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killed. encountered Chleee, a member of DRC scientists repair the synthecon
Weakness: The Synthecon must be the alien race the Gix, who had been and, he claimed, they altered it so
removed by both partners. Should mortally wounded in the crash land- that it no longer would link Hammer
one die, the linked partner dies of ing of his starship. Panicking at the and Anvil mentally and so that Ham-
shock within 5-15 turns. sight of the strange alien, Hammer mer and Anvil could remove it at will.
TALENTS: Petty criminal skills. fired his stolen handgun at Chleee Once again given superhuman
CONTACTS: D.R.C. and thereby unintentionally saved strength by the synthecon, Hammer
his life. Unaware that Hammer had and Anvil battled Spider-Man and
ADDITIONAL NOTES: actually been trying to kill him, the Guardians of the Galaxy on
Chleee wished to thank him and behalf of the DRC. One of the Guard-
ROLE PLAYING NOTES Anvil. Believing the chain linking ians, Martinex, used his freezing
Jackson is a bitter product of a self- their wrists to be merely a "drab power to cover the synthecon with
perceived neglected childhood. He adornment," Chleee split the chain ice, radically lowering its tempera-
harbors great resentment against and used a device called a molecular ture and thus rendering it brittle.
his father and authority figures. Anvil transfuser to create an "energy syn- Spider-Man then fired his webbing at
is a racist who decided that he hated thecon" joining their wrists in its it, shattering the device. Thus Ham-
prison more than he did Jackson. place. By absorbing kinetic energy, mer and Anvil were defeated once
the energy synthecon granted the more.
HISTORY two escaped convicts superhuman
strength. Gix then departed in his The DRC repaired the synthecon ,,.....,
As an adult, Leroy Jackson was said starship. once more, and sometime later
to hate everyone and everything. He Hammer and Anvil clashed with the
was sentenced to prison for reasons Hammer and Anvil returned to the original Spider-Woman in Los
that have not been revealed and was prison and used their new superhu- Angeles when they kidnapped
assigned there to a chain gang. An man strength to begin tearing it apart Amanda Sheridan, the head of
unidentified person in the prison in revenge for their captivity there. Sheridan Industries for the DRC.
administration with a perverse sense Then, suddenly, the monstrous Hulk With Sheridan the corporation's pris-
of humor decided that Jackson, arrived at the prison. By coinci- oner, the DRC intended to attempt a
whose nickname was "Hammer" dence, the Hulk had recently met corporate takeover of Sheridan
and who was black, should be "Crackajack" Jackson, who was on Industries. Spider-Woman rescued ---.
chained while working on the chain his way to the prison to visit his son, Sheridan and fought Hammer and
gang to another prisoner, Johnny and who befriended the lonely mon- Anvil twice more. In her final battle
Anvil, who was well known as a racist ster. The grateful Hulk took the elder with them, Spider-Woman fired bio-
who hated blacks. However, Ham- Jackson into the prison, leaping over electrical energy into the synthecon
mer and Anvil's hatred for prison the outer wall. Seeing his father. to render it inoperative, and then
proved to be even stronger than their Hammer began quarreling with him. defeated its wearers.
hatred for each other, and they suc- "Crackajack" Jackson accidentally
ceeded in escaping while still brushed his hand against the energy Somehow the synthecon became
chained together at the wrists. synthecon, whose sheer power operational once more. It is not
killed him on contact. Enraged at the known whether or for how long Ham-
In escaping, Hammer overpow- death of his friend, the Hulk attacked mer and Anvil remained employed ,...--.,
ered a guard and stole his .38 hand- Hammer and Anvil. The two convicts by the DRC. However, a considera-
gun. Eventually Hammer and Anvil fought back, but finally the Hulk ble time after their defeat by Spider-
lost the search party that had gone seized hold of the energy synthecon, Woman, Hammer and Anvil, once
after them. But then the two convicts despite the pain it caused even to his again linked by the synthecon,
superhuman form, and split it in two. encountered the Ht1lk in the desert in
The synthecon had linked Hammer New Mexico. Then the enigmatic
and Anvil psychically as well as assassin Scourge, who had been
physically, and the mental shock disguised as an aged American Indi-
they suffered when the synthecon an, killed Hammer by shooting him in
was severed drove them insane. the face with an explosive bullet.
Apparently the synthecon now
Eventually, however, Hammer and linked the life forces of Hammer and
Anvil regained their sanity, and Ivor Anvil and Anvil could not remove it,
Carlson, the head of the Deterrence at least not by himself. On seeing
Research Corporation, had them Hammer dying, Anvil realized that he
released from prison and hired them himself would perish as a result.
as corporation employees. Founded Indeed, when Hammer expired sec-
and formerly headed by Moses Mag- onds later, Anvil's life came to an end - ·
num, the DRC dealt in munitions and as well.
was willing to use criminal methods
to achieve its goals. Carlson had

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HAMMER, JUSTIN

STATISTICS

F PR (4)
A GD (10)
S TY (6)
E GD(10)
R EX (20)
I TY (6)
P GD (10)
Health: 28
Karma: 26
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Justin Hammer
Occupation: Industrialist, Criminal
financier
....-... Legal Status: Citizen of Monaco
Identity: Public
Place of Birth: Surrey, England
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
,.._, Justin Hammer has no superhuman

powers.
TALENTS: Hammer has an Amazing
command of the financial and busi-
ness worlds. He is a superb middle-
man and packager.
CONTACTS: Hammer can call upon
any of his employees, companies, or
agents for assistance.

- ADDITIONAL t-U)TES:

ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Hammer is a businessman, not an
overt villain. He is out to conquer the Justin Hammer is an unscrupulous
world through financial means. How- industrialist and head of various
ever, he recognizes the usefulness international design and manufac-
of controllable supervillains. He pre- turing firms. A long-time competitor
fers to maintain contacts with vari- of Stark (now Stane) International,
ous high · tech villains- providing Hammer became one of the leading
repair facilities, equipm~nt weapons suppliers in the world after
upgrades, supplies, and legal assist- Stark International moved out of
ance. These agents in turn act on his weapons production. Hammer main-
behalf as well as supply him with tained other manufacturing interests
50% of their loot.

101

besides weapons and it was while reclusive Hammer to the Mediterra- Stark's girlfriend Bethany Cabe and
bidding for an electronics plant to be nean Sea, where he was taken cap- brought her aboard his huge subma-
built within the borders of the small tive by Hammer's mercenaries. rine. Iron Man managed to severely
Communist country of Camelia that There he learned about Hammer's damage the vessel, but was unable
Stark and Hammer came into direct designs upon him as well as some of to apprehend Hammer.
conflict. Knowing that Iron Man was his shadier operations such as the
an essential part of Stark lnternation- financing and outfitting of various Justin Hammer remains at large, a
al's image as well as security (but not costumed criminals in exchange for reclusive billionaire overseeing vari-
knowing that Iron Man was actually fifty percent of their profits. Stark ous international business interests,
Anthony Stark), Hammer directed managed to wreck the device that legal and otherwise. Among the
his engineers to develop a means to could override his armor and then many costumed criminals who he
override Iron Man's armor. The engi- donned his spare suit in time to bat- has outfitted and financed opera-
neers eventually built a hypersonic tle Hammer's reserves, a small army tions for are Blacklash, Blizzard,
device able to breach the armor's of costumed criminals. Vanquishing Melter, Man-Killer, Beetle, Spymas-
refractory coating. Over a period of them , Iron Man damaged Hammer's ter, Leapfrog, the Porcupine, Water
weeks they tested their ability to floating villa and captured the man Wizard, Stiletto, Discus, the Con-
override the cybernetic circuitry of who designed the equipment that strictor, Blue Streak, and Captain
the armor by activating various overrode his armor. Justin Hammer Barracuda. Among those one of
weapons systems against Iron managed to escape. Although Iron Hammers companies has built
Man's will. Iron Man dismissed these Man managed to clear himself of the weaponry for are the Orb, the Viper,
incidents as mechanical malfunction murder charge by exposing certain and the Black Spectre and Zodiac
rather than a deliberate override. of Hammer's activities, he could not criminal organizations.
Finally, Hammer activated Iron effectively thwart Hammer's opera-
Man's repulsor unit, causing Iron tions, since his diverse corporate
Man to kill the Carnelian ambassa- holdings are unknown to the authori-
dor to the United Nations. His armor ties. Iron Man encountered Hammer
impounded, Tony Stark tracked the a second time when he kidnaped

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HANGMAN

- STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A GD (10)

S EX (20)

E EX (20)
R TY (6)
I PR (4)
P FB (2)

Health: 70
Karma: 12

Resources: TY(6)

Popularity: -10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Harlan Krueger
Occupation: Soldier, vigilante,
.--.... assassin
Legal Status: US citizen with crimi-
nal record
Identity: Known to police
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, Califor-
nia
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None

Base of Operations: Los Angeles
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
None; the Hangman depends wholly The Hangman is a psychotic killer.
on his own physical skills and equip- He chooses a specific class of tar- Harlan Krueger was a fanatical mov-
ment. gets, then pursues and kills anyone iegoer who idolized John Wayne,
Weaponry: The Hangman employs who matches his chosen class. He Humphrey Bogart, Alan Ladd, and
two weapons during combat. The also sets specific rules for himself; other leading men of the films of past
first is a 30 foot long rope tied with a failure to follow those rules results in decades, identifying them with the
hangman's noose at the end and the almost paralyzing self-doubt. If con- heroic characters they portrayed.
r- other is a scythe with an 8 foot long fused , he will eventually alter his tar- Perceiving a clearly drawn division
handle and a 4 foot long blade which get and ethical standards. between good and evil in these films,
does Good Edged Weapon damage. Krueger developed a simplistic view
TALENTS: Hangman 's Fighting is of real life, believing that the differ-
Remarkable when using his weap-
ons and his Reason is Excellent in
matters pertaining to Hollywood
films of the 1940s to 1960s.
CONTACTS: None

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

103

ence between good and evil in the not hold him for long. Hangman to copy down all the
world around him was clear and The Hangman was eventually cap-
absolute. Moreover, just as the vil- names of the people he intended to
lains in movies often paid for their tured by the man who called himself
crimes with their lives, so too the Locksmith, who was determined kill for making the movie. Not realiz-
Krueger believed that criminals in to imprison all superhuman beings in
real life who committed sufficiently the Los Angeles area. The Lock- ing that Krueger was dangerous,
heinous deeds should forfeit their smith kept the Hangman under con-
trol by administering tranquilizing O'Brien gave him a press kit listing
lives. drugs to him and having him contin-
A brawny youth, Krueger enlisted ually wa1ch videocassettes of banal all of the credits.
and simplistic television programs to
in the army and was sent to the front occupy his mind. The Locksmith had That night the Hangman killed the
lines in wartime. Before long he was also taken the original Spider-
courtmartialed for torturing pris- Woman prisoner, but she managed movie's director Earl R. Brown. The
oners of war. As a result Krueger to break free and to release those
spent six years in an army stockade. among the rest of the Locksmith's next night the Hangman murdered
Upon release he applied for a job captives whom she believed she
with the Los Angeles Police Depart- could trust. Spider-Woman summon- Andrew Paffenroth, the producer of
ed the police, who took the more
ment but was turned down. dangerous captives, including the " Gore Galore". Reading of the mur-
Krueger decided that all public Hangman, into custody. At this point
in the Hangman's career, he is ders in the newspaper, O' Brien real-
officials had become soft and cor- known to have executed over thirty
rupt, that the police were apathetic men, many of whom were known ized that the man to whom he gave
towards their duty to capture crimi- criminals. Five of the women he had
nals, and that the courts merely imprisoned starved to death during the press kit must have been the
returned criminals to the streets to his absence from his hideout; the
continue their assaults on society. police found and freed ten other killer. Afraid he was indirectly
Krueger resolved that to serve the women before they could also die of
greater good of society, he would hunger. He may very well have been responsible for the murders himself,
take the law into his own hands, as
some of the heroes of the films he responsible for the deaths of even O'Brien called the police, who told
loved had, and he became the more men and women than these.
masked vigilante called the Hang- him they did not have enough man-
Sent to a mental institution,
man. Krueger began to rethink his modus power to protect all the rest of the ...--...
For years the Hangman stalked operandi and realized it would take
more than his lifetime to rid the world people connected with the movie.
the streets of Los Angeles, wielding of all those whom he deemed cor-
a noose and a scythe as his weap- rupt. Instead, he decided, he would O'Brien went to warn James Schu-
ons. As the Hangman, Kruger pur- attack those whom he considered to
sued a private crusade against those be the sources of corruption. mann, one of the writers of the
whose ideas of morality conflicted Krueger believed that contemporary
with his own harsh, narrow-minded, films promoted immorality whereas screenplay for " Gore Galore", only
merciless code. Krueger executed the movies he watched as a youth
those he considered worthy of death did not. Therefore, Krueger resolved to find that the Hangman had
either by hanging or by dismember- he would direct his vengeance
ing or impaling them with his scythe. against those he held responsible for already killed him.
The Hangman only intentionally making the contemporary films he
killed men. He believed that women believed were inducements to sin That night O'Brien went to the
were too weak-minded and emotion- and crime.
al to be held fully responsible for 'wrap' party celebrating the end of
their evil deeds, and that any women Escaping the mental institution,
who had committed wrongs must Krueger laid low for a time and built filming on a new movie, "Splatter-
have been misled by evil men. his body up to peak strength. He
Instead of executing women of low then began anew his crusade of ter- day", which had in its cast several of ,........

morals, he imprisoned them to pro- ror and retribution. the actors from "Gore Galore". To 1
tect them from being corrupted any Film reviewer Matthew O'Brien
further. O'Brien's dismay, it was a costume
attended a showing of the low budg-
In the course of the Hangman's et horror movie " Gore Galore", at party, complicating his effort to rec-
which the Hangman was also
career as a vigilante, he clashed present. The closing credits of the ognize and warn the hangman's
repeatedly with both Jack Russell, film were shown too quickly for the
who is a werewolf, and the original potential victims. Worse, O'Brien
Spider-Woman. The Hangman was
saw the Hangman himself, in full
captured by the police, but they did
costume , at the party; obviously

everyone believed the Hangman to

be just another person who had been

invited to the costume party. .---....

The Hangman then killed a hood-

ed robed figure whom he believed to

be one of his intended victims. But

on pulling the corpse's hood back,

he discovered that he had mistaken-

ly killed a woman . Thus the Hang-

man had unintentionally violated his

own moral code, by which women

must be protected. In tears, the

Hangman mournfully knelt before

the corpse, having set aside his

scythe. Absorbed in his grief, the

Hangman did not notice O'Brien

coming up quietly behind him. Know-

ing that the Hangman had to be

stopped from murdering again, and

knowing too that the Hangman might

turn around at any moment and kill . -.

him, O' Brien fatally plunged

Krueger's own scythe into the Hang-

man's back.

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AGATHA HARKNESS

- STATISTICS

F PR (4)
A TY (6)
S PR (4)

E TY (6)

R EX (20)
I EX (20)
P MN (75)

Health: 20

Karma: 115
Resources: GD (10)

Popularlty: 1o

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Agatha Harkness
Occupation: Witch, Governess
- Legal Status: Citizen of New Salem
Identity: Public is unaware she is a

witch.
Place of Birth: New Salem (proba-
bly)

Marital Status: Widow
Known Relatives: Nicholas Scratch
(son}, Salem's Seven (grandchil-

dren)
Base of Operations: New Salem;
...---.Whisper Hill, NY; Baxter Building,

NYC
Past Group Affiliation: New Salem
Witches, Fantastic Four (ally)
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Ritual Magic: Agatha Harkness has When Agatha was alive, her main
at her command a great variety of concerns were countering the
magical spells which gave her the effects of evil magic upon the world
,following powers at Monstrous and protecting those she 'adopted'
ranks: Force Field, Force Field vs. (both Franklin Richards and the
Hostiles, Force Field vs. Magic, Scarlet Witch). Form time to time,
Reflection, Resistance to Magic, her dedication to properly helping
Extra-dimensional Detection, Life her 'children' may lead her to do
Detection, Magic Detection, Power things which might seem, at first
Detection, Psionic Detection, Bio- glance, to be against that person 's
physical Control (Healing and Dis- best interests. Her devotion is so
ruption}, Hypnotic Control, Mind strong that she will return from the
dead to assist her 'children.'
Control, Neural Manipulation, Sha-
pechange Others, Summoning, 105
Magic Control, Magic Domination,
Sympathetic Magic, Com-municate
with Animals, Communicate with
Plants, Dreamtravel, Empathy, Free
Spirit, Sensory Link, Telepathy,
Dimension Travel, and Gateway.
TALENTS: Her Mystical Origin gave
,..-. her Monstrous Occult Lore.

