Who Is Fallout? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Fallout is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Neil Borman, with over 30 comic issue appearances. The man who secretly powers Iron Heights prison.

Who is Fallout?

History Neil Borman was a member of a team hired to do some additional work on a nuclear power plant they had helped construct. During a series of tests an explosion destroyed the floor that Borman and his workmates were working on, and they fell into the reactor's cooling system. His co-workers died, but Borman survived, his body’s molecular structure shifted transforming into a man composed of high-energy electrons. Unfortunately, Borman had brought his wife and son to work to show them around the plant. When he searched for them, contact with his new body killed them. In the same way he inadvertently killed several people. Genuinely remorseful, he was imprisoned in Iron Heights Penitentiary, where he was used to power the prison with his new abilities. The Flash found out about the inhumane treatment of Fallout and the disastrous state of Iron Heights, and while he was unable to change the living conditions within, he managed to have the prison's systems changed so Fallout wouldn't have to suffer as the energy within his body was siphoned.

Key facts

Fallout is of radiation origin. The character is published by DC Comics. With 30 recorded issue appearances, Fallout ranks among the most featured characters in comics.