Powerful energy-manipulating supervillain; often considered a "second-tier" master villain.
Biography[]
Geoffrey Haganstone was born to power — in more ways than one. The son of Senator Albert Haganstone of Pennsylvania and his socialite wife Clarice, Geoffrey was a precocious child, far more intelligent and active than his years would indicate. Raised in a family of wealth and privilege, he lacked for nothing; many people predicted he would succeed to his father’s Senate seat one day. When he was a teenager, Geoffrey manifested mutant powers — the ability to control and project energy. Concerned about “scandal,” the Haganstone family kept his superpowers secret, thus allowing him to develop his abilities without hindrance. By the time he finished college, Geoffrey’s combination of power, privilege, and wealth had made him haughty and condescending. He realized he, and he alone, was fit to lead the peoples of the world — and with his abilities, he could conquer them. The thought of ruling Earth soon came to obsess him, but he knew even he, by himself, would find it hard to conquer humanity... unless it learned to fear him, and through fear respect him. He had to teach his lessers the obedience and discipline they so badly needed through actions imperial in scope and frightening in their grandeur. Fashioning a costume and choosing a name — Holocaust — designed to impress and terrify, Geoffrey started his supervillain career by attacking the Empire State Building in 1983. The Justice Squadron defeated him, but only barely, and he escaped at the last minute. Since then he’s launched many schemes of conquest, typically involving the destruction of major landmarks and other attention-grabbing events. So far superheroes have defeated him, often by the barest of margins, and have never managed to capture him. He’s convinced it’s only a matter of time before he finds a way to triumph.