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| Kevin Grevioux |
Blue Marvel, Adam Brasheer, was a child prodigy and is a former fullback at Cornell University where he graduated magna cum laude. He has PH.D.s. in electrical engineering and theoretical physics.and was a veteran of the Korean War, a member of the Marine Corps with two Silver Stars for carrying two men to safety while under fire. One of them is his best friend and who would later become his arch nemesis Conner Sims who would later become Anti-Man. Conner was a Caucasian man who saw how Brasheer was treated in the Marines and by others because of his race. His hatred for racism grew during their friendship, as he was always ready to defend his friend even protecting him from lynchings.
Adam Brasheer was born with the intelligence, but how did he get the power? It started when he became the project lead on a scientific attempt to harness anti-matter through the creation of a "Negative Reactor" that would create a bridge between the Negative Zone and the positive universe. If you know Fantastic 4 or even have seen that horrible reboot of a movie then you may know a little about the negative zone. Anyway that's a whole other thing, for you see this reactor would provide a clean source of energy, but the reactor exploded and Brasheer and his best friend Sims were hit with mutagentic radiation. Sims body dissembled into energy while Brasheer became a stable "antimatter reactor" and gained super powers! Now were talking super strength (He is on par with Thor and the Hulk! he can easily lift 100 tons!), speed, reflexes stamina, flight, senses, perception, invulnerability, regenerative healing factor, energy generation, molecular manipulation, and bio-luminescence ( he got that glooooowwwwww).
Blue Marvel fought as the first Super Hero in the Marvel Universe during the 60's. He wore a full costume and a helmet that covered his face. All he wanted to do was to use his gifts to protect the world and keep everyone safe, but that all changed the day he had to fight his friend who was now known as Anti-man. Anti-man's powers messed with his head and he set out to end racism by using his powers to make the world where everyone was equal, so that there could be no racism. The problem was he did it through violence and Blue Marvel could not let his friend hurt people. Blue Marvel defeated Anti-man saving the day, but his helmet was damaged and he was revealed to the world as a black man.Now remember, this was the sixties and the people of the world where shocked that their savior, their hero was in fact a black man. Now this brought on a fear in American during the Civil Rights movement because you had a black man who was the most powerful being on Earth. Yes, they were afraid that he would join the Civil Rights movement and their was nothing they could do to stop him, but Brasheer had no thoughts of doing so as he wanted to protect everyone, no matter what their race. Even so, In fear of an uprising from the Civil Rights movement, President Kennedy asked him to retire after giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Even so, the president would have to call on him again to stop an alien invasion.
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| Blue Marvel vs Anti-Man |
Afterwards Brashear settled into civilian life, but the government still feared him. They asked Shield to watch him, but Nick Fury did not agree with them making him retire because of his race, so they had him watched by one of their agents, "Candice" Now Candice was a Caucasian woman whose real name was Marlene. Not only was she tasked to watch him, but yes she was asked to form a relationship with him to see his allegiance and to see if he would ever take on the government on behalf of the African American community. Well, ol Adam fell in love with Candice and the two even have three kids together, Kevin, Max and Adrienne... Of course she was a spy who even studied African American life to prepare her for the role she did indeed fall in love with him. Any time he faced a racist he did no harm to the person, which caused Marlene to love him even more. And thanks to the power of uh communion she aged just as slow as he did. Tragedy would strike the family later when Adam and his son Keven, who was showing signs of intellect like his father, had to stop Doktor Skorpion form getting the time travel tech of Rama Tut... Yea, Tech dont know about them neither, but anyway to stop them they opened a portal to the neutral zone. Adam was weak from the fight so Kevin took charge but was sucked into the negative zone with Skorpion who was vaporized, but to save Earth Adam had to close the portal leaving Kevin behind. An event that caused his daughter Adrenaline nightmares and his son Max to grow distant...
