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_________________________________________________________ Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, PhD _________________________________________________________ 35 | Missing, Presumed Dead _________________________________________________________ Unaffiliated | American
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A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH All reported sightings of the entity known as “the Hulk” include it demonstrating physical strength and durability far exceeding any human limits, as well as those of any metahumans currently on record. This seems to grow exponentially as a response to aggression or pain. The upper limits of the Hulk's strength and durability is unknown, if such limits exist at all. -
T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼None The entity known as “the Hulk” has not demonstrated any capability for tool use in any reported sightings. All known instances of the entity indicate a mind that operates purely on emotion and instinct. -
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S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Evasion and Survival In the past year, Bruce Banner has learned several survival skills the hard way. He has become an expert at traveling without being noticed, avoiding populated or heavily monitored areas, and surviving off the grid. -
T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Genius Intellect Dr. Banner was a prodigy in the sciences, particularly in nuclear physics. While he never achieved the success or fame of Tony Stark or any of the other “rock star” scientists, it was quietly agreed upon in many scientific circles that in his field, Bruce Banner was the smartest person on Earth. -
T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...
35 Years Ago: Robert Bruce Banner is born to the geneticist Dr. Brian Banner and his wife Rebecca. Their home life is very private and secretive, and Brian is known for being standoffish and easily frustrated at work, especially as he is repeatedly passed over for promotions or recognition. Dark rumors circulate that the insecure and volatile Dr. Banner takes his frustrations out on his wife and son.
30 Years Ago: The worst rumors about the Banner family are confirmed when Rebecca Banner calls 911 about a domestic disturbance. Police arrive on the scene to find Rebecca murdered, Brian blacked out in a drunken stupor, and 5-year-old Bruce hiding in his bedroom closet. Brian Banner is arrested, and Bruce is sent to live with his aunt. The young boy shows clear signs of severe physical and mental abuse.
29-20 Years Ago: Bruce Banner spends his childhood withdrawn, shy, and avoidant of his classmates. Through his school years, he has no real friends and no shortage of bullies. Despite this, Bruce excels in his classes and graduates early, earning summa cum laude at age 15.
19-10 Years Ago: Bruce receives a full-ride scholarship to Desert State Univeristy in Navapo, New Mexico. He displays an uncanny aptitude for nuclear physics, earning his Bachelor's degree at age 18. Bruce transfers to Penn State to earn his Master's degree by 20, then to CalTech for his doctorate, which he receives by age 25. All the while, Bruce gains a particular fascination with the unique properties of Gamma radiation, and forwards several theories about its potential applications.
9-5 Years Ago: Dr. Banner makes several proposals for new technologies to utilize Gamma radiation as a near-limitless energy source, and even proposes utilizing the mutagenic properties of its more extreme frequencies to restore damaged tissue. His ideas are considered radical by the scientific community, and Banner struggles to receive funding for his experiments.
5 Years Ago: Dr. Banner is contacted by General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross of the US Air Force about the development of a new fusion weapon. Banner refuses at first, but Ross eventually promises full funding for his other Gamma-related projects. In order to continue his philanthropic work, Dr. Banner agrees to assist in the development of the Gamma Bomb.
During this time, Banner meets General Ross's daughter, the free-spirited and empathetic Elizabeth “Betty” Ross. Betty takes an interest in the shy and quiet Bruce, and over time she wears down his psychological walls. Eventually, Bruce allows himself to open up to Betty, his first and only real friend.
3 Years Ago: Dr. Banner's involvement with the Gamma Bomb project grows more and more, until he is promoted to Project Director. This comes at the extreme displeasure of the project's original Director, Dr. Emil Blonsky. Banner spends more time in direct contact with General Ross, despite the two developing an intense dislike for each other. This dislike deepens when Bruce and Betty's relationship grows beyond friendship, and the two begin dating.
2 Years Ago: Bruce proposes to Betty, who agrees. The two become engaged, which infuriates General Ross. General Ross and Dr Banner's working relationship deteriorates, with the envious Blonsky insinuating himself as a go-between to keep the Gamma Bomb project on schedule. Bruce and Betty agree to marry after work on the Gamma Bomb is complete, and they can be together far away from her father's influence.
1 Year Ago: The prototype of the Gamma Bomb is complete, and Dr. Banner oversees a test detonation in the New Mexico desert. Minutes before the scheduled detonation, Banner sees a civilian- a teenage boy- who had unwittingly wandered onto the testing ground undetected. Unable to stop the countdown, Bruce rushes onto the testing ground and rushes the teenager to shelter. Before he can get to shelter himself, the Gamma Bomb detonates, with Dr. Banner caught in the blast.
In the wake of the explosion, Dr. Banner's body is never found. He is believed dead, vaporized by the weapon he helped create.
11 Months Ago: Massive seismic activity is detected deep in the Chihuahuan Desert, nowhere near any known fault lines. Later investigations of the epicenter reveal a crater consistent with that of a catastrophic impact.
