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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Motormouth! Killpower! Battletide!)

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Also, all these Nineties obscurities can’t be good for your health - you need an infusion of Classic Comics STAT!
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The Temploids

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THE TEMPLOIDS
Created By:
Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning & Geoff Senior
First Appearance: Death's Head II & Killpower- Battletide #2 (Jan. 1993)
Role: Healers, Pacifist Race
'90s Ratio: 2/10 (immortal; confusing backstory)
Group Affiliations: None

-The Temploids were once the mightiest race of warriors in the cosmos, but faced the Battletide eons ago and failed, with the few survivors of their race now becoming a pacifist order. A combination of magic and technology has turned them into helpers, paying penance for their past by healing the injured. In Battletide, they act as a reason why the fighting on Colosseum isn't fatal to recurring major Marvel characters- they heal people and structures that are damaged. They then ally with the heroes to stop the villain Termagaira from summoning the Battletide- their leader is killed by Termagaira as a result. His body parts are used to heal Death's Head II from injury, but another of their number, Gabriel, is reverted to their ancient warrior past in healing himself, becoming a savage warrior. He is killed in the last issue, but Killpower spends his last moments rebuilding him, allowing him to revitalize DHII from a mind virus. DHII then successfully stops Termagaira and the Battletide, and the Temploids resurrect Killpower, and are never seen again.

-The Temploids are all high-magitek characters, but total pacifists. They can slow disease, resurrect the recently dead (such as Killpower), and heal people, as well as lower violent emotions in others.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Motormouth! Killpower! Battletide!)

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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Motormouth! Killpower! Battletide!)

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Jab, I was browsing your back catalogue a bit and stumbled onto your (sub)section on the Champions of Angor and noted that, while you had statted the Silver Sorceress* & Blue Jay, you had not turned out any builds for the other Champions.

*It strikes me that making her hair, skin & eyes silver in colour would seriously curtail grumbles about her questionably accurate codename: but then, I’d also love to see Angor get an artistic overhaul to make it’s inhabitants look a bit more alien and slightly less extraterrestrial.

Now, these being pastiche characters with perhaps one or two appearances in comics under their belt, they probably don’t merit extra number-crunching on your part - but on the other hand you have many, many, many pages of characters already generated: therefore, may I please ask which of your pregenerated character builds you would ‘cast’ in the role of Wajinda, Jack B. Quick et al?

For a little extra challenge, may I please ask which of your DC COMICS character builds would you ‘sub in’ as these Marvel pastiches?

(On a barely-related note, it struck me while re-reading THE MULTIVERSITY for the umpteenth time that it might be amusing to use one of your OG Marvel Family builds as ‘Major Max’ of Earth-8, making her the local Champion of Shazam as a nod her original inspiration sharing a codename with the Big Red Cheese: well, it also occurred to me that The Guardian might the most obvious DC character build to ‘cast’ as American Crusader, but that makes a much less interesting talking point).
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The Archenemy

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THE ARCHENEMY
Created By:
Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning & Liam McCormick Sharp
First Appearance: Magik #1 (Dec. 2000)
Role: Healers, Pacifist Race
'90s Ratio: 3/10 (inexplicable backstory)
Group Affiliations: None

-The Archenemy debuted in the Amanda Sefton Magik book of all things, back when Marvel was trying to recapture the hype of Illyana Rasputin but with a character nobody in the universe gave a shit about. In the Limited Series (produced by Marvel's UK branch, now less of a separate entity), Sefton came up with the bright idea to have a computer catalogue all the arcane knowledge in the universe that she could find- placing it on Earth so it would be untainted by Limbo. However, all that mystical knowledge, gathered by Sefton's aide Nugent, coalesced until... SOMETHING formed from it. A sentient computerized magical virus, "The Archenemy", a skull-faced monster, formed and went to the far future, travelling back to our time to safeguard its moment of birth. Yeah, that's an Abnett/Lanning story alright.

