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Re: Codename: Bravo

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Jabroniville wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:45 am Image

CODENAME: BRAVO
It's a shame they wasted a kinda cool name on this schmuck.
Jabroniville wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:45 pm
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (U.S. Agent! Americops! Protocide! Major America!)

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Vibro

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VIBRO (Alton Francis Vibreaux)
Created By:
Denny O'Neil & Luke McDonnell
First Appearance: Iron Man #186 (Sept. 1984)
Role: Jobber Villain
Group Affiliations: N/A
PL 10 (120)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Deception 2 (+3)
Expertise (Science) 8 (+12)
Expertise (Criminal) 1 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+3)
Perception 1 (+2)
Technology 8 (+12)

Advantages:
Equipment (Body Armour +1), Ranged Attack 6

Powers:
"Vibrational Powers"
"Earthquake" Affliction 10 (Dodge; Hindered/Prone) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Instant Recovery, Limited to Grounded Targets) Linked to Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (35) -- [39]
  • AE: "Concussive Blast" Blast 10 (20)
  • AE: "Shockwave" Damage 9 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Line +2) (Flaws: Limited to Grounded Targets) (18)
  • AE: Flight 7 (250 mph) (14)
  • AE: "Tectonic Shift" Earth Control 10 (20)
"Vibratory Shield" Force Field 8 [8]
Immunity 1 (Own Powers) [1]

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Earthquake +10 Area (+10 Affliction & Damage, DC 20 & 25)
Concussive Blast +8 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Shockwave +9 Area (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3 (+4 Armour, +12 Force Field), Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)
Power Loss (All Powers)- Vibro's abilities diminish based off of his distance from the San Andreas Fault.
Responsibility (Disfigured, Mentally Unstable)- The accident that gave Vibro his powers had numerous other side-effects.

Total: Abilities: 42 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 48 / Defenses: 12 (120)

-Vibro's a do-nothing Iron Man enemy that showed up a couple times after gaining powers by... falling into the San Andreas Fault while testing neclear-powered equipment. Yes, that's his origin story. Being driven insane by the accident, he attacked the James Rhodes Iron Man and is defeated. He reappears escaping the Vault during a prison break-out in Captain America, and was defeated by the Falcon & Nomad while Cap dealt with more heavyweight opponents. After this, he became a bit of a Journeyman in a few other books- he got killed & resurrected by the Hand during a Wolverine arc, as this was how they recruited assassins, and was later used by the Mandarin & Ezekiel Stane.

-So he's pretty much a nobody Blaster with a powerful Area Effect and that's it. He's also got a nifty Force Field, making him a bit more survivable than your average Scientist Who Invented One Thing character- with all that on him, he's actually a pretty well-rounded threat.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (U.S. Agent! Americops! Protocide! Major America!)

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Arkrite wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:09 am Image
Much better. :)
Jabroniville wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:45 pm
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The Falcon (Sam Wilson)

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THE FALCON II (Sam Wilson, aka Captain America VII)
Created By:
Stan Lee & Gene Colan
First Appearance: Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)
Role: Cap's Buddy, Token Black Guy (in-universe as well)
Group Affiliations: The Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Heroes For Hire, The Defenders
Avengers Grade: B-Level (former minor-leaguer, briefly team leader)
PL 11 (192)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 14 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Aerobatics 10 (+14)
Athletics 7 (+10)
Expertise (Streetwise) 5 (+7)
Insight 4 (+7)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Investigation 6 (+9)
Perception 8 (+11)
Persuasion 5 (+8)
Sleight of Hand 4 (+8)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Technology 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Animal Empathy, Evasion, Improved Critical (Wing Attack), Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Minion 4 (Redwing), Move-By Action, Ranged Attack 8, Takedown, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Link to Birds"
Enhanced Skills 8: Persuasion 8 (+10) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) [1]
Senses 1 (Communication Link- Redwing) [1]
"Recall Birds' Memories" Senses 4 (Postcognition) (Flaws: Limited to Birds) [2]

"Bird's Eye View" Remote Sensing (Visual) 10 (8 miles) (Flaws: Medium- Birds) (10) -- [11]
  • AE: "Control Birds" Affliction 3 (Will; Dazed/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Area- 120ft. Burst +3) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) (6)
"Falcon's Wing Harness" (Flaws: Removable) [29]
Flight 6 (120 mph) (Flaws: Winged) (6)
Concealment 4 (Visuals) (Flaws: Limited to Machines) (4)
"Vibranium Micro-Weave" Protection 2 (Extras: Impervious 7) (Weak Point -1) (8)
Senses 3 (Infravision, Radius Sight, Microvision) (3)
"Wing Attack" Strength-Damage +2 (2)

