MU6 - Gamers Handbook 1990 Update

HISTORY
Little is known about Mercy's past.

What is known is that she's an alien
being who sensed all the poor miser-
able souls on Earth and decided to
make this planet her semi-
permanent home. It is uncertain how
she was able to travel to Earth;
whether she is able to travel in space
unaided or if she needs a ship is un-
known. She seems to believe that all
people who are suffering want to
leave this life and follow her to the
"next life." Previous to meeting
Hulk/Banner, she killed a person
"helping" him to his next life by
dropping a plugged-in radio into his
bath water. Mercy encountered Ban-
ner and immediately sensed the tor-
ment in his soul due to his situation
with the Hulk. Banner escaped her
clutches twice, but was finally
caught out in the desert. While at-
tempting to take the Hulk and Bruce
Banner over to the "next life" by
spearing the Hulk and Banner with
her Mind Blast, she was forced to
change to her true form as the Hulk
grasped the Spear and hurled it into
her. Her true form has the consist-
ency of jello and was briefly seen in
the shape of a large cube with the
general features of a face on one
side. This form apparently is vulnera-
ble to physical attack. During the rest
of the battle, Mercy almost covered
the Hulk completely and tried to suf-
focate him by oozing into his nose.
The Hulk covered himself and Mercy
in gasoline and lit a flare. The Hulk
walked away from the blaze and now
believes along with Clay Quarter-
main and Rick Jones that Mercy was
killed in the resulting explosion.

Somehow she managed to escape
and was last seen hitchhiking on a
highway, about to be picked up by an
unlucky trucker.

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MIDGARD SERPENT

151

STATISTICS: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: sion when the Thunder God encoun-
!he Worl? Serpent doesn't usually tered the World Serpent took place
F UN(100) involve himself with the affairs of during a battle that almost became
A UN(100) mortals, although he has been the true time of Ragnarok. Only one
S ShY(200) known to roam their realm in dis- element was out of place which kept
E CL1000 guise. the prophecy from being fulfilled; a
R GD(10) mortal , " Red" Norvell, stole the Belt
I IN(40) HISTORY ~f Thor, his Iron Gloves and the mys-
P UN(100) The Midgard Serpent, also called tic Hammer, Mjolnir. At the fateful
Health: 1400 battle, where Thor was facing the
Karma: 150 the World Serpent, is an enormous Serpent with only a sword, Norvell
Resources: None reptile that encircles the Earth at the returned and fought Jormungard.
Popularity: 0 (-10 to Asgardians) bottom of the seas. He is the sworn Realizing that he couldn't best his
enemy of Thor, the God of Thunder, foe, Norvell tossed Mjolnir to the real
BACKGROUND: as they are fated to kill each other at Thor and the tide of battle was
Real Name: Jormungand the end of time. The Prophesies of turned. Thor pommeled the Midgard
Occupation: World Serpent Volla declare that, at the time of Serpent relentlessly, forcing his eter-
Identity: Unknown to the general Ragnarok, the hordes of Hela, God- nal enemy to retreat. Ragnarok had
populus of Earth dess of Death, and troll warriors been avoided once more.
Legal Status: N/A lead by Loki, the God of Mischief1 wili
Place of Birth: N/A storm the realm of Asgard until the Recently, the serpent was in-
Marital Status: N/A once halcyon realm becomes a sea formed of Thor's weakened state
Known Relatives: Loki (father) of flame. At that time, the Midgard
Base of Operations: Serpent will rear its head and do bat- (caused by a curse cast upon him by
Past Group Affiliations: None tle with Thor, son of Odin, God of Hela, the Norse Goddess of Death)
Present Group Affiliation: Thunder. It is prophesized that Thor by the leader of the frost giants,
will ultimately triumph , kill the ser- G~undroth. Jormungard, th inking
KNOWN POWERS: pent, take 9 steps back and die from this the time to rid himself of Thor
/llusion: CL5000 rank. The Serpent is ~is wounds. The Midgard serpent, in once and for all, sought out the
able to cast an illusion around its its death throes, will destroy Asgard Thunder God while in the guise of
body to the end of the horizon. and Midgard with the thrashing of its th.e dragon Fin Fang Foom. He found
Energy Emission-HfJat: Unearthly enormous body. Ragnarok has yet to a hero with a red cape that looked
rank. Jormungard has been known occur. In the past, however, Thor and somewhat like his sworn enemy,
to emit heat rays from his eyes. Jormungard have periodically Thor, but the blonde bearded man
Invulnerability: The hard skin of the clashed, usually to a standstill. with the body armor didn't look like
reptile provides Monstrous resist- the god that he fought in the past.
ance to physical damage. In his youth, Thor thought to battle The World Serpent revealed his true
Te/eportation: Incredible rank the Serpent prematurely and break identity to the unknown hero intend-
the Prophecy. The god of Thunder ing to destroy him immediately, but
ADDITIONAL NOTES: persuaded the giant Hymir into let- the mortal was actually the Thun-
ting him use the giant's boat and the derer. Thor supposedly killed the ser-
head of his largest ox as bait for the pent during the ensuing battle, but
largest, most fearsome creature in the prophesies state that the
the sea. Thor hooked the Midgard Midgard Serpent and Thor will en-
S~rp~nt, but before he could act, Hy- gage in battle on the day of
m1r sliced the enchanted line which Ragnarok. Whether the great ser-
bound the serpent. Another occa- pent has been irrevokably killed or
not has yet to be seen.

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MISS AMERICA

STATISTICS:

F EX(20)
A RM(30)
S TY(6)
E IN(40)
R TY(6)
I GD(10)
P TY(6)
Health: 96
Karma: 22
Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: 1O

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Madeline Joyce Frank
Occupation: Adventurer
Identity: Known to the U.S. govern-

ment
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Robert L. Frank
(alias The Whizzer; husband, de-
ceased) Robert Frank Jr. (alias
Nuklo, son)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Liberty Le-
gion, Invaders, and the All-Winners

Squad
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Flight by Gravity Control: Miss Amer- Miss America is an exuberant hero-
ica is able to psionically negate the
effect of gravity around her person ine who fights for the cause of liberty
allowing herself to float into the air. In and justice and believes in that fight
coordination with planned jumps, with all her heart.
she could simulate the power of
flight. The maximum rate of speed
on a windless day is around 30 miles
per hour and she has to land fre-
quently to maintain that speed.
Contacts: She is in good standing
with all of the members of her former
group affiliations.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

HISTORY

One night during the early 1940s,
Madeline Joyce, niece of a million-
aire who was financing unknown
electrical experiments in a converted
lighthouse on the Eastern coast, vis-
ited that lighthouse in the middle of a
large, violent thunderstorm. While
inside, she was caught in an electri-
cal discharge from the equipment
that was caused by the outside

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storm. Instead of being instantly and the Invaders and, after the war, module and be known as Nuklo. .-.....
killed, Joyce miraculaously survived joined the All-Winners Squad. With the large government pen-
the charge, but lay in a coma for a
week afterwards. She recovered and After the All-Winners Squad dis- sion, the Franks decided to travel the
banded, Madeline and Robert quite world. Madeline accidently became
found out that the jolt of electricity the costumed adventuring and were pregnant during this worldwide jour-
had somehow released her latent married. In 1949, they began work- ney and when the baby was ready to
mutant ability to negate gravity and ing for the United States government be born, they were in the tiny Balkan
thereby fly as well as somehow in- as non-costumed superpowered country of Transia. Acting on the ad-
creasing her physical vitality. guards at a secret nuclear facility in vise of the villagers, the Franks went
Manhattan. While working there, ls- to the scientific citadel on Wunda-
She decided to join the homefront bisa, an enemy of the All-Winners gore Mountain, belonging to the
effort and fight for liberty and justice. Squad, staged a nuclear accident High Evolutionary. Bova, a cow
She put together a costume and that exposed the Franks to danger- evolved into humanoid form, acted
dubbed herself Miss America. Miss ously high levels of radiation. lsbi- as midwife to the birth but the child
America had gained limited fame in sa's heinous crime did not kill was stillborn, more deformed and ra-
the United States as a spysmasher Madeline or Robert Frank, but she dioactive than the first child. Joyce,
when she met Robert Frank, the weakened by her exposure to radia-
Whizzer, while battling a Nazi spy was pregnant at the time of the expo- tion, didn't survive more than 2
ring that had hijacked a railroad in sure. Consequently, she gave birth hours after the birth. In grief, Robert
New York. They were working to- to a radioactive mutant son who was Frank raced from the mountain.
gether on that case when Bucky dangerous enough that the U.S. gov- Bova buried the body of Madeline
Barnes called on them to join the Lib- Joyce Frank at the base of Wunda-
erty Legion and help the Invaders ernment took custody of him and gore Mountain in a unmarked grave.
out of a tough situation. They be- placed him in a chrono-module to
came members of the Liberty Legion contain the radiation. Many years
later, he would emerge from the

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STATISTICS: NECRODAMUS

F GD(10) ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
A EX(20) Necrodamus is an evil wizard intent
on completing a powerful sorcerous
S RM(30) rite that will transform him into a vir-
tual god. The rite requires a human
E IN(40) sacrifice of great power, such as the
R RM(30) Sub-Mariner, Mantis, or similar
I EX(20) super-powered being. Once he at-
P MN(75) tains godhood, Necrodamus plans to
Health: 100 use his powers to rule the Earth.
Karma: 125
Resources: PR(4) (in Limbo), 155
EX(20) (on Earth)
Popularity: -30

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Necrodamus
Occupation: Sorcerer
Legal Status: Unknown
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Most recently

Limbo
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
Sorcerous Enhancement: Without
magical bolstering, Necrodamus'
FASE Statistics were all of Poor

Rank.
Magic: Necrodamus is a Sorcerer of
Master level. He has Amazing Rea-
son in matters of the occult. Necro-
damus' spells get a +3CS in places
of high mana content or during times
auspicious for spellcasting. The bo-
nus may be higher or lower depend-
ing on the situation. For example,
during the Inferno time, the planets
were aligning and Necrodamus was
able to cast a Magic Shield that pro-
vided Class 3000 protection versus
all attacks.

Many of Necrodamus' spells have

yet to be revealed, but they include:

Eldritch Bolt: Necrodamus fires en-
ergy blasts with Incredible force and
a range of 3 Areas.
Flight: Necrodamus flew with Excel-
lent speed.
Energy Shield: Necrodamus could
create protective shields of Amazing
strength.
Rite ofPower: According to Necroda-
mus, if he ever succeeds with his
plan to sacrifice someone of signifi-
cant power (someone whose Health
plus Karma total 200 or more) during
a time of great magic, he will become
a god.

HISTORY:
Necrodamus was born with a

shriveled body, so he turned to black
magic to gain the power his physical
frame lacked. He learned that
through the sacrifice of innocents he
could gain god-like form. When he
tried to attain power by committing
sacrifices beneath the sea, he was
defeated by the Sub-Mariner; when
he tried in the surface world among
the air-breathers, he was defeated
by the Scarlet Witch, who swept his
soul into Limbo. He spent many
years lost in that trackless realm until
the demonic Masters of Limbo un-
leashed their Inferno on Manhattan.
The nexus of energy created by the
Masters of Limbo in their attempt to
spread their domain into the plane of
Earth's existence gave Necrodamus
back his bearings and his way back
to Earth-first as only a spirit, but
eventually his form became more
substantial and he regained his full
sorcerous powers.

Necrodamus used his sorcery to
kidnap the captive Mantis away from
Kang the Conqueror in a Rite of
Power while the latter was busy fight-
ing the Fantastic Four. Necrodamus
planned to sacrifice Mantis when the
planets aligned themselves, but
Kang and the Human Torch com-
bined powers to keep Mercury from
joining the other planets in align-
ment and ruined Necrodamus' spell.
Mantis was saved and Necrodamus
disappeared once more into the
ethereal void of Limbo.

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NIGHTWING RESTDRATIDNSJ LTD.

KNIGHTJ MISTY

STATISTICS:

F GD(10)

A EX(20)

s TY(6)

E GD(10)

R GD(10)
I IN(40)
p TY(6)

Health: 46

Karma: 56
Resources: GD(10)

Popularity: 20

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Misty Knight
Occupation: Private investigator,
former policewoman
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Nightwing
Restorations, New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Daughters
of the Dragon

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: cative with a tendency to break trolwoman for New York's 12th Pre-
Bionic Arm: Knight's bionic right arm things. Wing can normally bring cinct. Her friendship with Colleen
and hand have Incredible rank Knight out of her shell and force her Wing began when she saved Wing
Strength. Because her Bionic Arm is to take positive action. Their friend- from criminal gunfire in the course of
so much more powerful than her nor- ship and partnership has brought duty. Later, when Knight saw terror-
mal body, Knight must take care not them closer than sisters. ists throw a bomb into a bank, she
to use more Strength than her body seized the bomb. But before she
can support. HISTORY: could throw the bomb into a safe
Talents: Knight has Law Enforce- Misty Knight was the best marks- place, it exploded . Her right arm had
ment, Marksman, and Guns talents. to be amputated, and it was replaced
Her Reason is Incredible as a Detec- man in her class at the New York po- with a bionic arm designed at Stark
tive. She also has considerable skill lice academy, and graduated at the International. Due to her injury,
with Martial Arts A and E. top of her class. She became a pa- Knight had to retire from active duty
Contacts: Knight and Colleen Wing as a policewoman and, rather than
frequently ally with Power Man and
Iron Fist. Knight also has friends in 157
the NYPD, among them, Tyrone
King.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Private eye Misty Knight is very good
at her job. And when her profes-
sional curiosity puts her between a
rock and a hard place, her right hand
can break rocks (no sweat). Knight
can get emotional and confused, es-
pecially in matters close to her heart.
In these circumstances, Knight be-
comes melancholy and uncommuni-

accept a desk job, she resigned. sword. The weapon does Excellent stances have not been revealed.
Wing helped Knight to accept her bi- Edged Attack damage. Wing has In- None of Kenji Ozawa's children sur-
onic arm and renew her life. To- credible ability with this weapon as vived World War II except Colleen's
gether, they formed Nightwing well as with other traditional samurai mother, who bore no children other
Restorations, Ltd. weapons, such as the dai-kyu (long than Colleen.
bow).
Knight was romantically involved Talents: Wing has Martial Arts A and Colleen was trained in the warrior
with Daniel Rand (Iron Fist) for a E. She has Excellent Reason as a arts of the samurai, in which she be-
while. Despite the break-up, they re- Detective. She also has Good knowl- came superbly skilled. Then, she
mained good friends. While coming edge of the Occult and Oriental mys- made her home in New York City
to terms with losing Rand, Misty had ticism . where her father lived . Caught in the
a brief fling with Tyrone King, the Contacts: Knight and Wing fre- midst of a gun battle on Manhattan's
one-man SWAT team . quently ally with Iron Fist and Power West Side, she was saved from be-
Man. Wing also has a contact with ing murdered by police officer, Misty
WING, the Sons of the Tiger, through Robert Knight. They became good friends.
Diamond (her current beau). Later, when Knight's right arm was
COLLEEN lost due to a terrorist's bomb, Wing
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: encouraged Knight to rise above her
STATISTICS: The blood of samurai flows through depression and return to an active
Colleen Wing's veins. She is fierce in role in life. Knight's amputated arm
F EX(20) a fight, although she doesn't like was given a bionic replacement.
A EX(20) guns and will avoid their use when- When Knight left the NYPD, she and
ever possible. Wing is tough, gutsy, Colleen teamed up to form
s TY(6) and straight-forward. Her friendship Nightwing Restorations.
with Knight is strengthened by their
E EX(20) business partnership and the numer- Colleen is currently romantically
ous times they've saved one an- involved with Robert Diamond, one
R GD(10) other's life. of the Sons of the Tiger. She and
I RM(30) Knight are good friends with Luke
HISTORY: Cage (Power Man) and Daniel Rand
p GD(10) Colleen Wing is the daughter of (Iron Fist).
Health: 66
Karma: 50 Lee Wing, a professor of Oriental GROUP HISTORY:
Resources: GD(1O) studies at New York's Columbia Uni- Misty Knight and Colleen Wing
Popularity: 10 versity and a Japanese woman
whose name has not been revealed . formed a partnership as private in-
BACKGROUND: (Despite their last name, Professor vestigators and called their firm
Real Name: Colleen Wing Wing and, to a lesser extent, Colleen Nightwing Restorations, Ltd. Their
Occupation: Private investigator look primarily Caucasian. Both have operation is fairly successful. They
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no mixed racial backgrounds .) Col- specialize in missing persons cases.
criminal record leen's mother's ancestors were The duo operate primarily out of New
Place of Birth : Japan samurai (warriors) and daimyo (feu- York City. They occasionally cooper-
Marital Status: Single dal lords). Colleen's late maternal ate on cases with Heroes for Hire,
Known Relatives: Lee Wing (fa- grandfather, Kenji Ozawa, was the Inc., which is run by Power Man and
ther), Kenji Ozawa (grandfather, de- head of Japan's secret service, and Iron Fist. Whether Iron Fist's re-
ceased) has been succeeded in that position
Base of Operations: Nightwing by his brother. ported death will close down Heroes
Restorations, New York City for Hire remains to be seen.
Past Group Affiliations: Daughters Colleen grew up in the mountains
of the Dragon of northern Honshu in Japan, where Due to Wing's samurai-style train-
Present Group Affiliation: she was raised by Kenji Ozawa. Col- ing and both partners' expertise in
leen's mother is known to have been the Oriental martial arts, they have
KNOWN POWERS: killed, but the time and circum- been dubbed " the Daughters of the
Katana: Wing wields a katana, a tra- Dragon".
ditional Japanese samurai long

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-......._ STATISTICS: DRKA

F EX(20) 159

A GD(10)
S MN(75)

E AM(50)
R PR(4)
I TY(6)
P FE(2)
Health: 155
Karma: 12
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: -20

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Orka
Occupation: Renegade, henchman
Legal Status: Exiled citizen of Atlan-
tis
Identity: Does not use dual identity
Place of Birth: Atlantis
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Atlantic Ocean
Past Group Affiliations: Former
minion of Warlord Krang, former
agent of the Brand Corporation
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
Water-Breathing or Air-Breathing:
Orka has a whale-like dorsal nostril
("blowhole") which allows him to
breathe indefinitely on land and gills
for breathing underwater. An ex-
tended time out of water tends to di-
minish his strength,
Body Armor: Orka's blubber pro-
~ vides Incredible protection from
Physical attacks and Remarkable
protection for Energy attacks.
Communicate with Whales: Orka can
communicate with whales. The
unique quality of his whale sounds
make his cries particularly compel-
ling to whales. If Orka makes a suc-
cessful Reason FEAT roll, whales
will obey him. For the purpose of
communicating with whales, Orka's
Reason is Monstrous.
Swimming: Orka can swim at Re-
markable Speed (6 areas/round).
Resistance to Heat and Cold: Orka
has Excellent resistance to hot and
cold attacks.

