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!!Candace Brashear
!!!'''Real Name:''' Marlene Frazier
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Neohedron
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* DoesNotLikeMagic: Implied in when he appears in [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doctor Doom's solo maxiseries]].
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-->'''Adam:''' I don't think you understand me, Reed. I wasn't spouting some airy platitude to make you feel better just now. I was telling you, to your face, that this is ''your fault''.
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Marlene Frazier was originally a government agent assigned to spy on Dr. Brashear. Eventually she fell in love with him and they married. She changed her name to Candace Brashear, and they had three children.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Assigned to spy on Adam, but ended up falling in love with him instead.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Chronologically she was in her late 70s or early 80s. However, being in close proximity to Adam slowed her aging to the point where she didn't look a day over 40.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Assigned to spy on Adam, but ended up falling in love with him instead.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Chronologically she was in her late 70s or early 80s. However, being in close proximity to Adam slowed her aging to the point where she didn't look a day over 40.
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The second son of Adam and Candace Brashear, Max and his father had a falling out after Max's older brother Kevin became trapped in the Negative Zone. Max would subsequently oppose his father as '''Doctor Positron'''. Eventually, Max reformed and reconciled with his father.
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->''"Whatever transpires, I will remain true to my charge, and observe all that occurs."''
An ancient, long-lived extraterrestrial who is tasked with observing the Earth and its solar system, though he is also barred from interfering in human history. Uatu first meets Adam after the latter meditates on the Earth's moon after being forcibly retired by the United States government. An unlikely friendship forms between the two of them.
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->''"Whatever transpires, I will remain true to my charge, and observe all that occurs."''
An ancient, long-lived extraterrestrial who is tasked with observing the Earth and its solar system, though he is also barred from interfering in human history. Uatu first meets Adam after the latter meditates on the Earth's moon after being forcibly retired by the United States government. An unlikely friendship forms between the two of them.
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->''"A pity your blindness cannot see the gift I'm about to bring to mankind-- a oneness not seen since man walked in the garden of paradise!"''
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!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Galan of Taa
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Ashta, Destroyer of Worlds, Deathbringer, Lifebringer
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Fantastic Four'' #48 (March 1966)
->''"Of all the creatures in the vastness of the universe, there is none like me. I was present at the birth of the Universe, and I shall be there at its end. Though I ravage worlds to live, I bear no malice toward any living thing. I simply do what I must to survive."''
One of the most powerful beings in existence, Galactus is a gigantic cosmic entity that consumes planets to preserve his life force. He has threatened Earth numerous times, with his first visit to the planet coinciding with the final battle between Blue Marvel and Dr. Skorpion. Galactus and the Blue Marvel first came into conflict when Adam joined the Ultimates.
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!!!'''First Appearance:'' ''Mighty Avengers'' vol. 2 #9
A nihilistic mad scientist, and Adam's foremost enemy. Their final encounter would end with Evald managing to strike a very personal blow against Adam.
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* BaldOfEvil: A bald, nihilistic and evil mad scientist.
* CameBackWrong: In the opening of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'', The Maker reconstitutes what was left of Evald's body in the form of a gorilla / scorpion hybrid with an elongated gemstone for a head called "Neohedron".
* CaptainErsatz: If Adam is Superman, Evald would be his Lex Luthor.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dead by the modern day, having died the day Galactus first came to Earth. His legacy continues on in the terrorist organization W.E.S.P.E.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Adam's foremost enemy, but not mentioned in Adam's introductory series.
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* CameBackWrong: Kevin Brashear was sucked into an alternate dimension in the late 1990s, and by the time his little brother Max figured out how to reach him, Kevin had adapted to the point where he can no longer survive on Earth. In fact, if he spends any longer than a few seconds on Earth, it'll cause a cataclysmic explosion due to his body now being comprised largely of anti-matter.
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* ComboPlatterPowers:
** One of a handful of Superman-level superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Adam can fly at high speeds, survive in hard vacuum, is a super-scientist, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, doesn't need to sleep, can project destructive blasts, and has limited control of anti-matter particles.
** His arch-enemy, Connor "Anti-Man" Sims, was capable of wiping the floor with one of the most powerful squads of Avengers ever formed.
