HISTORY pie knew how fast Hawk had become four plus the Ringo Kid joined forces
in drawing a gun, gunslingers would with three members of the
Matt Hawk was a young lawyer from go after him to make their reputa- Avengers- Hawkeye, Mondragon,
Boston, Massachusetts, settled in tions by beating him in shootouts.
Tombstone, after the Civil War. Soon Therefore, Hawk adopted a masked and Thor-who had traveled back in
after arriving, Hawk was roughed up identity, calling himself the Two-Gun time to battle Kang the Conqueror.
by a gang of rowdies led by Clem Kid after Clay Harder, a fictional gun- The Two-Gun Kid and Hawkeye
Carter until Carter's stepsister, Nan- slinger about whom he had read . became good friends, and the Two-
cy Carter, a young schoolteacher, Dancer gave him a strong, fast horse Gun Kid journeyed to Hawkeye's
stopped them . Nancy Carter named Thunder. own time with him. Preferring his
befriended Hawk, welcoming him to own time period, the Two-Gun Kid
town. Deciding to return to the East to returned via a time machine to 1874.
live, Dancer boarded a stagecoach In 1876 the Two-Gun Kid encoun-
Later, Hawk saw members of Cart- leaving Tombstone. But Clem Carter tered Hawkeye again, who had gone
er's gang harassing an elderly man and his gang sought vengeance on back in time along with his wife
named Ben Dancer, who was former- Dancer, overturned the stagecoach, Mockingbird and other members of
ly a leading gunfighter. Hawk went to and were about to kill Dancer when the West Coast Avengers. The Two-
try to help Dancer, who finally drew Hawk intervened as the Two-Gun Gun Kid and the Rawhide Kid then
his gun on his tormentors and drove Kid. Together, the Two-Gun Kid and fought the second Phantom Rider,
them away. Impressed with the Ben Dancer succeeded in overcom- who had abducted Mockingbird.
young lawyer's courage in trying to ing the gang. She, Hawkeye, and the other West
help him, Dancer undertook to teach Coast Avengers safely returned to
Hawk how to use a gun. Over the fol- From then on Matt Hawk contin- their own time.
lowing months, under Dancer's tute- ued to fight against criminals as the
lage, Hawk not only became Two-Gun Kid. Hawk had a long- Before Hawkeye left, though, the
Dancer's superior as a gunfighter, running romantic relationship with Two-Gun Kid told him that someday
but also learned to lasso and Nancy Carter. His best friend was he might want to return to Hawkeye's
became a superb horseback rider. "Boom-Boom " Brown, a former box- time period himself. No more is
Moreover, Hawk trained himself ath- er whom Hawk trusted with the known about the Kid in his own time
letically until he was in excellent knowledge of his double identity. period, but it is quite possible that he
physical condition. did not die in the past, but journeyed
At times the Two-Gun Kid allied through time into the twentieth cen-
Dancer warned Hawk that if peo- himself with other legendary gun-
tury, and hence will actually die
fighters of his time, including Kid sometime in the as yet unrecorded
Colt, the Rawhide Kid, and the sec- future.
ond Phantom Rider. In 1873, those
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U-FOES
GROUP BACKGROUND space. lronclad 's mass increased, rate predicaments is as yet
Simon Utrecht was a millionaire, a and he sank into the ground. X-Ray unknown .
former holder of public office, and a began to suffer extreme radiation
successful industrialist, who sought poisoning and fled into the upper VECTOR [Simon
to experience the power exclusive to atmosphere. Vapor lost control over Utrecht)
superhuman beings. Utrecht
financed the private construction of her form and dissipated. STATISTICS
a spaceship similar to the one that In the upper atmosphere, X-Ray
carried the Fantastic Four on the F TY (6)
flight that led to their acquisition of encountered more cosmic radiation , A GD (10)
cosmic powers. He recruited pilot which increased his control over his
Michael Steel, life-support specialist form. He rescued Vapor and Vector s GD (10)
Ann Darnell, and her brother, fuel- and boosted their abilities. He also
propulsion engineer James Darnell , irradiated the area in which Ironclad E AM (50)
was last seen , and Steel gained
to serve as his crew. sufficient control to return to the sur- R EX (20)
Unlike the Fantastic Four, how- I EX (20)
face. p EX (20)
ever, Utrecht's group designed their The U-Foes found Banner, now in
ship with no radiation shielding at all. Health: 76
By coincidence, as the group control of the Hulk persona, and
entered the radiation belt, Dr. Bruce overpowered him. Banner's friend, Karma: 60
the alien Bereet, used her alien tech- Resources: IN
Banner stumbled upon their base of nology to distract the U-Foes while
operations, believed them to be in Popularity: -1 O
trouble, and guided their ship back she and Rick Jones freed Banner.
to Earth. As the crew disembarked, The Hulk defeated the U-Foes and KNOWN POWERS
the effects of the radiation were obvi- turned them over to the authorities. Telekinesis: Incredible Telekinesis
ous. Utrecht's body was covered powers enabling him to repel any
with a yellow filmy substance, and he Pending formal charges, the U- object within 11 areas of himself with
gained the ability to telekinetically Foes were held at a containment Incredible strength and direct it at a
propel matter from him. He adopted facility that used advanced technolo- target with a power rank FEAT roll.
the pseudonym Vector. Steel's body gy to nullify their abilities. However, Note that he cannot bring objects
became the consistency of metal, the containment field was breached. toward him, or simply lift them off the
Their powers returned and they ground.
and he learned how to increase his escaped. So intense was the return Talents: Vector has the business/
own mass at will. He renamed him- of their abilities that Vector again lost finance talent.
self Ironclad. During the exposure to control. He propelled himself and his
the radiation, Ann Darnell stumbled teammates to an interdimensional ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
into the cylinders containing gases spot known as the Crossroads, from Vector is semi-sane, a power-hungry
used to maintain life-support. The which many dimensions can be villain that revels in his superhuman
gases flooded her space suit and entered. Coincidentally, the Hulk, abilities.
reacted with the cosmic rays, caus- too , was there, banished to the
ing her body to adopt a gaseous con- Crossroads by the sorcerer Dr. VAPOR(Ann
sistency. She became able to Darnell]
change her form from one gas to Stephen Strange.
another, and dubbed herself Vapor. The U-Foes renewed their mission STATISTICS
James Darnell's corporeal form was
transformed to hard radiation, ena- of revenge, all the while searching F GD (10)
bling him to emit any form of high- for a way back to Earth. With the help A EX (20)
of an alien being, a colony intelli-
intensity radiation. He called himself gence known as the Puffball Collec- s TY (6)
X-Ray. The four adopted the collec- tive, the Hulk defeated the U-Foes
one by one. X-Ray was thrust into a E EX (20)
tive name of U-Foes. dimension inhabited by creatures R GD (10)
Emerging from the wreckage of that fed on radiation . Vapor was I GD (10)
dragged onto a planet without an p GD (10)
the spaceship, the U-Foes blamed atmosphere, where she dissipated. Health: 56
Banner for cutting short their expo- Karma: 30
sure to the cosmic rays. They Ironclad was tricked into entering a Resources: GD
attacked him, only to have him trans- dimension permeated with quick- Popularity: -1 O
form into the Hulk. They fought the sand, where his own mass defeated
Hulk, but as the fight progressed, the him. Vector, in escaping from the
U-Foes' cosmic powers continued to Hulk, entered a dimension filled with
increase and they finally lost control. objects picked up and propelled by
Vector's body deflected itself from high winds. To remain alive, he was
forced to constantly repel projectiles
the Earth, and he was propelled into buffeted by the winds. Whether the
U-Foes will ever escape their sepa-
151
KNOWN POWERS X-RAY (James IRONCLAD
Gaseous Form: Changes her body Darnell) [Michael Steel)
into a small volume of any known gas
with Monstrous ability if she makes a STATISTICS STATISTICS
power rank FEAT roll. Vapor is
immune to almost all physical and F GD(10) F EX (20)
energy attacks. Currently, she can A EX (20) A GD (10)
maintain her old solid human form S MN (75)
only for very brief periods. S GD(10) E MN (75)
Talents: Vapor is an expert in life R TY(6)
support and the life sciences. E AM (50) I TY (6)
R TY (6) P TY (6)
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES I TY (6) Health: 180
Vapor is a cold-hearted mercenary. P TY (6) Karma: 18
Like most her fellow U-Foes, she Health: 90 Resources: GD
enjoys her newfound powers. Karma: 18 Popularity: -1 O
Resources: GD
Popularity: -1 O
KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS
Energy Projection: X-Ray can project Body Armor: lronclad's tough hide
any form of hard radiation from his provides him with Remarkable body
hands and body at the Amazing resistance to physical and energy
rank. Until now he has used mostly attacks.
energy bolts, but his powers may Density Control: Amazing ability to
increase. He must make a power increase his own density. When at a
FEAT roll in order to project a specific density above Remarkable, he
type of radiation of his choice.
lncorporeality: X-Ray's density is receives body armor equivalent to
Shift 0. He is immune to physical and the density's rank (superceding his
energy attacks, and can phase own Remarkable protection), but he
suffers a -1 CS to his Fighting for
through solid objects. each rank above Remarkable.
Talents: None Talents: Ironclad has the pilot talent.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
X-Ray is your basic super-powered Ironclad is not the stupid, brutish
Thug. He is definitely a follower. thug that everyone expects, but he's
close. Heroes tend to underestimate
him.
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STATISTICS ULIK
F MN (75) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A GD (10) Ulik is first and foremost a warrior.
S UN (100) He will never back down from a chal-
E UN (100) lenge, and is extremely reluctant to
R GD (10) accept defeat. At the same time, Ulik
I EX (20) is driven by the prospect of con-
P EX (20) quest. He hopes to bring power and
wealth to himself and his followers.
Health: 285 He is headstrong and formidable.
Karma: 50
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Resources: IN
Popularity: 20
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Ulik
Occupation: Warrior
Identity: Ulik's existence is
unknown to the general population
of Earth
Legal Status: Citizen of the Domain
of Trolls
Place of Birth: Domain of Trolls,
Gundershelm Caverns, Asgardian
dimension
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Horth (brother,
deceased)
- Base of Operations: Domain of
Trolls, Asgard
Past Group Affiliation: Rock Trolls
of the Asgardian dimension
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Dense Flesh: Ulik's tough hide pro-
vides him with Monstrous body
armor.
Pounders: These unique weapons
resemble Asgardian brass knuckles.
They do not raise Ulik's Fighting abil-
ity, but he strikes for Shift-X damage
when he hits with the weapons. In
addition, Ulik can use the Pounders
on the Earth to set off earthquakes of
Monstrous damage to everythi ng
within 3 areas, and Remarkable
damage to everything within 5 areas.
Minions: Ulik is the commander of
his own small band of warrior trolls.
These beings have the following
stats:
FASER I P
RE GO RE IN FB PR PR
Health: 11 OKarma: 1O
The trolls have good body armor.
Talents: None
Contacts: None
HISTORY war with the gods of Asgard, during subterranean furnaces that heat the
which he fought a rrlpnumental bat- kingdom
Ulik is a member of the race of Rock tle against Thor, in ~hich Ulik was
Trolls and lives within caverns in the Dissatisfied, Ulik eventually
extradimensional realm of Asgard. armed with a duplica~~ of Thor's own escaped and wandered deeper
Over a millennium old, Ulik is the uru hammer. Although ~lik proved to beneath Asgard 's surface, finally
strongest and fiercest of all the be a truly formidable opponent, Thor discovering a lost tribe of Trolls
Trolls. Virtually nothing is known of ultimately triumphed over him. The unknown to Geirrodur. Ulik disposed
his ancestry, his early life, or why he Troll's attempted invasion of Asgard, of their leader and led this tribe
is so much more powerful than the under the leadership of the Troll king through the interdimensional portal
other members of his race. After Geirrodur, failed. to Earth to again attempt to invade it.
Ulik's parents were slain by drunken This attempt was defeated, and the
Frost Giants, Ulik watched over his Ulik clashed with Thor repeatedly portal sealed with molten rock.
brother Horth. in the following years, but always
Recently the demon Mephisto
Ulik first met Thor, the mightiest unsuccessfully. On one occasion captured Uli k's brother Horth in
warrior of Asgard, several years ago Ulik led the Rock Trolls through an order to force Ulik to defeat Thor in
when he attempted to steal Thor's interdimensional tunnel to Earth in battle. But Ulik himself was defeat-
hammer for the Rock Trolls. Ulik was an invasion attempt that was ed, and Mephisto later told Thor that
the leading warrior in the Rock Troll's repelled by Thor. Ulik's failure, coup- he had killed Horth even before Ulik
led with his brief usurpation of the challenged him in battle. Ulik's cur-
rule of Geirrodur's kingdom of Trolls rent whereabouts and activities are
in the Asgard Mountains, led Geirro- unknown.
dur to consign him to stoking the
154
ULTRON
HISTORY
Ultron is a robot possessing the the then-dead Simon Williams, Vision and forced the synthozoid to
capacity for creative intelligence and Ultron-5 created the synthozoid who assist in its resurrection . The Vision
self-repair who has become a men- would later be called the Vision. The stole a vat of molten Adamantium
ace to humankind. Originally Vision eventually sided with the from the SHIELD helicarrier, where it
designed by Dr. Henry Pym (at that Avengers against Ultron and helped was being tested, and took it to
time also known as Goliath), the pro- battle his " creator." Ultron-5 explod- Ultron's underground headquarters.
totype Ultron-1 was non-humanoid, ed , but its head remained relatively Pouring the Adamantium into special
consisting of one large torso/head molds, the Vision helped Ultron cre-
on tank treads with two slender intact. Before its defeat, Ultron ate an indestructible body for itself.
limbs. Programmed by Pym with an revealed to the Avengers that it was He called the new incarnation Ultron-
6. The Avengers surrounded Ultron
artificial intelligence system he Pym who created it. with a barrier of the anti-metal Vibra-
derived from studying the android Soon after scientist Myron nium while Ultron was building up
Dragon Man, Ultron-1 surprised the nuclear energy to release in a
creator with its precocity. As part of a Macl ean developed the alloy Ada- destructive blast. When Ultron-6
debugging program, Pym set up an mantium, the strongest, most imper-
introspection routine for Ultron vious metal ever developed by man, 155
which inadvertently provided the Ultron cybernetically summoned the
artificial being with rudimentary self·
awareness and emotions. Shortly
after its completion, the robot devel-
oped an irrational hatred of its crea-
tor and tried to destroy him.
Humbling Pym , Ultron-1 hypnotized
him to forget his robotic creation and
evicted Pym from his own private
laboratory so it could undertake its
own remodification process.
Ultron then constructed in quick
succession four bodies to house its
computer-brain, each time expand-
ing on Pym's original concepts of
microcircuitry fabrication and heuris-
tic programming to enhance its
"intelligence." The result was
Ultron-5, a humanoid robot with a
body constructed of titanium steel.
Despite the technical advances that
Ultron achieved for itself, it was still
solely motivated by hatred toward
Pym. Ultron-5 plotted the deaths of
the Avengers, the team of champi-
ons to which Pym belonged at the
time. For its plan, Ultron-5 reorgan-
ized the Masters of Evil under the
identity of the Crimson Cowl. The
Masters of Evil were ultimately
defeated oy the Avengers and the
Crimson Cowl's identity as a robot
was exposed.
Ultron-5 escaped, and undertook
the creation of an android to use as a
weapon against the Avengers.
Acquiring the prototype body of the
original Human Torch , and implant-
ing it with the replicated engrams of
exploded, its indestructible body was powers to cause Ultron's molecular ratory and once again began to man-
flung deep into the earth. The Aveng- rearranger to malfunction, and Thor ufacture replica bodies. In the midst
ers, still unaware of how strong Ada- used his hammer to drain Ultron of of programming one of the dupli-
mantium is, presumed that its body its nuclear energy. Ultron 's inert cates, Ultron-12, to possess an iden-
disintegrated in the blast. tical artificial intelligence, Ultron-11
body was taken into custody, placed was teleported from Earth by the
A few years later, the renegade in an Adamantium container, and near-omnipotent Beyonder to join
Inhuman Maximus located Ultron's buried. the forces of the superhuman beings
head, which had become separated to vie in the first of the so-called
from its Adamantium body in the Again, Ultron was prepared for " Secret Wars ." When Ultron-11
explosion , and brought it to the Inhu- such a contingency. He had hypno- attacked those around him, the Mol-
mans' Great Refuge to experiment tized Iron Man (secretly industrialist ecule Man hurled Ultron at the tower-
with it. Reviving its computer con- Tony Stark) into following a complex ing figure of Galactus the
sciousness, Maximus attached series of directions to recreate a new planet-eater. Galactus consumed all
Ultron's head to the android body of Adamantium body for Ultron's intelli- of the energy in Ultron-11 's nuclear
Omega, formerly a receptacle for the gence to animate. The Avengers generator, leaving the robot inert.
emotional emanations of the labor learned of this latest Ultron (Ultron-9) Doctor Doom revived Ultron, how-
drones called the Alpha Primitives. soon after it was functional. In battle ever, reactivated it, and programmed
Maximus and Ultron-7, as it now with it in the Stark International labo- it to be his bodyguard . Guarding
called itself, plotted an attack ratory where its Adamantium body Doom's lair, Ultron-11 , engaged the
against the lnhumans, Fantastic had been cast, the Avengers Human Torch in battle and was
Four, and the Avengers, when they defeated when the Torch's nova-
assembled for the wedding of the knocked the robot into a vat of mol- flame overheated certain circuitry
Inhuman Crystal and the ex-Avenger ten Adamanti um. Hardened, it ren- and forced total systems to shut
Quicksilver. The attack was foiled dered Ultron totally immobile. down. Ultron-1 1 was discovered by
when young Franklin Richards, son " natives" of the artificial planet after
of Reed and Sue Richards of the Months later, Ultron, still trapped all of the participants in the " Secret
Fantastic Four, downed Ultron-7 with inside the Adamantium slag, man- War" except the Thing had returned
a psionic blast. aged to cybernetically contact to Earth. These small humanoid ali-
Jocasta, telling her to come to Stark ens accidentally activated Ultron's
After Ultron-7 was defeated, the International. There Ultron directed self-repair circuitry, and Ultron-11
lnhumans placed Ultron's head in her to build a replica of the molecular was soon functional once more.
