MU4 - Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES shape, and Two-youngmen used a spell lier rage at her father returned at his fail-
Michael sees himself as the mentor and to bind the child to Earth's reality, so that ure to save her. Moreover, Elizabeth had
protector of Alpha Flight. He feels a spe- it could take on human form. Two- learned that she could not remove the
cial responsibility to Snowbird. On the youngmen raised the child, whom he Circlet of Enchantment from her brow
other hand, he has difficulty relating to called Narya, himself. She aged with without causing herself great pain, and
his daughter Elizabeth. He feels obliged extraordinary rapidity, and only weeks blamed her father for having her put it on
to protect and control magical forces later her aging process stabilized with without warning her.
unique to Amerindians and Canada. her in her physical early twenties.
Shaman, anguished by his failure to
HISTORY Learning of Two-youngmen's mystical save Elizabeth, lost faith in himself, and
abilities, James Hudson recruited both thereby lost his ability to perform his
A little over fifteen years ago, Michael of them for Alpha Flight. Two-youngmen mystical arts. He went off alone into the
Two-youngmen's aged shaman grandfa- took the name Shaman and continued wilderness, and was retrained in Indian
ther asked Michael to become his stu- his medical practice. mysticism by his grandfather's ghost. He
dent in Indian mystical arts. The elderly received a new costume and a "spirit
shaman insisted that his mystical knowl- For fiteen years Elizabeth Two- staff," as well as the ability to summon
edge must be passed down to a blood youngmen had not spoken to her father. the spirits of nature to do his bidding.
relation. With Michael's father dead , One day, while helping work on the
Michael himself must learn the ancient unearthing of the remains of the original However, he could not control them as
secrets. But Michael did not believe in Fort Calgary, Elizabeth uncovered a well as Elizabeth could.
the shaman's mystic arts, and refused skull, and then saw an apparition, appar-
the request. ently of Ranaq the Devourer, one of the As long as Elizabeth wore the Talis-
Great Beasts of Canadian myth. It was man's Circlet of Enchantment, she
In the following months, Michael Two- because Elizabeth, as a direct descen-
youngmen desperately tried to find a dant of forty generations of Sarcee sha- became increasingly inhuman in her atti-
cure for his wife, who was succumbing to mans, had inherited great mystical tudes. The Talisman's power, which was
a fatal disease. Michael promised young fully unleashed by the circlet, corrupted
Elizabeth he would succeed in curing potential that she alone saw the appari- her, letting her bitterness overwhelm her.
Kathryn, but he failed and Kathryn died. tion. Moreover, her mystical potential
Elizabeth, feeling betrayed, began to enabled her to recognize Shaman as her Snowbird herself was now about to
hate her father for failing to save her father from a newspaper photograph, give birth, and Shaman sought a mysti-
mother. By seeming coincidence, even though Shaman had cast a mask- cal " place of power" where the child
Michael Two-youngmen's shaman ing spell to prevent anyone from so rec- could be bound to this reality. Unknown
grandfather died on the very same day. ognizing him. She summoned Shaman to her father, Elizabeth commanded spir-
to examine the skull. Shaman and Eliza- its to lead him to Beechy Island for the
Tormented by grief, Michael Two- beth then met with a man named Lucas birth. The island was actually a place of
youngmen went to live in a lonely cabin Strang and his great-granddaughter evil, where a hate-filled sailor known as
in Banff National Park in Canada. The Emily. Pestilence lay in suspended animation
McNeil neighbors raised Elizabeth in his beneath the ground. Elizabeth hoped
absence. Two-youngmen was sent the Subsequently, Shaman had Elizabeth that Pestilence would humiliate Shaman
skull of his shaman grandfather, whose reach into his "medicine pouch." She in the eyes of the other Alpha Flight
spirit appeared to him. Now Two- pulled out the Circlet of Enchantment members. Then she would defeat him
youngmen was ready to study the Sar- and, on Shaman's instruction, set it upon herself. But Elizabeth was unable to stop
cee Indians' mystical arts. At first his her brow. Immediately she was mystical- Pestilence, who tore the circlet from her
belief in them was too weak to enable ly garbed in a costume. Elizabeth Two- brow, rendering her unable to use most
him to draw objects from the mystical youngmen was the Talisman, a person of of her power to keep him from unleash-
"medicine pouch" he inherited, but as immense mystical ability whose coming ing the Great Beasts against Alpha
time passed, his belief grew stronger, had long been prophesied. As Talisman Flight.
and he finally succeeded with the pouch. she joined Alpha Flight.
Two-youngmen adopted the sacred garb Shaman donned the circlet himself,
of a Sarcee shaman. Later, Delphine Courtney of Omega thereby gaining the power of would grow
Flight stole Shaman's medicine bag and increasingly inhuman over time as a
Two-youngmen felt himself drawn to a turned it inside out, unwittingly unleash- result. Using his new power, Shaman
desolate area in Canada north of the Arc- ing mystical forces that pulled several banished the Great Beasts, and com-
tic Circle by mystical forces. There he Alpha Flight members into the strange manded Snowbird to attack Pestilence,
assisted the goddess Nelvanna in giving pocket dimension linked with the pouch. who fled back into the Earth.
birth to her demigod child. The child was Shaman persuaded Elizabeth to enter
a transmorph, able to assume any the dimension herself to save them, and Free of the circlet, Elizabeth Two-
pledged that he would keep her safe. youngmen has regained her normal per-
The portal leading into the pouch's pock- sonality and forgiven her father for what
et dimension collapsed, entrapping Eliz- she had held against him. She has also
abeth. She was rescued and returned to quit Alpha Flight. Michael Two-
Earth by the alien Beyonder, but her ear- youngmen is now called both Shaman
and Talisman. Recently he left Alpha
Flight, but his present activities are
unknown.

100

TASKMASTER

STATISTICS

F AM (50)
A AM (50)

S GD (10)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I EX (30)
P GD (10)
Health: 140
Karma: 50

Resources: GD (1 O}
Popularity: -5

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Professional criminal
and trainer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen; no crimi-
nal record for civilian identity

Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS has all Martial Arts, Wrestling, Tum- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Photographic Reflexes: Monstrous bling, and Acrobatics. He is + 1 CS

ability with the grenades; +2 CS with the
Combat Sense: A successful Intui-
tion FEAT enables him to guess an shield, billy club, and sword; and +3
opponent's impending actions. He
can make one Intuition FEAT for CS with the pistol or bow. He is an

each enemy each turn. expert Pilot and supply-side Crimi-
Equipment:
Billy Club: Incredible Material; does nologist.
Excellent blunt damage
Shield: Incredible Material; does Contacts: None
Excellent blunt damage
Sword: Incredible Material; does
Good Edged damage
Longbow and Arrows: 24 arrows
identical to Hawkeye's arrows. Maxi-
mum effect is Incredible
Pistol: Variable ammo including
standard, armor-piercing, mercy,

rubber, and explosive bullets
Grenades: Up to six grenades includ-
ing concussive, flash, fragmenta-
tion , sonic, and tear gas
Helmet: Excellent protection from
gas, smoke, sonic, and light attacks
Talents: He can perform any Fight-
ing or Agility FEAT performed by

Captain America, Daredevil, El
Aguila, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Punisher,
Spider-Man , or Tigra. These people
fight him at -2 CS. In addition, he

101

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES of observing the fighting techniques Taskmaster established a new
Taskmaster is normally never of a large number of superhumanly academy in a warehouse on Manhat-
directly encountered by heroes. He powered adventurers through archi- tan's lower west side, but the crime-
prefers to make his profit by the rela- val television news broadcasts. He fighters Spider-Man and Ant-Man,
tively safe means of training thugs initially used his fighting skills to exe- following separate leads, discovered
and assistants for more activist cute several successful grand larce- the place and thwarted Taskmaster's
supervillains. Taskmaster only fights nies, but he had not properly plan to rob nuclear material from a
when super heroes discover one of anticipated the dangers involved. He scientific supply house. Taskmaster
his training schools. Even then, he was again forced to flee. Claiming to
will attempt to flee as soon as the decided to use his stolen capital to have established technical institutes
battle turns against him. Taskmaster establish a center for training aspir- for criminals across the country,
is usually accompanied by 11-20 ing criminals to become polished
thugs packing advanced weaponry. professionals. His goal was to Taskmaster was next observed at the
become a major supplier for criminal Carson Carnival of Traveling Won-
HISTORY organizations around the world. ders, a small company that hap-
Designing a costume, he took the pened to have given Hawkeye his
The man who would become the name Taskmaster and began to train first job as an archer when he was a
Taskmaster first demonstrated unu- a large number of thugs at his crimi- youth. Taskmaster was using the car-
sual abilities during childhood. After nal academy located near the town nival as a traveling front for his oper-
watching a cowboy show on televi- of Southampton on Long Island. ations until Hawkeye and Ant-Man
sion , he found himself able to dupli- compromised it. Again, Taskmaster
cate the sophisticated rope tricks he The crime college was forced to managed to escape custody.
had watched the cowboy perform.
Psychiatrists, called in by his mother, cease operations when its front orga- Deciding to further explore the use
termed the boy's rare ability " photo- nization, the Solomon Institute for of a circus as a front for his academy,
graphic reflexes." He employed his the Criminally Insane, was exposed Taskmaster took over yet another
talent several times during his youth by the Avengers. Taskmaster's chief small show and used it for many
for personal gain, most notably when business administrator Dr. Pernell months to great success. However,
he became a star quarterback of his Solomon, afflicted with a serious while the show was playing a small
high school football game. Upon heart condition, had forced the acad- town in Ohio, the Thing assisted a
graduation, he briefly considered a emy's scientific staff to generate a government agent in foiling Task-
career as a crimefighter, but opted clone of himself, with the purpose of master's activities. The agent took
for becoming a criminal, which he using its heart for a compatible trans- Taskmaster into custody, but there is
perceived to be more lucrative. plant. The clone, artifically aged to reason to believe that it was one of
adulthood, escaped and alerted the the Taskmaster's men wearing his
Taskmaster then began a program Avengers to the existence of the costume. If so, the Taskmaster's cur-
criminal institute. Although the rent whereabouts and activities are
Avengers apprehended most of the unknown.
Solomon lnstitute's personnel, Task-
master escaped .

102

TATTERC>EMALtON

STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A EX (20)

s GD (10)

E EX (20)

R TY (6)
I PR (4)
p FE (2)

Health: 70

Karma: 8

Resources: FE (2)

Popularity: -1

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Arnold Paffenroth
Occupation: Anarchist, profession-
al criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a

criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Las Vegas, Nevada
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Julia Walker (ex-
wife)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: The Night

Shift
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Gloves: Chemicals soaked in the Tatterdemalion is more of an anar-
gloves give him Excellent ability to chist than a villain. Where wealth is Arnold Paffenroth was the only son
rot paper and cloth concerned, his primary concern is of a husband-wife vaudeville tap-
Costume: Nonstick chemicals give destroying it rather than stealing it. dancing act, who began dancing at
him Incredible ability to break free of He holds a grudge against those the age of eight. At eighteen, he met
holds. Kevlar layers give him Excel- parts of society he once belonged to a dancer named Julia Walker and,
lent protection against physical - the wealthy, entertainers, and Las adopting the stage name Michael
attacks. Vegas bigshots. Paffenroth's mad- Wyatt, formed a dance team with her
Knockout Cloak: Chloroform cap- ness governs his behavior and filters that became popular enough to star
sules of Remarkable potency knock his memories. in a number of motion pictures made
out a target for 1-10 turns. in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Throwing Scarf: Good Blunt damage
Talents: Paffenroth is a skilled tap-
dancer and casino operator,
although his rememberance of these
skills is iffy at best.
Contacts: The Night Shift

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

103

Paffenroth, knowing such success of derelicts which he controlled by Ghost Rider. While attempting to
couldn't last, carefully invested his means of a specially designed ultra- steal an expensive race car, the Tat-
earnings in a Las Vegas casino. sonic whistle capable of stimulating terdemalion crashed and was left for
When indeed he could no longer get the emotional centers of the brain. dead. He survived, however, and
work in Hollywood, he split up with Paffenroth was one of Sarnak's chief eventually made his way back to Los
Julia Walker to attend to his casino operatives until Sarnak went mad Angeles. There he discovered that
business. after an encounter with the Were- his former dance partner, Julia Walk-
wolf, Jack Russell. The Committee er, had been reduced to playing pia-
In the early 1970s, while trying to gave Paffenroth his own campaign no accompaniment for singers at a
acquire other real estate, Paffenroth of terror. Calling himself the Tatterde- Hollywood nightclub called Reilly's
ran afoul of Las Vegas mobsters, malion, Paffenroth struck out ran- Ace of Clubs. Maddened that his
who swindled him out of everything domly at the wealthy, whose ranks one-time paramour had fallen on
he owned. Mentally deranged by the had once claimed him as a member. hard times, he began terrorizing the
experience, he fled to Los Angeles Unlike the common criminal who singers at the night club in a misguid-
where he soon became a drunken sought to acquire wealth for himself, ed belief that it would enable her to
derelict. For several years he eked the Tatterdemalion sought to destroy resume the limelight. The mutant
out a bare existence on the outskirts money and material possessions. Dazzler opposed him, however, and
of society. Finally, he was recruited revealed to Walker who he really
into an army of derelicts by Sidney In Los Angeles, Tatterdemalion was. Walker attempted to rehabili-
Sarnak, a former sound engineer was opposed and defeated by the tate him, but the mentally disturbed
turned criminal. Sarnak had been man eventually proved burdensome
hired and outfitted by the Commit- Werewolf and Spider-Man, but was to her. Recently the Tatterdemalion
tee, a secret cabal of Los Angeles freed from police custody by the was recruited into the Night Shift, a
businessmen attempting to foster a Committee. Going to Las Vegas to gang of Los Angeles-based misfits
climate of fear which they believed terrorize the casino he once owned, organized by the Shroud.
would stimulate the economy. To this he again faced the Werewolf in com-
end, Sarnak organized a small army bat, along with Johnny Blaze, the

104

TERMINUS

.--... STATISTICS

F UN(100)
A UN {100)
S CL1000
E CL3000
R MN (75)
I MN (75)
P UN (100)

Health: 4200

Karma: 250
Resources: CL3000

Popularity: - 500

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Terminus
Occupation: Scavenger, merchant,

entrepreneur
Legal Status: Citizen of Fonabi
Identity: Existence unknown to pub-

lic
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Milky Way Gal-

axy
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Cyborg Exoskeleton: The Terminus
armor is an immense robotic exo-
skeleton . Without the armor, Ter-

minus's statistics are:
FAS E R I P
GD GD AM CL1000 MN MN UN

Body Armor: The exoskeleton is immediately reduced to their compo- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
composed of Unearthly material. nent atoms. The rest of the area is
Internal devices give Shift-Y protec- filled with Monstrous Intensity radia-
tion against physical and energy tion and Unearthly heat.
attacks and CL1000 protection
against radiation and extreme tem- • Flight: Independent flight at

peratures. CL1000 speed
Flight: CL3000 velocity (10,000 mph Talents: Terminus is an expert on
air speed; lightspeed in space) mineralogy and interstellar com-
Telescopic Vision: CL5000 range
merce.
(500 light years)
Linguistics: Instant translations of Contacts: None

any language
Energy Lance: A 240-foot lance
made of Unearthly material. This
immense weapon contains these:

