LOL dude went from mega-scrawny to Captain Jacked, apparently.
THRESHOLD (Matthew Callahan)
Created By: Jim Lee, Brandon Choi & J. Scott Campbell
First Appearance: Gen¹³ #1 (Feb. 1994)
Role: Psychopathic Murderer
Marvel Character Most Ripped Off: none (generic villain)
'90s Ratio: 6/10 ("Generic Villain Cape", blows up heads while gloating)
Group Affiliations: DV8
PL 9 (152)
STRENGTH 3
STAMINA 4
AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10
DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 1
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 4 (+7)
Expertise (Government Agent) 6 (+7)
Insight 2 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+7)
Investigation 4 (+7)
Perception 3 (+8)
Advantages:
Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4
Powers:
Flight 6 (120 mph) [12]
Force Field 4 [4]
Senses 3 (Life Detection- Ranged 2) [3]
"Mental Blast" Blast 9 (Extras: Perception-Ranged, Will Save) (36) -- [39]
- AE: "Area Blast" Blast 8 (Extras: Will Save, Area- 30ft. Burst) (24)
- AE: Mind-Reading 7 (14)
- AE: Blast 9 (18)
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Area Blast +8 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Mental Blast -- (+9 Perception-Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Energy Blast +8 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4 (+8 Force Field), Fortitude +6, Will +6
Complications:
Responsibility (Insane)- A life of being a weapon for International Operations has driven Threshold insane- he now enjoys killing, and can go on murderous rampages if not controlled by drugs and/or sex.
Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 28--14 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 58 / Defenses: 11 (152)
-Threshold is a member of the "Gen-13" kids who was taken by the government years ago, and twisted to their own ends. A brutal killer, he slaughtered a man for striking him during a sparring session while rebuffing the advances of his own sister- the establishing character moment for both him and Bliss. He kind of represents the dark side of what I/O was doing, as he was a complete nutjob who got into that "Being a supervillain means you monologue like a pretentious doofus" thing- something that befell a lot of guys once Chris Claremont created the defining personality of Magneto (Fabian Nicieza & Scott Lobdell were bad for it on
X-Men, too).
-In the first arc of
Gen¹³, he appears faking allegiance to the runaway kids, sporting a completely different face & haircut. When Fairchild rejects his leadership because he clearly enjoys killing too much, he takes the rest of the kids back to the government base, where he assaults them. When he tortures Grunge to try and force his "awakening", he switches to Roxy when she begs him to stop- this awakens Grunge, who one-hit-KOs him. Threshold reappears at the end of the arc, now wearing a giant cape and going all "JOIN US and be awesome like me!" but it doesn't work, and John Lynch is able to steal the kids away. He & Bliss form "DV8" out of the Gen-Active kids they DID manage to take. He later turned on Ivana Baiul, who'd been controlling him with drugs and sex, when they ran out of the drugs; he defeated the entirety of DV8, and tried to recruit an army of Gen-Active kids.
-Threshold is rather powerful, easily able to take on all of Gen¹³ at once in their first arc. He can torture people with energy blasts, assault their minds, read minds, and more- he brings down Grunge & Fairchild simultaneously with a mental attack, for example. His big losses come from being taken unawares by a super-strong Grunge, and from Lynch blackmailing him using his sister Bliss. All in all, he's a PL 9 with some well-rounded power and Area & Perception-Ranged attacks.