Terri Henshaw was the wife of Hank Henshaw, who died in the same incident that eventually turned him into the Cyborg Superman.. History. [11] The endorsement of the President ensures that the Cyborg eclipses the rest of the heroes claiming to be Superman's heir. [48] This self-imposed incarceration would not last, however, as the demented machine man found another means of escape. As a result, Steve had become a being of livi… Hank Henshaw is a "technomorph." His villainous acts are many, including the destruction of Coast City. Electronic Consciousness: Since he is, at the core, an energy being, Henshaw is extremely difficult to permanently destroy, as he can transfer his electronic consciousness into any nearby machine. He is a popular teacher and befriends the blind Ashbury Armstrong (daughter of Dirk Armstrong), but ultimately his rage towards Superman causes him to reveal his true identity and his new body is lost in a fight with Superman. As an electronic consciousness, Henshaw cannot be killed by normal means and is transported beyond the event horizon of a black hole, where not even light can escape from the gravity. This version is revealed to be Zor-El, who survives Krypton's destruction and is reconfigured as a half-human half-machine by Brainiac to be his scout looking for stronger species in the universe. The Cyborg also murders an entire family of vacationers trying to find a way out of the devastated area. Capabilities The user can transform/reshape their technokinetic form as desired to adapt to varying situations, impersonating others, enhance their body to combat, turning into animals, monsters, etc. This information allows the Henshaw to construct bodies with organic portions that are genetically identical to Superman and mechanical components built from Kryptonian alloys. Henry "Hank" Henshaw is a fictional supervillain featured in the DC Comics universe, who normally goes by the name Cyborg Superman. [17] While Green Lantern defeats Mongul, the Cyborg lures Superman and the Eradicator to the Engine City main reactor and attempts to kill Superman with the kryptonite that powers the engine. To that end, the Cyborg claims to be Superman reborn, the result of the hero's body being pieced together and revived with technology. Shortly after the Superman Y2K story, Henshaw escapes the Zone and attacks Superman, who was suffering from Kryptonite poisoning. It is how he is able to create new body after new body after the previous one has been destroyed. Hank Henshaw, is a formerly human scientist that now exists as an AI consciousness that the ability to control and manipulate all forms of machinery and technology. This was part of an effort to erase his former life.[19]. Kayti Burt kaytiburt 12/07/2015 Superman Wiki is a FANDOM Comics Community. Using NASA communications equipment, Henshaw beams his mind into the birthing matrix which had carried Superman from Krypton to Earth as an infant. Hank Henshaw is a fictional supervillain featured in the DC Comics universe, who normally goes by the name Cyborg Superman. [3], Hank Henshaw first appeared as a crew member on board the doomed NASA Space Shuttle Excalibur in Superman (vol. During a brief battle with Superman, one crew member, now composed of radiation, becomes unhinged and flies into the Sun, destroying himself. In comic books, Hank Henshaw is the … [49], Even trapped within Superman's Kryptonian dwelling, Henshaw was able to influence the Central Power Battery back on Oa a universe away. [8] Over time, Henshaw becomes delusional and paranoid, believing that the Man of Steel had intentionally caused the deaths of himself, his wife, and his crew, then driven him from Earth. 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Psionic/mental/psychic and extrasensory Edit J'onn J'onzz is the most powerful telepath on Earth, being able to control and affect even the Spectre and Doctor Fate with his telepathy. Unable to detect any life signs and confused without his leadership, the Manhunters reanimated the brain of the Cyborg Superman. Genius Level Intellect: Henshaw has shown enhanced intelligence and computational abilities; his mind works sharply and with extreme speed. Powers & Abilities As a result of the cosmic radiation, Hank Henshaw underwent a rapid degeneration but at the moment of his death, his consciousness jumped into a nearby computer. Parallax undoes the destruction of the planet that Henshaw had caused using power donated from the Silver Surfer. [9][16] The quartet travels to the site of the former Coast City, and Superman (whose powers are slowly returning), Supergirl, and Steel confront Mongul and the Cyborg, while Superboy stops the missile from hitting Metropolis. Henshaw has also used Kryptonian technology to upgrade the Manhunters. J'onn J'onzz was born sometime between 1425 and 1640 on the planet Mars, to high religious leader M'yrnn J'onzz. Cyborg Kryptonian Physiology: Thanks to his interactions with Superman's birthing matrix, Henshaw possesses knowledge of both Superman's Kryptonian genetic code and Kryptonian technology. Using Superman's genetic code gives the Cyborg access to all of Superman's powers, including super strength, speed, invulnerability and senses. Henshaw visited the Peroton 5 planet and fused with Mongul's spacecraft there, creating a large robot body and forcing him into an alliance. 