** One of a handful of Superman-level superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Adam can fly at high speeds, survive in hard vacuum, is a super-scientist, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, doesn't need to sleep, can project destructive blasts, and has limited control of anti-matter particles.
** His arch-enemy, Connor "Anti-Man" Sims, was capable of wiping the floor with one of the most powerful squads of Avengers ever formed.
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**ComboPlatterPowers: One of a handful of Superman-level superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Adam can fly at high speeds, survive in hard vacuum, is a super-scientist, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, doesn't need to sleep, can project destructive blasts, and has limited control of anti-matter particles.
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** Adam's oldest son Kevin was introduced by Al Ewing in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' and isn't mentioned at all in the original ''Adam'' miniseries.
* CameBackWrong: Kevin Brashear was sucked into an alternate dimension in the late 1990s, and by the time his little brother Max figured out how to reach him, Kevin had adapted to the point where he can no longer survive on Earth. In fact, if he spends any longer than a few seconds on Earth, it'll cause a cataclysmic explosion due to his body now being comprised largely of anti-matter. Later on, though, he turns out to have adjusted amazingly well.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: During ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'', he drags the Quantrell-Beyonder off for a talk. This is a being that had just shrugged off Monica and Adam's spirited attempts to pound him.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Kevin was introduced by Al Ewing in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' and isn't mentioned at all in the original ''Adam'' miniseries.
* ShoutOut: His evolved form looks ''amazingly'' like Doctor Manhattan. The difference is Kevin's nowhere near as apathetic as Dr. Osterman.
* WhatTheHellHero: During Adam and Connor Sim's reunion in ''Ultimates'', Adam is ready to kill him until Kevin shows up to scold Adam into sparing him.
* AllForNothing: He turned to mad science because he blamed his dad for Kevin's fate, but by the time he's able to do it, it turns out he can't come back to Earth ever.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Part of his outfit as Doctor Positron.
* ReformedButNotTamed: During his time with A.I.M. under Roberto da Costa's leadership. Max is still a science nut, he's just not evil.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She and the rest of the staff at Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. decided to tinker with some Iso-8. The Shi'ar get wind of this, and through them Thanos gets wind of it, resulting in the events that kick off ''Civil War II''. And it could've been so much worse, as ''U.S. Avengers'' reveals in another timeline, Thanos used that Iso-8 to slaughter pretty much every hero in America.
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* {{Retcon}}: Initially, his motivation was simple insanity. ''Ultimates'' changes it so that his powers made him see outside reality, and the First Firmament set him up by messing with everyone's perceptions.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The two were army buddies. Connor got his powers dragging Adam out of the same exploding device that gave Adam his powers, but then he went insane. Accidentally killing Candace in their last fight turned Adam against him completely.
* {{Retcon}}: Initially, his motivation was simple insanity. ''Ultimates'' changes it so that his powers made him see outside reality, and the First Firmament set him up by messing with everyone's perceptions.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: The two were army buddies. Connor got his powers dragging Adam out of the same exploding device that gave Adam his powers, but then he went insane. Accidentally killing Candace in their last fight turned Adam against him completely.
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* WithGreatPowersComesGreatInsanity: He has the same powerset as Adam with the added ability of cosmic perception that gave him disturbing but inconsistent visions. Adam attempted to stabilize them by building his helmet, but this also amplified them into a form of clairvoyant cosmic awareness that made his behavior even more worse because he was reacting to crises that haven't happened yet.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Adam's theory that proximity to him slowed his wife's aging is a Watsonian explanation for how ComicBookTime keeps a character's supporting cast around the same age as them, even if it's regularly established that they'll be outlived.
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Agent 314
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel'' #2 (February, 2009)
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Agent 314
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel'' #2 (February, 2009)
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Doc Brashear Jr.
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Mighty Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #9 (April, 2014)
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Doc Brashear Jr.
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Mighty Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #9 (April, 2014)
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!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Dr. Max Brashear
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Doctor Positron, Iron Fist
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Mighty Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #8 (March, 2014)
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!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Dr. Max Brashear
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Doctor Positron, Iron Fist
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Mighty Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #8 (March, 2014)
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Ultimates'' (Vol. 3) #7 (May, 2016)
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Ultimates'' (Vol. 3) #7 (May, 2016)
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!!Anti-Man
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!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Conner Simms
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel'' #1 (November, 2008)
Arch-nemesis and best friend of Adam Brashear, also known as the Blue Marvel. His power is unstable so he can only exist in our world for brief periods of time. Anti-Man was made into Galactus first Herald of Life.
