Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)

Where in all of your character write ups will go.
User avatar
Ares
Site Admin
Posts: 4963
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:40 am

Re: Jab's Builds! (Rag Doll! Scandal! Knockout! King Shark! Catman!)

Post by Ares »

She actually used her looks to her advantage, and if I remember right, did so on the Suicide Squad mission she was a part of. She actually managed to seduce the villain they were sent after and then had him and Superboy fight basically for her amusement.
"My heart is as light as a child's, a feeling I'd nearly forgotten. And by helping those in need, I will be able to keep that feeling alive."
- Captain Marvel SHAZAM! : Power of Hope (2000)

Want to support me and Echoes of the Multiverse? Follow this link to subscribe or donate.
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (Rag Doll! Scandal! Knockout! King Shark! Catman!)

Post by Jabroniville »

Ah, OK, I can add it then. scc's permaban is lifted :).
scc
Posts: 267
Joined: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:13 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (Rag Doll! Scandal! Knockout! King Shark! Catman!)

Post by scc »

Thanks Ares for the backup. And Jab I almost gave her 3 ranks of attractive in 2nd edition so you know where I am coming from. ;-)
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Cheshire

Post by Jabroniville »

Image
Image
Image
Image

CHESHIRE (Jade Nguyen)
Created By:
Marv Wolfman & George Perez
First Appearance: The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983)
Role: Dragon Lady, Evil Mercenary, Asian Baby Mama
Group Affiliations: The Ravens, Tartarus, The Secret Six
PL 10 (195)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 7
FIGHTING 14 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+15)
Athletics 10 (+13)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+16)
Deception 5 (+8, +10 Attractive)
Expertise (Mercenary Assassin) 10 (+13)
Expertise (Sciences) 12 (+15) -- (Flaws: Limited to Poisons)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Investigation 5 (+8)
Perception 4 (+7)
Stealth 7 (+14)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, Attractive, Chokehold, Connected, Contacts, Defensive Attack, Elusive Target, Equipment 2 (Poisoned Blades), Fascination (Deception), Grab Finesse, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Critical (Sword), Improved Defense, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative 2, Jack-of-All-Trades, Languages 2 (A Few), Luck, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown, Tracking, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Poisoned Fingernails That Never Hit"
"Paralytic Poison" Affliction 8 (Fort; Dazed & Fatigued/Exhausted & Stunned/Paralyzed) (Extras: Extra Condition, Progression +2) (Inaccurate -2) (30) -- [31]
  • AE: "Heart-Stopping" Weaken Abilities 8 (Extras: Broad-Abilities, Simultaneous, Progression +2) (Flaws: Limited to Stamina & Agility) (Inaccurate -2) (30)
Offense:
Unarmed +16 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Swords +14 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Paralytic Fingernails +10 (+8 Weaken, DC 18)
Heart-Stopping Fingernails +10 (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +15

Defenses:
Dodge +16 (DC 26), Parry +16 (DC 26), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +7

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- Cheshire works for money.
Relationship (Roy & Lian Harper)- Jade still has feelings for Roy (aka Arsenal, Red Arrow, etc.), and cares for her daugher Lian. However, certain writers make her a complete sociopath who only cares for having ANY offspring, and so she's willing to sacrifice Lian if she has a "spare".
Responsibility (Completely Evil)- Though Cheshire started off a bit moral (she would kill for anyone, but would betray those she felt morally abhorrent, like a South African anti-black crusader), she eventually just turned into a straight-up loon who would kill for nearly any reason. She once blew up AN ENTIRE COUNTRY (the nation of Qurac) to prove a point.
Power Loss (Poisons)- Cheshire must break the skin to have her Poisons take effect. If the opponent has even rudimentary armour that could block sharpened fingernails, they will be unaffected, regardless of their Fortitude.

Total: Abilities: 86 / Skills: 62--31 / Advantages: 30 / Powers: 31 / Defenses: 17 (195)

-It's kind of sad that, as awesome as the Teen Titans book was, it seems to have been used to "farm out" its villains to the greater DCU as a whole since then. Look at friggin' Deathstroke being used to shore up other Rogues Galleries. Never mind CHESHIRE...