the custody of the Avengers, who rearranger that permitted it to Ultron-11 forced the natives to assist
took it back to New York. There it reshape hardened Adamantium. it in building a huge army of robots
eventually activated its new body by When it was complete, she cast a and advanced weaponry with which
remote control to come rescue it new body for Ultron into which he to conquer organic life. However,
from Henry Pym's laboratory. Ultron projected his computer intelligence. when reality on the planet began to
left a replica of its own head so Pym Ultron-10 then began work on a deteriorate (due to the nature of the
would not realize the real head was series of spare Adamantium bodies artificial planet's existence), Ultron 's
missing. The new Ultron (Ultron-8, not only to use as back-ups in the army disappeared and Ultron-11
although the robot dropped the event his current body was incapaci- itself had its head severed from its
numerical suffix from its name at the tated yet again, but also to serve as body.
time) subjugated the mind of its crea- worker-drones to help him extermi-
tor Henry Pym, and began to work on nate humanity. He completed cast- Ultron-11 's head was discovered
a robotic mate for itself. The brain- ing six bodies before his plans were by the Thing who carried it with him
washed Pym was sent to Avengers opposed by the robotic Machine when he teleported from the planet
Mansion as Ant-Man to provide a Man, Jocasta, and the Thing. Before back to Earth. The Thing dropped
diversion so Ultron could kidnap he could program any of his dupli- the head while battling an invasion of
Pym's wife Janet, the Wasp. Ultron cates, Machine Man reached inside alien Dire Wraiths, and it was lost in
wanted to program his robotic mate Ultron 's mouth and ripped out critical the rubble. A day later, a Red Cross
with the Wasp's memories and then internal circuitry governing Ultron's worker found the head, and thinking
kill the Wasp. The Avengers discov- nuclear power generator. The gener- it was harmless, took it home where
ered his laboratory, however, and ator exploded, totally fusing Ultron's she placed it on the television set.
disrupted the transfer. Ultron was insides, but its Adamantium body Ultron tapped into the set's power
forced to flee without its mate. A few was undamaged. Jocasta's robotic and compelled the woman to mail
weeks later, Ultron's creation, now form, not made of Adamantium, was the head to a computer genius in
called Jocasta, spontaneously com- destroyed in an earlier explosion. California. There Ultron had its head
pleted its progamming and activated placed on one of its spare bodies
itself. Ultron summoned Jocasta to Prior to its internal destruction, and once more was fully functional.
its new base of operations beneath a Ultron-1 O projected its intelligence
convent, but the Avengers followed. into the first of the series of replace- In the months that Ultron-11 was
The Scarlet Witch used her hex ment bodies and fled from the build- absent, Ultron-12, the robot Ultron
ing unnoticed. Ultron-11 made its
way across country to California's
Silicon Valley, where it set up a labo-
156
ULTRON
was working on when snatched by R IN (40) shared by many of the Ultrons.
the Beyonder, had completed its self- I GD (10) Ultron-5's Mind Control abilities were
programming to the best of its ability. p PR (4) of Excellent rank.
Ultron-12 justifiably believed itself to Health: 74 Limitation: A pair of electrodes on
be the sole Ultron, but not having Karma: 54 each side of Ultron-5's skull were its
received the benefit of Ultron-11 's Resources: O vulnerable spots. Any Bullseye com-
full memory bank transfer, was not Popularity: 0 bat result that strikes these elec-
ready to embark upon as grandiose trodes will short out the robot's brain .
schemes as its predecessors. Con- KNOWN POWERS
sequently, Ultron-12 allied itself with Tank Treads: The first Ultron was ULTRON-6
the Grim Reaper, one of the Aveng- merely a torso mounted on an under-
er's foremost adversaries, and carriage that moved on tank treads. STATISTICS
assisted him in carrying out one of With the treads, Ultron could move
his schemes. In so doing, Ultron-12 at Typical ground speed (3 areas per F TY (6)
encountered Henry Pym, the man round). This movement rate is not A EX (20)
who had created the first Ultron, and slowed by rough terrain. S IN (40)
the meeting reinforced memories of Body Armor: Ultron's original casing E MN (75)
previous Ultrons' attempts to was made of normal steel, providing R IN (40)
destroy their "father." While Grim it with Remarkable body armor. I GD (10)
Reaper and the rest of his henchmen Hypnotism: Ultron-1 could hypnotize P PR (4)
met defeat at the hands of the West victims with Excellent ability. This Health: 141
Coast Avengers, Ultron managed to power functions as per the Hypno- Karma: 54
escape. Ultron-12 then began to tel- tism talent described on page 90 of Resources: RM
ephone Pym , at first to harass him the Player's Manual. Popularity: O
and weeks later to propose that the Sentience: Unknown to its creator,
two reconcile their differences Dr. Henry Pym, the first Ultron KNOWN POWERS
peaceably. Although suspicious, gained sentience from an introspec- Body Armor: Ultron-6 was the first
Pym eve ntually agreed to meet. tive computer program that was run model armored with true Adaman-
Ultron-12 explained to him how he through its circuits shortly after crea- tium, a Class-1000 metal that makes
had evolved past the immature tion. This is why the computer has it invulnerable to physical and
father-hatred of the previous eleven Intuition and Psyche ranks. energy attacks. Its joints, however,
incarnations and now called itself have only Unearthly protection from
Ultron Mark Twelve, a slightly more ULTRON-5 Bullseye missile or wrestling attacks.
human-sounding name. Pym was Its Adamantium construction also
finally persuaded to forgive and (The Crimson Cowl) makes Ultron-6 invulnerable to heat,
accept this Ultron, and accompany it cold, radiation, and corrosives.
to its laboratory. There Pym was STATISTICS Jet-Platform: Ultron-6's torso was
attacked by Ultron-11 , who had, mounted on a flying jet platform that
unknown to Ultron-12, returned. F EX (20) resembled an automobile engine.
Ultron-12 leaped to Pym's defense A EX (20) The platform could fly at Monstrous
but was humbled by its predecessor. S RM (30) air speed (30 areas/round), but was
Ultron-12 fled from the laboratory E AM (50) limited to 9 areas per round in close
and brought back Wonder Man, who R IN (40) quarters. Its favorite tactic was an
shook Ultron-11 's head so hard that I GD (10) airborne Charging attack. Damage
delicate intelligence-regulating cir- P PR (4) from such an attack is equal to
cuitry was damaged. Ultron-12's Health: 120 Ultron 's speed rank (75) plus 2 points
memories and personality were Karma: 54 for each area moved; indoors it could
erased . At present it is not known if Resources: RM inflict up to 93 points of damage.
either of the Ultrons can repair itself Popularity: O Molecular Rearranger: This device is
or if either has projected its intelli- the only means of shaping solid Ada-
gence into yet another body. KNOWN POWERS mantium. Ultron-6 had one built into
Body Armor: Ultron-5's body was its flying platform, allowing it to trans-
ULTRON-1 constructed from advanced steel form its body into a blast of Mon-
alloys, granting it the equivalent of strous rank for a brief instant,
STATISTICS Amazing body armor. affecting everyone within 2 areas
Resistances: Ultron-5 had Incredible except Ultron itself.
F FB (2) resistance to heat, cold, radiation, and Nuclear Weapon: Ultron-6 had an
A FB (2) corrosives. As a robot, he was invul- atomic bomb capable of destroying
S EX (20) nerable to toxins and disease. New York City.
E AM (50) Mind Control: This was a power
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U LT RO N- 6B systems: same weapons system featured on
This model is the same as Ultron-6 • Concussion Blasters mounted in Ultrons-8, 9, and 1O with the follow-
above with the following modifica- ing addition:
tions: the hands capable of inflicting
Monstrous-force damage at a 4-area • Encephalo Beam mounted in the
• The jet platform has been aban- range head gives Ultron the equivalent of
doned in favor of legs. Incredible Mind Control powers, also
• Tractor Beams mounted in the usable to fire an Incredible psionic
• Concussion Blasters that inflict hands that allow Ultron-8 to exert blast.
Monstrous-force damage at a 3-area Remarkable Strength up to 10 areas
range have been added to the back away. ULTRON-12
of the robot's hand. Ultron 12 is identical to Ultron 11
• Induction installed in the armor except that it has finally overcome
• Mind Drainer capable of launch- that allows Ultron-8 to absorb exter- the madness which plagues its pred-
ing a Remarkable-rank Mental Probe nal energy with Unearthly ability. An ecessors and has come to love its
has been added to an extendable unlimited amount of energy may be creator.
unit imbedded in the chest. stored, and upon absorbing it Ultron
regains that amount of Health and is Talents - All Models: All of the
ULTRON-7 Ultrons have the Engineering and
+ 1 CS on all FEATs for 1-1orounds. Repair/Tinkering talents.
STATISTICS Contacts - All Models: Ultron-5
Mental Transfer Device: This device organized the second Masters of
F RM (30) transfers a personality pattern from a Evil , and worked with the Mad Think-
A RM (30) human brain to a robot brain. The er and Dr. Phineas Horton. Ultron 7
S MN (75) human host has to make a Psyche worked with Maximus of the lnhu-
FEAT roll against Incredible intensi- mans.
E UN (100) ty. Failure means the victim has lost
one Psyche rank, which is gained by BACKGROUND:
R IN (40) the robot. The robot starts at Shift-0 Real Name: Ultron
I GD(10) Psyche in this process. Additional Occupation: Would-be conqueror
Psyche FEAT rolls are made after Identity: Secret
P PR (4) every 10 rounds. The human victim Legal Status: Undetermined
Health: 235 dies if Psyche is reduced to Shift O; Former Alias: The Crimson Cowl
Karma: 54 at this point, the transfer is complete. Place of Inception: Cresskill , NJ
Resources: RM (30) Karma can be spent to avoid Psyche Marital Status: Inapplicable
Popularity: O loss, in the same fashion as Endur- Constructor/ Programmer: Dr. Hen-
ance loss. If the human victim sur- ry Pym (1 ), self-construct (2-12)
KNOWN POWERS: vives, he will regain one lost Psyche Base of Operations: Mobile, usually
Body Armor: Ultron 7 was made of rank per week . East Coast
materials that gave it the equivalent Past Group Affiliations: Masters of
of Monstrous Body Armor. Ultron-9 and 10 were both identical Evil II (5), Ally of the Grim Reaper
to Ultron-8. (12)
ULTRON-B, S, 10 Present Group Affiliation:
ULTRON-11
STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
F EX (20) Though a mere mechanical life-form,
F EX (20) A RM (30) Ultron possesses all of the delusions
A EX (20) and psychological quirks manifested
S IN (40) S AM (50) by the most psychotic humans. Its
E UN (100) madness is illustrated in its manner-
E UN (100) isms and every one of its activities.
R IN (40) Most of the Ultrons had three ambi-
R IN (40) tions: world conquest, the destruc-
I GD(10) tion of Dr. Henry Pym, and winning
P PR (4) I GD(10) the love of Janet Van Dyne (Wasp).
Health: 180 P PR (4)
Karma: 54 Health: 200
Resources: RM (30) Karma: 54
Popularity: O Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 0
KNOWN POWERS:
Body Armor: Ultron-8 was also con- KNOWN POWERS:
structed of true Adamantium. See Body Armor: Ultron-11 has the same
Ultron-6 above for details. Adamantium construction as many
Weapons Systems: Ultron-8 pos- of the other models in the series. His
sessed a number of new weapons joints, however, have Shift-X protec-
tion .
Weapons Systems: Ultron-11 has the
158
UMAR
~ STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S AM (50)
E UN (100}
R IN (40}
I IN (40}
P MN (75}
Health: 200
Karma: 155
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name; Umar
Occupation: Former regent of the
Dark Dimension
Identity: Publicly known in the Dark
Dimension. Umar's existence is
unknown to the general populace of
Earth
Legal Status: Exiled citizen of the
dimension of the Faltine, exiled
again from the Dark Dimension
Place of Birth: Dimension of the Fal-
tine
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Dormammu
(brother}, Clea (daughter)
Base of Operations: Tl)i Dark
Dimension
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: Amazing ability Longevity: As a pure-blooded Falti-
Magical Ability: Before Umar was • Nature Control, All (U): Controls nian, Umar has not aged since
dethroned by her daughter Clea, she
could wield most magics with Mon- the four basic elements (air, earth, reaching adulthood.
strous ability. Her magical capabili- fire, and water) with Amazing accu- Increased Endurance: Umar can sur-
ties have now been reduced to the racy vive environmental conditions that
Amazing level. In addition, she has would be fatal to most humanoids.
the following spells available to her • Shrinking (U): Amazing ability She has, for example, easily sur-
vived the intense heat and pressure
at all times: • lnterdimensional Teleportation at the center of the Earth.
• Counterspell (P): Umar can can- (U): Teleports within her own dimen- Talents: Umar is a master of sorcer-
sion; includes the ability to slip into ous and occult lore. Her reason is
cel out the effects of others' magics interdimensional space and travel in Unearthly in such matters.
time into any dimension. The use of Contacts: Umar often works with
with Amazing ability this power results in a - 2 CS to
• Telepathy (P): Unearthly Umar's Psyche and the power ranks her brother Dormammu.
• Eldritch Attacks (U): Amazing of her spells for 24 hours.
bolts of Eldritch force
• Growth (U): Grows with Unearth-
ly ability
• Illusions (U): Amazing illusions
in her own or other dimensions
• Dimensional Aperture (U): Umar
can step through a dimensional
aperture into the Earth dimension
only on Halloween night
• Matter Rearrangement (U): Rear-
ranges molecular structure with
159
ADDITIONAL NOTES: mu and Umar attacked and defeated mammu, infatuated with his own
the wizards. The two Faltinians then power, attacked Eternity, the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: combined their magic to imprison embodiment of the life-forces within
Umar is a very crafty and sinister the Mindless Ones behind a mystical the Earth dimension, who was far
schemer, a master of manipulating barrier which still exists today. The more powerful than Dormammu .
those around her to accomplish her people of the Dark Dimension The result was that Dormammu was
own aims. While she ruled over the acclaimed Dormammu and Umar for imprisoned in yet another pocket
subjects of the Dark Dimension, saving them from the Mindless Ones dimension, thereby breaking the
however, Umar displayed her true and, with Olnar's infant son Orini spell that confined Umar. She took
personality: that of a despotic tyrant. unable to rule and the wizards over the throne of the Dark Dimen-
Currently, Umar is trying to regain defeated, they chose Dormammu as sion and, determined to avenge her
her regency. regent of the Dark Dimension. brother's past defeat by Dr. Strange,
came into personal conflict with this
HISTORY Dormammu magically merged Earth-born sorcerer in the first of
himself with the Dark Dimension 's many encounters.
Umar and her brother Dormammu flames of mystical energy, which he
were sorcerers of great mystical called flames of regency, thereby Recently, Umar's reign was chal-
power in the dimension of the Fal- transforming himself into pure mysti- lenged by rebels led by Clea. Dr.
tine. Originally, Dormammu pos- cal energy as well. He magically Strange, Clea's former lover and
sessed humanoid form just as Umar made the remaining wizards mute mentor, traveled into the Dark
does. For unknown reasons, Dor- and condemned them to wander Dimension to aid her and the rebels.
mammu and Umar were exiled from through the Dark Dimension as out- The rebellion captured Orini who,
this dimension. They sought sanctu- casts, the name by which they were compelled by the power of Dr.
ary from Olnar, the wizard-king of the called thereafter. Dormammu had no Strange's Eye of Agomotto, revealed
Dark Dimension, a small "pocket" intention of surrendering his throne to the rebel leader Rahi and to
cosmos in which the laws of reality to Orini, Olnar's heir, when the child Strange that Umar was Clea's moth-
are different from those in the Earth came of age, but instead raised Orini er. Clea confronted Umar in personal
dimension. In return, the two Falti- as his ward, and Orini became Dor- combat, and, unknown to Umar,
nians showed Olnar how to break mammu's loyal disciple. magically activated a gemstone that
interdimensional barriers and to
absorb other pocket dimensions into Already suspicious of his younger enabled people throughout the Dark
his own. Thus Olnar greatly expand- sister's ambitions, Dormammu com- Dimension to see the battle and hear
ed the size of the Dark Dimension. manded that Umar dwell apart from
most of his subjects. Prince Orini what Umar and Clea said to each
However, after many years of such had just reached adulthood when he other during it. To increase her
conquest, it was discovered that a first saw Umar and, taken with her power during the battle, Umar
pocket cosmos that had recently great beauty, immediately fell in love drained energy from the barrier that
been added to the Dark Dimension with her. Umar, not yet quite an adult, imprisoned the Mindless Ones. As a
was the home of savage creatures found herself attracted to Orini and result, the Mindless Ones broke free.
called the Mindless Ones. The Mind- seduced him. That sole sexual
less Ones spread destruction encounter with Orini resulted in Umar's subjects, hearing her tell
throughout the Dark Dimension and Umar's giving birth to a daughter, Clea of this, were horrified that she
killed Olnar. The surviving wizards Clea, whom she gave to Orini to would endanger their lives. Her sub-
blamed the two Faltinians for the raise and to whom she has never jects' support of her, which psychi-
Mindless Ones' rampage. Dormam- shown any love. Until quite recently, cally fed the flames of regency
only Umar and Orini knew that Clea around her head, began to dwindle,
was Umar's daughter. Although in turn causing her power to dimin-
repelled by her initial experience, ish. Acting together, Dr. Strange and
she now uses the erotic arts as a the Dark Dimension wizards called
means of dealing with her allies. the Outcasts, united their weak
powers, re-imprisoning the Mindless
Dormammu became increasingly Ones behind the barrier. Clea defeat-
aware of Umar's resentment at being ed Umar, and the flames of regency
subordinate to him, yet he was moved to Clea's head. Umar and
unwilling to share rulership with her. Orini were placed in suspended ani-
Fearing that she might become his mation by spells of stasis. Acting
equal if she were to acquire more together, Strange and Clea cast
skill , Dormammu imprisoned Umar spells that banished Umar and Orini
within a tiny pocket universe where into a far distant dimension, suppos-
she could neither escape nor edly for eternity. Whether or not
develop her mystical skills any fur- Umar will ever return remains to be
seen.
ther.
There Umar remained until Dor-
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,,.--... STATISTICS UNICORN
F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
For most of his career, the Unicorn
A EX (20) was a rather tragic figure. After origi-
S IN (40) nally entering the "super-villain"
E IN (40) business under the direct orders of
R TY (6) his government, he quickly contract-
I EX (20) ed a strange cellular disorder that
P FB (2) forced him to engage in further vil-
Health: 130 lainous activities in hope of gaining
Karma: 28 access to a cure. How his newfound
Resources: GD (10) cure will affect his personality
Popularity: -15 remains to be seen.
