| Everyman | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | 52 #21 (September 2006) |
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| Full name | Hannibal Bates |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Team affiliations | |
| Partnerships | Cupid |
| Notable aliases | Blue Beetle,Green Arrow,Lex Luthor, Dark Arrow,Skyman,Sarge Steel |
| Abilities | Shapeshifting |
Everyman (Hannibal Bates) is asupervillain published byDC Comics. He debuted in52 #17 (August 2006), and was created byGrant Morrison,Geoff Johns,Greg Rucka,Mark Waid,Keith Giffen andJoe Bennett. His name is a combination of fictional serial killersHannibal Lecter andNorman Bates.
Everyman made his live-action debut onThe Flashseason one, portrayed by Martin Novotny.
Everyman is a shapeshifter who can physically transform into another person after eating part of their body.[1] He is generally unpopular with his teammates, mostly due to his searching for components of his teammates' living matter (e.g. hair and toenail clippings) to eat. It is later revealed that he had killed his teammateSkyman and had been masquerading as him for some time.[2]
In "One Year Later", Everyman poses as a resurrectedTed Kord until a DNA test proves his real identity and he is taken into custody.[3] He is later freed byCirce, who orders him to disguise himself asSarge Steel and investigate the events leading up to the "Amazons Attack" storyline.
In the aftermath, Everyman is captured and arrested byNemesis. Shortly before the wedding ofGreen Arrow andBlack Canary, Everyman attempts to kill Black Canary, who kills him with an arrow to the neck.[4]
It is later revealed that Everyman survived Black Canary's attack, but sustained amnesia and believed himself to be Green Arrow.[5] Black Canary identifies Everyman by the stab wound on his neck and attacks him alongside Green Arrow.[6]
Everyman is later seen working withCupid, a vigilante obsessed with Green Arrow, and calling himselfDark Arrow. The villain Cobalt activates nanites in Dark Arrow's bloodstream, compelling him to strangle Cupid. Dark Arrow overcomes the nanites' control, but Cupid injects him with a "love potion", placing him under her thrall.[7] Cupid later betrays Everyman and fatally poisons him.[8]
InBlackest Night, Everyman is temporarily resurrected as aBlack Lantern.[9]
Everyman is a metahuman with the ability to duplicate any organic lifeform, provided he eats a small portion of it first. Everyman is unable to accurately duplicate non-organic matter, as evidenced when he replicated Sarge Steel, who possesses a metallic hand. Everyman'sfacsimile of the hand does not possess the durability of the original, with Nemesis managing to draw blood by stabbing it with a pencil.
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