Name: Red Lightning, Max Grant
Age: 13
Power(s): Can discharge, control, and become a special type of electricity that does not short out and replenish it without absorbing anymore electricity. Can enter any object that conducts electricity and can temporarily become intangible as well as magnetize objects.
Origin/ Story: The second son of the Grants he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his brother Harper Grant who was a leading scientist in a new form of energy. One day Max is brought to Harper’s unveiling newest and most promising energy source (after begging his mom and dad to take him) electricity that never runs out. (Ex: if you have your phone on and running it wouldn’t run out of energy because the battery is replenishing itself without any extra electricity) But during the demonstration of the new invention the experiment is released and begins to strike randomly around the room. Max’s parents are trampled to death by the scared mob leaving him alone inside as they escape. As he cowards in the corner and the electricity were striking randomly he saw his brother both get impaled by a metal pole and be electrocuted and it finally stroke him.
He wakes in a hospital where he figures out that he is in fact part alien in which the species can adapt to almost anything which allows him to survive but since he has no money to pay the bills and leave the hospital keeps him there as a prisoner (this hospital only cares about money and is corrupt) and is outfitted with a shock collar. One night one of the doctors to please his sick minded girlfriend proceeds to torture Max by turning on his shock collar when he realizes the shock doesn’t hurt him and finds out he can shoot the electricity that struck him and escapes the hospital. He finds out that when he was shocked he adapted and absorbed the electricity. But due to his misfortune he commits crimes until he finds out his brother is alive and changes his ways only to see his brother turn into a super villain and his all time nemesis.