I'm using my most recent post as an opportunity to set up Ares as a massive threat to Lost Haven. If the world's heroes wish to defeat this menace, they may need to ASSEMBLE a LEAGUE to AVENGE those Ares has wrong, and bring JUSTICE back to Lost Haven.
@Gowi Hrm. Probably. I'd need to re-work the whole gamma bomb instance, as well as Banner's personality, though. Maybe he'd give his blood in willingly for testing, instead of going nuts and running off? Or both he AND Ross went to save Rick?
I'd like to avoid Ross' actual origin at all costs. That story was off-the-wall bonkers. Ross making a deal with MODOK to turn him into a hulk, as well as his daughter, for..some reason..I guess? It never sat well with me.
Chike's rage had made him sloppy. If he had been in his right mind, Polemos would have have tried that decapitation move. It was obvious from Icon's ability to parry his sword blows with no visible damage that such an attack would either be ineffective or blocked. However, he was too blinded by his irate emotions to realize the futility of his attacks. When Icon landed a powerful haymaker on Chike's jaw, Polemos felt his rage waver. For but a moment, he knew how in over his head he was. This...Icon, he was far above Chike's capabilities. But he couldn't stop himself, because his opponent (justly) did not show respite to his bloodlusted foe. The force from the superhero's eyebeams was only icing on the cake as Polemos rocketed into the ground, sending debris flying in every direction.
As the dust cleared, Chike pushed himself out of the crater, and stumbled out of the dust cloud covered crater.
A small trickle of blood cascaded out of Baatul's mouth, sliding down his cheek and dripping onto the broken concrete beneath his feet.
For a moment, the scarlet rage in Chike's pupils faded. A look of confusion crossed his face as he brought up his hand, wiping the blood on the back. He brought his hand before his face, looking at the small streak of red liquid in confusion. Blood? Polemos hadn't bled since he was a mortal man. No power on earth should have been able to harm him. Yet, this naive hero in tights had managed it. He had wounded a demigod.
”He wasn’t the one throwing minivans at news crews. From my perspective, the only terrorist here is you.”
"What? Chike looked up, distracted. He seemed distant."I..I wouldn't-" Polemos- No, Chike-stopped himself. He turned his head to the right, and then to the left. He looked over towards a beat-up old minivan, sitting on its side next to a group of news folk. What had he done? In his rage, Chike had forgotten himself. Ares had warned of this bloodlust the day he had gained his herald status."I didn't mean to. That was an accident. I can't..I couldn't..control it." Chike looks at his hands, clenching his palms into fists.
"Excuse me, Icon, is it?" A voice calls from behind the human smurf. Stepping out from behind a turned over car, an average looking businessman approached the pair of metahumans. Before their very eyes, the man transformed. A black and red light, like some kind of shadow, draped itself around the stranger. He stepped out a moment later, looking quite different.
His skin was black as charcoal. He wore a full suit of grey plated armor, stylized after the ancient Greeks; yet distinctly alien in its design. He bore no weapons, and wore a dark cap around his shoulders. His eyes glowed a familiar crimson. He was Ares, the God of War.
"Some day, you will bow a knee before me. You will be in chains, and will do all that I command you. But today, you are lucky. I will allow you your freedom. Merely...Leave us." Ares waved his hand nonchalantly, and a portal appeared behind the caped crusader. It was ten feet by ten feet, in the shape of a square. It glowed red, as all of Ares' magic did.
The hero knew not what happened next until it was too late.
Ares disappear from his superhuman vision. He reappear once more, before even Icon could register his movement, and let loose a barrage of powerful punches into Icon's midsection. If one were to compare Polemos and Ares' striking power, it would be akin to comparing a nuclear missile with an infant's smallest finger. After nearly twelve of these devastating punches, in the span of a nanosecond, Ares showed Icon back and kicked him in the chest. The hero was sent flying into the portal with the force of a rocket breaking earth's atmosphere."Begone, ant." Ares declared as Icon disappear from view.
The last thing Icon heard before the crimson ocean engulfed him was Chike's voice."I'm sorry." The portal then closed.
"Where did you-"
"China. Beijing, specifically."
"Bu-"
"Silence. We have work to do." Ares opened another portal, this one to his shrine in Little Sicily, and the two Greek warriors stepped inside.
The news crew stood silent, the camera trained on the second portal until he disappeared as well. Mary Belfast stepped in front of the camera, visibly shaken."I..I...B-Back to you, Jeff. I need a second."
