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THUNDERSWORD (Stewart Cadwell)
Created By:
Jim Shooter & Al Milgrom
First Appearance: Secret Wars II #1 (July 1985)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: None
PL 11 (117)
STRENGTH
12 STAMINA 12 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE -1

Skills:
Expertise (Writer) 2 (+2)
Ranged Combat (Blast) 2 (+8)

Advantages:
Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6

Powers:
"Lightning Sword" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [18]
Deflect 14 (Extras: Reflect) (28) -- (30 points)
  • AE: Electrical Blast 14 (28)
  • AE: Strength-Damage +4 (Feats: Improved Critical) (Extras: Penetrating 10) (15)
Summon Boromir the Flying Horse 4 [8]
Protection 4 (Extras: Impervious 9) [13]

Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Lightning Sword +6 (+16 Damage, DC 31)
Electrical Blast +6 (+14 Ranged Damage, DC 29)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +16 (+5 Impervious), Fortitude +12, Will +2

Complications:
Motivation (Power)- Stewart is an unsuccessful man, and was jealous of the power of The Beyonder. When left to his own devices, he just attacks people whom he feels have victimized him.
Obsession (Ranting & Raving)- Stewart hates "dreck" and excessive violence without consequences in media targeted at children. He also just likes carrying on and ranting against authority for minor infractions.
Secret (Hypocrite)- Despite his ranting, Stewart himself writes some of the same consequence-less violence he decries.
Normal Identity- Stewart's base form is 0s across the board, and he has no Advantages either.

Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 4--2 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 39 / Defenses: 5 (117)

Thundersword- Created From Spite:
-Thundersword, looking hilariously like the Thunderers from DC Comics, is a goofy character from the much-hated Secret Wars II (aka the story where Jim Shooter pissed away any possible goodwill from the first Secret Wars, which was great dumb fun). He was a TV writer who was granted power by the returning Beyonder, who wanted to learn more about humanity. Thundersword blew up his workplaces, but was beaten by The X-Men, New Mutants, Iron Man & Captain America (well, he was disarmed of his Sword and was changed back to normal). He would reappear in Iron Man, realizing that his powers were internalized, not the result of a trophy given by The Beyonder. He beat Iron Man (Rhodey, not Tony), but Rhodey was given advice from Tony, went to a nuclear power plant, and absorbed some more power into his armor. Rhodey one-punched Thundersword using this uber-boost, and he was never seen again.

-Made clear here, Stewart Cadwell is a huge parody of Steve Gerber, who at the time was publicly-railing against Marvel (of which Jim Shooter was the Editor-In-Chief) for what he saw was glorification of violence without consequences. And also because they owned his beloved Howard the Duck (this was during the huge push towards Creator Rights). Despite vowing to be better than the heroes and "purveyors of dreck", he clearly acts exactly like what he hates (Gerber worked on stories like Thundarr the Barbarian and G.I. Joe, both of which were just as guilty as Marvel at what Gerber was describing. Cadwell even looks exactly like Gerber. To complete the metaphor, Cadwell ends up destroying the places he'd once worked in his quest to fix things. HOW AMAZINGLY SUBTLE, SHOOTER.

Thundersword Reappears:
-Jeez, I build this guy in 20-friggin'-16 and between then and now, this guy actually SHOWED UP a few times! After years of never appearing! It turns out that after being paroled, Cadwall lived peacefully in California until Carol "Captain Marvel" Danvers and Alpha Flight arrived to arrest him for keeping his lightning-shaped trophy- a vision from the Inhuman precognitive Ulysses Cain had foretold some energy from Cadwall's home would create a tragedy. He was arrested for keeping his trophy from authorities, but the Black Panther (who disagreed with Danvers ripping off Minority Report so thoroughly, I guess) paid his bail. Cadwall reappears when a super-villain hidden away on Alpha Flight's board of governors grabs the trophy and gains the "Thundersword" powers. Stewart manages to depower the villain by touching the sword, ending the threat. A grateful Danvers allows Cadwall to live his life normally after this.

