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Divorced, and loving it… In the past, The Marvel-Phile was one of This issue is about a couple with a the best resources for new and updated complicated past. The subjects of Patsy’s information pertaining to the Marvel Super mother’s writing, Patsy Walker and “Buzz” Heroes Role-Playing Game. We are hoping Baxter were childhood friends that seemed to continue that fine tradition with the "New destined to be together. However, Baxter Marvel-Phile". We are certain that each grew to be a jealous and controlling husband, edition will bring something new and exciting and the marriage ended in divorce. Over the for those that still enjoy this great game. years, the couple have fought against each However, we are still not 100% on the format other; many times initiated by Baxter as he that we will be using. What is coming down tries to seek revenge against Walker. the line in the future is still up in the air. Let us Please enjoy and feel free to give us know if you like what we are doing here, or if feedback. you want to see something different. Requests are also welcome, but please bear in mind, that we cannot possibly accommodate all requests. However we are hoping that this new format will be for the better, as in our opinion provides more options to our gamers.
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HELLCAT
STATISTICS:
F EX (20) A EX (20) S EX (20) E EX (20) R GD (10) I GD (10) P EX (20)
Health: 80 Karma: 40 Resources: GD (10) Popularity: 10 (Patsy Walker)/ 5 (Hellcat)
BACKGROUND Real Name: Patricia “Patsy” Walker Occupation: Adventurer and small business owner; formerly paralegal, supernatural investigator, government agent, homemaker, model, actress, newspaper columnist Legal Status: US citizen Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: Patricia Baxter, Patricia Hellstrom, Cat, Penelope Lovelight Place of Birth: Centerville, California Marital Status: Divorced Known Relatives: Joshua Walker (father); Dorothy Walker (mother, deceased); Sophia McConnell (maternal aunt); Bea (step-mother); Mickey Walker (brother); Robert "Buzz" Baxter (ex-husband); Daimon Hellstrom (ex-husband); Percy Walker and Birdseye Walker (cousins); Jim Walker and Joe Walker (paternal uncles); Martha Walker (paternal aunt); Barry (step-brother); Ted Trent (ex-fiancé); Mike Herald (ex-fiancé) Base of Operations: 68 Jay Street, Magic detection: Typical rank. whatever clothing she was wearing at Brooklyn, New York City, New York; the time. formerly San Francisco, California; Telekinesis: Good rank. Claws: retractable claws do Excellent Alaska; Titan; Avengers Mansion, Resistance to Mental Attacks: Incredible damage. Manhattan, New York City, New York; resistance to mind control Cable-Claw: self-firing grappling hook Montclair, New Jersey; Centerville, Mind Blast: Good rank with 30-foot cable. California Past Group Affiliations: Patsy COSTUME: Shadow-Cloak (lost): The Shadow- Walker Temp Agency, Law Offices of Although the Cat costume was initially Cloak provided her with the following Jennifer Walters, PLLC ; formerly needed to enhance Patsy’s physical abilities: Alaskan-based Initiative agent, Lady attributes, she has since discovered Extra-dimensional transport: She Liberators, Avengers, Defenders, that she retains her heightened physical could transport herself and others to Legion of the Unliving, Centerville abilities even without the costume. other dimensions, acting as instant Globe, Patsy Walker Enterprises Costume Summoning: Since returning teleportation. Additionally, she could Present Group Affiliation: from the dead, she has gained the retrieve weaponry from extra- ability to summon her costume on dimensional armories. KNOWN POWERS: command, magically exchanging it for Psionic Detection: Good Rank Infrared vision: Good rank. 2
WEAKNESS: Patsy Walker felt very strange Defenders for several years, becoming Patsy’s mental abilities are not reliable. about her mother's fictionalized particularly close to the Valkyrie and If under stress, make a Red Psyche exploitation of her, and was relieved Nighthawk. FEAT roll, and if successful, she is able when the series ceased publication. Eventually she met Daimon to use her Telekinesis or Mind Blast until Constantly exposed to comic books, Hellstrom, who in his costume guise of the danger has passed. Walker grew to idolize the heroes her the Son of Satan, joined the Defenders mother's colleagues wrote about. for a short time. After he was cured of Talents: She is an expert in Occult However, she ceased daydreaming his demonic aspect she found that she Lore and Martial Arts A and C. soon after high school and married her was in love with him. Renouncing her childhood friend, Robert Baxter (who costumed identity, Patsy Walker Contacts: Patsy is a former member had appeared in the Patsy Walker comic decided to wed Hellstrom. The couple of both the Avengers and Defenders as her romantic interest). Baxter was in was married in Greentown, Ohio, where and could call on them for aid if need the officer’s training program of the Air her father currently resided. The be. Force, and Walker spent the next wedding, attended by several of her several years of her life on numerous Air Defenders colleagues, was interrupted ADDITIONAL NOTES: Force bases. While her husband was by her ex-husband "Buzz" Baxter who assigned to a security post at the had assumed the costumed guise of heavily government-subsidized Brand Mad-Dog, and the Mutant Force. The Corporation in New Jersey, Patsy Defenders repulsed the attack and Walker met the Beast and learned his Hellstrom himself subdued Mad-Dog. secret identity. Walker had long idolized The Hellstroms then moved to San "super heroes", and she solicited the Francisco and established themselves promise from him that, in exchange for as occult investigators. keeping his secret, he would help her Sometime later, however, become a "super heroine". Hellstrom's dark soul reasserted itself When her marriage came to a bitter and Patsy was driven mad at the sight end, she sought out the Beast, who was of it. She languished in a near- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES a member of the Avengers, to remind vegetable state for months afterward Patsy wants to be a superheroine. It's him of his promise. Tagging along with until the mercy-killing entity Deathurge her dream and her way of coping with the Avengers to investigate criminal sensed her despair and, at her request, her abused past. Although she initially activities at the Brand Corporation, freed her spirit from her body, begged her way into the field, she is Walker discovered the costume worn by effectively killing herself. determined to stay there as a Greer Nelson in her identity as the Cat. Patsy had ended up in the realm of worthwhile member of the elite club. (The man who financed the creation of the demon Mephisto, fighting an eternal The survivor of two failed marriages to the Cat, Mal Donalbain, was a former battle in the so-called Arena of Tainted troubled men, she seems to be leery of employee at Brand. His property, Souls, alongside fallen Avenger further relationships, and instead including the prototype Cat-suits was Mockingbird. Months later, the Avenger focuses more on her friendships with later confiscated by the Brand villain Grim Reaper resurrected Patsy She-Hulk and some of the other female Corporation.) Putting the costume on, and Mockingbird, among others. heroes. Walker dubbed herself Hellcat and used Mockingbird was able to send a warning her natural athletic abilities to help the to her husband Hawkeye about a plan Avengers. Walker believed that the Hellstrom was developing. Hawkeye HISTORY: costume had somehow enhanced her and the Thunderbolts confronted Patricia" Patsy" Walker was the agility and speed, and by the power of Hellstrom and then used their sorcerous only daughter of Joshua Walker, an suggestion more than anything else, it connections to go to Hell in order to aeronautical engineer, and Dorothy had. restore Mockingbird. They were tricked, Walker, a comic book writer. While she Although she hoped to join the however, by Hellstrom, and the was still a child her mother acted as her Avengers, Hellcat was persuaded by the Thunderbolts rescued Patsy instead, agent, helping her at modeling and Titanian priestess Moondragon to restoring her bodily to Earth. commercial work. Dorothy Walker's accompany her to Titan to undergo a Patsy again was pitted against her greatest success was the creation of a period of training. During her stay on childhood rival, Hedy Wolfe, who was comic book named after her young Titan, Hellcat's minor psionic potential reprinting issues of the old Patsy daughter, featuring romantic was artificially enhanced by various comics. Hedy sought revenge, duping adventures of Patsy and her real-life electronic/organic devices and was both of Patsy’s ex-husbands into friends as teenagers. The Patsy Walker given extensive martial arts training. attacking her. comic book was very popular and Upon her return to Earth, she met Later, Patsy and her agency fought continued for over a decade, as Patsy the Defenders and decided to accept against her old friend, the Black Cat and grew into and out of her teens. their offer of membership rather than her gang who was seeking to rule the that of the Avengers. Hellcat remained New York underworld. a core member of the loosely-organized
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MAD-DOG
STATISTICS:
F RM (30) A IN (40) S IN (40) E IN (40) R TY (6) I EX (20) P TY (6)
Health: 150 Karma: 32 Resources: TY (6) Popularity: -10
BACKGROUND Real Name: Robert "Buzz" Baxter Occupation: Colonel in the United States Air Force (retired); former security consultant to the Brand Corporation; subversive Legal Status: U.S. Citizen with a criminal record Identity: Known to the authorities but not to the public Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: Centerville, California Marital Status: Divorced Known Relatives: Patsy Walker (ex-wife); Rachel Ford (estranged wife); Dorothy Walker (ex-mother-in-law); Joshua Walker (ex-father-in-law); Kenny Baxter, Betty Baxter, and Sheree Baxter (cousins) Base of Operations: Mobile; formerly North Carolina; Camp Carlson, California; Centerville, California Past Group Affiliations: Former agent of Roxxon Oil/Brand Corporation; Armor Skin: Excellent ADDITIONAL NOTES: agent of Professor Power's Secret Heightened Sense of Smell: Baxter’s Empire; ally of Mutant Force; United sense of smell has been heightened, States Air Force, Assault and Battery and he can detect, remember, and track Present Group Affiliation: a person by his or her scent. Excellent.