It's an interesting start, though I do agree that the "Year One Genesis" as we could call it could use some revisions. I am fairly pleasantly surprised by most of the history though. I'd suggest leaving room for regular Hulk to exist and so forth instead of negating him completely.
Yeah, I was planning on hulking out Banner and the rest of the crew later on. Or at least keeping that possibility on the table, in case someone else wants to give him a run.
“No, I figured this out before I ever changed. But now I really get it. Hulk is every part of yourself you don't let out. The ugly truth any decent human tries to hide. I'm a soldier. Was. My whole career was about acknowledging that side and letting it do what only it could. To survive. To kill.”
| Identity | Thaddeus E. Ross/Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk
| Origin & Backstory | 1900’s – 1950; Legacy
The story of one Thaddeus Ross starts with his Grandfather, Gerald Jefferies Ross. Gerald Ross was born in 1896, to a retired veteran and waitress. Gerald was the first member of the Ross family in decades to become a successful commissioned officer in the military. While there had been others before him, none had ever past the ranking of a grunt. Gerald was a skilled leader during the Great War, proving himself many times over. He commanded a group known as the ‘Thunderbolts,’ an infamous company of 200 of the best soldiers the United States had to offer at the time. The Thunderbolts earned their fame when they became trapped behind enemy lines, alongside two other companies of marines. The German forces surrounded the seven hundred soldiers, and slaughtered nearly six hundred and fifty of them before reinforcements arrived. Two thirds of the survivors of the battle were part of Ross’s Thunderbolts. Each man received a Silver Star, as well as the Defensive Sector battle clasp. Gerald Ross retired from the military as a major. Gerald married Maria Ross, his high school sweetheart, a month after returning to the states.
Benjamin Thomas Ross was born in the year 1919. He lived a relatively simple life, having exemplary grades during school. Benjamin’s mother died in 1925, officially to some form of cancer. In reality, she had been poisoned by an unclean syringe during a routine checkup a year before Benjamin’s conception. Unknown to any parties involved, however, this unfortunate accident would save Thaddeus’ life in the not too distant future. Gerald mourned his Maria’s death, and fell into rampant alcoholism a few years later.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Benjamin found himself, like many Americans, horrified and afraid. No one had dared attack the United States on their own soil since the War of 1812. However, that attitude of fear was replaced with righteous indignation, and a will to enact justice, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech to the nation. Ben and Gerald had been glued to the radio for what seemed like days, listening for all the news on the war as they could get their hands on. Benjamin enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps on his eighteenth birthday; this also marked the day that Gerald ben his own personal campaign to put aside his addiction to liquor forever.
Benjamin proved himself an ace pilot during the Second World War. He downed a total of 58 enemy Aircraft while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific campaign. A number of commentators praised Ross for his talents, ranking him in the top one hundred pilots of the time. He earned the nickname ‘Thunderbolt’ after both his father’s company, as well as his tendency to fly the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in combat sorties. He was awarded a number of medals for his valor and leadership skills. In his old age, Thunderbolt Ross Senior commonly recalled a story of the time he crashed a plane into a Japanese destroyer in order to sink it, preventing the Japs from attacking his retreating squad mates. While the Army Air Corps never officially confirmed the story, they did confirm that Ross was rescued from the Japanese navy a few months after the incident supposedly occurred. Ben married Wendy Ross a few years after the end of the war.
1951 – 1966; Early Life
Thaddeus Edwin Ross was born on December 1st, 1950. At this time, his father was a Brigadier General, and their family was living comfortably. As a child, Thaddeus grew up listening to stories about famous soldiers and generals from across time; his favorite stories, however, were about his father and grandfather. The Thunderbolts’ Stand was of particular enjoyment for Thaddeus. The child was influenced heavily by his grandfather, who frequently visited his grandson and daughter-in-law.
One day at school, when Thaddeus was in the third grade, the teacher started asking students who their heroes were. Most of the children would say something along the lines of the Flash, Captain America or Green Lantern. Thaddeus, however, named his grandfather. Some of the more ignorant students laughed at Ross: the young Thunderbolt, however, remained steadfast in his ideas. His dad and granddad saved lives, and they did so without superpowers or magic rings or secret serums. Such thinking would influence Thaddeus throughout the rest of his life.
During High School, Thaddeus graduated Valedictorian of his class. While some of his more skeptical critics would recall that Thaddeus wasn’t a genius, Thaddeus was most certainly driven: when the man set a goal, he finished it. Wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father, Thaddeus began practicing flying aircraft. He turned out to be a natural, just like his father. These skills would not go unnoticed by the United States Air Force for long.