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel'' #1 (November, 2008)
Arch-nemesis and best friend of Adam Brashear, also known as the Blue Marvel. His power is unstable so he can only exist in our world for brief periods of time. Anti-Man was made into Galactus first Herald of Life.
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* BecomingTheMask: Adam's wife Candace was born as Marlene Frazier, a government agent tasked with keeping an eye on Adam in the years after he went underground. Candace wasn't expecting to fall in love with Adam, and eventually committed entirely to her new identity, claiming to her husband and children that she was an orphan. Adam didn't find out about her birth identity or her government ties until their children were in college, when Tony Stark uncovered her secret.
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legends of the Blue Marvel'' #1 (January 2009)
Adam is a veteran of the Korean War who gained tremendous power from an experiment with anti-matter gone wrong. For several years after the war, he protected America as the masked superhero known as the Blue Marvel, until his helmet was damaged during a battle and the country found out he was black. Wary of inflaming racial tensions, the President asked Adam to quietly retire, and he agreed to do so.
Adam stayed underground until the [[ComicBookTime modern day]], sharing several secret adventures with his eldest son Kevin and not bothering to use a superhero identity at all. Kevin was eventually sucked into an alternate plane of existence that Adam called the Neutral Zone; Adam and his second son, Max, spent many years trying to figure out how to reach and save Kevin to no avail.
During Tony Stark's tenure as the director of SHIELD, Adam's arch-enemy Anti-Man resurfaced. In an attempt to figure out where he'd come from, Tony declassified the story of the Blue Marvel and got back in touch with Adam, who had retired to teach physics at the University of Maryland. In the ensuing struggle, Adam's wife Candace was killed and Adam, in accordance with her wishes, resumed his activities as the Blue Marvel, albeit without a mask or a secret identity to speak of.
Adam continued to operate out of an underwater base near the Marianas Trench, working mostly outside the United States and continuing his personal research. During the ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'' crossover, he helped to protect New York alongside Luke Cage's hastily-formed Avengers team, and despite some friction with Luke, continued to work alongside him until the events of ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''.
In the modern Marvel Universe, Adam is a member of the ComicBook/{{The Ultimates|2015}}, working proactively to keep the world and universe safe. His son Max, a.k.a. Doctor Positron, worked at Roberto da Costa's [[ComicBook/NewAvengers "Avengers Idea Mechanics"]], and his daughter Adrienne has a position at the super-science laboratory Project Pegasus.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The opening scene of an issue of ''Ultimates'' has him being amazingly embarrassing to his son, Kevin, when they're in the middle of an adventure, as Adam tries to use 90s slang.
* AntagonisticOffspring: His second son, Max, is pissed at him, blaming him for what happened to his brother. They do eventually reconcile.
* {{Antimatter}}: His powers were the result of an accident when he was working on a negative reactor which would harness anti-matter by creating a bridge between the negative zone and the positive matter universe.
* ArchEnemy: Doctor Evald Skorpion, a nihilistic MadScientist. Their last encounter ended with a portal Evald had created sucking Adam's son into the Neutral Zone, while it vaporised Evald. His legacy was continued in the form of the terrorist organisation W.E.S.P.E. (in a further note of irony, Adam's son Max worked with them trying to recover Kevin).
* BadassTeacher: A nominally-retired superhero and a college professor.
* BecomingTheMask: Adam's wife Candace was born as Marlene Frazier, a government agent tasked with keeping an eye on Adam in the years after he went underground. Candace wasn't expecting to fall in love with Adam, and eventually committed entirely to her new identity, claiming to her husband and children that she was an orphan. Adam didn't find out about her birth identity or her government ties until their children were in college, when Tony Stark uncovered her secret.
* BlueIsHeroic: As his name implies, all of his costumes are blue.
