Hans Ubermann was an SS Doctor and Professor who managed to split the atom.
Biography[]
Despite splitting the atom, due to uranium limitations Hans Ubermann sought alternative means of energy for the powers of the Third Reich. Colonel Klaus Kerner brought him an artifact from Atlantis with a sample of orichalcum. This was the start of a 1939 expedition to find the Lost City and infinite amounts of the precious metal.
Ubermann becomes famous for his achievements
Along with Colonel Kerner, Ubermann led a team of Nazi troopers to the ruins of Atlantis but he then started to become interested not only in the metal but in the God machine, which was powered by orichalcum and believed to make men living deities. He was almost thwarted by Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood, who knew the real secret of orichalcum: rather than making men into gods, it turned them into monsters.
Ubermann's gruesome transformation.
Refusing to believe the machine wouldn't work, Ubermann tested the elaborate orichalcum-powered device and briefly achieved his dream of Godhood, becoming a radiant being of pure energy. However, the lifeform that he became quickly lost cohesion and exploded, with the force of the explosion enough to trigger the final destruction of Atlantis.
Behind the scenes[]
Ubermann's appearance differs significantly between the comic and the game which is obvious in the pictures above: In the comic he is a monocle-wearing corpulent man (called 'pork flesh' in Kerner's mumbles) with a 'toothbrush' mustache; in the game he is a lean kyphotic bald old man with glasses. In the game, Ubermann is depicted as the smarter of the two, whilst in the comic, Ubermann is more bumbling then Kerner.
Also in the comic, he ends up as a mutilated horned subhuman similar to Kerner, while in the game he becomes a spirit-like entity before vanishing.
In the game, Ubermann attempts to use Indiana Jones as a guinea pig for the machine, offering to let him rule him as a demigod when he becomes a supreme being. Instead, Jones convinces Ubermann to use the machine on himself by promising to immediately send Ubermann to hell as soon as he becomes a god. There are two alternative endings: a gameover scenario where Uberman uses the machine on Jones and an ending where a Nur-Ab-Sal possessed Sophia uses the machine instead. Either ending sees the resulting ethereal being knocking Ubermann into a pit shortly before dying itself.
If Jones attempts to reason with Ubermann by pointing out the deformed bones of the prior subjects of the God Machine, Ubermann states they only became monsters because they were "subhuman" slaves and he has no such genetic imperfections.
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis comic (First appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game