Thaddeus enlisted in the United States Air Force on January 1st, 1967, faking his enlistment forms. Ross was pushed to the edge during basic training; yet, he did not waver. Thaddeus never even entertained the thought of quitting when things became difficult. He was promoted to Corporal before being shipped off to join the fight in Vietnam.
1967 – 2001; Military Career, Marriage, and birth of Betty; Pre-Hulk
Thaddeus spent the first four years of his time in the service in Thailand, maintaining and refueling aircraft and assisting in training Thai and Vietnamese pilots. The tasks were mundane, but Thaddeus’ iron will kept him in line and in check. Thaddeus took the flight test, and scored unusually high; while not on the level of Benjamin Ross, Thaddeus was talented indeed. The military took two and a half years to train Thaddeus in the use of military aircraft; he was rated in the top three of his class of one hundred and twelve.
Thaddeus spent the rest of the Vietnam War piloting the F-4 Phantom II, alongside his co-pilot Glenn Talbot. The two performed a number of bombings runs, reconnaissance missions, deforestation, and close-air support sorties. Thaddeus and Talbot specialized in Napalm and Agent Orange bombing runs. Ross visited a psychiatrist after the war, haunted by what he had done and seen done. He stopped coming back after a month.
Both Thaddeus and Glenn were awarded a variety of medals for their services in the war. The pair participated in Operations Linebacker I and II, being a part of the wing that hit Hanoi in a daylight raid. The attacks were devastating for both sides. While Hanoi’s infrastructure and defenses were weakened by the barrage, 100 aircraft were shot down during these two offensives. Ross and Talbot barely escaped some of those raids, nearly going down on three separate incidents. In 1973 Ross and Talbot were grounded, and went their separate ways. Ross went on to become a base guard, while Talbot joined Airlift operations on the front.
When the war finally ended and Ross was shipped back to America, he returned home to live with his family for a few years. When his grandfather, Gerald, died, Thaddeus was devastated. His invincible childhood hero turned out to be only a man. At the funeral, Thaddeus became acquainted with Karen Lee, daughter of a friend of the family. The two began to date, until in 1982, when Karen and Thaddeus were married. This marked the happiest point in Ross’ life thus far. Nine and a half months later, their daughter, Betty Ross, was born. During this time, Thaddeus met Brian Banner, who would later become a close friend. Little did Ross know, Brian’s son, Betty’s best friend, would play a pivotal role in Thaddeus’ life.
After moving around for a few years and living on various air force bases, Thaddeus saw action once more during the Invasion of Grenada. He ran a few scouting missions, but was mostly confined to protecting American airspace, and the occasional bombing run on isolated targets.
In 1984, Ross, now a major, is sent to Central Asia to join the fight against the dreaded Mandarin. This is the first time since Thaddeus’ childhood that the actions of superheroes and villains have actually had any sort of impact on his life. In fact, he would have forgotten about the whole idea of ‘superhumans’ all together, had it not been for the constant propaganda that the government insisted on circulating. This also marked the first time Thaddeus worked with the likes of SHIELD. He ran a number of combat sorties against the forces of the terrorist known as the Mandarin. Ross’ favored plane, the A-10 Thunderbolt, peaked during this period. Ross continued to earn a number of medals and recommendations for promotion to colonel throughout this time. In 1990, Ross was promoted to the rank of colonel.
2001 – 2008; Tragedy
In 2001, tragedy struck the world. The terrorists known as Al-Qaeda attack the Twin Towers with airliners. Ross was outraged. How dare they attack the greatest nation on the planet! The cowards wouldn’t even fight them; using such disgusting tactics as suicide bombings on civilian targets. Ross, irate beyond measure, was in line with the rest of America when Bush called for a response: thus, the Gulf War began. This was the last time Ross would fly combat sorties; after the conflict ended, Thaddeus was promoted to Brigadier General. Much to Ross’ dismay, he found himself shipped back to the states. He was told to ‘take some time off.’ He would remain with his family in California until 2005. On April 3rd, 2005, Karen Ross, Thaddeus' wife, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She died a year later. Thaddeus found himself mourning the death of his wife for nearly three years, slowly becoming bitter and angry. Why couldn’t he have helped her? Why couldn’t the heroic Thunderbolt Ross do anything to help?! Money could not buy a cure for cancer. He could not fight it with plane or fist. He was left to rot in his own self guilt, growing slowly apart from Betty. Meanwhile, Betty and Bruce Banner were getting closer.