"Grappling Hook"
Snare 6 (Feats: Tether) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (12) -- (13)
  • AE: Movement 1 (Swinging) (2)
-- (36 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +14 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wing Attack +14 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Bird Control +3 Area (+3 Affliction, DC 13)
Grappling Hook +12 (+6 Ranged Affliction, DC 16)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +15 (DC 25), Parry +15 (DC 25), Toughness +4 (+6 Harness, +4 Impervious), Fortitude +6, Will +9

Complications:
Motivation (The Youth)- A social worker, Sam is devoted to helping young street kids learn a better way.
Relationship (Captain America)- Sam idolizes and respects Cap, and is generally known as Cap's sidekick/partner much of the time.

Total: Abilities: 74 / Skills: 58--29 / Advantages: 25 / Powers: 44 / Defenses: 20 (192)

REDWING
Role:
Bird Sidekick
PL 5 (55)- Minion Rank 4
STRENGTH
-3 STAMINA -1 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 4 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE -4 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE -3

Skills:
Acrobatics 6 (+10)
Athletics 6 (+3)
Close Combat (Natural Weapons) 4 (+8)
Expertise (Survival) 6 (+6)
Perception 10 (+10)

Advantages:
Evasion, Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Natural Weapons), Improved Hold

Powers:
"Animal Senses" Senses 3 (Extended, Ultra & Low-Light Vision) [3]
"Natural Weapons- Talons & Beak" Strength-Damage +4 [4]
Senses 1 (Communication Link- Sam Wilson) [1]

Flight 8 (120 mph) (Flaws: Winged) [8]

"Small Size" Shrinking 8 (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [9]
(-2 Strength & Speed, +4 Defenses, +8 Stealth, -4 Intimidation)

Offense:
Unarmed +4 (-3 Damage, DC 12)
Natural Weapons +8 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness -1, Fortitude +3, Will +4

Complications:
Disabled (Animal)- Birds cannot speak to humans, nor use their talons to easily manipulate objects.

Total: Abilities: -2 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 25 / Defenses: 12 (55)

The Falcon- The New Black Guy:
-The late 1960s and early 1970s were an interesting time for comics, comic strips, and race relations in general. It was this time, in the shadow of the death of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, that black culture became "normalized" a bit, and you could feature blacks in stuff without worrying about boycotts from the South quite as much. In short, executives in the media grew a set of balls and started including folks that'd previously been disallowed. As such, long-term comic properties all of a sudden started including what became known as "Token Black Guys" into things, in a move that was seen as quite progressive and a "FINALLY we can do this!" kind of thing. Gone were the occasional shots of black train porters and horribly-racist accents (my personal favourite is the time Billy Batson decked himself out in blackface to gain some information, complete with the "Excuse me, suh, but you ya tell muh when my mammy's gettin' here?" voice), and all of a sudden everyone had a black buddy show up. Charlie Brown met a black kid named Franklin, who had zero personality and never did anything. Archie Andrews met Chuck Clayton, a new kid with a cocky streak a mile long, who later morphed into a superfluous nobody who had an obsession with art. Luke Cage got a solo shot at Marvel. And Captain America met... The Falcon.

-There's a whole bunch of nitpickery based off of who came first amongst black heroes, but The Falcon's way up there. DC had a black cowboy character named Lobo who was the first black solo star, but Gabe Jones (of the Howling Commandos) & Joe Robertson came a few years ahead of that as co-stars (people quite rightly ignore "Whitewash" most of the time- good ol' '40s comics), with the Black Panther being the first black superhero. Falcon holds the record for first black superhero to debut without "Black" in his name, predating John Stewart by a couple years, and Storm by six. But since the Panther is entirely African, Wilson is the first African-AMERICAN superhero in mainstream comics, which is a pretty big deal. Any way you slice it, he was extremely progressive. Though my personal favourite commentary about race in comics of all time is from that recent Documentary on comics, where a black writer admits that his favourite moment as a child was reading a comic where Peter Parker is walking around and just kind of goes "hey" to some black kid from his class. It wasn't IN YOUR FACE like all of DC's black-themed stuff was, nor was it Token-y. The sheer fact that Peter talked to some random black kid like nothing was weird about it was in ITSELF highly-progressive for the era- "Oh my God- Peter Parker goes to an INTEGRATED High School!"

