Solomon

Biodata

Power Progression

Solomon’s panel tracks individual attributes rather than a single overall level. Defeating superhumans grants him abilities and attribute gains; repeated acquisitions can upgrade existing powers 120 140.

• Rule-value inconsistency: The departure panel prints rule power as 0.0147, while the same chapter’s narration states 147 strands. Later panels print 0.0158 and 0.0173; no explanation for the notation change is supplied 435 454 469.

Background and History

Arrival in *The Boys*

Solomon transmigrates into The Boys with knowledge of its original plot. Recognizing that he cannot safely hunt superhumans alone, he finds Hughie’s electronics store and becomes his coworker. He witnesses A-Train kill Robin, attends her funeral, and stays close to Hughie while waiting for Butcher to appear 1 2.

His immediate target is Translucent: Solomon knows the Boys will capture him and that defeating him is sufficient to obtain his powers. He prepares a high-voltage stun baton and waits in the store’s storeroom for the attack. By the time Frenchie meets him, Solomon has successfully taken Translucent down 1 2 5.

Joining and Taking Control of Vought

Homelander forcibly recruits Solomon as Translucent’s replacement after discovering his similar invisibility. Solomon persuades him that frequent public appearances would risk exposing the substitution, then uses his new position to pursue access to Vought’s superhuman resources 14 15.

He continues helping the Boys without committing to their campaign against Homelander. His suspiciously convenient interventions attract Butcher’s attention, while Homelander uses him to spy on Maeve. Homelander repeatedly inflicts fatal-looking injuries on him, including a pierced chest and decapitation, but Solomon survives through regeneration 34 35 55 60.

After reading Madelyn’s memories, Solomon obtains information on hidden laboratories, experimental sites, and Becca and Ryan’s location. Ashley later supplies the Harmony Castle lead and encrypted files on surviving Supes while withholding that lead from Homelander 71 112.

As Solomon’s strength overtakes Homelander’s, their relationship shifts from coercion to cooperation and dependence. Homelander warns him about Edgar’s attempt to obstruct his growth, and Solomon begins teaching him combat and helping him confront his origins. By Solomon’s later reunion with the Boys, they recognize him as Vought’s true ruler 122 140 142 284.

The Mutant World

Solomon arrives in another world in June 1962. After reading several criminals’ memories, he initially concludes that it may lack supernatural forces; he later encounters mutants and operates through Vought there 168 170 229.

He helps investigate Raven’s evolved ability to copy mutant powers and recruits Wolverine and Sabretooth after defeating them. He also accepts Charles’s request for assistance against Sebastian Shaw in exchange for a global broadcast 214 229 241.

Despite his growing strength, Solomon refuses to awaken Apocalypse after examining the sleeping mutant’s attributes. He instead leaves with plans to return stronger. His preparations include giving Stryker Compound V and implanting a directive to continue mutant experimentation and biological-weapons research 275.

Clark, the Gods, and New Krypton

On meeting Clark, Solomon fabricates a history in which he is another survivor of Krypton. He combines genuine knowledge from his previous life’s films with invented personal details, wins Clark’s trust, and is welcomed into Martha’s home 301 302.

Solomon teaches Clark to understand and control his powers, helps establish Vought in Metropolis, and confronts other powerful beings, including Arthur Curry, Calvin, and Diana. His relationship with the Kent family eventually becomes more than a useful cover: he spends a month living quietly on the farm and later acknowledges the warmth he feels toward Clark 303 322 323 327 346 355 427.

After Diana questions him with the Lasso of Truth, Solomon admits that he is an Earthling rather than a Kryptonian. He subsequently reveals his copying ability and existence as a traveler between worlds. Clark continues to trust him despite the deception 426 427.

Solomon acquires divine and demonic powers, gives Clark champion power, and later visits Themyscira with Diana. Before leaving the universe, he collects Nth metal and says farewell to his companions 402 432 434 435.