In 2006, Thaddeus and Betty moved to New Mexico, along with the Banner’s. Bruce and Thaddeus were assigned to Project Gamma Bomb. Bruce would spend the next two years designing and perfecting the weapon, while Thaddeus focused on keeping the weapon a secret and the base secure. What kind of job was that? He was a general, not a Rottweiler! If Thaddeus’ superiors had truly carried about him, they would send him back to the Middle East to fight the terrorists. But no, they needed some old dog in a tattered uniform to protect some sand and a bomb that would never work anyway. Everyone was out to get old Thunderbolt Ross. They said the weapon was a response to the recent extraterrestrial attack on earth. Ross didn't care much: there were capes for that sort of thing. The military should focus on humanity’s actual problems.
2009 – 2010; Genesis
Fate had decided that General Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross needed a break from all the heart ache and pain. On February 6th, 2009, Bruce Banner scheduled the first test of his ‘Gamma Bomb.’ The weapon was supposedly able to wreak massive destruction, without killing a soul. Ross didn't see the point. The first rule of war: there will always be casualties.
The day of the test, the General, along with all of the top staff of the facility housing project Gamma Bomb, stood inside a small bunker, expecting to see history in the making. They did, but not in the way they had first thought. A young man, perhaps in his mid-twenties, had stupidly wandered out into the middle of the testing area. Bruce Banner barely managed to spot him, moments before the start of the test. Banner, a naturally compassionate soul, tried to play hero. He tried to save the boy. Ross thought him a fool at the time. On his way out, he shouted at his team to shut the bomb down. However Samuel Sterns, one of the eggheads working with Banner on the project, had sabotaged the bomb. The failsafe mechanism, ironically, failed.
Both Bruce Banner and Rick Jones were caught in the weapon's blast when it detonated. Green light washed over the testing fields, as Ross and the others in the bunker looked on in a mixture of awe and terror. The shockwave created by the explosion caused a ripple in the sand, sending dust and particles in all directions and obstructing their view. From the fog of sand came a breathtaking roar. The sound was impossible - inhuman. What could have possibly produced such a screech? As the cloud dissipated, Ross and a number of security personnel rushed onto the scene. The general caught sight of a monster covered in a cobalt carapace leaping away from the horde of oncoming American soldiers. The creature disappeared into the morning air, over the nearby mountains and moving into the deserts of New Mexico. The horrified cries of confusion predated the screaming orders to open fire, and Ross' attention was brought to his second problem: A giant green man in purple pants was being shot at by his troops. The small arms fire only seemed to annoy the monster.
Battle was met, as the United States Armed Forces engaged in its first bout with the beast that would become known as the Hulk. A pair of Boeing AH-64 Apache returning from patrol let loose all of their armaments onto the tough hide of the behemoth. The colossus, still in its infancy and lacking in conviction, fell to their firepower. Thunderbolt Ross ordered the Hulk to be restrained, and contacted the brass. The military's leadership decided that the best course of action would be to study the monster, and sent Doctor Leonard Samson, an expert on gamma radiation, second only to the then-thought-to-be late Bruce Banner. A number of blood tests later and Doc Samson learned that the Hulk was none other than Doctor Banner himself, as the two shared similar genetic markers. He theorized that Bruce had been mutated by the gamma radiation, and turned into the monstrosity that had been dubbed the Hulk.
When Ross brought all of this before the top military generals and the pentagon, the general decided on a new, radical course of action. Project Gamma Bomb would be reassigned to a new undertaking, codenamed Project Eternal Warrior. The purpose of this project was to attempt to recreate the Hulk, and re-purpose the monster and his offspring to serve as Super Soldiers for the military. At first, the idea was met with severe opposition. Such things as ethics, morality, the Geneva Convention, financial cost, and probability of success were some of the many reasons the majority believed this to be a terrible idea. The Secretary of Defense had Doctor Samson run the numbers for him; Samson hypothesized that such a pursuit was both financially and scientifically possible. The pentagon was not impressed, however. They needed proof that Eternal Warrior was worth the time and resources set forth by Doctor Samson. Ross had Bruce Banner locked up and shipped off to Alaska, where the leviathan would be hunted by a group of experimental combat drones provided by one Tony Stark, nicknamed Hulkbuster units. This was all much to the dismay of Betty Ross, who wanted nothing more than for her distant father and the military to leave her friend alone. She loved Bruce too much to allow this to happen to him.
