Alexander Power (Earth-616)

Alex Power was the oldest child of Dr. James Power, a physicist who worked for the United States government on a means of producing large quantities of energies cheaply through combining matter and anti-matter. (The subatomic particles composing anti-matter have opposite charges to those of the equivalent particles of matter itself. When matter contacts anti-matter, both are converted entirely into vast quantities of energies.)

An alien Kymellian named Aelfyre Whitemane (nicknamed "Whitey") learned of Power's discovery and intended to stop it. Whitemane knew that a device such as Power's would, despite Power's good intentions, trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the Earth. Moreover, he knew that Power's device was sought by alien Z'nrx, nicknamed "Snarks," who intended to use it to conquer inhabited worlds.

When Snarks captured Dr. Power and his wife Margaret, intending to force him to reveal the secret of his device, Whitemane saved the Powers children, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, from being captured, but he himself was fatally wounded in the process. Dying, Whitemane transferred a different one of his superhuman powers into each of the four Power children, and asked them to use their new abilities to save their world.

Alex received the power to control gravity, and called himself Gee after the common scientific abbreviation for gravitational force ("G"). The four children called themselves the Power Pack. Power Pack thwarted the Snarks, rescued their parents, and destroyed Dr. Power's dangerous matter/anti-matter converter, thereby saving the Earth from destruction. The four children continued to have adventures as Power Pack, assisted by Whitey's Kymellian Smartship, Friday.

New Warriors Vol 1 49 — Alex as a member of the replacement Warrior team.

Some time later, Alex was contacted to help save the New Warriors from the Sphinx. For this adventure he was convinced to absorb the powers of his siblings and help the Warriors as Powerpax. After the adventure, he returned his siblings powers and promised not to steal them again. But soon after the Warriors needed his help again, and he broke his promise. This time, however, he realized how dangerous it was for children to be superheroes, and decided not to give his siblings their powers back, to his family's chagrin. Instead, Alex continued with the New Warriors, changing his codename to Powerhouse out of guilt over the fate of Power Pack. He shared many adventures with the Warriors, but after the team allowed the Smartship Friday to be severely damaged to stop Volx, he quit the Warriors and gave his family their powers back. Retaining the gravity-control power, Alex renamed himself Zero-G and returned to adventuring with his brother and sisters.

After a time, Alex and his siblings seemed to stop functioning as a team, most likely due to Lightspeed quitting and moving to California. This was not the end of Alex making his mark on the world, though. He was invited by Reed Richards to join a think tank that would be based out of the Baxter Building and comprised of young geniuses. Although Alex was not the smartest of the team, he became a valued member. He even stayed on when it became the Future Foundation following Johnny Storm's death.

As Zero-G, Alex had control over the increase/negation of gravity. This control was primarily centered on himself, but could extent to items or people he was in contact with, or that he could surround with a gravity distortion field. Previously, he had relied on his siblings to provide momentum in order to fly, and wore wings to propel himself along. But more recently, he displayed the ability to affect the gravity of objects he was not in contact with, and to increase the gravity on them in one direction. This resulted in the controlled flight of Alex and his sibling Katie, for example, without the two being in physical contact at anytime. As Destroyer, Alex had Katie's energy absorption/projection powers. As Mass Master, Alex had Jack's density power. As Powerhouse, Alex had all of his siblings' powers.

Like his siblings, Alex possessed a costume of unstable molecules. When activated, these costumes were called from an extra-dimensional realm "Elsewhere" to replace their normal clothing.

Attributes

Power Grid^[3]

Powers

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Known Powers: Gee can negate the force of gravity on himself and on other living beings and objects through anti-gravitons. (Gravitons are subatomic particles which carry the force of gravitational attraction. Anti-gravitons are subatomic particles that are the counterparts to gravitons, but have an opposite charge.) Previously, in order to reduce the pull of gravity on an object or a living being other than himself, Gee needed to be in physical contact with that object or being. Now, Alex can project a gravity distortion field that can increase or decrease gravity on an object that he is in close proximity to, but not necessarily in physical contact with. He has also learned to increase gravity in a specific direction on an object or person allowing himself and others to simulate controlled, directional flight. When Gee uses his power small black rectangular marks often appear on his forearms and lower legs (or, if those portions of his body covered by clothing, on the parts of his clothing covering his forearms and lower legs) and sometimes on part of whatever object he is touching and using his power on. More recently, a black distortion field surrounds any person or object affected by his powers. He now seems to hover and fly in any direction at will. The limits of the amount of mass on which Gee can successfully use his power are not yet known. However, he has succeeded in negating the force of gravity on his father's matter/anti-matter converter, an enormous object weighing many tons, enough to carry it many stories above the Earth's surface.

