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\n" CycleHero+="" document.write(CycleHero) //-- function Assemble(Title, Blurb, Srcfile, Artistname, Artistlink) { HeroCt+=1 ; z=HeroCt; Hero[z] = new Array() Hero[z].Title = Title Hero[z].Blurb = Blurb Hero[z].Srcfile = Srcfile Hero[z].Artistname = Artistname Hero[z].Artistlink = Artistlink } //-- function LoadHeroes() { Assemble("Janitor Jack", "Jack was a mild mannered man until one person too many walked on his newly mopped floor. Now armed with bleach, ammonia, and other tricks of his trade along with his pet rat squeaks, this janitor is ready to take out the trash (and the people who cause it) for keeps.", "z.JanitorJack.jpg", "Jay", "mailto:shadows_deep@bellsouth.net") Assemble("The Heretic", "Hunted. Beautiful. Deadly. A former Gun Maiden of the Order of the Arbiters, Elena Lev has been branded as The Heretic by the Order, never to rest until she is dead. A complete master with weapons, especially any gun, she is an extremely skilled and dangerous assassin.", "z.Heretic.jpg", "Phil", " ") Assemble("Ta-ta", "\"Released again, God help us all, \" exclaimed Judge Judy. Baghead escapes again, this time with a new skill ...", "z.Baghead-Martha.jpg", "Graeme (composite image)", "mailto:graeme_bowles@yahoo.ca") Assemble("Enjoying his freedom ...", "Baghead greets adoring fans, having obtained rock star celebrity status.", "z.Baghead-Jacko.jpg", "Graeme (composite image)", "mailto:graeme_bowles@yahoo.ca") Assemble("No glove, no love!", "\"It was in the pool, it shrank!\" shouted angry crown prosecutor Georges Kastanza. Unable to prove the evidence had been tampered with, the most compelling evidence, a glove left at the crime scene, was thrown out. It didn't fit!", "z.Baghead-Glove.jpg", "Graeme (composite image)", "mailto:graeme_bowles@yahoo.ca") Assemble("Baghead", "The new face of Evil ... in the bag! A good friend once mused that houseguests can be like fish. They are nice the first day but after that, they start to stink. Perhaps some start to stink from day one. Look out Megatropolis, you have a new house guest dropping in and he's here to stay! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooooooo!", "z.Baghead.jpg", "Graeme (composite image)", "mailto:graeme_bowles@yahoo.ca") Assemble("Captain Cowbell", "Captain Chris Cowbell has always had a superpowered knack to be in the right place, at the right time. Whether it was avoiding ambushes out in the bush, or even in later years single-handedly ending costumed crime sprees in his suburban Megatropolis neighbourhood, the good people agree: \"You can never have enough cowbell!\"", "z.CaptainCowbell.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Drongo And Mr. Hizzorse", "Following the bloodbaths of Clownish supervillain, The Prankster, Drongo the Clown set out to bring back joy to the children, as he fought for justice and truth. His companion, Mr. Hizzorse was once a famous rapper who was captured by Dr. Nutzo only to have his brain swapped with that of a horse. When Drongo was similarly captured, Mr. Hizzorse broke free and saved the day!", "z.DrongoAndMr.Hizzorse.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") // Assemble("The Fundamentalist", "Once she just a peaceful Kansas girl who worked in the truckstop diner. Came the day the voice in her head told her to smite with steel and fire the children of demons, the \"metahumans, \" in the Name. So she hitched up to Megatropolis, the corrupt heart of the superhuman problem.", "z.TheFundamentalist.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("The Silhouette", "Once, he was a mighty square-jawed hero in cape and tights, known as a champion of justice and virtue, a kind and generous man, beloved by many. And then The Atomic Ayatollah burned all that he was in nuclear fire, and that which remained was a shadow on the wall, the darkness of his soul that could not be destroyed. Now all are targets alone his road to vengeance.", "z.TheSilhouette.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Uunggekk", "Dr.Plight's timeportals allowed him to harvest slaves from across many eons, including the Stone Age. Since his demise, the emancipated slaves are struggling to learn to live as free people in the 21st century. Uunggekk, deformed from a magic sacrifice just before his capture, finds the struggle particulary difficult. Society only accepts him as a freak. He lives on the coins thrown at him by jeering circus spectators. But within his heart seethes a yearning that he has yet to define.", "z.Uunggekk.