Wanted for murder, Jake Simmons fled police in a stolen
biplane during a heavy storm. He crashed when lightning struck the plane over
Meteor Crater,
Arizona. The
Ultra-Humanite found him and experimented on him until his body became a living electrical battery. Code-named "Deathbolt", he became the Ultra-Humanite's staunch ally until his defeat by the
All-Star Squadron.[2]
Deathbolt (or a successor) returned in recent years and tried to kill the late
Starman,
Ted Knight only to be thwarted by the arrival of Ted's descendant Farris Knight.[3]
Powers and abilities
Deathbolt can channel the electrical energy in his body into powerful blasts of electricity.[4]
Introduced in Arrow, this version is able to manipulate plasma rather than electricity, and was the first metahuman to appear in the series after the Flash.[5][6][7][8][9] Additionally, he did not receive his powers from the particle accelerator explosion at
Central City - as he was in prison in
Opal City on the night of the explosion - but from another unknown means, widening the possibilities of how metahumans come about in the
Arrowverse.[10][11]
Deathbolt appears in The Flash episode "Rogue Air". As he was about to kill the
Flash, he is himself killed by
Captain Cold for owing him money.[12][13]
References
^Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 78.
ISBN0-8160-1356-X.