 Doc permanently transferred his personality into a blank robot known as Veridium, made of a green alien metal, becoming the new robotic leader of the Metal Men.With the advent of "Identity Crisis", Gold is back and Doc Magnus is once again human and played an active role in the series 52.As revealed during "Infinite Crisis", when Superboy-Prime pounded on the walls of reality, he caused the very fabric of reality to shift, changing and merging histories.