Thaddeus wouldn't listen to his daughter, and sent the creature to be put up to the ultimate test: survival.
Arriving in Alaska, Bruce was dropped out of a helicopter. The man turned into beast as the Hulk crashed into the snow, and the fight began. Wave after wave of military-grade battle suits were sent to engage the gamma-irradiated giant, and wave after wave fell before his powerful fists. As the bodies piled up around the behemoth, the creature roared out a phrase that would resonate with Ross for the rest of his natural born life:
"HULK IS STRONGEST THERE IS!"
Hundreds of mechanical warriors at his feet, the Hulk leaped away. The military, know knowledgeable of the Hulk's true power, dared not pursue. No one, not even Ross, had expected the creature to defeat so many drones, let alone escape. The test a resounding success, the Pentagon approved Project Eternal Warrior. Doctor Samson and Thaddeus Ross returned to New Mexico with a large sum of cash to fund the project as well as nearly two hundred of the top scientific minds on the military's payroll. It took nearly the rest of the year, but the combination of near-endless working hours and the top experts on Gamma radiation and metahuman genetics available allowed Doctor Samson and his team to gain a working knowledge of the Hulk's genome. The team planned to continue their research until they mapped the entirety of Hulk's genome, but the continued rise in mutant activity within US borders as well as the drastic increase in superhumans operating in the United States outside of the government's influence forced the Pentagon's hand. The Secretary of Defense demanded a Hulk or their own by the beginning of 2010.
Ross tried to obtain more time to work for his scientists. But the Pentagon wouldn't budge, and instead decided to send them Emil Blonsky, as well as the serum they had used on him in the 90s. Emil was a Russian-born spec ops soldier who worked for the Royal Marines until he was transferred to the U.S military. Emil was part of a program that attempted to remake the serum that made Captain America, and was injected with a serum of similar chemical makeup. The serum worked, to a degree. However, the test subjects (Blonsky included) were all diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Blonsky was only given until 2012 to live. The Pentagon believed Samson and his cohorts could use the serum in some manner. Leonard managed to improve the serum, and decided that it would work well to bond the gamma-irradiated cells of Doctor Banner with those of another human being without compromising their life.
On January 1, 2010, the Eternal Warrior serum was ready for human trials. The volunteers chosen for Eternal Warrior were: General Thaddeus Ross, Colonel Emil Blonsky, Yuri Topolov, Samuel Sterns, Doctor Samson, and Joe Fixit. Each individual received radical changes to their physical appearances, abilities, and intelligence. Ross became the Red Hulk; in this form, Thaddeus retains his own intellect and can think clearly. He is one of the physically strongest of the Eternal Warrior test subjects, second only to Emil Bonsky.
A week after the tests apparent success, however, things seem to fall apart. Emil is having problematic anger management issues, and frequently destroys military property in his outbursts. Yuri Topolov and Samuel Sterns seemed to have disappeared after a fire was set to one of the buildings used as a training center for the Eternal Warriors. Doctor Samson is called away to treat a woman, Jenna Walters, for intense gamma radiation poisoning. Joe Fixit went AWOL not a day later. Now, Ross and Blonsky are being called to put together a team to hunt down and find the missing members of the Eternal Warriors project, minus Samson. Thunderbolt Ross accepts the challenge.
| Attributes |
Master strategist and tactician
Skilled pilot
Adept with a variety of ranged and melee weapons
Class 100+ Strength
Superhuman Durability, Speed, Stamina, and Reflexes
Energy Absorption
Heat Projection
Gear provided by military
In Red Hulk form, Ross displays an incredible amount of strength, going as far as even being stronger in base force than the Savage Hulk (although the latter would eventually overpower the former due to his rage factor). As with The Hulk, Red Hulk can lift with incredible ease more than 100 metric tons and have a strength threshold far beyond what has been currently seen, although his strength is hampered by his heat generation and lack of a similar strength building mechanism as his green ancestor.
While as the Green Hulk can build upon his base strength through gamma generation in his cellular structure, Red Hulk has, so far, been seen as being unable to perform a similar feat, most likely due to the complex radioactive and cosmic cocktail that helped create him in the first place. However, he did display prominently an ability to forcibly drain the energy out of an enemy though physical contact (or even close proximity to his body) and use it to magnify his already huge power level. Although this ability has seemingly been short-circuited in an attempt to drain the Omegex, it is unclear whether he still retains the increased power level from his energy vampirism or if it was a temporary injection of force.