* CameBackWrong: Kevin Brashear was sucked into an alternate dimension in the late 1990s, and by the time his little brother Max figured out how to reach him, Kevin had adapted to the point where he can no longer survive on Earth. In fact, if he spends any longer than a few seconds on Earth, it'll cause a cataclysmic explosion due to his body now being comprised largely of anti-matter.
* TheCape: Despite his issues and poor luck, he's likely one of the most moral heroes in the Marvel Universe... something that often puts him [[WhiteAndGreyMorality at odds with the others.]]
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** One of a handful of Superman-level superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Adam can fly at high speeds, survive in hard vacuum, is a super-scientist, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, doesn't need to sleep, can project destructive blasts, and has limited control of anti-matter particles.
** His arch-enemy, Connor "Anti-Man" Sims, was capable of wiping the floor with one of the most powerful squads of Avengers ever formed.
* CoolOldGuy: Though he looks like he's in his late 40's, he's actually around his mid to late 80's.
* CurbStompBattle: He took out Ultimate Hulk (who, in the interest of accuracy, we should note is not quite as strong as regular Hulk) with one punch.
* FormulaWithATwist: As per WordOfGod, this character was created based on the question: "What if Superman had been a Black guy?"
* HappilyMarried: Until shortly before her death, Adam and Candace were happily married for several decades.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''Mighty Avengers'', it's made clear that, being a Superman {{Expy}}, he's busy a lot of the time. When investigating Doctor Positron's secret lair, he just remarks it's the third secret volcano lair he's dealt with ''that week''. Infact, Adam has had a long life full of strange adventures, including among other things fighting the sentient Y2K virus.
* KryptoniteFactor: Neutronium, also known by some as Iso-8, an unstable element from outside conventional reality, is one of the few things that can actually hurt him.
* LamarckWasRight: Averted. Adam has three children with Candace/Marlene: Kevin, Max, and Adrienne. While all three of his kids are extremely intelligent, and Max is a straight-up MadScientist, none of them inherited any of Adam's powers. Adam does theorize at one point that proximity to him may have slowed down his family members' aging process, as Candace/Marlene was just as slow to age as he was.
** That said, ''New Avengers'' shows a potential grandkid of his as inheriting his powers, becoming a legacy version of Ms. Marvel.
* MayDecemberRomance: During ''Ultimates'', he and Monica Rambeau start a relationship, Adam having at least fifty years on Mon.
* MilitarySuperhero: Adam was a member of the Marine Corps when he fought in Korea.
* MyGreatestFailure: His son Kevin is trapped in the neutral zone, and he's incapable of doing anything to save him. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turns out Kevin changed in his time out there, and meaning he couldn't come home if he wanted to.]]
* TheNeedless: He doesn't need to eat or sleep, though he notes after Candace's death that he wouldn't be doing much of the later anyway.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Adam's powers slow his aging, meaning he looks no older than his early fifties. His wife, Candace/Marlene, was perhaps an even more dramatic case of this, not looking any older than 35 prior to her death, when she could have been at least 75. To explain this, Adam later speculates that proximity to him slowed her ageing process.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Has a wide knowledge of a lot of sciences. But then, he has had several decades to study them.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted on his backstory: the moment it was revealed that the Blue Marvel was actually a black man, the U.S. Government (and President John F. Kennedy himself) asked Brashear to retire immediately.
* RememberTheNewGuy:
** The 2009 ''Adam'' miniseries retroactively acquaints Adam with the Watcher and with Namor. His original superheroic career is explained as being extremely brief, to the point where many modern superheroes don't remember him at all. He was a legend in the African-American community, however, to the point where Luke Cage chews him out over his retirement in ''Mighty Avengers''.
** Adam's oldest son Kevin was introduced by Al Ewing in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' and isn't mentioned at all in the original ''Adam'' miniseries.
** This gets a LampshadeHanging during ComicBook/TheUltimates2015, when Galactus gives a lecture on ComicBookTime, and as he addresses how the past can change, he directly speaks to Adam. Adam has no idea what he means, but is unsettled all the same.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His powers come from being a "living anti-matter reactor", but his actual body is still composed of normal matter. Fortunately for him (and everything around him), he's also immune to the effects of the anti-matter he generates.