Ta Lo and the Avengers

Solomon obtains Shang-Chi and Xialing’s pendants, activates the Water Map, and memorizes the route into Ta Lo. He erases the Ten Rings group’s memories of the encounter before entering the bamboo maze, where Ying Nan and Ta Lo’s warriors confront him 450.

After further acquisitions, including powers copied from the Avengers, Solomon meets the Ancient One in the Mirror Dimension. She identifies him as an unforeseen presence who has changed the universe’s future, but acknowledges that his interventions have prevented its approaching catastrophe in most futures she can observe 454 469 470.

Appearance

• Usual presentation: A dark-haired young man; villagers identify him as a Chinese stranger during his search for Arthur Curry 299 323.
• Disguises: Uses shapeshifting extensively. Before joining The Seven, he adopts the appearance of a young, clean-cut white man 14.
• Clothing: Wears a black coat when confronting Arthur and favors deep, understated colors 321 323.
• Kryptonian battle suit: A close-fitting black nanomaterial suit with a silver “S” emblem, contrasting with Clark’s red-and-blue costume 321.

Personality

Solomon initially prioritizes survival, secrecy, and controlled growth. He approaches Hughie because his routine makes him accessible, avoids disrupting important plot events prematurely, and refuses to testify against Vought because doing so would expose him to retaliation. His early caution is strategic rather than an attachment to either the Boys or Vought 1 2 8.

He is calculating and willing to manipulate others for power. He provokes Supes into fights, constructs a false Kryptonian identity to approach Clark, and preserves Stryker’s interest in mutant experimentation for his own plans. He explicitly recognizes that he lacks Clark’s near-saintly kindness and prefers the freedom represented by his black suit 27 275 302 321.

Nevertheless, Solomon develops genuine attachments. He protects Starlight from Homelander, repeatedly assists Hughie’s companions, and hopes to resume ordinary friendship with them even after becoming Vought’s ruler. Their fear disappoints him, while Clark’s unreserved trust draws out a warmth that is initially unfamiliar to him 60 285 327 427.

His treatment of Homelander combines restraint, instruction, and firm boundaries. He helps resolve Homelander’s insecurities without routinely humiliating him in public, but responds decisively when Homelander again attempts to assert authority over him 123 140 142 287.

Abilities & Skills

Power and Attribute Copying

Solomon’s central cheat grants abilities and attribute gains by defeating superhumans; killing is not required 1 120.

• Knocking targets unconscious or overpowering their consciousness can qualify as defeat 120 132 140.
• Repeated acquisitions upgrade matching powers, as demonstrated by Telekinesis and Biological Immortality 116 140.
• Can acquire powers from mutants, aliens, divine beings, and demons, not only Compound V Supes 197 347 354 377.
• Can consolidate overlapping abilities, including separate healing powers 163.
• Accumulates hundreds of abilities, reaching a documented count of 520 during his mutant-world growth 197.

Physical Enhancement and Specialized Physiologies

Copied physiologies provide overlapping physical powers and species-specific traits 312 325 347 354.

• Kryptonian Physiology: Supports continued attribute growth through sunlight exposure 312 348.
• Martian Physiology: Acquired from Calvin, with major gains to mental and energy attributes 347 348.
• Atlantis Physiology: Grants seawater manipulation, seawater summoning, and control over marine species whose mental attribute does not exceed his own 325.
• Demigod Physiology: Provides divine power and high resistance to magic and mental control 354.
• Amazon traits: Include endless natural lifespan, immediate weapon mastery through touch, divine goodwill, and emergency protection from Zeus 432.

Speed, Flight, and Super-Speed Time

His movement powers develop from Shockwave’s Mach 1 speed into upgraded super speed and independent flight 7 106.

• Super Speed +4 combines with Level 4 speed for a stated maximum of Mach 50 146.
• Super Speed +5 multiplies speed and control by six 163.
• Super-Speed Time: Slows perceived external time by a factor of one hundred for one second 163.
• Flight speed is linked to the Speed attribute 106.

