Ernst Reichenbach

"Trust me, Miss de la Vega. I know what it looks like when a hero dies."

Doctor Ernst Cohen Reichenbach is an inventor, an arms dealer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and by most standards a supervillain. Certainly his inventions have killed hundreds of thousands. As a result, numerous superheroes have attempted to bring him to justice. He has escaped from a significant fraction of the world's infamous prisons, an achievement even more impressive considering that he does not have confederates or minions.

He also has enemies among the neo-Nazi community, who see his half-Jewish heritage, intelligence and villainy as components for the perfect scapegoat. For his part, Reichenbach has probably brutalized more skinheads than Batman.

Description
"Visually, he's not hunched and balding, or tall and gorgeous and stately, or totally nondescript. He's got a mole removal scar on his nose and another on his neck, a strong jaw, broad shoulders, thick chest, love handles and heavy legs."

Powers, Skills and Talents
Reichenbach has an IQ of 163, is an accomplished violinist, knows every branch of science intimately, and reads insatiably.

He is physically strong, but has no superpowers or mutations apart from his intellect and creativity. His powers of cross-discipline linking and intuition have been described as uncanny.