CONTACTS: The Fantastic Four
(especially Franklin Richards} and

The Scarlet Witch

HISTORY Franklin and Harkness but were cap- The seventh member, Gazelle, had,..-
tured as well. Harkness was placed on opposed the others' plan to entrap the
Agatha Harkness, who was the most trial for consorting with outsiders and Scarlet Witch. As punishment, Gazelle
powerful sorceress in New Salem, tor revealing the existence of the New was sentenced to be slain as a human
became its 'grande dame' or leader. Salemites to the outside world sacrifice. Vertigo asked the Scarlet
Very little is known about Harkness's although, in fact, she had kept the Witch to join their coven. But when she
past before her association with the existence of the New Salemites secret. refused, Vertigo planned to sacrifice
Fantastic Four. It is not even known The Fantastic Four escaped their cell, her as well as Gazelle and the Vision.
how old she is. The fact that New overcame Salem's Seven, and found The Vision broke free shortly after
Salemites refer to outsiders as 'mor- Harkness just as the death sentence dawn of the following day, and he bat-
tals' may indicate that the New Salemi- was about to be administered upon her. tled Vertigo, who wielded the combined
tes have life spans far longer than Reed Richards pointed out to the New magical forces of all 666 New Salemi-
human beings. Salemites that Harkness had never tes. The Vision defeated her nonethe-
told them about New Salem and that less and as a result Vertigo lost control
The identity of Agatha Harkness's the Fantastic Four would never have of the community's magical forces,
husband is unknown. It is not even found the town had Nicholas Scratch which threatened to kill all the New
known whether ' Harkness' is Agatha's not abducted Franklin. The New Salemites. The Scarlet Witch attempt-
husband's last name or her maiden Salemites realized that it was Scratch ed to channel the tremendous mystical
name. Agatha and her husband had who had betrayed them, not Harkness, forces into a mountain. Agatha Hark- -
only one child together, the warlock and cast a spell of eternal banishment ness's spirit appeared to her and told ,
known as Nicholas Scratch (see upon him, sending him to another her to use the power as well as chan-
Appendix: Scratch, Nicholas). 'Nichcr dimension. Harkness, Franklin, and neling it. The Scarlet Wrtch therefore
las' and 'Scratch' are both names the Fantastic Four subsequently left did both. The power channelled into
given to the devil, and hence, 'Nicholas New Salem. the mountain caused it to explode, and
Scratch' may merely be an alias that the New Salemites were apparently all
Agatha's son assumed. Nicholas Sometime later, Harkness, Franklin, killed. The Vision and the Scarlet Witch
Scratch had number of wives, who and the Fantastic Four were visiting survived, however, and the magical
bore him the many children who have New Salem together when Nicholas power that the Scarlet Witch had ' used'
since become known collectively as Scratch took control of the minds of vir- rather than channelling into the moun- .--
Salem's Seven: Brutacus, Gazelle, tually all the New Salemites from the tain caused her to become pregnant
Hydron, Reptilla, Thornn, Vakume, and dimension in which he was imprisoned. with the two children to whom she later
Vertigo I. Salem's Seven, who served Scratch, gave birth.
overcame the Fantastic Four. Franklin
Eventually Agatha Harkness left Richards, who possesses tremendous Later, the specter of the deceased
New Salem, for she wished to associ- latent psionic powers, freed the New Thornn captured the Scarlet Witch and
ate with people in the outside world Salemites from Scratch's spell, but brought her into a supernatural dimen-
once more. She came to live in an old Salem 's Seven and the captive sion ruled by a mystical entity known as
mansion on Whisper Hill in the Fantastic Four had been magically Samhain. There, the Scarlet Witch dis-
Adirondack Mountains in upper New transported to New York City. There covered Harkness' spirit, which had
York State. Salem's Seven planned to bring been bound helplessly to an ethereal ,,.-.
Scratch to Earth. Scratch, from his stake ever since her physical death.
There Harkness was contacted by dimension, took control of the Fantastic But Harkness had mystically contacted
Reed Richards, the leader of the Four's minds, but Franklin broke the Vision, and she told him how to
Fantastic Four. Richards and his wife Scratch's hold over them. Harkness help fight Samhain by destroying a
and teammate Susan had recently had used her magical powers to strip book of druidic magic to which
a son, Franklin. Due to Reed and Salem's Seven of their supernatural Samhain was mystically bound. By
Susan Richards' dangerous lives as powers and to banish the seven New doing so, the Vision made it impossible
costumed adventurers, they needed Salemites back to New Salem. She tor the mystical being known as
someone to take care of Franklin dur- also cast a spell further entrapping Samhain to keep his humanoid form.
ing their absences who would also be Scratch in his other dimension. Harkness could not defeat this entity as
capable of protecting him from possible long as he had Samhain's form, but
attacks by their enemies. Learning of Finally, though, Vertigo, the leader of now she broke tree from the stake and
Agatha Harkness's supernatural used her magical powers to entrap the
powers, Reed Richards asked her to Salem's Seven, turned the other 665 entity within the spirits of his allies, six
become Franklin's governess, and of the members of Salem's Seven.
she, admiring the Fantastic Four's New Salemites against Harkness. With the former Samhain and his six
heroism, accepted. Salem's Seven regained their super- major allies defeated, Agatha Hark-
natural powers and were able to cap- ness's spirit took her leave of the Scar- --~
Later, Harkness and Franklin ture Harkness whom they executed by let Wrtch. Harkness's spirit went to her
Richards were abducted to New burning her at the stake. resting place in the hereafter, and the
Salem, whose people were now led by
her son, Nicholas Scratch, who hated Harkness's spirit apparently influ- Scarlet Witch returned to her home on
her. The Fantastic Four came after enced the Scarlet Witch, causing her to Earth.
go to New Salem with her husband, the
106 Vision. There, they were captured by
six of the members of Salem's Seven.

HATEMONGER

~ATEMONGER I

STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A GD (10)

s GD (10)

E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
p IN (40)

Health: 50
Karma: 60

Resources: EX(20)

Popularity: - 30

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Adolf Hitler
,........_Occupation: Conqueror
.egal Status: World crim inal
(deceased)
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Various places
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Other clones
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Ex-ally of
the Red Skull
.-fresent Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE PLAYING NOTES HATEMONGER II
Serial Immortality (Premade): The The original Hate-Monger wanted to
first Hatemonger could Automati- conquer the world . His preferred tac- STATISTICS
cally transfer to a previously created tic is to make the worlds' nations tear
clone if one existed. each other apart. He is a ruthless F EX (20)
Hate Ray Pistol: This weapon had madman who will sacrifice his A GD (10)
the power to incite Monstrous hatred forces, equipment, and even his cur- S IN (40)
and had a range of 1 area. It normally rent body to achieve his goals. He E IN (40)
----affected all persons within a 20 foot preferred to choose allies with ties to R RM (30)
the Third Reich. I EX (20)
phere of the target area. P EX (20)
Hate Ray Cannon: Like his pistol, this Health: 110
weapon could produce Monstrous Karma: 70
hatred. However, its range was far Resources: EX (20)
greater (100 miles) and it would Popularity: -10
affect all persons in the target Area.
TALENTS: Military and Political
Leadership skills.
CONTACTS: Any neo-Nazi group or
Third Reich-related organization .

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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BACKGROUND HATEMCNGER Ill ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Real Name: Man-Beast
Occupation: Supervillain STATISTICS ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Legal Status: None The Hate Monger is a lying, dupli-
Identity: Secret F TY (6) cious fiend who will seek out anyone~
Place of Birth: Unknown A TY (6) with a hidden hatred. He then
Marital Status: Single S TY (6) inflames that hatred until the person
Known Relatives: None E GD (10) or group becomes a berserker. He
Base of Operations: Mobile R GD (10) prefers to remain in the background
Past Group Affiliations: None I GD (10) and let his victims do the main fight-
Present Group Affiliation: P MN (75) ing. He will seek superheroes whom
he can corrupt into acting as his
KNOWN POWERS Health: 18 allies.
Lycanthrope: The Man-Beast pos- Karma: 95
sessed two forms. The first of these, Resources: EX (20) -================- ,,--._
a canine form, is described above Popularity: Special
while the second (a humanoid form) HISTORY
had the following statistics: BACKGROUND
Real Name: H. M. Unger "The Hate-Monger" is a name that
FASER I P Occupation: Supercriminal has been used by three individual
TY TY GD GD RM EX EX Legal Status: Deceased menaces to humanity in the past,
Identity: Secret two of whom are known to be
Emotion Control: The Man-Beast had Place of Birth: Microverse deceased.
the power to induce Amazing intensi- Marital Status: Single
ty raw hatred in his targets. Known Relatives: None The original Hate-Monger was,.,..-...
Hate Amplifier: Using this mechani- Base of Operations: NYC apparently Adolf Hitler, who rulec
cal device, the Man-Beast was able Past Group Affiliations: Minion of Nazi Germany as its Fuehrer
to increase his Emotion Control Psycho-Man ('father' or leader) from 1933 to
power to Monstrous rank. Present Group Affiliation: 1945. In early 1945 the brilliant Nazi
Natural Weaponry: The Man-Beast's biologist Arnim Zola told Hitler that .
claws and bite could do Remarkable KNOWN POWERS he had constructed a brain pattern-
damage . Android Body I Imitation: The Hate imprinting device with which the
TALENTS: Incredible Reason in the Monger's artificial body had the memories, personality, and even, it
design and construction of psionic Monstrous ability to change form was said, the actual consciousness
devices. and thus duplicate the appearance of one brain could be transferred
CONTACTS: None of any human being . totally to another. Moreover, Zola told
Emotion Control: The Hate Monger Hitler that he had discovered the
ADDITIONAL NOTES: could induce Amazing hatred in all process that is now known as clon-
persons within 2 areas. If he was ing, through which a duplicate of a
ROLE PLAYING NOTES able to establish physical contact, living being may be created using
The Man-Beast wanted to devastate this power jumped to Unearthly rank. the genetic code within one or more
the Earth in order to conquer it and Pamphlets: The Hate Monger has cells from the original living being's
repopulate it with New Men under created specially contaminated body. Through these means, Zola,..-....
his control. His animal nature occa- pamphlets which give him Remark- believed he could keep the Fuehre1.
sionally overrode his behavior. able control over those who touch alive indefinitely. Intrigued, Hitler
them. allowed Zola to 'energize' his brain
TALENTS: The Hate Monger had and to take a sample of his body's
developed certain Psychological
skills which allowed him to detect
and nu rture people's hidden
hatreds.
CONTACTS: Because of his shape-
changing abilities, this varies with
his appearance.

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HATEMONGER

cells. Zola then cloned an entire ments of this kind. The hate-ray SHIELD and by the Man-Wolf.
xain from those cells. could also transform feelings of love Eventually, the Hate-Monger
into equally strong or perhaps
On April 30, 1945, as the invading stronger hatreds. The hate-ray could formed an alliance with the original
Russian army closed in on his Berlin be fired from a handgun selectively Red Skull, who had been the second
capital , Hitler, hidden in a fortress- at one victim or at a small number of most powerful individual in Hitler's
like bunker, planned to kill his body victims. It could be projected from a Third Reich . Based on Exile Island,
and, thanks to Zola's 'energizing' space platform or satellite over wide the Hate-Monger and Red Skull had
areas of Earth, or even projected scientists in their employ attempt to
process, psionically transfer his con- from a base on Earth so as to construct the Cosmic Cube , an
sciousness into a cloned brain, 'bounce off' the moon and blanket apparently infinitely powerful means
which Zola was keeping safely far any area on the Earth that was facing of creating in reality whatever its
away. Hitler was interrupted by the wielder desires. However, neither
arrival of the original Human Torch the moon at that time. the Hate-Monger nor the Skull was
and Toro, who were determined to Concealing his true identity willing to share such power. The
capture him and bring him to trial. Hate-Monger therefore transferred
When Hitler reached for a flame- beneath a hood, the Hate-Monger his consciousness into the Cube fab-
proofed switch to detonate explo- began preaching class, racial, and ricated by their scientists. But the
sives that would kill the two Torches, religious hatred in the United States. Red Skull, having anticipated his
the Human Torch set him aflame. As At the same time, the Hate-Monger partner's plans and wishing to dis-
--..._he died, Hitler willed his conscious- was testing the effectiveness of his pose of him, had concealed from him
1ess to transfer itself into the cloned hate-ray on a major scale by using it the fact that their Cube did not con-
brain with the help of Zola's automat- tain the energy matrix necessary to
ic brain patter-imprinting device at to bring about civil war in the small its function. Hence, the Hate-
the latter's laboratory. Latin American nation of San Gusto. Monger's consciousness has been
The Hate-Monger was opposed in entrapped within the Cube appar-
It is not definitely known whether San Gusto by the Fantastic Four and ently unable to escape.

the consciousness in the cloned Nick Fury, who was then a member The second individual to assume
brain was the actual consciousness of the U.S. Central Intelligence the name of the Hate-Monger was
of Adolf Hitler, that thus survived Agency. When the Hate-Monger the Man-Beast, a wolf whom the
Hitler's physical demise, or whether tried to fire a hate-ray at the second High Evolutionary gave human-level
-,.it was, instead, a duplicate of Hitler's Human Torch, a member of the intelligence, semi-humanoid form,
;onsciousness. In either event, the Fantastic Four, another member, and superhuman powers. The Man-
Beast adopted the costume and
first Hate-Monger believed himself to Invisible Woman, struck the Hate- name of the Hate-Monger in the
be the original Adolf Hitler. Monger's arm , ruining his aim. As a course of his attempt to conquer the
result, the Hate-Monger accidentally Earth by psionically inducing hatred
Over the following decades Zola hit two of his own men with the hate- in the people of the world. The Man-
cloned and grew entire bodies from ray who then shot him dead. Beast was opposed by Spider-Man
his samples of Hitler's cells. Zola and was seemingly killed when his
also treated the original cloned brain But in dying, the Hate-Monger own hate amplification machine
and each of those in the cloned psionically transferred his con- exploded. However, it is not defin-
bodies so that a life force and mental sciousness into another of the itely known whether the Man-Beast
~ ~ssence could be projected from one bodies that Zola had cloned for him. is currently dead or alive.
.o another. The first cloned brain The first Hate-Monger thus transfer-
psionically transferred its conscious- red his consciousness into new The third Hate-Monger was an
ness to one of the clones' bodies. bodies at least six times, including android created by the otherdimen-
The being that was thereby created once into a humanoid body without a sional scientist and conqueror
took the alias 'Hate-Monger' humanoid head, whose brain Zola known as the Psycho-Man . The
because he believed that the means intended to transplant physically into Psycho-Man gave the android the
to world conquest lay in fomenting the body of Captain America. Thus, alias of 'H .M. Unger' as a pun on the
hatred among the various races. although there has seemed to be a name 'Hate-Monger.' The android
Warfare would then erupt from long succession of individuals did not normally resemble Hitler,
which, he believed, only his own matching the description of this first
Aryan 'master race' would survive. Hate-Monger, each of whom died although it could presumably take on
horribly, there has been, in fact, only Hitler's appearance using its shape-
Scientists working for the Hate- one such Hate-Monger, who, when- changing ability.
Monger created his greatest weap- ever he found himself on the point of
on, the 'hate-ray' or 'H-ray.' This death, psionically transferred his As noted, the Hate-Monger
high-frequency microwave radiation consciousness into another of the android had the ability to alter its own
affected the centers within the cloned bodies. The Hate-Monger appearance. Hence, the android
human brain controlling emotions so tried many times to conquer the could make itself look like either a
···qs to stimulate and magnify the vic- world after his defeat in San Gusto, male or female human being, or
but was defeated by Nick Fury in his
Jms' feelings of dread, fear, and new role as Public Director of appear to be a member of any
anger to unusual levels, including
repressed or subconscious senti-

