History
Sorell was the illegitimate son a soldier named Tyrell from the planet Dheron, a harsh, desert planet that shared the Rao system with Krypton. When he learned that his father never returned from a mission to find the sole surviving Kryptonian and end their war once and for all. Sorell follow his path to a small, out-of-the-way planet orbiting a yellow star. He studying Earth heroes, in 2056, he became a villain known only as Laughing Man.
Enemies
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Dheronians, like Kryptonians, develop super powers under the light of a yellow star. They have all the same powers, with the added benefit that Kryptonite does not affect them.
- Dheronian Physiology
- Flight
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Strength
- Invulnerability: Under the yellow sun, he is at Kryptonian level.
- Longevity: Sorell can live almost indefinitely if he resides under continuous exposure of Earth's sunlight.
- Superhuman Hearing: Sorell has incredible hearing at extreme variances of sound and pitch frequency, allowing him to pick up noises from across the globe. He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source/frequency.
- Super Smell:
- Self-Sustenance: He does not need to eat or sleep (but is still capable of doing so) and doesn't require oxygen to breathe enabling him to travel in space and underwater unprotected.
- Healing Factor: Sorell has been shown to have an accelerated "healing factor" enabling him to heal almost instantaneously from most wounds.
- Super-Breath: Sorell can create hurricane force winds by blowing, and also chill his breath to freeze a target. He can also breathe in large amounts of air to dispel clouds of gas by exhaling it.
- Supervision: Sorell also possesses a superior sensory arrangement of visual capabilities.
- Heat Vision
- Electro-magnetic Spectrum Vision: He can see into all of the EM Spectrum. Superman can see and identify radio/television and any and all broadcast/transmitted frequencies, allowing him to avoid detection through radar or satellite monitoring methods.
- Telescopic Vision: The ability to focus his vision to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics.
- Microscopic Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the sub atomic level.
- X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through anything except lead. Since it is passive, this ability would not generate harmful radiation in the same manner as a focused projection of hard X-rays.
Normal Powers
Not under the yellow sun.
- Desert Adaptation
- Camouflage: He can blend in desert environment.
- Thermal Resistance: He has the ability to withstand heat and longer than humans and Kryptonians.
- Tail: His tail that can cut even a super powered Kyptonian.
Abilities
- Leadership: Sorell is an expert in military tactics and strategic planning.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced):
- Weak Point Detection: Due to advanced martial arts training.
- Multilingualism:
- Genius Level Intellect:
- Aerial Combat
- Weaponry
- Military Protocol
- Tactical Analysis
- Desert Survival: All Dheronians evolved at similar rates to Kryptonians, but their planet was a desert.
- Tracking: Sorell is a skilled tracker.
- Deception: Sorell is also a master strategist and manipulator, responsible for setting in motion a grandiose series of events aimed at confounding Robin Beyond.
- Marksmanship: It also appears that Sorell is an expert marksman.
- Mechanical Aptitude
Strength level
Unknown.
Weaknesses
- Vulnerability to Magic
- Kryptonians: On the rare occasions where he has battled Kryptonians, they seem more easily able to harm one another as well.
- Lead Sorell cannot see through lead with his vision powers.
- Solar Energy Dependancy: His abilities will eventually weaken without replenishing his energy reserves with normal (yellow) sun radiation. When exposed to the same red solar radiation as Krypton's red sun Rao, it causes Sorell to lose his powers within a large amount of exposure until the exposure to yellow sunlight will reverse this effect.
- Vulnerability to Red Sun Radiation: When exposed to the frequency of their native red star, Dheronians' cells lose all of their previously absorbed radiation from a foreign star, leaving Dheronians in a powerless state.
- Vulnerability to Psionics
- Dheronian Metal: Weapons made from Dheronian metal can injure Dheronians, Kryptonians and Humans.
- Kryptonian Metal: Weapons made from Kryptonian metal can injure Dheronians as easily as Humans and Kryptonians.
- Black Holes: It is states that proximity to these collapsed stars is fatal to both Dheronians and Kryptonians.
- Vulnerability to Cold: Very cold temp effect them like it does reptiles.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Mechanical Wings: Sorell equipped himself with a set of robotic wings that seemed to aid, or be the source of, his flight.
Transportation:
- Dheronian Starship: He traveled the universe on a Dheronian spaceship, visiting countless worlds looking for Krypton's last survivor.
Weapons: A tail that can cut even a super powered Kyptonian.
- Dheronian weapons
Notes
Sorell's Personality is base on Professor Moriarty and Hush
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Sorell (Chronological)
- Appearances of Sorell (Unordered)
- Character Gallery: Sorell
- Fan-Art Gallery: Sorell
- Quotations by Sorell
Discover and Discuss
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Links and References
- None.
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