Sam Wilson Debuts:
-The Falcon was introduced in Captain America, and was the creation of Gene Colan, who said he was inspired by both more modern depictions of culture and representation, and the fact that he loved drawing black people ("I always found their features interesting and so much of their strength, spirit and wisdom written on their faces"). Stan took to the idea and so Cap, in his civilian guise, found a guy on a strange island who had a close relationship with a falcon named Redwing, and the two helped each other defeat the Exiles- a band of Nazi-allied Red Skull goons. The Falcon thus became Cap's crime-fighting partner in a book now-titled Captain America and the Falcon (1971-78). Later, the Black Panther teams up with him and gives him a flying harness (lol, wait- he was just a regular dude at first, despite being named THE FALCON?). And so for most of the 1970s, Cap had a "Black Best Friend".

The First Dumb Falcon Retcon:
-In 1975, in a horrendous story choice, writer Steve Englehart revealed that Sam Wilson was actually once a CRIMINAL- a pimp and crook named "Snap" Wilson who grew disillusioned due to racism and his parents being murdered by criminals while he was younger. The Red Skull would reveal that he used the Cosmic Cube to disguise Snap's past and give him a mental link with Redwing, then tries to use him as a weapon against Captain America! When this failed, Sam, not aware of his "true" past, still decides to remain a hero, but is written out of the Cap book. So yes, one of like three or four black Marvel heroes was revealed to have been a criminal first. He briefly leads the S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-Agents, before Henry Gyrich attempts to recruit him to the Avengers because they have a racial quota. Offended by this obvious tokenism and Affirmative Action-esque thing, Sam quits at the first available opportunity. It's actually pretty progressive to have an "I won't be your token Black guy!" arc way back in the '70s & '80s, though I think an increase in black Avengers would've been a good thing all the same. A brief Limited Series in 1983 by Christopher Priest reveals ANOTHER retcon- that he was a mutant- something that lasted 18 years.

-With his run in Cap largely over, Sam kind of... just became a random guy. When I first got into comics, he was essentially un-used- Mark Gruenwald hardly ever used him in his entire Cap run (for all Gru's strengths, I find he almost NEVER wrote Black people), and the Marvel Cards that were so important to my early fandom barely featured him at all, either. And so he made a handful of cameos here or there, and disastrously kept changing his powers- proof that he'd kind of become "lost", as the only thing people would think of was ways to modify him. Eventually he could "See" through the eyes of all birds, not just Redwing. He joins the Avengers once, and helps out Gyrich feed false information to the Red Skull, now disguised as "Del Rusk", a high-level government official, and appears on Avengers from 1998-2002 and is a partner in a few books, but eventually the Scarlet Witch goes nuts during Disassembled and makes him act more like his "Snap" persona, and he starts becoming more violent. He quits being the Falcon after his girlfriend's ex shoots at them, seemingly killing Cap- though the hero recovers, Sam is so horriffied he decides to reassess his life.

Modern Falcon- Sam Gets a Mega-Push:
-This seemed pretty disastrous for Sam- now a low-tier character who gets screwed around with a lot, but brighter things were ahead. He was made to look cool and competent in Ed Brubaker's famous Cap run, and helped out during "Civil War" and when Cap was killed. And then, in a highly-controversial move, he is named the NEW Captain America when Steve returns, but is aged into an elderly man. While "Sam as Cap" is something that's been posited for ages (since the 1970s, at least), this came so soon after Bucky's run as a replacement Cap, and right in the middle of a huge "Diversity Push" surge of minority replacement heroes, that the whole thing went over very poorly. Marvel doubled-down repeatedly, in-story and out (with doofus-looking guys bemoaning "the Avengers becoming PC" and waiting for the "real heroes" to come back), annoying many fans. And to be fair, while "Sam as Cap" is fitting, I had issues with Marvel's attitude and the timing of the whole thing- Bucky-Cap was barely a few years before, and Marvel's Diversity Push was one of the most obvious, heavy-handed, cloying things going. That this happened during the height of Cap's popularity in the Marvel movies didn't help. But hey, at least they retconned out "Snap", as the Red Skull's daughter Sin reveals that it was just a false memory. Took them only thirty years to fix THAT!

