An unnamed man, nicknamed "the Weeper" by Amunet Black, was a meta-human with the ability to secrete a psycho-active drug through his tears.
Biography
On October 10, 2017, this man had been riding a bus crying to himself. Ralph Dibny had been next to him and tried to cheer him up with some encouragment as he had been bumming him out. Then the bus was exposed to dark matter particles resulting from Barry Allen's return from the Speed Force, transforming him into a meta-human.[1]
Sometime over the next three weeks, the man was found and kidnapped by Amunet Black, who intended to sell his psychoactive tears for profit.
He was eventually saved by Iris West, Felicity Smoak, Cecille Horton, and Killer Frost, however, he told them to leave him alone and he ran off in a panic.
Later, while walking the streets alone, he was found by Clifford DeVoe, who told him that he went through a lot of trouble to create him and that he couldn't run away until he completed the task he was created for.[2] DeVoe siphoned off his tears to a more concentrated form to better control his wife Marlize,[3] and then killed the Weeper.[4]
Legacy
The Weeper's death was avenged when Ralph Dibny regain full control of his body; forcing Clifford DeVoe's consciousness out of the latters body, after transferring his conciousness into his hoverchair, but perished once and for all when his wife Marlize removed the chair's power source; putting an end to DeVoe's madness.
Powers and abilities
Powers
- Meta-human physiology: After the man was struck by the dark matter energy after the Flash was released from the Speed Force, this altered his DNA and cells, enabling him to access his newfound powers.[1]
- Psycho-active tears: The dark matter in his body causes his tears to secrete a substance that acts like a psycho-active drug when ingested.[2]
Appearances
The Flash
Season 4
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Trivia
- Like every meta-human created when Barry escaped the Speed Force, releasing a wave of dark matter upon the bus that the Weeper and eleven others were riding on, it would seem that the Weeper's powers were a forced manifestation of his inner desires and/or inherent nature as a person prior to the encounter with the dark matter released from the Speed Force. In this case, the Weeper was presumably in tears for being such an unwanted individual; now, his tears' potent euphoric properties would make him a very wanted individual.
- The Weeper is the only one of the "bus-metas" whose real name hasn't been revealed.
Behind the scenes
- In the DC comics The Weeper is a legacy name of two supervillains. The original Weeper, Mortimer Gloom was a villain of Bulletman, while his unnamed son succeeded him as a villain of the Marvel Family after his death.