Powerhaus

Powerhaus
Powerhaus, art by Casey Jones
Publication information
Publisher	Wildstorm Productions (DC Comics)
First appearance	Gen¹³ Volume 2 #7 (1995)
Created by	Jim Lee Brandon Choi J. Scott Campbell
In-story information
Alter ego	Hector Morales
Team affiliations	DV8 International Operations
Abilities	Can absorb emotions to increase his size, strength and durability. Can see and hear ghosts.

Powerhaus a.k.a. Hector Morales was a members of the superhuman team DV8 in the Wildstorm Universe. He was created by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi and J. Scott Campbell.

Hector was adopted, raised by an Argentinian farmer as father and mother of German ancestry. Exactly where Hector was raised isn't fully clear, but as best can be determined he spent time living in both Miami, Florida and Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was told that his real parents had died, but in fact Hector was a clone produced by International Operations' Project: Rebirth. Out of high school, Hector was recruited for Project: Genesis, another I.O. project to find and activate potential superhumans and turn them into soldiers. The project failed when John Lynch interfered, trying to save innocent kids like Gen¹³. Project leader Ivana Baiul was forced to flee, but she took several of the project subjects with her, all cryogenically frozen shortly after their powers manifested. One of them was Hector.

Several months later, Ivana thawed the frozen subjects and started training them as DV8. DV8's first mission was against the members of Gen¹³ and Team 7 during the Fire from Heaven crossover. They were defeated and Ivana retreated with them to New York City. Over the next few months, Hector and his teammates would fulfill any mission for Ivana that increased her powerbase, often at danger to their own lives. For Powerhaus these dangers included being tortured by the CIA in revenge for a mission in which the Deviants had killed several CIA agents. Hector often turned to alcohol to forget the terrible things he had to do on missions and to forget the odd reality his team operated under. Unlike most of his teammates Hector was not very rebellious and very easy-going.