Now let's jump to present day, Adam is a tenured professor of physics as the University of Maryland living a normal life until Anti-man returns defeating the Mighty Avengers. The version of the avengers included Iron Man, Wasp, Wonder Man, Ares, Hank Pym (actually a skrull here but not important now) and Sentry. Now if you know any of these heroes you know Anti man had to be one bad man to defeat them and luckily for them with his power he can not stay in the physical word long. As he defeated them he kept repeating, Blue Marvel could not stop me so what can any of you do?And if you you know Tony Stark aka Iron man he had to find out just who Blue Marvel was. Tony was director of shield during this time so he had access to all secret files, but Blue Marvel's was still restricted. This didn't stop Tony as he discovered the cover up and why Blue Marvel had to retire. His search lead to Blue Marvel's wife who called her husband saying they were looking for him. Now, here is when she confesses and decided to tell her husband the truth about their life and their relationship. Adam responded just as in man would, in anger he realized his marriage was a lie and he left her even with her confession that she did fall in love with him. Adam then decided to go and meet with Tony Stark. Tony takes it upon himself to apologize for the government and that the current president wants him back. Now, after some talk Adam leaves angered by some of the comments. Hank and Tony are basically like slavery is over things are better now, so Reed has to explain to them how things still are and he uses mutants as an example.
After a talk with Namor who used the Tuskegee airmen as an example on how they went in to battle fighting no matter what the world thought of them, Adam decided to suite up again as Blue Marvel and go help Tony, Reed, and Hank, but before he can Conner, Anti-Man confronts him. Anti-man now sees that all life must be ended since they can not be equals since some must be racist. Blue Marvel tries to reason with him, telling him that the world is like it was,even though there will always be racism, more and more people are becoming more open. Anti-man doesn't listen and winds up knocking Blue Marvel out.
Later Adam joins the Mighty Avengers to come up with a way to stop Anti-man. Adam comes up with a plan to merge his power with Anti-Mans that will cause a large explosion which he says he can contain. The Avengers don't agree saying it to risky but Adam insists. Adam looks saying again the man is asking him to sit out. So we get Blue Marvel vs the Avengers and he whoops their butts easily his toughest fight was with Sentry who talks during the battle about racism and doing the right thing. In the end one punch from Blue Marvel sends Sentry out into space (Sentry is as strong as the Hulk in his angriest form) Jamn! Sentry is able to come back and muster all of his power to knock out Blue Marvel.So, later Sue Richards aka the Invisible woman decided to bring his Adam's wife to see if she can get him to listen to the Avengers. The two talk and have sore of a reconciliation where Adam realize that his anger is not at her but at himself for just hiding where he could have been an inspiration, because Candice tells him that the world wasn't ready for a black man with so much power and that it never would be. The two kiss and Blue Marvel goes to fight Anti-man with the Avengers.
Later in the battle, Anti-Man attacks Blue Marvel with his energy. Blue Marvel absorbs it but its so much that it expels from his body. Well, Candice decides to show up at the battle worried about Adam and she is burned to death. Her death is the last straw that shows Adam that there is no saving his former best friend and that he must be stopped. So he takes Anti-man up to the edge of the ionosphere and siphoned off his reaming anti-matter energy which caused his him to permanently decohere and collapse.Blue Marvel is invited by Tony to join the avengers. He doesn't turn down the offer but leaves to gather his thoughts and learn to live in a world truly being himself. He goes home to see a box from Candice that holds a new uniform. He puts it on and returns to the present day Marvel Universe!
Ok, that was a lot but i wanted to tell the whole story of Marvel's first Black hero. A hero with so much power and intellect who lived through the Civil Rights movement but had to or chose to hide it instead of getting involved. Something he later regretted... Ok, Marvel Cinematic Universe, your giving us Black Panther, but i think Blue Marvel deserves his own movie!
Oh you may be wondering about his kids.... Well... that's another story....
And some more Blue Marvel...
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