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Dark Lord Javimere", "A sinister dictator bent on ruling several galaxies. Half robot, half evil. He was the 6th Dark Lord, the great Alex destroyed him. Can anyone rise up to take his stand?", "z.DarkLordJavimere.jpg", "Goldm2 via Heromachine", "mailto:goldm2@gmail.com") Assemble("Starry Stripes", "As she lets her arrows fly from her patriotic bow, Starry Stripes fights for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "z.StarryStripes.jpg", "Freak via HeroMachine", " ") Assemble("Preternus", "This preternatural warrior is the ultimate hunter-killer and the true King of Beasts. Pray that you will not become his prey.", "z.Preternus.jpg", "Freak via HeroMachine", " ") Assemble("Algaemorph", "[static] --ynthetic recombinant-2 DNA in small packag-- [static] --thieves, two white femal-- [static] --tracking a little one-propellor airplane over the bayou-- [static] --my God, a surface-to-air missile! There's debris falling all across the swamps-- [static] --can never recover all the DNA compounds-- [static] --call Hazmat-- [static] --and the National Gua-- [static]", "z.Algaemorph.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Annie Smith", "While Mayonara Corps' bioweapons division was creating anti-super weaponry, the advanced robotics division was building a heroine of their own. In a joint venture with an American company, Annie Smith was unveiled as the prototype iHeroine. As her neuralnet quickly evolved to become self-aware she chose to end her exploitation by the companies and fled to the city of Megatropolis. In the city of heroes she fights crime and evades her pursuers to this day. Villainous laughter at her airhead appearance turns to shock and fear as she punches through walls and lifts cars with robotic strength.", "z.AnnieSmith.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Aresh and Saint Hasi'e", "Aresh likes to torture young children who do not believe in God. God sent down Saint Hasi'e to stop this terrorizing. Saint Hasi'e was too well known so God sent him down as a flying cat. Saint Hasi'e still searches even today.", "z.Aresh.jpg", "Goldm2 via HeroMachine", "mailto:goldm2@gmail.com") Assemble("AshleeRothea", "The high virtue of the costumed heroes of the city of Megatropolis has drawn those who feed on virtue. Ashlee Rothea corrupts the innocent, the pure, and the holy. She thinks the end is nigh. She might be right.", "z.AshleeRothea.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Azure Agony", "Mutated in the womb along with her twin sister to wield the ability of affecting a person's pleasure/pain responses, Josephine Grimm grew up to be a paramilitary campaigner for Mutant Rights, leading several terrorist assaults on Megatropolis. She took on a mask and became Azure Agony after the disbanding of her organisation at the hands of some of The Defenders.", "z.AzureAgony.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V1.0", " ") Assemble("Blaststar", "Dennis Mitchell was a gang thug until a chance genetic reaction with Lady Pinkstar's energy attack gave him superpowers. As \"Mr. Blast\" he carried out a number of daring if unimaginative robberies before being stopped by Captain Cowbell and a guilt-ridden Lady Pinkstar. During his time inside he saw the error of his ways and on leaving prison became a superhero as Blaststar. Better at fighting crime than committing it, he formed the Energy Stars team with Lady Pinkstar, Plasma Boy, and Sally Sunstorm. Just don't mention the girly colour of his energy.", "z.Blaststar.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Bleck", "Young Oscar Bleck, social outcast, the ugly kid at school, used to daydream of being carried away to a kinder planet in an alien spaceship. Then, one day ... it happened. Oscar was whisked off to Dohoeycs III, a paradise of mutual praise and validation. He learned to accept his squat, burly, stunted physical appearance as a thing of arbitrary beauty; and he learned of new philosophies and the great potential of sentient spirits inhabiting the galaxies. But, after a time, he yearned to return home and share the beauty of all he had learned. Bedecked with accoutrements of alien power, now he spreads the rapture of unbounded optimism!", "z.Bleck.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Cold Static", "Ice Luck wasn't always a Lucky man with ice powers. Ice Luck used to be able to make electricity that was surprisingly cold. Ice Luck's powers changed with the arrival of the Ryish Meteor.", "z.ColdStatic.jpg", "Goldm2 via HeroMachine", "mailto:goldm2@gmail.com") Assemble("Crimson Skull", "The second unit in the Necromancer's army consists of these guys. The only thing they are concerned about is fighting. They have no magical abilities other than enhanced strength. The flames amongst their bodies represent their passion for war and violence. Their swords are black from the ashes of their burning bodies.", "z.CrimsonSkull.jpg", "Rock via HeroMachine", " ") Assemble("Deflect", "It was just little fireball probe. I was testing his shields. I knew I had far more power to commit against him than I would need. But I didn't want to waste it. He didn't scare me. He didn't panic me. He'd die when I wanted him to die.", "z.Deflect.jpg", "Jolie E. Bonnette", "http://www.aazari.com") Assemble("Doc Megatropolis", "A faded picture in an unearthed archive is all that remains today of the career of perhaps the first of the city's first masked heroes, Doc Megatropolis. He is believed to have been a sheriff in some old west town who brought his family to the northeast coast for a better life. Instead he discovered the criminal element running unchecked and the law corrupt and useless. He took on the gangs of the late 1800s with only the help of the young priest of the now derelict St Patrick's church.", "z.DocMegatropolis.