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human racial type. At one point the between blacks and whites, between the Invisible Woman. Thinking the-.
android even gave itself the appear- men and women , and between the android to be her husband, Susa,
ance of Reed Richards, who leads older and younger generations. Richards did not suspect it would
the Fantastic Four as Mister Before speaking before each group,
Fantastic. The limits on the Hate- the Hate-Monger would take the harm her. The Psycho-Man and
Monger's shape-changing abilities form of someone who could be a Hate-Monger then altered Susan
are unknown. Apparently it could not member of that group. Hence, it Richards' mind, twisting her love
duplicate a person's superhuman would appear to be a white man and compassion into hatred.
abilities. The extent, if any, to which when speaking before other whites Renaming her Malice, they sent her
it could alter its height and mass is against blacks, and would appear as to destroy the rest of the Fantastic
unknown. Nor is it known whether a black man when speaking before Four. (Susan Richards' Malice per-
the Hate-Monger android could take blacks against whites. sona is not to be confused with the
on an inhuman appearance such as Malice who opposed the Ghost Rider
that of the Thing. There is no evi- In most of his guises, the Hate- or the Malice who is a foe of the X-
dence that it could change into total- Monger android distributed pam- Men.) Realizing what had happened
phlets which the Psycho-Man had to his wife, Reed Richards broke the
ly non-humanoid forms as the created from alien paper from his Psycho-Man's hold on her mind by
Skrulls for example, were able to do. own otherdimensional universe and insulting and striking her, thus giving
had coated with alien chemicals that her real cause to be angry at him.
At short range, the Hate-Monger affected the minds of many of those The mental shock which Susan,.-
android could apparently induce who handled the pamphlets, stimu- Richards thereby suffered causec
hatred in human victims, presum- lating their active and latent hatreds.
ably through broadcasting the same her to revert to her true personality.
stimuli as the Psycho-Man's equip- Through the Hate-Monger's By broadcasting energy on a cer-
ment does when inducing hatred. efforts, especially the use of the
The android could even transform a pamphlets, people throughout New tain frequency, Reed Richards undid
York City gave way to intense hatred, the effects that the chemicals on the
victim's love into hatred. leading to widespread disorder, acts pamphlets had on people's minds
As part of an onslaught against of violence and large scale destruc- and the Hate-Monger android was
tion, especially through fires. destroyed by an explosive bullet
Earth, the Psycho-Man brought the fired by the enigmatic vigilante
Hate-Monger android there to make On the Psycho-Man's orders, the Scourge. The Fantastic Four fol;----..
Hate-Monger android adopted the lowed the Psycho-Man to his homl
speeches before various groups in appearance of Reed Richards and dimension, where Susan Richards
order to stir up their hatreds against approached his wife Susan Richards took her revenge on him.

others. The Hate-Monger android
would, for example, arouse hatred

110

HAVOK

..---,STATISTICS

J

F TY (6)
A EX (20)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
P GD(10)
Health: 76
Karma: 30
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 1O

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Alexander Summers

Occupation: Geophysics Grad Stu-

dent, Adventurer

~ JLdeegntailtSy:taStuesc:reCt itizen of the U.S.
..

Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawa11

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Scott (Cyclops,

brother), Christopher (Corsair,

father}, Katherine Anne (mother},

Philip and Deborah Summers

(g randparents), Madelyne Pryor-

Summers (sister-in-law)

~ Base of Operations: Mobile

.Past Group Affiliations: X-Men

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Plasma Generation: Monstrous dam- Havok is a reluctant superhero. His
age if directed, Amazing damage if discovery of his powers in adulthood Alexander Summers is the younger
undirected. made him less prone to acting as a of the two sons of Christopher Sum-
Absorption: Monstrous ability to superhero. He originally tended to mers, a United States Air Force
absorb plasma energy and rechan- anguish over any harm his powers major and test pilot, and his wi~e
----._nel it into his blasts. caused. He usually fights supervil- Katherine Anne. When Alex was still
TALENTS: Remarkable knowledge lains only when they attacked him or a pre-adolescent, his father flew him-
of geophysics and geology. Leader- his companions. When his power is self, Alex, Katherine Anne, and his
ship skills (a family trait). reaching its maximum charge, he older son Scott in his vintage private
CONTACTS: Polaris (his fiancee}, becomes highly emotional and is plane back from a vacation. The
the X-Men, X-Factor, and the Star- given to berserker rages. He is plane encountered a scoutship of
jammers deeply devoted to Polaris.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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111

the extragalactic Shi 'ar Empire, who was also a mutant who called mers a costume whose chest display,.-....
which set the wooden plane ablaze. himself the Living Pharaoh, had dis- monitored the build-up of cosmic.
Katherine Anne Summers pushed covered a psychic link between him- energy within him, and the code-
Scott and Alex out of the burning self and Summers. While both of name Havok. When the X-Men
plane with the only available para- them had the latent mutant power to finally freed Trask's captive mutants,
chute. Thus the two boys escaped absorb and transform cosmic radia- Summers accompanied his brother
capture by the Shi'ar, although their tion, Abdol's ability to exercise the and his teammates back to civiliza-
parents did not. (Scott and Alex power was jammed in an unknown tion where he began to undergo
believed both their parents had been manner by Summers' body. Captur- training to help him keep his energy
killed until, as adults, they were ing the youth and taking him to his in check. Eventually Havok gained
reunited with their father, who had laboratory in Egypt, Abdol found a enough mastery over his power that
since become Corsair, leader of the way to screen Summers' body from he would release it only when he
Starjammers, a starfaring band of ambient cosmic radiation, permitting wanted to do so, and could wield his
adventurers.) The boys were hospi- his own body to attain its latent power skillfully enough to become a
potential. Abdol was thus trans- truly formidable opponent in battle.
talized for injuries they sustained formed into the Living Monolith, a
during their landing, since their over- gigantic mutant with vast cosmic Havok fell in love with Lorna Dane,
burdened parachute had been power. The Monolith was defeated the mutant known as Polaris. Neither
unable to slow their descent safely while in combat with the X-Men when Havok nor Polaris wished to lead a
enough. Scott and Alex both suf- Summers' latent mutant powers sur- life as an adventurer, but they discov- -.
fered traumatic amnesia about the faced under the stress of entomb- ered that they had a mutual interest
incident on the plane. Alex left the ment within the mechanism in geophysics. For a time they were
hospital in two weeks, and was designed to screen him from cosmic both doing doctoral research in that
placed in an orphanage in Omaha, radiation. Incapable of controlling subject in the Diablo Mountain range
Nebraska. Soon adopted, Alex had the shock waves his body emanated, in Arizona. Recently Havok rejoined
little or no contact with Scott until Summers chose to remain in the the X-Men as a full-time member fol-
years later. Egyptian desert rather than accom- lowing their battles with the Hellfire
pany the X-Men back to America. Club and Nimrod. During the battle
Alex was unaware of Scott's devel- with the Adversary, Havok was
oping mutant power or his identity as Summers was soon captured by believed killed along with the X-Men . ~
Cyclops of the X-Men until after the one of the mutant-hunting robotic
younger Summers had graduated Sentinels and brought to the head- However, he and the others secret l~
from college. It was at that time that quarters of Larry Trask, the son of the
Alex first became aware of his own Sentinels' inventor. Trask gave Sum- relocated to Australia, where they
mutant abilities. A professor of continue their battle against mutant-
archaeology named Ahmet Abdol , haters.

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- STATISTICS

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

R TY (6)
I GD (10)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 22
Resources: GD (6)
Popularity: 45

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Clint Francis Barton
Aliases: Goliath II, Golden Archer
Occupation: Adventurer, Security
...--... Consultant
Jlegal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Waverly, Iowa
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Barbara Morse
Barton (a.k.a. Mockingbird, wife),
Harold and Edith (parents,
deceased), Bernard (brother,
deceased)
....---... Base of Operations: Los Angeles,
CA
Past Group Affiliations: Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS *Flare: Good intensity light in 2 area *Suction Cup: Remarkable
Enhanced Vision: Remarkable eye- radius; Amazing damage to target adherance to smooth surfaces
sight *Magnetic: Incredible adherence. *Tear Gas: 1 area coverage
Equipment: May carry cable or another arrow- *Thermal: Remarkable heat dam-
Bow: This special bow enables him head age
.-.....to fire 3 arrows per round at a range *Net: Incredible entanglement *Vibration : Excellent damage
of 7 areas. * Putty: Remarkable adherence to Skymobile: A personal hovercycle
Quiver: 36-shaft capacity rough surfaces; may be used to stop Control Speed Body Protection
Harness: 36 arrowheads in special exposed machinery
quick-release cases *Rocket: boosts range by 1 area; EX IN EX 0
Arrowheads: All have a range of 7 may be added to other arrowheads
areas, except where noted below. *Siren : Excellent intensity noise in TALENTS: Hawkeye's archery skill
Each arrowhead can be removed each area. Endurance FEAT or be is Incredible. He has Excellent Rea-
from its case and mounted on a shaft Stunned 1-1Oturns son in designing and building new
in 2 seconds. *Smoke: 1 area coverage arrowheads. He is knowledgeable in
*Acid: Monstrous damage; range 3 circus lore.
areas
*Bola: Remarkable entangling 113

attack
*Boomerang : computerized, self-
returning arrowhead; may be added
to other arrowheads.
*Cable: 2 area-long cable of lncredi-
- ble Material
• Electrical: Amazing damage; range
5 areas
*Explosive: Amazing damage

CONTACTS: Avengers accident when he was eight, Barton battle crime. However, in his first
ADDITIONAL NOTES: and his brother were placed in the publ ic appearance as a masked
state orphanage. At fourteen, Clint hero, Hawkeye was mistaken for a
ROLE PLAYING NOTES thief and found himself in battle with
Barton has spent his life filling in the and Barney Barton ran away from Iron Man. Weeks later, his attraction
gaps he sees in himself. Despite a the institute to join a traveling carni- for the Russian spy Black Widow led
lack of real powers, he strives to be val. There Clint Barton apprenticed him to commit further acts on the
the best hero he can be. He is also himself to the carnival's star attrac- wrong side of the law. However, Iron
concerned with making an individual tion , the mysterious rogue known Man soon learned of Hawkeye's true
name for himself. Occasionally only as the Swordsman. Recogniz- nature and sponsored him tor
these drives lead him into question- ing Clint's natural flair for archery, Avengers membership.
able situations. the Swordsman agreed to tutor him'
in the art. (Barney was relegated to Hawkeye has been an active
HISTORY menial work.) member of the Avengers for years,
with his archery skills augmenting
Clinton Barton was the younger of For eight hours every day for four the superhuman powers of his asso-
two sons born to a small business years, the younger Barton practiced ciates. For a short time, Barton aban-
proprietor and his wife. When his with bow and arrow, soon becoming doned his Hawkeye identity, and
parents were killed in an automobile good enough to perform profession- taking Henry Pym's growth serum ,
ally as a trick shooter under the operated under the name Goliath. ,,........
name of Hawkeye the Marksman. He resumed his Hawkeye identity
When Barton was eighteen, he acci- soon after. He has frequently taken
dentally discovered that his mentor extended leaves of absence from the
was stealing from the carnival man- Avengers, trying to establish a
agement. When the boy refused to career for himself outside of the
become his partner in crime, the group. He was once security chief for
Cross Technological Enterprises.
Swordsman chased him up onto a
tightrope and cut it out from under Hawkeye met and eloped with fel-
him. The Swordsman left him for low crimefighter Mockingbird during
dead and fled the carnival. Found by one of his leaves of absence from the ,---
his brother Barney, Clint was rushed Avengers. Upon his return, he was
to a hospital and eventually recov- appointed the chairman of a second
ered from the compound fractures to team of Avengers based on the West
his legs. A year later, he rejoined the Coast by then-chairman, the Vision.
carnival and resumed his act. Hawkeye and Mockingbird currently
live in the new Avengers Compound
One day Barton witnessed Iron outside Los Angeles and remain the
Man in action, and decided to emu- guiding force behind the new team.
late him by donning a colorful cos-
tume and using his archery skills to

114

STATISTICS HELLCAT

F EX (20) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Patsy wants to be a superheroine.
A EX (20) It's her dream and her way of coping
with her abused past. Although she
s EX (20) initially begged her way into the field,
she is determined to stay there as a
E EX (20) worthwhile member of the elite club.
She is happily married to Daimon
R GD (10) Hellstrom .
I GD (10)
p EX (20) 115

Health: 80
Karma: 40

Resources: GD (10)

Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Patricia " Patsy" Walker

Hellstrom
Occupation: Ex-model, adventurer,
,,- supernatural investigator
Legal Status: US citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Centerville, Califor-
nia
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Daimon Hell-
strom (husband), Joshu and Patty
(parents), Robert " Buzz" Baxter
(a.k.a. Mad-Dog, ex-husband)
- Base of Operations: San Francisco,
California
Past Group Affiliations: Defenders,
Avengers, partner in Hellstrom &
Hellst rom , Paranormal Investiga-
tions
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Psionic Detection: Good Rank
.,--... Telekinesis (defunct): Good rank.
Iron Will (defunct): Incredible resist-
ance to mind control
Mind Blast (defunct): Good rank
Costume: When wearing the suit,
her Strength, Agility, and Endurance

increase + 1CS. Without it her Abili-

ties are:

FASER I P
EX TY TY TY GD GD EX
Claws: retractable claws do Excel-
lent damage.
Cable-Claw: self-firing grappling
hook with 30-foot cable.
Shadow-Cloak (lost): A portable
hole.

Talents: She is an expert in Martial
Arts and Occult Lore.
~ contacts : Patsy is a former member
of both the Avengers and Defenders
and could call on them for aid if need

be.

HISTORY government-subsidized Brand Cor- on ic potential was artificially ,....--...
poration in New Jersey, Patsy Walk- enhanced by various electronic/
Patricia" Patsy" Walker was the only er met the Beast and learned his organic devices (Moondragon used
daughter of Joshua Walker, an aero- secret identity. Walker had long idol- similar technology to give powers to
nautical engineer, and Dorothy Walk- ized " super heroes", and she solic- Angar the Screamer and Ramrod)
er, a comic book writer. While she ited the promise from him that, in and was given extensive martial arts
was still a child her mother acted as exchange for keeping his secret, he training.
her agent, helping her at modeling would help her become a "super
and commercial work. Dorothy Walk- heroine" . Upon her return to Earth, she met
er's greatest success was the crea- the Defenders and decided to accept
tion of a comic book named after her When her marriage came to a bit- their offer of membership rather than
young daughter, featuring romantic ter end, she sought out the Beast, that of the Avengers. Hellcat
adventures of Patsy and her real-life who was a member of the Avengers, remained a core member of the
friends as teenagers. The Patsy to remind him of his promise. Tag- loosely-organized Defenders for sev-
Walker comic book was very popular ging along with the Avengers to eral years, becoming particularly
and continued for over a decade, as investigate criminal activities at the close to the Valkyrie and Nighthawk.
Patsy grew into and out of her teens. Brand Corporation , Walker discov- Eventually she met Daimon Hell-
Patsy Walker felt very strange about ered the costume worn by Greer Nel- strom , who in his costume guise of
her mother's fictionalized exploita- son in her identity as the Cat. (The the Son of Satan, joined the
tion of her, and was relived when the man who financed the creation of the Defenders for a short time. After he ,,~,
series ceased publication. Constant- Cat, Mal Donalbain, was a former was cured of his demonic aspect she
ly exposed to comic books, Walker employee at Brand. His property, found that she was in love with him.
grew to idolize the heroes her moth- including the prototype Cat-suits Renouncing her costumed identity,
er's colleagues wrote about. How- was later confiscated by the Brand Patsy Walker decided to wed Hell-
ever, she ceased daydreaming soon Corporation.) Putting the costume strom. The couple was married in
after high school and married her on, Walker dubbed herself Hellcat Greentown, Ohio, where her father
childhood friend, Robert Baxter (who and used her natural athletic abilities currently resided. The wedding,
had appeared in the Patsy Walker to help the Avengers. Walker attended by several of her
comic as her romantic interest). Bax- believed that the costume had some- Defenders colleagues, was inter-
ter was in the officers training pro- how enhanced her agility and speed, rupted by her ex-husband "Buzz" .,.-.....
gram of the Air Force, and Walker and by the power of suggestion more Baxter who had assumed the cos-
spent the next several years of her than anything else, it had. tumed guise of Mad-Dog, and the
life on numerous Air Force bases. Mutant Force. The Defenders
Although she hoped to join the repulsed the attack and Hellstrom
While her husband was assigned Avengers, Hellcat was persuaded by himself subdued Mad-Dog. The Hell-
to a security post at the heavily the Titanian priestess Moondragon stroms then moved to San Francisco
and established themselves as
to accompany her to Titan to occult investigators.
undergo a period of training . During

her stay on Titan, Hellcat's minor psi-

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HELIOPOLIS

- GEB ROLE PLAYING NOTES KNOWN POWERS
Geb is a semi-retired God who is
either father or grandfather to most Immortality: Horus has CL1000
of the current Heliopolitans. resistance to aging and disease.
Invulnerability: Horus has Unearthly
HORUS resistance to physical and energy
attacks.

