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Re: Jab's Builds! (Fenris Twins! Blitzkrieg! Brother Voodoo! Black Crow!)

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Ken wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:01 am If there's Key and Grip where's Gaffer?
The Gaffer (Sydney E. Levine) :ugeek: :)
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Argento

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ARGENTO (Michele Argento)
Created By:
Xavier Marturet & Paco Diaz
First Appearance: Europa #0 (April 1996)
Role: Military Style Hero, Infiltrator & Sniper
Group Affiliations: Taskforce, Euroforce
PL 7 (108)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Vehicles 4 (+8)
Perception 6 (+8)
Expertise (Soldier) 6 (+7)
Insight 4 (+6)
Stealth 6 (+10)

Advantages:
Equipment 7, Improved Critical (Sniper Rifle), Improved Aim, Precise Attack (Ranged/Cover), Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
Concealment (All Senses) 10 [20]
"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will 4 (Flaws: Limited to vs. Mental Attacks) [2]

Equipment:
"Sniper Rifle" Blast 6 (Feats: Extended Range 2) (Flaws: Distracting) (8) -- (10)
  • AE: "Sub-Machine Gun" Blast 5 (Extras: Multiattack) (Inaccurate -1) (14)
  • AE: "Knives" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Improved Critical) (2)
"Taskforce Visor"
Communications (4)
Enhanced Feats: Attack Focus (Ranged), Uncanny Dodge (Sight) (Drawbacks: Power Loss- No other Visors in Range) (1)
Super-Senses (Analytical Sight, Infravision, Low-Light Vision) (3)

Tactical Backback (5)
SHIELD Uniform (Protection 3, Protection 2- Fire Damage Only, Immunity to Heat & Cold- Half Effect) (5)

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Knife +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Guns +8 (+5-6 Ranged Damage, DC 20-21)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +4

Complications:
Responsibility (Euroforce)

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 14 / Powers: 22 / Defenses: 9 (108)

-Argento's a sniper, and has the super-powers necessary to remain immune to most senses. He's also an albino outcast, always depressed about his mutant nature.
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Toni Ho

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DR. TONI HO
Created By:
Al Ewing & Gerardo Sandoval
First Appearance: New Avengers #1 (Dec. 2015)
Role: Legacy Character (to Ho Yinsen)
Group Affiliations: Avengers Idea Mechanics
PL 11 (159)
STRENGTH
1/10 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 4 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 8 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Science) 4 (+12)
Insight 3 (+6)
Perception 3 (+6)
Persuasion 3 (+6)
Technology 8 (+16)
Treatment 5 (+13)
Vehicles 2 (+6)

Advantages:
Inventor, Ranged Attack 2

Powers:
"The Iron Patriot Armor" (Feats: Restricted 2- Only Osborn) (Flaws: Removable) [78]
Enhanced Strength 9 (18)
Protection 9 (Extras: Impervious 9) (18)
Immunity 6 (Cold, Heat, Radiation, Pressure, Suffocation 2) (6)
"Boot Rockets" Flight 9 (1,000 mph) (18)
"Armor Sensors" Senses 11 (Extended & Infravision, Extended Hearing, Radar 4, Detect Energy- Ranged, Acute & Accurate) (11)

Magnetic Blast 11 (Feats: Split, Improved Critical) (24) -- (26)
  • AE: "Uni-Beam" Damage 11 (Feats: Penetrating 5) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (Flaws: Distracting) (16)
  • AE: "Missiles" Blast 10 (Feats: Homing 2) (22)
-- (97 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Magnetic Blast +6 (+11 Damage, DC 26)
Uni-Beam +11 Area (+11 Damage, DC 26)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +5 (DC 15), Toughness +2 (+11 Armor), Fortitude +4, Will +6

Complications: 
Relationship (Aikku Jokinen)- The two are deeply in love.
Responsibility (Avengers Idea Mechanics)- Toni is very involved with the running of the operation, and truly believes in it.