• Plasma Generation: CL3000-
ranked concussive damage and
Shift-Z heat and radiation damage at

a range of 16 million miles
• Disruption: An energy field of

CL1000 Intensity extending for 1O
miles. Molecules within one area are

105

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES tist as his personal slave, using him through the Earth toward its core.
Imagine the most evil, ruthless, and as a guide to other planets to plun- Without his lance, it took months for
downright nasty entrepreneur and der. The alien scientist knew that Terminus to dig his way up to the
strip mine operator you can. That's Earth's human race would give rise Earth 's surface.
Terminus. Terminus sees the uni- to superhuman beings in the twenti-
verse and its inhabitants as either eth century. Hoping that such beings Terminus managed to reclaim his
customers or merchandise. would be able to stop Terminus, the lance and began wreaking havoc in
alien scientist persuaded Terminus the Savage Land, a hidden tropical
HISTORY to go to Earth. Terminus fired an jungle in Antarctica. He next
energy beam toward Earth to mark unleashed a destructive storm of
The origin of the alien being known the planet as his. Traveling at the atomic energy in Pangea, another
as Terminus is unknown, nor is any- speed of light, the beam took one jungle bordering the Savage Land.
thing known about the other mem- hundred years to reach the Earth. Not only were huge numbers of Pan-
bers of his race, if there are any. gea's inhabitants killed outright by
Operating a gigantic robotic body When the beam arrived, it carved the atomic storm, but the devasta-
from within its head, and wielding a letters a half-mile wide in Terminus's tion created by Terminus triggered a
lance-like weapon that projects alien language onto Earth's surface series of earthquakes that wrecked
immensely destructive energy, Ter- within the continental United States. the advanced technology that main-
minus has traveled from world to The letters spelled out: " I claim this tained tropical conditions in Pangea.
world, wreaking destruction. He world-Terminus." The earthquakes also snuffed the
despoils planets of the elements of volcanoes that produced the heat
which they are composed, steals The Fantastic Four were investi- used in maintaining the Savage
highly advanced technology, and gating the beam's massive destruc- Land's tropical environment. As a
enslaves sentient beings inhabiting tion when they witnessed the arrival result, both the Savage Land and
these planets. It is not known how of Terminus himself. Displeased with Pangea rapidly fell victim to Antarcti-
Terminus uses his slaves and plun- the planet, Terminus hurled the alien ca's frigid natural cold.
der, but it has been speculated that scientist, whom he had brought with
he sells them to unknown clients. him, to his death, but not before tell- Terminus was attacked in Pangea
Terminus is known to have plun- ing the Fantastic Four about Termi- by the team of superhuman champi-
dered roughly a thousand planets, nus. Terminus now set about ons known as the Avengers. One of
rendering them all uninhabitable in releasing incredible amounts of their members, Hercules, ripped
the process. atomic energy, wreaking tremen- open Terminus's robotic body, leav-
dous destruction, in order to begin ing Terminus himself helpless. Her-
An unknown number of years ago, cules left the body there, and it was
Terminus ravaged the homeworld of breaking down Earth's mass into its soon buried beneath the snows of a
an alien being who was a great sci- component elements. raging blizzard. The nature of Ter-
entist. Terminus took the alien scien- minus's physiology is not known,
After She-Hulk took away Ter- however, and it may be that Terminus
minus's lance, Mister Fantastic will appear again.
attached a device to Terminus's
robotic body that caused it to crash

106

TERRAX

,..-.... STATISTICS

F UN (100)
A AM (50)
S MN (75)
E MN (75)

R GD (10)

I MN (75)

P AM (50)
Health: 300
Karma: 135
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 20 (50 on Birj)

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Tyros of Lanlak
Occupation: Ruler, Herald of Galac-

tus
Legal Status: Birjian citizen,

deceased
Identity: Unknown to public
Place of Birth: Birj, sixth moon of

Marvan
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliation: ex-Herald of

Galactus
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS • Force Field: The axe can emit a ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Earth Animation: Unearthly control force field of Monstrous rank and
over rock, dirt, and basic building
materials. He can affect an area up range.
to 100 miles in diameter. As power • Disintegration: Unearthly ability

stunts he can: to disintegrate matter. Damage is
• Create tremors of unearthly limited to the line of the axe's pas-
sage and the area above that line
intensity (away from the pull of gravity).
• Use rock as missiles with Talents: Terrax has Military and
Astronavigation skills.
Unearthly range and effect
Contacts: None
•Mold rocks
• Leviatate with Unearthly ability
any land mass measuring up to 100

cubic miles
True Invulnerability: Unearthly resist-
ance to physical and energy attacks
and CL1000 resistance to extreme

heat and cold
Self-Sustenance: Terrax is free of the
need to consume air, water, or food.
Floating Disc: CL1000 speed by rid-

ing atop rocks under his control
Dimension Travel: At his maximum
velocity, he can enter hyperspace
Life Detection: Detects life-energies
up to 5 light years away with CL1000

ability
The Cosmic Axe: An axe-like weapon

of CL1000 Material through which he
can channel his powers, including:

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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES to his cosmic power, which trans- Accepting that his herald had now
Terrax is a irreparably vile person formed him into Terrax the Tamer. His become a liability, Galactus returned
who believes that since his is the minor control over stone was aug- Manhattan to Earth and stripped Ter-
strongest power, he should control mented to an uncalculable degree. rax of his cosmic power. The trans-
everything. Even being exposed to Now, he could affect all matter of formed alien was sent hurtling from
Galactus's near-omnipotence didn't rock and stone on nearly a planetary the top of the World Trade Center
dampen Terrax's ego any. He simply scale. His body was changed so that down to the street below where an
began to work on ways to destroy it could withstand the vacuum of unidentified passerby took him to a
anyone stronger than he was. space. Finally, Galactus gave Terrax hospital.
a weapon called the cosmic axe,
HISTORY which was capable of generating Victor von Doom , looking for a
waves of cosmic force. pawn to use in a plot against the
Tyros was originally the dictator of Fantstic Four, kidnapped Terrax from
the small city-state Lanlak on the As Galactus's new herald, Terrax the hospital and took him back to
world of Birj (sometimes translated found more worlds for his master Doom's kingdom of Latveria. There,
as Terran), a moon of the gas giant than any of the previous heralds. Ter- after six weeks of Doom's advanced
Marman in a solar system eighty rax likened the discovery of new treatments, Terrax recovered but
thousand light years from Earth. planets to the feeling of conquest. with no memories of having been the
Tyros ruled through the use of his On several occasions, Terrax annihi· herald of Galactus. Doom had
limited power over earth and rock. lated large segments of the popula- recently perfected a device capable
This power, which apparently was a tion himself using his cosmic of endowing an individual with lim-
mutation unique to Tyros, enabled powers. As Galactus had hoped, Ter- ited cosmic power. Tyros readily
him to animate constructs of stone rax's lack of morality made him a agreed to be exposed to the device's
which would patrol his kingdom successful herald. But whereas energies. Garbed in a special suit
maintaining his firm control. Tyros Galactus's other heralds had a that would channel and regulate the
loved power and conquest, and led a sense of loyalty to their master, Ter- cosmic energies in his body, Tyros
life of debauchery and violence. rax had no compunctions against set off for New York. Unknown to
Somehow, he came to the attention defying him . Shortly after being him, the power Doom gave him
of Galactus, the world-devourer. transformed, Terrax fled from his would consume Tyros's body within
Galactus had been seeking a new master and overthrew the ruling
herald to guide him to the fertile plan- body of a small unnamed planet. He a matter of hours. Thus Doom would
ets he needed for sustenance, pref- enslaved the entire population and not be faced with an adversary
erably one who would have no set himself up as the planet's deity. whose power was greater than his
compunction in leading Galactus to Terrax planned to use the survivors own, once Tyros had served his pur-
worlds populated with sentient of his reign as the first wave of a pose.
beings. universe-conquering army. But
before Terrax could proceed any fur- Tyros defeated the Fantastic Four,
When the Fantastic Four came to ther, Galactus summoned his herald. then turned on Doom and immobi·
Galactus to ask him for aid in their Fearful of his master's wrath, Terrax lized the Latverian monarch in his
battle against the Sphinx, Galactus hid in a black hole. Utilizing the armor. At Tyros's moment of seem-
agreed, but only on condition that powers of the Earth mutant Dazzler, ing triumph, the Silver Surfer, the
the Fantastic Four would journey to first of Galactus's heralds, arrived to
Birj and subdue Tyros for him. The Galactus freed Terrax and made him save the lives of his friends, the
Fantastic Four reluctantly did this, obedient to his will again. Fantastic Four. Tyros was forced to
and in doing so, they freed the city of use his lesser powers to the limit in
Lanlak from Tyros's rule. Brought But Terrax's rebellious nature order to combat the Surfer. This only
before Galactus, Tyros was exposed could not be totally stifled, and Ter- served to hasten his inevitable dete-
rax again fled, this time to Earth. Ter- rioration. As the two former heralds
rax levitated the entire island of of Galactus engaged in battle, Tyros
Manhattan into earth orbit and used was totally consumed by the "power
the lives of its millions of inhabitants cosmic."
to bargain with the Fantastic Four.

108

STATISTICS THANDS

F MN (75) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Thanos is a true death-lover. He has
combined his passion for killing any-
S UN (100) thing that lives with an actual court-
ship of Death Incarnate. Thanos
E UN (100) usually directly confronts foes him-
R AM (50) self. However, he is a superb planner
I IN (40) who can twist the actions of ostensi-
P AM (50) bly heroic beings to serve his own
Health: 305 ends. If Thanos offers to be an ally,
Karma: 140 watch out!
Resources: AM (50}
Popularity: -100 109

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Thanos of Titan
Occupation: Conqueror and exter-
minator
Legal Status: Titanian exile,
deceased
Identity: Publicly known on other
worlds
Place of Birth: Titan
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mentor (father),
Sui-San (mother, deceased), Starfox
(brother), Nebula (alleged grand-
daughter)
r-.. Base of Operations: Sanctuary II
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Armor Skin: Monstrous protection
against physical attacks, and Amazing
protection from energy attacks
Invulnerability: CL1000 resistance to
heat, cold, electricity, radiation, tox-
ins, aging, and disease
Plasma Generation: Unearthly inten-
sity blasts from his hands or eyes
Psionic Blast: Amazing rank
Self-Sustenance: Indefinite survival
without air, food, or water
Teleportation: Unearthly ability to
carry along up to 10 companions
Wraith Form: While under the Cos- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
mic Cube's influence, Thanos

increased all his powers + 1 CS and

developed these Abilities:
FAS ER I P
UN UN Z Z UN UN CL5000

Talents: He has a genius for most
Scientific fields, especially Engi-
neering and Repair!Tinkering.
Contacts: Thanos has used the
services of various beings, including
Adam Warlock, the Super-Skrull,
and the Controller.

SANCTUARY II: being. To make himself worthy of so factors in the timestream which,
combined, might prove the Magus's
Control Speed Body Protection awesome an entity, Thanos tried to undoing. One of these factors was
the rescuing of the infant Gamora, a
MN CL3000 MN MN acquire political power through the female of the pacifistic Zen-
Whoberis race that was slaughtered
conquest of worlds. To this end, he by the Magus's missionary troops.
She would serve as Thanos's per-
Thanos's starship is an immense amassed a huge armada of battle- sonal assassin. The second major
factor would be Thanos's own direct
vehicle capable of housing thou- ships. Then he found a way to alliance with Warlock against the
Magus. Thus Thanos hoped to
sands. However, Thanos prefers to amplify immeasurably his personal diverge a reality wherein Warlock
never became the Magus. Thanos
live in it alone. He can control or power. Thanos learned of a power- succeeded and managed to siphon
monitor any of its functions from any- object called the Cosmic Cube from Warlock's soul-gem the ener-
where in the ship. It is armed with brought into existence by the sub- gies he needed without Warlock's
knowledge.
hundreds of Monstrous Intensity and versive organization Advanced Idea
Thanos then constructed a single
thousands of Amazing Intensity Mechanics. Thanos seized control of huge synthetic soul-gem to hold the
energies of the other six. With it, he
energy weapons. The Hull is Mon- the reality-altering device and com- planned to extinguish the stars one
strous material. Sanctuary II is pro- manded it to give him control over by one. Gamora learned of his plan
of destruction and tried to assassi-
pelled by a CL3000 stardrive the universe. nate him, but Thanos slew her.
Thanos also slew Warlock's com-
(lightspeed) and a hyperdrive capa- Transformed into a godlike wraith rade, Pip the Troll. Warlock had by
this time learned of Thanos's threat
ble of instantly moving it anywhere in by the Cosmic Cube, Thanos battled and traveled to Earth to enlist the aid
the universe within 1-100 days. of the Avengers and Captain Mar-
the Kree Captain Mar-Vell and the Vell. In battle aboard Thanos's star- --
ship, Captain Mar-Vell damaged the
Avengers, who had previously van- equipment Thanos used to cause
stars to go nova. Warlock faced
quished his armada. When Thanos Thanos in personal combat and was
slain. The Avengers were taken cap-
carelessly discarded the Cube, tive by Thanos, but were rescued by
Spider-Man and the Thing. Spider-
HISTORY believing falsely that he had drained Man, influenced by the abstract
it of all power, Mar-Vell struck the entities Lord Order and Master Cha-
os, released Warlock's spirit from the
Thanos was one of the last sons of cube, willing it to restore the uni- soul-gem. Then, seething with cos-
Alars, progenitor of the second colo- verse to what it had been. Robbed of mic power released through his
ny of Eternals of Titan, and Sui-San, power, Thanos reverted to mortal physical death, Warlock grappled
the last survivor of the original settle- form in the center of the universe with Thanos and turned the mad
ment of Eternals on Titan. Born with where his flagsh ip, Sanctuary II, Titan to immobile stone. Incapaci-
gray, hide-like skin and a massive retrieved him under preprogrammed tated for eternity, Thanos still retains
body, Thanos was a morose child instructions. Revived, Thanos was a fragment of his consciousness and
dejected to discover that Death had is thus tortured by the fact that he
who became obsessed with the con- abandoned him because of his fail- who worshipped death will forever
cept of death. Through bionic imple- ure. Thinking that he could regain be denied it.
mentation and long hours of Death's attention by annihilating all
meditation, Thanos augmented his living things, Thanos searched
Eternal strength and powers so that through the minds and records of
his powers surpassed those of all countless civilizations, hoping to find
other Titanian Eternals. As he grew the key to the power he sought.
in power, Thanos stole a starship and Eventually he learned of the soul-
traveled to other star systems to gems, six power objects of unknown
recruit soldiers, mercenaries, and origin and vast power. He obtained
malcontents for a private army. With all of the soul-gems except one, the
a small fleet, he dropped nuclear jade jewel on the head of Adam War-
devices on his home world of Titan, lock.
killing thousands of his people,
including his mother, Sui-San, and Observing Warlock, Thanos
declared himself ruler of Titan. learned that he had diverged a tem-
poral counterpart named the Magus,
At some point in his adult life, who was the head of a galaxywide
Thanos met the embodiment of religious empire.Thanos planned to
Death itself who, in female form, eliminate the Magus to avoid his
became Thanos's companion. opposition. Possessing the capacity
Thanos began, for the first time in his
life, to experience love for another for time travel, Thanos set up certain

110

TEXAS TWISTER

STATISTICS

F GD (10)
A EX (20)

S TY (6)

E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)

P TY (6)
Health: 66

Karma: 18
Resources: TY (6)

Popularity: 1O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Drew Daniels

Occupation: Ex-Cattle hand and
SHIELD trainee turned rodeo per-
former and adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen

Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Amarillo, Texas

Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Southwest
United States
Past Group Affiliations: SHIELD,

Rangers

Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Whirlwind: Amazing Intensity and Texas Twister is primarily out for
damage. Maximum tornado size is 2 bucks and glory. He is willing to work Drew Daniels was rounding up some
areas. Power Stunts include: with any team who can provide him cattle that had strayed from the herd
he was tending in the Panhandle in
• Flight at Amazing landspeed with a decent share of both. His Texas when a storm began to brew.
• Grapple with Amazing ability innate honesty prevents him from Daniels was near a nuclear power
• Tornado-wrapped punches of allying himself with criminals, generating facility just as a tornado
Remarkable Strength though he tends to walk away rather touched down in one of the site's
Body Resistance: Good resistance than battle the villains. His one altru- waste storage canisters area. Dan-
to physical attacks istic streak is his continuing quest to iels was bombarded with radioactive
Talents: Acrobatics, Tumbling, locate his missing partner and particles sucked out of the plant,
Horsemanship, and Martial Arts B
Contacts: Partner Shooting Star girlfriend, Shooting Star.
and other former Rangers (Red Wolf,
Firebird, Ghost Rider); possibly
SHIELD

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

111

even as he was swept up into the declined membership and applied to emergency call sent by Rick Jones
· funnel cloud itself. The radiation the espionage agency, SHIELD, to the Avengers. They soon found
which was organizing its super-agent themselves in battle with the Hulk,
bombardment triggered body-wide program. For several months, the who was under the influence of the
mutagenic alterations in him, Twister trained under the Falcon with Corrupter. They also encountered
endowing him with the ability to gen- the super-agents. But when two of the Firebird, Ghost Rider, and Red Wolf,
erate tornadoes at will. four members were found to be trai- three of the American Southwest's
tors, the Super-Agent program was superhuman champions. The Texas
His first use of his powers was to scrapped, and the Twister became a Twister and Shooting Star joined with
dissipate the raging storm that free agent. the others to found the Rangers. The
mutated him. He then quit his job as a team was short-lived, however, and
cowhand, went to a special tailor and Rapidly depleting his SHIELD sev- at some point Shooting Star was
bought a custom-made costume, and erance pay, the Texas Twister decid-
journeyed to the East Coast in order to ed to use his powers for profit and replaced by a demonic doppelgang-
make a name for himself. Calling him- joined a rodeo. There he met Victoria er. Shooting Star's double brought
self the Texas Twister, Daniels Star, or Shooting Star as she called the Rangers into conflict with the
answered a newspaper advertisement herself professionally, and the two West Coast Avengers and the substi-
placed by the Wizard of the Frightful worked out an act. Hoping to garner tution was discovered. Texas Twister
Four to fill a vacancy in the ranks of good publicity to help their career, has since been involved in a quest to
that ciminal group. When the Twister the couple decided to answer an locate the real Shooting Star.
learned of its criminal intent, he

112

~ STATISTICS THING

Form: Human Lumpy Rocky Spiky
F EX (20) RM (30) IN (40) IN (40)
A GD (10) TY (6) GD (10) TY (6)
GD (10) MN (75) UN (100)
s GD (10) AM (50) MN (75) UN (100)
GD (10) AM (50) GD (10) GD (10)
E TY (6) GD (10) EX (20)
R GD (10) PR (4) RM (30) RM (30)
I RM (30) TY (6)
p 200 246
50 136 50 60
Health: 50 16
Karma:

Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 80 (1 Oin human form)

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Benjamin Jacob Grimm
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: New York City, NY
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Daniel and Elsie
(parents, deceased), Daniel Jr.
(brother, deceased), Dr. Jacob
Grimm (uncle)
Base of Operations: Four Free-
doms Plaza, New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Fantastic

Four, Unlimited Class Wrestling Fed-
eration
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Alter Ego: The Thing is the super-
powered form of Ben Grimm. Ben
cannot voluntarily transform himself.
Body Armor: His lumpy and rocky
hides gives him Incredible protection
against physical and fiery attacks as
well as Excellent protection against
other energy attacks. His spiky form

has additional + 1 CS protection.