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("El Alacran", "Named 'The Scorpion' for his deadly sting, this outlaw terrorized the West for many years before a Gypsy's curse condemned his soul. Now he wanders in the modern world, doomed never to rest until he saves a soul for every one he stole.", "z.ElAlacran.jpg", "Jay via HeroMachine", "mailto:Shadows_deep@Bellsouth.net") Assemble("Electroshock", "Once a repair worker with the electric company, Susan Smith was called out to work on some damaged transformers during a bad storm. A bolt of lighting struck the metal casing, and she was thought dead. But she's still very much a live wire ...", "z.Electroshock.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Erodius' Alter Ego: The Corrupted One", "His alter ego, the greatest of all evils, and also the most powerful, is only contained by Erodius: he was The Guardian not of people, like he thought, but instead was the guardian of this being. His power only containable by the most powerful entity of natural origins, i.e., Erodius of the Earth. But with it came the chance of his release, which was attained by the hurt that took Erodius' confused and angered state. He was released, and for a short time he could have destroyed all of the universe, but Erodius and the death of the kid whose name was already forgotten, was the final step in the end of The Corrupted One, or so it seemed ... he might still live, waiting for the guardians to weaken, but if he is alive, no one is able to know; he may be waiting, or he may be truly dead. Only time will tell ...", "z.TheCorruptedOne.jpg", "Matt Farmer", "mailto:random732@hotmail.com") Assemble("Erodius The Last Guardian", "", "z.Erodius2.jpg", "Matthew Ryan Farmer", "mailto:random732@hotmail.com") Assemble("Flayed", "Exposed to 5-dimensional radiation, the high-school-dropout night janitor at the nuclear power plant found his flesh dissolved and his spirit melted into the radioactive calcium of his bones. Driven mad by the horror, he stalks the night, unable to die, unable to live.", "z.Flayed.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Fuega", "The history of Cape Horn is rife with struggle and desperation. In the exploration of the new world, mariners resorted to any methods they could find, to round the tip of South America and gain the Pacific. Some even resorted to witchcraft. 400 years later, a forgotten wisp of that magick would transform a fisherman's daughter into a modern witch of fire.", "z.Fuega.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Gasbag", "Once a peaceful mountain gnome, Gasbag grew hateful at humanity for destroying his home without remorse eager to only fill their pockets with money. Using nature gases from the Earth, the little man decided to make a big stink...", "z.Gasbag.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Granite", "Carol was once a New Age Witch, mindless of the dangers she might encounter. To improve herself and impress a cute boy in gym class, she focused a ritual on herself and demanded 'to have the strength of a stone-age warrior.' Sadly, she did not specify a human one. Now the mountains and city towers are her home. Be careful what you wish for.", "z.Granite.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Helium-3", "Harry Jones was a meek but gifted student with a double major in biochemistry and plasma physics. After hundreds of hours of experimentation, he created a blood serum based on an isotope of helium bonded to the hemoglobin molecule. The procedure for endowing a human with the powers he now possesses is rumored to be recorded in his old notebooks, which Harry lost in a burglary. He roams the city, using his powers for good, but always fears that some day he might meet his opposite.", "z.Helium-3.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Herpo", "In ancient days, after the expulsion from the Garden, reptiles were seen as evil. But they were also seen as powerful. Those dark-age wizards of greater ambition and lesser ethics began experiements to tap into that reptilian power. They scribed their findings in librams of great lore, most of which were burned in witchhunts and inquisitions. But some of the tomes survived. And one day a clueless, frail antique dealer named Moe Harvey found a heavy leather book in a crate of new purchases from Samarkand ... and he opened the book ... and began to read ... and began to change ...", "z.Herpo.