A significant downside that Red Hulk has compared to the green Hulk is that his body cannot support the intense heat he generates if his temper flares out of control. Unlike most creatures that would normally just sweat it out, the heat is so intense that every liquid would most likely evaporate instantaneously, essentially baking Red Hulk from the inside-out. This in turn makes him very dizzy, lose conscious control of his body and cause intense pain if allowed to increase further.
He is also shown to have a severe reaction to Negative Energy when absorbed, causing intense pain beyond the threshold for a hulk and possibly generate an allergic reaction within his physiognomy. He is also weak to mental attack, mainly because his rage does not envelop his mind entirely like it does when the Hulk goes into rage mode.
Red Hulk can function for extended periods without intake of food, oxygen and water. However, it is seen that he oftentimes eats whole carcasses of cooked animals (ex. deer, cows etc.) and might signify an energy balance factor seen primarily in shrew-like animals, where to maintain an extremely high body temperature and subsequent physical energy, the body requires immense intake of protein. However, as he is not seen to eat in bulk often, it is unsure whether this is the case or not for Red Hulk, or even the Green Hulk for that matter.
As with the Green Hulk, Red Hulk possesses an incredibly fast healing factor. However, while his counterpart is able to regenerate more and more with anger, this isn't possible for Rulk as his strength levels cannot increase in rage. This does not mean that he has a less potent healing factor. It just means that it cannot be accelerated as fast as that of The Incredible Hulk.
He is also seen to have a weakness for bladed objects, but this may be due to the fact that Red Hulk is attacked more often with stakes and swords than his counter-part, who often deals more in physical or energy attacks. Despite these very minor differences, Red Hulk can still repair wounds normally permanently debilitating for humans (ex. regenerate new eyes after having them cut open by Wolverine's claws). This regeneration also helps to keep Red Hulk in a semi-permanent mature state. Though it should be remarked that the green hulk would have healed the eye slash far quicker than red hulk, which seems to imply that though red hulks Healing powers are strong, they are not stronger than the Original hulks.
This means that Red Hulk cannot physically age as a standard human can. For him to start resembling someone of old age, he's have to be in hulk form permanently for over a century. His body continually regenerates damaged tissue, meaning he is immune to most known diseases, including the Techno-organic Virus (of which he managed to "sweat out" by increasing his body temperature to destroy the virus.) It is also possible that this regeneration has also caused him to reverse the aging process, essentially making himself physically younger than his real age intends. If Red Hulk does end up surviving all the threats on his person, there is the possibility that he will remain alive for essentially eternity.
Red Hulk has an incredibly durable body, and has physically been able to withstand a direct blow to the face with Thor's hammer Mjolinir, only to laugh it off with only an "X" caved into his face. He has also taken on multiple super-humans at one time, effectively shaking them off and decisively beating them multiple times. Though Powerhouses Such as Hulk and thor still damage him, and in time it may result in a ko.
His skin and muscle, being as thick and dense as it is, allows for Rulk to survive deep sea depth equal to those seen in the Marianas Trench with no ill physical effects outside of the need for oxygen. He can also withstand direct contact with molten lava and can operate in a fiery environment with little worry of external damage. His body is tough enough to survive the conditions of space itself, at one point not only jumping to the moon while dragging Thor behind him, but also leaping back to Earth and surviving unscathed a deep crater-forming impact.
However, unlike the other Hulk, the Red Hulk in particular has a weakness to sharp objects. Characters such as Wolverine and Punisher managed to pierce the Red Hulk's hide.
Rulk has an almost unending supply of stamina, able to theoretically fight for days on end without stopping. He can also force himself to stay awake for several months, functioning solely of adrenaline and lingering stamina. He can also recuperate immensely quickly lost stamina; he'd be able to jump back into the fray of battle, even after being impaled, gutted etc.
Rulk cannot, as stated above, build strength the same way as the Incredible Hulk can. However, he was able to build his immense strength levels further by draining power from enemies and applying it to his own force. Similarly to the way Rogue's absorption abilities work, except that a brush of the skin, unless intentional, does not harm unintended victims and he cannot gain never before seen abilities as she can.
Red Hulk can also release the stored collected energy in his body all at once in an fire-like way, knocking back enemies as well as burning them. He can also, at times, light himself on fire with this same energy when in a rage, seemingly breathing fire as he snarls animalistically at his enemies.