-The Archenemy swiftly attacked rival demonic realms, conquering both Nightmare's realm and The Dark Dimension. Dormammu, learning of this, allied with Sefton and they both lost most of their warriors to it. They then allied with MEPHISTO, whose realm was lost next. Finally, they gathered the Lords of the Splinter Realms to combine their realms into one, which ended up giving the Archenemy a single target- this was the plan of Sefton's advisor... who turned out to be Belasco & Illyana's old minion, S'ym, in disguise. The Lords began to fall to the Archenemy, but Sefton got them to cast their energy into her, used to discover what the Archenemy was- learning its origins (the first time the reader had as well- until this point, it was a mysterious force from the future), she sent her old boyfriend Nightcrawler to Manhattan to destroy the machine, killing the Archenemy in the present.
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... so basically a magitech version of Roko's Basilisk, a decade before that concept was articulated.
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Collapsar

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COLLAPSAR
Created By:
Dan Abnett & Carlos Pacheco
First Appearance: Dark Guard #2 (Nov. 1993)
Role: Big Dumb Powerhouse
'90s Ratio: 3/10 (generic powerhouse)
Group Affiliations: None
PL 10 (116)
STRENGTH
12 STAMINA -- AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Expertise (Soldier) 5 (+5)
Intimidation 7 (+7)
Perception 2 (+2)

Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Close Attack 2, Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 2

Powers:
"Energy Being"
Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects) [30]
"Ultra-Strong Shell" Protection 14 (Extras: Impervious 13) [29]

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +14 (+7 Impervious), Fortitude --, Will +4

Complications:
Responsibility (MyS-TECH)- Collapsar is a loyal agent of MyS-TECH.
Involuntary Transformation (Energy)- If Collapsar's energy sheath is destroyed, he will explode, doing huge damage to the area around him and possibly killing him.

Total: Abilities: 34 / Skills: 14--7 / Advantages: 8 / Powers: 59 / Defenses: 8 (116)

-Collapsar was a MyS-TECH agent in Dark Guard (a failed team book featuring the Marvel UK characters as the line died), sent to the alien world of Eopia to ensure that a conflict there extended to a nuclear holocaust so MyS-TECH could harness its death-screams to pay off a debt to Mephisto. The Time Guardian formed the Dark Guard to stop MyS-TECH's becoming a universal threat, but Collapsar punched out Killpower & Tigon Liger and captured them- he tortured the two for informative, but Death's Head II & Motormouth arrived to save the day. Liger ended up using his gun Clementine to blast away at him, but Collapsar no-sold it. Motormouth, however, noticed tiny hairline fractures in his frame, and that he himself was an energy being contained withint he structure of his "body", and so got Death's Head to slice into him with his blades along the fracture-points. Collapsar begged for surrender, but this was declined- he exploded, taking out most of the army he'd allied with, thus preventing the nuclear attacks from being necessary.

-Collapsar is one bad dude, able to take on Death's Head II in a multi-issue brawl without suffering much repeated damage- it took a combination attack and Motormouth pointing out his weaknesses to get rid of him.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Motormouth! Killpower! Battletide!)

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"Collapsar"?! That's a clunky name if I've ever heard one.
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Well, on the upside, as it's an actual scientific term, nobody can trademark it, so if someone wanted to use it for an Eater of Worlds, they could do so without fear.

It does have that 'read about this in a magazine' energy, though.
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Digitek

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DIGITEK (Jonathan Bryant)
Created by:
John Tomlinson, Andy Lanning & Dermot Power
First Appearance: Digitek #1 (December 1992)
Role: Totally '90s Creation, Cyber-Hacker
'90s Ratio: 2/10 (Variable Weapon power & Xtreme Kool Letterz but otherwise not really)
Group Affiliation: MyS-TECH
PL 8 (154)
STRENGTH
6 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Expertise (Computers) 10 (+14)
Technology 8 (+12)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 5

Powers:
"Self-Generating Armor"
Regeneration 4 [4]
Immortality 5 (Not if Scattered or CPU is Damaged) [5]
Immunity 3 (Starvation & Thirst, Suffocation 2) [4]
Protection 3 [3]
"Psi-Link" Communication (Computers) 2 [8]

"Any Kind of Weapon" Variable 6 (42) -- [45]
      
  • AE: Teleport 10 (Flaws: Medium- Phone Lines) (10)
          
  • AE: "Holograms" Illusion (Visuals) 5 (10)
          
