Cannon Hawke
| Cannon | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Aspen MLT |
| First appearance | Fathom (Volume 1) #1 (1998) |
| Created by | Michael Turner |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Cannon Hawke |
| Team affiliations | The Blue |
| Abilities | Aside from being an above average athlete, Cannon has limited control over water and the ability to breathe underwater. |
Cannon Hawke is a fictional character of Fathom, a comic book series created by Michael Turner. He also starred in his own self-titled miniseries in 2005/2006.
Cannon is an agent of the Blue to the above world of humans. Before the Blue Sun incident, Cannon had worked as an emissary for the Japanese and American governments on an underwater research base, the Deep Marine Discovery (short: DMD), 50 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. For the Blue he is a Paladin of the Elite Council.
Cannon and his assistant, Akiko, worked on the DMD to help keep the peace between the Japanese and American researchers, military, and governments involved in the DMD. However his true reasons were to watch the humans discoveries on anything that might allow them to discover his people, the Blue. There he met a young American marine biologist named Aspen Matthews, the long believed dead daughter of a deceased leader of the Blue. Cannon had been aware of her existence for several years, but choose to let her live among Humanity instead of bringing her back. However now was a troubled time. Humanity had unknowingly destroyed a city of the Blue with a hydrogen bomb testing, and had discovered one of their ships as well as one of their people, a man named Killian and built the DMD around the ship.
A torpedo attack on the DMD lead Cannon to save his assistant as he realized Aspen was capable of saving herself. The attack was made by a US fighter pilot who missed his real target, a Blue veicule, and was exploited by Killian, a renegade Blue leader, and his group of dissenters who wanted to wage war upon Humanity. Killian began manipulating Aspen to work for him, as Aspen had a great potential coming from a strong bloodline.
As Cannon scrambled to save Aspen to teach her the truth, Killian initiated his plan to use a weapon known as the Blue Sun. The Blue Sun would burn a hole through the first layer of the Earth's crust, draining the ocean to create catastophic effects on earth to which the full extent are not fully known. By the time Cannon was able to bring Aspen back to his side it was too late and the Blue Sun's ray was burning through the crust.
A fight ensued in the waterless ocean floor around the ray, with Cannon fighting Taras (Killian's 2nd in command), and Aspen fighting Killian. Cannon was able to catch Taras diving towards him, using a rolling kick that flung Taras into the ray, evaporating him for lack of a better term. Aspen then unleashed her full power and not only killed Killian, but somehow stopped the Blue Sun.
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