* RetiredBadass: He was forced out of business by the U.S. government in the 60s, but took up adventuring on the quiet after a few decades, until his son's accident and his wife's passing. It took Thanos' invasion for him to get back into business again.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: He was doing his own superheroics when the Fantastic Four were just starting out. An issue of ''Mighty Avengers'' even shows what he was doing when Galactus first came to Earth - dealing with his own problems (and confident Uatu knew what he was doing)).
* SupermanSubstitute: He's got the right powers, the right costume, and the right personality. Even his creator basically said he was "What if Superman was a black guy in the 60s?" Answer: the U.S. Government was thankful for him saving the world again and again, but the moment it was revealed that he was black, they asked him to retire.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** He and Luke Cage headbutt a little. Luke is resentful of Adam for retiring when he could've been an important symbol for African-Americans, and Adam isn't too fond of Luke's criminal past. They do at least get over it (and in fairness, Luke tends to headbutt with ''everyone'').
** With T'Challa, on the Ultimates. Adam previously expressed dislike for T'Challa's autocratic tendencies, and this gets worse when the subject of Connor Sims comes up, as T'Challa thinks he should be executed as a danger, while Adam (who has more reason to be angry than the King of Wakanda) would rather see he got a fair trial.
* TragicVillain: Connor Sims, who initially appears to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who was outraged by the mistreatment Adam received for being black, and how he wasn't given the credit he deserved for being a genius war-hero with multiple doctorates. As it turns out, thanks to a combination of his powers and the helmet Adam built for him to try and stabilise his visions actually amplifying them into an unstable form of cosmic awareness, he was actually driven mad by it.
* UnderwaterBase: Kadesh, Adam's "science fortress" at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He cut a deal with Namor in order to build it there.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Adam served in Korea with Connor Sims, saving the man's life on his first day on duty. They then gained their superpowers in the same lab accident (Connor was serving as security), and Adam risked his life to recover Connor from the Neutral Zone afterward. Then his powers caused him to GoMadFromTheRevelation, and the two spent years fighting. And then during Connor's last rampage, he killed Candace.
* WorfHadTheFlu: In Hickman's Avengers, Adam and the rest of the Mighty Avengers are used as little more than muscle against a team they should easily be able to mop the floor with. ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'' explains they were holding back because they didn't actually agree with Steve Rogers or the Illuminati.
[[/folder]]
!Family
[[folder:Candace Brashear / Marlene Frazier]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kevin Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Max Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Adrienne Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
!Allies
[[folder:Uatu the Watcher]]
[[/folder]]
!Enemies
[[folder:Anti-Man]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blue Marvel]]
!!Blue Marvel
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blue_marvel.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Adam Bernard Brashear
%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:'''
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Adam: Legends of the Blue Marvel'' #1 (January 2009)
Adam is a veteran of the Korean War who gained tremendous power from an experiment with anti-matter gone wrong. For several years after the war, he protected America as the masked superhero known as the Blue Marvel, until his helmet was damaged during a battle and the country found out he was black. Wary of inflaming racial tensions, the President asked Adam to quietly retire, and he agreed to do so.
Adam stayed underground until the [[ComicBookTime modern day]], sharing several secret adventures with his eldest son Kevin and not bothering to use a superhero identity at all. Kevin was eventually sucked into an alternate plane of existence that Adam called the Neutral Zone; Adam and his second son, Max, spent many years trying to figure out how to reach and save Kevin to no avail.
During Tony Stark's tenure as the director of SHIELD, Adam's arch-enemy Anti-Man resurfaced. In an attempt to figure out where he'd come from, Tony declassified the story of the Blue Marvel and got back in touch with Adam, who had retired to teach physics at the University of Maryland. In the ensuing struggle, Adam's wife Candace was killed and Adam, in accordance with her wishes, resumed his activities as the Blue Marvel, albeit without a mask or a secret identity to speak of.
Adam continued to operate out of an underwater base near the Marianas Trench, working mostly outside the United States and continuing his personal research. During the ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}'' crossover, he helped to protect New York alongside Luke Cage's hastily-formed Avengers team, and despite some friction with Luke, continued to work alongside him until the events of ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''.
