8-BALL
Real Name: Jeffrey Hagees
First Appearance: Sleepwalker (Vol. 1) #2, July 1991
Powers: Jeff Hagees was a designer of mission propulsion systems for a defense contractor. A compulsive gambler, he was fired by his employers who feared he'd sell defense secrets to pay his gambling debts. Furious, he created the costumed criminal identity of 8-Ball, basing his custom pool cue on his propulsion system work.
His pool cue worked as a force-amplification delivery system. By striking a target with the cue, the target would receive hundreds or even thousands of times greater directional force than the average strike of a pool cue would generate. With his own talent for billiards and angular geometry, 8-Ball could then launch objects as projectiles towards his true target to cause massive damage. The strike itself seemed to transfer force, not apply it: Striking a person with the pool cue would not hurt them with 100x greater force than normal, it would amplify the force they were experiencing from the strike, causing them to move with greater force and velocity, but without experiencing the impact that would normally be necessary to transfer that amount of force into their bodies. Whatever the pool cue launched them into would be a crushing impact, but getting hit by the pool cue itself would not. His costume was a billiards motif consisting of a bulletproof helmet and a variety of pool balls for throwing, some designed to act as grenades. He traveled aboard a hover rack in the form of a giant pool ball.
His pool cue worked as a force-amplification delivery system. By striking a target with the cue, the target would receive hundreds or even thousands of times greater directional force than the average strike of a pool cue would generate. With his own talent for billiards and angular geometry, 8-Ball could then launch objects as projectiles towards his true target to cause massive damage. The strike itself seemed to transfer force, not apply it: Striking a person with the pool cue would not hurt them with 100x greater force than normal, it would amplify the force they were experiencing from the strike, causing them to move with greater force and velocity, but without experiencing the impact that would normally be necessary to transfer that amount of force into their bodies. Whatever the pool cue launched them into would be a crushing impact, but getting hit by the pool cue itself would not. His costume was a billiards motif consisting of a bulletproof helmet and a variety of pool balls for throwing, some designed to act as grenades. He traveled aboard a hover rack in the form of a giant pool ball.
Jeffrey Hagees holds a masters degree in engineering. A gifted intellect and inventor, he is a skilled gymnast, an expert pool player, and an experienced designer of missile propulsion system.
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