-Cheshire started out as a strangely-dressed half-Asian assassin in the Teen Titans book, challenging the group as a contract killer (much like Deathstroke). She was given a few hints that she wasn't completely evil, as when she murdered an anti-Apartheid activist, she ensured that the man who hired her would be caught and punished by the police. She appears in several battles against the Titans, threatening them with her poisoned fingernails.

-Her next big appearance led to a huge change in her character- it was during a disastrous battle where Donna Troy led a rag-tag group of ex-Titans & Jason Todd against Cheshire's assassins and failed horribly for the most part... it DID feature a cute moment when Jason said "for an old lady, you're not so bad" and offered to take out any young sisters she may have, and Donna- who'd previously been all distraught after nearly killing the asshole Hank "Hawk" Hall in a fit of anger- jokingly said she was gonna put him over her knee. But it turns out that Cheshire was a Vietnamese Baby Mama, having been knocked up by Roy "Speedy" Harper years before. This meant that the woman was caring for a child- Lian Harper.

-Despite this, her role in the DCU wasn't that big- Roy was a fourth-string character, and not even a recurring character on The Teen Titans, then DC's biggest book. Even Green Arrow didn't seem to use her. It wasn't until the Titans book faltered and failed, and she got pushed around to various other books, which started using her in crazier and crazier ways, as the standard-issue assassin was now a monstrous, psychopathic lunatic. Take Birds of Prey, which featured her stealing a nuclear weapon with which to blackmail the world. And to prove she's not bluffing, she NUKES THE COUNTRY OF QURAC. Now, Qurac was largely just a "terrorist hotbed" stand-in for places like Iraq & Iran, but this one act made Cheshire easily... EASILY... the most-murderous supervillain on Earth. Killing millions of people in a single stroke actually puts her ahead of every single Earth-based bad guy combined.

-She ended up becoming one of the bigger female villains going, actually transcending the Titans, having been a major player in BoP, Villains United and elsewhere. A brief run in the Devin Grayson Titans largely made attempts at having her be sympathetic, if only for her relationship with Lian (whom she genuinely cared for). Grayson at least used the Qurac thing and didn't sugar-coat it- she was imprisoned, tried, and constantly hunted by individuals hired by Quraci survivors (even Lian Harper's own nanny, who lost grandparents when Cheshire nuked it).

-HOWEVER... this was largely nullified in Villains United, which featured a crazy, constantly-smiling Cheshire as a loon who was perfectly willing to let her own daughter die- when she got knocked up by her teammate Catman, she declared Lian to basically not matter, thus rendering Mockingbird's blackmail over her ineffective. Cheshire later appears in a few background shots, but Cry For Justice reverses the "I don't care about Lian anymore" bit, as she assaults Roy when Lian was killed in the destruction of Star City. Though this book was really stupid and considered a massive failure in storytelling. Eventually she hears that her son is dead, too- Catman learns that he was kidnapped and his death was faked in order to hurt Cheshire- who'd murdered the kidnapper's family, but agrees that this is safer for the boy (he is adopted by a loving, childless couple).

-Cheshire is a pretty good comparison to Marvel's Elektra, being a sexy raven-haired assassin-for-hire who is a good match for any PL 10 Martial Artist. She's pretty run of the mill in that regard (though at PL 10, is way better than most of them), but her poisons are EXCEPTIONALLY dangerous, being able to drug and/or kill her victims (which of course means that they can ALMOST NEVER HIT IN BATTLE, since that would kill the heroes... good old Inaccurate fits that just fine. It WOULD be harder to hit somone with fingernails than just punching them, after all). Offensively, she could take on Black Canary, Nightwing, Arsenal and even give Batman himself a good fight, but she's not the best of the best or anything.

-Note that she's one of those female characters who DEFINITELY deserves Attractive. She basically has a superpower that is "Causes the male protagonist to have bad judgment".
Last edited by Jabroniville on Tue Feb 15, 2022 6:36 am, edited 2 times in total.
User avatar
danelsan
Posts: 273
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:31 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (Rag Doll! Scandal! Knockout! King Shark! Catman!)

Post by danelsan »

And that first image is a phenomenal illustration of the "superhero comics' artists don't know how fabric works*" principle. I have been doing martial arts for many years and I can say for sure that kimonos do not cling to the underside of boobs like that :lol:



*The true principle is more likely to be "superhero comics' artists value gratuitous giga-boobs over fabric verisimilitude", though
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Black Alice

Post by Jabroniville »

Image
Image
Image

Such is my non-fetish for Goths that even Giantess Alice does nothing for me. She looks like she robbed a Hot Topic.