,----...,. ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: than to his sovereign. In exile from of the battle, Orka was buried under
Orka isn't particularly bright and is Atlantis after his rebellion attempts an avalanche beneath the ocean
easily manipulated by the evil mas- failed, Krang joined forces with the floor. When he emerged months later
terminds who are his frequent em- human scientist Dr. Lemuel Dorcas and attacked Namor on his own, he
ployers. Orka is subject to rages. He to plot revenge upon Namor. Krang was defeated once again. Orka was
bears a murderous grudge against selected Orka as a test subject for later contacted by agents of the
anyone who has defeated him in Dorcas' experiment to endow an At- Brand Corporation, a subsidiary of
combat. The Sub-Mariner and Thor lantean with the power of a killer the Roxxon Oil Company, who used
are both high on his grudge list. whale. Dorcas placed Orka in a their resources to increase his size
chamber rigged to transfer the elec- three-fold, thicken his outer layer of
HISTORY: trochemical energy from a fleet of protective blubber, and augment his
Orka was born a member of the captive killer whales into his body. strength. No longer requiring
The process mutagenically stimu- strength-enhancing machinery,
race of Homo mermanus who lived in lated Orka's body, causing him to Orka was sent on a mission that
the city of Atlantis. Great in strength brought him against the Avengers.
but limited in intelligence, Orka be- grow in might and to be able to exist He was defeated by Thor in combat,
came a soldier in the Atlantean army outside of water for prolonged peri- and taken into custody. Escaping
led by Warlord Krang. When Krang ods of time. Orka was given a belt to soon thereafter, Orka fled to the sea.
later opposed the rule of Prince Na- wear which provided him a link with He participated in Attuma's invasion
mor the Sub-Mariner, Orka retained the power-transfer machine. Krang plans of the surface world, but was
his loyalty to his commander rather and Dorcas pitted Orka and the fleet defeated by the Avengers. His cur-
rent whereabouts are unknown.
of whales against Namor, but Namor
managed to thwart them. At the end

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~ STATISTICS:

F IN(40)
A EX(20)
S GD(10)
E RM(30)

R GD(10)

I EX(20)
P GD(10)
Health: 100
Karma: 40
Resources: GD(1 O)/IN(40) *
Popularity: 20/50 *
* (as Captain America Ill)

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Jeffrey Mace
Occupation: Reporter and corres-
pondent, adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no

criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York
Marital Status: Unrevealed, but un-
married at the time of his death
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York City,
Boston

Past Group Affiliations: (as the Pa-
triot) Member of the Liberty Legion ;
(as Captain America Ill) Member of
the All-Winners Squad
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: War successor, the All-Winners ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
None. Squad. It was the death of Captain Inspired by the daring adventures of
Equipment: America II in the All-Winners Squad Captain America, Jeffrey Mace be-
that led to Mace's donning the star- came a costumed defender of the
Shield: The Captain America Shield spangled uniform. American way of life. Mace was very
(used by Jeffrey Mace) provided Re- patriotic and zealous in his pursuit of
markable protection against Physi- ADDITIONAL NOTES: America's enemies.
cal attacks and Good protection
against Energy attacks. Mace threw 161
the Shield with Amazing agility and it
caused Excellent damage to what-
ever it struck.
Talents: Mace was an expert at a va-
riety of Martial Arts (A, B, D, and E).
He also had Remarkable Reason as
a Reporter.
Contacts: Because of his role as a
government-sanctioned hero, both
as the Patriot and Captain America,
Mace had many contacts in both the
U.S. Government and its military. He
was also a good friend of Steve
Rogers (the original Captain Amer-
ica) and Bucky.

During the 1940s and 1950s,
Mace had a number of contacts
among other superhero groups,
such as the Invaders and their post-

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HISTORY: on the American home front during sume the identity of Captain Amer-
Jeffrey Mace was a reporter and World War II. ica. In this new role, the Patriot
prevented Adam II from murdering
correspondent for the New York Daily The Patriot continued his crime- the congressional candidate he in-
Bugle when the United States en- fighting career even after the end of tended to replace, John F. Kennedy.
World War II. Based in Boston, Mas-
tered World War II. Inspired by Cap- sachusetts in 1946, he saved the The third Captain America be-
tain America, and fervently patriotic, original Human Torch, Toro, and the came the second Bucky's new part-
Mace began fighting crime and Nazi Torch's creator, Professor Phineas T. ner and both remained active in the
espionage under the costumed iden- Horton, from a trap that had been All-Winners Squad. The second
tity of the Patriot. The Patriot placed by Adam II, a malevolent an- Bucky retired from crimefighting in
droid Horton had created. Horton 1949 due to a bullet wound, and
strengthened his reputation as a cru- told the Patriot that Adam II intended Captain America Ill formed a new
sader against America's enemies in
a series of patriotic radio broadcasts to substitute an android duplicate for partnership with the superhuman
from New York City. a congressional candidate from a adventurer Golden Girl. Finally, be-
Boston district. The Patriot and the lieving Americans no longer felt a
The infamous Nazi agent known Torches contacted members of the need for symbolic figures like Cap-
as the Red Skull captured four mem- All-Winners Squad, the post-war tain America, Jeff Mace retired as a
bers of the Invaders, a wartime team successor to the Invaders, and in- crimefighter in 1950 and returned to
of champions -Captain America formed them about Adam ll 's plan . reporting.
himself, the original Human Torch Without Steve Rogers, the original
and Toro, and the Sub-Mariner- and Captain America, and Bucky Some years ago, Mace discovered
brainwashed them to commit anti- Barnes, who had both vanished in he was dying of cancer. The Elder of
American sabotage. In order to sum- 1945, the Invaders now included an- the Universe called the Contempla-
mon other costumed heroes to other costumed adventurer, the tor granted Mace his fondest wish by
rescue the Invaders, Captain Ameri- Spirit of '76, who had taken over the allowing him to do battle once more
ca's young partner, Bucky Barnes, role of Captain America, and a boy as Captain America, this time
named Fred Davis was the new against the Adam II of an alternate
commandeered the station from Bucky. One of Adam ll's robots killed Earth. Mace destroyed this Adam II
which the Patriot was about to broad- the second Captain America at Bos- and, in winning this victory, came to
cast one of his speeches. The Patriot ton's Old North Church. Inspired by terms with his past and achieved in-
joined the team that Bucky orga- this second Captain America's noble ner peace. Several months after this
nized for this mission-named the sacrifice, the Patriot donned a spare adventure, Jeffrey Mace died of can-
Liberty Legion-and the Invaders Captain America costume from the cer with his hero, the original Cap-
were finally freed. Afterward, the Lib- Sub-Mariner's nearby flagship and tain America, at his bedside.
erty Legion remained together, bat- thus became the third man to as-
tling criminals, spies, and saboteurs

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STATISTICS:

F TY(6)

A TY(6)

s TY(6)

E TY(6)

R RM(30)

I TY{6)
p TY(6)
Health: 24
Karma: 42

Resources: RM(30)
Popularity: -20

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Samuel Smithers
Occupation: Former gardener, now
professional criminal
Legal Status: Naturalized U.S. citi-
zen with a criminal record
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: London, England
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: A submarine
somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
Past Group Affiliations: Former as-
sociate of the Maggia under Count
Nefaria, ally of the Wizard
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: marily of living wood capable of F TY(6)
Plant Ray Gun: The Plantman wields movement, speech, and a prepro- A FE(2)
several gun-like projectors that emit grammed series of complex activi- S GD(10)
an energy-field of an as yet unknown ties. It is not known how they are E RM(30)
nature capable of stimulating the R FE(2)
naturally-occuring psionic field of the constructed, programmed, or moti- I PR(4)
chlorophyllic process of plant photo- vated. The Plantman has equipped
synthesis. Once so stimulated, a his plant-doubles with various spe- P SHO
plant becomes receptive to the or- cial paraphernalia including poison
dered human thoughts of the projec- thorn-shooters and spore-launchers. Simulacra with thorns or spores
tor's operator. The Plantman can Plant Simulacra have the following could project them with Excellent
animate the roots of a plant like pre- minimum statistics: Agility.
hensile limbs, uproot t rees, cause
vines to grow at a super-accelerated 163
rate to choke a victim, force plants to
shed their leaves, or drain them of
their moisture. Depending on their
size, plants tend to remain under his
influence for up to an hour after stim-
ulation by the ray. The Plantman has
to make an Agility FEAT to hit a plant
with his Plant Ray. Once he has stim-
ulated a plant, Plantman must make
a Psyche FEAT roll to command it.

His Psyche gets a +6CS when try-

ing to command plants that have
been stimulated by the rays.
Plant Simu/acra: The Plantman has
created life-mimicking Plant Simula-
cra of human beings composed pri-

Talents: Samuel Smithers has United States where he hoped to from the Maggia, the Plantman built
Amazing Reason in Botany. continue the work he had begun un- huge, highly sophisticated versions
Contacts: Smithers may still have der the London botanist-to invent a of his plant-stimulating guns and
some contacts in the Maggia from device to increase the intelligence of launched an attack on his native
his days as an ally of Count Nefaria. plant life enough so that human be- London by the Leviathan, a huge
ings could communicate with them. organism made of seaweed . The Le-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Lacking formal education and ridi- viathan was stopped by the Sub-
culed for his ideas, Smithers found Mariner and Triton before it could do
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: work as a gardener in Glenville, much damage and the Plantman es-
Samuel Smithers' original motiva- Long Island, New York. His em- caped aboard his submarine. Need-
tion was revenge against those who ployer, Morris Evans, eventually fired ing funds to continue his research,
thwarted him. However, after several him because he was spending more the Plantman created a simulacrum
futile attempts, the Plantman de- time tinkering with his invention than of himself made out of plants clad in
cided to turn all his energies to a gardening. Shortly thereafter a bolt the old version of his costume and
more profitable crime-theft-and of lightning hit his experimental plant dispatched it to do mercenary work.
now his only motivation seems to be ray-gun, somehow charging it with Its actions could be controlled re-
greed. He is continually scheming to the power to control and animate all motely. The bogus Plantman joined
extort large sums of money, intend- plant life. Donning a disguise and the Eel, Scarecrow, Porcupine, and
ing to use his ill-gotten gains to man- calling himself the Plantman, Smith- original Viper as operatives for the
ufacture bigger plant-ray weapons in ers plotted revenge on Evans for fir- criminal police officer, the Cowled
order to steal even larger sums of ing him. He concocted a scheme to Commander to launch a crime wave,
money. frame Evans for robbery but Evans' but Captain America and the Falcon
daughter's then-boyfriend, Johnny overpowered them.
HISTORY: Storm (the Human Torch) , inter-
Samuel Smithers was born in Lon- vened and cleared Evans' name. Al- The Plantman sent a second simu-
though the Torch destroyed his lacrum to kidnap wealthy business-
don and orphaned at an early age. plant-gun, the Plantman neverthe- man Kyle Richmond to extort $10
Some time during adolescence, he less managed to escape. million from Richmond Enterprises
left the orphanage and went to work for his release, but the intervention
as a lab assistant for a noted London Months later, the Plantman de- of Dr. Strange, Power Man, and the
botanist who was exploring the low- vised a more powerful plant-gun and second Red Guardian forced him to
order mental activity of plant life. Af- abandon the plan. The Plantman ac-
ter 1O years, the botanist died after attempted to kill the Human Torch in quired the necessary funds, how-
which Smithers emigrated to the revenge. The plan failed and the
Plantman was taken into custody by ever, and launched his most
the police. He was released a short ambitious scheme to date, the ta-
keover of a S.H.l.E.L.D. base by
time later and recruited by Count Lu- human-looking plant simulacra and
chino Nefaria to join the Eel, Uni- the capture of the U.S. president.
corn, Porcupine, and Scarecrow as The Avengers stormed the base to
Nefaria's lieutenants to aid his family rescue the Chief Executive from an
to prominence in the Maggia organi- army of 1,000 plant simulacra and
zation. Plantman and his compatri- even destroyed the Plantman's most
ots kidnapped the X-Men to use in a powerful creation yet, a 100-foot tall
scheme to extort the U.S. govern- tree-man. The Plantman remains at
ment. When the plot fell through, the large.
Plantman managed to escape.

