Particle Man (They Might Be Giants)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Particle Man
Song/Album	"Particle Man"/ Flood
Act	They Might Be Giants
Writer	John Flnasburgh and John Linnell
Release Date	1990
ABILITIES
Powers	-Switch his electrical charge to positive, negative, or neutral -Move at 300,000 kilometers/186,410 miles per second (near lightspeed) "Doin' the things a particle can"
Skills	N/A
Attributes	Time passes more slowly for him "What's he like? It's not important."
Vulnerabilities	"When he's underwater, does he get wet/ Or does the water get him?"
Formidability	Defeated by Triangle Man
Attractiveness	Literally, high, since he can be a charged particle. Figuratively, N/A
Source	The Big Bang?
Goals	N/A
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A but Universe Man has a watch with a minute hand, millennium hand, and eon hand. And Person Man was hit on the head with a frying pan, but it's probably not his own.
Clothing	N/A
Vehicles	N/A
Dwelling	N/A
Milieu	Subatomic space, the quantum realm
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Male
Age	Potentially immortal
Physique	Subatomic: "Is he a dot? Or is he a speck?"
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	The Big Bang
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	N/A
Education	N/A
SES	N/A
Relationships	"Universe Man... kind to smaller man. When they meet, it's a happy land." "Person Man: lives his life in a garbage can/ Is he depressed or is he a mess?"
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Moral
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert; has friends
Intelligence	N/A
Emotions	N/A
Sanity	Sane
Enemies	"Triangle Man hates Particle Man/ They have a fight; Triangle wins" "Triangle Man hates Person Man/ They have a fight; Triangle wins"
Narrative Function	Catalyst
Other Notes	Particle Man must be one of the tiniest heroes ever conceived. He is the size of a subatomic particle-- small as a proton or neutron, possibly even as small as as electron. But he can be anywhere in the world almost instantly. We know from the theory of the Butterfly Effect that the smallest change can have a cascade or domino effect that ripples worldwide. Even by losing a fight to Triangle Man (and why doesn't Universe Man help Particle Man when he does?) Particle Man can cause a ripple that sets a whole story in motion. Perhaps acute pity for him finally gets one or more of the other Jukebox Heroes to stop being obtuse and finally set that Triangle right.