[color=white][center][b][sup][h1] M A R V I N H A Y E S[/h1][/sup][/b][/center][/color] [center][img]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackpantherart_8021.jpg [/img][/center] [indent][color=white][sup][sub][b]Civilian Name[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] Marvin Hayes [color=white][sup][sub][b]Origin city/Planet[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] New York [color=white][sup][sub][b]Hometown[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] Las Vegas, Nevada. [color=white][sup][sub][b]Sex[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] Male [color=white][sup][sub][b]Race[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] African American [color=white][sup][sub][b]Height[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] 6'4 [color=white][sup][sub][b]Weight[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] 225. [color=white][sup][sub][b]Age[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] 24 [color=white][sup][sub][b]Birth Date[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] 10/27/1995[/indent] [hr][hr] [center][color=white][sup][sub][b][h1]T H E M A N[/h1][/b][/sub][/sup][/color][/center] [hr][hr] [center][hider="Miraculous" Marvin Hayes] [img]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTAphoQ8mSsTQ7jMMXqvgui5m4hzvnWDxjQ8t5F91WCWNGKVjnb[/img][/hider][/center] [color=white][sup][b]Icon[/b][/sup][/color] Three white claw marks against a round, black circular background. [color=white][sup][b]Costumed Personality[/b][/sup][/color] As 'The Tiger', Marvin is less brazen than his boxing persona, and he uses his prowess in the ring to aid him in his crimefighting escapades. He is callous and calculated, and often does no[/b][/sub][/sup][/color] speak while the mask is on. [color=white][sup][b]Civilian Personality[/b][/sup][/color] Cocky, pompous, arrogant, conceited. Hayes ring persona takes after boxing legends of old, and even outside of the ring he behaves like a celebrity. [hr][hr] [center][color=white][sup][b][h1]T H E T I G E R[/h1][/b][/sup][/color][/center] [hr][hr] [color=white][sup][b]Super Abilities[/b][/sup][/color] Metahuman [center][color=white][sup][b][h2]S K I L L S[/h2][/b][/sup][/color][/center] [color=white][sup][b]Fast hands[/b][/sup][/color] Hayes' boxing training combined with his metahuman conditioning serve to make his hands blindingly quick. [color=white][sup][b]Master Martial Artist[/b][/sup][/color] Even with a background in boxing, Marvin quickly sought out and subsequently mastered a variety of martial arts: Judo, Wudang martial arts, freeform and Greco-Roman wrestling, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Sambo, Capoeira, Jiu Jitsu, and others. [color=white][sup][b]Engineering[/b][/sup][/color] Marvin has always had a penchant for building things and his field experience as a vigilante has only made him better at it. He specializes in building weapons and mechanisms. [hr][hr] [center][color=white][sup][b][h1]P O W E R S[/h1][/b][/sup][/color][/center] [hr][hr] [indent][color=white][sup][b]Perfect Equilibrium[/b][/sup][/color] There is a reason Hayes has never been knocked off of his feet in a fight--inside the ring or otherwise--his nigh-indefeasible balance. Marvin can maintain his balance with any contortion of the body, regardless of how awkward or unnatural it may be. [color=white][sup][b]Regenerative Durability[/b][/sup][/color] Much of Hayes livability is thanks to his extreme healing abilities which allow him to heal normal wounds in several seconds. He can withstand standard caliber gunfire and continue fighting. There is no mortal wound which harms him; he can survive any mortal injury except being reduced to ash. Heavy caliber gunfire and military grade explosives take him a little longer to heal from, but the difference is near negligible. Any means of overloading his cells ability to regenerate (a tall task) or anti-healing technology can hinder this. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Strength[/b][/sup][/color] Marvin can lift around 900 pounds overhead without much struggle, and one thousand pounds with maximum effort. He rarely outputs this much force on the regular and only exerts himself to such extremes when necessary. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Stamina[/b][/sup][/color] Marvin can exert himself for up to two days on end without tiring. Beyond this, he must rest for two to three days. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Senses[/b][/sup][/color] Hayes can see from up to a mile away, and parse a scent from a room of a few hundred. His sense of touch is so that he can feel the slightest changes in the wind and hear distinct voices from several blocks away if he has memorized them. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Speed[/b][/sup][/color] Marvin’s maximum north-south speed is around seventy miles an hour. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Reflexes[/b][/sup][/color] Marvin reacts to people and objects in motion at speeds which far exceed Olympic athletes and even ‘peak’ metahumans. He is fast enough to react to things even above his maximum north-south speed threshold and this is truer so if he has anticipated someone’s offensive against him. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Agility[/b][/sup][/color] Hayes can transition between surfaces with less rigidity than most. His muscles are far more relaxed at all times than is normally possible and his muscles and load and spring at rates which exceed the finest athletes, allowing him to rapidly move side-to-side and up-and-down and over incoming obstacles and objects. [color=white][sup][b]Superhuman Intelligence[/b][/sup][/color] More than just a fighter, Hayes has studied engineering for a great portion of his life. His metahuman gene has increased his above-average intelligence to great heights. [color=white][sup][b]Disease and Toxin Immunity[/b][/sup][/color] Toxins, resins, gases, alcohol, poison, none of these things effect him as his body filters these out at a rate greater than the substances can settle into his system and bring about any change. He does not get sick. [color=white][sup][b]Effectively Immortal[/b][/sup][/color] [s]He ages much slower than normal. Every five chronological years is as one biological year to him.[/s] His healing has now advanced so that he has ceased aging altogether and remains in his athletic and physical prime and the biological degradation of his mortal body will not resume unless his healing factor is shut off.[/indent] [hr][hr] [center][color=white][sup][b][h1]G A D G E T S[/h1][/b][/sup][/color][/center] [hr][hr] [color=white][sup][b]Tiger II[/b][/sup][/color] Because Marvin lacks the vast resources of other heroes, he put his study of magic energy and his love for science together and some time between 2020 and the latter half of 2025 he built the second and likely final iteration of the Tiger suit. Using parts of his own DNA and melded with the magic energies he had been studying since March of 2020, Marvin has constructed a suit which heals as rapid as he does and disperses blunt kinetic impact to a minimum. It also offers him great defense against magical attacks. [color=white][sup][b]Weapons[/b][/sup][/color] Twin Bio-Kryptonian Blades: Forged from the DNA of the deceased Superman, these bio-engineered swords retain the durability and tensile strength of a full yellow-sun exposed Superman but they also require persistent sunbathing for lest they become brittle. When properly nourished, these blades can cut through most mettle of natural things. They prove less effective against mystical beings. [color=white][sup][b]Civilian Occupation[/b][/sup][/color] Professional boxer (former). [hr][hr] [center][color=white][sup][b][h1]B I O G R A P H Y[/h1][/b][/sup][/color][/center] [hr][hr] Born in Detroit, Marvin grew up in a lower middle class section of the city. He was not one who had to fight his way through hordes of gangs and unsavory kids to get to and fro to school. As the middle child of four, he and his siblings always had what they needed save having to share the same pair of socks a few times. In school, he hardly got in trouble and he spent much of his time studying; he took a particular interest in mathematics and engineering and soon began building and creating all kinds of tech. It was not until he got into an altercation with boys several years his senior that his interest in boxing piqued. After being jumped, Marvin began frequenting boxing gyms all over New York. For his size, Hayes excelled in training, but he was small. Unlike many of his peers, Hayes did not grow exponentially while in the throes of puberty. At 5'6 and 190 pounds, and lacking the requisite reflexes and footwork to turn professional, Hayes' boxing aspirations were all but dashed. By the time he was 20, he had grown two inches and put on five pounds. Hayes kept training and gradually he improved--both his footwork and his speed had gotten sharper over the eight years in which he had been training. It was not until his twenty fourth birthday and several amateur fights and