-In the new, Sam-led Captain America series, Sam-Cap goes on a variety of adventures. Notably, Mexican teenager Joaquin Torres is merged with Redwing in an experiment by the mad Karl Malus, becoming a hybrid creature- the permanent change leads him to becoming the new Falcon, now SAM'S sidekick. Steve Rogers is soon returned to his normal age, resulting in pressure on Sam to give up the role, but Steve (now a big S.H.I.E.L.D. guy) tells him to keep it. Sam fights numerous other guys, like the Serpent Society, the "Pleasant Hill" thing, and even the U.S. Agent- the Agent nearly defeats him, but Sam drags him into a dark tunnel and uses his powers to "see" through the eyes of a bunch of great-horned owls, defeating the jerkass former Cap. The Cap comic sees a big "Sam has a public relations problem" as he's seen fighting Americops (an analog to modern police brutality/racism controversies), squabbles with other heroes, and more- this culminates in Secret Empire and Cap revealing that he's been a HYDRA agent "all this time".

-Sam steps down as Cap after Steve manipulates him into looking like a public failure, but redoubles his efforts and leads the heroes during Secret Empire when the truth is uncovered- that it's just some Cosmic Cube shenanigans that made this fake "Evil Steve". He wins back the round Shield and serves as an inspiration to the other heroes, and Original-Steve beats HYDRA-Steve. But this turned out to be his peak, as Sam steps down as Cap and becomes the Falcon again, setting things back to the old status-quo. Sam takes on a new Patriot as a sidekick, getting a new Falcon series in the aftermath... just as the Marvel Movies now feature Sam as the new Cap, now that Steve aged himself to be with his beloved Peggy Carter. Marvel JUST CAN'T WIN.

So What's With The Falcon:
-This is... a pretty wild, disparate history that shows what happens when you're a minority character who is mostly known as a sidekick. His 1970s push was about as big as a black character was ever gonna get at that point, but some bad story ideas (SNAP WILSON) and him leaving the book proved to be dreadful, and he was a non-entity for 15 years, doing nothing of importance as he never struck Mark Gruenwald's fancy (either as Cap writer or Avengers Editor). He gets mini-pushes once Marvel becomes more diversity-conscious from 1998-on, but gets screwed around with repeatedly like most C-List characters by that point, bouncing from book to book as various writers change and mess around with things, leaving his bio a mess. The Brubaker run brought him back to the limelight at least, but the "Sam-Cap" run kind of left a bad taste in people's mouths, as it seems like nobody was happy- Sam got his biggest push EVER as a result of that, but everyone knew the status quo was gonna return. And honestly, a new Falcon series will always have the flavor of "This book is gonna be cancelled in a year, so why bother?". But not bad for a guy whose entire gimmick was "Black Best Friend" and "The Aquaman of Birds".

The Falcon's Abilities:
-Sam, formerly a PL 8-9 Street Level guy, has received a ton of upgrades over the past decade-plus, effectively becoming a PL 9.5 melee fighter (his major issue is lack of power, and he's no martial artist elite), with PL 10.5 defenses. A key thing with him is Goonsweeping and being hard to hit- he Goonsweeps with the best of them in Brubaker's Cap run, without being overpowered or crazy. Some things are quite expensive, like his Bird Control and his Remote Sensing (he can keep an eye out over an ENTIRE CITY with his powers- looking through the eyes of birds). He's got Bird Control AND Persuasion, with the latter being more of a natural Skill than part of his powers, thus covering all his bases. All in all, Sam Wilson makes a pretty good sidekick/partner to Cap or Bucky, despite being a few PLs below them. Add Cap's Shield to him (for his modern incarnation), and you boost him to a PL 11 defensively, and give him more versatility in combat.

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THE FALCON II (Sam Wilson, aka Captain America VII)- 1970-2004
Created By:
Stan Lee & Gene Colan
First Appearance: Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)
Role: Cap's Buddy, Token Black Guy (in-universe as well)
Group Affiliations: The Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Heroes For Hire, The Defenders
Avengers Grade: D-Level
PL 9 (169)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 11 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Aerobatics 10 (+14)
Athletics 4 (+7)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+12)
Expertise (Streetwise) 4 (+6)
Insight 4 (+7)
Intimidation 3 (+5)
Investigation 5 (+8)
Perception 7 (+10)
Sleight of Hand 4 (+8)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Technology 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Animal Empathy, Evasion, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Minion 4 (Redwing), Move-By Action, Ranged Attack 6, Takedown, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Link to Birds"
Enhanced Skills 8: Persuasion 8 (+10) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) [1]
Senses 1 (Communication Link- Redwing) [1]
"Recall Birds' Memories" Senses 4 (Postcognition) (Flaws: Limited to Birds) [2]

