Wonderman (Marvel Duel)

"Hitting things with our fists is not the way to achieve socital change, that's why I've adopted pacifism!" —Wonderman to Ultron.

"You made one mistake, Eric. I'm sure you thought it poetic to use us as your puppets -- but we're Avengers. And Avengers will oppose you -- to the bitter end -- and beyond."—Wonder Man.

Simon Williams is an actor turned super hero empowered by ionic energy that grants him immense strength as the magnificent Wonder Man. Accused of embezzling funds, Williams saw the life he knew ruined until being approached by Baron Zemo, who transformed his body to have an infiltrator within the Avengers. Initially a pawn, Wonder Man was inspired by the Avengers into embracing true heroism and turned against Zemo and his Masters of Evil. However, he sacrificed himself to save the Avengers. His brother, Eric Williams, became the macabre Grim Reaper, constantly seeking revenge for his death, while his personality lived on inside the synthetic body of the Vision. As the Vision's mind was derived from Simon Williams' ionic brain patterns, the two later came to regard one another as twins in essence, despite existing as separate beings.

Wonder Man has fully become an esteemed member of the Avengers, being a founder of the West Coast Avengers and Force Works as well as focusing on his career as an actor in Hollywood. At some point, Wonder Man became disillusioned with how the super hero community could easily be corrupted, inciting him to form a new Lethal Legion and the Revengers to put an end to the destruction he believed heroes such as the Avengers triggered.

Recognizing the importance of helping those in need, Wonder Man has given up on his crusade to stop super heroes at any cost. However, he has decided to become a pacificist, refusing to resort to violence. He joined the Avengers Unity Division. During his tenure, his ionic form was permanently absorbed by Rogue, but he was eventually restored. Ever since, Wonder Man has provided his help to different Avengers missions whenever possible.

Early Life

Simon Williams was the younger of two sons born to Sanford Williams (an industrialist who founded the highly successful munitions factory called Williams Innovations). Described as a stern disciplinarian, Sanford had high expectations for his sons and was abusive towards Simon and his elder brother, Eric Williams, an experience which caused Eric to in turn become physically abusive towards Simon. When Eric declined his father's offer to join the family firm, Simon, the more studious, less athletic of the two, readily accepted. When Sanford Williams died, Simon inherited full control over the business, although he was only 20. Under Simon's inexperienced management, Williams Innovations began to lose its competitive edge in the marketplace to such rapidly growing firms as Stark Industries. Desperately, Simon sought his brother's aid, and the elder Williams agreed to offer his advice. Eric suggested to Simon that he embezzle some money from the company in order to invest in some business enterprises Eric had gotten wealthy from, namely the illicit racketeering run by the criminal Maggia families. Desperate to save his father's business, Simon did as his brother suggested. His company's board of directors discovered his embezzlement and Maggia connection, and Simon Williams was brought to trial.

Masters of Evil

Found guilty and facing a prison sentence, Williams was released when Amora the Enchantress paid his bail and enchanted the authorities. Baron Zemo had read of Williams' case and, intrigued by the newspapers' assertion that he blamed Tony Stark for his downfall, dispatched the Enchantress to recruit Williams for the Masters of Evil. (Zemo believed Stark to be the employer of his enemy Iron Man; in fact, Stark was himself secretly Iron Man). Disoriented by the upheavals in his life, Simon Williams agreed to accompany the Enchantress to Zemo's South American base.

Williams agreed to become a test subject for Zemo's "ionic ray" treatment, a process that would endow him with superhuman strength and durability. After undergoing the arduous chemical and radiation treatments, Williams emerged with the attributes he was promised. Zemo then gave him a costume, dubbed him Wonder Man, and outlined his plan to use him to defeat his foes the Avengers.

To ensure Wonder Man's cooperation, Zemo told him that a side effect of the treatment that gave him his superhuman powers was that it altered his metabolism so that he would die within the week unless he was given regular treatments of an unspecified antidote. Not wishing to die, Wonder Man agreed to Zemo's plan and in a staged battle with the Masters of Evil, he won the confidence of the Avengers.

When he explained to them that he was dying, the Avengers accepted Wonder Man into their ranks and unsuccessfully tried every means of science known to them to cure him. Soon Wonder Man led the Avengers into an ambush by the Masters of Evil. In the course of the battle, Wonder Man had an attack of conscience and decided that he could not betray the Avengers' kindness to him, even if it cost him his life. Deprived of Zemo's life-prolonging treatment, Wonder Man succumbed to the mysterious side effect of his power acquisition. Telling the Avengers that he was glad that his final act was a noble one, Wonder Man fell still, displaying no vital signs.

