JONATHAN TREMONT

 

JONATHAN TREMONT

Real Name: Jonathan Tremont (legally changed, birth name unknown)

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 3) #13, February 1999 (in shadows); Avengers (Vol. 3) #15, April 1999 (in full)

Powers: The man who would eventually change his name to ‘Jonathan Tremont’ was originally a baseline human with no superhuman powers.

Growing up in a small village in the foothills of the Himalayas in rural India, there were three brothers. Each brother gained fledgling powers from exposure to energy from an extraterrestrial Trion shard that crashed in the Himalayan mountains. The eldest developed great strength, the middle became supernaturally intelligent, and the youngest (Tremont) developed a gift for oration and the ability to charm others with his words. Before they could fully develop, though, the first two brothers died of an illness which swept the village. Tremont preserved his brothers' souls by housing their spiritual energy inside him as they passed.

As an adult, he had vivid prophetic dreams about the shard hidden in the mountains, but could not locate it himself. Through Hal Chandler (who along with his brother, Chuck, was empowered by another Trion shard in the 1950s as the 3-D Man), Tremont uncovered the shard and mastered it through study and meditation, becoming a superhuman.

Exposure to the energies of the Trion shard during his childhood made him remarkably charismatic and persuasive. Tremont was a gifted orator proficient in the use of advanced technologies, which he used in concert with his superhuman powers. Gaining the shard itself during adulthood, Tremont developed the ability to absorb psionic energy from various sources (primarily from other living beings) and metabolize it to saturate his body with various superhuman powers.

Tremont manifested a number of superhuman powers in the present, not all of which were fully defined. He possessed the power of suggestion, which he could use to influence people's thoughts and actions subtly, either over a distance or in person such as when he gave his speeches for his Triune Understanding group. He manifested different aspects of telepathy, such as the ability to transfer his consciousness to the astral plane for meditation or to commune with his brothers. He could also send the minds of other people into a psychic landscape of their own devising, allowing them to literally face their own psychological problems and issues.

Tremont absorbed power from his followers, feeding off of their psychic energies and devotion to the Triunes. Absorbing too much psychic energy too quickly would harm or even kill his followers. When charged by these energies, he was capable of levitation, size alteration, energy blasts, possibly teleportation and many other feats as well. Chiefly, though, Tremont's most significant ability is the power to summon his deceased brothers, in their more fully developed identities as Pagan (left) and Lord Templar (right), whose powers he could also manifest within himself.

Pagan is a massive physical specimen, normally standing at least 9' tall. He has Class 100 strength, superhuman endurance, reaction time, and is all but impervious to any form of physical injury. Pagan is constantly revitalized by Trion energy, which can increase his size and strength even further if he wills it. He also seemed to absorb different types of energy when exposed to them, reducing the amount of punishment he endured even further.

Lord Templar's primary ability was to summon the Avatars of Templar, energy duplicates which acted as slightly different versions of himself. Among his avatars were ones that were superhumanly strong, superhumanly agile, capable of morphing their hands into sword-like blades, projected high-voltage electricity, energy-siphoning abilities, and becoming intangible. He could summon six different avatars, or six of one type, such as all Avatars of Strength. Templar himself was capable of teleportation, levitated himself constantly, and could produce repulsion energy either as beams from his hands or as a surge of energy blasting out from his body. Whether we saw all his possible avatars or if he also personally possessed all the abilities they did is unknown.

3-D MAN

 

3-D MAN

Real Name: Charles Chandler and Harold Chandler

First Appearance: Marvel Premiere (Vol. 1) #35, April 1977

Powers: The 3-D Man is a combination of two originally baseline human brothers, Charles “Chuck” and Harold “Hal” Chandler. While testing an experimental rocket in 1958, Chuck was kidnapped by a passing Skrull stealth ship. He fought his way out and ultimately crashed the ship in a field near where his brother Hal was. The ship's crash caused an explosion, causing energies from the Skrull's experimental power source (a Trion shard of extra-dimensional energy) to burst outwards and irradiate Chuck, splitting him into two identical beings: One completely green, one completely red. He crashed in a field in the Mojave Desert where Hal was, and as the two Chucks ran towards Hal, they converted into energy and ended up super-imposed on Hal's glasses, creating a very special set of red and green 3-D glasses with Chuck's twin images imprinted on them. Hal came to discover that by focusing on the images of his brother in the glasses into merging on a flat surface, he would slip into a trance-like state as he initiated a dimensional transfer, so that Chuck's energy body would be reconstructed into material form in three-dimensional reality, a blending of his red and green halves.

Calling himself the 3-D Man, he possessed three times his previous athlete levels of strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, vision, hearing, durability, recuperative powers, etc. His strength and speed were around lifting 600 lbs and running 60 mph, respectively. The glasses upon which his images were imprinted were an artificial portal to a two-dimensional reality where Chuck Chandler resided when not manifested in the three-dimensional plane. The 3-D Man’s form could only exist in the material world for three hours before he would disintegrate into his two-dimensional component images and return through the portal. By concentrating on the images on his glasses, Hal Chandler mentally initiated the dimensional transfer that brought the 3-D Man into reality, Chuck Chandler himself couldn’t initiate the process. It’s also unknown what Chuck’s subjective experience was of the two-dimensional reality where spent most of his time.

