Cobalt Man

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Real Name

Ralph Roberts

Current Alias

Cobalt Man

Relatives

Ted Roberts

Affiliation

Egghead's Emissaries of Evil

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

American

Occupation

Former criminal; scientist

Characteristics^[1]

Gender

Male

Height

5' 8" (originally); 6'1" (mutated)

Weight

156 lbs (71 kg) (originally); 276 lbs (mutated)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Brown, (grey temples)

Origin

Universe

Earth-616

Place of Death

Stamford, Connecticut

Created by

Roy Thomas, Werner Roth

First appearance

Appearance of Death

X-Men #31
(April, 1967)

Civil War #1
(July, 2006)

HistoryEdit

Ralph Roberts was a scientist who had been studying the effects of nuclear radiation involving cobalt. He sought to use this as a weapon and began designing a suit, which he planned to give to the military as opposed to Iron Man. Upon completion, he called himself the Cobalt Man. When he first put on the suit, he was suffering from a concussion, because he had injured himself in a pole jump competition with his brother Ted. Because of his head injury, he became obsessed with defeating Iron Man. He was defeated by the X-Men before his unstable suit could explode.

He was later forced to serve Egghead as part of the Emissaries of Evil.

Roberts was believed to have been killed in a nuclear explosion while trying to escape from Egghead. He later turned up alive, allied with a group of supervilllains hiding out in Stamford, Connecticut. The New Warriors arrived to capture the villains, but one of them, Nitro, blew himself up killing most of the Warriors, six hundred innocent civilians and, apparently, all of his fellow fugitives, including Roberts.

Later, a group of men wearing cheap knockoffs of the Cobalt Man suit attacked surviving New Warrior Speedball in retaliation for the Stamford massacre, calling themselves the Cobalt Men.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

The Cobalt man operated a powered armor similar to that of Iron Man. It used cobalt to power a nuclear reactor, although it was notoriously unstable. The armoured suit gave him a number of abilities including superhuman strength and stamina, near-invulnerability, concussive force blasts, the ability to survive in vacuum and flight.

NotesEdit

• To infiltrate the Thunderbolts, Iron Man created his own version of the Cobalt Man armor and posed as Roberts.

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