Total: Abilities: 56 / Skills: 30--15 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 78 / Defenses: 7 (159)

-So another one of Al Ewing's ideas for his somewhat-silly AIM/Avengers book was that Ho Yinsen, the co-creator of the Iron Man armor, would have an adult daughter. Now, why she was never referenced in forty years was unknown (especially since Yinsen had a group of people who worshipped him in some '90s Iron Man comics), but what the hell. Ewing used her as the "Tech Support" of the Avengers Idea Mechanics group that Sunspot led, and did that thing he does, where he staffed ENTIRE TEAMS with minorities & double-minorities, but managed to make it NOT cloying or preachy- Dr. Toni Ho is an Asian lesbian, but is neither IN YOUR FACE about it, nor does she shame predecessors endlessly, nor is she treated like the biggest genius who ever genius'd- she's just a smart, capable person doing a smart, capable job.

-Toni works at the A.I.M. base, studying Aikku  Jokinen, who is merged with a sentient suit called "Pod", eventually falling in love with her. Toni was forced to done some Iron Man armor to defend Aikku/Pod (the two had been merged), then hooks up with Aikku after Pod sacrifices itself to save them. In the U.S. Avengers sequel series, Toni is seen in the Iron Patriot armor, helping out briefly. However, Aikku grows concerned over her obsession over the suit, and Toni eventually drops it- later MacGuyvering her way out of jail and saving a nearly fatally-wounded Sunspot during Secret Empire, which leads to a jailbreak. We'll see where she ends up- as long as Ewing is backing her, she'll likely do okay. Soon as he's gone, she probably disappears into Marvel Limbo. Most recently, she has been named leader of this branch of the Avengers, after Sunspot quits to prevent the U.S. government from taking too firm a hand with his group.

-Toni's an interesting look at what happens when a Bystander-ish person wields a Powersuit- the cost of it goes up a bit (her baseline stats are worse than Norman Osborn's were when he wore the suit, but they're equally strong and durable), but only barely makes her powerful- the suit has a PL 11 Area Effect on it, but she's defensively only about PL 8.5 and her Blasts are PL 8.5 as well. Otherwise, she's a smart, capable person, but as is usual for Ewing- NOT the smartest and bestest person who's ever lived.
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Pod

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POD (Aikku Jokinen)
Created By:
Jonathan Hickman & Stefano Caselli
First Appearance: New Avengers #4 (March 2013)
Role: New Character
Group Affiliations: Avengers Idea Mechanics
PL 9 (143)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Expertise (Current Events) 2 (+4)
Insight 2 (+4)
Perception 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Interpose, Ranged Attack 5

Powers:
"Pod Powersuit" (Flaws: Removable) [77]
Insubstantial 4 (Extras: Affects Others (24) -- (25)
  • AE: Protection 8 (8)
Flight 8 (500 mph) (16)
"Image Inducer" Morph (Unarmored & Armored Forms) (5)
"Adaptive Powers" Variable 2 (Extras: Reaction +2) (Flaws: Limited to When Attacked) (16)
"Mines" Blast 10 (Feats: Triggered- Movement) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (31) -- (34)
  • AE: "Laser Beams" Blast 10 (Extras: Multiattack) (30)
  • AE: "Shields" Deflect 10 (10)
  • AE: "Invisibility" Concealment 2 (Vision) (4)
-- (96 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Blasts +8 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +7 (DC 17), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +3 (+11 Pod), Fortitude +4, Will +6

Complications:
Relationship (Dr. Toni Ho)- The two are deeply in love.

Total: Abilities: 48 / Skills: 6--3 / Advantages: 6 / Powers: 77 / Defenses: 9 (143)

-Aikku Jokinen was a Norwegian girl who was randomly empowered when she came across one of the many power-inducing pods sent to Earth by Ex Nihilo in Jon Hickman's crack-addled Avengers run. Hickman, naturally, took this new character and then abandoned her completely while he did some OTHER stupid thing (remember when they built a Dyson Sphere around Earth and nobody ever mentioned it again?), so we were probably never gonna see her again...

-And then Al Ewing remembered she existed and made her a member of his Avengers Idea Mechanics group. Trapped permanently within the sentient "Pod" (lest she kill the creature), she became attached to Dr. Toni Ho, whom she had been assigned to guard. When some enemies attack their base, Pod willingly sacrifices itself in order to save Aikku, dying. Aikku then starts a relationship with Toni, while wearing the "undersuit" Pod gave her.

-Aikku/Pod (now Enigma, I guess) suffers a bit from "New Character Syndrome", in that modern comics typically just shows people flying around and doing stuff in "snapshots" instead of actually detailing their capabilities, but here's what I have so far.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Fenris Twins! Blitzkrieg! Brother Voodoo! Black Crow!)

