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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Speedball! Rage! Namorita! Nova! The Sphinx!)

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The Ka Stone, the Moonstone, the Gem that turns John Jameson into Man-Wolf, and the Alpha & Omega Stones from the Basilisk, all came from the same place, the Kree Tree of Life. They, along with 4 more were used by the first group of Guardians of the Galaxy. 4 died within the Earth's solar system. 2 died of old age, 1 retired and the last disappeared.

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Re: The Sphinx (Original)

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Goldar wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:21 pm

I only know a little of Sphinx. Was he related to the Scarlet Scarab or The Living Monolith? All seem to gave Head Gems, and all of them Red.

Are Spinx and SS equal in power? Their powers are similar, right? Do their Stones come from the same source?
No- he was totally separate from all those other Egyptian guys. He was wayyyyyyy more powerful than the Scarab, too. Dude took on Galactus.
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Nova (Sam Alexander)

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NOVA III (Sam Alexander)
Created By:
Jeph Loeb & Ed McGuinness
First Appearance: Marvel Point One #1 (Nov. 2011)
Role: Rookie Hero
PL 9 (146)
STRENGTH
1/9 STAMINA 2/8 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Aerobatics 3 (+6)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+7)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 4 (+4)
Ranged Combat (Gravimetric Blasts) 2 (+7)

Advantages:
Fast Grab, Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
"Access to Nova Force Via Helmet" (Flaws: Removable) [82]
Flight 8 (500 mph) (16)
Movement 2 (Space Travel 2) (4)
Enhanced Strength 8 (16)
Enhanced Stamina 6 (12)

"Gravimetric Force" Blast 10 (Feats: Dynamic, Penetrating 6) (27) -- (38)
  • Dynamic AE: "Force Wave" Damage 9 (Feats: Penetrating 4,
  • Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (23)
  • Dynamic AE: "Force Line" Damage 9 (Feats: Penetrating 4, Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (23)
  • Dynamic AE: Affliction 9 (Dodge; Hindered/Prone) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Instant Recovery, Limited to Grounded Targets) Linked to Damage 5 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Flaws: Limited to Objects) (9)
  • Dynamic AE: "Gravity Control" Move Object 9 (Extras: Perception Range) (Flaws: Limited to Up or Down) (18)
  • Dynamic AE: Force Field 2 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Affects Others 9, Impervious 4) (Flaws: Immobile -2) (14)
  • AE: "Empower Objects With the Nova Force" Snare 10 (Flaws: Touch Range, Source- Objects) (10)
Senses 3 (Extended & Infravision, Radio) (3)
Immunity 9 (Life Support- Starvation) (9)
Comprehend 2 (Languages) (4)
-- (102 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Groundstrike +9 Area (+9 Affliction, DC 19)
Force Area Attacks +9 (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Gravimetric Blast +7 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3 (+8 Stamina Boost), Fortitude +3/+9, Will +5

Complications:
Responsibility (Kid)- Sam is fairly young.
Relationship (Family)- Sam's father is an alcoholic who talked about his time as a Nova Corps member. He would eventually discover that his father was still alive.
Responsibility (Arrogant)- Having great power at such a young age corrupted Sam a bit, causing him to have a lot of youthful arrogance. He at first believed he didn't need any teammates, and dismissed the New Warriors as "Nobodies" before being put in his place.

Total: Abilities: 32 / Skills: 10--5 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 82 / Defenses: 13 (146)

-Let's see: a sixteen-year-old bullied boy gains grand new powers, and is immediately accepted and recruited by established super-heroes, getting a major push? Yup- Sam Alexander is our brand-new Fan Representative Character for legions of Typical American Kids.

-I'm actually surprised he isn't that hated, as far as I can tell. There's probably people bitching because he's the replacement for the lamented Richard Rider, but it's nothing compared to the vitriol the similar Kyle Rayner got decades ago. Surprising, given that Rider was casually wasted after the Abnett/Lanning Cosmic Books came to an end, and Sam is the creation of the much-hated Jeph Loeb (who even named Sam after his late son- the same one that inspired the Red Hulk). Sam's gotten a pretty good-sized push, getting on the new Spider-Man cartoon, and joining one of the many new Avengers teams. He's the son of a drunk who was actually a member of the Nova Corps. back in the day, and inherits his father's helmet, gaining powers and meeting up with various super-heroes.

