Mathemanic: Marvel's answer to Chemical King

In the early 90s, I was a committed Marvelite.  At that time, my primary comic of interest was the New Warriors.

I was super-excited by the cover of New Warriors #4 (Oct 1990).  Given my love for big battles between teams of super-villains and super-heroes, the debut of the oddly-named Psionex against my favorite group of teen / young adult heroes was all it took.

There were a number of characters in Psionex that appealed to me.  One of the most memorable was Mathemanic. (Who, incidentally, I spent most of the last 20 years incorrectly referring to as Mathemaniac...so I guess you can either question the sincerity of my passion, or my attention to detail.)

In case you aren't up on your Psionex trivia, Mathemanic's powers were described as "arithmetic telepathy."  Okaaaay....sounds cool, but what does it really mean?  Comicvine describes it thusly:

Mathemanic attacks opponents with a telepathic burst of mathematical information that usually overloads the opponent['s] brain and causes them extreme pain. This can also confuse an opponent.

Apart from these superpowers, Mathemanic is also a genius-level mathematician. Mathemanic's powers are based on telepathic and psionic projection. Mathemanic has also developed a new power which is to realize any mathematical concepts or formulas that he can think of. This power broadens his abilities because by mastering mathematical concepts and theories, Mathemanic can have control over the fundamental forces of the universe like gravity and chemical reactions.

In some ways, Mathemanic strikes me as the Marvel's version of Chemical King:  a character with a cool sounding power-set, but one which most writers either didn't understand well enough to utilize, OR which they understood but lacked the creativity to imagine sufficiently challenging obstacles for the character.  Once you start describing a character's power set as including "control over the fundamental forces of the universe," there's suddenly a lot fewer legitmate threats you can put into any storyline.  (cf. Thanos-with-the-Infinity-Gauntlet v. Everyone-else-in-Creation)

Unfortunately for Mathemanic, where Chemical King at least had a cool look...no such sartorial flair was provided for Thomas Sorenson.  First, he sported that most-chilling of early 90s hair cuts...the mullet.

While this did afford a golden opportunity to provide acting work for Richard Dean Anderson or Billy Ray Cyrus, sadly no one produced a New Warriors movie...and another moment pregnant for American cultural uplift was allowed to slip away.😒

Cyrus' heart was reportedly, "achy-broken" at the lost opportunity to play Mathemanic in a major motion picture.

As I look back on Mathemanic now, it strikes me he might've been effectively used to introduce autism into the Marvel superhuman community.  Being the father of an autistic son, and having several friends who are on the spectrum, I can attest his overall "look" is right.  His power set could've lent itself very well to some interesting stories along those lines.
An autistic angle would have been one way to insert some authentic challenges as well.  Despite his default advantage in raw power, this would've opened many possibilities for exploring the struggle in negotiating interpersonal dynamics.

What say you, dear reader?  Is there anyone else out there who thought Mathemanic had a lot of unrealized potential?  Would you add to, or critique my assessment of him in some way?  Let me know in the comments!