Hyper-Breath: As a Strength Power
Stunt, the Thing can exhale an
Excellent Intensity windstorm with a
range from 20 feet to 2 areas.
Talents: He is well trained in Martial
Arts Band Wrestling. He has Incredi-
ble Reason in the fields of Piloting
and Aircraft Design. He can pilot pre-
viously unknown, even alien, aircraft
and spacecraft by a Reason FEAT.
Contacts: The Fantastic Four,
Avengers, Unlimited Class Wrestling
,,.-... Federation, SHIELD, Project Pega-
sus, and any group the FF have aid-

ed.

113

ADDITIONAL NOTES: his project to build a starship, using months. Eventually, however, he -...
both his own fortune and funding from found himself trapped once again in
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES the U.S. government. When the fed- his monstrous form, un able to
In his original lumpy form, the Thing eral government threatened to with- change to human form, and he
is a morose, easily angered individ- draw its funding from the starship returned to Earth. There Grimm
ual who would as likely strike a team- project, Reed Richards decided to learned that Johnny Storm and Alicia
mate as an opponent. After his take the starship on a test flight him- Masters had become lovers, and
transition to his familiar rocky state, self as soon as possible. Grimm was that Reed Richards had known
he regained self-control. In his cur- persuaded to serve as pilot, and about his mental block. Furious and
rent spiky form , the Thing is down- Richards' future wife, Susan Storm, distraught, Grimm quit the Fantastic
right mellow and is a capable leader. and her adolescent brother Johnny Four. He worked for a time as a
In any form, though, he is a relent- insisted on going as passengers. The superhumanly strong wrestler for the
less fighter who will sacrifice any- four were subject to intense cosmic Unlimited Class Wrestling Federa-
thing to help his friends. Ben is ray bombardment. The controls, too, tion , and also participated in mis-
attracted to powerful women. were damaged, and Pilot Grimm was sions with the West Coast Avengers.
forced to abort the flight and return to
HISTORY Earth. When Ben began to undergo further
mutation, becoming, at least in his
Benjamin J . Grimm was born into The four young people discovered own mind, still more grotesque, he
that the cosmic radiation had triggered journeyed to Monster Island, where he
poverty. mutagenic changes in their bodies. had first encountered his foe, the Mole
After the deaths of his parents, Grimm was transformed into an Man. Now, however, the Mole Man
orange-colored, thick-skinned, heavily befriended the Thing and welcomed
Ben was taken in by his Uncle Jake, muscled, and superhumanly strong him into his underground realm as
who had risen from poverty to "thing." Grimm, morose over his new part of the society he had founded of
become a successful physician, and grotesque appearance, named him- physically ugly people who felt them-
his first wife Alyce. At first Ben resist- self the Thing. Under Richards' lead- selves to be outcasts in the surface
ed their kindness toward him, but ership, the Fantastic Four has become world. Grimm agreed to help the Mole
eventually he came to return their Earth's most honored team of super- Man raise a small continent in the
love. He left his life with the Yancy human adventurers.
Street Gang behind, became a foot- Pacific Ocean to serve as a homeland
ball star in high school , and won a Over the years, the Thing's epider- for the Mole Man's society. The three
football scholarship to college. mis has changed from an abnormally
dense, somewhat lumpy but still com- other origi nal members of the
Grimm's college roommate was paratively smooth hide to a flexible, Fantastic Four found the Thing in the
the brilliant science student Reed interlocking network of rock-like Mole Man's realm, where Reed
Richards, who became his closest lumps. His superhuman strength has Richards realized that by raising a
friend. During their first meeting, increased considerably over time. continent in the Pacific, the Mole Man
Richards confided in Grimm his Early in Grimm's life as the Thing, he would trigger earthquakes that would
intention someday to build a starship would sometimes revert to his original destroy California.
for interstellar travel. Grimm jokingly human form unexpectedly. But neither
promised that he would pilot the star- these changes nor those induced by When Reed and Sue Richards
ship for Richards if he ever built it. announced they were leaving the
Richards in his efforts to turn Grimm Four to raise their son in relative nor-
Upon graduating, Grimm went into back to human form ever proved to be mality, the Thing became head of the
the U.S. Air Force and became a high- permanent. Instrumental in helping group. He has shown himself to be
ly skilled test pilot and astronaut. In the Grimm adjust to his life as the Thing an able, level-headed leader. How-
meantime, Richards went ahead with was the blind sculptress Alicia Mas- ever, he might still harbor some
ters, with whom Grimm fell in love. resentment toward the Human Torch
Grimm achieved the ability to trans- because of Johnny's recent mar-
form from his Thing form to human riage to Alicia. Still, the recent addi-
form and back at will. However, fearing tion of Ms. Marvel II to the group has
that Alicia Masters could love him only given Ben a realistic outlet for his
long-submerged romantic side. Ini-
as the Thing, Grimm suffered from a tially he was concerned with helping
subconscious mental block that pre- her develop a stable personality.
vented him from becoming human. Since the accident that transformed
her into a " she-thing" and him into a
When Grimm was transported to more powerful, spiky form, they have
the distant " Battle)iorld" by the alien begun to see each other as ideal
Beyonder for the first of the so-called mates.
"secret wars," he found himself able
to change to human form and back.
Once the " secret war" was over,

Grimm remained on the planet for

114

THOR

STATISTICS

Original Hela·
Cursed
F UN (100) RM (30)
EX (20)
A EX (20) AM (50)
IN (40)
s MN (75) EX (20)
E MN (75) GD (10)
RM (30)
R GD (10)
140
I GD (10) 60
p RM {30) PR (4)

Health: 200 30

Karma: 50

Resources: EX (20)

Popularity: 50

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Thor; Dr. Donald Blake;

.,...--,. Sigurd Jarlson
Occupation: (as Thor) Warrior,
adventurer; (as Blake) General prac-
titioner, surgeon ; (as Jarlson) Con-

struction worker
Legal Status: (as Thor) Prince of
Asgard, honorary American citizen;
(as Blake) American citizen (miss-

ing)

Identity: Secret
,,--... Place of Birth: A cave in Norway

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: Odin and Gaea
(parents), Loki (adopted brother)
Base of Operations: Asgard, New
York City
Past Group Affiliations: Asgar-

dians, Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Health: 18 • Flight: Amazing air speed
Invulnerability: Excellent resistance Karma: 50 • Shield: Remarkable protection
to physical attacks, heat, cold, radia- against physical, energy, and magi-
tion, toxins, aging, and disease. Typ- Sigurd Jarlson: cal attacks.
ical resistance to other energy FASER I P • Weather Control: Unearthly con-
attacks. GD GD EX EX GD GD RM trol, including Monstrous intensity
lightning.
Illusion Detection: + 1 CS to Intuition Health:60 • Worthiness: Only a pure, noble
Karma: 50 person may hold the hammer. Such
when confronting an illusion. people must have Remarkable
Mjolnir: A CL1000-Material hammer. • Automatic Return: After striking Strength and expend 1000 Karma
Thor's Fighting increases to Shift X or missing a target, Mjolnir flies back points in order to use Mjolnir. Some-
when using the hammer. Thor can to the spot where it was thrown. one using a machine may lift but not
throw Mjolnir 10 areas. Mjolnir has use Mjolnir if they have Remarkable
these Power Stunts: • Dimension Travel: Unearthly Strength.
ability to travel between Earth and
• Alter Ego: Striking Mjolnir to the Asgard. 115
ground transforms Thor into his mor-
tal self. If he is kept from Mjolnir for
over 60 seconds, he automatically
reverts to mortal form.

Dr. Donald Blake:
FASER I P
FE PR TY TY GD GD RM

• Unfettered Might: A special BETA RAV THOR • Dimension Travel: Unearthly
attack increases damage to Shift Y ability to travel across great dis-
and surrounds Mjolnir with a blazing STATISTICS tances or dimensions
aura. If he is wearing the Belt of
Strength, damage increases to Shift F UN (100) • Flight: Amazing air speed
Z. Thor suffers Incredible damage if A RM (30) • Shield: Remarkable protection
not wearing his gauntlets. Thor loses S UN (100) against physical, energy, and magi-
one-half his Karma when using this E UN (100) cal attacks
attack. R RM (30) • Weather Control: Unearthly con-
Armor: CL1000 metal provides Shift- I EX (20) trol, including Monstrous intensity
y protection against physical and P AM (50) lightning
energy attacks. Health: 330 • Worthiness: Only a pure, noble
Gauntlets: CL1000 metal covers his Karma: 100 person may hold the hammer. Such
hands and arms. It provides Shift-Y Resources: EX ((20) people must have Remarkable
protection against contact powers. Popularity: 30 Strength and expend 1000 Karma
Belt of Strength: Increases Strength points in order to use Stormbreaker.
BACKGROUND Someone using a machine may lift
+ 1 CS. Removal temporarily lowers Real Name: "Beta Ray Bill" (English but not use Stormbreaker if they
equivalent of his name) have Remarkable Strength.
his Endurance - 2CS. Occupation: Warrior Talents: Beta Ray Bill is skilled in
Talents: Thor is skilled in medicine, Legal Status: Korbinite citizen, hon- astronavigation, starship combat,
Asgardian lore, and combat with orary Asgardian citizen and Korbinite technology.
Identity: Existence unknown to Contacts: Asgardians, Korbinite
either swords ( + 1 CS) or Mjolnir ( + 2 Earth fleet
Place of Birth: Burning Galaxy
CS). Marital Status: Single ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Contacts: Asgardians, Avengers, Known Relatives: None
Gaea. Base of Operations: Skuttlebutt
(starship)
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Past Group Affiliations: Korbinites,
ally of Asgard
Present Group Affiliation:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Armorskin: Excellent protection
Thor is a firm believer in honor and against physical or energy attacks. Beta Ray Bill is a noble, dedicated
the obligations of the powerful to pro- Telelocation: Beta Ray Bill has the warrior pledged to the defense of his
tect the weak. He acts as both CL1000 ability to locate his home people and the destruction of Surtur.
Earth's and Asgard's champion. He fleet. He is a better fighter than Thor but
feels a stronger obligation to Earth, Stormbreaker: A CL1000-Material sees him as an equal and kindred
though, and will reluctantly act hammer. Beta Ray Thor's Fighting spirit. Although he prefers to stay
against Asgardians if Earth's needs increases to Shift X when using the with his people's fleet, Beta Ray Thor
are at issue. While Blake and Jarlson hammer. He can throw will come to the aid of others if they
speak normally, Thor uses the formal Stormbreaker 1O areas. The ham- are battling a common enemy, Sur-
speech of Asgardians (it sounds like mer has these powers: tur's demons.
pseudo-Shakespearian) and tends
to make slightly long-winded • Alter Ego: Striking it to the
speeches during battles. ground transforms Beta Ray Thor
into his unaltered self:

Beta Ray Bill:
FASER I P
EX EX EX EX RM EX AM

Health: 80
Karma: 100

• Automatic Return: After striking
or missing a target, it flies back to the
spot where it was thrown.

116

THOR

HISTORY various enchantments upon the who again had his full godly powers,
hammer, including one that made it but Odin wiped out Thor's memory of
Thor is the bloodson of Odin, lord of impossible for anyone to lift except his two mortal identities. It is unclear
the gods of Asgard, and Jard, who is someone who was truly worthy of how much, if any, of this account by
also known as Gaea, the eldest god- wielding it. Odin then declared that
dess of the Earth. Odin sought to he was reserving the use of Mjolnir Odin's severed eye is true.
father a son whose power would for Thor, who would receive it on the Thor led an active, adventurous
derive from Earth as well as Asgard, day that great deeds of selfless valor
and hence he mated with Jard. Odin had proved him worthy of it. life in Asgard, doing battle with Frost
created a cave in Norway where Jord Giants and other enemies of the
gave birth to Thor. Months after the For years Thor strove to become realm. But Odin grew increasingly
infant Thor was weaned, Odin took strong and worthy enough to wield dissatisfied with Thor's headstrong
him to Asgard to be raised. From that the hammer and was responsible for behavior and excessive pride. On
time onward, Odin's wife, the god- many heroic deeds. Finally, when one occasion Thor violated a truce
dess Frigga, acted as Thor's mother. Thor was sixteen, Odin presented between the Asgardians and the
Not until recent years did Thor learn him with the hammer, declaring Thor Frost Giants, thereby nearly starting
that Jord was his mother. a war. Finally, while Thor was
Asgard's greatest warrior. engaged in a brawl in an Asgardian
A severed eye of Odin once grew Sometime in Earth's 9th Century tavern, Odin summoned him to his
to great size, achieved sentience, presence. Odin had decided that it
and informed Thor that another Thor A.O., Thor journeyed to Earth for the was time Thor learned humility. Odin
had existed before the current Thor's first time and promoted his worship had Thor surrender his hammer to
birth. This previous Thor was also among the Vikings. Both the Norse- him, and then sent him to Earth in
the son of Odin, but had red hair, not men and the Germans, who called the mortal guise of a crippled young
blond. This previous Thor is said to him Donner, came to worship Thor medical student named Donald
have killed the Midgard Serpent, and and other Asgardians. Thor actively Blake, stripped of his memory of his
to have been killed himself by the encouraged the adulation of his
dying monster's venom, at Viking worshippers for years. He true identity.
Ragnarok, the destruction of a pre- also encouraged them to find glory in As Blake, Thor learned the value
vious version of Asgard. Odin him- battle. But finally Thor discovered
self was killed , but a new Odin that a party of his Viking worshippers of humble perseverence in dealing
appeared in the place of several had slaughtered the inhabitants of a with his injured leg, and he came to
gods who survived Ragnarok, and it Christian monastery. Shocked, real- care for the sick and dying, first as a
was this new Odin who fathered the izing that some of his more zealous medical student, and later as a suc-
worshippers were committing atroci-
current version of Thor. ties in his name, Thor withdrew from ?essful physician. After leaving med-
Possibly these previous versions Earthly activities altogether, and ical school, Blake opened a private
allowed the worship of the gods of practice in New York, quickly gaining
of Odin and Thor were earlier physi-
cal incarnations of the Odin and Thor Asgard to die out. renown as a great surgeon.
of today. However, this account of According to the severed eye of After Thor had spent ten years in
Thor's origin by the severed eye of
Odin may very well be entirely false. Odin, Odin himself later caused Thor the role of Blake, Odin planted within
to go live on Earth in the mortal guis- Blake's mind the idea of taking a
The young Thor was raised with es of the Germanic heroes vacation in Norway. There Blake
Loki, who had been adopted by Odin Siegmund and his son, Siegfried. In encountered a party of alien
after Loki's father, the Frost Giant these two roles, Thor played a major Kronans, also known as the Stone
Laufey, had been killed in battle. role in Odin 's efforts to regain the Men from Saturn. Blake fled from the
From childhood, Loki was jealous of dangerously powerful Ring of the Kronans into a cavern, the very
Thor, and his hatred grew over the Nibelung. Siegmund was killed by same one where he had been born
years to a wish to destroy him. This the warrior Hunding, but Thor was millennia ago. Odin had left Thor's
hammer in the enchanted form of a
enmity persists. reborn as Siegfried, the son of wooden cane. Trapped in the cavern
Siegmund and his lover Sieglinde. by a great boulder, Blake struck the
When Thor was eight, Odin sent Siegfried took possession of the boulder with the cane in frustrated
him to Nidalvellir, the land of the Ring after killing the giant Fafnir, who anger, and was transfarmed back
dwarves, to bid the dwarves Brokk guarded it in the guise of a dragon. into his true godly form of Thor. As
and Eitri to create three treasures for (This Fafnir is not to be confused Thor he escaped the cavern and
Asgard's ruler. Among the three trea- with the dragon Fafnir whom Thor
sures that Brokk and Eitri created has fought in recent years.) Siegfried drove off the Kronans.
was the uru hammer Mjolnir then fell in love with the Valkyrie
(although Loki sabotaged the crea- Brunnhilde, but was murdered by At first, Thor had no memory of his
tion of the hammer so that its handle Hagen, the son of Alberich, the past life as an Asgardian god,
was made too short). Odin bestowed dwarf who had created the Ring and although as months passed, more of
placed a curse upon it. Odin, how- his memories returned. Finally, a
ever, resurrected Siegfried as Thor, year later, Odin revealed to him the
false nature of the Blake identity and

the reason for it.

