Angstrom Levy
Angstrom Levy is a male comic supervillain who features in Image Comics.
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Biography
Angstrom Levy was a male human born in the modern age on Earth.
In one instance, he used his portal creation powers to save an alternate version of himself in Times Square. While Robot and The Immortal were killed by an evil Invincible, Levy took his alternate self to a dock while the Guardians of the Globe handle an alien invasion. He reveals to his alternate self that they are many other versions of him. (Invincible v1 #16) At some point, Levy sets out to amass information about the various alternate Earths so as to be able to travel through them more safely. To this end, he contacted alternate versions of himself from hundreds of parallel Earths, and convinced them to help him. Next, Levy came to free the supervillains known as the Mauler Twins from prison on the condition that they help him create a machine that would allow him to copy the memories of his alternate reality counterparts into his own brain. (Invincible v1 #17) With the aid of versions of themselves from other realities, the Mauler Twins are able to construct the machine. Levy was in the process of uploading the memories of his alternate selves when the process was interrupted by Invincible who was trying to apprehend the Maulers. The Maulers are on the verge of killing Invincible when Levy halts the machine to try to stop them, causing it to overload and explode. Unbeknownst to Invincible, Levy survived the explosion but is horribly mutated and suffers internal organ damage. Levy had been driven insane by his mutation and the influx of memories from his alternate selves and now believes that it was Invincible who stopped the machine. Angstrom would also lose some memory of the event. He leaves to a dimension to get his injury fixed by a race called the Technicians. These surgeons were able to rebuild and even enhance Levy's body but are unable to correct his monstrous appearance. Levy was left with a burning hatred of Invincible whom he blamed for the accident. He discovered that Invincible was really Mark Grayson by travelling to realities where his identity was public knowledge. (Invincible v1 #24)
Using his extradimensional knowledge, Angstrom finds out Invincible’s identity as Mark Grayson. He goes to Mark’s house and captures Mark’s mother and brother. He would then call Atom Eve and tell Mark of his family’s condition. Angstrom would send Mark through a series of dimensions, threatening Debbie and Oliver. While Angstrom is distracted, Deborah attempts to hurt him by using attacking him with a lamp. Angstrom is unaffected and breaks her arm. Angstrom goes to check on Mark and Mark grabs him. Seeing what he’s done, Mark crashes Angstrom through the Grayson house and Angstrom reveals his super strength to Mark. The duo crashed through a series of dimensions until they land in a wasteland. Angstrom threatens Mark’s family and an enraged Mark beats him to death. (Invincible v1 #33) However, it was revealed that Angstrom had survived the encounter, albeit with an even more disfigured face. He used orb cameras to watch Mark’s house to prepare new schemes. (Invincible v1 #51)
Levy takes Mark's mother and his toddler baby brother hostage in their home and lures Mark in with a phone message. When Mark arrives to rescue his family, Levy sends him into various other realities. While Mark is away, Levy mistreats his family, tossing the baby around and breaking his mother's arms in retaliation for a failed attack with a lamp. Levy's plan was to wear Mark down, and then kill him, then kill his family and all the alternate Marks. Mark tricks Levy into entering a portal while he is stranded on an abandoned wasteland of an Earth. Overestimating the success of Levy's enhancements, Mark seemingly beats him to death by accident. Mark is rescued from this wasteland by future versions of his friends, who had traveled through time and space to find him.
Angstrom is revealed to be spying on Mark as he sits atop his roof, via a small robotic camera. He is shown sitting in a room with many monitors, all with videos of Mark playing, and also with small electrical globes attached in his head. He has adopted a super villain style costume, complete with cape and new scars on his face from the previous encounter with Invincible.