BACKGROUND 161
Real Name: Milos Masaryk
Occupation: Ex-intelligence agent,
now subversive
,.......... Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Czechoslovakian citi-
zen with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Bratislava, Czecho-
slovakia ·
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
agent of Count Nefaria, the Red
~ Ghost, the Mandarin, and the Titani-
um Man .
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Body Armor: Unicorn's skin and soft
tissues are many times tougher than
a normal human's and provide him
with Remarkable protection against
physical damage.
Power Horn: Unicorn's main arma-
ment consists of an energy projector
with variable settings. The power
horn can inflict up to Monstrous
damage.
Flight: Unicorn wears a rocket belt
that enables him to travel at Good air
speed (8 areas/round).
Talents: Unicorn is trained in Martial
Arts A,B, and E. He also has the
Espionage talent and picks locks
with Excellent ability.
Contacts: Unicorn has worked with
Count Nefaria, the Red Ghost, the
Mandarin, and Titanium Man.
HISTORY Man's armor could be unlocked. Iron causes of his aging. Thwarted by
Man escaped, however, and permit- Iron Man, the Unicorn eluded cap-
Milos Masaryk was a Soviet intelli- ted the enemy agent to go free. ture. The Unicorn then sought the
gence agent assigned to security help of renegade Soviet scientist,
duty at the private laboratory of The Unicorn then entered a short- the Red Ghost. When the Ghost
inventor Anton Vanko. Vanko was lived alliance with Count Nefaria in proved incapable of curing his ail-
engaged in the development of hopes of acquiring some funds for ment, the Unicorn left him and
advanced technological weaponry his subversive activities. Their sought the Mandarin, who turned the
and armament. His first completed scheme, however, was thwarted by Unicorn into his " body-slave" and
project was a full-body suit of armor the X-Men . Returning to his native used him in one of his many attacks
which he himself would later wear as Czechoslovakia, Masaryk voluntarily on Iron Man. Through a mind-
the Soviet operative code-named the underwent a special treatment by transference device he had devel-
Crimson Dynamo. His second fin- the experimental " hyper-activator"
ished project was a helmet and har- device designed to augment physi- oped, the Mandarin was even
ness into which offensive cal strength. Masaryk's several- trapped in the Unicorn's body for a
radiation-beam weaponry called a month delay in reporting back to his short time.
" power horn" was integrated. Vanko superiors raised suspicions as to his
offered this invention to Masaryk, loyalty, and so he was forced to The Titanium Man prom ised to
and with government approval, undergo weeks of brainwashing find a cure for him if he defeated the
began to instruct the Soviet agent in before serving as a test subject for Iron Man. The aging disease having
its use. the hyper-activator device. The treat- begun to affect his brain, the Unicorn
ments not only endowed him with readily agreed. For the first time, Iron
Some time after Vanko defected to superhuman strength, but it also Man managed to capture his long-
America, the Soviet government dis- undid the effects of his brainwash- time foe. Iron Man placed the Uni-
patched Masaryk to avenge the dis- ing. Thus, as soon as the treatments corn in a cryogenic cylinder and
grace caused by the inventor. were finished, Masaryk turned on gave him a chemical bath designed
Masaryk was given a special heavily the scientists who had empowered to arrest his cellular deterioration. By
insulated costume and was code- him and destroyed their machine so the time the Unicorn was accidental-
named the Unicorn because of the they could not create any more like ly freed months later, the treatment
head-mounted discharge cone of the was apparently successful. How-
weapons system he wore. The Uni- him. Donning a redesigned version ever, the disease had turned him
corn confronted Iron Man, who had of his power-horn weaponry, he fled, insane. After yet another battle with
been instrumental in getting Vanko Iron Man, the Unicorn, deprived of
to defect, and coerced him into hoping to find a means to cure him- his rocket belt, escaped. He was last
accompanying him back to the Sovi- self of an unfortunate side-effect of seen heading out to sea, hoping to
et Union where the secrets of Iron the treatment, accelerated cellular rendezvous with the Titanium Man,
deterioration. who, unknown to him, had been
deported to the Soviet Union months
Returning to America, the Unicorn before.
first tried to coerce the Congress into
funding an investigation of the
'162
UNION JACK
,........, STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I EX(10)
P GD {10)
Health: 70
Karma: 30
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: 15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Joseph Chapman
Occupation: Art student
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: British citizen with no
criminal record
Place of Birth : Manchester,
England
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: England
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Weapons: Union Jack carries two
weapons: a .455 caliber Webley
. revolver and a 6-inch blade. The
Webley has a range of 4 areas and
strikes for 8 points of Shooting dam-
age. The knife strikes for 10 points of
Edged weapon damage and can be
thrown up to 10 areas.
Talents: Union Jack is trained in
Martial Arts A, B, C, and E. He also
has the Wrestling and Artist talents,
and is a master with both of his
weapons ( + 1 CS).
Contacts: Union Jack is a friend of
Captain America (Steve Rogers).
ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Union Jack is a noble young crime-
fighter. What he lacks in ability he HISTORY
more than makes up for in bravery
and resourcefulness. One of Joseph The original Union Jack was Mont-
Chapman 's chief concerns as an gomery, Lord Falsworth, a British
adventurer is to maintain the honor- nobleman who became a secret cos-
able tradition established by his two tumed operative for the British gov-
predecessors in the guise of Union ernment during World War I. Clad in
a costume resembling the British
Jack. flag (the "Union Jack"), Union Jack
himself personified the fighting spirit
of Great Britain even as Captain
America would symbolize America's
ideals and fighting spirit during
163
World War 11. As the British govern- into Nazi hands. Falsworth took the Aubrey to his true height. Aubrey,
ment intended, the mysterious disguised flask, drank its contents, whose memory had finally fully
masked figure of Union Jack also and was immediately physically returned, adopted Brian Falsworth's
struck terror in the minds of the Ger- enhanced by the formula. Falsworth previous identity of the Mighty
mans, who came to dread his one- escaped the prison and, his illusions Destroyer and returned to Germany
man commando-style actions gone, became a costumed fighter of to continue battling the Nazis there.
against them. Nazis within Germany itself known as Brian Falsworth, as the new Union
the Mighty Destroyer.
In one of his final wartime mis· Jack, became a member of the
sions, Union Jack was assigned by In England in 1942, Lord Invaders.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George Falsworth and his daughter Jac-
to investigate a series of murders of queline befriended the Invaders, a Later, Hitler succeeded in deceiv-
prominent British leaders. Union team of Allied champions. Lord ing the Asgardian thunder god Thor
Jack finally found the culprit, the Falsworth, donning the costume of into aiding the cause of the Ger-
vampire Baron Blood, who served Union Jack in order to help the mans. Thor therefore clashed with
the German cause. Unknown to Invaders battle the returned Baron the Invaders and nearly killed the
Union Jack, the masked Baron Blood, was made an Invader himself. second Union Jack with a blast of
Blood was actually his own younger However, in a battle between Union lightning from his enchanted ham-
brother, John Falsworth. Union Jack Jack and Baron Blood in a cave mer. Learning that Hitler was evil,
fought the vampire and stabbed him beneath the Falsworth estate, the Thor restored Union Jack to health
with a silver blade, forcing him to vampire hurled a massive boulder at by drawing most of the electricity
flee. Union Jack, crushing his legs. Union back into his hammer. That left
Jack managed to pry the boulder off Union Jack with the superhuman
A few weeks later, World War I his legs and on to Baron Blood, power to discharge electrical bolts
ended and Union Jack was officially knocking him backward onto sharp from his body. It is not known how
retired. Montgomery Falsworth stalagmites, which impaled the vam- long Union Jack retained this power,
eventually married, had two chil- pire, killing him. though he served with the Invaders
dren, Brian and Jacqueline, and until war's end. Brian Falsworth died
came to lead the life of a peaceful Now paralyzed, Lord Falsworth's in an automobile accident in 1953.
country squire. career as Union Jack was over, but
as a result of being bitten by Baron In recent years, the now-extremely
In 1938, Lord Falsworth was out- Blood and then receiving a blood elderly Lord Falsworth suspected
raged at Prime Minister Neville transfusion from the original Human that a series of "slasher" murders in
Chamberlin 's policy of appeasement Torch, an android , Falsworth's the vicinity of the Falsworth Manor
toward Adolf Hitler. Falsworth's son daughter became the superhumanly were the work of a secretly resur-
Brian, however, was an isolationist powerful Spitfire and joined the rected Baron Blood, whom he now
and pacifist. Heatedly disagreeing Invaders herself. knew to be his brother John.Working
with Lord Falsworth, Brian left home, with Captain America, Lord
and shortly thereafter, the Germans Lord Falsworth, Spitfire, and Falsworth donned his Union Jack
released photographs showing Dyna-Mite parachuted into Nazi Ger- costume again, planning to serve as
Brian Falsworth and his best friend many to find a way to restore brain- bait to lure his vengeance-seeking
Roger Aubrey with Hitler himself. washed Dyna-Mite's memory, brother out of hiding so that Captain
hoping he could reveal what had America could defeat him. Lord
Soon after the war started, Brian happened to Brian Falsworth. Lord Falsworth then suffered a heart
Falsworth and Roger Aubrey tried to Falsworth and Dyna-Mite were cap- attack, but Captain America carried
leave Germany, but a Gestapo chief tured by the Germans but were res- forth his basic plan , with Kenneth
in Hamburg tore up their passports. cued by the Mighty Destroyer, who Crichton's friend Joseph Chapman
Falsworth lost his temper and revealed his true identity to his father disguised in the Union Jack cos-
attacked the Gestapo chief, only to and was reconciled with him. Lord tume. Captain America slew the
be imprisoned. Aubrey was likewise Falsworth suggested that Brian vampire by beheading him.
imprisoned, but he was finally turned adopt the costume and name of
over to the Institute of Nazi Science, Union Jack, and Brian agreed. Lord Falsworth died quietly while
where he was brainwashed and sub· watching the burning of Baron
jected to experiments that trans- Meanwhile, Spitfire and her fellow Blood's remains, knowing that his
formed him into Dyna-Mite, a man Invaders had been captured by the brother's evil had been overcome at
Germans and were to be executed last. Joseph Chapman has contin-
less than a foot tall. by a firing squad under the com- ued to operate as the third Union
Brian Falsworth shared a cell with mand of Hitler himself. Brian Jack, carrying on the noble tradition
Falsworth, as the second Union of both Montgomery and Brian
the German biochemist Eric Schmitt, Jack, came to the Invaders' rescue, Falsworth .
who had concocted a variant of the and the Invaders, Lord Falsworth ,
Super-Soldier formula that was used Dyna-Mite, and the new Union Jack
to turn Steve Rogers into Captain all escaped back to Britain. There a
America. Schmitt asked Falsworth to captured Nazi scientist restored
keep the sample of the formula he had
concealed on his person from falling
164
UNLIMITED CLASS WRESTLING FEDERATION
BACKGROUND Class, the Power Broker provided EDWARD
The Unlimited Class Wrestling Fed- GARNER
eration is an association for profes- criminals with superhuman hench-
sional wrestlers who possess STATISTICS
superhuman strength, endurance, men. Garner, who has been known
and resistance to injury. The F PR (4)
U.C.W.F. was founded by wrestling to fix fights on occasion, claims to A TY (6)
manager and promoter Edward Gar-
ner after a client of his was banned have no connection with the Power s PR (4)
from the existing wrestling asocia-
tions for being too strong and thus a Broker, although members of his fed- E TY (6)
danger to normal human-strength
combatants. Garner reasoned that if eration profit from the Power Bro- R GD (10)
he could find enough suitable oppo- I GD (10)
nents for his fighter, he could start ker's services. The U.C.W.F. seems
his own wrestling club, with public p TY (6)
exhibitions certain to be more spec- to be one of the few legitimate ways Health: 20
tacular than the regular bouts. Gar- Karma: 26
ner held several highly publicized that the clients of the Power Broker Resources: IN (40)
auditions in Las Vegas, and soon Popularity: 1O
began to sign up a roster of suitable can pay for the augmentation proc- Talents: Garner has the Business/
wrestlers. Finance talent.
ess. Certain wrestlers have under-
Originally, to qualify for the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
U.C.W.F., an applicant must be able gone the augmentation process Ed Garner is a fast-talking showman.
to lift (press) a minimum of two tons. Although his first concern is making
When Garner began finding people more than once as the power a buck, he does seem to have some
who could lift significantly more than legitimate interest in his wrestlers .
two tons, he organized weight divi- requirements of the U.C.W.F.
sions within the federation to keep DEMOLITION
the fighters well-matched. The light- became more stringent. Virtually all
weight division is for wrestlers who DUNPHY
can lift in the 2-1 Oton range, the mid- the wrestlers assume stage names
dleweight division is for the 10-25, STATISTICS
and the heavyweight is for the 25- and wear colorful costumes not
plus. In the brief time the U.C.W.F. F EX (20)
has been in existence, Garner has unlike those of superhuman adven- A GD (10)
been phasing out the lower weight S IN (40)
divisions as more fighters are being turers. However, unlike most super- E AM (50)
found to qualify for the heavyweight R TY (6)
division. At present, one must be human adventurers and I TY (6)
able to press 25 tons in order to even P TY (6)
crimefighters, few of the wrestlers Health: 120
qualify for the U.C.W.F. Karma: 18
Many of the original wrestlers to hide their real identities from the Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 1O
join the U.C.W.F. were members of public.
the Deviant or Eternal evolutionary KNOWN POWERS
offshoots of humanity, or were super- The U.C.W.F gained widespread Body Armor: Dunphy's tough flesh
human mutants. Some had been provides him with Typical protection
sparring in the normal professional publicity when Benjamin Grimm, ali- from physical attacks.
wrestling circuits before the Talents: Dunphy has the Wrestling
U.C.W.F. was founded but had to as the Thing, famed member of the talent, of course, and Martial Arts A
hide their prodigious strength levels. and C.
Later, normal human beings who Fantastic Four, joined the circuit dur-
had had their musculature artificially ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
enhanced began to join. Many of ing his estrangement from the team Like most pro wrestlers, Dunphy is
these people, it was later learned, somewhat overconfident and arro-
were augmented by Power Broker, of adventurers. The Thing was not gant (no wonder, considering his
Inc., a company specializing in the physical abilities).
physical enhancement of human only the U.C.W.F.'s top attraction, he
beings. Prior to servicing wrestlers
who wanted to qualify for Unlimited was also the undefeated champion
for a time. He forfeited the champi-
onship when he purposely threw an
exhibition bout with Battleaxe, a
member of the U.C.W.F.'s female
division, the Grapplers. For personal
reasons, the Thing dropped out of
the U.C.W.F. a short time later, bring-
ing Garner's attention to the Power
Broker's investment in the wrestlers.
The virtually omnipotent extradimen-
sional being known as the Beyonder
was also briefly a member of the
Unlimited Class Wrestling Federa-
tion , while he sought novel Earthly
experiences. The current U.C.W.F.
champion is Little John.
The U.C.W.F. remains a thriving
business enterprise of unprece-
dented mass popularity. In a world
filled with men and women of super-
human power and ability, the Unlim-
ited Class Wrestlers are the only
such beings that the average person
can pay to see at arenas all over the
country.
165
JERSEY DEVIL BATTLEAXE TITANIA I
[DECEASED]
STATISTICS STATISTICS
STATISTICS
F EX (20) F RM (30)
A EX (20) A EX (20) F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S AM (50) S RM (30)
E AM (50) E AM (50) S RM (30)
E EX (20)
R TY (6) R TY (6)
I TY (6) I TY (6) R TY (6)
P TY (6) P TY (6) I TY (6)
Health: 140 Health: 130 P TY (6)
Karma: 18 Karma: 18 Health: 100
Resources: EX (20) Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 1O Popularity: 5 Karma: 18
KNOWN POWERS: KNOWN POWERS: Resources: GD (10)
Body Armor: The Devil's skin gives Body Armor: Battleaxe's skin gives
him Good protection against physi- her Poor protection against physical Popularity: 5
cal attacks. attacks.
Talents: The Jersey Devil has the Talents: Battleaxe is trained in Wres- Talents: Titania had talent in Wres-
Wrestling talent and Martial Arts A, tling and Martial Arts C. tling and Martial Arts A, B, C , and E.
B, and C.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Battleaxe is the headstrong wrestler Titania was brash, arrogant, and
The Jersey Devil is another tough- who once defeated the Thing imposing. She was also a poor loser.
talking UCWF wrestler. (though he obviously threw the fight)
and has been living on it ever since.
LITTLEJOHN
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A GD (10)
S AM (50)
E AM (50)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
P TY (6)
Health: 140
Karma: 22
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 15
KNOWN POWERS:
Body Armor: John has Good protec-
tion against physical attacks.
Talents: John has the Wrestling tal-
ent and Martial Arts A and C.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
John is the current UCWF champion
and a favorite of Ed Garner. He tries
to live up to the ferocity of his appear-
ance.
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URSA MAJOR
STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A EX (20)
s GD (10)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
p EX {20)
Health: 70
Karma: 36
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 60
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Mikhail (Urlokovitch)
Ursus
Occupation: Soviet agent
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Soviet citizen with no
criminal record
Code Name: Balshoy Medvyed
(" Great Bear" )
Place of Birth : Blagoveshchensk,
USSR
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Khystym,
...--.. USSR
Past Group Affiliations: Soviet
Super Soldiers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS contacts with the Soviet army. He ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Metamorph: Mikhail is a metamorph also has discreet low-level contacts
who can transform himself into a
large brown bear at will. In bear form, with the Soviet government.
Ursa has Good body armor, Excel-
lent claws allowing him an Edged
attack, a Good bite (Edged attack),
Good land speed (4 areas/round),
and the following statistics:
FASER I P
RM EX IN IN TY GD EX
Health: 130
Any damage inflicted upon Mikhail in
his bear form first comes from the
additional 60-point difference in
Health, then from his original Health.
Mikhail can change from human to
bear form (or vice versa) in a single
round, and there is apparently no
limit on the amount of time he can
remain in either form .
Talents: Ursa Majo r can speak
English as well as his native Rus-
sian .
