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Archangel

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ARCHANGEL (Warren Worthington III, aka Angel, The Avenging Angel)
Created By:
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
First Appearance: The X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963)
Role: Pretty Boy, Flying Guy, Undercard Superhero, Grim 'n' Gritty Upgrade, The Brooder
Group Affiliations: The X-Men, X-Factor, The X-Terminators, The Defenders, The Champions, The Hellfire Club, X-Force, The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse
PL 11 (190)
STRENGTH
4 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 11 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Aerobatics 10 (+15)
Athletics 2 (+5)
Close Combat (Wing Slash) 1 (+12)
Deception 1 (+3)
Expertise (Business) 6 (+8)
Insight 4 (+6)
Intimidation 2 (+4, +12 Blue-Skinned Form)
Investigation 2 (+4)
Perception 5 (+7)
Ranged Combat (Feathers) 6 (+12)
Vehicles 1 (+3)

Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Benefit 3 (Wealth), Daze (Intimidation), Diehard, Favored Environment (Airborne), Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Wing Slash), Improved Initiative, Improved Smash, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4, Set-Up, Startle, Takedown, Teamwork, Ultimate Aerobatics Skill

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Wings"
Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation- High Altitudes) [2]
Senses 1 (Extended Vision) [1]

"Apocalypse's Techno-Organic Wings"
Flight 9 (1,000 mph) (Feats: Subtle) (Flaws: Winged) [10]
"Wing Slash" Strength-Damage +6 (Feats: Reach 2) [8]
Enhanced Skills 8: Intimidation 8 (+12) [4]

"Enhanced Fighting Capabilities in the Air"
Enhanced Dodge 6 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [3]
Enhanced Parry 2 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [1]
Enhanced Advantages 8: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion 2, Improved Initiative (total 2), Move-By Action (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [4]

"Neuro-Darts" Blast 2 (Extras: Multiattack) Linked to Affliction 7 (Fort; Fatigued/Exhausted/Incapacitated) (Extras: Cumulative, Ranged, Multiattack) [34]
"Re-Grow Wings" Regeneration 8 (Flaws: Limited to Wings) [4]

"Switch to Angel-Winged Warren" Morph 1 (Single Form- Caucasian) (Feats: Metamorph) (Quirk: Cosmetic Change- Skin Only) [5]

Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wing Slash +12 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Neuro-Darts +12 (+4 Ranged Damage & +7 Ranged Affliction, DC 20 & 17)
Initiative +14

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (+14 Flying, DC 18-24), Parry +12 (+14 Flying, DC 22-24), Toughness +4 (+6 D.Roll), Fortitude +8, Will +7

Complications:
Responsibility (Xavier's Dream)
Relationship (Jean Grey)- Like most of the team, Warren loved Jean back in the day, but put his feelings aside when she chose Cyclops. When Cyke got married and Jean resurrected, he was drawn to her yet again.
Relationship (Candy Southern)- Angel spent a chunk of his Defenders career with Candy, but she broke up with him when she found him carrying the torch for Jean, then she was killed by Cameron Hodge.
Relationship (Charlotte Jones)- A black lady cop was Warren's girl for part of The Uncanny X-Men.
Relationship (Psylocke)- Warren & Betsy were an item for a chunk of the '90s, though they really had little in common. It felt like someone just randomly paired them up.
Relationship (Paige "Husk" Guthrie)- He nailed her in front of her own mom. Stupid Chuck Austen.
Responsibility (Worthington Industries)- Warren is the sole heir of the company, and it's continued success is dependent upon him much of the time.
Responsibility (Original Team)- The Original Five X-Men are probably the closest and obviously the oldest friends out of all the X-people.
Relationship (Iceman)- Bobby is Warren's closest friend from the days of the Original X-Men- the pair joined The Champions, Defenders, X-Factor and even the X-Men's Gold Strike Force together, and were nearly-constantly together for all that time.
Guilt (Archangel Transformation & Bloodlust)- As Archangel, Warren can be consumed by dangerous bloodlust. Sometimes, the wings even act of their own accord- MLF member Kamikaze was decapitated as he snuck up on Warren from behind, the wings slashing out on their own.
Enemy/Hatred (Apocalypse)- Apocalypse twisted Warren from a beautiful, angel-winged person, into a blue monster with lethal (and evil) wings. Warren has threatened to kill Apocalypse several times, and at one point, even left him to die, ashamed and bleeding on the floor.
Vulnerable (Magnetic & Electrical Attacks)- With Wings made of metal, Warren is more vulnerable to attacks that do extra damage to metal substances.
Rivalry (Wolverine)- The two had a strong dislike for each other going years back, and it got worse the darker Warren got.
Power Loss (Neuro-Darts)- Archangel's darts are powerful, but cannot pierce armour. Any degree of Impervious Toughness will nullify the Darts completely.

Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 21 / Powers: 72 / Defenses: 13 (190)

-Archangel/Angel is weird because someone so innocuous at first (just a "winged guy" when dozens of other heroes could AT LEAST Fly, in addition to a bunch of other powers), and didn't really mean much as a hero for eons. Even in The Champions' failed team book he wasn't given that much credit- being a good flier, but slower than someone like Iron Man or Thor; a good fighter, but not as good as Captain America or Black Widow; and rich, but not richer than Tony Stark. He even joined a failing Defenders series for its last few years, and then IT died. He was just so C-League on every level that it was funny... which is too bad, given that all he really needed was some elite fighting skills- a Winged superhero still has one more power than BATMAN does, after all. And I mean... being able to fly would be REALLY FRIGGIN' COOL in real life! His status as a kind of crappy hero was taken full note of in X-Factor, where Louise & Walt Simonson had him mutilated and altered into the grim 'n' gritty (back when that was a new and unusual thing) Archangel, giving him the most complicated costume to draw in the history of the universe, and some BAD-ASS giant metallic wings.

-This look (given to fix his status as a handsome, wealthy, charismatic Mary Sue AND increase his Power Level according to the Simonsons) was quite successful for Warren, but he still never quite attained the top level of X-Men. He was still too many things to too many people that made him a lesser character (rivals with the more-popular Wolverine; loved Jean but she loved Scott AND Wolverine; was buddies with the originals, who were also buddies with other guys; etc.), and he never got that ELITE bad-ass push to make him top-tier. His only "kills", for instance, are Cameron Hodge (human version) and Kamikaze (expendable Mutant Liberation Front member... well, a MORE-expendable Mutant Liberation Front member), which is less than even the peacenik COLOSSUS has on his list.

-Recent years were odd to him, as he "regained" feathered wings to make him less angsty (while dropping his power level considerably), and Chuck Austen turned him into a Pet Character, giving him one of those fabled "Secondary Mutations" (really just writers half-assedly inserting new powers into old characters, created when Grant Morrison wanted Colossus, but had Emma gain super-strength instead) for Healing Blood, and then he picked up one of an Alternate Magik's swords (during a crossover with Exiles). Things were looking OK for him (he even had a steady girl, after his last five or six didn't pan out- the guy got around as heroes do, having two civvie GFs & Psylocke up to that point), but the new writer decided the Healing Blood was lame and it was eventually written out with little explanation upon Austen's being booted out of comic books forever (I mean, the guy's books kinda sucked and he wrote characters wrong, but the guy got booted out while ROB LIEFELD still gets work? Wuh?).

-THEN he got yet ANOTHER change, as they realized they liked the Archangel metal wings after all, and he gained them BACK, but allowed him to switch out his feathered with techno-organic wings in the end, making everyone happy. But he went psychotic on occasion, then became an amnesiac dimbulb angelic guy who acted like a goober in the background scenes of Wolverine and the X-Men, where he gets hilariously-little play, and absolutely nobody seems to care that a founding X-Man is effectively mentally ill. This actually came into play a bit in the Bendis "Original X-Men Come to Our Time and Freak Out", as Warren is AGOG that his future self is basically a dimwit and nobody really talks about it, and it's part of the group's impetus to not go back to their original time.

