John Domingo, the Night Man

"Was it the right thing? I had to go with what felt right--because from where I sit, seeing what I see--It's all free-form improv in the dark…!"

John Domingo was working as a professional saxophone player in San Francisco under the stage name Johnny Domino when he was struck by a piece shrapnel from a cable car that had been struck by the Jumpstart, a burst of energy from an alien on the moon meant to create superpowered people known as Ultras. Gifted powers by the Jumpstart, Domingo became the superhero Night Man, a street-level vigilante who can hear evil thoughts.

Source Key:

The Night Man (1993) Issue # = NM#

The Night Man (1995) Issue # = TN#

Freex (1993) Issue # = FX#

Break-Thru (1993) Issue # = BT#

The Solution (1993) Issue # = TS#

Firearm (1993) Issue # = FA#

The Night Man/Gambit (1996) Issue # = NG#

The Night Man: The Pilgrim Conundrum Saga (1995) = NP

The Strangers: The Pilgrim Conundrum Saga (1995) = SP

The Night Man vs. Wolverine (1995) = NW

Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis (1995) = PG

Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations (1995) = PR

Physicals

Strength

Striking

• Hits Tyrannosaur between two girders with a metal pole hard enough to warp one girder^NM11
• Shatters city hall's front door^NM15
• Punches a werewolf through a window^NM7
• Punches out the same werewolf^TN2
• Punches Rhiannon back hard enough to break a wood pole^NM4
• Beats up some robbers^NM7

Other

• Flings Tyrannosaur into machinery hard enough to smash it^NM11
• Breaks a man's neck^NM14
• Breaks off a lock with a piece of pipe^NW

Durability

Blunt

• Thrown aside by Loki^NM22
• Takes a punch from Mangle, who tears apart scaffolding with one arm^NM2
  • Takes more hits from Mangle, including getting hit into a giant sign's letter hard enough to break it off^NM2
• Takes hits from Tyrannosaur^NM6
  • Tyrannosaur breaks robots and destroys/warps steel girders with blows^NM6
• Takes a punch from bone claws Wolverine^NW
• Takes hits from a duplicate of himself^NM23
• Takes hits from Chalk^NM21
• Takes hits from Drop Kick^TS13
• Takes hits from Torso^NM6
• Takes a hit from Anything^FX6
• Rhiannon hits him with a wood pole hard enough to break it^NM4
• Takes a punch from a werewolf^NM7
• Hit in the head with a mace^TN3
• Ok after falling off of a small cliff^NM1
• Falls off of a building^NM1
• Falls from high in the air into the water^NM20

Piercing

• Adds kevlar to his costume, rendering a werewolf's claws ineffective^NM8
  • The werewolf can easily slices apart people^NM8
• Blocks a knife with his armored elbow^NM1
• Smashes through a window^NM7

Brain Weirdness

• Because of the shrapnel in his brain, Neurone, who's got the power to shut down brains, can't affect him^NM6
• His brain also makes him more resistant to Generator X's emotion manipulation^NP
• A blast from Pilgrim stuns the Strangers but not him thanks to his brain^SP

Other

• While being magically made feral, takes one of Gambit's kinetic cards^NG2
• Blasted by Pressure's steam attack^FX6
  • Pressure's steam can smash stone^{Godwheel 1}
• Rhiannon turns his taser on him^NM13
  • After this, he makes his suit completely insulated^NP
    • An electrified whip doesn't harm him^NP
    • Unharmed by an electrified maintenance hatch^NW
• Made his costume fireproof^TN3

Speed/Agility

Reaction/Dodging

• Dodges machine guns^NM6
  • Again^TS13
• Dodges more gunfire^NM14
• Dodges some pistol shots^NM16
• Blocks a shuriken after noticing it only inches from his head^NM14
• Dodges Gambit's cards^NG1
• Dodges a cannonball^NM5
• Dodges Naiad's water blast^NM6
• Dodges Lord Pumpkin's fire blast^TN4
• Dodges Anything's attack^NM3
• Dodges a punch from Mangle^NM2
• Dodges Teknight II's punch^NM11
• Dodges a swing from Teknight^NM9
• Repositions a man's arm to block his knife swing^NM1
• Dodges a werewolf throwing a vial of acid at him^NM7

MovementAgility

• Draws his gun and shoots a robber before he can draw his own gun^NM1
• Bounds up a building^FX6
• Bounds up a ferris wheel^NM19
• Swings from a rope off of a building onto another building's roof then jumps off down to his motorcycle in the alley^NM2
• Scales a building up to an office on the 49th floor^NM2
• Leaps off of his motorcycle over a crowd then lands back on the motorcycle^FX6
• Jumps off of a train onto the platform^NM12
• Jumps off of a building and swings from a rope to reach the ground^NM13
• Swings on a pole to reach the bottom level of a boat^NM18

Rope Swings

• Swings on a rope from a rooftop down to his motorcycle^NM16
• Wraps his rope around a flagpole to swing to safety while falling^NM17
• Wraps his grappling hook around a railing to swing to safety while falling^NM20

Skill/Misc

Enhanced Eyesight

• Can see in the dark^NM4
• Shoots through a gap in Mangle's bulletproof exoskeleton^NM3

Combat

• Trained in aikido^NM1
• Fights off a group of armed goons for 8 minutes after already having been cut open^NM14
• Defeats three of the Celtic god Cernunnos to prove himself worthy of attaining Celtic magick^TN∞