-Sam debuted as part of the much-maligned A (vs) X event, pointing out that he was still new. It was explained that his late father had been a Nova Corps. member years ago, and constantly annoyed his family by talking about it- Sam assumed his father was just some drunk telling stories, but eventually got a Nova Centurion uniform of his very own and had to go off on adventures. After some early successes, he grows arrogant and blows off the revived New Warriors, but his mother and The Watcher put him in his place- he joins the team, but again shows too much self-assurance, and nearly gets everyone killed by the High Evolutionary.

-That New Warriors book was quickly cancelled, and Sam went on to discover that his father, Jesse, was still alive and a slave-gladiator on Chitauri Prime. He also nearly dies fighting an "inverted" Hulk, Kluh (god that story got dumb) in the AXIS event story, but learned to channel the Nova Force into objects, making them stronger, letting him bind the "Hulk's Hulk" and throw him into space, thus saving numerous people. In another issue, he had to battle Carnage, who wanted to kill anyone who'd seen his good deeds during AXIS (as a serial killer, he was naturally ashamed to have been a good guy, no matter the reason)- he at first convinces Carnage that he (Sam) isn't Nova (by getting his mother to fly around in the costume), then defeats the villain by throwing him into a heavy metal concert.

-Finally, Sam encounters his father, rescuing him and a group of fellow rebels from the Chitauri. Unfortunately, after Secret Wars, Sam would find out that his father was an alien imposter. He was on Mark Waid's Avengers run (okay... I own every issue of that, and have no memory of Sam being on that team. I remember everything ELSE, but not him!), but near as I can tell, he's largely fallen into dis-use since Loeb stopped writing his comic (which ended at Nova #31), and he's now just one of those background guys without a home.

-Sam is a rookie hero, and basically a lesser version of what Richard Rider was back in the New Warriors series, but with the more-varied Nova Gravimetric Energy Powers (in the NW book, Nova was simply a big dumb Flying Brick). He even learns that he can use his powers on regular objects, turning them into an effective Snare for a creature as powerful as Kluh.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Speedball! Rage! Namorita! Nova! The Sphinx!)

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Sidious wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:07 pm The Ka Stone, the Moonstone, the Gem that turns John Jameson into Man-Wolf, and the Alpha & Omega Stones from the Basilisk, all came from the same place, the Kree Tree of Life. They, along with 4 more were used by the first group of Guardians of the Galaxy. 4 died within the Earth's solar system. 2 died of old age, 1 retired and the last disappeared.

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I believe the four other stones were found and used by The Blue Diamond (GA hero, gained strength and body armor), the original Dr. Spectrum of the 616 Marvel U, the Scarlet Scarab I and II (Egyptian heroes, flying brick power sets), and monster-hunter Ulysses Bloodstone.
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Tai

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TAI
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza & Mark Bagley
First Appearance: The New Warriors #1 (July 1990)
Role: Mentor Figure, Traitorous Mentor, Evil Mystic, Yellow Peril Villain
Group Affiliations: The New Warriors, The Dragon's Breadth Cult
PL 11 (204)
STRENGTH
5 STAMINA 6 AGILITY 7
FIGHTING 12 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Acrobatics 6 (+13)
Athletics 6 (+11)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+13)
Deception 7 (+8)
Expertise (History) 10 (+13)
Expertise (Arcane Lore) 9 (+12)
Insight 5 (+8)
Intimidation 8 (+9)
Perception 8 (+11)
Persuasion 3 (+4)
Ranged Combat (Magic) 4 (+12)
Stealth 5 (+12)
Treatment 2 (+5)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Assessment, Daze (Intimidation), Defensive Roll, Diehard, Evasion 2, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Unarmed) 2, Improved Defense, Improved Initiative 2, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Ranged Attack 6, Ritualist, Startle, Takedown 2, Uncanny Dodge

