Sundog

Sad to hear. He was rarely the main character, but often made the production he was in better rounded and more than it would have been.

Freakboy6117 seems to be absent, so I'll give us one: The Legion of Progress Five people enhanced by technology and science. They seek to show how every human could benefit from these technologies, by providing aid to others, disaster relief and support for the police in cases of supercrime.

The American Soldier! You've all heard of the guy who was desperate to serve, who volunteered for a super-soldier program, who became a paragon of the virtues of his nation and of moral and ethical probity? Yeah, that's not this guy. Peter Briggs was drafted in '67. He intended to run away to Canada, but he was too stoned to make the trip. He was stoned all through boot camp too. At least until his sergeant found out he was financing his own habits by selling drugs to his fellow recruits. So, they gave him an offer, participate in a new super-soldier program or get locked up in a military prison forever. Peter probably should have read the fine print...but he was stoned. The (cut-price) super drugs mixed with Peter's already severely altered neural biochemistry in weird ways. Sometimes he was a speedster, minutes later he'd be a brick, a little while later everybody in a one-kilometer radius was experiencing whatever sort of high Peter was enjoying at the time. After about a year, they managed to get something of a handle on what powers he'd have at a given time, by giving him more drugs. Peter was having the time of his stoned-out life. They worked up a stupid looking but very nationalistic costume, and set up a few (staged) battles with NVA "supers". Problem was, they really had made Peter into a quite powerful superbeing, but one that was continuously out of his gourd and darn near uncontrollable. Several of the actors in the filmed propaganda pieces were seriously injured, and the one attempt to use "The American Soldier!" in the field resulted in massive casualties on BOTH sides. Peter apparently had hallucinated an attack by "Cadillac Men", and had used a spontaneously manifesting Napalm Cannon to drive them away. By now the Vietnam war was coming to an end, and the super-soldier program was an embarrassment and a liability. It's sole success being even worse. Peter now lives at an isolated base in Nevada, still out of his alleged mind and apparently no older then he was in '67. His minders just keep him doped to the gills and watching continuous daytime TV. He's broken out a few times, causing major property damage each time, but he can usually be tempted back by promises of more drugs. And the American Soldier! has been well and truly cancelled.

Silver Queen Bryn Albusdotter was born to wealth, and her father's bankruptcy in her fifteenth year devastated her. For a year she had to live without the trappings of wealth and privilege - and she truly hated it. So when her mutant ability to psychokinetically control metals manifested, she went wild. Steel bank vaults were more of an impediment to those who wanted to stop her then they were to her, and her prodigious intellect kept her imagining newer and more useful ways to use her abilities. When she joined up with the Teen Bandits, she just kept raking in the loot. Not that she was greedy - she always made sure her friends got their fair share - but for Bryn, wealth was it's own reward. It all came to an end in late 1977. She was considering retiring anyway - Spindizzy's death hit her hard - and she had millions in untraceable accounts across the globe. Then a shock jock radio host worked out her secret identity. In days, a mob hit team had killed both of her parents and tried to kill her - she hadn't even known that one of the banks she robbed was a mob front. Over the next month, 250 mob members were slaughtered. Bryn caught up with the Shock Jock during an interview on public television, and casually ripped all of the blood out of his body. The manhunt for Silver Queen was extensive...and futile. She simply vanished. Many believe she has gone somewhere quiet in the world, enjoying her money and laughing at the law. New Team: The Capitalists. A group of conservative individuals using their power to promote the free market...by silencing any detractors. 5-7 members.

Jack Silver Half-Japanese, half-Korean, half machine. Jack Silver started out as a dying boy, abandoned by his family for his half-caste status, ravaged by congenital conditions, waiting for death in a charity hostel. When the two corporate guys came by and offered him something else...well, he might have been 8, but he wasn't stupid. They replaced most of his musculature with bioengineered artificial muscle, bones with metal, eyes with advanced cameras. They taught him how to use a sword, a bow, a spear - and then gave him high-tech, advanced versions of those weapons. To this day he's not sure who he actually works for. He really doesn't care. His job is to protect the interests of the corporations, and he is glad to do so. He is Jack Silver, and only goes by that name.

Spindizzy Lee Camaran was a thief, a runner for the mob, and a con artist. When she got drenched in radioactive waste and developed superspeed powers, she just kept doing the same things - faster. Eventually she got recruited for the Teen Bandits, and had a lot of fun. Sadly, radioactive waste is bad way to get powers. Lee developed skin cancer in 1975, then liver cancer, then Leukemia. She was dead by '77.