Heightened Sense of Hearing: Baxter KNOWN POWERS: is able to detect sounds beyond the Claws: Mad-Dog's claws do Remarkable natural range of hearing for an ordinary Hack and Slash damage. human, and can also detect normal Bite: Mad-Dog's bite does Remarkable sounds at greater distances. Good Hack and Slash damage and unleashes rank. a toxin that causes the victim to make a ROLE-PLAYING NOTES yellow Endurance FEAT Roll or be Talents: Baxter has Acrobatics and Mad-Dog's major goal in life was to get paralyzed for 1-10 rounds. If Mad-Dog Martial Arts C, and E. He also has revenge against his ex-wife, Patsy paralyzes his victim, they must make an Military and Piloting skills. Walker. He is an angry man who loves Endurance FEAT roll each round; failure to hurt people. With his military indicates loss of an Endurance rank, Contacts: Mad-Dog had connections background, Mad-Dog loves to give and if the victim drops below Feeble, with the Mutant Force and Roxxon Oil. orders and take charge (especially if it death occurs. He may also have maintained some of gives him a chance to belittle people). Resistance to Psychic Attacks: Baxter his military contacts. Mad-Dog is very confident in his abilities has Excellent resistance to psionic (over confident) and enjoys a fight, attack forms. 4 especially if he gets to hurt someone he husband and provided an alibi for him in major nuclear war, but the Defenders once loved. Unfortunately, Baxter often exchange for the Beast's promise to managed to thwart the scheme with the loses control and goes berserk in help her become a costumed aid of S.H.I.E.L.D. combat. crimefighter. Much later, Mad-Dog abducted and Soon after the Beast fled Brand, intended to kill Hellcat, but was Patsy Walker divorced Baxter. Baxter defeated by her. Following that, he has remained at Brand, eventually being worked with Crossfire, and continued in HISTORY: promoted to colonel. Walker returned to the on-again, off-again employment of Brand some months later in the Roxxon Oil. Robert Baxter was the childhood company of the Avengers to investigate Mad-Dog eventually went through friend of Patsy Walker, who would one the illegal activities of a private army further mutation and married a woman day become the costumed crimefighter quartered there. It was at Brand that named Rachel. He was involved in a Hellcat. While he and Walker were still Walker assumed the identity of Hellcat, Secret Empire scheme to take over a in early adolescence, Patsy's mother and journeyed with the Avengers to the High School run by Professor Power; Dorothy began writing fictionalized Squadron Supreme's dimension. Upon however, the new Nomad stopped their romantic adventures of her daughter as their return, the Avengers were scheme and the pair ran from the a teenager in a series of comic books. At captured by Brand operatives, but Empire but Professor Power was Patsy's request, Dorothy based a Walker managed to escape and captured. Mad-Dog went on the run character in the comic book on the threatened to use her Hellcat claws to from them because they wanted to neighbor boy Patsy admired, Robert scratch Baxter's eyes out if he did not punish him for his previous failures. "Buzz" Baxter. As Baxter grew to the release the Avengers. After she raked Nomad went after him, seeking how to age of the character based on him, his face to show she meant business, find the Secret Empire. Mad-Dog is Dorothy Walker began to increasingly Baxter complied. The Brand eventually reached with the help of dislike him, but as a popular supporting Corporation was shut down by its Araña. However, before Baxter could character in the Patsy Walker comic, parent company Roxxon Oil after an say anything, he was blasted she could not write his fictional official investigation revealed Brand's unconscious. He was later strapped by counterpart out of the series. To the illicit activities. Enraged at the way he Professor Power to an operating table elder Walker's dismay, Patsy married was humiliated by his ex-wife, Baxter to receive his punishment. Baxter shortly after the two graduated vowed vengeance. After resigning from The next time Mad-Dog appeared it from high school. Baxter joined the U.S. the Air Force, he began treatment at was summoned by high school Air Force and after serving a tour of Roxxon's Mutagenic Department in classmate Hedy Wolfe, Patsy's rival. duty overseas, the newlywed couple order to acquire superhuman abilities. Hedy told Mad-Dog that Patsy had a moved onto an airbase in North The treatment augmented his strength, cure for his mutation, prompting Buzz Carolina. Disturbed by certain incidents speed, and agility, and gave him certain to seek his ex-wife. He attacked a that occurred to him in Vietnam, Baxter canine-like characteristics. He dubbed karaoke bar where Patsy headed with was tense and irritable as they tried to himself Mad-Dog. her friends and had a fight with her new adjust to married life. When Baxter was Leaving the employ of Roxxon, assistant Jubilee. Outside the club, he promoted to captain, he was sent to the Mad-Dog was recruited by agents of the found Hellcat being tortured by her civilian-owned Brand Corporation to Secret Empire, and allied with the other ex, Daimon (who Mad-Dog supervise the security surrounding Mutant Force, attacked his ex-wife mockingly called "Hell-boy"). Mad-Dog certain projects for which the Patsy during her wedding ceremony to proceeded to go after Patsy, who tried government had contracted Brand. Daimon Hellstrom. Vanquished by his to convince him Hedy was lying. The Baxter was vexed by the presence of ex-wife's friends in the Defenders, struggle only ended as Daimon used his the mutant Beast on the premises, Mad-Dog was placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. powers to send Hellcat to another unaware that he was secretly custody, but was later freed by the dimension, but was later able to return. newly-hired genetics expert Henry Secret Empire. Mad-Dog aided His current whereabouts are unknown. McCoy. At one point, Baxter's wife Professor Power in his attempt to sheltered the wounded Beast from her launch a satellite that would trigger a
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