-Warren's got a fairly big swack of powers, and he's pretty expensive in 3e, but understandably so- he's got a variety of powers, a lethal Wing Slash, Neuro-Darts, Flight Speed, and plenty of Skills and Advantages too. As it stands, he's a VERY fit Flying-based guy, with most of his concepts based around being very fast and VERY good in the air (he's considered easily the most-skilled flier in the entire Marvel Universe, and the DEFINING "Flight Guy" there). With his Techno-Organic Wings, he gains several other powers: He's faster than Mach-1 in speed, he can lash out with the wings like they were melee weapons (with additional reach), and he can fire a Multiattack assault of paralyzing Neuro-Darts (it's not overwhelmingly powerful, though- it's a PL 10.5 Affliction attack, and a low-powered Blast, since they never seemed remotely fatal in the appearances I saw- guys would bleed, but it was generally less-deadly than even Shurikens).

-It almost feels odd to see him at PL 11, but really, he's only got one attack there (his Wing Slash), and this is a guy whom others frequently compare to Wolverine, and I see him doing a HELL of a lot of damage in his Archangel form. For most of his career as Archangel, he was only PL 10, but he's gotten more deadly since then. Note his Limited Advantages (which I totally copied from J-Mart). He has several Advantages, but Limited to While Flying. A few Flight-related Advantages lie outside the set-up (because you can't really call a Favored Environment a "Limited to Flying" Flaw without totally being a cheater, same with Ultimate Aerobatics). There's also his ability to transform into Regular Angel- basically it's the living definition of the Metamorph Feat from the "Morph" Power- a single alternate form that alters your stats. It's cheaper, but has some different powers- Regeneration and Healing Blood.

-Also, can I just say that I find it REALLY FUNNY that Warren had all of these side-powers added in to ensure that his Wing powers "Make Sense", while FRIGGIN' ICEMAN is his long-term teammate? Like... I appreciate the effort- I love "little things" like that. The whole "his eyes are like a bird's, so that he can move at high-speeds and still see", and "his circulatory system is enhanced so that he can handle high altitudes" and "his bones are lighter so that he can fly despite being too large to do so for wings of that size". It reminds me of how Astro City explains things like making your capes breakaway or hard to grab so that they're not a hindrance in fights... so I like that they make the effort here. But his teammate is ICEMAN. A man who basically rips the Laws of Thermodynamics to pieces just by friggin' EXISTING. It's hilarious that there's all this thought put into making Warren "more realistic" and explaining his mutations, while Bobby Freaking Drake is turning his ENTIRE BODY to ice, creating tons of matter from literally nothing, and somehow trapping people in ice without suffocating them. Comics be funny.

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ANGEL II (Warren Worthington III, aka Archangel, The Avenging Angel)- Chuck Austen Version
Created By:
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
First Appearance: The X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963)
Role: Pretty Boy, Flying Guy, Undercard Superhero, Grim 'n' Gritty Upgrade, The Brooder
Group Affiliations: The X-Men, X-Factor, The X-Terminators, The Defenders, The Champions, The Hellfire Club, X-Force, The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse
PL 10 (165)
STRENGTH
4 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 11 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 4

Skills:
Aerobatics 10 (+15)
Athletics 2 (+5)
Close Combat (Wing Slash) 1 (+12)
Deception 2 (+6, +11 Attractive)
Expertise (Business) 6 (+8)
Insight 4 (+6)
Intimidation 2 (+6)
Investigation 2 (+4)
Perception 5 (+7)
Persuasion 3 (+7, +12 Attractive)
Stealth 1 (+6)
Vehicles 2 (+4)

Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Attractive 2, Benefit 3 (Wealth), Daze 2 (Persuasion, Intimidation), Diehard, Favored Environment (Airborne), Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Wing Slash), Improved Initiative, Improved Smash, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 5, Set-Up, Startle, Takedown, Teamwork, Ultimate Aerobatics Skill

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Wings"
Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation- High Altitudes) [2]
Senses 1 (Extended Vision) [1]

