| Captain Rivet | |
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| Alias | Captain Rivet |
| Gender | Mechanical/Male(?) |
| Status | Alive |
| Affiliation | Superhomeys, Executive Council |
| First Appearance | Not Very Secret |
Captain Rivet is a senior member of the Superhomeys superhero team. Perhaps the senior member; he often is shown as a peacemaker father-figure type character.
Biography[]
Captain Rivet is one of the more reasonable members of the Superhomeys, and one of the few who Empowered looks up to. When Emp gets into embarassing situations, he at least tries to hide his laughter.
While Captain Rivet is nominally one of the leaders of the Superhomeys, he is not always effective at managing their behavior.
Powers and Abilities[]
Captain Rivet's powers have not been clearly demonstrated. However, it seems that his armor is hollow, as there is nothing visible inside when he is torn in half (Because This Is What I Am). He does not appear to suffer lasting damage from that incident, suggesting some form of regeneration or self-repair.
He also seemed to retain his powers despite Wet Blanket's null field, suggesting that he either does not eat, or that his powers are purely technological in nature.
In Hell Bent or Heaven Sent, he claims that he is a stainless-steel golem and never had a biological body. Until/unless more detail is given, this could well be a cover story - or the truth. Who knows.
Appearances[]
Volume 1[]
- Not Very Secret
- Involved in an argument with Major Havoc, Captain Rivet is portrayed as an old school tactician.
- Under the Mask
- Leading the charge to rescue Empowered, Rivet finds out later that in her bid for time, Emp convinced her captors that Rivet was "a menopausal hausfrau named Beatrice" who built the armor to treat her hot flashes.
- Yay, Me!
- The Captain manages to forget Emp when he says "Everyone accounted for?"
- D is for Dissed
- Say My Name
- Captain Rivet, in a flashback, quizzes Emp on what her superhero name will be.
Volume 9[]
- Not a Good Day to Be Empowered
- Captain Rivet is revealed to be a member of the Executive Council. He is the only member of the Council to vote against imprisoning Empowered in Glassbreak.
Trivia[]
- Rivet's name, as displayed across the front of his armor and on various articles of fan clothing (including Emp's) throughout the series, is actually Capitan Rivet. This suggests that his name (and, by extension, Rivet) may be Spanish or Catalan in origin, since 'Capitan' is how Captain is spelled in those languages.
Rivet speaks perfect idiomatic American English, however. - Going by nothing but appearance, Rivet has the look of a buffed up Tin Man.
- At once point Empowered blurts out on an interview that " ... Captain ______ is rendered powerless by any exposure to _____" and has the compromising chunks bleeped out. That fact that she only seems likely to have compromising info on captains Rivet and Katana , and refers to the individual in question as "he", makes it plausible that Captain Rivet has a weakness.
- I may be misrembering this, but isn't there one scene where Captain Rivet rapidly rusts into immobility in Salt water? That could be the weakness. Going to look for a book number now.