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Apr 27, 2012 8:09:53 GMT -5
Post by gamedave on Apr 27, 2012 8:09:53 GMT -5
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May 5, 2012 16:45:14 GMT -5
Post by gamedave on May 5, 2012 16:45:14 GMT -5
THE WARRIORS
A loosely organized team of “street-level,” mainly Delta-class heroes operating in New York City, the Warriors were founded in the early 1980s. They have, at best, strained relations with law enforcement and most other superteams. The street-level focus makes them fairly isolated from the “mainstream” metahuman community.
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May 5, 2012 16:46:37 GMT -5
Post by gamedave on May 5, 2012 16:46:37 GMT -5
WHISTLER
The serial killer with the second-highest body count in history (trailing only the psychotic vigilante the Avenger), the man known as Whistler has apparently been active since 1978. Since then, he has killed dozens of people, including a number of metahuman heroes. He has reportedly been killed numerous times, but always seems to turn up again sooner or later. Named for his penchant for whistling various tunes while stalking and killing his victims, Whistlers preferred method is to stalk a victim through a deserted building or area, and kill them with a knife. He has also used a number of other methods, but always uses methods which enable him to see and enjoy their fear, pain, and suffering, up close and personal. As he has no known metahuman powers, Whistler is nominally a Delta-class threat, but his skill in isolating and stalking victims, evading capture, and cheating death, and his demonstrated ability to kill even supposedly “invulnerable” metahumans has led some to speculate that he is some form of embodiment or avatar of a cosmic force of murder.
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May 5, 2012 16:49:50 GMT -5
Post by gamedave on May 5, 2012 16:49:50 GMT -5
THE WRAITH
Part hero, part vigilante, and part urban legend, the Wraith (or at least someone using the name, costume, and powers) has apparently been active since the 1930s. The Wraith was a prominent “mystery man” during the “Second Wave”, and fought mobsters, evil cultists, and ordinary criminals. Even at the height of his activities, he was a mysterious figure, and many considered him to be little more than an underworld urban legend. He was reportedly a covert operative against the Nazis and Japanese during World War II.
Reports of his activities since then have generally been sketchy at best, and he was widely presumed, by those who believed that he existed at all, to have been killed during the war, along with most of the other “Second Wave” heroes. However, he has been reliably reported to have been a member of the Argonauts, to have aided and perhaps to have helped found the Warriors, and to have trained several other, more public heroes through the decades.
Most recently, the former teen super-hero, Midnight, published a “tell-all” book in 1999, in which she detailed her career during the 1990s. In that book, she claimed to have been trained by, and worked alongside, her father - the Wraith.
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