Franklin Hall - Graviton

Franklin Hall was working on the development of practical teleportation at a Canadian research facility when an unexpected explosion gifted him the power to control the fundamental force of gravity. Franklin seized control of the facility as the self-styled god ‘Graviton’, and went to great lengths to try and earn the affections of Judy—a woman he was obsessed with—seemingly losing control of his powers and self-destructing after her apparent suicide. But Graviton returned, and the cycle repeated as he first continued to obsess over Judy, and then moved on to a more general need for female validation, interacting with femme fatales like Madame Masque and Moonstone. Despite Graviton’s immense power and status as one of the mightiest villains of the modern age, he has never found the strength to move beyond the push and pull of his fragile ego. He’s also really dedicated to team-theming.

Lifting

• Lifts Manhattan Island and numerous cities around the world (source)
• Suspends the Earth’s mightiest heroes in mid-air (source)
• Regularly makes large areas of land float (source)
• Lifts a large building and crushes enemies under it (source)
• Lifts a building and throws it at Thor (source)
• Lifts the Daily Bugle (source)
• Lifts the Daily Bugle again (source)
• Lifts a Bloomingdale’s (source)
• Throws bits of street around (source)
• Sends police and helicopters 10,000 miles up (source)
• Lifts an armored transport vehicle (source)
• Makes the floor lighter than helium, creating a protective barrier (source)
• Makes high-density Vision fly upwards (source)
• Sends Meteorite into the upper atmosphere (source)
• Levitates the Avengers (source)
• Levitates Wonder Man (source)
• Levitates Tigra (source)
• Sends Spider-Man flying into the sky (source)

Crushing

• Floors Wonder Man, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Mockingbird (source)
• Traps Wonder Man at the bottom of a pool until being drugged and attacked weakens his hold (source)
• Makes Captain America’s shield weigh an amount that Wonder Man struggles with (source)
• Floors Wonder Man, though he resists and forces his way back up (source)
• Almost stops Wonder Man-powers Rogue from moving, but she’s able to with considerable effort (source)
• Threatens to collapse a large building (source)
• Crushes Atlas and the other Thunderbolts (source)
• Multiplies the weight of rotors by a factor of thousands (source)
• Makes the Thunderbolt’s craft weigh ten times what it should (source)
• Collapses a ceiling on Wonder Man and Beast, knocking them out (source)
• Breaks Iron Spider Spider-Man’s ribs (source)
• Floors low-density Vision (source)
• Makes low-density Moonstone sink into the ground (source)
• Floors some street-tiers (source)
• Floors a leaping Tigra (source)
• Floors a man and knocks him out (source)
• Makes Songbird’s shoulder units weigh several tons (source)
• Makes gasses weigh as much as lead (source)
• Disarms a gunman (source)
• Increases Spider-Man’s mass to 10× normal, threatening to increase it to 1000×, but instead soon after stating that Spider-Man’s strength and agility are almost enough to offset his own ability to alter the wall-crawler’s mass (source)

Repelling

• Sends a large piece of ground—with the giant Atlas and Charcoal on it—flying into a building (source)
• Sends the Thing and his distaff counterpart through a building (source)
• Repels a large piece of rubble thrown by Wonder Man-powers Rogue (source)
• Repels the Thunderbolts (source)
• Repels the Thunderbolts again (source)
• Sends people a large distance (source)
• Repels a few dozen armored aliens (source)
• Repels Torunn (source)

Compacting

• Compacts a suit of Beetle armor (source)
• Compresses matter into a dense cannonball and launches it, taking out Iron Man and Scarlet Witch (source)
• Crumbles shackles (source)
• Is mistakenly believed to have compacted a person (source)
• Compacts the real killer (source)

General Telekinesis

• Blows up the top of a building (source)
• Flings the Avengers about, sending Scarlet Witch into the upper atmosphere (source)
• Flings Iron Man about (source)
• Knocks the Avengers back (source)
• Swirls the contents of a room, then pins people to a wall (source)
• Can move things vertically and horizontally (source)
• Makes the ground erupt (source)
• Throws people and cars around (source)
• Busts through a wall (source)
• Busts through a wall again (source)
• Negates Spider-Man’s webbing and deflects a photocopier (source)
• Stops Miles Morales’ webbing and then immobilises him and Shuri (source)
• Dismantles a building (source)
• Can stop waves from crashing (source)
• Flies away as a blur (source)
• Flies, and takes his allies with him (source)
• Plays chess upside-down (source)

Precise Telekinesis

• Shapes grains of sand into a ying-yang pattern (source)
• Sculpts sand (source)
• Makes a pencil weigh a ton and tags the tiny, flying Yellowjacket and Wasp with it (source)
• Plays with Blank’s gravity and switched his protective field off and on (source)
• Can make someone fall in any direction he chooses (source)
• Slows his external bleeding (source)

