Edwin Alva (Dakotaverse)

Edwin Alva
Dakotaverse‎ (Milestone Media‎)
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Real Name	Edwin Alva, Sr.
Main Alias	Edwin Alva
Other Aliases	Indigo Leader
Relatives	Sabrina Alva (daughter), Edwin Alva, Jr. (son)
Affiliation	Alva Technologies, formerly SYSTEM (Indigo Cell), Coalition
Base Of Operations	Mason Building, Dakota City
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Widowed
Occupation	Businessman · Inventor · former crimelord
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Blue
Hair	White
Origin
Universe	Dakotaverse
Creators	Dwayne McDuffie · Denys Cowan
First Appearance	Hardware #1 (April, 1993)
Appearance of Death	Hardware #31 (September, 1995)

Alva is too big. He's quite simply beyond the reach of the law.

— Curtis Metcalf

Edwin Alva is a corrupt businessman and inventor, the leader of the industrious international Alva Technologies corporation.

History

He is also a member of the worldwide criminal organization SYSTEM, acting as leader of its Indigo Cell. Although he presents a respectable front to the public, as a wise and respected leader, in reality he is an unscrupulous villain. He is the arch-nemesis of Hardware (Curtis Metcalf), a technological vigilante who he himself is ironically responsible for the creation of. Eventually, he discovers who Hardware is, and begins exploiting his relationship with him for his own benefit.

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Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Business Management
• Leadership
• Mechanical Engineering
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• SYSTEMatics: Prior to his death Alva modified a SYSTEMatics trying to obtain an armor capable of matching Hardware's own armor.
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
    • Energy Resistance
  • Flight

Trivia

• Alva may have been named for real-life inventor Thomas Alva Edison.
  

Recommended Reading

• Hardware (Volume 1)

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Footnotes

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