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Alias: Copycat
Real Name: Janine Flagg
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: ability to shapesift to mimic any object or person she sees
Affiliations: Citizens’ Hero League
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
In 2032, the technology-based company PresCorp discovered an amazing thing. By stimulating and manipulating the right genes, they could give a normal person amazing super powers temporarily. The effects lasted for about a week.
To collect as much on this breakthrough as they could, PresCorp created a daughter company called Venture, Inc. Venture offered the process to those who would pay for it (a hefty sum), and then kept them on a compound on an otherwise deserted island. They would create adventures in which these people could use their powers. It was exclusively for the sake of entertainment and profit, letting the rich and influential people of the country live out the fantasy of being a superhero for a short time. Lengthy background checks were performed to ensure that none of the customers would use their powers for evil, as well as a cancellor gate, which would void all powers when passed through.
There was a public outcry scolding Venture for making the experience so expensive and thus only for the wealthy, but no legal action could be carried out.
But then the demons arrived.
To call them demons is probably a misnomer. They were really just beings from another dimension. They had found a way to cross to our world, and when they saw that we were physically inferior, the invasion began. It soon became clear that the world’s existing heroes were not enough. Therefore, the US military declared martial law over Venture, Inc.
The “hero surgery,” as it was known, suddenly became available to anyone for free, as long as they were willing to volunteer to help battle the armies of beasts. And thus, the Citizens’ League of Heroes was formed. Many different powers were offered, and all were given to these everyday working people. Thousands applied and most were accepted. They were each given a crash course on how to control and use their new found powers, and then they were sent to the fray. They were divided into teams of ten, each being led by a pre-existing superhero. Makeshift hospitals were set up near the battle lines so that the week long powers could be continued as long as was necessary. They fought until the menace was destroyed. Many died in the battles. The rest returned to their normal, mundane lives, but with the memory of being and doing something extraordinary.Never fully happy with her self, Janine chose to be able to mimic others. Strangely, her power did not fade after her commitment to the CHL,a nd after extensive studies were made it was determined that she had been a mutant all the time but just needed a trigger. She is now still fighting crime as Copycat.
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Alias: Corona
Real Name: Stanford Granger
Genre: Superhero
Power(s)/Ability(s): Surrounded by extremely hot aura; able to fire a column or short blast of heat; impervious to heat or fire
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: Dynamos Alpha Red Team
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
Stan has lived a hard life. For his entire childhood and most of his adult life, he has been unable to make skin-to-skin contact with anyone. Stan’s body produces an aura that is in excess of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and anything within a few feet of him is immediately melted or burned. This mutation began when he was three. Since then, he has worn a futuristic hyper-cooling containment suit in order to be around other people. Until recently, he didn’t rememebr the last time he got a hug. Stan has lived a life of solitude.However, he recently met the love of his life, Lady Invincible, whose body is impervious to heat, lightening, bullets, blades, most radiation, and sub zero temperatures. In short, she can touch Stan without being hurt in the least. Because of this, Stan has grown hopelessly attached. Although Lady Invincible usually puts up with his smothering affection, she has been known to get fed up with him and break off their relationship. But guilt always brings her back, because she knows that it was a long time before Stan could caress anyone.
Stan, who was inspired by Invincible to become a superhero and adopted the name Corona, can fire columns of heat or short blasts of it, which he laughingly refers to as “great balls of fire,” and he is impervious to his own heat and heat from other sources.
Corona was inducted into the Dynamo Alpha Red Team thanks to a recommendation by Lady Invincible.
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Alias: Cottonmouth
Real Name: Tyson Moss
Genre: Assassin
Powers/Special Skills: expert aim and extensive knowledge of ballistic weaponry
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: arsenal of firearms
Affiliations: Federal Assassins Network Guild (FANG); M.A.C.H.I.N.E.
