I don't hate a lot of people Bruce. But I hate this guy. 
Donovan Lumos, aka the Holographic Man, was the CEO of Lumos Industries, formerly known as Wayne-Powers.
History
Neo-Year
On New Year's Eve, the same night Bruce Wayne was murdered, the Living Gotham blew up the top floor of the Wayne-Powers building and killed the interim CEO Felipe Ehrenreit.[1] The Wayne-Powers board of directors selected Lumos, a former crime lord from Bludhaven, as the new CEO.
Lumos posed as a cool celebrity tech entrepreneur, but in fact was the same criminal he had always been, using his position in Wayne-Powers to run criminal operations within Neo-Gotham, such as drug trafficking.[2] He also began privately funding the GCPD to gain greater control over the city.[3]
Lumos shifted Wayne-Power's corporate strategy towards his own wearable hard light technology, which quickly became ubiquitous around the city. He planned to link all Wayne-Powers hard light tech around the city into a single hub, which would be unveiled at midnight on New Year's Eve. The Living Gotham would use that technology to take direct control of every civilian in Neo-Gotham, eliminating free will in the name of efficiency. Batman and his allies assumed that Lumos was acting on behalf of the Living Gotham, but he was in fact merely an unwitting pawn who the Living Gotham had installed in his place of power because it knew that is exactly what he would do.
Batman attacked the gala where Lumos was preparing to launch the hub. Batman cornered Lumos as he attempted to flee and, realising he truly did not know about the Living Gotham, told him that a malevolent AI was attempting to take over the city. Batman asked for Lumos' help, even unmasking to reveal that he was Bruce Wayne's old assistant Terry McGinnis to establish trust. However, Lumos believed that the Living Gotham could bring him into the future he had always dreamed of and opened his personal hard-light tech to the Living Gotham, choosing to embrace it.
However, his excitement quickly turned to horror when the Living Gotham took control of his mind and transformed him into its avatar. The Living Gotham used Lumos' body to attack Batman forced him to attack Batman, but he was blasted by the Jokerz and Batman's ally Gestalt was able to break the Living Gotham's control over him. Lumos took revenge on the Living Gotham by personally flushing it from every system in Gotham, taking away its ability to influence the real world and making a fortune in the process.[4]
Neo-Gothic
When children began disappearing from the poorest and oldest neighbourhoods in Neo-Gotham, Lumos blamed the disappearances on old, unsafe buildings and began buying up entire city blacks. He demolished the communities that were already there and replaced them with hard light housing developments, building the beginnings of his "city of light" on the ruins of people's homes.[5] Lumos purchased all of historic Gotham to demolish and replace it, but mere minutes from the moment the bombs were set to detonate, he found himself somehow unsatisfied and filled with ennui. To cheer himself up, he called Beam Boonma, a former cop, ally of Batman and activist who had opposed his plans. He told her that, although he understood her not wanting the city to change, he took no pleasure in destruction and what he was going to build would be beautiful. However, when the demolitions went off, rather than the controlled blasts he had planned, they set off a massive explosion that opened a gaping hole in the ground and trigerred an earthquake. Monsters from the Gotham Deep rose up from the crevice and attacked the city.[6] In the chaos, Lumos abandoned all his wealth, power and possessions and fled in terror into the Gotham Deep.[7]
Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Hard Light Technology:
Notes
- Lumos' futurism and grandiose ambitions, paired with venal greed and ostentatious public image, are reminiscent of many prominent Silicon Valley figures, particularly Elon Musk, who claim ostensibly noble goals of changing the world despite only caring about their own money, power and inflated egos.
Related
- 10 Appearances of Donovan Lumos (Futures End)
- 4 Images featuring Donovan Lumos (Futures End)
- Quotations by or about Donovan Lumos (Futures End)
- Character Gallery: Donovan Lumos (Futures End)
Footnotes
  This character is or was primarily an enemy of Batman Beyond. This template will categorize articles that include it into the category "Batman Beyond Villains." |