1. Immortality: being able to live no matter what happens to his physical body. After an accident in space where Hank and his family were exposed to cosmic radiation, Hank was only able to save his wife Teri before seemingly dying. Cyborg Doomsday somehow manages to negate Henshaw's ability to repair himself, which leads Henshaw to believe that he might finally meet his demise. Their short battle is interrupted by the arrival of Parallax, who has been tracking the Cyborg for some time, seeking vengeance for the destruction of Coast City. Mother Box:Because Henshaw's cyborg body is made from Apokoliptian technology, Darkseid was able to use his will alone to force Henshaw's body to activate the Boom-Tube. Henshaw comes to believe that Superman was responsible for the tragedy of the Excalibur after learning that around the time of the accident, the Man of Steel had thrown a rogue Kryptonian artificial intelligence (the Eradicator) into the Sun. Doomsday is brought on board a space cruiser and, despite frantic efforts of the crew to jettison him, kills the crew, and upon landing on Apokolips, proceeds to pillage the planet. J'onn J'onzz | Hank Henshaw; Alternate Universe - Demons; Fluff and Angst; Alex Danvers Has Powers; Lena Luthor Knows Kara Danvers Is Supergirl; Alex Danvers is a demon; Summary. As Cyborg Superman, Hank Henshaw possesses the ability to control and reanimate various machines. [50] After hacking into the Lantern ring network, Henshaw used the unsuspecting Corpsmen Simon Baz, to break the Cyborg out of the Fortress of Solitude and deliver him the Phantom Ring. and he was also The Director and Leader of The Team as well. With Supergirl distracted, Cyborg Doomsday knocks her out and then tears one of Henshaw's arms off before departing with both of his unconscious captives. Afterwards, however, Ganthet noted immediately that there was something different about her. In the confusion, Henshaw escapes and is returned to the DC Universe. [14] After tricking and defeating Superboy, Henshaw prepares to launch a nuclear warhead intended to convert Metropolis into a second Engine City. Hank Henshaw is one of Superman’s longest-running enemies, but it didn’t start out that way at first. What the Cyborg did not realize was that Zod was using the Squad to achieve his own ends. Supporters of both eventually come to blows over which is the real Superman. Jordan then disperses Henshaw's consciousness, and the Cyborg is seemingly destroyed once again.[1]. Due to his experience with Superman's birth matrix, Henshaw now has all of Superman's powers and genetic tissue identical to the Man of Steel's. By this time, Henshaw's body has started to rapidly decay, while his wife is beginning to phase into an alternate dimension. [10], After destroying a Superman memorial plaque in front of the Daily Planet, the Cyborg exiles Doomsday into space, prevents a nuclear meltdown, and saves the President of the United States from an assassination attempt. When Henshaw panics and states that he will "somehow" find a way to come back, a doubting Superman simply says that if Henshaw does, he will be waiting. [23] With his influence, the Manhunters have been upgraded with organic material, most notably with blood. [8], Meanwhile, the Manhunters begin an assault on the JLA satellite. Expert hand-to-hand combatant: As a former soldier and director of the D.E.O., Henshaw is an expert in hand-to-hand combat; he was proven to be even better than Supergirl, despite the latter being an expert hand-to-hand combatant in her own right, although she did manage to hold her own against Hen… After Superman returns to Earth, Henshaw escapes and constructs a new body, this time posing as an art teacher at a high school in an attempt to start over. [8], He is later seen briefly in Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Superman-Prime, having presumably been beaten back by the combined strength of Superman, Supergirl, and Power Girl. Henshaw, the Grandmaster, allowed the Green Lantern Corps to rebuild for unspecified reasons as a part of his master plan. [31], In the Brightest Day crossover, Henshaw would eventually return and work with the Alpha Lanterns as they attempted to augment every Green Lantern, including Ganthet, into an Alpha. He can even commandeer complex alien technology such as power rings,[36] controlling and assimilating the energy fueling the rings and their batteries. Deletion:While Cyb… With this knowledge, he set out to assemble various old foes of Superman like Metallo, the Eradicator, Blanque, and his old 'ally' Mongul to form the Superman Revenge Squad before using the Oblivion Stone to restore his body to its Cyborg Superman state. During a crisis involving the Godwave, Superman (wearing his blue energy costume at the time) travels to New Genesis and encounters Henshaw again. He reconstructs his cyborg body and replaces the S-symbol on his chest with the symbol of the Sinestro Corps. [38] Trapped in a satellite with the other Supermen, the heroes conclude that Henshaw has been trapped with them to keep them disorganized due to the tensions caused by his presence, prompting Henshaw to depart and search the satellite himself. Supergirl bursts onto the scene and attempts to stop Doomsday herself, but Henshaw fires an energy blast at her, stating that he would not allow her to defeat the creature that had humiliatingly beaten him only moments before. Electronic Consciousness: One of his initial abilities, Hank Henshaw's exposure to the radiation storm gave him the ability to become a being of energy. Before he is destroyed, however, he thanks the Green Lantern Corps. [52] In retaliation, Henshaw retreated to Earth with the intention to recreate the disaster of destroying Coast City with the power of the Phantom