In the modern Marvel Universe, Adam is a member of the ComicBook/{{The Ultimates|2015}}, working proactively to keep the world and universe safe. His son Max, a.k.a. Doctor Positron, worked at Roberto da Costa's [[ComicBook/NewAvengers "Avengers Idea Mechanics"]], and his daughter Adrienne has a position at the super-science laboratory Project Pegasus.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The opening scene of an issue of ''Ultimates'' has him being amazingly embarrassing to his son, Kevin, when they're in the middle of an adventure, as Adam tries to use 90s slang.
* AntagonisticOffspring: His second son, Max, is pissed at him, blaming him for what happened to his brother. They do eventually reconcile.
* {{Antimatter}}: His powers were the result of an accident when he was working on a negative reactor which would harness anti-matter by creating a bridge between the negative zone and the positive matter universe.
* ArchEnemy: Doctor Evald Skorpion, a nihilistic MadScientist. Their last encounter ended with a portal Evald had created sucking Adam's son into the Neutral Zone, while it vaporised Evald. His legacy was continued in the form of the terrorist organisation W.E.S.P.E. (in a further note of irony, Adam's son Max worked with them trying to recover Kevin).
* BadassTeacher: A nominally-retired superhero and a college professor.
* BecomingTheMask: Adam's wife Candace was born as Marlene Frazier, a government agent tasked with keeping an eye on Adam in the years after he went underground. Candace wasn't expecting to fall in love with Adam, and eventually committed entirely to her new identity, claiming to her husband and children that she was an orphan. Adam didn't find out about her birth identity or her government ties until their children were in college, when Tony Stark uncovered her secret.
* BlueIsHeroic: As his name implies, all of his costumes are blue.
* CameBackWrong: Kevin Brashear was sucked into an alternate dimension in the late 1990s, and by the time his little brother Max figured out how to reach him, Kevin had adapted to the point where he can no longer survive on Earth. In fact, if he spends any longer than a few seconds on Earth, it'll cause a cataclysmic explosion due to his body now being comprised largely of anti-matter.
* TheCape: Despite his issues and poor luck, he's likely one of the most moral heroes in the Marvel Universe... something that often puts him [[WhiteAndGreyMorality at odds with the others.]]
* ComboPlatterPowers:
** One of a handful of Superman-level superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Adam can fly at high speeds, survive in hard vacuum, is a super-scientist, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, doesn't need to sleep, can project destructive blasts, and has limited control of anti-matter particles.
** His arch-enemy, Connor "Anti-Man" Sims, was capable of wiping the floor with one of the most powerful squads of Avengers ever formed.
* CoolOldGuy: Though he looks like he's in his late 40's, he's actually around his mid to late 80's.
* CurbStompBattle: He took out Ultimate Hulk (who, in the interest of accuracy, we should note is not quite as strong as regular Hulk) with one punch.
* FormulaWithATwist: As per WordOfGod, this character was created based on the question: "What if Superman had been a Black guy?"
* HappilyMarried: Until shortly before her death, Adam and Candace were happily married for several decades.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''Mighty Avengers'', it's made clear that, being a Superman {{Expy}}, he's busy a lot of the time. When investigating Doctor Positron's secret lair, he just remarks it's the third secret volcano lair he's dealt with ''that week''. Infact, Adam has had a long life full of strange adventures, including among other things fighting the sentient Y2K virus.
* KryptoniteFactor: Neutronium, also known by some as Iso-8, an unstable element from outside conventional reality, is one of the few things that can actually hurt him.
* LamarckWasRight: Averted. Adam has three children with Candace/Marlene: Kevin, Max, and Adrienne. While all three of his kids are extremely intelligent, and Max is a straight-up MadScientist, none of them inherited any of Adam's powers. Adam does theorize at one point that proximity to him may have slowed down his family members' aging process, as Candace/Marlene was just as slow to age as he was.
** That said, ''New Avengers'' shows a potential grandkid of his as inheriting his powers, becoming a legacy version of Ms. Marvel.
* MayDecemberRomance: During ''Ultimates'', he and Monica Rambeau start a relationship, Adam having at least fifty years on Mon.
* MilitarySuperhero: Adam was a member of the Marine Corps when he fought in Korea.
* MyGreatestFailure: His son Kevin is trapped in the neutral zone, and he's incapable of doing anything to save him. [[spoiler:Eventually, it turns out Kevin changed in his time out there, and meaning he couldn't come home if he wanted to.]]
