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Mr. Clutch

Name: Jim Ryker
Alias: Mr. Clutch
Age: 25
Personality: arrogant, individualistic, rash, brave and loyal
Archetype: metahuman/Gadgeteer
Powers:
Enhanced reflexes: Jim's only metahuman power is his inhumanly sharp hand eye coordination, which allows him to see and react to things at incredible speed. This has helped him become a superb driver.

Expert martial artist: Jim is an excellent hand to hand combat fighter

The Bolt 3000: The Bolt 3000 is a high tech car crafted from a mix of New Gods technology and earth tech. It is a highly advanced vehicle that can reach incredible speeds and is equipped with loads of features. They are as follows.

Spiked tires for driving up steep surfaces and walls.

Anti gravity converters that allow the car to fly and jump over surfaces.

Super speed: on land the Bolt 3000 can hit a top speed of 600 mph and in the air its top flight speed is mach 1

Machine guns and laser guns for combat. The machine guns are equipped with normal, and rubber bullets for non lethal attacks.

Super tough body that can withstand firearms and explosions.
Weaknesses: Aside from his vehicle, Jim is just as vulnerable as normal human. His car while powerful will run low on power if it goes through a beating and utilizes it's laser weapons in excessive ways.
Appearance:

Character Evolution: His character arc is him learning that hero work isn't about branding and selling to the public.
BRIEF Bio: Jim Ryker was born to the famous race car driver Matt Ryker and from an early age Jim had a natural talent with cars. At age five he was reading adult books on vehicles and at age ten he was making his own radio controlled car models. His skill in vehicular engineering was above all of his peers in school and he had dreams of being both a race car driver and engineer for developing high speed vehicles.

As a child his favorite place to go was the go-kart track at the local amusement park in Central City where he would get a thrill from driving the mini race cars. After graduating high school with great grades, Jim went to college in Metropolis and made a good number of friends, one of which was an intern at the Wayne Corporation.

After he graduated Jim got a job as race car driver with Lex Corp, one of his sponsors and it wasn't long until he was approached by the heads of several large companies about a plan to have a hero of their own be a symbol of them giving back to the world. They had looked at his background and decided that he would be their choice. They gave him technology from the New Gods to use with earth tech to create a car with incredible power.

After taking the name Mr. Clutch, Jim set out to do hero work with Lex Corp and other companies as his sponsors.
Notes: he has a ray gun for when he is not fighting in his vehicle.

Theme song

Sample Post: Jim maneuvered the Bolt 2000 through the air as he open fired on on a group of thugs surrounding a couple and Jim would do whatever he could to help the two people. The sight of his car flying in the air and his car being equipped with machine guns made the criminals look up and point towards the car in terror. Jim as he speaks through the speakers of his incredible vehicle.

"Back away from the innocent civilians you scumbags! Otherwise you will have a taste of what kind of firepower corporate money can buy!" and as if on cue the criminals fled in terror and Jim laughed at the sight. When they were from sight, he landed his car on the ground and got out of the vehicle. He gave the couple a bow and smiled at them.

"I am grateful to help innocents in their time of need. Now before you go I must tell you that should ever need insurance for stolen or vandalized personal possessions then Lex Corp has a great and affordable plan. So if you ever need quality insurance then definitely consider Lex Corp's Lexcellence Insurance as your main option. Have a nice day and best wishes from your friendly protector Mr. Clutch" he said and then got back into his car and drove off.

"That was another job well done Mr. Clutch and a great pitch for Lex Corp's insurance program" he said to himself as drove towards the highway out of town at inane speeds.

"Damn I love my job."

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<Snipped quote by Weird Tales>

Or be EA/Activision/Ubisoft and try to chase the CoD crowd and lose so much money doing so. lol

@Archmage MC

those companies are an endangered species along with Capcom. Capitalism is economic evolution lol

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@Weird Tales Clutch isn't on the same level as Batman and Ironman... yet. And I mentioned before how Lex Jr. will be an enemy at some point... he's not gonna let the corporate hero have the best stuff! Which is why I had Batman taking an interest in your boy. Here's what I'm thinking... by 'episode 8' or so Wayne Industries sponsors your boy after LexCorp stock goes down and he becomes the chief pilot for the JLU and get's a couple new vehicles including a sky-cruiser and an air-cycle both with refurbished New Gods tech.

That way the team gets transportation across long distances, you get the sponsor you wanted, etc. Win/win.

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@Member 00492

as a capitalist you've got adapt to the industry or die lol

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Also the car is pretty tough lol

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@Weird Tales Just know that I'm gonna have that car get wrecked more than Red Tornado's android bodies LOL

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@Member 00492

Why? Barman and iron mans gadgets don't wrecked a lot. It happens but it isn't constantly

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@Member 00492 I lowered the car's flight speed to mach 1

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<Snipped quote by Weird Tales>

It's flying at Mach 2 when his top speed is less than Mach 1 on land. Hovering should be enough with anti-grav tech and going up walls.

I want it to be more about the hero and less about the car. It's like the Ironman argument. Stark is a billionaire and a genius, but take him out of the suit and he's just a man. Take your guy out of his car and what is he, a wannabe Dale Earnhardt Jr.? I'd just as soon give the guy propulsion boots and a laser rifle when he's out of the car than have the car itself fly.

He's gotta be a hero without the car as well and so far it seems like he's relying on it too much. Mr. Clutch would be the Leaguer, not the car itself.

EDIT: Furthermore.... what would he do in the instance his car is severely damaged or destroyed? Quit heroing until it's fixed or Lex Corp pays for a new one?

-00492

@Member 00492

He is a skilled hand to hand combatant. Also if his car got destroyed then he would rely on street style hero work until the car was fixed. Batman gets his stuff totalled lots of times and still keeps fighting

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seriously I cannot see anything wrong with having a car fly in this setting.

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@Member 00492 Can I still have the car fly? because flying cars are extremely common in science fiction