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Hex Skull", "One of three units in the evil Necromancer Mikolas's Army. The Hex Skull used hex magic to incapacitate its victims; then its pet serpent would suck out and store their life-forces.", "z.HexSkull.jpg", "Rock via HeroMachine", " ") Assemble("HotdogMan", "Once upon a time, this superhero was simply an average man having a hurried lunch. That was before fate brought him into contact with a radioactive wienie, and he was endowed with the might of processed meats.", "z.HotdogMan.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Jupitrix", "Humans kidnapped from Earth in the year 1742 A.D. were taken to a secret colony below the surface of Ganymede, where alien caretakers groomed them to become interplanetary police under the name The Jupiter Brigade. Using special genetic engineering, the caretakers created a squadron of 150 advanced überhuman superheroes and equipped them with high-tech spacesuits, weapons, communicators, and vehicles. But in 1969, the colony was attacked and destroyed by a spaceborn thermovirus emanating from the volcanoes of Io. Only one of the superpolice survived the attack. Now she is an exile, bereft of her support and her companions. All she has is her original mission: to keep the peace for humanity.", "z.Jupitrix.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Lamina", "A shape-shifter who has hated evil since his home planet got destroyed by a evil force, he is the last surviving Ugalstafian.", "z.Lamina.jpg", "Lamina (Nicolas333)", "mailto:squirrel3331@hotmail.com") Assemble("Leatherette", "Her father. Her older brother. Both her younger brothers. Mr.Schnick in fourth grade and Mr.Hack in fifth. Every teacher from sixth grade on, because she had 'grown up' the previous summer. The career counselor, which is why she didn't go to college. The quickmart manager, who fired her for assaulting him (he lost two fingers and that was getting off lucky). The cop who arrested her. The cab driver, once she made bail. Yes, all of them, surely every one in the whole world. They will pay.", "z.Leatherette.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Magenta", "In the year A.C.511 (A.D.6116), Miss Zliette Jones-60165AAY broke tradition and registered to become the first female soldier in the space army of the United Continents. Public uproar caused her to face trial, be convicted of gender-based self-denial, and sentenced to expulsion into the past. Arriving over 4,000 years into her own past, she found that her future-human biochemistry was incompatible with the ozones, fluorocarbons, and hydrocarbon smogs of the 21st century. She survived seizures and coma, and when she awoke she was not as she had been.", "z.Magenta.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Majik", "A strangely trained man from a questionable background. 'Majik' seems your typical guy with a odd affinity for the magickal arts who spends his free time kicking some villain booty.", "z.Majik.jpg", "Hellcat", "http://ossia.deviantart.com/") Assemble("Marabou", "Physically beautiful outside, while twisted and ugly within. This is Gretchen Munter, aka Marabou. A white South African with delusions of \"Aryan supremacy, \" she sees her wings as an evolutionary step for her envisioned master race. A vicious predator, she has come to the City Of Heroes to hunt the \"impure\" as the Biggest Game.", "z.Marabou.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Mineshaft-Creature-31", "Since the demise of the supervillain Dr. Plight, the basements and underground passages of his tower are being explored by a team of heroes tasked for hazard control. They captured and catalogued many of the beasts found there, but one particularly large specimen overpowered them and escaped. His whereabouts are currently unknown.", "z.Mineshaft-Creature-31.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Mr. Orange", "There are two ways to ensure a job is done correctly: Do it yourself, or hire Mr. Orange. Amongst the most intelligent criminals on the planet, Mr. Orange will do anything, anywhere, to anyone for the right price. Superhero targets a specialty. All you have to do is pay, and he will handle planning, contacts, equipment and execution.", "z.Mr.Orange.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Nanowave", "Between the frequencies of light, between quantum packets and the discreet energy shells of electrons, there is an error in the accountbooks of the Universe. Dr. Francis Surelock Rogg, already teetering on the raw edge of insanity, perhaps was in the perfect state of mind to read between the lines and discover the subquantum aether; but visualizing the unbounded depth of reality plunged him over the brink into complete psychosis. He has built tiny devices powered by fuelcells that do not even exist in our own reality, and from those devices he draws forth vicous energies to use against his foes. And he counts everyone amongst his foes!", "z.Nanowave.