Paralysis: Horus can project an

Incredible rank paralysis beam from
his left eye.
Light Generation: Horus can emit
Amazing intensities of light at will.
Heat: Horus can unleash Amazing
intensity heat.

Staff: Horus requires his staff in
order to focus and release his heat
and light powers.

ROLE PLAYING NOTES

Horus is devoted to his father, Osiris,
and is currently in training to assume
leadership.

ISIS

STATISTICS

F RM (30) F MN (75) STATISTICS
A RM (30) A MN (75)
S AM (50) F IN (40)
E Z (500) s MN (75) A IN (40)
R MN (75) E x (150) S IN (40)
I AM (50) E X(150)
R IN (40) R AM (50)
p z (500) I AM (50) I X(150)
P CL3000
Health: 610 p y (200)
Karma: 625
Resources: Z (500) Health: 375
Popularity: 50 Karma: 290

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Aliases: Seb,Keb Aliases: Horos, Hor
Occupation: God of the Earth Occupation: Sun God
Identity: Believed to be mythical by Identity: Believed to be mythical by
the general public of Earth the general public of Earth
Marital Status: Married to Nut Marital Status: Married to Hathor
Known Relatives: Osiris and Isis
KNOWN POWERS (parents)
Immortality: Geb has CL3000 resist-
ance to aging and disease.
Invulnerability: Geb has Remarkable
resistance to both physical and
energy attacks.
Earth Animation: Geb has t he
CL1000 abil ity to mani pulate all
forms of Earth.

117

Health: 270 R IN (40) STATISTICS
Karma: 3200
I IN (40) F UN (100)
BACKGROUND p y (200) A UN (100)
Aliases: Aset, Eset Health: 270 S IN (40)
Occupation: Goddess of Fertility Karma: 280 E Z (500)
and Domestication
Identity: Believed to be mythical by BACKGROUND R IN (40)
the general public of Earth Occupation: Sky Goddess
Marital Status: married to Osiris Identity: Believed to be mythical by I RM (30)
the general public of Earth p y (200)
KNOWN POWERS Marital Status: Married to Geb
lmmortaHty: Isis has CL1000 resist- Health: 740
ance to aging and disease. KNOWN POWERS Karma: 270
Invulnerability: Isis has Incredible Immortality: Nut has CL1000 resist-
resistance to physical and energy ance to aging and disease. BACKGROUND
attacks. Invulnerability: Nut has Remarkable
Regeneration: Isis can regain lost resistance to both physical and Aliases: Ousir
Health points at CL1000 speeds. energy attacks.
Elemental Control (All): Isis can exert Air Animation: Nut can exert Shift-X Occupation: God of the Dead
control over air masses.
Shift Y control over all elemental Weather Control: Nut has the ability Marital Status: Married to Isis
to control all aspects of the weather
forms. at Shift-X rank. Identity: Believed to be mythical by

ROLE PLAYING NOTES ROLE PLAYING NOTES the general public of Earth ,,,_
Isis is devoted to Osiris. She is a Nut is the mother or grandmother of
peaceful, warm woman who wants to most of the current Heliopolis pan- KNOWN POWERS
assist the 'primitive' mortals. theon . She is devoted to Geb. She
feels guilt and helplessness over Immortality: Osiris has CL1000
NUT Seth.
resistance to aging and disease.
OSIRIS
Invulnerability: Osiris has Unearthly

protection against physical and

energy attacks.

Plasma Generation: Osiris can

unleash Shift-X intensity plasma

from his body at will. ,,.........._

ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Osiris is the current leader of
Heliopolis and its resident pantheon.
He is both a capable and wise leader
but, unfortunately, he tends to under-
estimate the depths of Seth's villainy.

STATISTICS

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

E X (150)

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HELIOPOLIS

- SETH ROLE PLAYING NOTES tHoisrutwlei~ and became the god of air.
Seth maintains an army of militant sister Tefnut ruled at his side
worshippers. He is currently trying to as goddess of the rain. Shu and Tef-
conquer other divine realms. nut begat the fourth generation of

gods, Geb and Nut. Geb was a .g?d
of the earth , having a natural affrnrty
for mountains and other parts of the
earth 's crust. Nut was a goddess of
HISTORY the sky, specifically the starry hea-:-

Heliopolis, a Greek word meaning ens. Geb and Nut succeeded their
'City of the Sun' is now a part of .the parents when they too became to
infirm to rule, and begat the next
modern city of Cairo, but rn the trme more numerous generation of gods,
of Ancient Egypt it was one of the
four major centers of worship for the eldest among which was Osiris.
Osiris's siblings included Isis,
ancient Egyptian religion. (The other whom he took as a wife, Seth, and
three cities were Hermopolis, Mem-
wor- Nephtys. Osiris became the head of
phis, and Busiris.) !h e gods t~e the pantheon when Geb stepped
shipped at Heliopolis became down, and is credited with the

most widely known and honored rn spread of civilization throughout
all of Egypt, and constitute one of
Earth's first great pantheons (see Egypt and beyond . Osiris was the
last ruler of Egypt before historical
Gods). The gods of Heliopolis were times and the human pharaohs
said to have originated on Earth and
actually dwelled in Heliopolis until came to rule. Osiris became the
binegnethvoeleanfttegrolifd.eoffothr e~disealdo,~aplrewpaorr--
STATISTICS the time that the human pharaohs
took over the rule of the earthly king-
doms. At that time, the pantheon shipers. Osiris's wife Isis was
F MN (75) believed to teach humanity the arts
-A MN (75) founded its own celestial city of of medicine and the principles of
Heliopolis in a dimension adjacent to domestication. She was also a pow-
s zAM (50) Earth 's. It is there that the gods of
(500) ancient Egypt have dwelled through erful sorceress who was able to bring
E IN (40) historical times till the present. Very Osiris back to life after he had be~n
RM (30)
R y (200) little is known about the celestial murdered and dismembered by hrs
I Heliopolis other than that it app~ars jealous younger brother Seth. Seth,
p

Health: 700 to be built on a small planetary ob1ect as the god of evil and destruction,
Karma: 270 sought to rule Heliopolis himself and
much like the realm of the Norse murdered Osiris in order to do so.
gods, Asgard, is, and its passage to
earth is a golden bridge through His wife Mephtys, daughter of Geb
- BACKGROUND and sister of lsi, was also a goddess
space called the Path of the Gods,
Aliases: Set, Sutekh which is analogous to the Asgar- of the dead but was not evil like her
Occupation: God of Evil, Usurper of husband. Nephtys had no offspring
Death, and Would-be Conqueror dians' Rainbow Bridge. .
with Seth, but bore Osiris a son, A:nu-
Marital Status: Separated from The gods of Heliopolis came. into bis. Anubis invented funeral ntes
existence over several generations,
Nephthys . even as the Olympian gods derived and mummy wrappings, and
although it was Isis's magic that ro~e
Identity: Believed to be mythical by from the older generation of Titans.
the general public of Earth
Before there were any other gods Osiris from the dead, her magic
would have been useless had Anu-
KNOWN POWERS there was Nun, the essence of ch_aos bis not specially prepared Osiris's
Immortality: Seth has CL 1000 resist- or the primordial ocean of nothrng-
ance to aging and disease. ness. Nun was said to sire Atum, the body.
Invulnerability: Seth has Unearthly
protection from physical and energy first physically manifested go? Osiris and Isis had a son, Horus
attacks. among the Heliopolitans (and possi- the god of the sun. Horus w_as al~o
Hypnotic Control: Seth c~n exert instrumental in helping raise hrs
Amazing control over the minds and ble other pantheons as well). Atum father from the dead after Seth's
actions of others. later took the aspect and identity of
-... Plasma Generation: Seth can Ra, the primoridial god of the sun treachery. Upon resurrection, Os.iris
release Unearthly plasma blasts and first god to develop a c~lt of wor- dispatched his son Horu~ to frnd
from his hand.
shipers among the Egyptians. .Ra Seth to make him pay for hrs treach-
was said to sire the next generation ery. Eventually Horus enc~untered
and Tefnut, without a Seth and their cataclysmic clash
ofefmgaoldes~aStheu. Shu took Ra's place lasted centuries. Seth finally got the
upper hand over his nephew and
when Ra became too weary and old

119

Seth used his power to seal Horus, who had served as Osiris's grand Heliopolis to live out eternity. Begin- ,,-.
Isis, and Osiris within a pyramid on vizier, became head of the Heliopoli- ning with the rule of Thoth, however, ·.
Earth. There they remained until the tan pantheon. Thoth was believed to all of the gods moved to the otherdi-
Twentieth Century when Odin, then be a later son of Nun, the primordial mensional realm, to traffic with the
lord of the gods of Asgard, assumed chaos, which would make him a earth no more. When Osiris
the guise of Atum-Re, an aspect of brother to Atum. Still, he came along returned, Thoth gave up the throne
the first of the gods, in order to free much later than Atum and appears to to his mentor. The gods of Heliopolis
them. Odin's son Thor aided the be a contemporary of Osiris. After have remained in their extradimen-
Heliopolitans in vanquishing Seth. each generation of Heliopolitan gods sional realm since, having little traf-
retired from earthly rule, they trav- fic with Earth. Like most gods, they
While Osiris, Isis, and Horus were eled to the dimension of the celestial are believed to be mere figments of
imprisoned, the moon god Thoth, myth by most of humanity.

.----.

120

HELLIONS

The Hellions are a team of adoles- KNOWN POWERS HISTORY
.;ent mutants being trained in the use Lycanthrope: Catseye possesses
of their superhuman powers by both a demihuman and a feline form . It is believed that Catseye's physical
Emma Frost, the White Queen of the The demihuman form possesses a mutation manifested itself at her
Hellfire Club. The members of the furry tail and slit pupils. The feline birth, and was the reason her
Hellions are all registered as stu- forms retains human speech and unknown parents abandoned her.
dents at the Massachusetts Acad- intelligence; in addition, the tail She spent most of her childhood in
emy, a private school located in becomes prehensile. · her feline form , fending for herself,
Snow Valley in the Berkshire Moun- Claws: Catseye has claws which and still believes herself to be a cat
tains of Massachusetts. Frost is allow her to do Good damage in com- who turns into a human being. Even-
headmistress of the school and it is bat. When using her hands for tually she was brought to the White
here that she secretly trains the Hel- manipulation, however, they are Queen, who has encouraged the
lions in using their powers. It is somewhat clumsy and her Agility in development of the human side of
Frost's intention that the Hellions such matters drops to Poor. her personality.
when fully trained will serve the inter- lnfravision: Catseye's Feline form
ests of the Hellfire Club's Inner Cir- has Good thermal vision. EMPATH
cle, which seeks to amass political Prehensile Tail: Although Catseye
and economic power through both has a tail in both of her forms, only in STATISTICS
~ egal and illegal means. her feline body is the limb prehen-
sile. When she is in such a state, it F TY (6)
However, each of the Hellions has possess an Excellent Agility. A GD (10)
their own motivations, and not all of Wa/lcrawling: Catseye is able to
them lean towards criminality. move at normal rates across walls s TY (6)
Although Emma Frost trains the Hel- due to her claws.
lions to function as a team, she will Talents: Catseye has a photograph- E GD {10)
also train superhuman mutants at ic memory which gives her Excellent R GD (10)
the Academy apart from the team, recall. I GD (10)
such as Firestar. Contacts: Aside from the Hellions, p MN (75)
Catseye is quite close to Wolfsbane, Health: 32
~ who is also a lycanthrope. Karma: 95
Resources: EX (20)
CATSEVE ADDITIONAL NOTES: Popularity: 5

STATISTICS BACKGROUND
Real Name: Manuel Rodrigo de la
Demihuman Form I Feline Form Rocha
F GD (1 O)/EX(20) Occupation: Student
A EX (20) Legal Status: Spanish citizen
S GD (10) Identity: Secret
E GD (1 O)/EX(20) Place of Birth: Castile, Spain
.-..._fl PR (4) Marital Status: Single
I EX (20) Known Relatives: None
P EX (20) Past Group Affiliations: Hellions
Health: 50/70
Karma: 44 Present Group Affiliation:
Resources: PR(4)
Popularity: 2 ROLE PLAYING NOTES KNOWN POWERS
Catseye is a confused, volatile girl Emotion Control: Empath can exert
BACKGROUND with an unstable personality. She will Monstrous control over the emotions
Real Name: Sharon Smith cling to those she feels friendly to. of several targets, but able to estab-
Occupation: Student lish only a single emotion at a time.
Legal Status: US citizen The effect of his power last for 48
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown (Boston hours.
area) In combat, Empath prefers to
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None secretly control one of an opposing
Past Group Affiliation: Hellions group, then use that person against
._,,resent Group Affiliation: the victim's own teammates.

Talents: Bilingual; speaks Spanish
and English.

121

Contacts: Empath is a member of JETSTREAM ADDITIONAL NOTES: ,.-...
the Hellions and has worked with
Amahl Farouk and The Gladiators in STATISTICS
the past.
F GD (10)
ADDITIONAL NOTES: A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 60
Karma: 32
Resources: GO (10)
Popularity: 4

ROLE PLAYING NOTES BACKGROUND ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Empath is a true villain. He is arro- Real Name: Haroun ibn Sallah al- Jetstream possesses a highly devel-
gant, manipulative, scheming, and Rashid oped sense of honor. Because the
exhibits almost every other nasty Occupation: Student Hellfire Club saved his life, he dedi.1.
trait which he can get away with. As Legal Status: Moroccan citizen cated his life to serving them through
such, he revels in using people as Identity: Secret the Hellions. Although he is loyal to
tools. Although Magma is currently Place of Birth: Rif Mts., Morocco his teammates, he will act against
enamored of him, his affections for Marital Status: Single anyone he sees performing a dis-
her are faked. Empath feels limited Known Relatives: None graceful act. Because of this, he and
by Jetstream, since the latter's honor Present Group Affiliation: Empath are natural antagonists.
has led him to stymie Empath's more
scurrilous acts. KNOWN POWERS HISTORY
Rocket: Jetstream is a mutant who
HISTORY can generate thermochemical Jetstream is a Moor and a Berber
energy and release it from his skin. who greatly enjoyed using his power
Empath is the son of an impover- This release is accompanied by plas- to fly. But his body was unable to
ished noble Castilian family who can ma (a super-heated state of matter). withstand the tremendous energies
trace their li neage back to the So far Jetstream can only release he generated, and one day his flesh
ancient Romans. Empath provided this energy in one direction, beneath caught fire as he flew. To save him
unwanted assistance to Thunderbird him. The equal and opposite reac- and to enable him to use his power,,.-..
I in his attack on the X-Men, using his tion to this thrust causes his body to the Hellfire Club had him turned intc
powers on Firestar in the process. be propelled into the air like a human a cyborg . As a result, Jetstream feels·
Enraged, the White Queen tempo- rocket at Good speed. himself bound by his sense of honor
rarily deprived Empath of his to serve the Hellfire Club for the rest
powers. In revenge for his defeat by If he chooses to, Jetstream can of his life.
the X-Men, Empath arranged for the ram an opponent and do Remark-
kidnapping of New Mutants Magma able damage. ..-
and Sunspot by the Gladiators. Bionics: In additon to allowing him to
contain, focus, and control the
power he generates, his bionic sys-
tems give him the following abilities:

* Cybernetic implants give him
Good thermal vision.

* Optical implants give him the
Good ability to clearly see targets
up to 1 mile away.

* An internal radio transceiver has

a range of 20 miles.
* A normal-sized backpack can
fold out from his ribcage.
Talents: Bilingual; speaks both
English and Moroccan.
Contacts: None, other than the Hel-
lions.

122

HELol.::IONS

qouLETTE ADDITIONAL NOTES: TAROT

STATISTICS STATISTICS

F PR (4) F PR (4)
A GD (10) A GD (10)

S PR (4) S TY (6)
E GD (10)
R GD (10) E EX (20)

I GD (10) R GD (10)
P AM (50)
I RM (30)
Health: 28
P AM (50)
Karma: 70 Health: 40

Resources: GD (10) Karma: 90
Popularity: 8
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 8

BACKGROUND ROLE-PLAYING NOTES BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jennifer Stavros Like Empath, Roulette is self- Real Name: Marie-Anne Colbert
--- occupation: Student centered and often cruel, although Occupation: Student
Legal Status: US citizen she is not a real villain . She chooses Legal Status: French citizen
Identity: Secret to follow the path that ensures her Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Atlantic City, NJ the greatest comfort and stays with Place of Birth : Lyons, France
Marital Status: Single the Hellions simply because they Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None offer her a better life than the one Known Relatives: None
Past Group Affiliations: Hellions she had before. If a better offer Past Group Affiliations: Hellions
Present Group Affiliation: comes along, she will certainly con- Present Group Affiliation:
sider it.
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS
-..Probability Manipulation: Roulette HISTORY Image Animation: Tarot is able to
psionically cause figures and objects
Unearthly power to alter near-future Roulette was raised in Atlantic City on the tarot cards she carries to
events. can create discs of psionic and was the youngest of six children , materialize, grow to the same size as
energy which alter the probability four boys and two girls. Her father their real life counterparts, come to
field around the victim at whom she came to America with his parents life if the figure is of a living being,
throws the disc. Her black energy when he was a child and now works and act under Tarot's mental control.
discs create " bad luck," while her as a dealer at an Atlantic City casino. The exact properties of the replica
white energy discs bestow " good Roulette spent a great deal of time reflects its appearance and desired
luck." with local street gangs before she function. The maximum rank of any
became one of the Hellions. property that such a replica possess-
In game terms, she can alter any es is Incredible. Her replicas remain
~~ie roll by up to 50 points. The player in existence for as long as she con-
centrates on them .
running Roulette must announce Equipment: She carries a standard
beforehand if an increase or Tarot deck in a hip pouch.
decrease is desired and the number Talents: Minor occult lore concern-
of points by which the roll will be ing the use and interpretation of
altered. Tarot images.
Weapon: Roulette employs a small, Contacts:
single shot gas gun which possess-
es the Monstrous ability to stun a tar-
get for 1-1 O hours and negates any
and all of their mental powers for 24
hours.
Talents: Roulette has the usual petty
criminal skills one would expect from
her background as a gang member.
Contacts: She maintains ties with
the street gangs in Atlantic City in
addition to her membership in the
'-iellions.

123

ADDITIONAL NOTES: THUNDERBIRD ROLE-PLAYING NOTES :...-...

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES STATISTICS James is no villain at all. His origina~
Tarot is primarily out to learn how to
use her powers. Her powers are F EX (20) purpose in joining the Hellions was
somewhat limited by the fact she A GD (10)
must randomly choose a card from S IN (40) to eventually avenge his brother's
the deck in order for her power to E RM (30)
function . Because she believes the R GD (10) death. He is incredibly (almost insuf-
cards can prophecize, she worries I RM (30)
about gaining unwanted knowledge. P RM (30) ferably) proud and honor-bound. He
For example, when she drew the Health: 100
Lovers card while battling the New Karma: 70 will do anything to aid his teammates
Mutants, Tarot interpreted this to me Resources: PR (4)
she was to eventually fall in love with Popularity: 13 as long as no overt villainous acts
one of them.
BACKGROUND are involved.
Real Name: James Proudstar
Occupation: Student HISTORY
Legal Status: US citizen
Identity: Secret James Proudstar and his older
Place of Birth: Camp Verde Apache brother John were Apache Indians
Res., AZ. who both possessed the same
Marital Status: Single superhuman mutant powers. John
Known Relatives: John Proudstar joined the X-Men taking the code,,.........,.
(Thunderbird I, deceased brother)
Past Group Affiliation : Hellions 1
Present Group Affiliation:
name Thunderbird, but was killed in
KNOWN POWERS action during his second recorded
Body Armor: Thunderbird has Good mission. James blamed the X-Men
resistance to both physical and and their founder Charles Xavier for
energy attacks. John's death and vowed to get
Tracking: Thunderbird can follow the revenge. He was trained as a Hel-
trails left by others with Remarkable lion, and adopted the name Thun-
ability. derbird for himself.
Talents: He is versed in Apache and
other Amerindian lore and is skilled Eventually Thunderbird II tried tor---.
in wilderness survival. defeat the X-Men and kill Xavier
Contacts: The Apache Nation and However, James finally realized that
possibly those X-Men who knew his he was wrong to seek revenge, and
brother. that Xavier and the X-Men were not
responsible for John's death. Xavier
later invited him to join the New
Mutants, but he declined and
returned to the Hellions.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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- STATISTICS HERCULES

F UN (100) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) Hercules is a thrill seeker. He is cur-
S UN (100) rently "slumm ing it" on Earth
E UN (100) because it is a relatively interesting
R GD (10) place to be. He gives in to filling his
I GD (10) appetites for fun and (especially)
P RM (30) women. He is an unrepentant Casa-
nova who has trouble understanding
Health: 320 why women occasionally resist him.
Karma: 50
Resources: TY (6) 125

Popularity: 70

BACKGROUND

Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: Olympic citizen; hon-
orary US citizen
~ Identity : Public
Place of Birth: Thebes, Greece
Marital Status: Widower; Separated
from current wife

Known Relatives: Zeus (father),
Alcmena (mother, deceased); Nep-
tune and Pluto (uncles); Ares, Apol-
lo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Venus,
Athena, Artemis (half-siblings); Dela-
neira (first wife, deceased), Hebes
..-....(second wife, separated)
Base of Operations: Olympus and

Avengers Mansion (NYC)

Past Group Afflllatlons: Avengers,
Champions, and Olympians.

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Invulnerability: Hercules' Olympian
physique provides him with Excel-
,,....._ lent resistance to physical and
~nergy attacks and CL1000 resist-
ance to any form of disease.
Immortality: Hercules never ages
and can only be killed on the Olympi-
an plane.

The Golden Mace: Hercules has a
Golden Mace which is crafted from a
CL 1000 Material strength . In com-

bat, Hercules can employ it to do
Shift X damage.
Talents: Hercules has acquired a
great deal of knowledge on Olympi-
an and Classical Grecian Lore and is
able to operate most Avengers
equipment.
Contacts: Hercules is currently on
good terms with the majority of his
~ fellow Olympian Gods as well as the
.'.;hampions and Avengers.

HISTORY performed by the Eternal called the demise. Nessus kidnapped Hercu-,.-..
Forgotten One, who was sometimes les' wife Deianeira, whereupon Her·
Hercules is the son of Zeus, king of mistaken for Hercules.) cules shot him with an arrow.
the Olympian gods, and a mortal Feigning a wish to make amends
woman who lived in ancient Greece In the course of these Labors, Her- the dying centaur told Deianeira ho.,;
some three thousand years ago. cules provoked the wrath of three to make a love charm from his alleg-
Recognizing the need for a son who immortals who remain his enemies edly enchanted blood, aware that it
would be powerful enough to defend to this day. By slaughtering the man- was now tainted with the lethal poi-
both the Olympian gods and humani- son of the Hydra, in which Hercules
ty from future dangers he foresaw, eating Stymphalian Birds, he had dipped his arrows. Some time
Zeus seduced Alcmena in the guise enraged the war god Ares, to whom after Nessus' death, Deianeira, dis-
of her husband, King Amphitryon of they were sacred. In temporarily traught over her husband's latest
Troezen. Thanks to Zeus's enchant- capturing Cerberus, the three- infidelity, rubbed the supposed love
ment, Hercules was born with the charm into Hercules' shirt. Zeus
potential for extraordinary strength, headed hound that serves as guard- th.en in~ervened, consuming the pyre
which he first displayed before he ian to the Olympian underworld (not with his thunderbolts and bringing
was even one year old by strangling to be confused with the shape- Hercules to Olympus to be made a
two serpents which attacked him. As shifting giant of the same name), true immortal.
an adult, Hercules is best known for Hercules offended Pluto, the lord of
his celebrated Twelve Labors, which that realm. By killing the Nemean In an alternate future of the 23rd ,.,.._
were performed in part to prove his Lion, the Hydra and other creatures century, Hercules is the sole survivor
worthiness for immortality to Zeus. spawned by the inconceivably gro- of the Olympians, after Zeus had
(One of these Labors, the cleansing tesque and powerful monster decided that the time had come for
of the Augean Stables, was actually Typhoeus, Hercules gained the bit- them to leave this plane of existence.
ter enmity of Typhon, the immortal Hercules then left Olympus to
humanoid offspring of Typhoeus and become the father to a new race of
a Titaness. gods.

However, it was the centaur Nes-
sus who caused Hercules' mortal

126

HIGH EVOLUTIONARY

STATISTICS

F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S EX (20)
E CL3000

R CL1000

I CL1 000

P CL3000
Health: 3080

Kanna: SOOO

Resources: CL1000
Popularity: O(100 to his creations)

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Herbert Edgar Wynd-
ham
Occupation: Geneticist
,..-....__Legal Status: Former US citizen
'dentity: Secret
Place of Birth: Manchester, England
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Originally Wun-
dagore Mt., Transia, later the planet
Wundagore II, the planet Counter-
Earth, and most recently a mobile spa-

celab, now unknown
,......,_Past Group Affiliations: Founder of

<nights of Wundagore

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS * CL1000 Mental Probe * Missile Creation which does
Cyborg Exoskeleton: Most of the High * CL1000 Matter Creation. This Unearthly damage and has an
Evolutionary's powers are derived from power can be used for several different Unearthly range.
his protective suit which also provides powers, all at CL1000 rank.
its wearer with Unearthly protection * Spray which is of Unearthly
against physical attacks and Shift Z * Artifact Creation which allows intensity and can do Unearthly dam-
...-..._protection from energy, psionic, or the fabrication of complex shapes. age.

.nagical attacks. The other powers * Elemental Creation which can * The suit is designed to protect its
which the suit bestows upon him produce any type of element or com-
include: pound. wearer at all costs and, as such, auto-

* CL1000 range Clairaudience * Lifeform Creation which permits matically expends up to 150 Karma
* CL1000 range Clairvoyance him to bring any type of living being into points to prevent disasters from affect-
* CL1000 rank Communication with permanent existence. ing the High Evolutionary.
Animals
* CL1000 rank Communication with * Mechanical Creation that allows * The exoskeleton can, in time, even
Cybernetics the fabrication of any type of machine create a whole new body for Wyn-
* CL1000 rank Cosmic Awareness desired. dham.
* CL1000 rank Danger Sense which
also alerts the High Evolutionary of 127
threats to any of his creations
* The High Evolutionary can sepa-
rate his spirit from his physical form
and can survive in this state for an
indefinite period of time.
* CL1000 Levitation
* CL1000 Linguistics
* CL1000 Menial Invisibility which he

can extend1hiscovercge1o an entire \\Oid.

* The suit provides complete life hostility among his peers, Wyndham the title of Lord High Evolutionary. Dec-..--.
support for Wyndham, automatic recy- left the university to build a research ades later, the High Evolutionary con
center where he could carry on his verted his citadel into a spaceship and
cling his air and providing him with experiments without detractors. Joined set forth with his knights for the stars,
by his friend Jonathan Drew, who spe- feeling that Earth was too confining for
water and food. cialized in the study of arthropods, them. He left behind only three his sub-
* CL1000 range Speechthrowing Wyndham found the site for his facility jects, Jessica Drew (who had gained
* CL1000 range Telepathy on Wundagore Mountain in Transia, a spider-like powers from her treatment),
* CL1000 rank Total Memory country near Yugoslavia where Drew's the girl's nanny, Bova, and the evil cat-
wife was born. The two men purchased man, Tabur:
Talents: +3CS Reason in the fields of a tract of land on the mountain and dis-
covered a rich uranium deposit on their Eventually the High Evolutionary
Genetics and Engineering. property which they converted into deposited the Knights on their own
Contacts: The High Evolutionary working capital. In a matter of years, planet (called Wundagore II) and
maintains some degree of contact with they built a citadel of advanced scien- released them from his service. He
his creations (the New Men, Knights of tific research. Wyndham's work cen- then built himself a small moonlike sat-
Wundagore, inhabitants of Counter- tered on the improvement of his ellite and embarked upon the most
Earth), and could easily get in touch genetic accelerator while Drew studied ambitious project of his life, the con-
with the Avengers or the Fantastic Four. spiders' natural immunological resist- struction of a detailed replica of Earth.
Prior to his death, he had dealings with ance to radiation. Subjecting himself to Creating the world out of debris from ,.,.....
Adam Warlock. the asteroid belt, the Evolutionary posi·
his own machine, Wyndham began to tioned it in the Earth's orbit, on the
ADDITIONAL NOTES: accelerate his own intellectual capaci- opposite side of the sun from the Earth.
ty, enabling him to make increasingly
ROLE PLAYING NOTES: greater discoveries. The High Evolutionary called the
Wyndham is a firm believer in the obli- world Counter-Earth and for years
gations of noble, highly-powered Wyndham's partnership with Drew watched over it as its "god." Then,
beings to protect and assist lesser began to fray when Drew's younger when he reposed in his ultimately-
beings. He is dedicated to the creation daughter Jessica was stricken with evolved state, Counter-Earth was tow-
of new intelligent lifeforms. He sees radiation poisoning due to prolonged ed out of its orbit by the Planet-Movers
himself as Galactus' natural enemy, exposure to uranium. Though both sci- of Pegasus, an extraterrestrial compa-,,..-.....
particularly because of Galactus' entists pooled their skills to try to save ny of contractors. Curious as to the
attempts to feed on Earth and Counter-
Earth. However, he feels pity rather her, the treatment required years of nature of the beings who hired them,
than enmity because he sees Galactus constant radiation-therapy during the Evolutionary accompanied the
as yet another lesser being to be assist- which time the young girl had to be Pegasusians to the world of the Beyon-
ed on the evolutionary path. placed in.cryogenic suspension. When ders. (These beings are not to be con-
Drew's wife Merriem disappeared dur- fused with the Beyonder of the "secret
HISTORY ing her weekly trip to the village for sup- wars."). He saw the crowning achieve-
ment of his life placed on display in a
Herbert Edgar Wyndham was formerly plies (Wyndham learned that she had museum of curiosities and became
a student attending Oxford University been killed by a wolf-like beast but with- numbed by the superiority of the,...--.._
in the 1930's who built a machine capa- held that information from his friend), Beyonders. Going mad, he attemptec
ble of accelerating the genetic evolu- Drew became so despondent that he suicide, but the sophisticated circuitry
tion of living organisms. His first test departed Wundagore, leaving his of his armor had been designed to prcr
subject was his pet dog which he man- daughter in Wyndham's custody. tect him from all bodily harm. He then
aged to evolve into a creature who returned to Earth, hoping to find some-
stood upright and had the intelligence Beginning to believe in the supernat- thing strong enough to destroy his
of a chimpanzee. (The dog was acci- ural legends of the natives, Wyndham armor and end his misery.
dentally killed by a hunter.) His experi- devised a suit of protective armor. He
ments having provoked anger and then began to procure and genetically The High Evolutionary found such a
accelerate both domestic and wild ani- being in the Hulk, whom he cajoled into
mals into "New Men", animals with wrecking his armor. The Hulk succeed-
humanoid posture and intelligence. ed in demolishing most but not all of the
Among the first of his New Men were Evolutionary's armor, just enough so
Bova, a cow-woman, Porga, a pig-man, that the Evolutionary could devolve into
and Tagar, a tiger-man. With the assist- a mass of one-celled organisms. But as
long as the Evolutionary's armor con-
ance of the ghost of the Sixth Century tains the complete genetic information
magician Magnus, Wyndham trained for its manufacture, the High Evolution-
the menagerie of New Men in the arts ary's condition is reversible. It is only ~ --...
of chivalry and combat of the Sixth matter of time before its microcircuits
Century. Thus he founded the Order of reorganize themselves and restore the
the Knights of Wundagore to protect High Evolutionary to his previous state.
his realm from certain native sorcerous
foes. Wyndham himself had assumed

128

HOBGOBLIN I

STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A RM (30)

S IN (40)

E IN (40)
R EX (20)
I GO (10)
P EX (20)
Health: 130
Karma: 50
Resources: EX {20)
Popularity: - 20

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Edward " Ned" Leeds
Occupation: Reporter, Criminal
Legal Status: US Citizen
,,.--... Identity: Secret

Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Betty Brant
Leeds (wife)

Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation :

KNOWN POWERS causes unconsciousness. employs a turbo-fan powered flying
- Body Armor: Hobgoblin wears a suit Incendiary: Detonation unleashes a sled which has the following charac-
volatile substance which produces teristics:
bf armor which provides him with flames of Incredible intensity. Control Speed Body Protection
Spider-Sense Negator: This Unearth- IN (40) TY (6) GD (1 0) none
Excellent protection against physical ly intensity chemical negates Spider-
attacks and Remarkable protection Man's Spider-Sense for at least 24 Battle Van: In addition to his Goblin
against energy attacks. (and possibly· as long as 36) hours. Glider, he makes use of an armored
Glove Blasters: Both of the Hobgob- At the referee's option , it may or may van which has the following charac-
not affect other characters with simi- teristics:
lin 's gloves contain devices which lar abilities. Control Speed Body Protection
can discharge pulses of high fre- IN (40) RM (30) IN (40) IN (40)
quency electricity. The range of Throwing Bats: These bat-shaped
these weapons is 2 areas and they throwing blades inflict Good edged Ta!ents: The Hobgoblin has the
- do Remarkable damage. weapon damage. Journalism, Criminal, Repair, and
Random Fire Mechanism: In order to Tinkering skills.
overcome the advantage which Goblin Glider: The Hobgoblin
Spider-Man's Spider Sense gives 129
him in dodging attacks, the Hobgob-
lin has installed a device in his armor
which causes his arm to jerk about
randomly while he is firing his glove
blasters. In combat, this induces a

- 1CS on attacks, but makes it

almost impossible for foes to predict
exactly where t he next shot will be
aimed, forcing them to take a -1 CS

to any attempts t hey make to dodge.
Pumpkin Bombs: These explosives
do Excellent damage to everything
within 20 feet.