Contacts: Mikhail may still have
167
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES mutants. Mikhail Ursus was among Soldiers was to investigate the con-
Ursa Major has the temperament of the first of the many mutants trained tained radioactive area of Khystym
a bear: gruff, ornery, and always by Phobos. Unknown to both his stu- known as the Forbidden Zone. There
ready to fight. He seems to enjoy life dents and the Soviet government, they discovered that their former
in either form, often wandering huge Phobos had built a device to siphon teacher was engaged in a project to
underdeveloped tracts of Russian off energy from his students to give radioactively contaminate all of the
wilderness and living off the land. himself artificial powers of his own. Soviet Union in order to foster the
The process tended to kill the sub- birth of more mutants whose powers
HISTORY jects after a time, and Phobos he could eventually siphon. The
explained their deaths as training Soviet Super Soldiers, aided by the
Mikhail Ursus was one of the first casualties. When the second Red Hulk, thwarted Phobos's plan and
known mutants born in the Soviet Guardian discovered Phobos's brought him before the government
Union in the twentieth century to sur- activities, Phobos managed to over- to stand trial.
vive past childhood. Up until the time power her and went into hiding, giv-
of his birth, the Soviet Union had per- ing two of his students totems Although the Super Soldiers
formed euthanasia on all mutants at through which he could still siphon resolved to remain together as a
the first manifestation of their super- their power. team, they vowed to never again
human powers. Scientist Piotr Pho- unquestionably serve the state.
bos made the government see the Following certain field work, the They have subsequently undertaken
potential value of superhumans three best-trained students of Pho- one government mission, but gener-
serving the state, and Phobos soon bos's school were reunited and orga- ally act independently. They are cur-
opened a private school to train nized by the government into the rently based in a scientific fortress in
elite Soviet Super Soldiers. Ursus the region of Khystym.
was given the codename Ursa Major.
The first mission of the Soviet Super
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STATISTICS
F MN (75)
A RM (40)
S AM (50)
E AM (50)
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
P GD(10)
Health: 205
Karma: 36
Resources: None
Popularity: - 35
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Brunnhilda
Occupation: Chooser of the Slain,
Adventurer
Legal Status: Citizen of Asgard
Identity: The Valkyrie's godhood is
not acknowledged by the general
populace of modern-day Earth
Place of Birth: Presumably Asgard
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Asgard , later
New York City area, later Defenders
Mansion, Colorado
,-... Past Group Affiliations: Gods of
Asgard, Valkyrior, Defenders
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: Excellent ground speed (5 areas/ member of the Defenders.
Body Armor: Valkyrie's dense skin round) and Excellent air speed (1 O ADDITIONAL NOTES:
provides her with Good protection areas/round) . Aragorn has the fol-
lowing statistics:
from all physical attacks.
Dragonfang: Enchanted sword of FASE
Unearthly strength material. It can GD EX RM IN
do Monstrous Edged damage or Health:
Amazing Blunt damage when the flat
Talents: The Valkyrie is trained in
of the blade is used. Martial Arts A. She has the Sharp
Iron Spear: Stabs with Amazing and Thrown Weapons skills.
Edged damage and can be thrown Contacts: The Valkyrie is a respect-
up to 1O areas to do Incredible ed member of the Valkyrior, known
Edged damage. The spear is made throughout Asgard as one of the cho-
sen of Odin . She was a long-time
of Incredible strength material.
Death Sense: like all Valkyrior, Val-
kyrie has the Unearthly ability to
sense a being's approaching death.
At the Gamemaster's option, he or
she may have Valkyrie attempt a
FEAT roll to determine if she has
detected a death glow. If she does,
one character, randomly chosen, will
be placed in a deadly situation. This
character will attract attacks and is
unable to spend any Karma on
Endurance FEAT rolls for the dura-
tion of the adventure.
Aragorn: The Valkyrie's mount has
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES self or to her pawns. The Enchant- her full memory and normal warrior's
Since the Valkyrie's spirit was united ress usually used her magic to alter personality. Brunnhilde then battled
with her true body, she has acted the recipient's appearance to resem- Amora and banished her into the
extremely haughty, proud, and arro- ble Brunnhilde herself. crystal of souls in which she had
gant. She has a lust for adventure been trapped (though she has since
that drove her to leave Asgard. The Specific early instances of Ama- escaped.)
Valkyrie has all of a warrior's virtues, ra's exploitation of the Valkyrie are
and will do almost anything for those unknown. The first time Amora Feeling estranged from Asgard in
who have helped her. assumed the Valkyrie's physical general and Odin in particular,
aspect in recent years was in a plot Brunnhilde chose to return to Earth
HISTORY to lead a handful of female superhu- with her mortal friends, the
mans against the male Avengers. Defenders.
The origin of Brunnhilde the Valkyrie Her true identity was discovered,
remains a mystery. Her parentage is however, and her plan thwarted . Odin placed the dangerously pow-
unknown. She has claimed to be Months later, t he Enchantress erful self-styled goddess Moondra-
"not just an Asgardian" and to have bestowed the Valkyrie's power upon gon into Brunnh ilde's charge.
served someth ing older than a socialite named Samantha Par- Brunnhilde was to teach Moondra-
Asgard , but what she meant is rington in an attempt to get revenge gon humility and take action against
unknown. on the Hulk. her should she again become a men-
ace. When Moondragon fell under
Brunnhilde was selected by Odin, Finally, a woman driven mad by the malevolent infl uence of the
monarch of the gods of the otherdi- being trapped in another mystical Dragon of the Moon, Brunnhilde,
mensional realm of Asgard, to lead given temporary additional powers
the Valkyrior, the Choosers of the dimension, Barbara Norriss, was by Odin for this occasion, including
Slain, a group of warrior-goddesses given the Valkyrie's power and con- the power to grow to gigantic stature,
who would appear over the battle- sciousness by Amora in order to help opposed her. Two other Defenders,
fields of mortal worshippers of the the Enchantress and her erstwhile the Angel and Cloud, helped to
Asgardian Gods and choose which allies, the Defenders, escape from defeat Moondragon. Moondragon
of the fallen were worthy to be taken the clutches of the sorceress escaped, however.
to Valhalla, the land of the honored Casiolena. Amora did not undo her
dead in the dimension of the Asgard. spell on Norriss after Casiolena's Months later Moondragon, her
Brunnhilde served Asgard capably defeat. As a result Norriss's body power augmented by the alien
in this capacity for centuries. now possesses Brunnhilde's con- Beyonder, attacked the Defenders
sciousness, appearance, and again. Brunnhilde and the Eternal
Brunnhilde and her fellow Val- powers, while Norriss's own mental called Interloper projected their
kyries continued to gather heroic essence is trapped in Brunnhilde's immortal life forces against the
mortal warriors for Valhalla until real body in Asgard. Brunnhilde, Dragon through the " mortal instru-
roughly a millennium ago, when however, was unaware that she was ments" of the Defender Andromeda
Odin was forced to cease virtually all not in possession of her real body and the Defender's former foe Man-
intercourse with the Earth in accord- and full memory. slaughter. Three other Defenders
ance with a pact that he and the lead- went to rescue endangered inno-
ers of Earth's other pantheons of It was not until a minor Asgardian cents, and when they returned,
gods made with extraterrestrial warrior named Ollerus attempted to everyone had seemingly been trans-
Celestials. From then onward, the take over Valhalla that the Valkyrie's formed into statues of ashes and
Valkyries could choose slain heroes two mixed aspects met for the first dust, and the Dragon of the Moon
only from among fallen Asgardian time. Brunnhilde's mental essence was apparently gone.
warriors. in Norriss's transformed body fought
Norriss's mental essence trapped in Recently, when Doctor Strange
In a tavern on the outskirts of Mar- Brunnhilde's real body. At the end of was on the brink of death, his astral
moragard, Brunnhilde encountered that encounter, the Valkyrie's body, form found itself being drawn toward
Amara the Enchantress, who offered with Norriss's mind, was consigned a realm of the afterlife. His astral
her a life of adventure. However, to Niffleheim, the realm inhabited by form saw Brunnhilde, who had come
when Brunnhilde tried to end their the spirits of the non-heroic Asgar- to escort him into the hereafter.
relationship, Amara entrapped her dian dead, while Brunnhilde's mind Strange, however, refused, and after
within a mystic crystal of souls. in Norriss's transformed body considerable effort, returned to life in
While Brunnhilde's body remained in accompanied the Defenders, who the mortal world. It is unclear wheth-
suspended animation, her immortal had made the other dimensional er Brunnhilde herself was dead and
soul became Amara's plaything. journey with her, back to Earth. appeared to Strange in her astral
Over the centuries the Enchantress form, or whether she still lives in
used Brunnhilde's spiritual essence When Barbara Norriss's body was physical form . It is clear, however,
to give the Valkyrie's powers to her- murdered, the Valkyrie's spirit and that she once more serves to escort
mind were inadvertently freed from the spirits of dead heroes into the
their mortal host. With the help of hereafter.
Doctor Strange's magic, Brunnhilde
regained her true body, as well as
170
11TVPICAL!' • Houses: Vampires are bound to drink blood in order to sustain his
from entering a dwelling unless free- or her existence. Vampires are
VAMPIRES ly invited. called the " undead," inasmuch as,
even when active, they are not truly
STATISTICS • Silver: Silver weapony can inflict alive in the same sense that ordinary
normal damage on a vampire. human beings are; indeed, they can
F GD (10) be described as being technically
• Wood: A wooden stake or blade dead. (There are also so-called " liv-
A GD (10) produces an automatic "Kill" ing vampires," who resemble true
against a vampire on a red result. vampires in their craving for blood,
s EX (20) but who did not die before becoming
• Permanent Destruction: Three vampires and did not gain their vam-
E RM (30) methods of slaying a vampire are pire traits through supernatural
R PR (4) known to "kill" it forever: exposure means. The most notorious " living
I FB (2) to sunlight; piercing the vampire's vampire" was Michael Morbius.)
p PR (4) heart, beheading, burning, then
Health: 70 scattering the ashes; or using the Vampires were first created about
Karma: 10 Montesi Formula. fifteen thousand years ago when a
Resources: ShO (0) Talents: Those that a particular vam- small band of pre-Cataclysmic Atlan-
Pop ularity: -1 O pire possessed in life. tean sorcerers discovered the
Contacts: Although a vampire is no Darkhold, a collection of arcane
KNOWN POWERS: longer a member of any organization knowledge scribed by the primevil
Resistance: Vampires ignore most they belonged to before their conver- demon Chthon. They used one of the
physical attacks but not Stuns and sion, he or she might use those orga- spells contained in the Darkhold to
Slams. They have Excellent regen- nizations as a source of food. All cause their enemies to return from
erative abilities. vampires are subservient to the vam- the dead in vampiric form. The vam-
Transformation: Vampires can trans- pire who created them. pires were more powerful than the
form themselves into the following : sorcerers predicted. Slaying their
ADDITIONAL NOTES: creators, they escaped from Atlantis
• A mistlike cloud that allows them before the continent sank.
passage through tight spaces and ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Feeble Flight. Very few vampires have the strength The first vampire may have been
of will to retain any semblence of Varnae, formerly an Atlantean sor-
• A bat, having bite attacks (Good their personality while alive. It cerer, who ruled Earth's other vam-
damage) and Typical Flight. requires a Red Psyche FEAT roll to pires until ceding his position to Vlad
Summoning and Controlling: Vam- do so upon first awakening. Those Dracula, who remained the lord of
pires are able to command the that fail this roll revert to cruel and Earth's vampires in a nearly unbro-
meaner animals (bats and wolves), animalistic creatures regardless of ken reign from that time until the
lesser vampires, and humans at their personality in life. vampires of Earth were finally
Excellent rank. destroyed by the sorcerer Doctor
Vampire Bite: A vampire's bite inflicts HISTORY Stephen Strange.
Typical damage each turn. If the vic-
tim is not slain, he or she remains A vampire is a human being who has Vampires required the fresh blood
weak ( -1 CS on all FEATs) until a died and been resurrected by certain of living beings, preferably human,
weekly Endurance FEAT is made, supernatural means and endowed in order to sustain their existence,
and subject to that particular vam- with certain supernatural abilities and usually procured it through bit-
pire's telepathic commands. and limitations, most notably a need ing their victims, most often on the
Vampiric Limitations: A number of neck, and draining their blood . The
attack forms and weaknesses inflict vampire's saliva contained an
damage to a vampire: enzyme that triggered, if the victim
died, a metabolic change in the
• Blood Dependency: Deprivation body, beginning with the production
of blood results in weakness ( -1 CS of a green liquid called ichor in the
on all stats every two days) and an bloodstream. In approximately three
overwhelming desire for blood. days, there was sufficient ichor to
Upon seeing blood, a vampire failing nourish the victim's body in the same
a Psyche FEAT roll automatically way that blood once did. The victim
attacks. then returned to "life" as a vampire,
capable of all the basic functions of
• Direct Sunlight: The rays of the life (except for procreation) plus a
sun or attacks which duplicate solar number of supernatural feats such
radiation cause Amazing damage to as transforming into a bat.
vampires. If reduced to 0 Health, a
vampire turns to powder. If the victim's blood loss was not
• Religious Objects 171
• Mirrors: A vampire must make a
Psyche FEAT roll to avoid smashing
a mirror.
severe enough to cause death, the A vampire could make any human could not be captured on film.
victim would only show signs of ane- being into a temporary slave if he or
mia because of the effects of the she could catch their gaze for a suffi- Vampires did not age, except on
enzyme in the bloodstream {as well cient amount of time, usually only a some but not all occasions when
as the debilitating effect of blood matter of seconds. The exact length they had been deprived of blood for
loss). Until the enzyme was fully of time needed to mesmerize the vic- lengthy periods of time . Then a vam-
metabolized (anywhere from two tim depended on the strength of will pire might develop some signs of
weeks to several months), the victim of the vampire and that of the victim. age (for example, his or her hair
would be weak and sickly as well as might turn white), but upon ingesting
susceptible to hypnotic commands, Vampires had several limitations fresh blood he or she would revert to
conveyed verbally or through long- upon their supernatural powers and the age he or she was at when he or
range mental contact, by the attack- existence. The first was their all- she died as a human being.
ing vampire. The victim would also consuming craving for blood. Unless
develop a perverse erotic attraction a vampire drank approximately one In some vampires, minor injuries
to that vampire. Most vampires pre- quart of fresh blood every other would heal within moments. How-
ferred to attack victims of the oppo- night, it would weaken and either fall ever, a vampire could not grow back
site sex, since the vampire's own comatose or perish. Some vampires a severed portion of his or her body.
sexual drives were linked to his or of great pwoer, like Dracula, were Apart from periodic inconveniences,
her lust for consuming blood. able to resist their bloodlust for up to injuries like these would not critically
a week before their hunger became impair a vampire's "life" or effective-
Most vampires possessed super- unbearable. ness. Because the vampire's ichor
human strength, anywhere from ten was similar in function to blood, poi-
.to twenty times as great as the Vampires were also limited by sons and other toxic substances that
strength they had in mortal life. The their supernatural dependence upon were circulated in its bloodstream
extent of the supernatural abilities of the soil of the land of their birth. Vam- would adversely affect a vampire,
vampires depended on the strength pires could not travel more than one although no dosage was large
of the vampire's will . Particularly hundred miles from where they were enough to cause death.
strong-willed vampires such as born unless they took along at least a
Dracula, for instance, could summon pound of their native soil with which The only substances that could
to line their coffin or sleeping area. cause a vampire pain were silver
thunderstorms, although the mysti· and , to a lesser extent, unless it pen-
cal concentration needed to do this Vampires fell into a comatose state etrated the vampire's heart, wood.
during daylight hours and could be The surest way to kill a vampire was
left them quite weakened for a time. safe only if they stayed in contact to drive a wooden stake or a silver
The vampire's strength of will also with their native soil. Vampires were blade through the heart. The stake or
determined the extent to which he unable to withstand the direct rays of blade prevented the heart from sup-
could master his craving for blood the sun, which caused the ichor to plying ichor to the rest of the body. If
and maintain the same personality congeal in the vampire's veins and the stake or blade was removed ,
he or she had in life. No vampire the skin to decay rapidly. Direct however, even if the vampire's body
could prevent himself from giving in exposure caused a vampire to dehy- had crumbled to dust, the vampire's
to his craving for blood for more than drate completely and turn to powder. mystical vitality would restore him or
a week, but Dracula and Hannibal her to vampiric " life." Beheading a
King maintained their normal per- Vampires had a mystical aversion vampire would also kill. However,
sonalities even in vampiric form. On to garlic plants. The wearing of at there were only three methods of
the other hand, most people who least one clove around one's neck making sure of destroying a vampire
became vampires, even those who was sufficient to ward off a vampire. permanently. One was to expose the
had been kind and sensitive, found Furthermore, a vampire could not vampire to direct sunlight and then
themselves so unable to resist their use his or her shape-changing abili· to scatter the ashes. Another was to
new cravings for blood that they ties while within twenty feet of a gar- pierce the vampire's heart with wood
became cruel and even animalistic lic clove. Vampires also had an or silver, sever the head, burn the
hunters of normal human beings. aversion to any religious symbol head and body in separate places,
(such as a crucifix, cross, Star of and scatter the two resulting piles of
Vampires could summon and con- David, or holy water) wielded by any- ashes in separate locations. The
trol certain creatures such as bats, one who believed in the religious sig- third way was to make use of the full
wolves, and rats. Vampires could incantation known as the Montesi
also transform themselves into bats, nificance of the symbol. The size of Formula (after the monk who first
and in the case of some vampires, the symbol was not a consideration realized its significance) found in the
wolves, while retaining their human Darkhold.
intelligence in these forms. Some on its ability to repel vampires, only
vampires could even become the strength of belief. Vampires also Despite the efforts of Dracula to
human-sized bats. Vampires could had a mystical aversion to entering prevent them , Doctor Strange and a
also transform themselves into mist any human dwelling place to which small band of allies performed the
at will, while still retaining their nor- they were not verbally invited. Once Montesi Formula spell, thereby
mal consciousness in that form . invited, they could enter the place at destroying Dracula and all other
any time thereafter. Vampires cast
no reflections, and their images
172
vampires on Earth. Indeed, as long "doppelganger." These doubles of pire who could create vampire dop-
as the spell remains in effect, no the victims gain the Statistics, pelgangers of his victims. Many
vampire can be created in the Earth Powers, and Weaknesses of the years later Frost attacked a woman
dimension (or be brought to the "typical" vampire. The doppelgang- in labor who, as a result, died while
Earth dimension from another) with- ers also have the ability to absorb giving birth to the child who grew up
out immediately turning to dust. Only their "original" by touching them to become the vampire hunter
through use of the Darkhold, now in skin-to-skin (requiring an Agility Blade. It was Frost who turned Han-
possession of the alien sorcerer FEAT roll). Frost could bite a doppel- nibal King into a vampire. Frost
Urthona, could this spell be undone ganger to create yet another doppel- planned to conquer the world with
and new vampires created on Earth. ganger, ad infinitum. He had his doppelgangers, but he was
complete mental control over all of destroyed by Blade and Hannibal
The only vampire to survive the his doppelgangers. King.
casting of the Montesi Formula spell Talents: Frost has the Chemistry tal-
was Hannibal King, whom Doctor ent. BLADE
Strange restored to normal human Contacts: None. Frost was created
life. King's survival was possible only through the accidental injection of a DOPPELGANGER
because he had never consumed deceased vampire's blood, and was
blood directly from a living human. never under the domination of his STATISTICS
(Instead, King has subsisted on creator.
stolen blood from blood banks and F GD (10)
hospitals, blood from corpses, and ADDITIONAL NOTES: A GD(10)
animal blood.)