Having stolen certain technology

164

STATISTICS:

F TY(6)
A TY(6)
S TY(6)
E UN(100)
R RM(30)
I MN(75)
P UN(100)
Health: 118
Karma: 205
Resources: 0
Popularity: -30

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Would-be conqueror
(or destroyer)
,,---.. Legal Status: Unrevealed
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Moira MacTag-
gert (mother), Joe MacTaggert (fa-
ther, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

,....-.-.,_ KNOWN POWERS:

Proteus' powers were psychic-

based, fueled by "feeding" off the

life energy of his host body. The

more victims he drained, the more

powerful he became, although the

full range of his psionic abilities was

never revealed. His most commonly

used powers are listed below:

Reality Warping: Proteus' major

,....-.-.,_ power was the ability to Warp Reality

at an Unearthly level. Limited to his

own line of sight, he had to maintain

concentration or the effects of the

power reverted to normal. Proteus

used this power to alter the direction

of gravitational pull in an area, cause

brick buildings to unravel, launch

walls at people as a weapon, turn the

air into ground, etc. He could attack

a person's reality and threaten his

sanity or cause the ground to swal- * Animate Object: Proteus could Possession: Proteus' Psyche was so
low a person up and suffocate him, cause a wall to break away from a powerful that it quickly burned up
but Proteus' reality-warp couldn't building and attack someone. Pro- any body it contained and therefore
make someone simply cease to ex- teus had to make an Agility FEAT roll he constantly shifted from body to
ist. Below are just two Power Stunts to hit someone with one of these at- body. Proteus had Monstrous Rank
possible from this power:
tacks. If successful, the amount of ability to possess someone's body
* Fear: Anyone whose body or envi- damage done was equal to the mate- and drain their life force in the proc-
~ ronment was altered by Proteus has rial strength of the object making the ess. The would-be victim had to
to make a Psyche FEAT roll or suffer attack. For example, a brick wall has make a better Psyche FEAT roll than
a -1CS penalty to any future at- a material strength of Good, so it Proteus or die. For example, Proteus
tempts to do Proteus harm due to would do 1Opoints of damage.
fear. attacks Nightcrawler and his FEAT

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roll is Green, Nightcrawler must visit to the deserted complex. Pro- shee and sent Nightcrawler after
make a Yellow or Red FEAT roll or be teus' awesome psyche had no trou- him. Again, Proteus closed the pit.
destroyed. If Proteus rolled a White ble possessing MacWhirter's body, Reacting blindly, Nightcrawler tele-
FEAT, then his possession attempt whose soul or psyche was killed in ported straight up as far as he could
always failed. If the would-be victim the process of being taken over. With go with Sean in his arms. He ended
rolls a Red FEAT, he is not pos- his new body, Proteus prepared to up hundreds of feet in the air but Po-
sessed (even if Proteus rolls a Red leave the island when Moira showed laris was on the scene to lower him to
FEAT too). However, if the would-be up with some friends, among them safety with her magnetic powers.
victim has a Monstrous or higher Jean Grey (Phoenix). Deciding to
Psyche, he or she cannot be pos- "feed" once again, therefore pos- Both Kurt and Sean were alive, but
sessed. sessing the most powerful of the X- out of action.
Telepathy: Proteus could read a per- Men, he discovered that his nascent
son's innermost thoughts with powers were no match for Phoenix, Proteus used the distraction to
Amazing ability and used their se- who he managed to stun, although take Moira and run, but was overta-
crets against them by projecting he barely escaped with his life. ken by the Phoenix. Proteus was
their worst nightmares into their staggered by her attack, but his
mind, or altering reality to create a From Muir Island, he eventually counter-attack was devastating. Be-
living nightmare. made his way to Scotland. With each fore Proteus could finish her, Wolver-
new form he stole, he became more ine arrived and ripped into the killer
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: and more confident of his abilities, mutant, who by now was really hurt-
Proteus was the result of an un- more sure of his destiny-to rule hu- ing. Cyclops yelled at Wolverine to
wanted childbirth (his mother hated manity or destroy it! Proteus' next get Moira away while he and Havok
his father). Because of his great psy- victim was his father, Joseph Mac- both turned their energy beams on.
chic powers, Proteus was aware of Taggert, whose body he took over in Proteus. However, Proteus changed
the hatred Moira felt for Joseph and Edinburgh. Moira tried to shoot him, his own form, ducking out from un-
this bent his mind, turning him into a but Proteus easily transformed her der the beams of both superheroes.
psychotic killer. Proteus was homici- gun into something harmless and Caught off guard, Cyclops hit Havok
dal, egomaniacal, and intent on rul- she became his captive. When the X- and he took Havok's blast, which
ing the world if he didn't destroy it Men arrived on the scene, Proteus
first. warned them to back off or Moira momentarily took them out of the
would be his next victim. The X-Men battle. Wolverine carried off Moira up
HISTORY: knew Proteus had to be stopped no the cliff-face of the Rock, heading for
Originally known as Mutant X, Pro- matter what or who it cost. Cyclops Castle Edinburgh, but Proteus over-
realized that Proteus had two took them on a rising pillar of reality-
teus was the son of Moira MacTag- weaknesses-metal and a constant warped earth and easily snatched
gert, a noted geneticist who has a need for fresh host bodies. He Moira from Wolverine's grasp. Wol-
research facility on Muir Island, off planned to force Proteus to burn out verine fell from the cliff but was res-
the coast of Scotland. From an early
age, Proteus developed dangerous his present body while denying him cued by Cyclops' optic blast which
mutant abilities and a hatred for the opportunity to possess another. slowed the fall. Wolverine's adaman-
mankind and was therefore impris-
oned in a special holding cell by Proteus used his reality-warping tium skeleton enabled him to endure
Moira. Although she tried to find a ability to cause the town to attack in- the painful rescue measures.
cure for his vampiric mutant power, nocent bystanders. The X-Men were
Moira was unsuccessful. Proteus es- handicapped with protecting the Then, in human guise, Colossus
caped when the containment field populace and battling the evil Pro- went after Proteus and Moira. Peter
generator on his cell was damaged Rasputin reached the castle in time
following a battle between the X-Men teus. Storm tried blinding Proteus to prevent Proteus from possessing
and Magneto at the Muir Island com- with a fog but he acquired a psychic Moira. Attacking by surprise, Ras-
plex. When Proteus emerged from fix on her from an earlier encounter putin hurled Proteus against a castle
his cell, he found the place deserted. and transformed her cape into an battlement, shattering his decaying
amber prison. Wolverine used his body and leaving his true form-a
Proteus' mutant psyche is fueled claws to break her out, although in humanoid-shaped psychic energy
by the body he possesses. The same so doing he left himself wide open for shell. Believing himself invulnerable,
energy fields that had imprisoned Proteus. Luckily for Wolverine, Sean Proteus decided to slowly kill Ras-
him had also sustained him. After his putin, which turned out to be mistake
escape from the cell, his body began Cassidy shot Proteus in the shoul- because this allowed him to trans-
to rapidly deteriorate, but he man- der, distracting him. Enraged, Pro- form to his metal form, Colossus. Co-
aged to survive until Angus teus opened a pit beneath Sean's lossus smashed his metallic fists into
MacWhirter made an unexpected feet and, with his Banshee powers the heart of Proteus' energy form.
gone, Sean could do nothing but fall Contact with metal in his pure state
to his supposed doom as Proteus short-circuited Proteus and de-
closed the pit behind him. Acting stroyed him utterly.
quickly, Cyclops used his optic
blasts to cut a tunnel down to Ban-

166

RAWHIDE KID

STATISTICS:

F EX(20)
A EX(20)

s GD(10)

E EX(20)
R TY(6)
I EX(20)
p GD(10)
Health: 70
Karma: 36
Resources: PR(4)

oPopularlty: -1

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Johnny Bart (his original
last name was Clay)
Occupation: Gunslinger
Legal Status: U.S. citizen wanted as
an outlaw
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Ben Bart (adop-
tive father, deceased), Frank and Joe
Clay (brothers, deceased)
Base of Operations: The American
West in the second half of the 19th
century
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
Gun-Fighting: The Rawhide Kid uses
two Colt .45 revolvers, which do Typ-
ical damage.
Talents: The Rawhide Kid gets

+ 2CS with his.revolvers and + 1CS

with other firearms. He has Martial
Arts B and Riding skill.
Contacts: The Rawhide Kid knew
Kid Colt, Two-Gun Kid, Phantom
Rider, and the Avengers.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: ing around. Still, he continued to de- family, Joe Clay became the sheriff
The Rawhide Kid was a legendary fend the weak and helpless and of the town of Willow Flats. Another
gunfighter of the Old West. He had a battle criminals. brother, Frank, was captured by the
price on his head for a crime he Indians but escaped from them
didn't commit which kept him mov- HISTORY: months later and eventually became
a gambler.
hisWphaerennJtso,htnhneyCBlaayrts,wwaesreankiilnlefadnit~
The infant Johnny, overlooked by
a raid by Cheyenne Indians. John- the Cheyenne raiders, was soon
ny's oldest brother, Joe, fled during found by Ben Bart, a Texas Ranger.
the raid in panic. Later, in an effort to Bart adopted Johnny and raised him
expiate his guilt for deserting his on his ranch outside Rawhide, Texas
and named his adopted son, Johnny
Bart. (Johnny's original first name
given him by his parents, has not

167

been revealed.) Johnny called Ben claimed that Ben Bart had started a wounded Barker in his gun arm . Rid-
"U ncle Ben." fight with them and that Brown had ing up, the sheriff accused the Raw-
One of the fastest gunmen in the outdrawn him fairly. Johnny con- hide Kid of shooting Barker without
Texas Rangers, Ben retired when giving him a chance. The cattle
Johnny was 16, and began began fronted Brown , who drew his guns on owner who had witnessed the shoot-
teaching him how to use a gun. By him, but before Brown could ing from close by, protested that
the time Johnny reached his 18th squeeze his triggers, Johnny drew Barker was about to draw and that
birthday, Ben had taught him all he his own guns and fired them, wound- the Kid was justified in shooting him.
could, and Johnny had become even ing Brown in the arm. Seeing Spade
taster and better than Ben had been in the mirror about to shoot him from Nevertheless, the sheriff insisted on
at using a gun. behind, Johnny, without turning arresting the Kid, who fled. From that
around, fired over his shoulders, hit- time on, the Rawhide Kid was sought
Shortly thereafter, Johnny Bart ting Spade in his gun arm. Johnny as an outlaw.
went into Rawhide to buy the
month 's provisions for the ranch . Bart left Brown and Spade to be The Rawhide Kid continued to de-
taken into custody. Johnny declared fend the weak and helpless and to
Once he was gone, a drifter named he would not return home to the battle criminals. Among the most no-
Hank Brown confronted Ben Bart ranch, but would use his gunfighting torious or unusual of his many adver-
and challenged him to draw his gun, prowess to fight evildoers like Brown saries were the Cougar, the original
hoping to make reputation tor him- and Spade wherever he could, no Red Raven, the Ape, the Tyrant of
self by outdrawing the renown Ben matter what the odds were against Tombstone Valley, the Masked Mav-
Bart. Unknown to Ben, Brown had an him. Johnny called himself the Raw- erick, Marko the Manhunter, and the
accomplice named Spade hiding hide Kid after the town in which his strange alien called the Living To-
nearby. Just as Ben drew his six- gunfighting career began. tem. The Rawhide Kid sometimes
guns, Spade called out to Bart from joined forces with other legendary
behind as a distraction, and Brown The Rawhide Kid sought out many gunfighters, including Kid Colt, the
took the opportunity to gun Ben Bart of the worst criminals in the region second Phantom Rider, and the Two-
down. and defeated them . When he was Gun Kid. The Rawhide Kid even al-
still quite young, he found proof that lied himself with members of the
On his return , Johnny Bart found a man named Barker had been rus- Avengers who visited his time per-
his adoptive father's corpse and bur- tling another man's cattle. The cat- iod.
ied him, vowing to avenge his death. tle's owner sent tor the sheriff to
From the way the bullets had struck arrest Barker and watched as the The Rawhide Kid was still an ac-
him, Johnny could tell that two men Rawhide Kid confronted Barker. tive gunfighter as late as 1897. It has
were responsible tor Ben's death. Barker threatened to kill the Kid and not yet been revealed how, when, or
Johnny rode to Rawhide, where he began reaching for his gun, but the where he died.
discovered Brown and Spade, who Kid rapidly drew his own guns and

168

RAZORBACK

STATISTICS:

F RM(30)
A GD(10)

s EX(20)

E RM(30)
R EX(20)
I EX(20)
p GD(10)
Health: 90

Karma: 50
Resources: TY(6)/RM(30) *
Popularity: 6 (20 in Arkansas)
(* Razorback has Remarkable re-

sources through his connections
with the National Aeronautic and
Space Administration.)

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Buford Hollis
Occupation: Crimefighter, trucker,
astronaut
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Texarkana, Arkansas
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Bobby Sue (sis·
ter)
Base of Operations: Formerly Tex-
arkana, Arkansas, now the Star Stop
Past Group Affiliations: National
Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion, ally of Ulysses Solomon Archer
and friends
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: Talents: Buford Hollis' Reason is ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Intuitive Driving: Razorback has the Remarkable in the field of mechan-
mutant ability to be able to drive vir- ics. He is a superb fighter with Wres-
tually any kind of vehicle, even if he tling and Martial Arts skills.
possesses only a very limited degree
of knowledge as to how the vehicle Contacts: Buford Hollis has teamed
up with Spider-Man and the She-
operates. Razorback gets a +3CS Hulk in the past. He is friendly with
Poppa Wheelie and Wide-Load An-
to Reason when trying to operate nie who operate the Star Stop. He is
any vehicle for the first time. Once he the frequent ally of Ulysses Solomon
makes this roll, Razorback quickly Archer and Mary McGrill Archer. He
masters the vehicle's operation. is well-known and liked among
Electrified Mane: Razorback can
electrify the mane of his costume, Earth's truckers. Most recently, he
doing Remarkable damage to any- was employed by NASA.
one who seizes it.
Unique Vehicle: Starblazer (named,
" Big Pig lll"by Razorback) is a proto-
type starship with warp-drive capa-
bilities. It has the following Statistics:
Control: Amazing, Speed: Mon-
strous (Class 1000), and Body: Ex-
cellent. The Big Pig Ill achieves
Class 1000 speeds when it engages
its warp-drive.

169

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: heroes, the costumed crimefighter made him an indispensable part of
Buford Hollis is an ace truck driver Spider-Man, who was also investi- her plan to travel into space. Jennifer
and an aficionado of CB (Citizen's gating the cult. Although at first he Walters, the She-Hulk, attempted to
Band) radio. Inspired by his hero thwart the hijacking, but failed and
Spider-Man, Buford decided to use thought Razorback was an incompe- ended up becoming a reluctant pas-
his great strength and talent for in- tent buffoon, Spider-Man ended up senger on the spacecraft.
venting to fight crime. On first ap- being very impressed with him as
pearances, Hollis may appear to be they worked together in defeating The Star Blazer traveled to Star
an incompetent buffoon, but he is ac- the true leader of the cult, the sinister Stop, a sort of diner for starship trav-
tually a very capable crimefighter. creature called the Man-Beast, who elers, operated by Archer's friends,
Buford Hollis' adventurous nature had taken the guise of the Hate- Poppa Wheelie and Wide-Load An-
can take him anywhere. Most re- Monger. Although Bobby Sue herself nie. It was here that O'Connell
cently, he has become a starship test turned against the Man-Beast, she learned that Archer had married
pilot and space explorer for NASA. refused to go home with Razorback
after the Man-Beast was defeated, Mary McGrill, another of the people
HISTORY: claiming she still had to find a direc- who gone into space with him, and
A native of Texarkana, Arkansas, tion for herself in life. Spider-Man that she was expecting a child. The
consoled Razorback and praised his alien being calling himself Xemnu
Buford Hollis was an ace truck driver abilities as a costumed crimefighter. the Titan arrived at the Star Stop.
and an aficionado of CB (Citizen's Proud of having proved himself in Xemnu captured Archer and Mary
Band) radio. Hollis decided to use Spider-Man's eyes, Razorback re- and intended to transform their un-
his great strength and his talent for born child into a member of Xemnu's
inventing to become a costumed cri- turned to his career as a "super
mefighter like the ones he had read hero" in Arkansas. own race. Razorback destroyed the
about who were based in New York machine with which Xemnu intended
City. Since Texarkana was in " hog Recently, Razorback was con- to perform the transformation and a
country," Hollis decided to design his tacted by Taryn O'Connell, a young space convoy summoned by Archer
costume to make himself look like a woman who was in love with ace took Xemnu into custody. The She-
ferocious boar and called himself trucker, Ulysses Solomon Archer, Hulk contacted NASA and explained
Razorback. As Razorback, he made driver of the vehicle nicknamed U.S. what Hollis and O'Connell had done
a considerable reputation for himself One. Archer and a number of his and why. Impressed with Hollis' skill
locally as a crimefighter. His greatest friends had gone into outer space in guiding the Star Blazer into space,
achievement before going to New ·with an alien named Al, but O'Con- NASA waived criminal charges and
York was the capture of a gang of offered Hollis a job continuing the
thieves smuggling CB equipment nell, frightened, had stayed behind. Star Blazer's "shakedown cruise"
across state lines. Now she was determined to find through space. Hollis happily ac-
Archer, who had never returned, and cepted the offer. Moreover, O'Con-
After his younger sister Bobby Sue persuaded Razorback to help her hi-
went to New York City to join a jack NASA's new experimental nell and Hollis discovered that they
pseudo-religious cult, Razorback spacecraft, the Star Blazer, to do it. had fallen in love with each other.
went north to bring her home. In New (The Star Blazer possessed warp- She-Hulk returned to Earth.
York City, he encountered one of his drive capabilities, enabling it to navi-
gate at faster than light speeds When last seen, Razorback was
through hyperspace to reach distant piloting the Star Blazer (which he re-
solar systems.) Razorback's mutant named "Big Pig Ill" after the rigs he
intuitive ability to drive any vehicle drove on Earth) further into the gal-
axy, taking O'Connell with him.

