| Nate Heywood | |
|---|---|
| Biological Information | |
| Status | Alive |
| Universe Information | |
| General Information | |
| Occupation | Historian Member of the Justice League Yoga Instructor (aberration timeline ; formerly) Conspiracy theorist (altered reality; formerly) Totem Bearer of One of the Totems of Zambesi (formerly) |
| Family | Henry Heywood (grandfather; deceased) Bettie Heywood (grandmother) Hank Heywod (father ; estranged) Unnamed (mother) |
| Alter ego | Citizen Steel |
| Actor | Nick Zano |
| Source | |
Dr. Nate Heywood is a meta-human known as Steel. He is a historian and member of the Justice League.He was also one of the six bearers of the Totems of Zambesi.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Organic steel transformation: As a result of Eobard Thawne's biomolecular enhancer that Ray altered and injected into Nate, he gained the ability to transform his entire body into steel, though Ray claims that it is actually an organic form of alloy. In this state, his body increases somewhat in height and build. Despite being entirely constituted of steel in his altered state, Nate appears to retain his normal level of mobility, leaving his agility unhindered.
- Accelerated healing factor: A bonus effect of the biomolecular enhancer cured Nate's hemophilia. To which, Nate's enhanced body is able to recover from injuries much faster than a normal person. Even a direct hit to his chest by the A.T.O.M. Exosuit's blasters only knocked him out for a minute before he somewhat recovered shortly afterwards. Upon transforming, his body appears to instantly make a full recovery.
- Superhuman durability: While transformed, Nate is far more durable than any normal human. This makes him extremely resistant to injury from low to high-caliber bullets, knives and as well as an ion blast from Ray's A.T.O.M. Exosuit. He could also survive falls from great heights, such as when he fell from the Temporal zone, through the skies, and eventually crashing into solid ground in Feudal Japan while showing no physical injury. Nate's durability is not without limits as he can be affected by bullets or any weapons molded from Dwarf star alloy and possibly any metal/steel strong enough to penetrate his body.
- Superhuman strength: Nate is far stronger than any normal human at least quintuple his normal levels as stated by Ray. He was able to overpower Vixen, who was channeling the spiritual might of a gorilla, with ease and go toe-to-toe against Ray and his A.T.O.M. Exosuit. He is strong enough to lift and flung a full-grown man and even a Dominator like a rag doll. His strength was further tested when he tried to stop a train carrying tons of Dwarf star alloy, which is moving at full speed, and was able to slow its momentum until it completely stopped in its tracks.
- Timeline change/Reality alteration awareness: Nate is seemingly able to sense changes in the timeline or reality itself shown when he was knew when New York was nuked and when the Legion of Doom changed reality using the Spear of Destiny.
Former Powers[]
- Earth Totem: This totem allows its user to control the Earth. When battling Mallus, Nate wielded the totem, tapping into its Earth-based powers. After the demon was defeated once and for all, this totem, along with the Spirit, Water, Fire, and Death totems, was returned to Zambesi.
- Geokinesis: The totem allows its user to manipulate stone, the soil, and shape and affect it in any conceivable way. Nate used this totem to create powerful waves of the rolling earth as a projectile weapon.
- Totem connection: The totem connects to other totems when in the presence of them or from a far and can also let the other users know if a totem bearer has died.
Abilities[]
- Acrobatics: Nate was able to successfully escape and evade a number of security guards on his quest to reach Mayor Oliver Queen.
- Drawing/Sketch artist: Nate has shown himself to be an alright sketch artist, drawing accurate sketches of the Askaran Amulet from memory, as well as designing the "Steel" suit himself.
- Expert historian: Nate is an accomplished and resourceful historian, priding himself on deduction. With his deduction skills and extensive work with sources, Nate deduced the identity of Green Arrow and Rip Hunter's Legends, as well as the locations of time-scattered members of the Legends throughout history. Nate is also sharp-witted, able to recognize that the timeline was starting to change due to aberrations, despite previously not being acquainted with the mechanics of time travel. He immediately thought to bring his findings to Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow and mayor of Star City, requesting assistance with saving the Legends. His talents for deductive reasoning and analysis proved their worth even in the Legion of Doom's altered reality, soon realized how the world had been unnaturally altered.
- Hand-to-hand combatant: Since joining the Legends, Nate has begun sparring with his companions (especially with Ray) to better his combat skills. Despite not being as skilled as the other Legends especially compared to Sara, Mick, or Amaya, Nate can hold his own in a fist fight, partly because of his powers. Nate's style of fighting is mostly that of a brawler mixed with basic boxing, which is most probably taught to him by Ray.
- Engineering: Nate is proven to be very adept with machinery. After learning about how time travel works, he was able to design an alarm system to detect aberrations in the timeline.
- Multilingual: Nate is fluent in English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, and Latin.
Weaknesses[]
- Dwarf star: Although Nate is able to easily deflect normal bullets without getting affected, he was once shot with bullets laced with dwarf star, nearly costing him his life.
- Emotional state: While Nate's new powers make him very strong, his ability to access and maintain them are all dependent on his focus and emotional drive. If too careless, he could end up leaving himself completely vulnerable.
- Tranquilizing drugs: Tranquilizing drugs can temporarily disable Nate's ability to access his powers. This was first demonstrated when Nate, Amaya, and Mick traveled to 1951, to the first time the Dominators invaded Earth to try to find out why the aliens returned in 2016, and Smith's NSA agents knocked the trio out with tranquilizing darts. When he came to, Nate stated that whatever drug it was they'd been injected with was preventing him from accessing his powers. This was also shown when Nate was drugged and abducted from the streets of London in 1895 when attempting to draw out what he and his team, at the time, believed to be an anachronistic vampire. When Nate awoke sometime later and found himself strapped to a table in what appeared to be an operating room, he found that whatever he'd been "roofied with" was preventing him from using his powers.
- Ophidiophobia: When a large snake had caught Nate off guard, Amaya threw it off. Afterwards he confessed his fear of snakes.
- Reality alteration: After the Legion of Doom used the Spear of Destiny to rewrite reality, even after Nate managed to remember reality as it had been before the Legion used the Spear, he was unable to use his powers.
- Extreme force: When the Legends traveled to 1916 for the second time in an attempt to stop the Legion of Doom from ever getting a chance to use the Spear of Destiny, in the battle that followed, Eobard hit the present version of Nate (who hadn't lost his powers when the Legion of Doom altered reality) at super speed, which, in spite of Nate being in his steel form, was enough to knock him to the ground.[1]
Former weaknesses[]
- Hemophilia: Nate was born with a condition where his blood doesn't clot properly, making his healing rate severely diminished. To which, even cut enough, he could easily bleed to death. However, after being injected with the biomolecular enhancer Ray had modified, Nate's condition was cured.
Equipment[]
- Steel suit: After rebuilding his A.T.O.M. suit using the dwarf star allow savaged from the Old West, Ray Palmer realized there was still a lot of unused ore. Using Nate's sketch as concept, Ray created a suit for Nate.
Former Equipment[]
- Earth Totem: Nate wielded the Earth Totem in the Legends' fight against the demon Mallus. After Mallus was defeated, the Earth totem was given to Leonard Snart's team.
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