Bolt (DC Comics)
Bolt is the name of several unrelated characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Although the characters vary in being both superheroes and supervillains, some versions of the characters are related to one another. Publication historyBolt first appeared in Blue Devil #6 (November 1984) and was created by Gary Cohn, Dan Mishkin, Paris Cullins, and Ernie Colón.[1] Fictional characters biographiesLawrence Boltiansky Larry Boltiansky is a special effects artist and assassin.[2] He designed a special suit that gives him the power to teleport and project energy blasts. Now calling himself Bolt, he has faced the superheroes Blue Devil, Captain Atom,[3] and Starman (Will Payton).[4] Bolt appears in Suicide Squad #63–66 (1992) as part of a more villainous version of the Squad supporting a dictatorship in the island of Diabloverde. Amanda Waller and the Squad take out him and his colleagues while attempting to remove the dictator. He joins a sub-group of assassins that call themselves the Killer Elite. One of their many battles puts them up against the merc team called the Body Doubles. Bolt is hospitalized in an off-panel battle.[5] He joins the third incarnation of the Suicide Squad and is killed by mutant ants on his first mission.[6] Bolt later turns up alive again in the pages of Identity Crisis #1 and is badly injured by two street kids, suffering a punctured lung and two punctured kidneys.[1] He has since joined the Society.[7] Bolt is a member of Luthor, Joker and Cheetah's Injustice League Unlimited and is one of the villains featured in Salvation Run. He is one of the villains sent to retrieve the Get Out of Hell free card from the Secret Six. Bolt is killed by his son Dreadbolt, who uses his own suit's teleporting ability to send him into a brick wall.[8] During the Blackest Night event, Bolt is temporarily resurrected as a member of the Black Lantern Corps.[9] Bolt returns following the "Infinite Frontier" relaunch, where he appears as a member of the Suicide Squad under Peacemaker. He is killed by an unstable Talon of the Court of Owls the team was meant to rescue.[10] Terry BoltianskyBolt's son Terry Boltiansky appears in Teen Titans #55.[11] He initially attempts to befriend Blue Devil's former sidekick, Kid Devil, before revealing he is following in his father's footsteps as Dreadbolt.[12] He tries to persuade Kid Devil to join his team, the Terror Titans, but when Kid Devil refuses, he joins the rest of the Terror Titans in defeating him. Later, at the request of the new Clock King, he is sent to help defeat Ravager, who already took out Persuader and Copperhead. He threatens to kill Wendy and Marvin, but Ravager calls his bluff and defeats him alone. He regroups with his teammates and attempts to take her down again, but is apparently killed in the ensuing explosion caused by Ravager breaking a gas pipe. He is later revealed to have used the teleportation system in his suit to get himself and his teammates to safety. In the Terror Titans miniseries, Dreadbolt is tasked by Clock King to kill his father, thereby proving himself worthy to lead his fellow Terror Titans.[13] Clock King then renames him Bolt when he finally does.[8] Disruptor, having lost favor from Clock King to Ravager, tried to manipulate Terry into killing her, but Terry is not fooled.[14] When Clock King sets in motion his plan to destroy Los Angeles with an army of brainwashed metahumans, Ravager sets out to stop him. Bolt and the Terror Titans battled her, only to be outmaneuvered. Miss Martian, who had posed as one of the metahumans, freed the others from their brainwashing, and they came after the Terror Titans. Retreating to Clock King's lair for help, Bolt and the others are aghast to see Clock King kill Disruptor for her failure, and leave them at the mercy of the oncoming metahumans. Bolt offers to hold them off while his teammates get away, but they insist on fighting together and are subdued, with Dreadbolt being defeated by Static. Two weeks later, Bolt and the remaining Terror Titans escape from custody, planning revenge on Clock King.[15] AlintaAlinta is a metahuman speedster similar to the Flash who lost their legs to pay off her parents' debts. With specialized prosthetic running blades and a connection to the Speed Force, Alinta becomes a student at the Teen Titans Academy. Alinta was introduced in the Future State event and incorporated into the main continuity shortly afterward in Infinite Frontier.[16][17] Malik White Malik Adam White (sometimes referred to as Malik-Adam) is an African-American man and a descendant of the antihero Black Adam. Throughout his appearances, Malik adopts two different codenames, initially known as White Adam and later settling on Bolt. In the eponymous Black Adam series, Malik is introduced as a medical student and aspiring surgeon who sometimes works as a doctor illegally and is flunking medical school. When Adam contracts a dangerous disease, he seeks out his descendant to grant him his powers and pass on a legacy in an attempt for atone for his crimes, making Malik his heir and successor.[18] Malik resolves to understand the plague infecting Adam, but ends up catching it himself, later learning that he and Adam are allergic to Nth Metal and suffering from metal toxicity.[19] Malik also navigates his normal life possessing superhuman powers and works alongside Adam in battling the Akkad pantheon resurrected through alien bacteria assuming their forms, Ibac, and the Oni Grace, who has connections with the old Circle of Crow and seeks to usurp Teth's rulership. Malik assists Mary Marvel in the Lazarus Planet event, with the pair learning of Shazam's dilemma with the Rock of Eternity becoming one with him and resolving the problem.[20] Powers and abilitiesLarry and Terry BoltianskyLarry Boltiansky is a skilled electrical engineer and thief. Thanks to a special suit that he designed, Bolt can teleport or fly short distances instantaneously. The suit contains an energy blaster, which can also be used as a weapon.[21] Terry's suit has all of the same abilities. Malik WhiteKnowledgeable in medicine to act as an unlicensed physician prior to his empowerment, Malik possess the same powers as Black Adam in which he derives his power from, which includes:[22]
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