Nuclear Man

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Nuclear Man (portrayed by Mark Pillow but voiced by Gene Hackman) is a supervillain, the supervillain from the film Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. He was created by Lex Luthor with the DNA of Superman. Despite his name, he is actually solar powered. He succeeded Evil Superman as the evil movie clone of Superman.

Not to be confused with Firestorm whose nickname was "The Nuclear Man" prior to the release of Superman IV.

Contents 1 First Nuclear Man 2 Second Nuclear Man 3 Trivia 4 See also

[edit] First Nuclear Man

If one goes into the history of Superman IV The Quest for Peace, there is a long history of deleted scenes. Deleted scenes from the film show a prototype Nuclear Man (played by British actor Clive Mantle), who was quickly defeated. This Nuclear Man also seemed to resemble Bizarro. This Nuclear Man was made in the labratory of Lex Luthor. The only time he battled the Man of Steel was when Superman (in the form of Clark Kent) and Lacy Warfield went to the Metro Club to dance. Nuclear Man entered the club with the intention of killing Superman, until a woman began hitting on him. After killing her, Nuclear Man battled Superman using cars, garbage cans, and other street objects. Ultimately, Superman kicked him into a power transformer and the first Nuclear Man was destroyed. Later, Lex Luthor's nephew Lenny salvaged the remains to help him make Nuclear Man 2.

[edit] Second Nuclear Man

The salvages of the first Nuclear Man were put into a computer-enchanced box with a computer, the genetic material of the first Nuclear Man, and some material to make his clothing. After being assembled, Lex Luthor put the case onto a nuclear missile, and thanks to Superman, threw it into the sun. Then the second Nuclear Man was born. Immediately, the Nuclear Man made his way to Lex Luthor's building, where he showed that he has the power to generate heat and electricity by touch, has eye beams (improved over Superman's), can levitate objects by hand beams, can shoot fire and heatflares that explode, and has the regular super strength. But his only weakness is lost contact with the sun. It wasn't long until Superman and this Nuclear Man battled, from destroying The Great Wall of China to saving Moscow from a nuclear missile, saving a little girl in Kansas from a nuclear tordado to saving Italy from an volvanic eruption. But the big trouble was the near-destruction of the Statue of Liberty. Wile saving it, Superman was compleatly distracted by it and Nuclear Man succesfully clawed into his neck. After falling to a near-death, Nuclear Man kicked The Man of Steel into the air, with the cape hooked onto Lady Liberty's flame.

The next day, Nuclear Man was made as an asset to help Luthor fire the nuclear arms dealers he had hired. And afterwards, he saw a picture of Lacy Warfield, developing a crush on her. And so, into Metropolis square, Nuclear Man started attacking people and destroying city objects until Superman would take him to "the woman". But Nuclear Man's aggresion got the best of him, as Superman successfully tricked him into going into an elevator, where he short-circuited the power, causing Nuclear Man to collapse and allow Superman to fly the elevator to the moon. But the sun eventually shone into the elevator room, and Superman and Nuclear Man had another battle. Nuclear Man threw, zapped, jumped on, and threw rocks at Superman until he finaly got Superman where he wanted him: hammered into the moon's surface. Nuclear Man flew to earth, and found Lacy Warfield and took het to Lex's layer, where they got into a shuttle of some kind and flew into space. Superman succesfully destroyed the shuttle but Lacy and Nuclear man flew into space. But Superman eclipsed the sun and brought Lacy back to earth while a de-powered Nuclear Man was placed into a nuclear reactor, where he overloaded the reactors.

[edit] Trivia

• Nuclear Man is listed as #1 in Wizard Magazine's "10 Villains We'd Like to Forget." The text reads: "Ya know what? Clones may just be worse than robots. Especially when they've got lame electric powers, 'evil nails' and only have their powers while exposed to sunlight."^{[citation needed]}
• There was a verry limited run of action figures of Nuclear Man

[edit] See also

• Firestorm the Nuclear Man.
• Bizarro
• Evil Superman