as that of a faunus or other animalistic being, though that can be debated. After becoming energy, Dynamo's senses have expanded far beyond what they once were; he can perceive energies and sensations far more powerfully than before and has even gained a level of cosmic awareness that allows him to see beyond reality.

Energy Perception: By concentrating, Dynamo can perceive the energies making up the physical world around him, including the life energies given off by living beings. This added to his already formidable fighting abilities, makes him a very tough opponent. Dynamo has often used this in situations where his regular eyesight either was removed or rendered useless, such as when he was blinded by Adam Taurus or when fighting in complete darkness.

-Superhuman Reflexes: Due to his bodily energies and enhanced senses, Kaine's reflexes have become greatly enhanced, to the point where he can move lightning-fast to avoid attacks. One several occasions, Dynamo has reacted to and avoided attacks that even FTL metas such as Photon and Velocity couldn't keep up with. His reflexes are so great that he has even reacted to attacks without realizing.

Telekinesis: Kaine can use energy to manipulate matter in a telekinetic fashion. This telekinetic manipulation can extend to the subatomic level. Kaine can use his telekinesis to affect and control molecules and particles, allowing him to fully control matter and energy for a variety of effects:

-Intuitive Aptitude: Can disassemble complex devices explosively (separating every last component, such as screws, nuts, circuit boards, etc.) and, just as quickly, easily assemble complex devices. This also has enabled him to even attain awareness and control over objects as small as individual electrons in an atom. For instance, Kaine could detect if a seal was hermetic or not by checking for the presence of penetrating oxygen molecules. Can even detect and discern individual oxygen molecules, and determine the atomic weight of molecules by the amount of atoms present.

-Molecular Manipulation: Kaine has shown the ability to control and alter the molecular and subatomic structure of objects. Originally, he could only manipulate inorganic molecules, and was limited in the types of energy he could use, but with time and practice he has begun to show the ability to use any energy to affect the molecules of living beings. Dynamo has used this power to great skill, being able to transmute or reconfigure objects, or even rewrite a person's genetic structure. He has even been able to resist reality warping by simply altering his molecules back to their regular state.

-Elemental Manipulation: Kaine can control the natural elements. Dynamo has manipulated the classical elements of earth, air, fire, and water, as well as others. Dynamo has harnessed the elemental forces to an extremely powerful degree, being able to create a rainstorm spanning over the African continent and even manipulating the earth's very life energy to repair its tectonic plates.

-Energy Constructs: Dynamo can solidify energy into various constructs and shapes; this can include claws, swords, staffs, and spikes. He can also create prosthetics to replace a person's limbs or even create an entire exoskeleton. He is capable of creating complex constructs such as guns or pistons, though he has to have knowledge on said objects to create them (this isn't a requirement, it just makes it easier to replicate their functions).

-Tactile Telekinesis: Kaine can project a personal TK field around his body to act as a sort of armor. This shell affords him all the abilities of normal telekinesis, but limited to physical contact. Using this, he can detect the presence of others by sensing vibrations around him and is capable of augmenting his physical abilities past their limits.

-Force-field Generation: Ability to create protective force shields that can deflect even the most powerful of attacks (also capable of filtering bacteria from the air, withstanding intense atmospheric pressures, and even repelling nuclear weapon attacks). The upper limits of this ability remain unknown. Kaine has also displayed such control over the fields as to shape them precisely, even to conform very closely to his body's form. There does not appear to be any correlation between field strength and the thickness of the kinetic fields.

Empathy: By stimulating the emotion centers of the brain, Kaine can control, manipulate and alter the feelings, sensations, and emotions of other sentient beings.

Telepathy: Kaine can use manipulation of electrical signals to manifest telepathic abilities. By acting as a transceiver, he can read and project electrical impulses as thought waves, allowing him to hear the thoughts of others and project his own thoughts into the minds of other humans or animals within a vast, potentially limitless radius. Kaine does not often use his telepathic abilities due to the ethical issues of using such a power; even when inhibited, Kaine possesses potent telepathic abilities.

-Mental Manipulation: He can manipulate a person's mental faculties and higher brain function to a variety of effects.

-Trauma Healing: He has the ability to heal mental trauma through "psychic surgery"; also can stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a person's brain.

-Telepathic Illusions: He can alter people's perceptions to make himself seem to be invisible, look like someone else, or make others experience events that are not truly happening. He can mask his presence from being detected by anything short of a skilled telepath, and even then they would have difficulty. His actions can at times go undetected, only being discovered when the effects are too noticeable or when faltering in maintaining the cloak. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well.

