Flashbang

Mark Dallon, known publicly as  is the husband of Carol Dallon, father of Victoria Dallon, adoptive father of Amy Dallon. Member of New Wave.

Personality
Mark suffers from clinical depression, though he is in treatment. He is noted to improve markedly after taking medication but does chronically forget to take it. Which leads to him regularly feeling incompetent and out of his depth.

He is adept in reading the room and proactive when it is necessary to ease the tension. However, he can be a bit shallow in his good intentions.

Carol Dallon
Mark sincerely loves Carol even after the decades of marriage. However, he feels responsible for not being able to negate her worse impulses.

Victoria
Mark seemed to be protective of Victoria. When she was sent to the Parahuman Asylum, he chose to go with her, rather than go with Carol to see Amy off, after an argument between them. He visited Victoria more often than Carol. After recovering, Victoria seemed to be generally closer to her father than to her mother.

Amy
Mark tried to be a father to Amy, but his depression kept getting in his way.Treating like a monster might be a little overboard, but they're accurate in reading scenes where Amy was neglected. Carol's word choice is one hint here - you can read the interlude that was just covered and note how Carol refers to Amy vs. how she refers to Victoria. The words aren't hateful, but Amy is 'amy' and Victoria is 'my daughter'. She says, outright, "I don't want her" while the child is in earshot, and then when Lady Photon says "You could grow to love and trust that little girl, too.” Carol's (later, connecting) thought is "Liar". Look at Amy's conversation with Gallant... "Carol never really wanted me. Mark is clinically depressed, so as nice as he is, he’s too focused on himself to really be a dad." Interlude 11.h, It had always been Victoria, only Victoria, who made her feel like she had a family here.  Then later, same interlude, What Amy felt from her ‘mother’ was a chill. She knew that she was only justifying the darker suspicions Carol had harbored towards her since she was first brought into the family. It was doubly crushing now, because Amy knew about Marquis. Amy knew that Carol was thinking the same thing she was.  Carol didn't reach out, she wasn't warm, she wasn't a mother. At best, Amy was a person living in their house. At worst, Amy was someone suspicious, Marquis' daughter. So Amy never really had a 'home', a safe haven to retreat to. If you want to read between the lines, the fact that she'd go out at night to visit the hospital (and that nobody was stopping her) might indicate more about her feelings at home. She wasn't mistreated. She got fed, she got clothes. Mark (Flashbang) even tried to be a warmer dad when he was up to it, but that's something as rare as the sun coming out in the UK - brief and unpredictable bouts of good in the midst of a perpetually overcast setting. In the end, all she really had was Victoria. - Comment of RPR.net by Wildbow Though Amy recognized his efforts to be her father, she was nonetheless distant from him, feeling that Victoria was her only true family.

Appearance
As Flashbang, Mark wears a white costume with padding and helmet - the costume is marked with a green-yellow grenade icon. The costume's armor panels, mask, straps, and guards were styled like a grenade's exterior.

Out of costume, Mark is generally fit, and he looks younger than he actually is. As of Ward, he had short hair, and had beard stubble with some white hair that gave away his age.

Abilities and Powers
Mark's power allows him to create bouncing orbs of light that can detonate either concussively (and largely non-lethal) or explosively with potentially lethal force. He can adjust the charges to control the size of the resulting explosion, re-absorb projectiles, and maintains a secondary power that allows him to ignore the effects of his own improvised weapons, He could create a large number of explosions.

Similar to Brandish, Flashbang has shown some resistance to blinding lights.

He was severely devastated by a brain injury, but was able to get around it thanks to Panacea's intervention.

Equipment
He generally carries everything his team might need.

Background
He had a concussion as a teen, which had lingering consequences. He did not found therapy helpful.

Neil triggered when he and, presumably, other members of Brockton Bay Brigade, were attacked during a boat ride.

Mark convinced Carol to have their biological daughter Victoria, a point which Sarah later used to convince her to adopt Amy.

With the rest of New Wave, he was present in Boston to help manage the Boston Games.

Story Start
Started the story as a member of New Wave.

Fought the ABB during their insurgency.

Fought the Empire Eighty-Eight when they were freaking out.

Protected Brockton Bay with his family and most of the city's other capes when Leviathan attacked.