Thor maintained his Blake identity

117

on Earth and continued his medical years, and it is unclear what path it mal contemporary Earthman and
practice. Part of his affinity for Earth may take in the future. wears glasses.
was his subconscious realization
that his maternal heritage was on Thor was a founding member of Lately, Thor has grown a beard to
this world. The other part was simply the team of superhuman champions conceal the terrible scars left on his
his love for humanity and his need to known as the Avengers, and has face due to wounds inflicted by the
experience those things that only continued to serve with the team Asgardian death goddess Hela. It is
mortals could know. Thor came to from time to time through the not known if these scars will ever
divide his time between Earth and present. Recently Thor gave up his completely heal and fade.
Asgard and does so to this day. identity as Don Blake. In fact, Odin
transferred the enchantment ena- After Odin disappeared during his
For years Thor was in love with bling Thor to change into mortal form battle with Surtur, the people of
Jane Foster who worked as a nurse and back from Thor's hammer to that Asgard wished to make Thor, Odin's
for Blake. Odin disapproved of of his ally and alien counterpart, designated heir, their new ruler.
Thor's love for this mortal, but even- Beta Ray Bill. With the aid of Nick Unwilling to give up his guardianship
tually the romance between Thor Fury, Public Director of SHIELD, of Earth or his life of adventure, at
Thor has adopted a new "secret least not yet, Thor declined the offer
and Foster came to an end, and Thor identity," that of construction worker and instead nominated his friend
renewed his relationship with Sit, an Sigurd Jarlson. Thor does not actu- Balder the Brave to be Asgard's
Asgardian warrior-goddess who was ally become a mortal in his Jarlson ruler. Balder now rules until such
his friend as a child. That relation- identity; he simply dresses as a nor- time as Odin returns or Thor himself
ship has suffered strains in recent claims the throne.

118

THUNDERBIRD I

STATISTICS

F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S IN (40)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I RM (30)
P RM (30)
Health: 110
Karma: 70
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 13

BACKGROUND
Real Name: John Proudstar
Occupation: USMC Corporal
(retired}, adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen,
deceased
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Camp Verde Apache
Reservation, Arizona
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Neal and Mana
(parents}, James (brother, a.k.a.
Thunderbird II)
Base of Operations: X-Mansion
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Invulnerability: Good resistance to
physical and energy attacks.
Tracking: Remarkable ability
Talents: Tracking, Hunting, and Sur-
vival skills.
,..-... Contacts: Apache nation

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOT ES viduals, Thunderbird felt the need to athlete. Proudstar, however, regard-
Thunderbi rd was a proud and prove himself their equal or superior. ed himself throughout his life as a
strong-willed man, too much so for If he was unable to do this, he loner and an outcast. He wished to
his eventual good. When he was in became angry and reckless. proved himself to be a warrior in the
the company of more powerful indi- tradition of his ancestors, and he
HISTORY was dissatisfied with what he regard-
ed as the complacent lives led by his
John Proudstar was born on the fellow Apaches on their reservation.
Apache reservation at Camp Verde,
Arizona. During his childhood and Although too young to join the
adolescence, he proved to be an armed forces, Proudstar lied about
exceptionally strong and vigorous his age and entered the United
States Marines, intending to lead the
kind of active life he desired. He
became a corporal and earned a
number of medals. But Proudstar

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was still dissatisfied with his life once including Proudstar, became the terns. Furiously Thunderbird pum-
his term of duty was over and he had " new" X-Men team. Xavier gave meled the aircraft until finally it
returned to the reservation. Proudstar the code name " Thunder- exploded, killing him instantly. Nefa-
bird." ria, however, reached safety through
Proudstar's mutant superhuman teleportation.
strength first manifested itself when, On their next known mission, the
at the age of twenty, he wrestled and new X-Men went to Cheyenne Moun- Just before Thunderbird's funeral
threw a charging bison bare-handed tain in the Colorado Rockies, the in the Western Desert, Thunder-
to save a little girl. This feat earned location of a North American Air bird's body was stolen by his youn-
Proudstar fame among his tribes- Defense command center which had ger brother James, who gave him a
people, but the true nature of his been taken over by Count Luchino traditional Apache warrior's funeral
abilities remained unknown until Nefaria in an international extortion rite. James had hardly known his
Professor Charles Xavier, founder of scheme. After the X-Men had ruined brother, but admired him as his hero,
the X-Men, discovered him. his plans, Nefaria attempted to and he vowed to take vengeance
escape in a small aircraft. Thunder- someday on Xavier, whom he
Through the use of his mutant- bird managed to climb onto the blamed for John's death.
detecting computer Cerebra, Xavier plane as it took off. Defying Xavier's
located Proudstar, whom he invited telepathic warnings to get off the James Proudstar eventually
to become one of the X-Men. The plane, Thunderbird asserted that he joined the Hellions, a team of young
first mission that Proudstar and six was finally going to prove that he superhuman mutants, and took the
other new recruits to the team under- was a true Apache warrior. Using his name Thunderbird himself. He
took was the rescue of the original X- superhuman strength , Thunderbird attempted to take his revenge on
Men from the " living island " of ripped open part of the plane and Xavier but could not go through with
Krakoa in the South Pacific. Except wreaked havoc on its internal sys- killing him. He has given up his quest
for Sunfire, these new recruits, for vengeance.

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THUNDERIDERB

GROUP BACKGROUND Daytona, but they manifested their berry, it was later learned, was usu-
ally the host body for their collective
The Thunderiders are· a world-class collective self, the Marauder, a few persona, the Marauder, although she
motorcycle stunt-riding exhibition days earlier. The Marauder had did not know it. Hebb designed and
team based in the United States. stolen into the corporate headquar- built a race car for Team America to
Five of the Thunderiders' six regu- ters of Universal Technologies, a compete in the Rocky Mountain
front for HYDRA, in order to purge race, but a HYDRA assassin pre-
lars are mutants who possess a spe- the computer files of records about
cial mental link with one another that them. When HYDRA learned of the vented them from winning.
enables them to share certain infor- purge, it deduced the identities of When the three original Team
mation and feelings as well as pro- the five file-subjects from cross-
ject into a host body their combined referenced data, but now lacked the Americans performed at a charity
mental and physical attributes dur- detailed histories of the five. Believ- exhibition at Madison Square Gar-
ing times of stress. This host body ing that McDonald, Roan, or "Wolf" den in New York, one of the specta-
takes on the masked identity of the must be the Marauder, HYDRA sent tors, a prominent Nobel prize winner,
Marauder, also known as the Black an agent to Daytona to assassinate was kidnapped by a large android.
Marauder, the Dark Rider, or the all three. James McDonald, who had The Team assisted Captain America
Black Rider. The parents of James recently resigned from the Central in rescuing him and several other
McDonald, Winthrop Roan , Jr., Intelligence Agency to work as a free well-known intellectuals whom the
Leonard Hebb, Luke Merriweather, agent, went to Daytona to investi- Mad Thnker had abducted to provide
and " The Wolf" (real name unreveal- gate rumored HYDRA activity. Win-
ed) were among the undisclosed th rop Roan , Jr., preferring to be himself companionship
number of couples who were the known by his stage name " R.U .
unwitting test subjects in an experi- Reddy," went to Daytona in hopes of The next race event was held on
ment conducted by the subversive being hired as a racer. " Wolf" went the Sahara Desert in Egypt. Taking a
organization HYDRA. The experi- to watch the cycles and the people. commercial flight there, the Team
ment, called "Project: New Gene- Each of the three narrowly evaded was dismayed when their team lead-
sis," was designed by HYDRA the HYDRA assassin and was left a er McDonald (called Honcho) left the
scientists to create a race of mutants note by the Marauder claiming that group to take a freelance assign-
who could be trained as superhu- they had a common destiny and ment for the CIA to foil a weapons-
man agents for the group. The smuggling operation. Honcho failed
to show up in time to assist his team-
mates in the race, and Team America

- expectant mothers were surrepti- should join together. After much lost.
tiously administered a mutagenic Deeply in debt, Team America
compound, and after the children deliberation, they agreed to do so.
were born, HYDRA agents kept the Calling themselves Team Ameri- returned to the United States. Talk of
children under surveillance as they disbanding arose when their last
grew to adulthood. When none of the ca, they entered the first Unlimited motorcycle broke down and they had
test subjects seemed to exhibit any Class Racing competition and won. no money to fix it, but the Marauder
extraordinary superhuman power, Moments after victory, HYDRA left the team its own state-of-the-art
the project was terminated. attacked the raceway in an effort to motorcycle. With it, Team America
Unknown to HYDRA, five of the test procure a unique guidance system traveled across the country entering
subjects did develop latent superhu- used by one of the Japanese teams. every motorcycle race they could
man abilities, but they would not Team America managed to foil their find. With all of the prize money, they
manifest themselves until the men paid their debts and rented a garage
neared adulthood and each other. raid. in Hoboken, New Jersey, to serve as
Perhaps not coincidentally, the five At the next Unlimited Class event their headquarters. Investing every-
latent mutants each developed an thing they had in a new high-
aptitude and passion for motorcy- in the Rocky Mountains, Luke Merri- performance vehicle for the next
Unlimited Class competition , the
cles. weather (alias Cowboy) and Leonard team was disheartened when it
Three of the five met in Daytona Hebb (alias Wrench), hearing about broke down in a time trial. Desper-
Team America's surprise victory, met ate, they accepted an offer from a
Beach, Florida, when motorcyclists with the three founding members recruiting agent of Stark Internation-
from around the world congregated and petitioned for membership. Mer- al , who was more interested in
there for the first race of the new riweather and Hebb were the other acquiring the Marauder's motorcycle
Unlimited Class Racing Competi- two HYDRA test subjects. Feeling a than he was in having their services.
tion , a tournament organized to test rapport with the newcomers, the Learning that they would be
race high-preformance vehicles. It three original Team Americans wel- absorbed into a team of seventy-two
was called " Unlimited Class" comed them into their ranks. Unoffi- other drivers, the Team began to
because there were no restrictions cially, Hebb's girlfriend Georgianna regret their decision. However, when
placed on engine size or power or Sue Castleberry also became a Stark president Anthony Stark
technological innovation permitted member of the team. Hebb was a
in the races. McDonald, Roan, and gifted mechanic and designer of learned of his recruitment agent's
high-performance vehicles, and his disreputable transaction, he made
"Wolf" each met for the first time at Winnebago recreational vehicle
became Team America's mobile
headquarters. His girlfriend, Castle-

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restitution and released the Team Mutants did manage to rescue Resources: GD
from their contracts. Moonstar. In exchange for their
cooperation, Xavier taught the Popularity: 30
In Lakebed, Oklahoma, the next mutants in Team America to control
Unlimited Class Racing event was the appearance of the Marauder. KNOWN POWERS
held and Wolf of Team America came
in first. However, the race was dis- Deciding that they missed the Gestalt: Honcho shares a strange
rupted first by the demonic Ghost excitement of being in the team, the psychic link with Wolf, R.U. Reddy,
Rider, who wished to settle a score six decided to band together perma- Cowboy, and Wrench that allows the
with the Marauder, and then by nently once more. They changed five men to project their combined
HYDRA, which wanted to kill Team their name to the Thunderiders and physical and mental talents into a
began training as a precision-riding single host body, which then takes
America in revenge. In the melee, stunt team as well as racers. Seek- on a persona known as Marauder. All
the Ghost Rider assisted the Team to ing to expand the team, the Thun- five men must be within approxi-
fight off HYDRA, but the Marauder deriders have held open auditions. mately within 100 yards of each oth-
was injured. Unmasking the silent Champion sportswoman Sharon er to combine.
cyclist, the Team was stunned to dis- Ventura was a member of the Thun-
cover its identity to be Georgianna deriders for a few months prior to When the Thunderiders decide to
Castleberry. Later when Elsie Car- becoming the new Ms. Marvel. The form Marauder, they choose any one
son, regional leader of HYDRA, Thing of the Fantastic Four was also individual within 100 yards of their
failed a second assassination member for a few weeks, although present location and bestow upon
attempt, she revealed to them their he resigned before performing with this individual all of the attributes
connection with "Project: New Gen- them in public. The Thunderiders and skills of Marauder, listed below.
esis" in exchange for her freedom. remain America's best daredevil The individual selected can be one
Believing her to be a victim of cir- motorcycle team as well as a top of the Thunderiders themselves, if
cumstances, the Team helped res- contender in the Unlimited Class they so decide, and the Thunderi-
cue her from her own agents who Racing competitions. ders can choose to end the transfor-
were supposed to kill her and her mation at any time. There is no
family should she fail in her mission. HONCHO apparent time limit to the amount of
time the transformation can be main-
After this battle, Team America (James MacDonald) tained. If the selected individual
disbanded. Wrench and Castleberry wishes to resist becoming the
married. Honcho wanted to devote F EX ( 20) Marauder, the Thunderiders must
more time to espionage work. Cow- A EX (20) make a power FEAT roll with an
boy invited Wolf and Reddy to join Intensity equal to the target's
him in a series of charity exhibitions s TY (6) Psyche.
to promote Cowboy's school , and
the two accepted. At one such event, E GD (10) While the Marauder is in exist-
in upstate New York, the criminal R GD (10) ence, the abilities of the Thunderi-
Viper and her associate the Silver I GD (10) ders themselves are not altered or
Samurai attacked the New Mutants, p TY (6) diminished in any way. This ability
teenaged students at Professor Health: 56 operates at the Remarkable level.
Xavier's School for Gifted Young- Karma: 26 Telepathy: Honcho has Excellent
sters, who happened to be in attend- Telepathy, which he can use only to
ance. The three Team Americans contact his fellow Thunderiders.
joined the fray but were unable to Empathy: Honcho has Excellent
stop the criminals from abducting Empathy, which functions only upon
Dan ielle Moonstar (alias Mirage) his fellow Thunderiders.
whom the Team had caused to
become the host-body for the Talents: Honcho is skilled in Martial
Marauder. On the threat of killing Arts A and E, as well as being an
Moonstar, the Viper had James
McDonald assemble Team America expert cyclist ( + 2 CS).
to raid a fortress in the Sierra Madre
Mountains for a special crystal. Contacts: Honcho is a racer in the
While the New Mutants rescued Unlimited Class Racing Federation.
Moonstar, Team America infiltrated In addition, he has met and worked
the fortress, which was headquar- with Captain America and Professor
ters of one of the splinters groups of Xavier and his New Mutants.
the Advanced Idea Mechanics and
managed to procure the crystal. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Honcho is a sensible, capable lead-
However, it was lost before it could er. Like all of the Thunderiders, how-
be turned over to the Viper. The New ever, he has a thirst for action and
danger.