Although the Avengers assumed that he had died and brought his body back to the United States for identification and burial, Wonder Man had actually gone into a deathlike coma brought on by the still unstable mutagenic changes triggered in his body. Sometime later, Williams' brother Eric, now known as the criminal Grim Reaper, retrieved his younger brother's body. The Reaper wished to use his brother's cryogenically preserved body to bribe the Vision, the android whose artificial brain was cybernetically programmed with the memories and behavior patterns of Simon Williams, into betraying the Avengers. The Grim Reaper tried to convince the Vision that his consciousness could be transferred into Wonder Man's body, giving the Vision a more human form. Later, the Reaper claimed that Wonder Man could not be resurrected and offered to have the Vision's consciousness transferred into Captain America's body instead. The Vision pretended to go along with the Reaper's scheme in order to help the Avengers apprehend him.

Revival and Rejoining the Avengers

The Grim Reaper managed to escape after the incident, however, and took with him his brother's seemingly lifeless body. Now obsessed with the idea of reviving his brother by any means whatsoever, the Reaper took Wonder Man's body to New Orleans hoping that the local Houngans (voodoo priests) could resuscitate it. Led by the Black Talon, the leader of their voodoo cult, the Houngans used their magics to reanimate Wonder Man, but as a mindless zombie. Frustrated by the imperfect result, the Grim Reaper had the Houngans instruct the semi-living being to accuse the Vision of "stealing" his mind. He then packed the body into a large crate and shipped it to Avengers Mansion. When the crate was opened, Wonder Man indeed did as he was bid, but to no real effect.

The Avengers subdued Wonder Man and followed him to New Orleans to investigate what had happened. Curiously, as Wonder Man began moving about again and after having been exposed to the powers of the Living Laser, he began shaking off the effects of both the Houngans' magic and Baron Zemo's detrimental radiation treatment. Within a few days, Wonder Man was conscious and fully functional once again, much to his surprise. The Avengers later examined him and learned that he had simply been in a coma while his body was fully metamorphosed from one of flesh and blood to one of an unspecified superhuman flesh-like substance nourished by ionic energy instead of blood.

Wonder Man suffered considerable psychological trauma adjusting to the change that had come over him as well as his memories of being "dead." During the initial months of adjustment, he resided at Avengers Mansion as a guest and frequently lent his aid to the team. Despite his vast strength and resistance to injury, Wonder Man dreaded the thought of dying and facing oblivion again, and was often overwhelmed by cowardice in life-threatening situations. Finally, while battling the near-omnipotent Korvac, Wonder Man was able to master his fears long enough to live up to his full potential. However, he still felt twinges of the same irrational fear from time to time, unable to vanquish it completely. He was eventually re-elected to membership in the Avengers, and became close friends with his fellow Avenger the Beast. Wonder Man later invaded his former plant which had been taken over by the Maggia, and fought Madame Masque and the Dreadnought.

The Grim Reaper, learning that his brother was now conscious and no longer zombie-like, stole into Avengers Mansion, subdued the Avengers, and held a mock trial to determine if this Wonder Man truly was his brother. Satisfied that Wonder Man was his brother brought back to full life, the Reaper planned to kill the Vision, whom he saw as an inhuman mockery of his brother. Wonder Man fought his brother to save the Vision and defeated him. The Avengers committed the Grim Reaper to a mental institution but he eventually got free. The Reaper was now convinced that despite the evidence of the trial, Wonder Man could not be his brother for his brother would never lift a hand against him. Thus both the Vision and Wonder Man were mockeries of his brother who must die. The Reaper made another attempt on the two that ended in failure.

Leaving the Avengers

While living at Avengers Mansion, Simon Williams decided to seek employment in order to give himself something useful to do and so he was not financially dependent upon the Avengers. Having no inclination to go back into a business where he had faced his greatest humiliation, he determined to become an actor, since he felt that during much of his time with the Avengers he was only acting at being a hero. His steadiest work was as a strongman on a children's television show. He eventually quit the job and also terminated his Avengers membership during a major reshuffling of the roster. Unable to get decent acting work, he accepted a job at Cordco Incorporated as a troubleshooter and security consultant. He only lasted there a day before deciding to move on. Heading out to Los Angeles, he decided to exploit his nearly indestructible body by doing stunt work for the movies. He was highly successful at this, and soon began getting acting work as well.