Post-Leviathan
24 days after the Battle against Leviathan, Mark was still laid up in bed due to a head injury when Bonesaw with her minions came to try and recruit Panacea. Bonesaw injected acid into Mark, coercing his adopted daughter to heal him. Mark immediately forced Bonesaw and Hack Job away. After the fight he recognized Mouse Protector in one of the minions, and after Amy's confirmation, that she is beyond saving, finished her off. Mark flicked his eyes in one direction, offered the slightest of nods, his forehead rubbing against hers. Amy flung herself to one side as Mark stood in one quick motion, flinging the glowing orb at the little girl. Hack Job flickered into existence just in time to have to orb bounce off his chest. It exploded violently, tearing a hole into his stomach and groin. The villain flew backward, colliding with Bonesaw. But two more copies of Hack Job had already appeared, and the scalpel spiders were responding to some unknown directions, leaping for Mark and Amy. Amy grappled with one spider, struggled to bend its legs the wrong way, cried out as the scalpels and needlepoints of the other legs dragged against her skin. A blast sent her tumbling, throwing her into the couch and dislodging the spider. Mark could make his orbs concussive or explosive. He’d hit the spider with the former, nothing that could seriously hurt Amy. She climbed to her feet, picked up the oak side-table from beside the couch and bludgeoned the spider with it. More explosions ripped through their living room as Mark continued to open fire, hurling the orbs with a ferocity that surprised Amy. When Hack Job tried to block the shots with his bodies, Mark bounced them between Hack Job’s legs, off walls and off the ceiling. Almost as if he could predict what his enemy would do, he lobbed one orb onto the couch. It exploded a half-second after one of Hack Job’s duplicates appeared there. More duplicates charged from either direction, and Mark dropped a concussive orb at his feet, blasting himself and one of the duplicates in opposite directions. He quickly got his footing and resumed the attack, fending off one duplicate that turned his attention to Amy, then going after Bonesaw. Bonesaw had retreated into the hallway that led into the bedrooms at the back of the house, the basement and the kitchen at the side. Mark threw an orb after her, obliterating the hallway, but Amy couldn’t see if he’d struck home, not with the clouds of dust that were exploding from Hack Job’s expired duplicates. Between the time it had taken to create the orb, throwing it and the lack of a scream after it had gone off, Amy knew Bonesaw would have gotten away. -Excerpt from Interlude 11h He also tried to calm down Panacea before she ran off.

He had an argument with Carol when both of their daughters were sent off; eventually, Mark accompanied Victoria to the Asylum in Pennsylvania, while Carol went with Amy to see her off to the Birdcage.

Gold Morning
Flashbang looked visibly grim when Marquis was released from The Birdcage during Gold Morning. He and the other members of New Wave did not participate in the fighting.

Early-Ward
He ended up separated from his wife; while Carol lived in a house, Mark lived in an apartment with Victoria. At a reunion barbecue for the Dallons and their extended family, he was told of Amy's presence beforehand, but later tried to warn Victoria about her sister's presence. However, following the reunion, Victoria refused to go back to his apartment.

He later apologized for the incident at the reunion, and offered advice to Victoria regarding her team. Victoria later used some of his spare costume materials when making her own.

Post-Fallen fall
Rejoined Carol in her modest, off-time team and changed his costume a bit.

Post-Goddess' Takeover
Flashbang joined his daughter's team on a revenge mission to Earth N. At the end of it he gets taken out of fight by wounds.

He brought his wife to Earth Shin, to seek help from Amy.

Post-Time Bubble Pop
Mark met Breakthrough during their visit to Shin, and became unwilling hostage and enforcer.

Once Shin Diplomatic Crisis was resolved Mark stayed on Shin to keep an eye on Amy.

Post-Attack on Teacher
He asked Amy to heal his old brain trauma, but she refused.

Mark was present during The Red Queens negotiation with the Wardens during The Second Shin Crisis. Later in the day, Victoria demanded from him in private conversation to enforce the agreement with Amy by any cost and even kill Amy if she backs off from it. Mark was shocked by the intensity of it and reported their conversation to the Wardens.

The Ice Breaks
After the Hunter's rampage started, he, however, was able to persuade then-defeated Amy to return under the Wardens' supervision.

Mark and Carol offered Victoria's plague to Amy.