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Braddock was born as a twin, along with his sister, Elizabeth, to a family who were "no longer quite wealthy enough", being "too poor to associate with his aristocratic peers", and "too proud to seek the company of the lower classes", with Merlyn speculating that he was a lonely child. As he grew up, he became immersed in the study of physics on account of his grasp of "the scien[t]ific and rational". There was apparently little room for friendship or love at this point.

At some point, Captain Britain died, with only a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair remaining when Merlyn pulled him from an alternate world, with the world in the grip of a reality-storm which thwarted even the abilities of Merlyn. Roma, Merlyn's daughter, helped him recreate Braddock's body using what scraps remained. Merlyn commented that he "must have been a very big man", and "a complex man as humans go".