Hector Hammond
Hector Hammond is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Hector Hammond
Sometime ago, he discovered a special meteorite that was capable of evolving life over the course of thousands of years. After learning of this fact, he decided to exploit it and began kidnapping four different scientists. He exposed them to the meteor's rays thus evolving their intellects but had also sapped them of their own will whereupon Hammond began to claim their discoveries for himself. Through their discoveries, Hector Hammond came to make a name for himself and was regarded soon as the 'Wonder Man of Science'. Hammond rapidly became a rich celebrity due to the wealth he has acquired for selling his new inventions for a profit. In the span of months, he went from an unknown person to the lion of society where he became well known by figures in high society at Coast City. Green Lantern Hal Jordan came to be suspicious of the high-rising figure resulting in him looking to investigate the activities of Hector Hammond. For this, Green Lantern created a duplicate Power Ring and costume for his mechanic friend Thomas Kalmaku to fool Hammond. Unaware of the impersonation, Hammond kidnapped Kalmaku and stole his ring where he turned him into a chimpanzee. Jordan confronted Hammond personally in a battle of power rings that ended only when the charge of Hammond's ring ran out, allowing Jordan to capture him and restore Kalmaku and the scientists. (Green Lantern v2 #5)
Afterwards, he has managed to escape from prison and deliberately exposes himself to the evolution meteorite thus gaining psionic powers as a result. He was then contacted by the mysterious Mister Memory who recruited Hector Hammond alongside Pied Piper, the Sea Thief, the Angle Man, Dr. Davis and the Joker where they were to target the Justice League. Hammond was sent to fight the Green Lantern where he was given a special de-memorizer that would affect the heroes mind making him easy to deal with. All the heroes were captured and nearly eliminated only for the plan to be thwarted by the Atom Ray Palmer. The villains were then later said to had been captured and returned to prison. (Justice League of America v1 #14)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Hector Hammond
In reality, the meteor had been deliberately sent to Earth by the alien Kroloteans to evolve Hammond as part of their experiments. (Green Lantern v4 #4)
He was later contacted by Gorilla Grodd who claimed to had found a third evolution granting meteorite that had been responsible for their respective origins. Seeking transport to Africa, Hammond created an incident in Keystone City to draw out the Flash Wally West. Taking control of the speedster, the pair made their way to Gorilla City so that Hammond could meet Gorilla Grodd. (The Flash v2 #69)
Hammond later projected his thoughts to Jordan when he was on Oa where he warned him of a returning danger. This caused the Green Lantern to visit his cell with Hector only agreeing to give the information in exchange for experiencing Jordan's past encounters with women. Initially, he wanted to take all of Jordan's memories but was stopped by the Green Lantern who wanted Hammond to reveal what he knew about recent events on Earth. (Green Lantern v4 #4)
From within Belle Reve prison, his telepathic thoughts could register that an unknown force had captured the fear entity known as Parallax. (Green Lantern v4 #51)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of history was created with a different series of events.
He was shown to be in a comatose state and being a prisoner at S.T.A.R. Labs. (Superman v3 #18)
Hal Jordan later came to Stryker's Penitentiary to recruit Hammond to help against the threat of Tomar-Tu and his Darkstars. (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1 #45)
Upon arriving at the Darkstar homeworld, Hammond used his powers to effortlessly disconnect the captive Controllers from the machines that maintained the Exo-Mantle's hive-mind communication. This allowed for the Green Lantern heroes and their allies to prepare for the final confrontation with the Darkstars. (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1 #49)
After the defeat of Perpetua, the Multiverse was reset once again with this act seemingly rebooting Hammond's to its former state. A normal human once again, he began to enlist as an agent of the Department of Extranormal Operations when their mandate expanded to combat threats from the Multiverse. Agent Hammond then headed their operations using Carrier Arks that were navigating through the Bleed and carrying threats to the planet. He came to be the operative assigned to investigate the threat of a new Black Lantern. (Infinite Frontier v1 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
After his transformation by the Kroloteans, he came to be referred to as the God Brain. (Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1 #46)
He was noted for being a smoker. (Green Lantern v2 #5)
Hector had said that he had always had a thing for redheads ever since his first lab assistant. (Green Lantern v4 #4)
Hammond was shown to had been attracted to Carol Ferris and longed to marry her. (Green Lantern v2 #5)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Hector Hammond was an ordinary human being with no special inherent powers. (Green Lantern v2 #5) This was until he exposed himself to the effects of a meteor that evolved organic beings where he gained the power of mind-over-matter. (Justice League of America v1 #14) The meteor was said to be identical to one that had landed in the Congo long ago and evolved the native gorilla's into a race of super-intelligent apes. (The Flash v2 #69)
At one point, he had a house that resided on the outskirts of Coast City and was large enough for gala parties. It also contained his own private astronomical laboratory where he made his own discoveries. (Green Lantern v2 #5)
Notes
- Hector Hammond was created by John Broome and Gil Kane where he made his first appearance in Green Lantern v2 #5 (March–April, 1961).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Films
- In Green Lantern, Hector Hammond made an appearance as an antagonist in the live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard. He was shown as being the son of United States Senator Robert Hammond with his father being disappointed in Hector. Hammond engaged in the sciences where he became a high school professor who was close friends with Hal Jordan and Carl Ferris. However, he held romantic desires on Carol but did not act on them. He was enlisted by the Department of Extranormal Operations Dr. Amanda Waller to study the corpse of the deceased alien known as Abin Sur. During the autopsy, he became infected with DNA from the alien Parallax that began to mutate Hammond giving him an enlarged cranium and telepathic as well as telekinetic powers.
Video games
Appearances
- Green Lantern v2: (1961)
- Justice League of America v1:
- The Flash v2:
- Justice League:
- Green Lantern v4:
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps v1:
- Infinite Frontier v1: (2021)
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