Dr. Manhattan (also known as Dr. Jonathan Osterman):
Physicist Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Osterman was transformed into a blue-skinned god-like being after he was disintegrated in an "Intrinsic Field Subtractor" in 1959. He was accidentally locked inside, and when the Subtractor started up automatically Jon was blown into atoms, with nothing left of his body. Within a few months, his disembodied consciousness managed to reconstruct a physical body for itself. He was pressed into service by the U.S. government, earning the name Dr. Manhattan.
"In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon."