OMAC (Buddy Blank, aka One-Man Army Corps)
Created By: Jack Kirby
First Appearance: OMAC #1 (1974)
Role: Failed Hero
PL 9 (147)
STRENGTH 3/10 STAMINA 4/10 AGILITY 3/6
FIGHTING 8/10 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Athletics 4 (+7, +12 Boosts)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Police Officer) 4 (+8)
Expertise (Science) 6 (+10)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+5)
Perception 4 (+7)
Persuasion 2 (+5)
Technology 4 (+8)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Fast Grab, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown
Powers:
"Density Control"
"Low Density" Enhanced Agility 3, Enhanced Fighting 4, Athletics 4 (+11), Flight 6 (120 mph), AE: Speed 6 (30) -- [31]
- AE: "High Density" Enhanced Strength 6, Enhanced Stamina 5, Power-Lifting 1 (23)
Energy Blast 8 [16]
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
High Density +8 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Low Density +12 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Initiative +3 (+6 Low Density)
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (+11 Low Density, DC 18-21), Parry +8 (+12 Low Density, DC 18-22), Toughness +4 (+10 High Density), Fortitude +5 (+11 High Density), Will +7
Complications:
Normal Identity (Buddy Blank)- An A.I. satellite named Brother Eye has to transform Buddy into OMAC via a radio beam into Buddy's receiver belt.
Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 30--15 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 52 / Defenses: 10 (147)
-OMAC is a character I'd only heard of a few years ago, shortly after DC brought the concept back as a series of Killer Robots inspired by Batman's building of a Skynet-thing. He was created by Jack Kirby himself, rumored to be the result of contractual obligations to produce 15 pages a week, since Jack was nearly done with DC at the time. He's meant to be "Captain America set in the future"- an idea he'd bandied about for years but never realized. And he looks like a mohawked dill-hole, packing this weird combination of too little detail and too outlandish an appearance, all at once!
-Buddy Blank was turned into OMAC by an Artificial Intelligence satellite named "Brother Eye" via remote control (??), in order to set things right in his near-future Earth. He works for the Global Peace Agency, who try to fix things using pacifistic technology. The book was cancelled on its eighth issue, before the last storyline could be completed- pretty much Kirby's curse at DC. Despite what he means to comics TODAY, he seemed hopelessly out of date even in the 1970s, and was considered to be washed-up and a relic. The character was later revealed to be the grandfather of Kamandi (another Kirby creation), and features in a Jim Starlin back-up in that book... but it immediately got cancelled. He featured in another back-up (in The Warlord), then a Limited Series by John Byrne of all people in 1991. But the character remained quite obscure (by my reckoning, anyways- there weren't a lot of comic book characters with their own books that I was totally ignorant of by 2010).
-The character reappears in Countdown to Final Crisis, a disastrous crossover. It was a modern-day re-telling of his origin, with the MODERN Buddy being transformed into OMAC instead- more of an allusion to the original. But since that crossover failed, we never saw much of him- modern-day OMACs are treated like Cyborg Mooks- easily defeated in numbers, but slightly tougher in solo battle. Basically, B-League Sentinels.
-OMAC is a regular-ish guy who converts into either a super-strong fighter or a super-fast one, depending on which Density setting he's on. This means he's a PL 9 Mini-Powerhouse sometimes, or a PL 8-ish scrappier, faster fighter at other points. I've literally never read a comic featuring him, so his exact limits are completely unknown to me. He's shown in images tossing dudes around and walking through laser fire like it ain't no thing, so he seems pretty tough.