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The U-Foes

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THE U-FOES:
Next up- The U-Foes! A foursome of villains who basically set out to copy the Fantastic Four's abilities, and would have died had Bruce Banner not saved their lives (being the resident expert on radiation). Instead, they were turned into permanent monsters- none of them even seemed to be pissed at Utrecht for it, instead blaming Banner for "ruining things" and bringing them back before they could get even MORE powerful. They each got altered chemically, becoming rather powerful in the meantime. Apparently their name was a pun on both Utrecht's name, and the original pronunciation of "U.F.O.s", befitting their space-based origins.

Despite being tailor-made to fight the FF (they even have an invisible chick and a super-strong guy who was a pilot!), they ended up as recurring Hulk foes, mainly because Banner was always in dire need of real threats, and the FF already HAD a "Foursome of Evil" threat in the Frightful Four. They made the most of teamwork to be recurring B-Level threats to the guy, but in the end, they've always been jobbers. They tend to start out well, but then their powers go out of control and they screw it up somehow. Eventually by the '90s, they ended up in that "Wrecking Crew" position- essentially low-level villains with powers who are used as henchmen by other, bigger name villains (like The Leader), and they act as "Journeymen", fighting various other characters (like the Avengers). They act as one of the government-operated teams in The Fifty-State Initiative because SURE WHY NOT TRUST THE U-FOES TO ACT AS SUPER-HEROES, and later, Norman Osborn sends them against Volstagg to set off Siege.

They're rather powerful, but are pretty much NEVER seen solo- it's always team stuff with them. Despite their Jobber status, I actually see them as PL 10s, because they both fight THE HULK on a regular basis, and generally take entire teams of guys to bring down otherwise.
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Ironclad

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IRONCLAD (Michael Steel)
Created By:
Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #254 (Dec. 1980)
Role: Powerhouse, Villain Filler
Group Affiliations: The U-Foes, The Thunderbolts
PL 10 (123)
STRENGTH
11 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Close Combat 2 (+8)
Deception 4 (+4)
Expertise (Science) 8 (+11)
Insight 2 (+2)
Intimidation 7 (+7)
Perception 2 (+2)
Technology 8 (+11)
Vehicles 4 (+4)
Vehicles 6 (+10) -- Flaws: Limited to Air

Advantages:
Crushing Pin, Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Grapple, Improved Hold, Power Attack, Withstand Damage

Powers:
"Iron Body"
Protection 11 (Extras: Impervious 9) (20) -- [21]
AE: "Lowered Density" Flight 2 (4 mph) (Flaws: Limited to Hovering) (2)

"Iron Limbs" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
Features 7: Increased Mass 7 [7]
Immunity 10 (Life Support) [10]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +0

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +13 (+5 Impervious), Fortitude +6, Will +3

Complications:
Enemy (The Hulk)
Prejudice (Obvious Super-Villain)- Ironclad is huge and made of metal, and could not pass for an ordinary human.
Involuntary Transformation (High Density)- Ironclad's powers can go out of whack, and overwhelm him. One time, he sank straight into the Earth.

Total: Abilities: 44 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 39 / Defenses: 13 (123)

-Ironclad here is pretty generic- just a big Brick to slug it out with the Green One until he got REALLY mad and started putting him to sleep. Then again, he's also brighter than your typical Brick, being the team's engineer.

-Standard Brick build, using Density-related stuff as the key to most of his powers. He has an Alt-Effect that allows him to float somewhat, but he's mainly just your everyday Powerhouse build, plus Life Support. Hard to hurt, hits like The Thing, and is a low-pointed PL 10 overall. He's quite skilled as I mentioned above, and can increase his Density to higher than even The Vision can. He can only life 50 tons or so, but his Iron Fists hit as hard as a Class 100 guy regardless. Note his low defense, particularly in Dodge. He's the type of guy who just sits there and eats damage, not avoid it.
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Just curious Jab where do you place the hulk around the time of the secret wars as a character?

this is the hulk who wasn't quite professor banner but had banners intellect, and was hulkish but still bannerish in personality in an odd mix
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Juggernaut! The Roswell Conspiracies! Hulk Builds!)