Powers:
"Weird Asian Mystic"
Immunity 3 (Aging, Poison, Disease) [3]
Senses 1 (Low-Light Vision) [1]
Speed 2 (8 mph) [2]
Leaping 1 (15 feet) [1]
"Talons" Strength-Damage +2 (Feats: Split) [3]

"Pink Snare-y Things" Snare 10 (Extras: Multiattack) (30) -- [34]
  • AE: Mystic Blast 10 (20)
  • AE: Teleport 8 (16)
  • AE: Healing 8 (16)
  • AE: "Mist Form" Insubstantial 3 (15)
Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Snare +12 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Blast +12 (+10 Ranged Damage, DC 25)
Initiative +15

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +6 (+7 D.Roll), Fortitude +10, Will +8

Complications:
Motivation (Power)- Tai wants the Pact to give her ultimate power. To this end, she will murder men, women and children, and specifically murdered her own daughter for it.
Secret (Everything)- Tai is Night Thrasher's mentor, but has continuously been manipulating him his entire life.

Total: Abilities: 78 / Skills: 74--37 / Advantages: 29 / Powers: 44 / Defenses: 16 (204)

-Tai is the true monster in the New Warriors' backstory. An aged Cambodian mystic, she initially appeared as the odd, superficially-kind matron of the Warriors, but it was clear there was something else going on. Turns out, she was the leader of the Dragon's Breadth cult, which lived around an ancient Wellspring of power- successive generations of interbreeding had left her generation with great power, but she instead killed most of her contemporaries, hoping to seize all the power for herself. She manipulated Chord and his team of American Soldiers into marrying the remaining daughters of the cult- their children would be "Children of the East & West", and thus have great power. She had Dwayne Taylor's parents murdered because his father refused to go along with it, meaning she's responsible for the origin of Night Thrasher! When she discovered her own daughter (Silhouette's mother) had faked her death to escape Tai's reach, Tai murdered the poor woman with her bare hands (and talons), and then planned to sacrifice the entirety of The New Warriors into a Wellspring to gain ultimate power for herself. A true bitch, though... very steeped in "Yellow Peril" tropes visually and creatively, which is probably why she ended up not being mentioned much longer.

-The storyline came to a head when the Warriors and The Folding Circle (the children of the Daughters) arrived, and they all attacked Tai. Stepping into the Well, she gained even more power, and effectively fought off every character present, taking in tons of damage, before Night Thrasher finally shot her with an Uzi sub-machinegun, sending her (and Circle member Left Hand) to die in the well. This kind of "non-death" would seemingly be ripe for resurrection, but we only ever saw Tai again in flashbacks. I think the story was a little weird and full of odd twists (involving secret parentage, deaths being revealed as fakes only to become actual deaths, groups of Jobbers and ancient prophecies all for an old lady to gain power), and I don't recall ANY Warriors fans ever talking about it again, so I don't think it was a major hit. For example, WAY more people talk about the brief "Nova is in an Alternate Universe Where Egypt Rules The World" arc than any "Wellspring" stuff, and Marvel Boy going to prison in the same storyline ended up having far greater ramifications and fan interest. Comics are weird that way.

-And then, probably because of the oddity of the story-arc, and Tai's "Yellow Peril" surroundings, she never appeared in modern continuity again. Her only other appearance was in a time travel storyline, where Silhouette meets a young version of Tai, and apparently kills her (no idea what this does to the timestream).

-Tai is a BEAST. PL 10 ain't that great (her biggest feat at her normal levels was holding off the entire Hellions simultaneously, necessitating Emma Frost stepping in and Mind-Frying the old woman, which she did quite handily), but once she stepped into the Well, she probably amped herself up to PL 11, taking tons of damage but still fighting.
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Chord

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CHORD (Andrew Chord)
Created By:
Tom DeFalco & Ron Frenz
First Appearance: Thor #411 (Dec. 1989)
Role: Mercenary, Mentor Figure, Traitorous Mentor
Group Affiliations: The New Warriors, The United States Army
PL 8 (107)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Athletics 3 (+6)
Deception 6 (+8)
Expertise (Mercenary) 8 (+11)
Insight 3 (+6)
Intimidation 5 (+7)
Investigation 3 (+6)
Perception 4 (+7)
Persuasion 2 (+4)
Ranged Combat (Firearms) 2 (+10)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 6 (+9)
Treatment 2 (+5)
Vehicles 6 (+8)

