Who Is Graviton? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Graviton is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Franklin Hall, with over 181 comic issue appearances. Graviton was a physicist, named Franklin Hall, who was involved in an experiment in a private research facility in the Canadian Rockies. A mistake in Hall's calculations causes graviton particles to merge with his own molecules, and Hall later discovers that he can mentally control gravity.

Who is Graviton?

Origin Franklin Hall Franklin Hall was born far North in Alberta, Canada. He excelled at school his entire life, especially showing promise in the sciences. He eventually became a lead scientist, considered by many to be the most brilliant, at a small private physics research institute in the Canadian Rockies. During an experiment on particle acceleration, Hall attempted to align a particular set of graviton matrices and induce a teleportation effect. All he succeeded in doing however was overloading the power thresholds on his equipment. The resulting explosion destroyed Hall's equipment along with two neighboring particle accelerators. The mixture of these explosions resulted in an atomic flurry that intermingled Hall's molecules with sub-nuclear graviton particles eventually granting him the power to mentally manipulate gravity. Franklin, at first, hid this power from the world.

Key facts

Graviton is of human origin and first appeared in "When Avengers Clash!!". The character is published by Marvel. With 181 recorded issue appearances, Graviton ranks among the most featured characters in comics.