MU3 - Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Garner1s Handbook of the

MBINIL n•v~11•1r
Volume 3

Contents

Mad Thinker ... . ..... . .. . . . . .. . . . ... . . ...3 Morbius, Dr. Michael .......... ..... ... . ..85
Madrox . .... . . . . .... ........ .. ...... . ...5
Maelstrom .......... . ................... .7 Morlocks ... . . . ................ . .. . . . . ..87
Magik . ............... . .... . .... . .......9 Ms. Marvel I . . . . . ......... .. ............91

Magneto . . . . ... . . . . ...... . . . .......... .11 Ms. Marvel II . .. . . . . ... . ... ... ..... . .....93
Magus . . . . . ... . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . ... . . .. .13
Malekith . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . .15 Mutant Force . . . . ... ... . ... ...... . . .....95
Malus, Dr. Karl . . ... . ..' ...... .. . .. . . . . .. .17 Mysterio .... . .. . ... .... . . ... . . . . .. . . . . .97

Man-Ape .. ..... ...... . ... .. . . .... . .....19 Mystique .. . . . ... . . ... .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . .99
Mandrill .. . . ...... ...... . . .. . . . . ....... .21 Namorita . . . . ... . .. ... .. . . . ... . . . . . . . ..101
Manslaughter . . . . . .. ........ . . ..... .... .23 Nebula .................... . . ..... . . ..103
Man-Thing. . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . .... .... ......25 Nekra ....................... . . . . . ....105
Mantis .. . . . . . . . . ..... ........ .. . . .. . . . .27
Nightcrawler . .. ................... . ....107
Marauders ... . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . .. .. . .... .29 Nighthawk I. .. . . ...... . ...... . .. . . . . . ..109
Marrina .. .... . . ... . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .... ..33 Nighthawk II . . . .. ... . .... . . . .... . ... . ..11 1
Marvel Boy . ... . . . . .. ......... . .... .. ...35
Marvel Girl . . . . . .... . . .... . . . . .. ... .....37 Nightmare ... . . .. . . .. .. . . . . ... . . . . . . . . .113
Master. .... .. . . .. . . . . .... . . . . . . .. ......39 Nimrod . . . . .. . . . ...... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ..115
Master Order .. .. . . . . ...... . .... . . . .. . ..41 Nitro . .. . . .... . . .. . ...... ... ......... .117
Nomad ........ .... ..... . ... . . . . . . .... 119
Master Pandemonium . .... . . . . . .. . . . . . . ..43 North Star ....... ... . . ......... .. . . . . .. 121
Mastermind.... .. . . . . .... . . . . . ....... .. .45 Nova I . .... . ........... . ...... ... . . . . .123
Mauler.. .. . . .... . . . . . ... . . . . . ...... . .. .47
Nova II... . . . ................... . ......125
Maximus . . . . . . ... . . . . .. ... . . . .. . ... . . . .49 Nuklo. . . .. . .. . . . . . . .. ... . . . . . .. .......127
Mayhem . . . . . . .... . . ........... . .......51 Obiiterator. . .. .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . .129
Medusa ..... . . .. . . . . . .. ...... . . . . . . . .. .53
Odin . . .. . .... .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. ... . .131
Melter . . .... . . ..... ............ ... .....55 Olympian Gods......... . .. . ... . .. . . . ...133
Mentallo . . . . . ... . .. .... . .... .... . . .....57 Omega .... . . .... ...... . . . . . . .. .......137
Mimic . . . . . . .... . . . . . .. . .... . . . . . .. . .. .59 Omega Flight ... .... .......... ..... ... .139
Mirage I.. ...... . . . .. ... . . .... . .. . . . .. . .61
Mirage II . . .. . . . . . ...... . .. . . . .. . .... . . .63 Overmind .... .. . ... . . . . .... . . . . . ......143
Owl ... . .. . .... . .......... . .... . . . ... .145
Mr. Fantastic .......... . .... . . . . . . .......65 Paladin ... . ...... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ..147
Mockingbird ..... . . . .. . . . .... . .. . .. .....67 Phantom Rider . ... ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ....149
Modok .. . . . . . . . .. .. ....................69
Phoenix I. .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .......151
Modred the Mystic ......... . . .. . . .. . .... .71 Phoenix II .................... ... . . ... .153
Mojo ........ .. . . . . ...... . ... .. .. . . .. ..73 Pluto . . .... . .. . ...... . ................155
Mole Man . .. . .. ...... .... ...... .. ... . . .75
Polaris . . .... . . .. . . ........ . ...........157
Molecule Man ... . . . . .... . . . .. .... .......77 Porcupine . . ... . . . . . .. . . .... . . . . . . . . . . .159
Moon Knight . . . . . . . . .... . . ...... .. . . . . . .79 Possessor .. . . . ... . . . ... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .161
Moondragon . . . . ... . . . .... ... . ...... .. . .81
Moonstone . . . . ... . . .......... . . . . . .....83 Power Man .... .. . . .. . . . . . ... . ... . . ... .163
Power Pack. . . . .. . . ...... . . ... . .. . . . . ..165
Primus........ .. . . ... ... . . . . ... . . . ....169
Professor Power ................... . ....171

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Professor X ... . .. ......... . . . . .. . . . . ...173 Rhino ....... . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .... . .... . .213
Psycho Man ...........................175 Richter .. . . .... . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .... . .215
Psylocke ............. . ................177 Ringer ............. ... . ...... . .. . .....217
Puck .... . . . ..........................179 Rocket Raccoon .............. . .... . .. . .219
Puma .... . ............ . ..............181 Rogue ................................221
Punisher ..............................183 Rom . ....................... . ........223
Puppet Master .........................185 Ronan the Accuser...... . ........ .. . .. ..225
Purple Man ... . . . ......................187 Runner ... .. ............. . .... . .. . . . . .227
Pyro....... . .. . ............ .. ... . .....189 Sabretooth ...... .. . ...................229
Quasar . . ..... . .......................191 Salem's Seven .........................231
Quasimodo ....... . . .... . . . . . ... .. ... ..193 Sandman . . . . .. . .. . . . .... . .. . . . .... . . .235
Quicksilver ...... . . ....................195 Sasquatch............................ .237
Radioactive Man. .......... . ............197 Savage Land Mutates .. . ................239
Rama-Tut . ....... ..... . ............... 199 Scarecrow.. . .... . .. . . . .. . . . .. . ... . .. ..243
Red Ghost. . .... ... . .. .. .. . . . . . .. . . . . . .201 Scarlet Witch . .. . .. . . . . . .. . . ... .. . . . .. .235
Red Guardian I . . .......................203 Scorpion ..... . ............ . ...... . ....247
Red Guardian II ........................205 Scourge . .. ....... . ...................249
Red Ronin . . ............ ...... . .. . . . . . .207 Sentinels .... . . ....... . . .. . . . . . .. . . . ...251
Red Skull .. . ... .......................209 Sentry ....... . .... .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . ...255
Red Wolf . ....... . ........ . . . .... .... . .211

Written by Scott Bennie, David E. Martin, and Chris Mortika
Edited by William Connors and Richard Steinberg

Cover Illustration by Jeff Butler
Interior Illustrations by the Marvel Bullpen
Typography by Betty Elmore, Kim Janke and Carolyn Vanderbilt
Graphic Design by Stephanie Tabat

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2

MAD THINKER

~.STATISTICS

F TY (6)

A TY (6)

s TY (6)

E TY (6)
R AM (50)
I TY (6)
p TY (6)
Health: 24

Karma: 62
Resources: RM(30)
Popularity: 7

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Supercriminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
~ criminal record
Jdentity: Known to Police
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Prison and
mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Ex-ally of

Egghead, Wizard, and Puppet Mas-
ter

-.Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: accumulation of great wealth. Third,
Total Memory: He has Monstrous revenge on the Fantastic Four for the
recall. This enables him to simulate ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: frequent defeats they have dealt
some mental powers as Power The Thinker has three goals. First, him. He prefers to work behind the
Stunts: the accumulation of as much new scenes rather than to battle foes
knowledge as possible. Second, the directly. In fact, since he is currently
• Hyper-Invention: Monstrous serving a prison term in upstate New
Reason when creating robots York, any Thinker who is encoun-
and androids. tered is probably a replica.

~ • Weapons Tinkering: Monstrous 3
Reason when building any
weapon he has previously read
plans for. These weapons can
be incorporated into robots and
androids as powers.

Mind Transferral: A bionic radio gives

him the Amazing ability to transfer
his consciousness into any of his
robots or androids within 250 miles
of his body's location.

Equipment:

Hypnolens: Incredible Hypnotic Con-
trol over anyone looking at it.
Talents: The Thinker is a superb
organizer of previously discovered
facts. He has Monstrous computer
programming and Engineering
-----$kills.

;ontacts: None (he's alienated
them all).

HISTORY the Sub-Mariner, and the X-Men. He porarily transform into granitic,,---
once attempted to conquer the world blocks to do Monstrous damage.
The origin of the Mad Thinker is in league with his occasional partner Enlargement: It can Feebly grow by
unknown. He led an extraordinarily the Puppet Master and the criminal 10%.
successful criminal career without scientist Egghead. However, usually Hyper-Breath: A 180 mph exhalation
the police ever learning he was a the Thinker directs his crimes toward does Remarkable damage.
criminal, thanks to the brilliance of three other goals: the accumulation Weakness: A blow of Amazing inten-
his strategies . Aided by his of further knowledge (as in his con- sity to its right armpit can Stun it for
advanced computers, the Thinker tinued attempts to steal Reed 21-30 turns.
could predict the probable course of Richards' scientific secrets), the Talents: None.
events virtually down to the smallest amassing of great wealth, and Contacts: None.
detail, and used this knowledge in vengeance on the Fantastic Four.
planning his crimes. (He calls him- The Thinker once found and revived ADDITIONAL NOTES:
self the Thinker; however, once he the original android Human Torch to
became publicly known as a crimi- use him as a weapon against the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: ,,.,.......__
nal, his superhuman opponents and Fantastic Four. After the original
the news media labeled him "the Torch was apparently destroyed, the The Android is a nearly mindless
Mad Thinker," much to his continued Thinker turned him over to the
exasperation.) robotic Ultron, who recreated the simpleton who must be controlled by
Torch as the Vision. The Thinker also
Eventually the Thinker met with brainwashed the original Torch's a superior mind in order for it to
many of the country's leading crime partner, Toro, into serving him.
bosses to tell them of his plan to accomplish anything. If approached
seize control of New York City and MAD THINKER'S AWE-
turn it into an independent nation SOME ANDROID cautiously, it may exhibit a child-like
with himself as its ruler. The crime
bosses would serve to enforce his STATISTICS friendliness. By itself, it is an incredi-
rule. To rid himself of the probable
opposition of the Fantastic Four, who F GD (10) bly shy and timid being as evidenced
were then the only New York City- A GD (10)
based team of superhuman crime- S AM (50) by the fact it was able to hide in a
fighters, the Thinker arranged for E RM (30)
each of the team members to be R FE (2) mid-Ohio barn for over a decade.
offered a highly attractive job. The I FE (2)
four teammates accepted the offers, P FE (2) However, it changes its tempera,,.-.
but while they were gone from their Health: 100
Baxter Building headquarters, the Karma: 6 ment to reflect its controller.
Thinker and his allies took over. The Resources: None
Thinker thus gained access to the Popularity: 0 -HISTORY
knowledge and equipment of the
Fantastic Four's leader Reed KNOWN POWERS The Android was recently drawn
Richards, a scientific genius. Using Compound Body: The Android is an from hiding by the Super-Adaptoid.
this information the Thinker con- android-robot hybrid of Amazing The Android was twice defeated by
structed the first of his superhuman material. the Avengers before the Sub-
androids. When the Fantastic Four Power Duplication: The Android's Mariner wrenched the Android's
returned, the Thinker used the unstable genetics enables it to tem- head off. The head and body sank
android and Reed Richards' own porarily mimic another's physical separately into the Atlantic below
weaponry to battle them. But texture. Hydro-Base. Whether the head and
Richards defeated the Thinker by body remain active, or if they can
arranging to have a circuit-breaker • The Thing's armored hide gives ever be rejoined, is unknown.
activated that rendered all of it Excellent protection from
Richards' electronic equipment and physical attacks.
weaponry useless. Thus the Thinker
was sent to prison apparently for the • Iceman's icy sheath gives it
first time. Good protection from physical
attacks and Remarkable pro-
Since then the Thinker has tection against heat and flame
clashed unsuccessfully many times attacks.
with the Fantastic Four and other
superhuman adventurers, including • Metallic sheaths give it Remark-
the Avengers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, able material strength.

4 Natural Weaponry: Its fists can tern-

MADROX

--..STATIST ICS

F TY (6)
A TY (6)

s TY (6)

E GD (10)
R GD (10)
I TY (6)
p TY (6)
Health: 28
Karma: 22
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: J ames Arthur Madrox
Occupation: Ex-farmer, now labora-
tory assistant
,....... Identity: Secret
legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: The Multiple
Man
Place of Birth : Los Alamos, New
Mexico
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Daniel (father,
deceased), Joan (mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Moira MacTag-
" 'iJert's mutant research center, Muir
Island
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the Fallen Angels
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Jamie is killed, or all disappear when they recombine. (Add the total
Duplication: Jamie possesses a Jamie is knocked unconscious. They Health of all the duplicates, including
unique power to create duplicate exist as long as he wills them to, and Jamie, then divide by the number of
---bodies of himself. W hen struck, a he can dispel them at will, absorbing duplicates.)
j uplicate "splits off" from Jamie t hem back into his body. Each time a Costume: Madrox usually wears a
ident ical in mass and abi lities , duplicate dies, Jamie must make a special costume, which provides
includi ng t he power to duplicate. Psyche FEAT roll or fall unconscious Good protection but, more impor-
J amie can produce only one dupli- for 1-1 Orounds. tantly, keeps him from splitting off
Healing: O ne established power duplicates from chance impacts.
cate per round, but can keep produc- stunt for Madrox when he is badly Only an impact of Excellent or
ing t hem consecutively. There is no injured is to duplicate himself twenty greater rank will automatically create
known limit to the number of dupli- times, and then recombine. This a duplicate. The suit once malfunc-
cates (his maximum so far is twenty). recombinat ion results in his Health tioned, lowering the impact level to
Since his duplicates can also dupli- total equaling the average Health of Typical, but absorbing up to Incredi-
cate, he can soon produce a small himself and his duplicates before ble levels of electrical and heat dam-
army. All the duplicates are psioni-
cally linked to Jamie and to each oth- 5
er. Each is capable of independent
thought, feeling, and action. What is
traumatic for one is usually traumatic
tor all of them, but since they have
independent thoughts, treat each
~ one as a separate FEAT roll for the

purpose of trances, illusions, emo-
tional control attacks, etc. It is
unknown whether all ·of them die if

~ge. Jamie used this energy to HISTORY alone, caring for his parents' farm.
increase his Strength rank to the Then, malfunctioning control ele ,,........_
rank of the power absorbed (maxi- James Madrox was the only son of ments in the suit caused a power
mum Incredible). This malfunction two researchers working at the Los surge that released his inhibited
was fixed, and it is unknown if the Alamos Research Center in New powers. and ca~sed the suit to begin
suit can still absorb energy. absorbing ambient electrical energy.
Talents: Madrox has worked as an hMisexpi~c~oe.nItns t~heerecoeuxrpsoesoefdtthoeeirnwouorgkh Confused and frightened, Madrox
assistant in genetic research. His ~et ~ut to find help, eventually arriv-
Reason when dealing with labora- spec1f1c radiation to produce subtle ing in New York City. There the
tory terminology and items is Good. alterations in their genetic material. Fantastic Four and Professor Xavier
Contacts: In addition to other mem- Thus their son was born a mutant. found him. Reed Richards of the
bers of the Fallen Angels Jamie is Moments after birth, Madrox's power Fantastic Four helped repair the uni-
friends with Professor X, the X-Men, became evident; when the doctor f~rm:s components, and Xavier took
Banshee, and Moira MacTaggert. spanked him, the concussive force him into custody for a short time to
caused him to multiply into two iden- teach him how to control his replica-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: tical physical beings. (The second tion powers. When asked to join
self merged with the first in a few Xavier's mutant adventurers, the X-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES minutes.) Shaken by the bizarre phe- Men, Madrox declined, preferring to
nomenon, on the advice of Professor accept Dr. Moira MacTaggert's offer
Jamie is a quiet, intensely moral Charles Xavier, the Madrox family to be a lab assistant at her mutation ~
moved to a farm in Kansas where research complex on Muir Isle off the
young man who does not feel very they could raise the boy in privacy. coast of Scotland.
Dr. Madrox created a special suit for
comfortable in the Fallen Angels but his son which insulated the boy from Recently, Jamie and Theresa Cas-
kinetic forces stronger than the level sidy (Siryn) were charged by Magne-
rarely criticizes people. He has dem- needed to cause replication, and to to find Roberto Decosta (Sunspot)
forced the boy to wear it constantly. and Warlock, who had disappeared
from the New Mutants. They found
As Madrox grew up, he was not them among a group of young
aware of his mutant power, but only mutant thieves who called them-
of the strangeness of having to sel~es the Fallen Angels. After a long,.----.
always wear the same clothes. s~nes of adventures, Madrox and
When he was fifteen, his parents S1ryn elected to stay with the Fallen
were killed by a tornado. Madrox Angels and try to provide them with a
spent the next few years of his life good example.

onstrated affection toward oSnirythn~ ,_,--...
and is the object of a crush

part of Boom Boom , one of the

Fallen Angels. Jamie has taken up a

~eadership role with that group, try-

ing to set a good example for them.

Some of Jamie's duplicates have

recently demonstrated individual

personalities and a reluctance to

recombine; possibly this is an accel-

erating trend, and one day all of the

Madrox duplicates will have individ-

ual personalities.