Smoke Grenades: These devices
release a cloud of Typical obscuring
smoke.

Knock-out Gas Grenades: Releases
a gas of Incredible intensity which

Contacts: As Leeds, he has free ROLE PLAYING NOTES
access to the staff of The Daily The ready availability of the Green
Bugle. Goblin's equipment completely cor-
rupted the originally honest Leeds.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: He decided to seize control of all
organized crime within New York. As
the Hobgoblin, he developed a net-
work of criminal henchmen to under-
take his schemes and blackmailed
victims to fund them. Hobgoblin pre-
ferred to remain in the background

for as long as possible.

130

STATISTICS HOBGOBLIN II

F GD (10) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Macendale is a totally evil villain. He
is a ruthless seeker of power and
S GD (10) wealth at others's expense. He is a
cold-blooded killer who will not hesi-
E GD (10) tate to murder. He is also a self-
preservationist who will only tackle
R EX (20) foes he has an advantage over. He
I GD(10} recently assumed the Hobgoblin's
identity in order to escape Jack
P TY (6) O'Lantern's foes and take advan-
Health: 60 tage of the newly acquired equip-
ment.
Karma: 36
131
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: - 20 ( - 4 Jack O' Lan-
tern)

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Jason Philip Macen-
dale, Jr.

....... Occupation : Terrorist, assassin,
supervillain
Legal Status: Former US citizen
(revoked)

Identity: Secret

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachu-
setts
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
- Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Note: In addition to Hobgoblin l's
equipment, he also employed the fol-
lowing weapons and devices during
his career as Jack O'Lantern.

Nausea Grenade: This made use of a
chemical of Remarkable intensity

' which caused those exposed to it
become sick.

Pumpkin Helmet: Crafted from a
Remarkable material, this device also
incorporated infrared sensors to give

him Good infravision and a three hour
air supply. Further, low intensity flames
surrounded the helmet which would
inflict Poor damage to anyone they

came into contact with.
Pogo Platform: For transportation, he

often made use of a Pogo Platform
which had the following characteristics:
Control Speed Body Protection
RM (30) PR (4) EX (20) None

Talents: He had Remarkable Rea-
son in the field of Electrical Engi-
neering and was an experienced
pilot and soldier.

Contacts: None

HISTORY to become a costumed criminal men. In a subsequent clash between,,.-...
known as the Hobgoblin. As the Hob- the Hobgoblin and Spider-Man in
While he was fleeing from Spider- goblin , he wears an altered, differ- one of the former's lairs, osborn's
Man, bank robber George Hill stum- ently colored version of the original journals were destroyed. The Hob-
bled across a hidden lair which had Green Goblin costume . goblin had not made any copies, and
once belonged to Norman Osborn (the apparently, if Osborn had written
original Green Goblin). This hideout Realizing that Osborn's old lairs down Spider-Man 's true identity
contained one of the Goblin's cos- were systematically being looted, (which he knew) in the journals, the
tumes, much of his weaponry and Spider-Man began tracking down Hobgoblin had never read the sec-
equipment, and many of his notes and the thief, and found the Hobgoblin tion of the journals revealing it. Later,
private journals. Realizing the value of raiding another of the hideouts. It the Hobgoblin formed an alliance
what he had found, Hill led another was here that the Hobgoblin and with the criminal leader known as the
man, whose identity as yet remains Spider-Man first clashed, and the Rose in order to increase the latter's
unknown, to the hideout in return for a injured Hobgoblin, narrowly made organization 's power enough to rival
promise of future remuneration. The his escape. the might of the Kingpin of Crime
unknown man and Hill removed every- and also in to destroy Spider-Man
thing of importance from the hideout The Hobgoblin next hired crimi· (see Kingpin, Rose). To the former
and then destroyed it by arson. The nals to steal chemicals stored in an end, the Hobgoblin helped the Rose
unknown man then murdered Hill and Osborn Manufacturing warehouse, take control of many of New York ,,..-...
set about looting Osborn's other lairs, which, he had learned from Osborn's City's major illegal gambling opera-
whose locations he found in the jour- journal , would give him superhuman tions. The Rose, however, intends to
nals. strength such as Osborn himself was have the Hobgoblin killed once he is
alleged to have possessed. The no longer needed.
The unknown man decided to use Hobgoblin was able to use the chem·
Osborn's equipment and knowledge icals to give himself even greater At present the Hobgoblin is still at
strength than the original Goblin. large, and his true identity remains a
complete mystery to the authorities.
The Hobgoblin attempted to black
mail various millionaire business-

132

HOWARD THE DUCK

~ STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A GD (10)

s TY (6)

E GD (10)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
p RM (30)
Health: 36
Karma: 50
Resources: FE (4)
Popularity: Varies

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Howard
Occupation: Cab driver, Presiden-
tial Candidate, Adventurer
~ Legal Status: Citizen of Duckworld
Identity: Most people believe
Howard is a midget in a duck suit,
not a real talking duck.
Place of Birth: New Stork City,
Duckworld
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Ronald and Hen-
rietta (parents), Theresa and Orville
(siblings)
,......._Base of Operations: Cleveland,

Ohio
Past Group Affiliations: Unwilling
ally of Man-Thing and the Defenders
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS with a great many people since his ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Magic: Howard possesses as yet arrival on Earth, including Beverly
undefined mystical powers of appar- Switzler (his lover), Lee Switzler,
ently Amazing rank. Fabian Stankowicz (inventor), Wan-
~ Iron Duck Armor: Howard possesses
a special suit of powered armor da (medium), Man-Thing, Dakimh
which bestows the following powers the Enchanter, Jennifer Kale (sorcer-
on its wearer: ess), the Defenders, and Spider-

* Springs enable him to leap as Man.
high as one story vertically or 2
areas horizontally.
* Excellent protection from physi-
cal attacks.
* A flamethrower which does
Excellent damage and has a
range of 2 areas.
* A lamp which provides light of
Typical Intensity and has a range
of 1 area.
Talents: Howard possesses an
Excellent mastery of Quack Fu, an
obscure Martial Art usable only by
------ waterfowl. With it, Howard can Slam
or Stun larger opponents (i.e.,
humans).
Contacts: Howard has had dealings

133

ROLE PLAYING NOTES surrounding his disappearance Pro-Rata . Howard and Beverly ----
Howard is an unwilling participant in there. escaped and began living together.
most of his adventures. He tends to Their relationship lasted a long time,
get involved initially as either a victim Howard vanished from his home but is now apparently over.
or innocent bystander. He originally world when the power-hungry
intended to flee Earth at the first demon Thog the Nether-Spawn Although Howard has attempted
opportunity; however his love for used his magic to cause the interdi- to live as normal a life as possible,
Beverly and his estrangement from mensional Cosmic Axis to shift. considering that he is a talking duck
Duckworld have led him to accept Howard was dislodged from his on a world of human beings, he has
permanent residency in Cleveland. It home dimension and dropped into continually run afoul (so to speak) of
should be noted, however, that the middle of the Florida Everglades various unusual menaces, most
Howard is considered a semi-divine on our Earth at the site of this world's notably his archnemesis Doctor
figure on Duckworld. Nexus of All Realities, a place from Bong. However, through cleverness,
which travel to all other dimensions persistence, and good luck, Howard
HISTORY is said to be possible (see Man- has always managed to defeat or
Thing's Swamp). In an effort to set escape his adversaries.
Howard the Duck was born on Duck- the Cosmic Axis right and return
world, a planet in another dimen- home, the reluctant Howard joined Howard came to public notoriety
sion, where intelligent life evolved with Korrek the barbarian, who also when he became a candidate for the
from waterfowl. Duckworld is appar- came from another dimension, the United States presidency on a very
ently an alternate Earth and resem- young Earthborn sorceress Jennifer minor party ticket. However, the gen- ,,,..-..
bles mankind's Earth in an Kale, Dakimh the Enchanter and the
astounding number of ways, includ- Man-Thing. The battle against Thog eral populace refused to believe that
ing the fact that ducks speak ended for Howard when he fell off Howard is a real talking duck, think-
English. Very little is known about the otherdimensional Stepping ing of him instead as a dwarf in a
Howard's past on Duckworld. Stones of Oblivion and landed back duck suit, and the public dismissed
Indeed, there are conflicting on our Earth in the city of Cleveland, his candidacy as a joke.
accounts as to the circumstances Ohio.
Howard has chosen to make the
In Cleveland , Howard first met the world of humans his home. Dakimh
young life model Beverly Switzler the Enchanter has predicted that
when they were both menaced by Howard has a major role to play in
the costumed criminal accountant the destiny of the multiverse and that ,.,.-.
role may still involve more adven-
tures in Howard's future.

134

HULK

STATISTICS

F RM (30)
A GD (10)
S UN (100)
E MN (75)
R FE (2)

I TY (6)
P RM (30)
Health: 215
Karma: 28

Resources: FE (2)
Popularity: -10

BACKG ROUND ance of the Thing and the Avengers if ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Past Group Affiliations: Avengers, he is in severe trouble. Rick Jones is
the only human whose presence the The Hulk has gone through several
Defenders Hulk tolerates. different combinations of intelli-
Other Information: See entry for Dr. gence and temperament. Most ver-
Bruce Banner ADDITIONAL NOTES: sions of the Hulk have been savage,
destructive brawlers with no toler-
KNOWN POWERS ance for humanity and only vague
Alter Ego: The Hulk is Banner's other memories of the Banner-self. One
form . Conditions which have trigger- version possessed Banner's mind
ed the transition vary, but past stim- but the Hulk's temperament.
uli have included dawn, extreme Another version only possessed
anger, exhaustion, and being Banner's mind. The most dangerous
brought to 0 Health. It is important to version was the one that was physi-
note that the Hulk's Health score is cally separate from Banner's body.
independent of Banner's. The only
~ exception to this would be the death
of one or the other forms which
would, of course, carry over to the
other.

Invulnerability: Transformation into
The Hulk provides Banner with Mon-
strous protection from physical
attacks, Amazing protection against
energy attacks, and Class 1000
resistance to cold, heat, fire, or dis-

ease.

Astral Detection: Although the nature
of this ability has yet to be deter-
mined, the Hulk has the Unearthly
ability to see astral forms.

Hyper-Leaping: The Hulk's powerful
leg muscles provide him with
CL5000 leaping ability which
enables him to cross 50 areas per
round.

Andrenalin Surge: In times of great
stress, the Hulk's Fighting and

Strength scores increase + 1CS and

his attack damage increases to Shift-

Z.

Telelocation: He has the CL3000 abil-
ity to " home in" on the region of Des-
ert in New Mexico where he was first
" born ".

Talents: None

Contacts: Although the Hulk will
never ask, he can receive the assist-

135

DR. BRUCE BANNER ROLE PLAYING NOTES ~drenaline when he became -
Banner is a guilt-ridden, almost neu- 1~tensely excited, no matter what1
STATISTICS rotic individual. He worries a great time of day or night it was. Usually,
deal about the damage he can do as the Hulk possessed little of Banner's
F PR (4) the Hulk. On the other hand, he rare- ~emory or intelligence and was eas-
ly worries about the destructive ily enraged. Hence, the Hulk was a
A TY (6) pot~ntial of the weapons he designs. menace continually hunted by mili-
He 1s devoted to Betsy but is often !ary forces commanded by the
s TY (6) unable to return her affections implacable General Ross. For a
because of his worries about the
E TY (6) stmhharooinruttgaihntiemraneoduiagtBhioaonnfnhteriser aotwmmneapnnetarsg~eontd­~
R RM (30) H.ulk: Currently he spends most of
I GD (10) ~1s time wandering the desert look- ality when he became the Hulk to
p TY (6) ing for safe places to release the control himself in that form, and he
Hulk. even became a founding member of
Health: 22 the Avengers in this form. But once
Karma: 46 again the Hulk lost Banner's intelli-
Resources: RM (30) gence and became a brutish men-
ace. For a surprisingly long time .....-....
Popularity: 1O Banner managed to conceal the fact
!hat ~e was the Hulk, but his secret
BACKGROUND HISTORY inevitably became public knowl-
Real Name: Robert Bruce Banner edge. For years Banner wandered
Occupation: Physicist As an adult and a genius in nucle- the world ~s a hunted fugitive,
Legal Status: US citizen ~urse? by his recurring transforma·
Identity: Publicly known ar physics, Banner went to work for t1ons into the bestial Hulk.
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio
Marital Status: Married the United States Defense Depart- Finally, scientist Leonard "Doc"
Known Relatives: Betty Ross Talbot Samson captured the Hulk and suc·
(wife~, Brian and Rebecca (parents), ment nuclear research facility at
Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk, cousin) ceeded, . through an unknown ,...--....
Base of Operations: Desert Base, Desert Base, New Mexico. There,
NM; Hulkbuster Base, NM; mobile means, in separating Banner's 1
Past Group Affiliations: Hulkbus- Banner met General Thaddeus E. psyche and atomic structure from
ters the larger atomic structure of the
"Thunderbolt" Ross, the Air Force Hulk. Hence Banner and the Hulk
Present Group Affiliation: were now two separate beings. The
officer in command of the base and Hulk es~aped, ~nd no longer having
Banners buried personality to
his daughter Betty. Banner and Betty restrain him in the least, became a
greater menace than ever before.
Ross eventually fell in love with each Banner became leader of a new gov- ~-....
ernment task force to capture the ·
other. Banner designed and oversaw
Hulk, called the new Hulkbusters.
construction of the "gamma bomb" Banner also finally married Betty
Ross, believing himself free of the
KNOWN POWERS or "G-bomb," a nuclear weapon that curse of turning into the Hulk.

Alter Ego: The Hulk is Banner's other had a high gamma radiation output. Not .long ago, however, Doc Sam-
son discovered that Banner's and
form. Conditions which have trigger- Banner was present in the instru- the Hulk's lifeforces were tied
together and that their continued
ed the transition vary, but past stim- mentation bunker at the test site for separation threatened to kill both of
them. A hurried experiment reunited
uli have included dawn, extreme the first underground trial detonation the t~o in a new arrangement. The
Hulk 1s now grey-skinned and auto-
anger, exhaustion, and being of t.h~_gamma bomb. Observing that ~atically appears only during the
night.
brought to 0 Health. It is important to a c1v1han had breached security and

~ote that the Hulk's Health score is entered the restricted tIegsotraSrteaar~kByatno-
ner told his colleague
independent of Banner's. The only
delay the countdown while he tried to
exception to this would be the death
get the civili~n to safety. Starsky,
of one or the other forms which
secretly a Soviet agent, did nothing.
would, of course, carry over to the
He was confident that Banner would
other.
~ie in the explosion, bringing the pro-
Contacts: Hulkbusters (defunct),
ject to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a
Professor X and the otrhigeinaFlanXt-aMstein~
the Avengers, and teenager named Rick Jones, Banner

Four. threw him into a protective trench.