Throwing Accuracy

• Throws his mask so that it disarms his dad then hits him in the face^TN∞
• Throws a spiked knuckleduster to take down a gunman^NM14
• Grabs a knife out of the air and throws it to disarm a gunman^NM21
• Throws his dagger to cut a power line^TN4

Stealth

• Sneaks up on Gambit^NG1
• Sneaks up on Mangle from out of the shadows^FX6
• Sneaks up on Firearm in his hotel room^FA15
• Sneaks onto J.D. Hunt's plane^NM12
• Disappears from the Freex's sight^FX16

Rope Control

• Lassos Rhiannon's hand before she can operate some machinery^NM4
• Lassos a flagpole to fling himself into the air and hogtie Bloodfly^NM17
• Ties up Teknight with his rope to cell bars so it couldn't get any leverage^NM9
• Wraps up Neuronne with rope so she can't use her powers on him^NM14
• Lassos a skylight and pulls it down on Bloodfly^NM20
• Lassos a turret and turns it to take out some more turrets^NW

General

• No longer needs to sleep and can't be sleep deprived^NM2
• Deduces that the villain Pilgrim is the superhero Atom Bob^SP
• Uses Torso's fear of dismemberment to make him faint^NM6
• Tricks Pilgrim into thinking an evil thought to find where he's hiding^SP
• Sets up a trap to capture a werewolf^NM8
• Disarms a bomb^NP

Gear/Powers

Gear

Costume

• Infrared lenses in his mask, one of which is telescoping^NM1
  • Reads writing on a photo from across the room with the telescoping lens^NM2
    • Reads a brochure next to a corpse from a distance^NM5
    • Watches Rhiannon from across the street^NM13
  • Sees through fog^NM6
• Records what he sees^NM8
• His cape is kevlar^NM15

Tasers

• Has tasers built into his gloves^NM4
• Shocks Anything^NM3
• Electrifies a rope to shock Rhiannon^NM5
• Electrifies Naiad's water stream^NM6
• Shocks a werewolf that grabbed his hand^NM7
• Electrifies a stream^NM8
• Shocks a werewolf in the back and solar plexus to knock him out^NM8
• Zaps a man^NM16
• Knocks out Spectral^NP
• Zaps one of Arcade's little devil dinosaurs^NW

Other Weapons

• A gun^NM2
• A knife^NM5
• Knockout gas^NM23
• Glue bombs^NM20
• Ultrasonic emitter^NM17

Misc

• Grappling gun^BT2
• Rope^NM4
  • He says his rope is unbreakable but Teknight breaks it^NM9
• Smoke bomb^NM12
• Laser torch^NM20
  • Burns Chalk's outline^NM21
  • Cuts through window bars^TN1
• Lockpick^NM20
• Carries numerous gadgets in the pouches hidden all over his costume^NM12

Telepathy

Night Man has the ability to telepathically hear the evil thoughts of others

Combat

• Hears a man think that he's going to shoot, allowing him to draw his own gun first^NM1
• Hears someone's intent to attack him^NM1
• Hears the thoughts of some people sneaking up on him^NM6
• Hears a sniper about to shoot^NM14

Non-Combat

• Hears a man think that he's going to kill someone later^NM1
• Hears a man about to attack a kid^NM2
• Senses Rhiannon watching him but can tell she's not doing so with evil intent^NM1
• Hears Rhiannon's thoughts as she's about to operate on some women^NM4
• Hears Naiad's thoughts^NM6
• Hears an evil thought in a nearby building^NM7
• Tracks a werewolf through the forest via evil thoughts^NM8
• Finds a man setting up a bomb^NP
• Hears some gangbangers planning to attack a woman as he's leaving her apartment^NM10
• Hears a man think about bribery^NM17
• Hears Bloodfly's intent to kill^NM17
• Loki's evil is louder than any other he's heard^NM22

Limits

• He can't sense any evil in Guy Hunt because Guy was raised to believe his actions weren't evil^NM3

Celtic Magick

After the sorceress Rhiannon magically empowered him, Night Man gained several extra abilities.

General

• His new powers include shooting blasts of electricity from his hands, controlling his rope with his mind, the ability to become nearly invisible by merging with shadows, and a knife that he can mystically track that only he can remove once he stabs it into something^TN1
  • Evades a werewolf by merging into shadow^TN1
• As payment for his magick, Night Man has to consume human organs every few months^TN1

Aura

• He also now sees an evil aura around evil people instead of hearing their evil thoughts^TN1
• Sees demon auras^TN2
• Sees the residual energy of the demons^TN3

Skean Dhu

• Summons a skean dhu dagger^TN∞
• Stabs a werewolf with his knife, which the werewolf can't remove^TN1
• Cuts rope^TN2
• Cuts open a portal to another dimension^TN3
• Cuts open a portal in San Francisco^PG and steps through to New York^PR
• Throws it to cut a power line^TN4
• Forms a connection to a magick crow, allowing him to talk to it^TN4

Electricity

• Shoots a blast of electricity at a werewolf^TN1
• Breaks a plexiglass tank full of water without shocking himself^TN1
• Incinerates demons^TN2
• Matches a blast of magick fire from Lord Pumpkin^TN3
• Zaps some knights^TN3

Rope

• Wraps up a werewolf with his rope^TN1
• Grabs Lord Pumpkin's candle out of his head^TN3
• Ties Lord Pumpkin's arm to his head^TN4

Respect Threads for scaling:

• Loki
• Wolverine
• Gambit