BLACK ALICE (Lori Zechlin)
Created By:
Gail Simone & Ed Benes
First Appearance: Birds of Prey #76 (Jan. 2005)
Role: Doom Patrol Fanbase-Having Character, Goth Chick
Group Affiliations: The Coven of Three, The Secret Six
PL 5-20 (275)
STRENGTH
0 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 4 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Deception 4 (+5)
Expertise (Magic) 2 (+2)
Intimidation 2 (+3)
Ranged Combat (Magic) 6 (+8)

Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Power Attack

Powers:
"Usurp Any Magical Power" Variable 30 (Flaws: Uncontrolled- Any Magical Being In Proximity) [180]
Linked to
Affliction 20 (Fort; Impaired/Disabled/Transformed to Powerless) (Extras: Perception-Ranged +2) (Flaws: Limited to Magically-Powered Beings) [40]

"Detect Magic" Senses 10 (Magical Awareness- Ranged 7, Accurate 2) [10]

Offense:
Unarmed +4 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Nullify -- (+20 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 30)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +2, Fortitude +3, Will +5

Complications:
Relationship (Father)- Lori's father has become a reclusive alcoholic following the death of Lori's mother.
relationship (Ragdoll)- Lori inexplicably refers to the asexual, mutilated Ragdoll as her "boyfriend".

Total: Abilities: 22 / Skills: 14--7 / Advantages: 2 / Powers: 230 / Defenses: 14 (275)

-One of those characters with an insant Doom Patrol Fanbase (ie. vocal fanbase that makes the ACTUAL fanbase seem larger than it is), Black Alice debuted as a snarky Goth-looking teenager in Gail Simone's Birds of Prey, and using Writer's Prerogative (seriously, everyone does this), she stuck her onto the Secret Six book near the end. Truth be told, she was alright- not nearly as annoying as I feared she would be when I saw teenage girls on CBR going on about her.

-Black Alice's mother committed suicide on the same night Alice (real name: Lori) discovered her super-power to copy all magical powers- she used these powers to punish the drug dealers who'd fed her mother's addiction. The Birds of Prey get involved and try to stop her from killing people, but she fights against them- she is ultimately defeated and sent to Doctor Fate, who promises to teach her for real. This one-off proved popular enough that she appeared in the magic-focused Day of Judgment (briefly holding off The Spectre), allies with the BoP a few more times, and then joins the Secret Six. She engages in a few missions with the team, acts weird, but generally kind of poorly handles her father's alcoholism and depression, leading her to leave the team once it's clear she's not ready for their kind of life.

-She briefly starred in the back-up feature of a book, co-starring with Traci Thirteen & Zachary Zatara, but hasn't appeared since the Nu52.

-Black Alice has the positively INSANE power to copycat the abilities of any Magically-powered being for miles around. Though she can't always PICK her targets, the fact that she can routinely mimic the likes of Doctor Fate, Doctor Occult or the friggin' SPECTRE make her an all-time powerful character. So much the better that she's little better than a Jumped-Up Nobody in terms of the rest of her stats. And of course she DE-POWERS these beings at the same time. Oh, and it'll afflict any magically-powered being at the same time, making it a Linked Affliction/Variable. I gave her the ability to detect Magic, otherwise I'd have to make the Affliction an Area Effect that would cover God knows how much space.
Last edited by Jabroniville on Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Skaramine
Posts: 267
Joined: Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:36 pm
Location: Chicagaland
Contact:

Re: Jab's Builds! (Rag Doll! Scandal! Knockout! King Shark! Catman!)

Post by Skaramine »

Wait wait wait... GOTH SHAZAM!

I'm too damn old and fat to be that excited about Mary Marvel from Hot Topic...

but daaaaaaaaaaamn.
The ATT member formerly known as both MorningKnight and Power-Glove.
Just call me Doug.
User avatar
danelsan
Posts: 273
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:31 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (King Shark! Catman! Cheshire! Black Alice!)