6

MAELSTROM

STATISTICS succeeded, would have given Mael- Maelstrom and his father set up base
strom power in the Class 1000 to Class in the underwater ruins of the island of
F GD (10) 5000 range. Attilan when the lnhumans moved their
A EX (20) Clones: Maelstrom can create clones of city to the Himalayan Mountains. Discov-
himself, his minions, and probably oth- ering molecules of the mutagenic Terri-
s RM (30) ers. When one of them is killed, the tech- gen Mist in the ruins. the two began
nology in Maelstrom's lair shunts the life experiments that they hoped would let
E IN (40) form to a new body. The transfer has them subjugate the two races that had
R IN (40) spurned them, the lnhumans and the
I GD (10) planetary range (4000 + miles). This Deviants.
p IN (40)
gives Maelstrom virtual immortality, The existence of Maelstrom and
Health: 100 dependent only on the number of clones Phaeder was revealed when Maelstrom
Karma: 90 he has available. attempted to steal the Anti-Terrigen com-
Resources: RM (30) Talents: Maelstrom is a master of pound developed by Reed Richards and
Popularity: -5 Genetics, Biochemistry, Engineering, the lnhumans. After an unsuccessful
and Physics. He also has the Repair/ attempt to subject all of Attilan to the
BACKGROUND Tinkering talent. compound, Maelstrom commanded his
Real Name: Unrevealed Contacts: Maelstrom works without accomplice, the mysterious Deathurge,
Occupation: Geneticist, would-be con- allies, but has given knowledge to Arnim to kill him. At the instant of his death,
queror Zola, Magneto, and the Enclave. It is Maelstrom's life essence and memories
Identity: His existence is unknown to possible that he may have contacts with were transferred to another clone-body
the general public rebellious elements in the Deviant or in a process developed by Arnim Zola.
Legal Status: None Inhuman communities. Phaeder was too old and feeble for the
Place of Birth: Unrevealed process to work for him, and he died.
Marital Status: Unrevealed ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Known Relatives: Phaeder (father, Maelstrom is a brilliant but twisted scien- While investigating the whereabouts
deceased) tist, a megalomaniac, bent on world or of his mother's people, the Deviants,
Base of Operations: Unknown even universal domination. Perhaps Maelstrom learned that most of their rul-
Past Group Affiliation: None because he can shift so easily between ing class had been atomically transmut-
Present Group Affiliation: clone bodies, he has no respect for life, ed into a single organic cube by the
not even the lives of his minions. His Eternals, another variant strain of
KNOWN POWERS Kinetic Absorption: schemes involve the acquisition of humanity. Maelstrom decided to use his
_ Maelstrom can absorb physical blows power, usually at the expense of the biokinetic power to siphon the energy of
lnhumans or the Eternals. Maelstrom Is the entire Eternal population while they
'and convert their kinetic energy into extremely arrogant and domineering, participated in a ritual. Thanks to the
increased Health and Strength. When and seems to enjoy grand masterplans intervention of the Avengers, this
Maelstrom is struck, the rank number of with very visible threats and subtle scheme failed, and once more Mael-
the blow is added to his Health. Further- machinations. He would make a good strom bid Deathurge to terminate his life.
more, if the blow's rank is higher than ally for Maximus or Kro or the Deviants, Maelstrom's essence transferred to yet
Maelstrom's current Strength rank, his though it is unlikely that he can be trust- another clone and he embarked upon his
ed. next master plan, to siphon the kinetic
strength increases by + 1 CS. The energy of the Earth's rotation. This plan
HISTORY was also thwarted by the Avengers, and
effects of an absorbed blow last ten Maelstrom was apparently destroyed. It
rounds. Maelstrom can only be slammed Maelstrom is the son of an Inhuman is not known how many clone-bodies
or stunned by blows with a higher rank geneticist and a Deviant handmaiden, the Maelstrom possesses.
than Maelstrom's current Strength rank. first known hybrid of these two sister
vVhen not augmented by his siphon races to humanity. Some time before DEATHURGE
devices, the upper limits of his Strength 1900, Maelstrom's father, Phaeder, vied
and Health are Monstrous and 400. He with Agon (the future sire of Black Bolt) for STATISTICS
has developed one established power the leadership of the lnhumans' govern- F GD (10)
stunt: ing body, the Genetics Council. Having A RM (30)
lost, Phaeder was soon barred from the S TY (6)
• He can divert absorbed Health into a Council because of his experiments in E MN (75)
Kinetic Blast attack with a range of 3 cloning, a branch of genetics the Council R GD(10)
areas which does damage equal to the had outlawed. Faking death, Phaeder I IN (40)
number of Health points put into it. stole away from the island-city of Attilan In P IN (40)
Health-Drain Aura: Maelstrom drains self-imposed exile. Reaching a colony of Health: 121
Good amounts of Health (biokinetic Deviants, he met Morga, a Deviant wom- Karma: 90
energy) from any opponents in the same an, attractive by Inhuman standards but Resources: N/A
area with him. Victims can avoid this ugly by those of the Deviants. The two Popularity: - 1O
Health loss with a successful Endurance mated and produced a son who was later
FEAT versus Good intensity. called Maelstrom. Phaeder and Mael- BACKGROUND
Power Siphons: Maelstrom once built strom eventually fled Lemuria and trav- Real Name: Unknown
two devices that enable him to exceed eled the world incognito. Occupation: Executioner
the normal limits of his Absorption Identity: Uses no dual identity
powers. The first siphon converted th_e Other Known Aliases: None
mental energies of the Eternals' Uni-
Mind into an absorbable form. The sec- 7
ond device absorbed kinetic energy from
the earth itself, slowing the planet's rota-
tion. Either of these schemes. had they

Place of Birth: Not applicable ion, Deathurge clearly served Maelstrom BACKGROUND
Marital Status: Not applicable for reasons of his own. Deathurge was Real Name: Unknown
Known Relatives: None dispatched to slay clonal bodies of Mael- Occupation: Scout
Base of Operations: Mobile strom's three prime minions, and twice Identity: Uses no dual identity
Past Group Affiliation: Former minion was commanded to slay clonal bodies of Other Known Aliases: None
of Maelstrom, servant of a " dark master" Maelstrom himself. A third clonal body of Place of Birth: Unknown
(possibly a death god or entity such as Maelstrom dismissed Deathurge when Marital Status: Single
Mephisto or Thog, or Death itself) he realized that they were at cross pur- Known Relatives: None
Present Group Affiliation: poses. Deathurge's current where- Base of Operations: Mobile
abouts and activities are unknown.
KNOWN POWERS !(NOWN POWERS
Invulnerabilities: Deathurge is immune to GRDNK Flight: Shift X
heat, cold, electricity, toxins, and dis- Create Tornadoes: Amazing ability
ease. STATISTICS
Phasing: Deathurge has Unearthly phas- F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
ing abilities, and can apparently remain A GD (10) Helio is absolutely loyal to Maelstrom.
intangible indefinitely. It is not known S IN (40) He serves as Maelstrom's scout, fighting
whether his phasing can disrupt electri- E MN (75) only when necessary (usually to protect
cal systems. R PR (4) Maelstrom).
Flight: Deathurge has up to Class 3000 I TY (6)
Fl ight. P PR (4) PHDBIUB --
Precognition, Death: Deathurge has
Monstrous precognition powers, but its Health: 155 STATISTICS
visions are usually limited to the upcom- Karma: 14
ing death of a character, usually Dea- Resources: FE (2) F PR (4)
thurge's "master." Popularity: -5 A TY (6)
Death Weapon: This seems to be drawn S PA (4)
from the substance of Deathurge's own BACKGROUND E GD (10)
body, most often resembling a spear. It is Real Name: Unknown R TY (6)
intangible until it strikes its intended tar- Occupation: Bodyguard I GD (10)
get. The intended target must then make Identity: Uses no dual identity P EX (20)
a successful FEAT roll against Shift-Y Other Known Aliases: None Health: 24
Intensity or begin losing Endurance Place of Birth: Unknown Karma: 36
ranks; as the target loses ranks, a black- Marital Status: Single Resources: PR (4)
ness spreads from the bloodless wound Known Relatives: None Popularity: - 5
and covers the whole body. If the weapon Base of Operations: Mobile
passes through the body of anyone other BACKGROUND
than its intended victim, it infl icts KNOWN POWERS Real Name: Unknown
Amazing intensity (non-lethal) cold dam- Body Armor: Remarkable Occupation: Interrogator
age. This weapon is not affected by any Adhesion: Gronk can make people or Identity: Uses no dual identity
form of physical body armor. objects that touch him stick to him with Other Known Aliases: None
Monstrous adhesion. Place of Birth: Unknown
Talents: Deathurge has + 2 CS with his Marital Status: Single
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Known Relatives: None
Death Weapon. Gronk is Maelstrom's bodyguard, as loy- Base of Operations: Mobile
Contacts: Deathurge was a " lackey" of al as he is stupid. Gronk likes to let his
Maelstrom. opponents hit him, get stuck in his adhe· KNOWN POWERS Emoti on Control
sive body, and then clobber them. (Fear Only): Incredible ability
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Deathurge is a dark entity whose begin· HELID ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
nings are largely unknown; this gives the
Judge a lot of room to role-play him and STATISTICS Phobius is a typical " minion," absolutely
give him background appropriate to F TY (6) obedient to Maelstrom. He uses his fear
campaign variants. Deathurge is attract- A GD (10) power to extract information from those
ed to those who unconsciously seek S GD (10) who are captured by Maelstrom, and to
death (such as Maelstrom) and will not E RM (30) scare his enemies into letting their guard
use lethal force against others. R TY (6) down for more effective attacks.
I TY (6)
HISTORY P TY (6)
Health: 56
Deathurge is a wraith-like superhuman Karma: 18
who appears to be a messenger of Resources: PR (4)
death. He was first observed in the Popularity: O
employ of Maelstrom. Although Mael-
strom sometimes treated Deathurge as if
he were a personal messenger or min·

8

MAGIK

,..........STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A GD (10)

s GD (10)

E IN (40)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
p AM (50)
Health: 80
Karma: 80

Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 4

BACKGROUND
Real Name: lllyana Nikolievna Ras-
putin
Occupation: Student, Sorceress
,,_,_Supreme of Limbo
dentity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the
U.S.S.R., now living in the U.S.
under a special visa, no criminal
record , still a minor
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Ust-Ordynski Collec-
tive, near Lake Baikal , Siberia,

USSR
,.._Marital Status: Single

lnown Relatives: Nikolai Rasputin

(father), Alexandra Rasputin (moth-
er), Piotr Rasputin (brother), Mikhail
Rasputin (brother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Professor
Charles Xavier's School for Gifted
Youngsters, Salem Center, West-
chester County, NY, and Limbo.
Past Group Affiliation: New

~Mruetsaenntst Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS beneath other characters and tele- allowed a Psyche FEAT roll with a
Teleport Discs: Magik's mutant port them involuntarily to Limbo. The + 2 CS bonus to break the spell and
power is the ability to teleport herself target may Dodge if warned. return the being or item to its original
and others through time and space Sou/sword: Magik can automatically state.
by the use of summoned stepping summon a Soulsword, a physical Psi-Screen: Magik's demonic nature
discs. After a successful Psyche manifestation of her magical gives her a constant psychic shield
FEAT roll, the disc teleports her first powers. It causes Monstrous dam- that acts as Monstrous protection
to the dimension of Limbo, then to age to any magical creature it from psionic attacks, attempts at
the desired destination. A failed roll strikes, using the Edged Weapon controlling her, or intrusions.
indicates a misjump, either in dis- column. The sword does no damage Body Armor: If Magik uses her
tance (up to one-quarter mile away) if it passes through any non-magical Soulsword or magic in combat, shin-
or in time. If the FEAT fails, the final creature, machinery, or robot. If ing magical body armor appears on
destination could be 1-10 days, swung through a character or item her. Its protection begins with Excel-
weeks, months, or years in the past that is magically controlled, pos- lent strength and improves by one
or future. Magik can also summon sessed, or transformed, Magik is rank each time she uses her magic
~xtradimensional life forms (known
l s demons) from Limbo using her 9
discs. Also using her Psyche FEAT
roll, she can make her discs appear

or Soulsword in combat, to a maxi- lective farm in Siberia when lllyana physically nine years old, Belasco,,....__
mum of Monstrous. It remains for up was quite young and became Colos-
to five rounds without specifically sus, one of the X-Men. When she made her his apprentice in sorcery.
using magic to keep it up. was seven years old, lllyana was
Magic: lllyana is the Sorceress abducted from the Soviet Union in a The demonic side of lllyana's soul
Supreme of a small pocket dimension ploy to force the X-Men to go to the
known as Limbo (more than one eccentric assassin Arcade's rescue. reveled in serving Belasco, and his
dimension is called " Limbo"). lllyana's The main team of X-Men battled a
magic has Unearthly power on this Doctor Doom robot and obtained influence over her grew stronger,
plane. On Earth, her magic is limited Arcade's release, while a team of
to detecting magical auras, entering reserve members of the X-Men freed although her true, good personality
the Astral plane (both with Monstrous lllyana and her fellow captives.
ability), and summoning her Unwilling to risk returning to the remained in control. Years after
Soulsword. Soviet Union to take lllyana back to
Talents: Magik is well-versed in her parents, Peter Rasputin decided becoming his apprentice, lllyana dis-
occult lore and speaks fluent Rus- to keep lllyana with him at the X-
sian and English. Men's Westchester headquarters. covered her own mutant power to
Contacts: Magik's closest friend is
Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). Kitty is the Some months later, the sorcerer create energy discs by which she
only normal human who can wield Belasco brought lllyana and the X-
the Soulsword or be hurt by it. Magik Men to his extradimensional realm, could teleport herself through space
is also a good friend of Dani Moon- which he called Limbo. There lllyana
star and on relatively good terms met Kitty Pryde, with Storm the only and time.
with the other New Mutants. survivor of a group of X-Men from a
divergent Earth who had come to Finally, in an attempt to save
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Belasco's Limbo earlier. Kitty had
grown to adulthood there and become lllyana, Storm fought Belasco, but
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES known as Cat, especially for the inhu-
W.agik is a fallen innocent, a young man catlike physical characteristics the sorcerer had Cat wound Storm.
girl who was corrupted by the forces Belasco had given her. As Earth's X-
of black magic. A person at war with Men escaped from Limbo, Belasco Horrified, lllyana tried to keep Cat
herself, lllyana often tries to deny her seized lllyana's arm. The Kitty Pryde
dark heritage, while at other times of our Earth seized lllyana's other arm, away from Storm, and Belasco, dis-
reveling in the demonic aspect of her but Belasco ripped the young girl from
nature. Her chief goal is to maintain Pryde's grasp. pleased, ordered Cat to attack
her power base in Limbo, but she is a
comrade of the New Mutants. She is Holding lllyana captive in Limbo, lllyana. lllyana found herself forced _
quite vengeful. Belasco turned a portion of her soul
demonic in nature. This part of her to kill Cat to save herself. ,_,,
HISTORY soul, which humans call " evil," lllyana
calls her "darksoul." Belasco also con- Finally, lllyana, who had mastereo
lllyana Rasputin is the younger sister jured a "bloodstone" from lllyana's
of Piotr (Peter) Rasputin, who left soul and placed it within the so-called the magic in Belasco's books, did bat-
their home at the Ust-Ordynski col- Beatrice Medallion. If and when Belas-
co conjures five bloodstones for the tle with Belasco himself, using her
medallion, lllyana, who would then be
the demonic Darkchilde, would serve newly formed Soulsword, the ulti-
as the means by which Belasco's mas-
ters, the Elder Gods, would invade mate expression of her mystical
and conquer Earth and its entire uni-
verse. power. As the two battled, lllyana

Belasco also gave lllyana's grew mentally and physically more
darksoul considerable sorcerous
power. Storm, herself a sorceress, demonic while Belasco reverted to
took lllyana under her wing and
taught her enough magic to combat human form , losing much of his
Belasco's evil influence. However,
Cat feared that the more lllyana power. lllyana nearly killed Belasc\...-..
learned of magic, the easier it would
be for Belasco to corrupt her. So Cat with the Soulsword but decided not ta
took lllyana from Storm and taught
her how to fight. When lllyana was give in to her demonic side, and she

let him live. She drove Belasco from

Limbo and regained her human form.

At long last lllyana returned to

Earth, arriving at a point only sec-

onds after the X-Men's escape from

Limbo. Belasco's principal demon

servant, S'ym, followed lllyana to

Earth, but the girl defeated him ir.-..

battle and demanded that he

renounce Belasco. S'ym did so, and

from that time forward lllyana was

undisputed master of Belasco's Lim-

bo. However, lllyana prefers to live

on Earth where she has become a

member of the New Mutants. lllyana

has taken the code name Magik and

is the best friend of X-Man Kitty

Pryde.

Recently, Magik's mystical mas-

tery of Limbo was challenged by

S'ym, who had been infected by

Magus's transmode virus. In addi·

tion, a number of mystical barriers

have broken down, and creatures of

magic are invading the physical

plane. This will undoubtedly affec! ..._

Magik. Her ultimate fate, for good or

evil, may be decided soon.