"Bird's Eye View" Remote Sensing (Visual) 10 (8 miles) (Flaws: Medium- Birds) (10) -- [11]
  • AE: "Control Birds" Affliction 3 (Will; Dazed/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Area- 120ft. Burst +3) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) (6)
"Falcon's Wing Harness" (Flaws: Removable) [29]
Flight 6 (120 mph) (Flaws: Winged) (6)
Concealment 4 (Visuals) (Flaws: Limited to Machines) (4)
"Vibranium Micro-Weave" Protection 2 (Extras: Impervious 7) (Weak Point -1) (8)
Senses 3 (Infravision, Radius Sight, Microvision) (3)
"Wing Attack" Strength-Damage +2 (2)

"Grappling Hook"
Snare 6 (Feats: Tether) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (12) -- (13)
  • AE: Movement 1 (Swinging) (2)
-- (36 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wing Attack +12 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Bird Control +3 Area (+3 Affliction, DC 13)
Grappling Hook +8 (+6 Ranged Affliction, DC 16)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +4 (+6 Harness, +4 Impervious), Fortitude +6, Will +7

Complications:
Motivation (The Youth)- A social worker, Sam is devoted to helping young street kids learn a better way.
Relationship (Captain America)- Sam idolizes and respects Cap, and is generally known as Cap's sidekick/partner much of the time.

Total: Abilities: 66 / Skills: 48--24 / Advantages: 18 / Powers: 44 / Defenses: 17 (169)

-This is essentially my old Falcon build. This Falcon's a very decent PL 9, going WAY over-points thanks to some pretty killer gear (the Harness), and great fighting skills- he's up there just under Bucky-Cap, and equal to Spider-Man & Shatterstar in terms of close-combat fighting ability, which I think makes sense.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA VII (Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon II)
Created By:
Stan Lee & Gene Colan
First Appearance: Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)
Role: Cap's Buddy, Token Black Guy (in-universe as well)
Group Affiliations: The Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Heroes For Hire, The Defenders
Avengers Grade: B-Level (former minor-leaguer, briefly team leader)
PL 12 (209)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 14 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Aerobatics 10 (+14)
Athletics 7 (+10)
Expertise (Streetwise) 5 (+7)
Insight 4 (+7)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Investigation 6 (+9)
Perception 8 (+11)
Persuasion 5 (+8)
Sleight of Hand 4 (+8)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Technology 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Animal Empathy, Evasion, Improved Critical (Wing Attack), Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Minion 4 (Redwing), Move-By Action, Ranged Attack 8, Takedown, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Link to Birds"
Enhanced Skills 8: Persuasion 8 (+10) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) [1]
Senses 1 (Communication Link- Redwing) [1]
"Recall Birds' Memories" Senses 4 (Postcognition) (Flaws: Limited to Birds) [2]

"Bird's Eye View" Remote Sensing (Visual) 10 (8 miles) (Flaws: Medium- Birds) (10) -- [11]
  • AE: "Control Birds" Affliction 3 (Will; Dazed/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Area- 120ft. Burst +3) (Flaws: Limited to Birds -2) (6)
"Captain America's Mighty Shield" (Feats: Restricted to Those Trained, Indestructible) (Flaws: Easily Removable) [17]
Enhanced Advantages 2: Evasion (Total 2), Withstand Damage (Trade Off Defenses for Toughness) (2)
"Shield Toss" Strength-Damage +2 (Feats: Dynamic, Ricochet 5, Split 2) (Extras: Ranged 8) (Diminished Range -1) (17) -- (23)
  • Dynamic AE: "Shield Bash" Strength-Damage +3 (Feats:
  • Dynamic) (Extras: Penetrating 3) (7)
  • Dynamic AE: "Bouncing Shield" Strength-Damage +2 (Feats:
  • Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable 7, Selective 7) (17)
  • Dynamic AE: Enhanced Dodge 3 & Parry 2 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Sustained +0) Linked to Enhanced Strength 5 (Flaws: Limited to Resisting Movement) (10)
-- (25 points)

"Falcon's Wing Harness" (Flaws: Removable) [29]
Flight 6 (120 mph) (Flaws: Winged) (6)
Concealment 4 (Visuals) (Flaws: Limited to Machines) (4)
"Vibranium Micro-Weave" Protection 2 (Extras: Impervious 7) (Weak Point -1) (8)
Senses 3 (Infravision, Radius Sight, Microvision) (3)
"Wing Attack" Strength-Damage +2 (2)

