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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːhiə/; born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019). He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He portrays the Marvel Comics character Simon Williams / Wonder Man in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
AdamBrashearwasachildprodigybeingthesmartestmanintheworldbythetimehewasateenager But when he was 19 he was drafted into the Korean War he was approached by agents from project PEGASUS to help them build a dimension transporter. He built them the machine and it was capable of teleporting anything or anyone to another dimension that he had discovered and named the Negative Zone When no one would test the machine he took it into his own hands and went there by himself When he was there he was imbued with insane amounts of radiation that should have killed him but instead he was given incredible powers more than had ever been seen When he returned and told his best friend and Conner Sims he became jealous and went there to get the same powers but the machine was damaged from the last trip when Sims attempted to use it and it collapsed in on him leaving him trapped inside it in the Negative Zone for years. After his girlfriend finds out about this she encourages him to become a hero and use them to protect people He keeps this going for a few years and becomes the beloved superhero Blue Marvel but one day he is fighting a villain and his helmet breaks revealing his identity When this happens people begin to turn on Brashear and public perception of him changes Eventually it gets bad enough that president JFKreluctantly asks him to step down and no longer be a hero Adam only asks for one thing for funds to rebuild the machine and retrieve his friend
