Tokamak (comics)

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caption=Victor Hewitt as Tokamak, art by Jamal Igle
character_name=Tokamak
publisher=DC Comics
debut="Fury of Firestorm" #15 (August 1983)
creators=Gerry Conway (writer)
Pat Broderick (artist)
real_name = - Henry Hewitt
- Victor Hewitt
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powers = Living nuclear reactor.

Tokamak is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in "Fury of Firestorm" #15 (August 1983), and was created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick. He is named after the Tokamak, part of a nuclear fusion reactor.

Fictional character biography

Henry Hewitt was CEO of the Hewitt Corporation, as well as a high level director in the 2000 Committee, a vast criminal conspiracy which planned to implement a corporate takeover the world by the year 2000. Hewitt had an operative of the 2000 Committee named Multiplex kidnap Lorraine Reilly, the daughter of Senator Walter Reilly, in an attempt to recreate the accident that created Firestorm. Due to Hewitt's experiments Reilly's metagene was activated and she was transformed into the being known as Firehawk. Hewitt, a quadriplegic invalid, wished to use the data he'd gathered to repair his damaged body and eventually used it to transform himself into the villain known as "Tokamak, the Living Reactor".

Tokamak II

Tokamak reappears in "Firestorm, the Nuclear Man" #30 (December 2006), and has apparently been the mastermind behind all the recent turmoil in Jason Rusch's life. In this same issue it was revealed that Victor Hewitt, the half-Vietnamese son of Henry Hewitt, had taken control of Hewitt Enterprises. Henry Hewitt's consciousness somehow came to reside in his son's mind, and Henry can periodically take over his son's body and transform it into Tokamak.

Powers and abilities

* Tokamak is a "living nuclear reactor", and apparently an unstable one. In his earlier appearances the containment armor he wore was the only thing preventing his body from catastrophic detonation.
* He demonstrated the ability to alter the atomic structure of any inorganic matter trapped within the energy rings he is capable of projecting.
* He can use his rings to compress matter or break down its structural integrity.
* He originally wore an armored containment suit that allowed him limited short range flight.

External links

* [http://www.angelfire.com/ar/hellUSA/Tokamak.html DC Universe: Who's Who: Tokamak]
* [http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=tokamak DCU Guide: Tokamak]