Myriad (real name Spencer Bridges) is a comic book superhero, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5.
History
Origins[]
Following the assassination of Captain Dynamo, the much-beloved superhero protector of Tower City, his widow, former government agent posing as now-retired investigative reporter Maddie Warner, discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at this discovery, Warner realized that without a full-time protector, Tower City would be vulnerable to Captain Dynamo’s legion of super-villain enemies. She used her skills to track down five people who could be Dynamo’s illegitimate children.
Bridges is a promiscuous womanizer who has never held a job for more than two weeks, though he never seems to be without financial means. The third person contacted by Warner, he unsurprisingly agreed to join the team only because Maddie is paying him. Gathering all five of the children together, Warner exposed them to the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier, unlocking their powers. Spencer inherited his father’s shapeshifting ability. Donning a costume with the same color design as his father’s, Bridges took on the codename Myriad and works to protect Tower City with his newly discovered brothers and sisters, whom he is still getting to know.[1]Attributes
Powers
- Metamorphosis: Myriad has the superhuman ability to alter the form of his body, his facial features, and even the clothes he wears, in order to disguise himself as anyone he chooses. Presumably, like his father, he can even alter the apparent size of his body, which even allows him to disguise himself as an obese person. He appears to require coming into physical contact with someone in order to duplicate their appearance. When in battle with Dynamo 5, Myriad disguises himself by erasing all of his facial features. How he is able to see, breathe, hear and speak without them has not been explained.[1]
- Khandrian/Human Hybrid Physiology: His half-alien heritage allows him to retain the ability gained by his usage of Flex even after he stopped using it.
- Superhuman Strength: Spencer displayed enough strength to break metal chains used to restrain him.
- Superhuman Speed: Spencer's speed is greatly enhanced by Flex.[2]
- Superhuman Reflexes: Spencer can dodge close range energy blasts.
- Superhuman Agility
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Abilities
- Martial Arts: Myriad has received martial arts training and even Widowmaker has praised his form.[3]
- Intimidation:As Wraith he uses his alien appearance to scare criminals.
Weaknesses
- Drug Addiction(formerly): For a period of time Spencer boosted his physical abilities by taking a drug derived from the Whiptail formula.