Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)

Mathemanic
Name	Thomas Sorenson
Current Alias	Mathemanic
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Psionex (Maryland Initiative)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Blond
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human Mutate experimented by Genetech
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Registred "hero", formerly test subject, student
Base of Operations	Maryland, formerly Genetech Research Facility, Long Island; Manhattan
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Fabian Nicieza, Mark Bagley
First	New Warriors #4 (August, 1990)
First	New Warriors #4 (August, 1990)

History

Thomas Sorenson was a university student before being used by Genetech for their research in creating superhuman beings. Given the name and powers of Mathemanic, he participated as a member of Psionex during its early activities, such as battling with the young heroes of the New Warriors. Mathemaniac stayed with the team when they escaped Genetech, but ditched his team to join the battle when Furmintz became Terrax, fighting alongside the New Warriors.

Dark Reign

He later rejoined the Psionex when they w were made as part of the Initiative as the Maryland team and participated in H.A.M.M.E.R.'s assault on Asgard.

Personality

Mathemanic has a rather laid-back and clinical attitude about everything and everyone. He is fascinated and awed by abstract mathematical facts and theories. He has few compunctions about using his powers on other people in an experimental fashion.

Attributes

Powers

• Arithmetic Telepathy: Mathemanic is a genius mathematician who now has psionic powers. Although even Genetech could not chart the full extent of his abilities, Mathemanic could affect physical and mental realities by altering numerical values. Among the effects he demonstrated were:
  • Spacing out (overwhelming the conscious mind by experiencing astronomical distances)
  • Levitation
  • Applied physical force or pressure
  • Hyper-gravity
  • Paralysis (manipulating neural responses and reaction time to slow reflexes to a crawl)
  • Accelerated aging
  • Perceptual illusions (city-wide delusion that no time had passed since a boy's death)

Abilities

Mathemanic is a genius-level mathematician. Poor hand to hand fighter.

Weaknesses

He is a relatively poor hand to hand combatant.

See Also

• 14 appearance(s) of Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)
• 6 image(s) of Thomas Sorenson (Earth-616)

Links and References

• The Unofficial Handbook to the Marvel Universe