death tribble

There is always one guy like that. You know the one. He has the looks and thinks he can get away with anything. He can charm the bird out of the trees and stop the guys from hitting him by talking to them. He'll hit on your girl while you are on a date with her. He'll steal your drink. He'll steal your car but only for a joyride. Jack Nicholls is such a guy. And when a guy like this gets superpowers it can only end in trouble. Jack is a brick but he is not as strong as Mike. But he can fly.
Jack has really got under the skin of practically every singe law enforcement unit in the States. He knocked off the wife, the daughter and the sister of his opponents for example. And is it really his fault if he humiliates his foes ? (Yes)
The police have tried all sorts of things to get him including implying that he sold out the rest of the team (this was the FBI but they deny it empahatically. Too emphatically).
Trouble is Jack has conections. People know him. He makes friends easily. Jack knew the guy Michael was in prison with. And was one of the first members.
Jack carries a pair of six shooters as a nod to the film but he can use them. He usually does this to shoot guns out of people's hands. He did that when a couple of guys tried to shoot Michael. Not Jack's fault that they were cops connected to the case that got Mike in trouble in the first place. Now he's on their list as well. Oh well. It is a good job he's so good looking and can get any woman he wants but please no handcuffs.
His nom de guerre is Vin Tanner. That was Steve McQueen's name in the film btw.

4X4 the 
 
4X4 is the newest recruit fro the Crazy 8's and has only been with the latest incarnation of the team
 
4X4 is the alias of Nelik Xavier Chetyre The youngest son of a Russian oligarch and his gorgeous Estonian wife born into wealth an privilege he lived a pampered life But Nelik was a trouble maker and thrill seeker.
 
He was kicked out of one exclusive school after another for dangerous stunts climbing the ramparts stealing tests or sedcuing female staff. Eventually at 18 Nelik dropped out of University and took his trust fund and disappeared travelling the world learning parkour and urban exploration paris, Escrima in the philippines  spent several months fighting in an illegal fight circuit in bangkok. he also participated in every extreme sport imaginable .
 
While participating the Famous Dakar rally in South America his teams custom offroader fell victim to a sudden rock slide Nelik was thrown clear and when he regained consciousness he found him self trapped in a deep cave exposed by the land slide unable to climb the steep sides of the crevice he had fallen into and with a  severely broken leg Nelik forced him self to crawl through the cave system to search for a way out. After what seemed like days but could have been merely hours, Dehydrated exhausted and delirious from the pain of his broken leg
 
Nelik found him self in a cavern that seemed to be a temple pictograms of a style unlike any he was familiar with where carved into every surface of the the living rock. at the very center of the cavern was a huge Geode split in half and filled with water the crystals within glowing faintly illuminating this lost place. Nelik crawled to the geode alter and drank hungrily and that's when he heard the voices  they where in his head and also all around him speaking in a language he didn't know but could understand as if it was his mother tongue.
 
"it has been a long time since anyone has completed the trials we deem you worthy warrior" and with that Nelik passed out he was found an unknown time later wandering the jungle by a search team that had rescued his team mates. 
 
Nelik just assumed the cave had been a dream from concussion and pain after all his leg wasn't broken when they found him actual the doctors had been amazed what good shape he was in no dehydration starvation or other symptoms of exposure other than the confusion he was in absolutely perfect health.
 
Fed up with the jungle and more than a little disturbed by the vivid dreams he was still experiencing about the caves,  he headed to moscow to drown out the whole incident he was drinking in one of his favorite clubs but no matter how hard he drank he could barely get a buzz when a cute girl started giving him the eye. Of course it turned out she was some crazy Bratva thug's woman and he pulled a knife on Nelik the knife ruined a nice silk shirt but didn't even scratch Nelik's skin and when he pushed the thug away he flew 30 feet across the club and smashed a huge mirror . shocked by the events Nelik fled the club and spent the next few days experimenting with his new abilities.
 