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I loved Planet Hulk. Good art and a super geeky premise just made it fantastic. Where else are you going to get the Hulk and Silver Surfer brawling it out in a gladiator arena?

Now World War Hulk was less...good, but I still have to give it credit if for not other reason than that it led to Incredible Herc series which is still one of my favorite comics :D.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Juggernaut! The Roswell Conspiracies! Hulk Builds!)

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Jab, where would you place Hulk in his early 300's issues--- those issues where Hulk was raging and all the Avengers of both coasts plus She-Hulk and Doc Samson could not stop Hulk?

Hulk was the angriest ever, fighting 4-7 of the strongest characters simultaneously: Wonder Man, Hercules, Namor, Iron Man, Subby, Doc Samson, She-Hulk plus all of the other members.

Would he need his own stats, or at Green Scar level?
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Juggernaut! The Roswell Conspiracies! Hulk Builds!)

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I will say one thing for World War Hulk, of all the "crisis crossovers" we've had recently that were just lame excuse-plots to have superhero fight superhero... This one made the most sense.

Unstoppable green rage monster who has a legitimate beef with the rest of the world's heroes... Who also had a legitimate reason to send him off-world in the first place. The ending was a little "deus ex machina" and some of the individual fights were "squash matches" that shouldn't have been.

But give me more World War Hulk's and fewer A v X'es and I'll be happy.
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Vapor

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VAPOR (Ann Darnell)
Created By:
Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #254 (Dec. 1980)
Role: Status Affecter, Villain Filler
Group Affiliations: The U-Foes, The Thunderbolts
PL 10 (150)
STRENGTH
0 STAMINA 1 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills: 
Expertise (Computers) 4 (+7)
Expertise (Life Support Systems) 4 (+7)
Insight 3 (+3)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 4 (+4)
Technology 5 (+8)
Stealth 8 (+10)

Advantages: 
Set-Up

Powers:
"Gaseous Forms"
Flight 2 (8 mph) [4]
Insubstantial 2 (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Continuous) (Flaws: Permanent Without Concentration -1/2) [14]
Immunity 11 (Life Support, Own Methane Blast) [11]

"Mustard Gas" Affliction 10 (Fort; Impaired/Disabled/Incapacitated) (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Cumulative, Area- 30ft. Cloud) Linked to Damage 7 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable, Fortitude Save) (59) -- [68]
  • AE: "Carbon Monoxide" Suffocation 10 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (Flaws: Touch Range) (44)
  • AE: "Acidic Gas" Damage 10 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Cloud, Secondary Effect) Linked to Weaken Toughness 6 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Affects Objects, Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (56)
  • AE: "Methane Gas" Damage 10 (Extras: Penetrating, Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (Flaws: Source- Open Flame/Spark) (30)
  • AE: "Smoke" Concealment 3 (Visuals & Scent) (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Attack, Area- 60ft. Shapeable +2) (19)
  • AE: "Ether Gas" Affliction 10 (Fort; Fatigued/Exhausted/Asleep) (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable, Cumulative) (34)
  • AE: "Radon Gas" Weaken Stamina 10 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable, Disease +2) (44)
  • AE: "Hydrogen Sulphide" Affliction 10 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Paralyzed) (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable, Cumulative) (34)
  • AE: "Ammonia" Dazzle Visuals 10 (Feats: Reach 4) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (Flaws: Touch Range -2) (24)
  • AE: "Invisible Gas" Concealment 4 (Visual Senses, Scent & Hearing) (8)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Various Gases +10 Area (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Acidic Gas +10 Area (+10 Damage & +6 Weaken, DC 25 & 16)
Mustard Gas +10 Area (+10 Affliction & +7 Damage, DC 20 & 22)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +7 (DC 17), Parry +7 (DC 17), Toughness +1, Fortitude +4, Will +3

Complications: 
Enemy (The Hulk)
Prejudice (Obvious Super-Villain)- Unless she concentrates, Vapor is clearly a swirl of gases in human form, and would not pass for an ordinary human.
Involuntary Transformation (Gases)- Her abilities are various, but Vapor is often badly affected by the forms she chooses to take. The Hulk once threw oxygen at her while she was in Hydrogen form, and it turned her into mere water.
Vulnerable (Wind)- High-level winds will spread Vapor out dramatically.