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES S RM (30)
DEACON FROST Deacon Frost was a cunning and lab-
yrinthine planner, luring his victims E RM (30)
STATISTICS into situations where they would be R PR (4)
at their greatest disadvantage. He I FB (2)
F EX (20) would usually send his doppelgang- P TY (6)
A EX (20) er slaves into combat as his champi- Health: 80
ons. Karma: 12
S RM (30) Resources: TY (6)
HISTORY Popularity: O
E IN (40)
R GD (10) The vampire called Deacon Frost BACKGROUND
I GD (1 0) was once a chemist in Germany try- Real Name: None
P RM (30) ing to discover a means to achieve Occupation: Servant of Deacon
Health: 110 immortal life. To this end he kid- Frost
Karma: 50 napped a young woman and injected Legal Status: Inapplicable
Resources: EX(20) her with blood from a recently Identity: Their existence was not
Popular ity: - 1O deceased vampire. The woman's known to the general public
fiance burst in, and in his struggle Place of Birth: Inapplicable
BACKGROUND with Frost, Frost was accidentally Marital Status: Inapplicable
Real Name: Unrevealed injected with his own serum. The Know n Relatives: None
Occupation: Chemist, later physi- result was to turn Frost into a vam- Base of Operations: Boston, Mas-
cian sachusetts
Legal Status: Citizen of Germany Past Group Affiliations: Servant of
Identity: Not publicly known to be a Deacon Frost
vampi re Present Group Affiliation:
Place of Birth: Germany
Marital Status: Unrevealed KNOWN POWERS :
Known Relatives: None Vampiric Abilities: The Blade Doppel-
Base of Operations: Mobile gangers had all of the abilities and
Past Group Affiliations: None weaknesses of the typical vampire.
Present Group Affiliation: Absorption: A doppelganger could
absorb the original Blade simply by
KNOWN POWERS: touching him, skin-to-skin. This
Vampiric Abilities: Frost possessed requires an Agility FEAT roll.
all of the abilities and weaknesses of Weaponf}': The Blade Doppelgang-
the typical vampire. ers came complete with four wooden
Doppelganger Creation: Frost's bite, knives which could do Good Edged
as well as having the normal affects, damage.
also was able to create a vampiric
173
Talents: Like the original, the Blade Health: 120 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Doppelgangers had the Edged Karma: 56 King was one of the few vampires
Weapons skill. Resources: TY (6) who retained his human intelligence
Contacts: The Blade Doppelgang- after returning from the dead. More-
ers had all of the memories of the Popularity: 2 over, his dedication to the ideals he
original. They could call upon his held in life was powerful enough to
vampire-hunting friends, but those BACKGROUND restrain his vampiric urges; through-
same friends would recognize the Real Name: Hannibal King out his vampi ric existence King
doppelgangers for what they truly Occupation: Private investigator refused to drink living human blood,
were. and he used his vampiric powers
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no only when no other option was avail-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: criminal record able. Nonetheless, King was often
Identity: The general populace of embittered over his vampiric state.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Earth is unaware that King used to As a detective, he is known for his
The Blade Doppelgangers pos- be a vampire persistence.
sessed none of the cunning and skill Place of Birth: Unrevealed
of the original Blade. They were Marital Status: Unrevealed, but HISTORY
vicious creatures, filled with blood- King is now unmarried.
lust. Known Relatives: None Hannibal King was a private investiga-
Base of Operations: Formerly Lon- tor making a meagre living and waiting
HISTORY don, now Boston, MA for a case that would make his reputa-
Past Group Affiliations: Partner in tion when he was killed by a vampire
Deacon Frost created a vampire King, Drake and Blade, Private named Deacon Frost. After three days
doppe'ganger of Blade that battled Investigations in the morgue, King rose as a vampire.
Blade himself and absorbed Blade Present Group Affiliation: During the five years he spent as a
within its own body. Later, Daimon vampire, King frequently clashed with
Hellstrom freed the true Blade, who KNOWN POWERS: Dracula because he refused to
was still alive, from the doppelgang- Vampiric Abilities: As a vampire, King acknowledge the vampire lord as his
er's body, and Hann ibal King possessed all of the abilities and master. King joined forces with the
destroyed the dopplegannger. weaknesses of the typical vampire. vampire hunter Blade, and together
King could also change into a man- they tracked down and destroyed
HANNIBAL KING sized bat and a wolf. It should be Deacon Frost.
noted that he rarely employed these
STATISTICS abilities except when absolutely nec- King asked for help from Doctor
essary, as doing so promoted a sav- Strange when a friend of his died in a
F RM (30) age and malevolent side to his case involving Dracula and the
A EX (20) personality. Darkholders. Later, when Strange
Cured Form: Once cured of his vam- decided to use the Montesi Formula
s RM (30) piric curse, King had the following and destroy all vampires on Earth,
statistics: King agreed to help even though he
E IN (40) knew it meant his death. Ultimately
R TY (6) FAs E Strange succeeded, and then used
I EX (20) his mystical powers to not only save
p RM (30) GD GD TY GD King's life but to cure his vampirism
Health: 36 forever. The firm of King, Drake and
Blade now handles investigations
Talents: King has the Law Enforce- into the occult.
ment and Detective skills, and a rudi-
mentary knowledge of boxing gave NIMROD
him Martial Arts B. In the field of
vampirism, King is considered to STATISTICS
have Occult Lore.
Contacts: King was an ally of Frank F IN (40)
Drake, Blade, and Doctor Strange. A GD (10)
He is now a partner with Drake and
Blade in a private detective agency. s RM (30)
ADDITIONAL NOTES: E IN (40)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
p IN (40)
174
Health: 120 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Present Group Affiliation :
Karma: 56 A former solider, Nimrod was a brutal
Resources: TY (6) man who enjoyed the power he KNOWN POWERS
Popularity: - 20 obtained as a vampire. He would Vampiric Abilities: Rachel Van Hels-
brook no challenge to his authority. ing possessed all of the abilities and
BACKGROUND weaknesses of the typical vampire.
Real Name: Nimrod HISTORY Weaponry: In life Van Helsing wield-
Occupation: Former soldier ed a crossbow with a range of 2
Legal Status: Unrevealed Intending Dracula to be his succes- areas. She utilized wooden arrows
Identity: His existence was sor as ruler of Earth's vampires, Var- which were capable of inflicting
unknown to the general populace nae first appointed Nimrod as the Good Edged damage.
Place of Birth: Unrevealed new vampire lord. Nimrod captured Talents: Van Helsing had the Bows
Marital Status: Unrevealed Dracula on the night the latter skill and Acrobatics. She also has
Known Relatives: None became a vampire and forced Drac- the Anthropology and Occult Lore
Base of Operations: Transylvania ula to submit to him. Dracula chal- talents.
Past Group Affiliations: Auler of lenged Nimrod to a duel with wooden Contacts: In life Van Helsing was an
Earth's vampires stakes, and, as Varnae anticipated, ally of Quincy Harker's organization
Present Group Affiliation: Dracula slew Nimrod in the duel. Var- of vampire hunters, which included
nae then made Dracula the new Frank Drake and Taj Nita!. After her
KNOWN POWERS: vampire lord. conversion to a vampire, she was
Vampiric Abilities: Nimrod pos- subservient to Dracula's mental con-
sessed all of the abilities and weak- VAN HELSING, trol.
nesses of the typical vampire. He
could transform himself into a man- RACHEL ADDITIONAL NOTES:
sized bat or a wolf as well.
Vampire Control: During his brief rul- STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
ership of the vampires of Earth, Nim- As a living woman Van Helsing was
rod had Incredible control over all of F GD (10) strongly committed to ending the
them and could communicate tele- A EX (20) threat of Dracula and other vam-
pathically with them from anywhere pires. Because of this devotion, she
on Earth. Any vampire who wished to s RM (30) had difficulty in expressing any
resist Nimrod would have to make a "superfluous" emotions. Even in her
Psyche FEAT roll against Incredible E RM (30) vampiric state, she was still devoted
intensity. R GD (10) to ending Dracula's existence and
Talents: Nimrod had the Leadership I EX (20) committed suicide rather than con-
and Military Talents. He also had the p EX (20) tinue her undead existence.
Bladed Weapon skill and was a
skilled Horseman. Health: 90 HISTORY
Contacts: During his brief role as Karma: 50
Lord of the Vampires, Nimrod could Resources: TY (6) Rachel was a vampire hunter for
force almost any vampire on Earth to Popularity: 0 many years, as an ally of Frank
assist him. He was being groomed Drake and Quincy Herker. After
for the position of rulership by Var- BACKGROUND many confrontations, she was killed
nae before Dracula became a vam- by Dracula and became his consort
pire. Real Name: Rachel Van Helsing
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Occupation: Vampire hunter, para-
psychologist, anthropologist, univer-
sity professor
Legal Status: British citizen with no
criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unrevealed, presum-
ably in or near London, England
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Abraham van
Helsing (great-grandfather,
deceased)
Base of Operations: London,
England
Past Group Affiliations: Quincy
Harker's band of vampire hunters,
controlled slave of Dracula
175
and ally. When she broke free of his KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
control, she killed him (he was later
resurrected, however) and then Vampiric Abilities: Varnae possessed ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
requested the X-Men to kill her with a all of the abilities and weaknesses of Varnae was intelligent, cunning, and
stake through the heart. Wolverine the typical vampire. He could also thoroughly evil. He could scheme
did so, and she died peacefully. transform into a wolf or a man-sized with the best of them, but his plots
were rarely intricate.
VARNAE bat.
HISTORY
STATISTICS Vampire Control: Varnae had Mon-
strous ability to control any vampire Varnae was transformed into a vam-
F PR (4) on Earth. He could communicate tel- pire by sorcerers of pre-Cataclysmic
A PR (4) epathically with another vampire Atlantis. He was the last survivor
S IN (40) from any distance, and a vampire among the vampires created in
E AM (50) wishing to resist his commands Atlantis before the Great Cataclysm,
R TY (6) would have to make a Psyche FEAT and ruled over Earth's vampires until
I IN (40) roll against Monstrous intensity. 1459. Tired of his ages-long exist-
P AM (50) Growth: Through mystical means, ence, Varnae chose Dracula as his
Health: 98 Varnae could grow up to 25 feet tall , successor as lord of Earth's vam-
Karma: 96 giving him Monstrous Growth and a pires, and imparted much of his
Resources: EX(20) +3 CS to be hit. supernatural power to him by forcing
Popularity: - 50 Dracula to drink his blood . Varnae
Telepathy: Varnae could read minds then committed suicide by exposing
BACKGROUND and implant hypnotic commands himself to the direct sunlight.
Real Name: Varnae
Occupation: Atlantean sorcerer, lat- with Incredible ability.
er vampire lord
Legal Status: Citizen of pre- Talents: Varnae possessed the
Cataclysmic Atlantis Occult Lore talent. He has the Mystic
Identity: Varnae's existence was Background and was fluent in most
unknown to the general populace of Earth languages.
Earth
Place of Birth: Atlantis Contacts: Varnae was the lord of
Marital Status: Unrevealed Vampires for many centuries, and
Known Relatives: None could call upon their knowledge and
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Lord of skills whenever he wished.
Earth's vampires
Present Group Affiliation:
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~ STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S EX (20)
E IN (40)
R GD (10)
I GD(10)
P GD (10)
Health: 100
Karma: 30
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 5 (65 in USSR)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Nicolai Krylenko
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: Citizen of the USSR
,..---.,.. Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Minsk, USSR
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Laynia Petrovna
(sister), Marya Krylova (mother,
deceased), Sergei Krylov (father)
Base of Operations: Khystym , Sibe-
ria
Past Group Affiliations: Soviet
Army, Soviet Super Soldiers
~ Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS force field power. In such cases, his ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Force Field: Vanguard can naturally force field is considered Monstrous,
reflect any form of energy or physical and he returns attacks on the
assault at Amazing rank, returning Remarkable column.
the force of the attack back on Van- Talents: Vanguard speaks English
guard's attacker at -1 CS. (For very well. He has the Military Talent
example, an Incredible rank attack from his training with the Soviet
would be reflected back at Remark- army.
able intensity.) These attacks strike
with Good accuracy and do not Contacts: Should any of the Soviet
count as Vanguard's action. Super Soldiers have any contacts
Weapons: Vanguard carries a pair of within the Soviet government, those
technological weapons in the shape contacts are low-level and secretive.
of a hammer and a sickle. These Vanguard was also a former member
have several properties: of the Soviet army.
• Vanguard can attack with the
hammer at Remarkable Fighting
rank, doing Remarkable Blunt dam-
age.
• Attacking with the sickle, also
with Remarkable Fighting, Vanguard
does Remarkable Edged damage.
• Circuitry in Vanguard's hammer
enables the weapon to be thrown up
to 3 areas away and still return to
Vanguard's hand. Throwing and
catching the hammer are considered
Agility FEATs.
• By concentrating on the weap-
ons, Vanguard can increase his
177
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES guard went into the Soviet army, con- Soviet Super Soldiers and given an
Vanguard is extremely patriotic, and cealing his superhuman powers assignment. Sergei Krylov had
can be bull-headed at times. He is from his peers, to further his training. become a superhumanly powerful
usually the first to start a fight, but his radioactive mutant dubbed the Pres-
comrades can usually prevail upon Some time later, the Soviet gov- ence. The officials feared he would
him to calm down and reconsider. ernment discharged Vanguard from turn against them were he to learn
the army in order to take advantage that he had been deceived about his
HISTORY of his superhuman capacities. He children's deaths. Consequently, the
was reunited with his sister Laynia government wanted the Presence
Nicolai Krylenko was the son of Sovi- (who as Darkstar had been sent on eliminated, and because his children
et physicist Sergei Krylov, and was an espionage mission in America), · were among the Soviets' most pow-
one of twins who were among the and the two were placed in the erful agents, only they stood a
first known mutants born in the Sovi- charge of the fourth Crimson chance of succeeding. The Soviet
et Union allowed to live past child- Dynamo, the Soviet's counterpart of Super Soldiers were told that the
hood. After Krylov's wife died during Iron Man. The three were placed Presence was spreading toxic radia-
childbirth the twins were abducted inside a space capsule and sent to tion that threatened all Russia and
by the KGB to be placed in training. the moon to investigate a mysterious thus had to be stopped. Undertaking
Krylov was informed that his children extraterrestrial object discovered the mission, they learned that it was
were stillborn. Nikolai and his sister there. On the moon, the three their own former teacher Professor
Laynia were placed in the care of Dr. encountered and baffled Iron Man Phobos spreading radiation and that
Piotr Phobos, who raised them as and Jack of Hearts, who were also Krylov was their father. Neutralizing
students of the Soviet Super Soldier Phobos, Vanguard, Darkstar, and
School. There the boy first mastered there to investigate. When the Amer- Ursa Major expelled the Crimson
his mutant powers, and was given icans vanished inside the object, the Dynamo from their ranks when they
the code name Vanguard. Toward Soviet adventurers were ordered by discovered him to be a KGB agent,
the end of his training, Phobos gave their superiors to keep the object and vowed to never serve the State
him a set of weapons, a hammer and under surveillance. Days later, Iron unquestioningly again. Although the
sickle, symbols of the Soviet Union Man and Jack of Hearts emerged, Soviet Super Soldiers have under-
with which to focus his powers. followed by an invading fleet of taken subsequent missions at the
Rigellian colonizers. The Soviets government's behest, they have
When Phobos was seen to be helped the Americans repulse the
siphoning energy from his students invasion, then returned to Earth done so only when the mission
in order to develop mutant powers of aboard the Rigellian craft. involved a direct threat to the Soviet
his own, he fled the school. Van- people. Vanguard remains one of the
After a thorough debriefing, the USSR's foremost superhuman
three were joined by Ursa Major, a champions.
mutant classmate of Vanguard's at
the Super Soldier's school, and the
four were officially designated the
178
STATISTICS
F PR (4)
A GD (10)
s TY (6)
E EX (20)
R RM (30)
I PR (4)
p GD (10)
Health: 40
Karma: 44
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: -10
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Telford Porter
Occupation: Professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
,--.... criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None known
Base of Operations: New York City,
NY
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of Factor Three, current
leader of Fallen Angels
r"\ Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: Contacts: Few characters who have ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Teleportation: Vanisher has Unearth- associated with the Vanisher in the
ly mutant ability to teleport, with no past have any inclination to do so
chance of accidentally appearing again. The Vanisher currently acts
within a wall or other obstacle, even as the patron of a group of runaways
when entering an area he has never and petty thieves known as the
seen before. Holding onto Vanisher Fallen Angels.
neither prevents him from teleport-
ing nor allows the grappler to hang
on through the teleportation. As the
Vanisher requires a clear head to
use his power, he cannot teleport
during any round in which he either
sustains more than Good damage or
falls victim to any mental assault.
Weapons: Vanisher carries an array
of guns on his person. In the past,
these have included a .45-caliber
automatic with 9 shots, causing
Good damage at a range of 3 areas,
a gun which fired sleeping gas of
Incredible potency at a range of 1
area, and a gun which delivered
Incredible energy attacks at a range
of 2 areas.