"Grappling Hook"
Snare 6 (Feats: Tether) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (12) -- (13)
AE: Movement 1 (Swinging) (2)
-- (36 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +14 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Shield Bash +14 (+6 Damage, DC 20)
Wing Attack +14 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Bird Control +3 Area (+3 Affliction, DC 13)
Grappling Hook +12 (+6 Ranged Affliction, DC 16)
Sheild Toss +12 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Shield Area Attacks +5 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +15 (+18 Shield, DC 25-28), Parry +15 (+17 Shield, DC 25-27), Toughness +4 (+6 Harness, +4 Impervious), Fortitude +6, Will +9

Complications:
Motivation (The Youth)- A social worker, Sam is devoted to helping young street kids learn a better way.
Relationship (Captain America)- Sam idolizes and respects Cap, and is generally known as Cap's sidekick/partner much of the time.

Total: Abilities: 74 / Skills: 58--29 / Advantages: 25 / Powers: 61 / Defenses: 20 (209)

-This is Sam using Captain America's legendary Shield- a device that adds 17 points and a PL and a half to his build. Already hard to hit, he becomes PL 12 to Dodge and PL 11.5 to Parry, but is still only PL 10 or in melee and at range- he just doesn't have the damage or accuracy to make it any higher.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Americops! Protocide! Maj. America! The Falcon!)

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I've nothing really positive or negative to say about Falcon, he's pretty 'meh' to me, a convincing street level crime fighter at best. That he suddenly became a Cap or Winter Soldier level master combatant when he took on the Cap identity was frankly a bit ridiculous. It's just my preference but I quite liked the hard light wings.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Americops! Protocide! Maj. America! The Falcon!)

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Personally, I felt like making Sam Captain America was the most racist thing they could’ve done. All his history, experience, and ground-breaking diversity, and it’s just to prepare him to step in to someone else’s identity. Like being the Falcon is meaningless.

Granted, I’m a white dude, so what do I know.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Americops! Protocide! Maj. America! The Falcon!)

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Sam is the second Falcon, not the first. The first was Carl Burgess. Granted, he didn't last all that long, apparently appearing in 2 issues of Daring Mystery Comics(#5-6) and one issue of The Human Torch(#2).

(Also keep in mind that the biggest names to ever come out of Timely's Daring Mystery Comics/Daring Comics were the Blue Diamond and Citizen V. And for issues 9, 10, and 11 the book was turned into another book starring the Torch, Namor, and the golden-age Angel.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Americops! Protocide! Maj. America! The Falcon!)

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Ken wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:19 pm Sam is the second Falcon, not the first. The first was Carl Burgess. Granted, he didn't last all that long, apparently appearing in 2 issues of Daring Mystery Comics(#5-6) and one issue of The Human Torch(#2).

(Also keep in mind that the biggest names to ever come out of Timely's Daring Mystery Comics/Daring Comics were the Blue Diamond and Citizen V. And for issues 9, 10, and 11 the book was turned into another book starring the Torch, Namor, and the golden-age Angel.
Oh yeah, that guy- he's way buried in my list of dudes (the Golden Age section) and forgot all about him.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Americops! Protocide! Maj. America! The Falcon!)

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For a long time I said that Sam was just one writer away from being a good character and I still think that's the case, even after the massive push he got in recent years.
On one hand, when I think of Sam, I picture him as "your friendly neighbourhood superhero", a guy that works on a very local base and very rarely get himself involved in bigger events. On the other there is no denying that he is and always will be Steve's best fighting partner. Cap and Falcon can pretty much take down entire armies and they have done so in the past. All of this makes Sam's PL really hard to estimate.
Out of the massive diversity push of Marvel I think that making Sam the new Captain America made at least a modicum of sense, since there was an established history and respect between the two character (not like, say. Riri Williams), but at the same time it just didn't work. Possibly because of Bucky's tenure as Cap a few years before, the gimmick of putting someone other than Steve behind the shield felt overused and not really effective (also, it didn't help that Sam acted very much out of character in some stories as Cap and that someone felt the need to ass-pull a romance between him and Jane Foster).
My general gut feeling is that Falcon nests (pun very much intended) in a niche similar to Hawkeye: he really doesn't work as a stand along character, but he's just perfect as a team player. It also helps that being a very recognizable backgrounder, he's insanely connected in the Marvel Universe, up to the point of being one of the few heroes that aren't afraid of Hulk, since old Jade Jaws nursed Sam's nephew while he was dying of AIDS.
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Joaquin Torres