Thundersword- Surprisingly-Powerful Idiot:
-Despite being an idiot and a loser, Thundersword is so powerful that he basically trounces Iron Man with ease (the Lightning Sword one-shots Rhodey), and requires two full teams of heroes to defeat him the first time he appears. He can Blast, Deflect, Strike, and even summon his flying horse (thematically named after a Lord of the Rings hero, like Valkyrie's steed). Still being cheap on points, he's a great example of what happens when you hand any idiot otherworldly power- he's PL 11, enough to beat up '80s James Rhodes (who was probably around PL 10-11 at the time), but if he returned today, he's probably be a lot easier to beat. His power is great, but his accuracy isn't.
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Tendril

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TENDRIL (River Verys)
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza
First Appearance: Spider-Man- The Final Adventure #1 (Dec. 1995)
Role: Jobber Villain
Group Affiliations: None
PL 7 (119)
STRENGTH
7 STAMINA 7 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 7 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Deception 4 (+4)
Expertise (Riff-Raff/Street Rat) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 6 (+6)
Perception 4 (+4)
Ranged Combat (Snare) 3 (+7)
Stealth 1 (+5)

Advantages: 
Great Endurance, Ranged Attack 2

Powers:
Leaping 1 (15 feet) [1]
"Alter Shape" Morph 2 [10]
Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling 2) [4]
Extra Limbs 6 [6]
"Webbing" Snare 8 (Feats: Tether) [25]

Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Snare +7 (+7 Ranged Affliction, DC 17)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +7 (DC 17), Parry +7 (DC 17), Toughness +7, Fortitude +7, Will +2

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)

Total: Abilities: 54 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 46 / Defenses: 5 (119)

-Tendril hails from a mid-'90s Spider-Man: The Final Adventure Limited Series. A boy from a troubled home, he contracted the flesh-eating bacteria, and required an experimental synthetic skin to regrow his epidermis- naturally, this gave him super-powers and drove him insane. He allied with "Dryrot", who gained powers in a similar way from the same company, but Spider-Man beat both guys and reversed Tendril's condition- the results killed him, and left Spidey de-powered for a time- this effectively writes Peter Parker out of the Spider-Man books during the "Ben Reilly" stories, making sure that Peter can't steal the spotlight.

-He appears to just be a "Low-Level Spider-Man" kind of guy. Not exactly the stuff of nightmares.
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Tuatara

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TUATARA (Araoha Tepania)
Created By:
Kurt Busiek & Patrick Zircher
First Appearance: Iron Man #6 (July 1998)
Role: Lizard Chick
Group Affiliations: The Maggia
PL 10 (131)
STRENGTH
12 STAMINA 12 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Expertise (Criminal) 4 (+6)
Expertise (Prisons) 6 (+8)
Insight 2 (+4)
Intimidation 6 (+9, +10 Size)
Perception 4 (+6)

Advantages: 
Daze (Intimidation), Fascination (Intimidation), Fast Grab, Ranged Attack 2, Startle

Powers:
"Large Size" Growth 2 (Str & Sta +2, +2 Mass, +1 Intimidation, -1 Dodge/Parry, -2 Stealth) -- (10 feet) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [5]

"Reptilian Physiology"
"Thick Skin" Impervious Toughness 9 [9]
Speed 3 (16 mph) [3]
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
"Six-Foot Tail" Reach 1 [1]

"Animal Senses" Senses 3 (Infravision, Extended & Acute Scent) [3]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +12, Fortitude +12, Will +4

Complications:
Responsibility (The Mandarin)- Tuatara works for the Mandarin.
Normal Identity (Araoha Tepania)- Tepania is ST 2, STA 3, but still a capable fighter.
Vulnerable (Sonics)- Though durable enough to tank Iron Man's Repulsor Rays with no difficulty, high-level sonics sent her screaming for cover.

Total: Abilities: 84 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 6 / Powers: 23 / Defenses: 7 (131)

-Tuatara is a New Zealander created for Kurt Busiek's Iron Man run, and was discovered as warden of the Mandarin's forced-labor camp. Tony Stark, acting as "bait" on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D., was kidnapped by the Mandarin's forces and sent to work there alongside other prominent scientists. His distress signal to the Black Widow disabled, Tony nonetheless clandestinely built a NEW one while building a device for the Mandarin, and sent in the Widow. Surprisingly, the lady-warden soon turned into a GIANT LIZARD MONSTER, and Tony donned the Iron Man armor to fight her. Tony was a bit mind-screwed from his time as her prisoner, but managed to hit her with a tight-beam sonic blast. Tuatara burrowed underneath the ground, and has apparently never been seen again.

-I find the concept of "Evil Mandarin Agent" interesting, and Marvel needs more bad-ass female villains, but the "Giant Lizard Foe" thing is a bit old-hat at Marvel. With a different power-set, she might have been something.

-Tuataras are a rare kind of reptile native to the islands south of Australia. Though they resemble generic lizards, they are mutated so little from their ancient forms that they qualify as "Living Fossils", retaining fish-like attributes in their skeletons. As such, Tuataras are of great interest to evolutionary biologists, representing one of the "branch-off" points where things shift in biology.

