Ubermensch
Background
Hans Schneider was this universe's first successful test tube baby, created by a remnant of Nazi scientists in 1980 using stolen Mandelovian genetic instruments (including an early prototype of the Interactive Genetic Organizational Regulator, known as G.E.O. - Genetic Experimental Operator). Using the data and research collected from Hitler's 'superman' program, the scientists were able to create the perfect Aryan specimen, using the best of the DNA of many Nazi leaders.
The experiment enjoyed a short success, however, as the Mandelovian government retaliated the loss of their stolen property, wiping all memory of the project and placing the child (whose latent potential they realized, but did not want to see actualized) was placed under the care of Herr and Frau Schneider, a middle-class couple in Hamburg incapable of bearing children.
As Hans grew, he began to adopt a serious interest in philosophy, especially the writings of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. These studies led him to Bonn University, where philosophers like Karl Marx and Nietzsche himself got their starts. On his eighteenth birthday, however, Schneider discovered that he, too, was like Nietzsche's ubermensch, capable of seizing his own destiny due to his extraordinary abilities.
Nature and Personality
Hans is a very bright and laid-back young man for the most part. Whether due to his questionable origins or humble German upbringin, in the back of his mind, he's always realized that he was capable of bigger and better things than what he was doing, though, which is why Nietzsche's ubermensch and the "will to power" so intruiged him. He is a young man driven by the desire to fulfill and complete his own destiny through his own 'miraculous' abilities.
Skills and Powers
On an average day, Hans is no different from any other person you might run into. However, whenever he becomes convicted, angry, or otherwise compelled, he is able to activate what he calls his "Will to Power". These abilities manifest themselves one at a time until Hans is fully-powered.
(It should be noted that Hans' abilities are a result of the Nazi genetic experimentation and toying with the metagenetic material latent in many of the specimens used.)
Hans' abilities start off harmless enough, allowing for enhanced senses - sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. After this, he begins to gain enhanced reflexes and agility (not to be confused with speed), follwed by superhuman strength. Not far behind his strength is flight, enabling him to fly into Earth's upper atmospheres, but not outside. He would die with direct contact to outer space, due to his human need for oxygen. Eventually, his body is seized by an imperviousness to physical injury, which allows him to be able to (at least) survive at ground zero of an atomic bomb. Finally, at full power, the Ubermensch is able to convert solar power into energy bursts, which emit themselves from his eyes and hands. These bursts are significantly weaker during the night, as he is only able to convert energy reflected off of the lunar surface.
These levels of power manifest themselves gradually, but are maintained as each new level is added. No one save Hans himself is able to know when these changes are occuring, allowing him to bluff his way out of situations, rather than merely accepting a quick death. In this way, he has evaded the Reaper on more than one occasion.
*NOTE* - Hans has never learned and is not aware of his origins as a Nazi genetics experiment. To his knowledge, he is the son of Herr Ludwig and Frau Olga Schneider of Hamburg.
