Captain Collider

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The Immeasurable
Captain Collider
The Master of Molecules
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"Power isn't a gift, it's a responsibility."
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Affiliations
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Super Group
Unaffiliated
Rank
Prodigious Physicist
· Other Affiliations ·
Identity
Real Name
Dr. Malcolm Frederick Parton
Aliases
The Master of Molecules, The Particle Protector, The Stellar Scientist, The Dynamic Man, The All-Powerful Pacifist
Birthdate
12th May 1974
Birthplace
Millennium City, MI
Citizenship
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Residence
Millennium City
Headquarters
Unlimited Dynamics
Occupation
Particle Physicist at Unlimited Dynamics
Legal Status
Registered Hero
Marital Status
Divorced
· Known Relatives ·
Vanessa Morello (Ex-Wife), Luna Morello-Parton (Daughter), Gerald Parton (Father), Regina Parton (Mother), Melinda Parton (Sister), Nicholas Parton (Brother)
Physical Traits
Species
Human
Sub-Type
N/A
Manufacturer
N/A
Model
N/A
Ethnicity
African-American
Gender
Male
Apparent Age
40
Height
6'4" (Previously 5'11")
Weight
260lbs (Previously 190lbs)
Body Type
Muscular, Large, Built
Hair
Black
Eyes
Blue (Previously Brown)
Skin
Dark
· Distinguishing Features ·
Unnaturally Blue Eyes
Powers & Abilities
· Known Powers ·
Particle Manipulation
· Equipment ·
Collider Stabilisation Suit
· Other Abilities ·
Super-Genius Level Intellect - Brilliant Physicist - Master Engineer - Skilled Chemist - Multilingualism




Once a brilliant physicist with a view for changing the world for the better, Malcolm Parton's life was changed forever when a freak accident caused him to fall into a highly experimental particle collider mid-collision. Though he should have been killed, an unknown variable caused the hyper accelerated particles to destroy and reconstruct Malcolm's body, merging with his physiology at a subatomic level. The process radically altered Mal, granting him the power to manipulate the very particles that make up the universe itself. Imbued with power beyond his wildest imagination, Mal vowed to use it responsibly in keeping with his pacifistic beliefs and became Captain Collider, the immeasurable Master of Molecules!

A gentle and reserved soul at heart, Captain Collider considers himself a scientist and human being first and a superhero second, always prioritising thought and diplomacy over unnecessary violence and confrontation. Though his levelheadedness may make him a hero among heroes, however, his idealistic pacifism occasionally borders on naivete. Still, with the potential for absolute power constantly present within him, Captain Collider strives every day to ensure it doesn't corrupt him absolutely.



Biography

"I wasn't always as powerful as I am now. In a way, I'm glad that's the case. I don't think I'd fully appreciate the magnitude of what I can do now if I had my powers from day one." - Captain Collider

Born to renowned physicist Gerald Parton and medical doctor Regina Parton, Malcolm Herschel Parton was the middle of three children, his elder brother, Nicholas, and his yet to be born younger sister, Melinda. Born into well-educated, well-off family, Mal wanted for little and received all the love and support he needed from parents, siblings, friends and teachers growing up. From a very early age, the true value of companionship and community were instilled within him.

"I had a very normal life. Good family. Good home. Sure, it may not be the most interesting superhero origin, but I wouldn't have it any other way." - Captain Collider

Inheriting his father's natural genius, Mal showed a staggeringly high intellectual capacity very early in his childhood. Inheriting his father's love of science and his mother's compassion for others, he would often spend his free time studying the world around him in the hopes that he could somehow use what little knowledge he possessed at the time to make the people in his life happier.

"If you can do, then do good. That's what mom used to say, at least." - Captain Collider

Far away from his brother who favored the arts over science and his sister who simply preferred to socialise with her friends, Mal grew to become more and more enamoured with science and, before long, was off at one of the better high schools in the country, an honour roll student with aspirations of becoming a physicist even half as acclaimed as his father. There he met the woman who would go on to be the love of his life, fellow honour roll student Vanessa Morello.

