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ATOMAN Barry Dale

F: Average (06)
A: Average (06)
S: Fantastic (40)
E: World Class (30)
R: Decent (10)
I: Average (06)
P: Average (06)

Health: 82
Karma: 22
Resources: Average (06) – throughout the decades, Barry Dale works as a lab technician or scientist not displaying any undue brilliance or making any amazing discoveries using what he has found out during his many adventures.
Popularity: 12 to the extent he is known of by the general public they tend to like him.

Talents / Specialities:
Barry Dale is a World Class nuclear scientist. He is careful to hide his brilliance in his day to day jobs to preserve his secret identity.
Specialities: Drive Car, Chemistry, Physics, American History, United Nations charters and guidelines, Boxing (punching), Wrestling

Powers:
While working as a nuclear scientist at the "Atomic Institute" in 1946, Barry Dale absorbs the "power of the atom" through unconscious exposure to nuclear materials and gains superpowers as a result. As described by Barry himself: "Evidently my body is so geared as a result of working on radium and uranium that it can explode atoms and give me atomic strength." He uses his new abilities -- such as super strength, flight, speed, invulnerability, "atomic vision," and the ability to heat his body so that he can weld metal with his hands -- to fight crime.
Source: https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Atoman

  • REGENERATION (World Class): This regeneration has had the side effect of greatly retarding the aging process for this character.
  • ATOMIC STRENGTH (Fantastic): Atoman's flesh and musculature has been permanently altered through exposure to nuclear materials. His Fantastic Strength is a direct result of this exposure.
  • FLIGHT (Fantastic): Atoman generate electrogravitic lift allowing him to fly unaided by any Vehicle in both the atmosphere and outer space. Atoman can carry passengers when he runs or flies, with no harm to them.
  • SUPER SPEED (Fantastic) - Atoman can carry passengers when he runs or flies, with no harm to them.
  • ATOMIC VISION (Fantastic): Penetration Vision (X-Ray), Ultraviolet Vision and BLAST: (Energy) fired as a ray from both eyes doing Lethal Ranged damage to a Decent range.
  • ATOMIC TOUCH (Great): Whenever he wishes, Atoman can use CORROSION (heating) to heat up and burn what he touches.
  • INVULNERABILITY (Astounding): Atoman has LIFE SUPPORT (Cold, Heat, Pathogens, Pressure, Radiation, Sleep, Toxins and Vacuum. Atoman voluntarily falls into a light trance to simulate Sleep for mental health reasons.
  • AURA (Decent): Atoman can heat up his whole body rather than use his Atomic Touch inflicting heat damage around his physical form.


Contacts:
The superhero team The Guardians of Justice;
Previous sidekick Atomgirl (now Atomwoman);
Previous sidekick Atomboy (now Senator Jordan M.K. Gardenberg;
Occasional adventuring partner the equally longlived Misitu Bwana;
The Merpeople of the undersea Refuge Qele e Wai and their Queen, Koratotoka.

Limitations:

  • LIVED TOO LONG: from time to time, and at least once per game month, this character must make a Silver roll on Psyche or fall into a listless depression in which they mourn those they knew who have died, and mourn the better times of the past. This listless period is a period of complete inactivity that can last up to a week. At the end of the week the character snaps out of it and is their usual self.

Notes:
Barry Dale was born in 1915, and volunteered to fight in World War 2 following Pearl Harbor. He did not pass his basic physical but was instead eventually made part of the Manhattan Project. Atoman is an unapologetic Uber-American, proud of America's many achievements, certain that American Exceptionalism is real, and that JFK had he lived would have been the greatest president America ever had. He will never accept that any American institution is corrupt to its core, instead blaming any failings on "a few bad apples."
Perhaps unsurprisingly given his Origin, he never saw and still does not see anything wrong or immoral in the atomic bombing of Japan or the development and use of nuclear weapons. Instead he wants all of the benefits of atomic energy to be spread to all the nations of the world.