Thin Man
| F Ex 20 |
A Ex 20 |
S Gd 10 |
E Rm 30 |
R In 40 |
I Gd 10 |
P Rm 30 |
Res In 40 |
Pop Sh 0 |
| Health: Karma: |
80 80 |
Origin:
Doctor Bruce Dickson, the uncanny Thin Man, is a master of multiple sciences that has been transformed by the power of the people of Kalahia into something... more than human. Altered beyond mere mortal limits, he can expand and contract his physical dimensions at his leisure!
Natural Psi-Powers:
Metapsi Powers:
Shapechange (a): the primary ability he gained during his restful sleep upon discovering Kalahia, Bruce was given the ability to force his body into a highly pliable state. He can stretch, deform, compress or expand his body (or parts of such) with Incredible (40) ability.
Elongation (t): Bruce primarily wields his his body-changing powers to distort his physical dimensions, lengthening some while shortening others, often making himself appear paper-thin. He can stretch with Incredible (40) skill, across over a maximum of eleven areas.
Enhanced Senses (s): wielding tricks involving the stretching of various sensory organs, Bruce can easily gain enhanced sensory input from them, whether it's his fingertips or his nose. He can physically bolster his senses with Excellent (20) skill.
Weaponhand (a): one of the more recent abilities Bruce has demonstrated, he can transform his limbs into brutal implements, either rendering them exceedingly sharp or striking with more surface area, inflicting +1 CS BA or EA damage (his call) in melee.
Armor (t): by rendering his body pliable, Bruce can easily shrug off large amounts of damage. If attacked, his body will usually distort as it absorbs most of the incoming damage before rebounding back into his original shape. He has this protection from attack:
Rm 30 / Gd 10 / Pr 4 / Shift 0 / Shift 0
Trained Psi-Powers:
Psimotive Powers:
7-D Awareness (a): one of the things that Bruce learned during his time in Kalahia was a keen understanding of the seven dimensional nature of existence. He can usually tell where he stands in the multiverse, having Good (10) knowledge regarding his current continuity.
Teleportation (t): simple boundaries of geography no longer seem to hold any sway over Bruce. Having mastered the more advanced Kalahian skills, he can seemingly shift his body with ease. He can teleport with Excellent (20) ability and range (approximately 25,000 miles).
Psimotive Invisibility (s): an ability he demonstrated when he first revealed his newly active state to the world, this psimotive skill allows Bruce to be present in an area without being observed. This skill masks his 7-D presence with Remarkable (30) power.
Dimensional Aperture (a): one skill he mastered after discovering that Agent Axis had destroyed Kalahia, this psimotive art allows Doctor Dickson to slip between the borders of dimensions, roaming the multiverse at will. He can shift into other universes with Excellent (20) skill.
Equipment:
(none)
Quirks:
(none)
Talents:
Detective / Espionage: after the War, Bruce joined up with the C.I.A., using his talents and inherent powers to track down war criminals that had, so far, evaded justice. As such, add a +1 CS to all FEAT rolls Bruce must make concerning these matters.
Engineering: one of several sciences Bruce had mastered before his fateful rediscovery of Kalahia, this talent describes his ability to design and build things. When attempting to perform such FEATs, Bruce may make the applicable dice rolls at his Rsn rank +1 CS.
Martial Arts Types A and B: Bruce has received extensive coaching by both Miss America and the Patriot in melee combat, and as such, he has a +1 CS to Ftg and Agy FEATs while fighting unarmed, and has the ability to inflict stun or slam results on an opponent regardless of relative End ranks.
Medicine: one of several areas of scientific expertise that Bruce has mastered, this talent represents his advanced knowledge of physiology - both in human and other species. This gives him a +1 CS on medical FEAT rolls, and lets him try to resuscitate the recently dead.
Philosophy: one of several areas of science Bruce has mastered before being changed in Kalahia, this talent represents his ability to think critically, having studied most of the humanities. His Rsn score should be considered +1 CS when systematically thinking through problems of society or behavior.