-Neurokinesis: He can generate a neuro-psychic energy pulse that gives him access to a person's nervous system. This attack is usually triggered by eye contact with the intended victim, though Kaine has stated he can use it without looking them in the eyes. Once affected, he can cause people to fall unconscious, experience intense pain, become paralyzed, effect memory, senses, reflexes, and focus or even disable their nervous systems entirely to reduce them to a persistent vegetative state.

Flight: Originally, Kaine could only propel himself through the air with controlled blasts. After practicing, he can now envelop himself in an energy field which he can then manipulate in order to levitate and fly at supersonic or even light-speeds.

Energy Signature Manipulation: Kaine learned to control energy signatures, the unique combination of energy that gives identity to an entity; it can be said an energy signature is the essence of a being which makes it what it is, basically a quintessential fingerprint. All living things generate an energy signature; metahumans, in particular, have a unique energy signature produced by their altered biological makeup. Kaine can manipulate these signatures to various effects:

-DNA Scanning: Can use his power to perceive and interpret the genetic code of living beings and distinguish the unique bio-energy signatures and energy fields in other metahumans. This allows him to gain an insight into a person's genetics, being able to determine familial relationships by analyzing similar signatures, and even being able to understand a person's current and potential abilities.

-Jump-start: After analyzing the DNA of a person, Kaine is able to alter their genome to unleash latent metahuman powers or enhance existing powers. This ability is not limited to terrestrial metahumans, as he has been able jump-start aliens and other non-humans. While not temporary, the process can be reversed; he can also restore metahuman abilities lost due to injury.

-Aura Tracking: He can track individuals by allowing his bio-energetic aura to lock on to their bio-signature, and the aura extends in the general direction in which the person is located.

-Power Transmutation: Kaine can alter the energy signatures of himself or other metahumans and change the very genetic templates responsible for their powers. This in turn can change their current power into something else (i.e. pyrokinesis into enhanced strength, telekinesis into regeneration). Kaine rarely uses this, as he states it feels cheatsy to know that he can just give himself and his allies super powerful abilities or give enemies super weak ones, though he will occasionally use it to gain an edge over a difficult opponent.

-Potential Awakening: By manipulating a person's bio-signature, Kaine can awaken their genetic potential and unlock the full extent of their abilities. He had used this to unlock Titania's potential to control gravity and to grant Nora access to the entire EM spectrum. He can also awaken dormant evolutionary traits in individuals, as shown when he had turned Blake into a werecat by awakening the ancestral feline genes in her DNA.

-Power Replication: Kaine possesses the ability to copy the powers of any being in his proximity, whether they are a human, superhuman, android, alien, or even a person enhanced by technology. By scanning and replicating his target's energy signatures and genetic templates, he can gain a full understanding of the potential applications of the powers he acquires and use them at a level of mastery superior to those who originally owned them. He was able to copy Visceral's additional muscle mass and senses and even copied Omega's evolutionary abilities in order to combat him.

In a number of instances, Kaine has displayed his own energy-based variant of another meta's power, depending on the type of power. When copying Blake, he gained the ability to teleport using energy instead of shadows, and again when copying Ruby, he gained the ability to alter his molecular density to phase.

It is unknown whether or not Dynamo can permanently retain the powers he mimics, though considering how he can metabolize energies, including mutagenic ones, it is possible he could keep them if he is exposed long enough and with practice. Kaine can also copy powers by using his absorbing abilities to siphon off the energies of others, which is his preferred method, though scanning energy signatures gives him more knowledge.

Power Modulation: Kaine can control the energy output of anything within a certain radius of himself, be it electronic devices or other mutant's powers. Initially he could only amplify the effective output of whomever or whatever was within his vicinity, but with practice he eventually learned to steadily dilute power output as well.

-Amplification: Kaine can vastly augment any mechanical appliance to the point of overload or bolster special abilities others possess to incredible levels.

-Dilution: Under Ironwood's training, Kaine learned he could also dilute powers and whittle down their effectiveness. For example, diluting Ruby's vibrational resonance field to keep her from body from destabilizing.

-Transferal: With further practice and aid from some booster drugs, Kaine found he could act as a power conduit for various power sources. He can alternate different energies by using himself as a breaker/crucible between himself and the power he's focusing on. He can create a sort of synergistic circuit between himself and other individuals, being able to siphon energy from others to enhance his own abilities or vice versa, or even temporarily grant powers to a normal person by transferring mutagenic energy into them. He can also transfer DNA between individuals, having once transferred his genetic patterns onto Abbie to give her his blood.