Regeneration, Immortality, and Healing

Super-Speed Healing repairs severe damage to Solomon’s own body, while separate healing abilities treat others 19 163.

• Its initial description requires more than thirty percent of his brain tissue to remain intact; worse injuries take longer to heal 19.
• Survives Homelander breaking his neck and separating his head from his body 60.
• Biological immortality and adaptability later help him survive injuries, poisoning, infection, and hostile conditions unless he is instantly annihilated 163.
• His consolidated Healing ability initially handles ordinary internal and external wounds, but cannot replace missing limbs or organs in others 163.

Invisibility, Shapeshifting, and Duplication

These powers support infiltration, impersonation, and maintaining separate activities 35 37 81.

• Carbon-Fiber Super Skin +1: Extends invisibility to objects within ten centimeters of his body 83.
• Shapeshifting +3: Replicates people he has personally seen, including their voices and unique abilities 146.
• Self-Duplication: At Level 3 energy, clone control extends over thirty kilometers 81.
• Can field more than one hundred clones simultaneously by his truce with Homelander 91.
• Breath Concealment: Suppresses heart rate, temperature, blood flow, breathing, and movement noise 100.

Psychic Powers and Perception

Solomon combines memory access, mental control, telekinesis, and enhanced senses 41 132 140.

• Memory Reading: Extracts hidden information, including Madelyn’s knowledge of Vought facilities and Ryan’s location 71.
• Mind Suppression: Suppresses consciousness and forcibly controls a target’s body 132.
• Mind Control: Immobilizes criminals and later erases memories from Wenwu’s group 168 450.
• Telekinesis +2: Triples telekinetic strength and control; later upgrades reach +7 140 150.
• Energy Vision: Assesses opponents’ attributes and energy reserves, including Apocalypse’s 275.
• Echolocation: Maps surrounding rooms and tracks people and conversations without direct sight 28.

Energy and Elemental Manipulation

His offensive powers include Laser Eyes, Plasma Violet Lightning, fire, electricity, blood, and multiple elements 95 102 150 413.

• Counters Homelander’s red beams with blue eye beams and later pierces his enhanced defenses with violet lightning 89 287.
• Converts absorbed electricity into controllable light energy 78.
• Blood Manipulation supports blood weapons, internal attacks, detection, wound repair, and flight 95.
• Radiation Shockwave can forcibly remove Compound V from Supes 162.
• Elemental Power controls earth, water, fire, and wind; Solomon recognizes its potential to rewrite matter through fundamental elements 413.

Spatial Movement and Intangibility

Teleportation, phasing, and spatial manipulation let Solomon bypass distance and physical barriers 72 119 470.

• Teleportation distance increases with his energy attribute 72.
• Phasing carries clothing and equipment and allows physical attacks and energy impacts to pass through him 119.
• Uses intangibility to enter Apocalypse’s buried pyramid without opening a passage 275.
• Folds space to enter the Mirror Dimension 470.
• Travels between separate worlds through his cheat 427 435.

Divine, Magical, and Rule Power

Rule power operates beyond conventional physical attributes and can enhance the rules associated with Solomon’s existing abilities 354 373.

• Acquires power associated with Egyptian gods, Greek gods, demon lords, and the Seven Deadly Sins 372 377 402.
• Can convert initially unattributed rule power into an ability’s corresponding rule, such as flame 373.
• Power of Myriad Phenomena and Elemental Power are described as embryonic rule powers 413.
• Gains Chaos Magic from Calypso and Axis Power from Cassia 419.
• Divine artifacts remain dangerous: Diana’s sword breaches his defenses, her shield blocks his Heat Vision, and the Lasso of Truth restrains him 355.
• He later acknowledges that the Lasso of Truth can overpower even his rule power 426.

Combat and Planning

Solomon supplements copied powers with close-quarters skill, preparation, and knowledge of events from his previous life 1 140 142.

• Exploits targets’ vulnerabilities and engineers favorable encounters, beginning with his planned ambush of Translucent 1 2.
• Teaches Homelander hand-to-hand combat and initially dominates their restricted sparring match through dodges and targeted strikes 140.
• Uses clones to practice precise control of enhanced strength and senses 112.
• Recognizes when an opponent remains beyond him and postpones confrontation, as with Apocalypse 275.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Custom high-voltage stun baton — Prepared for Translucent’s attack; later becomes one of the clues behind Butcher’s deductions 2 161.
• Goggles — Worn while using super speed through the city 11.
• Encrypted Supe files — Supplied by Ashley, containing information on survivors of Compound V injections 112.
• Kryptonian battle suit — Black biological nanomaterial armor with a silver chest emblem. Jor-El’s planned suit includes a concealed backdoor intended to restrain Solomon if his suspicions prove correct 317 321.
• Demon’s Eye — Extracted from Sivana after his defeat 402.
• Nth metal — Obtained through Hawkman before departing the universe 434.
• Emerald pendants — Taken from Shang-Chi and Xialing to activate Ta Lo’s Water Map 450.

Relationships

• Hughie Campbell — Coworker and early confidant whose connection to the Boys gives Solomon access to the plot. Solomon later assures Hughie that invoking their friendship will protect him from Homelander 1 2 285.
• Billy Butcher — Uneasy ally who increasingly suspects Solomon’s interventions are deliberate. Eventually identifies his copying power, hidden strength, and apparent foreknowledge; Solomon confirms his deductions 35 161.
• Homelander — Initially a coercive superior who repeatedly attacks him; later becomes a subordinate who relies emotionally on Solomon’s guidance. That dependence develops into an obsessive attachment 15 60 142 284 287.
• Starlight — Solomon saves her from Homelander, leaving a deep impression on her. She subsequently helps reattach his severed head, and he later acquires her electricity-conversion ability 60 61 78.
• Queen Maeve — Target of Homelander’s surveillance orders. Solomon’s contact with her provokes Homelander’s possessiveness and contributes to the attacks against him 35 46 60.
• Ashley — Vought contact who arranges Supe candidates and provides intelligence. She credits Solomon with helping her retain her position and conceals the Harmony Castle lead from Homelander 28 76 112.
• Mother’s Milk and Frenchie — Allies who appreciate his early assistance but become fearful after he takes control of Vought. Solomon does not forbid Mother’s Milk from pursuing revenge against Soldier Boy 57 284 285.
• Clark Kent — Initially manipulated through Solomon’s false Kryptonian identity; becomes his student, trusted friend, and family-like companion. Their bond survives Solomon’s admission of the deception 302 303 326 427.
• Martha Kent — Welcomes Solomon into her home, providing a domestic refuge he repeatedly returns to 302 327 434.
• Diana Prince — Develops from guarded acquaintance and combat opponent into a romantic partner. She also directly challenges his fabricated identity 327 355 426 432.
• J’onn / Calvin — Opponent whose Martian abilities Solomon copies. Later admits that Lex Luthor persuaded him to investigate Solomon and consider outside intervention 346 347 430.
• Jor-El — Suspects Solomon’s claimed Kryptonian origins because his genes lack a matching record in the Central Codex; warns Clark that Solomon may be connected to Zod 316 317.
• Lex Luthor — Outwardly serves Solomon while privately distrusting him and conspiring against him. Is struck by lightning immediately after Solomon’s departure 329 403 435.
• The Ancient One — Questions his interference with the future, but concedes that his changes have made most observable futures safer 470.

Notable Quotes

“What you need is someone invisible to replace Translucent, not a celebrity in the spotlight.” 15

“If Homelander ever really goes crazy and tries to kill you, tell him loud and clear that you’re my friend. Those words alone will make him spare your life.” 285

“In fact, at the very beginning, I was just an ordinary person who couldn’t even truss a chicken.” 427

“You can think of me as a traveler between worlds, passing through different worlds, drifting.” 427