170

RAZORFIST

STATISTICS:

F IN(40)
A EX(20)
S EX(20)
E EX(20)
R TY(10)
I GD(10)
P TY(6)
Health: 100
Karma: 26
Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: -10

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Professional killer
Legal Status: Unknown
-... Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Madripoor
Past Group Affiliations: Enforcer
for Mr. Roche, one of Madripoor's
many crimebosses
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
~ Razorfists: Razorfist's hands have

been surgically replaced with steel
blades which do Excellent Edged At-
tack damage. If Razorfist makes a
Yellow FEAT roll, his blades do Re-
markable Edged Attack damage.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Patch (Wolverine's alias in Madri- with his superhuman healing power.
Razorfist is a cold-blooded killer. His poor) interfered with one of Mr. The current whereabouts of Ra-
chief loyalty is money. His chief Roche's attempts to assassinate Ty-
weakness is overconfidence. ger, a competitor crimelord. Roche zorfist are unknown.
had Razorfist punish the incompe-
HISTORY: tent assassins; the punishment was 171
Little has yet been revealed about death. Roche then sent Razorfist to
exact the same harsh penalty on
the man calling himself Razorfist Patch. While Razorfist proved a for-
and his origin is unknown. He midable foe, he was no match for
worked as a hired killer and enforcer Wolverine's unbridled fury combined
for Mr. Roche, the supreme Crime-
lord of Madripoor.

172

RED SKULL

STATISTICS:

F RM(30) range of 2 Areas. The cigarette hold- weapon skills.
A IN(40) er's range was the same Area as its Contacts: At one time or other, the
S EX(20) wielder. Skull has allied with, controlled, or
E RM(30) otherwise influenced most major
The Red Skull has used many criminal or subversive organizations
R RM(30) other weapons. Many of these are on Earth.
conventional but others are
I GD(10) advanced beyond the scope of con- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
P EX(20) temporary mainstream science. The With Hitler's tutelage, the Red Skull
Health: 120 Skull has also employed androids realized his full potential as one of
Karma: 60 created by Arnim Zola. the vilest criminal masterminds of all
Resources: MN(75) Talents: The Red Skull has Amazing time. Bent on world conquest, the
Popularity: -30 (6 as a business- Reason in military, political, and sub- Skull has no compunction against
man) versive strategy. He also has Marks- killing. Murder is one of his hobbies.
man, Martial Arts, and a variety of
BACKGROUND: 173
Real Name: Johann Schmidt
Occupation: Former petty thief, me-
nial laborer, bellboy; later terrorist

leader for Nazi Germany; now busi-
nessman and would-be world ruler
Legal Status: German citizen with a
criminal record; now officially dead,
he poses as an American business-
man
Identity: Captain America learned
his true name and presumably told
U.S. government authorties
Place of Birth: A village in Germany
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Hermann and
Martha Schmidt (parents, de-
ceased), Mother Superior (daughter)
Base of Operations: Nazi Germany,
later various hidden bases around
the world, most recently Washington
D.C.
Past Group Affiliations: Hitler's
Third Reich; former leader of most
Nazi subversives still active through-
out the world; former ally of THEM
and AIM; former leader of a fragment
of HYDRA; ally of Arnim Zola; former
partner of Loki, Doctor Doom , King-
pin, the Mandarin, Magneto, and the
Wizard (in the "Acts of Vengeance"
conspiracy); now behind the scenes

leader of many organizations, in-
cluding Power Broker, Inc. and ULTI-
MATUM.
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
None
Equipment:
Weapons: The Red Skull's most infa-
mous weapon is his "dust of death"
which shrivels and discolors the
head of its victim to resemble the
ghastly visage of the Red Skull. The
dust can be fired from a handgun or
cigarette holder. The handgun had a

HISTORY: cannisters of experimental gas were use the dated trappings of Nazism.
Johann Schmidt was the son of a ruptured by the explosion, placing In his quest for world domination, the
the Skull in suspended animation as Red Skull resolved to destroy Amer-
coarse, drunken German villager well. Years later, the Red Skull was ica from within, planning to use dis-
named Hermann Schmidt and his re- found by a search team sent by the tinctly American brands of right-wing
portedly saintly, long-suffering wife subversive organization called extremism, followed by a large num-
Martha who died in childbirth when THEM, who he cooperated with just ber of conspi racies all over the
Johann was born. Driven to mad- long enough to steal the Cosmic world. Two organizations that the
ness, Hermann tried to drown the Red Skull masterminded since his
newborn infant, but the doctor who Cube. This theft led to the Skull's rebirth are Power Broker, Inc., which
had just delivered the infant saved first post-war clash with the original bestows superhuman strength on in-
him and Hermann took his own life. Captain America who again de- dividuals, and the Watchdogs, an ex-
Johann was taken to a local orphan- feated him. treme right-wing vigilante
age, but ran away when he was organization.
seven years old and eked out a mea- Believing that with Hitler's death
ger existence as a beggar and a thief. he should now rule the world, the The Red Skull established a false
As he grew older, Johann worked me- Red Skull made repeated attempts identity for himself as Mr. Smith, a
nial jobs but spent most of his time in at world domination, employing the leading American businessman
prison for various minor crimes. based in Washington, D.C.. Douglas
Cosmic Cube, a fragment of HY- Rockwell, chairman of the Commis-
After the Nazis had gained control DRA, and the last two Nazi death sion on Superhuman Activities, was
of Germany, Schmidt was working as machines known as Sleepers. Nev- secretly a Skull agent. Through
a bellboy in a hotel where he encoun- ertheless, the Skull repeatedly met Rockwell , the Skull arranged for the
tered Adolf Hitler, who declared he defeat, most often at the hands of Commission to investigate Captain
would make the bellboy into a "perfect Captain America. Recently, the Skull America and demand that he oper-
Nazi" to serve as his right-hand man. learned that the gas that had kept ate under direct control of the federal
Schmidt eagerly agreed, accepting him from aging while he was in sus- government. When Rogers refused
Hitler as his master. Hitler took over pended animation was reversing it- and gave up the role of Captain
Schmidt's training, gave him a red self until his physical age matched America, Rockwell had the Commis-
skull-shaped mask, and named him his chronological one, making him sion delegate John Walker, the
the Red Skull, answerable only to so elderly that he would soon die of Super-Patriot, as the new Captain
Hitler himself. The Skull undertook a old age. Then, the Skull and Arnim America. Walker proved ruthless in
wide variety of missions for Hitler, Zola brainwashed Captain Ameri- battling adversaries, killing many, ru-
most of which involved the Skull's spe- ining the image of Captain America.
cialty, the spreading of terror. ca's ally Nomad to dose Captain As a result result, the Commission
America's food with a chemical that decided to remove Walker from his
In response to the Red Skull, the would cause him to age fast and role as Captain America. Steve
United States government created undo the effects of Cap's Super- Rogers, in his new costumed identity
the persona of Captain America, soldier serum. Then, Skull captured as "The Captain" confronted Rock-
who, with his teenage partner Bucky the now elderly Captain America, well who, while the Captain was
Barnes, fought against and thwarted and Zola extracted cell samples from present, was murdered by a remote-
the Skull and his plans many times Cap's body. Although aged, Captain control "dust of death" device in his
during the war, both on his own and America overpowered the Skull, who phone. Cap traced the phone line to
as a member of the Invaders. As finally died from old age. Captain the Smith Building. Unbeknownst to
Germany's ultimate defeat became America was cured and the effects of Rogers, Skull had lured Walker there
more apparent, Captain America the Super-soldier serum were again and convinced him that Steve
parachuted into Berlin to investigate activated in his body, returning him Rogers was out to kill him. Upon
rumors of a German doomsday plan. to his former youthfulness. Cap's arrival , the two fought with
Captain America, who then tracked Rogers being the victor. Then, the
the Red Skull down to his hidden Unknown to Captain America, Skull tried fo hit Rogers with his
bunker, came upon him shortly be- Arnim Zola had preserved the Red " dust of death," but Walker revived
fore an Allied plane dropped a huge Skull's consciousness, created a and, realizing what had happened,
blockbuster bomb on the bunker clone of Captain America from his threw his shield at the Skull, causing
causing a cave-in that Captain Amer- cell samples, and transferred the the Skull to spray himself. However,
ica barely escaped. Captain America Red Skull's consciousness into the he didn't die, and instead his face
returned to England only to fall into a clone. The Red Skull lived again, but mutated to become a living red skull.
trap which led to his falling into a this time in a duplicate of his arch- The Red Skull fled and Rogers and
state of suspended animation for foe's body, complete with the full ef- Walker reported what had happened
decades. Support pillars that criss- fects of the Super-soldier serum . to the Commission. Rogers resumed
crossed over the Red Skull saved Pleased with his revival and his new the role of Captain America. " Mr.
him from the cave-in , but several body, the Skull decided to adopt new Smith" is still at large.
methods to achieve world domina-
tion. He decided to abandon his
trademark skull mask, wanting to
blend in with society and to no longer

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ROCKET RACER

STATISTICS:

F GD(10)

A EX(20)

s G0(10)

E EX(20)
R EX(20)
I GD(10)
p TY(6)
Health: 60
Karma: 36
Resources: PR(4)

Popularity: -2

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Robert Farrell
Occupation: Student, inventor, oc-
casional crimefighter and freelance
operative for Silver Sable Interna-
tional
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
criminal record
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Emma Johnson
Farrell (mother), unnamed father
(whereabouts unknown), three un-
named brothers, and three unnamed
sisters
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Occasional
freelance operative for Silver Sable
International

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: speeds (4 Areas/round). The board cussive force that does Incredible
Skateboarding: The Rocket Racer has a range of about 75 miles, before damage. The mini-rockets have a
has Incredible Rank skateboarding exhausting its fuel supply. The range of 3 areas. The gloves have
ability. While on his skateboard, the Skateboard has the following Power the following Power Stunt:
Racer can perform Acrobatics feats. Rocket-powered Punch: Some of the
Stunt: mini-rockets have been modified to
The Rocket Racer gets a + 1CS to Wall-climbing: Special gyroscopes in allow the Rocket Racer to deliver a
the board's wheels and the Racer's special "rocket-powered punch" at-
his Agility and Endurance ranks boots gave the Rocket Racer Incred- tack. Each such attack gives the
while on his board. ible ability to climb the walls of build-
Unique Vehicle: The Rocket Racer ings while on his board (also at Good Rocket Racer a + 2CS to his
rides a rocket-powered magnetic speed).
skateboard. It is controlled by a Weapon: The Rocket Racer's gloves Strength. The Rocket Racer can de-
crude cybernetic system built into are equipped with explosive mini- liver no more than 6 rocket-powered
the Racer's headset which resem- rockets which explode with a con-
bles a Walkman radio. This system pu nchesperencou~e[
converts information from the
Racer's brain into electrical signals Talents: Robert Farrell is a natural
that control the skateboard as well
as other mechanisms housed in the 175
Racer's costume. The cybernetic
link between the Rocket Racer and
his board requires physical contact
through the magnetic clamps in his
boots. The Rocket Racer's skate-
board is powered by microrockets
which can propel him at Good

inventor and proficient in many of the costumed criminal was not very aus- Threatened to foreclose on the
Physical Sciences. picious due to the timely interference homes and businesses of his family
Contacts: Farrell is a friend of of the masked crime-fighter known and friends, the bondsman sug-
Spider-Man . as Spider-Man. After stealing a brief- gested that Farrell return to crime to
case filled with negotiable securities pay the debt by working for him.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: from a courier, the thief was easily Since Farrell had no money or as-
defeated by Spider-Man who turned sets to settle the account and since
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: him over to the police. Presumably in he refused to return to a life of crime,
Robert Farrell was a good guy who return for a profit from the Racer's the bondsman hired a mercenary
turned to a life of crime to help meet criminal activities the sinister inven- known as the Bounty Hunter to kill
his family's financial obligations. tor known as the Tinkerer greatly im- the Rocket Racer to set an example.
However, with the help of his friend proved Farrell's original designs for Again an altercation between
Spider-Man, Farrell returned to the his apparatus. The Rocket Racer Spider-Man and the Rocket Racer
straight and narrow. He occasionally t.hen returned to his criminal activi- was interrupted, this time by the
hires out his services as a super hero ties by blackmailing an embezzler Bounty Hunter. The tables were
to bring in some extra money. named Jackson Weele. Seeking re- turned however, when the Racer saw

HISTORY: venge, Weele sought out the help of the Bounty Hunter about to kill
Robert Farrell was the oldest of the Tinkerer, who devised him a pe- Spider-Man and realized that he
culiar looking vehicle shaped like a wouldn't be able to live with himself if
seven children, all of whom were wheel with a 12 foot diameter. he allowed the hero to die. In re-
supported by their mother after their Equipped with machine guns at- sponse , he attacked the Bounty
father had abandoned them. In high tached to the axle, the device had a Hunter and Spider-Man and was
school, he excelled in science, but central section in which Weele sat able to narrowly defeat the villain.
he had to start working immediately while operating the weapons. The
after graduating to help support his wheel-shaped exterior revolved The Rocket Racer turned himself
family. Farrell joined the Air Force around the central axis to provide in to local authorities, but when the
where he could become an expert in propulsion . Calling himself the Big judge learned the truth, in sympathy
certain areas of technology. Then his Wheel, Weele interrupted a fight be- he issued the Racer a light jail sen-
mother suffered a heart attack and tween Spider-Man and the Rocket tence as well as community service
was removed to Newhope Memorial Racer. The Racer evaded the Big work. After his short sentence was
Hospital. Unable to pay the bills for served in prison, Robert Farrell re-
her treatment and support his sib- Wheel by skateboarding onto a roof- ceived a full scholarship to Empire
lings, Farrell turned his talents to- top, where Spider-Man snagged him State University where he is cur-
ward crime. Using his scientific with a web-line and forced him off his rently studying electrical engineer-
genius, combined with his profi- board. The Big Wheel continued to ing. He continues to serve his
ciency at riding a skateboard, he de- roll toward the Racer, but at the last community both in his civilian guise
signed a weapon-equipped costume second, Spider-Man pulled him out and as the Rocket Racer, and his
as well as a super skateboard and
became the Rocket Racer. Farrell of the way. The momentum carried path still occasionally crosses that of
spent months practicing with his the Big Wheel right through the re- Spider-Man , whom he regards as his
board until he felt as though it had straining wall on the roof's edge and hero. For example, Spider-Man had
become a part of him. into the river. Spider-Man dove in af- committed a crime in order to help
ter him , but he could find no trace of Silver Sable bring a major criminal to
The Rocket Racer's debut as a Jackson Weele in the murky water. justice, but Racer raced to his de-
fense and tried to prove his inno-
When Spider-Man emerged from cense. Spider-Man and the Racer
the river, the Rocket Racer had fled. recently teamed up to quell a race
The police later caught him by de- riot on campus and to stop the men-
magnetizing his boot clamps with an ace known as Skinhead.
" anti mag-net." Learning the rea-
sons for the Racer's criminal career
and acknowledging his strong ties to
the community, the judge allowed
him to post bail. But the cost was
more than his family could afford , so
they borrowed from a bondsman
who charged an initial fee of 1Oper-
cent, but soon began to raise it.

176

....---... STATISTICS: THERDSE

F TY(6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
A TY(6) The Rose is an enigma, a secretive
criminal mastermind who is weaving
s TY(6) his own organization on the fringe of
the Kingpin's mighty empire. The
E EX(20) Rose appears to be an expert at us-
R EX(20) ing supervillains to pursue his own
I EX(20) ends. What the Rose's ultimate goal
p EX(20) may be remains as much a mystery
Health: 38 as his true identity.
Karma: 60
Resources: RM(30) 177
Popularity: -10

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Criminal organizer
specializing in processing of stolen
property and gambling operations
Legal Status: Unknown
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Midtown Man-
hattan, New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Lieutenant
of Kingpin of Crime, allied with the
Hobgoblin
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:

Equipment:
Weapons: The Rose always carries a
handgun that does Typical damage
and has a range of 3 Areas. He also
carries a variety of mini-grenades
~ such as knockout gas, weakness
gas, and concussion grenades. The
grenades are meant primarily to pro-
vide a diversion in case he needs to
make a quick exit.
Talents: The Rose has Martial Arts
E, Guns, and Thrown Weapons
skills. He is a masterful organizer
and administrator with Remarkable
reason in these areas. He has In- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
credible reason in gambling opera-
tions.
Contacts: The Rose is currently a
lieutenant in the Kingpin's criminal
organization. The Rose recently al-
lied with the Hobgoblin in an attempt
to increase his personal power base.