Advantages:
Equipment 4 (Arsenal), Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Firearms), Languages (Various- Cambodian & English), Ranged Attack 6, Tracking

Equipment:
"Arsenal"
"Blaster Rifle" Blast 6 (Extras: Multiattack) (Inaccurate) (17) -- (20)
  • AE: "Single Shot" Blast 6 (12)
  • AE: "Grenade" Blast 6 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Diminished Range -1) (17)
  • AE: "Knife" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Improved Critical) (2)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Blaster Rifle +10 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Multiple Shots +8 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Tai's Plans)- Chord is out to enable Tai's plans for eventual world domination.
Secret (Murdered Dwayne Taylor's Parents)- Night Thrasher's parents were actually killed by Chord himself, because he needed to raise Dwayne to enable Tai's plans.
Relationship (Midnight's Fire & Silhouette)- The two are his children, though he believed them to be dead.

Total: Abilities: 58 / Skills: 52--26 / Advantages: 14 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 9 (107)

-Andrew Chord had an interesting role in the New Warriors book- he and Tai had raised Dwayne Taylor since his parents were killed, as Chord was best friends with both of them (and served with the elder Taylor in Vietnam). During his time with the Warriors, he would hang out, fix their stuff, and bounce exposition off of Dwayne (Night Thrasher), generally being level-headed and rational to counter Dwayne's intensity. HOWEVER...

-It turned out that he & Tai were part of an ancient conspiracy to control the world, and that CHORD was actually the murderer of Dwayne's parents! When confronted on this by the Warriors, he attempted to commit suicide. Despite this, Chord wasn't inherently evil- he only reluctantly went along with Tai's plans. He had married Tai's only daughter, Miyami, who gave birth to the future Silhouette & Midnight's Fire- when they all were thought killed, Tai demanded he replace them with Dwayne. And so he befriended them before being ordered to shoot them in front of a young Dwayne. Miyumi was killed by Tai, Silhouette's parental origins were revealed, and Tai herself died trying to sacrifice the New Warriors and the children of her cult members for personal power.

-Chord was surprisingly accepted by Dwayne & Silhouette, who understood the situation he was put into- he was later named the legal guardian of Rage, whose grandmother had been killed. Later, he helped uncover the truth about Dwayne having a half-brother (the future Bandit). As one of the side-characters of the New Warriors book, he had been oddly absent from the Marvel Universe since the first cancellation of the series, however- he missed out on all three reboots, the Civil War era (in which Dwayne, who was like a son to him, DIED), and more.

-Chord's a decent PL 8 with his Blaster Rifle (but only on single-shot setting- he's PL 7 when he's using the Multiattack), but only PL 6-6.5 defensively- he typically didn't do a whole lot of the fighting, and is rather limited. He's a skilled fighter, Blaster and Tech guy (he designed Thrasher's outfit), but he's no elite on any level.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Speedball! Rage! Namorita! Nova! The Sphinx!)

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Oh snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap, the new Carmen Sandiego series looks totally awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZCTEg8UYY

Such a cool dramatic moment. Great voice acting, too. I love the animation and art style, simple as it all is. And NOBODY makes red work like Carmen.
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The Folding Circle

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THE FOLDING CIRCLE:

-The Folding Circle was a squad of guys built up over the course of several issues of The New Warriors, and had a pretty convoluted origin, tied in with Night Thrasher's own. See, way back during the Vietnam War (or whatever Asian conflict you could make it today), a band of American soldiers was confronted by the mysterious Cambodian woman called Tai. She demanded they all marry some maidens of her "Dragon's Breadth" cult, so that the "Children of the East & West" could gain great powero. All but one agreed, and their children became members of "The Folding Circle". However, a few shenanigans had occured- Left Hand had stolen his kid's powers, Midnight's Fire & Silhouette had their deaths faked by their mother, and Night Thrasher's parents were killed by Tai because Daryl Taylor was the one who refused a bride, and Tai wanted to manipulate Thrash into doing stuff for her.