10

MAGNETO

_ STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A RM (30)
S GD (10)

E MN (75)

R IN (40)

I EX (20)
P AM (50)
Health: 125
Karma: 110
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: - 1O

BACKGROUND used to propel it (up to Unearthly), or large force fields. If he alone is inside
Real Name: Unknown (Magnus may the material strength, whichever is a force field, it is of Unearthly
be a first name or an alias) lower. Magneto's powers cannot strength (Thor's hammer and Hercu-
Occupation: Former would-be con- affect other force fields, though this les's fists have bounced off it}. If it
stunt might be developed. Magneto encompasses an entire area, it is
...--.queror, now teacher has a number of established power reduced to Monstrous, and is further
'dentity: Secret stunts. He can wrap metal around an reduced by one rank per additional
Legal Status: Citizen of an unknown opponent (maintaining its Material area it encompasses. This force field
country with a United States criminal Strength rank}, ensnaring him, or he stops physical, energy, and psionic
record can fly opponents up into the air, attacks, including possession.
Other Known Al iases: Michael dropping them away from the battle. Flight: Magneto flies at Remarkable
Xavier, the Creator, the White King He can create openings in metal air speed (15 areas/round}, and can
Place of Birth: Unknown, probably doors and seal them behind him, widen this flight field to include oth-
somewhere in Europe with no loss of material strength. ers (reducing speed by one area per
Marital Status: Widower Force Field: Magneto can create additional character). Magneto can

....--,.K. nown Relatives: Magda (wife, 11
1eceased), Pietro Maximoff (son),
Wanda (daughter), Luna (grand-
daughter), Crystal (daughter-in-law),
Vision (son-in-law), Thomas, William
(twin grandsons)
Base of Operations: Professor
Charles Xavier's School for Gifted
Youngsters, Salem Center, West-
chester County, New York; formerly

_ Asteroid M (in orbit around Earth};
' ;arious hidden bases on Earth
Past Group Affiliations: Former
leader of the Brotherhood of Evil
Mutants, current mentor of the New
Mutants, White King of the Hellfire
Club
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Magnetic Control: Magneto can
manipulate iron and iron-based
alloys with Unearthly power. He can
assemble complex machinery in one
round, explode most metal con-
structs, and manipulate ferrous
objects with nearly unlimited range.
When he attacks a target by throw-
~ ing or magnetically wielding a metal
~bject , his normal Agility is used to
strike. The damage caused is equal
to the rank of power which Magneto

cause characters wearing ferrous ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Magneto briefly conquered the tiny South
metal to fly against their will and con- Magneto's chief goal has always American nation of San Marco with the aid c"-..
trol their flight path. been to safeguard mutantkind. As his newly formed Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Energy Control: Magneto controls leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Coincidentally, two of the original members of
many energy forms: heat, light, ultra- Mutants, he believed that it was the the Brotherhood were his children, now known
violet, and gamma radiations, even destiny of mutants to dominate as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Years
gravitons. He can intensify and focus humanity, or even destroy it if that would pass before Magneto learned that they
these forces to cause Amazing dam- was the only way for mutantkind to were his children. The X-Men again foiled his
age to anyone within 20 areas, or survive. But Magneto, despite his plans for conquest.
Monstrous damage to anyone he coldness and ruthlessness, could
touches. not isolate himself from human feel- At one point Magneto came across what
Magnetic Detection: Magneto can ings that he had known earlier in his seemed to him to be a treasure trove of alien
detect movement within the mag- life. Seeing that the denial of his records and scientific equipment, which had
netic lines of force, and is able to humanity was not effective toward actually been left for him to find by the master
detect teleporting or invisible crea- his goal, he tried another method, geneticist Maelstrom. Using all of this, Magne-
tures within his area or any adjacent security through peaceful co- to created an artificial humanoid which he
area with a Yellow FEAT roll. existence with humanity, the method named Alpha the Ultimate Mutant. Alpha
Telepathic Projection: Magneto can of Charles Xavier. Still arrogant and rebelled against his creator and turned him
communicate with students and pro- authoritarian, Magneto may yet fail back into an infant. Xavier had the baby taken
ject his thoughts into their minds. He and return to his former ways. Only to his colleague Moira MacTaggert's installa·
does this with Good ability. He has time will tell. tion on Muir Island, Scotland. There the baby
used Astral Projection with Typical was found by the alien Shi'ar agent Shakari,
ability. HISTORY then masquerading under his alias as Eric the
Costume: Magneto's ferrous cos- Red, who not only transformed Magneto into
tume provides him with Excellent Magneto has concealed the facts about his an adult younger than he had been, but also.........
protection from physical attacks. early life and true identity. It is known, how- restored him to the peak of his powers.
Talents: Magneto has Amazing rea- ever, that he and his family were in Germany
son in matters of genetic manipula- during the Nazi regime and were sent to the In his final attempt at world conquest to
tion and engineering. He has Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and date, Magneto struck down the young adoles-
mutated humans in the past in order possibly others. Magneto was the only mem- cent X-Man Shadowcat. Magneto was
to provide them with super powers . ber of his family to survive them. This experi- shocked that he had personally harmed such
He has talents in the areas of Elec- ence harshly demonstrated to Magneto how a young girl, and immediately began reconsid-
tronics, Robotics, Engineering, and inhumane a majority could be towards a ering the moral path he had taken in trying to
Computers. He possesses the Lead- minority, a lesson he would remember when defend mutantkind.
ership talent. How many languages he discovered that he was a mutant.
Magneto can speak is unknown, but Subsequently, Magneto found himself allied
it is assumed that he knows at least Magneto spent the following years making with his former enemies, Xavier and the X-
one Germanic or Serbo-Slavic lan- his way south through the Iron Curtain coun- Men, during the first "secret war" on the plan-
guage fluently. tries. During this period he met and married et created by the Beyonder. Later, Magneto --..
Contacts: Magneto is a member of Magda, siring a daughter. Magneto discov- heeded Xavier's request to aid the X-Men anc.
the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, ered his powers, but concealed them from Xavier's younger team, the New Mutants, in
though it is unlikely that they will help Magda. The circumstances of the death of his hunting down the Beyonder when he first
him unless their own interests are daughter are unknown, but it is known that he came to Earth. All of these events helped alter
threatened. Except for a few of the used his powers before Magda to defend her Magneto's attitudes toward humanity.
current New Mutants or X-Men, and and to avenge their daughter. Terrified by Mag-
Charles Xavier, no one trusts Magne- neto's powers and by his declarations that he Finally, Magneto surrendered himself to the
to enough to be a Contact. would use it to rule the world, Magda left him law so that he could stand trial for his past
without telling him that she was pregnant crimes. A special tribunal of the International
ADDITIONAL NOTES: again . Court of Justice was set up to try him for
crimes against humanity. Magneto intended to
12 After abandoning his search for Magda, abide by the tribunal's verdict, and also used
Magneto arrived in the newly independent his trial as a forum for declaring his opposition. -
nation of Israel. While working at a psychiatric to the persecution of mutants. The trial wa!
hospital near Haifa, Magneto met Charles interrupted by the attack of Fenris, who were
Xavier, who became his friend . Together they actually Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the
prevented Baron Wolfgang Strucker and his children of Magneto's now-deceased enemy,
HYDRA agents from obtaining a large cache Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Fenris was
of Nazi gold. Magneto used his powers to take defeated, and in reaction, Xavier asked Mag-
the gold himself. neto to look after the X-Men and to take over
his School for Gifted Youngsters. Xavier told
By the time Xavier founded the X-Men, in Magneto that by doing so he would make
part to combat mutants who threatened amends for his past crimes. Magneto agreed,
humanity, Magneto had decided that the only and Xavier was teleported off Earth by his lov-
way to safeguard superhuman mutants from er, the Shi'ar Princess Lilandra and Corsair,
persecution was for mutants to conquer leader of the Starjammers. Xavier was healed
human civilization. Magneto, now using this on the Starjammer's ship in the Shi'ar Galaxy,
particular alias and garbed in his familiar cos- but he has not yet been able to return to Earth.
tume, first clashed with the X-Men at the
American missile base on Cape Citadel. Next Eventually, Magneto was exonerated of his
crimes by the World Court. However, he is still
regarded as a major criminal. Following an
attack by Nimrod, he and Storm forged an alli-
ance with 1he Hellfire Club to protect mutants,
and Magneto was named White King. Magne-
to has assumed the identity of Xavier's cousin, -
Michael Xavier, and is the current head o'
Xavier's School and mentor of the New
Mutants.

MAGUS

~TATISTICS

F MN (75)
A UN (100)
S UN (100}
E ShZ (500)
R MN (75)
I UN (100)
P UN (100)
Health : 775
Karma: 275
Resources: None

Popularity: o

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Magus
Occupation : Monarch
Identity : T he general public is
~unaware of the Magus's existence.
~egal Status: Former ruler of the
Technarchs, a race of organic
machines on an unidentified planet
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: An unidentified plan-
et
Marital Status: Unknown , perhaps
not applicable
Known Relatives: Warlock (son)
~ase of Operations: An unidentified
Jlanet
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation :

KNOWN POWERS Cloaking: Magus has a Class-1000 depends on the source (Health of liv-
cloak against all forms of electronic ing creatures, material strength of
Shape-changing: Magus is a tracking, psionics, or physical track- objects, or Judge's discretion). He
"techno-organic" metamorph, able ing powers or talents. It is unknown if performs this conversion as a FEAT
to alter his shape into any form he this affects magical tracking. roll vs. Unearthly intensity.
desires. His height has varied Form Change: Magus can assume Stellar Travel: Magus has Class-3000
the form of anything that is organic speed traveling through space.
etween 6 feet and 45 million nauti- or mechanical. He has Amazing skill Limited Telepathy: Magus has
dal miles (the latter only when he is at copying specific humans. Incredible Telepathy for the pur-
not near any gravitational fields). He Conversion and Draining: Magus can poses of learning a new language
can extend any portion of his body, heal himself by touching his victims, from a planet's native. It takes five
including optical sensors, up to 1O which alters their DNA structure with rounds to learn the language.
areas away from his main trunk. He the "techno-organic virus," convert- Talents: None known
can modify his Amazing material ing it into an organism like himself. Contacts: None known.
strength body to form plugs, sup- The amount of Health gained
ports, and vehicles (even space- 13
ships); he can change himself into
anything. He has Unearthly control
over t hese changes. Portions of
Magus's body may be destroyed or
shredded (Incredible material
strength if shredded), and he may
regrow that part in normal healing.
Holographic Projection: Magus can
project images of any object in his
~ nemory banks to a distance of up to

2o areas away. The only way to " dis-

believe" these images is to touch

them.

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New Mutants.
Shortly thereafter, the Magus

14

MALEKITH THE ACCURSED

()TATISTICS

F IN (40)
A MN (75)

S AM (50)
E AM (50)
R EX (20)

I GX (20)
P AM (50)
Health: 215

Karma: 90

Resources: AM (50)

Popularity: - 40

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Malekit h
Occupation: Ruler of the Dark Elves
of Svartalfheim
dentlty: T he general population of
!arth is unaware of his existence.
Legal Status: Citizen of Svar-
talfheim

Other Known Aliases: Angel, Mas-
ter of the Hounds, Master of the Wild
Hunt, the Dark Elf, Balder
Place of Birth: Svartalfheim
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
- ease of Operations: Svartalfheim,
ilso the Cotswolds of England

Past Group Affiliations: The Dark
Elves, former ally of Loki, former ser-
vant of Surtur
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS at will anywhere in the Asgard and pursue and capture his prey. The
Imitation: Malekith has Amazing abil- Midgard dimensions. There is a gate hounds in the Hunt are said to num-
ity to change form to resemble those between the two dimensions in the ber in the hundreds; it is the Judge's
- whom his enemies will trust. Cotswolds of England that Malekith decision. The hounds' stats are:
':light: Malekith flies at Amazing may need to use to travel between
speed (25 areas/turn) as a thin them; exact details are unknown. FAS ER I P
st reak with Malekith's face at its end . Death Touch: Malekith can drain life GD EX GD EX PR RM GD
Armor: As a Dark Elf, Malekith has force with a touch. Those touched
Good body armor. must make a Psyche FEAT roll or Health: 60
Dark Faerie Magick: An Adept of die; this touch does not affect Immor-
Dark Faerie magic, Malekith's full tals (otherwise, he would have used Bite: Excellent Edged attack
range of abilities is unrevealed . Dark it against Thor). Flight: 4 areas/turn
Faerie magic has two limitations: it The Wild Hunt: Malekith has a huge Tracking: Monstrous
requires the presence of shadows horn which can summon demon Huntsman: Malekith can convert
and does not affect iron. Some· of hounds known as the Wild Hunt to himself into the Huntsman, an eight-
Malekith's magical abilities include: foot-tall warrior with Amazing Body

Energy Beam: Monstrous Armor which adds + 1 CS to
Blinding Beam: Monstrous. Malekith
can permanently blind an opponent 15
with a special Energy attack (though
a magical cure may or may not exist).
~e must score a Bullseye or Kill
esult to succeed.
Dimensional Travel: Malekith can dis-
appear into the shadows and travel

Strength, Fighting, and Endurance HISTORY Asgardian goddess Lorelei, who ~a~­
Animate Object: Amazing. He ca~ been attempting to get the unsuspectin
also overlay an illusion onto the ani- Malekith the Accursed was the ruler of Thor to drink a potion that would forct>
mated object (Amazing ability) the Dark Elves, one of the Nine Worlds of him to fall in love with her. Malekith used
FoodofFaerie: This deadly food, cre- Asgardian cosmology. The Dark Elves his sorcery to trick Thor into drinking the
ated by Hela, causes the souls of are also known as the Faerie of Celtic potion. Then Malekith revealed to Thor
those who consume it to be drawn to mythology and of Arthurian legend. The that he held the true Lorelei prisoner and
Hel, while their bodie:s are pos- principal nexus between Earth and Sva.r- demanded the Casket in exchange for
sessed by Dark Elves. A Yellow talfheim lies beneath a palace (that 1s her release.
Psyche FEAT is required to keep now in ruins) in the Cots~olds of Brit~in.
one's soul. If the possessed body is Centuries ago, Malek1th proved him- Filled with passion for Lorelei, Thor
fed human food, then the possessed self to be an enemy of both the human went to the Dark Elves' palace in the
body disappears and the Dark Elf is beings of Earth and the gods of Asgard. Cotswolds, accompanied by Willis, who
instantly sent back to Svartalfheim. Malekith's greatest weapon was the Cas- brought along the Casket, although they
Talents: Malekith has the Leader- ket of Ancient Winters, which contained intended to rescue Lorelei without sur-
ship talent, and obviously has knowl- mystical forces that could reproduce the rendering it. The two allies then passed
edge of the occult. overwhelming frigidity of another of .the through the nexus into the Realm of
Contacts: Malekith is a former ser- Nine Worlds Niffleheim, the realm of ice. Faerie itself (presumably Svartalfhe1m).
vant of Surtur, and is almost certain To prevent Malekith from releasing the
to obey his directives. Since Male- casket's contents, a mortal human being Thor next fought Malekith himself, who
kith wants to destroy Asgard, who was later known as Eric Willis stole took the form of a gigantic, armored war-
Utgardloki, lord of the Frost Gian~s, and hid the Casket. Without the magic of rior, but the thunder god quickly defeated
would also be a likely ally. Malek1th the Casket, Malekith was unable to c~n­ him. Thor scattered the rest of the Dark
has betrayed Loki in the past; it is ceal himself from the wrathful Odin, Elves and rescued Lorelei, but Malekith,_,. .....
unlikely he would aid Malekith. monarch of Asgard. Odin banished recovering, seized Willis's gun and hurle~
Malekith into an other-dimensional it at the Casket. The impact shattered the
ADDITIONAL NOTES: "black limbo" where the Dark Elf Casket, releasing its magical force! which
remained until recent times. spread frigid temperatures and blizzards
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES over the Earth. Thor struck Malekith down
Malekith is known as the Accursed Malekith was released from his exile and then took him to Asgard, where Odin
by Asgardians Oust as Thor is prob~­ by the fire demon Surtu.r, master of Mus- sentenced the Dark Elf.to imprisonment in
bly known as the Accursed rn Malek1th then served. the Dungeon of No Escape.
Jotenheim), because of unrevealed pSeulrhtuerim~rdwehroemd Malekith to regain the
misdeeds in ages past. Malekith is There followed the war between the
one of Asgard's most bitter and evil Casket of Ancient Winters and to use its forces of Asgard and those of Mus-
enemies. He enjoys deception and power to create chaos on Earth that pelheim. In a confrontation with Odin,
corrupting the reputations of worthy would prepare the way for its invasion by Surtur drew the magical forces of th~­
Asgardians (such as Balder~. as well the legions of Muspelheim . . Casket away from Earth, thereby restor.
as playing with mortals. While Male~ Odin dispatched his ravens H~ginn ing its normal weather, .in o~dE'.r t<;> use its
kith is supposedly dead, as Loki and Muninn to investigate events in the forces to imprison Odin w1th1n ice. But
says: "the first thing a sorcerer. ~f distant "burning galaxy," whe~e Surtur while Odin had been battling Surtur in
quality does is make oneself as d1ff1- was active. Surtur slew Huginn, and Asgard Willis had been reassembling
cult to kill as possible." It is quite Malekith unsuccessfully pursued the the broken Casket. As soon as Willis fin-
likely Malekith found some way to injured Muninn. Surtur also had ~alekith ished his task and closed the Casket's
escape death. Malekith is a mortal go to Loki, the foster s<?n of Od1.n, and lid, the Casket's enchantments returned
enemy of Kurse. gain Loki's pledge to withhold his sup- and Odin disappeared.
port from Asgard's forces when S~rtur
16 attacked them. Loki, however, deceived Malekith later escaped from his prison
Malekith, knowing that Surtur intended and went to the palace of Loki , claiming,._
to want to be his ally. When Balder war
to destroy Asgard. about to be crowned as the missing
Odin's successor as ruler of Asgard,
Due to the magic of the Casket of Malekith tricked Lorelei into giving Loki a
Ancient Winters, Eric Willis had drugged drink. Malekith magically gav~
remained alive and young ever since he Loki Malekith's own appearance. Loki,
had stolen it. Willis, who lived in New as Malekith, was captured and Thor,
Yagoerk~tws aasndmwenaascfeindabllyy Mkilaleledkbithy'sMahlu.em~iatnh unaware of who the prisoner really was,
ahbimil istyelft~ who used his shape-shifting had him placed in the Dungeon of No
take the form of a beautiful Escape. The true Malekith had taken the
form of Balder to become the new ruler
woman named Angel. Willis's son, of Asgard himself.
Roger, found the Casket.
However, the otherdimensional entity
Now, however, Malekith launched the known as the Beyonder had transformed a
Wild Hunt to track Roger Willis and the Dark Elf named Algrim into the vastly pow-
Casket down. Willis was attacked on a erful being called Kurse. Kurse was
bridge by Malekith, in his guise as the obsessed with taking vengeance on Male-
Master. of the Hounds, and a horde of kith, who was responsible for his near
demonic dogs. Odin's son, the thunder death in a pool of molten lava. Kurse saw
god Thor, arrived, and together he and through Malekith's magical disguise as
Willis slew a number of the hounds and Balder, leapt upon Malekith and broke his..---.,
forced the Dark Elf to retreat. neck killing him. An observer, Agna1
touched the supposed Balder's corpse
Subsequently, Malekith captured the with his sword and the corpse of Malekith
reverted to its true appearance.

MALUS1 DR. KARL

~ STATISTICS ---

-F PR (4)
A GD (10)

s TY (6)

p PR (4)
R RM (30)
I EX (20)
p EX (20)
Health: 24
Karma: 70
Resources: PR (4)

(RM (30) when employed)
Popularity: - 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Karl Malus
Occupation: Former surgeon, now

.-.....criminal research scientist
ldentity: Malus does not use a dual
Identity

Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with a criminal record.
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Mud Butte, South
Dakota

Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
~ase of Operations: Los Angeles

uea

Past Group Affiliation: Former
employee of Power Broker, Inc.
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES near superheroes, but whose activi-
None. Malus is a typical mad scientist who ties inevitably involve them. It is not
Talents: Dr. Malus's degree is in biol- cares noth ing for the people on likely that he will give up his experi-
ogy, and he has Incredible reason in whom he experiments, only for him- ments, and any changes in them will
---.that field. His knowledge of chemis- self. Malus's chief goal is to get rich be to improve the effectiveness of
~ry and radiology gives him Amazing using his process of augmenting the superbeings, not decrease the
reason in the study of superhuman human abilities, a process which has hazards to the participants.
physical structure and genetic led to tragedy for many of the test
manipulation techniques. subjects. Malus is a cowardly man
Contacts: Malus has contacts with who does not want to get anywhere
the Corporation , and with Power
Brokers, Inc. (now defunct), and pos-
sibly other high-tech criminal organi-
zations (such as AIM , HYDRA).

