Victor Larraigne joined the US Army to be like his hero, Capt. Freedom. He went off to Viet Nam to fight for freedom. What he found there changed his outlook forever. Viet Nam, and his subsequent capture, imprisonment, and prolonged torture at a North Vietnamese prison camp turned Victor into a hardened, bitter, disillusioned man. Upon returning to the US, Victor's job prospects were limited. He became a homeless veteran living on the streets of Pacific City when he was abducted and experimented on by the Eclipse Cabal in their continued attempts to create their own super villains.
The process worked but was unreproducible. Agent Orange served the Eclipse Cabal for several years before escaping his mental programming and going rogue. Although free, residual mental programming and his own bitterness ensured Agent Orange remained anti-social and violent.
Agent Orange is only able to become solid for short periods of time, when he sleeps, or is rendered unconscious. He will never be able to really enjoy the life of a super villain, so he uses his powers to get revenge on those he perceives as being responsible for his lot in life: the US Government, Capt. Freedom, the Eclipse Cabal, and society in general.
Blue Light Special
Trisha Beauragard spent most of her dull life growing up in trailer parks across the U.S. She graduated from the International Hair Academy in Tempe, AZ, and moved to Pacific City, CA. There she met Cody Monroe, aka White Trash.
In 2000, Cody gave Trisha the Azure Jewel, a prize from one of his robberies. It was for that robbery that Cody was arrested and sent to serve four years in prison. Trisha, however, was transformed by the light of the inter-dimensional blue gem.
The Azure Jewel bathed Trisha in inter-dimensional rays. She found herself able to control rays of blue force, allowing her to create blue simulacra, move objects at a distance, and even fly.
Florida man Cody Monroe hauled other people's trash for a living for seven years. One day, while he was illegally dumping a load of Manticore Bioindustries industrial waste in the Everglades, an accident inundated him with strange mutagenic biological compounds.
The accident should have killed Cody. Instead, he awoke in the swamp with the ability to telekinetically control trash. Any item anyone found useless or unwanted could be mentally controlled by Cody.
At first Cody thought small. He used his powers to continue hauling trash. Eventually, he turned his powers towards crime. It was during a heist that he stole the mystic Azure Jewel, which he gave to his girlfriend Trisha Beauragard, aka Blue Light Special.
Cody was caught and served four years in Santa Rosa prison. Upon release, Cody got back in touch with Blue Light Special and returned to a life of crime.
White Trash (SAS)
Freeze-Frame
Former super-model Julie Evans found herself out-of-work. She had become "too old", "too fat", or "too muscular". Seeking to regain her youth, Julie Evans turned to an old friend, a physics student at UC Pacific City, and tried an illegal and experimental prodedure to slow the effects of time. The experiment went terribly wrong and Julie Evans found herself with the ability to stop time itself.
The desperate and poor Evans turned her talents to crime as the Supermodel Supervillain, Freeze-Frame.
The Jaeger Meister is Friedrich Verrückte a deranged German billionaire who has devoted his life and fortune to hunting and killing super-powered beings as game. He girds himself in advanced armor and employs devastating weapons and traps when seeking his quarry.
Panzer
Cat-like war-machine with twin machine-gun arms, a back-mounted gatling gun, a rocket launcher, claws, and a razor sharp segmented tail. Panzer is a mercenary that often works on behalf or in cooperation with other super villains.
Mercury Master
Mercury Master secretes and controls a mercurial liquid metal that he can shape into weapons and armor. Little is known about the Mercury Master’s history or identity. He uses his powers to commit robberies and burglaries.
Leapin' Lemur
Leapin’ Lemur is an attractive female burglar with the ability to leap long distances and cling to any surface. She wears a faux-fur suit with a long prehensile ring-tail.
The Killer Shrew
Leapin' Lemur's arch-rival in crime. The Killer Shrew combines deadly claws and her super-digging powers to steal from the most secure facility.
Leapin' Lemur's arch-rival in crime. The Killer Shrew combines deadly claws and her super-digging powers to steal from the most secure facility.
Megahertz
The villain known as Mega-Hertz was born Michael Hertz. As a child, Hertz was fascinated with radio. He built his first shortwave set when he was six. Socially awkward and painfully shy, Hertz was able to listen to his friends around the world through his radio. Not content with portable radio, Hertz developed a mysterium implant that would turn his brain and nervous system into a living radio antenna. Hertz’s implant gave him the ability to hear radio frequencies inside his head. The implant worked too well. Eventually, Hertz was unable to distinguish his own thoughts from the radio waves of the implant. As time passed, the uncontrollable voices drove him insane. Eventually, he learned that he could transmit radio waves and even high frequencies. The mysterious radio voices commanded Hertz to commit crimes. As the criminal Mega-Hertz, he became the master of the non-visible electromagnetic spectrum, controlling radio and microwaves on one end and X-Rays and Gamma Rays on the other end. Mega-Hertz uses his powers to perform acts of terrorism and to support other villains with dedicated agendas.
Dr. Necrosis
Dr. Necrosis is a former surgeon and researcher. He was working on a miracle regenerative treatment when his experiment went horribly awry, creating instead an unstoppable corrosive agent. His face and hands were horribly seared away in the accident before the regeneratives kicked in. The weeks after the accident weren't easy on the doctor. He was driven insane and took on a nihilistic world view. Now his body is a walking corrosive weapon, able to dissolve anything he touches. He seeks to bring death and decay to the world around him as Dr. Necrosis, the Living Decay!
Doctor Necrosis (SAS)
Auntie Social
Auntie Social, aka Helen Social, became the guardian of her nieces and nephews when her sister was killed by police during an anti-war riot.
Curare
Worshipped as a god by his Amazonian tribe, the Choco, the skin of the super-powered being known as Curare secretes a deadly poison with which he coats his various weapons. Curare has become a deadly assassin and terrorist seeking vengeance against the corporations and executives that destroyed his tribe.
Portal
Portal, aka Melissa Doi, created a teleportation device that could open portals at any coordinates she chose. She accesses her device through an code sent via encrypted cell-phone commands. She had made her portals available to anyone willing to pay her high prices.
Standard scheduled portals cost $1 million minimum and typically include a 3-60 hour waiting list. Additional conditions such as hazardous cargo, discretion, illegal destinations, and/or immediate services each increase the price by 10.
For the most part, Portal provides mundane commercial teleportation services to corporations and governments. Sometimes, she'll provide her services to super-villains, terrorists, and anyone else able to pay her high fees.
Many governments would like to arrest Ms. Doi, but thus far she has been able to elude capture thanks to her ability to keep the location of her teleport device and staff a secret and the support of her corporate and underground contacts.
The Schwinn Bros.
Twin brothers and former bicycle messengers who purchased special super-powered custom bicycles from the mysterious Prometheus Corporation. They were forced to commit crimes for their benefactor when they couldn't pay for their bikes, or their mounting legal bills stemming from civil lawsuits from their use.
The Schwinn Bros (SAS)
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