"Angelic Wings"
Flight 7 (250 mph) (Feats: Subtle) (Flaws: Winged) [8]
"Wing Slash" Strength-Damage +3 [3]
Enhanced Skills 6: Intimidation 6 (+12) [3]

"Enhanced Fighting Capabilities in the Air"
Enhanced Dodge 6 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [3]
Enhanced Parry 2 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [1]
Enhanced Advantages 8: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion 2, Improved Initiative (total 2), Move-By Action (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [4]

"Healing Blood" Healing 10 (Extras: Resurrection) (Flaws: Resurrection is Unreliable, Limited to Mixing Blood, Limited to Same Blood Type) [5]
Regeneration 10 (Feats: Regrowth) [11]

Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wing Slash +12 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +14

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (+14 Wings, DC 8-24), Parry +12 (+14 Wings, DC 21-24), Toughness +4 (+6 D.Roll), Fortitude +7, Will +7

Complications:
Responsibility (Xavier's Dream)
Relationship (Jean Grey)- Like most of the team, Warren loved Jean back in the day, but put his feelings aside when she chose Cyclops. When Cyke got married and Jean resurrected, he was drawn to her yet again.
Relationship (Candy Southern)- Angel spent a chunk of his Defenders career with Candy, but she broke up with him when she found him carrying the torch for Jean, then she was killed by Cameron Hodge.
Relationship (Charlotte Jones)- A black lady cop was Warren's girl for part of The Uncanny X-Men.
Relationship (Psylocke)- Warren & Betsy were an item for a chunk of the '90s, though they really had little in common. It felt like someone just randomly paired them up.
Relationship (Paige "Husk" Guthrie)- He nailed her in front of her own mom. Stupid Chuck Austen.
Responsibility (Worthington Industries)- Warren is the sole heir of the company, and it's continued success is dependent upon him much of the time.
Responsibility (Original Team)- The Original Five X-Men are probably the closest and obviously the oldest friends out of all the X-people.
Relationship (Iceman)- Bobby is Warren's closest friend from the days of the Original X-Men- the pair joined The Champions, Defenders, X-Factor and even the X-Men's Gold Strike Force together, and were nearly-constantly together for all that time.
Guilt (Archangel Transformation & Bloodlust)- As Archangel, Warren can be consumed by dangerous bloodlust. Sometimes, the wings even act of their own accord- MLF member Kamikaze was decapitated as he snuck up on Warren from behind, the wings slashing out on their own.
Enemy/Hatred (Apocalypse)- Apocalypse twisted Warren from a beautiful, angel-winged person, into a blue monster with lethal (and evil) wings. Warren has threatened to kill Apocalypse several times, and at one point, even left him to die, ashamed and bleeding on the floor.
Rivalry (Wolverine)- The two had a strong dislike for each other going years back, and it got worse the darker Warren got.

Total: Abilities: 68 / Skills: 38--19 / Advantages: 25 / Powers: 41 / Defenses: 12 (165)

-Angel-Winged Warren has mostly the same stuff but less-so (Wing Slash, Flight Speed, etc.), but gains Healing Blood (kinda useless and limited in scope, really... it reeks of Chuck Austen just flailing about trying to find SOMETHING extra for the guy), Regeneration, Attractive 2 (blue-skinned Warren is kinda scary), and boosted Persuasion Skills and Charisma.

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ANGEL (Warren Worthington III, aka The Avenging Angel)- Teen Version
Created By:
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
First Appearance: The X-Men #1 (Sept. 1963)
Role: Pretty Boy, Flying Guy
Group Affiliations: The X-Men
PL 8 (106)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 4

Skills:
Aerobatics 8 (+12)
Athletics 2 (+5)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+9)
Close Combat (Wing Slash) 2 (+10)
Insight 2 (+4)
Investigation 2 (+4)
Perception 4 (+6)
Persuasion 2 (+6, +11 Attractive)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Vehicles 3 (+3)