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

17

HISTORY caused McDowell's body temporari- material from an armadillo into,......._
ly to develop certain of the Fly's Rodriguez's body, transforming hin
Dr. Karl Malus was fascinated by the superhuman powers. into a human armadillo. Malus then
subject of superhuman powers since dispatched Armadillo to free Goliath
the first time he read a newspaper McDowell donned a costume from the custody of the West Coast
account of the Fantastic Four. Upon Malus anonymously sent him and for Avengers, hoping to assemble a
graduating with a degree in biology several days wore it, calling himself team of henchmen. Captain America
from the University of California at the Hornet. Malus wanted McDowell defeated the Armadillo, however,
Los Angeles, he applied to various to capture the Spider-Woman for and alerted the authorities to Malus's
institutions for a grant to study study, but the ploy failed, and McDo- parole-violating activities.
supernormal capacities in depth. well eventually returned to normal.
Unable to get any funding through About the same time, Jack Russell, While serving another short term
legal means, Malus contacted cer- unaware of Malus's criminal connec- in prison, Malus was contacted by
tain wealthy investors active in the tions, contacted Malus in hope of Power Broker, Inc., a mysterious
Los Angeles underworld. They set finding a chemical means to curb his underworld corporation whose major
him up with a laboratory facility he rampages as a werewolf on the three business is the supplying of super-
immodestly called the Institute for nights of the full moon. Malus human manpower to various clients.
Supranormality Research, despite instead placed a control-collar Malus agreed to join the company in
the fact that he comprised its entire device on him which enabled him to return for getting out of jail. Power
staff. The underworld provided him force the Werewolf to battle Spider- Broker, Inc., now supplies Malus and
Woman. When Spider-Woman freed his fellow criminal scientists with af~
with human test subjects to experi- the Werewolf, he attacked Malus, of the test subjects they can man-
ment upon, usually individuals the wounding him. age. One of Power Broker, lnc.'s
mob sought to liquidate. Malus major sources of clients is wrestlers
hoped eventually to find an individ- Upon his recovery, Malus served who wish to have their strength aug-
ual who already had superhuman only a short sentence before being mented so they can qualify for the
powers he could study. In the course paroled. He returned to his labora- new Unlimited Class Wrestling Fed-
of research, Malus came up with a tory to continue his experiments. eration.
number of special toxins and other The dancer calling himself Daddy
chemical-based weaponry which he Longlegs, who had ingested some of Malus utilizes the process by
sold to such Los Angeles criminals the growth formula invented by Hen- which he restored Erik Josten's
as the Enforcer. ry Pym, sought Malus's help to cure strength to augment the power of th(
him of his freakish condition. In treat- wrestlers. To ensure that the wres-
Malus's first recorded encounter ing him, Malus acquired a sample of tlers keep paying twenty percent of
with a superhuman being occurred Pym's serum taken from Daddy their earnings to Power Broker, Inc.,
when the criminal Fly sought out Longlegs' blood. When Erik Josten, Malus has been administering a
Malus to bolster his waning powers. the original Power Man, came to highly addictive synthetic drug to the
Malus sent the Fly to steal some spe- Malus for a means to renew the wrestlers, who are told they will die
cial equipment, but the theft led the superhuman strength that the origi- without the drug to stabilize their
Fly into battle with the original nal Baron Zema had given him, power, but in reality they will only
Spider-Woman. Malus determined to Malus decided to give Josten the experience intense withdrawal..-..,,
transfer the Spider-Woman's powers Pym growth compound in addition to symptoms. Only five out of ten per'
into the Fly. He lured her to his labo- his strength-augmenting treatment. sons who undergo the treatment
ratory by stealing the comatose body Hoping to finally have a superhuman emerge with superhuman strength;
of the Spider-Woman's then-partner,
criminologist Scott McDowell, who accomplice, Malus gave Josten a the rest become brain-damaged or
had been stricken by one of the new costume and suggested he call physically disfigured. Among those
Enforcer's toxic bullets. After the himself Goliath. Goliath was too treated who escaped addiction is
Spider-Woman defeated t he Fly, powerful for Malus to control, how- Sharon Ventura, who became the
Malus offered to resuscitate McDo- ever, and he abandoned him. new Ms. Marvel.
well in exchange for lenient treat-
ment. While reviving him, Malus Matus later acquired yet another Malus's experiments were discov-
injected McDowell with an extract of test subject when an ex-convict ered by Captain America, who
the Fly's blood , which days later named Antonio Rodriguez request- exposed them to legal authorities,
ed Malus's help to cure his wife of an with the help of Demolition Man and
undiagnosed ailment. Malus agreed Night Shift. Malus was arrested and
if Rodriguez would submit to treat- is currently in prison.
ment. Malus transferred genetic

18

MAN-APE

STATISTICS

'F IN (40)

A EX (20)
S IN (40)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I RM (30)

P GD (10)
Health: 130
Karma: 46
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: - 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: M'Baku
Occupation: Mercenary, renegade
Identity: Known to Wakandan and
~ American authorities
\.egal Status: Exiled citizen of
Wakanda

Other Known Aliases: White Gorilla
Place of Birth : Wakanda, Africa
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: One-time
member of the Lethal Legion, former
~ally of the Grim Reaper
?resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS

Tracking: The Man-Ape can t rack

prey with Remarkable ability.

Talents: In combat, t he Man-Ape

uses Martial Arts A and C, and Acro-

batics. He also possesses the

Thrown Weapons and Sharp Weap-..

----.._,ons skills.

t ontacts: The Man-Ape was an ally

of the Grim Reaper but has disasso-

ciated himself from that criminal

because of his racist attitudes. He

might be an ally of the Black Talon .

The leader of the White Gorilla cult,

he may draw on assistance from unknown). Man-Ape's goal in life is
two-fold: the destruction of the Black
cu ltists (and probably a: mystical ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Panther and regaining rule of
Man-Ape, dedicated to the cause of Wakanda. Man-Ape's appearance is
master). the White Gorilla cult, acts as their often underestimated by Western
heroes, at least until they face him in
ADDITIONAL NOTES: agent against their chief rival, the combat and learn how deadly he can
Black Panther cult. A proud warrior really be.

in the traditional sense of tribal Afri-

ca, Man-Ape dislikes technology

(whether this dislike has changed

since his exile has made him more

familiar with Western ways is

19

HISTORY to Wakanda with some of the Aveng- napped Monica Lynne, the Black--
ers, M'Baku, calling himself the Panther's American girlfriend, ant
M'Baku was one of Wakanda's Man-Ape, openly challenged the lured the Panther into captivity.
greatest warriors, second only to Panther's right to rule. M'Baku When the rest of the Avengers came
T'Challa, the Black Panther himself. deplored T'Challa's technological to the Panther's rescue, it was, in the
While the Panther, king of the revitalization of Wakanda and end, Captain America who physi-
Wakandas, was on leave from his sought to have all technology out- cally bested the Man-Ape.
royal duties to serve the Avengers in lawed so the nation could return to
America, the ambitious M'Baku plot- its natural primitivism. After a pro- The Panther decreed that the
ted to usurp the throne. The Wakan- tracted battle, the Man-Ape bested Man-Ape could never return to
dan culture had evolved from a the Panther. However, when he Wakanda without facing the death
hunter-warrior society and was tradi- bound T'Challa to the giant statue of penalty. Humiliated, the Man-Ape
tionally ruled by its greatest warrior. a panther and tried to topple it upon chose to wander the less civilized
The Black Panther had outlawed the his enemy, the statue instead crum- parts of the world, performing mer-
rival White Gorilla cult from Wakan- bled, burying him. cenary work to survive and keeping a
da while the Panther cult was domi- low profile. He was eventually con-
nant. M'Baku flouted T'Challa's The Black Panther, believing the tacted again by the Grim Reaper,
edicts and revived the White Gorilla Man-Ape had been crushed , who was trying to assemble a new
cult, personally stalking and killing returned to New York with the Aveng- Lethal Legion to exact revenge upon
one of the rare white gorillas living in ers. But M'Baku's chief supporter the Avengers. The Man-Ape served
the jungles near Wakanda. Bathing N'gamo revived the rebel. M'Baku as one of the Grim Reaper's hencht
in the gorilla's blood and eating the followed the Panther to New York. men until the Reaper's racist atti-
gorilla's flesh mystically conferred its There the Man-Ape allied himself tudes prompted the Man-Ape (and
great strength upon M'Baku. with the Grim Reaper and his Lethal the Black Talon) to abandon the
Legion, a short-lived team of Aveng- Reaper's cause. The Man-Ape is at
When the Black Panther returned ers' foes including the Living Laser, large, his current whereabouts and
the original Power Man, and .the activities unknown.
Swordsman. The Man-Ape kid-

,-...

\

20

MANDRILL

~ STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A PR (40)
S RM (30)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
P EX (20)
Health: 120
Karma: 46
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jerome Beachman
Occupation: Professional criminal
Identity: Publicly known
--.,,Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Los Alamos, New
Mexico
Marital Status: Illegally polygamous
Known Relatives: Frederic (father),
Emily (mother)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
- leader of the Black Spectre, Mutant
r:orce,and Fem-Force
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Spectre, an organization of black ADDITJONAL NOTES:
women dedicated to the overthrow of
Speed Bursts: Mandrill can run on all the American government, and Fem-
fours for short periods of time with Force, a women's army composed of
Excellent land speed. This burst radicals and dissidents dedicated to
lasts a maximum of 3 rounds, and a world conquest. He also led Mutant
10-round rest period is required Force, a group of mutants who had
been abandoned by Magneto.
---- between bursts.
Pheromones: Mandrill can control all
women in an adjacent area (2-area
radius) or target one woman in line-
of-sight with a 5-area range. A
Psyche FEAT vs. Monstrous ability is
required to resist the hormonal reac-
tion. If she fails, she becomes
extremely attracted to Mandrill, sub-
missive, and open to his manipula-
tion . If she has the hormonal reaction
reinforced over a few months, she
becomes addicted to his phero-
mones and will be in his power
almost permanently (a Good intensi-
ty electric shock to the brain can
break the effect).
Talents: Mandrill has a Remarkable
ability to forage and survive in the

NiIds.

Contacts: Mandrill is a long-time
partner of Nekra. He formed Black

21

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES white skin and fangs. The boy grew utopian society, free from the Amari-.,,..._
Mandrill seems to be a minor-league up hated by his peers and parents for can values which caused the two ol
version of the original Magneto, a his freakish appearance. When them to be treated as outcasts. Their
would-be mutant conqueror. Mandrill Beechman was ten, his father drove plan failed, however, when they were
appeals to those who are politically him out to the middle of the Ameri- thwarted by the jungle adventurer
radical , not because of any particu- can desert and abandoned him. The Shanna the She-Devil. Mandrill and
lar political philosophy, but because boy swore to find his way back and Nekra regrouped and formed Black
they are more easily manipulated exact revenge on his parents. Spectre, an organization of black
into opposing the government. Man- women dedicated to the overthrow of
drill, a male chauvinist, is absolutely While in the desert, he encoun- the American government. This con-
ruthless and unscrupulous. He had a tered the mutant girl, Nekra Sinclair, spiracy, which culminated on the
grudge against the Defenders, and who had been similarly mistreated White House lawn, was thwarted by
may try to avenge his defeats and was running away from home. Daredevil with the help of Shanna
against its surviving members. The two became partners and wan- and the Black Widow.
dered the Southwest, protecting one
HISTORY another and shunning all other Nekra was taken into custody by
human companionship, surviving by SHIELD, while Mandrill escaped.
Jerome Beechman was the mutant stealth and cunning . For six years, Forsaking his long-time ally, Man-
son of Frederic Beachman, an atom- the two educated themselves by lis- drill, still dedicated to world con-
ic research scientist at Los Alamos tening outside of school-room win- quest, organized the Fem-Force, -...,
Atomic Proving Grounds, New Mexi- dows and reading stolen books. One another women 's army composed ot,
co, and his wife Emily. Prior to his night, angry New Mexican towns- American radicals and dissidents.
conception, Beechman 's father, a people discovered them , having Aiding them was the third team of
Caucasian scientist, as well as Gem- heard rumors about " monsters" evil mutants Magneto had organized
ma Sinclair, a black cleaning woman, invading their hometown, and and abandoned, a group he called
were exposed to a massive dose of attacked them with pitchforks and the Mutant Force. When his mutant
radiation when faulty electrical wir- guns. That night, Beechman and allies were taken captive by the
ing caused an explosion that Sinclair discovered that sheer hate Defenders, Mandrill sent the Fem-
breached the facility's small experi- released latent mutant powers within Force to the Indian Point Nuclear
mental nuclear pile. A year later, the them, powers they used to slay their Power Generating Facility, where his.--
scientist's son was born with black tormentors. father and mother were now.
skin and tufts of body hair. Equally employed, to seek revenge upon
distressing to Gemma Sinclair and As his mutant powers surfaced, them. Once again opposed by the
her husband was the birth of their Beechman's appearance became Defenders, Mandrill was stopped
daughter, who was born with chalk- more apelike, prompting him to take when his own mother shot him. Man-
the alias "Mandrill." With Nekra's drill escaped capture, however, and
aid, he developed plans for the over- was rescued by members of his
throw of three small West African army.
nations with the intent of creating a

22

- STATISTICS MANSLAUGHTER

I ROLE -PLAYING NOTES
Manslaughter is a psychopath who
F EX (20) enjoys demonstrating his superior
A EX (20) tactics and intelligence by trapping
S GD(10) and killing people. There is almost
E EX (20) nothing good about him. Manslaugh-
R GD (10) ter does respect opponents of quali-
I GD (10) ty (such as the Defenders) and is
P RM (30) willing to help them in times of
extreme need (especially if he is
Health: 70 under duress). Possibly, if Man-
Karma: 50 slaughter still lives, the Defenders
Resources: GD(10) have reformed him, though this
Popularity: O seems unlikely.

BACKGROUND 23
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Assassin
.........._,Identity: Presumably known to the
,) olice
Legal Status: Most likely a citizen of
the United States; has criminal and
psychiatric records
Other Known Aliases: None known
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Unknown,
,.--..apparently mobile
,>ast Group Affiliation: Defenders

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Anti-Telepathy: Manslaughter has
the telepathic ability to reduce an
opponent's ability to spot him. His
talent is Remarkable; on a Green
FEAT, he reduces his opponent's
-....Intuition FEATS by -2 CS, with a yel-
ow FEAT by -4 CS, and with a red
FEAT by -6 CS.
Weapons: Manslaughter uses a
number of conventional weapons,
from throwing stars (Excellent edged
throwing, 3 area range) to swords
(Excellent edged attack). He is also
expert at setting traps.

Talents: Manslaughter has Gons,
Thrown and Sharp Weapons skills,

and Martial Arts A and C.
Contacts: None.

HISTORY ers known as the Defenders hired once established with him. But then, -..
Manslaughter to kill them . But the her power increased by the alien
Very little has been revealed about Defenders defeated the formidable Beyonder, Moondragon returned to
the past of the assassin calling him- Manslaughter and sent him to the attack. In order to defeat the cos-
self Manslaughter. He has claimed he prison. mic entity called the Dragon, Inter-
grew up in poverty on the streets, but loper and another Defender, the
he may have been lying. It is known, Months later, Manslaughter Valkyrie, projected their immortal life
however, that he once used his then- returned and told the Defenders that forces against it. But in order to
latent mental powers to track down he so admired the style with which defeat Moondragon as well, their
the mysterious being known as Inter- they defeated him that he wanted to power had to pass through " mortal
loper in the Siberian wilderness. join their team . When they refused, instruments." So Interloper asked
Impressed by this feat, Interloper Manslaughter trapped most of them. Manslaughter to join him. Believing
taught Manslaughter how to bring out All of them escaped his traps but the that thus aiding Interloper would
his psychic abilities. But realizing that Angel, whom Manslaughter hid in mean his own death, Manslaughter
Manslaughter had an unstable the Defenders' mansion , which he nevertheless acceded to his former
psyche, Interloper did not teach him set ablaze. Manslaughter said he teacher's request. They and two oth-
too much, for fear of making his pupil would save the Angel only if he him- er Defenders joined hands to hurl the
too potentially dangerous. self was made a Defender. Just then tremendous power of their combined
Manslaughter was caught by Inter- life forces at the Dragon , Moondra-
Unfortunately, as Interloper later loper, who was on the trail of the dan- gon, and the Gargoyle, whose body
regretted , what Manslaughter did gerous Moondragon, and who used was now under the Dragon's control.
learn made him quite dangerous Three other Defenders went to res-
enough. Aided by his psychic abili- his powers to extinguish the fire. cue endangered innocents, and
ties, Manslaughter began a career However, Interloper told the when they returned, all participants
as a hired assassin, motivated more had seemingly been transformed
by what he saw as the sport and Defenders that they must admit into statues of ashes and dust, and
thrills of trapping and killing victims Manslaughter as a member since the Dragon of the Moon was appar-
than by his fees. Eventually, a crime they would need him to battle Moon- ently gone. But whether this is what
boss whose recent cocaine smug- dragon and the alien entity called the
gling operation had been wrecked by Dragon of the Moon that had taken truly happened to them, and whether -
the team of superhuman adventur- possession of her. Manslaughter they are still somehow alive, or capaJ
proved instrumental in Moondra-
gon's defeat by projecting insanity ble of returning to life, are questions
still to be answered.
and demonic feelings of fear into her
mind through a psychic link she had

.r'

24

- STATISTICS

I

F RM (30)
A PR ( 4)

S RM (30)
E MN (75)
R FE (2)

I EX (20)

P AM (50)

Health: 139
Karma: 72
Resources: FE (2)

Popularity: -1 o

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Theodore "Ted" Sal-
lis
-.Occupation: Former scientist, cur-
·sntly guardian of the nexus of reali-
ties
Identity: The Man-Thing's existence
was publicly known but widely disbe-

lieved. Very few people know that
Man-Thing was actually Ted Sallis.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States (presumed dead)
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska
~arital Status: Married
Cnown Relatives: Ellen (wife)

Base of Operations: The swamp
that surrounds the nexus of realities,
near Citrusville, Florida
Past Group Affiliations: Occasional
ally of the sorcerer Dakihm, Jennifer
Kale, and Howard the Duck

Present Group Affiliation:

..-..J<.NOWN POWERS from his swamp, to a minimum of Strength drops to Feeble, he
:motion Detection: Man-Thing has Remarkable. becomes comatose until returned to
the Monstrous ability to detect the Oozing: Man-Thing can breach any his normal environment.
emotions of the various creatures barrier with an opening by oozing Talents: Sallis has Excellent reason
that surround him. Positive emotions through it. The smaller the opening, and was an expert biochemist. Man-
such as love, joy, and courage fill him Thing has no Talents.
with joy. Negative emotions, such as the longer it takes Man-Thing to Contacts: Man-Thing has been
hate, cause an unpleasant reaction. break through. Referees should use associated with a number of heroes,
His most hated emotion is fear, their best judgment to determine including the Thing, Spider-Man,
which causes him to attack anyone how long it takes to get through an Howard the Duck, the sorcerer
who is afraid. opening. Dakihm, Jennifer Kale, and Korrek
Burning Touch: When Man-Thing Vulnerability: Man-Thing is depen- the Barbarian, as well as the respect-
dent on the swamp for his livelihood. ed comic book author Steve Gerber.
detects fear, his body excretes a sul- He loses -1 CS from his Strength,
furic acid, which inflict Incredible Fighting, and Endurance for every 25
burns on anyone he touches ("For week spent away from it. If his
whosoever knows fear burns at the
Man-Thing's touch").
Vegetable Form: Man-Thing's body
-.,tlas Monstrous protection against
)hysical attacks. This protection
drops by -1 CS column shift for eve-
ry week Man-Thing spends away

ADDITIONAL NOTES: HISTORY Perhaps already suspecting,.--..,.
betrayal, Sallis had earlier destroyec.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Ted Sallis first came to prominence his notes. To guarantee that the
Man-Thing is a simple-minded crea- in government circles as the chief secret would not fall into AIM's
ture, motivated by emotion instead chemist working on Project Sulfur, a hands, Sallis injected himself with
of logical thought. He is the guardian U.S. Army research program aimed the only existing sample of his modi-
of the nexus of realities, but certainly at developing a means to survive bio- fied Super-Soldier serum, and fled
has no knowledge of his role. Man- chemical warfare. Sallis developed into the nearby swamp. Sallis should
Thing's greatest enemies are the Serum S0-2, which would have suc- have died, but over the course of
demon lord Thog and D'Spayre ceeded in immunizing human several hours, mystical forces com-
(whose fear powers can cause Man- beings against all toxic biochemic- bined with chemical science to trans-
Thing to become afraid and, thus, als, but the mutagenic effects of the form him into the monstrous,
burn himself). serum would have transformed peo- misshapen creature who would be
ple into monsters. The serum was dubbed "the Man-Thing." The sub-
never put into production. stance of Sallis's body was eaten
away and replaced by vegetable
After Project Sulfur was shut down, matter. Though he mimics the form
Sallis was reassigned to Project Gladi- of humanity to a large extent, he can
ator, a research program under the no longer be considered human. ~
auspices of SHIELD, which was Though he retains Ted Sallis's inteh
aimed at recreating the lost "super- lect, he cannot be said to be intelli-
soldier" serum that had spawned gent in any meaningful sense.
Captain America during World War II.
Working separately from his col- Since the time of his creation, the
leagues, who included Ors. Wilma Man-Thing has served as the guardian
Calvin and Barbara Morse (later to be of the "nexus of realities," an interdi-
known as Mockingbird), Sallis evident- mensional focal point which has mani-
ly attempted to use a modified version fested itself in the middle of the
of his S0-2 formula as the basis for a Man-Thing's swamp. Though the Man-
new Super- Soldier serum. He was Thing's adventures have occasionally ..-....
close to success when he was drawn him away from the swamp, he.
betrayed into the hands of the subver-
sive Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) has always returned, and it is said that
by his wife, Ellen. he is destined to remain the guardian of
the nexus on this plane of existence for
as long as the nexus continues to mani-
fest itself in this reality.

..--..
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MANTIS

..-...'.iTATISTICS

F IN (40)
A IN (40)
S GD (10)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I IN (40)

P MN (75)

Health: 140
Karma: 125
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 20

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Barmaid, later adven-
.-turer, later Celestial Madonna
dentity: Secret
Legal Status: Expatriate Vietnam-
ese citizen, granted a special visa to
the United States at the request of
the Avengers
Aliases: The Celestial Madonna
Place of Birth: Unknown village in
Vietnam
Marital Status: Married
~'-<nown Relatives: Gustav Brandt
.alias Lloyd Willowby, father), Lua
Brandt (mother, deceased), Khrull
(uncle), "Celestial Messiah" (son,
unknown)
Base of Operations: Temple of
Priests of Pama, Vietnam; later, Ho
Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon); later
Avengers Mansion, New York City;
later space, currently unknown
~ast Group Affiliations: Former
,1ember of the Avengers, former ally
of the Silver Surfer
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS require food, water, and sleep in Empathy: Trained by the priests of
Plant Abilities: Mantis has inherited time. Pama, Mantis has this power at
some of the abilities of the Cotati. Healing: By using herbs and the like, Amazing rank.
She has the Monstrous ability to Mantis can employ Monstrous power Recovery: Mantis has complete con-
communicate mentally with plant rank healing. trol over her body, allowing her to
life. She can use the knowledge Avenger - Mantis: Before she joined heal at Amazing speeds.
gained in this manner to discover the the Cotati, Mantis had the following Resistances: Mantis has Incredible
location of water or warn her in case statistics and powers: resistance to toxins and diseases.
intruders approach, among other Talents: Mantis has Martial Arts
things. She can teleport from plant to FASER I P (types A , B, D, and E) and has the
plant with Unearthly ability, teleport- IN IN TY RM TY EX AM Resist Domination talent.
ing even between worlds many par- Contacts: Mantis was trained by the
secs distant. Health: 116 Priests of Pama (now destroyed).
-~ .ife Support: Mantis has Shift Y Life Karma: 76 Her father is Gustav Brandt (also
Jupport; she can survive in space or known as the criminal Libra). She
on hostile worlds for prolonged peri-
ods of time (limits unknown), but will 27

was a member of the Avengers, a blinded, Gustav Brandt escaped with the Avengers was the Celestial,-
mate of the Cotati, and an ally of the with his infant daughter, who was
Silver Surfer. unharmed. Days later they reached Madonna. Kang knew of the proph.
the temple of the Priests of Pama, a
ADDIT IONAL NOTES: pacifistic sect of the humanoid alien ecy that the Celestial Madonna's
Kree, who established temples on
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES various worlds to escape Kree perse- husband would be the "most power-
As an Avenger, Mantis was haughty cution.
and cruel, trying to take away the ful " being on Earth. Although Kang
Vision from the Scarlet Witch, scorn- The Priests educated Brandt's
ing the Swordsman (who loved her), daughter, who they knew might was thwarted in his plan, he discov-
and generally causing trouble. When someday become the Celestial
the Swordsman died for her, how- Madonna, the woman who would ered and revealed to Mantis and the
ever, she learned humility, the final mother the Celestial Messiah, a
lesson needed to turn her into the genetically perfect being of great Avengers that Mantis was the Celes-
Celestial Madonna. power who would bring peace to the
universe. Mantis was also taught to tial Madonna. In the course of these
Mantis in her cosmic form is more communicate telepathically with the
mature, capable of love and sacri- Cotati, an alien race of telepathic events, the Swordsman was killed by
fice. Mantis was totally devoted to plant-beings the Kree had brought to
the protection of the universe from Earth. One of these beings was to a stray blast from one of Kang's
the Elders. If she still lives, she will father the Celestial Messiah.
likely remain dormant until another weapons. As the Swordsman died,
major threat occurs. Mantis has the When Mantis had completed her
habit of referring to herself as "this training, the Priests decided that she Mantis realized that she had indeed
one." needed to experience life among the
humans. Therefore, on the night of loved him.
HISTORY Mantis's eighteenth birthday, two of
the Priests took her, dressed in ordi- Later, in the Priests' temple gar-
Mantis was the daughter of Gustav nary Vietnamese clothing, to Ho Chi
Brandt, a German who fought in Minh City (formerly Saigon) and left den in Vietnam, Mantis and her
Indochina as a mercenary soldier, her there. The Priests of Pama had
and his wife Lua, the sister of Mon- removed Mantis's memories of her Avenger comrades encountered
sieur Khrull, the leader of a local life at their temple, and instead gave
underworld organization. Despising her false memories of growing up in Libra and the glowing, reanimated
Europeans, Khrull was infuriated by Saigon as an orphan, struggling to
his sister's marriage and was deter- survive. body of the Swordsman, reanimated,.-
mined to kill both her and her hus-
band. As a result, the Brandts fled Within hours, Mantis was taken to by Earth's oldest Cotati, which no11
from one Indochinese village to
another tor nearly ten months. When Monsieur Khrull; neither knew of resembled a large tree in the garden.
Mantis was born, Khrull and his men their relationship. At a bar Khrull
found the couple and used flame- owned she eventually met the The Cotati told Mantis that she was
throwers to set their home ablaze . Swordsman, a costumed criminal on
Lua was killed. Badly burned and the run. Mantis saw a buried nobility the Celestial Madonna and that he
in the alcoholic man and tried to get
28 him to rehabilitate himself. Taking was to be her husband. He had rean-

her advice, he returned to America, imated the Swordsman's body with
Mantis accompanying him. When
the Swordsman was readmitted to part of his life force since he could
the Avengers, she was allowed to
stay at Avengers' Mansion as a cour- not mate with her in his tree-like
tesy to him.
form. Their child would be "a new life
After the Avengers defeated Zodi-
ac with her help, Libra revealed to form," the Celestial Messiah. _....
Mantis that he was her father and
told her how she had been raised in a In honor of Mantis, the Avenger{
temple, although he did not explain
to her who the Priests of Pama really unanimously declared her one of
were. One day soon after, the Aveng-
ers were attacked by their archen- them. lmmortus, master of time, offi-
emy from the future, Kang the
Conqueror, who had determined that ciated at the wedding of Mantis and
one of the women then associated
the Cotati. Once the ceremony was

finished, the Cotati (within the

Swordsman's body) and Mantis both

transformed themselves into pure

energy and departed Earth.

Mantis gave birth to the Celestial,..-...

Messiah and then left her husban(

and her son to aid the Silver Surfer in

stopping a plot by the Elders of the

Universe to kill Galactus, falling in

love with the Surfer. Mantis and the

Surfer's ex-love, Shalla-bal, were

captured by the Gardener, and Man-

tis apparently gave up her life to save

Shalla-bal when the trap in which

they were encased exploded. How-

ever, given Mantis's powers, she

may have found some way to sur-

vive.

MARAUDERS

GROUP BACKGROUND ADDITIONAL NOTES: ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Mr. Sinister is an extremely ruthless and confi- Like the rest of the Marauders, Sontag is a
i'he Marauders are a team of superhuman dent villain who rules the Marauders with an cold, cruel, killing machine. She sees no dif-
mutants employed as assassins by the enig- absolute stranglehold (though Sabretooth has ference between the massacre of the
matic figure known as Mr. Sinister. The been known to get out of hand). He works best Morlocks and the obliteration of an insurgent-
Marauders' first known activity was the perpe- as a behind-the-scenes mastermind, though harboring village. She enjoys a challenge in
tration of the so-called " Mutant Massacre," in the Judge is welcome to fill out his character combat, and prefers to pit her skills against
which they slaughtered the majority of the sheet if he doesn't mind being contradicted by individuals with an impressive reputation.
niutant Morlock population living under- future revelations.
ground in the New York City area. The
Marauders were opposed during the Massa- HISTORY
cre by Thor, and members of the X-Men, X-
Factor, New Mutants, and Power Pack. In the Little is known at the present time about Mr. HISTORY
course of the massacre, three of the Sinister. Sinister is the organizer of the
Marauders-Blockbuster, Prism, and Marauders, though he prefers to remain Phillipa Sontag served with the American
Riptide-were apparently killed, though they behind the scenes. ground forces in Vietnam, and she is still
appear, somehow, to have avoided the actual haunted by memories of that place. She has
finality of death. Sabretooth, who has an iden- redirected her rage into body building, which
tity far beyond membership In the Marauders, she uses to augment her mutant abilities. She
joined them after a full career. The Marauders has participated in all of the major Morlock
have tried several times to kidnap Madelyne operations.
Pryor, without success. Their goal seems to be
..--.....world domination, and they intend to ki ll all of

•o'he other superbeings on Earth, if necessary,
obtain it.

MR. SINISTER ARCLIGHT

STATISTICS RM (30) STATISTICS RM (30) BLOCKBUSTER
RM (30) EX (20)
F IN (40) F STATISTICS IN (40)
A AM (50) A AM (30) GD (10)
RM (30) F AM (50)
s RM (30) s IN (40) A MN (75)
AM (50) GD (10)
E E TY (6) s TY (6)
EX (20) GD (10)
R R EX (20) E
I I
~ p R
I
Health: 150 Health: 120 p
Karma: 110
Karma: 46
Resources: IN(40) Resources: GD (1 O)
Popularity: 0/-20 (to mutants) Popularity: - 10

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND Health: 175
Real Name: Unknown Real Name: Phillipa Sontag Karma: 26
Occupation: Assassin Resources: GD(10)
Occupation: Mastermind, exterminator of Identity: Secret Popularity: -10
mutants Other Known Aliases: None
Identity: Mr. Sinister's existence is known Place of Birth: Unknown BACKGROUND
-..':nly to a small number of mutants Marital Status: Single Real Name: Michael Baer
~egal Status: Unknown Known Relatives: None Occupation: Assassin
Other Known Aliases: None Base of Operations: Mobile Legal Status: Deceased
Place of Birth: Unknown Past Group Affiliation: Marauders Identity: Secret
Marital Status: Unknown Other Known Aliases: None
Known Relatives: None Present Group Affiliation: Place of Birth: Unknown
Base of Operations: Unknown Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliation: Marauders
Mr. Sinister's powers are unknown. He has Shockwave Attack: Arclight can direct a wave Present Group Affiliation:
only demonstrated his capabilities once, when of kinetic energy at will by striking a victim with
he easily subdued the berserker Sabretooth in her hands or feet, with the effect of a Shock- KNOWN POWERS
a dispute, which is not easy to do. The above wave attack at all targets up to 3 areas away,
statistics are only a guess at his characteris- doing Amazing damage. All targets (she may Body Armor: Blockbuster's thick hide provides
tics and should not be considered definitive. be selective among those targets as a power him with Excellent protection against physical
Mr. Sinister has a glow around his form ; stunt) are affected bya blast of Amazing inten- and Energy attacks.
whether this indicates his powers, or is some sity. No damage is taken, but targets may be Talents: Blockbuster has Martial Arts A and
special effect to impress his minions remains stunned or slammed. Arclight may direct her Wrestling skill.
to be seen. powers against living targets (Incredible blunt Contacts: Blockbuster was a member of the
damage) or non-living (Amazing damage). Marauders and a former member of a West
Talents: Mr. Sinister has the Leadership skill, Body Armor: Arclight's silver suit provides German terrorist group known as the Fist of
and possibly others as well. Good protection against physical and energy Victory.
Contacts: None known. attacks.

Talents: Arclight has Military skill.
Contacts: Phillipa Sontag is a member of the
Marauders. She might retain her military con-
tacts.

29

ADDITIONAL NOTES: energies may be imbued, with the following BACKGROUND
effects: Real Name: Unknown
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Occupation: Assassin
Blockbuster is usually seen as slow, plodding, • An object may receive Remarkable Identity: Uses no dual identity
and stupid, and determined to prove himself to energy if Harpoon concentrates on it for Other Known A liases: Dazzler, Lorna Dane,
the rest of the team. A vicious killer, he appar- one round. Each additional round spent Polaris
ently died trying to prove himself against the Place of Birth: Unknown
wrong man (or god), the Mighty Thor. charging gives a + 1 CS increase to Marital Status: Not applicable
Known Relatives: None
HISTORY energy, to a maximum of Monstrous. Base of Operations: Mobile
Doubling the mass of the missile over Past Group Affiliation: Leader of the
Michael Baer was an expatriate American in harpoon size increases the maximum Marauders
Europe who, while in his teens, opposed testi- Present Group Affillatlon:
fying against a fellow criminal. He picked up a energy limit by +1 CS. Reducing the
radical political philosophy, worked as muscle KNOWN POWERS
for street gangs in Germany, and eventually mass by half reduces the limit by - 1 CS. Energy Being: Malice is an energy being with·
joined a terrorist group called the Fist of Victo- (If Harpoon could imbue a telephone pole out physical form. In energy form, Malice can
ry. The rest of the group was killed by police, with energy, it would have Shift Z intensi- only be hurt by attacks with the same type of
and Baer was recruited into the Marauders. energy of which Malice is composed (discov-
Blockbuster assisted in their operations, hold- ty, the equivalent of a tactical nuclear ering this would be a power stunt of Monstrous
ing the Angel while Harpoon impaled his intensity for an energy manipulator such as
wings, which resulted in their amputation. Lat· weapon.) Imbuing weapons other than Captain Marvel or a scientist such as Reed
er, when Blockbuster attacked Thor by sur- his harpoons is a power stunt. Richards). Malice can walk through physical _
prise, the enraged Thunder God responded • Harpoon may imbue items with other objects, and has no need to eat, breathe, 01
by hitting Baer in the face with Mjolnir, and types of energy (such as light, radiation, sleep. Malice is unable to manipulate thl..
Blockbuster appeared to die. or Darkforce) as a power stunt. Harpoon's physical world except by possessing another
ability to endow items with this energy Is individual. Malice may be attacked by mental
HARPOON Remarkable in intensity. means, and this form of attack may drive the
Slayspears: Harpoon's weapon of choice is a construct out of a host body.
Possession: Malice has the Monstrous psy-
harpoon, 5 feet long with a barbed head and chic ability to possess a human host and force
his or her persona into submission. The target
weight of 20 pounds. He may imbue it with up must make an Intuition FEAT to avoid the
to Incredible energy, inflicting additional Good assault; Malice's typical method is to present
edged attack or edged throwing damage. He herself in a mirror and offer a better life to the
carries up to 20 harpoons in his quiver. victim through evil or selfish means. The vie"~
Body Armor: Harpoon's body suit provides tim doubts his or her sanity, or comes to thir11.
Good protection against physical and energy of Malice as the dark side of consciousness.
attacks. Should the victim fall prey to these desires, the
Talents: Harpoon is a Weapons Specialist possession should be considered a blindsid-
with harpoons. ing attack, and no karma may be added to the
Contacts: Harpoon is a member of the roll. Malice has Remarkable telepathy and
Marauders. uses this to make the temptation more con-
vincing. Once the victim is possessed, Malice
ADDITIONAL NOTES: uses the possessed target's memories and
abilities as desired. Malice feeds by forcing
STATISTICS EX (20) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES the host to perform evil actions, gaining an
F IN (40) Like the rest of the Marauders, Harpoon Is a equal number of Health or Karma as the host--..._
cold-blooded killer. As a young Inuit (Eskimo) loses by performing evil deeds. Malice doe.
A EX (20) in his mid-20s, he is greatly impressed with the not kill unless in danger of losing the host
AM (30) big city. body; she cannot assimilate this much rapidly
s TY(6) lost karma.
TY(6) Talents: Malice has no revealed talents, but
E GD (tO) has full access to any of the host's talents.
Contacts: Malice is the leader of the Maraud-
R ers, and most faithful to Mr. Sinister.

