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FALCON II

STATISTICS:

F GD (10) A EX (20) S GD (10) E IN (40) R GD (10) I EX (20) P TY (6)

Health: 80 Karma: 36 Resources: TY (6) Popularity: 5

BACKGROUND Real Name: Joaquín Torres Occupation: Adventurer Legal Status: Mexican citizen, illegally residing in the United States Identity: Secret Other Known Aliases: None Place of Birth: Mexico Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Mariana Torres (grandmother) Base of Operations: Mobile; formerly The Mount, Nevada; Captain America's HQ, Harlem, New York City, New York State; Tucson, Arizona Past Group Affiliations: None Present Group Affiliation: Champions

KNOWN POWERS: Human/Bird/Vampire Hybrid: As a result of Karl Malus’ experiments, Joaquín was turned into a hybrid between a falcon and a human. However, the falcon used to transform Joaquín was in-turn vampiric, giving the young man additional abilities which mostly manifested in being unable to revert his transformation. This they can use Redwing as sort of a ADDITIONAL NOTES: provides him with the following powers: messenger to share thoughts with each

other. He has used this indirect psychic Flight: Falcon is able to fly at Excellent link with Sam Wilson to increase his Speed. The Falcon can carry up to 200 Fighting to Remarkable when they are pounds in flight, or 400 if he makes a in visual range (3 areas) from each successful Strength FEAT roll, but must other and Sam is able to see both keep his arms in an outstretched, rigid Joaquín and his opponent. position. He typically carries people with his legs. Talents: Joaquín is new to the

adventuring business, and has not yet Regeneration: Falcon regains 10 Health acquired any talents. points per hour, or 1 every 6 minutes.

Contacts: Joaquín can count on the Psychic Link: Similarly to Sam Wilson, new Captain America (Sam Wilson), Joaquín shares a psychic link with Misty Knight, D-Man, and Ironheart. Redwing. Because of that, Joaquín and

Sam indirectly share a mental link, as 2

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Captain America was informed of same psychic bond with Redwing as Joaquín is still very young (having just Joaquín's disappearance by his Sam did, he received the message, and graduated from high school) and grandmother Mariana, and the hero flew to Captain America's location, idealistic, but he is also very investigated the case and ultimately successfully catching him in mid-air. enthusiastic about his new-found came to face Malus. Cap found Joaquín However, the Serpent Society soon abilities. He also enjoys using social in Malus' New York base, where he had ganged up on Joaquín. Using the shared media to advertise his adventures. He been experimenting on and turned into psychic link with Redwing, Wilson is very passionate about the plight of a falcon/human hybrid using Cap's own transmitted to Joaquín the moves he immigrants in the United States. avian partner, Redwing. After Malus' would use, allowing the young boy to defeat, Joaquín was rescued, and hold his own against the remained under Cap's care. serpent-themed villains. HISTORY: Joaquín Torres came to the Unlike the condition of those Following the defeat of the Serpent United States with his mother and experimented on by Malus, Joaquín's Society once reinforcements arrived to grandmother when he was six years mutations didn't revert. It was help Cap and Joaquín, mainly in the old. He lived in Tucson, Arizona, and he discovered by Claire Temple that form of Misty Knight and D-Man, graduated from high school in the honor because Redwing himself was vampiric, Joaquín decided to become Captain roll. some of the aspects of that condition America's sidekick, and assumed the Joaquín also cared for the Mexican were transferred over into Torres, most mantle of the Falcon. community, especially those trying to notably a regenerative factor that At the time when Hydra rose to come to the United States. He would prevented the regression of his power and conquered America, Joaquin leave water, food and medicine for the condition. and Ironheart joined the Champions as people trying to cross the border. He Joaquín played an important role in part of the resistance group. was kidnapped by the Sons of the Captain America's fight against the Serpent, as part of their agenda to Serpent Society. When the hero was capture people on the border to send kidnapped and thrown off a building, them Karl Malus for experimenting. Redwing detected that his owner was in danger. Because Joaquín shared the

MALUS, DR. KARL

STATISTICS:

F EX (20) A RM (30) S RM (30) E IN (40) R RM (30) I EX (20) P EX (20)

