Dynamic Man
| F Ex 20 |
A Ex 20 |
S In 40 |
E Rm 30 |
R Ex 20 |
I Gd 10 |
P Ex 20 |
Res Gd 10 |
Pop Fe +2 |
| Health: Karma: |
110 50 |
Origin:
The Dynamic Man is an android, an artificial being built by Professor Goettler to be the 'perfect creature'. As such, simply consider him a robotic being, even more advanced than most android creations of his time.
Known Powers:
Robotic Construction: as an android, the Dynamic Man is not prone to the failings that organic beings experience. He has Monstrous (75) rank resistance to Disease and Poisons. He does not age, either; as long as he properly maintains himself, he won't succumb to system degradation.
Imitation: the Dynamic Man has the impressive ability to change his very looks; he can't become a rock, per se, but he can look rocky. The Dynamic Man can duplicate the appearance of anybody he has seen, clothing and all, at Incredible (40) rank.
Magnetic Manipulation: the Dynamic Man can utilize this power at Amazing (50) rank, giving him impressive abilities against the criminal scourge plaguing America. He has developed the following magnetic power stunts thus far:
* Electrical Generation: the Dynamic Man generates large amounts of electrical energy thanks to his inherent magnetic fields, energy he can release at will. This energy is of Incredible (40) rank, which inflicts like Stunning Energy damage with each blast.
* Flight: the Dynamic Man can create a powerful magnetic levitation field about his body, allowing him to fly through the air. This field moves him through the skies with Remarkable (30) airspeed, or 225 miles per hour.
* Force Field: the Dynamic Man can produce a magnetic energy field that protects him from harm. This force field works at Incredible (40) rank, providing him the following defense against the various attack forms:
Rm 30 / In 40 / Ty 6 / Fe 2 / Shift 0
Penetration Vision: the Dynamic Man can see through solid matter as he sees fit, reaching a maximum depth into solid objects equal to about one hundred feet. As such, this power is defined at Unearthly (100) rank (he looked partially through a mountain, after all).
Equipment:
(none)
Quirks:
Bigotry: deeming himself the 'perfect man' and the 'ideal of the future', the Dynamic Man has proven to find many things in our modern era quite distasteful. He seems to react to a variety of people (homosexuals, interracial couples) at a -1 CS, though this could just be culture shock.
Talents:
Guns: though he has staggering powers in his own right, Curt does know how to use a firearm - he can't always go blasting people when he's working in his civilian identity, after all. He wields all manner of rifles and pistols at his Agy rank +1 CS.
History: before his creation, Professor Goettler programmed the Dynamic Man with lots of information, including the history of the earth, as it was known in the 1940s at least. His Rsn score in any historical matters should be considered +1 CS in rank.
Law Enforcement: as a duly trained member of the F.B.I., Curt knows everything he need to about Law and Order. He has a +1 CS to all Reason FEAT rolls dependent on the Law and various legal issues. Furthermore, he can legally make arrests when necessary.
Contacts:
The Dynamic Man mostly fights crime solo, not bothering to 'hang' with his fellows in the so-called Twelve. He has re-established his links with the F.B.I. however, and often works with them to combat the more insidious threats to freedom they know of.
Costume:
While fighting crime, the Dynamic man wears a skin-tight green shirt with yellow cuffs and four yellow lightning bolts on his torso, a skin-tight pair of green trousers, yellow and green boots, and a black leather belt with a yellow belt buckle.
Personality:
Though it may have been a facet of his manufacture, the Dynamic Man seems to care about maintaining Law and Order, as well as advancing civilization overall. He isn't totally rigid in this maintenance of Law, however, as he has taken it into his own hands on at least one occasion...
Real Name: Dynamic Man
Occupation: adventurer, F.B.I. operative
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record
Marital Status: single, but possibly not applicable
Alias(es), if any: Agent Curt Cowan, F.B.I.
Group Affiliation: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.)
Height: 6' 3"
Hair: dark blonde
Eyes: blue
Weight: 225 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none
Story:
The Dynamic Man was created by the genius inventor, Professor Goettler, in an effort to build the 'perfect creature'. Throwing the switch that would pour a megavolt of electric potential through his work, the Professor died; the excitement of his greatest success proved too much for him.
