DARKWAVE

Real Name: Apparently Darkwave

Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Earth-93060/"Ultraverse") nanotech entity

Occupation: Engine of destruction

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Ultratech (creators);
    formerly used Flood (Leann Butler) as a mind-controlled pawn

Enemies: Flood,  Hardcase (Thomas Hawke), Prime, (Kevin Green), Prototype (Jimmy Ruiz), Zip-Zap (Leon Balford)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    last observed in Des Moines, Iowa;
    created in Ultratech laboratory

First Appearance: (Unidentified) Flood Relief (January, 1994);
    (identified) Ultraverse II: Origins trading card#37 (1994)

Powers/Abilities: A wetware (nanotechnology) creation designed to create water from the air, Darkwave took on a giant, watery semi-humanoid form.

    It was sentient and could speak, as well as laugh sinisterly...

    Darkwave could grasp or hit objects or beings, but anything trying to grasp or hit it would just splash through its watery form.

    It was weakened by a vortex (like a drainpipe?), and it could be evaporated by intense heat, absorbed by fabric, etc.

    Darkwave was able to control the similarly-wetware-empowered Leann Butler, forcing her to create a torrential rain/flood, which further fed its form.

History:

(Flood Relief (fb) - BTS / Ultraverse II: Origins trading card#37) - Ultratech designed wetware (nanotechnology) that would allow mass transportation of tons of water to areas that need it, via pulling water from the atmosphere. The wetware was stolen by unspecified criminals, and Prototype was sent to retrieve it.

(Flood Relief - BTS) - The criminals fought Prototype and in trying to stop them, he blew up their truck, and the wetware was lost. The wetware ended up in some branch of the Mississippi river.

    The next day, the young Leann Butler went fishing, and her body was invaded and mutated by wetware in the form of a fish. When she got home her father, a poor farmer overwhelmed by bills, told her to hope that the light sprinkle that was starting would turn into a good rain so he could salvage his crops. Leann made the wish, and she was pleased to see the rain pick up significantly.

    The wetware became a sentient and malignant being (later identified as Darkwave), which used Leann's brainwaves create a torrential rainstorm, causing massive flooding centered around Des Moines. Darkwave's monstrous form grew larger and more powerful as the rain poured down upon it. Leann remained in a trance-like state, floating high above the rising waters.

(Flood Relief) - Hardcase and Zip-Zap, who were already performing at a benefit in Des Moines, worked to help flood victims. Prime and Prototype also flew out to help. Prototype spied the floating and glowing Leann and flew up to help her, but the wetware (sentient and speaking) then formed into a giant water monster to attack the heroes. The heroes found most physical assaults to be futile against the monster.

    Hardcase realized that Leann was the power battery for the monster, and he had Zip-Zap form a vortex around the water monster, draining the power from Leann and causing the water monster to weaken. The heroes broke free, and Prototype and Hardcase used Prime's cape to catch Darkwave as it shrank, and then Prototype super-heated it, turning it into steam. Pained by the use of his cape, Prime threatened to attack Prototype, but backed off when Prototype picked up Leann and flew her to the hospital.

    This profile was completed 09/06/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event to represent the Flood Relief special and Flood's stories and characters

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Darkwave should be distinguished from:

• WAVE (Pearl Pangan) - mutated by exposure to energies in AlonTech laboratory. Able to control water--War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas#1
  
• WAVE SPIDERS of Earth-928 circa 2099 A.D. - disrupt computer systems, float under cloud cover, used by John Herod--Doom 2099#33
• other "Dark" or "Wave" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...
  

First posted: 09/14/2026
Last updated: 09/06/2026

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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