But when Red hulk absorbs too much energy, he overloads, the red she Hulk even described rulk as a " Reactor without a cooling system', there for too much energy makes hulk very tired and dizzy. -Powers remain the same as in the comics, so I copied this from comicvine.-
| Character Notes |
Emil Blonsky AKA Abomination: Emil Blonsky was born in Russia and raised in England, where he eventually joined the Royal Marines of the British Armed Forces. He was transferred to the United States military and became a test subject for a project attempting to replicate the serum that made Captain America. With the proper formula under lock and key at SHIELD, the military made its own version. The desired effects were achieved, but not without cost. Emil developed a rare form of cancer, and would die early. The serum in his blood made Emil invaluable to Doc Samson's attempts to recreate the Hulk. Thanks to Emil, Eternal Warrior was a success. Now capable of transforming into a hulk-like beast at will, Emil struggles to control his rage as the indomitable Abomination!
Doctor Leonard Samson AKA Doc Samson: Doctor Samson is a brilliant scientist, and expert in the field of Gamma radiation. He also has a secondary degree in psychiatry. Born in the Mid-West, Doctor Samson moved to New York to pursue his interests in all things scientific. He graduated at the top of his class, and went on to work with Bruce Banner for a time at a local cancer research center. When Samson was moved to Project Eternal Warrior, he was transformed into a much stronger man. He was no longer the small, physically decrepit gentleman who had won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the United Nations. Now, he was the physical powerhouse known as the Phenomenal Doc Samson!
Glenn Talbot: Born in Smallville, Glenn Talbot is a simple man. Born on a farm, he believed it man's divine right to be the 'top of the food chain,' so to speak. You can imagine how he felt when men who could fly and shoot lasers out of their eyes started to appear: he felt threatened. Man's place in history was being stolen from right under their noses, and most people didn't have a clue. Glenn joined his old Airforce buddy, Ross, at Gamma base, in the hopes that they could even the playing field against these mutants and monsters. Colonel Talbot leads the Hulkbuster units, occasionally from the frontline, but usually from very far away.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Ross: Born in California, Betty was the only child of Air Force General Thaddeus Ross and his wife Karen Lee. Karen died when Betty was a teenager, and Ross shut Betty out of his life, claiming that a military base was no place for a young woman. Betty went off to boarding school. She returned to Thaddeus' home after finishing school but then, as for much of her life, she found that little had changed in his attitude towards her. By now Thaddeus was in charge of the top secret Gamma Bomb Project at Gamma Base in New Mexico. When Bruce, her best friend and secret love interest, was turned into the Hulk, she was devastated. She argued in his favor every night with her father, but Ross wouldn't listen. Betty decided it was best to love home for awhile, and moved in with a friend from boarding school in Nevada.
Jennifer Walters: Jennifer Walters, the meek and mousy lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner, was the daughter of Sheriff Morris Walters. She was recently exposed to high amounts of Gamma radiation when she drank a Pingo Doce. Doctor Leonard Samson recently arrived at her home in Brooklyn, and has been treating her for the past few days. He doesn't know if she'll make it; Jennifer's condition is steadily worsening.
Robert Bruce Banner AKA The Hulk: (Leaving this ambiguous, in case someone wants to come along and play him)
Rick Jones AKA A-Bomb: Richard "Rick" Jones was orphaned at a young age, and after being expelled from several orphanages for disciplinary reasons he was placed into a state institution called Tempest Town. A troubled and rebellious youth, Jones soon came to the attention of the institution's chief administrator who smashed his guitar, a gift from his late father, and then had him severely thrashed. Soon afterward, Jones ran away from the institution. He spent the first half of his teens drifting from town to town throughout the Southwest, trying to avoid the juvenile authorities, and doing menial work when he could get it.
At age 16, he got his driver's license and managed to save enough money to buy a used car. Overhearing a teenager dare a friend to ride out with him on the desert where it was rumored an atomic bomb was going to be tested, Jones offered to take him upon the challenge. He drove his car out to the test site to discover his challenger was too timid to show up. Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, designer of the Gamma Bomb to be tested, learned that someone had ventured onto the test site, and believing the countdown had been delayed, ran out into the desert to warn him back. Both Banner and Jones were caught in the blast, however, and Rick Jones was transformed into the monstrous A-Bomb! A-Bomb was last seen heading down the East Coast, reeking havoc upon whatever cities he encountered.
