Ray Palmer (Earth-Prime)

"Endings are necessary for growth, no matter how painful they may be."

- Ray Palmer

Dr. Raymond "Ray" Palmer is a scientist, an expert in nanotechnology and the former CEO of Palmer Technologies.

Using a suit of armor, the ATOM Exosuit, Palmer became a vigilante in Star City known as The Atom. He later joined the Legends of Tomorrow as one of Rip Hunter's eight recruits.

As a Legend, Palmer served as the Waverider and the team's resident scientist/engineer, creating countless gadgets for the team. He also met Nora Darhk, whom he married after 2 years of a romantic friend-foe relationship. As a result, Palmer left the Legends and lived a normal life with Nora.

Recruited by Rip Hunter
"We made history."

- Ray Palmer to Sara Lance on them joining the Legends

In 2015, Palmer, alongside Sara Lance, Mick Rory, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, Kendra Saunders, Carter Hall and Leonard Snart were recruited by Rip Hunter. They were then the founding members of the team known as the Legends of Tomorrow and defended the timeline.

After their first mission, Palmer made breakfast as it was stolen by Snart. Palmer attempted to take the breakfast back before Carter Hall smashed the plate on with his mace. This woke Lance from her sleep, and Palmer approached her to clean the stain from her suit. Lance threatened to break his arm, while Snart defended Palmer and placed the blame on Hall. The four soon began to hold up their weapons at each other. Gideon ordered them to stop and intimidated them by promising to open the airlock to eject them to the Temporal Zone.

After the first night on the Waverider, Palmer struggled with his allergies after his sleep and sowed the seeds to an argument within the team. The Legends soon argued about only having one bathroom on the vehicle. After Snart misfired a blast from his Cold Gun to Lance, the team began fighting each other violently. The fight was eventually broken up by Rip Hunter.

Powers/ATOM Exosuit Capabilities

 * ATOM Exosuit Application: Palmer is extremely skilled in the use of the ATOM Exosuit, an advanced suit of armor created by himself to fight as a vigilante.
 * Flight: The exosuit contains a series of propulsion jets on the back, shoulders, arms and legs. This allowed Palmer to fly at high altitudes and maneuver obstacles in his reduced size.
 * Self-Contained Life-Support System: The exosuit supplies Palmer with oxygen when he travels to a high altitude, allowing him to retain his consciousness despite the lack of oxygen.
 * Size Alteration: By pushing a button on the chest, the exosuit is able to alter both Palmer and itself's size. According to himself, Palmer accidentally entered the "Atomverse" while testing the shrinking function of the exosuit.
 * Size Changing Beam: The exosuit is able to create a condensed red beam of size alteration ray, reducing the size of certain objects and restore its size.
 * Energy Blasters/Photon Cannons: The primary offensive function of the exosuit is creating blasts of compressed light beams from the forearm. The beams build up from the forearm and are manually targeted by Palmer. The beams are also powerful enough to propel opponents physically and damage solid structures.
 * Superhuman Strength: Despite the presence of photon cannons, it requires a short period of time to recharge and creates a gap for Palmer to be attacked. As a result, Palmer mostly uses the superhuman strength function of the suit to fight his opponents through hand-to-hand combats.
 * Armor System: The exosuit contains an A.I. system in order to operate multiple functions of the suit. The system is also voice-responsive, operating under Palmer's commands and activated the suits. However, the targeting system of the photon cannons are manually used by Ray Palmer.

Abilities

 * Genius-level Intellect: Palmer is extremely intelligent, as shown when he understood complex concepts and repaired the Waverider, which was created from more than a century ago.
 * Engineering: Palmer was the creator of the ATOM Exosuit and the former engineer of the Waverider.
 * Physics: Palmer is able to understand complex physics concepts.
 * Hand-to-Hand Combat: Palmer has shown his boxing skills while operating as a vigilante, using his exosuit's superhuman strength to increase the damage of his attacks.

Weaknesses

 * Allergy: After his first night on the Waverider, Palmer continuously sneezed and suffered from his allergies.

Current Equipment

 * ATOM Exosuit: Palmer created the exosuit in order to operate as the vigilante, The Atom.

Former Equipment
"Nanites. Courtesy of Ray Palmer."

- John Diggle


 * Nanites: Palmer was the creator of a series of anti-speedster nanites, allowing his allies to use it against rogue speedsters, such as "Godspeed".

List of Works

 * ATOM Exosuit: Palmer built an advanced exosuit to initially become a vigilante using Palmer Technologies resources.
 * MCCU (Micro-Catalyzed Containment Unit):

Reverse Flashpoint

 * Particle Eradication Distributor: In 2031, Barry Allen murdered Ray Palmer and took the device from his corpse.

Filmography

 * Meet the Legends