Health: 120 Karma: 70 Resources: PR (4) (RM (30) when employed) Popularity: -10

BACKGROUND Real Name: Karlin Malus Occupation: Criminal scientist; former surgeon, researcher, founder of Institute for Supranormality Research Legal Status: US citizen with a criminal record Identity: Malus does not use a dual identity Other Known Aliases: Karl Malus, Doctor Malus, Carnage Place of Birth: Mud Butte, South Dakota Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Carnage Symbiote (former symbiote; genetic contributor) Base of Operations: 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York City, New York; formerly San Francisco, California; Alaska; Titan; Avengers Mansion, Manhattan, New York City, New York; Montclair, New Jersey; Centerville, California Past Group Affiliations: Formerly Frightful Four, Power Broker, Inc., areas/round). Malus’s tendrils can physical structure and genetic Corporation, Institute for reach out a distance of up to 10 yards. manipulation techniques. Supranormality Research; employed by Claws: Ex Edged damage the Fly, Power Man, creator of Teeth: Gd Edged damage Contacts: Malus has contacts with Armadillo, Ms. Marvel, and most of the Regeneration: Malus regains 3 Health the Corporation, and with Power Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation points per hour, or 1 every 20 minutes. Brokers, Inc. (now defunct), and Present Group Affiliation: possibly other high-tech criminal WEAKNESSES: organizations (such as AIM, HYDRA, KNOWN POWERS: Sensitivity to Sound: Malus is -3CS vs. and Serpent Society). Additionally, he Human/Symbiote hybrid: Dr. Karl Malus Sonic attacks. Additionally, he must has worked with the Wizard and Klaw has somehow become a hybrid of a make a Yellow Endurance FEAT in order (although may not be on greatest of human and a symbiote after his final to avoid being stunned. terms with them now). encounter with the Carnage symbiote. Sensitivity to Fire: Malus is -1CS vs. This provides him the following powers: fire attacks. ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Symbiote Tendrils: Am, it can stick to In Talents: Dr. Malus's degree is in strength material. When it is biology, and he has Incredible reason in disconnected for the symbiote, it that field. His knowledge of chemistry dissolves in 1D10 x 5 minutes. It can be and radiology gives him Amazing used to entangle or transportation (3 reason in the study of superhuman 4

ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Spider-Woman's powers into the Fly. He help to cure his wife of an undiagnosed Malus is a typical mad scientist who lured her to his laboratory by stealing ailment. Malus agreed if Rodriguez cares nothing for the people on whom the comatose body of the would submit to treatment. Malus he experiments, only for himself. Spider-Woman's then-partner, transferred genetic material from an Malus's chief goal is to get rich using his criminologist Scott McDowell, who had armadillo into Rodriguez's body, process of augmenting human abilities, been stricken by one of the Enforcer's transforming him into a human a process which has led to tragedy for toxic bullets. After the Spider-Woman armadillo. Malus then dispatched many of the test subjects. Malus is a defeated the Fly, Malus offered to Armadillo to free Goliath from the cowardly man who does not want to get resuscitate McDowell in exchange for custody of the West Coast Avengers, anywhere near superheroes, but whose lenient treatment. While reviving him, hoping to assemble a team of activities inevitably involve them. It is Malus injected McDowell with an extract henchmen. Captain America defeated not likely that he will give up his of the Fly's blood, which days later the Armadillo, however, and alerted the experiments, and any changes in them caused McDowell's body temporarily to authorities to Malus's parole-violating will be to improve the effectiveness of develop certain of the Fly's superhuman activities. the superbeings, not decrease the powers. While serving another short term in hazards to the participants. McDowell donned a costume Malus prison, Malus was contacted by Power Since gaining his newfound anonymously sent him and for several Broker, Inc., a mysterious underworld powers, he has gained significant days wore it, calling himself the Hornet. corporation whose major business is confidence. While he has the ability to Malus wanted McDowell to capture the the supplying of superhuman confront heroes in battle, he still prefers Spider-Woman for study, but the ploy manpower to various clients. Malus to focus on his experiments and have failed, and McDowell eventually agreed to join the company in return for them fight his battles for him. returned to normal. About the same getting out of jail. Power Broker, Inc., time, Jack Russell, unaware of Malus's now supplies Malus and his fellow criminal connections, contacted Malus criminal scientists with all of the test HISTORY: Dr. Karl Malus was in hope of finding a chemical means to subjects they can manage. One of fascinated by the subject of curb his rampages as a werewolf on the Power Broker, Inc.'s major sources of superhuman powers since the first time three nights of the full moon. Malus clients is wrestlers who wish to have he read a newspaper account of the instead placed a control-collar device on their strength augmented so they can Fantastic Four. Upon graduating with a him which enabled him to force the qualify for the new Unlimited Class degree in biology from the University of Werewolf to battle Spider-Woman. Wrestling Federation. California at Los Angeles, he applied to When Spider-Woman freed the Malus utilizes the process by which various institutions for a grant to study Werewolf, he attacked Malus, wounding he restored Erik Josten's strength to supernormal capacities in depth. him. augment the power of the wrestlers. To Unable to get any funding through legal Upon his recovery, Malus served ensure that the wrestlers keep paying means, Malus contacted certain wealthy only a short sentence before being twenty percent of their earnings to investors active in the Los Angeles paroled. He returned to his laboratory Power Broker, Inc., Malus has been underworld. They set him up with a to continue his experiments. The administering a highly addictive laboratory facility he immodestly called dancer calling himself Daddy Longlegs, synthetic drug to the wrestlers, who are the Institute for Supranormality who had ingested some of the growth told they will die without the drug to Research, despite the fact that he formula invented by Henry Pym, sought stabilize their power, but in reality they comprised its entire staff. The Malus's help to cure him of his freakish will only experience intense withdrawal underworld provided him with human condition. In treating him, Malus symptoms. Only five out of ten persons test subjects to experiment upon, acquired a sample of Pym's serum taken who undergo the treatment emerge usually individuals the mob sought to from Daddy Longlegs' blood. When Erik with superhuman strength; the rest liquidate. Malus hoped eventually to Josten, the original Power Man, came to become brain-damaged or physically find an individual who already had Malus for a means to renew the disfigured. Among those treated who superhuman powers he could study. In superhuman strength that the original escaped addiction is Sharon Ventura, the course of research, Malus came up Baron Zemo had given him, Malus who became the new Ms. Marvel. with a number of special toxins and decided to give Josten the Pym growth Malus's experiments were other chemical-based weaponry which compound in addition to his discovered by Captain America, who he sold to such Los Angeles criminals as strength-augmenting treatment. exposed them to legal authorities, with the Enforcer. Hoping to finally have a superhuman the help of Demolition Man and Night Malus's first recorded encounter accomplice, Malus gave Josten a new Shift. Malus was arrested and placed in with a superhuman being occurred costume and suggested he call himself prison. when the criminal Fly sought out Malus Goliath. Goliath was too powerful for Dr. Malus was then recruited by to bolster his waning powers. Malus Malus to control, however, and he The Wizard to be the newest member of sent the Fly to steal some special abandoned him. the Frightful Four, however after equipment, but the theft led the Fly into Malus later acquired yet another Carnage's resistance to be controlled, battle with the original Spider-Woman. test subject when an ex-convict named both The Wizard and Klaw subdued Dr. Malus determined to transfer the Antonio Rodriguez requested Malus's Malus long enough to transfer the 5 symbiote into his more easily Dr. Malus’s experiments: controllable brain.  Armadillo (Antonio Rodriguez) Along with a new "superior"  Bantam (Roberto Velasquez) Carnage, the villains attacked the City  Battleaxe (Anita Ehren) Hall in order to take over New York, but  Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins) they found themselves against the Superior Spider-Man. During the battle,  Falcon II (Joaquín Torres) The Wizard lost control over Carnage,  Gladiatrix (Robin Braxton) and Malus went rogue. Using a  Hammerhand (Rico Lazar) vibranium blade he found in the  Hardball (Roger Brokeridge) Wizard's hideout, Carnage stabbed  Left-Winger (Hector Lennox) Klaw in revenge. The disruption of  Letha (Helen Feliciano) Klaw's sonic body caused by the  Magilla (Sandy Stalmaster) vibrainum made the villain explode, blasting the symbiote off of Malus in the  Misfit (Mitchell Godey) process. He was later eaten by the  Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura) Wizard who was controlled by the newly  Poundcakes (Marian Pouncy) freed Carnage symbiote.  Right-Winger (Jerome Johnson) Remarkably, Malus survived being  Screaming Mimi/Songbird (Melissa ingested by the symbiote, and instead Gold) gestated inside its digestive track and emerged as a Human/Symbiote hybrid.  Sushi (Susan Hayakawa) He continued his experiments on  Titania/Lascivious (Davida Devito) human subjects, as an employee of the  U.S. Agent (John Walker) Serpent Solutions.  Vagabond (Priscilla Lyons) Most of his subjects were illegal immigrants, captured by the Sons of the Serpent in the Mexican/American border. These individuals were later brought to New York, where Malus experimented on them, turning them into animal hybrids. When Captain America (Sam Wilson) tracked his operations down, Malus used his symbiotic abilities to capture him and turn him into "Cap-Wolf." After being liberated from Malus' old warehouse by Misty Knight, Captain America followed him and subdued him, taking advantage of the Symbiotes' natural weakness against high pitched sounds by using his companion Redwing's sonic cannon.