* TheNeedless: He doesn't need to eat or sleep, though he notes after Candace's death that he wouldn't be doing much of the later anyway.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Adam's powers slow his aging, meaning he looks no older than his early fifties. His wife, Candace/Marlene, was perhaps an even more dramatic case of this, not looking any older than 35 prior to her death, when she could have been at least 75. To explain this, Adam later speculates that proximity to him slowed her ageing process.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Has a wide knowledge of a lot of sciences. But then, he has had several decades to study them.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted on his backstory: the moment it was revealed that the Blue Marvel was actually a black man, the U.S. Government (and President John F. Kennedy himself) asked Brashear to retire immediately.
* RememberTheNewGuy:
** The 2009 ''Adam'' miniseries retroactively acquaints Adam with the Watcher and with Namor. His original superheroic career is explained as being extremely brief, to the point where many modern superheroes don't remember him at all. He was a legend in the African-American community, however, to the point where Luke Cage chews him out over his retirement in ''Mighty Avengers''.
** Adam's oldest son Kevin was introduced by Al Ewing in ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' and isn't mentioned at all in the original ''Adam'' miniseries.
** This gets a LampshadeHanging during ComicBook/TheUltimates2015, when Galactus gives a lecture on ComicBookTime, and as he addresses how the past can change, he directly speaks to Adam. Adam has no idea what he means, but is unsettled all the same.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: His powers come from being a "living anti-matter reactor", but his actual body is still composed of normal matter. Fortunately for him (and everything around him), he's also immune to the effects of the anti-matter he generates.
* RetiredBadass: He was forced out of business by the U.S. government in the 60s, but took up adventuring on the quiet after a few decades, until his son's accident and his wife's passing. It took Thanos' invasion for him to get back into business again.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: He was doing his own superheroics when the Fantastic Four were just starting out. An issue of ''Mighty Avengers'' even shows what he was doing when Galactus first came to Earth - dealing with his own problems (and confident Uatu knew what he was doing)).
* SupermanSubstitute: He's got the right powers, the right costume, and the right personality. Even his creator basically said he was "What if Superman was a black guy in the 60s?" Answer: the U.S. Government was thankful for him saving the world again and again, but the moment it was revealed that he was black, they asked him to retire.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** He and Luke Cage headbutt a little. Luke is resentful of Adam for retiring when he could've been an important symbol for African-Americans, and Adam isn't too fond of Luke's criminal past. They do at least get over it (and in fairness, Luke tends to headbutt with ''everyone'').
** With T'Challa, on the Ultimates. Adam previously expressed dislike for T'Challa's autocratic tendencies, and this gets worse when the subject of Connor Sims comes up, as T'Challa thinks he should be executed as a danger, while Adam (who has more reason to be angry than the King of Wakanda) would rather see he got a fair trial.
* TragicVillain: Connor Sims, who initially appears to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who was outraged by the mistreatment Adam received for being black, and how he wasn't given the credit he deserved for being a genius war-hero with multiple doctorates. As it turns out, thanks to a combination of his powers and the helmet Adam built for him to try and stabilise his visions actually amplifying them into an unstable form of cosmic awareness, he was actually driven mad by it.
* UnderwaterBase: Kadesh, Adam's "science fortress" at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He cut a deal with Namor in order to build it there.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Adam served in Korea with Connor Sims, saving the man's life on his first day on duty. They then gained their superpowers in the same lab accident (Connor was serving as security), and Adam risked his life to recover Connor from the Neutral Zone afterward. Then his powers caused him to GoMadFromTheRevelation, and the two spent years fighting. And then during Connor's last rampage, he killed Candace.
* WorfHadTheFlu: In Hickman's Avengers, Adam and the rest of the Mighty Avengers are used as little more than muscle against a team they should easily be able to mop the floor with. ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers'' explains they were holding back because they didn't actually agree with Steve Rogers or the Illuminati.
[[/folder]]
!Family
[[folder:Candace Brashear / Marlene Frazier]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kevin Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Max Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Adrienne Brashear]]
[[/folder]]
!Allies
[[folder:Uatu the Watcher]]
[[/folder]]
!Enemies
[[folder:Anti-Man]]
[[/folder]]