HISTORY: Soon thereafter, Spider-Man dis- Kingpin's profits.
Little is known about the Rose covered another of the Rose's ware- The Rose also agreed to aid the
houses, this one set up to process
prior to his first encounter with stolen goods. The loss of this opera- Hobgoblin in a personal matter. The
Spider-Man, other than the fact that tion caused the Rose concern for his Hobgoblin's powers derived from de-
by that time he was already a high- monthly revenue quotas as set up by signs created by Norman Osborn,
the Kingpin, and so he sanctioned the original Green Goblin, and Os-
level employee of Wilson Fisk, the the assassination of Spider-Man. To born's journals had been destroyed
Kingpin of Crime. The Rose was ille- by Spider-Man. However, the Hob-
gally affecting the outcome of pro- that end, he contacted the Puma, a goblin was certain that Osborn's son
fessional football games by paying superhuman mercenary whom he Harry possessed duplicate journals,
off key players, and Spider-Man's in- used for his most challenging as- and arranged to contact Harry while
tervention helped bring the opera- signments. The Puma was foiled in the Rose's men kidnapped his wife
tion to light and created a public
scandal. The two came face-to-face first two attempts, and before he Liz as a bargaining chip. Eager to
in a fight at a warehouse owned by could try a third time, the contract have his pregnant wife released,
the Rose, but despite Spider-Man's came to the Kingpin's attention. Pre- Harry found only one journal and
best efforts, the Rose escaped. ferring to deal with Spider-Man in his turned it over to the Hobgoblin. He
own way and time, Kingpin ordered was taken prisoner, but Spider-
A short while later, the Kingpin or- the Rose to cancel the agreement, Man's intervention saved Harry, Liz,
dered the Rose to arrange delivery of an order which caused the Rose to and their friend, Mary Jane Watson,
a shipment of heroin, but did not en- harbor even more resentment. At who had been kidnapped with Liz.
trust him with the full details. Dis- this point, the Hobgoblin proposed a
pleased with the Kingpin's treatment, partnership through which they The warehouse in which they were
the Rose nonetheless made the ar- held was destroyed, but both the
rangements and discovered that the would take over all gambling opera- Hobgoblin and the Rose escaped.
entire effort had been set up to attract tions in New York and kill Spider-
the costumed vigilante called Dagger. Man. These actions would provide By this time, the Kingpin had be-
Realizing that Dagger was of value to the Rose a powerful ally, and the come personally aware of the Rose's
the Kingpin, the Rose himself tried to Hobgoblin an army of organized growing organization, but preferred
kidnap her, but failed due to interfer- criminals and a regular source of in- to do nothing and bided his time. Not
ence by Spider-Man, Cloak, the Black come. The Rose agreed and the certain of the Rose's true identity but
Cat, and the Answer, the last of whom Hobgoblin began a campaign of ter- harboring suspicions, the Kingpin
succeeded in capturing her for King- ror aimed at the city's illegal gam- anticipates an eventual confronta-
bling establishments, forcing them
pin. to hand over 1O percent of their tion .
weekly income and cutting into the

178

RDUGHDUSE

STATISTICS:

F RM(30)
A GD(10)
S AM(50)
E MN(75)
R GD(10)
I GD(10)
P IN(40)
Health: 165
Karma: 60
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: -1 O

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Enforcer
Legal Status: Unknown
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Madripoor
Past Group Affiliations: Partner of
Bloodscream, employee of General
Nguyen Ngoc Coy
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
Body Armor: Roughouse's tough-
ness and dense flesh provide him
with Amazing protection versus
Physical attacks and Remarkable re-
sistance to Energy attacks.
Invulnerability: Roughouse cannot
be slain by non-magical means, al-
though he can be beaten senseless
~ (as Wolverine has proven more than
once).
Contacts: Partner of Bloodscream;
employee of General Nguyen Ngoc
Coy

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: HISTORY:
Roughouse, as his name suggests,
is a rough and rowdy supervillain Little has yet been revealed about
possessing considerable loyalty ~o the being calling himself Roughouse
whomever is signing his check. He 1s and his origin is unknown. He and
a carousing giant who enjoys a good his partner Bloodscream (a vampire)
fight almost as much as a pretty girl act as enforcers for the Asian crime-
(maybe a little more). However, lord, General Nguyen Ngoc Coy. In
Roughouse can be a merciless and aiding General Coy in his attempt to
cold-blooded killer if that's what the unseat Tyger as crimelord of the is-
job calls for. land nation of Madripoor,
Roughouse and Bloodscream first

179

clashed with the mutant adventurer
Wolverine. Wolverine was only able
to defeat the merciless enforcers
with the aid of several friends: Archie
Corrigan, Xi'an Coy Manh (Karma),
Jessica Drew (formerly Spider-
Woman), Lindsay McCabe, and Ty-
ger.

Roughouse and Bloodscream re-
main adversaries of Wolverine to this
day.

180

S 1BVLL

" STATISTICS:

F RM(30)
A AM(50)

S UN(100)

E UN(100)

R RM(30)

I EX(20)
P AM(50)
Health: 280
Karma: 100
Resources: UN(100)
Popularity: 0 (75 or -30) *
* S'byll's Popularity is 75 with those
Skrulls whose power to shape-
change she has restored, but -30
with rival claimants to the Imperial
throne.

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: S'byll
Occupation: Skrull Empress
Legal Status: Claimant to the Impe-
rial Throne of the Skrull
Place of Birth: Satriana in the Skrull
Empire
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Unrevealed
~ Base of Operations: Satriana
Past Group Affiliations: Allied with
Silver Surfer
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:

Body Armor: S'byll had Super-Skrull

toughness that gives Incredible re-

sistance to Physical attacks and

Amazing resistance to Energy at-
~ tacks.

Energy Blast: S'byll can project an

Energy Blast that does Amazing

damage and has a range of 3 Areas.

Shape-Shifting: After undergoing ge-

netic transference powered by the

Silver Surfer and Kl'rt the Super-

Skrull, S'byll had Shift Y Shape-

changing abilities. She could

rearrange her atomic structure to as-

sume the form of any organic or inor-

ganic person or thing. The full extent square mifes) and cause Shift X the shape-changing powers of one of
of her ability is unknown. Her most crushing damage each round until it her race simply by touching him or
destructive form is apparently in the is destroyed.
her. The transfer doesn't weaken
shape of a vaguely humanoid amor- * Enhanced Body Armor: S'byll's S'byll and is completed in one com-
phous blob. In this state, her powers free-form shape gives a +3CS to her bat round. A Skrull subjected to
are at their highest peak. In her normal body armor protection .
S'byll's Power Transfer ability will
amorphous free-form shape, S'byll * Enhanced Energy Blast: S'byll's gain the Shape-shifting Power at a
---...._ has the following Power Stunts:
Energy Blast also receives a + 3CS power rank equal to his or her Endur-
* Flight: S'byll flies at Unearthly while in this form and its range is ex- ance.
Speed (10 Areas/round).
tended to 50 areas. Talents: S'byll is skilled in the use of
* Envelope: S'byll can envelope an Power Transfer: S'byll can awaken most Skrull technology.
object the size of a starship (1 O

181

Contacts: In the most recent phase ver Surfer and the Skrulls made tor trate the Palace of Nenora. Some-
of the Kree-Skrull War, S'byll allied Satriana, S'byll's homeworld. time earlier, Shalla Bal, Empress of
with the Silver Surfer, Shalla Bal Zenn-la, had been warned by the Co-
(Empress of Zenn-la), K'lrt (Super- Shortly after their arrival there, the tati (a psionic plant race) that Nenora
Skrull), and Captain Reptyl. was actually a Skrull in the form of a
Stranger appeared and tried to add Kree, but Nenora had planted elec-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: S'byll to his pet mutant collection. tronic spying devices in Shalla's
S'byll is fighting against incredible The attempt was foiled when Cap- quarters and overheard Shalla mus-
odds to preserve her Empire and her tain Reptyl arrived on the scene and ing about Nenora's true identity as a
race. She will pay any price to regain traded his entire pirate crew tor her. Skrull. Nenora had one of her robotic
the lost glory of the Skrull. In return for her freedom, he asked Sentries kidnap the Zenn-lavian Em-
to become a Privateer in her cause, press and bring her to Hala before
HISTORY: and S'byll happy to find a new ally, she could warn the Surfer. Nenora
S'byll, Empress of the Skrulls, accepted his service. However, on then imprisoned Shalla, figuring that
their return to Satriana, K'lrt and she would be a valuable hostage, but
tricked the Silver Surfer into aiding Captain Reptyl dueled for the honor the Cotati intervened and telekineti-
her fleet in battle against the Ba- of being S'byll's consort and the cally released the Empress. They
doon, but unknown to him, the Ba- Warlord of the Skrulls. K'lrt, a friend then used their mental powers to
doon had already allied with the of the Surfer, was slain, but S'byll show them a new more terrible men-
Kree. Seeing the Silver Surfer's at- refused to allow him his revenge be- ace that threatened Zenn-la and
tack as a breach of his neutrality cause she needed Reptyl and his both the empires of the Kree and the
agreement, the Kree launched an at- freebooters for the coming Kree Skrulls- the Elder known as the
tack against his homeworld of Zenn- Contemplator. The Cotati claimed
la. The Surfer then raced to his home storm. they were being so helpful because
planet and arrived to find a Kree fleet Meanwhile, one of Reptyl's more they wanted peace with the Surfer.
waiting to battle him. Realizing that This was partly true, but the Cotati
the Silver Surfer was the only hope insignificant cutth roats, Clumsy also feared that if the Contemplator
of survival for the Skrulls, S'byll fol- Foulup, had become the unwitting · became ruler of the Kree Empire, he
lowed with her own fleet. might become a threat to them as
The battlefleet the Kree had assem- pawn of the Contemplator. Following well.
bled was soon outgunned, but they the Contemplator's direction, Foulup
returned with an even larger fleet. offered his services as a double- With knowledge given her by the
This moment of respite gave S'byll's agent to the Kree and they agreed. Cotati, Shalla was able to lead the
consort, Kl'rt the Super-Skrull, the Reptyl unwittingly fell in their trap Silver Surfer and the Skrull Empress
time needed to convince the Surfer when he made Foulup his servant. to Nenora's private chamber. After a
to use his Power Cosmic to catalyze The largest Kree armada yet assem- brief struggle, S'byll defeated
the latent shape-changing powers in bled attacked Satriana and, at this Nenora and reverted her corpse to
S'byll's genetic structure. The two its true Skrull form. The highest rank-
were able to awake the full power of crucial moment, Foulup stabbed Re- ing Kree still alive agreed to a truce
a shape-changing Super-Skrull in ptyl in the back, killing him. (which meant S'byll would have time
S'byll. Now capable of giving the to rebuild her fleets and give more of
ability to shape-change back to oth- Without the military genius of Re- her people the power to shape-
ers of her race, S'byll was sure that ptyl leading them, the Skrull fleet change). After S'byll, the Silver
the Skrulls would be able to defy the was quickly destroyed. Most of the Surfer, and Shalla Bal left Hala, there
Kree's efforts at genocide. Kree returned to their capital city of was a brief power struggle which sur-
Hala to celebrate, although they left prisingly resulted in placing Clumsy
The Kree then amassed an ar- a token force to finish off the only foe Foulup in the position of Supreme
mada of 12 full fleets and launched that remained, the Silver Surfer, al- Leader. Before the Contemplator
them at the defiant Skrulls. And in though it turned out to be no match could interfere, he was attacked by
the meantime, the normally peaceful for the power cosmic. Surfer found the Cotati and their mental powers
people of Zenn-la decided to join the himself looking out on a huge grave- proved superior to his.
battle even though they would prob- yard of broken warships, most of
ably be overrun. Thinking quickly, them Skrull, and was surprised and Presently, S'byll faces many new
the Silver Surfer boarded the flag- relieved when one of the pieces of
ship and gained an audience with wreckage suddenly reverted to the challenges. With a respite from the
Nenora, Supreme Leader of the form of S'byll, who had used her forces of the Kree, she may be able
Kree, who agreed to spare Zenn-la if shape-shifting abilities to escape the to make the Skrull Empire a power to
the Surfer would exile himself from destruction that befell her warfleet. be feared again. Of course she will
there forever, to which he agreed . Not content to say the Kree had won, have to deal with the other claimants
Then, the Kree departed and the Sil- he convinced S'byll to join him in an to the Skrull Throne first.
assault on Hala itself.

When they reached Hala, the Sil-
ver Surfer distracted the warships
while S'byll used her shape-
changing ability to slip aboard them
and sabotage their weapons. The
fleet disabled, they were free to infil-

182

SATANA

STATISTICS:

F GD(10)
A GD(10)
S IN(40)
E IN(40)
R GD(10)
I MN(75)
P UN(100)
Health: 100
Karma: 185
Resources: GD(10)

Popularity: 4

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: Satana Hellstrom
Occupation: Succubus
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Identity: Was not known by the gen-
eral public to have demonic parent-
age
Place of Birth: Greentown, Massa-
chusetts
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: "Satan" (father),
Daimon (alias Son of Satan,
brother), Victoria (mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: usually kiss her victim as she drew Amazing ability to detect beings in
The daughter of " Satan," Satana forth his soul. To escape Satana's the Astral Dimension.
had a wide range of personal embrace requires a Red Psyche * Astral Projection (D): Satana could
powers, which included: FEAT roll; failure will drain the victim transport her Psyche into the Astral
Levitation: Satana could levitate up of one level of Psyche. This vampiric Dimension with Unearthly ability.
or down at Poor speed. attack continues until the victim * Mystical Energy Shield (U): A per-
Mind Control: She could control the makes his FEAT roll or is drained of sonal force field of Incredible
minds of beings with Typical or all his Psyche, killing him. strength.
weaker Psyches, so long as she con- The Basilisk: Satana contained
centrated on the effort. She could at- Magic: Satana was a Sorceress of within her spirit a demon of immense
tempt to control someone with a Master level. The full range of Sata- but undefined powers called the
Good or better Psyche but the victim na's spells were never revealed. She Basilisk which she could set free to
may resist with a Green FEAT roll did have the following though: do her bidding. Each time she set the
* Astral Detection (P): Satana had
and + 1CS to his or her Psyche. 183

Bolts of Sou/fire: Satana could pro-
ject bolts of mystical energy,
"soulfire," that caused excruciating
pain through direct stimulation of a
person's life force. The victim had to
make a Yellow Psyche FEAT roll or
pass out from the pain. Satana could
also project her soulfire as bolts of
concussive force that did Remark-
able damage. H~r Sou_lfire had a
range of 4 Areas.
Succubus: A succubus is a being
which extracts human souls and
feeds on their psychic energies. To
take the souls of men, Satana would

monster loose, though, it grew more names he gave their children to mere cubus power to seize the soul of the
difficult to control. The Basilisk had eccentricity. However, when Satana dying former priest Michael Heron,
the following minimum Statistics: was still a child, Victoria discovered who had once saved her life and
her husband and Satana performing whom she regarded as a friend. Sa-
F 30 a black magic ritual in the basement tana refused to obey "Satan's" com-
of their New England mansion. Her mand and, when Heron died a
A 20 husband said that the time had come moment later, allowed his spirit to
50 for Victoria to know the truth as Sa- travel where it was intended to go.
s tana already did, and transformed Furious, " Satan" disowned Satana,
into demonic form before her eyes, exiled her from his realm, and vowed
E 100 calling himself "Satan." to kill her if they ever met again.