Post by danelsan »

Mary's own bad-girl version in black outfit is probably hotter than anything Alice could come up with. I still like good-girl Mary better, though.
scc
Posts: 267
Joined: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:13 pm

Re: Cheshire

Post by scc »

Jabroniville wrote: Sat May 06, 2017 8:01 pm Image
ImageImageImage
Image

CHESHIRE (Jade Nguyen)
Created By:
Marv Wolfman & George Perez
First Appearance: The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983)
Role: Dragon Lady, Evil Mercenary, Asian Baby Mama
Group Affiliations: The Ravens, Tartarus, The Secret Six
PL 10 (195)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 7
FIGHTING 14 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+15)
Athletics 10 (+13)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+16)
Deception 5 (+8, +10 Attractive)
Expertise (Mercenary Assassin) 10 (+13)
Expertise (Sciences) 12 (+15) -- (Flaws: Limited to Poisons)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Investigation 5 (+8)
Perception 4 (+7)
Stealth 7 (+14)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, Attractive, Chokehold, Connected, Contacts, Defensive Attack, Elusive Target, Equipment 2 (Poisoned Blades), Fascination (Deception), Grab Finesse, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Critical (Sword), Improved Defense, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative 2, Jack-of-All-Trades, Languages 2 (A Few), Luck, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown, Tracking, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Poisoned Fingernails That Never Hit"
"Paralytic Poison" Affliction 8 (Fort; Dazed & Fatigued/Exhausted & Stunned/Paralyzed) (Extras: Extra Condition, Progression +2) (Inaccurate -2) (30) -- [31]
  • AE: "Heart-Stopping" Weaken Abilities 8 (Extras: Broad-Abilities, Simultaneous, Progression +2) (Flaws: Limited to Stamina & Agility) (Inaccurate -2) (30)
Offense:
Unarmed +16 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Swords +14 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Paralytic Fingernails +10 (+8 Weaken, DC 18)
Heart-Stopping Fingernails +10 (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +15

Defenses:
Dodge +16 (DC 26), Parry +16 (DC 26), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +7

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- Cheshire works for money.
Relationship (Roy & Lian Harper)- Jade still has feelings for Roy (aka Arsenal, Red Arrow, etc.), and cares for her daugher Lian. However, certain writers make her a complete sociopath who only cares for having ANY offspring, and so she's willing to sacrifice Lian if she has a "spare".
Responsibility (Completely Evil)- Though Cheshire started off a bit moral (she would kill for anyone, but would betray those she felt morally abhorrent, like a South African anti-black crusader), she eventually just turned into a straight-up loon who would kill for nearly any reason. She once blew up AN ENTIRE COUNTRY (the nation of Qurac) to prove a point.
Power Loss (Poisons)- Cheshire must break the skin to have her Poisons take effect. If the opponent has even rudimentary armour that could block sharpened fingernails, they will be unaffected, regardless of their Fortitude.

Total: Abilities: 86 / Skills: 62--31 / Advantages: 30 / Powers: 31 / Defenses: 17 (195)

-It's kind of sad that, as awesome as the Teen Titans book was, it seems to have been used to "farm out" its villains to the greater DCU as a whole since then. Look at friggin' Deathstroke being used to shore up other Rogues Galleries. Never mind CHESHIRE...

-Cheshire started out as a strangely-dressed half-Asian assassin in the Teen Titans book, challenging the group as a contract killer (much like Deathstroke). She was given a few hints that she wasn't completely evil, as when she murdered an anti-Apartheid activist, she ensured that the man who hired her would be caught and punished by the police. She appears in several battles against the Titans, threatening them with her poisoned fingernails.

-Her next big appearance led to a huge change in her character- it was during a disastrous battle where Donna Troy led a rag-tag group of ex-Titans & Jason Todd against Cheshire's assassins and failed horribly for the most part... it DID feature a cute moment when Jason said "for an old lady, you're not so bad" and offered to take out any young sisters she may have, and Donna- who'd previously been all distraught after nearly killing the asshole Hank "Hawk" Hall in a fit of anger- jokingly said she was gonna put him over her knee. But it turns out that Cheshire was a Vietnamese Baby Mama, having been knocked up by Roy "Speedy" Harper years before. This meant that the woman was caring for a child- Lian Harper.

