In a savage burst of randomness, a new batch arises ! And this time the pattern created by said randomness seems to be very minor/obscure villains. Which make sense, since we love those and they are arguably the most useful type of entry for GMs – they are ready do use !

So, after waaay too much time spent on Photoshop (again) – roll call:

• ART. New hi-res art for the following entries:
  • Dr. Henry Pym (his Ant-Man I / Giant-Man I entry)
  • Black Knight V (Dane Withman)
  • Black Panther (T’Challa)
  • Roy’s entry on Captain America’s gear ; the same illustrations also made it into Cap’s main writeup
  • Darkhawk (early)
  • Dart (Larsenverse)
  • Forgotten One (aka Gilgamesh)
  • Captain Marvel III (Genis-Vell)
  • Grasshopper (Great Lakes Whatever)
  • Hawkeye I (Clint Barton)
  • Monstroid
  • Moon Knight
  • Proctor
  • Rage
  • Red Wolf (Will Talltrees)
  • Sandman (Marvel Universe)
  • Valentina (Darna’s nemesis)
  • Wonder Man (classic writeup) ; the same illustration also made it into the main Beast (X-Men) writeup
    
  • Baron Zemo II / Citizen V
• A second dragon from Kal El’s campaign – Akalandrazor
• While the Worgmeister loathes the 2006 version of Heroes for Hire, he wrote up a minor villain from that book – Insecticide
• Tejja the Silek Killer, possibly the first League of Assassins killer seen in the DC Universe ; he’s of course an exotic martial arts specialist
• I also reviewed the characters and critters named ‘Monstro’ in the Marvel Universe. The two that emerged as writeup material are:
  • Monstro III, a very giant octopus from an old Cold War story (Monstro was written up shortly after the release of Cloverfield, amusingly)
  • Monstro V, a contemporary strongman on the run, and incidentally an interesting character
• The first excerpt from our Voltron (a 1980s giant robot cartoon) work by Pur_see_i8 – Lance, the pilot of the red lion robot
• Civafan was kind enough to write up Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson’s character in the extensive music video for that tune, following a request
• Tigress III, formerly known as Artemis II, of the DC Universe’s Injustice Society and Injustice Unlimited. She’s the daughter of the second Tigress and the first Sportsmaster, and she turned out to be more interesting that anticipated before the research took place.
• More adventures in the realm of the foreign heroes features in the Planet DC annuals of 2000:
  • The third of the three DCU Mexican super-heroes we found in the DCU so far – Acrata
  • A Greek/Armenian super-assassin, who is both an ally and a foe for the JSA – the second Nemesis
  • The country of origin is now also indicated in the Notes field of the Planet DC (since that was the point of those Annuals)
• The Secbots who clashed with the X-Men within the Strategic Air Command’s base are lighter versions of the Mandroid power armour, and are excellent for GMs who want thugs or soldiers in light power armour
• Another ‘tough mook’ writeup – the Shaolin Terror Priests, from the pages of the popular series Immortal Iron Fist, are cool-looking kung fu goons
• LARSENVERSE. Continuing Peter’s varied arc through the work of Erik Larsen, we got:
  • Abner Cadaver, the evil zombie sorcerer supreme of the Larsenverse
  • A minor villain, Bad Axe
  • A minor (and rather faecal) villain, Dung
  • A minor (but very dangerous !) villain, Negate
  • A minor villain… ah, no, it’s over, wait for the next batch !
• Another character from Tom’s arc through the Black Lagoon manga and anime – the Russian mobster Balalaika
• From a minor DC limited series, a cool pistolera and desperada from northern Mexico – the bounty hunter Cinnamon II, patterning herself after the Old West lady avenger
• I’ve found an unpublished article for our ‘wrestlingverse’ writeups – about the Hart Dungeon
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. More of Gareth’s work. This should be the next to last pack of writeups in that arc. Roll call:
  • Composite, from Inhuman Assassination Squad (turns out I had forgotten a few of them — ooops). He has the powers of the entire XXth century Royal Inhuman Family !
  • Wormhole, a colleague of Composite
  • Martinex, one of the original Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Rhodney, one of Rancor’s mutant lieutenants
  • Shaddo, a colleague of Rhodney
• Another of Chris’s writeup about the Pre-Reboot (and usually Pre-Crisis) universe of the Legion of Super-Heroes – this time minor Legionnaire trainee Lamprey

Current number of entries is 3633.

Incredibly small batch ! Those are entirely small changes and addition in the Background blocks – exciting stuff such as real names and corrections to heights and weights ! All are based on the Civil War Companion TPB, so they only concern Marvel Universe characters. Also, I usually average height and weight when we produced an estimate before Marvel did – which should be more accurate.

Roll call: Smiling Tiger, Pretty Persuasions, Gladiatrix, Equinox, Ghostmaker, Lightbright, Shockwave, Blistik, Brother Nature, Exterminatrix, Lazarus, Man-eater.