4X4 is a mid level brick not hugely strong but with skin that can turn aside bullets he has also retained his natural agility and speed making him something of a surprise to heroes who expect a straight up brick fight 4x4 will use Parkour to come from unexpected angles martial arts and even guns to give him self an edge against a stronger foe.
Nelik is also very much against type for a brick while he is in superb shape he has much more of a surfer or climbers physique than that of a body builder or worlds strongest man contestant like many bricks
 
4X4 is a skilled driver and pilot and often operates as the Teams getaway driver.
 
he has also performed some seemingly insane stunts as part of operations such as wing suiting through a 60 story window while the rest of the team set up a diversion at street level robbing jewelry store in the opposite building.. just to acquire some blue prints for a client.
 
Nelik is a thrill seeker and dare devil with a seeming death wish he is not truly happy unless he is throwing himself out of a plane or hurtling down a mountain since getting his powers he has been forced to go to even further extremes the main reason he is on the team is that its the best way for him to get a real thrill and challenge now that he has powers.
 
He completes team 8 leaving a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 to complete all the teams

Michael " Mack the knife" Mackenzie
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was a successful circus performer an expert knife thrower until he ended up in a bar-fight in a small town somewhere down south.
 
Some drunken moron drew a gun and Mack had drawn and thrown one of his knives before he even consciously registered the threat. The gun totting yokel went down with a knife in his throat and Mack went to jail. Where he discovered said yokel was the nephew of the local sheriff, grand son of the local judge and good friend of everyone on the jury that indicted him for murder.
 
Mack went to a supermax prison. He was willing to just bide his time and try to appeal the case somewhere he wouldn't be railroaded by friends of the man he killed. that was until he stepped in to protect this skinny little rube who was about to get shived in the lunch room one we thrown spoon followed by a running tackle and the rube was looking to Mack as his bodyguard.
 
On the plus side turned out the little guy had juice. Mack started getting the best of life in prison and the little guy turned out to be connected with some serious guys on the outside he was their fixer and money launderer and for his help he invited mack along when he got busted out. when he got out the fixer helped him get set up as a Super-villain with a collection of trick throwing knives and a reputation as a honest and honorable criminal Mack had worked with several other members when they got the idea to start the Seven and he was a first pick.

L. A. Lake is a man who once had it all but lost it due to an affair with a woman. Now wanted, he makes a living at being the best armed tactician in the room. This has earned him a heavy turnout from police forces anywhere he works.
 
The Lancer has earned his reputation for escapes from high risk crimes.
CES       

(Maybe I'm taking "cow-boy" in a different direction than DT intended...)
 
Mike "Oxbow" Bowers is the team's brick and likes to say he's "stronger than a dozen ox and twice as tough."  Since his mutation includes thick hair all over his body and horns curving up from the sides of his head, Oxbow has had to deal with more than his share of teasing and prejudice throughout his life, which has given him a rather short fuse.  Unfortunately, that short fuse led to a bar brawl that left an off-duty sheriff's deputy crippled for life.  Rather than go to prison, Oxbow ran off.  Since his horns, hair and general big-ness makes Oxbow rather conspicuous, he turned to crime to make ends meet, and eventually ended up in the Magnificent Seven.

Noel Night dancers in Detroit, Michigan.

Baby armadillo at play

How many Mongols are in this photo?

The following are some of the Star Wars Clonetrooper & Marvel mashups from JonBolerjack on deviant art. For more click the link in the artist's name. 
 
First of all, can you imagine how scary this would be? Yikes. 
 

Apocalypse Clonetrooper
 

Sentinal Clonetrooper
 
Imagine a whole army of these running around... :scary:
 

DoomTrooper
 

Magneto Clone Trooper
 

Warmachine Trooper
 

Wizard World Philadelphia Exclusive Stan Lee editi
 
Meet your Dark Side Avengers
 

http://mashable.com/2015/05/12/avengers-old-and-new/

A Variety of Unprocessed Foods Cut into Uncannily Precise 2.5cm Cubes by Lernert & Sander
 

I'll post another picture later...
 
Lucius Alexander
 
When the palindromedary nags me into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm46-envrHo