Anna Atom
Anna Atom was a superhero native to Earth-K, the daughter of famed hero Max Atom. She inherited her father's “nuclear-fueled” superpowers, but grew to dislike his increasingly patronising, authoritarian idea of superheroics until they came to blow and found themselves transported to Reality Z-25 31-H through a transdimensional maelstrom.
Description
Physical appearance
Anna Atom appeared as a tall, muscular, pale-skinned woman with short black hair and dark blue eyes. Her superhero outfit consisted of a white leotard which covered her legs but kept her arms bare, as well as light-gray boots and gloves. Her chest was adorned with a red version of the same atom symbol which was, used in a golden variant, by her father. (PROSE: Anna Atom vs Max Atom)
Personality
In contrast to her father, Anna Atom had scruples about the ethical quandaries of superheroing, and came to object to her father's hardline authoritarianism to the point of genuinely coming to blows with him. She was capable of falling into a deep, outraged rage that would drive her to self-sabotaging, unreasoned actions, such as her refusing to speak to anyone after she was enraged by her father's success in tricking the authority of Reality Z-25 31-H into thinking she was a villain. (PROSE: Anna Atom vs Max Atom)
Powers & abilities
Like her father, Anna Atom had great “nuclear-fueled” powers. When they tried to hit one another at full power, the collision created a hole in the space-time continuum. (PROSE: Anna Atom vs Max Atom)
Biography
Early life
From an early age, Anna followed her father, beloved superhero Max Atom, into the superheroing “business”, proving to have nuclear superpowers to match his own. However, over the years, she grew concerned about her father's backslide into authoritarianism, pushing back the other way and advocating for a more open way for superheroes to operate, more in tune with the wishes of the public. (PROSE: Anna Atom vs Max Atom)
When she visited Earth-K, Jenny Everywhere tried to reconcile the increasingly-estranged Atoms, without success. (COMIC: Whatever Happened to Jenny Everywhere?!)
Blown to Reality Z-25 31-H
Eventually, things came to blow between her and her father. When they hit each other at full force with their powers at the climax of the battle, they appeared to outside observers to have annihilated each other, but in fact, the clash had created a rip in space-time. Falling through a transdimensional maelstrom, they emerged in the middle of Reality Z-25 31-H's New York City. They resumed fighting as soon as they'd gotten their bearings, but Max quickly pretended to lose to Anna, who kept pummeling him in her anger — making himself look like the victim as the local authorities intervened and assumed that Anna must be some supervillain from Max's universe.
While Max got to be personally greeted by Mayor Wilson, Anna was taken into custody by special troops — actually loyal to Ohmega rather than any government power - who used power-dampening chains to keep her contained. Reporter Amanda Allen tried to interview her before she was taken away, but she was wordless with sheer rage, and Max's side of the story thus stood unchallenged. (PROSE: Anna Atom vs Max Atom)
Behind the scenes
Anna Atom was created on June 7th, 2010 by Michael P. as an open-source character, alongside Max Atom and Earth-K itself, being part of a wider mythos of open-source characters also including several other open-source characters. They all had a variant of the Paragraph that also included creator credit:
| Earth-K, Anna Atom, and Max Atom were created by Michael P. and are available for use by anyone, with only one condition: This paragraph must be included in any publication involving Earth-K, Anna Atom, and Max Atom in order that others may use these properties as they wish. |
| —The Paragraph |
Anna Atom's original open-source bio read:
| Anna is the daughter of Max Atom. She manifested her powers at about age 14 and, along with the rest of the Power Society children, became a member of the Power Kids. As she and her friends grew older, she frequently clashed with her father, who insisted that secrecy and intimidation were essential to their mission while she argued that such tactics caused fear in the general public, planting the image of sinister, untraceable organization doing whatever it wanted to whomever it wanted. Eventually, her father’s decision to exclude Kid Astro and Popsicle from The Power Society and his appointment of two neophytes to take their places brought matters to a head. She is currently the co-chair of the International Justice and Liberty Association, alongside Red Lightning, a former member of the Power Society. Like her father, Anna possess super-strength, invulnerability, super-leaping, and the ability to run at approximately 100 miles per hour. |
| —Michael P. |