Total: Abilities: 24 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 1 / Powers: 97 / Defenses: 12 (150)

-Vapor is the "Team Chick", having a pretty original power, the ability to turn into nearly any type of gas imaginable. It's rare, of course, because figuring out how to beat her would be a pain in the ass, and it's rather undynamic for most action scenes to feature "Choking/Suffocation"-based powers. The all-green outfit probably doesn't help, so we're unlikely to see this character developed much further.

-Thanks go out to Tattooed Man, who did some great U-Foes builds for 2e, or I'd have nowhere to start with what she's capable of, as most bio sites I see don't mention much of what she can do. It was a simple matter to transfer my 2e build to 3e, but she goes up in cost once I got that Mustard Gas caused both Affliction AND Damage (the DCA book has a helpful section on "real world" status affecters). For the rest, I went to Google and typed in "Deadly gases" and typed in some possible effects for those (Disease on Radon is particularly sneaky). All the powers have an Area Effect (Shapeable) to reflect her sentient control over the gases she gives off, in addition to being limited to her Touch Range- which of course is twenty feet out from her, as a dispersed gas, giving her slightly more range on them than normal. And yeah, she's vulnerable to alot of wind, and most energy attacks will affect her also.
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X-Ray

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X-RAY (James Darnell)
Created By:
Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #254 (Dec. 1980)
Role: Blaster, Villain Filler
Group Affiliations: The U-Foes, The Thunderbolts
PL 10 (139)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 5 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills: 
Acrobatics 3 (+6)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+7)
Expertise (Computers) 2 (+5)
Expertise (Science) 5 (+8)
Expertise (Science- Propulsion Fuels) 2 (+10) -- Half-Price
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Perception 2 (+2)
Ranged Combat (Blasts) 2 (+8)

Advantages: 
Daze (Intimidation), Improved Aim, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6

Powers:
"X-Ray Radiation Body"
Flight 6 (120 mph) [12]
Immunity 10 (Life Support) [10]

"Radiation Control" Blast 12 (Feats: Split, Improved Critical 2, Variable- Any Radiation Descriptor) (Extras: Penetrating) (41) -- [53]
  • Dynamic AE: "Radiation Poisoning" Weaken Stamina 10 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Ranged, Progressive +2) (41)
  • Dynamic AE: "Suck out the Radiation" Nullify Radiation Effects 12 (Extras: Concentration) (25)
  • Dynamic AE: "Invisibility" Concealment 2 (Visual Senses) (4)
  • Dynamic AE: "Melt" Weaken Toughness 10 (Extras: Ranged) (Flaws: Limited to Objects) (20)
  • Dynamic AE: "Nauseate" Affliction 11 (Fort; Impaired/Disabled/Incapacitated) (Extras: Ranged, Cumulative) (33)
  • Dynamic AE: "Energy Form" Insubstantial 3 (Quirk- Not to Lead or Vibranium) (14)
Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Blast +8 (+12 Ranged Damage, DC 27)
Nullify +8 (+12 Nullify, DC 22)
Poison, Melt & Nauseate +8 (+10-11 Weakens, DC 20-21)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3, Fortitude +6, Will +3

Complications: 
Enemy (The Hulk)
Prejudice (Obvious Super-Villain)- Vector is all red and glow-y, and could not pass for an ordinary human.
Vulnerable (Energy Drains)

Total: Abilities: 30 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 9 / Powers: 75 / Defenses: 14 (139)

-X-Ray is a hot-headed moron of a villain (despite having an Engineering Degree and being the resident chemical expert of the team; INT & AWARENESS are different abilities, after all), tending to be the first member of the U-Foes to go sailing into battle without any kind of plan or strategy. Therefore, he gets KO'd a lot. 

