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 and an expert in nanotechnology.

Using a suit of armor, the A.T.O.M. Exosuit, Ray 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, Ray 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, Ray left the Legends and lived a normal life with Nora.

Recruited by Rip Hunter
"We made history."

- Ray to Sara on them joining the Legends

Powers/A.T.O.M. Exosuit Capabilities

 * A.T.O.M. Exosuit Application: Ray is extremely skilled in the use of the A.T.O.M. 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 Ray to fly at high altitudes and manoeuvre obstacles in his reduced size.
 * Self-Contained Life-Support System: The exosuit supplies Ray with oxygen when he travels to a high altitude, allowing him retain his consciousness despite the lack of oxygen.
 * Size Alteration: By pushing a button on the chest, the exosuit is allow to alter both Ray and itself's size. According to himself, Ray 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 Ray. 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 Ray to be attacked. As a result, Ray 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 Ray's commands and activated the suits. However, the targeting system of the photon cannons are manually used by Ray Palmer.

Abilities

 * Genius-level Intellect: Ray is extremely intelligent as shown when he understood complex concepts and repaired the Waverider, which was created from more than a century ago.
 * Master Engineer: Ray was the creator of the A.T.O.M. Exosuit and the former engineer of the Waverider.
 * Master Physician: Ray is able to understand complex physics concepts.
 * Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Ray has shown his boxing skills while operating as a vigilante, using his exosuit's superhuman strength to increase the damage of his attacks,

Current Equipment

 * A.T.O.M. Exosuit: Ray created the exosuit in order to operate as the vigilante, The Atom.

Former Equipment
"Nanites. Courtesy of Ray Palmer."

- John Diggle


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