Gee can control the extent to which he reduces the pull of gravity enough so that he can hover above the Earth's surface at the height he desires, and not simply keep on going upward into outer space. Apparently Gee can also increase the pull of gravity on himself through generating gravitons. In his first clash with the Snarks, Gee thus successfully resisted the pull of a Snarl tractor beam that had a force equivalent to six times Earth's gravity. However, as yet Gee has seldom used this power to increase the pull of gravity, and it is unclear whether he can use this power to increase the force of gravity on living beings and objects he touches.

Presumably as Gee grows older the extent of his powers and his mastery of them will increase. In addition, the members of the Power Pack can heal themselves by sharing their life forces with one another.

Energy Manipulation: (Formerly): After he and his siblings switched powers for the first time, Alex gained the powers formerly held by his sister Katie, which allowed him to disintegrate objects and absorb energy from them before projecting if forward as "Power Balls" of incredible destructive force. Alex was, possibly due to his age, far more concerned with the lethal potential of these powers than Katie was. Alex was also the first to discover that absorbing excessive amounts of energy caused him great pain and made it harder for him to release it. Eventually, Alex lost these powers after trading with his siblings again, gaining the Density powers held by his brother Jack and his sister Julie.

Density Manipulation: (Formerly): After he and his siblings switched powers once more, Alex gained the Density Manipulation powers that were previously possessed by his brother Jack as Mass Master and his sister Julie as Molecula. He took the name Mass Master and utilized the same powers his brother and sister had, such as turning into a gaseous cloud form, shrinking while gaining strength and durability, creating density force fields, and growing to greater heights than he could achieve naturally. He also refined the power himself, being the first sibling to use the powers to become a liquid. He eventually switched powers with his siblings again, regaining his old gravity powers and becoming Zero-G.

Gravity Manipulation, Acceleration Manipulation, Density Manipulation, Energy Manipulation: (Formerly) Upon taking all the three Kymellian powers from his siblings and retaining his own powers, Alex became Powerpax and later Powerhouse. With all four powers, he was quite a bit more powerful, and was able to utilize all of the talents, powers, and skills that the four siblings had created over the years, and manifested powers like Flight at faster than the speed of sound, shrinking and growing in size, transforming into a gaseous cloud form, utilizing his rainbow trail as a solid platform or binding apparatus, disintegrating objects and releasing energy, and manipulation of gravity. He also had a more powerful healing factor. All of these powers, except his share of the healing factor and his original Gravity powers were lost when he decided to return them to his siblings, becoming Zero-G once more.

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Abilities

None known

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Zero G once wore artificial wings under his arms which enable him to glide on wind currents when he uses his anti-gravity power on himself.

Alex wears a special costume made of unstable molecules created by the Kymellian Smartship Friday. The costume can be invisible and intangible, but will materialize on Zero-G when he wills it to do so.

Transportation

Friday, a Kymellian Smartship formerly partnered with Whitey.

Notes

Alex Power first appeared as Gee in Power Pack #1, as Destroyer in Power Pack #27, as Powerpax in New Warriors #47, as Powerhouse in New Warriors #64, and as Zero-G in Power Pack: Peer Pressure #1.

Trivia

Fantastic Four Vol 1 574 page 07 Alexander Power (Earth-616)

Reed Richards claims Alex is nineteen.^[1]

Links and References

References

[Fantastic_Four_#574-1] Fantastic Four #574

[2] FF Fifty Fantastic Years #1

[3] FF: Fifty Fantastic Years Vol 1 1

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