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M4C8 wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:21 am
Ken wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:01 am If there's Key and Grip where's Gaffer?
The Gaffer (Sydney E. Levine) :ugeek: :)
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Haven

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Oh god- one of those "Mid-90s Super-Villain" designs.

HAVEN (Radha Dastoor)
Created By:
J.M. DeMatteis & Jan Duursema
First Appearance: X-Factor #99 (Feb. 1994)
Role: Super-Mutant
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (117)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 4

Skills:
Close Combat (Lightning Fists) 2 (+8)
Deception 4 (+8)
Expertise (Theology) 8 (+11)
Perception 2 (+5)
Persuasion 3 (+5)

Advantages:
Benefit 2 (Wealth), Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Fetus-Given Powers"
"Telepathy" Mind-Reading 8 Linked to Communication (Mental) 2 (Extras: Area, Selective) (28) -- [30]
  • AE: Healing 8 (16)
  • AE: Movement 2 (Dimensional Travel 2) (4)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Lightning Fists +8 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Lightning Bolts & Wind +8 Area (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (The Mahapralaya)- Haven seeks the Great Destruction, having grown disgusted by the dichotomy between her wealthy family and the poor surrounding them.
Relationship (Haven)- Monsoon admires his sister, but believes that she is wrong, and that they should not seek the deliberate extermination of 75% of the people on Earth.

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 30 / Defenses: 9 (117)

-Haven wished to bring about Mahapralaya, "The Great Destruction", which would help humanity evolve by wiping out 3/4 of the population of Earth. Her family was wealthy, while the others around her were poor- searching through the world's religions (her father was Hindu, her mother Zoroastrian), and the insanity brought on by the fetus within her, led her to believe that near-armageddon was the answer. Her brother Monsoon opposed her evil plot. Radha had great powers, but it was revealed that they came from the fetus, and when it was born, the resulting cataclysm destroyed her. Turns out, the baby was The Adversary reborn.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Fenris Twins! Brother Voodoo! Black Crow! Toni Ho!)

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A look into the Frozen Musical they're adapating for this spring: https://broadwaydirect.com/writing-scor ... mpaign=263

This bit's pretty interesting, regarding the difference between mediums:
The film-to-stage transition also must account for the difference in medium. “There’s no real way to do a close-up in a theatre,” explains Lopez. “The best equivalent in a musical is giving the character a song — it’s a way to communicate all the subtle emotions that a film can give in a few seconds of a close-up shot. Musical, emotional storytelling is the most powerful tool you have onstage. One example of this in Frozen is the coronation scene. In the film, you can see Elsa’s anxiety in her eyes and by the way her hands subtly shake as she takes the orb and scepter. You know instantly how she’s feeling. Onstage, that moment would be far less powerful because you’d miss those details. So Kristen and I wrote ’Dangerous to Dream,’ a new solo for Elsa, to communicate all those anxieties she’s feeling at that pivotal moment. And we even go deeper into what she’s thinking about her fractured relationship with Anna, and how it distracts her from the task at hand.”
Of course, tripling the number of songs will probably lead to all the rest just being filler, or audiences going "Huh? Where'd THIS come from?" :). Though most Disney adaptations do at least one good one (He Lives In You from The Lion King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T239kqN ... N7yq4&t=40, and Me from Beauty and the Beast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYsW2_Ar2Y- proper Disneyphiles will no doubt recognize the girl playing Belle).
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Re: Haven

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Jabroniville wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:33 pm
Radha had great powers, but it was revealed that they came from the fetus, and when it was born, the resulting cataclysm destroyed her. Turns out, the baby was The Adversary reborn.
Can I just say again how terrible it is that Marvel completed wasted an awesome name like "The Adversary" on that do-nothing non-character whose most regular opponent was Forge?
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Re: Haven

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Ares wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:21 pm Can I just say again how terrible it is that Marvel completed wasted an awesome name like "The Adversary" on that do-nothing non-character whose most regular opponent was Forge?
Excuse me, but "the Adversary" sounds like an opponent of this guy:
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if there'd been a second issue.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Fenris Twins! Blitzkrieg! Brother Voodoo! Black Crow!)