Originally, the 3-D Man was animated by Chuck Chandler's mind, but later on Hal would also operate in control of the 3-D Man as well. Whenever Chuck was active, he was fully aware of what Hal had been experiencing while Chuck was "dormant", and likewise Hal remembered whatever Chuck did as the 3-D Man. As the years passed, Hal became an old man, even though he and his wife aged more slowly thanks to long-term exposure to Trion shard’s energies. The 3-D Man was still young and vital when called upon, but the effort was more and more draining on Hal's elderly body, and so he did so quite rarely. An encounter with the Trion shard's power-source and merging with the similarly-powered Triathlon led to a significant power increase. They eventually split, with Triathlon retaining his regular power levels, Hal Chandler returning to normal, and Chuck Chandler becoming human again for the first time in over 50 years, not having aged a day.

Chuck Chandler was a talented football player and an expert pilot; Hal Chandler was an experienced scientific researcher who requires eyeglasses and crutches to walk due to being astigmatic and suffering from poliomyelitis during his childhood.

As the 3-D Man, Chuck wore a specially-designed temperature-regulating NASA flight suit that took on a red/green color scheme and bonded to his skin when he was exposed to the Trion shard’s energies. Being transformed back into human form by Triathlon also transformed the suit to its original state and allowed him to remove it.

TRIPLE-EVIL

 

TRIPLE-EVIL

Real Name: Inapplicable

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 3) #42, July 2001

Powers: Eons ago, a group of three extra-dimensional entities known as the Trion were the supreme beings of their universe, as well as its underlying substance. To protect their realm, they realized that they had to purge all evil from their being. The Trion successfully imprisoned their capacity for evil into an ebony sphere, however a tiny fragment of that sphere entered a rift in reality and entered the 616-Universe, where it drifted through space for countless millennia as a living thing of pure malevolence.

Taking the shape of an ebony pyramid, this “Triple-Evil” overwhelmed and assimilated space-faring beings, armies, planets, and even interstellar empires. The bodies of its fallen foes were reanimated as zombies for the Triple-Evil, while technology taken by the Triple-Evil were incorporated into its structure, expanding its pyramid into an immense organic machine complex. The Triple-Evil also absorbed the life energy of the many people it destroyed outright, amassing a near limitless power source.

The Triple-Evil was capable of nearly infinite feats. It could travel as fast as Quasar or the Living Lightning, fire incredibly powerful energy blasts, and repair and rebuild itself almost immediately after being damaged. It could project a hologram of a user at many times the user's size. One of its biggest abilities was its abilities to corrupt souls of others and then absorb them into itself. It bombarded resistance against it with illusions of their fondest dreams, and then corrupted them.

TRIATHLON/3-D MAN II

 

TRIATHLON/3-D MAN II

Real Name: Delroy Garrett, Jr.

First Appearance: Avengers (Vol. 3) #8, September 1998

Powers: Delroy Garrett, Jr. was a baseline human and former Olympic triathlete who originally possessed no superhuman abilities. He joined a spiritual movement called the Triune Understanding, founded by charismatic speaker Jonathan Tremont.

Tremont's abilities stemmed from one of three mystical shards created by group of three extra-dimensional and phenomenally powerful beings known as the Trion. He developed great powers, which became even stronger after he captured the aged 1950s super-hero known as the 3-D Man (brothers Chuck and Hal Chandler), using their Trion energies to boost his own. Tremont fed off of the 3-D Man's body, but couldn’t completely harness or usurp his energy. He later arranged a process that converted his body completely into the Trion energy and transferred it into Garrett. Deceived into thinking that the Triune Understanding had unlocked his innate superhuman potential, Garrett became both a Triune spokesperson and a costumed super-hero calling himself “Triathlon”.

As Triathlon, Delroy possessed three times the uppermost limits of peak human physical ability. He could lift (press) roughly 1.25 to 1.50 tons and run just over 100 mph, in addition to triple agility, endurance, reaction time, durability, vision, hearing, recuperative powers, etc. When channeling his body’s Trion energy into his eyes, they glow red (left eye) and green (right eye) and enable him to visually perceive and identify extraterrestrial shape-shifting Skrulls in his environment no matter how they disguise themselves.

In the final battle with the mystical threat known as the Triple-Evil, Triathlon absorbed all the Trion energy from Tremont and his brothers, and from the alien hero whose corpse and first shard were entombed in the Evil's dark pyramid. This caused Delroy and the essences of the 3-D Man to become a new Triad, possessing vast amounts of mystical power. Working in tandem as a three-fold being, they defeated the Triple-Evil and took control over its pyramid. The full range of their combined power was not revealed, especially since much of what they did could have been accomplished solely by manipulating the pyramid's powers.

Triathlon and the Chandlers existed in this state as three constantly energized and floating beings, were presumably capable of surviving in the vacuum of space, and could project, absorb, and manipulating energy in a variety of ways. They eventually split apart, with Triathlon maintaining his regular power levels and transforming the Chandlers back to their human forms. Later, Delroy took the name and mantle of the 3-D Man, and began wearing Chuck's flight visor from his old costume. This visor was originally a focus for Delroy’s ability to detect Skrulls.

Delroy Garrett, Jr. had training in the Fifty-State Initiative, granting him leadership abilities, first aid, late-saving techniques, unarmed combat, battle strategy, aquatics, marksmanship, and other skills. A talented motorcyclist, a capable pilot of Avengers supersonic Quinjets, and a skilled wielded of conventional firearms, he’s also taken acting lessons to aid in undercover work. He was also a talented and veteran track-&-field athlete who won three Olympic gold medals prior to being stripped of them for steroid usage.