Other Aliases: Killzone
Status: active
Bio:
Tyson was one of the few members of M.A.C.H.I.N.E. to survive its literal downfall at the hands of Rage. While working there, Tyson was an assassin with codename Cottonmouth. But he was on assignment in North Korea when Rage attacked, and although he had little to return to when he returned to the U.S., he was quick to pick up the pieces and move on. He was picked up by the U.S. government’s secret mercenary agency known as F.A.N.G., and with the new codename Killzone, has quickly risen through the ranks as one of the most formidable assassins in the country.Pictures:
Alias: Count Orca
Real Name: Bruno Brown
Genre: Supervillain
Special Powers/Special Skills: becomes a humanoid killer whale when submerged in salt water
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: The Deep Six
Other Aliases: none
Status: at large
Bio:
Bruno was one of the five men picked by Emperor Shark to become the Deep Six, a group of power-hungry criminals who magically become terrifying sea creatures when they are beneath the ocean. Emperor Shark and his minions hold control of the underwater kingdom of Aquaria, and Count Orca owns a vast amount of the ocean floor in his domain.Pictures:
Alias: Countdown
Real Name: Arthur Jenner
Genre: Temporal Soldier
Powers/Special Skills: expert combatant
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: suit grants time travel
Affiliations: The Clocksmen
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
The Clocksmen was created in the year 2243 specifically to hunt down and thwart the time-travelling villain Chronos. Arthur, though a loyal member of the Clocksmen, had decided that he needed some rest and relaxation, and therefore was not among his fellow Clocksmen when they were killed by Chronos’s catastrophic wave of destruction through the time stream that killed the others, including Arthur’s best friend Clockwise. Racked with survivor’s guilt and bent on revenge, Arthur retired his Clocksman time suit and constructed his own, and went after Chronos by himself. Though he was nearly annihilated, Arthur was able to destroy the Clock of Changes, a millenia-old artifact that Chronos used to time travel, and he left the villain stranded in the distant past. His lifelong mission complete and his quest for vengeance at an end, Countdown dedicated the remainder of his life to fixing any discrepancies in the timeline.Pictures:
Alias: The Crackerjack Kid
Real Name: Peter Bragg
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: excellent hand-to-hand combatant
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: The Sidekicks
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
The Sidekicks are a band of former sidekicks who are fed up with following the orders of heroes who never listen to their ideas and treat them like inferiors. They have banded together to form their own team of crime fighters.The Crackerjack Kid is the former sidekick of the Freedom Four; he spent most of his time running errands for the four brothers, watching them grab all of the glory for their victories and giving him no credit; he finally took his dress blues and split.
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@Blue Blazer said:
Seems legit. Although it naturally begs another question, that being how do deaf and blind schizophrenics “hear” voices in their heads?
Tactile illusions of Braille? Finding messages in the gravel? Imaginary Scentmonsters? Good question . . . Of course, the advantage to this is, that if a human has no senses we won’t be able to diagnose him with schizophrenia anyway, so we’ll never find out.
Alias: The Creature
Real Name: Jerry Bowen
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: able to morph into a variety of monsters
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: none
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
As a child, Jerry was plagued by vivid, horrifying nightmares of grotesque monsters. For years he would awake screaming from these nocturnal visions, until he was advised by a child psychologist to try to befriend the beasts roaming through his imagination. He did so, and found these monsters to be much more friendly than they appeared. He began to name them and started a special friendship with each one.Eventually, he was able to communicate with the monsters, and through inexplicable means, he grew the ability to become them for short periods of time, while awake. He became the superhero The Creature, and when he calls out the name of one of his dream beasts, he can become that monster to help fight crime and villainy.
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Alias: Crescendo
Real Name: Marty Sanderson
Genre: Superhero
Powers/Special Skills: ability to grow to epic proportions
Affiliations: The Protectorate
Other Aliases: none
Status: active
Bio:
Marty was an aspiring basketball player at his high school. He was good at the game, but simply not tall enough to stand out from his peers. Determined to get a basketball scholarship to college, Marty agreed to test an experimental artificial growth hormone. But instead of making him grow a few inches taller, the hormone gave marty to power to make himself grow as big as a three story house, possibly even bigger. No longer even permitted to play basketball because of his unfair gift, Marty accepted the invitation to join the Protectorate.Pictures:
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