Advantages:
Attractive 2, Benefit (Wealth), Daze (Persuasion), Favored Environment (Airborne), Great Endurance, Improved Initiative, Set-Up, Takedown, Teamwork

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Wings"
Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation- High Altitudes) [2]
Senses 1 (Extended Vision) [1]

"Angelic Wings"
Flight 6 (120 mph) (Feats: Subtle) (Flaws: Winged) [7]
"Wing Slash" Strength-Damage +3 [3]

"Enhanced Fighting Capabilities in the Air"
Enhanced Dodge 4 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [2]
Enhanced Parry 2 (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [1]
Enhanced Advantages 6: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Evasion, Improved Initiative, Move-By Action (Flaws: Limited to While Flying) [3]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Wing Slash +10 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (+12 Wings, DC 18-22), Parry +10 (+12 Wings, DC 20-22), Toughness +3 (+4 D.Roll), Fortitude +6, Will +6

Complications:
Responsibility (Xavier's Dream)

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 28--14 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 19 / Defenses: 13 (106)

-Silver Age Warren isn't much of a challenge for most villains, but is still a good team player- it's established that he started out as a solo hero on his own before being recruited by Professor X. He was pretty much at this level as a Defender, as well as a member of X-Factor- his powers never really advanced so much, and he was never a dominating physical specimen.

-The modern-day Teen Warren features FIRE WINGS for some reason- giving him the ability to hit an Burst Area Damage effect.
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Aggamon

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For the Magic Guys Template:
AGGAMON: Aggamon is the ruler of some alien dimension who had some various Magic Weapons and forces other beings to work as slaves in his mystical gem mines, but loses to Doctor Strange.
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Annex

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ANNEX (Alexander Ellis)
Created By:
Jack C. Harris & Tom Lyle
First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27 (1993)
Role: Cyborg
Group Affiliations: The Initiative
PL 8 (130)
STRENGTH
3/7 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 3 (+6, +10 Cybernetics)
Deception 2 (+3)
Expertise (Soldier) 4 (+6)
Intimidation 4 (+5)
Perception 2 (+3)
Vehicles 1 (+5)

Advantages: 
Ranged Attack 4, Startle

Powers:
"Cybernetic Enhancements"
Enhanced Strength 4 [4]
Protection 3 [3]
Flight 5 (60 mph) [10]
Communication (Computers) 2 [8]
Enhanced Advantages 1: Great Endurance [1]

"Weapon Creation" Variable 4 (Weapons) [28]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Weapons +8 (+4-8 Damage, DC 19-23)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +7, Parry +8, Toughness +8, Fortitude +7, Will +4

Complications:
Prejudice (Cyborg)- Ellis is a Desert Storm veteran who lost a leg, and gained a cybernetic appendage to replace it.

Total: Abilities: 54 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 54 / Defenses: 9 (130)

-Annex is one of a million generic Cyborg characters that followed in Cable's wake in the 1990s, as one of Spider-Mans' Enemies-Turned-Friends. He made one more appearance then all of a sudden got his own LIMITED SERIES, which seems insane for a guy I've never heard of. He then of course disappeared until The Initiative dug him out of the mothballs alongside Rage, Slapstick and others. I have no recollection of him in there (he was apparently just "guy standing in the background" for the whole thing), but here he is anyways. A minor-leaguer. 

-Turns out he's one of those 1993 Annual characters that were supposed to be a major influx of '90s-brand kewlness, but most of the characters ended up being SO silly that they were never really used. His contemporaries include Adam-X The X-Treme, The X-Cutioner, and Genis-Vell (the most-successful of the lot),
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I always preferred Angel to Archangel. The blue skin and metal wings were too 90s for me.
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Ken wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:05 pm I always preferred Angel to Archangel. The blue skin and metal wings were too 90s for me.
90's me would disagree, he thought the metal wings and all that angst was cool! Modern me completely agrees with you though. Of course nowadays Angel from the past now as cosmic wings and abilities. Which, while kind of fitting with angel mythology, doesn't fit the character himself.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Agent X & Axis! The Agent! Archangel! Annex!)

