Jeremiah Holdsclaw

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Jeremiah Holdsclaw
Occupation	Graduate Student (Central Kansas A&M)
Powers and Abilities	Super strength, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision (when in possession of Starblade)
Played By	Nathaniel Arcand
Status	Comatose
Appeared In	Talisman

Jeremiah Holdsclaw was a graduate student at Central Kansas A&M and a teaching assistant of Professor Joseph Willowbrook.

[edit] Early Life

Like Professor Willowbrook, Jeremiah was a descendant of the Native American Kawatche Indians. He was writing a dissertation on the "slumbering place," an ancient Kawatche burial ground.

[edit] Season Three

Professor Willowbrook and Jeremiah were summoned to the Kawatche Caves by Lionel Luthor and asked to examine a clay-encrusted artifact. Jeremiah broke it open and revealed it to be a knife, the Starblade. It gave Jeremiah Kryptonian powers and he declared himself to be the mythological savior known as Naman, denouncing Clark Kent as a 'false prophet' when Professor Willowbrook attempted to convince him of the truth. He believed it was his destiny to kill Naman's greatest enemy, Sageeth, and was convinced that Sageeth was Lionel Luthor. He set out to kill Lionel and when Clark Kent tried to stop him, he stabbed Clark with the blade, wounding him terribly. Jeremiah took Lionel to the burial grounds of the Kawatche.

Clark was healed by Jor-El through Jonathan and searched for Jeremiah in order to rescue Lionel. Jeremiah and Clark fought at super speed and Clark knocked the blade away from him. Once he was no longer in possession of the blade, Jeremiah was stripped of the powers and went into a coma.

[edit] Notes

• Jeremiah's possession of glasses prior to his acquisition of powers foreshadows the glasses that Clark will wear when he develops his identity as Superman.