"I was just a gangly geeky kid back then. What's more, I was a gangly geeky black kid in a predominantly white school. But when I was with Vanessa, I always felt like I belonged. Always." - Captain Collider

Becoming fast friends and, eventually, unlikely sweethearts, Mal and Vanessa both graduated from high school and attended Millennium City University, with Mal studying physics and Vanessa studying chemistry. It was during their study at the university that a twenty-one year old Mal proposed to Vanessa. Engaged to be married following the receipt of their respective PhDs in Particle Physics/Engineering and and Analytical Chemistry respectively. When their years of studying came to a well-deserved end, the two long-time lovers marked the occasion with a small wedding ceremony of family and friends.

"It was the happiest day of my life next to...well, that next part's coming up." - Captain Collider

A year later, their first and only child -- a healthy girl -- was born. Settling on the name 'Luna', Mal and Vanessa agreed that Vanessa would temporarily put aside her scientific career while Mal secured a job working within the physics lab of Millennium City University both as a particle physicist and as a lecturer. In this position, Mal quickly established himself as a brilliant physicist, helping to make a number of breakthroughs in the field of particle physics and gradually making a name for himself via his own personal discoveries and theories. One such theory would go on to form the basis of his later work, and that theory was the 'Power Particle'.

"Just think -- no more superpowers stemming from freak accidents; no more volatile, dangerous metahumans risking their lives and the lives of others by losing control of their powers, no more tragic deaths stemming from deluded, desperate people trying to replicate the anomalous circumstances responsible for creating so many of the heroes we owe our lives and well-being to. There would be a definite, common link between anyone with powers, be they mutant, mutate or even magical in nature; a single measure we could take to give a terminally ill patient a regenerative healing factor or a person with a degenerative bone disease enhanced strength and durability. That is the Power Particle and discovering it was to be my life's work." - Captain Collider

Quickly becoming a popular name for his various theses and books on the Power Particle, it wasn't long before Mal received the support he needed to turn his theory into a reality. Approaching the bold, young physicist with an offer of his own lab stocked with resources, a team of diligent, intelligent physicists at his disposal and all the money he needed to make sure he made the most of them, Olivier Dreyfus, President and CEO of Unlimited Dynamics, enlisted Mal's brilliant mind in the search for his much vaunted Power Particle, establishing a professional and personal friendship that would span throughout the following years.

"Ollie was everything I wasn't. Where I was shy and reserved, he was outgoing and loud. Where I was a simple guy who had worked my way to excellence, he was born into it and forced to protect it from vultures. I was fascinated by the various possibilities of the Power Particle, but he only saw the profit for Unlimited Dynamics. By all accounts, we should have hated each other-- but I saw that, beneath all the bravado, Ollie was a good man. I like to think he saw something in me too." - Captain Collider

Not all was well in Mal's personal life, however. Though he had always tried to be a loving and attentive husband and father, his commitment to his work on the Power Particle put a notable strain on his relationship with Vanessa and the now nine years old Luna. Their relationship was pushed to its full limit, however, when Luna was hit by a speeding car while playing outside. Though she survived the experience, she became permanently crippled from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Consumed by grief and guilt, Mal devoted himself to finding the Power Particle even faster in the hopes that he could use it to allow his daughter to walk again.

"It was...I should have been there. I could have saved her. No nine year old girl should have to accept the fact that she'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Not in my world." - Captain Collider

Though he insisted he was doing it for Luna's benefit, Mal's increased fervour towards his work inevitably had its toll on Vanessa, who was left alone to cope with the grief and added burden of Luna's accident. Eventually, the couple had a heated argument on Mal's thirty-eighth birthday and quickly filed for divorce soon after. Vanessa won sole custody of Luna on the grounds that Mal wouldn't have the time to look after her properly. Though reluctant to give Luna up, Mal was forced to concede that she was correct.

