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Five down, two to go. Here’s Gamma Guardian
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Real Name: Pharanq W’Qer
Known Aliases: Gamma Guardian, The Guardian-Commander, Frank Walker
Abilities/Skills: energy manipulation, super strength, flight, invulnerability
Weakness: Earth’s oxygen based atmosphere is toxic to him, so he must wear a breath mask at all times.
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Pharanq W’Qer’s home planet of G’ma, deep inside the Vaecor Dominion, is a harsh one. High levels of radiation coupled with a mostly argon based atmosphere make it impossible for most live to survive on G’ma. The G’mannites themselves adapted to their environment. A typical G’mannite can absord most of the dangerous energy the planet throws at them. The Guardians however, are not normal G’mannites.
The Guardians are a subrace of G’mannites that are capable of channeling the absorbed energy, granting them many wonderous abilities. As such, joining the military is mandatory for them.
W’Qer was the proud Commander of the Guardian Legion for over a decade and a half. Under his leadership the Guardians were respected as a exemplars of justice and bringers of peace throughout the Dominion. The generous High Prefect Magnonnius IV was more than happy to use their extraordinary powers in this fashion.
Sadly, all men must die and a High Prefect is no exception to this rule. Magnonnius’ son, Draxur, followed in his footsteps and took on the office and the responsibilities that his father had had. However, Draxur was a spoiled and vain man who believed that the prosperity of the Dominion should be spread beyond its borders.
And so, the Guardian Legion was transformed from a benevolent peacekeeping force into a murderous horde. W’Qer was ordered to commit atrocities in the name of the galactic nation he once so proudly served. Finally, he just couldn’t take it anymore.
He traveled to the next planet on Draxur’s conquest and tried to warn the people there. To his horror, he discovered that the denizens of this primitive planet neither had the means to understand him, let alone escape the oncoming onslaught.
Stories of the strange alien soon spread and Bishop sought him out. The telepath was able to establish rudimentary communications. During his years as an agent for the I.D.E.A., Bishop had met a lot of men like Draxur and he was not impressed. But he also knew that the world’s armies were ridiculously outmatched and that the I.D.E.A was to mired in bureaucracy to be of any assistance. So he gathered the group of talented individuals that would later become the Infinity League to face the threat of the Dominion head-on.
After all was said and done, and the Dominion left. W’Qer was left stranded on the strange world he had come to protect. With the help of his new team mates he constructed a secret identity, aided by a holographic image inducer and an instant translation device. As Frank Walker, he’s a kind and fair police officer, but when the stakes rise he faces it as Gamma Guardian.
2D-Girl
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Real Name: Kara Kendrick
Known Aliases: 2D-Girl, Stretchy
Abilities/Skills: shape shifting, communications expert
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At an early age Kara was discovered as a potential Olympic gymnast. She trained hard and by the age of fourteen she had reached the peak of her flexibility and agility. Sadly, it wasn’t enough. The other girls kept improving and Kara was surpassed. Her personal coach, afraid of losing his job if her charge was kicked out of the training program, secretively started giving her an untested performance enhancing drug that couldn’t be detected in the blood stream.
It seemed to work. Kara became stronger, more agile and more flexible. Easily keeping her competition at bay. But the drug started having side effects. At first, it were only minor annoyances. Something which professional athletes always have the deal with. But when she was under a lot of stress at a qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympics, she started exhibiting strange shapeshifting abilities in the middle of her routine.
Naturally, she was disqualified and the drug use came to light. She was banned from the sport for four years. She would be well past her prime by then and so her dreams of going to the Olympics were dashed.
Instead, she kept using the drug that gave her her extraordinary abilities and in time she got a handle on them. After such a public demonstration of her powers, any hope on a secret identity would have been foolhardy. Realizing that, she stepped out into the spotlight and became the world’s first masked adventurer whose identity was publicly known.
She wasn’t contacted by Bishop to become part of his team. She was just present when the team arrived. In the aftermath, the press didn’t see the distinction and she was asked to join the Infinity League to avoid a media debacle.
While not as powerful as some of the other members of the League, the level of openness she brings to the group makes them a lot less feared by the public at large.