Pilot / Air: Bruce has proven to be an accomplished pilot, handling his Stratoplane with ease - quite a feat back in the forties, especially considering his is so much more advanced that standard human equivalents. He can likely handle those built by his own society just as easily.
Contacts:
Bruce was a member of the Liberty Legion, and as a result can rely upon most of his Golden Age heroic contemporaries for aid; he had recruited many of these individuals into his New Invaders team. In addition, he has multiple contacts in international intelligence circles.
Costume:
When he first left Kalahia to bring Enlightenment to the human race, Bruce wore a costume that consisted of a tight, collared blue jacket over a green T-shirt, yellow gloves, a yellow belt, red trunks over blue stretch fabric pants, blue and yellow boots, and a blue and yellow cap.
By the time he met Red Raven, he'd switched to a similar costume in different hues. His second costume includes a tight green jacket with an oversized yellow collar, yellow gloves, yellow boots, yellow trunks over green stretch fabric pants, and a green and yellow cap.
Bruce's third costume incorporated Kalahian elements. It includes a green and yellow stretch fabric shirt with a high green collar, green and yellow gloves, green leather boots, baggy green trousers, and a green face mask with yellow, angular markings above and below the eyes.
Sometimes, when going more 'incognito', Bruce will add a brown fedora, a brown leather trench coat, and more conventional accessories such as pistols and a machete, both of which include the appropriate belts and holsters / sheathes.
Personality:
Despite his relative inexperience in super-heroic matters, Doctor Bruce Dickson is quite a worldly, savvy hero, easily capable of making his foes look like fools whilst he deals out justice. He loves to crack wise in battle, and works hard to pull his weight in a team setting.
Real Name: Dr. Bruce Dickson, PhD.
Occupation: adventurer, scientist
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Marital Status: widower
Alias(es), if any: none known
Group Affiliation: occasional C.I.A. associate, former leader of the New Invaders, former member of the Liberty Legion
Height: 6'
Hair: blond, later light brown, then gray
Eyes: blue
Weight: 170 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none
Story:
Shortly after receiving his multiple degrees, Doctor Bruce Dickson set off on an expedition to the Himalayan mountains, attempting to conquer Mount Kalpurthia. Upon his being hit by a powerful blizzard, he sought shelter in a cave, where he discovered something fantastic!
He found a hidden utopia within the mountain, though he fell unconscious upon the beginning of his exploration of the place. When he awoke, Doctor Dickson discovered the mysterious denizens of this secret land, called Kalahia by the natives, and their incredible secret.
All of the locals possessed the power to make their bodies pliable, and they'd granted him this amazing ability. They did this by training his subconscious mind how to access these skills while he slept, and when he awoke in their paradise he could wield them as well.
Staying there for a time, Bruce grew to love their society, as it seemed to function much better than his own. He even found the one true love of his life, Olalla, the daughter of Kalahia's Elder Chief, who was happy that she'd found love in the form of his person.
The Kalahians demonstrated their technological superiority to Doctor Dickson, showing how they can communicate with the spider-like beings that were apparently living on Mars at the time, and their technique for entering the 7th Dimension (as they'd already conquered the other six).
Further, it would seem that the Kalahians shared Bruce's desire to combat evil, as they demonstrate a crime in progress on their long distance viewer thingermabob. This crime is the drive-by shooting by mobsters against some taxi cabbie (perhaps Taxi Taylor...).
Seeing this evil taking place, Dickson and Olalla leave Kalahia for the United States, intent on stamping out the evil that they have witnessed in action. They bust into the city they viewed and gunned down several of the criminals with the plane's heat bullets.
Of course, several folks noticed this, and as such, Dickson and Olalla decided to operate at night from then on, so they wouldn't attract too much attention to themselves. That night, in fact, the duo tracked down and went to work on the mobsters killing cabbies.
Thin Man worked them on a personal level, while Olalla gunned them all down with the Stratoplane. The two then tied up their leader, leaving him for the cops, and went looking for new crimes to bust up, the first of which involved a plane-full of German infiltrators.
