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Not all supervillains (and supervillainesses) are dark, brooding, tortured souls.  Some of them are just out to have fun.  One such supervillainess is Lash.

 

Sure, she's got a whip that can cut through hardened steel (at least, when she extends the monomolecular lash).  More often, she extends a thicker, electrified metallic lash that shocks most people senseless.  But she doesn't use her whip to slice and dice her opponents, or even cause them lasting harm.  Nor does she seek to do property damage, destroy companies, or any of a dozen truly hurtful things many bad guys and gals do.  She just likes to steal (always from wealthy people or highly successful businesses and banks who can afford to take the occasional loss), play her own unique brand of "tag" with superheroes, and (hopefully) flounce off to rob another day.

 

Her partner-in-crime is Play-Deaux, a tiny (fist-sized) amorphous alien she rescued from a Duchess Industries research lab.  Members of Play-Deaux's race are symbiotic creatures, contact mentalists able to latch onto a sentient being and either read its mind, alter its sensory inputs, or outright control it.  Play-Deaux is relatively young and still learning to use its powers.  It's also naive about the whole symbiote / host thing and tends to "ride up front" (e.g. on a host's forehead or hand) rather than hiding out of sight under clothing like many of its more careful brethren.

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Hēi guǐ: Always quiet and introverted, Jennifer Cho dealt better with plants than people which suited her chosen field very well: biology professor in a small California university in botanical research department. She spent her days hidden deep in the labs and gardens, avoiding human contact and lost in her research, cataloging and notes blissfully unaware of the looks and occasional romantic overtures of her fellow faculty and even the occasional student as she was attractive young who's shy but amiable personality many found endearing. 

 
Other than botany, Jennifer's only other passion was practicing a surprisingly aggressive form of Wing Chun Kung Fu. Her great grandmother had brought the style from China and it had been passed down, mother to daughter in her family since. She'd never used it in anger before and most would have to lean the quiet scientist could level people twice her size in short order using a combination of long honed martial arts and some down and dirty brawling learned her father Edward Mcgregor and others from his side of the family at his insistence; no daughter of his was going to campus full of dirty minded boys without being able to take care of herself. No trouble ever occurred but the practice and work out left Sabrina is very good shape. 
 
During a quiet summer session, Jennifer accepted an assignment to follow up on some reports of an unusual species fungal mold that had been sent in by a local. This black, oily life form was unlike anything known being not only exceptional durable but, while it survived, seemingly mobile, able to move on it own. The sample had been contaminated by mishandling and died quickly but Jennifer was fascinated enough to leave her beloved labs to find more. 
 
Her search took her into the mountain where she heard rumors of strange behavior among the local population: rashes of violence, impulsive behavior, hallucinations and even licentious behavior occurring in the area from people never known for it. Jennifer thought nothing of it as her search too deeper into the rural territory and into the wilderness where she ran across several animals acting strangely as well so began to grow concerned. Still she'd come too far to turn back and pressed on, soon finding what she was sought, a pool of he black inky fungal material growing in the bottom of what appeared to be an recent meteoric impact crater, presenting an exciting possibility. 
 
Overcome with curiosity, Jennifer did one of the few impulsive acts in her life and immediately tried to climb down to gather sample. And the rock wall gave way, sending her tumbling her down into the churning organic soup. It enveloped her, sucked her down and as it closed over her head, it struck her that she hadn't had time to learn anything about its metabolism but was going to find out in the hardest way imaginable. 
 
But it wasn't so bad. 
 
The gelatinous material felt warm, comforting in a way. There was no pain even as she felt it seeping across her skin and into her body. She felt its need, its hunger and some strange alien intelligence. And with that connection came understanding. It wasn't from this world, but hadn't come accidentally. This world and its billions of sapient feeling minds had drawn it across the void of space seeking sustenance. It was a psionic being that fed on emotional energy specifically aggressive feelings. The fits the local were experiencing had been created by its attempts to feed, sending clouds of spores into the wind that acted as psychoactive drugs but in a random, uncontrolled manner in short intense bursts. 
 
Jennifer sympathized with it. It hadn't wanted to cause trouble. Humans just weren't too compatible. She offered it another way. She would accept it as part of her, entering a symbiotic relationship where she'd indulge her own aggressive urges and allow it to draw in them willingly. Her own latent psionic power facilitated this quite well.  
 
Jennifer Cho returned unsuccessful, reportedly never finding more of the strange lifeform. She also returned different. Her quiet demeanor remained but she more willing to emerge from her study. She spoke up for herself, met people's eyes and spoke up in conversations even started to dress to flatter her appearance and athletic build. Still charming and amiable, this new spark of extroversion made her even more appealing. 
 
But this was nothing compared to her new nocturnal activities when her new alien partner sheathed her body in a black skintoght sheathe that protects her and provides a variety of abilities such as the power to cling to walls and form whips, tendrils or other appendages at will. In this form, Jennifer's inner nature truly emerges unfettered: impulsive, aggressive, eager and virtually fearless. If anyone that knew her before met her, they'd think her father's side had finally come out. And they wouldn't be that far from the truth.
 