The Circle is built up slowly over several issues, finally uniting with Midnight's Fire to take power for themselves. And, of course, they oppose Tai, who figures on killing them all to absorb all their power anyhow. This culminates with the first (and really the only) mega- arc in The New Warriors- the assembled Warriors & Folding Circle fighting, then teaming up to fight & kill Tai, thus saving all of them.

The major problem? These guys stink. I mean, they're FUNNY and super-dated, but they're straight-up awful Jobber Villains, and thus they kind of mess up the grandness of this storyline, and its potential blow-off. They team up with the Warriors to fight Tai (who's planning to sacrifice all of her grandchildren and the Warriors in order to gain ultimate power), who is killed by Night Thrasher. The Left Hand also dies in the conflict, and the remaining members end up in Madripoor in the pages of Night Thrasher, where they unseat Aardwolf as the local crime lord, but are later taken down by Thrash & Silhouette. They then vanished from comics until semi-recently- Bloodstrike, Silk Fever & Smiling Tiger are seen as part of The Thunderbolts during Civil War, but never get involved in any stories. So the team generally hasn't appeared in any real significance for more than 25 years.

The Roster:
Bloodstrike- Super-Strong organized crime member.
The Left Hand- Darkforce User & Team Leader.
Midnight's Fire- Chord's son (and Silhouette's brother), with enhanced physicality and a hate-on for Night Thrasher.
Night Thrasher & Silhouette- Infiltrate the group in order to destroy it.
Silk Fever- Originally from The Force of Nature, but turns out to be a member of these guys.
Smiling Tiger- Non-Speaking Claw Guy.
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Jabroniville wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:59 am Oh snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap, the new Carmen Sandiego series looks totally awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZCTEg8UYY

Such a cool dramatic moment. Great voice acting, too. I love the animation and art style, simple as it all is. And NOBODY makes red work like Carmen.
I've watched all of season 1 a few months ago and I really loved the art style and the pacing, but the whole thing really felt flat in terms of characterization. Way too many secondary characters seem to have eaten an entire bottle of idiot pills.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Speedball! Namorita! Nova- Rider & Sam! The Sphinx!)

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There are two awesomely 90s quotes from the end of the story arc involving Tai...

Nova’s battlecry... “Let’s Tai one on!” And then when he warns Darkhawk... “Duck Darkhawk! Duck Darkhawk? Dark Duckhawk...”
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The Left Hand

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LEFT HAND (Diego Casseas)
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza & Mark Bagley
First Appearance: The New Warriors #21 (March 1992)
Role: Manipulator, Blaster
Group Affiliations: The Folding Circle
PL 9 (116)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+7)
Deception 4 (+7)
Expertise (Soldier) 6 (+8)
Expertise (Magic) 4 (+6)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+5)
Perception 2 (+5)
Ranged Combat (Left Hand) 1 (+9)
Vehicles 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Left Hand) 2, Ranged Attack 6, Ritualist

Powers:
"Wellspring-Given Powers"
Blast 9 (Feats: Penetrating 7) (25) -- [27]
  • AE: "Left Hand Wave" Damage 9 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (18)
  • AE: Teleport 5 (Feats: Increased Mass 5) (Extras: Extended, Accurate) (25)
Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Blast +9 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Wave +9 Area (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Power)- Diego killed his own son to gain the "Left Hand" powers.

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 27 / Defenses: 14 (116)

-"Left Hand" was the sorta-leader of the Folding Circle, gathering the various children of the Dragon's Breadth cult together to kick some ass, but he himself was a bit different- his CHILD was the one meant to have the power, but he stole it for himself, taking command of the youths in the group. This means that Casseas himself was the fellow soldier of Night Thrasher & Silhouette's fathers, as well as Chord. Despite that, he didn't really get up to much interaction with them- you'd imagine they'd all have a lot to say to each other... but all Left Hand really did was corral Thrash into working with the Circle, and then attempt to turn on everyone alongside Tai. In the end of the "Folding Circle" arc, he and Tai were both dragged into the Wellspring, and have never returned.

