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Shatterhand is a side-scrollingaction game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Natsume and published by Jaleco in North America in 1991 and in Europe in 1992. Shatterhand was originally released by Angel (Bandai) in Japan in 1991 as a licensed game for the Family Computer based on the live-action superhero series Super Rescue Solbrain (特救指令ソルブレイン, Tokkyū Shirei Soruburein).

Plot[edit]

Set in the year 2030, a group of military renegades known as Metal Command, led by General Gus Grover, are seeking to conquer the world by building an army of cyborg soldiers. Steve Hermann, a young police officer from the Bronx, ends up losing both of his arms during a skirmish with members of Metal Command. After the incident, Hermann is offered two specially developed cybernetic arms developed by the Law and Order Regulatory Division (L.O.R.D.) to replace the ones he lost. Hermann accepts the offer and becomes an agent codenamed 'Shatterhand,' who is now tasked with the mission to defeat Metal Command.^[1][2]

Gameplay[edit]

Shatterhand is a side-scrolling action game that follows many of the established conventions in the genre. The main character's primary attacks are his very own fists, which he can also use to intercept enemy bullets. There are two type of power-ups that can be retrieved by destroying the item containers scattered throughout each stage: coins and letter icons.^[3][4][5]

The coins are used as currency that allows the player to obtain additional power-ups by standing over a certain platforms and crouching over it. These platforms will indicate which power-up the player will receive, along with the cost of the item. There are three types of power-up platforms: the first will restore the player's health and costs 300 coins, the second will increase the player's attack power (changing the color of the player's vest from green to brown) and costs 100 coins, and the third gives out an extra life and costs 2000 coins.^[6]

The letter icons are shaped in the Greek letters α and β. When a robotic part appears, the player can change the letter by punching it. However, punching it too much will turn it into a large gold coin. After collecting three parts, a 'robotic satellite' will appear floating alongside the player. The robotic satellite will attack alongside the player and can also be used to hover into the air by crouching and holding the A button. There are eight possible robotic satellites, depending on the combination of the letters collected, each with a different attack. For example, the ααβ robot fires laser beams, while αβα attacks with a sword. The robot can take damage from enemies and if it sustains too much, it will eventually be destroyed. If the player already has a robotic companion and picks up a new combination of letters, the new robot will replace the previous one. However, if the player picks up the same combination twice in a row while still maintaining the robot, the player character will combine with the robot and will have more powerful attacks for a limited period before reverting to his standard form.^[7][8]

There are a total of seven stages dubbed 'Areas'. Area A, a factory stage, serves as the game's introductory stage, while the game's five subsequent stages, Area B to Area F, can be played in any order. The final stage, Area G, becomes accessible after the six stages are completed.^{[9][10][11][12]} The player starts off the game with two extra lives and can obtain more throughout the game. If the player loses all their lives, the game will be over, but the player is provided with unlimited chances to continue.^[13]

Robotic satellites[edit]

The eight robotic satellites and their letter combination are as follows:^[14]

Regional differences[edit]

The Famicom version, Tokkyū Shirei Solbrain, was published by a company called Angel, a now-defunct subsidiary of Bandai which specialized in the publication of licensed titles. The Famicom version follows the same storyline as the Solbrain TV series and features a different opening sequence from the one in Shatterhand, as well as a different ending. The graphics for most of the characters and items were changed as well. The most notable change is Area C, a carnival level in Solbrain, which was changed to an entirely different submarine level in Shatterhand.

References[edit]

1. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 6.
2. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 7.
3. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 8.
4. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 9.
5. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 10.
6. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 17.
7. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 15.
8. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 16.
9. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 11.
10. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 12.
11. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 13.
12. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 14.
13. ^Natsume. Shatterhand. Nintendo Entertainment System. Level/area: Instruction manual, page 18.
14. ^Shatterhand Instruction Manual. Jaleco USA INC. 1991. pp. 16–17.

External links[edit]

• Shatterhand at MobyGames

Cyborg Superman is a persona that has been used by two fictional characters in the DC Universe, both of which are supervillains that appear in comic books published by DC Comics.

Fictional character biographies[edit]

Hank Henshaw[edit]

Hank Henshaw was an astronaut at NASA until a solar flare hit his space shuttle during an experiment in space, damaging the ship and the crew. Henshaw and the crew, including Henshaw's wife, found that their bodies had begun to mutate and, after returning to Earth, Henshaw's entire crew either perished or eventually committed suicide. After learning that Superman had thrown the Eradicator into the sun in a battle during the space shuttle experiment, Henshaw blamed Superman for the solar flare and the accident. Before his body completely disintegrated due to the radiation exposure, Henshaw was able to save his consciousness. Using NASA communications equipment, Henshaw beamed his mind into the birthing matrix which had carried Superman from Krypton to Earth as an infant. He created a small exploration craft from the birthing matrix and departed into outer space alone. Becoming increasingly mentally unstable, Henshaw used Superman's birthing matrix to create a body identical to Superman's, albeit with cybernetic parts.^[1] He returned to Earth to kill Superman, only to discover that Superman had already died during Henshaw's absence. Following Superman's eventual resurrection, Henshaw would not only become a recurring adversary of Superman but of Green Lantern as well. Hank Henshaw became a member of the Sinestro Corps during the Sinestro Corps War.