West Coast Avengers

When Hawkeye went to Los Angeles to form the West Coast Avengers, Wonder Man was invited to join the team. Despite certain qualms about living up to the Avengers' standards, he accepted. While helping the team in its struggle to establish its own identity, Wonder Man began to come to terms with himself and his role as a hero. Impressive victories over such foes as Graviton, Ultron, and his brother the Grim Reaper served to bolster his self-esteem, and his stunt work served to remind him just how impervious he was to mortal danger. His turning point came when he went on national television to announce that he was guilty of the embezzlement charge brought against him years ago and that he was sorry about it. Released from the grip of this personal devil of his past, Wonder Man was gratified when the public gave him a vote of confidence for his candid admission. He has also come to regard the Vision as a surrogate "twin brother" due to their psychological similarity, and Vision's new relationship with Simon's mother, Martha. But there was a setback when the Vision was dismantled and rebuilt as an emotionless machine by a global conglomerate. When the Scarlet Witch, the Vision's wife, asked Wonder Man to provide his brainwaves once again in order to rebuild the foundational personality matrix of the original Vision, Wonder Man refused, having feelings for her himself. The Wasp suggested that the Vision's original relationship to the Scarlet Witch may even have been predicated by Wonder Man's initial donation for the original personality matrix; at this, Wonder Man confirmed that several of his hesitations about providing his brainwaves again arose from these doubts and the subconscious desire he's felt toward the Scarlet Witch since her separation from her husband. This infuriated Wanda, and Simon later apologised for his behaviour, after Wanda and Vision's separation had proceeded.

Operation: Galactic Storm

Wonder Man eventually left the West Coast Avengers to focus more on his personal life and acting career, which was derailed by old foes the Enchantress and Goliath. He moved into a new apartment building with a number of other creatives also residing in Hollywood, and was assigned a would-be sidekick, “Spider”, the younger brother of a romantic interest of Simon's, Ginger Beach. Simon would also become romantically involved with a screenwriter named Alex Flores.

His life would be further derailed when Simon became a key member in the Operation: Galactic Storm conflict, where alongside fellow Avengers The Vision, Living Lightning, Scarlet Witch, Starfox, Captain Marvel, and Thor, he became embroiled in an intergalactic war between the Shi'ar and the Kree. During the course of this conflict, the Shi'ar are revealed to have a massive weapon known as the Nega Bomb, with the intention to completely devastate the Kree Empire. While Captain Marvel managed to convince Shi'ar empress Lilandra to enter into peace negotiations with the Kree, a group of Skrulls steal the negabomb, leaving The Vision and Wonder Man to attempt to sabotage the bomb before it can be detonated. The two fail, and 98% of the entire Kree race are killed instantly.

While it is revealed that the Supreme Intelligence engineered this event in hopes of creating a stronger race of Kree, the guilt and trauma from this experience with genocide affected Simon deeply for the rest of his time away from the Avengers, resulting in psychological instability.

Simon would go on to have adventures while attempting to be a serious actor in Hollywood, and would eventually seek to join the successor to the recently defunct West Coast Avengers, Force Works. Unfortunately, Simon would not survive their first mission, as a group of Kree warriors known as Starstealth sought to kill him and his “twin”, The Vision, for their roles in the Kree genocide. While Vision survived, Simon was blasted with an ion cannon, which dispersed his particles, effectively killing him. The result of this blast left the L.A. area with pink skies for an indeterminate time after his death.

Avenger Again

Eventually, Simon would return from the dead when Wanda, mourning his death and requiring some emotional comfort after numerous traumatic experiences, channeled her chaos magic and brought Simon back to life. Simon would rejoin the Avengers and enter into a relationship with Wanda, which caused some conflict between him and The Vision. Eventually, Wanda and Simon would mutually agree to break off their relationship, deciding that they were better off as “old, old friends.”

Feeling unworthy of a second chance due to the mistakes of his past, Simon sought to reclaim his dignity and sense of self-worth. To help those overwhelmed by forces beyond their control, he established Second Chances — a non-profit foundation funded by the re-release of his movies and videos, plus countless new projects and endorsements. Finally free of his personal demons, Wonder Man became a confident, capable crime-fighter and staunch member of the Avengers.

Ladyfair

At some point prior to the disassembling of the Avengers, Wonder Man was manipulated into becoming involved in the rehabilitation of an assassin, Ladyfair and introduced her to the Avengers at Avengers Mansion, unaware that she was being used to try and kill the team. Ladyfair sacrificed her life to ensure the Avengers safety rather than trying to kill them, she revealed to him who was behind this plot as she died in his arms.