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THE FALCON III (Joaquin Torres)
Created By:
Nick Spencer & Daniel Acuna
First Appearance: Sam Wilson: Captain America #1 (Dec. 2015)
Role: Legacy Hero
Group Affiliations: The Champions

-So with Sam Wilson becoming the new Captain America, and Marvel & Nick Spencer acting like it was going to be a very long-term change, we got a brand-new FALCON to go with it. Cleverly swapping his race around, Spencer introduced Joaquin Torres, a Mexican immigrant to the U.S. Torres had been abducted by the Sons of the Serpent (a racist group now established as being against Latino immigration, taking advantage of timely conversations about illegal immigration of such), and then experimented upon by Karl Malus, who turned him into a bird/human hybrid, using Sam's own partner Redwing as a template. Malus was beaten, but it was discovered that Joaquin's transformation was permanent (since Redwing was... vampiric and had a healing factor. I guess).

-Joaquin later saved Sam from being thrown out of a window, and Sam telepathically sent him the knowledge of how to fight, using his ability to communicate with Redwing- Joaquin thus temporarily fought well enough so that Misty Knight & Demolition Man could save the day against the Serpent Society. Joaquin thus became Sam's sidekick as the NEW Falcon. During Secret Empire, he shows up with the Champions as part of the resistance against HYDRA. But of course, Steve Rogers is now back as Cap, making this character one of those odd "orphaned sidekicks", so who knows what will become of him? My guess? They'll slap another bird of prey's name onto him and have him pop up in the background every few years for the rest of his existence.

-I have no real idea of his capabilities- he appears in about a year's worth of Cap comics and a handful of Champions issues before disappearing. He can fly and has some combat ability, but I'm not sure how much of Sam's telepathically-gifted martial arts he has maintained.
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Re: Joaquin Torres

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Jabroniville wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:23 pm Image

THE FALCON II (Joaquin Torres)
Created By:
Nick Spencer & Daniel Acuna
First Appearance: Sam Wilson: Captain America #1 (Dec. 2015)
Role: Legacy Hero
Group Affiliations: The Champions

-So with Sam Wilson becoming the new Captain America, and Marvel & Nick Spencer acting like it was going to be a very long-term change, we got a brand-new FALCON to go with it. Cleverly swapping his race around, Spencer introduced Joaquin Torres, a Mexican immigrant to the U.S. Torres had been abducted by the Sons of the Serpent (a racist group now established as being against Latino immigration, taking advantage of timely conversations about illegal immigration of such), and then experimented upon by Karl Malus, who turned him into a bird/human hybrid, using Sam's own partner Redwing as a template. Malus was beaten, but it was discovered that Joaquin's transformation was permanent (since Redwing was... vampiric and had a healing factor. I guess).

-Joaquin later saved Sam from being thrown out of a window, and Sam telepathically sent him the knowledge of how to fight, using his ability to communicate with Redwing- Joaquin thus temporarily fought well enough so that Misty Knight & Demolition Man could save the day against the Serpent Society. Joaquin thus became Sam's sidekick as the NEW Falcon. During Secret Empire, he shows up with the Champions as part of the resistance against HYDRA. But of course, Steve Rogers is now back as Cap, making this character one of those odd "orphaned sidekicks", so who knows what will become of him? My guess? They'll slap another bird of prey's name onto him and have him pop up in the background every few years for the rest of his existence.

-I have no real idea of his capabilities- he appears in about a year's worth of Cap comics and a handful of Champions issues before disappearing. He can fly and has some combat ability, but I'm not sure how much of Sam's telepathically-gifted martial arts he has maintained.
Not a great character but I didn't dislike him unlike many of those introduced in modern comics. He can fly and has a pretty decent healing factor IIRC, his physical abilities and senses are above normal human, I'd say Cap level enhanced at most. Given what he looks like under the helmet he definitely has enhanced eyesight.
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The Patriots

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THE PATRIOT I-III:
-The Patriot has become an uncommonly common name in Marvel Comics, considering the original is a totally forgettable Golden Age Superhero whose only claim to fame is being named as the second replacement Captain America during World War II, to explain away some old stories. The generic-ness of the name seems to kind of be a benefit, here, as it's very succinct and explains the character right away. Curiously, both of the recent ones have been black teenagers, with one being written out as the only Young Avenger not to do anything.