-Despite this, her role in the DCU wasn't that big- Roy was a fourth-string character, and not even a recurring character on The Teen Titans, then DC's biggest book. Even Green Arrow didn't seem to use her. It wasn't until the Titans book faltered and failed, and she got pushed around to various other books, which started using her in crazier and crazier ways, as the standard-issue assassin was now a monstrous, psychopathic lunatic. Take Birds of Prey, which featured her stealing a nuclear weapon with which to blackmail the world. And to prove she's not bluffing, she NUKES THE COUNTRY OF QURAC. Now, Qurac was largely just a "terrorist hotbed" stand-in for places like Iraq & Iran, but this one act made Cheshire easily... EASILY... the most-murderous supervillain on Earth. Killing millions of people in a single stroke actually puts her ahead of every single Earth-based bad guy combined.

-She ended up becoming one of the bigger female villains going, actually transcending the Titans, having been a major player in BoP, Villains United and elsewhere. A brief run in the Devin Grayson Titans largely made attempts at having her be sympathetic, if only for her relationship with Lian (whom she genuinely cared for). Grayson at least used the Qurac thing and didn't sugar-coat it- she was imprisoned, tried, and constantly hunted by individuals hired by Quraci survivors (even Lian Harper's own nanny, who lost grandparents when Cheshire nuked it).

-HOWEVER... this was largely nullified in Villains United, which featured a crazy, constantly-smiling Cheshire as a loon who was perfectly willing to let her own daughter die- when she got knocked up by her teammate Catman, she declared Lian to basically not matter, thus rendering Mockingbird's blackmail over her ineffective. Cheshire later appears in a few background shots, but Cry For Justice reverses the "I don't care about Lian anymore" bit, as she assaults Roy when Lian was killed in the destruction of Star City. Though this book was really stupid and considered a massive failure in storytelling. Eventually she hears that her son is dead, too- Catman learns that he was kidnapped and his death was faked in order to hurt Cheshire- who'd murdered the kidnapper's family, but agrees that this is safer for the boy (he is adopted by a loving, childless couple).

-Cheshire is a pretty good comparison to Marvel's Elektra, being a sexy raven-haired assassin-for-hire who is a good match for any PL 10 Martial Artist. She's pretty run of the mill in that regard (though at PL 10, is way better than most of them), but her poisons are EXCEPTIONALLY dangerous, being able to drug and/or kill her victims (which of course means that they can ALMOST NEVER HIT IN BATTLE, since that would kill the heroes... good old Inaccurate fits that just fine. It WOULD be harder to hit somone with fingernails than just punching them, after all). Offensively, she could take on Black Canary, Nightwing, Arsenal and even give Batman himself a good fight, but she's not the best of the best or anything.

-Note that she's one of those female characters who DEFINITELY deserves Attractive. She basically has a superpower that is "Causes the male protagonist to have bad judgment".
She should have 2 ranks of attractive. Just saying ;)
User avatar
Goldar
Posts: 1229
Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:10 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (King Shark! Catman! Cheshire! Black Alice!)

Post by Goldar »

danelsan wrote: Sun May 07, 2017 12:29 am Mary's own bad-girl version in black outfit is probably hotter than anything Alice could come up with. I still like good-girl Mary better, though.
Yeah, but sometimes Mary just has to release that bad girl side!
User avatar
Ares
Site Admin
Posts: 4963
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:40 am

Re: Jab's Builds! (King Shark! Catman! Cheshire! Black Alice!)

Post by Ares »

Black Alice had to be one of the most stupidly overpowered characters ever. The "I can copy any magical being's powers" ability would be broken enough, but actually STEALING their powers takes it to another level. It's especially crazy in her opening story when she's just going through magical beings powers like candy, people who are nowhere near her at the time. I mean, imagine if Alan Scott, Dr. Fate or Black Adam had actually been in some kind of crisis at the time, or even just flying over the city? Suddenly their power cuts out and they fall to their deaths, no idea what's going on as they die. Just the most random ass death ever.

She should really be one of the most sought after metahumans on the planet. Anyone who deals with any kind of mystical opponent should be doing everything to get her into their service. Captain Marvel shows up to thwart the villains? Alice steals his powers. Black Adam is on a rampage? Alice steals his powers.