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Oblivious", "Oblivious' history is long, but it all began in London, England in 1789, when he was born to his parents. He no longer remembers their names. A great irony in getting his memories back, Oblivious still doesn't remember some things simply because he cannot.", "z.Oblivious.jpg", "Hellcat", "http://ossia.deviantart.com/") Assemble("Pax: 1402 - 2004", "In 1402 A.D., a massive and unseasonable storm gifted a churchyard statue with flesh and blood and life to make an entirely new creature. Pax spent the next six centuries living, sometimes travelling, sometimes settling, sometimes a hermit and sometimes surrounded by many. She was a lover and a fighter, a scholar and a thug, a drunken bully and a pious saintly figure. She came to Megatropolis as a hero and died at the hands of her dearest friend in a storm just as vicious as that which birthed her.", "z.Pax.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Payne", "An ancient man, Payne was accidentally given immortality when he declined to be a human sacrifice. Able to transform himself into a horrid beast as a result, the warrior went forth to mete out violence where he should find the need of such a thing. Eons later he still finds that this mindset works well.", "z.Payne.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Plasma Boy", "Bob Morton's life was like any normal suburban kid's, until the HGV hit his family's SUV and caused a few DOAs. Bob's Uncle Murphy was a scientist for DMY working on a prototype cyborg combat suit. Stealing the tech, he managed to save his newphew, who became new hero Plasma Boy!", "z.BobMorton.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Preacher", "Once only a deformed court jester, a vampire's bite led Preacher eventually to great wealth. He repays this kindness to other bloodsuckers by treating them to a stake.", "z.Preacher.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Sardonicus", "Little has been seen of the rougish Sardonicus as of late. His alter ego, the billionaire banker Gabriel Van der Pol, has been cultivating the life of a philanthropist. ", "z.Gabriel_aka_Sardonicus.jpg", "Hellcat", "http://ossia.deviantart.com/") Assemble("Scald", "Kevin Scapaldi was a school bully. He wasn't smart enough or mean enough to be a really serious bully, but he made enemies. One of those enemies was scrawny, brainy, pimply Alvie Schmarmberg, and easy target but a poor choice, because Alvie mixed up a nasty brew of chlorine, battery acid, various solvents, and some high-octane gasoline just for good measure. One of Avlie's insulin syringes became a weapon of assault. A quick-jab injection in the school hallways should have done the trick. But Kevin Scapaldi didn't die like he was supposed to. Something else entirely happened.", "z.Scald.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Sensor", "Who, or what, Is Sensor? He'll never tell. He only percieves with his mysterious sensory powers, but never tells what they reveal. What secrets does he keep ... even about you!", "z.Sensor.jpg", "Freak", " ") Assemble("Slither", "A private in the military, Slither was thought expendable to test a new toxin on based on snake venom. The brass thought him killed, but they were dead wrong.", "z.Slither.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Squall", "Skyla's mother was mad. She believed that giving birth to her daughter on an open hilltop in the midst of a thunderstorm would bring the baby girl great powers. Lightning killed her in childbirth ... but Skyla's father watched the child grow into the superpowered individual that his wife had believed in: a charming, sweet girl, with all the force of a hurricane inside her.", "z.Squall.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Staggs", "The grandson a witchdoctor, Staggs left Africa with his grandfather's ritual gear after the old man was shot trying to stop drug dealers. Now he cures and helps, but also hunts.", "z.Staggs.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("SteelSamurai", "Created by the Sushi Tech. Corporation, this metal giant was designed to be a gift to the city of Tokyo, a bringer of piece and balance. Due to a shipping error, he wound up in Megatropolis, where now he upholds peace and balance.", "z.SteelSamurai.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Strans", "A wise and rich man, Strans can really make stories come to life...", "z.Strans.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Stump", "Gaze upon the true face of Stump, as only those about to die have done. She is the product of a mad scientist's nightmares bred with an evil warlock's heady magics. She cut the brainpan from her own head to set free her psionic powers. Her victims see only their hearts' desires until she is alone with them. Too close, too late, and another falls to her hunger.", "z.Stump.