Malcolm Dietrich

"'What happened, was that five years ago a group of scientists ambushed me, dragged me underground for testing, chopped off my leg, nearly killed me, and no one cared! No one tried to save me!'""-Malcolm Dietrich, Bonus Chapter Ten of Behind the Mask."Malcolm Dietrich is a the main antagonist of both Behind the Mask and Caped Crusaders. Years before the main series takes place, he was experimented on by people trying to figure out where his powers came from. He was also a superhero under the alias of Sandman, before he suffered from PTSD and became a supervillain.

Powers and Weaknesses
Malcolm has a unique power of the series: Making dreams into reality. He can create things from dreams, even going as far as making life from dreams, though that strains his power very much and is generally limited to a body without thoughts of its own, except with Cal, whom he created to have a mind of his own, with emotions, pain, logic, and thinking. His powers are said to make him stronger, though if the creations are destroyed or killed, it takes a toll on his physical health.

When the creations are killed or destroyed, they "melt" into a black sand. Its unknown whether or not this is a play on his superhero name (Sandman).