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THUNDERIDERS

-. WOLF R.U. REDDY

STATISTICS STATISTICS STATISTICS

F EX (20) F GD (10) F GD (10)
A EX (20) A EX (20)
S GD (1 0) A EX (20) S TY (6)
E GD (10) S TY (6) E GD (10)
E GD (10) R TY (6)
R T Y (6) R TY (6) I GD (10)
I GD (10) I GD (10) P TY (6)
P TY (6) Health: 46
Health: 60 P TY (6) Karma: 22
Karma: 22 Health: 46 Resources: GD
Resources: GD Karma: 22 Popularity: 30
Popularity: 30 Resources: GD
Popularity: 35 KNOWN POWERS
KNOWN POWERS Same as Honcho above.
Same as Honcho above . KNOWN POWERS Talents: Cowboy is an expert Horse-
,-.. Talents: Wolf has the Wrestling tal- Same as Honcho above.
ent as well as being an expert cyclist Talents: R. U. was once a rock sing- man and an expert cyclist ( + 2 CS).
(+2 CS}.
Contacts: Same as Honcho er, and is now an expert cyclist ( + 2 Contacts: Same as Honcho above.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES CS). ROLE-PL AYING NOTES
Wolf is the strong silent type. Contacts: Same as Honcho above. Cowboy is a fun-loving free spirit.

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Reddy is flashy and suave.

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WRENCH GEORGIANNA MARAUDER

STATISTICS STATISTICS STATISTICS

F GD (10) F GD (10) F RM (30)
A GD (10) A EX (20)
S TY (6) S TY (6) A RM (30)
E GD (10) E GO (10) S EX (20)
R EX (20) R TY (6)
I GD (10) I GD (10) E RM (30)
P TY (6) P TY (6) R RM (30)
Health: 36 Health: 46 I EX (20)
Karma: 36 Karma: 22 P EX (20)
Resources: GD Resources: GD Health: 110
Popularity: 30 Popularity: 30
Karma: 70
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS None
Same as Honcho above. Talents: Georgianna is an excellent KNOWN POWERS
Talents : Wrench has the Engineer Talent s: The Marauder has Mon-
and Repair/Tinker talents. He is also cyclist ( + 1 CS). strous Agility when riding a motorcy-
cle.
an excellent cyclist ( + 1 CS). Contacts: Same as Honcho above
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Contacts: Same as Honcho. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Marauder is a dark, mysterious fig-
Georgianna Sue Castleberry Hebb ure that shares the inclinations of the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES is kind and free-wheeling. Her crav- Thunderiders, meaning that he (or
Wrench is rational, calm, and capa- ing for excitement is not as devel- she) is dedicated to justice.
ble. oped as that of t he other team
members, but is strong nonetheless.

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STATISTICS THUNDRA

F AM (50) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A EX (20) Thundra is an aggressive fighter with
a near-total disdain for men. She is a
S AM (50) brilliant tactician and an honor-
bound fighter. She is also prone to
E EX (20) fits of rash behavior and may act
before the time is right. She has a
R TY (6) soft spot for Benjamin Grimm, but
her personality will not let her admit
I GD (10) that it is anything more than simple
P TY (6) respect.
Health: 140
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Karma: 22
Resources: EX
Popularity: 8 (75)

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Thundra

Occupation: Warrior
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
_,.-.... Sisterhood Republic in alternate

future
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Greater Milago, Mid-

western Republic

Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: United Sister-

hood Republic
Past Group Affiliations: Frightful
..-..... Four, former agent of Roxxon Oil
Present Group Affiliatlon:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Invulnerability: Thundra has Typical

resistance to physical attacks.
Hyper-Leaping: Thundra can leap
with Remarkable ability (45 feet up or

across, 60 feet down).
Hyper-Running: Thundra can run at
Typical ground speed (45 mph or 3

areas per round).
Chain: Thundra carries a length of
chain which she uses as a weapon.
When striking with the chain, her

Fighting is Monstrous.
Talents: Thundra has the Weapons
Master talent, and is also proficient
in Martial Arts A, B, C, D, and E. She
is a skilled political and military lead-
er as befits her station as head of the

USR.
Contacts: Thundra is a long-time
associate of the Fantastic Four. She
is the leader of the United Sisterhood
Republic in her own time line.

been given the technology for inter- battle against the dimensional ,......
dimensional travel, and decided to invaders of Machus. Before leaving
HISTORY journey to Thundra's Earth to liber- the future for their own time, the
ate the men of that world. In an Fantastic Four destroyed the mind-
Toward the end of the twentieth cen- attempt to strike back at the men of domination equipment of the
tury in one alternate future, world- Machus, as the leading nation of this Machians and hoped that the two
wide chemical and biological alternate Earth was called, Thundra worlds would settle their differences
warfare broke out, resulting in the stole their dimensional apparatus, amicably. Thundra returned to the
sterilization of 95% of the Earth's planning to launch a counter-attack twentieth century with them, believ-
female population. The fertile 5% on their world. The machine mal- ing that her world would be changed
seized political power and began a functioned , however, and displaced unfavorably by the presence of the
systematized program of oppression her thro1,Jgh time as well as space. extradimensional men.
against men, who were seen as hav- She arrived in the twentieth century,
ing nearly exterminated the species. and after acclimating herself, decid- Months later, however, Thundra
By the early 23rd century, natural ed to humble the strongest man on was contacted by the Nth Command,
childbirth was totally supplanted by Earth, thereby, she believed, pre- subsidiary of the Rox.xon Oil Compa-
laboratory birthing, and men were venting the world of Machus from ny devoted to extradimensional
bred only as servants, entertainers, ever coming about. research. They told her that a diver-
and breeding stock. The major con- gent future world existed which was
cerns of the United Sisterhood Upon her arrival, she was never invaded by Machus. She
Republic, one of the leading nations befriended by the criminal Wizard of agreed to carry out a mission for
of the new world, were exterminating the Frightful Four, whose instru- them in exchange for being restored
the renegade bands of roving free ments detected Thundra's time dis- to her world. The mission was lead-
men and preventing incursions from placement. The Wizard was looking ing a band of female Roxxon opera-
foreign nations and powers. tives called the Grapplers into the
for a replacement for Medusa, and government energy facility Project:
Thundra was born in the Central saw Thundra as an ideal choice. Pegasus in order to sabotage it. She
Birthing Center of Greater Milago Thundra pretended to go along with was apprehended in the process but
(Milwaukee-Chicago), a government- the Wizard's plans in order to exploit was released so the authorities
run laboratory where fetuses are his resources. She determined that could track down the party that sent
brought to term in artificial wombs. the Thing of the Fantastic Four her. She briefly became an ally of
Genetically engineered for strength would be the ideal object lesson to Hyperion of the Squadron Sinister,
vanquish in battle. Alongside the another Roxxon operative.
and endurance, Thundra was sent to Frightful Four, she engaged the
military school when she was eight Thing in a battle, besting him fairly When she learned of the Nth Com-
years old. By the age of eighteen, she on at least one occasion . Recogniz- mand's sinister motives, she stole
had distinguished herself as the finest ing that her actions in the past would one of the Nth Projectors, dimen-
warrior in the Midwestern Republic have little bearing on the future, she sional aperture synthesizers. Creat-
and became an officer in the militia. betrayed the Frightful Four to ing a portal to her own time, she went
She led assaults against roving bands become an ally of the Fantastic Four. through it after bidding a fond fare-
of renegades and the armies of the well to the Thing, the twentieth-
Central American Empire. Mahkizmo, the greatest warrior of century male she had most learned
Machus, eventually trailed Thundra to admire. Hyperion attempted to fol-
In the middle of Thundra's military to the twentieth century and took her low her, but the portal closed while
career, the USA faced an invasion back to her own time to stand trial for he was halfway through, stranding
from an unexpected quarter. Men her theft of the interdimension travel him in limbo. Thundra arrived in her
from a contemporary alternate Earth equipment. The Fantastic Four fol- home reality safely. Her current
where generations previously, rene- lowed Thundra (using their own activities are unknown.
gade men had managed to over- means of travel} and helped Thundra
throw their female oppressors, had

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TIGER SHARK

,,,_ STATISTICS

F AM (50)
A EX (20)
(S MN (75)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I RM (30)

P EX (20)
Health: 175
Karma: 56
Resources: TY (6)

Popularity: -10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Todd Arliss
Occupation: Former athlete, now

criminal
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of U.S. with

criminal record
Place of Birth: Pasadena, CA
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Diane Newell
(sister), Walter Newell {brother-in-

law)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Masters of

Evil Ill and IV
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Underwater Combat and suffers no ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Body Armor: Tiger Shark's aug- penalties when fighting in the water.
mented flesh can withstand the pres- Contacts: Tiger Shark was a mem-
sure of the deep ocean, and provides ber of the Third and Fourth Masters
Excellent protection against physical
of Evil.
attacks.
Resistance to Cold: Excellent resist-

ance to cold
Swimming: 4 areas per round (60

mph)
Water Breathing: Fish-like gills
enable him to breathe water as well

as air
Teeth: Razor-sharp teeth of Excel-
lent material; can bite a grappled
opponent for Excellent Edged weap-

on damage
Hydro-Suit: When Tiger Shark is out
of water, his abilities and power

ranks would normally decline; but
his costume is equipped with minia-
ture pumps and a system that con-
stantly circulates water around his
body, enabling him to maintain his
powers on dry land. The suit does
not provide Tiger Shark with any
physical protection, but is made from
Good strength material.

Talents: Tiger Shark is skilled in

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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES being the genetic pattern of another discovered that his amphibious
Before his transformation at the creature, in this case a tiger shark. powers were diminishing. Unable to
hands of Dr. Dorcas, Todd Arliss was Dorcas had constructed a robot to locate Dr. Dorcas, he allied himself
a kind-hearted, happy-go-lucky search out and capture sharks for with the Lemurian empress Ltyra
young man. When he was implanted experimentation, and coincidentally and the scientist Lymondo. Ltyra
with the genetic make-up of a tiger it captured Prince Namor, the Sub- wished vengeance upon Namor for
shark, however, he took on a portion Mariner. Namor and several sharks thwarting her ascent to the Attantean
of the creature's personality as well. were used to provide a compound throne. Tiger Shark wanted to use
He is now a ranging cold-blooded genetic pattern of great superhuman Lymondo's replica of the morphotron
killer with a lust for battle and a potential. Arliss was transformed to siphon more of Namor's power
strong survival instinct. into a superhumanly powerful into himself. The three learned kid-
amphibious creature . Dorcas provid- napped the Sub-Mariner's human
Ever since his transformation, ed Arliss with a specially prepared father, Leonard MacKenzie. Sub-
Tiger Shark has felt a strong sense suit and mask, and dubbed him dued by treachery, Namor was
of loneliness. Upon occasion, the Tiger Shark. placed into the morphotron and used
attentions of a beautiful woman have to restore the Shark's prowess. In an
been able to curb his wrath. Although Dorcas wished to use ensuing struggle, Tiger Shark threw
Tiger Shark to further his own crimi- a lead pipe at Namor's father, killing
HISTORY nal ambitions, Tiger Shark had other him.
ideas. After physically besting the
Todd Arliss was a champion Olympic Sub-Mariner, stilt weak from the Tiger Shark fled and hid out until
swimmer. Following the Olympics, morphotron transfer, the Shark left he learned that Namor had experi-
he planned to become a professional Dorcas's lab for the open sea. Hap- enced amnesia concerning the inci-
swimmer, having earned an esti- pening upon the Sub-Mariner's dent. Tiger Shark came out of hiding
mated half million dollars in betrothed, the Lady Dorma, the and was reunited with Dr. Dorcas.
advances for public exhibitions. Shark accompanied her to Atlantis, After Dorcas was eventually killed by
Before his professional career could where he held the throne until a war machine of his own design, the
get underway, however, he severely Namor arrived and recaptured it. Sub-Mariner found Tiger Shark and
injured his back and legs while res- turned him over to the local authori-
cuing a man who had fallen over- Tiger Shark escaped and swam to ties.
board from a private craft. Although the Sargasso Sea where he encoun-
able to walk, he was told that he tered the Peoples of the Mist, a band Tiger Shark inevitably escaped
would never be able to swim again . and made his way to Atlantis for
Arliss spent a large part of the of sailors and seamen from various another try at Namor. Again he
advance money he had received cultures and time periods who were failed, but this time he was rescued
seeking medical help. He eventually Immortal prisoners of the area. Tiger by the criminal Egghead who wished
discovered Dr. Lemuel Dorcas, a Shark offered to lead them out of the the Shark to be a member of his Mas-
criminally motivated marine biologist area if they would serve him once ters of Evil to assist Egghead in his
who promised Arliss that he would they were free. The Sub-Mariner, plan to totally destroy Henry Pym.
be able to make him swim again. Pym managed to stun all of the Mas-
Under protests from his sister Diane, however, entered the mist-tocked ters, however, and they were taken
Arliss accompanied Dorcas to an area and opposed the Shark once into police custody. Some time later,
undersea laboratory located off the more. Tiger Shark escaped in the Tiger Shark was freed from prison
North Atlantic coast. wake of the explosion of an experi- again, this time by Baron Zemo, who
mental Nazi torpedo. Not long after, wished the Shark to join his Masters
Dorcas subjected Arliss to a great Tiger Shark again crossed paths of Evil coalition. Tiger Shark helped
variety of experimental procedures, with the Lady Dorma, who agreed to the Masters occupy Avengers Man-
involving high-frequency radiation marry him if he would help save sion, but left the group before the
therapy that restored the damaged Atlantis from Orka, another of Dr. Masters' final showdown with the
nerve tissue and ligaments. Dorcas Dorcas's creations, and the Atlante- Avengers. Tiger Shark was last seen
placed Arliss within the " morpho- an traitor Krang. The Shark fought in San Francisco, allied with Whirl-
tron ," an experimental device capa- valiantly against Orka and his battal- wind, another Master of Evil at large,
ble of imprinting upon a human ion of killer whales. Locked in battle, where he battled Tigra and Hellcat.
both Tiger Shark and Orka were He is currently in police custody,
sucked under when a huge crevice awaiting trial.
opened in the ocean floor.