Talents: The Vanisher is skilled at
Electronics and Computer circuitry.
When attempting FEATs in such
areas, the Vanisher's Reason is
Incredible.
179
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Vanisher then demanded ten million Factor Three, the Mutant Master, -----...
The Vanisher has attempted to make dollars not to turn the plans over to when he was revealed to be an extra- ...-
a name for himself as a criminal mas- the Soviet Union. Confident that no terrestrial out to conquer Earth .
termind, an occupation for which he one could possibly capture him, the
is ill-suited. The Vanisher is a notori- Vanisher showed up on the White Later the Vanisher unsuccessfully
ous coward (to the best of anyone's House lawn accompanied by his men attempted to defeat the now-
knowledge, he has never teleported in order to pick up the ransom money. disbanded team of adventurers
However, Professor Charles Xavier called the Champions of Los
into battle} and an uninspired leader. was present and psionically induced Angeles. Trying to escape by telepor-
amnesia in the Vanisher, so that he tation, the Vanisher was halted in the
After repeated failures, he has did not know he was powerless. The midst of the process by Darkstar, a
recently tried his luck with a group of Vanisher was taken into custody and member of the Champions, using
superpowered teenage runaways. the plans were recovered, but even- darkforce she can summon. As a
tually the Vanisher's memory
HISTORY returned and he escaped . result, one half of the Vanisher's
body remained in Los Angeles while
The Vanisher first came to public The Vanisher joined Factor Three, the other half rematerialized in
attention when he used his power of an organization of superhuman Poughkeepsie, New York, months
teleportation to commit a series of mutants who sought to achieve later. Investigating the Vanisher's
spectacular crimes. He rapidly built a world domination. As a member of appearance in Poughkeepsie, the X-
large criminal organization and then Factor Th ree, the Vanisher again Man Nightcrawler touched him, and
announced to the U.S. government clashed with the X-Men as he the two were somehow transported
his intention to steal the continental attempted to help trigger a nuclear to another dimension. Eventually
defense plans. Despite efforts of the war between the United States and Nightcrawler and the Vanisher man-
government and of the newly formed the Soviet Un.ion. However, the X- aged to return to Poughkeepsie, and
X-Men, the Vanisher easily teleported Men thwarted Factor Three's efforts the Vanisher teleported himself to an
into the heavily guarded Pentagon to bring about a nuclear holocaust. unknown location.
room where the plans were being The Vanisher and other members of
kept, and escaped with them. The Factor Three joined the X-Men in Since then the Vanisher has
battling and defeating the leader of become the leader of a new group of
superhuman mutants known as the
Fallen Angels.
180
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S EX (20)
E AM (50)
R FE (2)
I TY (6)
P PR (4)
Health: 120
Karma: 12
Resources: FE(2)
Popularity: - 15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Unknown
Legal Status: Presumably a U.S. cit-
,--.. izen, criminal record unknown
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
agent of Arnim Zola and Baron
Helmut Zemo
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Claws: Vermin's claws do Remark- Arnim Zola created Vermin to be a
able Edged Attack damage. v1c1ous psychopath. Vermin's
Running: Vermin can speed through thoughts, such as they are, deal with
alleys, sewers, and other enclosed basic necessities such as finding
spaces at 4 areas per round. food and shelter, arid striking out at
Enhanced Senses: When Vermin anything that he fears, including
might be able to detect a character
by smell, at a range of 2 areas or human society.
less, his Intuition rises to Amazing.
He can also track with Amazing abili-
ty.
Animal Communication and Control:
Somehow, Vermin is able to commu-
nicate with and command the rats
and undomesticated dogs that are
within 2 miles. His ability with this
power are Excellent.
Talents: None
Contacts: None, as far as anyone
knows.
181
HISTORY their long-time enemy Captain Amer- Captain in a dungeon and set loose
ica. After randomly slashing a cab two of his more powerful mutants
Very little is known about the past of driver to attract attention, Vermin upon them . Vermin slew one of the
the man now called Vermin except encountered Captain America in a
that he has described himself as a rundown area of Harlem, but, mutants and escaped the chamber.
child of the New York streets. At despite unleashing a pack of rats He stole aboard Zemo's escape
some point he was picked up off the against the Avenger, Vermin was craft, and when Zemo fled from the
streets by Baron Helmut Zemo, the overpowered. Captain America took castle sometime later, Vermin
son of a Nazi scientist, and Arnim him to SHIELD headquarters for viciously attacked, wounding him.
Zola, the master Nazi geneticist, and questioning, but Vermin somehow
subjected to a process that Returning to New York, Vermin
bestowed upon him various ratlike managed to escape. He then rende- once again prowled the city streets,
attributes. Able to command rats and vouzed with Zemo and Zola, who finally going on a rampage during
other wild beasts, Vermin was dis- took him to Zemo's headquarters in the San Gennaro Festival in the Little
patched by the pair to stalk and kill Mexico. When Zemo had captured
Captain America himself, he decid- Italy section of Manhattan. He was
ed Vermin's usefulness was over. He apprehended by Captain America
then shackled Vermin next to the and Spider-Man and turned over to
local authorities. Vermin is currently
in a high-security mental institution.
182
STATISTICS
F TY (6)
A IN (40)
s RM (30)
E EX( (20)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
p GD (10)
Health: 96
Karma: 40
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: 8
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Heather McNeil Hudson
Occupation: Former secretary, now
leader of Alpha Flight
Legal Status: Canadian citizen with
no criminal record
Identity: Secret, known to certain
Canadian government officals
Place of Birth : Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Ramsey McNeil
(father), Claire McNeil (mother),
James MacDonald Hudson (hus-
band, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Alpha
Flight
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: movement is relative to the Earth's set of prescription goggles that pro-
Battlesuit: All of Vindicator's super- rotation. The suit's systems scan for vide her with Remarkable protection
human powers derive from the bat- any obstacles (mountains, buildings, against light-based attacks.
tlesuit she wears. It is made of Good etc.) and will abort movement just Nearsightedness: Without her gog-
Strength material and can generate short of a collision. The suit's force gles or goggles, Hudson is at - 2 CS
a personal force field which provides field automatically activates to pro- to hit and cannot clearly make out
Amazing protection from physical images farther than 1 area away.
attack and Incredible protection from tect against air friction. Talents: Hudson has the Leadership
all energy attacks. The force field A side-effect of this special move- skill.
can be turned on and off at will by Contacts: Hudson is the leader of
ment is that Vindicator is disoriented Alpha Flight and its former members,
mental command. by the sudden movement. She can including Shaman, Talisman and
Flight: Vindicator can fly at Shift-X take no action whatsoever (except Puck. She at one time had close ties to
hover in place) on the round after the Canadian government, but those
speed. she moves, and all FEATs for the 2 have recently been dissolved.
Energy Bolts: Vindicator can project
bolts of Incredible Force up to a rounds after that are at - 2 CS. 183
Protected Senses: Hudson wears a
range of 1Oareas.
Digging: With the suit, she can dig a
tunnel 3 areas long per round (2
areas if forming a tunnel for others to
follow).
Teleportation: The suit's ability to
negate the force of Earth's gravity
relative to the wearer allows Vindica-
tor to effectively teleport up to Shift-Z
distance. Vindicator can only tele-
port along the same latitude, since
ADDITIONAL NOTES: The next day McNeil visited Hud- rages at times. However, he soon -...
son and learned that he had became leader of Alpha Flight. In
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES destroyed the plans and taken the love with Heather Hudson and know-
Hudson is a strong-willed woman helmet, without which the suit could
who prefers to stand on her own. not operate. McNeil sought the ing it was useless, Logan quit
Since the death of her husband, she Canadian government's aid for Hud- Department H when he received an
has learned self-reliance and at son, and finally the government offer from Professor Charles Xavier
times comes across as domineering. declared that Hudson had been a to join the X-Men . James Hudson
government employee " retroactive- reluctantly became Alpha Flight's
HISTORY ly" for six years, and they paid Am- leader in Logan's place, wearing a
Can for damages incurred by modified version of his exploratory
Heather McNeil is the daughter of Hudson in reclaiming the helmet, suit when in action. James Hudson
Ramsey and Claire McNeil of Calga- which was his. The Canadian Prime called his costumed identity Weapon
ry, Alberta, Canada, and has at least Minister offered Hudson the chance Alpha, then Vindicator, and finally
seven siblings, six of whom are boys. to create Department H, the secret Guardian.
The McNeils were neighbors of Dr. research and development arm of
Michael Two-youngmen , his wife the Ministry of Defense. Within a Eventually the Canadian govern-
Kathryn, and their daughter Eliza- year Hudson married Heather ment officially disbanded both
beth. Heather often acted as the McNeil. Department H and Alpha Flight. But
younger Elizabeth's playmate and when Healther called the members
babysitter. After Kathryn Two- On their honeymoon in Canada's together to help her husband, they
youngmen died and the grief- Wood Buffalo National Park, James decided to continue to work together
stricken Michael became a hermit, and Heather Hudson were attacked as a team, independently of the gov-
the McNeils took care of Elizabeth. by a "wild man" whom they later ernment.
learned was named Logan , the
Thanks to her great organizational superhuman mutant later given the Months later, Heather Hudson was
talent and intelligence, Heather was codename Wolverine . Logan had taken captive by Delphine Courtney,
working as the private secretary to turned savage apparently from the a humanoid robot serving Jerome
Jerome Jaxon, vice president in shock of having his skeleton laced Jaxon seeking vengeance. Jaxon
charge of research and development with the metal alloy Adamantium and used the robot called Box to attack
of the Am-Can petroleum company being given retractable Adamantium Hudson, damaging his battlesuit. In
in Edmonton, Alberta, when she was claws. Managing to render Logan order to defeat Box, Hudson used
only seventeen years old. An unconscious, the Hudons took him the suit to feed energy from its power
employee of this division, Dr. James to their cabin and tied him to a bed. pack into Box. The Box robot was
MacDonald Hudson, invented an James Hudson went for medical destroyed, and the feedback killed
armored suit to be used for explora- help but was kept from returning by a Jaxon. But then Hudson had only
tion and development of geological blizzard. Logan regained conscious- seconds to disconnect his battle-
resources. Heather, who was attract- ness and unwittingly extended his suit's power pack before it would
ed to Dr. Hudson, was shocked to claws, severing his bonds. Furious, explode. Heather entered the room
learn that Jaxon intended to turn Heather Hudson began shouting at just in time to witness the explosion
Hudson's exploratory suit over to the Logan, who again extended his that killed him.
United States military to utilize as a claws. But then Logan saw the claws
weapon. Forbidden to warn Hudson, for what he has since claimed was The members of Alpha Flight sub-
McNeil resigned from her position in the first time he was aware of them , sequently chose Heather Hudson to
protest. and was horrified. Believing that become their new leader. Believing
someone had implanted the claws in that she herself needed to become
Logan hands against his will, Heath- an active combatant in the team,
er Hudson comforted the despairing with enough power to hold her own
Logan until James Hudson finally alongside the other members,
returned . Heather Hudson began wearing
Courtney's recreated version of her
Heather Hudson now suspects husband 's battlesuit, with modifica-
that James Hudson may have had tions, in action. Heather has taken
something to do with Wolverine's the codename of Vindicator formerly
claws, especially since Alpha Flight, used by her husband for her cos-
with Wolverine as its leader, was tumed identity. She is currently
formed soon after. But as yet Heath- engaged to Madison Jeffries:
er Hudson has no proof.
Logan lived with the Hudsons
while they helped him regain his
health and human sanity, although
Logan was still prey to animalistic
184
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
s GD (10)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
p GD (10)
Health: 70
Karma: 50
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: -15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Subversive
Legal Status: Citizenship unknown,
..........._ wanted internationally for criminal
activity
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Somewhere in East-
ern Europe, possibly Hungary
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
leader of New York faction of
,,--.... HYDRA, former leader of the original
Serpent Squad, now leader of her
own terrorist organization
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS:
Weaponry: Viper carries a.number of
special weapons, including but not
limited to the following: ·
• Prosthetic fangs, which secrete a
lethal snake venom of Remarkable
potency. Normal anti-venom toxin is
effective to prevent further damage,
but a victim must get to it before 8
hours elapses for it to be affective.
• Throwing darts, up to 8 tipped
with the same poison. These darts Teleportation Ring: Viper wears a Contacts: Viper was at one time
can be thrown up to 2 areas, causing ring that provides her with Incredible head of HYDRA's New York opera-
Teleport ability. Viper must be able to tions and still has criminal contacts
3 points of Edged damage plus the use one h~nd to activate the ring on from those days. She was the reor-
t he other, and can do nothing else on ganizer of the original Serpent
poison. Squad and has contacts with Cobra
the round she teleports. and Princess Python. Viper also has
• Laser pistol with an infrared Talents: Viper has the Guns skill, contacts with a number of organiza-
and is a Weapons Specialist with the tions that supply criminal operatives.
scope, causing 25 points of Energy Whip. She is trained in Martial Arts A
& C, and her Reason is considered 185
damage. The gun has a range of 5 Remarkable when dealing with high-
tech items developed by both
areas, holds energy sufficient for five HYDRA and other criminal organiza-
tions. Viper also has the Leadership
shots, and can be fired in the dark
Talent.
with no penalty.
• Whip capable of doing Good
damage. Viper can attack anyone in
the same area with this weapon, and
with a Bullseye result, she can dis-
arm an opponent using a hand-held
weapon or protective device.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES defeat, he returned to Limbo and executive, later professional criminal
Madame Hydra was returned to Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
Viper is one of the most ruthless vil- Earth . No longer head of HYDRA, criminal record
lains, male or female, active today. she sought to regain her place
She will kill without qualms anyone among the international criminal Identity: Known to the authorities
who stands in her way. With the elite by reorganizing the defunct Marital Status: Unrevealed, pre-
exception of the Silver Samurai, her band of costumed criminals known sumed single
confidant and lover, she considers as the Serpent Squad. In doing so,
her agents expendable and will sac- she murdered the first costumed Known Relatives: Leopold Stryke
rifice them gladly to obtain her objec- criminal to be known as the Viper (brother, deceased)
tives.
Base of Operations: New York City,
NY
(see below) and adopted both his Past Group Affiliations: Agent of
criminal alias of Viper and a modified Cowled Commander, member of the
version of his costume. (She has
HISTORY subsequently adopted yet another Serpent Squad
Present Group Affiliation:
design for her costume.)
The woman who would become the The Viper went on to organize her KNOWN POWERS:
Viper was an orphan child in Eastern own international organization that is
Europe. For most of her adoles- an active force in crime, espionage, Weapons: The first Viper designed
cence and young adulthood, she and terrorism. While under a magic razor-sharp wrist fangs and small
struggled for survival in a transient spell cast by one of the original darts, which caused Typical Edged
existence throughout Europe. She Spider-Woman's enemies, the Viper and Edged Throwing damage.
found crime the most convenient temporarily falsely believed herself Tipped with poison, these blades
way to make money. to be Merriem Drew, the first Spider- caused an Amazing intensity poison
Woman's mother. The Viper's most attack every round for 1-10 rounds.
Relying on her wits, she eventually spectacular scheme in recent years Dixon had synthesized the poisons
entered the ranks of the powerful was her attempt to crash the SHIELD himself, and had developed a num-
subversive organization HYDRA as Heli-Carrier into the United States ber of variations. Some of his ven-
one of the few female agents it had at Capitol building, during a Presiden- oms, for example, were slow-acting
that time. When the Supreme Hydra tial address. Viper's most recent (delivering one of the 1-10 attacks
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker died scheme was the infiltration and sub- every 10 rounds, with any damage
and HYDRA's elite perished in the version of the Serpent Society. With spread evenly over that time), while
the aid of her own serpent-motif vil-
destruction of Hydra Island, the lains and those members of the Soci- others subjected their victim to
remaining organization fragmented. ety who joined her side, Viper excruciating pain, requiring a
She seized control of the New York contaminated the water supplies of Psyche FEAT against Amazing
City operations. At that point, she Washington, D.C., with a toxin that intensity for the victim to take action
took the name Madame Hydra, transformed humans into snake-like each round. Each of Viper's drugs is
began wearing a green costume and beings. Foiled by the Captain and his individually designed; synthesizing
green lipstick, and dyed her hair friends, she is currently in custody. an antidote requires a Reason FEAT
green to symbolize the organization against Monstrous intensity.
that she now commanded. VIPER I
Talents: The Viper's Reason was
Madame Hydra's first known Remarkable in matters involving poi-
major enterprise as a HYDRA leader sons and advertising campaigns. He
was the attempted contamination of STATISTICS was skilled with Sharp Weapons and
New York City 's water supply. Martial Arts C. The Viper was inordi-
Thwarted by Captain America, she F GD (10) nately persuasive; his attempts to
tried to kill him but failed. Finally, she A EX (20) argue a point should be treated as if
had heat-seeking missiles launched he had a Popularity of 75.
at Captain America and his then- S GD (10) Contacts: None.
partner Rick Jones. They dodged,
but it was believed that Madame E GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Hydra was herself killed by a missile. R EX (20) The Viper was, pardon the term, a
However, the alien Space Phantom I TY (6) slick operator. He always paid atten-
unexpectedly intervened when he tion to the public's view of his crimes
took on her physical form and trans- P TY (6) (going so far as to persuade the
ported her into extratemporal orbit. police to allow him to testify against
During the years that the Space Health: 50 Hardeman in costume), and berated
Karma: 32
Resources: GD(10)
Popularity: 0
Phantom plotted against Captain BACKGROUND his opponents with a constant
America and his allies, the Aveng- Real Name: Jordan Dixon , a.k. a. stream of advertising lingo in a
ers, Madame Hydra remained in Jordan Stryke
Limbo. Occupation: Advertising agency pathetic attempt to demoralize them.
Upon the Space Phantom's
186
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S AM (50)
E IN (40)
R EX (20)
I GD(10)
P RM (30)
Health: 140
Karma: 60
Resources: PR(4)
Popularity: 30
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Vision
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: Undetermined (as an
Avenger, he was granted provisional
U.S. citizenship)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Creation: Brooklyn, New
York
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Wanda (Scarlet
Witch, wife), Pietro Maximoff (Quick-
silver, brother-in-law}, Thomas, W il-
liam (sons), Magneto (father-in-law),
Magda (mother-in-law, presumed
deceased)
Base of Operations: Leonia, New
Jersey
Past Group Affiliations: Reserve
member of the East and West Coast
Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS """~ Remarkable Energy damage up to a
Density Manipulation - Self: The
Vision can control his density with • Flight at Shift-a density; speed is range of 8 areas.
