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the Whizzer (deceased)
Powers: Either way, Robert can automatically divide his total action score into two attacks, one happening normally, and one occurring as a contingent action. Furthermore, while Robert was an active hero, he was able to perform the following, useful power stunts with this ability: * Mach Control: Robert was quite skilled in the offensive use of this power, wielding his 'hypersonic punch' to inflict his power's intensity in a concussion attack. The great thing about this power stunt is that he doesn't need to make contact with his opponent, unlike his power slam stunt... * Power Slam: Robert, in addition to making his hypersonic punches, can simply nail a target in a super-speed fly-by, inflicting his power rank in damage (and using this power rank to hit). However, if he misses, Robert will likely hit whatever is behing the target, himself taking his power intensity in damage. * Resistance to Pressure Variance: Robert's body is accustomed to the extreme pressures exerted upon his body while he is operating at super speeds; as such, he has +5 resistance to such forces at all times, whether or not he is actually using his lightning speed abilities. * Run Up Walls: After years of practice, Robert has mastered the ability to run up vertical surfaces with a start, usually getting to the top of his 'ground' before the laws of physics can catch up to him. He does this at half his normal speed. * Water Walking: Robert has also learned the trick of running over water, his fleeting contact with the surface not enough to make him sink. He also runs over water at half of his current power intensity (making this quite a trick in his later days). * Whirlwind: upon making an average difficulty lightning speed action, Robert can run in circles very fast in order to generate a whirlwind. While folks in the eye of this makeshift storm take no damage from this, those within striking distance suffer power intensity damage every round they're in contact with the thing. Enhanced Lower Body Strength: Robert's lower body strength has permanently been enhanced by the bizarre event that granted him his super human powers; essentially, it is ranked at intensity 12. This makes for one heck of a kick, mind you... Resistance to Radiation: while he isn't invulnerable to the effects of the stuff, Robert nonetheless has +5 resistance to the effects of harmful radiation. This managed to save him from personal harm in a nuclear incident later on in his life...
Hindrances:
Skills: Radiology: having been knowledgable of the United States' nuclear warhead program, as well as the maintenance guy at a nuclear power plant, it is assumed that Robert has some knowledge of radiation and atomic theory.
Calling:
Costume: At one time, he wore a yellow helmet, with wings on it, instead of just the partial mask.
Personality:
Real Name: Robert L. Frank, Sr.
Height: 5' 10"
Story: Dying from the strain on his heart after this stress, Emil Frank missed the startling transformation his son went through, as the mongoose blood and snake venom somehow altered his body, granting him the speed and vitality of the mongoose - and how! Robert returned to America as the Whizzer, and was determined to fight crime. Soon after, he encountered some German insurgents attempting to blow up a train, as it was loaded with war supplies. He ruined their bomb, and then went after them, only to be beaten to the punch. Miss America had arrived on the scene, and taken out the miscreants with little trouble. Sort of irate about this, the Whizzer nonetheless went to New York with the upstart heroine in response to a call for help from Bucky Barnes, Captain America's side kick. The two heroes met up with several others, and teamed up to stop the Red Skull from using a mind controlled team of Invaders to destroy America. Together, as the Liberty Legion, the seven heroes joined up with Bucky to deal with this threat to freedom. The Legion was successful, and they eventually freed the Invaders, apparently killing the Red Skull in the process. Not that he hasn't apparently died on dozens of occasions before. After this, the Legion decided to stick together, battling internal threats to American liberty. Over time, however, the Liberty Legion and the Invaders sort of blurred into one big team, helping each other out on occasion, and sharing team members when it was most helpful. This state of affairs continued on until the end of the war, where members of both teams formed he All-Winners Squad. After that, the Whizzer and Miss America got married, apparently having gotten much closer since their first meeting. They went on to work at an experimental nuclear power plant, though this eventually led to great tragedy. There was an accident at the power plant, and the two heroes had to enter the atomic core of the plant to prevent a meltdown. The Whizzer suffered no ill effects from the radiation exposure, but Miss America and her unborn son did. He was born a mutant, and had severe radiation issues. For one thing, he was deadly to anyone in his immediate area. As such, he was put in a sort of suspended animation by the government, with his parent's permission, and they planned to bleed the excessive radiation out of him. Over time, the tank that Robert's son was kept in got lost in the paper shuffle of the government, and it was eventually recovered by the Avengers. After losing his wife (she'd recently died in labor, and the infant was stillborn), his son was all he had left of her, and Robert wanted him back. Attacking the Avengers in a mad fury, the Whizzer was nonetheless beaten by the heroes, though his son's stasis tank was ruptured by the heroes soon afterward, and Robert's son emerged, having only aged a little bit in the intervening decades. While he was smart, he was unready for life outside the tank, and he went all crazy, splitting into three duplicates of himself and attacking the city. The heroes stopped Nuklo, as he was calling himself, and got him back into his tank. It was apparently during this debacle that the Whizzer learned (however erroneous the information was) that he was the father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. How all this came about, I can't say, but this was where it came from. Later, Nuklo's capsule was taken by Isbisa, a foe of the Whizzer from times past. He leeched away all of Nuklo's radioactivity, and used it against the Whizzer, who died from a heart attack in this battle, in an effort to save his son. It worked, though, and Nuklo (Robert L Frank, Jr) has gone on to live a normal life. If you don't count the time he got attacked by Tess-One...
Using the Whizzer in other stories: You can't. He's dead. Well, I suppose you could bring him back from the dead (happens a lot in comics), but he'd still be very old. Or, he could get young in the ressurection (that happens, too), say by some cloning process or some other high tech mumbo jumbo. That sort of thing. Or, you could simply have another hero assume the mantle of the Whizzer, some sort of new super speedster that liked the legacy of this World War 2 hero, and wanted to pay him some sort of homage (by ripping off his namesake, of course). This happens more often than you think, though - you see, all the good names are taken. But, a brand new Whizzer could be an interesting character. Especially if he ran into surviving members of the Liberty Legion or the Invaders, who wanted to know why this upstart was using Robert's identity. This could make for interesting stories, moreso if the new Whizzer goes bad or something... Not that it would be likely or anything, but one never knows... |
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