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("The Expander", "Objects are made of atoms. Atoms are made of mostly empty space, with a few particles such as neutrons and mesons. Change the amount of space between the particles, and the size of objects changes. Using advanced technology he created at Megatropolis University's Deep Physics lab, Charle-Michel de Viette built two microgravity generators: one The Shrinker, and one The Expander. The Shrinker was stolen, along with all of Charle-Michel's irreproduceable production-procedure notes. But he still has The Expander, and with it he hopes to become the leading superhero in Megatropolis.", "z.Expander.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("The Honorable Gentleman", "Professor Lance Q. Kniebold was a humble lecturer of history, until late one night in the Megatropolis University library he suffered a near-fatal brain aneurism. Upon awakening, he discovered lost memories of a long-ago age and a previous lifetime wherein he had been a civic crusader for moral justice and social reform. In these modern times of strife and confusion and dehumanization, surely a man of steadfast ethics will be a force for change for the better!", "z.TheHonorableGentleman.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("The Last Battle", "There is one foe no noble hero nor despicable villain can best. One fight nobody can win. You might stall for time, hold it off for years or centuries, but eventually you lose. Don't go quietly.", "z.HappySmileyFunReaper.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("The Marksman", "Knowing he was different since he was a child, the grisly fate of his parents turned this young man into a renowned hero. Anything is deadly in his hands, for when the Marksman throws a weapon with superhuman speed and grace, he never misses.", "z.TheMarksman.jpg", "Hellcat", "http://ossia.deviantart.com/") Assemble("The Punishing Skull", "Back before they tore down The Shallows to make way for luxury apartments, not every resident wanted to leave. Bernice Matthews came home to find her husband and children killed, as a message to other hold-out residents. Now she lives only for vengeance against the criminal element of the city. She takes no prisoners and gives no mercy. Her family's memory is never far from her heart.", "z.ThePunishingSkull.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Vandro", "Johan Van Drogheim studied theology and history in his native land of Holland. Becoming a devout Christian, he felt a particular affinity to those righteous men who mounted the Crusades and filled the ranks of the the Knights Templar. In an ecstatic moment of prayer, Johan felt a surge of power, and gained superhuman abilities, surely proving that God still wants paladins to carry out His will on Earth. Van Drogheim became Vandro the Crusader, and carries moral justice across the world ... sometimes even to Megatroplis ...", "z.Vandro.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Vllrrigast", "\"People of Earth! It is not we Radians who are guilty of breaching the cosmic walls. It was one of your own! a human named Dr.Plight. I, Vllrrigast, ambassador to illegal dimensions, warn you thus: do not approach the gates into the Radian dimension! for our superhero guardians stand ready to repel you with prejudicial force.\"", "z.Vllrrigast.jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Vlothous", "Under the powers of a great monster, Vlothous was forced into a human for a ritual which was never finished. Now he travels as part of that human, but as his own being as well. For centuries his might and claws were feared, and he gives no reason why they shouldn't be now.", "z.Vlothous.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Weapon XX259", "It's no secret that some see the superhumans as a menace to be eradicated. Scientists working for Mayonara Corp's BioWeapons division created Weapon XX259, designed to seek out \"rogue superhumans\" and adapt to destroy them.", "z.WeaponXX259.jpg", "Pax via HeroMachine V2.0", " ") Assemble("Weyyiy Ouriawya (Plane 6 Ranger)", "Since Dr. Plight's horrific crimes through breached dimensions of space and time, many civilizations have established bands of Peace Marshalls to prevent and punish crime throughout the folds of reality. Among the most chaotic alternate universes is Plane 6, where the three \"normal\" spatial dimensions are each divided by two into six half-dimensions. Weyyiy Ouriawya was posted to the fringes of Plane 6 where portals to Earth were most common. During a struggle against the Yyy, he was buffeted through the portal, which was destroyed from the other side. Now he is trapped on Earth.", "z.Weyyiyouriawya(Plane6Ranger).jpg", "töff via HeroMachine", "mailto:toff@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Whiplash", "The youngest daughter in a family of acrobats, Whiplash saw her parents killed when a circus owner used feeble wire in order to collect on the life insurence of his performers. Ignored by the authorities as a trouble-making and grieving youth, the girl modified her costume and brought justice to