Gerard Shugel (New Earth)

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 * Image                  = jla_vol01_196_small.jpg
 * RealName               = Unknown
 * CurrentAlias           = Ultra-Humanite
 * Aliases                = Many as he has transferred into many different human hosts, his most noted is the body of Dolores Winters
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Affiliation            = Secret Society of Super-Villains
 * Relatives              = None (in current body)
 * Universe               = New Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Earth


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 7'0''
 * Weight                 = 600 lbs (approximately)
 * Eyes                   = Red
 * Hair                   = White
 * UnusualFeatures        = Highly enlarged and vein-covered cranium on an albino gorilla which has been genetically designed to walk upright


 * Citizenship2           = None (in gorilla body), American (in most human bodies)
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Scientist
 * Education              = Unknown


 * Origin                 =

The scientist who would become known as the Ultra-Humanite developed super human intellect and awareness though was born with a crippled body. Though extremely intelligent, he decided to use his abilities for his own personal greed and runs afoul of the emerging superhero Superman.


 * PlaceOfBirth           =
 * Creators               = Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
 * First                  = Action Comics #13 (1939)


 * HistoryText                   =

The Ultra-Humanite, like Alexei Luthor, clashed with The Earth-Two Superman on many occasions in the course of his early criminal career.

Unfortunately, while his mind's energies continued to develop and expand, even developing low level mind energy techniques such as telepathy, his physical brain interface never advanced. Unable to contain the mental energies, his body began slowly burning out. Unable to halt the degradation, the Ultra-Humanite developed a surgical process that allowed him to transfer his original brain into a new body while he sought out a technique to stabilize his ever increasing mind.

It is in the body of actress Dolores Winters that the Ultra-Humanite commits many of his early crimes. The Ultra-Humanite selected Dolores Winters' body as most male police would not suspect a woman, let alone a recognized public figure, to be an active criminal mastermind. The Ultra-Humanite continues to use Winters' body as his base until he is forced to seek out the next victim to house his super-powered brain.

After a period of time, he began to adjust to the idea of having to kill others in order to continue his existence. However, his human body's endurance time became less and less as his mind-energy generation continued to advance, burning out the bodies in ever faster speeds. Tiring of having to change over to new bodies in an almost ever decreasing time,, the Ultra-Humanite re-develops an albino white gorilla originally from Gorilla City to be able to house his super-brain and abilities reliably and transfers his consciousness into it as his new permanent body.

In this body, the Ultra-humanite is able to use his mind powers to ever increasing effects than any of his previous human hosts in a stable form. He remained in this form until the destruction wrought by the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Post-Crisis


Recreated on the New Earth, the body of the albino ape fails and dies in the "Stealing Thunder" JSA adventure, forcing the Ultra-Humanite to return to changing ever failing human bodies in order to continue his existence, before trying to steal the 5th dimensional imp, Thunderbolt, as his host form. Thunder and the other JSA members defeat the Ultra-Humanite in which his brain is finally destroyed.

One Year Later
The events of the Ultra-Humanite's original transference was changed to now having been forced by terminal cancer of Dolores Winters where Per Degaton and Despero travelled back in time to make him an offer - either die "tomorrow at 1:57 a.m. It'll be a massive brain hemorrhage brought on by the tumor ... [or] ... take a little trip with us." The Ultra-Humanite, in the dying body of Winters, was brought forward in time to Metropolis, thus skipping over all of the intervening murders of his original body-hopping. The Ultra-Humanite's brain was transplanted into the body of the (now adult) albino gorilla. .

In the current reality, it is revealed that the super developed white ape body did not fail as shown earlier. The Ultra-Humanite continues on it, using his super-mental abilities to formulate strategies and programs to fulfill his ambitions of world domination as well as his own personal mind abilities.


 * Powers                 = Many mental powers, though usually low levels such as direct line of sight telepathy
 * Abilities              = Many mental and cognitive abilities
 * Strength               = Beyond the levels of a normally full grown male gorilla
 * Weaknesses             = Originally his brain and mind overpowered his human bodies tolerances.  The genetically changed gorilla body eliminated this condition


 * Equipment              = Various
 * Transportation         = Various
 * Weapons                = Various


 * Notes                  =
 * One of the first recurring comic book super-villains.


 * Trivia                 =
 * In the Max Fletcher Superman cartoon "the Mad Scientist" the scientist is based on Nicholas Tesla's face and the Ultra-Humanite's original drawn pattern, minus the inability to walk.

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 * Links                  =
 * Ultra-Humanite entry at The Golden Age Super-Villain Fact File
 * Ultra-Humanite at Wikipedia
 * Ultra-Humanite at Supermanica