I ADDITIONAL NOTES:
p
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Health: 110 Malice is a sadistic en,tity who lives from the suf-
Karma: 22 fering created while possessing a victim. Unli~
Resources: GD(10) the other Marauders, she prefers not to kill h&.
Popularity: -10 targets; that would be too quick, too painless.
She is currently possessing the mind of Loma
HISTORY Dane and using her to torment Havok.

BACKGROUND Harpoon's history has yet to be revealed . He
Real Name: Unknown participated in the Morlock massacre, and is
Occupation: Assassin responsible for Angel losing his wings.
Identity: Secret
Other Known Aliases: None MALICE
Place of Birth: Unknown, presumably North·
ern Canada or Alaska STATISTICS FE (2)
Marital Status: Unknown FE (2)
Known Relatives: None F FE {2)
Base of Operations: Mobile UN (100)
Past Group Affiliation: Marauders A EX (20)
Present Group Affiliat ion: MN (75)
s MN (75)
KNOWN POWERS
Imbue Energy: Harpoon may charge objects E
with energy so that they release the energy on
contact for additional damage. To date, he has R
been limited to his harpoons for his weapons, I
and to electricity, concussive force, or stun- p
ning force as his energies. Other objects and
Health: 106
Karma: 170
Resources: N/A
Popularity: - 10

30

MARAUDERS

ADDITIONAL NOTES: ADDITIONAL NOTES:

HISTORY

Malice's true name, background, and even ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
sex are unknown. A faithful servant of Mister Riptide is a brutal, evil man who enjoys killing
Sinister, Malice first gained prominence by and looked down on the Morlocks as he cut
possessing Alison Blaire, the Dazzler. Malice them down.
was driven away but promptly possessed
Lorna Dane and is now in the guise of Polaris.

PRISM

STATISTICS GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
GD (10) like the other Marauders, Prism Is a merciless
F GD (10) killer, whose overconfidence and inability to
GD (10) understand his weakness appear to have led
A TY(6) to his death.
GD (10)
s TY(6) HISTORY Nothing is known of Quested's history before he
joined the Marauders. Riptide brutally killed a
E great number of Morlocks by hurling sharp
weapons at them at superhuman speed. Infuri-
R ated by the harm that he was doing, Colossus
broke his neck, apparently killing him.
I
p

Health: 40 Nothing is known of Prism's background SCALPHUNTER
--..'<arm a: 22 before joining the Marauders. To save the lives
of the Beast and Marvel Girl, Marvel Girl
Aesources: FE(2) slammed Prism into a steel pylon, shattering
Popularity: -1O him.

BACKGROUND RIPTIDE STATISTICS IN (40)
Real Name: Unknown RM (30)
Occupation: Assassin STATISTICS GD (10) F EX (20)
Identity: Secret IN (40) RM (30)
Other Known Aliases: None F GD (10) A GD (10)
Place of Birth: Unknown GD (10) EX (20)
Marital Status: Unrevealed A TY (6) s RM(30)
Known Relatives: None GD (10)
---~ase of Operations: Mobile s GD (10) E
.' ast Group Affiliation: Marauders R
Present Group Affiliation: E I
p
R
I Health: 120
Karma: 60
p
Resources: GD(10)
KNOWN POWERS Health: 70 Popularity: - 10
Glass Body: Prism's body was made from a Karma: 26
brittle glass-like material that gave him great Resources: PR(4) BACKGROUND
powers and disadvantages. Popularity: O Real Name: Unrevealed

• Prism has Unearthly protection from BACKGROUND Occupation: Mercenary, Assassin
light-based, radiation, and other energy Real Name: Janos Quested Identity: Secret
attacks. Occupation: Assassin Legat Status: Unrevealed
Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: None
• Prism can reflect energy attacks at vie- Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: Unrevealed
--., tims up to 3 areas away, increasing the Place of Birth: Unrevealed Marital Status: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unrevealed Known Relatives: None
damage inflicted by one rank (maximum Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: Mobile
Base of Operations: Mobile Past Group Affiliation: Marauders
Shift X damage). In this reflection, Prism Past Group Affiliation: Marauders Present Group Affiliation:
Present Group Affiliation:
can compress the energy wavelengths to KNOWN POWERS
affect individuals normally invulnerable KNOWN POWERS Body Armor/Weapons: Scalphunter wears a
to such energy (such as the optic blasts of special suit laced with holsters, clips, and
Cyclops). Tornado Spin: Riptide can spin his body at pockets whi ch hold gun parts and ammuni-
superhuman speeds. He carries a number of tion, as well as a back-mounted sheath for his
• Prism, as a power stunt, can reflect the throwing stars (shuriken) and sharp blades at sword. Using this suit, Scalphunter gains the
ambient light into a blinding flash of up to all times. In his tornado state, he attacks in following:
Monstrous intensity over a range of 3 melee combat with Remarkable Edged dam-
areas, in any direction. age, though he can power stunt up to Incredi- • Good protection against Physical and
ble for brief periods (1-4 turns). In addition, he Energy attacks
• Prism can hold reflected tight for up to 5 can throw his shuriken at high velocity; each
inflicts Typical damage, but strikes body • Camouflage (all attempts to spot
turns before releasing it, and contain up armor as if it were an Amazing strength attack. Scalphunter are at - 2 CS)
to 200 points of such energy before Riptide can cast up to ten of these in a turn at
releasing it. ten different targets. • The ability to assemble the pieces of his

• Prism's crystalline form is extremely sus- Talents: Riptide has no revealed talents. guns into a variety of firearms with a num·
ceptible to physical damage, so that all Contacts: Riptide is a member of the Maraud-
physical damage is doubled (if Prism ers. ber of uses. (Scalphunter can create any
one-handed and two-handed shooting
reaches OHealth through physical dam- weapon from pages 42-43 of the
ADVANCED SET PLAYERS BOOK,
age and fails an Endurance FEAT, he except bows.) He may fire two-handed
shatters). weapons with one hand without penalty.

Talents: Prism has no revealed talents.
~ntacts: Prism is a member of the Maraud-
Jrs.

31

• The ability to use any of the ammunition Place of Birth: Unrevealed BACKGROUND
types listed on page 44 of the Marital Status: Unrevealed Real Name: Unrevealed
ADVANCED SET PLAYERS BOOK, Known Relatives: None Occupation: Warrior, Assassin
regardless of the weapon for which that Base of Operations: Mobile Identity: Vertigo has no dual identity
type of shot was designed. Scalphunter Past Group Affiliation: Marauders Legal Status: None
always uses deadly force, and will not Present Group Affiliation: Other Known Aliases: None
use mercy or rubber bullets unless spe- Place of Birth: The Savage Land
cifically ordered. KNOWN POWERS Marital Status: Unrevealed
Disruption: Kim has the power to disrupt sys- Known Relatives: None
Talents: Scalphunter is a Weapon Specialist tems at will by touch, whether electrical, Base of Operations: Mobile
with weapons he has created from his uni- mechanical, physiological, or genetic (mutant Past Group Affiliation: Marauders
form, giving him +2 CS and increasing his ini- abilities). He does this with Monstrous ability, Present Group Affiliation:
tiative by 1 when he uses these weapons. He though he must touch flesh against flesh for
is also skilled in Edged weapons and has the the disruption to occur. Scrambler can use his KNOWN POWERS
leadership skill. power to stun or kill an opponent on touch (tar- Equilibrium Distortion: Vertigo has the power
Contacts: Scalphunter is a member of the get must make an Endurance FEAT against to psionically disrupt a target's sense of equi-
Marauders. Monstrous intensity). If used to disrupt mutant librium, rendering them nearly helpless. She
abilities, the target must make a power FEAT does this with Unearthly ability to a single tar-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: against the Monstrous intensity rank using the get, or Amazing ability to a group of victims in
strongest mutant power rank. (Scrambler may the same area, up to 3 areas away. Targets
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES also selectively disrupt particular powers, must make a Psyche FEAT roll against this
Scalphunter serves as the Marauder's tactical leaving others unaffected.) Scrambler's dis- ability or be knocked to the ground, unable to
commander in combat situations, and his ruption, if successful, shuts the power off, move or attack. If the target fails the Psyche
orders are overruled only by Malice or Mister removing its benefit. FEAT in a second consecutive round, they fat,,..
Sinister. Scalphunter is the most cold-blooded Body Armor: Scrambler wears protective body unconscious for 1-10 rounds. Her distortior.
killer of the group; his objective is always to kill armor under his clothes that provide Typical powers are negated if she is knocked out.
his target, and he will always make certain that protection against physical and energy Talents: None known.
he has enough force on hand to achieve his attacks. Contacts: Vertigo is a member of the Maraud-
objective . Talents: None known. ers, and a former member of Brainchild's Sav-
Contacts: Scrambler is a member of the age land Mutates.
Marauders.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ADDITIONAL NOTES:

HISTORY

Scalphunter's early history is unknown, ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
though his attitudes suggest a military or mer- Vertigo, like the rest of the Marauders, is a
cenary background. Scalphunter commanded Scrambler, like the rest of the Marauders, is a cold-blooded killer. She is a bit less forward
the Marauders during the massacre of the cold-blooded killer. He does have a sense of than her teammates, preferring to stay in th!".-...
style about his personal appearance, trying to background while her teammates attract thel
Morlocks, and has been involved in other look "cool." His major tactic is to remove his opponents' attention, then using her power
Marauder operations, including a failed opponents' protective mutations, setting them when they aren't looking. Vertigo is very afraid
attempt to kill Madelyne Pryor. Scalphunter is up for his teammates. of Mister Sinister,
loyal to Mister Sinister and enjoys his work
with the Marauders. HISTORY

SCRAMBLER HISTORY Vertigo was a Savage Land primitive who
was given superpowers by the Savage land
STATISTICS GD (10) Scrambler, of Korean heritage, is the youngest Mutate leader, Brainchild, as a replacement
GD (10) of the Marauders. He has assisted them on for Equilibrius. She fought the X-Men, Spider-
F their major operations, including the infamous Man, and Ka-Zar, and was eventually stripped
TY (6) Morlock massacre. of her powers. Somehow, she regained her
A EX (20) powers and left the Savage land before it was
GD (10) VERTIGO destroyed by Terminus, and joined the
s GD (10) Marauders.
EX (20) STATISTICS
E F
R A
I
p s

Health: 46 E GD (10)
Karma: 40 GD (10)
Resources: GD(10) A TY (6)
Popularity: - 10 I EX(20)
p TY (6)
BACKGROUND GD (10)
Real Name: Kim II Sung IN (40)
Occupation: Assassin
Identity: Secret Health: 46
Legal Status: Unrevealed Karma: 56
Other Known Aliases: None Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: -10

32

MARRINA

..._STATISTICS

F EX (20)

A EX (20)
S EX (20)
E IN (40)
R TY (6)

I GD(10)

P GD (10)

Health: 100
Karma: 26

Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: 10 (·50 as Leviathan)

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Marrina Smallwood
Occupation: Former adventurer,
---...former queen of Deluvia
)dentity: Although she has no dual
Identity, her existence is not known
to the general public. She was pub-
licly known in Deluvia
Legal Status: Citizen of Canada
with no criminal record; citizen of
Deluvia, now deceased
Other Known Aliases: Leviathan
Place of Hatching: Newfoundland,
---...Canada

IJlarital Status: Married

Known Relatives: Thomas (foster
father), Gladys (foster mother), Dan-
iel (foster parents' grandson), Namor
(husband), a number of children
(identity unknown)

Base of Operations: Formerly Delu-
via, Atlantic Ocean

Past Group Affiliation: Former
_._member of Gamma Flight, Beta

~ l ight, and Alpha Flight , former
associate of the Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Bestial Nature: Marrina could , Health: 455
Amphibious Nature: Marrina could through means known only to the Karma: 56
swim with Monstrous speed. One Master, become a savage, bestial The Leviathan had Excellent body
established power stunt was to swim killer, a Plodex warrior. In this form, armor, and swam at Shift X speed.
quickly and create a vortex with a her fingers became claws (Excellent Talents: Marrina had no established
Shift-Z range that inflicted Unearthly Edged weapon damage). talents.
damage. When in the water, Mar- Leviathan Form: Marrina, through Contacts: Marrina had contacts with
rina's Intuition increased to unknown means, vastly increased the original Alpha Flight, and no
Amazing, as her skin could detect her size to Shift Z growth, becoming doubt could rely on Heather Hudson
movement in the water. a serpent several hundred meters (Vindicator) if she requested her aid.
Blinding Touch: The Plodex can long. Her abilities in this form were: Marrina was an associate of the
secrete an oil through their skin that Avengers, and knew Susan
causes temporary blindness. The oil FASER I P Richards of the Fantastic Four.
,..--..js of Monstrous rank and blinds for 1- MN RM SHX SHY FE AM PR
,0 rounds. This does not affect char-
acters with protected vision (such as
Iron Man).

33

ADDITIONAL NOTES: dex biology, each egg is part of a on other planets and kept on his star- _.
pair, and the creatures which hatch ship. Marrina was disturbed to see
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES from the pair of eggs grow up to be these other Plodex.
Marrina had two diametrically
opposed dispositions. As Marrina, each other's mates. The Master found the other surviv-
she was a sweet and gentle woman; In addition, each hatchling has ing member of the Plodex on Earth,
this was the product of her upbring- which had a monstrous form and
ing. Her Plodex nature, however, been genetically programmed for was fully given over to its instincts to
transformed her into a virtually mind- kill. The Master permitted the crea-
less savage. The Marrina-self was conquest. ture to commit a series of murders
almost always dominant, and fought One of these colony ships crashed which the Alpha Flight member
the transformation, usually not suc- named Puck summoned Marrlna to
cessfully. As Leviathan, Marrina's in northern Asia on Earth during the investigate. As she approached the
instincts were to protect her progeny. Ice Age. Damaged by the crash, the creature, the chemical stimuli it gave
She claimed a large territory as her starship fired off its supply of eggs off triggered her savage instincts
own, and sank fleets of ships to pro- before they had received their genet- once more. She returned to attack
tect it. ic programming to enable them to Puck, and then battled the Sub-
survive on this planet. One of the Mariner, who had followed her to
HISTORY eggs landed in the ocean and drifted Canada. The Master captured Mar-
across its floor for 40,000 years. In rina, Namor, and Puck and took them
At least tens of thousands of years
ago, an extraterrestrial race called order to survive, the egg became to his submarine. There the still·
the Plodex, having exhausted their water permeable, and the adaptable savage Marrina confronted the other
own planet, set out to find new creature within the egg became surviving Plodex and came to
space. Starships containing Plodex amphibious. The egg was finally dis- believe it was her intended mate.
eggs were sent to worlds whose covered twenty years ago by fisher- When the Master's submarine
dominant life forms were still in the man Thomas Smallwood. His wife exploded, Marrina allowed Namor to
early stages of their cultural develop- Gladys forced the egg open . The think she had disappeared, and per-
ment. A starship would land and creature within the egg, still primed haps been killed in the blast. The
rebuild itself into a vast colonization for genetic conditioning, instantly human part of her was overcome
complex that was rooted into the took on humanoid form as soon as it with shame over her savage instinctsr--
planet. A hypnotic signal would made contact with the cells of and the way she had wanted to give
induce representatives of each Gladys Smallwood's body. Thus, in to them. Believing herself to be a·
mobile form of life on the planet to Gladys Smallwood saw a humanoid monster, Marrina left Puck to lead a
come to the complex. The complex infant hatch from the egg . They
would then capture, dissect, and solitary life at sea.
thoroughly analyze the physical and adopted the infant, whom they Having apparently overcome her
genetic structure of the most intelli- named Marrina. Marrina had been
gent life form. That genetic structure " damaged" in her hatching, and savage tendencies, Marrina married
would be imprinted upon the chro- therefore had no conscious drive to Sub-Mariner and became queen of
mosomes of the cells of each of the conquer, nor was she dominated by his new undersea kingdom of Belu-
Plodex eggs. The virtually indestruc- savage instincts. Instead, she had a via. Her happiness was not to last,
tible eggs would then be fired out normal Earth girl's personality. however, as she transformed into a_,.,--.,
across the planet. According to Pio- huge savage sea-creature callee
When Marrina seemed to reach Leviathan. After sinking several
maturity, Thomas Smallwood 's fleets of ships and ravaging Atlantis,
grandson Daniel told James the Avengers hunted her down, and
McDonald Hudson of the Canadian Sub-Mariner mortally wounded her
government's Department H about with the Black Knight's Ebony Blade.
her superhuman abilities. Marrina The Avengers uncovered a nest of
agreed to join Gamma Flight as a eggs, which had already hatched,
trainee. She worked her way up to and an unknown number of offspring
Alpha Fl ight, the team of active had fled into the vastness of the
agents, just as the program lost its Atlantic Ocean . Marrina, whose
federal funding . She joined Alpha body had changed back into its nor-
Flight when it became an indepen- mal form, was then buried by the
dently operated team of adventur- Sub-Mariner with the honor fitting
ers. It was not until after she joined one who had been his mate and an
Alpha Flight that she learned of her
true origin through encounters with associate of the Avengers.

the Master.
Prime Namer of Atlantis invited

Marrina to accompany him to Atlan-
tis, and the two soon became lovers.
In an encounter with the alien Collec-
tor, Marrina saw inhuman-looking,
savage Plodex that he had collected

34

MARVELBDV

STATISTICS

F IN (40)
A GD (10)
S IN (40)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)

I TY (6)
P TY (6)

Health: 120
Karma: 18

Resources: PR(4)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Robert Grayson
Occupation: Adventurer
_. Identity: Not known to the general

'opulation of Earth
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record,
adopted citizen of the Uranian colo-
ny of Eternals

Other Known Aliases: The Cru-
sader

Place of Birth: Trenton, New Jersey
Marital Status: Single
---J(nown Relatives: Horace Grayson

.father, deceased)
Base of Operations: The Eternal
colony on Uranus; also, for three
years, the United States
Past Group Affiliation: Special
operative of the U.S. government
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS against Amazing intensity or suffer that are unknown on Earth. He likely
1-5 rounds of blindness.) has some knowledge of Optics and
-...Power Source (Wristbands): Marvel Light Emission: The bands can emit Quantum theory.
3oy's powers are derived from his any frequency of light with Excellent Contacts: None
special wristbands, which absorb intensity. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
solar radiation and transform it into
powers and enhanced abilities for Gateway: The bands can create 35
the wearer. If Grayson los·es these warps into the "Quantum Zone ," a
bands, all of his abilities drop to Typi- realm of unknown sub-atomic parti-
cal rank.
cles. These particles can form a
Gravity Manipulation: Marvel Boy's blast that does Amazing damage.
bands lessened the gravity of heavi- True Invulnerability: The bands give
er planets to equal the gravity of the wearer Monstrous resistance to
Earth . In Earth 's light gravity, he physical and heat attacks.
could fly at Typical air speed (6 Talents: Grayson was trained in
branches of the Uranian sciences
areas/turn).

