METAMORPHO (Rex Mason)
Created By: Bob Haney & Ramona Fradon
First Appearance: The Brave and the Bold #57 (Jan. 1965)
Role: Shapeshifter, Unsuccessful Silver Age Character
Voice Actor: Tom Sizemore
Finest Moment: Beat up the entire League for a while
PL 10 (154)
STRENGTH 6 STAMINA 8 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Athletics 4 (+10)
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (U.S. Marine Corps) 7 (+10)
Expertise (Business) 4 (+7)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 4 (+7)
Perception 4 (+7)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 2 (+5)
Treatment 1 (+4)
Vehicles 3 (+7)
Advantages:
Benefit (League Member), Diehard, Extraordinary Effort, Improved Critical (Body Weaponry), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6, Seize Initiative, Startle, Takedown
Powers:
"Shapeshifting Elements"
Elongation 3 (60 feet) [3]
Regeneration 6 (Feats: Regrow Limbs) [7]
"Burning Mixture 3" Flame Aura 8 (32) -- [40]
- AE: "Body Weaponry" Strength-Damage +4 (Feats: Variable Descriptor- Slashing/Bludgeoning) (5)
- AE: "Burning Mixture 1" Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (20)
- AE: "Burning Mixture 2" Blast 10 (20)
- AE: "Clay Trap" Snare 10 (30)
- AE: "Multiple Fragments" Blast 8 (Extras: Multiattack) (24)
- AE: "Liquid Form" Insubstantial 1 (Feats: Precise) (6)
- AE: "Mist Form" Insubstantial 2 (Feats: Precise) (11)
- AE: "Knockout Gas" Affliction 10 (Fort; Fatigued/Exhausted/Asleep) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Cloud +2) (30)
Unarmed +10 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Body Weaponry +10 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Aura +10 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Burning 1 +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Burning 2 +10 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Clay Trap +10 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Multiple Fragments +10 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Knockout Gas +10 Area (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +8, Fortitude +8, Will +7
Complications:
Prejudice (Obvious Metahuman)- Rex looks like a weird mish-mash of elements.
Relationship (Sapphire Stagg)- Rex loves his boss' daughter, and vice-versa.
Total: Abilities: 62 / Skills: 36--18 / Advantages: 14 / Powers: 50 / Defenses: 10 (154)
-Ugh, THIS guy. As I've said before, I dislike Metamorpho. He looks silly, he's dull, and he'll probably never be cool, despite his very unique and interesting power-set (seemingly designed to capitalize on how DC Comics back in the day used a lot of real-life science or fictionalized-science). So Metamorpho will always remain stuck in the Silver Age. He had some luck in Batman & The Outsiders in the Bronze Age, but that ultimately didn't lead to enduring success.
-That said, his Justice League two-parter in the cartoon was decent, if only for the relationship between John Stewart and Rex, and each envied the other (John admired Rex's money, relationship and career, while Rex idolized John's heroics). It was pretty well acted (and hey- it had Winnie Cooper as Rex's wife, Sapphire!), but it all gets shot to hell the second this four-coloured idiot shows up with his goofy white face, leg made of poop, and purple body. And I guess Tom Sizemore was busy, because he never showed up for JLU, even with it's huge roster, despite Metamorpho showing up in background shots, and once when he jobbed to Parasite.
-For stats, Metamorpho has a really solid mix, making him a dangerous threat in melee or at range. He was tough enough to fend off the entire League for a bit, though like a lot of other guys, he "normalized" to a lower Power Level. He can "Alt-Effect" a new chemical compound if he needs to by spending Hero Points- a science nerd could make him as effective as a Magic character.
About the Performer: Tom Sizemore is... an actor who's name I know. I don't recognize his face, nor have I seen any of his stuff. He was in "Heat", "Point Break", and various other things. Oh, he was in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" as one of the soldiers, too- I've seen those! His career famously (I guess) went to shit in the 2000s amidst drug addiction and all sorts of stuff. He's continued to be pretty much a giant mess up to the present day, with his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, insisting that "The thought of being with you could turn any woman gay!".