Before Banner could get himself to

ADDITIONAL NOTES: safety, the gamma-bomb detonated

and intense waves of radiation

reached the surface. Banner was

irradiated with highly charged radio-

active particles. '

At first Banner changed into the

Hulk at sunset and reverted to

human form eavt ednatwuanl.lyHocwheavnegr~dBasno-
ner's .body

that his transformations into the Hulk

were triggered by the release of

136

HULKBUSTERS

,_ GENERAL w...J _
le ·6,
"THUNDERBOLT" <( 0

ROSS ::::E :2
oz o-c'?
STATISTICS
<(
F GD (10) ::::E~
A TY (6) IC
<(
s TY (6)

E TY (6)
R EX (20)
I TY (10)
p FE (2)
Health: 28
Karma: 32
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 15

, - , BACKGROUND
~eal Name: General Thaddeus E. Ross
Occupation: Lt. General, USAF
Legal Status: US citizen
Identity: Public
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Widower
Known Relatives: Karen (w ife,
deceased), Betsy Ross Banner (daugh-
ter)
Base of Operations: Hulkbuster Base,

,.--. New Mexico
Past Group Affiliations: USAF
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
None
Talents: Ross possesses Monstrou s M il-
itary skills.
Contacts: USAF, Dr. Bruce Banner

ROLE PLAYING NOTES:
,,--... Ross is a good soldier but not a flex ible

thinker. He is able to devise new forms of
brute-force solutions but is unable to
grasp human psychology.

TYPICAL EQUIPMENT: ARMAND
HULKBUSTER Hulk Restraint Harness: Made of an MARTEL
SOLDIER Unearthly Material, this harness was
designed to hold the Hulk upright and auto- STATISTICS
matically emits a Monstrous Stunning
STATISTICS shock when he tries to break out. One F PR (4)
defect of this device is that it is incapable of A PR (4)
F EX (20) altering its size and thus is unable to hold S TY (6)
A GD (10) the Hulk when he reverts to his Banner E PR (4)
GD (10) body. R EX (20)
s GD (10) Blaster Rifle: This weapon does Excel- I GD (10)
TY (6) lent damage. P TY (6)
E TY (6) Blaster Cannon: This tank-mounted Health: 18
,...., RI TY (6) device does Incredible concussive dam- Karma: 36
age.
p Knockout Gas: This chemical attack is of Remarks: Martel is a xerio-biologist spe-
Remarkable intensity. c ializing in mutant genetics.
Health: 50
Karma: 18

137

SAMUELJ. LA CRAIG the Hulk's physiology, scientists could -..
RDO.UETTE learn a great deal about the effects of1
SAUNDERS, JR. radiation on the human body. This could
STATISTICS result in medical breakthroughs to bene-
STATISTICS fit normal humans as well as lead to
F EX (20) greater understanding of the increasing
A GD (10) F TY (6) mutant population.
A TY (6)
s GD (10) When Hulkbuster Base was destroyed
s TY (6)
E GD (10) by the Devastator it was reconstructed
R TY (6) E TY (6) as Gamma Base and Ross restored to
I TY (6) R GD (10) command. Gamma Base had an altered
p TY (6) I TY (6) mandate; it was designed more for study
Health: 50 p TY (6) than military operations. The primary
Karma: 18 Health: 24 goal was research into the effects of
Remarks: La Roquette is an explorer by Karma: 22 gamma radiation on humans; the Hulk's
trade. He is bitter towards the Hulk and Talents: Saunders is a demolitions and capture was a secondary concern. Ross
blames him for his wife's injuries. explosives expert (Remarkable Reason). suffered a nervous breakdown as he
grew aggravated over disagreements
CAROLYN HIDEKD TAKATA about the altered mandate and increas-
ing frustration over his many failures.
PARMENTER STATISTICS Col. Ross Talbot was promoted to head ,---.
Gamma Base. Talbot, now married to
STATISTICS F PR (4) Betsy Ross, was determined to kill the
A PR (4) Hulk (and Banner). However, the Con-
F TY (6) gress finally pulled Gamma Base's fund-
A GD (10) s PR (4) ing and the base was closed. In a final
act of treason, Talbot stole the "War
s PR (4) E TY (6) Wagon", a flying heavy assault vehicle.
R GD (10) In a savage battle with the Hulk, Talbot
E TY (6) I GD (10) was killed.
R GD (10) p TY (6)
I TY (6) Health: 18 After Bruce Banner, the man who was
p TY (6) Karma: 26 the Hulk, achieved a state in which his ,_,...-..__
Health: 26 Remarks: Takata is an expert in geophy-
Karma: 22 sics (Remarkable Reason). normal intelligence and personality•
Remarks: Parmenter is a marine scientist remained dominant when he was in the
trained in the fields of biology, oceanics, HISTORY Hulk's form, the Hulk received a presi-
scuba diving, and exploration. dential pardon, and the Hulkbusters
The original Hulkbusters were a large ceased to exist. The Hulkbusters were
CLAY military force consisting of both United assigned to new projects. Hulkbuster
O.UARTERMAIN States Army and Air Force personnel, Base itself was demolished by the crimi-
whose primary mission was the capture
STATISTICS or destruction of the menace known as nal U-Foes.
the Hulk. The Hulkbusters were head- Later, however, the Hulk reverted to his
F EX (20) quartered at Hulkbuster Base, New Mex-
A GD (10) ico (also known as the Gamma Base) bestial personality and was captured by
and were commanded by General Thad- Dr. Leonard Samson. Samson persuad- r '
s TY (6) deus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, the military ed the federal government to rebuild and
officer with the greatest experience in refinance Gamma Base, where through
E GD (10) battling the Hulk. unknown means, he managed to sepa-
R GD (10) rate Banner and the Hulk into two dis-
I TY (6) The government built a special site for crete beings. The Hulk subsequently
p GD (10) operations to capture or, if need be, kill escaped.
Health: 46 the Hulk. The site was near Desert Base,
Karma: 26 the area where the Hulk was created and The federal government then made
Remarks: Quartermain is an ex-SHIELD to which he frequently returned. The Banner himself the leader of the new
agent who still retains his loyalty to Nick troops were known as the United States Hulkbusters. This group is not primarily
Fury. He is helping Banner and the Hulk Air Force Mobile Combat Force One, or a large military force, but instead is, at its
to pay off a debt he feels he owes them. "Hulkbusters" for short. Their mission core, a small team of highly skilled indi-
He is also convinced SHIELD has was codenamed "Operation Greenskin" viduals selected and led by Banner. The
become corrupted, and that the Hulk and after the Hulk's color. The operation's new Gamma Base in New Mexico is their
Banner offer a chance to clean up official mandate called for the capture of current headquarters.
SHIELD from the outside. the Hulk and the search for a means to
restore Banner permanently to human
form. Ross contended that, by studying

138

HUMAN TORCH II

STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A EX (20)

s GD (10)

E EX (20)
R GD (10)

I GD (10)
p TY (6)
Health: 60
Karma: 26
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 50

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jonathan ("Johnny")

Storm
Occupation: Adventurer, Race car
,,..--._ driver

Legal Status: US citizen
Identity: Public
Place of Birth: Glenville, Long
Island, NY
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Alicia Reis Mas-
ters Storm (wife), Franklin and Mary
(parents), Sue Storm Richards (sis-
ter)
- Base Operations: Baxter Building
(destroyed), Four Freedoms Plaza,
NYC
Past Group Affiliations: Fantastic
Four
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS tion against wind, cold , or water- to ignite himself, causing the local
Fire Generation: The Human Torch based attacks. temperature temporarily drops 30
can generate Unearthly intensity Flame Control: Unearthly control degrees Fahrenheit.
.--....flames and has established the fol- over the shape and intensity of both * He can absorb up heat and
1owing power stunts. natural and power created flames. flames of up to to Shift-X Intensity
The Intensity can be increased or
* Unearthly damage fireballs with decreased by his rank. He can use oand retain it for up to 1 turns
a range of 3 areas. this power to manifest the following
* Skywriting to create flaming before he must release it as a
images which last 4 turns. stunts. Nova Flame.
* Johnny can unleash his "Nova * The creation of up to 10 identical True Flight: The Human Torch can
Flame". This is a single burst of duplicates of himself. attain Excellent speeds (150 mph)
Shift-Z intensity which does 500 * The forming of cages, barriers, when flaming.
points of damage to everything and other restraints of Amazing Specific Resistance (Heat and
within 1 area and 150 points of Flame): Johnny can ignore flames
damage to everything from 2 to 5 intensity flame. and heat of up to CL1000 intensity.
areas away. Following this great * He can absorb surrounding heat Weaknesses: Most of Johnny 's

effort, all of his powers drop to 139
Feeble for 1-10 turns and he must
make a Red Endurance FEAT to
avoid fainting.
Energy Sheath (Fire): Johnny can
~ shroud himself in Unearthly intensity
flame which gives him Unearthly
protection from physical and energy
attack. However, it offers no protec-

powers only operate when he is fact that his mother died in a car by a solar flare and, as a result, the -..
aflame. Cold, Water, or Wind-based crash when he was nine, Storm four people in the ship were exposed
attacks of Shift-X or greater Intensity developed an interest in automobiles to intense cosmic ray bombardment.
can extinguish his flames, as can a at an early age. Storm passed much Aborting the test flight, the four
loss of oxygen or being covered by a of his leisure time in the company of returned to Earth.
fire negating substance. automobile mechanics and enthusi-
Equipment: Johnny has a disposable asts and learned to totally overhaul a Upon landing, Johnny Storm dis-
"Atmo-Web" which enables him to car's transmission before he was fif- covered that the cosmic rays had
function in a vacuum or underwater teen years old. For his sixteenth mutagenically altered his entire
for several hours. birthday his father bought him his body, enabling him to create fiery
Talents: He has Remarkable Rea- first "hot rod." plasma all about him without harm to
son in the field of vehicle and engine himself. Storm took the name " the
design and construction. Storm went to California to visit his Human Torch", the same name used
Contacts : The Fantastic Four, sister Susan, who had moved there by an android hero of the 1940s.
Spider-Man, the lnhumans, Wyatt hoping to become an actress and Storm agreed to join Richards' pro-
Wingfoot, and the Avengers. had become engaged to marry aero- posed team of champions, the
nautical engineer Reed Richards.
ROLE PLAYING NOTES Richards was working on a starship Fantastic Four.
Johnny Storm began his career as a of his own design that would make For a time Johnny Storm tried to
brash, hotheaded teen. Now, he is a possible travel to other solar sys-
brash, hotheaded adult. His power tems through hyperspace. When the live quietly on Long Island with his
reflects his personality perfectly. He United States government threat- sister, trying to finish high school .._
is prone to acting without prior ened to cut off its partial funding for while hoping that no one in the com-
thought and was unable to maintain the project, Richards decided to munity would know that he was the
a lasting relationship with any wom- make an immediate test flight. He Human Torch; a fact which proved
an until he and Alicia finally realized himself would ride in the starship, impossible to conceal from the
the depths of their mutual love. His with his friend Benjamin Grimm act- townspeople. After graduation,
other great loves are high perform- ing as pilot. Susan and Johnny Johnny moved into the Fantastic
ance engines and racing. Storm insisted on going along as Four's Baxter Building headquarters
well. Sneaking first onto the launch
HISTORY site and then into the starship, the in New York City.
four launched themselves into Johnny's recent marriage to the
Jonathan Storm was the second of space. The craft encountered unex-
two children born to a physician and pectedly intense radiation , which blind sculptress Alicia Masters has -..
his wife . He grew up comfortably in proved to be too much for the shield-
suburban Long Island. Despite the ing to block out. It has been theo- caused some tension between him
rized that this was the direct result of and the Thing. His marital fidelity is
a reduction in the extent of Earth's being tested by the presence of
magnetosphere brought on Crystal , a former lover, in the latest
FF team. Johnny suspects that the
Thing invited her into the team as a
way of seeking revenge or splitting

Johnny and Alicia apart.

140

HYDRO-MAN

~ STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A GD(10)
S RM (30)
E MN (75)
R TY (6)
I GD(10)
P RM (30)
Health: 135
Karma: 46
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 4

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Morris Bench
Occupation: Supercriminal
Legal Status: US citizen with crimi-
~ nal record
Identity: Known to police
Place of Birth: Bronx, NYC, New
York

Marital Status:Single
Known Relatives: None
Base Operations: NYC area
Past Group Affiliations: Sinister
Syndicate
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Psyche FEAT to regain their individ- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Water Transformation: He can trans- ual forms.
form any or all of his body into a
coherent watery mass which cannot Talents: Hydro-man has both Sea-
be killed by transformation into manship and petty criminal skills.
vapor. He has developed the follow- Contacts: The Sinister Syndicate
ing Power Stunts:

* Firing jets of water which do
Excellent damage and have a
.........._ range of 3 areas.
* Amazing body armor against
physical attacks.
* In a manner similar to the Elon-

gation power, he can shoot himself
as a stream up to 3 areas, then

reform at the new location.
* He can absorb ordinary water to
heal himself at the rate of 1 gallon
per Health point regained.
Weaknesses: While in aquatic form ,
he takes double damage from heat
and energy attacks and can be
absorbed by sponges and similar
blotters (such passive attacks do 1-4
points) per round.
For some reason , if Hydro-Man
comes into physical contact with the
..--- Sandman, both their bodies are
automatically fused into a single,
imbecilic creature of wet sand. Each
man must make a Remarkable

141

ROLE PLAYING NOTES entire physical form into a watery liq- containing both of their substances ,...--
Bench is out to simultaneously uid. He then set out to find those he but neither's full intelligence. Dimly
avenge himself on society for the held responsible for his condition recalling their desire for Sadie Frick-
accident that transformed him as and make them pay. Calling himself ett, the mud-being sought her out at
well as to use his new powers to the Hydro-Man, he eventually her apartment. After getting over her
enrich himself. Since discovering his encountered Spider-Man and , on initial shock, Frickett decided to
powers' limits, he has decided to ally their second altercation, was defeat- exploit the creature's devotion to her
himself with useful individuals. ed when Spider-Man managed to and through a theatrical agent,
splatter the nucleus of his body suffi- arranged for a special exhibition of
HISTORY ciently far enough apart that Hydro- the mud-thing. The creature inevita-
Man could not reform himself before bly went berserk but was stopped
Morris Bench , formerly a crewman
on a cargo ship, was accidentally evaporating. when a special gas sprayed from
knocked overboard by Spider-Man A few weeks later, Hydro-Man rein- police helicopters dehydrated it and
while a powerful experimental gen- caused it to crumble. The soggy
erator was being lowered into the tegrated his form in a water tower on sand was scooped up by the authori-
ocean for testing. Exposed to the a Manhattan rooftop where appar- ties and taken to a police laboratory
energy conversion process of the ently the majority of his particles had where researchers tried to restore
generator while being bombarded fallen as rain. Returning to his favor- the men to life by various stimuli,
with volcanic gases, Bench 's cellular ite pub, he was chagrined to find Wil- including chemicals and radiation . -..
structure was altered . When he was liams Baker, alias the Sandman, Believing the task was hopeless, the
rescued from the depths, his body romancing his sometime-girlfriend police dumped the canister contain-
began exuding great quantities of a Sadie Frickett. The two criminals ing them . A short time later, Hydro-
watery substance Bench first soon began fighting over her until Man and Sandman managed to
thought was perspiration. Annoyed Spider-Man came along to try to stop integrate themselves into their sepa-
by the incessant dripping, Bench them. Turning their attentions to him, rate rightful forms. Wanting no more
went to a local pub to stir up trouble. the two joined forces against their of each other's company after their
Finding none, he was astonished to mutual foe. Spider-Man, however, humiliating ordeal, the two went their
learn that he could convert his tricked the two into running into each separate ways, Hydro-Man heading
other, each in his altered particulate out of town. He has since joined the .----....
state. Collapsing into the harbor, the criminal organization called the Sin-
two soon emerged from the brine as
a composite sand-water creature ister Syndicate.