Eventually escaping, Tiger Shark

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TIGRA

STATISTICS

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

R TY (6)

I RM (30)

P EX (20)
Health: 130
Karma: 56

Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 26

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Greer Grant Nelson
Occupation: Professional adventur-
er
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: Werecat
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: William (hus-

band, deceased)
Base of Operations: Los Angeles,

CA
,..-... Past Group Affiliations: Former

member of the East Coast Avengers,
member of the West Coast Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS Endurance. the Cat People, an extra-
Enhanced Sense: Tigra's sense of Alter Ego: Tigra may transform her- dimensional race, who see her as
vision, hearing, and smell all operate self back to her human form by their warrior and agent.
at the Monstrous level. She may means of a cat amulet she wears on ADDITIONAL NOTES:
track opponents with Amazing ability
using these skills, but suffers a -1 her top. This amulet mystically 129
CS on FEAT rolls against attacks that changes her physical form. She
retains her statistics and abi lities
target these senses. while in her human form. This mysti-
Night Vision: Tigra has Incredible cal disguise operates at Remarkable
rank infravision, and can perceive
objects clearly even in almost total rank.
darkness (some dim light must be Talents: Greer Nelson is trained in
available). She suffers no penalties Biology.
while fighting in the dark. Contacts: Tigra is a member of the
Claws: Good Material Strength; West Coast Avengers. In addition,
inflict Good Edged weapon damage. she was given her present powers by
She may make normal blunt attacks

as well.
Empathy: Excellent ability to detect
the emotions of others. In addition,
she communicates on an animal
level with cats and cat-like creatures

with a +2 CS.
Lightning Speed: 3 areas per round
on land, accelerating to that speed in
a single round. She can run without
tiring as though she had Monstrous

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES member of the Cat People, a race of was invited to join. She made a
Tigra, a capable and experienced humanoids magically evolved from staunch addition to the team
warrior, is quite well-mannered and cats in Europe during the Middle despite the fact that the human and
down to earth, though a notorious Ages. Prior to the explosion Donal- feline sides of her personality had
flirt. Her status as a cat/human bain had engineered, Tumolo had become at odds with one another,
hybrid means that she often exhibits become aware of a plot by the sub- causing her behavior to become
distinctly cat-like behavior (she is versive organization HYDRA to steal somewhat erratic. Because of her
afraid of water, she craves meat, she a bacterial culture that had been catlike need for attention, she
displays a need for stroking and developed by Tumolo's ancestors. became involved with both Henry
affection, etc.). HYDRA had discovered the secret of Pym and Wonder Man at the same
Tumolo's ancestry and suspected time. The ultimate solution to her dis-
HISTORY her of possessing the formula for cordant nature presented itself when
" The Final Secret," or the Black she and the West Coast Avengers
Greer Grant Nelson was the recipi- Plague. Tumolo had chosen to feign journeyed to the "Land Within," the
ent of two separate sets of superhu- brain damage in order to evade magical dimension where the parent
man abilities, one scientific and one HYDRA, but HYDRA abducted her tribe of the Cat People dwelled. The
mystical in nature. As a laboratory from the private home where she ruler of the Cat People offered to
assistant to Dr. Joanne Marie Tumo- had apparently been convalescing. magically cure her of her split per-
lo, Nelson became involved in a sonality if she would kill Master Pan-
physiological conditioning program Nelson put on her Cat costume demonium, a demonic human being
that would enable a human being to and pursued them . HYDRA agents whom the Cat People feared and
attain his or her full physical and fled from the Cat's attack, but during hated. Although Tigra agreed, she
mental potential. Out of financial the confrontation managed to shoot could not bring herself to violate the
desperation, Dr. Tumolo had accept- her with "alpha rad iation ," an Avengers' code against killing when
ed private funding for the project unknown form of radioactivity. To she had the opportunity to do so.
from Malcom Donalbain, an eccen- save Nelson's life, Tumolo and the
tric former executive of the Brand Cat People mystically transformed Finally, in a second trip to the
Corporation, who planned to create her into the legendary half-human, " Land Within," Tigra managed to
an army of women warriors to serve half-cat warrior they called the Tigra. integrate her two warring " souls"
him. Not trusting the test subject that As Tigra, Nelson helped the Cat Peo- without committing murder. The
Donalbain had coerced her to use, ple defeat the HYDRA agents. process involved the removal of her
Tumolo had Nelson secretly under- "cat-soul" entirely, and the subse-
take the experiment alongside the Although she was able to use the quent restoration of it while she wore
other woman. Donalbain's test sub- cat's-head amulet to change back to a facsimile of her original cat-suit.
ject, Shirlee Bryant, and Greer Nel- her human form, Nelson became so Transformed more completely than
son emerged from the battery of accustomed to and enamored of her before into the legendary she-
treatments with superhuman physi- feline form that she seldom made the warrior, Tigra sprouted a tail like the
cal capabilities. transformation. Moving from Chica- ot.her Cat People had. Returning
go, she became a full-time adventur- with the West Coast Avengers, Tigra
When Bryant died in a test of her ess, encountering and defeating has found that the two aspects of her
abilities, Donalbain had his hench- such menaces as the Rat Pack, personality are once again fully inte-
men set off dynamite charges in the Kraven the Hunter, Tabur, and the grated. She remains an active mem-
laboratory to make it appear that Bry- Super-Skrull. She also briefly ber of the West Coast Avengers,
ant had died accidentally in an explo- worked with Red Wolf, Spider-Man, living at their headquarters com-
sion. Tumolo was injured in the and the Fantastic Four. Tigra was pound , although she has been
explosion. Believing her mentor to among the handful of costumed romantically involved with several
be dead, Nelson determined to stop crimefighters that the telepath members of the team.
Donalbain's plans. She donned one Moondragon coerced into vying for
of Donalbain's specially designed Avengers membership. She was
cat costumes, and calling herself the elected to membership and served
Cat, thwarted Donalbain's plans and for several months, all that time
sent him to jail. Nelson soon learned doubting she was worthy of member-
that Tumolo had not been killed but
had been hospitalized for apparent ship in the group. Although she
brain damage. During this time, Nel- proved herself while in battle with the
son, as the Cat, pursued a brief
career as a crimefighter, operating Molecule Man, she decided to resign
mostly within the Chicago area. her active membership. Moving to
San Francisco, she became friends
Unknown to Nelson, Tumolo was a with Jessica Drew, the original
Spider-Woman.

Months later, when Hawkeye
moved to Los Angeles to form a West

Coast branch of the Avengers, she

130

TINKERER

STATISTICS

F PR (4)

A TY (6)
S TY (6)

E GD (10)

R IN (40)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 26

Karma: 70
Resources: RM
Popularity: -1 O

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation : Inventor and techni-
cian serving the underworld
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Unknown
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Manhattan
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
None
Talents: The Tinkerer is a genius at
Electronics and Engineering. He
also has the RepairfTinkering talent.
Contacts: The Tinkerer has worked
with or sold weapons to Mysterio, the
Ani-Men, the Grim Reaper, Goldbug,
Rocket Racer, Big Wheel, Jack-o-
Lantern, Whirlwind, and the Jester.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES directly involved in criminal activi- HISTORY
The Tinkerer is completely obsessed ties. Instead, he prefers to hire out
with technology and his creations. his services and inventions to those Very little is known about the back-
They are now his sole occupation in better suited for direct confrontation ground of the man called the Tinker-
life. He will no longer foolishly risk with law officials and costumed inter- er. His career as an inventor and
supplier of exotic weaponry and
his own freedom by becoming lopers. technology to the underworld was
The sinister nature of the vast already well-established at the time
Spider-Man began his crimefighting
majority of his inventions seems to career. Operating from beneath the
indicate that the Tinkerer is some- storefront "Tinkerer Repair Shop,"
how obsessed with pain and vio- the Tinkerer and several unem-

lence.

131

ployed movie stuntmen and special an alien masquerading as a human henchman Toy to be a mechanical
effects people were involved in a being. It was not until years later that automaton.
scheme to plant monitoring devices Spider-Man learned the truth about
inside the radios of certain military the situation . One of the bogus ali- Since then the Tinkerer has refused
and government officials. In so ens went on to become Spider- to commit any crimes himself or to put
doing, they hoped to learn informa- Man's nemesis Mysterio. himself at risk. He has subsequently
tion with which they could blackmail used his talent for invention solely to
the officials. Apparently as an elabo- Spider-Man's second encounter design and make exotic weapons and
rate exercise, the Tinkerer's accom- with the Tinkerer occurred after the devices for other criminals to use. The
plices disguised themselves as Tinkerer was hired by an undisclos- Tinkerer is the second largest under-
extraterrestrials and even had a hov- ed third party to outfit a car known as world technology supplier, right after
ercraft outfitted as an exotic space- the "spider-mobile" with weapons Justin Hammer, and right before
ship. When Spider-Man stumbled designed to kill Spider-Man. The Madame Menace. Unlike Hammer
upon the operation and interfered, costumed crimefighter rode in the and Menace, who farm out the design-
he was convinced that it was indeed car to the Tinkerer's new lair, and ing and manufacturing of the devices
the handiwork of aliens. The Tinker- after a short battle, defeated the Tin- to their staffs, the Tinkerer does all of
er and his accomplices managed to kerer and his henchman Toy. Unfor- the work he is contracted for himself.
escape from Spider-Man when the tunately, by the time the police came, He is the least expensive of the three
Tinkerer's lab went up in flames. the Tinkerer had used one of his suppliers, largely because he has
Finding a latex lifemask, Spider-Man many gadgets to escape. While such a low overhead and manufac-
believed that the Tinkerer, too, was defeating another scheme, Spider- tures everything from salvaged parts.
Man discovered the Tinkerer 's

132

TITANIA

STATISTICS

F AM (50)
A GD (10)
S UN (100)
E MN (75)
R GD (10)

I GD(10)
P GD (10)
Health: 235
Karma: 30
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: - 5

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Mary "Skeeter" Mac-
Pherran
Occupation: Professional criminal
.....-... Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operation: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Masters of
Evil IV, partner of the Absorbing Man
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS
Body Armor: Titania's tough flesh
provides Monstrous protecti?n from
physical attacks and Amazing pro-
tection from energy attacks.
Resistances: Amazing resistance to
heat, fire, cold , corrosives, and dis-
ease
Talents: None
,,,.-, Contacts: Titania is a member of the
fourth Masters of Evil, and has fre-
quently collaborated with the
Absorbing Man.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Mary MacPherran always resented
her petite size and the way in which Very little is known about the life of
others seemed to take advantage of Mary MacPherran before she was
her. When she was offered t he taken to the Beyonder's planet for
opportunity to become a nearly i ~vin­ the first "secret war." Among the
cible supervillainess, she quickly many civilians living in a suburb of
accepted and began using her new- Denver that the Beyonder spirited
found powers to exact vengeance away, MacPherran and her friend
upon the world at large. Titania is a Marsha Rosenberg were contacted
simple brutish thug. Her first solution by the monarch Doctor Doom and
to any problem is the use of her phys- offered the opportunity to be given

ical prowess.

133

superhuman strength. Doom was with Doctor Octopus, Ultron, the Since then, she's had a strong fear of
interested in acquiring more accom- Wrecker, the Absorbing Man, and facing Spider-Man in combat again.
plices with whom to vie for the Volcana (Marsha Rosenberg), Tita-
Beyonder's prize of power, and Mac- nia successfully attacked the for- Titania and ten of her fellow crimi-
Pherran was eager to serve him in tress where the superhuman
exchange for increased physical crimefighters were quartered in nals escaped the planet of the Beyon-
attributes for herself. Doom subject- order to free those criminals who had der's world when the Molecule Man
ed MacPherran and Rosenberg to been captured. In subsequent skir- returned the Denver suburb to Earth.
various radiation treatments. Upon mishes, she fought the various X- Since then, Titania has remained in
emerging, MacPherran's slight Men to a standstill, and when the the company of the Absorbing Man,
frame had been augmented by sev- She-Hulk invaded the criminals' whose raw physical power she greatly
stronghold and overpowered Bull- admires. The two of them were among
eral hundred pounds of muscle, dozer of the Wrecking Crew, Titania the superhuman criminals recruited
granting her superhuman strength. went one-on-one with the She-Hulk by Baron Zemo in his latest incarna-
She designed a costume for herself and had her down when Titania's tion of the Masters of Evil. They were
and dubbed herself Titania. teammates joined the battle. In a lat- sent on a recruitment mission which
er skirmish, Titania battled Spider- prevented them from joining the main
Titania was introduced by Doom to Man, but despite her superior force that occupied Avengers Man-
the other superhuman criminals who strength, Spider-Man's agility, reflex- sion. They did, however, encounter
had been assembled by the Beyon- es, spider-sense, and fighting expe- Spider-Man and various Avengers
der. She wished to test her strength rience enabled him to defeat her. elsewhere. The Absorbing Man and
but could not persuade any of the Titania are currently in police custody.
males to engage her in battle. Along

134

T ITANIUM MAN

FIRST VERSION STATISTICS
F GD (10)

A EX (20)
S AM (50)

E MN (75)

R GD (10)

I EX (20)
P GD (10)

Health: 155
Karma: 40
Resources: GD (1O)
Popularity: - 30

SECOND VERSION STATISTICS
F RM (30)

A RM (30)
S AM (50)
E MN (75)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)

P GD (10)

Health: 185
Karma: 40
Resources: GD (1 O)
Popularity: -30

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Boris Bullski
Occupation: Former Communist
party official, now KGB agent
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of USSR
Other Known Aliases: The Other,
the Commander

Place of Birth: Makeyevka, USSR
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: KGB, form-
er member of the Titanic Three,
former member of t he Green Libera-

tion Front
Present Group Affiliation:

FIRST VERSION POWERS areas per round), Amazing speed if of 5 areas.
Body Armor: All of Bullski's powers in open country (25 areas per round). • Radar Rings of coiled metal that
are derived from the titani um/steel Weapons Systems: The first version
battlesuit that he wears. While not in of the armor was equipped with were fired to Grapple an opponent
the suit, Bullski's abilities are: numerous weapons systems, includ- with Remarkable Strength at a range
of 5 areas.
FASER I P ing :
GD EX GD RM GD EX GD • Gauntlet-mounted blasters that SECOND VERSION POWERS
Body Armor: All of Bullski's powers
The fist version of the armor provid- inflicted Incredible Force damage at are derived from the titanium/steel
ed Incredible protection from physi- battlesuit that he wears. While not in
cal attacks, and Amazing protection a range of 1Oareas. the suit, Bullski's abilities are:
from energy attacks. The armor had • A chest-mounted heat beam of
Monstrous resistance to Heat, Cold, FAS ER I P
and Radiation . Incredible heat damage at a range of GD EX GD RM GD EX GD
Flight: T he first version of the armor
could fly at Incredible air speed (20 5 areas. The later version of the armor provid-
• A gauntlet-mounted tractor
135
beam that allowed the wearer to
exert Incredible Strength at a range

ed Incredible protection from physi- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES However, a third try at Iron Man, this
cal attacks, and Monstrous protec- Boris Bullski remains to this day a time with Crimson Dynamo, was also
tion from energy attacks, including completely loyal devotee of the Sovi- unsuccessful.
Heat, Cold, and Radiation. et government and Communist ide-
Flight: The armor can fly at Mon- ology in general. He will do anything Fleeing from the Soviet govern-
strous air speed (30 areas per he can to promote the Communist ment in disgrace, the Titanium Man
round). way of life and Communist ideals. and Crimson Dynamo found refuge
Weapons Systems: The later version Hand-in-hand with Bullski's desire to in Vietnam. There, they teamed up
is equipped with advanced versions serve Communism is a need to with the Radioactive Man as the
of the weapons carried on its earlier prove himself to his superiors. The Titanic Three, champions of eastern
counterpart including: many defeats he has suffered over Communism.
the years has made party officials
• Gauntlet-mounted blasters that question his abilities on more than Later, somehow back in favor,
inflict Amazing Force damage at a one occasion. Bullski was secretly returned to the
range of 10 areas.
HISTORY U.S. to force a scientist named Ser-
• A chest-mounted heat beam of gei, who lived in the United States, to
Incredible heat damage at a range of Boris Bullski was a high-level Com- create technologically sophisticated
5 areas. munist Party official in the Soviet armored suits by threatening to harm
government. His unbridled ambition his parents, who lived in the Soviet
• A gauntlet-mounted tractor within the Party, as well as his intimi- Union. Concealing his true identity
beam that allows the wearer to exert dating appearance (which won him under the alias of "the Commander,"
Amazing Strength at a range of 5 the nickname of "Boris the Merci- the Titanium Man organized the
areas. less") garnered the disfavor of Krem- Green Liberation Front (GLF), a
lin officials, who transferred him to group of disaffected Vietnam vet-
• Radar Rings of coiled metal that an administrative post at an obscure erans. The Titanium Man gave the
were fired to Grapple an opponent work camp in Siberia. Angered by GLF members the armored suits,
with Remarkable Strength at a range the demotion, Bullski had the scien- which could be transformed into
of 5 areas. tists create a suit of titanium armor small card-sized objects, and weap-
Cloaking Screen: The current ver- containing highly sophisticated onry, and sent them to rob banks.
sion of the armor also features a weaponry. Bullski planned to use the The GLF members believed they
cloaking device that creates an armored suit to battle and defeat Iron were merely thieves. In fact, they
Amazing illusion of Invisibility over Man. were pawns in the Titanium Man's
the suit and its wearer. The suit can mission to plant a computer feed-
also be easily modified to create an The scientists were unable to back impulser within the Federal
illusion of another character of duplicate Iron Man's armor, so their Reserve Bank.
roughly the same size and weight as product was nearly twice the size
the armor over the suit and its user, and weight of Iron Man's suit, part of The alien adventurer Beta Ray Bill
and the cloaking screen also func- the volume being filled by Bullski's fought the GLF and the Commander
tions as Amazing rank ECM against large frame. Iron Man accepted himself, who used an illusion-casting
radar devices and early-warning sys- Bullski's challenge, and, in a strenu- device to disguise the appearance of
tems. ous battle, defeated the Titanium his titanium armor. Sergei, learning
Man in front of an international tele- that his parents were dead, exposed
Talents: Boris Bullski is skilled in vision audience. the commander as the Titanium
Bureaucracy and Detective/ Man. The GLF members, incensed
Espionage. Immediately Bullski began prepar- at being deceived by a Soviet agent,
Contacts: After a lengthy period of ing for a rematch. He was subjected attacked the Titanium Man, who acti-
exile, Titanium Man has renewed to unknown biological treatments vated a te leportation device to
ties with a faction in the Soviet gov- that increased his physical size. The escape. His atoms were reassem-
ernment wh ich occasionally pro- titanium armor suit was redesigned bled at his headquarters in the form
vides him with Amazing Resources. and made far more formidable. This of a card. Sergei then simply ripped
time, the Titanium Man battled Iron up the card, depositing the pieces in
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Man in the sky over Washington, a trash can .
D.C., but was again defeated. Aban-
doned by the Soviet government, the Since then, the Gremlin, a mem-
Titanium Man subsequently served ber of the Soviet Super Soldiers, has
the Vietnamese Communist scientist worn a version of the Titanium Man's
known as Half-Face for a time but armor. Whether or not the original
then was accepted back into the Titanium Man can ever be returned
service of the Soviet government. to life remains to be seen.