THE PATRIOT I (Jeffrey Mace): The Patriot I (Cap III)
-Mace debuted in April 1941, only ONE MONTH after Captain America did, and actually lasted for a full seventy issues in the backups in Human Torch Comics. He's probably more inspired by The Shield than anything, given the timeline, and was created by Ray Gill & the Sub-Mariner's creator, Bill Everett. He was just a normal guy, and not that special, but Golden Age fanboy Roy Thomas popped him onto the Liberty Legion, a team of Golden Age heroes retroactively grouped together in his Invaders book. It was also detemined that he was a replacement for Captain America in the 1950s- one of a handful of attempts of explaining why Marvel had published Cap-themed stories after World War II (when Stan & Jack Kirby had retconned in that Cap was lost right before the end of the war). Here, he was the replacement for The Spirit of '76, William Naslund, who was the FIRST "Replacement Cap". Naslund had been killed saving then-senator J.F.K. from a killer robot, and so a new Cap was needed. He married Steve Rogers' former girlfriend the Golden Girl, and died of cancer in the modern era.

THE PATRIOT II (Eli Bradley): The Patriot II (Bradley)
-Eli debuted as one of the Young Avengers, a snot-nosed band of wannabe Avengers following Disassembled. He was the grandson of Isaiah Bradley, who was at this point retconned in as a victim of the Super-Soldier Serum program. A victim of racism, he was given the Serum and discarded, but engaged in some background assignments and became a legend as "The Black Captain America". In modern times, Bradley had no powers, but stole some Mutant Growth Hormone to join the Young Avengers. Here, he tried to start a relationship with Kate Bishop, but was eventually written out of the book, as he struck no particular writer's muse.

THE PATRIOT III (Rayshaun Lucas): The Patriot III (Rayshaun)
-A second "Black Patriot", this one is more of a "Young Blacktivist" character created for the Sam Wilson: Captain America series.
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The Patriot (Lucas)

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THE PATRIOT III (Rayshaun Lucas)
Created By:
Nick Spencer & Daniel Acuna
First Appearance: Sam Wilson: Captain America #18 (March 2017)
Role: Legacy Hero
Group Affiliations: None

-Inexplicably, Marvel chose to produce a NEW Patriot during Nick Spencer's Captain America run. This, despite Eli Bradley being a black Patriot shown in the Young Avengers series until various writers suddenly got tired of him and wrote him out. The new Patriot is a teen activist who fights against racism and idolizes Sam Wilson, putting him into the forefront of Spencer's "Social Politics"-themed run on the book. When Rage is savagely beaten by the private security "Americops" and then convicted unjustly, Rayshaun is disgusted and paints his face to resemble Rage's mask, firebombs a local bank, and participates in active riots in New York City. Eventually, he just creates a "Patriot" costume. This, naturally, brings to mind any number of killings (vigilante and police-based) of black men- an ongoing issue Spencer chose to discuss.

-Riri Williams and a Tony Stark A.I. discover his plans for a Patriot suit and build it, giving him some powers. A conversation with Sam Wilson sees Sam take the "Captain America" identity back after Steve Rogers had resumed it, but shown an allegiance to HYDRA. He later becomes the Falcon's sidekick.

-Another character too new and unproven to build, the third Patriot resembles a young, teenaged, black Captain America, with a triangle shield like Steve's original version.
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Re: The Patriots

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Jabroniville wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2020 9:32 pm -The Patriot has become an uncommonly common name in Marvel Comics, considering the original is a totally forgettable Golden Age Superhero whose only claim to fame is being named as the second replacement Captain America during World War II, to explain away some old stories. The generic-ness of the name seems to kind of be a benefit, here, as it's very succinct and explains the character right away.
"The Patriot" is a pretty common name, period, just rarely on a major player. DC's had two "The Patriots": one was Merryman's father, a former member of the Freedom Brigade, in The Inferior Five; the other was Steve Trevor when he received super power pills for one story in the 1960s.

"The Patriot" was also the codename given to Jason Miller by his nemefactor, NexusCorp, in Rising Stars. Amusingly, he was going to be called "Flagg" but Howard Chaykin (creator and OWNER of the American Flagg character) said otherwise. JMS actually included this in Rising Stars, saying canonically that NexusCorp wanted to use the name 'Flagg' but "some guy named Chaykin" sued.
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