I'm 51 years old this month. I've never even had a checking account.

SHAZAM!

Mac the Driver To hunt something/someone, TUSK needs to be able to move people, gear and weapons across the globe, and across national borders, quickly, efficiently and above all quietly. That's where Mac the Driver comes in. He has access to a seemingly endless variety of vehicles, from various top-of-the-line all-terrain trucks to his home base, a Soviet-era Alfa class attack submarine - which also acts as the team's base of operations and bulk transport system. And he knows how to operate all of them to the peak of their capabilities, as well as a remarkable capacity to modify them on the fly to deal with unexpected events, like adding an anti-radar cloaking system - while still in the air. Mac doesn't care what TUSK hunts or where, save that he steers the team away from Australia - "You ain't ready for the stuff that's down there, mate."

Tankhunter (Thợ săn xe tăng) Tankhunter was confused. One minute he was engaging American armour just south of the DMZ, the next he's in the largest city he's ever seen, even larger than Hanoi. And there are flying people all over the place, firing blasts at each other or fighting! And he had blood on his hands. Tankhunter wasn't squeamish - war is war after all - but he did what he could to be a civilized man. The idea of having harmed someone and not even knowing it was repulsive. He started to drop towards the ground when one of the multi-coloured suited figures suddenly charged at him (only later would he learn the villain's name was Warmonger) yelling something about Vietnam in English - a language Tankhunter knew little of. The attacker was clearly a much better flyer than Tankhunter was, and managed to hit with a couple of bullets - but these bounced off the flying brick's skin. Fearing his attacker would use a more powerful attack, Tankhunter cut loose with his "Bunkerbuster Punch" - which sent Warmonger, stunned and reeling, into the nearby river. Tankbuster was pleased to see the semi-conscious superbeing dragged out by a colourful rescue craft. Flying away from the madness, he soon found new clothes, and was first worried about "How do I get back to Vietnam?" Shortly thereafter came the question "How do I get back to 1968?"

His Lordship Born of aristocratic family, His Lordship was disgusted by the state of affairs of London, and blamed the increasing power of the common man. After all the higher classes were bred and trained to rule - what good could come of letting the unlettered masses have any control of things? He was aided in this belief by his actual superiority. He was a mutant, stronger, smarter and swifter than any normal man. He started taking out people who he saw as paragons of the new order - nouveau riche businessmen, union organizers, soldiers who had risen through the ranks on ability rather than wealth or influence. However, he soon found he was not bulletproof, and ended up sprawled in an alley, shot six times by a petty thief with a revolver.

Banana Split

Warioland

Pipeline

Ico

Gun

Legendary Journeys

Ki Jian was a normal, fairly athletic young man going to a university in southern China. Then one night, when he was camping in the countryside, he was captured by Mi-Go and had his brain ripped out. The Mi-Go were a little worried about humans, and especially superhumans. So, they decided to set up a spy to see what was going on first hand. They constructed a new body for Jian, much stronger and tougher than his original. They then erased his memory of them, and installed his brain in the construct...along with a sub-reality transmitter and a tap on all his senses. Anything he heard or saw, they would too. Of course, they used their bodies as the template. Why mess with perfection? Jian woke up in the body of a semi-fungus insectoid. It's a tribute to his strong mind that he didn't promptly go insane. Instead, UNTIL and the Chinese government have arranged to send him somewhere he can receive "therapy" for his new condition, and a new name: The Bug.

Volturnus (Star Frontiers game system).

Ix, Dune

Wainscotting - decorative paneling applied to walls.

The Burning Some universes end in ice...others in fire. L'uok was a scientist and explorer in his universe. It was he who discovered that the stars were converging, he who realised that soon they would coalesce into a primordial monobloc. Recognized as the greatest of his people, they sacrificed for him, provided him with age-eliminating drugs, and he lived a million lifetimes in his search to find a way to prevent the elimination of his people and all their long history from effectively having never been. He failed. At the end he drove his ship, the last ship, straight into the coalescing monobloc, hoping to explode it early, prevent the formation of another doomed universe. He Failed. Instead he found himself here, in this universe, empowered by heat...eternal, unbearable heat. He has sought many ways to end his existence and eternal torment. HE FAILED. Now, as The Burning, he believes that only by being within another dying universe can he cease to be. He will do anything to accomplish this - after all, nothing actually matters.

Schistosomiasis - a particularly unpleasant disease endemic to Africa.

Faineant. Someone who is lazy or disinclined to work.

Supernutterary - a guy kept around only for emergency breeding potential.