R6 Victoria Hellstrom went mad upon Satana spent the following years
witnessing this and died soon after- learning about the world of humans,
I 40 ward. Daimon was placed in an or- and coming to value the friendships
phanage, and "Satan" took Satana she made with human beings. Dur-
p 40 to his hell-like extradimensional ing this time she also battled heroi-
cally against the agents of the
Talents: Satana has Monstrous realm .where he schooled her in the demonic race known as the N'garai.
knowledge of Occult Lore and a Mys- use of her demonic powers, some of Finally, Satana learned that the
tic Background. which she had inherited from him, Earth dimension's Sorcerer Su-
others which he granted her. He preme, Dr. Stephen Strange, had
ADDITIONAL NOTES: caused her to be possessed by a been transformed into a werewolf as
powerful demon called the Basilisk. a result of having to use the Shatra
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Satana remained in full control of her Book of the Damned, a volume of
Satana's human half proved mind and body, however, and the black magic, in order to save the life
stronger than her demonic heritage. Basilisk had to do her bidding when of his lover Clea from his enemy Sil-
Her many years on Earth only served she released it from her body. How- ver Dagger. Satana knew that it was
to strengthen her love for humanity. ever, she became aware, after leav- necessary to cure Strange for the
ing "Satan's" realm, that the more go9d of the Earth, even though she
HISTORY: she used the Basilisk to serve her knew that, to do so, she would have
Over two decades ago a demon ends, the stronger it grew, and that it
to sacrifice her own life. While
who called himself "Satan" after the might one day turn against her. "Sa- Strange's physical form was that of a
legendary embodiment of evil, came tan" also turned Satana into a suc-
to Earth in the guise of a human, in- cubus, able to draw a human spirit werewolf, his spirit form (conscious-
tent upon fathering children who from its body and absorb its psychic ness) was held prisoner by demons
would be half-demon and half- energy. in an astral realm. Satana therefore
human. Shortly after, he seduced a cast a spell that projected her spirit
lonely and naive young woman After Satana reached adulthood, into that astral realm where she
named Victoria Wingate and married "Satan" decided to test his daugh- found that she had to unleash the
her shortly thereafter. Their son Dai- ter's loyalty. Acting in the guise of a Basilisk to drive off the demons so
mon was born within a year and their human named Miles Gorney, sup- that she could reach Strange's soul.
daughter Satana was born three posedly the leader of a mystic cabal She freed Strange's soul, but then a
years after Daimon. Victoria never called the Four, "Satan" brought Sa- demon thrust a mystical weapon into
suspected the truth about her hus- tana to Earth where she discovered her own spirit, thereby causing her
band and even ascribed the unusual that her succubus power had given
body on Earth to become mortally
her an addiction like a vampire's wounded. The Basilisk then turned
where she now had to absorb the upon her, but died as her physical
psychic energy of human spirits in body did back on Earth. Dr. Strange,
order to survive. Eventually, after Sa- now freed of the werewolf curse, eu-
tana had long struggled against her logized Satana as a hero. Her spirit's
supposed enemies, "Satan" re- fate is unknown, but it is not in "Sa-
vealed that he was Gorney and had tan's" realm.
been behind Satana's troubles. He
then ordered Satana to use her sue-

184

SAVAGE LAND RACES

Below are the descriptions of four FALL PEOPLE
of the major Savage land Races. The
Statistics given are for a typical STATISTICS:
member of that particular race.
F GD(10)
AERIAN.S A GD(10)
S EX(20)
STATISTICS: E GD(10)
R TY(6)
F TY(6) I EX(20)
A GD(10) P TY(6)
S GD(10) Health: 50
E EX(20) Karma: 32
Resources: PR(4)
R IN(40) Popularity: 4 (-10 to Sun People)

I GD(10) BACKGROUND:
P GD(10) Base of Operations: A village in the
Health: 46 Savage land
Karma: 60 Type of Government: Tribal, led by
Resources: EX(20) a chieftain
Popularity: 20 (-20 to the Pterons) Level of Technology: Primitive, but
had learned to make iron tools and
BACKGROUND: weapons
Base of Operations: Aerie Shalan
Type of Government: Technocracy, KNOWN POWERS:
led by a chief scientist Talents: The typical tribesman of the
Level of Technology: Highly Fall People has Animal Handling,
advanced, even beyond that of main- Thrown Weapon, and Bow skills. He
stream Earth science in various ar- would also have other skills related
eas. to wilderness survival, such as hunt-
ing and fishing.
KNOWN POWERS:
Flight: The Aerians possess large HISTORY:
feathered wings which allow them to Ka-Zar took a particular interest in
fly at Good speed. An Aerian gets a
the Fall People, and their chieftain
+ 1CS to his Agility in flight. Tongah was his best friend. Most of
the Fall People were killed by attacks
Talents: The typical Aerian has Ex- from the Sun People and by the ex-
cellent (or better) Reason with Atlan- traterrestrial Quarlians.
tean technology.

HISTORY:
The Aerians became the principal

allies of Ka-Zar and Shanna in Pan-
gea and were aided by them in their
war with the Pterons.

185

PTERONS SUN PEOPLE

STATISTICS: STATISTICS:

F GD(10) F TY(6)

A TY(6) A TY(6)

s EX(20) S TY(6)
E TY(6)
E RM(30)
R G0(10)
R PR(4) I GD(10)
I TY(6) P GD(10)
p PR(4) Health: 24
Health: 66 Karma: 30
Resources: AM(SO)
Karma: 14 Popularity: -20
Resources: FE(2)
Popularity: -20

BACKGROUND: BACKGROUND:
Base of Operations: The caverns of Base of Operations: The Sun Em-
Athmeth beneath Pangea pire
Type of Government: Monarchy Type of Government: Empire ruled
Level of Technology: Low by a priestess queen
Level of Technology: Low
KNOWN POWERS:
Flight: Like the pterodactyls (winged KNOWN POWERS:
reptiles) they resemble, Pterons can None
fly with Poor speed. While airborn,
HISTORY:
Pterons gain a + 2CS to their Agility The Sun People were the most

rank. powerful grouping of sentient beings
within the Savage Land, within
HISTORY: which they had established a small
The origin of the Pteron race is un- "empire" through conquest. In con-
quering other peoples and other
known. Presumably the Pterons lands, the Sun People believed that
were created through genetic engi- they did honor to their Sun God,
neering by Atlantean scientists. Re- Garokk. Their leader, the priestess
cently, the Pterons launched a war queen Zaladane, was a sorceress
against the Aerians which ended who twice attempted to conquer all
when much of the Pteron race was of the Savage Land and once allied
killed in a cave-in. herself with a human being who had
taken on the appearance of Garokk.

GROUP HISTORY:
The Savage Land was an artifi-

cially created tropical forest region
nestled amidst a ring of volcanic
mountains on the icy continent of
Antarctica. Ages ago, an alien race
known as the Nuwali created the
Savage Land as a kind of wildlife pre-
serve where Earth's life forms could
be studied under controlled condi-
tions. The Nuwali created this pre-
serve on behalf of their employers,
yet another alien race which has not

186

yet been identified. These same em- such as Valusia. Soon, Pangea be- swiftly into barbarism, and soon, as a
ployers also had the Nuwali estab- came a leading center of trade and result of widespread violence, only a
lish similar preserves on other the world's finest amusement and 10th of the human population that
planets. The Nuwali constructed recreation center. The Savage Land existed before the Cataclysm was
advanced technological devices served as stock lands for various
within caverns beneath the Savage forms of wildlife, many examples of still alive. Peace eventually returned
Land knowing that 'the volcanic heat which were imported into Pangea. and the human beings of Pangea
would enable them to create a tropi- and the Savage Land struggled back
The Atlantean scientists in Pan- upwards toward civilization, forming
cal environment best suited to the gea turned their attention to genetic tribes such as the Fall People.
life of that era in isolation from the engineering, experimenting upon
rest of the planet. Within the Savage Man-Apes they had brought from the The British Lord Kevin Plunder
Land, the Nuwali preserved many of Savage Land, and using equipment and the American Shanna O'Hara,
Earth's life forms past the point that left behind by the Nuwali. Thus the better known as Ka-Zar and Shanna
their species became extinct in the Atlantean scientists genetically al- the She-Devil, came to live in the
outside world. Hence, plant and ani· tered the bodies of the beast men Savage Land in recent times, and in
mal species from the Triassic period into bird-people (the Aerians), exploring the Savage Land and Pan-
monkey-people (the Tree People), gea encountered many of its diverse
(the beginning of the "Age of Dino· fish-people (the Tubanti), and other races and tribes. Recently, the alien
saurs") through the Pleistocene (the animal-like races, all of which had marauder Terminus wreaked ex-
"Ice Age") continued to flourish human-level intelligence. The Atlan- traordinary destruction within Pan-
there. Into the Savage Land the Nu· teans initially used these animal- gea and the Savage Land,
wali also brought the Man-Apes, an people as laborers in the Pangean
evolutionary forebear of Homo sapi· amusement center. The animal peo- destroying the climate-control ma-
ens, and early examples of Homo sa· ple grew increasingly restive at be- chinery and snuffing the volcanoes
piens itself. Finally, however, the ing treated as slaves and eventually surrounding the Savage Land. Ter-
Nuwali's employers lost interest in the Atlanteans of Pangea built fully minus slaughtered great numbers of
the Savage Land and the similar automated, self-repairing mainte- the sentient beings living in Pangea
habitats of other worlds, and so the nance machinery, eliminating the and, with the volcanoes extinct and
Nuwali abandoned them. All of the need for the animal-people to work
habitats collapsed except the Sav- as laborers. The Atlanteans then the climate-control machinery
age Land. confined the animal-people to a sec- wrecked, virtually all of the inhabit-
tor of Pangea far removed from their
In the centuries before the world- own. The animal-people finally rose ants of these two regions were soon
wide disaster known as the Great up in rebellion and, after weeks of killed by the Antarctic cold, which
Cataclysm in which the continents of swiftly spread over both the Savage
Atlantis and Lemuria sank, Atlantis warfare, defeated the Pangean At· Land and Pangea. Ka-Zar, Shanna,
built a great worldwide empire and lanteans. The animal-people de· their sabertooth tiger Zabu, and a
manded equal rights as sentient small number of Savage Land na-
achieved scientific and technologi· beings and so, the Atlanteans further tives are known to have survived the
cal heights still unsurpassed in many extended the range of the climate disaster; it is not known how many
areas of research today. Several control machinery so that it turned all other survivors there may be.
small tribes of nomadic Atlanteans of the frozen wasteland above the
sailed to Antarctica and lived within underground Pangea colony into a In addition to the list above, there
the great caverns lying beneath the tropical environment. The animal- were many other races that dwelled
frozen wastelands bordering the in the Savage Land and Pangea,
Savage Land. Eventually these At· people then settled in unpopulated such as the Lizard Men of the city of
areas of Pangea's surface. Vala-Kuri in the Savage Land, the no-
lanteans discovered an immense ca- madic Cat People of Pandori in Pan-
vern containing the machinery that When the Great Cataclysm struck, gea, and the amphibious fish-like
helped to regulate climate condi- the continent of Atlantis sank and the Tubanti of Pangea's inland Gorahn
tions in the Savage Land. Atlantean Atlantean Empire came to an end. Sea. The full number of races that
scientists made considerable im- The Cataclysm caused the Savage lived in the Savage Land and Pan-
provements in the machinery and Land and Pangea to sink below sea gea may now never be known.
extended its range to cover certain level, but thanks to the surrounding
areas of the surface beyond the Sav· mountains, neither area was sub- The Savage Land was restored to
age Land. The scientists used other merged beneath the sea. The its tropical state by the High Evolu-
technological devices left behind by climate-control mechanisms were so tionary and Garokk. The plant and
the Nuwali to create incredible well built that they survived the sink- animal life has been restored, and
means of amusement for their peo· ing of the landmass and continued to
pie. The Atlanteans soon named be operational. However, three- some former inhabitants have re-
their Antarctic colony " Pangea," fourths of the human population of turned from otherdimensional exile.
which means "paradise." Word of the Savage Land and Pangea were
Pangea spread back to Atlantis as killed in the upheaval. The rest sank
well as to other nations of that time,

187

ADDITIONAL NOTES

188

SCORPION

STATISTICS:

F RM(30)
A AM(50)
S JN(40)
E IN(40)

R TY(6) .

I EX(20)
P TY(6)
Health: 160
Karma: 32
Resources: TY(6)

Popularity: -20

BACKGROUND:
Real Name: MacDonald "Mac"

Gargan
Occupation: Former private detec-
tive, now professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a

criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Member of
the Masters of Evil Ill, former partner
of Mr. Hyde
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Climbing: The Scorpion can climb Gargan is a psychopathic killer but
any surface he can get a grip on, ei- he enjoys committing all manner of
ther by wedging his fingers into small crimes-he doesn't limit himself to
cracks or creating handholds in con- murder.
crete.
Battlesuit: The Scorpion's suit pro- 189
vides him with the following powers:
* Armor: The battlesuit provides the
Scorpion with Excellent protection
from most attacks, except electrical
which it gives Remarkable protec-
tion.
* Scorpion Tail: The tail is made of In-
credible material and can be used as
a club to do Amazing damage. When
striking with his tail, the Scorpion re- Talents: Gargan had Good Reason

ceives a + 1CS to his Fighting ability. as a private investigator.

* Leap: The Scorpion can coil his tail
under him and use it like a giant ADDITIONAL NOTES:
spring to propel him a distance of up
to 3 Areas. Such a leap would give

the Scorpion a + 3 to his Initiative

roll.
* Plasma Projector: The Scorpion's
tail has been recently modified with a
low-density plasma projector that ·
can fire about 40 force blasts. Each
force blast does Remarkable dam-
age but has a range of only 2 Areas.

HISTORY: tinguish between right and wrong. learned otherwise when police au-
MacDonald Gargan, a private in- Stillwell tried to administer an experi- thorities removed it. He figured that
mental antidote to Gargan, but died by feigning mental incompetence,
vestigator, was hired by Daify Bugle in the attempt. Gargan went on a he'd get more lenient treatment and
publisher J. Jonah Jameson to fol- crime spree, but was defeated by thus got himself placed in a mental
Spider-Man. The Scorpion was institution rather than prison . Escap-
low Peter Parker to find out how again defeated by Spider-Man in an- ing, he once again tried to get re-
Parker managed to photograph other encounter months later. venge on Jameson, but was
Spider-Man. While Gargan was on thwarted by Captain America and
the case, a press release came to Ja- After being paroled, the Scorpion Spider-Man. He was freed from
meson's attention that a scientist was contacted by an unnamed spy prison by agents of Egghead who
named Dr. Farley Stillwell who had ring who hired him to follow wanted him as part of his new Mas-
developed a means to mutagenically S.H.l.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter. ters of Evil. The Scorpion's participa-
endow animals with various unchar- He was beaten in combat by Captain tion in the group was cut short by the
acteristic features. At the time of the America and taken into S.H.l.E.L.D. Avengers, however, and he was re-
press release, Stillwell's experi- custody where the android assassin turned to prison once again.
ments had given a rat gills and a fish known as Mister Kline somehow ac-
lungs. Jameson called in Gargan Most recently the Scorpion es-
and arranged for them to meet with quired him and Mr. Hyde. Kline made caped prison and tried to get re-
Stillwell. He offered Stillwell $10,000 android duplicates of Scorpion and venge on Jameson by kidnapping
to develop a way to give a person su- Mr. Hyde which it dispatched against his son John and bride-to-be Marla
perhuman abilities that could defeat Daredevil. Following Mister Kline's Madison. Spider-Man once more de-
Spider-Man. He also offered $10,000 defeat, the Scorpion and Hyde es- fended Jameson, rescued his loved
to Gargan to undergo whatever treat- caped imprisonment. Under the as- ones, and defeated the Scorpion.
ments would be involved. Stillwell sumption that it was S.H.l.E.L.D. The Scorpion was returned to police
needed the money to further his re- that had held them all this time, the custody but, during the Acts of
search, so he accepted Jameson's two launched a campaign of terror Vengeance, the Sorcerer arranged
offer. Gargan, intrigued, also ac- against S.H.l.E.L.D. agents. They the Scorpion's escape to Canada.
cepted. Stillwell then put Gargan were finally stopped by Captain The Sorcerer needed to concentrate
through a battery of chemical and ra- America and the Falcon. a large amount of violence in order to
diological treatments to him super- open the Eye of the World, and so
human powers. Equipped with a Eventually escaping prison, the the Scorpion and several other fel-
special costume and a cyberneti- Scorpion decided to get revenge on ons battled with members of Alpha
cally controlled mechanical tail de- J. Jonah Jameson who was respon- Flight and Gamma Flight. During the
signed by the Tinkerer, the Scorpion sible for his transformation into the battle with the Canadian superhe-
sought battle with Spider-Man. While Scorpion and his subsequent humili- roes, Alpha Flight, Nemesis' sword
they fought, Stillwell observed vio- ation. Twice he attacked Jameson, took off the end of the Scorpion's tail,
lent psychotic behavior in the test but was beaten off first by the origi- plasma projector and all. The fate of
animals upon which he performed nal Ms. Marvel and then by Spider- the Scorpion's tail has yet to be re-
his experiments and concluded that Man. During this time, the vealed, but it is likely that the plasma
Gargan would lose his ability to dis- Scorpion's sanity began to deterio- projector will be replaced, possibly
with a more powerful model.
rate and he began to believe that he
could not remove his costume. After
his defeat at Spider-Man's hands, he