-With some stuff I got from Tattooed Man, and my own observations on stuff I've read about this character, I came up with the Generic Blaster of the team. He can go Intangible, but can only use it with his other powers in a Dynamic Array (since that's just dirty pool, and as T.Man said, he's interacted with the world regularly enough). He can also Fly, blast a horrendous amount of Radiation (enough to injure The Hulk), along with a few other Radiation/Heat-based Alt-Effects. A rather powerful character, but again, limited by his accuracy and general stupidity.
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Vector

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VECTOR (Simon Utrecht)
Created By:
Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #254 (Dec. 1980)
Role: Evil Businessman, Blaster, Villain Filler
Group Affiliations: The U-Foes, The Thunderbolts
PL 10 (157)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 5 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills: 
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+6)
Deception 5 (+7)
Persuasion 5 (+7)
Investigation 4 (+6)
Intimidation 4 (+6)
Expertise (Business) 8 (+11)
Expertise (Current Events) 3 (+6)
Perception 4 (+6)
Insight 4 (+6)

Advantages: 
Benefit (Wealth) 2, Daze (Deception), Leadership, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 7, Set-Up, Teamwork

Powers:
"Telekinetically Repel & Attract Matter"
Flight 7 (250 mph) [14]
Immunity 10 (Life Support) [10]
Enhanced Advantages 4: Defensive Attack, Evasion 2, Withstand Damage [4]

"Telekinetic Field" Force Field 12 (Feats: Dynamic, Increased Mass 5) (Extras: Impervious, Affects Others) (42) -- [54]
  • Dynamic AE: "Reflection Field" Deflect 13 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (27)
  • Dynamic AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 12 (Extras: Psychokinesis 10) (Flaws: Limited to Attracting or Repelling Objects) (23)
  • Dynamic AE: "Repel Objects" Blast 11 (Extras: Multiattack) (Quirk: Requires Objects) (33)
  • Dynamic AE: "Repelling Storm" Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (Quirk: Requires Objects) (30)
  • Dynamic AE: "Power Blast" Blast 13 (Feats: Split) (Extras: Penetrating) (41)
  • Dynamic AE: "Repelling Trip" Affliction 10 (Strength or Athletics; Hindered/Prone) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Instant Recovery) (11)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Blasts +7 (+11-13 Ranged Damage, DC 26-28)
Repelling Storm +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Repelling Trip +10 Area (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +2 (+14 Force Field), Fortitude +4, Will +3

Complications: 
Enemy (The Hulk)
Prejudice (Obvious Super-Villain)- Vector is covered in all sorts of weird "Cosmic Backdrop" designs, and could not pass for an ordinary human.
Involuntary Transformation (Vectoring Away)- If given a boost of Cosmic Radiation, Utrecht may "Vector" to another world, get deflected off the planet, etc.

Total: Abilities: 34 / Skills: 38--19 / Advantages: 14 / Powers: 82 / Defenses: 8 (157)

-Utrecht, aka "Vector", is the team's founder and leader, and oddly the others don't quite blame him for RUINING THEIR LIVES by turning them into permanent monstrosities (oh sure, they think it was because of Bruce Banner leading the ship back- but who PAID for the whole mission?). He's pretty much your everyday generic Evil Businessman, but with a pretty original power- attracting & repelling objects, which is used to Blast away, lift stuff up, and deflect things.

-Vector's pretty nasty, being able to rip the actual FLESH off of The Hulk with one of his Power Blasts, and he's got a few varied other effects as well. Most of his powers are in a single Dynamic Array, but they're doozies- a +13 Power Blast, a +11 Multiattack Blast, a Burst Damage & Trip, a Deflect Power (good for teamwork) and a super Force Field that gives him Toughness beyond most Bricks & Powerhouses (The Hulk has to push himself just to get through it). Of course, he has to drop part of the Field to enable his powerful attacks, but he doesn't always need to be Affecting Others, or require an Impervious Field, so he's got options.
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catsi563 wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:35 pm Just curious Jab where do you place the hulk around the time of the secret wars as a character?

this is the hulk who wasn't quite professor banner but had banners intellect, and was hulkish but still bannerish in personality in an odd mix
Hmmmm... sorta the Professor, but with a lower peak strength (making his mountainous feat more impressive)?
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Jabroniville wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:52 pm
catsi563 wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:35 pm Just curious Jab where do you place the hulk around the time of the secret wars as a character?

