
Scrap v1.0
Source of Character: Dynamo 5 Issues #1-24 (Image comics)
Helper(s): Wikipedia, Darci, cassius335
Reasons: Fun yet simple comic with simple characters to write up.
Genre: Action
Scrap
"Are you for real ? Honestly, I've only been a super-hero for about ten minutes, so I hesitate to give notes so early in the game...but I've got a degree from NYU film school, and if I ever had one of my characters talk like that, I would've been laughed off of campus."
"Last chance, ready to give up ?"
"Kinda lost your footing eh ? Well, don't worry... you're not gonna be standing much longer."
"Gentlemen, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
(After choking out Whiptail, a lizard-like creature) "Huh. And here I thought only guys could choke a lizard."
"See this ? It's the one thing dear old dad couldn't teach. It's called teamwork."
Radia: "Just snap her neck, Deadweight. We got places to be."
Scrap: "Like jail, or the hospital ? Your choice."
"You're totally right, and that's why I've brought you all here today. As I've witnessed firsthand in the last 24 hours, Tower City is a mess. You know how they say you don't really appreciate something until it's gone ? Well, that's what happened with Dynamo 5. I didn't realize what an impact we had on this city. Leaving is the worst thing we could've done. Dynamo 5 needs to return. So what do you say ? Are you with me ?"
Scrap
| Dex: 04 | Str: 11 | Bod: 10 | Motivation: Responsibility of Power |
| Int: 04 | Wil: 05 | Min: 05 | Occupation: Booth Girl/Super Hero |
| Inf: 05 | Aur: 05 | Spi: 05 | Resources {or Wealth}: 002 |
| Init: 014 | HP: 030 |
The Aquarium
The team is headquartered at the Aquarium, a high-tech lair underneath an industrial pier that was formerly used by Captain Dynamo. The Aquarium's resources include equipment with which Warner can monitor the police radio for watch words that trigger an alert to the team of a possible emergency, and with which she can summon, monitor, and communicate with members of the team during engagements with hostile forces. The team also utilizes a teleportation device called the Jump Station, which allows them to travel instantly across the continent to meet with one another. The team can activate the Jump Station by manipulating a device on their costumes. The Jump Station can only transport persons from the station itself to another location and back, but not effect transportation directly between two other locations. The Aquarium also features a training simulator room that can present a number of threats to the team, and be programmed for a number of difficulty levels, which the team refers to as the Shark Tank, as well as an office used by Warner.
Real Name: Bridget Flynn
Other Aliases: None
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Captain Dynamo (Father, deceased), Adoptive father, Unnamed Mother, Hector Chang (Half-Brother), Spencer Bridges (Half-Brother), Olivia Lewis (Half-Sister), Gage Reinhart (Half-brother), Synergy (Half-Sister)
Group affiliation: Dynamo 5
Base Of Operations: Tower City
Height: 5'8" Weight: 130 lbs
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black
Scrap is a basic brick and thus possesses superhuman strength and resistance to damage. She is strong enough to hoist a fully loaded tank over her head and can rend solid steel with her bare hands. In addition she is resilient enough to survive a fall from a skyscraper and can easily shrug off automatic weapons fire. With practice, Bridget has trained her superhumanly powerful lungs to hold her breath for approximately twenty minutes.
Following the assassination of her husband Captain Dynamo, Maddie Warner discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at his betrayal, Maddie realized that without the Captain to protect it, Tower City would soon be overrun by the super-villains that her husband had left behind. Using her investigative skills, honed from years experience as a super spy and ace reporter, and the information she discovered in Dynamo's cache Maddie tracked down five young men and women who were her late husband's illegitimate children.
Cleveland native Bridget Flynn was the fourth of the five children found by Warner. Warner found Bridget working behind the ticket counter at a local Hollywood California movie theater. When Warner explained her story to Bridget, it didn't take much convincing to make the young woman curious. Bridget was just biding her time at the movie theater waiting for her big break. She had graduated from the NYU Film school and left her family behind to pursue her dream of becoming a screenwriter. Unfortunately, upon her arrival in the city of Angels, Bridget discovered that things wouldn't be as simple as she hoped. Warner's story offered her a welcome distraction to the drudgery of her life.
Bridget soon found herself in a gathering of four other young men and women, and immediately realized that she was the oldest of the group. As the five strangers mingled, they were suddenly exposed to a high dose of the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier. The radiation immediately unlocked their latent powers. Bridget inherited her father's super strength and invulnerability. She took the codename Scrap, and worked alongside her new found siblings to protect Tower City.
As a form of payment, Warner offered to put Bridget in touch with some of her "entertainment" contacts that she made over her career. Surprisingly, Bridget politely declined the offer explaining that she would prefer to make it on her own without any preferred treatment.
Bridget participated in several adventures during the early days of her career, battering away at the criminal element that rose in Tower City immediately after Captain Dynamo's death. Her strength became the corner stone of the Dynamo 5's offense. It was during this point that Bridget's father paid her an unexpected visit a few days before Father's Day. Suspicious of his reasons for the visit, Bridget questioned him about the reason for his visit. He eventually told her that he and her biological mother had separated because they were no longer in love. The pain of this confession touched Bridget deeply, and she threw herself even further into fighting crime.
Nearly a year after the five siblings discovered one another the Dynamo 5 disbanded, despite their continued success in defending Tower City. The stress generated from: maintaining dual lives, the near loss of Hector's mother's life, Spencer's revelation of his alien heritage and Livvie's decision to let an assassin escape eventually caused enough dissension amongst the siblings to make them end their adventures together. Everyone, except Bridget, returned to their separate lives.
Bridget, out of a sense of duty, decided to remain in Tower City as it's protector but quickly realized that despite her awesome strength, that she couldn't defend the city by herself. As a result, she began recruiting a new Dynamo 5. She built a team out of Captain Dynamo's old allies to replace her siblings and the group had some small success. Unfortunately, the new Dynamo 5 eventually drew the ire of a combined force of villains that they had faced in the past. The new team was quickly decimated, but when Gage telepathically sensed her need, her brothers and sister raced to her aid. At the moment when the odds seemed insurmountable, the original Dynamo 5 regrouped and made quick work of the combined force of villains. In that moment, the five youths realized that despite their differences that they were not only a family but that they needed each other. With the team reunited, Bridget decided to move from Los Angeles to Tower City full time and continue her adventuring.
Bridget appears to be an athletic yet pale white woman with an a-typical image comic book heroine figure. She wears her long black hair past her shoulders, holding it at bay from her face with a red head band that sits atop her head. Her costume is a one piece shoulder-less leotard, that leaves her legs bare except for her boots. It is a blue and red number, without the requisite low plunging neckline. Like her siblings Bridget wears a blue domino mask to hide her face. Finally, Bridget has a labret piercing, below her bottom lip but above the chin.
Of the five, Bridget is the most dedicated to the Hero biz. She feels a true sense of responsibility for Tower City and will not walk away from its people. She is scrappy, driven and loves a good fight.
She's smart enough to realize that she's still a rookie in the big scheme of things and is constantly training in order to get stronger and faster. Bridget will never give up no matter what the personal cost to herself. In addition, Bridget is definitely cognizant of the danger that her great strength poses to normal humans. She goes out of her way to avoid accidentally killing mortal men.
The Dynamo five can be dropped wholesale into the DC universe as is. Tower City can be yet another fictional city within the DC USA. More interestingly though, each of the siblings could have been the illegitimate offspring of a certain Martian a less cordial campaign.