later 10 professional fights that his life would change and his dreams become more than gleeful wishes. November 3rd, 2019; the title fight. "Miraculous" Marvin Hayes faces "The Demon of DC" Christopher Ives. He wins the fight but disobeys the mob in the process. January 2nd, 2020: Marvin has all but retired from boxing. In fact, he has all but disappeared from public life entirely, his whereabouts unknown. Febuary-March 2020: An encounter with the New York mafia sees Tiger’s latent metagene awaken and in his time in the shadows he submits himself to the tutelage of longtime boxing coach and friend Uncle Red where he trains in secret to prepare himself for combatting the mob and for putting his new powers to good use. March 2020: A mysterious new crimefighter emerges naming hiimself “The Tiger” and donning a feline-like mask and insignia. He assists another budding group of heroes in removing the drug Elysium from the streets, but then he disappears yet again for some time. April-June: In secret, Marvin uses his newfound hyperintelligence to study and attempt to synthesize the magic energies found on the Elysium plane with varying levels of success. He also spends this time building more field-efficient suits and growing his database of other superhumans. June-September: The Tiger emerges again when the local powerhouse, Superman, begins a triumphant and swift demolishing of crime in New York. Marvin operates underneath the wide berth of a shadow that the Kryptonian casts and he grows his legend in secret, crime in Brooklyn’s Marcy projects and the immediate surrounding area drops to 1%. September-October: Children begin disappearing in and around Brooklyn because of a mysterious kidnapper. This kidnapper was truly one of legend, the Kinderfresser, a myth of German oral tradition who feeds on bad children. Marvin sends the kids in the Marcy projects to the protection of fellow vigilante Grim in Gotham while he uncovers and deals with the threat. October 2nd: A near successful attempt is made on his life not long after he is released from jail by two mob hitmen. Marvin is put in the hospital. FBI agent David Ramsey comes to warn Marvin about the disappearing children in his neighborhood. Marvin remains indisposed and the Kinderfresser runs free, kidnapping children in droves; local public opinion turns on the Marvin’s costumed alter-ego while he recoups. October 10th: The Colombo Family has not ceased its crusade against Hayes and sends one of their finest hitmen, Alessandro Carbone, to finish Marvin off. After a gruesome battle, an injured and still recovering Hayes barely escapes with his life. It is also during the month of October that his identity is discovered. October 15th-November 31st: Marvin has--despite his body’s telling him otherwise--returned to active duty and viciously tracked the Kinderfresser . With help from forensics agent David Ramirez, Marvin tracks down the Kinderfresser and the two confront one another in the Marcy projects. The ensuing fire and damage sees Marvin sent to jail and left nearly penniless. An attempt on his life is made by the New York mafia, specifically the Colombo Crime Family but Marvin subdues his attackers. Soon after, bail is posted and hs is acquitted of all charges. November 31st-December 25th: A renowned hunter and hitman, Nimrod, is hired by the Five Families of New York to kill Hayes. After being unknowingly tracked by the hunter for some time, Marvin is forced to confront Nimrod in a battle which nearly costs him life and limb. Marvin subdues Nimrod but does not kill him and instead frees him, preferring the challenge of being hunted. End of 2020: Marvin once more goes dark when the Olympian gods invade Earth and the newly formed Justice League battles these Gods and Titans. He spends this time constructing new armor, having finally synthesized symmetry in reproducing re-usable magical “liquid” which he uses to construct a new suit. It is also during this time that Superman is killed in the battle against Cronos in New York and his body suddenly disappears; where it is now is a mystery to all but Hayes. 2026: The world ever changed and with new threats arriving constantly, Hayes has kept up his training and engineering, he has built new weaponry to help keep him afloat in this new world of gods, men, and beasts. Sightings of the renowned Tiger have been few, just as they were when he first arrived on the scene, but with a new shadow threat arising, Hayes is preparing for all out war. ---------- Nemesis: Nimrod. Allies: Grim, Arcana, Harris, Stacy. Team: None.