I mean, even Duplicate Boy of the Legion Era, my usual top contender for the prize of Most Overpowered Guy Ever, at least could only duplicate the powers of other characters, and he had limits on the powers he could copy (Validus completely overloaded his powers, for instance).
"My heart is as light as a child's, a feeling I'd nearly forgotten. And by helping those in need, I will be able to keep that feeling alive."
- Captain Marvel SHAZAM! : Power of Hope (2000)

Want to support me and Echoes of the Multiverse? Follow this link to subscribe or donate.
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Lady Vic

Post by Jabroniville »

Image

LADY VIC (The Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton)
Created By:
Chuck Dixon & Scott McDaniel
First Appearance: Nightwing #4 (Jan. 1997)
Role: Swordfighter, Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: The Secret Six, The Injustice League, Tartarus
PL 9 (146)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 12 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 7 (+13)
Athletics 8 (+10)
Deception 4 (+7)
Expertise (Criminal) 4 (+6)
Expertise (Aristocracy) 4 (+6)
Insight 2 (+5)
Investigation 2 (+5)
Perception 3 (+6)
Stealth 2 (+8)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Equipment 2 (Arsenal), Evasion, Improved Critical (Swords), Improved Defense, Improved Trip, Ranged Attack 5, Takedown

Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Blades +12 (+3-6 Damage, DC 18-21)
Guns +10 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +6

Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)- Lady Vic fights to keep her family's estate intact.

Total: Abilities: 74 / Skills: 36--18 / Advantages: 13 / Powers: 31 / Defenses: 10 (146)

-I only know who Lady Vic is because she appeared in one of the very early Devin Grayson Titans issues, as a member of the Anti-Titans team "Tartarus". She was intro'd more or less as some evil chick who hated Nightwing, but didn't get up to much- it was pretty clear she was from his then-new solo book, meant to expand his Rogues Gallery so that he could stand on his own and not just borrow Batman villains.

-Lady Vic is a genuine British aristocrat, descended from a long line of soldiers & mercenaries- her activity as an assassin keeps the impoverished family estate flourishing. She ends up in the employ of Blockbuster (Nightwing's Big Bad), thus becoming Dick Grayson's next recurring villain. Her appearances in other books were relatively small- she was in Vandal Savage's "Tartarus" group opposing Nightwing's Titans, and is later sent against the Secret Six. Despite her being on Bane's "Secret Six" incarnation for a bit, she largely seems to have fought it several times- as an "orphaned villain" (Nightwing seems to focus on other villains now), she was often trotted out as a backgrounder, usually getting beaten.

-A very good fighter, Lady Vic is nonetheless out of her league against most of the PL 9-10 characters like the Secret Six and Dick Grayson- her ongoing status as a Journeyman Villain in other books seems to continue this along. Her New Villain Stink let her almost defeat Nightwing in her debut, and she's beaten the Tarantula a few times, but she's more likely to be trotted out now to job to more important martial artists.
Last edited by Jabroniville on Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Dwarfstar

Post by Jabroniville »

Image

DWARFSTAR (Sylbert Rundine)
Created By:
Gail Simone
First Appearance: All-New Atom #2 (October, 2006)
Role: Rapist Villain
PL 10 (132)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 7 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+3)
Deception 3 (+5)
Expertise (Serial Rapist) 7 (+8)
Perception 4 (+6)
Stealth 4 (+7, +24 Size)

Advantages:
Equipment (Knife +1), Ranged Attack 2

Powers:
"Size-Changing Belt" (Flaws: Removable) [50]
"Tiny Size"
Shrinking 20 (+10 Dodge/Parry, +20 Stealth, -10 Intimidation) (Feats: Atomic) (Extras: Normal Strength) (61)
"Tiny Sized Fighting" Enhanced Advantages 2: Close Attack 2 (Flaws: Limited to Smaller Sizes) (1)

Teleport 20 (Flaws: Limited to While Shrunk, Medium- Electronic Lines) (10) -- (13)
  • AE: "Ride Air Currents" Flight 4 (30 mph) (Flaws: Gliding, Limited to While Shrunk) (2)
  • AE: "White Dwarf Punch" Strength-Damage +8 (Extras: Move Action) (Flaws: Must Go From Shrunken to Full Size) (8)
  • AE: "Inner-Ear Jump-Around" Affliction 9 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Flaws: Must Make Hit With Unarmed Attack First, Full Round Action) (9)
-- (75 points)

Features 1: Puts on Costume as a Free Action During Shrinking [1]

"Bangstick" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [3]
Flight 5 (60 mph) (Flaws: Limited to While Shrunk) (5 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +9 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
White Swarf Punch +9 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Knife +9 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +7 (+17 Size, DC 27), Parry +7 (+17 Size, DC 27), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications:
Enemy (Ryan "The Atom III" Choi)- Sylbert eventually has Ryan killed.
Obsession (Raping & Killing)- Dwarfstar likes to stalk, rape and torture people. He's altogether kind of a prick.