9 Months Ago: A truck stop on I-40 between Phoenix and Tucson is utterly destroyed. Officially the cause is listed as an explosion of a petroleum tank, but the damage to the building and the surrounding vehicles far exceeds what would be expected from such an explosion. Eyewitnesses report seeing a “hulking monster” in the midst of the chaos.
4 Months Ago: Authorities in Bear Lake, Utah, arrest an unidentified homeless man for vagrancy. Hours later, the police station is destroyed, along with much of the town square and several buildings in a path leading into the open desert. Emergency responders are quickly joined by military elements, who overrun the town and label the incident as a terror attack from political extremists. Like the I-40 incident, however, some eyewitness reports describe a “hulking figure” amid the destruction. Latching onto the shared word to describe the supposed monster, conspiracy theorists label the entity “the Hulk.”
2 Months Ago: General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross mobilizes elements of the 307th Bomber Wing to conduct top-secret “training maneuvers” in the Colorado desert, days after a supposed Hulk sighting in the area. The details are strictly classified, but records show enough ammunition was routed to these “training maneuvers” to engage and destroy an entire armored division. Furthermore, one bomber is forced to make an emergency crash-landing after an unexpected collision. Damage to the craft suggests it was struck with a massive blunt object, as if a large boulder had been flung into the air at it.
Today: Aerial drones patrolling the airspace over Wyoming have captured footage of a man wandering northeast toward Cheyenne. A man whose facial features the drone’s software has identified as a perfect match for the late Dr. Bruce Banner…
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I plan on using Bruce as a catalyst for character interactions, as various heroes can try to slug it out with the big guy or call on the scientific wits of Banner. Also, Hulk is probably the most criminally under-served character in all of Marvel’s A-list, especially after his dismal handling in the MCU, and I’d like to be able to put a little respect back on Big Green’s name.
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Waiting to hear back from @Bounce to get a sense of what I can do in terms of a role for present day Namor in this bad boy... but I'll work within whatever he allows anyway...
So without further ado...
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"Through all the long years... through all the bloody wars I've seen... one truth still rises above the rest! Freedom never come easy. And death... death is never fair."
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_________________________________________________________ Steven Rogers _________________________________________________________ Undefined (Date of Birth: 07/04/1918) | Single _________________________________________________________ U.S. Army / S.H.I.E.L.D | American
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A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ ABILITY * Absolute Peak human across the board due to the Super Soldier Serum. * Agelessness. Steve Rogers was medicated with an elixir in Granny Goodness' Orphanage that cursed him with the inability to die from the natural aging process. This was designed to rob his mind of the hope for death to bring him sweet release from the interminable torture he would be made to endure. -
T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TOOL The Shield - Two and a half feet in diameter, weighing twelve pounds and comprised of an unbreakable vibranium/proto-adamantium alloy. Perfectly balanced, and seemingly able to absorb everything and anything. Sidearms - Twin M1911A1 Colt .45 pistols. Regular issue from his WWII days in the U.S. Army. Generally remain holstered. Armour - Steve Rogers wears a unique kevlar-weave highly durable chainmail which is too heavy and expensive for common regular usage. It provides high level protection to most conventional forms of attack. Steve also carries a small utility belt with mission specific tools and ordnance, and a S.H.I.E.L.D issued communication device (smart phone) of Stark design which he is still coming to terms with, and jokingly refers to as 'Motherbox'.
Nobody else gets the reference. -
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S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ SKILL Yes. - Dude... it's Captain America. He's ridiculously skilled across the board. If it's a thing that can be done, he can probably do it. Except for program a VCR. Because he wasn't on earth when VCR's were prominent. -
T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TALENT Artist - Steve Rogers is a naturally gifted artist. -
T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...
Captain America's tale has spanned for almost a hundred years. Steve Rogers, rejected by the US Army during World War II as a sickly, weedy lad, was accepted upon recommendation by Dr Abraham Erskine for Project Rebirth. The singular successful administeration of the Super Soldier Serum of the doctor's own design, and became the recipient of a unique prototype shield, comprised of an alloy which included a rare element of which limited knowledge existed at the time.
'Captain America fought alongside his partner James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes and the Invaders - a group formed to take down the worst of the Axis forces, comprised of the synthetic human android 'Jim Hammond' who would burst into flames when exposed to oxygen, his young orphaned human ward Toro the Flaming Boy with his circus background, and Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner of little known Atlantis who joined the allies after Nazi divers were found encroaching on soverign Atlantean territory.
They cut a path through to Germany, seeking to bring an end to the Reich and Hitler's rule. Hitler spun off an 'unconventional armourment' division of the Nazi war machine, under 'Hydra' their efforts had many faces. With Joseph Goebbels in charge of the forward facing propaganda machine and 'Public Enlightenment', numerous Generals in charge of conventional warfare and stretching and spreading the Allied forces, it was Johann Schmidt who was left in charge of finding a final solution that would bring a swift and decisive victory to Hitler and the Reich.
As the Allied forces battered against the Nazis, Hydra became more desperate, seeking solutions less from technological and innovate leaps in science and more into strange new places in the occult. Delving into dark, forbidden and oft forgotten lore of old gods and new.