-Interfacing: Kaine eventually found he could reach out and interact with any form of energy signature he focused on. Be it the energies of a machine or those that make up reality itself. He can also use his powers to tap into other dimensions and "speak with the universe".

Energy Frequency Alternation: An advancement of his conversion power, Dynamo can freely alternate the frequency of any energy he absorbs at a particle level. This allows him to not only change the type of energy, but also the wavelength and properties. Dynamo often does this to amplify his attacks and make them stronger. For example, he was able to harm Cinder with a blast of heat, despite her being immune to due to her pyrokinetic abilities. This also has the added effect of making energies that an opponent would normally thrive upon damaging to them, as demonstrated in his fight against Omega, a Level 20 metahuman. By altering the composition of Omega's energy blasts, Dynamo was able to harm the nigh-unstoppable villain.

Wormhole Creation: Discovered while trapped in an alternate future, Dynamo can open wormholes between two points in space and time in order to traverse large distances almost instantly. The process for accomplishing this is unknown, but is it likely that Kaine uses his energy to distort space-time and create a rift. Kaine has used this ability to travel light-years through the galaxy and has even traveled into parallel timelines.

Energy Form: After being thrown into the sun by Omega, Dynamo's body was completely incinerated. However, instead of dying, Dynamo's mind subconsciously constructed a body out of solar plasma in order to survive. Using Marvel classification on mutations, Dynamo speculated that this could be the result of a secondary mutation, though it's more likely just an unexplored facet of his powers (also very likely is that it was the result of the adaptational abilities he borrowed from Omega, as he had been siphoning his powers up to that point). Since then, Dynamo has been able to transform into and manipulate any type of energy, even ones that haven't been discovered yet. He can switch back to his organic form at will, though he states that it feels different from how he was before.

-Energy Duplication: When encountering an unfamiliar energy, Dynamo can often duplicate it given he has enough time to analyze it.

-Possession: He can also merge with any being, organic or inorganic, and override their biological or technological functions in order to possess them.

Immortality: In his energy state, Dynamo is immortal, being unaffected by hunger, time, sickness, or exhaustion, and he cannot be killed by any conventional means.

Psychic Link: Dynamo shares a psychic link with his twin sister Emma. This allows him to communicate with and locate her anywhere, though this is usually because it's bolstered by his or Emma's own powers. Due to it being a natural ability rather than a metahuman power, the link can't be perceived, overridden, or broken by a telepath. Dynamo can also establish a link with any person he infuses with his energy.

Abilities

Genius Intelligence: Dynamo possesses an extraordinary photographic memory and genius intellect. From a young age, he was capable of remembering certain objects and locations after only seeing them once. He is extremely adept in strategic combat and urban warfare, being able to adapt to his surroundings and devise plans on how to win a fight. Dynamo is also an adept tactical analyst, often using his scientific knowledge in conjunction with his powers to outsmart and defeat opponents, regardless of their strength. Dynamo's intellect can be further enhanced through using his energy powers to accelerate his brain's neuro-electric signals or even rewire its neural pathways.

Stealth: Dynamo possesses a degree of stealth beyond even that of the most trained agent. He is capable of using his powers to bypass the tightest security, often utilizing sound and light-based energies to render himself completely undetectable by any system. He was once able to sneak into Schnee Industries and steal encrypted data files without drawing any notice.

Skilled Combatant: Dynamo is highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, owing to years of boxing lessons, street fighting, and self-teaching. He has also been trained in various forms of martial arts and self-defense techniques by Ren as well as wrestling moves from Yang and Nora. These skills make him a devastating opponent, completely capable of decimating an opponent without his powers.

Multilingualism: Kaine has taken classes in Spanish and is fluent enough to converse with other Spanish speakers. He can also use his telepathic abilities to scan the language centers of people's brains and learn their native tongue.

Indomitable Will/Incredible Pain Tolerance: Kaine has tremendous determination, fearlessness and strength of will. He has been able to resist many forms of mind control, and has often resisted the temptation of killing enemies even when justified. He also has an incredibly high pain tolerance bordering on superhuman levels; this feeds into his endurance, as he has often ignored grievous injuries when fighting an opponent, powering through and continuing to fight regardless of how much pain he is in. On one occasion, he was able to continue functioning despite being deprived of rest and low on energy, and on another against Omega, he was able to continue fighting after losing his arm, suffering multiple fractures and lacerations, and having been overloaded with energy twice before passing out from exhaustion and blood loss.