136

TOAD

STATISTICS
F PR (4)
A RM (30)

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

Health: 60

Karma: 30
Resources: PR
Popularity: - 5

BACKG ROUND
Real Name: Mortimer Toynbee
Occupation: Sometime adventurer,

former subversive
Other Aliases: The Terrible Toad

King
Legal Status: British citizen with a

criminal record
Identity: Known to government law

enforcement agencies
Place of Birth: York, England

Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Unknown at

present
,,.- Past Group Affiliation: Former

member of the Brotherhood of Evil

Mutants, member of the Misfits
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS are so hard to gauge when he is be able to call upon them as con-
Leaping: Toad's mutant ability cen- leaping, his Agility can be used at the tacts. Toad was also an amusement
ters on the elastic cartilage and park manager for a time and has firm
unusually well-developed muscles in same time for Dodging. contacts within that industry. He is
his legs. He can jump 3 areas hor- Talents: While not very talented in currently a member of the Misfits.
creating new or original items (Toad
izontally or four stories vertically. has a Reason of Poor when attempt- 137
Hopping, Multiple Attack: Toad's ing to do so), Toad has helped build
favorite, and most efficient, attack and maintain the machines of such
mode is used against a group of luminaries as Magneto, Arcade, and
characters in the same area. This the Stranger. He has Remarkable
attack uses the Charging column reason in the fields of electronic
and is performed by Toad 's hopping
from character to character. His legs maintenance and rewiring.
can deliver a blow causing Excellent Contacts: Toad has worked with
damage to each target. The maxi- Magneto, Arcade, and the Stranger.
mum number of targets he can Under the right conditions he might
attack in one area is nine. Even if he

misses one target, he can continue
to hop attack each potential target in

the area.
Hopping, Single Attack: If the Toad
does nothing else in a round but hop,
he can end the round by striking a
single target with a body hop, caus-
ing Remarkable damage. This hop
attack uses the Charging column.
Because Toad's single attack hops

ADDITIONAL NOTES: mutant the Scarlet Witch, and Von Doom. Doom sent a robot of ,,......
became infatuated with her, thought himself and a security force to
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES she did not reciprocate the feeling. remove the Toad and restore the ..-
The odd stature, homely features, structure to its original state. -.
and unusual powers that are a result Magneto and the Toad were cap-
of his obvious mutation have made tured by the alien called the Stranger Toynbee again fell into despon-
Mortimer Toynbee a subject of ridi- and imprisoned on the alien's distant dency and decided to commit sui-
cule and disdain since birth. This has world. When Magneto first escaped, cide, an attempt which was
affected his personality to the point he callously left the Toad behind, and interrupted by Spider-Man. Hoping
where he will be slavishly subservi- the Toad's attitude toward his master to make Spider-Man his friend, he
ent to anyone who shows concern began to change. After being recap- hired a group of criminals to attack
for or interest in him. Toad is perse- tured, Magneto escaped a second Spider-Man, but in the process he
cuted and insecure. met Frog-Man and Spider-Kid. The
time and took the Toad with him, but three formed a partnership of their
HISTORY his continued bullying caused the own called the Misfits.
Toad's resentment to increase until it
Mortimer Toynbee was abandoned flared into murderous hatred. The Though seeking the help of a psy-
by his parents so early in his child- Toad abandoned Magneto to die in chiatrist during this period , Toynbee
hood that he cannot remember an explosion that followed an was still obsessed with the Scarlet
them. He was placed in an orphan- encounter with the Avengers and the Witch. He used some robot dopple-
age where he was continually tor- X-Men. It was later discovered that gangers of the original Brotherhood
mented by the other children, who Magneto survived. of Evil Mutants, but was stopped by
regarded him as a freak due to his
ugliness, his unusual physique, and The Toad later returned to the Quicksilver. Toynbee and his auto-
his leaping ability. Toynbee was so Stranger's planet where he studied matons were removed to Project
traumatized by his loneliness and and stole the Stranger's technology Pegasus for study, but one of the
the continual abuse he received that and equipment in an effort to robots reactivated on a timed pro-
it affected his learning abilities. The become more powerful and thus gam and freed its builder. Ultimately
teachers regarded Toynbee as men- more appealing to the Scarlet Witch. he again came into conflict with
tally retarded even though , in actual- However, just as he prepared to Spider-Man, whose approval he still
ity, he was of normal intelligence. return to Earth, he learned that the valued. The Toad defeated Spider-
Scarlet Witch had married the Man and the Vision using a powerful
At some point after achieving Vision. Enraged , he planned to strike exoskeleton. Forcing his way into
adulthood, Toynbee was discovered the New Jersey home owned by the
by Magneto and recruited for his out at her, attacked the Avengers to Scarlet Witch and the Vision, he
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magne- learn her whereabouts, and was found the Scarlet Witch eight
to gave Toynbee the alias of the Toad defeated. months pregnant. Finding her repul-
because of Toynbee's powers, sive, he attacked her. She defeated
appearance, and personality. The He served a short prison term and him, but he escaped and his current
Toad blinded himself to Magneto's was released, at which time he com- whereabouts are unknown.
continual verbal and physical abuse missioned the criminal Arcade to
because Magneto was out to con- construct a series of deadly traps in a
quer the human race that had reject- seemingly deserted castle in upstate
ed the Toad. New York, Renaming himself the Ter-
rible Toad King, he planned to entrap
As a member of the Brotherhood everyone who he felt had abused
of Evil Mutants, The Toad met the him, placing them in the palace
where they would be killed in the
attempt to escape. His first victim
was the X-Man called the Angel. In
capturing the Angel , the Toad acci-
dentally kidnapped the Thing, too.
Just as the two were about to
escape, Arcade stepped in and
demanded immediate payment for
his services. Unable to pay and fear-
ful for his own life, the Toad fell into a
panic.

The Angel took pity on Toynbee
and formulated an agreement with
him to convert the castle into an
amusement park, paying the debt in
the process. The endeavor was a
success until it was discovered that
the castle's original owner was Victor

138

TOMORROW MAN

STATISTICS
F TY (6)
A TY (6)
S TY (6)
E GD (10)

R IN (40)

I EX (20)
P GD (10)

Health: 28

Karma: 70
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: - 5

BACKGROUND

Real Name: Artur Zarrko
Occupation: Former civil servant,
later conqueror and dictator
Identity: Publicly known in the alter-
nate futures of the 23rd and 50th

centuries
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with a criminal record in an
alternate future of the 23rd century.
Place of Birth: Old New York, United
States of the Americas, in an alter-

nate future.
Marital Status: Single

Known Relatives: None
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: 23rd century,

later 50th century

KNOWN POWERS The Servitor has Incredible protec- Contacts: Tomorrow Man has called
Time Cube: Tomorrow Man has con- tion against physical and energy upon his old enemy, Thor, and his
structed a small cube which enables attacks, and carries a weapon called friends, the Warriors Three, tor aid in
him to travel in time with Shift-Z abili- a " Power Lance" which can launch the past.
ty. The cube permits him to travel as bolts of concussive force (Amazing
far as 500,000 years into the past in 139
one jump, or 5,000 years into the damage at ten areas).
future. The cube operates on some Blaster Pistol: Tomorrow Man usually
unknown power source and can carries a Blaster Pistol that does
apparently make an unlimited num- Remarkable energy damage at a
ber of trips before needing a
"recharge." A trip with the Time range of 1Oareas.
Cube is instantaneous, and the Talents: Tomorrow Man is a scien-
Tomorrow Man can take several oth- tific Genius in the fields of Electron-
er persons with him on a voyage ics, Physics, and Time Travel. He
(weight limit of 50,000 lbs). also has the Engineering and
The Servitor: Tomorrow Man has
often used a modified mining robot RepairfTinker talents.
from his own century as a warrior
and bodyguard. The Servitor is
approximately twenty five feet tall,
and has the following stats:

FASER I P
RM GD MN MN PR PR PR

Health: 190

Karma: 12

ADDITIONAL NOTES: HISTORY which crash-landed. The impact
gave Zarrko amnesia, and the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Artur Zarrko was a citizen of an alter- authorities of his own century gave
Tomorrow Man is a power-mad con- nate future Earth of the 23rd century him a new identity and employment
queror whose only ambition is con- (not the same as that of Thundra), a as a clerk. After 23rd century scien-
quest. His desire tor devastation is period of international peace. Enter- tists returned the bomb to its original
so great that it once caused him to taining ambitions of world conquest, state, Thor took it back to the 20th
flee the Utopian peace of the 23rd Zarrko was frustrated by the unavail- century.
century. ability of weapons since the disarma-
ment program of a century before. Later, Thor's evil adoptive brother,
Tomorrow Man's greatest weapon No information on the construction Loki, used his sorcery to restore Zar-
is his nearly unrivaled intellect. He or design of advanced weaponry rko's memory, hoping Zarrko would
always has some master scheme up was available any longer. Zarrko destroy Thor. Zarrko rebuilt his time
his sleeve, and his toes would be therefore used his scientific genius machine, and traveled back to the
unwise to underestimate him. to construct a time machine in order 20th century, where he coerced Thor
to travel back to a century when pow- into vowing to help him conquer 23rd
erful , advanced weapons had exist- century Earth. Thor helped Zarrko
ed , steal some, and bring them back reach the Master Machine, a com-
to his own time so that he could use puter which ran the government of
them to achieve world domination. the 23rd century Earth. Having thus
fulfilled his vow, Thor then captured
Zarrko therefore traveled to the Zarrko and turned him over to the
authorities.
20th century, where he stole an
experimental cobalt bomb from the Subsequently, Zarrko unsuccess-
United States Army, and where he fully clashed with Kang the Conquer-
received the alias of "the Tomorrow or, who had invaded the 23rd
Man." Returning to his own time, century. Still later, Zarrko traveled to
Zarrko made improvements on the an alternate future Earth of the SOth
bomb which vastly increased its century and conquered it. Zarrko
destructive potential. The Asgardian became Earth 's king and ru led
thunder god Thor had witnessed the oppressively. He went to the 20th
century to enlist the aid of Thor and
theft and followed Zarrko to the 23rd the Warriors Three in defeating the
century. Zarrko tried unsuccessfully menace posed by three mysterious
to destroy the thunder god, and beings called the Time-Twisters. The
finally, in an act of desperation, tried Earth of the SOth century was save,
to set off the cobalt bomb. Thor pre- but Zarrko no longer ruled. His cur-
vented the detonation, and the flee- rent whereabouts and activities are
ing Zarrko lost control of his skycraft, unknown.

140

,,.---. STATISTICS TRADER

F GD 10 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM30 Little is known of the Trader except
S EX20 for the fact that he has dedicated his
E AM50 eons long life to cosmic barter. Pre-
sumably, he trades for profit. No one
R MN75 knows whether he simply enjoys
haggling, or is working toward some
I UN 100 sort of master plan (the former is the
P MN75 more likely alternative).
Health: 110
141
Karma: 250
Resources: CL1000
Popularity: 0

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Cosmic Barterer
Identity: Unrevealed
Legal Status: None
....---... Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Past Group Affiliation: Elders of the

Universe
Present Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: Space

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Immortality: The Trader does not die
if reduced to O Health and Shift-0
Endurance, nor does he age. This

ability has Class 5000 rank.
Invulnerability: Trader has Class-
1000 invulnerability to all physical
and energy attacks, toxins, dis-
eases, and aging. Slams and Stuns
still affect him, however.
Power Primordial: With the power
primordial possessed by all of the
Elders of the Universe, Trader can
duplicate the following powers at the
Unearthly rank. In addition, he can
develop other powers as Power

Stunts:
• Empathy: The Trader can easily

read others' emotions.
• Imitation: The Trader can dis-

guise himself as almost any life form
in the universe with Unearthly accu-
racy.

• Life Support: The Trader can sur-
vive in deep space and other hostile
environments effortlessly.
Talents: The Trader has the Busi-
ness, Finance and Psychology tal-
ents. His Reason is Shift X in such

matters.
Contacts: The Trader is an Elder of
the Universe, and can call upon his
brethren at any time.

HISTORY tus, who came from a previous uni- Fantastic had to pursue them to res-
verse before our big bang, as proof cue Galactus (who had consumed
Trader is one of the Elders of the Uni- that this was possible. To effect the the energies of the other Elders, but,
verse. The elders are a group of destruction of this universe, the they being undying, earned himself
unique, immortal individuals, all of Elders had to gain great power, with nothing but cosmic indigestion).
whom have outlived their native which to destroy Galactus himself. Trader forced the Surfer to bring him
races, usually through devoting Most of the energy of the universe is and his companions back into our
themselves to one particular occu- balanced between the forces of
pation, hobby, or craft. The elders Death and Eternity, with Galactus universe, and pitted the force of bal-
are therefore not a particular race, holding the small remaining bal- ance of that universe, the ln-
but a gathering of very powerful indi- ance. By destroying Galactus the betweener, against Galactus. In the
viduals , all of whom are the last (or Elders sought to upset the balance end, the ln-betweener was defeated,
only) of their breed. Trader's partners and destroy the universe. but the other Elders freed him from
in the Elders are Gardener, Astrono- Galactus's clutches. Trader and his
mer, Oblixerator, Runner, Grandmas- To that end, the Elders sought out fellow Elders escaped, to plot for
ter, Collector, Champion, Possessor, the powerful soul-gems. Trader used another day.
Contemplator, and Ego, the last his extensive abilities to trade for no
being the Living Planet. less than two of these precious Trader is a master negotiator, tak-
gems. In the end, however, their plan
Trader joined with his fellow Elders came to naught, and as punishment, ing great pride in the "art of the
in a plot to destroy our universe, the entity Death declared them undy- deal," as terrans would say. He is at
such that they may transcend the ing and Galactus dumped Trader, his best when he is trying to buy or
boundaries of our existances, Possessor, and Astronomer down a sell something whether it is a planet
becoming the masters of the next black hole into another dimension. or a personal service. A true victory
universe that will be formed. The for Trader involves not only convinc-
Elders used the existence of Galac- Trader and the other Elders ing his opponent to trade, but to do
retained control of the soul-gems, so at an exchange favorable to Trad-
such that the Silver Surfer, aided by er AND for the opponent to be con-
the Invisible Woman and Mr. vinced that he (Trader's opponent)
got the better end of the deal.

142

TRAPSTER

STATISTICS

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

E GD (10)

R EX (20)

I GD (10)
P GD (10)
Health: 28

Karma: 40
Resources: GD
Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Peter Petruski
Occupation: Professional criminal
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.