As Hēi guǐ (black ghost), she acts as a vigilante and campus protector, defeating the rampaging Mold Man (see earlier in the thread) in her most public adventure and occasional party animal, feeding her alien partner very well. 
 
And loving every minute of it. 
 
Note: She is currently unaware of Mold Man's true identity. 
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In a world of danger and evil what is a red headed whip wielding dominatrix to do but fight crime ?

Kate O'Nine Tails is a cat lover and is into what is politely termed fetish gear. After being attacked and overcoming her attackers and then coming to the rescue of other people being attacked, Kate has gone full blown vigilante. She is dextrous enough to avoid being shot when closing with a target and her costume is a development of Kevlar which lead to more than one opponent shooting her at point blank range and then getting a vicious beating. Kate is a thrill seeker rather than someone dedicated to the law because.you know Mum and Dad were killed by a mugger in from of them.

Kate does not wear a mask as she was 'caught' by a news crew in action.

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Branches

 

This is not his actual name but comes from the TV coverage of his first battle when the reporter screamed 'His arm ! It's turning into branches ! It's turning into branches !'. Why they did not say twigs is perhaps something that is best left alone. The hue of the skin suggests that a druidic or environmental paranormal is involved such as The Black Druid, Floronic Man, The Green Man or Baron von Mulchhausen.

He is quite proficient with with the blades he carries but the branches keep people as well beyond arms length. Expect this to be updated as more information becomes available.

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Tendril

 

Calvin Wines was one of the good guys. He served his country as a marine for six years, got wounded at war, received medals and honor, and wanted to be back on the field, to help his brothers at arms. The army only permitted him to act as a trainer and recruiter; so he did it till his contract was due. Then he became a security consultant, and was always trying to help people wherever he might go.

One day, he and his team were hired by the Sentinels, as part of their base security, and Calvin relieved in working with superheroes. He deeply wished to become one, to help even more people.

And it happened. After one of the capes missions, Calvin seized  a batttle serum, and took the risk to try it on himself. He became faster, stronger, tougher. He became the Ward, a new born hero, that the Sentinels trained as a stagee. But the serum was demanding, and started to have dangerously draining effects on his body and psyche. Again the Sentinels helped him, and they healed him, destroying any trace of the serum in his cells.

Calvin was devastated to be a normal guy again. But even his friends from the Sentinels couldn't do much for him.

 

And he became bitter, envious, jealous. He worked with them as a physical trainer, and stayed close, hoping something could be done for him. He spied on them, plotted whatever he could to get back his abilities, to no avail.

Till that day, when the team revealed some of an evil plan from King Cobra and COIL organization. Against the superheores advise, Calvin wanted to show them he was still a hero. Of course he got captured. Of course, King Cobra easily detected the poison in his heart and mind, and turned him into one of his minions. The bio-genetical virus turned Calvin into Tendril. Now he was powerful enough again, fast strong and tough, and lethal. That's all he wanted finally : power. The rest of his good personality having been erased by COIL leader virus.

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Woot!

 

ok, sorry if that's a known character that I never heard about, but i find the look very appealing. :)

 

here is your challenge

 

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She is Taskmistress, who can mimic any skill she sees. A heroic mercenary, she sells her services for good works. She doesn't have a skill based VVP, instead she has a few huge skills (KS: Knowing Things, PS: Doing Things, SC: Doing Science Things), all at a huge number (to account for huge Impossible penatlies, and still have a 14- to 16- roll).

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I enjoyed the entries but Opale edged ahead. Congratulations!

So I lost. Very well but why do you hate America ?

 

Task

 

Task is a corporate backed hero looking after the interests of [Campaign Conglomerate/Corporation]. She is active in stopping raids on factories to steal technology or devices, and thwarting kidnap attempts on members of staff. The head of [Campaign Conglomerate/Corporation] deflects any questions about Task's background.or suitability for the job and she seems to get along well with the security personnel. She also maintains good relations with the police. She is skilled at martial arts (a form of Kung Fu) and has a suite of energy powers.

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T.A.S.K. (Technically Augmented Super Killer) is the latest in the long line of military programs for the purpose in creating super soldiers. This particular project involved the blending of cutting edge cybernetics and nanotechnology. Amy Matthews was a former US army paratrooper who was facing a court martial for abandoning her post and going AWOL during a surprise attack on the base she was stationed in Guam by mercenaries led by Micronesia's most dangerous supervillain (the only one actually) Doctor Atoll. She had agreed to participate in the experiment in return for a full pardon.

 

Of course the army didn't mention that roughly 49% of her body would be totally replaced by cybernetic implants. Nor did they told her about the previous eighteen test subjects... Err... volunteers who died horribly when their bodies rejected said implants...

 

The AI in the nanites reacted badly to some of the components as predicted by the scientists. However instead of killing her, Amy's DNA somehow bonded with the nanites, giving her super strength and shapeshifting abilities.

 

Changing the last word of the project's acronym to Knight in a attempt to redeem herself, T.A.S.K. escaped from the laboratory and pursuing a life of doing good deeds...with the entire US Army on her tail.

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