Character Sheet
Blackout I
Category : Comic Books
Subcategory : Marvel universe
Type : Villain
Game System : DC Heroes (Blood of Heroes S.E.)
Blackout I v1.1
Source of Character: Marvel Comics
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Game Stuff
Blackout
"Why were you spying on me? Were you sent to stop Blackout before I've accomplished my goals?"
"The black star power you shot into me is still too powerful. If I don't siphon some of it off with your stabilizer -- if I can't correct my body's metabolism -- the black light pulsations will rip me apart ! And my atoms will merge with the light spectrum ! I'll be lost in the rainbow -- forever ! But I have the sabilizer -- and I can focus my excess energy into Manhattan -- and cripple this city. making it ripe for plunder -- while saving my life at the same time. A double coup, Croit. A double victory for Marcus Daniels -- for Blackout !"
"You tried to stop me before. wanted me locked away, like all the rest ! Now you'll pay, yes !"
"Get away from me ! Get away ! You're not my friend. you're like all the others who imprisoned me ! You. you imprisoned my mind ! Yes ! But no more. No more !!"
Blackout
| Dex: 05 | Str: 03 | Bod: 05 | Motivation: Psychopath |
| Int: 04 | Wil: 03 | Min: 03 | Occupation: Criminal ; former lab assistant |
| Inf: 03 | Aur: 03 | Spi: 03 | Resources {or Wealth}: 002 |
| Init: 012 | HP: 030 |
Bonuses and Limitations:
- All other powers are Contingent on Dimensional Travel (-1)
- Dimensional Travel only allows travel to the Darkforce Dimension (-1)
- Weather Control is Minor Marginal (-1)
Advantages: None
Connections: Masters of Evil (Low)
Drawbacks: CPI (Partially catatonic), SPI (Paranoia)
Previous Stats:
Prior to joining the Masters of Evil his only drawback was his SPI. Before becoming Blackout, he may have had Scientist: 02 (see History).
Background
Real name: Marcus Daniels
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Group affiliation: Masters of Evil
Base Of Operations: New York
Height: 5'10" Weight: 180 lbs
Eyes: Grey Hair: Brown
Powers and Abilities
Blackout is able to open portals into the Darkforce Dimension, and can control the Darkforce matter which comes out of it, which he can use to produce a variety of effects. He can form it into solid objects, project it as blasts of energy, create black disks which let him walk through the air, use it as a cloud of darkness, use the coldness of it to create ice around targets, or lacing it into clouds, allowing him to control the weather.
The portals also allow him access to the Darkforce Dimension, allowing him to travel vast distances (such as from the Earth to the Moon), or to banish his enemies there.
When he first appeared, he believed his powers to be some form of light control, and when he banished people to the Darkforce Dimension he believed he was turning them into black light, their atoms merging with the colour spectrum. At this point his energy blasts could be made invisible.
History:
There have been two differing accounts of the series of events that gave Daniels his powers. Both were given by Daniels, and, given his deteriorating mental state, the truth could be one of these, parts of each, or none of them. What is known is that Marcus Daniels was a laboratory assistant to physicist Dr. Abner Croit.
The first origin has it that Croit was working on a device to harness the power of a black star. When the honest Daniels discovered that Croit was defrauding his government backers, he went straight to the police. Unfortunately Croit managed to frame Daniels (Daniels later claimed that Croit had bribed the DA and the judge, but this was during the period when he was paranoid, so this is unsubstantiated), and he was threatened with prison time if he didn't act as a guinea pig for Croit's experiments. Daniels reluctantly agreed. Exposure to energies from the black star changed Daniels, and for three days he had to remain isolated, the energies proving dangerous to anyone around him. Unwilling to let Croit control his power, Daniels escaped from the laboratory.
The second origin has Croit as a kindly man who took pity on the unfortunate Daniels, offering him a job as an assistant, and always helping him out of troubles with the law. In this origin Croit is building an experimental device to try using another dimension as a power source. The dimension in question is the Darkforce Dimension, and a lab accident empowers Daniels as a conduit to this dimension. Croit worries about the damage this could do to Daniels, and tries to cure it. Daniels decides he likes his newfound power, and fed up with what he sees as Croit's condescension, flees.
