ATTILANTIUM

Classification: Terrestrial element

Creator: Unrevealed Inhumans

User/Possessors: Damage Control (Gus, Jay, Bart Rozum, Eugene Strausser), Trentonn the Terrible (Chad)

First Appearance: Damage Control IV#3 (January, 2023)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: Any piece of Attilantium causes Terrigenesis mutations in any dormant Inhumans that touch it.

History:
(Damage Control IV#3 (fb) - BTS) - Following the removal of the floating city of Attilan from the Hudson River, chunks of the former city would occasionally be found and the chunks were eventually referred to as Attilantium by the superhero cleanup company Damage Control. Early one morning, a Trenton, New Jersey deckhand named Chad pulled up a chunk of Attilantium crystals in his fishing net and, unaware he was actually a dormant Inhuman, Chad touched the Attilantium and was transformed into a gigantic catfish-like monster. The Attilantium also affected his mind, causing him to dub himself Trentonn the Terrible, refer to himself in the third person and inciting within him a desire to destroy.

(Damage Control IV#3) - After Trentonn's rampage through Trenton, New Jersey was halted by Thor, Damage Control search and rescue agent Lenny Ballinger questioned Thor and Trentonn, learning that Trentonn had been mutated by a glowing crystal and prompting a further investigation of the crystal. Visiting Trentonn's former fishing boat, Lenny and Damage Control intern Gus inspected the crystal and Lenny confirmed the crystals were Attilantium. Warning Gus against touching the Attilantium, Lenny went to get a winch to move the crystals from the boat but while Lenny was gone, the ignorant Gus touched the Attilantium and was transformed into a giant guinea pig.

(Damage Control IV#4 - recap page - BTS) - His mind affected by the Attilantium, the guinea pig Gus got into an "epic fight" with Trentonn until they eventually calmed and set back down.

(Damage Control IV#3) - Returning to the scene, Lenny found the beaten Trentonn and guinea pig Gus sitting on a hillside and an annoyed Lenny immediately deduced Gus had indeed touched the Attilantium despite his warnings.

(Damage Control IV#4) - Damage Control's Bart Rozum introduced the transformed Gus to research and development head Eugene Strausser as Eugene's new assistant and when Eugene questioned why his assistant was a giant guinea pig, Rozum pulled out a container of Attilantium and explained that Gus had touched the Attilantium. Rozum then admitted that Damage Control hoped Eugene could determine what exactly the Attilantium was and restore Gus to normal. Opening the Attilantium vial, Eugene grumbled that he could restore Gus and warned Rozum against insulting his intelligence. Later, after Eugene Strausser succeeded in restoring Gus' humanity, he was re-inspired to become a criminal following Gus' mentioning of a previous similar incident and Gus grew so annoyed at Eugene for trying to also drag him into the criminal life that he angrily suggested Eugene just touch the Attilantium and become a monster on his own. Taking Gus' words to heart, Eugene did just that and touched the Attilantium, which transformed him into a giant slug monster.

(Damage Control IV#5) - While moving Gus to Damage Control's Deep Storage Vault, Bart Rozum brought along the contained Attilantium and passed it over to the head of security, Jay, so that it could be placed somewhere very deep into storage so Eugene Strausser could never find it again. Jay opted to store the Attilantium somewhere in the south corridor of Quadrant 7A.

Comments: Created by Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff and Nathan Stockman.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Attilantium has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Damage Control IV#3, p18, pan2 (Attilantium crystals, main image)
Damage Control IV#5, p5, pan2 (Attilantium in storage container)
Damage Control IV#3, p18, pan4 (Attilantium in fishing net)
Damage Control IV#4, p4, pan2 (Bart Rozum holding a storage container of Attilantium)

Appearances:
Damage Control IV#3 (January, 2023) - Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff (writers), Nathan Stockman (art), Tom Brevoort, Wil Moss (editors)
Damage Control IV#4 (January, 2023) - Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff (writers), Nathan Stockman (art), Tom Brevoort, Wil Moss (editors)
Damage Control IV#5 (February, 2023) - Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff (writers), Nathan Stockman (art), Tom Brevoort, Wil Moss (editors)

First Posted: 08/09/2024
Last updated: 08/09/2024

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