JOYSTICK (Janice Olivia Yanizeski)
Created By: Tom DeFalco & Mark Bagley
First Appearance: The Amazing Scarlet Spider #2 (Dec. 1995)
Role: Thrill-Seeker, Unsung Villain
Group Affiliations: The Masters of Evil, The Thunderbolts
PL 10 (146)
STRENGTH 7
STAMINA 7
AGILITY 8
FIGHTING 11
DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 1
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+12)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+11)
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 2 (+3)
Expertise (Criminal) 4 (+5)
Insight 2 (+2)
Perception 3 (+3)
Technology 5 (+6)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, All-Out Attack, Defensive Attack, Evasion, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Baton Smash), Improved Defense, Improved Initiative, Move-By Action, Ranged Attack 6, Uncanny Dodge
Powers:
"Enhanced Physique"
Power-Lifting 2 (12 tons) [2]
Speed 6 (120 mph) [6]
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
"Energy Batons- Self-Generated"
"Connected-Baton Blast" Blast 9 (18) -- [19]
- AE: "Smash" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Split) (Extras: Ranged 8) (Diminished Range -1) (9)
Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Batons +11 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Baton Blast +8 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +12
Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +7, Fortitude +9, Will +5
Complications:
Motivation (Thrills)- Janice is flat-out nuts, and enjoys combat for it's own sake. If her life isn't in danger, she really doesn't feel it. She's a hedonist, plain and simple. This often leads her to severe acts of pride or foolishness.
Obsession (Always Having a Card)- Janice learned this lesson from her deadbeat gambler father, and she took it to heart. She will not allow others to hold things over her, and she always looks out for number one.
Total: Abilities: 78 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 16 / Powers: 29 / Defenses: 11 (146)
-Joystick is an interesting '90s villain, created mainly to brawl with the Ben Reilly Spider-Man, having equivalent physical stats to Spidey in nearly every way, in addition to Energy Batons as a melee & blasting weapon. Once the Reilly experiment was dead and buried, she got shifted to Bagley's new book, Thunderbolts, and was there for a while before having a falling-out. She was in the updated T-Bolts series as well, and seemed to gain powers over time, but is still a pretty minor D-League villain. Honestly, having collected some of the pre-Osborn run of T-Bolts, I started loving the crap out of this girl, though. A complete and utter hedonist, she had a crappy childhood, but reacted by becoming a thrill-seeking vigilante, and her bad girl antics are really entertaining on any book she's on. There's a lot of "Slut" villains out there for many reasons, but few are this funny with their blatant selfishness.
-This is an odd character to stat up, as she fights like a minor-league Spider-Man, possessing most of his Strength, Speed & Agility, alongside her Batons (which are either Thrown Damage or a Blast, in addition to a melee weapon). She's a defense-oriented build, but only at PL 9, and she's quite well-balanced. She tends to do better or worse at complete random, though, making her tough to really "figure out" Power Level-wise. One second, she's getting the LIVING CRAP beaten out of her by Spider-Woman- Joystick never went down, taking a metric ton of punches, but Jessica Drew was never even in the most remote bit of damage- and she's really only worthy of being PL 10), and the next she's neutering Speed Demon, himself a very effective PL 10 Speedster on Quicksilver's level, by stopping all his best shots and then breaking his legs. I think PL 9.5 works best- she can modify almost all of her caps very effectively, hitting hard when she needs to, and she's REALLY hard to hit. She just has a few more steps to go before she's a full-on PL 10.
-Note that her Energy Batons used to be a Device, but now exist as a natural part of her body.