Whatever the truth of his origin, Daniels eventually realizes that his powers are becoming uncontrollable, and he decided to return to confront Croit, adopting the identity of Blackout, so that he could gain the stabilizer which would allow him to control the energies. While on his way to Croit's laboratory, he spotted Nova flying over Manhattan, and, in his increasingly paranoid state of mind, believed the hero was searching for him. He attacked Nova, but when he realised his error, he left him in a block of sticky darkforce, continuing towards Croit's laboratory.
He broke into the lab, retrieved the stabilizer, and confronted Croit and his new assistant. He merged their atoms with the colour spectrum (actually banishing them to the Darkforce Dimension). He then used his, now controlled, powers to create unnaturally harsh weather over New York. He was discovered by Nova, and the two fought again. When the stabilizer was accidentally destroyed in the battle, Blackout again lost control of his powers, and found himself following Croit.
The stabilizer ended up at Project: PEGASUS. Vibrations from an earthquake caused by Lava Men attacking the Project reactivated the stabilizer, and the proximity of Captain Marvels energy form passing near it triggered it, allowing Blackout to return. He was convinced by a PEGASUS prisoner, Moonstone, to set her, and other villains imprisoned there, Electro and Rhino, free. They were soon confronted by the Avengers and Spider-Man, but causing damage to the Projects nuclear reactor, Blackout and Moonstone escape while the Avengers are busy averting the threat of a meltdown.
Moonstone took advantage of their freedom to work her way into Daniels' confidence. She offered him therapy to overcome his problems, but she was actually manipulating him to be more reliant on her. They were soon found by the Avengers, but when Moonstone ordered Blackout to trap the Avengers within the Darkforce Dimension, he instead trapped himself and her there.
Blackout and Moonstone next appeared on the moon, where she was hoping to find another of the stones which gave her her powers. They had not been expecting to find it inhabited, and so were surprised to find the Inhumans' city. The Inhumans were equally surprised when a cloud of darkness (which provided the pair oxygen, as well as concealing them) appeared, and moved around near their home. Unable to penetrate the cloud, the Inhumans sought aid from their ally, Dazzler, who, working with Black Bolt, provided the light necessary to pierce Blackout's darkness. Blackout and Moonstone fought back but but were defeated, and returned to the custody of Project: PEGASUS.
When Moonstone was recruited into Zemo's Masters of Evil, she asked for Blackout to also be released, believing he could be instrumental in countering Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), the most powerful of the current line-up of Avengers. Zemo agreed, getting Blackout out of prison, but he was, justifiably, concerned about Moonstone being a threat to his leadership, so he had the Fixer invent a device that made Blackout believe everything Zemo told him. They invaded, and took control of, the Avengers Mansion, with Blackout engulfing it in a block of solid Darkforce. When the Avengers eventually retook it, Zemo ordered Blackout to send the entire mansion to the Darkforce Dimension. Doctor Druid used his psychic abilities to help Blackout fend off Zemo's control, but the strain was too much, and Blackout suffered a massive brain hemorrhage.
Blackout's body was kept alive by the authorities. Years later, when Zemo was working with the Commission on Superhuman Activities, he's given Blackout to allow him to recover Atlas' younger brother, the Smuggler, from the Darkforce Dimension, where he had been stranded. Zemo used the artificially animated Blackout when his group confronted the Thunderbolts over the life of their member, Photon.
Personality
Originally either an honest, law-abiding, citizen, or a bitter, resentful, thug, the energies that gave him his powers also affected his mind. He became increasingly paranoid, and, after Moonstone worked to make him more reliant on her, he eventually became practically catatonic, reacting only to her commands, or to Zemo's, once he gained control of Blackout, until his mind was freed from their control by Doctor Druid, at which point he reverted to his highly paranoid mindset, even rejecting Druid's suggestions.