I had a lil’ bit of free time, so here we go. Due to the effect of randomness it’s full of really obscure and occasionally weird characters, except for the cartoon version of Robin and (much more tentatively) Joystick and Starhawk. Roll call of the unexpected:

• ART. New artwork has been added to the following entries:
  • Iron Man (grey armour)
  • Bane (with a very nice new shot)
  • Meglaro (the obscure LSH villain)
  • Black Cat (the ‘middle’ writeup – Black Cat (Superpowered)
  • Rick Jones
  • Drom the Backward Man
  • Ruby Thursday (she’s cool)
  • Mirage I, the Spider-Man villain who’s both obscure and ubiquitous !
  • Sif
  • Rocket Racer
  • Thor
  • Shado (the archer lady)
  • Wonder Man (the ‘current’ writeup)
  • Spider-Man
  • Jackdaw II (aka Blackbird)
• Al Bundy from Married With Children. Yep. Not a joke, not a dream, not an imaginary story.
• Gwangi, a dinosaur who fights cowboys in a 1960s movie. No, really.
• Joystick, a memorable and risk-craving Thunderbolts member
• SUPERNOVA. Two more characters from Kal El’s campaign:
  • Barret Blanc
  • El Roc
• One Marvel Russian I forgot last time, which is odd since he’s a key figure — the electrical engineering genius Anton Vanko, also known as the first Crimson Dynamo.
• Two obscure superhuman agent/thug – Assault and Battery.
• A C-list WildStorm Jamaican thug and enforcer, Johnny Too Bad
• From time to time I do a 1940s character ; in this batch it is the first Marvel Boy
• HEAVY METTLE. This is an obscure group of enforcers, and fairly low-powered, so they can be fairly useful in many campaigns. The whole team is here:
  • Barracuda
  • Blackwing
  • Firestrike
  • Riot
  • Stronghold
  • Warbow
• A really tough zombie with a big badass magic bone sword – what’s not to love ? Cadaver, from the Secret Defenders in the 90s at Marvel.
• Deliverance Drue, an obscure Solomon Kane analogue from the WildStorm Universe
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. Continuing Gareth’s big arc, which is full of characters that could be useful anywhere:
  • Bubonicus, a big bad
  • Mindscan, one of Rancor’s lieutenant
  • Protege, the super-powerful godling from the Universal Church of Truth
  • Ripjak, the Last Son or Mars
  • Starhawk, the most powerful Guardian
    
  • Stupor, the missing Inhuman Assassination Squad operative
• The animated version of Robin, by Pufnstuff
• Another Black Lagoon character – Claude ‘Torch’ Weaver
• Finally, Adam wrote up Darna’s nemesis – Valentina the Serpent Queen

Current number of entries is 3608.

Be merry and find joy in even the dreariest of travails, for the new batch is arrived !

As usual this batch took longer than I thought to prepare – the overall quality level of the list’s work keeps improving and that means more, longer and more detailed texts, more reviewing, more illustrations, a lot more banner illustrations, crisper detouring of the main illustrations, etc. In short, more work.

Roll call:

• ART. New artwork has been added to the following entries:
  • Aleta (Guardians of the Galaxy)
  • Charlie-27
  • Hawkeye
  • Powerhouse (Larsenverse)
  • The Red Skull
• UPDATES: Only one update this time around – Fahrenheit (Wildstorm Universe) got reviewed and updated to reflect the events of the StormWatch PHD miniseries, further extending an already extensive writeup.
• Agent 47, the protagonist of the Hitman video games, now has a very detailed entry by Roy
• Another character from Tom’s writeups arc on the Black Lagoon anime is in – Benny, the hacker.
• MARVEL RUSSIANS. For some reason I forget, there was an arc about a few minor Russian (or at least ex-Soviet) characters in the Marvel Universe. In this batch:
  • Concussion, an energy-projecting mutant freedom fighter from Garnoff’s underground
  • Firefox, a deadly and cybernetically armed one-man commando and mutant killer, now a merc
  • Iron Curtain, a superhumanly strong and tough colleague of Concussion
  • An intriguing figure from the Garnoff underground (and now the Winter Guard) – Sibercat (formerly Siberian Tiger)
  • Another interesting survivor from the Garnoff railroad – Stencil
• Peter wrote up another post-apocalyptic character – this time it is Hombre, from the Segura and Ortiz comic book.
• Another entry from the New Frontier version of the DC Universe (the previous ones being the notes in the Cold War Suicide Squad entries) – ‘John Henry’, the hammer-wieldin’ man who clashed with the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee.
• Two more entries from Peter’s arc through the Larsenverse, this time with two major characters:
  • Mighty Man
  • She-Dragon
• We did it ! Well, Gareth did it. The Marvel Universe’s ELEMENTS OF DOOM are now online. Don’t worry, we did not make 109 entries – just one mammoth entry with all of ‘em. That took a lot of work to write, research, review, edit, illustrate, etc. so go ahead and use them in your campaign… but probably not all of them at once, though.
• We’ve got three more of the popular pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes entries from Chris in this batch:
  • Meglaro, a very obscure XXXth century villain
  • Mentalla, a very minor but somewhat popular Legionnaire
  • Tellus, also a minor but popular Legionnaire with mental powers
• One of the chronological entries Puf wrote on Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) is now online ; this entry covers Danny as an Asgardian valkyrie.
• The most recent Marvel character named White Tiger – Angela DelToro. She’s cool.
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. Another random grab from our files:
  • Malevolence (a descendent of the Mephisto)
  • Phobia (from the Inhuman Assassination Squad)
  • Replica, the Skrull member of the Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Vance Astro, leader of the Guardians
  • Yondu, a mainstay of the Guardians
  • The Spirit of Vengeance – the Ghost Rider of that era
• And finally – although I did not have time to rewrite the entry for Zaran, here is a full entry for Zaran II (Zhou Man She), pretty useful when you need some real tough kung fu muscle.

Current number of entries is 3582.