The final month must have seen some kind of impressive breakthrough, as strange and fantastic new technology and weaponry flooded the final German lines as the forces had all but converged on Berlin. Schmidt fled to Eagle's Nest - Hitler's holiday home high up in the Bavarian Mountains thirty kilometres south of Salzburg.
Conventional troops remained and maintained their action, striking against Berlin in what would be Hitler's last days, whilst Captain America and the Invaders - more adept at dealing with his unconventional tactics and resources - followed the wily Schmidt, who by this time had become known as Codename: Red Skull in communications.
Eagle's Nest proved treacherous. The Kehlsteinhaus was highly defensible, perched upon a sub-peak of the perilously armed Hoher Göll, Hitler's 'holiday home' was commissioned by the Nazi Party and furnished for official and social functions. But the Allies had it surrounded as they scaled, so the only formal diplomatic meeting Schmidt could possibly hope to engage in was one with Steve Rogers fist.
Surely.
The winds and snow proved difficult for Hammond and Toro to overcome. It even managed to slow Namor, previously thought to be a tank of immense power, as his path were met by scores of armourments fit for purpose in targeting the haughty Prince.
Rogers even saw Bucky Barnes fall by the wayside, disappearing down the snow covered slopes away, echoing calls fading into the abyss.
Captain America became more determined to see that the losses earned on this day would not be in vain.
Finally breaching the premises, Captain America found the trimmings and decor to be overly furnished. Even for Nazi top brass. This was waiting for someone or something. It was laid out for a state visit.
It reeked of an ambush.
And of course Schmidt met the drama of the situation. His voice echoing through the hall. The spiel, the strength of blah-bla-blah. Schmidt liked to talk. Rogers had lost too much to talk.
The two men pulled sidearms. Rogers struck first and true. But he could have sworn he heard laughter along with the final rustle, emanating from the Red Skull.
And then the sound.
BOOM!
Well before the sight. It was all encompassing. From everywhere all at once. He was in the middle of it.
And then he found himself in a space between places. Looking up at the darkest of all visages.
Darkseid is.
A suitable name, for one who would come to represent the sum of all fears.
This being controlled all in his domain under a totalitarian rule that could only have been the true aspiration of Schmidt and those he'd been fighting all these years.
Rogers was whisked away to the Pits. To 'The Orphanage', which was either a torture chamber, a 'rehabilition center' or a breeding ground for all the darkness of one's soul.
Here he was to undertake a pattern of being broken and reassembled and broken again, physically, mentally and spiritually until he would no longer be able to see the joins or cracks evident of the fact he was once a different being, before he could finally be put to use as an ever-obedient tool for the use of 'Granny Goodness' and Lord Darkseid. Here in this place where the passage of time had no meaning and hours and centuries had no meaning. For in a place without time, how could hope exist? A second Rebirth to have him born anew as a being with no self beyond the whim of Darkseid.
Or at least that was the plan.
Having been given an elixir which would prolong his life to match the interminable term of his duration, a man who had been cursed to never know complete death, was gifted his own life back once more.
By a man called Scott Free.
A daring and miraculous escape, utilitising all of the tools at his disposal - motherbox, his aero-discs and the wonderful Multi-cube soon gave new meaning to the Sentinel of Liberty who once again had found his freedom, even from the darkest pits of despair.
'Mister Miracle' as he announced himself, had heard tell of a captive from one of Darkseid's interests, a strange world now on the scope of the Master of Darkness, He of the Omega Sanction. Moving against Darkseid cost him a valuable asset, Big Barda - one of Granny Goodness' own Female Furies - who had been providing intelligence on the movements of the forces of Apokolips. She had to be removed from her place for her own safety. Not that she seemed to mind, she seemed somewhat taken with the idea of instead fighting by Scott Free's side, rather than working and worrying about him from her post.
Captain America was boom tubed back into our world. A new world, of lattes and laptops. Of sushi and streaming.
A world of prolonged peace. And compromise in the interest of maintaining such a prolonged peace.
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I'm bringing a global Captain America to the game. One who operates on the global sphere, wouldn't think that needs to be said, but a lot of the times in these games Captain America gets stranded on home shores defending the nation, when I think he's best suited away from home where his movements are less prone to politicisation by domestic elements. On foreign shores, he's trusted by the people to be acting in American interests, and in the case of this RP those interests will mostly be in protecting liberty and freedom from tyranny and justice at length. Hopefully by actually stating my intent, I can live up to it and keep him working on that level mostly.
This is a Captain America who saw the rising spectre of fascism both abroad, and attemtping to take hold with fifth columnists at home. He's seen how darkness can look to take grip.
He's also witnessed Apokolips. Where such darkness and tyranny is absolute, in true totalitarianism.
He's well versed in the fragility of liberty, freedom and the intrinsic value therein. Not just in seeing how it can slide away, but how hard it can be to penetrate the darkness once it's truly able to take hold.
Given that @Hillan is portraying Orion, it might be worth checking with him too if you haven't.
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Reluctantly retired roleplayer. <br><br>Except when I'm not.<br><br>Why are you here when you should be writing posts?<br><br>You can edit a bad draft, but you cannot edit a blank page.</div>
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