-Tuatara is another one of those interesting things as far as "One-Off Villains" goes. Ideally, such limited-appearance characters are best as PL 8s using "New Villain Stink" to succeed, as by their next appearance, they'd likely be Backgrounders or Jobbers (especially in today's climate of "easily beaten villains"). But since Iron Man is as PL 12, this character needs to be a LITTLE stronger than that. And Busiek, not one to exaggerate meaninglessly, has Tony indicate in his commentary that "She could take on The Hulk!", meaning she's a high-end powerhouse. Quite a difference for someone I was expecting to basically be Curt Connors Lite. Instead, she's rather powerful. Iron Man's Repulsor Rays are indicated as doing "nothing" to her.
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Oh god not Thundersword.
I still remember him from Secret Wars II. I think I actually have that adventure module for the Marvel game still.
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Sidious wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:39 am Oh god not Thundersword.
I still remember him from Secret Wars II. I think I actually have that adventure module for the Marvel game still.
Haha, neat. Was he in that module, then?
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The Trasks

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THE TRASK FAMILY (Bolivar, Larry, Simon & Donald III):
-Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist who created the first set of Sentinels, whose son Larry was a Precognitive mutant. He saw the rise of mutants as a threat to humanity, creating the Sentinels to fight them in case they attempted anything. Unfortunately, the Sentinels grew too adaptive (because even in the '60s, Robots easily turned on their masters), demanding that THEY were superior to humans, TOO, and they capture both Bolivar and Professor X. Bolivar is forced to use a mind-reading device on The Beast when the mutant hero is captured, and his observations make him realize that the X-Men are actually DEFENDING humanity. His point of view crushed, Bolivar gets the "Stan Lee Ending" of sacrificing his life in order to save the X-Men's lives, destroying the Sentinel base. His reformation actually held true when he was resurrected by Bastion's "Phalanx" powers- when he wasn't under mind control, he managed to commit suicide and harm the villains.

-Larry Trask, a mutant himself, would grow up blaming mutants for his father's death, as he himself didn't realize he was one (Bolivar had removed his memories and deactivated his powers using a medallion), and created a new wave of Sentinels. This led to the discovery of Havok, and Larry was soon defeated, becoming almost catatonic. The medallion was placed back on his head, and the character later reformed. Later, he and Quicksilver were forced to fight a new group of Sentinels- Larry convinced them to turn on their leader, as he himself had mutated due to proximity to the sun. Alas, he was crushed to death in the ensuing battle.

-Simon Trask, Bolivar's brother, would go on to found Humanity's Last Stand, a group that imitated mutants and carried out terrorist attacks, attempting to make mutants look bad.

-Donald Trask III was seen in modern times, with his DNA being used by Cassandra Nova to protect her from a hidden group of Sentinels, which she uses to annihilate Genosha. Trask himself is basically "consumed" by Nova's genetic-altering powers.
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Jabroniville wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:29 am
Sidious wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:39 am Oh god not Thundersword.
I still remember him from Secret Wars II. I think I actually have that adventure module for the Marvel game still.
Haha, neat. Was he in that module, then?
yeah he was in there. :)

I have both SW1 and 2
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catsi563 wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:49 am
Jabroniville wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:29 am
Sidious wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:39 am Oh god not Thundersword.
I still remember him from Secret Wars II. I think I actually have that adventure module for the Marvel game still.
Haha, neat. Was he in that module, then?
yeah he was in there. :)

I have both SW1 and 2
Me too! I have almost the entire FASERIPClassic Marvel Super Heroes RPG sets.it's amazing what you find in old Book Stores and Yard Sales....:D
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Thanatos

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THANATOS
Created By:
Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente & Rodney Buchemi
First Appearance: The Incredible Hercules #138 (Jan. 2010)
Role: The God of Death
Group Affiliations: Olympia

Thanatos in Mythology: Thanatos, like Hades, is not a villain in Greek Mythology- his role as Death (his name literally means "Death") is more of a perfunctory job than something that only an evil being would do. Thanatos is the brother of Hypnos, and the son of Nyx & Erebus- the mysterious combination of Night & Darkness. Basically, if you die, Thanatos shows up and carts you off. That's it. Despite this seemingly important role, he doesn't pop up much in the myths. What's clear, though, is that he differs from the creatures who represent VIOLENT death, such as the Keres (Furies) or other beings. He was thus less feared than some, and in Roman times was actually rather childlike and a "peaceful end" rather than a screaming one.