this is the hulk who wasn't quite professor banner but had banners intellect, and was hulkish but still bannerish in personality in an odd mix
Hmmmm... sorta the Professor, but with a lower peak strength (making his mountainous feat more impressive)?
that too but I meant more in terms of character such as grey hulk or professor do you think them a separate character or do they still technically fall under the savage hulk?
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Oh- well, I'd say (aa someone who's only read the character in that one story) he's just the one with the brain of another- more Freaky Friday than a whole new character.
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Brian Banner

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BRIAN BANNER
Created By:
Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #267 (Jan. 1982)
Role: The Hulk's Worst Enemy
PL 4 (43)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 5 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 6 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Deception 5 (+5)
Expertise (Science) 5 (+11)
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Technology 5 (+11)

Advantages: 
None

Offense:
Unarmed +5 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Initiative +0

Defenses:
Dodge +2 (DC 12), Parry +5 (DC 15), Toughness +2, Fortitude +3, Will +0

Complications:
Addiction (Alcohol)- Unable to deal with the stress of his physics job, Brian becomes addicted to drinking, causing an accident at work.
Responsibility (Delusion)- Brian thinks that an accident at work altered him on a genetic level, giving Bruce superhuman intelligence.
Addiction (Violence)- A weak man, Brian takes his frustrations out on those helpless to defend themselves, such as his wife and son.
Relationship (Rebecca, Bruce)- Brian routinely abuses both his wife and son, and appears to care nothing for Bruce at all.

Total: Abilities: 30 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 0 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 3 (43)

-It always blows my mind reading up on superheroes' parents, because it always turns out that this was never even a thing writers thought of until the late 1960s. They just kinda made everyone orphans and called it a day. Can you imagine creating a modern hero in this day and age and never even mentioning their family? Hell, look at Brian Banner- his first appearance is in *1982*- nineteen years after the debut of the Hulk! Brian is introduced via Retcon (sort of- it doesn't contradict anything; it's just new information) as the abusive father of Bruce Banner. In addition to beating his son, Brian would also frequently have a go at his wife, Rebecca. Eventually, he murders Rebecca in a fit of rage when she tries to leave Brian- slamming her head into the pavement while a young Bruce watched. Despite bullying Bruce into not testifying, Brian is later convicted after bragging about it. He is institutionalized for fifteen years, ending up in Bruce's care. Quickly thereafter, however, the two get into a violent argument over Rebecca Banner's grave, leading to Bruce knocking Brian into the headstone, killing him instantly. Bruce then "represses the memories" to explain why this has never come up before.

-Brian would reappear in the '90s as a "ghost", taunting Bruce from the grave. Bruce would strangle him within Hell, thus being free of the mental torture. The whole "Brian Banner" story would end up being a major thing for Bruce's backstory, giving a lot of explanations to him- such as his timidity, and why he fears letting loose his anger so much. One of those examples of a positive Retcon that ENHANCES a character (rather that "reveal why he was an evil asshole all along!" like so many hack writers do), as later writer Peter David would delve into Brian's abusive history a lot more.

-Brian also exists as a nice example of how the most dreaded villains sometimes don't have anything to do with putting on tights & trying to conquer the world, or hunting down and killing the hero due to some personal vendetta- Brian Banner remains horrible because he was a weak, cowardly addict who couldn't control his temper and ruined two lives as a result.

-Brian Banner is a fairly high-Intelligence scientist, and a solid, brutish fighter.
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Hey, Jab! SyFy's show Face Off is having a Monster High episode!
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PAD did more than one of these terrific ret-cons (just "unrevealed character history", really)-in X-Factor, he actually made Quicksilver somewhat sympathetic when he let it be known Pietro couldn't slow down his perceptions or thought processes. The whole damn word was in slow motion from his point of view, ALL THE TIME.

I still SOOOO regret his original X-Factor run ended before the payoff to several story arcs, both major and minor. The second time around was just...really odd.

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