The Mandarin
Samuel Sterns AKA The Leader: Samuel Sterns is a run of the mill radiation scientist, who's never lived up to his parents' expectations and has always lived in the shadow of greater experts than he, like Bruce Banner and Doctor Samson. A jealous and conniving man, Samuel would do anything to get ahead of the competition and prove himself the smartest being to ever walk planet Earth. Samuel Sterns set out sabotaging Banner and Ross every step of the way, keeping to the shadows so as not to be discovered. When Project Eternal Warrior was announced, he eagerly volunteered. Sterns found himself transformed into a physically meager creature. Yet his mind was altered. Samuel Sterns was gifted a brain more powerful than most men. Having engineered his and Yuri's escape into the New Mexico wilderness, Samuel Sterns strikes at his old enemies as the enigmatic Leader!
Yuri Topolov AKA Gargoyle: Born in Soviet Russia, Yuri's parents escaped the iron curtain and moved to America to give their Yuri a better chance in life. Yuri was a child-prodigy, graduating from college at the age of sixteen. He became a world-class geneticist, obsessed with discovering the reason for the existence of superhumans. Yuri was brought on to Project Eternal Warrior by the Pentagon, and worked closely with Doctor Samson as the top expert on DNA in the project. Yuri found himself permanently disfigured, and turned into a hideous yet powerful creature thanks to Eternal Warrior. He works closely with Samuel Sterns, battling the American military as the terrifying Gargoyle!
Joe Fixit AKA The Grey Hulk: Born in Las Vagas, Joe Fixit worked as a bodyguard at a local casino. Eventually he got in trouble with the authorities, and had to choose between jail time and military life. Joe chose to join the military, and after basic training became a security guard at Gamma base in New Mexico. Joe decided to volunteer for the Eternal Warrior program, and was accepted on account of his many years working at Gamma base with few reports of misdemeanor. Joe Fixit was transformed into a grey-skinned Hulk. Physically superior to only the Leader and Doc Samson, Joe Fixit retains his intelligence while hulked out. However, he cannot transform back into his human body like Bruce Banner, Emil Blonsky and Thaddeus Ross. He recently went AWOL, and returned to Las Vagas and became a crime lord, eager to continue his previous life as the devious and astonishing Grey Hulk!
Is there anything you want to elaborate on? Extra lore for the city you call home? Notable NPCs? Basically this is for people who want their application to be more of a compendium for their NPCs, Locations, and Rogues specific to this new continuity.
| Character Goals | My goals? My goals are pretty simple, and straight forward: I want to give Thunderbolt Ross the story he deserves. In the comics, the Red Hulk was created by one Jeph Loeb. Every story he's appeared in thus far (within the mainstream Marvelverse) has been all action, and no character development. The Red Hulk is my favorite anti-hero, by and large. The idea of General Ross in a Hulk's body sounds fantastic to me. I want to do Ross justice, to do for him what his actual writers couldn't: I want to make Red Hulk a meaningful, emotional character with more depth than "I like to punch things." I plan to immerse him into the world of Maximum Comics, in the hopes of establishing him as something greater than what his Comics make him out to be.
...I repeated myself there many times. I have no regrets.
Potential story arcs: Few of these are set in stone, these mostly exist to give a guide to myself and to let other players know the direction I intend to take with the character. These are in no particular order, either.
Hunting down the other Hulks (Eternal Warriors rejects, and the Incredible variety) Formation of the Thunderbolts (This will start out as a military hitsquad, similar to the Suicide Squad, that recruits anti-heroes and uses them as a force for America and her interests) Fighting for the American military (Against the Mandarin, internal threats, terrorists, ect) Joining SHIELD in its wars on HYDRA and AIM (Perhaps becoming an Agent? More likely, just an ally) The Adventures of Betty and Thaddeus Ross: Soap Opera Edition (Will be ongoing) Running for Congress (After he retires from the military) Superhuman Registration Act (Ross is very much anti-vigilante, and will be using his slowly amassing political leverage to lobby within the government for laws to be made against 'superheroes') Civil War (Not likely to gain much traction, at least for awhile) Running for President (Why not, right?!) ECT
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I'll probably go back and revise some of the later history; reading through it now it feels a bit...off.
Went to bed early last night. Won't be able to use the computer today. Sorry about that. On the bright side, I'm on break now. So I'll be working on some...extra...stuff.
Sorry that I didn't get that post up last night, ended up getting home really late from work. Now I have to turn around and go back...I'll try and work on something tonight
Hey,its cool. I've got all the time in the world.
I'll post when I get back home later to to tonight.
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I'm eighteen years old. I'm American. I'm a Protestant Christian. I don't like anime. I like comic books. I once killed a shark.
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