"I was so stupid. I thought that if I was going to end up saving Luna like I swore I would, I couldn't have any distractions. Not even her." - Captain Collider

Without a family to go home to, Mal increased his work hours and devotion to the Power Particle over the next year. Eventually, as if through sheer determination, his efforts bore fruit and he created the Power Collider -- a particle accelerator that hoped to uncover the mystery behind the Power Particle through the collision of various other particles theorised to be related to it. On the precipice of finally proving the legitimacy behind his life's work, Mal immediately called a press conference for the first attempt at giving birth to the Power Particle.

"I don't think anything could have prepared me for what came next." - Captain Collider

With scientists from all over the world, the Unlimited Dynamics board of executives and news crews all gathered for the momentous occasion, Mal and his team readied the Power Collider and prepared to make the final preparations for what may have been a life changing world event. As the collider powered up and prepared to fire, however, a walkway on the upper levels suddenly gave way, causing one of the scientists working on the collider to slip, narrowly grabbing on to the dangling walkway. With the walkway rapidly coming loose, Mal acted before thinking. Hoisting himself up to the walkway despite protestations from the rest of his team, he hurriedly pulled his fellow scientist to safety. As he turned to follow her to stable ground, however, the walkway finally came loose, sending Mal plummeting into the collider just as it fired off. As the horrified guests and scientists watched helplessly, Malcolm Parton was atomised before their very eyes.

"I'm not really sure if I can describe what it feels like to be reduced to subatomic particles to you. I've never been tortured, but it isn't hard to imagine that it's something similar to that -- only happening at the speed of light while seeming to take years." - Captain Collider

As the rest of Mal's team ran to shut down the collider in an attempt to save their leader, however, something unexpected began to happen. As the collider continued to smash particles into one another, a form began to coalesce within the light of the lofty machine. As if particles of energy were beginning to come together of their own sentient will, the collider's particle beams gave way to an indistinct, humanoid shape. Startled, the team activated the collider's emergency shut down and watched as the shape within the collider fell to the ground, revealing itself to be a stark naked Malcolm Parton.

"It was like I could see through every one of the subatomic particles my matter was broken down to. I could hear -- no, I guess -sense- would be a better word -- all the cries of terror and stunned gasps and then I could feel some outside force pulling me back together. If being atomised was painful, that was even worse." - Captain Collider

Though Malcolm appeared to possess the same memories and basic physical features he had prior to falling into the collider and being atomised, his body had been completely altered during the reconstruction process. Going from a lean, brown-eyed 5'11" man, he was 'reborn' with extremely dense and well-developed musculature, almost unnervingly blue eyes matching the hue of the collider's particle beams and all with an extra five inches added to his height.

"I can't really recommend falling into a highly experimental particle accelerator to bulk up, however." - Captain Collider

Further study of Mal's physiology quickly yielded even more shocking results. For all his altered looks and musculature, the most radical change to his body came at a more subatomic level: indeed, his blood, bone marrow and even saliva all radiated a unique type of energy which indicated that the very building blocks of his body themselves had been manipulated completely. In his effort to create the Power Particle, Mal had become the Power Particle -- or at least the closest thing science had seen to it by that point.

"It was some kind of ironic twist, almost. All that time spent searching for the particle and I ended up trapping it inside of my own body by accident, where it was no good to anyone." - Captain Collider

Desperate to replicate the conditions that led to the particle manifesting itself within his own molecular structure, Mal ignored any further requests to detain and study the changes to his body and hurriedly attempted to figure out just what the variable or catalyst was that led to the creation of the particle last time but which could not be found in more controlled settings. Though he devoted a large deal of time to trying to rediscover the particle over the coming month, he eventually conceded defeat, realising that it would be impossible to find the one-in-a-million fluke that crated the first Power Particle.

"My life's work. My years of devotion. My marriage. Luna... It was all for nothing. What was the point of the Power Particle if I couldn't use it to better lives? To help people who truly needed it? Was it any wonder I became so dejected?" - Captain Collider

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