Waverider (character)

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This article is about the DC Comics character. For other characters, see Waverider (disambiguation).
Waverider
The Matthew Ryder incarnation of Waverider as depicted in Superman: Legacy of Superman #1 (February 1993). Art by Arthur Adams.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceArmageddon 2001 #1 (May 1991)
Created by
In-story information
Alter egoMatthew Ryder
Team affiliationsLinear Men
Justice League
Abilities
  • Time travel
  • Can access a person's aura and see their past and possible future
  • Quantum energy blasts
  • Lightspeed flight
  • Invisibility
  • Intangibility

Waverider (Matthew Ryder) is a superhero appearing in media published by DC Comics universe. He was created by Archie Goodwin and Dan Jurgens, with the first version of the character, Matthew Ryder, first appearing in Armageddon 2001 #1 (May 1991).[1] A second version of the character is a Hypertime-line counterpart and partner of the original, who became Waverider after his superpowered doppelgänger's death during the storyline Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! (September 1994).

A third version of the character first appeared in Convergence: Booster Gold #2 (July 2015) as a reborn older version of the pre-Flashpoint Booster Gold (also created by Jurgens). After his transformation, he is instrumental to saving the multiverse in Convergence #8. His powers are the same as the original Waverider, but his knowledge and history are Booster Gold's.

Fictional character biography

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Matthew Ryder is a scientist from a post-apocalyptic 2030 led by the villain Monarch. He builds a time machine to travel to the past and prevent his rule, but is fused with the timestream, gaining the ability to travel through time.[2][3][4]

Making his way into the year 1991, Waverider predicts the futures of numerous heroes in his search for Monarch. However, when he encounters Captain Atom, their energies interact to create a temporal wave that enables Monarch to travel back in time and kill Dove.[5]

Post-Armageddon

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Waverider and various heroes who he gathered defeated a demonic being called Abraxis.[6] Later, while Waverider was traveling through the time stream, he encountered an alternate timeline doppelgänger of himself, who was still a regular human (since Monarch's future reign had been erased). Following this, both Matthew Ryders join the Linear Men, with the powerless Ryder becoming their leader. Despite the Linear Men's policy of non-intervention in the timeline, Waverider helps Superman defeat Doomsday by transporting him to the end of time, where he is destroyed by entropy.[7]

In Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Waverider is killed by Extant and succeeded by his present-day self.[8] In 52, Mister Mind kills the second Waverider using Booster Gold's robot Skeets.[9][10]

Successors

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Linear Woman

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Waverider's successor is Liri Lee, a member of the Linear Men who gained his powers after fusing with his corpse and became Linear Woman.[11]

Booster Gold

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In Convergence, Booster Gold becomes a new Waverider after Rip Hunter takes him into the timestream to save him from dying due to the effects of excessive time travel.[12]

Powers and abilities

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Waverider can time-travel at will, and is capable of accessing the time stream and monitoring it. He can also access a person's aura to view their past and future, fly at the speed of light, fire quantum energy blasts, and become invisible and intangible.

In other media

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References

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  4. ^ Armageddon 2001 #1 (May 1991)
  5. ^ Armageddon 2001 #2 (October 1991)
  6. ^ Armageddon: Inferno (April 1992)
  7. ^ Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey (January 1994)
  8. ^ Zero Hour #2 (September 1994)
  9. ^ 52 #26 (November 2006)
  10. ^ 52 #27 (December 2006)
  11. ^ Time Masters: Vanishing Point #3 - 6 (November 2010 - February 2011)
  12. ^ Convergence: Booster Gold #2 (July 2015)
  13. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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