-Hesiod describes him as "pitiless", however, and mentions how he and Hypnos are "terrible" Gods (because of their heartless inevitability, rather than malice). One of the only Thanatos-related myths feature Sisyphus tricking Thanatos into his own shackles when the God comes for the mortal's soul- this prevents anyone on Earth from dying for the duration of Thanatos's imprisonment (this would be where "Family Guy" and others got the story from). When Sisyphus relents (to Ares, who was QUITE pissed that nobody was dying in his wars), he cheats death AGAIN, and is thus sentenced to eternally push a stone up a hill in Tartarus, only to watch helplessly as it rolls back down. One of the more famous myths of "Humans Suffering in Hades".


-Thanatos appears only once in Marvel, as far as I can tell- in the Hercules story where Zeus and Hera are both slain in battle with Typhon- he arrives to escort their souls to the afterlife, and thus deliver the Thunderbolt of the pantheon to Athena. Here, he is largely an aspect of Death herself, appearing with black wings and a skull face.
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Jabroniville wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:29 am
Sidious wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:39 am Oh god not Thundersword.
I still remember him from Secret Wars II. I think I actually have that adventure module for the Marvel game still.
Haha, neat. Was he in that module, then?
Oh yeah he's there. First Appearance of Boom Boom from New Mutants/X-Force too. Re-reading this and the first Secret Wars is hilarious.
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Jabroniville wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:22 am -Tuataras are a rare kind of lizard native to the islands south of Australia. Though they resemble generic lizards, they are mutated so little from their ancient forms that they qualify as "Living Fossils", retaining fish-like attributes in their skeletons. As such, Tuataras are of great interest to evolutionary biologists, representing one of the "branch-off" points where things shift in biology.
Actually, while reptiles, tuataras are not lizards. They generally resemble them, but their legs are anatomically different, and there are other differences. Fascinating creatures, really. And, I'm being a pedant.
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THUNDERSWORD (Stewart Cadwell)
Created By:
Jim Shooter & Al Milgrom
First Appearance: Secret Wars II #1 (July 1985)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: None


Thundersword Reappears:
-Jeez, I build this guy in 20-friggin'-16 and between then and now, this guy actually SHOWED UP a few times! After years of never appearing! It turns out that after being paroled, Cadwall lived peacefully in California until Carol "Captain Marvel" Danvers and Alpha Flight arrived to arrest him for keeping his lightning-shaped trophy- a vision from the Inhuman precognitive Ulysses Cain had foretold some energy from Cadwall's home would create a tragedy. He was arrested for keeping his trophy from authorities, but the Black Panther (who disagreed with Danvers ripping off Minority Report so thoroughly, I guess) paid his bail. Cadwall reappears when a super-villain hidden away on Alpha Flight's board of governors grabs the trophy and gains the "Thundersword" powers. Stewart manages to depower the villain by touching the sword, ending the threat. A grateful Danvers allows Cadwall to live his life normally after this.
I might be alone, but I actually kind of LIKE Thundersword's look, even if he was just a one-off bad guy. I read the Captain Marvel issues where he appeared, and he's basically hilariously used to justify the actions Carol's been taking during Civil War II. Carol asked him why, when he was given the power of basically a god, the first thing he did with it was to go destroy places that sent him "notes he didn't like". He explains that "they were really stupid notes", and goes on to say that the places he worked got rich off of his efforts, but he was never really given any credit, when he tried to do his job in the most effective way that got them money, he was called "being difficult" and was basically underappreciated. Carol, basically seeing her role in Civil War II in a similar light, as an underappreciated heroine who was making hard choices to do the right thing, and was called things like "being difficult", was able to sympathize with him and say that "Okay, I get it now". And she later compared it to when she was in the Air Force and how, as a woman, she was constantly surrounded by men that wanted to fail.

And I had to laugh. I really did. Less about that last bit, because I can easily believe some women in the military face that kind of hardship from other personnel (including other women) that want them to fail. But the idea of trying to play Carol up as some kind of martyr merely doing what was necessary and being completely under appreciated by her friends and allies, is just hilarious. She was basically arresting people on the word of someone Tony was able to prove was not infallible, she wound up almost killing Tony, she was arresting people BEFORE THEY COMMITTED A CRIME, and basically acted like the worst examples of "The Minority Report" and "The War on Terror", including imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay. And we're really suppose to feel bad for this woman for gross human rights violations? So many books outside of the main story had to work their butts off to try and make Carol look sympathetic, and most of them fell short. It took real effort to make a faction during a Civil War look as bad, if not worse, than the Pro-Registration side, but by God, these folks managed it.