her family's memory as Whiplash.", "z.Whiplash.jpg", "Wayne via HeroMachine", "mailto:wayne@cityofsupers.com") Assemble("Zephroth Derusus Talinguard", "Long ago during the Crusades the Knights Templar became corrupt and started to cause war in the eastern kingdoms. A few knights of the order split off of this order seeing how corrupt the good had been and seeing how good their enemies were. They became confused and lost their faith. When they found themselves the two sides had for the most part destroyed themselves. Stuck in the desert, left for dead, the Knights struggled and were in a way tested. They learned this of their journey: only one thing holds true: Time is everflowing. Balance is essential for the mind body and soul. The world must be put into balance to achieve another Eden on Earth. After a few years their numbers grew from 3 to 30 and once again they began to quibble and fight. The Isorropi realized that in their number they could never keep the balance. They sacrificed themselves all but one. They wrote their wisdom on the back of a marble stone and their spirits were absorbed into it. This stone is also known as the Rosetta Stone. The one in the museum is a fake; the true Rosetta Stone was passed down from generation to generation from one Balancer to the Next. Zephroth is fortold to be the last of the Isorropiaippotis and he must complete the mission for complete balance.", "z.Zephroth.jpg", "Brandon Hardesty", "mailto:bwhardesty2000@yahoo.com") Assemble("Ammo","Jackson Jones was discharged from the Marines after a violent friendly-fire accident. Upon his discharge, he took his newly discovered powers to the mercenary markets--for, while in the USMC, Jackson had discovered he had some bizarre ability NEVER to have his gun run out of ammo. He embraced this, and as a mercenary he goes by Ammo. He takes missions, and, though he is paid, he doesn't do it for the money ... he does it for the targets ...","z.Ammo.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Elimina (Drone)","The basic unit of the robotic force to contain and control super-powered beings, the Elimina Drone is a powerful weapon. With a concussion blaster mounted coaxial to the right hand, and the left hand replaced with a broad-spectrum EM blaster, Elimina has the ability to engage almost any form of super-powered being, with either physical or energy attacks. She is the first of three models produced by a shadowy firm with sinister government ties.","z.Elimina_Drone.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Robert Fett","Like most characters in fiction, Boba Fett had a firm grounding in reality. When Alec Guiness tried to bow out of Empire, having thought his character 'dead,' George Lucas looked for a bounty hunter to deliver him to L.A. Who he found was Robert Fett, a relentless and remorseless man, set upon retrieving any person for any reason, if the price were right. Fett delivered and was paid, and Boba Fett was born. Since then, the real Fett has specialized a bit in supers; but is he in it for the greater money, or the greater challenge?","z.Robert_Fett.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," ") Assemble("Squeaks","Candi Simmons may have been a bit vain and a bit flighty. Sure, she was too shallow and self-centered; but, when she was careless and rude to a voodoo priestess in New Orleans, she awoke the next day in a wholly different world. She was crumpled up, flattened, and somehow ... plastic! Once someone bought her and inflated her, she was shocked to realize that she was a blowup version of herself! Trapped as such until she makes amends for all her transgressions, now as Squeaks, she seeks a way back to a life she can hardly remember.","z.Squeaks.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("The Big Cheese","Radiation, a huge vat of cheese, and a somewhat-lower-than-average-intelligence dairy worker ... mix them together in an explosion and what do you get? Behold ... the Power of CHEESE!","z.The_Cheese.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Elimina (Nox)","The Elimina series of robots is designed to contain and control supers; and, with the wide variety of super-powered beings in Prodigy, a recon version was needed. The Nox model is all that and more, with a more agile robotic chassis that sacrifices some strength and firepower for an ability to operate stealthily, as well as a broader range of surveillance devices. The question is, who do these robots serve and report back to?","z.Elimina_Nox.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Woodchuck","Charles Bladewalker is the grandson of a Lumbee Indian shaman and works as an expert lumberman from the Pacific Northwest. Chuck, as his friends call him, is a quiet, unassuming man, who fells trees with a skill that is unrivaled, but also with a delicacy and prayer over the spirit of every tree he cuts. While he does not consciously use any mystical forces from his heritage, his respect and understanding of living things is far beyond mortal matters.","z.Woodchuck.