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Power Man and other teen superheroes on the cover of Fear Itself: The Home Front #6. Art by Marko Djurdjević. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Shadowland: Power Man #1 (October 2010) |
| Created by | Fred Van Lente (writer) Mahmud Asrar (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Victor Hernan Alvarez |
| Species | Human (empowered) |
| Team affiliations | Avengers Academy |
| Partnerships | Iron Fist |
Victor Alvarez is a fictional comic book superhero published by Marvel Comics. He is the third person to use the Power Man alias after Erik Josten and Luke Cage.
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The character first appeared in Shadowland: Power Man #1, part of Marvel's 2010 "Shadowland" crossover and was created by Fred Van Lente and Mahmud Asrar.[1][2] The character subsequently appeared in a spin-off mini-series, Power Man and Iron Fist, the following year.[3][4][5] Power Man would then appear in "The Chosen", a story in the anthology comic Fear Itself: The Home Front.[6]
Victor Alvarez was first introduced as a Afro-Dominican teenager from the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City. As a child, he was caught in an explosion caused by the villain Bullseye that resulted in the deaths of over 100 people. Victor survived by somehow using a technique that drew the chi from the dead bodies around him and temporarily granted him superhuman strength and durability.[7]
Some time later, Victor took on the name Power Man and began using his abilities to fight crime as a hero for hire, advertising his services on sites like Craigslist. Victor's activities eventually drew the attention of Luke Cage, a member of the Avengers who had once used the Power Man name. Cage and his partner Iron Fist eventually learn that Victor is the son of Shades, a Dominican supervillain that Cage had fought years earlier. Though Victor dislikes both Cage and Iron Fist, he eventually teams up with them to help the other heroes fight the crazed Matt Murdock and his army of Hand ninjas.[8][9]
During the Fear Itself storyline, Power Man ends up teleported onto a station in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with Amadeus Cho, Spider-Girl, Thunderstrike, and X-23. They end up fighting a bunch of samurai Shark Men.[10] Power Man is part of the new class of students when the Avengers Academy moves to the former headquarters of the West Coast Avengers.[11]
As a result of the traumatic explosion during his childhood, Power Man possesses the ability to draw chi energy from those around him and make him stronger and more durable than an average human. When utilizing this power, Victor's skin color changes to a glowing red. The technique is similar to the one that gives Iron Fist his abilities, something the hero commented on during his first encounter with Victor.[12] Victor Alvarez wears a yellow and black body suit with metal embellishments, similar to the look of Luke Cage, the first Power Man.[13]
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