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THE VAMP (Denise Baranger)
Created By: Roy Thomas, Don Glut & John Buscema
First Appearance: Captain America #217 (Jan. 1978)
Role: Jobber Villain, Illusionist
Group Affiliations: The Organization, S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-Agents
PL 7 (140), PL 9 (140) as Animus
STRENGTH 1/10
STAMINA 3/6
AGILITY 5/2
FIGHTING 12/6
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 2
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+9)
Athletics 4 (+5)
Deception 4 (+8)
Expertise (Spy) 5 (+7)
Insight 3 (+6)
Perception 3 (+6)
Persuasion 3 (+7)
Stealth 2 (+7)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Grab Finesse, Fast Grab, Improved Defense, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 6
Powers:
"Telepathy" Mind Reading 3 & Communication (Mental) 1 [11]
"Martial Arts Strike" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
"Animus Transformation" (Alternate Form -2 Action) [-2]
Enhanced Strength 9 [18]
Enhanced Stamina 3 [6]
Protection 3 [3]
Reduced Fighting 6 [-12]
Reduced Agility 3 [-6]
Reduced Dodge 1 [-1]
Enhanced Advantages 2: Equipment (Club +1), Improved Critical (Club) [2]
"Psionic Bolts" Blast 9 (Flaws: Immobile -2) (5) -- [6]
AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 9 (Flaws: Immobile -2) (5)
"The Absorbo-Belt" (Flaws: Removable) [21]
Mimic 3 (24 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Animus Strength +6 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Club +6 (+11 Damage, DC 26)
Psionic Bolts +6 (+8 Ranged Will Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +5 (+2 Animus)
Defenses:
"Vamp" Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +3
"Animus" Dodge +7 (DC 17), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +9, Fortitude +8, Will +3
Complications:
Motivation (Greed)
Involuntary Transformation (The Animus)- The Vamp's transformation can be controlled by another, via a switch.
Power Loss/Weakness (Club)- If the Club she summons in this form is broken (such as it was by The Hulk), she will fall unconscious and revert to human form.
Total: Abilities: 60 / Skills: 28--14 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 47 / Defenses: 8 (140)
-The Vamp is a weird one, with a crazy power-set. She's basically a hot chick with Judo on one hand, but she's also a big genderless psionic monster on the other. She was introduced via the Super-Agents, a small thing S.H.I.E.L.D. attempted in the
Captain America book, and was trained by The Falcon (same place Blue Streak came from), but it turned out she was a mole and actually evil. Her bosses in The Corporation, including her lover, could transform her into a monster with the push of a button. She turned into the "Animus", threatened Cap for a bit, but generally was kind of lame- when the Blue Streak was discovered to be a Corporation pawn, she fought him, only to reveal her own membership later as part of a trap. Marvel Man (the future Quasar, Wendell Vaughn) broke the Hulk out of a prison cell to fight her, and the Animus-empowering gem was broken, depowering her.
-Once her story arc was over, she disappeared from the books for seven years, only to show up in human form at "The Bar With No Name" for a discussion about what to do about this "Scourge of the Underworld" guy. And that was the end... of THAT chapter. The Vamp got gunned down like all those other silly characters and villains Mark Gruenwald deemed pointless. It was revealed years later that Arnim Zola had cloned many of these Bar victims, using a Vamp clone as a means to gain funding via her thefts. Deadpool killed all of these clones during an arc featuring Zola.
-The Vamp's a curious creation, and effectively two characters in one- a PL 7 (7.5 defensive) martial artist on one hand, and a PL 8.5 Powerhouse on the other. There's oddities all-around, as her Fighting skills & Agility drop dramatically from one form to the next, she gains a Club when she switches forms (Equipment in an Alternate Form? Weird), gains some Telepathic powers (though she starts out with some I guess), etc. Then there's an Absorbo-Belt that lets her Mimic powers, which is the most bizarre addition to an already strange power-set... simply messed-up stuff.