Agent Axis

Powers:

(none)

Equipment:

Blade (s): when the use of his Luger just isn't proper in a given situation, Agent Axis will instead rely on a solid steel blade of Nazi manufacture. This knife, of 12 material strength, can be used in his hands to as a +2 edged weapon, inflicting lethal damage with each deadly strike.

Luger (a): at all times, Agent Axis carries a Luger on his person. This easily concealable weapon (with his fashion sense, at least) can be used as a +3 weapon in combat, and may be fired up to nine times (eight rounds in a clip, plus one in the chamber) before it needs to be reloaded.

Hindrances:

(none)

Skills:

Detective (i): the single most dangerous spy of his time, Agent Axis is a veritable master espionage operative. He is a natural where surveillance and intelligence gathering missions are concerned, and can easily tell when someone attempts such missions against him.

Knives (s): when the use of his trademark Luger isn't practical, Agent Axis will fall back on a much quieter, but just as lethal dagger. Skilled in the use of all small, bladed weaponry, Axis makes attacks with such items as though the inherent difficulty of these actions are one level lower than normal.

Languages / English, German, Italian, and Japanese (i): since he's technically a native of the latter three nations listed here, Agent Axis can speak these tongues rather fluently. However, his espionage work has forced him to adopt the English language as well, and he uses it with ease.

Marksmanship (a): his extensive, overlapping military training has granted Agent Axis the ability to use any gun, from pistols to full-auto death machines, with fluid ease. In combat, he makes all gun attacks as though the inherent difficulties are one level lower than is normally required.

Martial Arts (a): the evil Agent is well versed in unarmed fighting techniques. He can use his Agility instead of Strength in unarmed combat, even for trumps, and can reduce the difficulty of actions to catch thrown projectiles or reduce falling damage by one difficulty level.

Military (w): the servant of three separate military regimes, Agent Axis is highly fluent in military protocols, being able to function in (or blend into) such organizations seamlessly. This also grants him the guns and knives skills described elsewhere, in addition to the ability to lead troops in small numbers.

Wrestling (s): supplementing his other martial arts techniques, this skill allows Agent Axis to make particuarly effective grappling attacks. If he passes an average difficulty Strength (Strength) action, and does damage, he can hold an opponent until said foeman breaks free or Axis lets him go.

Calling:

World Domination: like several other privileged men of his day and age, Agent Axis joined up with the Axis powers in a bid for world domination, as this would garner him even greater power over the world around them. Even to this day, long after the War has ended, Agent Axis has no problem with this ideal.

Costume:

Agent Axis uses a predominantly black outfit while on the job. He wore a black, exquisitely cut suit, a black cape, black leather boots, and a black executioner's hood with white eye-covers. Also, Axis wore a gray fedora with a black band just above the rim of the hat.

Personality:

Agent Axis is determined to see the Axis powers take their rightful place as the masters of the world, and is wholly dedicated and loyal to this cause. He does wish to be returned to normal, but that desire is but a secondary goal to his helping the Axis nations conquer the earth!

Real Names: Aldo Malvagio, Hiroyuki Kanegawa, Berthold Volker
Occupation: none, former Nazi spy
Legal Status: technically a citizen of three different nations, given a new identity by the C.I.A.
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none known, 'Schimdt'
Group Affiliation: none

Height: 6' 1"
Hair: white (original hair color unknown)
Eyes: unknown
Weight: 155 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: according to some accounts, Agent Axis looks like a hideously deformed amalgamation of 3 different men underneath his hood. However, in his final appearance, he seemed to be a perfectly normal, if older man.

Story:

The mysterious man known only as Agent Axis is in fact three separate individuals, all of which were accidentally blended together into a composite entity during a freak accident. You see, all three were master spies, one from Germany, Italy, and Japan, and when their plane was struck by lightning, the energy discharge caused them to merge into a single, super-powered spy!

Since his component bits still held allegiance to all three Axis powers, this strange new Agent served all three as a dangerous intelligence operative. On one such mission for the Nazis, Agent Axis partnered with the minor villains known as the Shark and the Hyena to seize samples of the Invaders' uniforms and tissues for German research, but this plot ultimately failed.

However, Agent Axis detested his current state, and wished to separate himself back into this three component fascists. To this end, he kidnapped American doctor Sam Sabuki, who he felt was the only man that could perform the necessary operation. Agent Axis held the doctor's daughter and a friend hostage to ensure his cooperation, but he didn't plan on the Invaders interfering with his scheme.

Thanks to their meddling, the operation went awry, and due to a power surge in the equipment Doctor Sabuki was using, his daughter and friend were bathed in strange energies, and gained super powers of their own. Then, the two youngsters teamed up with Toro and several of the Invaders to defeat Agent Axis, who fled the scene and disappeared for several years.

It is assumed that, for the rest of the War, Agent Axis continued to serve as an intelligence officer for the Axis powers, though the nature and scope of these other missions have yet to be revealed.

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