Some comic character profiles

I’ve decided to do a bit of a character summary for a few characters.  The first few were suggested by friends on Facebook.  Although I can’t admit to knowing everything about everyone, I did do a moderate amount of research on each of them.

Spawn

Origin:

Born Albert Francis Simmonds (Al Simmonds), he worked in the Marine corp, the secret service and the CIA.  On one of his CIA missions he was betrayed by the then director Jason Wynne.  Due to his career as an assassin he ended up going downstairs (Hell), where he struck a bargain with Malebogia in order to see his wife one last time.

Al is then resurrected as one of the hellspawn, with various powers (see later).  Five years have passed since his death, but he has finally returned.  However the world he is in, no longer has a place for him.  His wife married his best friend and had a child with him.  He is thus left with the choice of whether to fulfil his side of the bargain or not.

Powers:

Spawn’s powers are derived from the necroplasm that makes up his body.  This gives him various abilities such as super strength, teleportation, and regeneration.  He needs to ‘feed’ his necroplasm with evil energy given off by people and certain animals.  Furthermore he wears a sentient symbiotic suit that has shape-shifting powers.

Spawn can be killed by a holy weapon forged in Heaven. He is also rendered powerless in places that are immune to the influence of Hell.

Deadpool

Alter ego:                            Wade Winston Wilson

Aliases:                                 The Merc with a Mouth
First appearance:             New mutants #98

Origin:

Classified.  Okay not really...  Born somewhere in Canada (see why he’s a little funny in the head), Wade lost his mother to cancer at an early age, and his father was killed by a friend when he dared interrupt their night out.  Wade joined the army for a while, before becoming a mercenary assassin.

Wade later contracted cancer and joined Department K as a test subject in the weapon X program.  In the program he was imbued with Wolverine’s healing factor, which stopped his cancer... for a time.  The cancer returned and, supercharged by the healing factor, spread right across his body, leaving him horribly scarred.  Deadpool left the program and started doing mercenary work once more.

Powers:

Deadpool can reattach any part of his body, has advance healing capabilities (he can survive a bullet to the brain), is immune to psychic attacks due to his brain cells that rejuvenate (this is possibly the cause of his mental instability), and at one time had super strength.  His healing powers are mentally driven (if he forgets he can heal he won’t).  He is highly resistant to drugs and alchohol (definitely not a cheap date), and immune to most toxins.  He can speak German, Spanish and Japanese in addition to English, is an expert swordsman and marksman.

Suggested reads:

Deadpool Corps

Dr Fate

List of Doctors:

Kent Nelson
Eric & Linda Strauss
Inza Cramer Nelson
Jared Stevens
Hector Hall
Kent V. Nelson
Khalid Ben-Hassin

Origin:

In 1920, twelve year-old Kent Nelson accompanies his father Sven on an archeological dig in the Valley of Ur.  When Kent opens the tomb of the ancient Egyptian wizard Nabu, he accidently releases a poisonous gas which kills his father. Nabu takes pity on Kent and teaches him wizarding skills before giving him a mystical helmet, amulet and cloak. Nabu merges his spirit with the helmet, which allows him to possess Kent. In 1940, Kent arrives in the United States, and begins a career fighting crime and supernatural evil as Doctor Fate. He later goes on to co-found the Justice Society of America. 

Powers:

The helmet of Nabu grants the wearer various mystical powers including flight, super strength, intangibility, energy and matter manipulation, invisibility, and telekinesis.

The Sentry

Alias:                     Robert Reynolds

Origin:

Only The Sentry knows his true origin, however due to his mental illness he cannot say for certain.  The Sentry was a leader and paternal figure to several superheroes until a mass murder by his greatest nemesis, the Void, caused him to end his career. He later realized that the Void was, in fact, an aspect of his own personality. Since the Void represents the death of all living beings, it was deemed too dangerous to keep unchecked, however short of killing Robert there was no way to do this. With a combination of Reed Richards technology, Doctor Strange magic, and the Sentry's own immeasurable mental abilities, the entire human race was hypnotized to forget the very existence of the Void and the Sentry (this includes Robert himself).