Zor-El[edit]

Zor-El is the younger brother of Jor-El, husband of Alura, father of Supergirl, and paternal uncle of Superman. Originally, he escaped from Krypton's destruction along with the other inhabitants of Argo City. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Supergirl discovers an amnesiac Cyborg Superman living on the planet I'noxia.^[2] This turns out to be Zor-El, who was rescued from Krypton's destruction by Brainiac and reconfigured as a half-man half-machine in order to be his scout looking for stronger species in the universe.^[3]

Powers and abilities[edit]

Hank Henshaw[edit]

As Cyborg Superman, Hank Henshaw possesses the ability to control and reanimate various machines. Due to his experience with Superman's birth matrix, Henshaw now has all of Superman's powers and genetic tissue identical to the Man of Steel's. As a member of the Sinestro Corps, Henshaw has access to a power ring fueled by fear energy that allows him to create any construct that he can imagine.

Zor-El[edit]

As Cyborg Superman, Zor-El is cybernetically enhanced with the ability to fly, fire powerful heat rays from his cybernetic eye, and project electricity from his body. Prop hunt portable png. Zor-El's cybernetic arm can shapeshift into whatever he desires, limited only by the technology available to him at the given moment that he chooses to use this ability. Zor-El is virtually indestructible, and also has super-speed and superstrength.

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

• In the Legion of Super Heroes episode 'Message in a Bottle', a Superman robot that resembles the Cyborg Superman appears as the property caretaker of the Fortress of Solitude in the 31st century. He is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal.
• David Harewood portrays Hank Henshaw in the 2015 Supergirl TV series.^[4] When discussing his character, Harewood stated, 'Hank Henshaw ends up becoming Cyborg Superman in the comics, battling Superman. So I'm looking forward to that. He's a bit of a supervillain. He seems pretty indestructible. Which I kind of like because I keep getting blown up in these things. I'm kind of looking forward to being indestructible.'^[5] Cyborg Superman debuted in the episode 'The Darkest Place'.^[6]

Film[edit]

• Cyborg Superman is portrayed by Elijah Wood in the 2011 short film The Death and Return of Superman.^[7]
• In the 2016 film Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Cosmic Clash, Superman under the control of Brainiac shares a slight resemblance to Cyborg Superman.
• Hank Henshaw appears in the 2018 film The Death of Superman and its 2019 sequel Reign of the Supermen, voiced by Patrick Fabian as himself and Jerry O'Connell as Cyborg Superman. His story plays out like in the comics with the exception that his shuttle's destruction was caused by the meteor holding Doomsday with his crew killed instantly, his body being salvaged by Darkseid for his plan to tarnish the Justice League's reputation and execute another invasion.^[8]

Video games[edit]

• Cyborg Superman is a playable character as one of the Supermen included in the SNES & Genesis video game The Death and Return of Superman in 1994. He is also the final boss of the game.
• Hank Henshaw appears as a boss character in 2002's Superman: The Man of Steel.
• Cyborg Superman appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us, as a downloadable alternate skin for Superman.
• Hank Henshaw also appears in DC Universe Online in the ninth DLC, 'War of the Light Part I'. As a Hero, you fight him and Sinestro in 'Assault & Battery', and again as a boss in 'Mist Recovery'. As a Villain, he assists the players in collecting Mist and fighting Kyle Rayner in 'Mist Recovery'.^[9]
• Cyborg Superman appears as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Travis Willingham.

Radio[edit]

British wunderkind radio producer Dirk Maggs produced a Superman radio series for BBC Radio 5 in the 1990s. When the 'Death of Superman' story arc happened in the comics, Maggs presented a very faithful, though much pared down, version of the tale which featured Stuart Milligan as Clark Kent/Superman, Lorelei King as Lois Lane, and William Hootkins as Lex Luthor. Versatile American actor Kerry Shale was cast both as the villainous Hank Henshaw and as Superboy. The story arc was packaged for sale on cassette and CD as Superman: Doomsday and Beyond in the UK and as Superman Lives! in the USA.

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Miscellaneous[edit]

• In Superman/Fantastic Four: The Infinite Destruction, a comic book crossover starring Superman and the Fantastic Four, Reed Richards and his team are forced into an uneasy alliance with Hank Henshaw when the Marvel Universe's world-eating being Galactus kidnaps Superman and transforms him into his herald. In conversation with Susan Richards, Henshaw points out the 'ironic' similarity between his origin and the FF's. The story concludes with Galactus blasting Henshaw with a ray that turns him into a simple metal rod in response to his pleas for perfection, after the discovery that Henshaw was responsible for Superman coming to the Marvel Universe after he planted faked evidence that Galactus was involved in Krypton's destruction (having previously encountered the Silver Surfer in Green Lantern/Silver Surfer: Unholy Alliances, Henshaw had learned of Galactus and sought the enhanced power of becoming his herald).
• Hank Henshaw appeared in issue #19 of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold comics. Batman had to work with the Green Lantern Corps to keep Hank Henshaw from killing Hal Jordan.^[10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Greenberger, Robert; Pasko, Martin (2010). The Essential Superman Encyclopedia. Del Rey. pp. 64–65. ISBN978-0-345-50108-0.
2. ^Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 77. ISBN978-1-4654-5357-0.
3. ^Supergirl vol. 6 #22
4. ^''Supergirl': David Harewood & Chyler Leigh Join CBS Pilot Cast'. Variety.
5. ^'Supergirl's David Harewood Teases Becoming Cyborg Superma'. comicbook.com.
6. ^Jayson, Jay (November 4, 2016). 'Cyborg Superman is Coming To Supergirl!'. ComicBook.com.
7. ^Lamar, Cyriaque (February 4, 2012). 'In this semi-drunk movie about Superman's death, Elijah Wood is Cyborg Superman'. io9. Gizmodo Media Group. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
8. ^Narcisse, Evan (July 22, 2018). 'The Death of Superman Movie Changes Up a Classic DC Comics Story Just Enough to Work'. io9. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
9. ^'War of the Light Part 1'. DC Universe Online. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
10. ^Batman: The Brave and the Bold #19

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