142

HYPERION

---- HYPERION I

STATISTICS

F UN (100)
A UN (100)
S UN (100)
E UN (100)

R EX (20)

I AM (75)
P IN (40)
Health: 400
Karma: 115
Resources: MN (75)
Popularity: 80

BACKGROUND:
Aliases: Zhib-Ran, Mark Milton
....--.... Occupation: Adventurer, cartoonist
Legal Status: Citizen of Other-Earth
(Earth-S)
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Earth-S
Past Group Affiliations: Squadron
Supreme
~ Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS:
Invulnerability: Unearthly resistance
to physical and energy attacks.
Ti"ue Flight: Monstrous airspeed (450
mph)
Nuclear Vision: Combination of infra-
red and x-ray radiation does Mon-
strous damage; range 1O areas.
~ weakness: Argonite, a rare lead iso-
tope negates his powers. It does
Excellent damage each round it is
within 20 feet of him.

TALENTS He is a skilled Artist.

CONTACTS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: HYPERION II
He can call upon members of the Hyperion is a valiant fighter and
Squadron Supreme. noble being . He is a firm believer in STATISTICS:
the obligation of the superbeings to
ADDITIONAL NOTES: protect and guide normal people. He F UN (100)
believes that an unguided humanity A UN (100)
might eventually destroy itself, 5 UN (100)
hence the Squadron Supreme is jus- E UN (100)
t ified in its seizure of Earth's govern- R EX (20)
ment. I AM (50)
P IN (40)
Health: 400
Karma: 115
Resources: MN (75)
Popularity: 80

143

BACKGROUND: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: The Avengers tracked him there,,........_
Aliases: Zhib-Ran, Mr. Kant For most of his life, he operated and upon seeing them, Hyperion Ii
Occupation: Supercriminal, health under various delusions. He was regained his memories and
club manager unaware he was a synthetic being attacked. Later, he met the Hyperion
Legal Status: None created as a pawn of the Grandmas- of the Squadron Supreme and they
Identity: Secret ter and not the last survivor of a fought. The criminal Hyperion
Place of Birth: Inapplicable destroyed micro-world. His inability escaped to "Other-Earth" where he
Marital Status: Single to match his delusions with reality met Master Menace.
Known Relatives: Inapplicable causes him to perform villainous
Base of Operations: Mobile acts. He cooperates with anyone Eventually, Hyperion II was con-
Past Group Affiliations: Squadron who can assist him in his quixotic tacted by the Roxxon Oil Corpora-
Sinister quests, though he turns against tion, and told he could be taken to an
Present Group Affiliation: them when success eludes them. alternate Yttrium (which of course

KNOWN POWERS HISTORY did not really exist, as there never
In addition to Hyperion l's powers, was an Yttrium) if he brought Thun-
this one possesses the following Hyperion 11 was created by the dra to Roxxon. He found her and
power: Grandmaster to be a member of the delivered her, but she escaped to her
Squadron Sinister. He was made to alternate future Earth, Amazonia,
Self-Sustenance: He can thrive believe he was Zhib-Ran, an explor- and he tried to follow her, thereby
indefinitely without air, water, or food. er from the planet Yttrium, which becoming trapped in an interdimen- ----..
exploded when it was struck by sional void. Master Menace
Weaknesses: Using Nuclear Vision energy from the first atom split on retrieved him and promised to send
for more than 10 turns destroys his Earth. This explosion gave " Zhib- him to Amazonia. Hyperion II took
eyes. If killed, his body liquifies. Ran" his powers. The Grandmaster the place of the heroic Hyperion and
"rescued" him from certain death. feigned amnesia. Power Princess
TALENTS Hyperion II decided that since Earth tried to teach him what he had " for-
He is skilled in physical training. was responsible for the destruction gotten." He fell in love with her, and
CONTACTS of his homeworld, he must take proceeded to remove all obstacles to
Squadron Sinister, Master Menace vengeance there. that love: he trapped Master Menace
in another dimension (where the~
ADDITIONAL NOTES: His first battles were as a member heroic Hyperion was also trapped),'
of the Squadron Supreme against
the Avengers and later the and killed Power Princess's hus-
Defenders. After the second match band. In need of comfort, she turned
with the Defenders, Hyperion II for- to Hyperion II, and soon fell in love.
got his "memories" thanks to Doctor
Strange. He took the name Mr. Kant, Meanwhile, Hyperion I and Master
and moved to Queens, NY, where he Menace joined forces and returned
managed a health club. to Other-Earth, where the two Hype-
rions fought to the death. Hyperion I
was blinded , and beat Hyperion II
with his fists, thereby breaking down,.......--..
the pseudo-organic matter that body
was made of. After a confession to
Power Princess, Hyperion II died
and his body liquified.

144

- STATISTICS

)

F GD (10)
A GD (10)

s TY (6)

E RM (20)
R GD (10)
I PR (4)
p TY (6)
Health: 56
Karma: 20
Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: 16

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Robert " Bobby" Drake
Occupation: Adventurer, member of
X-Factor, former college student,
~ and accountant
L-egal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Fort Washington,
Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: William Robert
(father), Madeline Beatrice (mother)
Base of Operations: X-Factor head-
....--.. quarters, New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Former

member of the X-Men, the Champi-
ons of Los Angeles, the New
Defenders, founding member of X-
Factor
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS areas/round). his powers at their previous level, but
Ice Generation: Iceman has Remark- Invulnerability to Cold: Iceman is he can turn it off for enhanced power.
~ --able Ice Generation powers, able to immune to intensities of cold up to When he does this, Drake uncontrol-
iorm ice wherever there is sufficient lably radiates Unearthly Cold.
moisture in the air, including desert CL1000 level. Talents: Drake is a CPA.
terrain. He can perform the following Body Armor: When "iced up," Drake Contacts: Iceman was a member
Power Stunts: has Remarkable protection against of the Champions of Los Angeles
* Create shields of Remarkable pro- physical attacks, Good protection which included Johnny Blaze, the
tecti on . against energy attacks, including Black Widow, Darkstar, and Hercu-
* Form weapons of Remarkable flame and heat attacks. These last les, and the New Defenders.
material strength. When using such two, however, weaken Iceman's
weapons in Edged or Blunt attacks, armor by the rank number of the 145
attack.
Iceman receives a + 1 CS. Belt: Loki recently raised all of Ice-
man's powers to Unearthly level.
* Create supports of Remarkable The inhibitor belt Drake wears keeps
material strength. These structures
last anywhere from 5 to 25 rounds,
depending on the surrounding tem-

perature.
* Project cold at Remarkable intensi-
ty.
_,....... * Create areas of Remarkable slick-
ness.
* Create a ramp which he can slide
along at Excellent ground speed (5

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Bobby was walking with his date, powers against the mob.
Judy Harmon, one night after they Drake's parents consented to
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: saw a movie together, when they
Drake is the youngest member of the were attacked by a bully named Xavier's proposal to let Bobby enroll
primary X-Factor team and still acts Rocky Beasely and his friends. One in his special school for superhuman
somewhat immaturely at times. All of of Beasely's allies held onto Drake mutants, and allowed Xavier to use
the recent troubles that have befall- while Beasely himself started to his powers to erase their knowledge
en X-Factor have not dampened his force Harmon to go with him. To save of their son's powers. (They regained
bright outlook on life. Harmon, Drake used his mutant this knowledge years laters.) Xavier
power to temporarily encase Bease- also permanently erased all knowl-
HISTORY ly in ice. Beasely was soon released .edge of Drake's abilities from the
unharmed, but Harmon was minds of the townspeople. Thus,
Robert Drake was born with the shocked, and the news of the inci- given the code name Iceman, Bobby
latent mutant ability to freeze mois- dent swept thorugh Drake's Long
ture in the air. He slowly became Island community, enraging the local Drake became the second member
aware of this power as it emerged in townspeople enough for them to of the X-Men.
his adolescence, but kept it secret form a lynch mob.
from everyone except his parents, Years later, Drake left the X-Men
who believed people would turn The mob broke into Drake's home, and joined the Champions of Los
against him if they learned of his and he began using his powers to Angeles, a short-lived team of
power. fight them off. But there were too adventurers. After the Champions
many opponents for the young disbanded, Drake became a full-time ,.--..
The elder Drakes were correct. Drake, and the town's sheriff took college student, although he briefly
him into custody for the youth's own rejoined the X-Men to battle Arcade.
Later he joined his fellow former X-
protection. Men the Angel and the Beast as
Learning of the incident, Professor members of the Defenders.

Charles Xavier, mentor of the X-Men, With the apparent demise of some
dispatched Cyclops, the first and at of the Defenders, the team disband-
that time only member of the team, to ed, and Drake took a job as an
contact Drake. Cyclops broke into accountant. However, he soon left
Drake's cell, but Drake refused to that job to join the other four mem-,..--....
leave. The two began fighting using bers of the original X-Men as a mem·
their powers and their fight spilled out ber of their new organization,
into the streets of the town. Eventually X-Factor.
the two exhausted young mutants
were captured by the lynch mob, Recently Drake's powers were
which nearly hanged them . Cyclops enhanced by Loki. He is unable to
and Drake broke free, and were saved effectively control the higher power
when Xavier used his great psychic levels and wears a special inhibitor
belt to damp down his increased
cold .

146

,... STATISTICS

F TY (6)
A GD (10)

s GD (10)

E EX (20)
R MN (75)
I AM (50)
p MN (75)

Health: 46

Karma: 200
Resources: UN(100)

Popularity: O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Ruler of Limbo
Legal Status: Former citizen of an
,..-...,,, alternate Earth
'Identity: Existence unknown to pub-
lic
Place of Birth: An alternate Earth
Marital Status: Separated? Wid-

ower?
Known Relatives: Marcus (son),
Nathaniel Richards (ancestor)

Base of Operations: Limbo
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
lmmortus' powers are derived from lmmortus is the mellowest of his
his linkage to high tech devices with- incarnat ions and identities. He is
in Limbo. concerned with controlling the time-
stream itself and the flow of history,
Invulnerability: Within Limbo he has not with seizing temporary power in
CL1000 resistance to aging and all specific eras. However, he is lonely.
attacks. His long isolation from most humans
Dimension Travel: CL1000 rank. has made him an emotional cripple
_,_ Time Control: Several Power Stunts unable to deal with people on mean-
of CL1000 rank: ingful terms. Or perhaps his
* Time Warp to teleport people detached viewpoint makes him see
through time and space. all things as transient.
* Turbulence to thwart or redirect
other time travelers. 147
* Negating the time-traveling power
of others.
* Alter Temporal Flow.

* Time Travel.
Energy Control (all): Amazing rank.
Image Generation (Hallucinations):
Monstrous rank.
Mental Probe: Monstrous rank.
Mind Control: Monstrous rank.
Talents: Shift Z Reason in terms of
timestream-altering devices.
Contacts: His previous selves, the
- Avengers, Marcus.

HISTORY encompassed the gamut of human oversee the 80 millennia of his exist- ,--.....
diversity, from petty tyrants to self- ence, a minor task when compared to
lrrimortus was born in one of Earth's less martyrs. One of these counter- the whole of Time itself. Creating a
alternate futures of the 31st Century parts, whose life had at times giant guardian for his castle, lmmortus
(a different one from that which was embraced the basest of motives and embarked upon a number of cam-
conquered by the alien Badoon) and actions, decided in his seventh dec- paigns to untangle the skein of time-
being a man of adventure in a time of ade of his chronological life, to give lines that he and his counterparts had
world peace and prosperity, he was up his worldly conquests and medi- created by their indiscriminate use of
discontent. Discovering the parts of tate till the end of his days upon the time travel. Believing that most of the
a time machine and the plans for its nature of time. This lmmortus-to-be, beings he encountered in his cam-
assembly in the ruins of one of his who had been assuming the guise of paigns could not begin to understand
ancestors' property, the man who Rama-Tut, journeyed to Limbo, the the mysteries of time that motivated
would become lmmortus embarked transtemporal realm that exists out- him, he frequently gave them facile or
upon a life of conquest and adven- side the timestream itself (and even misleading information to quell
ture, exploring and ransacking time through which all time travelers must their curiosities or ease their anxieties.
era after time era, under such guises pass in order to get from one era to The beliefs of other beings were not
as Pharaoh Rama-Tut, Kang the another). There he employed auto- important to him as long as they did
Conqueror, and others. He estab- matons to build him a castle, and not interfere with his duties as custodi-
lished strongholds or kingdoms upon its completion (which was an of this segment of the timestream. r---
across time. By his constant time tra- instantly since time has no meaning
vel , he diverged countless temporal in Limbo), he began to meditate. lmmortus recently vanished along
counterparts to himself, each capa- with his previous self, Kang the Con-
ble of independent existence and lmmortus was then visited by the queror. His present location is
further travel. Time-Keepers, a trinity of beings who unknown and is possibly unknowable.
had been born at the very end of the After lmmortus' disappearance, his
Shaped by differing sets of experi- timestream, in the final days before son Marcus revealed his existence.
ences, the legions of lmmortus-to-be the collapse of the universe. The Marcus is currently trapped in Limbo.
Time-Keepers helped him unlock new
secrets of time and appointed him to

148

-- All members of the Imperial Guard ASTRA BACKGROUND
share these stats: Real Name: Unrevealed
Talents: All are skilled fighters, inter- STATISTICS Occupation: Member Royal Elite
stellar police officers, and space Imperial Guard
pilots. They are trained in Shi'ar F GD (10) Legal status: Citizen of Shi'ar
technology, starships, and astro- A RM (30) Empire
navigation. S GD (10) Identity: Publicly known in Shi'ar
Contacts: When on Earth, Elite E EX (20) Empire
Guard may rely on the Fantastic R EX (20) Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Four or X-Men-related teams for I GD (10) Marital Status: Unrevealed
help. Those who remain loyal to P IN (40) Known Relatives: None
Emprix Lilandra can call on the Star- Health: 70 Base of Operations: Shi'ar
jammers for help. Karma: 70 Throneworld
Equipment: Resources: MN(75) in the Shi'ar Past Group Affiliations: The
Flier: All Royal Elite guardsmen Empire Imperial Guard
wear an anti-gravity device that Popularity: 100 in the Shi'ar Present Group Affiliation:
enables them to fly at Typical air- Empire
speed. The device is controlled by KNOWN POWERS
BACKGROUND Earth Animation: Amazing rank;
~ the wearer's thoughts. Real Name: Unrevealed missiles do Incredible damage.
Costume: Each member wears an Occupation: Member Royal Elite
individualized costume composed of Imperial Guard ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
unstable molecules of Remarkable Legal status: Citizen of Shi 'ar Earthquake is a grim fighter.
material. Empire
Capture Bubble: A sphere of Mon- Identity: Publicly known in Shi'ar ELECTRON
strous material that expands from Empire
pencil-sized to large enough to hold Place of Birth: Unrevealed STATISTICS
six people. A life-support unit main- Marital Status: Unrevealed
tains interior conditions for one Known Relatives: None F EX (20)
Base of Operations: Shi'ar A EX (20)
,-.... week. Throneworld S EX (20)
Past Group Affiliations: The E RM (30)
HISTORY Imperial Guard R RM (30)
Present Group Affiliation: I EX (20)
The Imperial Guard is a legion of P RM (30)
super-powered champions from KNOWN POWERS Health: 90
throughout the Shi'ar galactic Phasing: Incredible rank. Karma: 80
.--.._ empire who act as enforcers of impe- Resources: MN(75) in the Shi'ar
rial law. An elite corps of the Guard ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Empire
protects the majestor or majestrix Astra is playful in combat. Popularity: 100 in the Shi'ar
(ruler of the Empire) and carries out Empire
his or her personal directives. Each EARTHGUAKE
division of the Imperial Guard has a BACKGROUND
leader known as a praetor. The prae- STATISTICS Real Name: Unrevealed
tor of the majestor or majestrix's elite Occupation: Member, Royal Elite,
corps of the Guard is Gladiator. The F EX (20) Imperial Guard
other divisions of the Guard are A RM (30) Legal status: Citizen of Shi'ar
known as the Borderers, who aid the S EX (20) Empire
governors of conquered worlds in E EX (20) Identity: Publicly known in Shi'ar
enforcing Shi'ar law on those worlds. R EX (20) Empire
Guardsmen wear anti-gravity I GD (10) Place of Birth: Unrevealed
devices permitting them to fly. P RM (30) Marital Status: Unrevealed
Health: 90 Known Relatives: None
Although the ranks of past and Karma: 50 Base of Operations: Shi'ar
present Imperial Guardsmen are Resources: MN(75) in the Shi'ar Throneworld
vast in number, only a relatively Empire Past Group Affiliations: The
_ small number have encountered Popularity: 100 in the Shi'ar Imperial Guard
'beings from Earth so far. These Empire Present Group Affiliation:
Guardsmen are depicted here, listed
by the English language equivalents 149
of their names.