The Infernal Doctor Pip was a explosives expert hired by a member of the Sloane family to kill his wife with a bomb and to keep setting up explosives in populated areas to cover his tracks, which Pip was happy to oblige.He hired Copperhead as protection is case Starman happened to get involved He was greatly wounded when he was caught in one of his own explosions, he sought revenge with a large mechanical suit of armor with an explosive attached large enough to take a sizable portion of Opal City with him. Due to the mass depowering of DC heroes during the Godwave Alan Scott and Jack Knight were completely powerless to stop him, but the last second intervention of The Shade saved everyone.