It's worth noting that when the Master of the World gained the Thundersword power, he basically kicked the crap out of Carol and required de-powering to win. So you aren't wrong that someone more competent with the Thundersword powers would probably be at least a PL 12 or 13. Though it's weird, they reference the fight Rhodey had with Thundersword, but completely forget that in that issue, Cadwell realized that the power the Beyonder had given him was inside of him, and that he'd basically subconsciously designed Thundersword based off of his Shazam award and his own ideas of being a superhero. By just tweaking his concept of Thundersword a little, he removed the need for the award completely and could transform back and forth at will. So the power was basically never in the award at all, and it was more of a "magic feather" for him.
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Same character!! They never explain this!

TOPAZ
Created By:
Marv Wolfman & Mike Ploog
First Appearance: Werewolf By Night #13 (Jan. 1974)
Role: Forgotten Mage
PL 8 (109)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 5 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Deception 2 (+4)
Expertise (Magic) 7 (+8)
Stealth 1 (+4)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 2, Ritualist

Powers:
Mind Control 8 (Feats: Subtle) (33) -- [37]
  • AE: "Psychokinesis" Move Object 8 (Extras: Perception-Ranged) (24)
  • AE: "Disappearing Objects" Concealment 2 (Visuals) (Extras: Affects Others, Ranged) (8)
  • AE: Create 8 (Feats: Innate, Precise, Subtle) (19)
  • AE: Healing 10 (Extras: Energizing, but with Fear & Intimidation Instead of Exhausted) (30)
"Acts As A Familiar"
Variable (Magical Powers) 2 (Extras: Affects Others Only +0) (Flaws: Limited to Wizards & Stuff) [12]
Enhanced Skills 8: Magic 8 (Extras: Affects Others Only +0) (Flaws: Limited to The Casting of Rituals) [2]

Offense:
Unarmed +5 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Mind Control -- (+8 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Psychokinetically-Thrown Stuff -- (+8 Perception-Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +2, Fortitude +4, Will +4

Complications:
Responsibility (Always Being Used)- A recurring storyline is for Topaz to be controlled by some nefarious being or another for her magical powers.

Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 10--5 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 51 / Defenses: 12 (109)

-Topaz is a magically-powerful chick who was trained by a nasty guy named Taboo to control Jack "Werewolf By Night" Russel to their own ends- Taboo basically used her for her powers and nothing else, and she soon betrayed him to become a Jack ally (and eventually lover). She lost her soul to Dr. Glitternight, but eventually won it back, also saving Jack's sister from her own werewolf curse.

-She later became a Dr. Strange ally, helping him defeat Mephisto and heal Wong, then beat Dormammu. However, this was around when Magic Characters pretty much fell entirely out of favour, and she vanished for a long time. Marvel created a Three Witches series that was a HUGE rip-off of Charmed, putting her with Jennifer Kale (now a bisexual sexpot) and Satana (just a sexpot), but it was pretty short-lived, along with most of Marvel's OTHER female-centric series (most of which were based off of then-popular TV shows). Also she was Indian by this point, because I dunno. Maybe they felt the witchy trio was too honkified or something. The character has not returned in any kind of a serious context for many years, being too far down the chain of command.

-Topaz seems like a pretty low-level mage, but not without her own tricks. She's mainly useful as a Familiar, a booster to the spells of others, which allows her to amplify people as powerful as DOCTOR STRANGE past their starting Power Levels with 10 points' worth of added Magical Abilities. This makes her a big target for nefarious sorts, who use her to amplify certain Rituals or other spells.
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I was at the Chicago WIzardCon where the announcements were made for those female centric titles-Witches Three, AKA Charmed, Bloodstone the Monster Hunter, alias Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a Dark Angel rip-off whose name and title character I would have to research which I don't really care to do. Not sure why they'd do the third, since it wasn't that popular, but I remember Bendis talking about how ga-ga hot Jessica Alba was at another event, so that likely explains it.

Topaz' appearance likely was changed because she just looked too much like Kale, Clea, Dansen Macabre, and a bunch of other skinny, long blond haired, twenty-something "magic chicks"-Marvel was kind of lousy with that type, having a bunch left over from when magic/horror character briefly had a resurgence.

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greycrusader wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:06 pm I was at the Chicago WIzardCon where the announcements were made for those female centric titles-Witches Three, AKA Charmed, Bloodstone the Monster Hunter, alias Buffy the Vampire , and a Dark Angel rip-off whose name and title character I would have to research which I don't really care to do. Not sure why they'd do the third, since it wasn't that popular, but I remember Bendis talking about how ga-ga hot Jessica Alba was at another event, so that likely explains it.
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