Total: Abilities: 42 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 54 / Defenses: 8 (107)

-Sylbert Rundine is a rapist & serial killer (jesus, not TOO dark, Ms. Simone?) created by Gail Simone to be the arch-nemesis of Ryan Choi, the replacement Atom of the mid-2000s. His mother was a woman named Lady Chronos, and he hired the group of villains (led by Deathstroke) that engaged in the messy and violent murder of Choi, in a disastrous "mulligan" that saw DC wipe out like their only prominent Asian male hero because the fans didn't take to Ray Palmer's replacement Atom, which of course pissed off a BUNCH of people, for a multitude of reasons (fans of Choi; fans of diversity; fans who just wanted more Asians around that weren't martial artists; fans of good storytelling; people who didn't want "the fans don't like him" to automatically mean a gory demise; fans who didn't like how EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEME comics had gotten once more).

-Simone, writing the Secret Six book, has Giganta (Choi's girlfriend, I guess) team up with Dwarfstar, and she gets a measure of revenge, duct-taping his mouth shut and beating him half to death after seducing him (she denied him sweet Giantess Sex and THEN beat the shit out of him? DAMN this woman is cold!). He is left crippled in the hospital, and confesses his crime to Ray Palmer, who merely suggests that Deathstroke will now kill him for giving him up. He hasn't been seen since.

-Dwarfstar is basically Ryan Choi, but with the abilities of a serial rapist. So an opportunist bastard, apparently, and a PL 10 Defensive guy with PL 9-ish offensive capabilities. And a knife.
Last edited by Jabroniville on Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:43 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Bane

Post by Jabroniville »

Image
Image
Image

BANE (Real Name Unknown)
Created By:
Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench & Graham Nolan
First Appearance: Batman- Vengeance of Bane #1 (Jan. 1993)
Role: The Breaker of the Bat, Weakened Villain, Renewed Bad-Ass
Group Affiliations: The Secret Society of Super-Villains, Suicide Squad, The League of Assassins, The Secret Six
PL 10 (171), PL 11 (171) With Venom
STRENGTH
5/7 STAMINA 5/7 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 13 DEXTERITY 6
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 4 PRESENCE 4

Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 8 (+13, +15 Venom)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+14)
Expertise (Criminal) 6 (+10)
Expertise (Current Events) 8 (+12)
Insight 4 (+8)
Intimidation 6 (+10)
Investigation 8 (+12)
Perception 5 (+9)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 2 (+6)
Treatment 2 (+6)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Assessment, Beginner's Luck, Chokehold, Daze (Intimidation), Diehard, Eidetic Memory, Equipment 2 (Assorted Mercenary Gear), Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab, Fearless, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Unarmed) 2, Improved Disarm, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Improved Trip, Jack-of-All-Trades, Languages 2 (Several), Last Stand (Ignores All Damage for 1 Round w/ HP Spent), Leadership, Luck, Power Attack, Prone Fighting, Ranged Attack 2, Startle, Takedown 2, Tracking, Ultimate Strength, Well-Informed, Withstand Damage (Trade Defenses For Toughness)

Powers:
"Venom Harness" (Flaws: Removable) (Feats: Restricted to Those Able to Take Venom) [8]
Enhanced Strength & Stamina 2 (8)
Regeneration 2 (2)
-- (10 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +14 (+5 Damage, DC 19)
Venom Boosted +14 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +10

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +5 (+7 Venom), Fortitude +7 (+9 Venom), Will +9

Complications:
Addiction (Venom)- Bane is often addicted to the dangerous substance known as Venom, which gives him enhanced strength.
Relationship (Scandal Savage)- Bane has a weird fatherly relationship with Scandal, taking desperate means to protect her.

Total: Abilities: 90 / Skills: 56--28 / Advantages: 37 / Powers: 8 / Defenses: 8 (171)

-Bane is one of those guys I feel could have been really big if they'd pushed him properly... except then I realize that he's had like two movie appearances and several prominent shots in other DC materials, so he's actually a pretty damn big villain. Okay so one of those appearances was as a goon in a Shumacher movie, and in the next, he has one of the stupidest voices ever given a character in a film- they still count!