-Left Hand's a pretty generic Blaster mixed with a Soldier, and he apparently has some Mystic potential as well.
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Midnight’s Fire

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MIDNIGHT'S FIRE (Aaron Chord)
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza & Mark Bagley
First Appearance: The New Warriors #2 (Aug. 1990)
Role: The Rival (to Night Thrasher)
Group Affiliations: The Folding Circle
PL 9 (113)
STRENGTH
4 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Acrobatics 7 (+13)
Athletics 6 (+10)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 3 (+13)
Deception 4 (+6)
Expertise (Streetwise) 6 (+8)
Insight 2 (+5)
Intimidation 5 (+7)
Investigation 3 (+6)
Perception 5 (+8)
Stealth 1 (+7)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Chokehold, Diehard, Evasion, Fast Grab, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4, Takedown

Powers:
"Universal Wellspring Powers: Peak Human Attributes"
"Hitting Power" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
Speed 2 (8 mph) [2]
Leaping 1 (15 feet) [1]
Regeneration 1 [1]
Senses 2 (Extended Sight & Hearing) [2]
Immunity 2 (Poison, Disease) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [1]

Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +10

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +5, Fortitude +8, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Revenge)- When Silhouette was crippled because of Night Thrasher, Midnight's Fire swore revenge. He even fell as far as to become what he hated- an extortionist and druglord, to lure Thrash into a trap.

Total: Abilities: 68 / Skills: 42--21 / Advantages: 15 / Powers: 8 / Defenses: 15 (113)

-Midnight's Fire is kind of an odd villain in the New Warriors series. He was Night Thrasher's old crime-fighting partner alongside his twin sister Silhouette, but rejected Dwayne once Silhouette was crippled by gunfire during a mission involving Thrash. Enraged and swearing vengeance, Fire became a druglord and cop-killer in order to lure Dwayne into a trap, and continued aiding the Folding Circle once they told him their origins (they all gained powers from their parents's trysts with Cambodian mystic women). He became more of a simple druglord later on, kind of faltering as a character and a Big Bad (especially after Dwayne's brother Donyell became the Official Rival to Thrash), but still attempted to fight the new Night Thrasher in a more recent comic.

-Midnight's Fire is basically a PL 9 baby-version of Captain America. He does more damage than most humans can in melee (his Wellspring-derived powers are essentially the same as Cap's or Crimson Commando's), he's a great martial artist, and he's all-around really good and fairly well-balanced (PL 6.5 Defenses, though, because he's still a Jobber), but only PL 9. He's enough to draw with Night Thrasher (unbridled fear over Fire's power led to Dwayne creating his suit) and even defeat him, and the two are relatively evenly-matched.
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Re: Jab’s Builds! (Speedball! Namorita! Nova- Rider & Sam! The Sphinx!)

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The Sphinx is another of Marvel's failed would-be master villains, most of which seemed to get churned out from the late seventies through the mid-1980s; Graviton, Maelstrom, Nefaria, Superia (OK, I guess she was a 1990s era flameout), the Master (wow, John Byre, really put effort into that moniker, eh?), and a few others. NONE of them every caught on or developed into anything major.

In the case of the Sphinx, it again seemed as if some of the elements were there-sort of imposing, powerful, there was some mystery behind the Ka stone, pretty good origin story-BUT...

His first costume just looked pretty goofy, especially with the headgear (if the Sphinx debuted in one of the latter costumes looking like an ancient sorcerer-king, things might have been different), he debuted in a quickly canceled title in a bad era for Marvel, his power-set was overwhelming but ill-defined, and the character's whole motivation was finding a way to die...yeah, not just not the stuff of a Dr. Doom or Magneto or Mandarin.

As it stands, he really only had ONE major/interesting story arc, and that was in a second tier title where he was overshadowed by a better conceived female version. So he's probably a perpetual also-ran, consigned to occasionally popping up to cause a little trouble for Nova, who's moved on years ago.

All my best.
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