Light Control: The bands have the
Excellent ability to magnify low
levels of light to a point where normal
daylight vision is possible. In day-
light, the bands create blinding
JUrsts of light. (Anyone within 2
areas of the bands when this power
is used must make an Intuition FEAT

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES cold and poisonous atmosphere out- and the Uranian woman whom,,..-.-
As Marvel Boy, Grayson was among side. Dr. Grayson and his son were Robert had loved since boyhood.
the most pleasant of individuals, given special wristbands containing were killed by exposure to Uranus's
dedicated to stopping crime and war advanced technology that manipu-
on planet Earth. Then Calvin lated gravitons, allowing them to harsh environmental conditions.
McClary refused to lend him the move about on Uranus as if it had Grief-stricken, Robert Grayson
money that would save his father's Earth-level gravity. Dr. Grayson was
life. This disillusioned Grayson so enamored of the tiny, peaceful Ura- saw that he would have been back
badly that he became Crusader, nian community and decided to on Uranus earlier had it not been for
angry at the world, an irrational man make the place his permanent McClary's rejection of his loan appli-
bent on the destruction of all things home. For their own part, the Ura- cation. Enraged, Marvel Boy decid-
evil, especially Calvin Mcclary and nian Eternals were eager to hear ed to return to Earth and take his
anything associated with him (such news of the world that had spawned vengeance for the Uranians' deaths
as the Grover Cleveland Bank). He them millennia before and listened on McClary and his financial empire.
died in a mad rampage. His death with rapt attention to Dr. Grayson's
was a tragic waste of one of the However, en route to Earth, Marvel
greatest forces for good that the discourses about life on Earth. Boy's spaceship passed through the
planet had ever produced . Robert Grayson was raised as a tail of a comet. Inexplicably, radia-
tion from the comet caused Marvel
HISTORY young Uranian Eternal, but he was Boy to go into a state of suspended
always curious about the world of his animation in which he aged very
Robert Grayson was the son of birth. At seventeen, he convinced his slowly into adulthood. He finally r
astrophycisist Dr. Horace Grayson father to let him go there. Before his revived from suspended animatio11
(born Grabshield), a German Jew departure, young Grayson was when his spaceship crashlanded on
who immigrated to the United States given a more advanced pair of
when Adolf Hitler began to rise to energy-manipulating wristbands and Earth decades later.
power in Germany. Fearing Nazi Perhaps as a result of both his
reprisal, Grayson began work on a was shown how to use them to
private spacecraft to take himself absorb and reflect light to use as a intense grief over the deaths of his
and his infant son into outer space. father and friends and the effects of
(Horace Grayson's wife died in child- weapon. the comet's radiation, Marvel Boy
birth.) Robert Grayson traveled to Earth became insane. Renaming himself
the Crusader, he vowed to fight
Seeking a loan to build his space- aboard his father's spacecraft, which against all that was evil and corrupt_,--...
ship from his friend Calvin McClary, had been refurbished with Uranian in society, beginning with Calvi11
the president of the Grover Cleve- technology. On Earth, following his
land National Bank, he was turned father's suggestion, Robert became McClary. The Crusader struck
down. Shortly thereafter, Grayson's a crimefighter called Marvel Boy, McClary with a hurled mass of con-
long efforts to make radio contact using his almost superhuman skills, crete, nearly killing him, and,
with extraterrestrial beings finally advanced knowledge, and wrist- attempting to destroy McClary 's
succeeded. He made radio contact bands to battle crime in order to financial empire, attacked various
with the colony of Eternals, an evolu- spread the Uranian way of peace . branches of the Grover Cleveland
tionarily advanced offshoot of
humanity, who lived on the planet Robert waged his personal cru- National Bank. The Crusader used
Uranus. They gave Grayson via as his weapons energy-manipulating
radio transmission the knowledge sade for three years before receiving wristbands that were still mor~.,.........
needed to build a spaceship capable an urgent summons from his father advanced and powerful than thost
of interplanetary travel. Believing to return to Uranus. Dr. Grayson was he used in the 1950s as Marvel Boy.
that the Uranians' colony would be a in poor health, and the Uranians,
better place to raise his infant son unfamiliar with his particular ail- The Fantastic Four attempted to
Robert than Earth, Grayson built the ments, were having difficulty giving
spaceship and journeyed to Uranus him medical treatment. Robert set halt the Crusader's rampage. In an
with the baby. out once again for Earth, this time to effort to defeat them, the Crusader
obtain a wide variety of medical sup- recklessly manipulated the controls
Arriving on Uranus, Dr. Grayson plies to take back to Uranus. Robert of his wristbands to augment their
and his son were met with open arms asked the same bank for a loan for power. He thereby caused the bands
by the Uranian Eternals, which lived purchasing the supplies, but to absorb so much solar energy that
within a small five-mile diameter, Mcclary turned him down, asserting they overloaded and disintegrated
environmentally-controlled dome that his board of directors would nev- Robert Grayson in a blinding flash of
that protected them from the intense er believe that Horace Grayson was energy. All that was left of him was
his energy-manipulating wristbands.
still alive on another planet.
Eventually Robert obtained the

supplies he needed and returned to
Uranus only to discover that some
unknown disaster had destroyed the
dome, and all of the inhabitants of
the colony, including Dr. Grayson

36

MARVEL GIRL

- STATISTICS:

F GD (10)
A GD (10)

s TY (6)

E RM (30)

R GD (10)
I EX (20)
p AM (50)
Health: 56
Karma: 80
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity:20

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jean Grey
Occupation: Adventurer, former stu-
dent and fashion model, now mem-
,- ber of X- Factor
_egal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Annandale-on-
Hudson, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: John (father),
Elaine (mother), Sara (sister)
Base of Operations: Apocalypse's
,...°',ship, mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Founding

member of X-Factor, former member
of X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Factor. She was on good terms with ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Telekinesis: Jean can mentally the X-Men prior to her death and res- Jean Grey was long the emotional
manipulate objects with Incredible urrection, but now believes them to rock of the team. After her emer-
Intensity. She has developed the fol- be under the domination of Magneto. gence from the cocoon, she found
-~owing power stunts: her telepathic powers gone and has
' • Flight of herself at Remarkable ADDITIONAL NOTES: felt "crippled" ever since. She has
found this condition frustrating and
air speed, or up to ten other
people at Excellent speed has been somewhat short-tempered
• Create a shield of Incredible ever since. Of all of the X-Factor
Intensity against physical members, she is the most devoted to
attacks the mutant cause.
• Project Force bolts of sheer
Telekinetic energy that hit with
Incredible Agility and do Incred-
ible damage
Telepathy: Prior to her death and res-
urrection, Jean could read minds
with Remarkable Strength, project
her thoughts, and do mental attacks
on her opponents' minds. Her Intui-
tion, also Remarkable, was lost
when she emerged from her cocoon.
- Talents: Jean has the Resist Domi-
.1ation Skill. She occasionally
worked as a fashion model.
Contacts: Jean is a member of X-

37

HISTORY were kidnapped by Steven Lang's her "heart's desire." What Grey,...--._
Sentinels and taken aboard Lang's most wanted was to save the lives o.
When Jean Grey was ten years old, space station. After defeating Lang, the X-Men and herself. She held
she was playing with her best friend, the X-Men had to escape back to onto the Phoenix Force's arm and
Annie Richardson, when Annie was Earth aboard a space shuttle during fell into a coma-like state. Simultane-
hit by an automobile. The emotion a solar radiation storm. The design ously, the being fully took on both the
that Jean felt as she held her dying of the craft required the pilot to sit in form and the memories and person-
friend awakened her own latent tele- an area without protective shielding. ality of Jean Grey, casting Grey into a
pathic powers, and she thus experi- coma-like state and placing her with-
enced Annie's own emotions as she Grey volunteered to be pilot, figuring in a podlike construction, which
died. This traumatic occurrence left her powers would hold back the radi- rested for years at the bottom of
Jean in a withdrawn and deeply ation. But the radiation proved to be Jamaica Bay while Grey's injuries
depressed state. Moreover, Jean too great, and Marvel Girl began to healed completely. Thus the Phoe-
discovered that she could not control succumb. nix Force fulfilled its pledge to Grey.
her newly awakened telepathic abili-
ties, and had to isolate herself from It was long believed that Grey had The Phoenix Force creature com-
other people to keep hold of her sani- indeed died aboard the space shut- pelled itself to believe it was indeed
ty. tle but became linked with a primal Grey, whose personality it had
energy force known as the "Phoenix assumed. It has been theorized that
When Jean was eleven she went Force" which recreated and reen- it was the entity's own power rebel-,,,-.
to Professor Charles Xavier, who tered her body. The vastly more pow- ling against the duplicate of Grey'~
was secretly a mutant with telepathic erfuI being took the code name personality it had given itself that
abilities. Xavier explained to Jean, Phoenix and joined the X-Men. caused it to become Dark Phoenix.
but not to her parents, that she was a Phoenix fell victim to psionic manip- When Phoenix committed suicide, it
mutant, and he treated her for sev- ulation by Mastermind, who was was acting exactly as Grey herself
eral years. During this time he erect- attempting to prove his worthiness to
ed psychic shields in Jean's mind so become a member of the Inner Cir- would have done.
that she would not be able to use her cle of the Hellfire Club by mesmeriz- Many months after Phoenix's
telepathic abilities until she had ing Phoenix into becoming its new
achieved the maturity necessary for Black Queen . He psychically death, the Avengers found Grey's
dealing with them. Simultaneously, induced dark, repressed desires pod beneath Jamaica Bay and
he taught her how to levitate and from within Grey's subconscious to brought it to the Fantastic Four for ...........
manipulate objects through psionic come to the surface of Phoenix's study. Releasing herself from the
force. When Xavier judged that Jean mind, submerging Grey's true nor- pod, she recalled what had hap-
had reached mastery of her telekine- mal personality. Grey/Phoenix finally pened and learned the story of Phoe-
tic power, he enrolled her in his freed herself of Mastermind's con- nix. Grey somehow lost her
School for Gifted Youngsters. She trol, but was unable to prevent the telepathic powers, but the strength
took the code name of Marvel Girl. dark side of Grey's personality with of her telekinetic powers had greatly
Shortly after she joined the X-men the full power of the Phoenix Force increased.
team, Grey and Scott Summers, the behind it, from overwhelming her,
X-Man known as Cyclops, fell in love not having had the training neces- Grey was greatly disturbed to
with each other. sary to repress it. Grey's true person- learn of the current wave of anti-
ality was submerged more fully than mutant sentiment in the country, ..,.--.
When Xavier realized that he had before, and Phoenix became the Xavier's recent disappearance, and
to remain in isolation for an extended malevolent Dark Phoenix. After Dark the fact that the current X-Men were
period of time in order to make prep- Phoenix wreaked incredible devas- now working alongside Magneto, the
arations to thwart an attempted inva- tation, Grey's true personality reas- original X-Men's greatest foe. Grey
sion of Earth by the alien X'nox, he serted control of Phoenix once more, and the other original X-Men found-
released the psychic barriers pre- and, before Cyclops' horrified eyes, ed X-Factor, a new organization to
venting Grey from using her tele- Phoenix committed suicide rather help other superhuman mutants.
pathic abilities. than revert to Dark Phoenix.

Sometime later, after Xavier had But recently it was revealed that
recruited several new members for Grey had not died, nor had she ever
the X- Men, Grey and some of the become Phoenix. The Phoenix
other X-Men decided to leave the Force had responded to Grey's
group in order to lead their own lives. anguish and telepathic calls for help
Scott Summers remained in the X- as she was dying aboard the space
Men, but he and Grey continued shuttle, and appeared before her,
their romantic relationship. Shortly shaping its form and consciousness
after she left the team, Grey and the after Grey's own . The force told Grey
then-current members of the X-Men that she was dying, but that by taking
the force's hands, Grey would gain
38

MASTER

- STATISTICS

F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R IN (40)
I GD (10)
P RM (30)
Health: 100

Karma: 80
Resources: IN(40)

Popularity: 0

BACKGROUND unknown whether he was able to ADDITIONAL NOTES:
maintain this ability after the destruc-
Real Name: Unrevealed tion of the central complex.
Occupation: Would-be conqueror
Identity: Secret. His existence is Hologram Projection: The Master
_...,_ unknown to the general public was able to project holograms from
Legal Status: None his helmet that could disguise his
Other Known Aliases: None costume. These illusions were of
Place of Birth: Somewhere in North- Incredible rank.
ern Asia
Talents: The Master has Martial Arts
Marital Status: Unknown A, D, and E, and is an expert in the
Known Relatives: None alien technology of the Plodex, with
Base of Operations: Unknown, Amazing Reason regarding genet-
probably mobile ics. He also has Repair/Tinkering.
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation: Contacts: None.

(

KNOWN POWERS
Plodex Technology: The Master was
preserved by, and eventually gained
control of, the technology of an alien
race known as the Plodex. The Mas-
ter has used this technology to cre-
ate several installations and devices
to aid him in his goal of w0rld domi-
- riation. A typical installation is of
Huge capacity, and is defended by
grapples of at least Incredible
strength, and laser and force can-
nons of at least Amazing intensity.
The Master used a fish-shaped sub-
mersible vehicle (now destroyed)
which had these stats:

Control Speed Body Protection
EX GD RM RM

The Master controlled his installa-
tions directly by means of his cyber-
netic helmet, and was aware of all
activities within those areas. This
contact was broken when the helmet
was damaged, but it is unlikely that
the Master will· be defeated in this
way again.

Immortality: While the Master
remained in his Plodex-programmed
sanctuary, his machines provided
him with virtual immortality. It is

39

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES of Plodex eggs and launch them all the Master was freed from the star-...-
The Master is one of the world's most ship. When the starship exploded,
brilliant schemers. His two goals over the planet. the Master was hurled into the icy
were to destroy all Plodex on Earth (it In this case, however, one of the arctic waters below. He quickly
is possible that he was subtly manip· swam to a large, fish-shaped subma·
ulating the death of Marrina), and to starship's drive units had exploded, rine which he had begun construct-
gain control of the world. The Master causing it to crash on Earth. Dam- ing from the starship's resources five
is a manipulator; he analyzes infor- aged in the crash, the starship thousand years before. The Master
mation and presents threats to launched all of its eggs before it had had hoped that Marrina too would
heroes in such a way that they will do captured a specimen of the domi- have been destroyed, but she sur-
what the Master wishes, believing it nant native life form. Nevertheless, vived along with the rest of Alpha
to be the right thing (as when he the starship still rebuilt itself into a Flight and their allies on the mission,
manipulated Alpha Flight into colonization complex, broadcast the the Invisible Woman and Prince
destroying the Plodex complex). His hypnotic signal, and captured the Namor the Sub-Mariner.
ultimate goal is to create "a perfect exile when he arrived . For days the
tomorrow," and he will destroy any- exile's flesh, muscle, and tissue The Master found the monstrous
thing that does not match his view of were peeled away and his bones pul· killing creature that was the other
perfection. The Master is given to verized as the complex studied him. Plodex and permitted it to commit a
long-winded speeches about his bril- The pain was so great that the still· series of murders in Canada, know-
liance and personal superiority. It is living exile went insane. Only his ing that Marrina would investigate --..
possible that many of his abilities brain was kept alive by the starship, the killings. She did, and as she
have yet to be revealed. which incorporated it into its com- approached the creature, she was
greatly affected by chemicals it gave
HISTORY puter matrix. off, which triggered her Plodex killer
But over the next thirty thousand instincts once more. She returned to
Forty thousand years ago, during Alpha Flight to attack her col·
Earth 's Ice Age, an Asian tribe was years the brain overcame its insanity leagues, at which time the Master
migrating south in search of a warm· and took control of the starship's captured Namor, Puck, and Marrina
er climate. One of the tribe's mem· entire computer system . Finally, he
bars, a skilled fighter, continually constructed a new, perfect human and took them to his submarine.
demanded more food, clothing, and body for himself. After ten thousand In the ensuing fight, Puck, by ,.-
women for himself at the expense of years of mastery of the starship and
the other tribe members. Finally, the the knowledge it gave him, the form· removing the Master's helmet, unin.:
tribe wearied of his behavior and er exile, now styling himself the Mas- tentionally wreaked horrifying dam-
drove him away to live alone in the ter, was ready to embark on his age to the flesh on the Master's
harsh, frigid land by himself. head. Now, according to the Master,
mission of conquest. he could no longer control his vessel
One day he fell under a hypnotic However, he was unable to free or the nonhuman Plodex, which
command to turn around and jour- began wrecking the submarine 's
ney north again. He did so until he himself from the starship complex, automatic systems in its fury. Namor,
came to the source of the command, for he had become so integrated into Puck, and Marrina, who shortly
an immense starship. This was a col· the ship that it would not release him. thereafter reverted to her normal ,......._
onization ship of the alien Plodex. Moreover, he determined that two of human personality, all escaped. The
The Plodex method of conquest was the Plodex who had been contained submarine exploded, and the nonhu-
to send a colonization starship, con- in the ship's eggs had hatched and man Plodex was apparently
taining no adult Plodex but millions survived and existed at the present destroyed. But Namor found no
of Plodex eggs, to a world whose time: Marrina, now a member of the trace of the Master, and it is still
dominant life form was in the early Canadian organization of adventur- unknown whether he is alive or
stages of cultural development. The ers called Alpha Flight, and the Plo-
starship would land in an inhospita· dex who was intended to be her dead.
ble area, rebuild ifself into a massive mate, although she as yet knew
complex, and broadcast a hypnotic nothing of this other Plodex's exist-
signal to cause the planet's native ence, or even that she herself was an
life forms to come to the ship. The alien. The Master was determined to
most intelligent creature to survive destroy both Marrina and her intend-
the journey to the starship would be ed mate as vengeance upon the Pio·
captured and analyzed. The com- dex for the torture he had suffered.
puter would imprint the chosen life He broadcast a hypnotic signal to
form 's genetic pattern on the millions Marrina's submerged savage Plodex
instincts, forcing her to come to the
starship. The starship's mechanisms
took her prisoner and tortured her.
The other members of Alpha Flight
came to her rescue and, as the Mas-
ter had intended , destroyed so much
of the starship's mechanisms that

40

-STATISTICS MASTER ORDER

F ShZ (500) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A ShZ (500) Master Order and Lord Chaos do not
S ShZ (500) seem to be in conflict, which is unu-
E ShZ (500) sual for two opposing archetypes.
R ShZ (500) They have described their role as the
I CL3000 opponent of "the Still One" (Death).
P CL3000 In their relationship, Order serves as
Health: 2000 the respondent to Lord Chaos's
Karma: 6500 questions, because Order is the
Resources: CL1000 force of certainty. Master Order rare-
ly intervenes directly; he will employ
Popularity: O agents (and in extremes, the ln-
Betweener). Chaos and Order seem
BACKGROUND to work together to ensure the con-
Real Name: Not applicable tinuation of the universe.
Occupation: Personification of
Order, agent of universal balance 41
-...Jdentity: The general population of
:arth does not know of the existence
of Master Order
Legal Status: Not applicable
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Not applicable
Known Relatives: Not applicable
Base of Operations: The Universe
Past Group Affiliation: Partner of
~ord Chaos
,resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Cosmic Awareness: Master Order
has Class-5000 cosmic awareness.
Telepathy: Master Order has Class-
3000 telepathy, able to communicate
between galaxies. He cannot (or,
more likely, will not) directly inter-

---.tere, aside from giving creatures
vith extrasensory abilities (combat
sense, cosmic awareness) a chance
to make a Psyche roll to determine
what Master Order would like them
to do (such characters may ignore
the "hunch").
Note: In all likelihood, Master Order
has more powers than have been

revealed.
Contacts: Master Order is the part-
ner of Lord Chaos, and uses the ln-
Betweener as an agent.

