He was known as Commander Light he had been a navy scientist till his experiments with using UV radiation as a power source exploded leaving his scared from shrapnel along with mild radiation poisoning that led to him being discharged though a year after his UV radiation reactor failed he managed to recreate and perfect it though it also left him needing to steal a lot of money to pay for the equipment and materials so here he was in Metropolis national bank to clean it out of all the money in it.