Civil War & Mighty Avengers

After the Superhuman Registration Act was passed, Simon registered and so became an officially sanctioned S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, tasked with hunting down and capturing unregistered superhumans. He followed an Atlantean agent to a warehouse, finding it to be a stockpile for Atlantean weapons. Shortly after, Simon tried, unsuccessfully, to defend them from an attack by the Green Goblin.

Wonder Man was pressured to continue working for the pro-registration side in the ensuing Civil War drama. In addition to capturing renegade vigilantes and criminals, Wonder Man was instrumental in creating televised messages to educate the public and yet-unregistered superhumans about the specifics of the Registration Act. He was one of the first established heroes assigned to lead the Fifty State Initiative training program for inexperienced hero recruits along with Ms. Marvel and various other former Avengers.

Iron Man and Ms. Marvel recruited him into the Mighty Avengers, a team of registered superhumans. During his time as one of the Mighty Avengers, Simon began a romantic relationship with Ms. Marvel; warning her, however, not to use her position as leader of the Avengers to keep him out of potentially dangerous situations just because of their relationship.

Simon participated in all of the group's activities, such as opposing the Mole Man's bio-creations, an Ultron-infected Iron Man, and an alien symbiote-mutated New York, arresting Doctor Doom, defeating an attack orchestrated by the Hulk and his Warbound, and opposing a full-scale invasion by the Skrulls.

Dark Reign

Following the events of the Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn created a new team of Avengers, effectively retiring Wonder Man. Wonder Man later appeared on television, lamenting his tenure as an Avenger, claiming it was all a waste of time and that using violence to uphold justice has caused nothing but heartache and death. He ended his speech by sadly admitting that having Osborn in charge was exactly what the country deserved. After this, Wonder Man was imprisoned as a member of the new Lethal Legion.

Wonder Man appeared alongside his old West Coast Avengers teammates, Ronin, Mockingbird, Tigra, and War Machine in battle with a new version of Ultimo.

Heroic Age

After Siege, Simon was the only former Avenger to refuse Steve Rogers' invite to his Avengers, going so far to say "I hope you change your mind or I'll have to change it for you." Simon later attacked the newest Avengers team during their first meeting, doing a great deal of damage to the uppermost floors of Stark Tower and destroying Noh-Varr's prototype time travel device before the Avengers could rally and force him to teleport away.

After their first mission together, Bucky and Tony found Simon and attempted to convince Simon to rejoin. Still, he adamantly refused, but was halted in his rant when Tony pointed out that Simon's body is becoming unstable and "leaking" his ionic energy. This suggested that Simon's current state was caused by his body's instability, and not any real mental choice.

The Revengers

Disillusioned with the Avengers after their numerous failings, Simon felt the team was the cause of more harm than good. Organizing a group of lesser-known heroes, he informed them of the failings of the Avengers and his own views, convincing them the Avengers had to be stopped.

Targeting Avengers Mansion, the group waited until Danielle Cage, daughter of New Avengers members Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, had left the mansion. With the entire roster of New Avengers present, Williams felt it was time to attack, with Atlas leading the charge. Overwhelmed, the New Avengers briefly held their own before being overwhelmed by the Revengers. With that team defeated, Williams set his sights on their next target: Avengers Tower, home of the main Avengers team.

Atlas attacked the Avengers Tower only to get the attention of the team, because they called a press conference at the court, where the Avengers appeared to confront them. After a failure at discussing the situation with Wonder Man, Iron Man trapped him in his ionic form in a containment unit. Not willing to fight with too many civilians near, Thor teleported the Revengers to Citi Field, where they were subdued by both the Avengers and the New Avengers and later imprisoned.
After talking with Beast, warning them, and telling them what he thought, Simon vanished from his containment unit.

(I am very grateful to my friend Snadjerx for correcting the Skins.)

What does this pack contain?

-Wonderman Marvel Duel.
-Wonderman inspired by Avengers UTS.
-My other Wonderman adaptation.
-And Wonderman without the glasses.

Sorry for my "disappearance," I was organizing other mods to upload, and I was also playing a lot of SSBU.

Well, here's Simon Williams, one of the "wonderful" heroes of the Marvel Comics universe. I originally discovered this hero thanks to the 90s-2000s series Avengers: The United They Stand. And honestly? I really loved this character. I always thought he was "let's say kind of generic with no backstory." How wrong I was! After doing some research and reading tons of comics about him, I'm bringing them to you now! Put on your Wonder Man glasses! And take down the villains who have taken up residence in San Andreas!