HELSPONT
Created By: Brandon Choi & Jim Lee
First Appearance: WildC.A.T.s #1 (Aug. 1992)
Role: The Big Bad
Marvel Character Most Ripped Off: Ghost Rider (giant flaming skull-face)
'90s Ratio: 9/10 (Ghost Rider knockoff; caped villain; has "Hell" in his name, sorta)
Group Affiliations: The Daemonites, The Cabal
PL 13 (242)
STRENGTH 16
STAMINA 13
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 10
DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 4
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Deception 4 (+8)
Expertise (History) 8 (+12)
Expertise (Alien Warlord) 8 (+12)
Insight 4 (+7)
Intimidation 6 (+10, +14 Acurian Body)
Perception 5 (+8)
Technology 6 (+10)
Vehicles 3 (+7)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Benefit 3 (Daemonite High Lord on Earth), Diehard, Improved Critical (Telekinesis), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6, Startle
Powers:
"Acurian Physiology"
Protection 3 [3]
Enhanced Skills 4: Intimidation 4 (+14) [2]
"Human Form" Morph 1 [5]
Mental Blast 12 (48) -- [50]
- AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 12 (24)
- AE: Telekinetic Blast 16 (Feats: Split) (33)
"Daemonite Physiology"
"Possess Bodies" Mind Control 4 (Extras: Continuous +3) (Flaws: Disappears Into Host Body, Will Lose All Other Powers) [20]
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+16 Damage, DC 31)
Mental Blast -- (+12 Perception-Ranged Damage, DC 22)
TK Blast +10 (+16 Ranged Damage, DC 31)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +16, Fortitude +13, Will +8
Complications:
Enemy (The Kherubim)- Helspont is a war leader of the Daemonites- a militaristic faction that fights the Kherubim.
Motivation (Power)- Helspont frequently tries to take over the world, hoping to use Daemonite fleets of ships to do it.
Total: Abilities: 114 / Skills: 44--22 / Advantages: 14 / Powers: 80 / Defenses: 12 (242)
-And now we come to the "Big Bad" of the
WildC.A.T.s book- Helspont! Who is... well he's got a dynamic, awesome design that could only have debuted in the '90s, I'll give him that. Problematically, it's GHOST RIDER's design, but you can't win 'em all. In the first four issues of the series, he comes off as every "Dark Lord" villain you've ever seen- the volatile, confident, dangerous "Dark Lord" who leads his Daemonites faction against the pretty, noble Kherubim. While his allies have to possess humans, Helspont has possessed an "Acurian", giving him a lot of extra powers. Like most '90s villains, he's got a long cape, energy blasts and pointy shoulders. His first plan was to use a Macguffin to power his ships to allow Daemonite vessels to invade Earth, but things didn't work out and he escaped.
-The character would reappear more times as a recurring nemesis- he fought a ton of Image heroes during
Wildstorm Rising, which split off their continuity. When he realized the backstory of the Kherubim (they were thinking of exterminating the Daemonites as an "unpredictable" servant race), he grew even more hateful, and went nuts trying to find another super-device- he ended up faking his death and possessing the "Planet Shaper", with Mr. Majestic fighting to stop him. Majestic then "outsmarted" him, since the Shaper required life on Earth to function, and right at that moment, all life on Earth was kidnapped by aliens- something Majestic knew was going to happen, thanks to time travel- this reads like the HUGEST Ass Pull in history, right here. Helspont lost all power, and was vaporized by Majestic. He was later introduced in a new continuity as a Daemonite hive-mind of sorts. He also showed up in the "New 52" at DC as a Superman nemesis.
-Helspont has the "Look" of a Big Bad, but is arguably under-utilized- Wikipedia says he has been in fewer than 25 individual comic books! He was the main villain of the
WildC.A.T.s TV series, and is arguably the most famous and popular Image villain who's not from
Spawn, but he's still kind of a forgotten act.
-Helspont doesn't appear to be all that in a fight from the comics I've read, but he apparently later tangles with Mister Majestic and easily holds his own, and can beat someone with similar powers (a guy named Desmond, I guess), so I made him PL 13- good enough to be a Big Bad to a bunch of PL 9-10 guys, at least.