Fallout

FALLOUT

Real Name: Neil Borman

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: None, formerly mason

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Johnny Borman (son, deceased), Victoria Borman (wife, deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Keystone City, Kansas

First Appearance: Flash: Iron Heights (2001)

Powers: Fallout possessed superhuman strength and generated an endless supply of radiation from his body. Fallout had little control over this power.

History: (Flash: Iron Heights (fb, BTS), Flash II #181 (fb)) - Neil Borman was doing masonry work in the Braddock nuclear power plant when an explosion in the core dropped Borman and his co-workers into the core’s water system. His co-workers died and Borman was transformed into a human nuclear generator. He panicked and went to his wife and son for help, but the radiation he emitted killed them. He turned himself over to the authorities, who dubbed him Fallout.

(Flash: Iron Heights (fb, BTS)) - Fallout was incarcerated at Iron Heights, and later given a sentence of life without parole for killing a fellow inmate. Warden Gregory Wolfe secretly locked Fallout in a containment unit and used his never-ending generation of radiation to power Iron heights.

(Flash: Iron Heights) - When Flash III and Pied Piper investigated an outbreak of the frenzy virus at Iron Heights they discovered Fallout’s containment unit. Fallout banged on his prison to get their attention and asked to be let out. Flash and Piper had other issues to deal with, and didn’t realize Fallout was pleading for help, but Flash resolved to have a talk with Gregory Wolfe to find out what he was doing to Fallout.

(Flash II #180, 181) - Flash tried to expose Gregory Wolfe’s inhumane treatment of prisoners, and brought Jared Morillo to Iron Heights to show him that the prisoner Fallout was powering the jail. By the time they got there Fallout was gone, sent on a daytrip by Wolfe. Fallout killed his guards an escaped the prison transport. Fallout was unintentionally caused death and destruction in Keystone, until he reached the graves of his wife and son. Flash confronted him and stuck him with a control rod to contain the radiation he was emitting. Flash promised him he’d receive more humane treatment in the Heights if he let Flash take him in. Flash had Jerry and Tina McGee construct a cell for him that used the radiation Fallout emitted to power Iron Heights without putting Fallout in pain like his previous containment cell.

(Flash II #193) - Fallout saw Flash and Gorilla Grodd battling in the Heights, and burned through his cell to help Flash, who helped him when no one else would. He fought off Grodd, but Grodd collapsed part of the ceiling on him before retreating.

(Flash II #208) - Fallout spent all his time flipping through a copy of his family album. The copy would inevitably burn up in his hands, and the Iron Heights staff had dozens of copies to give to him to keep him pacified.

Comments: Created by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver

Flash II #207 showed a mugshot of Fallout in Iron Heights. A photo of Fallout was seen in F.B.I. hq in Flash II #217.

Fallout was pictured on the cover of Flash II #225.