Depth Charge (Prime Earth)

Depth Charge
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 2011‎-present
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Real Name	Depth Charge
Affiliation	Formerly Task Force VII, Bureau of Sovereignty
Base Of Operations	Hall of Order, Washington, D.C.
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Race	Robot
Characteristics
Gender	Genderless
Eyes	Photocellular
Hair	No Hair
Origin
Universe	Prime Earth
Creators	Mark Waid · Jorge Jiménez · Dan Mora
First Appearance	Batman Vol 3 #147 (July, 2024)
Appearance of Death	Absolute Power #4 (December, 2024)

Depth Charge is an Amazo android created by Failsafe and used by the Bureau of Sovereignty to steal Aquaman's powers.

History

Failsafe created Depth Charge and the other members of Task Force VII to store the consciousnesses of the Batmen of Zur-En-Arrh of the Multiverse. Failsafe was foiled by the Batman Family and destroyed beyond repair before the Amazos could be activated. However, the Bureau of Sovereignty raided Failsafe's base in Blackgate Penitentiary and seized all the robotic shells. When their scientists could not repair them, Amanda Waller forced the captured Time Commander to reverse their timelines and restore them. The androids were each implanted with a duplicate of the Time Commander's Hourglass, which caused their personal timelines to automatically reverse and rapidly "heal" them from any damage. This made them effectively invincible and immune to any weaknesses of the heroes they drained.

When other captured weapons such as the Justice Buster suit proved inadequate to the task of capturing superheroes; Waller ordered Task Force VII, into the field. The Bureau of Sovereignty flooded the media with A.I. generated footage of superheroes seemingly rampaging and slaughtering civilians, creating a nationwide wave of anti-metahuman hatred and several violent attacks on superheroes by angry mobs. To counter the narrative the superheroes went out in force to rescue people, gathering into groups for protection; however, this was just what Waller had intended. Depth Charge ambushed Aquaman and the other heroes on the coast of Maine, stole their powers and captured Aquaman.

Depth Charge's mission, in addition to arresting Aquaman, was to convince Atlantis to ally with the Bureau. Waller, seemingly buying into her own propaganda, believed that Aquaman and his fellow Atlantean superheroes were responsible for all conflicts between Atlantis and the surface; and that the people would be eager to be free of him and follow her instead. Depth Charge however had a much more realistic assessment of the situation on the ground. To ensure compliance, he summoned an army of sharks with Aquaman and Beast Girl's powers, and grew to a giant size using Elasti-Woman's metamorphic abilities.

Depth Charge entered Atlantis with his sharks and Aquaman in a force cage. He announced that he was on a mission of peace and ordered the Atlanteans to stand down. Jackson Hyde and the Atlantean Royal Guard opposed him, but when he stole Jackson's powers too Aquaman ordered the soldiers to stand down and they immediately did so. Depth Charge, who was being affected by the minds of the sharks he was connected to, was enraged by this, delcaring that he was in charge and everyone should acknowledge his dominance. He threw Aquaman's cage at a building and the army charged him. Depth Charge flew into a frenzy and brutally crushed the Guard, destroying a significant portion of the city in the process. By the time he calmed down, Aquaman was long gone and he reported what had happened to Waller.

Waller and Failsafe noticed that Task Force VII were operating at slightly less than peak efficiency, and so Failsafe ran a remote diagnostic on all of them. He realised that they had absorbed some of the heroes' personalities and rebooted them to restore their baseline programming. Waller recalled all her force, including Task Force VII, to Gamorra Island to repel a full assault from the depowered heroes.

The androids formed the second line of defence after the Bureau agents. The heroes used a device built by Time Commander and Green Arrow to deactivate their "chrono-healing" ability and reverse their timelines to just before they stole all metahuman powers. The stolen powers generally returned to their original owners, although in some cases people swapped powers, or powers were granted to random people around the world. Without their powers or ability to regenerate, Task Force VII were quickly destroyed by the heroes.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Android Body
  • Chrono-Healing: Each member of Task Force VII is fitted with a duplicate of Time Commander's Hourglass. This causes their timeline to automatically reverse and repair them if they suffer any damage, making them effectively invincible.
  • Power Absorption: Depth Charge stole powers from Aquaman, Jackson Hyde, Tempest and the Doom Patrol.
    • Amphibian
    • Electro-Blast
    • Instinct Control
    • Marine Telepathy
    • Radiation Production: Depth Charge can fire blasts of Negative Energy.
    • Size Alteration
    • Superhuman Durability
    • Superhuman Strength

Abilities

• Swimming

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Footnotes

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