Attacking their plane as soon as he found it, Bruce liberated a captured Red Raven, and the two heroes defeated their German foes. The two then answered a call for help from Captain America's side kick, Bucky, and eventually joined up with the Liberty Legion.
This team freed the Invaders from mind control at the hands of the Red Skull and his Nulla-Rays, and decided to stick together to defend the nation from threats that arose from within. Over time, though, the Liberty Legion and the Invaders eventually blurred into one big hero association.
Toward the end of the war, Bruce and Captain America had an encounter with Agent Axis, a diabolical Axis villain who was in fact three men in one, merged in a freak accident from the components of a German, Italian and Japanese operative into a singular terror.
During the ensuing fight, Agent Axis noted that he'd found Kalahia and intended to visit it after the war. Almost killing him in a rage, Bruce was stopped by the Captain, a deed which turned out to be the doom of his adopted home, although neither hero knew this at the time.
Returning to Kalahia just weeks later, Bruce found the place decimated, his wife and every other man, woman and child within slain. Overwhelmed with grief and rage, he vowed to hunt down Agent Axis, and any other villains of his ilk, and end their threat permanently.
And very painfully. Dreaming daily of Axis' fate at his hands, Bruce began seeking out every escaped Nazi criminal he could find, and would brutally kill them. Some of these feats he accomplished alone, and some he did with the aid of the C.I.A., for whom he occasionally worked.
During this time Bruce apparently mastered more advanced Kalahian arts, teaching himself how to make playthings of the dimensions, slipping in and out of our space at his leisure. He kept this knowledge to himself though, the better to hunt evildoers with.
Eventually, Bruce tracked down Agent Axis in New York City of all things, having been brought there under the auspices of the U.S. government in an exchange of freedom for advanced Nazi know-how. Putting his plan into action, Bruce summoned Captain America.
He did this because, believing the hero responsible for the fate of Kalahia, he wanted the man to see him end the life of Agent Axis in person. When the hero had arrived, he fought with the tripled agent of evil, and personally slew him in hand to hand combat.
Mortified by this, Captain America hauled Bruce off to jail, where he was convicted of the murder of all three men that composed Agent Axis. Flung into jail, Bruce finally found peace with the world - at least for a time - making prey of his newfound neighbors now and then.
He could have escaped at any time, but found it fulfilling to simply kill deserving criminals as they quite literally came to him. This arrangement lasted until he was approached by Dell Rusk, then the Secretary of State, who had an offer for Bruce he couldn't refuse.
He revealed the existence of a group called Axis Mundi, who were attempting to Conquer the World! To fight them he needed a powerful team to oppose them, a New team of Invaders, and they would need advanced, powerful technology that Bruce was known to have a handle on.
As John Walker, another recruit assembled the team, Bruce built their equipment, which included not only several Stratoplanes, but the Infiltrator, a powerful battleship that could slip between dimensions and anchor virtually unseen anywhere on the earth.
In time it was revealed that Dell Rusk was actually the Red Skull in disguise, and that he was simply stealing Bruce's Kalahian technology to power his android Pterrorists. But, having built the Infiltrator, Bruce went ahead with the plan anyway, and put the New Invaders into action.
This group wound up including the likes of U.S. Agent, Union Jack, Spitfire, the Blazing Skull, the Destroyer, the Fin, Namor, Tara the Android, and the Human Torch. After months of action against the Axis Mundi though, Captain America showed up to 'shut Bruce down'.
This was bad timing, as the team was about to face down Merrano as he attempted to melt the polar ice caps for the Axis Mundi. Leaving Bruce on the ship, the team let the Captain lead them into the fight, but things went bad when Tara, their android, turned out to be an Axis plant.
In order to save the day, Bruce rammed the Infiltrator into Merrano's thermonuclear trident, and it appeared he died to save the world. Of course, not all of the team believed this... and Bruce himself turned up days later in Mexico, resuming his hunt of depraved evildoers.
He apparently continues in this capacity to this very day, though occasionally he is consulted by various intelligence operatives from SHIELD and such when they need help. So presumably the authorities know what Bruce is up to but they're not about to stop him...
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