-Bane debuted with one of the biggest pushes ever given a new supervillain, bar-none. He used a combination of planning, foresight and raw strength to utterly defeat Batman, "Breaking the Bat" and snapping Bruce Wayne's spine, rendering him crippled. This was such big news that my freaking GRANDMOTHER told me about it as if it was a big deal. This led to the arc where Bruce was replaced as Batman by the crazier, more dangerous, "extreme" '90s hero who eventually became Azrael- a deliberate attempt by DC's writers to decry the "Image Archetype" bad-ass anti-heroes that were plaguing the industry at the time.

-Bane debuted in the Knightfall storyline- he was a man who'd been imprisoned as a child due to his father's crimes. Despite the brutality of the jail, he learned the hard way, bodybuilding and reading anything he could get his hands on. He eventually escapes the prison, uses an addictive super-steroid called "Venom", and begins hunting Batman, thanks to a lifelong fear of bats. In one of comics' most iconic panels, he snaps Bruce's back after a long, drawn out fight (which also involves loosing other villains within Gotham, in order to tire Batman out).

-Now THIS? This is how you make someone's rep! This is "Bullseye Kills Elektra" level stuff, yo. And so of course they utterly screwed it up. Though he managed to beat "AzBats" in their first fight, Jean-Paul Valley soon upgrades to a higher-tech Bat-outfit, soon upending the villain. Desperate for more Venom, and begging for death, Bane is instead tortured by the increasingly-nutos Valley, calling ahead to the end of the Knightfall story-arc.

-Bruce soon regains the cowl of "Batman", while Bane makes an abrupt face turn, helping to clean up Gotham of a Venom-derivative. He briefly joins Ra's al-Ghul's group, but is defeated and exiled. This leads to a long string of "Bane Jobbings", as all of his goodwill is slowly wiped out by popping up in random places and losing fights. Though he DOES manage to kill Judomaster, via the same back-breaking move that "Broke the Bat", Judomaster's son soon easily defeats him in revenge.

-2008 saw the diminished Bane join Gail Simone's Secret Six book- here, he is depicted as a stoic, deadpan "devil's advocate", producing some funny moments through his sheer humorlessness. His intense, fatherly desire to protect Scandal at all costs came out of nowhere, yet was hilariously weird. In the end of the series, he is driven to madness, pumps himself full of Venom (which he hadn't used since the mid-90s, though artists tended to always draw him with the tubes in), and leads the Six in an assault against a veritable superhero army. The fates of the Six are left unknown, but Bane is later seen helping out various characters against the Court of Owls, and he appears frequently in the Nu52 and Rebirth eras.

-Bane is a PL 9.5 fighter who upgrades to PL 10.5 with Venom- New Villain Stink put him over Batman himself, crippling the hero... but he never matched that reputation again (apologies to Judomaster's fans), and you could argue he fell to PL 9 at one point before Secret Six re-badassed him (er, "Catmanned" him). Here, he had some GREAT bad-ass moments, such as holding up under torture (to the point where he lectured his torturer's methods), insisting that he die in his teammates' places, etc.- Simone spent so much time playing up OTHERS as bad-ass, yet BANE was the guy who came off looking the toughest out of that series. Bane is also a remarkable Skillmonkey, and more clever than you'd think for a guy who could hit as hard as Spider-Man.
Last edited by Jabroniville on Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:43 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Jabroniville
Posts: 24695
Joined: Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:05 pm

Re: Jab's Builds! (Catman! Cheshire! Black Alice! Lady Vic! Bane!)

Post by Jabroniville »

Okay, so my vacation starts tomorrow, but I have a bunch of builds ready to go- hopefully I won't have any issues posting them.

After tomorrow (when I post up the Fourth of July), I'll be re-posting my Spider-Man builds, which I last did about two years ago (it was July 2015, apparently). The builds won't be new or modified, but some of the information has been added to a bit (and reformatted, in the cast of some of the large "infodump" descriptions, so they'll read better). This gives me a chance to put up a whole bunch of stuff from RA over here on the new thread, while also hopefully getting some new comments from people who missed them the first time around.

I was thinking about how many builds to post on each day (as it'll have to be kind of "dumped" out in a row, instead of bit-by-bit throughout the day, depending on WiFi availability), but I'm thinking 4-5 builds per day, with the "big names" split up a bit.
Post Reply