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I like the pic at the top of this page of Archangel, all in black with blue face and black metallic wings!

The '90's blue/pink costume and blue skin with silver wings was too much.
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Armless Tiger Man

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ARMLESS TIGER MAN (Gustav Hertz)
Created By:
Paul Gustavson & Al Bellman
First Appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics #26 (1941)
Role: One-Off Goofy Villain-Turned-Meme
Group Affiliations: The Nazis
PL 8 (94)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Acrobatics 5 (+10)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+12)
Deception 4 (+4)
Expertise (Gestapo Agent) 6 (+8)
Expertise (Machinist) 2 (+4)
Insight 3 (+5)
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Investigation 4 (+6)
Perception 4 (+6)
Stealth 1 (+6)

Advantages:
Improved Critical (Teeth), Improved Defense, Improved Smash, Startle, Takedown

Powers:
"Sharpened Teeth" Strength-Damage +1 [1]

Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Teeth +10 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +5

Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications:
Responsibility (The Gestapo)
Prejudice (Armless)- Olden Times are often unkind to the disabled.
Disabled (Armless)- It doesn't really hold him back, however

Total: Abilities: 60 / Skills: 36--18 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 1 / Defenses: 10 (94)

-The Armless Tiger Man was initially just a loser villain who faced the Golden Age Angel in one memorable story- he was quickly forgotten, especially once the hero himself stopped showing up in comics. However, the sheer sight of the guy made him a somewhat outstanding sight to some comic fans who rediscovered the character, and he soon became a bit of a meme.

-The baddie in question lost his arms in an industrial accident, but grew skilled enough with his feet that he drew the attention of the Gestapo, who hired him on as an assassin. Because comics are a beautiful, beautiful medium, he also started a campaign to destroy all machines, in revenge for the loss of his arms. He fought The Angel, who successfully shoved a pipe in his mouth, which stymies his attacks.

-A Retcon Story later features the villain assaulting Wakanda and facing Captain America and the Golden Age Black Panther (T'challa's father, T'Chaka), and he is shot by Gabriel Jones, the black Howling Commando, and killed.

-The Armless Tiger Man (you gotta say the whole thing at once, every time) is a vicious fighter, not held back by his lack of arms- he can even slide down wires using his teeth, which of course are also sharpened into deadly weapons.
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Re: Armless Tiger Man

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There are quite a few jokes that can be made with this guy...
Namely:
Jabroniville wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:51 pm ARMLESS TIGER MAN (Gustav Hertz)
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+3 Damage, DC 18)


Of course, I wouldn't worry, 'cos 'e's completely 'armless...

Then again, a fight between him and this guy would be interesting...

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Jabroniville wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:51 pm Image
It's weird, every actual golden age picture of the Angel I've seen, he's not had a gun.
Jabroniville wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:51 pm -The Armless Tiger Man (you gotta say the whole thing at once, every time) is a vicious fighter, not held back by his lack of arms- he can even slide down wires using his teeth, which of course are also sharpened into deadly weapons.
I'd have to think that the wire would be torn to shreds as he slid.
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Jabroniville wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:00 am-The modern-day Teen Warren features FIRE WINGS for some reason- giving him the ability to hit an Burst Area Damage effect.
This is the main carryover from the 2015 Black Vortex storyline, where some characters got cosmic upgrades from a Tezcatlipocan style smoking space mirror. Most of the characters so changed reverted back (Beast's look was, I recall, pretty neat), but Gamora, Angel, Kitty Pryde, and Ronan the Accuser didn't by storyline's end. Gamora lost her power up (which largely consisted of a star field effect as a cloak lining) within a few months, Kitty's was mentioned in the Star Lord volume focused on their relationship, but has since been largely downplayed, and I don't think Ronan has been in much of anything lately.
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Ajax (Fanny)

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AJAX II (Francis Fanny)
Created By:
Joe Kelly & Walter McDaniel
First Appearance: Deadpool #14 (March 1998)
Role: Speedster, One-Off Villain
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (121)
STRENGTH
7 STAMINA 8 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Acrobatics 5 (+11)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+12)
Deception 4 (+4)
Expertise (Enforcer) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Perception 4 (+4)