190

SERPENT CROWN

KNOWN POWERS: can resist with a Yellow FEAT. Any- Monstrous material strength or less
The wearer of the Serpent Crown re- one else can resist the control but could be transformed into another
ceived the following powers: must make a Red FEAT. The dura- object of Monstrous material
tion of effect varies from days for strength or less. This ability required
Enhanced Strength: Gave a + 3CS to Poor or less Psyches to only a single that the matter being transformed be
combat round for Incredible or touched.
the wearer's Strength rank (mini- Amazing Psyches.
mum Strength of Remarkable). Levitation: The wearer could levitate ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Enhanced Psyche: For the purpose with Good speed. Virtually anyone who wears the Ser-
of using any of the Serpent Crown's I/fusions: The wearer could create il- pent Crown falls under the mental
1usions of attacking monsters or domination of Set. To escape Set's
mental powers, such as to read whatever image he desired. To see mental control and throw off the
minds, the wearer's Psyche was Crown requires a FEAT roll for any-
considered to be Monstrous. through the illusion would require a one with a Psyche of less than Un-
Additional Powers: The other powers Yellow FEAT roll with a -3CS to the af- earthly. Heroes with Remarkable or
fected person's psyche. Incredible Psyche must make a Yel-
listed below did not manifest in every Bolts of Mystical Energy: The Ser- low FEAT roll, while anyone with less
person who wore the Serpent pent Crown could project energy than a Remarkable Psyche must
Crown . (Evidently, the number of bolts that did Unearthly damage to make a Red FEAT roll to resist.
powers gained varied according to anyone in the same Area as the
how adept the wearer was at learn- wearer. This range could be in- HISTORY:
ing the Crown's abilities, the length The ancient Serpent Crown was
of time the Crown was worn and creased 1 Area for every -1 CS to
Set's own attitude toward the damage. Therefore, a Mystical Bolt one of the mightiest objects of mysti-
wearer.) fired at a range of 3 Areas would do cal power in the history of humanity.
Read Minds: Wearer could read the Incredible damage. A helmet made of an unknown mate-
surface thoughts of anyone within a Manipulation of Matter and Energy: rial, it was designed to resemble a
range of 3 Areas. The wearer had to The wearer could manipulate matter coiled, seven-headed serpent and
make a FEAT roll to read deeper into and energy for a variety of effects drew its power from a mystical link
a person's thoughts. If the wearer with Amazing ability. Two examples with the primeval demon Set which
concentrated on a particular person of possible effects (Power Stunts) granted whoever wore it tremendous
(Yellow FEAT), he could reach their are listed below: superhuman abilities. However, any-
minds no matter what the range. one except those with tremendous
Control Minds: The wearer of the • Energy Shield: Energy could be willpower who wore it fell under the
manipulated to provide the wearer mental domination of Set. Anyone
Serpent Crown could command any- with Incredible protection from Phys-
one with a Psyche less than Mon- ical attacks and Unearthly protection
strous; however, those with an from Energy attacks.
Amazing Psyche need only make a * Matter Transformation: Matter of
Green FEAT to resist. Likewise, In-
credible and Remarkable Psyches

191

who didn't immediately remove the easy alliance with the alchemists of mor, the Sub-Mariner after Destiny's
the Crown retained a psychic link Lemuria. Working together, they cre- madness caused his own death. The
with it. Counterparts to this Earth's ated the Serpent Crown, which Set Serpent Crown was returned to its
Serpent Crown existed on hundreds original form and a Lemurian agent
of divergent Earths throughout the linked to his own consciousness and stole the Crown and returned it to the
multiverse, all mystically linked with which became a receptacle for his now ancient Naga. After a lengthy
Set, and would ultimately serve as power. The first person to wear the battle against the Sub-Mariner, Naga
the means by which Set would return Serpent Crown and wield its power was defeated, and the Serpent
to physical existence on Earth. was Atra, the greatest of the Lemu- Crown was swallowed up by an un-
rian Alchemists. However, just as dersea earthquake.
The history of the Serpent Crown Atra was about to begin his conquest
therefore begins with the origin of of the known world, the Great Cata- Later, the Crown fell into the hands
Set himself. Prior to humanity's ex- clysm occurred, a worldwide catas- of the original Serpent Squad when
istence and perhaps the existence of trophe that sank both Atlantis and its influence fell on Hugh Jones, then
any other relatively complex organic Lemuria. Most of the surviving president of Roxxon Oil. But the
life on Earth, beings called the Elder Serpent-Men died in the Cataclysm Crown was lost again, this time down
Gods arose on Earth. The Elder and the Serpent Crown was lost. a sewer during a battle with Captain
America. The Avengers encoun-
Gods degenerated over the passing Long after, a tribe of water- tered it on the alternate Earth of the
eons into demons preying upon their breathing humanoids belonging to Squadron Supreme, managed to
own kind. Set, who manifests him- the race Homo mermanus migrated wrest it away from that world's cor-
self as an enormous serpent, was to the Pacific Ocean where they set- rupt rulers, and when they returned
one of the most powerful of these an- tled on the sunken Lemurian conti- to Earth, Vision threw it into the Pa-
cient demon gods, and in turn, he nent. These water-breathers and cific Ocean. Hugh Jones, still under
spawned other serpent-like demons. their descendants became known as Set's control, set in motion events
From the dinosaurs that dominated the Lemurians, while other members that gained him both Serpent
the Earth during the Mesozoic Era, of their who remained in the Atlantic Crowns. When the two were mysti-
Set spawned a mortal race of hu- Ocean were the Atlanteans. Eventu- cally merged, the new Crown 's
manoid reptiles known as the ally one of the Lemurians discovered power had increased one hundred
Serpent-Men . the Serpent Crown amid the ruins of fold. Wearing this more powerful
the Pre-Cataclysmic civilization and Crown, Jones took control of the
The only Elder God to escape de- brought it to Naga, the emperor of
generation into demonic form was minds of the entire population of
the benevolent Gaea, who is said to the Lemurians, who donned and de- Washington, D.C., but the Thing, the
have mated with a reincarnation of veloped a strong link with it. Soon Scarlet Witch, and the Stingray man-
the Demiurge at the peak of the El- the Crown began to transform him aged to steal it away from him. It was
der Gods' degeneracy. Their first off- physically, making his head resem- then turned over to Project: Pegasus
spring, Atum, slew most of the Elder ble that of a serpent and causing his for study. But soon after, Set had
Gods, but did not attempt to harm skin to become scale-like.
Gaea who remains active on Earth control of everyone working at the
today. To escape being slaughtered Utilizing the vast power of the Ser- Project, and using interdimensional
by Atum, Set fled Earth's dimen- pent Crown, Naga ruled tyrannically teleportation equipment, Project
sional plane but he continued to over his subjects for many centuries. personnel transported Serpent
watch over and aid the Serpent-Men During this time the Crown's power Crowns from other dimensions into
and his human worshippers on the mutagenically altered the water- their own, intending to combine
many Earths that diverged from the breathing Lemurians, giving all of them all and create a nexus whereby
one he escaped. At first the Serpent- them scale-like skin. Finally, a rebel Set could return to Earth. It took the
Men preyed upon the nascent hu- named Piscatos stole the Crown and combined might of the Thing, the
man race, but humanity eventually took it to Antarctica. There, the peo- Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Dr.
ple of this civilization, the Ancients, Strange to defeat the gigantic
became strong enough to fight them are said to have developed tele- Crown. Assisted by his super-
off. The greatest foe of the Serpent- pathic powers, which they may have powered allies and the Cosmic
Men before the sinking of Atlantis done by studying the Serpent Cube, Dr. Strange banished Set from
was King Kull of Valusia. By Kull's Crown. The Ancients then encased the Earthly plane forever.
time, the Serpent-Men, greatly out- the Crown in an unknown substance
to reduce its power. However, their This spell was recently broken and
numbered by the human race, had to civilization was destroyed when their Set attempted to come to Earth. His
use their shape-changing abilities to city was buried beneath an immense agents Ghaur and Llyra were de-
disguise themselves as human be- landslide. feated, the monstrous Crown buried,
ings and then infiltrate human civili- and Set was again banished from the
zation in the hope of conquering it. Antarctic explorer Paul Destine lo- Earthly plane.
Kull caused the deaths of large num- cated the disguised Crown , and us-
bers of Serpent-Men who menaced ing its powers became the being
his kingdom. known as Destiny. The Serpent
Crown was recovered by Prince Na-
The Serpent-Men formed an un-

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S .H.l.E.L.D. II

Several key members are listed Health: 86 KNOWN POWERS:
below, except for Nick Fury who has Karma: 50 Talents: Valentina has Martial Arts A
an individual entry elsewhere. Resources: EX(20) and E, Marksman, and a variety of
Popularity: 30 weapons skills. She has Remarkable
VALENTINA reason with Public Relations.
ALLEGRO· DE BACKGROUND:
FONTAINE Real Name: Valenti na Allegro de ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Fontaine Valentina is used to being in com-
STATISTICS: Occupation: Deputy Director of mand. She likes to be the center of
S.H.l.E.L.D. attention and tries to take control of
F RM{30) Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no situations whenever the opportunity
A RM(30) criminal record presents itself. It is this trait more
S TY(6) Identity: Secret than her birthright that has earned
E EX(20) Place of Birth: Unknown her the title, "Countess." The Count-
R GD(10) Marital Status: Single ess can be cold-blooded in speech
I RM(30) Known Relatives: None as well as action (if the need arises).
P GD(10) Past Group Affiliations:
S.H .l.E.L.D .
Present Group Affiliation:

193

HISTORY: HISTORY: HISTORY:
Valentina was formerly the public
Gabriel Jones was a Special Oper- Neville participated in the destruc-
relations director of the old ative of S.H.l.E.L.D. I. Outside of tion of Delta. Following the disband-
S.H.l.E.L.D .. She was also the lieu- Nick Fury, he may be the only other ing of the original S.H.l.E.L.D., she
tenant commander of S.R.l.E.L.D.'s survivor of the old Howling Comman- accompanied Nick Fury to Nova
all-woman special forces unit, the does (WWII combat unit). He was r~­ Scotia to work in his private employ.
Femme Fatale. cently recruited by Nick to act as his She has since joined the new version
chief training officer. of S.H.l.E.L.D..

GABRIEL KATE NEVILLE ALEXANDER
JONES GOODWIN
STATISTICS: PIERCE

STATISTICS: F EX(20)
A RM(30)
F RM(30) S TY(6) STATISTICS:
A EX(20) E GD(10)
S GD(10) F EX(20)
E RM(30) R GD(10) A EX(20)
R GD(10) S GD(10)
I RM(30) I EX(20) E EX(20)
P GD(10) P GD(10)
Health: 90 R GD(10)
Karma: 50 Health: 66
Resources: GD(10) Karma: 40 I EX(20)
Popularity: 20 Resources: GD(1O) P TY(6)
Popularity: 6
Health: 70
BACKGROUND: Karma: 36
Resources: TY(6)
BACKGROUND: Real Name: Kathleen Neville
Popularity: 6 ·
Real Name: Gabriel Jones Occupation: Agent of S.H .l.E.L.D.

Occupation: Recruitment and Train- Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no

ing Officer for S.H.1.E.L.D. criminal record BACKGROUND:

Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no Identity: Secret Real Name: Alexander Goodwin

criminal record Place of Birth: Long Island , New Pierce

Identity: Secret York Occupation : Agent of S.H.l.E.L.D.

Place of Birth: Unknown Marital Status: Single Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no

Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Marge Neville criminal record

Known Relatives: None Past Group Affiliations: Identity: Secret

Past Group Affiliations: S.H.l.E.L.D. Place of Birth: Long Island, New

S.H.l.E.L.D. Present Group Affiliation: York

Present Group Affiliation: KNOWN POWERS: Marital Status: Single

Talents: Kate has Martial Arts A and Known Relatives: None
E, Guns, and Marksman skills. She
KNOWN POWERS: is a trained assassin. Past Group Affiliations:

Talents: Gabriel has Martial Arts A, S.H.1.E.L.D .

tB~rya,nadnEd' Wrestling , Marksman, Mili- Present Group Affiliation:
a variety of weapons skil.ls.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: KNOWN POWERS:
He has Remarkable reason as an in- Kate Neville is devoted to Nick Fury, Talents: Pierce has Martial Arts E,
both professionally and romantically. Guns, Thrown Weapons, and Marks-
structor. Jones also has Excellent She doesn't like it when anyone (es- man skills.
pecially Valentina) questions or in
ability as a Jazz musician. any way usurps Fury's command.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Gabe is one of Nick Fury's oldest and Alexander Goodwin Pierce is a
best friends. He is an expert at cov- brash young man with a strong belief
ert operations. in S.H.l.E.L.D. and Nick Fury, in par-
ticular.

194

HISTORY: HISTORY: a point where they were almost per-
After helping Fury to defeat the In the days of the old S.H.l.E.L.D., fect replicas of life. To maintain con-
t rol of his Deltites, the Creator gave
Deltites, Pierce served for a t ime as Al McKenzie was the CIA's liaison them a religion, promising a new
the caretaker of the skyscraper that with S.H.l.E.L.D.. With the recent Earth where structure and order
once served as the S.H.l.E.L.D. reformation of S.H .l.E.L.D., this role were divine. The Creator's real goals
Headquarters. Eager for some has been reversed, now he is Fury's were personal power and immortal-
action, he was quick to volunteer to contact with the CIA. ity. The first step in the Creator's
serve as an agent of the new master plan was to replace key
S.H.l.E.L.D. GROUP HISTORY: members of S.H.l.E.L.D. with Delti-
The original S.H.l.E.L.D. (see tes. Step two was to provide Deltite
AL MCKENZIE doubles for all the world's corporate,
S.H.l.E.L.D. I) was secretly taken political, and military leaders. The
STATISTICS: over by the Deltites, which were very Deltites including the Creator had
advanced, sentient LMDs (Life only one weakness-their artificial
F EX(20) Model Decoys), or androids. After bodies quickly decayed due to
A GD(10) the Deltites forced S.H.l.E.L.D. Pub- advanced aging . Although their
lic Director Nick Fury into the role of memories could be reprogrammed
s GD(10) a renegade and fugitive, he recruited into new bodies, each new incarna-
Alexander Pierce to function as his tion resulted in a less perfect human
E RM(30) right hand man . Together they per- replica. But the Creator had fore-
petrated a series of break-ins at seen a way around this by intending
R GD(10) S.H.l.E.L.D. installations, including to combine the Infinity Formula hid-
an Armo ry and Commun ications den in Nick Fury's genetic code with
I RM(30) Station in Philadelphia (Tau/Ce). It his Deltite creation process.
p GD(10) was at the Tau/Ce installation they
Health: 70 had their first run in with Kate Neville With Madame Hydra's aid, Pierce,
Karma: 50 who tried to apprehend them . The in- Neville, the Countess, and McKen-
Resources: GD(1 O) formation Fury acquired at the site zie led an escape attempt from the
Popularity: 1O was carefully leaked and inaccurate. Deltite's gas chamber. Meanwhile
Pierce functioned as a contact be- Fury battled the Creator, but the ge-
BACKGROUND: tween Nick Fury and Tony Stark be- netic transfer left Nick too weak to
Real Name: Al McKenzie fore accompanying him to Hong manage more than a token resist-
Occupation: Agent of S.H .l.E.L.D. Kong following false leads in search ance. Elsewhere in the huge ship,
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no of S.H.l.E.L.D .'s stolen hel icarrier the latest Deltite, Clay Quartermain ,
criminal record power core. After escaping death in had reanimated with too much hu-
Identity: Secret an ambush at Hydra's Hong Kong manity and therefore could not live
Place of Birth: Unknown base, Pierce went with Fury and their as an automaton or allow the Deltites
Marital Status: Single prisoner, Madame Hydra, into the Hi- to complete their hellish plan. He re-
Known Relatives: None malayas where they were captured leased the spaceship's power core
Past Group Affiliations: C.l.A., by the Deltites and taken to their and set in motion the destruction of
S.H.l.E.L.D. spaceship. In the meantime, Kate Delta. The Countess and the other
Present Group Affiliation: Neville fell from grace with the Delti- escaped prisoners reached the audi-
tes when she refused to undergo the ence chamber where the Creator
KNOWN POWERS: Sacrament of Ending and become was standing over the fallen Fury.
Talents: McKenzie has Martial Arts one of them. The Deltites intended to The surviving Deltites soon joined
A and E, Marksman, and a variety of kill her and use her genetic code to them. It was then that the Deltites
weapons skills. As the former CIA li- make a Deltite duplicate anyway. A learned their Creator was a false
aison to S.H.l.E.L.D., Al has Re- similar fate awaited the other Deltite prophet, having no intention of lead-
markable reason in matters captives. ing them to a better world, and they
concerning government operations, destroyed him. Nick and the other
bureaucracy, and major intelligence It should be noted that the Deltites surviving humans escaped the ship
organizations of the world (espe- were the creation of a rogue LMD in life pods. The Deltites remained
cially the CIA, Central Intelligence known only as the Creator. The Crea- behind, preferring death over a
Agency). tor himself was an advanced LMD world ruled by chaotic and emotional
Contacts: Al McKenzie still has with brain and personality based on humans.
some valuable contacts in the CIA. a number of people, including Baron
Strucker and Nick Fury himself. Us- As a result of the Deltite affair, the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: ing new, highly advanced technol- original law enforcement agency
Al McKenzie is an intelligent, level- ogy, he had improved on the LMDs to called S.H .l.E.L.D. and the commit-
headed man. His trademark is cau- tee which directed it were revealed
tion. He doesn't like surprises. ·to be severely compromised.

