Editing Manpower (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Neil’s powers come from an ability to manipulate electromagnetism, though only at point-blank range.<ref name="cast">'''Manpower''' – Member of New Wave, Lady Photon’s husband.  A manipulator of electromagnetism, primarily at point-blank range.  The ‘bruiser’ of the team. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast Page]</ref> He has a personal electromagnetic shield around his body<ref name="7.9 eCrash" /><ref name="15.x eShield" /><ref name="WoG1" /> that significantly augments both his strength and durability.<ref name="cast2">'''Manpower, Neil Pelham (Deceased)''' – Lady Photon’s husband.  Had an electromagnetic augmentation allowing for superstrength and durability.  Wore a white and yellow costume with a lightning bolt motif, but perished in the Endbringer arc. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (In-Depth)]</ref>

His super strength<ref>He advanced on Angel, shoulders alternating back and forth as he walked.  There was a lightness to his step that suggested super strength. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/30/eclipse-x-5/ Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref> is greater than that of [[Victoria Dallon]].<ref name="II19.10 eSparringBeforeAfter" /> Neil can impart explosive strength<ref>Our father-host discarded explosive strength and power. - [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref> when he throws an object (i.e., a power common to both himself and Victoria<ref>Anger and instinct fed into my actions, as I went with the flow.  I wanted a weapon and I didn’t even have the buckler or armguard.  I patted pockets, found small change, and extended my hand.  I let go of it, and it collected within the forcefield.<br><br>Then, just as easily, it escaped the forcefield.  A mouth or other cavity yawned open.  The change leaked out and found another invisible trap to fall up into, one or two coins being lost in the process.<br><br>I’d thought about this, a long, long time ago.  As a ‘what if’.  In reaching for the change, I hadn’t even consciously recalled the memory.  It was only when I realized what was happening that I connected the thought.<br><br>The change moved, then disappeared.<br><br>I saw the violence, heard the impact of change striking car doors and icy road.  I’d been plunging toward my caricature and now I changed course.  My caricature was dead.  A coin dropped from the top of the tallest building in the world wouldn’t kill someone.  A handful thrown with the kind of strength and force that could lift trucks had a treatment like a low-impact shotgun.<br><br>''Fuck the ‘wretch’'', I thought, the thought punctuating the full collapse of her body onto the road. - [[From Within 16.4]]</ref><ref>Hands gripped the side mirror, and I twisted as the Wretch did the same.  The mirror was flung so fast I had trouble tracking it with my eyes.  It hit Trophy Wife, ''hard'', and flew off with enough speed still driving it that it shattered a car window, striking ragged side first.<br><br>Trophy Wife was tough, and we’d hit her where the trophy rack was attached to her back.  But that was a hit that would have been bone-breaking without the armor, if not purely lethal. - [[From Within 16.4]]</ref>) to hurl it faster than what is possible with super strength alone.<ref name="IIx.5 eThrow">He twisted his hand around, and the shelf snapped over, the thicker midsection of the shelf slapping into the palm of his hands, fingers gripping it.<br><br>He hurled it, and it wasn’t just that he was strong enough to treat it like it weighed nothing- he used his power to thrust it out.  Damsel aimed to shoot it out of the air, but with the speed it flew, it connected with her hand a moment before the power annihilated it.  Flecks of shelf struck Damsel’s face and shoulders. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/30/eclipse-x-5/ Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref>

Neil has the ability to attract nearby metal objects to his hand (e.g., a store shelf).<ref name="IIx.5 eThrow" /> He can also discharge his shield to deliver high impact or electrified hits.<ref name="WoG1" />

He is tough to hurt.<ref name="IIx.5 eToughHurt">“I’m tough to hurt,” he said.<br><br>“Do you really want to test it?” she asked.<br><br>“Sure,” he said.  “Why the hell not?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/30/eclipse-x-5/ Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref> His shield allows him to take consecutive hits from [[Marquis]]'s bone scythe,<ref name="15.x eShield">That left Marquis to duel with Manpower, striking the hero over and over with a massive scythe of bone that extended out from his wrist.  Manpower was strong, and he was durable thanks to his electromagnetic shield – sparks flew as the scythe hit home over and over.  Even so, the hero didn’t try to fight back.<br><br>It took her only a moment to realize why.  Each swing of the scythe was calculated so that if the movement followed through, it would strike either the crippled Flashbang or Lightstar. - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> run into spears of bone,<ref name="I15.x eSpears">Manpower wasn’t so adroit.  He managed to stop himself, slamming one foot through the mahogany floor to give himself something to brace against, but it was too late to keep him from running into the spears of bone.  Shards snapped against his skin and went flying. - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> and be thrown through a brick wall to little or no effect.<ref name="7.9 eCrash">A crash behind me made me duck.  Manpower, a powerful seven foot tall athletic figure decked out in white and yellow, had been thrown through a brick wall.  Maybe more than one.  He seemed unhurt, but he was a fairly durable guy.  Personal electromagnetic shielding, if I remembered right.  He was still struggling to his feet after we left him behind. - [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref> That said, his defense is not [[All-or-Nothing]].<ref name="IIx.5 eDischarge">Another forcefield had materialized in front of where she’d been about to stumble, positioned to make her landing an uncomfortable one.  The blast that she fired tore the forcefield to shreds.  She stumbled back into a shelf near the registers, loaded with impulse buy items, including a ridiculous number and variety of protein bars.<br><br>She hurled herself forward.<br><br>“Neil!” the forcefield woman shouted, her voice nasal with her hand still at her nose.  “Get back!”<br><br>Damsel blasted.  The big guy was already getting out of the way, throwing himself into the ground in a roll.  He collided with another shelf, and energy arced out, connecting with the metal shelves.<br><br>“That went through my field like it was nothing,” the woman said.  “You can’t take that hit.”<br><br>Damsel smiled, as the man’s expression went cold. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/30/eclipse-x-5/ Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref>