Age: 26

Occupation: Manager of a small furniture store

History: Carter's parents, devout pacifists, always tried to instill their beliefs on their young son, trying to keep him away from reading or viewing anything that would encourage violence as a solution to any of life's problems. Carter continued to read comic books in secret, even after his parents were murdered by a gang member mugging them.

Carter devoted himself to following the pacifist views of his parents... until the harsh conditions of Pharos City finally drove him to realize that Pharos City would never be saved unless he took action. Born with unusual powers to manipulate light, and thanks to sewing lessons from his Home Ec classes taken in high school, Carter designed his Lightbringer outfit and not fights to make Pharos City a better place to live.

Powers: Although Carter has no idea how his powers work or where he got them from, what he is actually doing is manipulating gravity at a subatomic level, however his ability to manipulate it is limited only to light particles. As such, Carter can make light feel solid, fly, shoot bursts of light that can be as tame as a temporary blinding flash to a powerful beam that can give a person third degree burns depending on how powerful the beam is.

Weaknesses: Despite the incredible power that Carter wields, he's still human. As such, his own strength and stamina are limited to those of a human being. He has commented once that although his powers may move at the speed of light, he does not move as quickly. As such, if he were to be shot at with a gun and not get a shield of light up in time, he would be unable to stop the bullet. Also, his eyes are still susceptible to the brightness of his own light. As such, he is afraid to use his powers whenever his mask is off (the lenses in the mask are sunglasses).



After consulting with James Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes, at a convention, it was decided that the way that Lightbringer flies is that light particles, since they still have mass, also still have momentum when they hit something, but it's usually so minute in power that it doesn't affect the object they're hitting. Lightbringer is flying because he is inadvertantly causing incalculable amounts of light to hit him, transferring TONS of momentum against him so he can move around. Back to the Cast Page