195

S.H.l.E.L.D. was disbanded by order ADDITIONAL NOTES:
of the United Nations Security Coun-
cil. However, the U.N. soon realized
that there were threats to world
safety against which conventional
covert agencies were ineffective and
less than a year after S.H.l.E.L.D.

was dissolved, Nick was called out of
retirement to form a covert opera-
tions organization which would take
the place of the previous incarna-
tion. This new organization, which
would also be called S.H.l.E.L.D.,
would be organized along lines
which would make it less vulnerable
to the internal problems that brought
down its megalithic predecessor.
This new S. H.1.E.L.D. would be a
smaller, tighter agency, more effi-
cient and easier for one man (Fury)
to supervise. More importantly, Fury
would have total authority over its
operation and he himself would be
answerable only to the United Na-
tions. Thus, this incarnation would
be all but impervious to the corrup-
tion and infiltration that destroyed
the first S.H.1.E.L.D.. The exact con-
figuration of this new agency has yet

to be determined, as Fury is still in
the process of assembling it. Cur-
rently, S.H.l.E.L.D. remains a small
squad of field agents (those listed
above) and Fury. They have been

joined by an empath and a small,
child-like Deltite named Lump.

196

S.H.l.E.L.D. I

TIMOTHY mandoes unit. Dugan was in charge
of S.H.l.E.L.D. l's vast military re-
"DUM DUMu sources. Dugan was slain by the

DUGAN Deathheads, nightmarish aliens ac-
cidentally created by their long-time
foe, Baron Strucker.

STATISTICS:

F IN{40) JASPER
A GD(10) SITWELL
S EX(20)
E RM(30) STATISTICS:

R GD(10) F EX(20) SIDNEY E.
A GD(10) LEVINE
I EX(20) S GD{10)
P EX{20) E GD{10) STATISTICS:
Health: 100 R EX(20)
Karma: 50 I EX(20)
Resources: GD(10) P GD(10)
Health: 50
Popularity: 20 Karma: 50
Resources: EX(20)
BACKGROUND: F FE(2)
oPopularity: 1 A PR(4)
Real Name: Timothy " Oum Oum" S PR(4)
E PR{4)
Dugan
R IN(40)
Occupation: Special Director of I EX(20)

S.H.l.E.L.D., Military Coordination P GD(10)
Health: 14
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no BACKGROUND: Karma: 70

criminal record Real Name: Jasper Sitwell Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: 6
Identity: Secret Occupation: Special Director of

Place of Birth: Ireland S.H. l.E.L.D., Internal Affairs

Marital Status: Married Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no

Known Relatives: Mary (wife, de- criminal record

ceased), Sean (grandson) Identity: Secret

Past Group Affiliations: Place of Birth: Unknown BACKGROUND:

S.H.l.E.L.D. Marital Status: Unknown Real Name: Sidney E. Levine, " The

Present Group Affiliation: Known Relatives: None Gaffer"

KNOWN POWERS: Past Group Affiliations: Occupation: S .H.l.E.L.D .'s Chief
Talents: Timothy Dugan had Wres-
tling and Martial Arts A, B, and E, as S.H.l.E.L.D. Technician in charge of Exotic Tech-
well as Military, Marksman, and a va-
riety of weapons skills. He also had Present Group Affiliation: nology for field use
the Weapons Master skill.
Contacts: Dugan had a number of KNOWN POWERS: Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
contacts with various military and in- Talents: Jasper had Marksman and
telligence organizations throughout Guns skills and Martial Arts A and E. criminal record
the world.
Identity: Secret

Place of Birth: Unknown

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Marital Status: Unknown
Jasper's glasses gave him a very
studious air. He appeared soft, al- Known Relatives: None
though he was anything but. Jasper
took his position very seriously and Past Group Affiliations:
did an outstanding job (until the
Deltites got to him). S.H.l.E.L.D.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Present Group Affiliation:
Dugan was a powerful Irishman with
a gentle manner hidden beneath the KNOWN POWERS:
rough facade of an old warhorse. He Talents: Levine had Amazing Rea-
was Nick Fury's closest friend . son as a Physicist and Engineer.

HISTORY: HISTORY: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Timothy "Oum Oum" Dugan had Jasper was recruited by Nick Fury Levine was the stereotypical scien-
tist in white laboratory coat and
been Nick Fury's right hand man to help him keep tabs on the monster glasses. He was a genius and very
since World War II, when he served organization that S.H.l.E.L.D. had enthusiastic about anything to do
as corporal of the old Howling Com- with new or advanced technology.
rapidly become. (The Deltite Sitwell
took over directorship of S.H.l.E.L.D.
when Fury was outlawed.)

197

colonel in the U.S. Army who had (Level Three) who were in charge of

been a top operative in the Central S.H.l.E.L.D. operations in their des-
Intelligence Agency. After his back-
HISTORY: ignated territory. All of the free
Sidney Levine, nicknamed "the ground was thoroughly screened by
the Board of Directors, Fury was world's capitals boasted a regional
Gaffer," was an outstanding re-
search scientist and developed shuttled aboard the S.H.l.E.L.D. He- S.H.l.E.L.D. headquarters, as did
much of the technology·that made certain other major metropolitan
S.H.l.E.L.D. so effective. His dupli- licarrier where he met with
cate Deltite form assisted the Crea- centers. The United States had the
tor with his genetic-transferrence S.H.l.E.L.D.'s Board of Advisors,
machine. greatest number of S.H.l.E.L.D. in-
whom Fury recognized as renowned
GROUP HISTORY: heads of state and corporate lead- stallations, with major headquarters
S.H.l.E.L.D. is an acronym for Su- in New York City, Chicago , Los
ers. Despite initial misgivings about
preme Headquarters International Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Dal-
Espionage Law-Enforcement Divi- heading such a megalithic organiza-
sion. Because of the Deltite Affair las, Detroit, and Denver. Known re-
(see S.H.l.E.L.D. II), the original tion , Fury proved to himself that his
S.H.l.E.L.D. is sometimes called expertise might be valuable and ac- gional directors were Eric Koenig of
S.H.l.E.L.D. I and the new
S.H.l.E.L.D., currently being orga- cepted the public directorship. Fury Bonn, West Germany and Barth Bu-
nized by Nick Fury, is called
S.H.l.E.L.D. II. served as S.H.l.E.L.D.'s highest- kowski of Los Angeles.

S.H.l.E.L.D. I was a worldwide in- ranking known agent, overseeing S.H.l.E.L.D.'s next highest ranking
telligence and peacekeeping organi-
zation dedicated to protecting the daily administrative affairs as well as agents were the Special Officers
nations and peoples of Earth from all
threats to its security. Unlike the vari- serving as supreme field com- (Level Four), who assisted the Spe-
ous national intelligence agencies, cial Directors (Level Two) in interna-
such as the CIA, Ml6, Mossad, and mander. S.H.l.E.L.D. policy and di-
KGB, S.H.1. E.L.D. was international tional activities, but could not
in membership, scope, and jurisdic- rectives were determined by the override the decisions of Regional
tion. Most of the world's free nations
participated in S.H. l.E.L.D. and anonymous 12-member Executive Directors (Level Three). Among the
sanctioned S.H.l.E.L.D. activities on Board of Directors who conferred
their soils. S.H.l.E.L.D. also had se- known Special Officers were Gabriel
cret bases in various Communist with Fury by vidscreen on a regular
countries. Although most of Jones, James Woo, and Sharon
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s activities were covert, basis. Carter (deceased). The fifth highest
the existence of the organization
was known to the general public and S.H. l. E.L.D . l's organ izational ranking agents were Regional Offi-
S.H.l.E.L.D. maintained public of-
fices in numerous major cities. structure consisted of an Executive cers (Level 5), who carried out the
Board of Directors under which there
S.H.l.E.L.D. was founded in the Regional Director's policies and had
1960s to counter the threat posed to was the Level One Public Director
the free world by the technologically jurisdiction over Field Agents. Jerry
advanced neo-fascist subversive or- (Nick Fury), whose job was to carry
ganization HYDRA. Until the recent Hunt of London , England was a
Deltite Affair (see S. H.l.E.L.D. II), out official directives, oversee the in- known Regional Officer. Level Six
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s founders, as well as
the members of the Executive Board ternational operations of agents were Field Agents ,
of Directors, were top secret (unre-
vealed even to Nick Fury). They were S.H.l.E.L.D., and to represent the S.H.1.E.L.D.'s most numerous rank,
world leaders in business and the S.H.l.E.L.D. administration to world
military. S.H.l.E.L.D.'s first director, numbering somewhere between
whose identity remains classified, governments, national allies, and
was killed by HYDRA assassins. His 3,000 and 5,000 worldwide prior to
replacement was Nicholas Fury, a the general public. Fury's authority
the Deltite fiasco; three quarters of
198 overrode that of any Regional Direc-
the available agents were on under-
tor and he was answerable only to cover assignment, and the remain-

the Executive Board. Under the Pub- ing agents were based at the

lic Director were a number of Special regional headquarters and were em-

Directors (Level Two), who served ployed as special militia. Among the
the Public Director much like the
known field agents were Laura
Cabinet serves the President of the
Brown , Gail Runciter, and Jack Rol-
United States. Their authority was
lins. Level Seven personnel were ad-
also international in scope and they
ministrators those who handled the
could also override the policies of
"paperwork" of the organization's
any Regional Director. Each special
operations. This rank included law-
Director had his own unique area of
yers, accountants, secretaries, re-
responsibility (such as Internal Af- ceptio nists,
psychologists ,
fairs, Public Relations, Communica-
physicians, and clerks. Level Eight
tions, Military Coordination,
personnel were Technicians who
Technology, and Recruitment/
handled the computers, communica-
Training) and was answerable only to tion equipment, technology mainte-

the Public Director. Known Special nance, and weaponry. This level

Directors were Timothy "Oum Oum" included scientists, inventors, custo-

Dugan (Military Coordination), Jas- dians, telephone operators, and

per Sitwell (Internal Affairs), and Va- computer programmers. Sidney E.

lentina Allegro de Fontaine (Public Levine was the head Technician in

Relations). Below the Special Direc- charge of exotic technology for field

tors were the Regional Directors use, while Niles Nordstrom led the

ESP division, a team of mutants with multinational global organization to among the latter were Rico Santana
limited telepathic abilities who per- a number of small splinter groups of of Rio de Janeiro and Karl Delandan
formed certain surveillance opera- vastly less scope and power. It was of Manhattan, both of whose activi-
tions. Each of S.H.l.E.L.D.'s eight with the fall of Hydra Island and the ties were exposed to Nick Fury by
rankings had corresponding insignia death of HYDRA's founder, Baron the former S.H.l.E.L.D. agent-
and accessories on the official uni- Wolfgang von Strucker, that HYDRA turned-rogue Barbara Morse, who
form. was dealt a crippling blow from had taken the code name Mocking-
which it has never recovered . bird. Certain other disreputable ac-
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s standard operating S.H.1.E.L.D. was also instrumental in tivities were undertaken by Regional
procedure encompassed state of the thwarting the schemes of AIM Officers and Field Agents, such as
art surveillance technology (notably (Advanced Idea Mechanics) and Zo- when Buck Richlen, Val Adair, and
spy satellites) as well as long-term diac, a crime cartel which once Adam Manna attempted to kill indus-
undercover agents ("moles") sta- boasted Nick Fury's brother as a trialist Tony Stark. Nick Fury had ap-
tioned in strategic places such as member. With the aid of certain su- pointed a special Internal
certain industrial, governmental, perhuman adventurers, S.H.l.E.L.D. Investigations task force to seek out
and military establishments. This completely destroyed the conspiracy and thwart those agents who en-
wealth of surveillance data was fed gaged in abuses of power. (But all of
to the headquarters of the nearest of industrialists and politicians called these incidents now seem petty in
Regional Director, who dispatched the Corporation. S.H.l.E.L.D.'s other comparison to the damage wrought
top priority material to S.H.l.E.L.D.'s major adversaries were the Oriental by the Deltites.)
central command. Local low-priority mastermind the Yellow Claw, the
matters were generally handled by former HYDRA splinter group leader In an effort to increase internal se-
the Regional Directors without the Viper, the Nazi Red Skull, Professor curity, S.H.l.E.L.D. restricted its coop-
Public Director's participation. Com- Anthony Power's Secret Empire, the eration with certain outside parties,
plete briefs of all the activities of Re- mad geneticist Centurious, the mon- notably organizations of superhu-
gional Offices routinely went to ster breeder Dr. Demonicus, and the mans, such as the Avengers and
central command for processing and various Hate-Mongers. S.H.l.E.L.D. Fantastic Four. Free agents like Cap-
review. Matters of top priority (those has also been at the forefront of de- tain America, who used to be given
threatening world security, involving fending Earth from extraterrestrial frequent freelance assignments by
extraterrestrials, or endangering in infiltration or invasion. S.H.l.E.L.D. S.H.l.E.L.D., were discouraged
excess of 10,000 lives) were under provided intelligence and technical against participation in S.H.l.E.L.D.
the jurisdiction of S.H.l.E.L.D.'s cen- support to the Avengers and activities unless they were already in-
tral command and the Public Direc- Fantastic Four during a skirmish in volved, as in the recent affair with the
tor himself. Local agents in the the Kree-Skrull War fought in Earth's terrorist organization ULTIMATUM.
region where the top priority affair vicinity. S.H.l.E.L.D. was instrumen- Still, recognizing the value of super-
took place comprised the majority of tal in repulsing the extradimensional human powers, S.H.l.E.L.D. has at
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s militia in the operation threats of the Collective Intelligence times instituted programs designed
although Fury would usually bring in and Baron Karza. Their most exten- to recruit superhuman operatives.
his own cadre of agents to spear- sive military action against extrater- For years, Nick Fury tried to enlist
head the operation. The bulk of restrials occurred during the recent Captain America as a full-time agent
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s operations were cov- expulsion of the Dire Wraiths, an op- without success. S.H.l.E.L.D.'s ESP
ert but some involved visible public eration conducted in conjunction Division long employed individuals
activities. Although S.H.l.E.L.D. pol- with the Galadorian spaceknight with paranormal powers, but the divi-
sion's activities were never very ex-
icy prohibited the organization from Rom, the federal government, and tensive nor was the operation ever
usurping the role of the nation's scores of superhuman adventurers. expanded. (But having a force of mu-
armed forces by engaging in warfare Perhaps S.H.l.E.L.D.'s most public tant Espers around was never in the
on enemy soil, domestic matters that operation was its pursuit and capture best interests of the Deltites either.)
of the mutated prehistoric lizard S.H.l.E.L.D.'s most concerted at-
also fell under the jurisdiction of the called Godzilla. tempt to recruit superhuman opera-
military were jointly coordinated, tives was its shortlived Super-Agent
with S.H.l.E.L.D . generally taking Despite S.H.l.E.L.D.'s benevolent program which was disbanded when
the auxiliary role (such as in the case goals and numerous world-saving
of the U.S. Army's pursuit of the operations, certain individuals in the two of its four initial recruits proved to
Hulk). All covert opertions were auto- be double agents for the Corporation.
matically S.H.l.E.L.D.'s province; S.H.l.E.L.D. organization abused Super-Agent graduate Wendell
only in overt military operations was their power and used the organiza- Vaughn (Quasar) went on from
coordination between S.H.1.E.L.D. S.H.l.E.L.D. to work for the U.S. Gov-
tion's resources and personnel to en- ernment's Project: Pegasus. It is pos-
and the Armed Forces necessary. gage in questionable activities. sible that S.H.l.E.L.D.'s efforts to
S.H.l.E.L.D.'s earliest victories dis- Certain immoral individuals man- acquire its own Super-Agents were
aged to become Regional Directors thwarted by covert efforts of the Crea-
mantled HYDRA, the subversive and falsified intelligence reports to
group responsible for S.H.l.E.L.D.'s central command in order to cover
founding, reducing it from a single up their corrupt activities. Notable

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