  • AE: Weaken All Abilities 8 (Extras: Broad) (Flaws: Limited to Electrical) (8)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Sword +6 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Blasters +9 (+7 Ranged Damage, DC 22)
Weaken Electrical Powers +6 (+8 Weaken, DC 18)
Initiative +3

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

Complications:
Enemy (MyS-TECH)

Total: Abilities: 62 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 69 / Defenses: 9 (154)

-Digitek was yet another Marvel UK character created in a Limited Series, who failed to take off and then disappeared. Jonathan Bryant was an employee from a MyS-TECH "dummy corporation" who was showing the board of directors the properties of a "protosilicon" obtained from a mystery location- a hit squad then invaded the room and killed everyone, but Bryant touched a "Psi-Key" empowered from the protosilicon as he was being shot, and became the being "Digitek", who could absorb electricity and travel through electronic lines. The hit squad were transformed into the "Bacillicons" and chased both Digitek and his ex-wife Samantha. He later teamed up with Deathlok in his third issue as his "Token Marvel US Crossover", and that's about it- in his final issue, Bryant was killed in battle by the Bacillicons, but after his funeral, the fully-energized "Digitek" appeared, and he went off with Samantha to start a new life together. The Limited Series ended and Marvel UK quickly died.

-Digitek waited about sixteen years to reappear, but only had cameos in a couple books, including helping a breakout during Civil War. He appeared to commit suicide when nearly captured while on a fact-gathering mission in the U.S., but this was a ruse (ie. someone decided later to use him anyways) and he turns up helping the heroes in Captain Britan & M.I.-13 a few years later, then shows up in Revolutionary War. Never an important character, he seems to exist mostly as a "Distinctive-Looking Backgrounder", as he has little effect on the plot itself, but appears in a handful of fight scenes or as an assist character.

-Digitek can take just about any technical form, including becoming half-motorcycle, or just gaining weapon arms. He can teleport anywhere and can regenerate from harm as well.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Motormouth! Killpower! Battletide!)

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Digitek is...actually pretty cool-looking, and not half-bad as a character concept, really. Definitely one of more worthwhile Marvel UK heroes, despite his lack of success.

And aside from his goofball-looking face, Collapsar could be a decent powerhouse thug villain, tough enough to go a few rounds with major heroes before jobbing out; he's very John Byrne-in-the-1980s in appearance and physique.

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Dark Angel

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The Nineties! Now with 70% more shiny boobs!!

DARK ANGEL (Shevaun Haldane, aka Hell's Angel)
Created by:
Bernie Jaye & Geoff Senior
First Appearance: Hell's Angel #1 (July 1992)
Role: Uber-Powerful Chick
'90s Ratio: 5/10 (shiny boobs; inexplicable backstory; Heavy Metal-inspired design)
Group Affiliation: The Dark Guard
PL 12 (207)
STRENGTH
10 STAMINA 10 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Expertise (Magic) 7 (+11)
Expertise (Science) 8 (+12)
Insight 2 (+4)
Intimidation 2 (+4)
Perception 3 (+5)
Technology 8 (+12)

Advantages:
Diehard, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6

Powers:
"The Fabric Of The Universe" (Flaws: Removable) [52]
"Void Energy" Blast 16 (Feats: Extended Range 2, Split, Penetrating 8) (Inaccurate -1) (42) -- (48)
  • AE: "Void Wave" Damage 12 (Feats: Penetrating 8) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (32)
  • AE: "Void Stream" Damage 12 (Feats: Penetrating 8) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (32)
  • AE: "Absorb Energy" Deflect 14 (Extras: Reflect) (28)
  • AE: Movement 3 (Dimensional Travel 3) (6)
  • AE: Teleport 8 (Extras: Accurate, Extended) (32)
  • AE: "Attacks Travel To The Void" Insubstantial 4 (20)
    "Manipulate Gravitons" Flight 8 (500 mph) (16)
-- (64 points)

"Dark Angel Armor" (Flaws: Removable) [14]
Protection 2 (2)
Senses 4 (Detect Energy- Acute, Ranged & Tracking) (4)
"ESP Third Eye" Remote Sensing (Vision) 5 (10)
"Cosmic Awareness" Features 1: May Spend an HP to Ask the GM a Direct Question (1)
-- (17 points)