B-Sting
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Real Name: Marie Duprez
Known Aliases: B-Sting, Black Bee
Abilities/Skills: flight, enhanced agility and speed, superstrength, enhanced senses, accelerated healing
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French native Marie Duprez was a sickly child. Allergic to almost everything, she was forced to live her life inside an immaculately clean room. The worst allergy she had, was one for bee stings.
At fourteen she was selected to be part of a clinical trial that would increase her immune system. Miraculously, her allergies disappeared completely. The family moved to the United States because Marie would still have to be treated on a monthly basis to sustain the effect of the formula.
Two years later, Marie was living like a normal teenager. But her life changed drastically when she came home after one of her monthly treatments and got stung by a bee. With so much of the formula in her system, Marie had a severe reaction. Her body was altered at a genetic level, incorporating DNA of the bee that stung. She grew wings and gained abilities commonly associated with bees. She was examined by her doctors, but the process was irreversible.
The creators of the formula thought they had struck gold. A fast and complication free process to create superhuman abilities would certainly make them a lot of money. But for those aspirations to come through, they needed to examine Marie more closely. A process which involved a lot invasive procedures and that was something her parents simply wouldn’t consent.
Not to be discouraged by something as insignificant as parental love, the doctors tried to kidnap Marie one day after school. In the ensuing fight, Marie’s best friend was caught in the crossfire and died.
Vowing to never again let anyone suffer at the hands of greedy men, Marie began her one-girl war against crime.
Her high school graduation was rudely interrupted by the invading forces of the Dominion. Heeding the telepathic call of Bishop, Marie snuck out and joined the Infinity League.And here he is. In his very shiny armor. I’ve also renamed him. He’s now called DynaZone
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Real Name: Leon Lassiter
Known Aliases: DynaZone, Zero
Abilities/Skills: expert hacker, electrokinesis, magnetic field manipulation
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Leon Lassiter was the hacker only known as ‘Zero’. He made himself guilty of every computer crime known to man. However, he bit of more than he could chew when he stole millions of dollars from a company that, unkown to Lassiter, was controlled by the Russian mob.
Soon Lassiter found himself on the run from the ruthless mobsters, hell-bent on getting their money back. In his desperation he turned to a power-broker, shady scientists who alter the genetic make-up of their customers for exorbitant sums of money.
He gained the power to generate huge amounts of electricity. This brought him on the I.D.E.A’s radar. They approached Lassiter and offered him in job. In return they would make his little problem with the mob go away.
For a few years everything went well. He gained a better understanding of his powers and discovered that he could also manipulate magnetic fields. Coupled with his hacking skills, this made him a very accomplished field agent. However, Lassiter became increasingly suspicious of I.D.E.A’s operations. When they ousted one of their top agents on seemingly inconsequential grounds, he started an investigation.
Sadly, his actions were discovered and he was forced to once again go on the run. When the Dominion invaded he was approached by Bishop to join the Infinity League.
In the aftermath of the final battle, the league had gained a lot of popularity and support from both the government and the common people, forcing I.D.E.A to give up their manhunt for the time being.Thanks, I’ll try one of those. The pose is actually based on your Dark Swarm. So I stole that from you
Thanks Scatman. I’m working on the second member of the team, DynaSteel. A superhero with lightning and magnetism based powers. But I’m having trouble with the color scheme. Any thoughts?
This is the leader of a superhero team I’m working on.
Bishop
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Real Name: John Bishop
Known Alias: Mind Master, Agent 024
Abilities/Skills: Telepathy, experienced hand-to-hand combatant, expert marksman, tactician
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Even though he didn’t have any superhuman abilities, John Bishop was one of I.DE.A.’s most successful agents. He made many enemies over the years. One of those was the genius, but absolutely insane, neuro-scientist Dr. Atticus Cerveaux.
On what was to be a routine surveillance mission, Bishop was captured and tortured by the diabolical madman. Cerveaux used a lot of experimental devices in his quest for vengeance. One of those unlocked a dormant part of Bishop’s mind, allowing him to read other people’s thoughts. Using these newfound skills he was able to overcome Cerveaux.
However, I.D.E.A. is one of the most secretive agencies in the world and they weren’t too happy to have a mind reader running around their facilities. Bishop was discharged on some technicalities.
Not one to sit idly by when there was work to be done, Bishop became the masked adventurer Mind Master.
When the Vaecor Dominion invaded earth, Bishop assembled a team to meet the threat head on. The team would become the legendary Infinity League.
