| Living Lightning | |
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| Living Lightning, In his Containment Suit | |
Vital statistics
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| Position | Candidate for the Avengers |
| Age | Unknown |
| Status | Alive |
Physical attributes
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| Height | 5' 9" |
| Weight | 77 kilograms |
Miguel Santos's father, Carlos Santos, was a misguided man working for the Ten Rings. At the time the Ten Rings were tasked by HYDRA to test a new method of creating enhanced soldiers. These tests would involve massive electric-shock treatments along with neural enhancements to create beings of living electricity. However all of the previous test subjects died because of the massive amount of electricity coursing through them. Before much progress could be made with these tests however, SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson arrived and shut down the Ten Rings operation. In the ensuing battle, Carlos would die during a firefight leaving his son orphaned.
Miguel was then sent to an orphanage where he would spend the majority of his childhood. When he grew up, Miguel would investigate the cause of his fathers death, and in the process discovered the horrific acts he was apart of. Hoping to redeem his family name, Miguel used what he found on the experiments and hired University mechanics and chemists to recreate the machines from the salvaged material. Miguel then accidentally triggered the machine after tripping on it, but not before landing on it and causing a disturbance in the internal mechanics of the device. As a result when Miguel was hit by the massive electricity he didn't die. The machine had in fact turned him into a being of pure energy, a Living Lightning.
Powers and Abilities[]
Sentient Electrical Form: In his true form, Living Lightning is just that, a sentient electrical plasma force with no mass.
While in this form, he is capable of;
- Flight: Miguel can fly, and is capable of reaching sub-light speeds.
- Semi-Invulnerability: While in energy form, Santos cannot be harmed by Physical attacks, or most energy attacks. He can be harmed by magic, psionic or plasma based attacks. He is also able to withstand the the vacuum of space.
- Electrokinesis: He also possesses the ability to fire and manipulate bursts of electricity and electrical fields of varying intensities.
- Electricity Projection: Living Lightning is able to bodily generate up to 15,000,000 volts of electrical power.
- Force Field: When focused, Miguel can create protective force fields of electrical energy.
- Concussive Electric Plasma Blasts: He can bodily generate, conduct and release staggering plasma blasts from his body.
- Electronic Manipulation: He is capable of manipulating electronic devices.
- Body Manipulation: He has the ability to control his body while composed of electrical plasma.
- Astral Projection: While in his energy form, his mind resides in an Astral form.