Light-manipulation

• Alters all light leaving Earth to carry a message (source)
• Bends light to spy on Tigra (source)
• Bends radio waves (source)

Gas-manipulation

• Puts out the Human Torch’s flames by taking the air from around him (source)
• Manipulates density and temperature and then draws gases to his island from a nearby world, choosing the right components for an Earth-like atmosphere (source)
• Creates a dense fog (source)

Gravimetric Senses

• Senses the gravimetric field of someone sneaking up on him (source)
• Senses a gravitational anomaly on Earth from a distance away (source)
• Figures out that another dimension is trying to merge with this one when he gets closer (source)
• Can find someone anywhere in the world (source)
• In Los Angeles, sent a pebble from China flying into the head of someone in Australia (source)
• Sent a pebble to a specific person (source)
• Sensed the ‘gravity’ of a Cosmic Cube (source)
• With his powers, Rogue could feel the Earth spin (source)

Other

• Reshapes the Mare Insularum crater field into a mountain (source)
• Creates a vacuum to prevent a sound-based entity from existing; breaks apart Charcoal, and prevents his body from reforming; and negates gravity to discorporate the body of a bioelectric being (source)
• Creates a high-gravity field around Tigra, trapping her (source)
• Cocoons someone in a forcefield (source)
• Cocoons someone in a forcefield again (source)
• Cocoons someone in a forcefield again (source)
• Granted his ‘sky raiders’ the power of flight (source)
• Made his sky raiders bullet-proof (source)
• Modern-arts his furniture (source)
• Purges the Smuggler from his body’s shadows by disconnecting himself from the rotation of the Earth and letting himself be taken to the sun (source)
• Copying his powers, Rogue is overwhelmed by her own insignificance (source)

Forcefield

• Blocks Iron Man and Wonder Man (source)
• Cushions most of a blow from Wonder Man (source)
• Is dented by Iron Man at peak intensity (source)
• Is dented by Iron Man at peak intensity again (source)
• Blocks Iron Man’s repulsors (source)
• Tanks attacks from Atlas and Moonstone (source)
• Blocks Tigra (source)
• A large forcefield tanks jets (source)
• No-sells Hawkeye’s arrows (source)
• No-sells bullets (source)
• Blocks Thor’s lightning, then redirects a second attack back at Thor (source)
• Survives an amped blast from Iron Man (source)
• No-sells Songbird’s sound-spheres (source)
• Blocks phasing (source)

Super-density

• Takes strikes from the Thing and his distaff counterpart, and talks about making his flesh denser than the Thing’s (source)
• Tanks the Human Torch, though his fireball hurts (source)
• A later, continued combination of hot and cold attacks drives Graviton away (source)
• Takes numerous attacks from the Thunderbolts while they’re immune to the direct effect of his powers (source)

Unclear

• Takes an impact from Atlas at ten-times his normal weight, then repeated strikes (source)
• Takes anti-air missiles and attacks from the Thunderbolts (source)
• Is punched by Spider-Man, quickly recovering (source)
• Remains conscious after being sent through a sign-board, a water tower, and a car; and into the street by a blast from Cosmic Spider-Man (source)
• Is flown into by Mach 3 Iron Man (source)
• Survives Iron Man’s unibeam, which rises in temperature to at least 10,073°K (source)
• Tanks Shuri’s electricity (source)
• With his powers disrupted by Synapse, takes attacks from numerous Avengers (source)
• Survives several-thousand volts, but is brought to the brink of death (source)
• Recovers enough to retaliate after being brought to the brink of death (source)

Materially Unstable Form - Gravity‑manipulation

• Increases the Thing’s weight a dozenfold, immobilising him (source)
• Immobilises Jarvis (source)
• Immobilises a woman (source)

Materially Unstable Form - Resilience

• Takes a bolt from Black Bolt (source)

Materially Unstable Form - Other

• Phases through the Thing’s punch due to his material instability (source)

Gravity Creature Form - Gravity‑manipulation

• From Manhattan, conjures a giant ball of flaming gasses from the sun, directed towards the Himalayan city of Attilan, with the intention of reducing it to bubbling slag (source)
• Projects numerous miniature black holes, intending for them to pass through the Thing and take fragments of his mass with them, though Black Bolt redirects them magnetically (source)

Gravity Creature Form - Strength

• Damages buildings and knocks vehicles over (source)

Gravity Creature Form - Resilience

• No-sells a concrete frisbee thrown by the Thing, what he calls his best shot (source)
• Is unharmed by a bullet (source)
• Is unharmed by helicopters (source)

Gravity Creature Form - Other

• Is a living black hole, a sentient pocket universe with the mass of an island (source)
• Could seemingly be forced back into the universe his powers are tied to via collision with anti-matter (source)
• Releases conscious control of his unstable form and is sucked into the universe his powers are tied to (source)