Awaking alone in the Professor's remote castle laboratory, the Dynamic Man is nonetheless aware of his ultimate purpose in life, which is to devote his powers and abilities to the progress of civilization and the extermination of all it's enemies - no matter the cost.
Making for civilization, the Dynamic Man crafts a civilian identity for himself, one Curt Cowan, and proceeds to apply for membership in the F.B.I. Easily passing all the many and various entrance exams and qualifications, Curt is readily accepted into the organization.
Thanks to his position as an F.B.I. operative, the Dynamic Man can easily get a bead on bizarre situations that he knows his fellow agents cannot handle, and deals with them in his public role - leading a dual life that allows him to combat crime and terror in both identities!
One of his first cases involves a complaint by a farmer that someone is 'chasing the rain away' and driving him and his neighbors into ruin. Investigating, Curt finds that oddly enough the man isn't a crackpot, and that millionaire banker Bascom is behind this strange scheme.
Utilizing weather manipulating dynamos in a nearby mountain, he's causing a drought to bankrupt local farmers, and then buying up their land for fascist agents to better manipulate the American food supply. Naturally, the Dynamic Man trounces this madcap plot in no time flat.
His next adventure saw the Dynamic Man hip deep in saboteurs, as he is assigned to end a wave of such activity taking place nationwide. Spying several of them placing a bomb on his own train's tracks, the Dynamic Man stomps on them and gets them to reveal the name of their boss.
Once he knows that the mad Doctor Vee is behind all of this destruction, the Dynamic Man races after him. After being briefly waylaid by Vee and his goons, and subsequently dropped into a hastily prepared death trap, the Dynamic Man manages to capture Doctor Vee as he made his escape.
The Dynamic Man's third caper became somewhat personal when, shortly after being assigned to stop the murderous rampage of the Hood, he is targeted for assassination by that thug's men - in his civilian identity! Inadvertently killing his would-be assassins, he then seeks the Hood out.
Though he was momentarily knocked senseless by the Hood, the Dynamic Man managed to rescue his latest victim in the nick of time, and revealed that the Hood was none other than Willard Thomas, the head of a trust fund whose rampage was intended to leave him in sole control of said trust.
Next, while investigating a strange string of jewelry store heists, the Dynamic Man faces off against an inventor who has developed an attractor beam that only works on gold. Following him to his lair after he robs Fort Knox blind, the Dynamic Man is again caught in a death trap.
Wrapped in rubber blankets and buried under tons of rock, he barely manages to escape, only to find his quarry has left to rob England next. Arriving as his foe is warded off by British anti-aircraft shells, the Dynamic Man totals their dirigible with a powerful lightning bolt.
After returning all the stolen gold, he resumed his job with the F.B.I., and continued to help them solve all manner of strange cases... with them none the wiser that the seemingly human Curt Cowan was also the electronic Man of Tomorrow known as the Dynamic Man!
This situation continued up until 1945, at which point the U.S. military grabbed every costumed adventurer it could get its hands on for the Battle of Berlin. the Dynamic Man was more than happy to lend a hand in this endeavor, and was assigned with others to pacify the S.S. headquarters.
Once they made their way inside, it turned out that this was in fact a trap, meant to capture super-humans for later study 'once the Allies went home'. Their captors put the Dyanmic Man and his eleven fellows into stasis, but were killed before they could study their prizes.
With no one knowing of their presence, the Dynamic Man and company lay dormant and unattended for decades, only recently being discovered by a construction crew - and by chance at that. Returned to the United States, these Twelve heroes were asked to continue their heroics like before.
Declaring that he was born for this modern era, the Dynamic Man thrust himself into the Future, though things quickly proved to be confusing to him. He was promised a clean, perfect future after all, free of poverty, and violence, and... other things he found distasteful.
Unable to come to terms with this, the Dynamic Man has thrust himself into his work, averting one catastrophe after another in order to avoid the need to ponder his place in this distressing world he never made. He even renewed his links with the F.B.I. to get more work!
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