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Fatboy

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Awesome face and brilliant background, it looks like liquid gold.

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Name: Dakarai Tshuma
Alias: Bateleur
Affiliations: The Raptors
Powers: Enhanced Strength, Acrobatic Skill, High Resistance To Injury
Bio: The son of Zimbabwean immigrants, Dakarai was always a hard-working child, doing anything he could to help his family. He was a brilliant student at school, participating in numerous sports (football/ soccer, gymnastics and athletics) and had aspirations to becoming a doctor. However, his father was killed in a hit and run incident just before his 15th birthday. Dakarai’s personality changed, he became more violent and disobedient, getting into fights at school and letting his grades slip. Eventually he dropped out of school and began participating in an underground fighting ring. He rose up the ranks quickly, but he wanted more. He took an experimental drug from a trainer, which enhanced his strength, injury resistance and his natural acrobatic ability. His fights became big draws, until he was kicked out for the drugs. He went after the trainer, only to discover the trainer had numerous gang links, and his actions were beginning to put his family in danger. He teamed up with Kate Quinn and took down the trainer. This episode made Dakarai realise how his actions had been affecting his mother, and he pledged to change his ways.When Quinn formed The Raptors, Dakarai donned a costume based on the national bird of Zimbabwe, The Bateleur, and dedicated himself to helping others, instead of using them as an outlet for his rage.

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New team now.

Name: Kate Quinn
Alias: Red Kite
Affiliations: The Raptors
Powers: Super-Reflexes, Super-Senses, Super-Agility, Super-Endurance, Retractable Talons On Hands and Feet
Bio: An aspiring track star, Kate Quinn’s sporting career was ruined when she failed a drugs test. She later found out that her trainer had been spiking her drinks with an experimental performance enhancing drug. However, when she confronted him, she discovered the drugs side-effects. When she became stressed and angry, her finger and toe nails grew into raptor talons, freaking her out and making her run away. She later discovered the drugs other side-effects, her reflexes, senses and endurance had been boosted to super-human levels. She used her abilities to expose her ex-trainer’s illegal activities, restoring her reputation. However, she turned her back on the world of athletics, instead helping to form the bird-themed superhero team, The Raptors, inspired by the exploits of Justice Guard members Gold Hawk and Queen Eagle.

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After Demon Girl first appeared in Lake City numerous supernatural creatures started swarming to the surrounding area, hoping to carry favour with the Demons who wanted this new threat neutralised. And in their wake came the Monster Hunters. Some of the students of Lake City University joined these Hunting fraternities, including Tracy Samuels, a friend of Azaria Thomas, a.k.a Demon Girl. Tracy said that her motivation was to prevent people being hurt by these creatures, but that soon changed. During one hunt she became careless, breaking away from the main group in pursuit of a large male werewolf, a challenge for even a group of experienced wolf hunters. She was bitten and now carries the curse of those she hunts. Luckily, being a wolf hunter, she has all the supplies she needs to control her ‘problem’ but she must be extra careful now, if any of her fellow hunters discover her secret, she will become a target.

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I could rag on that film for year without repetition.

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Fun

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@Vampyrist said:

Fair enough, and Hitchhiker’s is an awesome book and radio series.

I prefer the BBC TV series. TV from that era, especially on the BBC, was brilliant.
The less said about the movie the better.

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@Vampyrist said:

I got 8 (2,3,7,8,9,14,18,20). I also knew 6 and 12, but they slipped my mind when answering and I only realized I knew them in hindsight.
Though technically 13 is wrong. Bob Andersen also played Vader for some of the fight scenes, including when Luke’s hand got chopped off. While he was a stunt double, I believe the fact he was the man behind the light saber deserves notice.

Well done for getting Q20.
In regard to the spoiler, I was aware of that, but I was going by those credited as a member of the cast, which he technically wasn’t.

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Thanks

‘nother new ‘un. Well, new redesign.

“You’re not driven by a need to help others. No, you’re driven by something much more primal than that. Fear. Not fear of those you hunt, but fear of yourself, fear of what you could become, fear of what you could do to those you love. You are stuck between two worlds and either could destroy the other, taking you with it.”- Azaria Thomas to Tracy Samuels

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@Trekkie said:

And I also met one of them when he came to my old town to give a talk on all the film work he’d done.

Do you live in the West Country by any chance? In the Bristol area?

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@Kaldath said:

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Kaldath- Please refrain from giving away answers. Could you edit your post to remove the answer you’ve accidentally put. I don’t want anyone seeing them before having a go themselves.

Sorry about that, it has been edited

Thanks

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I’m sorry for your loss. I don’t know what else to say. He sounds like he was a fine man.

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Try adding shadow. Same technique as the highlighting but dark colours in the places you’d expect there to be shadow.

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I’m going to really annoy you now, but I think that the new costume is even more Tron than the original. Brilliant costume though.

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