"Sci-Fi Equipment" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [17]
"Graviton Phase Blaster" Blast 8 (Extras: Multiattack) (24) -- (27 points)
  • AE: "Slow Down Time" Affliction 8 (Strength; Fatigued & Vulnerable/Defenseless & Exhausted/Paralyzed) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (24)
  • AE: "Speed Up Time" Enhanced Fighting & Dodge 2 (Extras: Affects Others Only +0, Area- 60ft. Burst +2) (14)
  • AE: "Cloak of Invisibility" Concealment (All Vision) 2 (8)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Phase Blaster +10 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Slow Time +8 Area (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Void Blast +8 (+16 Ranged Damage, DC 31)
Void Area Attacks +12 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +10, Fortitude +11, Will +6

Complications:
Enemy (Mys-Tech)
Involuntary Transformation (Crazy Power)- Without her Body Armor, Dark Angel's Void Energy will act at full power, and can't be lowered. It is also more difficult to control overall, and may go off when she doesn't want it to, or miss badly.

Total: Abilities: 88 / Skills: 20--15 / Advantages: 8 / Powers: 83 / Defenses: 13 (207)

Hell's Angel- Marvel UK's Other Main Eventer:
-Along with Death's Head II, Hell's Angel seemed clearly meant to be one of the backbones of the entire "Marvel UK" line- even though she didn't spin off as many times, she was the signature female character, and the most "UK" in conception and design- her name is SHEVAUN, f'Crissakes! Plus look at the New Wave/punk rock goggles and weird bits all over her early costume. It was like something out of Heavy Metal- extraneous mechanical bits over a black bodysuit. A key conceit of her situation is that she has a device of vast power attached to her, and she constantly gets called on to "repair the fabric of the universe" and other big things.

-The book was initially called Hell's Angel, but a certain criminal biker organization threatened legal action, causing it and the character to be retitled Dark Angel with its sixth issue. It deals with Shevaun Haldane, whose father is a key member of MyS-TECH, the organization at the heart of most of Marvel UK's setting. He was a member of the initial group that were given eternal life by Mephisto in return for a steady supply of souls- they now seek the key to immortality to break free from their deal. Mephisto, learning of this betrayal, murdered him- Shevaun arriving to see the Angel of Death, Darkangel, having also shown up too late. Being told of MyS-TECH's origins, Shevaun is offered a sliver of the fabric of the universe by the Angel, then armor to contain its energies and enable her to fight MyS-TECH's evil. She takes the name "Hell's Angel" because she can fight Hell on Earth (uhhh... okay), then sneaks her way into MyS-TECH's good graces by offering to ally with them (all so she can gain access to her father's lab).

MyS-TECH Wars & Other Stories:
-So Shevaun allies with the X-Men in many issues (all Marvel UK titles were expected to cross-over with American heroes) and manipulates MyS-TECH, occasionally saving the lives of their intended victims. She and the X-Men found a dimension full of "soul fragments" that'd been separated from their dead owners, and finally reunited them. Also discovering a brother she never knew existed, she rescues him (he'd been a victim of their father's experiments) and changes her name to "Dark Angel" to separate himself from dear old daddy. As Dark Angel, she appears in Battletide and other big Marvel UK stories, though doesn't get up to much. She hangs out with Psylocke and gets assaulted by MyS-TECH, who consider her an enemy.

-Finally, in MyS-TECH Wars, she leads a group of Marvel heroes to fight her old bosses as reality crumbles- MyS-TECH has summoned the powers of their "UnEarth" creation and legions of demons, threatening everything (it'sa story that did the whole "when resurrection/Time Travel is an option, heroes are much more killable" plot device, so guys like Spider-Man were horribly killed to maje things more "extreme"). She & Wolverine kill the heads of the board, and finally they ally with the Techno-Wizards to fix the rift in reality- her costume is the key to saving everything. Soon after, she redesigns her costume ('90s-ifying it from its very '80s look to a shiny-boobed modern suit of armor), and fought the super-powerful Anti-Being alongside Death's Head II & the Wyrd Sisters, again fixing the fabric of reality. As the Marvel UK line fades away, she becomes the central leader of the Dark Guard book's team, combining the most popular Marvel UK characters left. They save the planet Eopia from being destroyed by MyS-TECH's machinations, as they hoped to use its death-screams to pay off Mephisto in full. This is where their continuity ends, and Dark Angel vanishes for decades until a cameo in Captain Britain & M.I. 13. With the cancellation of the UK line, Shevaun disappeared for years. All we got were cameos until a very recent story that saw Mephisto trick her out of her powers, thus helping him settle multiple old debts at a time.