HISTORY are unknown. Master Order, along power between them for the welh
with its " brother" entity Lord Chaos, being of the universe. (Eventual!~
Master Order, embodying the princi- were first observed during the final according to physics, the energy and
pal of uniformity, orderliness, and war with Thanos, the mad Titanian matter in the universe will succumb
immutability, is one of a small class who worshipped the embodiment of to entropy, or the maximum state of
of cosmic beings who seem to have Death. Master Order and Lord Cha- inert uniformity, meaning that Master
no personality beyond the abstract os apparently manipulated Spider- Order will ultimately dominate.) Mas-
concept each represents. (Others in Man's critical role in freeing Adam ter Order and Lord Chaos may sim-
this class of beings include Death, Warlock from his soul-gem to defeat ply be aspects of Eternity itself. Their
the ln-Betweener, and Lord Chaos.) Thanos. The extent of Master .powers, nature, and function remain
The origins of these abstract entities Order's power or scope of influence unknown at present.
is unknown. Apparently, Order and
Chaos try to maintain a balance of

42

MASTER PANDEMONIUM

--STATISTICS

I

F GD (10)

A GD (10)

s RM (30)

E EX (20)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
p RM (30)
Health: 70
Karma: 46
Resources: RM(30}
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Martin Preston
Occupation: Former actor, head of
Anvil Pictures, and Demon Com-
...._,,mander
dentity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Anvil Studios,
Los Angeles, California
-.,Past Group Affiliation: None
.>resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Demonic Limbs: At will, Master Pan-
demonium can detach his arms and
legs, which are actually demons.
Pandemonium has Unearthly control
over his demons, whose stats are:

---...,, F A S E R I P
RM GD RM GD TY GD TY

Health: 80 affects those who have protection hands of an enemy, it prevents Pan-
Body Armor: Good against, or who absorb, normal fire demonium from releasing demons.
Flight: Excellent (such as the Human Torch). Talents: Master Pandemonium has
Claws: Excellent Power Absorption- Demonic: Mas- Acting and Business/Finance tal-
ents, and knowledge of Occult Lore.
Demon-Horde: Master Pandemoni- ter Pandemonium has the same Contacts: Master Pandemonium is
um can summon 1-10 demons per body armor and flight as his demons. an unwilling servant of Mephisto.
round through the star-shaped hole Fami/iar-Asmodeus: This demonic
in his chest. They have the same 43
stats and powers as his limb- bird has the same statistics and
demons. powers as the limb-demons, and
Invulnerability: Master Pandemoni- Amazing magic detection and Excel-
um has a Class 1000 resistance to lent growth powers as well.
fire. Amulet of Asmodeus: This device
Eldritch Attacks: Master Pandemoni- allows Master Pandemonium to tele-
~um can exhale a flame blast and port with Amazing ability; it has cov-
; hoot force bolts of Monstrous inten- ered several miles in one trip. In the
sity and range from his hands. His
fire, which is magical in nature,

ADDITIONAL NOTES: once worked. .r--

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY Master Pandemonium's chief pre
As a former actor, Martin Preston
seems to be viewing himself as Martin Preston was a rich and suc- occupation is finding "The Five," five'
someone playing the role of a villain, cessful Hollywood actor who ran his
rather than as a real person involved car off a cliff while drinking and driv- demons who have special signifi-
in villainous activity. His goal is very ing one night. Preston lost his right
real, however: to find "the Five," arm in the fall and was hanging cance to him. He believed the fledg-
pieces of his soul that were scattered upside down by his seatbelt when
by Mephisto, acquisition of which will the demon Mephisto appeared in ling superhuman champion Firebird
allegedly restore him to his normal answer to his screams of agony.
self. Master Pandemonium will do Preston offered Mephisto his soul in was one of the Five and attacked her.
anything to regain his soul, despite exchange for having his arm
the fact that he is dealing with one of restored to him. Mephisto, agreeing, Determining she was not, he ordered
the least reliable beings in exist- summoned a lesser demon, wrench-
ence. ed off its arm, and magically his demon-arms to defeat her, and
attached it to Preston's shoulder
stump. Preston lost consciousness then left. Firebird went to the West
in the process and was insensate
when Mephisto severed his unin- Coast Avengers for aid in finding
jured left arm and replaced it with a
demon-arm, as well. When Preston him. When Master Pandemonium
awoke, he found a star-shaped hole
in his stomach. Mephisto appeared and his demon hordes attacked the
and told him that he had broken the
actor's soul into five pieces and scat- Thing, in an attempt to determine if
tered it across reality. Each piece of
his soul would fit into a place in the he was one of the Five, the West
star-hole, and that it was up to Pres-
ton to discover the whereabouts of Coast Avengers arrived to combat
"the Five."
him. He managed to hold them off by
There are as yet no accounts of
Preston's activities between his summoning his horde of demons
acqtlisition of demonic arms and his
first encounter with the West Coast and escaped. .r
Avengers. It is known that he adopt-
ed the name Master Pandemonium Later, the other-dimensional Ca!
(pandemonium meaning "abode of
all demons " ) and purchased the People, who regarded Pandemoni-'
Anvil Pictures movie studio where he
um as a threat to their existence,

gave Tigra of the West Coast Aveng-

ers the task of slaying the actor.

Tigra, who is the mythic warrior-

woman of the Cat People, got her

chance some time later when the

West Coast Avengers tracked Mas-

ter Pandemonium to his motion pic-;-----

ture studio, but he managed to elude

her. Shortly afterward, Pandemoni-

um invaded the land of the Cat Peo-

ple, where he found one of the Five.

Pursued by the West Coast Aveng-

ers, he fell into a gateway and ended

up on a planet orbiting Arcturus, but

returned to Earth with the help of the

Fantastic Four. Master Pandemoni-

um is currently at large, still search-,.--...

ing for the Five.

.~
I

44

MASTERMIND

~STATISTICS

F GD (10)

A TY (6)

s TY (6)

E RM (30)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
p UN (100)
Health: 52
Karma: 140
Resources: GD(10)

Popularity: -1 o

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jason Wyngarde
Occupation: Professional criminal,
former carnival mentalist, former
,.-..,.subversive
·~entity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizenship unknown;
no criminal record as yet.
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
~ member of the original Brotherhood
1f Evil Mutants and Factor Three;
rejected applicant to the Inner Circle
of the Hellfire Club
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS mind can also make himself invisible power stunts) with Unearthly ability,
Illusion Generation: Mastermind's by creating an illusion that he is not and allows Mastermind to place his
sole power is generation of three- there. His illusions are visible to illusions directly into the victim's
dimensional illusions at the Unearth- everyone who can see them, and mind ( - 2 CS to the Psyche roll to be
...Jy level. He has fooled such include all sensory input (sound, disbelieved), where they will be per-
1sychically powerful mutants as Pro- touch, etc.) except smell, but they ceived only by the target victim.
fessor X, Magneto, and the Phoenix are not recorded on cameras, tape, Talents: None known, though •
(although the latter required a device or other recording mechanisms. Sebastian Shaw speculated that he
which enhanced his power). He is so Mindtap Mechanism: Frost Indus- had the Leadership talent.
skillful that even when a character tries invented a special device for Contacts: Wyngard, a member of
realizes that he is seeing an illusion, Mastermind to access his target's the original Brotherhood of Evil
he will still subconciously believe brain with his telepathic powers Mutants, also tried to get into the
that it is real and act accordingly (an directly. This mindtap allows limited Hellfire Club (the two groups are now
obstacle will seem like an obstacle, telepathy (to read the target's bitter enemies). Mastermind has
opponents cause damage, fires feel thoughts and memories only, no friends in the carny circuit and still
hot enough to burn). While damage
is imaginary, it is still removed from 45
Health, with O Health resulting not in
death, but in unconsciousness for 1-
1O rounds. Only characters that
make a Psyche FEAT vs. Unearthly
intensity may see through the illu-
sion and not be harmed by it. Master-
nind has used his illusions to
change into the form he used as a
member of the Hellfire Club. Master-

has Excellent contacts with carnivals HISTORY Mastermind sought to use his~
and circuses. mutant powers and artificial mean:
Nothing is known about Master- to psionically alter the personality of·
ADDITIONAL NOTES: mind's life before the time when, the X-Men's Jean Grey so that she
while working as a carnival mental- would willingly become the Inner Cir-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ist, he was enlisted by Magneto as a cle's new Black Queen. Unknown to
Jason Wyngarde is a stylish, ruth- member of his Brotherhood of Evil Mastermind or anyone else, how-
less individual. His chief goal is Mutants. At this time, Magneto ever, his victim was not really Grey
revenge against all of his former ene- sought to protect his fellow superhu- but a cosmic entity, the Phoenix-
mies, includ ing Sebastian Shaw man mutants from the persecution of _Force, which had duplicated Grey's
(whom he struck at by putting Emma normal human beings by conquering form and personality. Mastermind
Frost in a coma), Mystique (though humanity and ruling the world him- succeeded in turning the false Grey
the reason for his grudge against self. As a member of the Brother- into the new Black Queen, thus unin-
Freedom Force's leader has yet to hood , Mastermind battled the tentionally triggering the process
be revealed), the X-Men, especially original X-Men repeatedly, but to no that would soon transform her into
Jean Grey and Scott Summers. He avail. Finally Magneto attempted to the insane Dark Phoenix. Before the
uses his illusion powers to create enlist the aid of the enigmatic alien latter transformation was complete,
timeslips, preferring the motif of the be ing known as the Stranger. however, the false Grey broke free of
Hellfire Club of the Colonial period Angered, the Stranger transformed Mastermind 's control and opened
(1770s), and using his telepathy Mastermind into stone and trans- his mind to all the psionic sense·,....._.
device to learn things about his vic- ported Magneto, whom he captured,
tims that he can use in corrupting to another planet. impressions she received from the ·
their morals. cosmos. His mind overwhelmed,
Eventually, Mastermind returned Mastermind fell into a catatonic
to normal and joined Factor Three, state. The Inner Circle, of course,
another organization of superhuman rejected his application for member-
mutants bent on world conquest. ship.
However, Mastermind , learning that
he was an extraterrestrial being, Again, Mastermind eventually
turned against Factor Three and returned to normal , but he remem-
joined the X-Men in defeating the bered the glory of the cosmos he had,..--....
group's leader. perceived and felt tormented that he

After again being defeated as a could no longer experience it. He
member of Magneto's Brotherhood, decided to take revenge on Grey's
Mastermind was invited to apply for friends, the X-Men, by manipulating
admission to the Inner Circle of the them into killing Madelyn Pryor. But
Hellfire Club. To prove his worth, the X-Men discovered Mastermind's
deception and defeated him. His
present whereabouts and activities
are unknown.

46

_ STATISTICS MAULER

l ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Brendon Doyle is a mercenary who
f IN (40) will do virtually anything for money
A EX (20) (though he was unwilling to kill his
old friend James Rhodes). Doyle
S IN (40) prides himself on being effective; at
E IN (40) the same time, he knows when a
R GD (10) fight is impossible to win . Like any
good mercenary, he will try to manip-
I EX (20) ulate a given situation for his own
P TY (6) personal benefit.
Health: 140
Karma: 36 47
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Brendon Doyle
Occupation: Mercenary, profes-
sional criminal
Identity: Secret
,.......,':egal Status: Dual citizenship in the

united States and Great Britain with
no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Londonderry, North-
ern Ireland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliation: None

.resent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Laser Cannon: Monstrous damage
with a 15-area range.
Body Armor: Remarkable protection
against physical attacks, Incredible

protection against energy attacks.
Electric Touch: The Mauler's left
__gauntlet is charged with a pulsed
·lectrical shock which does

Amazing damage.
Flight: The Mauler armor flies at
Amazing speed (25 areas/round).
Life Support: The Mauler can survive
for up to three and one-half days in
hostile environments without penal-
ties.

Talents: Doyle is a mercenary with
many skills, including Military and

Guns Talents.
Contacts: Doyle has a number of
contacts from his mercenary days,
and has used James Rhodes in his

schemes.

HISTORY emitter, Revised) created for the him close to bankruptcy. Cord risked--.
Defense Department as a prototype the company's remaining money i
Aaron Soames worked for thirty-five for a mass-producible, high- creating a combat suit of similar
years as a file clerk at the Cord Con- technology battle outfit for the U.S. design, which he called Raider. As a
glomerate, whose president was Army. demonstration for a potential cus-
industrialist Edwin Cord. When tomer from SHIELD, he dispatched
Soames was sixty-three years old, As the Mauler, wearing the stolen men wearing Raider suits to attack
Edwin Cord had the information from battlesuit, Soames attacked Edwin Iron Man. The demonstration failed,
the files that Soames maintained Cord, first at the latter's country club, causing the loss of innocent lives.
computerized, and Soames was laid then at his Long Island City factory, Cord was indicted and convicted of
off. The computer contained the but both times had to deal with Dare- reckless endangerment. Financially
record of Soames' employment at devil. However, Soames was able to ruined, Cord sold his company to
the Conglomerate. However, due to tell Daredevil some of his story. Stark International. The Mauler armor
a programming error, Soames' entire When the Mauler finally did get Cord was stored, presumably unnoticed, in
thirty-five-year work record was acci- at his mercy, he didn't kill the indus- a Stark warehouse.
dentally erased from the computer's trialist. Instead, he just removed
memory. Hence, when Soames Since Soames, however, two men
applied for his pension from the com- Cord's credit cards, driver's license, have worn the Mauler battlesuit. One
pany, the accounting department bank cash machine cards, and other was a common thug named Turk
refused to give it to him. forms of personal identification and Barrett who used the suit in an,.----
destroyed them. Thus Soames got unsuccessful attempt to get revengf
The distraught Soames asked his revenge by symbolically doing to on Daredevil. The second was mer-
Edwin Cord to arrange the pension Cord what Cord and his computer cenary Brendan Doyle, whom the
he deserved, but Cord cruelly had done to him: wiping out records jailed Cord hired to steal the Mauler
refused, taking pleasure in the fact of his existence. suit from Stark International. Doyle
that the programming error gave the left Cord's employ, and began a life
company an excuse not to pay Soames intended to do no harm to of crime as a super-powered merce-
Soames. When he also failed to Cord beyond this. But then guards nary. However, Tony Stark realized
receive Social Security because of arrived with a powerful "vibra-mace" that some of the circuits in the Maul-
the missing records, Soames took device, and Daredevil was unable to er armor (among others) utilized
matters into his own hands. prevent them from firing it at Soames. principles stolen from the Iron Mar,,-.
armor. Stark began a crusade to neu-
The former accountant stole from The intense vibrations penetrated the tralize the technology that had been
the Cord Conglomerate the multi- Mauler armor and killed Soames. stolen from him. When confronted by
purpose armored battlesuit code- Daredevil, who had come to sympa- Iron Man, Doyle realized that he
named MAULER (Mobile Armored thize with Soames, was one of the few could not succeed in stopping Iron
Utility Laser-guided Electron-beam mourners at the accountant's funeral, Man, and surrendered the Mauler
which he attended in his real identity suit without a fight.

of attorney Matt Murdock.
The Defense Department cancelled

the Mauler contract with Cord, driving

48

MAXIMUS

- STATISTICS

. F GD (10)
A GD (10)

s EX (20)

E RM (30)
R IN (40)
I GD (10)
p RM (30)
Health: 70
Karma: 80
Resources: IN(40)
Popularity: - 30

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Would-be usurper of
Attilan
..--...,.Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of Attilan
Other Known Aliases: Maximus the
Mad
Place of Birth: Island of Attilan,
Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Agon (father,
deceased), Rynda (mother,

deceased), Black Bolt (brother), Gor-

- gon, Triton , Karnak, Crystal, Medusa

~cousins)

Base of Operations: Attilan, Blue
Area of Earth's moon
Past Group Affiliation: Royal family
of the lnhumans, leader of "Evil

lnhumans," ally of Shatterstar, ally of

the Enclave
Present Group Affiliation:

- ,KNOWN POWERS • Invisibility (Telepathic): Maximus allegedly on a planetary scale. With
Wind Control: Maximus has Incredi- can alter the minds of people in his knowledge and sufficient
ble ability to control actions of others the area so they immediately for- resources, he should be able to cre-
by overriding their minds. Although get his presence, even though ate a device that performs any feat
he can affect everyone within his they can see him. possible through Inhuman science,
range, he can only induce a single with at least Incredible rank
effect at a time, lasting until the vic- Precognition: During his bouts of (Amazing or better, depending on
tim is freed from his influence. He seemingly incoherent madness, how long he works on it).
has developed these stunts: Talents: Maximus is a genius in the
• Possession: The target obeys Maximus occasionally has precogni- fields of genetics, engineering, and
Maximus's every thought. tive visions at Remarkable rank. physics. He has created a number of
• Induced Amnesia: By concen- Weapons: Maximus has created a nasty inventions and beings.
trating on a single victim, he can wide variety of weapons, including Contacts: Maximus has had contact
induce amnesia with a Red the Atmo-Gun, which created a Shift with the Kree and the Enclave. It is
FEAT. X Force Field around Attilan, and the unlikely the latter will trust him.
• Mind Transferral: He may switch Hypno-Gun, which projected an
his mind with another person's Amazing strength Mind Control, 49
who is then trapped in Max-
imus's (usually comatose) body.
It is unknown if Maximus could
use this power to survive the
death of his own body.