Ring. [41], In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. [6], Though Henshaw's physical body expired, he was able to transfer his consciousness into the LexCorp mainframe. The White House then endorses the Cyborg as the 'true' Superman. The upper part of his skull was retrieved by the android Manhunters. Henshaw assists the Tribunal in capturing the Eradicator, Superboy, Supergirl, Steel, and Alpha Centurion, who had intended to rescue Superman. However, the Cyborg betrayed the Tribunal and attempted to conquer their planet for conversion into a new Warworld. As the kryptonite energy passes through the Eradicator, the radiation is altered and acts to fully restore Superman's powers. As a result of the radiation exposure, the human bodies of two crew members were destroyed. Henshaw has taken part of the Source Wall's structure and crafted a small world made up of his memories, which he uses to taunt Superman before being defeated again. Parallax uses his powers to generate representations of the victims of Coast City, which tear the Cyborg's body apart. He hailed from a peaceful race of psychic shapeshifters known as Green Martians and lived a life of harmony with his family. Unlike a simple technopath which can physically manipulate technology with their mind, Henshaw can extend his consciousness into any machine. In this new timeline, a fully human Henshaw appears as a doctor working for the Advanced Prosthetic Research Centre and colleague of Caitlin Fairchild. With the help of other Green Lantern Corpsmen (such as Sodam Yat), Henshaw was defeated and forced to retreat with the Phantom Ring. After that, he briefly took over Apokolips before being overthrown yet again. He digs her corpse out and rips it into two, shouting that all he wants is not to be with her, but for these memories to fade. It is also revealed that the Cyborg knows of the 52, though exactly how he came by this knowledge is not made completely clear. At first Superman seems to have the upper hand; however after two punches, Henshaw strikes with great power and rage, punching him through the Statue of Liberty. J'onn fled to Earth and stayed hidden for centuries until he was discovered by D.E.O. The Cyborg then uses knowledge obtained from Superman's birthing matrix to construct a body that is genetically identical to Superman's. RELATED: Superman: 10 DC Characters Who Can Defeat The Man Of Steel Without Kryptonite When an alien ship appears over Coast City, the Cyborg attacks and severely injures the Eradicator, allowing Mongul's craft to destroy the city. Initially thought to have been unaffected by the radiation, Hank and Terri found that was not the case as Hank began decaying a… Superman returned in his black Recovery Suit and put a stop to this with the help of his allies. Powers and Abilities. [44] Taking Henshaw to a base he has established in the Arctic regions to better assess if this Henshaw is a threat or not, Superman is briefly forced to face both Henshaw and a new foe called Blanque, who possesses powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities and was also kept in the fortress, but once Blanque is focused on fighting Superman, Henshaw helps Superman defeat this new foe with the weapons of a spaceship that was also kept in the fortress. From within his cell, he orchestrated a mystery surrounding the death of a Guardian to find a powerful weapon, the Phantom Ring. Director Hank Henshaw. Henshaw believes that this created the solar flare that resulted in the Excalibur crew's transformations (although Superman had shared this concern with Terri after he had saved her life and she had confirmed that the flares would have been triggered before Superman disposed of the Eradicator). Henshaw returns in a form similar to his original body, when he is revealed to be the Manhunters' new Grandmaster. When Superman, his power now boosted by being repowered by "purple kryptonite", arrives; Henshaw emerges by reconfiguring an armored Apokoliptian trooper, brutally murdered by Doomsday, into a new body (which, by all accounts, had its DNA overwritten with the Kryptonian DNA Henshaw had obtained while in Superman's birthing matrix, and thus still retains a portion of Superman's abilities and still looks the way the Cyborg Superman looked, except for a change in the color of the Cyborg's metallic components) and proceeds to lay siege to the planet alongside Doomsday. Superman and his allies stop the Cyborg's plan and, when Henshaw's involvement in the destruction of Coast City is brought to the attention of the Tribunal, they find him guilty of genocide and sentence him to death. (Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey), Most recently, he has become the leader of the Manhunters and an important member of the Sinestro Corps. Returning to Earth, the two crew members had their bodies destroyed, but was able to reconstruct their bodies into new forms. [34] By threatening to make the Alpha Lanterns kill themselves if Ganthet does not cooperate, Henshaw forces Ganthet to work on reversing the augments that turned the Green Lanterns into Alpha Lanterns, hoping that he can use the resulting information to restore his original mortal body.[35]. [7], Henshaw spends some time traveling between planets, bonding with local lifeforms to learn about the culture and history of various worlds. This statue is later stolen by the Toyman and the two villains join forces to kill Superman. Henshaw is defeated when Biot explodes, destroying most of his body aside from his head. He now wishes to die. 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