Weaknesses

Absorption Capacity: Though Dynamo's ability to absorb energy has no known upper limit, he can still be overwhelmed if he tries to absorb more energy than his body is used to. In his fight against Omega, Dynamo absorbed various energies including that of light, electricity, psionic, solar plasma, and even the bio-energy signatures of his teammates, as well as Omega himself. After defeating him, Dynamo lapsed into a temporary coma due to the strain of using so many different energies. Kaine can also overload himself by trying to absorb too much energy at once; when this happens, his body releases excess energy in an explosion around him until he reaches an amount of energy that he can control.

Foreign energies: Dynamo often has difficulty absorbing energies that he has not encountered before. He once suffered radiation poisoning after absorbing a blast of gamma rays and in a separate incident he absorbed a shroud of dark matter that blanketed an entire city; both instances caused him intense pain and nearly killed before his body adjusted to them. After his experimentation by Dr. Watts, Dynamo's conversion ability became more powerful and his body was able to quickly adjust to foreign energies, though he still often had difficulty. Since becoming an energy being, this weakness has been mitigated, as he can now easily absorb any energy if given enough time to analyze and mimic it.

Emotions: Dynamo's powers are psychosomatically tied to his emotional state. This means that any emotion he feels can influence his energy generation and control. Negative emotions such as anger can cause his energies to become dark and destructive, making his attacks stronger, but harder to control. This can cause great harm to anybody around him, and it makes him highly susceptible when using his empathic abilities because any negative emotions he senses can overwhelm and influence him.

Power Instability: Dynamo's energy reserves seem to be limited to his body's ATP production and calorie intake. If his powers are used extensively, he runs the risk of exhausting himself until his body replenishes the lost energy, either by draining from an outside source or through nutrition. If he continues to use his powers without recharging, he will begin to experience autophagy (cell breakdown) as his body will cannibalize itself to gain energy. This has led to him being incapacitated and nearly killed in several instances where his energy was forcibly drained. Since becoming pure energy, this no longer seems to be a problem.

Mental Illness: Dynamo has been subjected to various traumas throughout his before becoming a metahuman, Dynamo had been subjected to severe childhood abuse by several foster families; this left him traumatized and insecure of himself, though he rarely ever shows it. Since gaining his powers, Dynamo has been in numerous situations which have served to mentally affect him. After becoming trapped in a dark alternate future, Dynamo underwent severe physical and mental conditioning into a metahuman bloodhound; during this time, he was forced to hunt down and murder other metahumans. This experience severely traumatized Kaine, causing him to suffer bouts of PTSD and led to him becoming darker and more brutal against enemies, human and metahuman alike. Throughout his career, Kaine has suffered several mental breakdowns as well as experiencing depression and mania. He also occasionally lapses into alcoholism.

Source Limitation: Though he is able to draw energy limitlessly from the atmosphere around him, Kaine seemingly has difficulty absorbing ambient energy at the same rate as he would direct energy, such as Volt's electricity or Photon's light blasts. As such, he often has to rely on an at hand amount of power to fuel his abilities. It is possible that with time, he will be able to overcome this limitation.

Equipment

Conductor Suit: Dynamo wears a special fiber mesh costume similar in design to X-men's Havok which helps conduct his bio-energy; the suit also functions like a battery, storing energy for Dynamo to use in an emergency or when his reserves run low. His visor contains digital audio/video recording hardware, as well as high and low spectrum visual capabilities. After being temporarily robbed of his powers, Kaine installed a variety of gadgets and devices into his suit to simulate his abilities. These weapons were powered by the energies the suit would absorb. After regaining his powers, Kaine decided to leave the modifications. These additions include:

-Flash Strobe: A blast of light that disorients enemies by blinding them with bursts of stroboscopic light.

-Flight Jets: An array of hundreds of tiny propulsion jets lined into the suit; allows for short range flight.

-Shock Absorbers: The fiber mesh in his suit is lined with shock absorbers capable of absorbing kinetic and inertial energies; this protects him from blunt force trauma and projectile weapons along with heat and cold. Kaine can use the kinetic energy to enhance his strikes, increase his speed, and accelerate his brain speed.

-Laser Shivs: Short blades made from concentrated light energy.

-Sonic Blaster: A wrist-mounted sonar weapon that projects disorienting soundwaves or concussive vibrational blasts.

-Shock Gauntlets: Gauntlets that can concentrate electrostatic energy for concussive blows capable of punching through steel or for devastating blasts.

-Regulator Band (formerly): After being shot in the head, the mechanism of Kaine's brain responsible for controlling his powers was damaged. This led to his powers going haywire and fluctuating randomly. Ice Queen developed a wristband to regulate his powers. With help from Ruby, Kaine was able to repair his brain and regain control of his powers.

Transportation

Sonic jet; Flight under his own power