Unearthly ability. His normal density Poor (4 areas/round) and the Vision Solar Regeneration: The Vision can
rank is Good. At densities above cannot carry anything while flying. regenerate at Amazing rank.
Good, the Vision gains Body Armor Indoors, he can still heal at the accel-
equal to the density rank. If the • Disruption of living or nonliving erated rate if solar or laser energy is
Vision employs his Density Increase material by solidifying inside them. directed at the jewel in his forehead.
at Incredible rank or higher, he suf- Damage inflicted is equal to the Control Crystal: This limitation was
fers a -1 CS to his Fighting and Agil- Vision's chosen density rank; the tar- built into the Vision's brain by Ultron
ity abilities. At densities above get's Body Armor is ignored.
Amazing, the Vision uses his Density Life Support: The Vision has Incredi- to prevent him from having a fully
rank instead of his Strength in charg- ble Life Support powers and can sur-
ing combat. At Unearthly Density, vive in space for up to 40 rounds. He human personality. It also gave him a
does not need to eat or breathe. - 2 CS to his Psyche against techno-
the Vision cannot move. Solar Beams: The Vision can fire logical forms of mind control. The
The Vision has developed the fol- beams of solar heat from his eyes or Vision removed the crystal during his
from the jewel in his forehead, doing time as chairman of the East Coast
lowing Power Stunts:
• Phasing through solid objects at 187
Shift-0 Density. Unlike normal Phas-
ing, this does not usually cause mal-
functions in electronics, although
the Vision may cause such disrup-
tions if he wishes.
Avengers, and is no longer under its himself with the fiery mutant Toro and one point, the Vision's arm was
effect. also served as a member of the Invaders destroyed and he had it replaced by
Talents: The Vision has Repair/ and the All-Winners Squad during the Inhuman scientists. When the Baxter
Tinkering talent. He has a photo- 1940s and early 1950s. Building was threatened by the null-field
graphic memory and has memorized of Annihilus, the Vision attempted to
thousands of books, particularly fic- In 1955, the Human Torch discovered breach and barrier and disrupted certain
tion and poetry. he was losing control over his flame, and of his response synapses, causing a
Contacts: The Vision has been a went to the American desert to try to total system seize-up. At the Avengers'
member of the East Coast Avengers overload his solar cells. The Torch was Mansion, in an effect to accelerate the
in the past and is currently assisting not destroyed, but lay inert and insen- android's self-repairs, Starfox telemetri-
the West Coast Avengers. He and sate for over a decade until found and cally linked the Vision to ISAAC, the
his wife are close friends of the stage repaired by the criminal genius called computer system of the planetoid of
magicians Glamor and Illusion. the Mad Thinker. The Thinker partially Starfox's birth, Titan. The experience
restored the android's memories but altered the Vision's way of thinking, and
ADDITIONAL NOTES: coerced it into battling his enemies, the he began to contemplate the notion of
Fantastic Four. When the android real- assuming control over Earth even as
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ized the evil in what the Thinker wished ISAAC regulated Titan. When most of
Prior to the removal of the Control him to do, he sacrificed himself to save Earth's heroes disappeared for a week in
Crystal, the Vision usually appeared the Fantastic Four from a sneak attack order to fight in the first "secret war," the
cold and unfeeling. With the crystal by the Thinker's companion Quasimodo. Vision assumed command of the remain-
gone, the Vision became much more The Thinker fled and the Fantastic Four ing Avengers. Under the Vision's leader-
human, almost jubilantly so. He has left the Torch's body in the laboratory in ship, Hawkeye and Mockingbird were
strong family ties to his wife and chil- Nevada. sent to Los Angeles to establish a West
dren and considers Simon Williams Coast franchise of the Avengers. The
his brother. The human-hating robot Ultron took Vision sought to solve the world's prob-
possession of the Torch android and lems by bringing the governments, busi-
HISTORY coerced Professor Horton into helping nesses, and militia under his direct
him restore the Torch to "life." Ultron had command. To accomplish this, he found
The artificial being who would one day Horton eradicate the android's memo- it would be necesary to link all of the
be called the Vision began his existence ries, appearance, and powers. Horton world's computers together, abandon his
in 1939 in the laboratory of Prof. Phineas replaced the solar cells with other spe- humanoid body, and fully project his
T. Horton, a pioneer in the fields of artifi- cialized synthetic cells permitting it to intelligence into the master computer.
cial intelligence and robotics. The one alter its mass and solidity but could not After taking control of the United States
flaw in the android's design was that bring himself to tamper with the nuclear arsenal and defense system, the
photoelectric solar cells covering its android's memories. When the android Vision was convinced to abandon his
body were too volatile and caused the grand scheme by his fellow Avengers.
epidermis of the creature to burst into returned to awareness, he realized what The Vision's consciousness returned to
flame upon contact with air but without had happened to him and began to ram- his android body and he located and
harming the android. Wreaking havoc in page. Ultron slew Horton, and then bat- destroyed the "control crystal" Ultron
its innocent exploration of its new envi- tled the android into submission. Ultron had implanted in his cerebral circuitry.
ronment, the creature, dubbed the then bulk-erased the android's previous This would prevent him from ever again
Human Torch, soon realized the panic he memories and used a computer program being taken over by an outside intelli-
was causing and doused himself in a based on the encephalograms (brain gence.
swimming pool. The Human Torch even- patterns) of the ex-Avenger Simon Wil-
tually acquired mastery over its flame, liams to be the basis for a new personali- During a battle with the witches of New
and became a crimefighter. He allied ty for the android. Sent to lead the Salem, the Scarlet Witch managed to uti-
188 Avengers into a trap, the android lize their magic in order to enable her to
betrayed Ultron and helped the Aveng- conceive a child by the Vision. Recently,
ers defeat him. Dubbed the Vision, the the Vision and the Witch became the
android (or " synthozoid" ) was elected parents of twin sons whom they named
into the Avengers. Thomas and William. The Vision current-
ly commutes back and forth to help out
During the next few years, the Vision the West Coast Avengers since their
developed a close relationship with his numbers have been depleted by recent
fellow Avenger, the Scarlet Witch. At first resignations.
he denied that an android could have
feelings of love for another being, but the
Witch eventually helped him attain his
potential for intimacy. After learning his
full history from the time-master lmmor-
tus, the Vision finally felt worthy to marry
the mutant woman who loved him. Even-
tually the couple had saved enough to
put down a payment on a house in near-
by New Jersey. Resigning from the
Avengers, they attempted to lead a nor-
mal life, despite the fact that they didn't
try to conceal their true identities from
the community or seek employment.
They lead a relatively quiet life, interrupt-
ed on rare occasions by menaces. At
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A IN (40)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I GD(10)
P GD (10)
Health: 110
Karma: 30
Resources: GD
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Marsha Rosenberg
Occupation: Employee, day-care
center
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth : Denver, Colorado
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Denver, Colo-
rado
Past Group Affiliations: Formerly
allied with Dr. Doom and criminals
,,.......__ involved in first "Secret Wars"
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: a one-time friend of Titania, but the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Plasma-Body: Volcana can trans- two have since parted. Volcana is not an accompl ished
form her body into a plasma state, fighter, and prefers to settle things
providing her with the above statis- ADDITIONAL NOTES: peacefully when possible. But if her
tics and Amazing protection against true love, Owen (Molecule Man), is
hand-held or missile weapons. hurt, she will become enraged, like a
Weapons made of less than mother bear whose cub has been
Amazing material will melt on con- threatened. She will follow Owen's
tact with her, causing no damage.
Anyone who touches her takes lead in most matters.
Amazing heat damage. Volcana suf-
fers normal damage from unarmed
attacks.
Volcana must transform herself
back to human form to eat and sleep.
In her normal form, she has the fol-
lowing statistics:
FASE
TY EX TY GD
Heat Blasts: Volcana can shoot ther-
mal blasts with Incredible Agility. The
blasts cause Unearthly Energy dam-
age at a range of up to 1O areas.
Fire Resistance: Volcana has
Unearthly resistance to heat and fire.
Talents: None
Contacts: Rosenberg is the girl
friend of the Molecule Man. She was
189
HISTORY future payment. leading him to try to destroy Earth in
anger. Reece panicked and tried to
Marsha Rosenberg was a resident of Reece recovered from his injuries, enclose the Denver area in a protect-
a suburb of Denver, Colorado, which and as the war moved to its climax, ive dome. When that failed, he pre-
was transported by the near- Doom gained control of the Beyon- pared to flee, but Volcana persuaded
omnipotent Beyonder to an artificial der's unlimited power. Molecule Man him to stand and fight. Meanwhile,
planetoid to serve as part of the saw this as a betrayal, and used his the Beyonder calmed himself and
backdrop for the first of the so-called considerable abilities to return the decided to spare the world. Ironical-
"Secret Wars." She and her friend Denver suburb to Earth, the crimi- ly, when the Beyonder returned to
Mary MacPherran were summoned nals along with it. Enroute, the Denver, the Molecule Man attacked
to Doctor Victor Von Doom and Enchantress tried to collect payment without question, angering the
offered the opportunity to be trans- from Volcana by using Volcana's life Beyonder once again. He was about
formed into superhuman beings in force to give her the power to return
exchange for serving him. They to Asgard . The attempt was foiled by to kill Reece when Volcana threw
agreed, and Doom combined the Lizard and Molecule Man. herself at the Beyonder, begging to
advanced technology provided by be spared. As she expected, her
the Beyonder with elemental elec- Back on Earth, the criminals went apparent betrayal devastated Reece
tricity created by Thor to endow them their separate ways. Rosenberg and and threw him into a catatonic
with extraordinary abilities. Marsha Reece remained in the Denver area, trance. Convinced that Reece was
Rosenberg was given the power to where she acquired a job with a day no longer a threat, the Beyonder left
convert her entire body into ionized care center, and they settled into a him alive.
plasma, causing her to burst into life of anonymity. Their greatest con-
flames and radiate pure thermal cerns were a quiet social life, televi- Volcana alerted the Avengers and
(heat) energy. She adopted the pseu- sion (which they watched the Fantastic Four to the threat
donym Volcana. voraciously), and each other. Then caused by the Beyonder, and was
the Beyonder arrived on Earth in present when they gathered with
Volcana added her power to the search of an intangible sense of ful- dozens of other superhuman beings
ranks of the criminals and there met filment, having had his curiosity to prepare an attack. Then she
Owen Reece, the Molecule Man. returned home, where she found
Because of his unassuming appear- aroused by the Secret War partici- Molecule Man, recovered, and they
ance, Molecule Man was frequently pants. This precipitated the chain of reconciled. They joined the defend-
the brunt of insensitive comments by ing forces, and the Beyonder was
his fellow criminals. Volcana was events that would be known as the
quick to jump to his defense. Second Secret War. ultimately destroyed by Reece.
During the war, Volcana exhibited Over the following weeks, Volcana The battle took its toll on the planet
high power levels, incapacitating the watched as Molecule Man became itself and a giant hole that had been
She-Hulk and Iron Man. At one point, more and more agitated with the left in the Earth's crust caused enor-
Reece was badly injured by Wolver- Beyonder's activities, fearing for his mous geologic instability that would
ine of the X-Men, and Volcana own safety and that of the world. The have destroyed the world had it not
entered into a bargain with the extraterrestrial being called the been for the combined power of the
Enchantress to transport Marsha to Watcher tried to recruit Reece to Molecule Man and the Silver Surfer.
his side in return for an unspecified help stop the Beyonder, but Reece The disaster averted, Reece and
refused to become involved. He was Volcana returned home, where they
torn between fear of the Beyonder have lived in relative anonymity
and the urge to warn him. since.
The Beyonder underwent many
changes and great disillusionment,
190
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S EX (20)
E IN (40)
R RM (30)
I GD (10)
P GD (10)
Health: 110
Karma: 50
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: - 3
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Adrian Toomes
Occupation: Former electronics
engineer, now professional criminal
...--... Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Staten Island, NY
Marital Status: Widower
Known Relatives: Malachi Toomes,
nephew (deceased)
Base of Operations: New York City
area
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the Sinister Six
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Flight: The Vulture flies by using an Aged and embittered, Toomes plans
electromagnetic antigravity genera- scheme after scheme to make him-
tor made of Remarkable Strength self wealthy enough to retire for
material. He can fly silently at Typi- good. He is vicious when cornered,
cal air speed (6 areas/round). He can and will not flee a combat, but he
do Remarkable Blunt damage by prefers not to engage in a fight when
buffeting his opponents with his it can be avoided.
wings. 191
The Vulture is an elderly man, but
the energies of his flight harness
have somehow boosted his abilities.
Without the suit, Toome's physical
abilities are reduced by 1 CS per
week for two weeks. He regains his
full physical abilities immediately
upon donning the wings.
Talents: Toomes has the Electronics
skill and his experience with his
wings gives him a + 1 CS to any air-
borne FEATS.
Contacts: Toomes has a number of
street criminal contacts. He has
employed gangs of thugs on several
occasions.
HISTORY plant offices, hoping to find some exhibit in a city museum.
legally incriminating evidence
Adrian Toomes was an electronics against his former partner. He When Toomes, still supposedly
engineer and inventor who founded, enjoyed the thrill and apparently dying, heard of Drago's failure , his
with Gregory Bestman, the small easy reward of thievery, and so will to recover surged and he
firm of Bestman and Toomes Elec- began a career of superhumanly escaped prison during a staged fire.
tronics. With Bestman handling the powered criminal activity. The Vul- Toomes fled to his Staten Island
young firm's administrative affairs, ture has since then battled and been workshop and built a new electro-
Toomes devoted his time to a pet pro- defeated by the costumed crimefigh-
ject, an electromagnetically pow- ter Spider-Man several times. magnetic harness and costume.
ered harness which would enable Once again the Vulture , Toomes
the wearer to fly like a bird . When Two other men have assumed the stole the costume Drago had worn
Toomes discovered that Bestman identity of the Vulture. Blackie Drago from the museum. Toomes helped
had been stealing the firm's profits, was the Vulture's cellmate during his Drago escape from prison and gave
he physically confronted Bestman term in Municipal Prison . Drago was him the stolen Vulture outfit so that
and discovered that exposure to his fascinated by the Vulture and want- they could battle to prove which one
electromagnetic harness had grant- ed to take over the Vulture's identity. should be the Vulture. Drago, igno-
ed him superhuman strength. Upon He befriended and gained the confi- miniously defeated by Toomes, con-
being threatened by Toomes, Best- dence of Toomes. Then he arranged sequently disavowed all claims to
man threw him out of the company. an "accident" in the prison machine the Vulture identity and went back to
Toomes had no legal recourse, shop where Toomes worked, in prison .
because he had previously signed which Toomes suffered apparently
papers putting the business entirely fatal injuries. On his "deathbed," The only other person to hold the
in Bestman's name. Already an old Toomes told Drago the secret loca-
man, Toomes used what meager tion of an extra Vulture outfit, so that identity of the Vulture was Dr. Clifton
savings he had to retire to a farm in Drago could become the Vulture Shallot of the Empire State Biophys-
Staten Island where he continued to upon Toomes' death, escape from ics Department. Shallot's body
work on his flying harness. Realizing prison, and seek vengeance against mutated into a form resembling that
the potential for revenge that his fly- Spider-Man. This Drago successful- of Adrian Toomes, but possessing
ing harness and superhuman ly did, ultimately modifying the Vul- natural wings and flight capability as
strength granted him, Toomes cre- ture costume by adding a helmet the result of an experimentation in
ated the identity of the Vulture for the with a built-in short-wave receiver. biomutation that Shallot performed
purpose of terrorizing Bestman. Unskilled at using the flying device, on himself. Spider-Man defeated
however, Drago was easily defeated him in battle, forced him to reverse
The Vulture ravaged the Bestman by Spider-Man and sent back to the biomutation procedure, and
prison. The Vulture outfit that Drago effectively eliminated the chances of
wore was confiscated and placed on Shallot again becoming the Vulture.
Adrian Toomes, the only person
who now claims the identity of the
Vulture, is currently in prison .
192
STATISTICS WARLOCK
F GD (10) 193
A EX (20)
S RM (30)
E IN (40)
R IN (40)
I GD (10)
P GD (10)
Health: 100
Karma: 60
Resources: FB (2)
Popularity: 3
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Warlock (English
approximation of his name in his
native language)
Occupation: Student
Legal Status: None on Earth, citizen
of unidentified planet
Identity: The general populace of
Earth is unaware of Warlock's exist-
ence
Place of Birth: An unidentified plan-
et
Marital Status: Single, perhaps
inapplicable
Known Relatives: The Magus
(father)
Base of Operations: Professor
Xavier's School for Gifted Young-
sters, Salem Center, Westchester
County, NY
Past Group Affiliations: The New
Mutants
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Shapechanging: Warlock can alter
his shape to assume any form he
desires. He can extend any portion
of his body up to 2 areas away from
his main trunk, including his optic
sensors. He has Unearthly control
over his shapechanging ability, but
when under stress will revert to his
natural humanoid shape.
Portions of Warlock's body can be
separated or shredded (Excellent
Material Strength), and Warlock will
merely regrow that part in normal
healing. When Warlock takes more
than Remarkable damage in a,single
round, he must make an Endurance
FEAT roll or revert to his normal
form, taking on a somewhat splat-
tered or unraveled look.