Later Robert’s schizophrenia re-emerged, and caused him to believe that he killed his wife.  He went on to seek help and found Reed Richards.  Robert’s powers started manifesting themselves once more and with it... the Void.

Powers:

The Sentry can fly, produce energy blasts and is practically impervious.  He has been known to teleport, can reconstitute himself when blown up, and has the power of a million exploding suns.  The Sentry has survived a trip to the sun, has fought the hulk to a standstill (when he practically took apart the Marvel universe).  He doesn’t need to shower, eat or sleep.

Hawkeye

Aliases:                 Clint Barton

                                Ronin

                                Goliath

Origin:

Clint Barton was born in Waverly, Iowa and lost both his parents to a car crash at a young age. After six years in an orphanage, Clint and his brother Barney ran away to join the Carson Carnival of Travelling Wonders. He soon caught the eye of the Swordsman, who took the young boy on as his assistant and trained him to become a master archer
Clint adapted his archery skills to become a star carnival attraction, a master archer called “Hawkeye”. After seeing Iron-Man in action, Clint decided to become a costumed crimefighter. However Hawkeye is accused of theft during his first outing and is believed to be a villian. Whilst on the run, he meets the Black Widow, a spy for the Soviet Union, and promptly falls in love. The duo then attempt to steal steal technology developed by Tony Stark, leading to a battle with Iron Man wherein the Black Widow is seriously injured. Hawkeye rescues her and flees the battle, but before Hawkeye can take her to a hospital, the Black Widow disappears. Hawkeye decides to go straight from there on.  Hawkeye later clears his name and is allowed to join the Avengers.  Clint later falls in love with the Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff).
Later he gives up his Hawkeye identity to become the second Goliath for a short time, before resuming the identity of Hawkeye.  He also goes on to quit the Avengers after a rift forms with the Vision over the love of Wanda.
He later falls in love with a former S.H.I.E.L.D agent, known as Mockingbird, and marries her.  This marriage does not last. Hawkeye also goes on to need the use of a hearing aid (there is actually quite a cute story behind this involving a real boy who did not want to use his hearing aid).
In the aftermath of Civil War, Clint gets offered the position of Captain America... which he almost accepts.

Powers:

Hawkeye has no superpowers, but is a an excellent fencer and a grandmaster marksman.  Hawkeye uses a 250 pound force bow with a variety of arrows

Boardgames or Bored-games?

Now I know most people think of boardgames as boring. Never thinking further than monopoly, trivial pursuit, or risk.  But have I got news for you... There are many more boardgames that any one can enjoy!  So here I will discuss a few options (some boardgames, some just table-top games) for you, your friends, and your family.

Thunderstone

One of the first "out-of-the-ordinary" games I played.  This is a deck-building table-top game, that draws inspiration from your usual fantasy rpg computer games.  You buy heroes, spells, and equipment that help you to fight the evil monsters that reside in the dungeon.  Quick to learn, yet hard to become great at, this game is definitely loads of fun.  Each game is customizable with the variety of cards you get in the base set.  The card artwork is amazing, and flavour text interesting. There are also several expansion sets available to increase the randomness of each game.

Steve Jackson games

To make things easier for myself, I'm going to throw all steve jackson games under one heading.  His games are always zany fun spoof games.  Games such as Munchkins (a game where you may cheat, as long as you don't get caught) with all its expansions, and Chez Geek make for a night full of laughs.  Although most of his games are card based he does have a few boardgames to offer as well.

City builders

There are several city builder themed games out there that are almost guarenteed to end friendships.  Games such as citidels (card based), carcasonne and settlers of catan are always fun to play against each other.  Combining luck with strategy and sheet bastardliness can be very amusing some times.  These games are different each time you play them and also have various expansions to make them even more interesting.


So in total, if you really want to play, there will always be a game for you that will be fun and entertaining (and in some cases even scary). So go out and play!