Wanted for murder, Jake Simmons fled police in a stolen biplane during a heavy storm. He crashed when lightning struck the plane over Meteor Crater, Arizona. The Ultra-Humanite found him and experimented on him until his body became a living electrical battery. Code-named "Deathbolt", he became the Ultra-Humanite's staunch ally until his defeat by the All-Star Squadron.[2]
Deathbolt (or a successor) returned in recent years and tried to kill the late Starman, Ted Knight only to be thwarted by the arrival of Ted's descendant Farris Knight.[3]
Powers and abilities
Deathbolt can channel the electrical energy in his body into powerful blasts of electricity.[4]
Introduced in the Arrow episode "Broken Arrow", this version is able to manipulate plasma instead of electricity,[5][6][7][8][9] which he acquired through unknown means.[10][11]
Deathbolt appears in The Flash episode "Rogue Air".[12][13] Having been defeated by the Atom and transferred to S.T.A.R. Labs' custody, the Flash and his allies attempt to transfer their metahuman prisoners, such as Deathbolt, to a new prison. However, while freeing the other prisoners, Captain Cold kills Deathbolt, allegedly because "he owed me money".[14]
References
^Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 78. ISBN0-8160-1356-X.
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