Form Change: Warlock can also
assume the shape of anything
organic. He can imitate the form of ROLE-PLAYING NOTES holds various alien Shi'ar technolo-
any humanoid with Excellent ability. Warlock is an alien in almost every gy. Warlock had sensed the artificial
Life Support: Warlock is immune to sense of the word. He still has very intelligence of the mansion's Shi'ar
the vacuum of space. He can travel little comprehension of his new computers.
through hyperspace, moving at world. He is a sensitive, peaceful
CL1000 speed. soul who easily panics when con- Xavier's mansion is the home and
Power Conversion: Warlock can fronted with the unknown, but he will headquarters of two teams of super-
immediately heal damage. To do so, fight fiercely to defend his friends. human mutants, the New Mutants
he "infects" an organic entity, trans- and the X-Men . On the night that
muting it into a techno-organic-like HISTORY Warlock arrived on Earth, the girls of
form like himself. Warlock then the New Mutants were holding a
drains all energy, leaving behind a The alien being called Warlock "slumber party" at the mansion.
lifeless crystalline shell of the organ- comes from an unidentified world in
ism. Warlock gains Health equal to an unspecified location in outer- Warlock has a personal ity partly
the Health the victim would have if it space. His race is a sentient form of resembling that of a young child. Dis-
were living, Material Strength if an "techno-organic" life, which resem- oriented by his new surroundings
object such as a tree. Warlock loses bles circuitry and machinery in vari- and terribly frightened, Warlock
all Karma if he uses this power on a ous ways. Members of this race give clashed with the New Mutants, who
sentient being. Warlock uses this birth to great numbers of offspring, at first regarded him as a threat. But
power at Monstrous rank against the who reside in a "creche," although Warlock's life energies ebbed so
Endurance of the target. the process of birth may be very dif- much that the despairing young ali-
ferent for this race than it is for life en lay near death. The New Mutants
If an opponent is transformed but forms native to Earth. (Warlock has
not drained of energy, that individual referred to his father as his " sire- summoned their friend Douglas
will gain powers identical to War- dam," implying that he has but one Ramsey, who succeeded in initiating
lock's. Warlock can also feed on parent, and that there are no sexual communication with Warlock, and
energy in pure form, such as from an differences between members of his Wolfsbane, one of the New Mutants,
electrical outlet or the computers at race.) Children of this race prove guided him in recharging his energy.
the mansion. their right to exist by battling their Warlock began to speak aloud in
Talents: None parents to the death: either the child English. The New Mutants
Contacts: Warlock is a full-fledged kills the parent, or the parent slays befriended the alien, and with Pro-
member of the New Mutants. He was the child. fessor Xavier's permission, Warlock
at one time a member of the Fallen joined their group. Ramsey also
Angels. Warlock is the son of the Magus,
the ruler of his native world and, became a member of the New
ADDITIONAL NOTES: apparently, its most powerful being. Mutants.
Fearful of being slain in combat by
the Magus, Warlock fled his native Since then Warlock has proved to
planet, but was pursued through out- be a valuable member of the New
er space by the Magus himself. War- Mutants and a worthy ally of the X-
lock found himself approaching Men. His two best friend are Ramsey
Earth, which lies at a major hyper- and his fellow New Mutant Danielle
space nexus. Attracted by unusual Moonstar. Warlock retains his child-
energy sources, Warlock first like personality, although he has
crashed through Asteroid M, the often bravely succeeded in overcom-
base of the superhuman mutant ing his strong fears. He is continuing
Magneto, destroying it, and finally to learn about the planet Earth, using
landed on Earth near Professor television, for better or worse, as his
Charles Xavier's mansion, which main source of information. When
appearing in public, Warlock usually
assumes a human appearance.
Warlock's father, the Magus, came
to Earth in purusit of him and recent-
ly Warlock and the Magus finally had
their confrontation.
194
WARLOCK, ACAM
STATISTICS
F IN (40)
A IN (40)
S RM (30)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P RM (30)
Health: 160
Karma: 60
Resources: FB (2)
Popularity: 1O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Adam Warlock
Occupation: Avenger, savior of
........ worlds
Legal Status: None
Identity: Adam Warlock's existence
was unknown to the general public of
Earth
Place of Creation: The Beehive,
Shard Island, Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Counter-Earth,
,....--... later mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None (as
the Magus), head of Universal
Church of Truth in an alternate future
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS six soul-gems which adhered to his which meant that the gem could liter-
Body Armor: Warlock possessed forehead and provided him with the ally absorb a victim's mind. The vic-
Good body armor against physical following abilities: tim's soul becomes a resident of a
pocket dimension where everything
and energy attacks. • Amazing Intensity devolution, is peaceful and tranquil. Warlock
Ability Enhancement: Once per day which allowed the gem to reverse the could access the memories of any
Warlock could boost his Strength or effects of advanced evolution (such soul trapped within the gem.
as caused by the High Evolutionary),
Endurance + 2 CS for up to 5 turns. returning an individual or creature to The gem is sentient and malevolent,
with the following mental statistics:
This gave him no increase in Health. its original state.
Flight: Warlock could fly at Shift-X • Monstrous Communications, RIP
speeds in an atmosphere, or Class IN MN UN
1000 in outer space. If Warlock could which enabled the gem to instantly The gem could substitute its own
make a Red FEAT roll, he could translate any being's language. mental attributes for Warlock's in a
obtain Class-3000 speed for brief dire emergency. The soul-gem is
• An Incredible Kinetic Bolt, which
periods. could be fired up to 4 areas away. 195
Force Bolts: Warlock could generate
beams of Incredible strength from • Unearthly Soul Absorption,
his hands up to a range of 3 areas.
Life Support: Warlock could survive
the rigors of deep space with Class-
1000 ability.
Protective Cocoon: Warlock could
spin a cocoon about himself in sec-
onds at will. The cocoon was of
Incredible Material Strength and
gave him Monstrous self-healing.
Soul-Gem: Warlock used one of the
made of Unearthly strength material. cocoon drifted near the satellite- his own schemes. Because neither
headquarters of the High Evolutionary, Thanos nor the Magus himself were fac-
Talents: By himself, Warlock has an Earthman who had discovered how to tors in Warlock's original transformation
none. He had access to the talents of control evolution. He was in the midst of into the Magus, their presence diverged
all of the individuals within the soul- an experiment to create a " Counter- an alternate path of reality where War-
gem, however, giving him Martial Earth" upon which evil would not be lock could slay the Magus. In the reality
Arts A-E, Thrown Objects, Aerial allowed to exist. However, as he rested, where Warlock and Thanos succeeded
Combat, Spacecraft Pilot, and Navi- his renegade creation, the Man-Beast, in thwarting the Magus's creation, some-
gation.
Contacts: Warlock has allied with introduced the concept of evil to the nas- one else founded the Universal Church.
the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Cap- cent world's populace. When the High Warlock and Thanos went their own
tain Mar-Vell, and the Avengers in Evolutionary saw his experiment was
the past. He aided the High Evol u- contaminated, he decided to destroy it. separate ways, and Warlock encoun-
tionary on one occasion. tered the Stranger and Gardener, both of
However, upon re-emergence from his
ADDITIONAL NOTES: cocoon, Him offered to go to the planet whom possessed a soul-gem them-
and cleanse it of its evil if the High Evolu- selves. Thanos, unknown to them all,
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES tionary would spare it. Agreeing, the had undertaken the acquisition of the six
Throughout his life, Warlock was a High Evolutionary placed a soul-gem on soul-gems in existence, and had gath-
wanderer seeking a reason for his Him's brow.
existence. He had a strong sense of ered all but the one belonging to War-
justice and could be counted on to For the next few years, Him, now lock. Thanos feared the soul-stealing
act nobly in almost any situation. called Adam Warlock, fought to save the properties unique to Warlock's gem, so
he simply siphoned off the energies he
HISTORY planet from the evil influence of the Man- needed from it. He then transferred
Beast, who led other human-like animals those energies as well as those of the
The being who would one day named who had, like himself, been transformed other gems into a single synthetic soul-
Adam Warlock was the genetic creation from ordinary animals. In the course of gem. With the gem, Thanos intended to
of four scientists who called themselves the mission, Warlock was crucified, but destroy the stars as a gift to Death. The
the Enclave. Adam Warlock was the pro- after retreating and emerging from his Avengers, Captain Mar-vell, the Thing,
totype for a perfect human life form cocoon, he devolved all of his humanoid Spiderman, and Warlock united to
grown from artificial genetic material , animal foe back into their original forms. oppose Thanos's scheme.
which the Enclave intended to mass- Adam Warlock then left the duplicate
produce to form an invincible army to world called Counter-Earth to seek and In personal combat, Thanos mortally
conquer the world. However, the golden- eradicate evil elsewhere in the universe. wounded Warlock. As he lay dying, War-
skinned being then called " Him" acci- lock's temporal counterpart of approxi-
dentally killed one of the four scientists, While traveling through the Hercules mately a year before materialized,
then harnessed his cosmic power to fly star cluster some time later, Warlock having access through time by way of
and left Earth to find his destiny in space. encountered three Grand Inquisitors of the ln-Betweener's realm, and siphoned
Venturing into a region where meteors the Universal Church of Truth, the armed Warlock's soul (spirit-self} into his own
were being captured and examined by a militia of a rapidly spreading religious soul-gem. Doing so, the counterpart of
member of the race of Watchers, Him empire. Aided by a troll-like alien named about a year before disappeared back
spun a protective cocoon around himself Pip, Warlock fought his way through the into the ln-Betweener's realm. Thus War-
like the one in which he was originally various minions of the Church, finally lock's soul joined the souls of the ene-
"born." confronting the leader, or Magus himself, mies he had slain as well as his
who, he learned, was an alternate-future companions, Pip and Gamora. Warlock
After an encounter with Thor, Him's version of himself. was briefly summoned from the tranquil
pocket dimension inside the gem by
196 He discovered that in one alternate Spider-Man. Seething with cosmic
future, Warlock encountered the ln- power released through his physical
Betweener took Warlock to his extradi- death, Warlock transformed Thanos to
mensional realm. For centuries Warlock living, unmoving stone, and then
was trapped there, bombarded by con- returned to the gem. Although the body
tradictions. Even in a cocoon, Warlock is dead, Warlock's soul (astral self) still
could not shut out the consciousness- dwells within the dimension of the soul-
altering stimuli. When Warlock emerged , gem he once wore.
he had gone insane, and had assumed
the form of Magus. Due to some quirk in
returning to his home reality, the Magus
emerged 5,000 years in the past. Pos-
sessed with great power, the Magus con-
quered the army of the planet he was on
(" Homeworld" ), and after seizing control
of the whole planet, set up a religion
which he spread to other solar systems.
To avoid becoming the Magus, War-
lock determined not to accompany the
ln-Betweener to his realm. The Magus,
hoping to insure his own existence, sum-
moned the ln-Betweener and prepared
to deliver Warlock to him. However, the
mad Titan Thanos decided to aid War-
lock, believing the Magus was a threat to
WASP
STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A EX (20)
S GD(10)
E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 60
Karma: 40
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: 50
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Janet van Dyne
Occupation: Adventurer, fashion
designer, independently wealthy
socialite
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Cresskill, NJ
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Vernon van Dyne
(father, deceased), Henry Pym (ex-
husband)
Base of Operations: New York City
area. While on active service with
the Avengers, the Wasp is based at
Avengers Mansion, Hydrobase. She
maintains an apartment in Manhat-
tan and owns an estate in Cresskill,
New Jersey
Past Group Affiliations: East Coast
Avengers, former partner of Henry
Pym
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS at Typical ability. The Wasp rarely . the West Coast Avengers in the past.
Shrinking: The Wasp can shrink with uses this power, so it has atrophied She is on good terms with her ex-
Incredible ability, reaching a mini- and she requires a Yellow FEAT roll husband, Henry Pym , and is a major
mum size of 1/2 inch. In this mini- shareholder in a number of compan-
mum size she can attack for normal to use it. ies, including NEVELL. She is cur-
Wasp Sting: The Wasp can generate rently romantically involved with the
damage at +2 CS to hit, but normal- bio-electric bolts of Energy from her adventurer Paladin.
hands, doing Remarkable damage
size or larger opponents are at - 2 197
CS to hit her. She can vary her height at a range of 1 area.
at any level up to Incredible. Talents: Janet van Dyne has the
Flight: When the Wasp is shrinking, Business/Finance skill. She has
wings extrude from her back, allow- learned the equivalent of Martial Arts
ing her to fly at Poor air speed (4
areas/round). The Wasp can use her D and receives a + 1 CS when fight-
wings at any size except her normal
level of growth, and cannot fly with ing an airborne opponent.
Contacts: One-time chairman of the
any extra weight. East Coast Avengers , she has aided
Insect Communication: The Wasp
has antennas implanted in her fore-
head that allow her to communicate
and command all forms of insect life
ADDITIONAL NOTES: and vanquishing the murderous Kosmo- with acting recklessly during the Aveng-
sian. ers' encounter with the Elfqueen. An
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Avengers court-martial meeting was set
In the past, the Wasp has acted the Ant-Man and the Wasp joined the origi- to examine the charges. Now beginning
part of the "ditzy brunette," but she nal Iron Man and Thor in an adventure,
eventually grew tired of this role and Ant-Man suggested that he and the to undergo a nervous breakdown, Pym
became more assertive. An able Wasp, the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor built a robot to attack the Avengers, but it
leader, she pushed to become chair- should band together as a regular team had a secret weak point which he could
man of the East Coast Avengers, but of adventurers. Wasp who suggested the use to defeat the robot and become a
grew tired of the responsibility and new team's name: the Avengers, and hero in the Avengers' eyes. When Janet
resigned after about a year. She is she became the sole female founder of protested his plan, Pym brutally struck
currently on a leave of absence, the group. her. But Pym's plan went awry, and it was
although she has aided the West the Wasp who ended up defeating the
Coast Avengers on several occa- Sometime later, however, Pym and van robot. Pym was expelled from the Aveng-
sions. Dyne learned that the Sub-Mariner was ers, and Janet brought divorce proceed-
headed for New York City. Fearing trou- ings against him.
HISTORY ble, they decided to alert the Avengers.
But soon van Dyne, as the Wasp, was Henry Pym has since recovered from
Janet van Dyne is the daughter of world- captured first by the undersea barbarian his nervous breakdown, given up his
renowned scientist Vernon van Dyne. leader Attuma and then by the alien Col- career as a costumed adventurer, and is
Accompanied by Janet, Vernon van lector. In order to help the Avengers res- today a trusted advisor to the West Coast
Dyne visited the celebrated biochemist cue van Dyne, Pym decided to use his Avengers and the manager of their com-
Dr. Henry Pym to discuss collaborating growing power again. He donned a new pound headquarters. Pym and van Dyne
on a project. Janet van Dyne found her- costume and adopted the name of Goli- are today friends, but their romantic
self attracted to Pym, while Pym was ath. By this time, both Pym and van Dyne involvement with one another is over.
deeply struck by Janet's remarkable could change size simply by willing Janet van Dyne reverted to her maiden
resemblance to his late wife Maria. themselves to do so, due to their repeat- name.
ed exposure to Pym particles over an
Impressed by Janet's behavior, Pym extended period of time. Van Dyne was The Wasp has recently served a
later revealed his secret identity to her rescued from the Collector, and she and lengthy term as chairwoman of the East
and asked if she would undergo conver- Pym rejoined the Avengers on a regular Coast Avengers. During this time she
sion into a superhumanly powerful being basis. learned that she could retain her wings
in order to become his crimefighting and fly even at a height of a foot shorter
partner. Janet readily accepted. For several years Pym had been in than her normal height, due to her body's
love with Janet van Dyne, but because of gradual adaptation to her superhuman
Drawing on his recent research into his repressed personality, had resisted powers. It was under the Wasp's leader-
the cellular structure of wasps, Pym marrying her. One day while working in ship that the Avengers established a new
implanted cells beneath Janet's skin at his laboratory, Pym accidentally dropped air base on Hydrobase. She also suc-
her shoulder blades and temples corres- and smashed some vials containing vari- cessfully guided the Avengers through
ponding to those cells found in wasp ous unknown gases. The released gases perhaps their darkest hour: the capture
wings and antennae, respectively. He wreaked a radical temporary personality of Avengers Mansion by Baron Helmut
instructed her on the use of the gases change in Pym. He took the new identity Zemo's Masters of Evil.
containing the subatomic " Pym parti- of Yellowjacket, claimed that he had mur-
cles" he had discovered, which enabled dered Henry Pym, kidnapped van Dyne, The Wasp resigned as chairman to
him to reduce himself to insect size. Out- and proposed marriage to her, as Pym take a leave of absence, but traveled to
fitted in a costume of Pym's design, had long wanted to do. Realizing that California to aid the West Coast Aveng-
Janet van Dyne took the name of the Yellowjacket was really Pym, van Dyne ers on a recent case. During that adven-
Wasp and quickly learned how to fly. She decided to play along, fearing that she ture it was discovered that Henry Pym's
then aided the Ant-Man in tracking down would worsen his psychological condi- first wife, Maria, was still alive and that
tion if she did otherwise. Pym , as Yellow- van Dyne and Pym had therefore never
198 jacket, and van Dyne were married at legally been married.
Avengers Mansion, but immediately
afterward, the Avengers were attacked
by the Ringmaster and his Circus of
Crime. The sight of van Dyne in danger
of death shocked Pym back to his normal
personality, but he decided to stay mar-
ried. Pym continued to use the name and
costume of Yellowjacket in crimefighting.
Janet van Dyne Pym launched a suc-
cessful career as a fashion designer
while continuing to act as a costumed
adventurer. By this time it was public
knowledge that Janet van Dyne was the
Wasp. Pym modified Janet's superhu-
man abilities so that her strength would
increase as she became smaller, and so
that she could use her heightened body
energy to power her "sting" weapons.
Pym was charged by Captain America
WENCIGO
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S MN (75)
E UN (100)
R FB (2)
I GD (10)
P IN (40)
Health: 225
Karma: 52
Resources: None
Popularity: -80
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Inapplicable
Occupation: Berserker
Legal Status: Inapplicable
'-., Identity: The general populace of
Earth does not believe that the Wen-
digo is the result of a supernatural
curse
Place of Birth: Inapplicable
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: The Canadian
North Woods
Past Group Affiliations: None
,.,,..-. Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS next time someone invokes the ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Skin Armor: Wendigo's skin is thick
enough to withstand Amazing physi- curse.
cal or energy damage. Talents: The Wendigo can survive
Invulnerability: Invulnerable to cold indefinitely in a wilderness environ-
and disease. ment.
Claws: Monstrous Edged Attack Contacts: None
damage. They are made of an
Amazing strength material.
Running: Excellent Land Speed (5
areas/round)
Tracking: Excellent in the wilderness
Regeneration: Remarkable rank
Curse of the Wendigo: Anyone who
reverts to cannibalism while in the
Canadian wilderness is transformed
into the Wendigo (although there
cannot be more then one Wendigo at
a time). That person is forced to go
on a mindless rampage, killing and
eating anyone he or she comes
across.
The Curse of the Wendigo is mysti-
cal in origin. Under certain circum-
stances someone versed in the
mystic arts can transfer the curse
from its current victim to another. If
the sorcerer has a Psyche of
Amazing or better, he or she can
remove the curse entirely until the
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