After spying on Mark for a number of months, Levy reveals his plan: gather evil versions of Invincible from other dimensions, and unleash them upon the first Mark's world. While this creates worldwide panic and death, the main goal is to ruin Invincible's reputation and cause him suffering. The world's superheroes unite, some giving their lives to battle and kill the murderous doubles of Invincible. In the end, Levy's plan fails as the Earth, though devastated, is not conquered. He escapes, but loses a limb, and upon arrival to the dimension of his doctors, loses their support and is informed that he now 'works for them'.
Levy returns taking Eve hostage and again sends Mark to the alternate dimension where the evil Invincibles were exiled. Only two of the evil Invincibles remain - having eaten each other. A battle ensues between Mark and the primary cannibal Invincible, with Mark being aided by the other evil Invincible. In the meantime, Eve has a passionate discussion with Angstrom reminding him of his initial desire to help humanity which had become perverted due to the influx of memories from his alternate selves. Angstrom repents, and opens a portal to bring Mark home. Mark returns through the portal, accompanied by the one surviving evil Invincible. Angstrom explains to both of them that he wishes to pay for his crimes and help humanity, and opens a portal for the evil Invincible to return home. Seeking revenge, the evil Invincible grabs Angstrom and drags him through the portal with him, with Mark unable to speed to him in time to save him.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Angstrom Levy is a brilliant, though amoral, scientist who only wanted to be able to use his powers to their full potential. His desire to exploit his abilities drove and consumed him to break laws and cut corners in order to satiate it. While Levy wasn’t willing to actually kill anyone to achieve this goal, hurting someone or working with criminals were acceptable costs to him at that time.
The accident affected Levy greatly, distorting his memories of the events leading up to the accident, and transforming him from an easy going yet morally challenged person into a violent psychopath. Levy’s sole reason for being now is to gain vengeance on Invincible for causing the explosion that disfigured him, even going as far as to kill his family just to get back at him.
When Invincible is thought dead, Levy briefly returns to his pre-accident self and lives a peaceful life in his home dimension.
Powers and abilities
Angstrom Levy had the power to open portals to alternate realities. Not to be confused with him teleporting, Angstrom powers only put in the same spatial in the dimension transports from in another dimension.
Angstrom Levy had the power to open portals to alternate realities including Marvel and DC Universes. Not to be confused with him teleporting, Angstrom powers only put in the same spatial in the dimension transports from in another dimension. (Invincible v1 #17)
Angstrom Levy possesses the unique ability to move between dimensions, however, only within fixed space so if steps from one dimension and into another, and the second dimension has a crater, he could be falling into said crater. It is this reason why he performed his experiment to enhance his knowledge of the known dimensions.
After the experiment failed where his different dimensional selves were killed when the machine he used was destroyed due to his actions in an attempt to stop the Mauler Twins from killing Invincible, Levy became disfigured, possessing a super enlarged and enhanced mind that made him highly grotesque, however, he did gain the knowledge of multiple dimensions as he had hoped.
Following the failure of his experiment, Angstrom fled to a dimension with super-advanced medicine to make himself whole again but was unable to find anyone to fix his disfigurement. He did possess enhanced strength, enough to hurt a weakened Mark Grayson but not enough to kill him or withstand a furious barrage of blows from Grayson which nearly resulted in his death, a second time.
Once Angstrom was able to make his way from the dimension where he had hoped to trap Grayson to another where he could be repaired, he would return and utilize spherical robots to monitor Invincible and his family.
Angstrom returns soon after using his spherical robots to monitor Invincible and gathers other Mark Graysons from other dimensions to attack his. He utilizes new technology, the spheres included. Levy shows the ability to mentally control the spheres as he needs no controls or movement of his hands to do so. He also possesses either the power or technology to levitate in the air.
Following his defeat at Invincible once again, Levy loses his arm and is given a mechanical one.
Notes
- Angstrom Levy was created by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker where he made his first appearance in Invincible v1 #16 (August, 2004).
In other media
Television
- In Invincible Angstrom Levy appeared in the setting of the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Sterling K. Brown.
Appearances
- Invincible v1: (2004)
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