Backlash

Backlash v1.1

By Sébastien Andrivet

Source of Character: DC comics

Helper(s): Roy Cowan, one illustration detoured at rapsheet.co.uk

Reasons: This article assumes that you’ve read our entry about the Overmaster’s Cadre.

Quotes

Backlash

“Who sent you to spy on us ? What were you after ? My inquiring mind wants to know ! Answer me, spy ! Backlash doesn’t like being ignored !”

(Fighting the Elongated Man) “Save your taunts, eraserhead. If anybody’s going to take a whipping, it’s you ! But why prolong the agony ? Sweet dreams, stretchmark !”

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Backlash

Dex: 09	Str: 05	Bod: 05	Motivation: Mercenary
Int: 04	Wil: 03	Min: 04	Occupation: Mercenary
Inf: 04	Aur: 03	Spi: 04	Resources {or Wealth}: 004
Init: 027		HP: 020

Powers: Enhanced initiative: 10, Extra limbs (x2): 05, Stretching: 02

Bonuses and Limitations:

Enhanced Initiative is Contingent on Stretching
Extra limbs are the sub-tentacles and is chiefly useful for the Wrestling bonus. It is Contingent on Stretching.
Stretching (including the defensive bonus) only affects his arms

Skills: None demonstrated

Advantages: None known

Connections: White supremacist US militias (Low), Overmaster (Low)

Drawbacks: Minor Rage, MIA toward Sadism, SIA toward hating non-Whites, Creepy Appearance (Tentacles), Partial attack vulnerability (-2CS OV against Ranged Attacks), Creepy Appearance (Crippled right eye)

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Backlash — Averaged PL 7.2

STR	STA	AGL	DEX	FGT	INT	AWE	PRE
01 (04)	00 (03)	00 (02)	01	02 (07)	00	00	01

Powers

Enhanced physiology ● 11 points ● Descriptor: Overmaster enhancements
Enhanced Strength 1, Enhanced Stamina 3, Enhanced Fortitude 3

Nazi arm-tentacles ● 39 points ● Descriptor: Overmaster enhancements
- Strong, fast, precise — Enhanced Strength 2, Enhanced Fighting 5, Enhanced Parry 2, Enhanced Initiative 2, Accurate Attack, Close combat (Tentacles) 6
- Great to manoeuvre quickly — Enhanced Agility 2, Acrobatics 3, Athletics 6
- Stretchy — Protection 6 (Limited 3 to his arms), Elongation 2, Chokehold, Fast Grab, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Improved Trip

Combat Advantages

Accurate Attack, All-out Attack, Chokehold, Close Attack 1, Defensive Roll 2, Fast Grab, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Improved Trip, Power Attack

Other Advantages

None demonstrated

Skills

Acrobatics 3 (+5), Athletics 6 (+10), Close Combat (Tentacles) 6 (+14), , Deception 1 (+2), Insight 1 (+1), Perception 3 (+3)

Offense

Initiative +10

Tentacles +14, Close, Damage 4

Defense

Dodge	7	Fortitude	8
Parry	13	Toughness	5*/3
Will	3

* Without Defensive Roll

Complications

Temper Sadistic, violent, bloodthirsty thug

Disability His right eye seems damaged and may be a handicap (reduced peripheral vision, frex)

Temper Dedicated White supremacist and thorough racist

Power levels

Trade-off areas Attack & Effect PL 9, Dodge/Toughness PL 6, Parry/Toughness PL 9, Fort & Will PL 6

Point total 82 Abilities 10, Defences 14, Skills 3, Powers 50, Devices 0, Advantages 5. Equiv. PL 6.

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Background

Real Name: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Group affiliation: Aryan Nation, Aryan Brigade I, ’Judgement Day” version of the Cadre, Aryan Brigade II
Base Of Operations: Aryan Nation compound Pine Heights, southwestern Nebraska ; later the Overmaster’s spaceship embedded in Mount Everest
Height: 5‘9” Weight: 160 lbs
Eyes: Unrevealed Hair: Black

Powers and Abilities

Backlash’s arms are strong, stretchable tentacles with three smaller sub-tentacles by the last third of the main limb. He can strike with them with frightening speed and accuracy, and they make him very difficult to engage in close combat.

History

Backlash clashed with the JLTF at the Aryan Nation compound, and later joined the greater Cadre assembled by the Overmaster at Mount Everest.

He was later part of those villains who requested sanctuary at the Justice League’s HQ, to escape being deported to an alien world.

In 2010, Backlash returned as the apparent leader of a new version of the Aryan Brigade including Luftwaffe, Bonehead and Reb. They attacked a casino in Arizona, claiming to defend White gamblers whose money was being leeched by the Native-run casino — and were swiftly defeated by Black Condor (John Trujillo) assisted by Firebrand (Andre Twist).

Description

Like most members of the group, Backlash comes across as angry and poorly educated.

Personality

Backlash a thug and a bully with a paranoid, egocentric edge. He’s very impatient, perhaps even hyper.

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