Advantages:
Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Defense, Improved Initiative 4, Power Attack, Startle, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown

Powers:
Immunity 2 (Pain) [2]
Speed 8 (500 mph) [8]

Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +22

Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +8, Fortitude +8, Will +4

Complications:
Enemy (Deadpool)

Total: Abilities: 74 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 13 / Powers: 10 / Defenses: 12 (121)

-Ajax was the enforcer of the mad scientist responsible for Deadpool's scarring. Subject to endless taunting by Wade Wilson, Ajax was given permission to kill him- the act set off Deadpool's famed Healing Factor, but took his sanity. Ajax was believed killed, but he returned years later and began hunting down Weapon X survivors. Deadpool narrowly kills Ajax by shorting out his armor's circuitry- he later appears being released from Hell by Blackheart, but he's beaten again.

-Ajax is basically a super-fast, Super-strong guy. Also, I see in his pics that he has a shield for some reason.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Agent X! Archangel! Annex! Armless Tiger Man!)

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You know what makes this site so great. We have three builds of Armless Tiger Man. What other forum can say that?
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Agent X! Archangel! Annex! Armless Tiger Man!)

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scc wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:32 am You know what makes this site so great. We have three builds of Armless Tiger Man. What other forum can say that?
I assume you have one- who's the other? Thorp?
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Alyssa Moy

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ALYSSA MOY (aka Alyssa Moy-Castle)
Created By:
Chris Claremont & Salvador Larocca
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four #5 (May 1998)
Role: Reed Richards's Ex-Girlfriend
PL 3 (58)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 1
FIGHTING 0 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 8 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+3)
Expertise (Science) 8 (+16)
Insight 2 (+4)
Perception 2 (+4)
Technology 8 (+16)
Vehicles 4 (+4)

Advantages: 
Beginner's Luck, Inventor, Jack-Of-All-Trades, Ranged Attack 4

Offense:
Unarmed +0 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Initiative +1

Defenses:
Dodge +4 (DC 14), Parry +3 (DC 13), Toughness +2, Fortitude +2, Will +4

Complications:
Relationship (Reed Richards)- Alyssa once turned down Reed's proposal of marriage, believing that the two should spread their genius-genes around as much as possible rather than hoard them. However, she would later come to view this as a mistake.
Rivalry (Susan Richards)- Alyssa would show a lot of jealousy towards Sue, jealous over her relationship with Reed.

Total: Abilities: 30 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 8 (58)

-Alyssa Moy is an interesting character concept invented by Chris Claremont- an ex-girlfriend of Reed Richards's, she has the unique attribute of being his intellectual EQUAL! She had in fact been proposed to by Reed, but she turned him down, believing that their "duty" to humanity was to spread their genius-level genes around as much as possible, rather than combine to make SUPER-SMART sperm. This was a pretty goofy idea, never mind that Reed had apparently never shared this information with Sue before. Mark Millar later found a lot of interest in this idea, and started using the character as well- under Millar, she regretted her decision to not marry him (her own marriage was a failure), while Reed countered that he was, in fact, in love with his wife. In a weird story-arc, she ended up being sent to a future Earth, then a Nu-Earth of her own creation, with her husband, where she lost her body and became a brain floating in a jar, then a cyborg.

-Alyssa is no great warrior (though apparently has decent aim)- her main advantage is the fact that she's very close to Reed Richards in terms of skill- and it's not just "fluff" and hearsay- they put their money where their mouths were and actually had her invent an entire planet called Nu-Earth, meant to house humanity after an inevitable disaster would render Earth uninhabitable.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Agent X! Archangel! Annex! Armless Tiger Man!)

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Jabroniville wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:40 am
scc wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:32 am You know what makes this site so great. We have three builds of Armless Tiger Man. What other forum can say that?
I assume you have one- who's the other? Thorp?
Koroko has one too.
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