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Elimina (Ultra)","The pinnacle of the Elimina robot line, the Ultra is hardened against attack and has upgraded servos for its appendages and boosted outputs for its energy weapons. Its concussion blaster can force a hole through 12 inches of steel, and its left hand has been replaced with a specially constructed energy blaster that can not only fire EM energies but also has a rudimentary psionic emitter. The Ultra is dispatched when the Drones cannot bring down a hero.","z.Elimina_Ultra.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Bludgeon","Bludgeon is a simply programmed machine, not very agile, but quite strong. Its cybernetic systems are designed to target only a single threat at any given time, so it is relentless in going after its programmed victim. Strong, with a titanium reinforced shield that it uses as much for offense as defese, Bludgeon serves as the muscle to back up the villain Greyblade.","z.Bludgeon.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Grayblade","A murderous knife juggler, Greyblade was a circus performer who stole the night's take and killed an assistant before starting his life as a full-time villain. With blades attached to his right hand, his left free to toss a variety of edged weapons, Greyblade looks to cut the heart out of Prodigy and feast on its riches. Set against him is the Bladesman, for whom he has no respect. Blades are weapons meant to kill, and he sees anyone else's view as base weakness.","z.Grayblade.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("The Bladesman","A trained circus knife thrower, he moved to Prodigy when his lovely assistant was murdered by a rival performer. The rival fled to a life of crime; so the Bladesman was born--no super powers but reflexes and knowledge of knives only matched by that of Greyblade. In the battle for Prodigy, who will be the sharpest tool in the shed?","z.Bladesman.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") var Spec7="Spec 7 is the U.S. military's special operations joint command, which deal with the national security implications posed by the existence of superheroes and villains. Their mission is to gather intelligence and separate those beings with actual powers from costumed normal-ability humans. Once the supers are identified, Spec 7 is tasked with then assessing and dealing with the issue presented by any given super.

" Assemble("Spec 7 Armor",Spec7+"Spec 7 has no organic tank units, so they created the armor position. Troops are equipped with man-portable artillery and firepower that tanks and air support would normally supply. Their modified weapons can engage any land or air targets with a surprising degree of lethality.","z.Spec7Armor.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Spec 7 UDT",Spec7+"The UDT troops are the Spec 7 version of Navy Seals, deadly commandos trained in demolition and explosives. They handle all underwater work, as well as booby traps, commando raids, and exfiltration of target families. They are quick, quiet, and coldly efficient.","z.Spec7UDT.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Spec 7 Ops",Spec7+"The Ops troops are designated for special operations and intelligence gathering missions, as well as potential assassinations, reconaissance of targets, and assessment of strike locations. Rarely active, ops troops remain behind the scenes and hand off info and targets to the other Spec 7 troops.","z.Spec7Ops.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Spec 7 Ranger",Spec7+"The Rangers are rapid-deployment troops who can adapt to a variety of tactical situations and apply the latest technology to any situation. But are they good enough to handle the streets of Prodigy?","z.Spec7Ranger.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Sgt. Eagle","A staff seargent in the Army is one of the most dedicated enlisted men you can find. SSG Jebediah Wills was one of these. When he was captured by a terrorist cell, they conducted DNA experiments on him. The result was to replace most of his human DNA with that from an eagle. His smaller form, lighter bones, and eagle's head enabled him to escape. Sadly, his transformation can not be reversed, so he serves now in his new capacity as Sgt. Eagle.","z.Sgt.Eagle.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") Assemble("Vipress","A terrorist researcher into chemical warfare. An attack on her lab left her transformed. Now, her body is polymerized, having the properties of liquid latex, able to bend and stretch. Her very matter is toxic, as she was experimenting with the venom of the black mamba. Thus transformed, she styles herself as a modern day Medusa, her hair now elastic and somewhat snakelike, her body a uniform plasticized pink color. She no longer is dedicated to any cause other than carnage.","z.Vipress.jpg","Jon (via HeroMachine 2.5)"," "," ") } //-- end