Dark Angel's Powers:
-Determining her powers is a bit hard- this is the last time I build these damn Marvel U.K. guys- apparently nobody in the entire world actually BOUGHT most of those books or understood them, because their powers are barely commented upon. I love how Dark Angel's Marvel Appendix suggests that "She may have superhuman Strength, but we're not sure". She was in dozens of issues!! How the frig could they NOT KNOW if she had super-strength!?!? That is some hella-bad writing right there. Her Marvel Card suggests that she's Class 100, but I'll go midway with that just to be on the safe side.

-Dark Angel has a ton of stuff- super-powered Energy Blasts (near-Herald levels), Area Attacks, tons of Super Sci-Fi Gear (Time-Stopper, Speeder-Upper, Multi-Blaster, Cloak of Invisibility...), super-physiology, etc., but she lacks the experience or edge to really push her over others. Still, PL 12 for a rookie is a CRAZY thing.
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Re: Dark Angel

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Jabroniville wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 12:17 pm
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The black costume is pretty decent from the neck down. The goggles and whatever is happening on the side of her face needs to go.

And who thought it was a good idea to draw Death's Head's arm thicker than his chest?
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The Web-Spinners

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THE WEB-SPINNERS
Created By:
Bernie Jaye & Dell Barras
First Appearance: Dark Angel #9 (April 1993)
Role: The Fates
'90s Ratio: 0/10 (old ladies! They're not even naked!)

-A bunch of old women, the Web-Spinners are an obvious stand-in for The Fates of Greek mythology: they're said to "weave the fabric of the universe", connecting all the various threads and even "spinning" every emotion, good or bad. Essentially they could be said to be responsible for EVERYTHING. Yes, in a comic as forgotten as Dark Angel. Dark Angel is introduced to them so that she fully appreciates the threat that the Angel of Death represents, as he threatens everything. They later told their daughters, the Wyrd Sisters, to take over for them, and were indignant that the girls refused, wanting a life of adventure instead. They then showed the Sisters that there would be no world to go to if the Anti-Being wasn't stopped, and instructed the Sisters to aide Dark Angel & Death's Head II in killing it.
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Wyrd Sisters

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THE WYRD SISTERS
Created By:
Bernie Jaye & Dell Barras
First Appearance: Dark Angel #9 (April 1993)
Role: Fanservice Trio, Agents of The Web-Spinners
'90s Ratio: 7/10 (fanservicey- barely explained powers)

-The three Wyrd Sisters are short-lived fanservice characters from the Dark Angel book- each one a back-arching, thick-thighed fanservice lass, they had unique hairstyles and were led by the Web-Spinners, who were apparently their mothers. The Web-Spinners were allies of Dark Angel's and enemies of Mys-Tech's, and so sent the Wyrd Sisters to go to Mephisto's realm to aide Dark Angel in retrieving an important soul for them. Dark Angel allies with them and the X-Men in a later book against "The Anti-Being", and later still they head to face it when it assimilates with Death's Head II. The Web-Spinners wish them to take over their role as "spinners of the fabric of the universe", but the Sisters refuse, wishing to be a part of the greater world and have adventures. They join the battle and are integral in wiping out the mercenaries who fight for the Anti-Being- Death's Head II is ultimately saved. The Wyrd Sisters have never reappeared.

-This is CLASSIC Marvel UK- a trio of sexy female characters show up with weird names and wild designs (first drawn by Dell Barras, then by a just-debuted Salvador Larocca)... but almost no characterization. They are not integral to any fight scene (save the last one) that I can tell, and even their natures and powers are left unexplained. They're apparently not human, but their physical capabilities and skills are not elaborated upon because they just go out there and blast shit. 1990s Comics 101.
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