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Ken wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:01 am If there's Key and Grip where's Gaffer?
and what of Best Boy?
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Monsoon

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MONSOON (Aloba Dastoor)
Created By:
J.M. DeMatteis & Jan Duursema
First Appearance: X-Factor #99 (Feb. 1994)
Role: Super-Mutant
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (117)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Close Combat (Lightning Fists) 2 (+8)
Deception 4 (+6)
Expertise (Theology) 5 (+6)
Perception 2 (+5)
Persuasion 3 (+5)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Weather Control"
Environment 6 (Impede Movement, Visibility) [12]
Flight 5 (60 mph) [10]

"Gale Force Winds" Move Object 8 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone, Damaging) (Flaws: Limited to Away) (24) -- [26]
  • AE: "Lightning Fists" Damage 8 (8)
  • AE: "Lightning Bolts" Damage 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (16)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Lightning Fists +8 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Lightning Bolts & Wind +8 Area (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications: 
Motivation (The Mahapralaya)- Monsoon seeks the Great Destruction.
Relationship (Haven)- Monsoon admires his sister, but believes that she is wrong, and that they should not seek the deliberate extermination of 75% of the people on Earth.

Total: Abilities: 48 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 48 / Defenses: 9 (117)

-Monsoon and his sister Haven are planning on creating the Mahapralaya, "The Great Destruction", which would help humanity evolve by wiping out 3/4 of the population of Earth. Monsoon, however, considered Haven's plans too twisted and wrong because of the lives lost, and conspired with X-Factor's government liaison, Valerie Cooper, who pretended to be Haven's latest convert. Haven was foiled by X-Factor, and then declared that she HAD no brother. Monsoon was de-powered on M-Day.
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Sati

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SATI
Created By:
J.M. DeMatteis & Jan Duursema
First Appearance: GeNext- United #1 (July 2009)
Role: Indian Ally
Group Affiliations: None

-Sati is introduced in GeNext (a story about future X-Men), already being treated like an old friend by The Beast and Cecilia Reyes. She apparently fights the Demon Goddess Kalima, and is the defender of India. The GeNext kids ally with her against Kalima. Not much is known about her powers, but she appears to be super-strong and durable. She can also fly.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Fenris Twins! Blitzkrieg! Brother Voodoo! Black Crow!)

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HalloweenJack wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:51 pm
Ken wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:01 am If there's Key and Grip where's Gaffer?
and what of Best Boy?
Thank you.
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Re: Haven

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Ken wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:38 pm
Ares wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:21 pm Can I just say again how terrible it is that Marvel completed wasted an awesome name like "The Adversary" on that do-nothing non-character whose most regular opponent was Forge?
Excuse me, but "the Adversary" sounds like an opponent of this guy:
Jabroniville wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:48 pm ImageImage
if there'd been a second issue.
Hey! I remember that generic book!

A friend if mine bought a bunch, claiming "in a few years, these are gonna be worth a fortune!"

20 years later, he sold them for 40 cents each.
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White Fox

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WHITE FOX (Ami Han)
Created By:
Al Ewing & Paco Medina
First Appearance: Contest of Champions #1 (Dec. 2015)
Role: Foreign Hero
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (110)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 11 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills: 
Athletics 8 (+11)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Super-Agent) 5 (+7)
Perception 5 (+8)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Vehicles 2 (+4)

Advantages: 
Equipment (Battle-Stave +2- Split, Reach), Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Claws), Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Animal Senses" Senses 6 (Acute & Extended Scent, Low-Light Vision, Scent-Tracking, Ultra & Extended Hearing) [6]
"Animal Physiology" Speed 2 (8 mph) [2]
Senses 2 (Detect Energy- Acute) [2]
Comprehend 2 (Animals) [4]
"Claws" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Split) [2]

Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Claws +11 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Battle-Stave +11 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +5

Complications:
Responsibility (South Korea)

Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 16 / Defenses: 11 (110)

-White Fox debuted in the 2015 Contest of Champions series that went nowhere. She's the last of the Kumiho- a race of shapeshifting nine-tailed foxes (who are probably where the Japanese "Kitsune" came from), and is a Super-Agent of the South Korean government. While investigating the death of teammate Gun-R, she discovers that he had been killed in a new Contest of Champions, which is dominated by The Maestro. She and some other outlaw fighters team up and banish The Maestro, and contemplate forming a team.

-The character comes from a Webisode series animated in Korea called Avengers: Electric Rain.

-White Fox has some Animal Powers mixed with physical capabilities- not that elaborate, but she's a new character.
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