The Devourer
Devon had always wanted to save humanity. He dreamed of being a superhero, but never found a meteor or suffered an industrial accident. So, he chose science. With dogged brilliance, he developed technology to recycle all non-organic materials, so that even the mountains of detritus outside every city might be turned into limitless factories. Refashioning plastic was easy and making other precious metals, the kind you might find in a computer or smartphone, wasn’t so hard either. If he could scale up, without having to hand the reins over to greedy investors, he might save the world. Which meant he must be stopped.