- with a criminal record
.-~rmer Aliases: Paste Pot Pete

Place of Birth: Gary, Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliation: Frightful

Four
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ing the target toward him, if it is upon the use of " memory wire;"
Hyper-Invention: The Trapster has lighter than his own body. If the when activated the a long wire
object is heavier, the Trapster is springs out a forms a pre-determined
Remarkable ingenuity in creating drawn toward it. In this way, the Trap- shape, such as a cage or weapon.
devices and chemicals related to the ster can swing through a city or hitch Wall-walking Boots: These boots
field of adhesives. He can create a ride on space or air vehicles much were recently created by the Trapster
adhesives and weapons out of what- and give him Remarkable wall crawl-
like Spider-Man . ing. The boots contain reservoirs of
ever materials are on hand. Traps: The Trapster carries a variety glue dispensed through the soles.
Paste Gun: This is a large pistol of spring-loaded spheres. These Sensors in each shoe release a
linked by tubes to a chemical cannis- devices have Excellent material small amount of glue when the sole
ter worn on the right hip. The gun strength. When activated, they snap is pressed against a vertical or
can fire a stream of glue at a range of open to reveal a series of balls and inverted surface. When the Trapster
2 areas. The glue is flameproof and disks; these rebound erratically and arches his foot to take another step,
possesses Monstrous adhesion lock on to the limbs of anyone they another type of glue is released that
against anything it contacts. It also hit. A second type of trap is based
acts as a Grappling attack of Mon- 143
strous Strength. The glue remains
liquid in its cannister and does not
set until ten seconds after it is fired
from the paste gun. The glue crum-
bles when exposed to ultraviolet
light. Normal sunlight crumbles the
glue in five hours; higher intensities
of UV decrease this time considera-

bly.
The Paste Gun features a variable

nozzle. It can fire a fine line up to two
areas away. Alternately, it can be set
to flood an area. The pistol can fload
.....-- a 10-foot cube in 15 seconds. As a
power stunt, the Trapster has
learned how to fire a line at a target
and then retract it quickly, thus draw-

detaches the previously dried glue the Wizard. Jailed, Petruski won a Frightful Four. Once the three active
and affixes the boot to its new spot. special parole when he provided the members attempted to defeat the
Special bracings in his leggings Avengers a special solvent to coun- Fantastic Four at the home of Agatha
assist the Trapster in walking hor- teract the "Adhesive X" used by Bar- Harkness, and were repelled by the
izontally and inverted. on Heinrich Zemo. Once out of jail, old woman's witchcraft. Then, with
Talents: The Trapster is a superb Petruski rented a recently vacated the woman warrior, Thundra, taking
chemist specializing in adhesives but fully functional glue factory. He Medusa's place, the Frightful Four
and delivery mechanisms. used the facility to develop stronger launched three attacks against the
Contacts: The Trapster is a founding Fantastic Four in quick succession.
member of the Frightful Four but is and more versatile pastes, and to Ultimately, however, Thun dra
currently estranged from all of its completely redesign his weaponry betrayed them to the Fantastic Four.
past members. and costume. Despite these modifi- The three were placed in police cus-
cations, he met yet another defeat at tody.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: the hands of the Human Torch and
the Thing. The Trapster remained with the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Wizard and the Sandman in two fur-
The Trapster is much more a thief The Wizard then invited Petruski ther attempts to make the Frightful
than a conqueror, but occasionally to join him in creating a criminal Four a viable team. Again breaching
sets his sights on more glamorous counterpart to the crimefighting the Baxter Building and capturing
prizes, such as the occasional mis- Fantastic Four to be called the the Fantastic Four, the Frightful Fou.r
sile or arcane invention. The Trap- Frightful Four. Recruiting the Sand- took on a fourth member, the Brute,
ster also suffers from a bit of an man and Medusa, the Frightful Four who was a counterpart to Reed
inferiority complex; he is aware that raided the Fantastic Four's Baxter Richards from the artificial planet
he appears as a ludicrous villain with Building headquarters, and affixed Counter-Earth. Despite the Brute's
an outlandish weapon. He is still try- the Wizard's anti-gravity discs to strength, the Frightful Four was once
ing to live down his original alias of their toes. The Fantastic Four man- more overpowered. A few years lat-
"Paste Pot Pete." aged to escape before floating into er, with the experienced criminal
airless space , however, but were Electro as their fourth member, the
HISTORY unable to capture the Frightful Four. Frightful Four again broke into the
Fantastic Four's headquarters, with
Peter Petruski was a research chem- The Frightful Four went into hiding the Trapster gaining entrance dis-
ist who formulated an extremely for a few weeks, during which time guised as the Spider-Man. After this
adhesive "multi-polymer" liquid. Petruski collaborated with the Wiz- defeat, the Frightful Four disbanded,
Motivated by greed, he decided to ard on several new projectile weap- and the original members went their
use his discovery to commit crimes. ons, or "traps," and became the separate ways.
Petruski created a gun which could Trapster. Kidnapping the Invisible
spray his super-adhesive paste, and Girl, they lured the Fantastic Four to Recently the Trapster modified his
calling himself Paste-Pot Pete, he a Pacific atoll where they rigged an weaponry, trading in his hand-held
embarked upon a series of thefts, experimental " Q-bomb" to deto- paste pistol for a system of paste-
including an attempt to steal a top nate. The Fantastic Four narrowly shooters integrated into the sleeves
secret U.S. Army missile. He was escaped. Weeks later, the Frightful of his uniform. In this way, the tubing
thwarted and defeated by the Four made their third attempt. Cap- connecting his gun to his adhesive
Human Torch on several occasions, turing the Thing, the Wizard used his cannisters was no longer exposed
including one in which Petruski "Id Machine" to simulate the Thing's and thus detachable. He also pack-
joined forces with the criminal called natural tendencies toward evil and aged the lubricant that he had used
brainwash him into obeying the Wiz- to dissolve the paste over the years
ard's commands. The Fantastic Four so he could spray it as well. Teaming
finally managed to subdue the with Whirlwind, the Trapster set a
Frightful Four, and all but Medusa trap for Captain America in an
were turned over to the authorities. attempt to accomplish one good
clean victory over a well-known cri-
When the Trapster finally broke mefighter. Captain America escaped
free of imprisonment, he unwisely however, and turned them over to
decided to try his hand at getting local authorities. As soon as Captain
revenge on the Fantastic Four alone, America left, the two freed them-
but he failed in several attempts. selves and went their own ways. The
Joining the Wizard and Sandman in Trapster's current activities are as
France, they tried to steal some new yet unrevealed.
fissionable material called Quadra-
nium from NATO but with no more

success.

For the next few years, the Trap-
ster's criminal activities were con-
ducted solely in concert with the

144

GROUP BACKGROUND BRUTE TRASH
Trash is a group of super-powered
inner city youths who for a time acted STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Brute is a large, rather slow child.
as agents of a criminal known as a F TY (6) Like most of the members of Trash,
the Garbage Man. Some of the mem- A PR (4) Brute is definitely a follower. He is
bers are runaways, others abused, S RM (30) also strangely quiet.
and others seeking to bring some E IN (0)
cash into their families. In any event, R FB (2) RAZOR CUT
the only way out of their situation I PR (4)
seemed to be crime, and soon they p TY (6) STATISTICS
become the super-powered enforc- Health: 80 F TY (6)
ers and lackeys of the Garbage Man. Karma: 12
He gave them the name Trash in dis- Resources: FB A TY (6)
respect, but they have since taken
the name as a badge of honor. Popularity: -1 o s TY (6)

Garbage Man operated a profit- E RM (30)
able crack operation in New York, R PR (4)
using the youths as protection and I TY (6)
runners. Given the young people's p TY (6)
desperate situation, the morality of Health: 48
running drugs made no impact on Karma: 16
them and Garbage Man kept them in Resources: FB
Popularity: -1 O
line through abuse and violence.
Trash battled Power Pack when the 145

team of young super heroes tried to
break up Garbage Man's crack oper-
ation. They led Power Pack back to
their boss, who helped defeat them.
When it became clear that Garbage
Man was going to kill the young

heroes, Trash rebelled and turned on
their former master. They freed
Power Pack and together the two
groups defeated Garbage Man,
whose cocaine supplies went up in
smoke in the battle.

Freed of the Garbage Man, Trash
turned down Power Pack's sugges-
tion to become full-fledged heroes,
instead choosing to make their own
way on the street under their own
code. Razor Cut is the team leader,

but Crazy Legs seems to be the most
industrious and conniving, while the
taciturn Brute and the young Blast-
ing Cap and Airhead follow their
leads.

Whether Trash chooses to be vil-
lains or heroes, or to operate in their
own grey area between those poles,
has yet to be revealed. The streets
will be alive with the news when they
choose.

KNOWN POWERS
None
Talents: None

KNOWN POWERS AIRHEAD BLASTING CAP
Claws: Razor Cut has claws on his
feet and hands that are constructed STATISTICS STATISTICS
of Amazing strength material and
inflict Good Edged Weapon damage. F TY (6) F FB (2)
Razor Skin: Razor Cut's skin is com- A GD (10) A TY (6)
posed entirely of razor-sharp S PR (4)
armored plates. Anyone who touch- E EX (20) s PR (4)
es him (including those who suc- R PR (4)
cessfully attack him in HTH combat) I TY (6) E GD (10)
automatically takes Typical Edged P TY (6) R PR (4)
Weapon damage. Razor Cut's skin Health: 40 I TY (6)
also acts as Good body armor. Karma: 16 p GD (10)
Talents: None Resources: FB Health: 22
Popularity: - 10 Karma: 20
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Resources: FB
Razor Cut is a fast-talking tough guy. KNOWN POWERS Popularity: - 1O
He functions as a sort of leader to the Inflatable Head: Airhead can inflate
other members of Trash. her head with expandable gasses KNOWN POWERS
that allow her to float like a hot air Explosions: Blasting Cap can make
CRAZY LEGS balloon. While her head is inflated any inanimate objects within 2 areas
she can fly at Poor air speed (4 areas of him explode at will. Such an explo-
STATISTICS per round). There is apparently no sion does the object's Material
limit upon the amount of time she Strength rank in damage to every-
F GD (10) may remain inflated. one and everything within its area.
A GD(10} Talents: None Blasting Cap finds this power
S PR (4) extremely difficult to control. In order
R GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES to explode an object, he must make
I TY (6) Airhead is unusually compassionate a Psyche FEAT roll with an Intensity
for a "super-villainess." She has a equal to the object's Material
P TY (6) special bond with Blasting Cap. Strength rank.
Talents: None
Health: 44
Karma: 22 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Resources: FB Blasting Cap is a very insecure,
Popularity: -10 frightened child. He feels very
uneasy about his activities for Trash,
KNOWN POWERS but follows their instructions anyway
Crazy Legs: Crazy Legs can sudden- because they are the only family he
ly stretch her legs out to make pow- has.
erful attacks or to aid in locomotion.
She can strike targets up to 2 areas
away with her legs. Her Fighting is
Excellent while using her legs, and
the legs strike for Good damage.
While her legs are extended, Crazy
Legs can move at Typical ground
speed (3 areas/round).
Talents: None

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Crazy Legs is probably the most

sure-minded of the Trash bunch. She
likes to use her head.

146

TRITON

STATISTICS
F (GD) (10)

A RM (30)
S RM (30)
E IN (40)
R GD (1 0)
I GD (10)

P EX (20)
Health: 110

Karma: 40
Resources: EX
Popularity: 6

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Scout
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of Attilan
Place of Birth: Island of Attilan,
Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mander (father},
Azur (mother}, Karnak (brother},
Gorgon, Black Bolt, Maximus,
Medusa, Crystal (cousins)
Past Group Affiliation : Royal Fami-
ly of the Inhumans
Present Group Affiliation:
,,..-..._ Base of Operations: Attilan, the
Blue Area of the Moon

KNOWN POWERS around his body. This is usually pro- the water. This damage is automati-
Demihuman Body (Piscean): The Ter- vided by the magenta tubes which cally healed as soon as he immerses
rigen Mist gave Triton's body a fish- surround him. These tubes refilter himself.
like appearance. Although his the water, spread it across his torso, Talents: Triton is a master of under-
overall body shape remains human , and supply it directly to his neck gills. water combat. While fi ghting under-
his epidermis is covered in fine, If t his device is damaged or missing, water, his Fighting rank increases to
green scales and his internal organs Triton begins to suffocate. After 15 Excellent.
are modified to meet the needs of an turns and each turn thereafter, he Contacts: Triton is a member of the
aquatic existence. This new body must make an Endurance FEAT roll lnhumans' Royal Family. He is an
gives Triton his powers. to retain consciousness. Normally a ally of the Fantastic Four, the Aveng-
Water Freedom: Triton's body is per- Yellow FEAT roll is required. Humid ers, the Sub-Mariner, and Stingray.
fectly adapted for life at any depth in conditions lessen this to a Green
the ocean . He can move through the FEAT while arid conditions raise it to 147
water as effortlessly as a surface a Red. In addition, lriton loses one
dweller can move through the air. His point of Health per turn he is out of
body can alter its pressure to match
that of whatever depth water Triton is
in . He has Good resistance to cold.
His eyes are adapted to focus either
in the air or underwater.

Hyper-Swimming: Triton can swim
with Typical speed (3 areas/round).
Water Breathing: Triton is primarily a
water breather, although he can act
as an amphibian for extremely short

durations.
Weakness: Since Triton is a water
breather, he must have a fresh sup-

ply of water constantly circulating

ADDITIONAL NOTES: HISTORY Triton 's mother Azur died in an
undersea mishap when he was four-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Triton is the eldest of two sons born teen. Four years later, Triton became
Triton is torn between his love of the
ocean and his love for his home of to the Inhuman priest/philosopher kaeneupnindgersweaatcshcoouvtefor rhthuemlannhuomceaanns~
Attilan..Although he is a loyal protec-
tor of his home on the moon, he finds named Mander and his wife Azur. Tri- going traffic in the vicinity. When Tri-
every possible reason to return to ton was captured by sailors1 Black
Earth's oceans, where he feels great ton was placed in the mutagenic Ter- Bolt decided that Attilan was in dan-
peace. ger of human discovery. Attilan was
rigen Mist when he reached one year
stnhueebitshHeeiqrmusaeitlneatylbyaesim,ngothvceelnodsettowtioctehw~atfmeirrso.toTrntio~
of age, and emerged with a number
ton now occupies his time exploring
of aquatic mutations. No longer able the ancient subterranean water tun-
nels beneath the moon's Blue City
to. bre~the air, the young Triton was He occasionally teleports to Earth by
means of Lockjaw's power, to swim
raised in a specially designed alcove the oceans and renew old friend-
ships such as that with Prince Namor
on the shore of the island of Autntdilaern~ the Sub-Mariner.
Triton's mother, a biologist,

took the study of ocean biology in

order to help understand and care

for her son . Eventually cumbersome

breathing apparatus was designed

to enable Triton to survive out of

water for extended periods of time.

148

STATISTICS TWD-GUNKID

F EX (20) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A GD (10) Two-Gun Kid is an intelligent and
well-mannered hero with a flair for
s GD (10) catching his enemies unaware.
Hawk is driven by a strong curiosity
E EX (20) and thirst for adventure. Naturally,
R TY (6) he has found his trips to the twenti-
I EX {20) eth century extremely intriguing and
p GD (20) hopes to one day return.

Health : 60 149
Karma: 36
Resources: GD
Popularity: 10

BACKGROUND
Real Name: Matt Hawk
Occupation: Lawyer

Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Boston, MA
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Tombstone,
Texas, in the 1870s
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation:

KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Pistols: The Two-Gun Kid carries two
Colt .45 caliber revolvers. The Colts
hit for 8 points of Shooting damage,
hold six shots each, and are made
from Excellent strength material.
The guns have a range of 4 areas.
Two-Gun Kid can fire both pistols in a
single turn (even at separate targets)

with no penalty.
Lasso: Two-Gun Kid also carries a
lasso of Good material strength that
can be used to Grapple targets up to
2 areas away with a successful Agili-

ty FEAT roll.
Talents: Two-Gun Kid is an expert

with handguns and lassos ( + 1 CS).

He is one of the fastest guns in the
Old West and can easily draw both

pistols and fire in the same turn . Two-
Gun Kid is also an expert horseman

and has the Law talent.
Contacts: Two-Gun Kid has worked
with Kid Colt, the Rawhide Kid, the
second Phantom Rider, and the
Ringo Kid. He has also met and
cooperated with Hawkeye, Moon-

dragon, and Thor.